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 […]
Former Nigerian president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday received a doctorate from the country’s National Open University (NOUN). Obasanjo, who has twice governed Nigeria as a military ruler and democratic president, was among 14,769 graduands on the day. He received a doctorate in Christian Theology having defended his thesis months back. The University during its […]
When Washington is this broken, it’s always the most vulnerable who get hurt. Political careers may be made and lost Friday as President Donald Trump and Republicans and Democrats in Congress trade blame while the government races toward a midnight shutdown deadline. But while Washington fixates over the partisan stakes of the funding drama, the […]
Rabbi Shanna Potter-Jaffee, an American Civil Rights Activist has urged Americans to honour the legacy of Martin Rev Luther King Junior by sharing the hope for humanity and to shun what divided them. Americans should look out for what connected them to bring out the beauty of humanity for a brighter future, she noted when […]
Ghanaian Peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan has organized “fun-day” for displaced children in a protection site in Bentiu. The Ghanaian Peacekeepers took this nimble and playful, yet robust initiative to engage with hundreds of boys and girls as a way of encouraging healthy social interaction. A statement to the Ghana […]
