International assistance is vital to prevent the Central African Republic (CAR) from falling back into political crisis and potential new fighting as it prepares for elections next year after a decade of violence and conflict between Government and rebel forces, the top United Nations official for the country warned today.
THE Presidency is putting up spirited defence of its latest proposed addition of four new aircraft to the presidential fleet.
Satya Capital, the London-based private investment firm associated with Sudanese born business magnate Mo Ibrahim, has emerged as the leading contender in a two-horse race for the 30 per cent stake that is up for sale at retail chain Nakumatt.
Proposals by Medical Services minister Anyang' Nyong'o that Kenyatta National Hospital disperse some of its services to provincial and district hospitals makes a lot of sense.
President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga, the joint leaders of the Grand Coalition Government, have both assured Kenyans that they remain individually and collectively committed to the achievement of a new constitution.
The neutrality of the South African mediators in the ongoing Zimbabwe crisis talks was questioned this week, after the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party issued a solidarity message with ZANU PF at the end of the 5-yearly congress in Harare.
Elsewhere in the pages of this newspaper, we publish a letter from Survival International (SI), an organisation that is viewed askance by the powers that be.
It is the Chinese in an old but very enduring adage who defined insanity as that act of doing same thing the same way and expecting different results.
Frank Muramuzi of the National Association of Professional Environmentalists analyzes the World Bank's approach to energy lending, focusing specifically upon large hydropower projects in Uganda.
Shashank Bengali of McClatchey Newspapers wrote “Africa is gripped by one of the greatest population explosions ever recorded” in a recent article entitled, “Africa’s Perilous Baby Boom.” In fact, while it is widely reported that India’s population (1.6 billion projected) will surpass China’s population (1.4 billion projected) by 2050, Africa will beat ...
A cross section of pregnant women at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital, PCMH have called on government to help them with medical facilities, which has been the problem in the hospital for several decades.
Following the conclusion of a three-day conference in Freetown, ECOWAS chiefs of defense staff have signed and approved a standby brigade force for Sierra Leone.
Irate youths who were barred from entering the premises of the Kissy ferry terminal past Friday mobbed the minister of transport and aviation as the latter tried to bulldoze his way through the crowd.
In a move aimed at easing constraints on infrastructure financing, as well as developing debt markets in Africa, the Association of African Securities Exchange has endorsed plans to support the issuing of local currency bonds on the continent.
Opposition politicians under the Interparty Co-operation - a political grouping of four opposition political parties intend to establish a federal system of government in regions that want it, if their joint candidate wins the 2011 presidential poll.
At least three soldiers are killed and 8 others injured in a roadside bomb blast in Bossasso, the commercial port city of Somalia's Puntland state, officials said on Tuesday.
Kenyan environmental campaigner and Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai is being designated today (Tuesday) as a United Nations Messenger of Peace.
Somali refugees fleeing into Kenya following fierce fighting in their country will not be repatriated back to their country, an official from United Nations High Commission for Refugees has said.
The Kenya government has put a strong defence against the dissolution of Provincial Administration describing it as the pillar of government through its coordination machinery.
Ten days from now, we shall be celebrating the birth of Christ. The Christmas mood is catching on - considering that shopping for the season is in high gear and elsewhere some offices are already sending staff on the long holiday.
The new Cape Town Stadium has been opened on time - 32 months after the first sod was turned.
The Nigerian Bar Association rose from its National Executive Committee (NEC) at Zodiac Hotel, Enugu Friday last week with a resolution that 'all statements made by the NBA President and in particular, the statement to the effect that the President of Nigeria should have handed over to the Vice-President in an acting capacity and in keeping with relevant constitutional provisions or resign in the ...
Diplomats and African leaders are calling for an international civil-military force in Guinea to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian assistance, but a junta official has warned such a deployment would be seen as a "declaration of war".
Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Mr. Parry Osayande, yesterday said about N420 billion is needed to reposition the Nigeria Police Force to enable it perform its statutory duties as enshrined in the constitution.
A former minister of Petroleum Resources, Chief Don Etiebet and human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, among others, yesterday expressed fears that the absence of President Umar Musa Yar Adua from the country in the last three weeks on grounds of ill-health might have more grave implications on national security than earlier envisaged.
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