Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
By Herbert Moyo, CHINA is set to invest massively in Zimbabwe’s decaying water, power, and transport infrastructure, following the recent visit to Beijing by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and government ministers, Gorden Moyo and Samuel Sipepa Nkomo. During the trip the premier said Zimbabwe was in dire need of assistance in “embarking on an […]
SPONSOR WIRE Abidjan – Cote d’ Ivoire — Cote d’Ivoire’s Foreign Minister, Honorable Daniel Kablan Duncan opened the 68th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers in Abidjan on Monday 11th June 2012 by calling on the organization to embrace the necessary transformation and modernization of management procedures to raise its competiveness in […]
Maputo — Mozambican business community, represented by the Confederation of Business Associations (CTA), has called for the rapid introduction of reforms aimed at improving the country’s business environment. The call was made on Friday in Maputo at a meeting that brought together senior officials from the Mozambican government and the country’s business community. The meeting […]
By Yunus Abdulhamid President of the Dangote Groups, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has unveiled plans to transform the Dangote Cement Plant in Obajana, Kogi State to the world’s largest cement factory by 2015. Speaking yesterday when President Goodluck Jonathan commissioned the new Line 3 of the plant in Obajana, Dangote said: “With the completion of […]
The Ugandan rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) remains among the most persistent perpetrators of grave violations against children, says a new United Nations report. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s first report to the Security Council on the situation of children affected by the LRA documents violations committed against children, and measures taken to […]
A recent South African court judgement that wants Pretoria to investigate Zimbabwean officials for alleged human rights abuses brings the SA justice system into disrepute, a Cabinet minister has said. Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa yesterday described the ruling as irrelevant saying it was a general judgement without specifics. Judge Hans Fabricius handed […]
Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC), one of the largest mining groups listed on London’s stock exchange, must publicly address concerns over corruption risks associated with its rapid acquisition of mining assets in the Democratic Republic of Congo, said Global Witness in a memo to ENRC’s shareholders published today. Between September 2009 and July 2011, ENRC […]
By Paul Dada, Abiodun Oluwarotimi, George Okojie, Gloria Usman, Nkem Osuagwu, and Samuel Abulude As Dana Air’s woes continue to mount over its plane that crashed on Sunday in Lagos, its senior managers of Indian nationality have reportedly fled the country as Nigerian aviation officials investigate the cause of the crash. LEADERSHIP gathered that […]
H.Caux/UNHCR Hundreds of families have crossed the border from Mali into Niger (file photo). France is worried that Al-Qaida’s influence is growing in the wartorn north of Mali and wants the UN Security Council to back humanitarian aid to the area, which has fallen to Tuareg separatists, reportedly allied to the Islamist group. “We are […]
The Liberian government, in response to recent renewed cross-border attacks, has announced the immediate closure of its border with the Ivory Coast as part of series of measures aimed at tackling the problem. In a joint press conference held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, Defense Minister Brownell J. Samukai […]