Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The African Union (AU) is deploying a team of election observers to the October 15 Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Mozambique. The AU Commission Chairperson, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, said on Monday that the AU approved the deployment … Read More
President Rupiah Banda Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Former Zambia Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Andrew Sakala was sentenced Friday by a Lusaka magistrate court to five years imprisonment, with hard labour, for theft of 1.5 million Kwacha (approximately US$ 250,000) … Read More
Harlem Haberdashery Spring Summer Collection 2015 1 2 … 5 ► By Isseu Diouf Campbell Harlem Haberdashery presented 28 eye-catching looks for its Spring Summer Collection 2015 at Harlem’s Fashion Row 7th annual Fashion Show & Style Awards on September … Read More
WHO – The Ebola virus is transmitted among humans through close and direct physical contact with infected bodily fluids, the most infectious being blood, faeces and vomit. The Ebola virus has also been detected in breast milk, urine and semen. … Read More
WHO – Ebola virus disease is not an airborne infection. Airborne spread among humans implies inhalation of an infectious dose of virus from a suspended cloud of small dried droplets. This mode of transmission has not been observed during extensive … Read More
WHO – Scientists are unaware of any virus that has dramatically changed its mode of transmission. For example, the H5N1 avian influenza virus, which has caused sporadic human cases since 1997, is now endemic in chickens and ducks in large … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] New York, US (UN) – The international community must “step up” its response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa before it gets much worse, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed yesterday, adding that a range of … Read More
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta received a heroic welcome back home Thursday after his appearance before the International Criminal Court (ICC), where prosecutors accused his government of erasing crucial sections of incriminating evidence from his telephone data. … Read More
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has said there is no basis to rank him as the sixth richest African President and demanded an immediate retraction of the story that contained the ranking. The website ‘RichestLifestyle.com’ had published … Read More
Benghazi, Libya (PANA) – A Libyan national radio announcer was killed Thursday in the eastern city of Benghazi by unidentified gunmen, according to medical sources at a hospital where his body was taken. Moatassim Al-Warfelli worked for Radio Libya in the … Read More
K. Milele Spring Summer Collection 2015 1 2 3 ► By Isseu Diouf Campbell African-American designer Kianga Peterson presented K. Milele Spring Summer Collection 2015 at Harlem’s Fashion Row 7th annual Fashion Show & Style Awards on September 6, 2014, at … Read More
Byron Lars Spring Summer Collection 2015 By Isseu Diouf Campbell African-American designer Byron Lars presented his Spring Summer Collection 2015 at Harlem’s Fashion Row 7th annual Fashion Show & Style Awards on September 6, 2014, at The Waterfront, in Manhattan. … Read More
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has appointed Deputy President William Ruto as acting President ahead of his appearance at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague on 8 October. The Kenyan President addressed an emergency session … Read More
New York, US (PANA) – The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, has said new data on irregular crossings of the Mediterranean in the third quarter of 2013 show an alarming increase in the numbers of people perishing while attempting to make … Read More
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has slammed the “lickspittle” South African government for buckling under Chinese pressure and barring the Dalai Lama from attending Africa’s first global summit of fellow prizewinners. Organizers confirmed … Read More
Isseu Diouf Campbell President Allassane Ouattara received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Africa-America Institute’s 30th Annual Awards Gala held on September 22, 2014 at Gotham Hall in Manhattan. Ouattara, an AAI alumnus, expressed his gratitude and promised … Read More
” ngg_triggers_display=”never” ngg_proofing_display=”0″ order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”5000000″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails”] By Isseu Diouf Campbell The soccer game between the African community and the 28th precinct didn’t end on a high note for the NYPD who lost by a score of 4-2 on … Read More
African Press Organization (APO)/ – Nearly a third of students in medicine and nursing in the developing countries do not have the intention to work in their own country after obtaining their diplomas, while less than a fifth of them have … Read More
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – International Criminal Court (ICC) judges have ordered Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to attend his status conference in person on October 8, 2014. The judges, in a ruling from The Hague, Netherlands, late Tuesday, rejected Kenyatta’s lawyers’ … Read More
By Isseu Diouf Campbell The African Business Roundtable hosted in partnership with Africa 2.0 its 5th Africa Investment Summit on September 24, 2014, at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan. Several leaders including Akinwunmi Adesina, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development … Read More
