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.
Howard Wolpe has spent the best part of three decades helping to form and implement American policies on Africa. After chairing the Subcommittee on Africa of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives for 10 years, he later served as President Bill Clinton's special envoy to the Great Lakes region.
The Kenyan Government on Sunday appeared to be having second thoughts about an agreement to arrest and hand over to the International Criminal Court election violence suspects.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the power-sharing agreement reached by Madagascar"s current and former leaders and urged them to implement the deal to resolve months of political wrangling in the Indian Ocean country.
The meeting that was scheduled to bring together all key persons, officials, institutions and residents of Loliondo to discuss recent conflicts in the game controlled area has been shelved indefinitely.
The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) calls on the Sudan Liberation Movement/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) to desist from impeding the work of UNAMID in Darfur.
The United States government in conjunction with the office of the National Security Adviser, NSA, has organised a three week training programme on maritime security at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Resource Centre situated at Kirikiri in Lagos.
The former president general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dr Ikedife, Honourable Chidi Duru of House of Representatives and Dr Okey Umeano of All Progressive Grand Alliance have reacted to the news report that quoted Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Emeka Ojukwu to have warned against the outbreak of another civil war should Anambra Governor, Peter Obi be excluded from contesting 2010 guber election.
John Nwokocha is the Abia State Commissioner for Information Culture and Tourism. An experienced journalist whose appointment has received wide commendations, Nwokocha in this chat spoke on a number of issues that are germane to the development of the state. Excerpts:
Two doctors facilitated by some officials of the UN mission in DR Congo (MONUC) have entered Congo jungles to treat ailing FDLR commander Maj. Gen. Sylvestre Mudacumura, The New Times has learnt
Some elements in the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC) are allegedly conniving and facilitating the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebels, The New Times has reliably learnt.
The former head of the government office that controlled the Rwandan tea industry was today sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty by a United Nations tribunal over his role in the African country's 1994 genocide.
Former Liberia President Charles Taylor who is being tried by the UN-back court for Sierra Leone in The Hague for crimes he allegedly committed in the neighbouring country, has confessed to sending fighters to help rebels inflict mayhem on civilians during the 11-year war in the country.
The top United Nations envoy to Sudan has praised the disarming, demobilization and reintegration so far this year of over 15,000 former combatants from the African nation's north-south civil war.
The head of United Nations peacekeeping has called for a joint investigation into the targeted killing this year of dozens of civilians in the far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by elements of the country's military.
