Africa’s quest for greater connectivity and improved intra-regional trade could soon become a reality after the continent’s leaders agreed to increase public spending on infrastructure and set in motion a programme to create a Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) by 2017. The recent 18th summit of the African Union noted that the continent’s regional integration […]
Mar 21 2012 | Posted in
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United States President Barack Obama has had high praise for Ghana’s economic transformation and democratic credentials, pointing out that while it is important and right to focus on Africa’s challenges, it is equally important focus on the good news. “There are sometimes — there’s sometimes a tendency to focus on the challenges that exist in […]
Mar 21 2012 | Posted in
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Nguruman — The repeated hooting of the Ostrich bus announces the break of dawn in Nguruman, a pastoralist village about 150 kilometers south of Nairobi near the Tanzania border. It also stirs Kipaa Ole Kitesho from sleep to answer the call of a new day. On any other morning, Kitesho, 24, would be rounding up […]
Feb 28 2012 | Posted in
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Travis Lupick and Emma Mwasinga Blantyre — On an elegant veranda adorned with a red carpet, Malawi’s Vice President Joyce Banda recalls how her childhood friend Chrissie Mtokoma was always top of their class and how she struggled to beat her. But now decades later Banda is a likely contender for the country’s presidency in […]
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South Africa’s leading anti-AIDS group has said that allegedly faulty condoms are among more than 1.35 million handed out at the African National Congress’ 100th birthday party. Health officials confirmed that all of those condoms have been ordered to be recalled. But the Treatment Action Campaign said no warning has been issued to people that […]
Feb 11 2012 | Posted in
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Thursday, February 2: Newark, NJ: The United Way of Essex and West Hudson held a reception for the African Community in the greater Newark area. It was an evening of networking and a learning process among Africans and African Americans who gathered at the venue for the evening’s event. It was also a time of […]
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Durban — “This land belongs to women, they will never tire!” Chanted in Zulu, this South African freedom song from the anti-apartheid struggle was reworked into a protest song against climate change at the Rural Women’s Assembly, a side event at the COP17 conference – the 17th UN gathering on climate change. The forum aimed […]
Feb 11 2012 | Posted in
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Hon. Kennedy Agyapong, a fiery and vocal Member of Parliament of Ghana’s opposition party, New Patriotic Party (NPP, Assin North) was in the Tri-State on a private visit earlier this month. Amandla caught up with him for an exclusive “tell-it like- it-is” interview with our editor-in-chief. Pellentesque vulputate, sapien sed dignissim vulputate, orci massa volutpat […]
