Germany and Morocco will jointly assume the chairmanship of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) on 1 January 2017. The symbolic hand-over of the chairmanship to Moroccan State Secretary El Nadir of the Ministry of Moroccan Expatriates and Migration Affairs and to Markus Ederer, State Secretary at Germany rsquo;s Federal Foreign ...
The recently concluded Essence Festival put a spotlight firmly on all things African and provided visitors with a vibrant cultural escape draped in a kaleidoscope of colour The inaugural festival was hosted in the coastal city of Durban, South Africa last month. From fabulous African attire, the energetic movements of traditional Zulu da ...
Libreville (AFP) - A lawyer for opposition leader Jean Ping thought to have gone missing is hiding in a friendly country's embassy, the Gabonese politician said on Tuesday. Ping's party had said on Sunday that Eric Iga Iga, one of two lawyers who represented Ping in a Constitutional Court challenge to President Ali Bongo's controversial electi ...
Bissau (AFP) - Guinea-Bissau's new government was sworn in Tuesday, almost a month after Prime Minister Umaro Sissoco Embalo stepped into office tasked with ending a long political crisis. The tiny west African state has been in the grip of a power struggle since August 2015, when President Jose Mario Vaz sacked then premier Domingos Simoes Pere ...
London (AFP) - Global progress on controlling malaria risks stalling due to an urgent need for more funding, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned in its annual report on Tuesday. Overall, the number of new cases fell by 21 percent between 2010 and 2015, and mortality rates fell by 29 percent -- 31 percent in the African region. But gl ...
Tunis (AFP) - A Tunisian court has approved the marriage of a 13-year-old girl to a relative who made her pregnant, an official said Tuesday. The judgement triggered anger from non-governmental organisations which said the girl had been raped. The girl, from the northwestern region of Kef, had a sexual relationship with the brother of her bro ...
N'Djamena (AFP) - Robbed of school since September by widespread teacher strikes as growing numbers protest government austerity, three million pupils in Chad have had to seek out alternative ways to keep themselves busy. Some roam the streets idly, others try to catch small fry, known as balbout in Chadian Arabic, from back-alley streams. ...
Rome (AFP) - An Italian court ruled Tuesday that the captain of a migrant boat that sank in 2015, killing up to 900 people, was responsible for the disaster, the Mediterranean's worst since World War II. Judges in the Sicilian port city of Catania ordered Mohammed Ali Malek, a Tunisian national, to serve 18 years in jail for multiple manslaughte ...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 13 December 2016,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- quot;When you 39;re finished changing, you 39;re finished, quot; said the wise Benjamin Franklin. But we don 39;t need to take his word for it: there are many inspired thoughts that punctuate the role of change in business. The more difficult question is when change ...
At the request of the government of Benin, a team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by Norbert To eacute;, Mission Chief for Benin, visited Cotonou from November 30 to December 12, 2016, to continue discussions with the authorities on a three-year economic program that could be supported by the IMF under its Extended Credit Facili ...
On December 12, 2016 the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved two three-year arrangements under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire for a combined total of SDR 487.8 million (about US$658.9 million, or 75 percent of C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire rsq ...
The World Health Organization rsquo;s (WHO) World Malaria Report 2016 reveals that children and pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa have greater access to effective malaria control. Across the region, a steep increase in diagnostic testing for children and preventive treatment for pregnant women has been reported over the last five year ...
On December, 7, 2016, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with The Union of the Comoros. The Comorian economy encountered difficulties in 2015 and the first half of 2016. Growth in 2016 is estimated at 1 percent in 2015, below the annual population growth rate of 2.5 percent. ...
Transparency International ( www.Transparency.org ), the global anti-corruption organisation, called today on the Somali government, donor agencies and humanitarian agencies to take critical steps to address corruption in the delivery of aid to ensure humanitarian assistance reaches those most in need in southern Somalia. Somalia rsquo;s on ...
Minister for the Public Service and Administration, Adv. Ngoako Ramatlhodi will on Wednesday 14, December 2016, meet the community of Davhana, a village in the new Limp345 Local Municipality in Limpopo, on an Imbizo to interact with local residents on issues of service delivery. The community outreach is part of Minister Ramatlhodi rsquo;s ...
Internal political uncertainty across a number of key nations will pose a much greater risk to businesses on the continent than the effect of international geopolitics African nations vying to emerge as the commercial gateway for foreign direct investment, offer opportunities but also unknown threats for business Macroeco ...
Internal political uncertainty across a number of key nations will pose a much greater risk to businesses on the continent than the effect of international geopolitics African nations vying to emerge as the commercial gateway for foreign direct investment, offer opportunities but also unknown threats for business Macroeco ...
African nations vying to emerge as the commercial gateway for foreign direct investment, offer opportunities but also unknown threats for business Macroeconomic factors: low oil price and global economic sentiment will be the primary driver of instability across the continent. Internal political uncertainty across a n ...
Rabat (AFP) - Trouble is stirring in the remote sands of disputed Western Sahara in an area near the Mauritanian border where moves by the pro-independence Polisario Front have riled Morocco. The Algiers-backed Polisario has set up a new military post in the Guerguerat district on the Atlantic coast, within a stone's throw of Moroccan soldiers. ...
Rome (AFP) - An Italian court ruled Tuesday that the captain of a migrant boat that sank in 2015, killing up to 900 people, was responsible for the disaster, the Mediterranean's worst since World War II. Judges in Catania ordered Mohammed Ali Malek, a Tunisian national, to serve 18 years in jail for multiple manslaughter, human trafficking and c ...
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