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MONTREAL WILL HOST ITS FIRST EVER BLACK FASHION WEEK
Montréal – After the success of Paris Black Fashion Week, the event created by Adama Paris is gonna happen in Montreal from May 15...
Canada: A cameroonian appointed Minister
Maka Kotto, a Cameroonian borned has been appointed Minister of Culture and Communication of Quebec. He became the first African-Canadian to reach this level...
Morocco: Bombardier Aerospace implanted in Nouaceur
The president of Bombardier Aerospace Guy Hachey was received Tuesday by King Mohammed VI in Rabat palace. The Canadian group in Morocco ...
Child obesity causes heart problems
According to a study carried out in a hospital in Vancouver, Canada, children who are obese are at risk of developing atherosclerosis. And this...
Canada cracks down on cadmium jewelry
Cadmium, a metal that is toxic if ingested or inhaled, has come under fire from the Canadian Ministry of Health. The Ministry has asked...
Nigeria: Rebels resume oil attacks?
Two Americans, two French, two Indonesians and one Canadian have been taken hostage by militiamen in Nigeria after an attack on an oil company...
Guinea-Canada: Suspicious death of ex-Junta leader’s son
Thursday, the Camara family anxiously awaited the results of an autopsy on the body of their eldest son, Moriba Camara "Junior", who was found...
Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya : Indian Multinational Company Confirms USD 6 Million Order to Set up Industrial Waste Water Treatment Plants
Shivsu Canadian Clear International Ltd, a leading water technology solution provider, has completed an order worth USD 6 million from the private organizations and...
Partnership Africa Canada (PAC) condemns violence in Zimbabwe’s diamond fields
A new PAC report about Zimbabwe's contested diamond fields is about many things: smuggling and frontier hucksterism; a scramble fuelled by raw economic desperation...
Access to HIV/AIDS drugs: A crisis in waiting
Years after agreement was reached at the World Trade Organization to allow poor countries to continue to import cheaper generic versions of patented medicines...
The University of Ottawa in Egypt
The University of Ottawa, together with the Faculty of Arts and the Canadian International College (CIC), announced that uOttawa will open a new academic...
Ivory Coast: Call for justice reiterated on sixth anniversary of journalist’s disappearance
News conferences were held simultaneously in Paris and Abidjan on 15 April 2010 to mark the sixth anniversary of Franco-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer's disappearance...
Uganda: Anti-gays launch campaign against US, UK, Canada…
Anti gays in Uganda have resolved to mobilize Ugandans to stop buying goods from United States and the other countries which are threatening to...
Canada’s first “Black only” school under heavy criticism
The "Africentric Alternative School" in Toronto is Canada’s first "Afrocentric" public school. Catering for students of African or Afro-Caribbean descent, the school's main aim...
Canada-Rwanda: War criminal jailed
A Rwandan man convicted of war crimes has been jailed for life by a Canadian court, without the prospect of parole for 25 years,...
Canada – Mali: Canadian Foreign Minister visits Mali
The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced that he will visit Mali from August 28 to 29.
"This visit is significant as...
Ethiopian Minister of Health appointed by the Global Fund as chair
The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has elected Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Minister of Health of the Federal Democratic...
24 African think tanks get a $30 billion grant
Twenty-four think tanks in East and West Africa will receive a grant of nearly $30 billion as part of an initiative to support locally...
Mali President hailed for Canadian hostage release
Malian President, Mr. Amadou Toumani Toure, has been hailed for his role in the release of kidnapped Canadian diplomats Robert Fowler and Louis Guay,...
Sudan: Gov’t doing its best to free kidnapped aid workers
A Canadian and a French national, serving humanity in Darfur, under the Aide Medicale Internationale (AMI) agency have been kidnapped by Islamic Gunmen, at...
Cigarette smoke harmful to kids and kills one out of two…
Exposing children to cigarette smoke could put them at serious risk of nicotine addiction, without ever having smoked a cigarette themselves. A recent Canadian...
Winter Olympics: Ghana’s first professional skier goes to the Olympics
Ghanas first professional skier has qualified to represent his country at the 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. According to the BBC, Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong,...
Abductors of Canadian diplomats still unknown
The missing UN special envoy to Niger Mr. Robert Fowler is still no-where-to-be-found. According to reports, the United Nations head office has rallied aid...
Rebels abduct UN special envoy and three others
Reports from Niamey, Niger, claim that the UN's special envoy to the country, Robert Fowler has been kidnapped. He was with abducted along with...
Sale of uranium company in Namibia announced
Canadian uranium producer Forsys Metals Corp said Wednesday that it had entered into exclusive negotiations regarding the potential sale of the company, which is...
Mauritanian junta not to get permission to attend International Francophonie Organisation summit in Canada
No delegation of the ruling Mauritanian junta will be granted permission to attend a summit of the International Francophonie Organisation (OIF), holding 17-19 October...
Canadian author sued by ex international goalie over false allegations
Former Ghana international goalkeeper, Abubakari Damba, Tuesday said he had instituted moves to sue Declan Hill, a Canadian journalist, over allegations that he was...
Canada and Netherlands contirbute 3.5 billion F CFA to Mali’s Rice Initiative
Canada and the Netherlands have both contributed 3.5 billion CFAF for the implementation of the Rice Initiative launched in June by Malian Prime Minister...
Canada deploys a frigate to Somalia against pirates
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday welcomed Canada's decision to deploy a frigate to Somalia to protect the agency's food ships...
Researchers from Canada and Uganda breakthrough on new malaria drug
Canadian and Ugandan researchers at Makerere University said they had recorded a breakthrough in their search for new drugs to treat malaria, noting that...