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From across Africa, messages for President Barack Obama, submitted to allAfrica.com, have appealed for government by the people. "WE NEED DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA," insisted a 40-year-old businessman, in emphatic capital letters.
Chief mediator Kofi Annan handed over the Waki list and haul of evidence to stop further delays in bringing suspects to justice, he revealed on Friday.
Civilians are bearing the brunt of attempts to dismantle armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with the rebels carrying out vicious reprisals and some Government soldiers committing serious human rights abuses, the senior United Nations official to the country told the Security Council today.
The Security Council today voiced its concern over the fragile democratic and economic progress achieved in West Africa, which continues to face grave challenges ranging from coups d'état to organized crime.
President Barack Obama's trip to Ghana, beginning today, will be rich in symbolism. But those hoping for a new direction in U.S. Africa policy are tempering their hopes with skepticism. The issue posed, parallel to that in other policy spheres, is to what extent change will remain symbolic or reflect substantive shifts, even if small, away from U.S. policies based on unilateral geostrategic goals ...
As President Barack Obama continues his tour of Ghana on Saturday, it may be an emotive homecoming for the first African-American President of the United States.
Nations represented at the G8 Summit of the world's major industrial powers have promised to raise U.S. $20 billion to promote sustainable agricultural development in developing countries.
THE Kimberly Process (KP) investigating team that visited Zimbabwe last week has produced a damning interim report implicating the government in human rights violations and looting of gems at Chiadzwa diamond fields in Manicaland, The Financial Gazette can reveal.
It is clear that grave violations of international human rights and humanitarian law - possibly amounting to war crimes - are being committed in strife-torn Somalia, a top United Nations official said today.
The transitional authority in Madagascar is willing to bring forward elections for the presidency and the legislature and hold them before the end of this year, writes Iloniaina Alain in the Antananarivo newspaper, L'Express de Madagascar.
The detained leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Mr. Henry Okah, yesterday accepted to benefit from Federal Government's unconditional amnesty for Niger Delta militants.
A day after a Ugandan woman, allegedly sold to work under slave like conditions in Iraq by a local labour recruitment company appeared at Parliament, Saturday Monitor has learnt that at least eight more women have been rescued in a joint operation mounted by some Ugandans working as guards of American bases and the US Marines serving in the Arab country.
DESPITE THE much-talked about historic visit of US President Barack Hussein Obama to Ghana today, Friday, July, 10, most people in Bolgatanga are not enthused about this visit.
Côte d'Ivoire's political parties have the responsibility for ensuring that much-delayed presidential elections, now scheduled to take place on 29 November, are held on time and are free, fair and transparent, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says, urging them to act appropriately.
Cape Coast, the former colonial capital, on Thursday afternoon went agog as both the aged and the youth trooped to the Victoria Park (Jubilee Park) to catch a glimpse of the United States of America Airforce helicopters, which have been deployed to the place in preparation towards the visit of the US President, Barack Obama.
The army and the police will not withdraw from the Chiadzwa diamond fields, but will remain there to maintain 'law and order', a state controlled newspaper said on Friday.
Voter registration ahead of the 28 October general elections begins on Friday among Mozambicans resident in the diaspora.
The Zanzibar Government has re-stated its position on oil and natural gas resources, saying they should be excluded from the Union list.
A significant amount of Government money is diverted to personal use each year by corrupt senior public officials, President Jakaya Kikwete said yesterday.
The Government has until September 30 to prove that it is committed to setting up of the special tribunal to try perpetrators of the 2008 post election violence, failure to which the International Criminal Court (ICC) might take over prosecutions.
Zimbabwe and Botswana have reported their first suspected cases of swine flu as the H1N1 virus began to establish a foothold in southern Africa.
United States President Barack Obama has again used the Kenyan example to impress upon the African leadership on the need for policy change.
1. We, Heads of State, Government and International and Regional Organizations convened in L'Aquila, remain deeply concerned about global food security, the impact of the global financial and economic crisis and last year's spike in food prices on the countries least able to respond to increased hunger and poverty. While the prices of food commodities have decreased since their peak of 2008, they ...
For more than a decade, much of Africa has been moving forward. Economic growth is rising, poverty is falling and democratic governance is spreading. But the global financial crisis threatens to undo this progress by reducing investment, exports and aid just as they should be expanding to build on these successes.
During a news conference after the G8 Summit ended in L'Aquila, Italy, on July 10, President Barack Obama explained and answered questions on the summit's announcement on food security. Excerpts of the relevant remarks, as published by the White House:
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