Following the resolution of the US Senate on June 18, formally apologising for fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and the noticeable attempts by some heads of governments, and global opinion leaders to wash off the blights and stains regarding the roles they played in the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic slave trade, some Nigerian traditional rulers having been ...
The United States has piled more pressure on Kenya to hunt down and handover Felicien Kabuga, the most wanted genocide fugitive believed to be hiding in Kenya.
For over a century Ethiopia and the United States have been engaged in meandering diplomatic relations influenced by major official actors, domestic politics, and world conditions. Based on archival and declassified government documents, interviews, and translations of works in Amharic, Professor Getachew Metaferia has provided a balanced, detailed analysis of the diplomatic history of Ethiopia, ...
A Virtual Study Abroad Programme will be launched in Ghana in January 2010. The programme is a collaborative effort between the African University College of Communications (AUCC) of Ghana and Simmons College of the United States.
The Government of Rwanda yesterday entered a groundbreaking agreement with US-based Eco-Fuel Global and UK's Eco Positive Ltd-which will see the two companies sink $250m in a project to produce bio-diesel.
I hold no brief for Kenyans whose visas are being revoked by the US government. As they are fellow Kenyans, my plea, though, is that they be not bullied or treated with disrespect. I know where the US government is coming from.
In the wake of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's meeting with Moroccan King Mohammed VI last week, a prominent human rights activist was detained on her arrival in Western Sahara, which Morocco controls.
In late October, the Puntland government arrested five men of Ogadeni origin. These men came to Puntland using Somali travel documents provided by Somali authorities in Yemen.
Confidential U.S. government documents uncovered by campaign group Global Witness and reported on in today's New York Times, strongly suggest that Teodorin Obiang, son of the dictator of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, purchased a $33 million private jet, a $35 million Malibu mansion, speedboats and a fleet of fast cars using corruptly acquired funds.
THE legal action instituted against Bayer CropScience AG by farmers in the United States for allegedly contaminating their farms with Genetically Modified (GM) rice seeds in 2006 is a further confirmation of the validity of tests carried out on rice samples collected by the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) in Nigeria and other West African countries within the ...
The North Africa-based terrorist group al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) continues to be a menace to parts of the Maghreb and the Sahel, but the Muslim populations there generally reject AQIM, and the group is less likely to expand operations into Europe because of pressure being applied by Algerian security forces, says Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, the U.S. State Department's coordinator for ...
The issue of food security can now be found at the center of the global community's development agenda in the wake of recent food and fuel crises caused by spiking prices. According to a USAID official, the current situation shows that inattention to agriculture has consequences for stability and the economic development process worldwide.
The United State's President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has increased funding for HIV/AIDS in Africa from $2.3 billion in 2004 to $6.6 billion in 2009.
WORLD opinion remains sharply divided over the United States of America's role in global politics given its partiality, hypocrisy and double-standards in its dealings with other nations.
Buoyed by returning off-shore investors especially in the oil sector, increased remittances from Ugandans working abroad, and inflows from exports, the shilling has appreciated 25% against the dollar over a six months ending October 31.
