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 ...
Gordon Brown has used his first major speech since leaving office to say the future growth of the world economy is reliant upon the development of Africa. Speaking in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, the former UK prime minister said he wanted to see the continent achieve its full potential. [...] Speaking to Ugandan political leaders, Mr Brown said ...
CENTROTEC Sustainable AG’s subsidiary Ubbink B.V. is in the process of building East Africa’s first solar module plant with an initial production capacity of 30,000 modules a year, with the first manufactured modules to be ready by October. The plant, located in Kenya, is in partnership with Chloride Exide. The solar modules produced will be mainly ...
Although Africa was the third most favoured continent for tourism investment after Southeast Asia and India, the continent still failed to communicate these opportunities to potential international investors. This is according to Hubert Danson, MD of African Investment, a pan-African investment communications firm, who was one of the speakers at a tourism investment conference held ...
Last 11 June 2010, Piervincenzo Canale interviewed former Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, before his speech about Africa and its relations with Europe, China, the US and the world. ...
A quarter of children in sub-Saharan Africa are labourers and the number is increasing as countries fail to implement legislation aimed at combating the practice, according to a UN report. The International Labour Organisation‘s (ILO) Global Report on Child Labour released yesterday shows that while the numbers are decreasing in other regions, Africa is bucking ...
Is there a struggle over land in Africa? What are the conflicts, politics and challenges? The truth behind land struggles in Africa – experts shed light A new HSRC Press book interrogates land conflicts and their factors, and compares responses to internal crises across a range of countries drawn from all regions of Africa. Disputes over land are ...
The African Development Bank (ADB) took the initiative to gather the African ministers and bank governors to debate the world financial crisis which has been raging for some time, and about which the world experts say that the poorest among the African countries will be the most affected. At a date ...
International Relations and Co-operation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane has bemoaned the resurgence of coups and other unconstitutional changes of government in Africa, saying they increased markedly in the past two years. Addressing Parliament during her budget vote last week, she said such upheavals were unnecessary “setbacks” for peace and security gains made on the continent. She ...
The idea of creating a new state for Haitians who are willing to return to Africa was embraced today in Addis Ababa, in the opening annual summit of African Union (AU). The President of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, first made the proposal early this month after the island of Haiti was struck by a powerful earthquake. ...
By Paul Stober, Deputy Managing Editor, Business Gulf News It is plain stupid to question South Africa’s ability to host the football World Cup in view of the attack on the Togo team in Angola – Ignorance is bliss, but there is no such easy excuse for stupidity. Hull City manager Phil Brown and his ...
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