Good news for Kenya as Italy says debt crisis won’t affect foreign aid
Italy's Ambassador to Kenya Paola Imperiale (left) with Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka during a past event in Nairobi. Italy is the first and only country to have cancelled debts owed to it by ...
View ArticleUN sends in more peacekeepers to S. Sudan flashpoint
A picture released by the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) shows a Namibian soldier serving with the international peacekeeping operation on the ground during a patrol in the volatile region ...
View ArticleJuppe arrives in Tunisia to urge respect of rule of law
Tunisian Foreign minister Rafik Abdessalem (L) walks with his French counterpart Alain Juppe upon his arrivals in Tunis on January 5, 2012. Juppe is on a two-day official visit to Tunisia to meet ...
View ArticleHillary Clinton in Liberia for inauguration
MONROVIA, Liberia -; U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Liberia early Monday to attend the inauguration of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The 73-year-old ...
View ArticleNigeria cuts petrol prices, troops seize protest site
LAGOS (AFP) - Nigerian soldiers seized protest sites and used armoured vehicles to disperse demonstrators after the president watered down a hike in petrol prices Monday in a bid to end an eight-day ...
View ArticleProtests in Tunisia greet one-year anniversary of Ben Ali’s overthrow
Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's ignominious flight from Tunisia to exile in Saudi Arabia. Ben Ali fled after a month of protests that ...
View ArticleStrikes resume in Nigeria after collapse of talks between union and government
Strike action against the Nigerian government of President Goodluck Jonathan is set to resume after the collapse of talks between the two main trade union federations, the Nigeria Labour Congress ...
View ArticleOver 100,000 tourists visit Guinea in 2011
CONAKRY, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) --Guinea received more than 100,000 tourists in 2011, according to the West African country's Tourism Ministry. An official from the ministry told Xinhua on Sunday ...
View ArticleLiberia's Sirleaf to be sworn in amid lavish ceremony
Liberia's Nobel peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will be sworn in Monday in a lavish $1.2 million ceremony after her disputed re-election in the nation's second post-war polls. The ...
View ArticleAU Election - Nigeria's Candidate Promises to Integrate Africa's...
Dr Aisha Abdullahi, Nigeria's candidate for the post of Commissioner for Political Affairs in the forthcoming election into the AU Commission on Sunday said she would make Africa as an active ...
View ArticleU.S. $200 Million Electricity Subsidy Gravy Train
opinion On January 11, the Uganda Cabinet agreed to increase electricity tariffs. If it had removed all electricity subsidies, which amount to $202 million annually, prices would have gone up by ...
View ArticleThe Race for AU Boss Is On - Why Does It Matter
opinion The African Union will hold its 18th Summit in Addis Ababa from January 23-30. Kenyans have not-too-fond memories of last January's summit -- at which the so-called shuttle diplomacy ...
View ArticleQatar, Turkish Cause Waves in Regional Airline Market
East African airlines are set for a bruising battle for passengers as carriers go bare knuckle in a new round of competition that pits the region's flag carriers against their gulf ...
View ArticleLeaders Must Act to End Extreme Hunger
Since retiring from the army and politics, I have mediated conflicts in countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo and Côte d'Ivoire and lobbied world leaders hard to deliver on ...
View ArticleGive Dar, Mombasa Ports to EAC Before We All Sink
opinion Kenya and Tanzania have a big "Congo problem" with their - and East Africa's - largest ports, Mombasa and Dar es Salaam respectively. Last week, things had got so bad at ...
View ArticleGhana Held By South Africa in Pre-Can Friendly
Ghana were held 1-1 by South Africa in a pre-Africa Cup of Nations friendly last Sunday in Rustenberg. The friendly encounter was to gauge the preparations of the Black Stars for the showpiece ...
View ArticleKRA Blames Court Orders for Container Pile-Up At Port
The Kenya Revenue Authority has said it cannot enforce removal of overstayed cargo at the Mombasa port because of court cases filed by importers, even as consumers continue to pay a heavy price for ...
View ArticleBlack Queens Down Malian Eagless 3-0 in AWC Qualifier
Ghana's Black Queens posited a 3-0 win over their Malian counterparts in their 2012 African Women's Championship qualifier preliminary round first leg clash in Bamako over the weekend The ...
View ArticleNSE Index Rebounds Amidst Skeletal Trading
The Nigerian equities market made a dramatic rebound last week in spite of skeletal trading as a result of the strike by labour to protest the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government. ...
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