Bill Gates, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft and one of the world’s richest men has cautioned the U.S. president Donald John Trump against damaging the country’s relations with Africa. Speaking at the annual World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, Gates said the U.S. could lose Africa to China if Trump abandons Africa and […]
Mrs Heather Cameron, the Canadian High Commissioner to Ghana, has advised Ghanaian students with interest to study in Canada to apply for their visas early to avoid last minute stress. She said very often students waited until the eleventh-hour to apply for their visas and that always created traffic and work for the Embassy. “The […]
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, known in South Africa as the “mother of the nation”, was hospitalized for a kidney infection, the family announced on Tuesday. Winnie Mandela, 81, who is considered a heroine in the fight against apartheid, had been persecuted by the authorities of the white minority regime. She was appointed minister after the 1994 election. […]
Military authorities in Gambia arrested two of ex-strongman Yahya Jammeh’s generals after they returned unexpectedly from exile over the weekend, the army said in a statement on Monday. Gambia’s current President Adama Barrow was sworn in a year ago as a West African regional intervention force closed in on the capital Banjul forcing Jammeh, who […]
The African Union Commission is set to launch the first AU Agenda 2063 Flagship project, the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on January 28, 2018, as a historic event at the African Union Summit, nearly two decades after the adoption of the 1999 Yamoussoukro Decision. Speaking ahead of the launch […]
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has vowed to enforce the death penalty again, despite opposition from non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the country. “We believe in the Law of Moses; eye for an eye,” he said in a tweet: Last week, Mr Museveni said he ‘could start signing death warrants’ while speaking at a graduation ceremony for […]
Representatives of African governments together with key players within the African energy and power industry will once again converge in Washington D.C to meet U.S. governmental agencies and leading international energy investors and businesses from US and around the world for the 2018 Edition of the Powering Africa: Summit. U.S. Governmental agencies and leading businesses […]
Former international footballer George Weah has been sworn in as president of Liberia. “I have spent many years of my life in stadiums, but today is a feeling like no other,” President Weah told crowds in the capital Monrovia. It is Liberia’s first transition between democratically-elected leaders since 1944. Mr Weah thanked his predecessor, Ellen […]
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers will be unable to report for work on Monday, as the US Senate struggles to end a government shutdown. Some will not be paid until the stalemate is resolved. A rare Sunday session of the Senate yielded no agreement between Democrats and Republicans, with immigration one of the main […]
Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has issued an Executive Order seeking to protect women against domestic violence and abolishing female genital mutilation against girls below the age of 18. The order comes as part of President Sirleaf’s closing activities with barely a day in office. According to a statement issued by the presidential website, the […]
