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Joint statement by High Representative Catherine Ashton and Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström on the release of Max Göldi
High Representative/Vice President Catherine Ashton and Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström issued the following statement today on the release of Max Göldi.
"We welcome the...
Switzerland: No hiding place for stolen African assets
Switzerland does not want stolen assets from corrupt individuals or governments in its banks and wants to give them back to those populations who...
Libya: Gaddafi declares Jihad on Switzerland
Libya’s president Mr. Muammar Gaddafi has called on all Muslims to shun Switzerland and begin a jihad against the Alpine nation. The antagonism is...
Aviation: Lufthansa, Brussels, Swiss together in the African skies
Lufthansa, Swiss and Brussels Airlines have merged forces to provide a seamless travel, otherwise known as a ‘free-from-disturbance', product towards Africa. With 200 flights...
Switzerland-Nigeria: Former Nigeria’s President’s son to pay $350m
A Swiss court has ordered the seizure of $350m in assets from the son of Nigeria’s former military ruler, General Sani Abacha, says AFP....
Nigeria pleased with efforts from European Union and Switzerland
It’s been a week of Europe’s exhibition of support to the efforts of the Nigerian government in transparency, fight against corruption and state civility....
Libya-Switzerland: Hannibal Gaddafi will be judged by a court of arbitration
According to Afrique En Ligne, the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi received Wednesday in New York (USA) Hans-Rudolf Merz, President of the Swiss Confederation. The...
Swiss court approves African kleptocracy: Mobutu’s loot to go to his family
Chairman of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions, Mark Pieth raised an appeal against a...
Hannibal Gaddafi affair: Libya to file a complaint against Geneva
The Libyan State will file a lawsuit against Geneva (In Switzerland) in a Geneva court following the arrest last July, of Hannibal Gaddafi, son...
Libyan President’s sons, Switzerland and Mariah Carey
Sons of Libyan leader, Hannibal Gadhafi and Saif Gadhafi, have resurfaced in the popular press. The former went fishing for apologies while the other...
Libya to withdraw assets from Swiss banks following arrest of President’s son
Libya has decided to withdraw its assets, estimated at U S$ 7 billion, from Swiss banks and stop supplying oil to the European country...
Swiss nationals vote against a bill judged discriminatory by supreme court
A proposal to make it more difficult for naturalisation to be accorded to immigrants has been rejected in a referendum in Switzerland.
The initiative proposed...
International ban on cigarette advertising looms
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday urged governments to protect the world's 1.8 billion young people by imposing a ban on all tobacco...
Health Ministers to discuss pharmaceutical industries in Africa
The ministers of health of the African Union (AU) member countries will meet 17 May in Geneva, Switzerland, at a special session alongside the...
Food crisis: UN meets in Switzerland
20 United Nations key development agencies are gathered for a two day meeting in Berne to find solutions to the global food crisis according...
Federer wins his first title of the season
Roger Federer, the top-ranked tennis player from Switzerland obtained his first title this year by beating Nikolay Davydenko in Portugal yesterday. The Russian sportsman...
Egypt pulls out of football championship in favour of another
Egypt has pulled out of the inaugural African Nations Championship (CHAN), the Egyptian football association has announced.
The body said the decision was based on...
South Africa: Dlamini Zuma concludes official Swiss tour
South African Foreign Minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma on Monday concluded her five-day official visit to Switzerland by officially opening a trade investment road...
2010 World Cup will help mend rifts in SA says De Klerk
Former South African President F.W. De Klerk has said the 2010 World Cup will send a message to the world that Africa in general...
Switzerland considering travel sanctions against Kenyan politicians
Switzerland is planning travel restrictions against Kenyan politicians who may be seen as causing the failure of the African Union (AU) mediation talks to...