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."
President-elect Mohamed Mursi has started negotiating with political forces to form a presidential team and new government, Al-Akhbar reported. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) may elect Mohamed ElBaradei, former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, to head the new government, said FJP deputy Mohamed al-Beltagy. Former […]
The development bank planned by members of the BRICS group of influential emerging economies could help South Africa finance its state-led infrastructure drive, says Business Unity SA CEO Nomaxabiso Majokweni. According to I-Net Bridge, Majokweni told an African National Congress (ANC) business forum in Johannesburg on Monday that an immediate benefit of a BRICS bank […]
By Army Sergeant 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr. Arlington, Virginia — U.S. Africa Command’s top military officer detailed existing and emerging threats from extremist organizations on the continent in a speech at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C, June 25, 2012. Army General Carter F. Ham also explained the U.S. […]
The collapse of an opaque scheme to set up a multi-billion dollar national mining company prompts recriminations in Conakry and South Africa. The Guinean government’s decision this week to shut down a bid by South African businessmen who wield high-level political connections, to run its national mining company follows growing pressure from international financial institutions […]
Eliminated presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq said that professionalism requires all to respect the winner of the elections without any disputes. On Sunday, the Presidential Elections Committee declared the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Mursi Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, ending a transition period ruled by a group of army generals. Shafiq, who served as toppled President Hosni Mubarak’s […]
By Borja Santos Porras Debre Zeit — Since 2008 in Ethiopia, the Urban Gardens Program has strived to improve the general health and incomes of women, orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS, through urban agriculture. “My husband died from HIV/AIDS years ago and then I lost my first daughter the same way,” says […]
The United Nations today called on South Sudan to develop a comprehensive plan for curbing violence in Jonglei state, as it released the findings of an investigation into inter-communal attacks that claimed hundreds of lives there in 2011 and early 2012. The report, compiled by the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) with support from […]
Dubai — Mohamad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has been declared the official winner of the first free Egyptian presidential elections. Cheers broke out both inside the briefing room and on Cairo’s Tahrir Square where protesters had been gathered since 22 June to protest what many had seen as a […]
The United Nations tribunal trying key suspects implicated in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, today transferred to Rwandan authorities the case of Aloys Ndimbati, a former local government official charged with crimes against humanity. Mr. Ndimbati, who was the bourgmestre [mayor] of the Gisovu commune from 1990 until the end of July 1994, currently remains […]
By Hussaini Jirgi Vanguard The Boko Haram group poses a real challenge to the Nigerian government The Police in Damaturu have confirmed the attack by armed gunmen on a satellite prison in Damaturu where 40 inmates were set free. Yobe state Commissioner of Police Patrick Egbuniwe told reporters in Damaturu on Sunday: “Yes there […]