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.
Edo State government wants the United Nations General Assembly to prevail on the British government and other suspected looters to return stolen Benin artifacts.
The United Kingdom Border Agency has suspended scheduled deportation flights for failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers, following strong protestations by the MDC-UK.
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.
WHEN one takes a scientific analysis of the major media the world over it is clear that at the very best there is only a slight opening for dissident or anti-establishment opinion.
Shakespeare's dictum that all the good things that people do are buried with them was disproved in London at the 11th Gathering of Africa's Best (GAB) awards when the late general Sani Abacha was almost made a saint by a British politician, Mr Mackie Sheik.
The recent introduction of the air passenger duty (APD) for departures from United Kingdom airports to long haul destinations is causing jitters within the tourism industry, with players fearing that they could lose British tourists.
Two giants, Africa's leading integrated telecoms operator, Globacom Limited, and the world's richest club, Manchester United of England, have signed a five-year sponsorship contract.
European Union (EU) naval forces seized seven suspected Somali pirates on Tuesday after an attack on a French fishing vessel east of Mogadishu.
IN 1890, the French statesman Jules Francois Camille Ferry wrote, "an irresistible movement is bearing the great nations of Europe towards the conquest of fresh territories. It is like a huge steeplechase into the unknown...whole continents are being annexed...especially the huge black continent so full of fierce mysteries and vague hopes."
Sierra Leone and Willem II defender, Ibrahim Kargbo aka Obreh has scooped the "Flying Bahco Trophy after their match against Dutch rival, NEC. The prize was from the Foundation saved Tools.
Survivors of the Darfur crisis who sought refuge in the UK and are still fighting their asylum cases are celebrating yesterday’s Home Office decision to concede that their removal to Khartoum would be unsafe and that they should all be granted asylum. An Operational Guidance Note (OGN) issued by the Home Office late yesterday states as follows:
As the build-up to the global summit on climate change in Denmark gathers momentum countries of the developing world have asked the industrialized nations to cough-out $400bn as financial reparation for the economic and social losses brought upon them as a result of many years of carbon emission into the atmosphere.
The Delta State government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations Office of Project Services (UNOPS) and Loughborough College, United Kingdom, on conflict resolution in the restive Niger Delta region.
Nigerian-duo of Wolfsburg's Obafemi Martins and TSG Hoffenheim's Chinedu Obasi Ogbuke, will on Saturday trade tackles when both clubs clash in a German Bundesliga fixture.
