Tag: Africa
Africa Action, ECOWAS condemn Guinea’s killing of 160 “peaceful demonstrators”
"They were raping women publicly. Soldiers were shooting everywhere and I saw people fall" Mouctar Diallo, opposition activist
U.S. AfriCom’s commander Ward: no plans to move hqs to Africa
Washington has no plans "for the foreseeable future" to move the headquarters of U.S. Africa Command - nor…
‘Al-Qaeda threat’ closed US embassy in South Africa
The embassy, consulates in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, as well as aid and development offices, have been…
USAfrica: Why Nigerian and Africa’s leaders are leading them nowhere. By Prof. Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
In an interview with the Financial Times (London), Nigeria's leader retired Gen. Obasanjo could not but admit: "In…
My aversion to patronizing ‘Save’ Africa campaigns by Europeans, Americans
My aversion to patronizing 'Save' Africa campaigns by the West. By Uzodinma Iweala. Such campaigns, however well intentioned,…
SOCCER: Nigeria, South Africa host world soccer in 2009 and 2010
IFA's Executive Committee has agreed that in 2009, Egypt would host the FIFA under 20 World Cup and…
Obama’s Africa agenda, our business and democracy.
Signally, Obama's White House chose the small west African country of only 23 million peoples, spurning Ghana's neighbor,…
Obama’s Africa agenda, our business and democracy
Obama is in Ghana principally for America's core strategic interests: Oil. I know that oil and stable access…
CONTINENTAL AGENDA Bush’s position on Africa is “ill-advised
CONTINENTAL AGENDA: Bush's position on Africa is "ill-advised." The position stated by Republican presidential aspirant and Governor of…
AIDS, Africa and 5-month old Kgomotso
I have looked several times into that distant stare in the eyes of Kgomotso Mahlangu, a five-month-old AIDS patient in…