Senior staff members of the African Union (AU) on Thursday were busy on the second day of their meeting in the Tanzanian offshore island of Zanzibar to complete plans and procedures for rapid response by the Africa Centres for Disease … Read More
The Nigerian Federal Government on Wednesday approved a new policy on whistle-blowing that aims to encourage Nigerians to report financial and other related crimes to relevant authorities. The highlight of the policy is that whistle-blowers whose revelations lead to recovery … Read More
ActionAid Zambia, branch of a global movement of people working to further human rights and fight poverty, said Friday it was saddened to see the Zambian government yielding to industry pressure through the removal of 7.5 percent duty on importation … Read More
Five EAC countries — Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda – have joined forces with the aim of forming a single currency area by 2024. Since the project’s inception in 2000, these countries have been laying the groundwork for greater … Read More
Tunisian Interior Minister, Hédi Mejdoub, has not excluded the fact that foreign intelligence services were involved in the murder of Mohamed Zouari, a Tunisian engineer of the aviation shot last Thursday in front of his home in Sfax, a city … Read More
The Authority of Heads of States of the Economic Community of West African Sates (ECOWAS) says it will enforce the result of The Gambia presidential election on December 1, which saw Mr. Adama Barrow emerging as the president-elect. In a … Read More
Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on Saturday inaugurated the 1870 Megawatt Gibe III hydropower plant, reiterating the country’s determination to be a green energy hub in the East African region. He described the inauguration of the 1.5 billion Euros hydropower … Read More
A joint report launched last Tuesday by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has cited “unimaginable” human rights violations and abuses of migrants in Libya as … Read More
Africa50, the infrastructure fund for Africa, has signed a joint development agreement for an 80 MW (AC) solar photovoltaic independent power project in Nigeria, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has announced. The project, near Dutse in Jigawa state, will be … Read More
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Al Hussein on Saturday condemned the government planned shutdown of the Internet and social media platforms in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from Sunday. The UN rights chief said that the planned … Read More
Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow said on Saturday that there will be no fresh elections and the transfer of power shall be effective in January according to the Constitution. “I call on President Yahya Jammeh to respect the clear verdict of … Read More
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who will become Ghana’s fifth president of the Fourth Republic when he is sworn in on 7 January 2017, is a lawyer, politician and human rights activist. He was born in Accra on 29 March, 1944. … Read More
Five candidates racing for the post of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) met on Friday for a podium debate on how they intend to handle some of the pressing political, economic and social challenges facing Africa ahead … Read More
Civil Society Organizations (CSO) have demanded a greater voice in determining priorities to be used in selecting projects being financed by the African Development Bank (AfDB) at the start of a three-day session in Nairobi on Wednesday. The representatives of … Read More
On Saturday, South Africa marked the 20th anniversary of the country’s Constitution which marked the end of apartheid and the birth of democracy. The document is widely acclaimed to be one of the most progressive and transformative constitutions in the … Read More
A team of UN human rights experts on Thursday called on the international community to take immediate action to avert mass bloodshed in South Sudan, as well as other human rights abuses, as they wrapped up a 10-day visit to … Read More
In her first reaction to the change of government in the Gambia, Mrs. Nymuna Ndure-Darboe, wife of jailed leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP), says the defeated Gambian leader, Yahya Jammeh, “should take responsibility for all crimes committed in … Read More
The dream of former South African President, Nelson Mandela, became a reality on Friday with the opening of a magnificent children’s hospital in Johannesburg. Former deputy chief justice, Dikgang Moseneke, who gave the keynote address at the event, said the … Read More
One of the leading contenders for the African Union chairperson position, Senegalese diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily, has strongly argued that public and private economic players must “pull together” to build an “African social base” for the development of the continent. Speaking … Read More
Sudanese police have freed 11 young Somali nationals, comprising eight young women and three boys, from human traffickers in Sudan’s north Kordofan, near the border with Libya. The official Sudan news agency on Tuesday said police at the Jabrat al-Sheikh … Read More
