This is the speech made yesterday in University of Washington in Rome by Italy’s foreign minister, Franco Frattini. Rome 31 August 2010 · Migration is a global challenge that requires an active approach. Throughout human history, migration has been a courageous expression of the individual’s will to overcome adversity and to live a better life. Yet I believe ...
This is the video of the interview with the ambassador of the Republic of Congo in Italy just days before this year Africa day which is celebrated every year the 25 May. interview with the ambassador of the Republic of Congo in Italy from AfricanewsITALY on Vimeo. Wikio Wikio ...
Italy will once again be participating in the International Fair for Investment and Consumer Goods (FACIM) within a context of increasingly solid economic and trade relations with Mozambique. Present at exposition no. 46, from 30 August to 5 September, will be numerous Italian firms representing the sectors of energy, construction, infrastructure, agriculture, agri-industry, consulting, transport, telecommunications, ...
Cape Town – Striking public servants should keep their protests within the limits of “basic human decency”, President Jacob Zuma said on Saturday. In his first public address since his return from a state visit to China, he said government respected the right of workers to go on strike in support of their demands. “However, we reiterate ...
Obama administration officials condemned an attack on a Mogadishu hotel that reportedly left 30 dead, including six parliament members in Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG), and said the United States will continue to partner with countries in the Horn of Africa and elsewhere against terrorism and violent extremists. Speaking August 24 in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, where ...
We receive via email and we publish this call. “Monday August 23rd is International Slavery Remembrance Day On this day the United Kingdom, shoulder to shoulder with the rest of the world, will commemorate the millions of enslaved Africans who suffered and died, and also celebrate the tireless struggle of millions for emancipation”. For more informations on ...
Seven people have lost their lives because of the heavy rains in northern Algeria, according to media centre Tout sur l’Algérie. On Wednesday reliefs teams have found the bodies of four people in the region of M’sila. Three people were also found dead in Djelfa. Source: Afrik.com Wikio Wikio ...
South African police fired rubber bullets to disperse crowds blocking roads and healthcare workers prevented patients from entering hospitals as a strike by more than a million civil servants grew on Thursday. Strike: Day 2 The walkout in pursuit of higher wages that started a day earlier has slowed the treatment of the sick and shut schools ...
NIAMEY, Aug 17, 2010 (IPS) – In April, the United Nations World Food Programme estimated it would need 190 million dollars to respond to a food crisis threatening more than 7 million people in Niger. By July, the WFP had revised the amount needed upwards to $371 million: a month later, the U.N. agency has ...
The Northern Ghana Youth Network for Development has commended the government for passing the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority bill. The group believes the policy will not only tremendously benefit people of northern extraction, but Ghanaians as a whole. This was contained in press statement issued in Accra. Below is the full statement issued by the group. PRESS RELEASE BY ...
Every August 12, the world commemorates the United Nations International Youth Day. Established by the UN General Assembly on December 17, 1999, the UN Session endorsed the recommendation made by the 1st World Conference of Ministers responsible for Youth that met in Lisbon in 1998 and agreed that August 12 of every year, be declared ...
Rwanda’s election has been described as undemocratic since the press were not free to report on actual issues on the ground. According to a journalist who wants to remain anonymous, the atmosphere was tensed on Election Day and the media was totally in bed with the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front of Paul Kagame. AfricaNews spoke to ...
Rwandans are voting Monday in their country’s second presidential poll since the 1994 genocide with incumbent Paul Kagame widely expected to win by a landslide following the virtual absence of a political opposition. Wikio Wikio ...
Actress Mia Farrow tells court that she had heard supermodel Naomi Campbell say she had been given a huge diamond by Charles Taylor. The video report of Fashion411 Wikio Wikio ...
Before the holiday season the Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi has just (last 4 August) decided to stop any concession to foreigners. Recently the town hall of Caulonia, a city in the southern region of Calabria, allowed foreigners to be elected and to vote. The national government of Italy has just deleted this local law. Beside ...
