If the security situation in Liberia gets out of hand, it could pose a security threat to countries in the Mano River Union (MRU), especially Sierra Leone, civil society groups and government have said.
It’s been less than one month following the first International Economic Summit (IES) sponsored by the newly established Africa Trade Office (ATO), on November 10-11, 2008, and already two deals have been inked. As a direct result of “IES Africa 08: Brewing Up Business With Africa,” held at Martin’s Crosswinds in Greenbelt, Maryland, an import and export deal was finalized. A local company will provide American magazines and publications to Nigeria; and a Tanzanian company will provide clothes, artifacts and handcrafts to an American retailer.
The European Union is considering continuing with its controversial development aid to Eritrea totaling 122-million Euros (154-million USD) this year. Widespread opposition is growing in view of unrelenting Eritrean government violation of human and democratic rights. The EU is also criticized for not requiring Eritrea to adhere to acceptable standards of transparency and accountability. Reporters without Borders says the EU is handing over a blank check to the Eritrean government which is globally identified as authoritarian and extreme. Civic and political groups have also expressed disappointment at EU’s continued support of the government.
Rome, 14 May 2009 – The lives and livelihoods of poor rural people in Burundi are set to change for the better thanks to a US$13.57 million grant from IFAD to the Republic of Burundi for the Agricultural Intensification and Value-enhancing Support Project.
The idea is to look at the community that you find yourself in right now. Whether you are in the Diaspora or at home in Africa, you can find ways to become a full fledge member by contributing your knowledge, talents, time, resources and uniqueness, in order for the community to enjoy and appreciate your membership. This can only result in a stronger community and valuable experiences for everyone involved.
As a college student in the nineties, I used to volunteer to give a talk to American public schools in North Carolina about Africa with a special focus on Ethiopia. Most of the talks would be in upper elementary classes where the kids have minimal knowledge about the continent, let alone a specific country.
Americans and Europeans have always had the freedom to travel around the world; traveling to Haiti is no more difficult than traveling to sub-Saharan Africa, that's why I'm skeptical of the claim made by the National Academy of Science that AIDS was brought to the U.S. by a Haitian immigrant. Americans and Europeans can buy a plane ticket to anywhere they want to go but the majority of Haitians and Africans don't have that luxury.
What is at the heart of the matter when a (former?) colonizer, very highly developed and a (former?) colony - the least developed continent discuss and cooperate in an anything ICT? What is whose motivation? Could it be the development of Africa or is it another exercise for widening the markets for European (Western) ICT gadgets, creation of alternative damping grounds and dustbins for old PCs? Is it even cooperation? Assuming all children have a laptop, and all villages have access to the internet, can Africa address her problems by recklessly borrowing the civilisation?
Last weekend I attended a concert in Minneapolisfor a MILELE (means forever), A US-based Kenyan music group. Towards the end of the show, they ran some clips of some of the things they are involved in and could not help but to be really impressed but also challenged. To satisfy my curiosity, I dug a little and this is what I came up with.
Isn’t it so outrageous that after over 40 years of so called freedom the government has to blatantly abuse the concept of freedom on the same day that Kenyans are supposed to celebrate the “freedom” commemorative day? What a mockery of freedom!
As the American economy falls deeper into an unofficial recession, The Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington D.C. played host to an unexpected guest, Nigeria’s capital.
Clashes between Muslims and Christians in Egypt renewed on Sunday after a Copt was killed a day earlier. The fighting began on Friday in A-Tayiba, located 220 kilometers (130 miles) south of the capital Cairo. It was reportedly sparked by an insulting comment by a Christian to a Muslim woman, compounding an already tense relationship between the two communities, which are quarreling over land ownership. Three Christians and a Muslim were wounded in the clashes.
Three ancient statues sit at a dig at el-Hassa, the site of a Meroitic town in Sudan in this undated photograph. Archaeologists said on Tuesday they had discovered three ancient statues in Sudan with inscriptions that could bring them closer to deciphering one of Africa's oldest languages. René-Pierre Dissaux/Section Française de la Direction des Antiquités du Soudan.
This article is another unfulfilled premise & promise; skewed and skewered a synopsis – whatever that means – of theories on underlying themes, currents and of course, events that have not just repercussions for the world economy but especially lessons for sitting African Presidents who are, to be honest, individually, an ongoing addiction and fascination of mine.
Debate on the collapse of Zimbabwe's health and education systems is on parliament's agenda, but not work on a constitutional amendment needed for a power-sharing deal.
The election of Barack Obama as 44th President of the United States is celebrated as a milestone in several, well known respects – not only will he assume office as the first president of color – but as an underdog who entered the race for the White House with a slim resume, an unfamiliar name pitted against an established political brand and a political novice whose prospects of raising enough money to meet up to the task were not extremely bright at the starting line.
Minister of Environment, Mr John Odey, has warned that drought and desert encroachment ravaging most parts of the north could cause extreme food shortage in Nigeria if not properly checked.
There is hardly a recent political event that is spectacularly popular in the world like Obama phenomenon and the last-held USA Presidential Election. Obama will incidentally be sworn-in tomorrow as the brand new president of America. The exceptional popular attention was not only in the United States of America, a native country of Barack Hussein Obama and where he was elected as the 44th president of USA, but throughout the globe. The political event was about the most phenomenal incident in the new millennium, which is only nine years.
AP - One person was killed when assailants kidnapped the crew of an oil-industry vessel in Nigeria's restive southern oil region, a security official said Sunday.
