USD 55 billion committed to connect Africa
The Connect Africa Summit closed yesterday with investment commitments amounting to over USD 55 billion, with the ICT industry taking the lead.
President Paul Kagame...
Tutu named into board of Nigerian University
South African Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu has been named into the Board of Trustees of the American University of Nigeria (AUN), a statement from...
Déby briefs Kadhafi on alleged child trafficking in Chad
A special envoy of Chadian President Idriss Deby has delivered a special message to Libyan leader Muammar Kadhafi, briefing him on the alleged plan...
IISS Announces 4th Regional Security Summit: The Manama Dialogue
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is pleased to announce that the 4th Regional Security Summit: The Manama Dialogue will take place from...
HAITI: Children start getting specialised AIDS services
Erika, 17, (not her real name) is one of an estimated 17,000 children living with HIV in Haiti, the Caribbean island most affected by...
Chissano wins Mo Ibrahim leadership prize
Former President of Mozambique, Joaquim Chissano, was Monday named the first winner of the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership.
The honour will...
Winner of Mo Ibrahim leadership award emerges Monday
The first winner of the Mo Ibrahim leadership award for Africa's most effective head of state is set to emerge Monday (today) in London,...
95 companies for Libya’s aviation exhibition
Some 95 companies from 25 countries are expected to attend the second edition of the Libyan Aviation Exhibition (LAVEX 2007), scheduled for 29-31 October...
Africa records increase in use of treated mosquito nets
At least 16 sub-Saharan African countries tripled their use of insecticide treated mosquito nets among children between 2000 and 2007, according to the United...
No plan to devalue CFA franc
The Director General of the Treasury and the Economic Policy at the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Employment, Xavier Musca, has said there...
Kidnapped MP’s father freed in Nigeria
The kidnapped 70-year-old father of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly (parliament) in Nigeria's southern Rivers state has been freed unharmed by...
Gambia frees political detainee after 385 days
The Gambian authorities have released Ousman Jatta, the United Democratic Party Councillor for Old Cape Point Ward, Bakau, after being held incommunicado for 385...
Gabon : Two newspapers suspended
On 8 October 2007, the National Communication Council (Conseil national de la communication, CNC), Gabon's media regulatory body, suspended two newspapers: "La Nation", a...
HIV-positive pastor shouts from the pulpit
Rev Maxwell Kapachawo is the only known pastor in Zimbabwe who publicly admits to being HIV-positive; he is also encouraging any of his peers...
Vaccine failure a setback for anti-AIDS efforts
News that one of the most promising and advanced HIV vaccine trials has been halted has dealt a serious blow to global AIDS prevention...
GM-UAW reach deal to end strike
Negotiators from the United Auto Workers union and General Motors reached a tentative agreement on a deal early Wednesday to end a two-day old...
New hope for long-suffering Mauritanian refugees
This village seems typical of villages in northern Senegal - with thatched huts, women cooking on outdoor fires, children playing and men sitting under...
WESTERN SAHARA: Families unite but not for long
Sixteen years after the UN brokered a ceasefire in Western Sahara the peace process has stalled and little has changed for the Sahrawi people...
US explains presence in Gulf of Guinea
The United States has explained that its presence in the Gulf of Guinea is aimed at protecting an area regarded as one of the...
Mass burial for victims of Lagos oil pipeline fire
The Lagos State government has started on-the-scene mass burial of victims of Friday's fuel pipeline explosion, which claimed some 200 lives at Inegbe beach...
Ghana prepares to host US First Lady, Laura Bush
Ghana will host the First Lady of the US Laura Bush for two nights from Sunday during which she will unveil a Textbooks and...
Media rights NGO demands guaranteed freedom of expression
A media rights NGO on Tuesday called on the newly-inaugurated transitional government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to use the current...
Letter to american friends
Adonis (Syria), Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco), Mohamed Charfi, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Ali Mezghani (Tunisia), Malek Chebil (Algeria), Mahmoud Hussein, Ali Shalakany (Egypt), Ali Kazancigi (Turkey),...