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Africa & World Politics
Saturday, January 29th, 2011
Canadian immigration authorities are investigating whether the relatives of Tunisia’s deposed president who arrived in Montreal last week are entitled to remain in the country, a department spokeswoman said Monday. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney told CBC Sunday that some family members of former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali have permanent residency status in Canada, […]
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Africa & World Politics
Saturday, January 29th, 2011
FORMER South African President, Nelson Mandela was yesterday discharged from the Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mandela went home from the hospital after suffering an acute respiratory infection. He is now to continue treatment at home. According to an Associated Press (AP) report, the 92-year-old former president was joking with his wife and nurses, […]
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Africa & World Politics
Saturday, January 29th, 2011
The Nobel Peace Laureate returned to the country on Thursday from a month abroad and declared he was ready to lead the protesters towards regime change. Police stationed outside his suburban Cairo home have told him he cannot leave the house after he joined tens of thousands of protesters in the capital. Yesterday, crowds threw […]
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Africa & World Politics
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
GOOGLE and other stakeholders are planning how to make Africa to fully tap the potential that the Internet holds for the continent. Consequently, Google will be delivering a keynote address at “Mobile Web West Africa,” a leading industry event, which will take place from February 2 to 3, 2011 at the Eko Hotel & Suites, […]
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Africa & World Politics
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
ALTHOUGH the United Nations, the United States and France, among other leading Western countries, are actively advocating the ousting of the defeated Ivorien President, Laurent Gbagbo, from power, international troops from the UN will not join in the forceful removal, as it is being planned by the ECOWAS under Nigeria’s leadership. Gbagbo has refused to step down after […]
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Africa & World Politics
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
THE Minister for Public Health and Sanitation in Kenya, Mrs. Beth Mugo, and the Minister for Science and Technology in South Africa, Mrs. Naledi Pandor, were jointly elected co-Chairs of the Board of the African Network for Drugs and Diagnostics Innovation (ANDI), at the inaugural meeting, hosted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa […]
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Africa & World Politics
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
PRESIDENT Laurent Gbagbo has expressed his desire to meet with his opponent, Alassane Ouattara, in a renewed bid to resolve the ongoing political crisis in Cote d’Ivoire. Details of the proposed meeting are still sketchy but officials loyal to Gbagbo said he had made overtures to Ouattara to have a private meeting with him on […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
SIR: The recent commencement of the exploration of petroleum in commercial quantity in Ghana is cheery news for a country that had shown in the last decade some decency in democratic governance. There is little apprehension over how Ghana will handle this God-given resource. Without oil, Ghana has already positioned itself as a model for […]
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Africa & World Politics
Sunday, January 16th, 2011
Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic Christmas mass that last Thursday night (Jan.6), offering their bodies, and lives, as “shields” to Egypt’s threatened Christian community. Yasmine El-Rashidi, writing online ahram.org.eg says that amidst clashes and threats, Copts feel marginalized in the Egyptian elections. El-Rashidi says that from the well-known to the unknown, Muslims […]
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Africa & World Politics
Saturday, January 15th, 2011
THE saying goes that “physical force has solved more conflicts than any other single factor in human history’’. This is often the case whereby diplomacy has seized to be an option in achieving the required result. The ongoing crisis in Cote d’Ivoire is a growing cause of concern not just because of the decision of […]