In these videos from Al Jazeera English, British model Naomi Cambell tells a court in the Netherlands that she was given “dirty stones”, referring to diamonds. Mrs Campbell is talking to judges of the Court in The Hague in the prosecution for war crimes and other 11 charges to former Liberian president Charles Taylor. Wikio Wikio ...
Less than 12 hours after the polls closed in Wednesday’s referendum in Kenya, provisional results showed supporters of a new constitution headed for a landslide win. According to results from the Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC), the Yes side had 4,141,521 votes (67 per cent) against the No camp’s 2,054,946 (33 per cent). With a lead of ...
Former National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi will find out today whether or not he will go to jail in the South Gauteng High Court. He was convicted of corruption last month and the offence carries a minimum sentence of 15 years. His defence team has suggested a fine of up to R500 000 instead of ...
President Jacob Zuma has ordered corruption buster Willie Hofmeyr’s special investigating unit to go after millions stolen from the poor by crooked officials and service providers. The money was to have been spent by Minister Lulu Xingwana’s Department of Arts & Culture mainly to help poor communities benefit from the World Cup. Xingwana named seven ...
The Department of Justice has commissioned more than 250 internal forensic investigations since 2007 and suspended 27 officials for an average of 503 days, each at a total cost of R4.7-million in unearned salaries. Minister of Justice Jeff Radebe said in response to parliamentary questions, that the forensic audits covered allegations of “fraud, corruption, theft ...
SABC News is on a social reconstruction drive. It wants to tackle some of the development challenges in the country. The broadcaster aims to gridlock its efforts with national attempts to level the economic playing field. The SABC wants to help places like downtown Hillbrow which is a haven for gangsters, drug lords, illegal immigrants ...
The proposed media appeals tribunal is a clear violation of the Constitution, SA Press Council chairman Raymond Louw said on Monday. “As chairman of the SA Press Council which administers the Press Ombudsman system of press self-regulation, I am appalled that the SA Communist Party and the ANC are calling for the institution of a ...
Video from NTV Kenya about the ongoing referendum in the East Africa country Wikio Wikio ...
Businesses were performing “dismally” when it came to implementing equality in the workplace, the Commission for Gender Equality said on Monday. “It is apparent that progress made regarding gender transformation in political leadership and among state entities is not replicated in the corporate arena, and that women and people with disabilities are under-represented at all ...
Uhuru Kenyatta has casted his vote for today’s constitutional referendum in Kenya. The son of Kenyan leader Jomo Kenyatta said: “as we keep saying, this is a news dawn. A new dawn in which Kenya shall be governed. A new social contract between those who govern and those who are governed. Kenyans will have the ...
At Embakasi Constituency thousands rolled up to cast theirs votes. People were up before the break of dawn some even taking their cereals bowls with them to the polling station. Every process worked like charm and the voters walked out wearing smiley faces. Embakasi has an area spanning over 208 KMsq and boast the largest number ...
President Jacob Zuma has expressed his condolences to the family and friends of 18 elderly people, who perished in a fire at the Pieter Wessels retirement home in Nigel. He says while the cause of the fire is still unknown, the advanced age and vulnerability of the elderly residents probably made them fall victim to ...
by Agenzia Habeshia per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo By Erica Balduzzi and Emilio Fabio Torsello Stranded at the foot of the Libyan desert, forgotten by the international community and forced to live in the middle of a road. After the “liberation” from the Libyan government official decided about three thousand of immigrants imprisoned by Gaddafi, back ...
In an effort to alleviate hunger among the impoverished communities of the Eastern Cape, the Provincial government has established a household food security programme. The programme is about training existing community development workers, home-based carers and volunteers working within communities in identifying food resources that can be used to change the situation. The group will ...
The Vhavenda community joyously welcomed President Jacob Zuma’s announcement last week that Chief Tony Mphephu-Ramabulana was their paramount chief. This weekend the tribe had a feast to celebrate the news and the new chief’s birthday. The news also ended the protracted dispute about who was the rightful leader of the Venda people. Mphephu-Ramabulana was celebrating ...
