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Continental leaders gathered at the 13th African Union Summit on Friday took a decision to transform the African Union Commission into a new African Union Authority.
GERMANY, Israel and Egypt are not disposed to accepting ailing Henry Okah for medical treatment on the strength of a condition by the Federal Government that they sign an undertaking to return him to Nigeria after his treatment. They have accordingly declined to have him on their shores for treatment.
AMAVUBI Stars' skipper Olivier Karekezi claims that the team is ready to give Egypt a good run for their money in today's 2010 World/Africa Nations Cup qualifier.
The second edition of the Pan African Cultural Festival, otherwise called Panaf 2009, last Saturday evening, officially opened at the Sofia Square on Hivert Street in Algiers, capital of Algeria.
The global finals of the world's largest technology competition, Imagine Cup 2009, began yesterday in Cairo, Egypt with 444 students from 124 countries and regions, including Nigeria. At stake is $288, 000 in prize money and the chance to kick-start their careers in one of several technological fields.
A huge pan-African festival gathering more than 8,000 artists and writers from all over Africa including Togo, as well as Brazil and the United States, got under way here on Saturday.
A high powered delegation of the Egyptian National Olympic Committee (ENOC) that arrived Abuja at the weekend to participate in the election of the secretary general of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) have mounted a strong campaign for their candidate.
EGYPT is planning to acquire 200 hectares of land in Gulu district to introduce a variety of wheat that can thrive in Uganda.
RWANDA did little to salvage any hopes of qualifying for next year's World Cup and Africa Nations Cup after succumbing to a 3-0 defeat against African champions Egypt in Cairo.
There were fears at the weekend that the multi-billion dollar Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline project being midwifed by Nigeria, Algeria and Niger is now a target for sabotage by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).
Three African countries yesterday signed an accord to build a $10 billion trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe.
African leaders in Libya were on Friday hotly debating a draft resolution by the African Union (AU) which will, if adopted, deal a major blow to the efforts of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute war criminals in Africa.
Duho Artan, a Somali mother, one of the parents whose children are detained in Libyan jails has Friday requested from the both Libya and Somali government to release their children and return to their country.
AMAVUBI Stars fly to Cairo this afternoon ahead of Sunday's 2010 World /Africa Nations Cup qualifier against Egypt. The 30-man contingent leaves aboard Kenya Airways at 1pm.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has reiterated that he supports the idea of regional political federation before an African political union.
Culture minister, Rosa Cruz e Silva, travels to Algiers City, Algeria, leading a delegation from the sector to participate in the Pan-African Culture Festival.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is among several African leaders and Heads of Government attending the 13th Ordinary Session of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, taking place in the Libyan town of Sirte.
Egyptian delegation of the Egyptian National Olympic Committee (ENOC) will arrives Abuja on Saturday to participate in the election of the secretary general of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) that is to be held on the 6th and 7th of July at ANOCA headquarters in Abuja.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meets with Christopher Ross, his new Personal Envoy for Western Sahara (file photo)
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, at the head of an 8-member official delegation, has left the country for the 13th Ordinary Session of Heads of State and Government of the African Union. This year's Summit is taking place in Sirte, the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, from July 1 - 3, 2009.
PRESIDENT Mugabe left Harare yesterday for Sirte, Libya, to attend the 13th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union, which begins today in the city that gave birth to the AU through the Sirte Declaration of 1999.
Egypt has made great strides in improving access to drinking water and is well-situated to address remaining challenges related to water and sanitation, a United Nations independent human rights expert said today.
The chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Jean Ping, has expressed grave concern at the reemerging of coups d'etat on the continent, and unconstitutional changes of government.
An agreement between the governments of Nigeria and Algeria to build a trans-Saharan gas pipeline is expected to be signed in Abuja next week, reports Vanguard.
Close Circuit Television (CCTV) footage has assisted in ruling out the possibility that mystery women or hotel staff could have been responsible for the alleged theft of cash from the Egyptian football team about two weeks ago.
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