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The American government’s new special adviser on the Great Lakes region, Howard Wolpe, comes to the post with the best part of three decades’ experience in the Africa policies of U.S. administrations behind him. In the second of a two-part interview with AllAfrica, he discusses how the Obama administration could improve its diplomacy and strengthen peace-building in Central Africa.
The border between Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo is being redrawn -- by a river!
Barely a fortnight after a Canadian court slammed a life sentence on Desire Munyaneza for his role in the 1994 Genocide, Canadian police on Friday arrested Jacques Mungwarere another Genocide fugitive who has been living in the North American country.
President Paul Kagame yesterday addressed the opening ceremony of the fourth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
While the crisis that plagued eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last year and threatened to engulf the entire region has eased, some of the factors that led to the fierce fighting and the displacement of hundred of thousands must still be dealt with, a senior United Nations envoy said today.
The United Nations and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have launched a fund to help the vast country recover from years of devastating civil war that ended earlier this decade, and continuing strife in its eastern provinces that has displaced more than a million people.
It is has been reported that one of the aspiring political parties yet to fulfill conditions for registration is already embroiled in wrangles because a section of its potential members are bitter that the party is being remote controlled by foreign forces.
This year's National Pediatric Conference on Children Infected and affected by HIV that is scheduled to take place this week will focus on strategies of achieving Millennium Development Goal six, according to the National Aids Control Commission (CNLS).
The Sparrow hawks of Togo are to meet Gabon's national football team on November 14th in Lome for a decisive match which might open them the doors for the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN-2010) due to take place in Angola.
THE long awaited Fifa World Cup trophy arrives in the country tonight as part of its Africa tour sponsored by Coca-Cola.
Nigeria's flag-bearers in the money-spinning CAF Champions League, Heartland, will this afternoon trade tackles with TP Mazembe of Congo DR in the grand-finale of this year's competition, The Naze Millionaires who arrived Lumbubashi yesterday aboard a chartered flight from Port Harcourt, are confident they will hold their own against their host at the end of the encounter.
Minutes after Heartland of Owerri lost the Champions League title on Saturday, CAF and FIFA match coordinator, Paul Bassey, was on line reacting to the tie in Congo DR. He was outraged and expressed his reservations this way:
Rwanda's World Cup dream was shattered after losing 1-0 to Uganda in the 2011 Women World Cup qualifier played yesterday at Nyamirambo stadium.
ALL roads lead to Nyamirambo this afternoon where the national women junior soccer team will decide their fate against Uganda's junior She- Cranes at the Regional Stadium.
NORWEGIAN based professional player Olivier Karekezi is confident Amavubi can pip Zambia to that final qualification slot for the 2010 Africa Nations Cup (CAN) in Luanda, Angola.
Hosts and holders Nigeria head to the southern coastal city of Calabar this afternoon for their quarter-final clash against Korea Republic at the U.J. Esuene Stadium.
Angola's deputy minister of Family and Women Promotion, Ana Paula do Sacrameto Neto, has been elected deputy chairwoman of the National Children Council (CNAC), during the plenary session of this organ, ANGOP has learnt.
Three district deputy administrators were sworn in last weekend in Kuito City, in the central Bié Province, in a ceremony chaired by the provincial governor Cândida Celeste da Silva.
About a hundred Angolan youths resident in the United States of America over the weekend in Bridgeport city, Connecticut, celebrated the 34th anniversary of the National Independence, November 11.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) will deliver judgement against the former deputy head of College of Christ the King, Hormisdas Nsengimana, on November 17, reports Hirondelle Agency.
A nephew of genocide-accused Joseph Nzirorera, former Secretary General of then Rwanda's presidential party (MRND), denied before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) that secret meetings were conducted in the residence of the defendant's mother during the genocide in 1994.
Ambassador Segun Olusola has advised Nigerian youths to explore their creativity rather than copying the works of others, so that they can contribute their own quota to the development of the country.
Freda Mukarumongi is one of the master weavers at Gahaya Links.
Rwandans who had forgotten all about Miss Rwanda beauty contests gathered to watch their daughters, catwalk and model the latest fashions in the world.This was at Salle Polyvalente hall in Ruhengeri town. Musanze , Northern Province and the ladies who turned up for the contest impressed both the organisers and the audience.
Boosted by the acquisition of three new aircrafts, Rwandair is set to introduce flights to Goma, Bukavu and Kinshasa in DR Congo next month.
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