Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today (Friday May 18) that efforts to revive the global economy must be based on a long-term vision of sustainable and
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At long last, there is something on the horizon to assure us that the decades-long Somali crisis will be tackled to restore sanity to the Horn of Africa and relieve the world of a major headache. Somalia may be suffering the negative backlash of political instability but the world feels the pinch when the Somali
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Nigeria has threatened to pull out of the African Union just because its leader (Goodluck Jonathan) lost his bid to take over from the Equatorial Guinean leader (Theodoro Mbasago Obiang) as the Chairman of the AU. He lost to Benin’s Boni Yayi and is so peeved as to contemplate this action as a way to
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Ghana’s former President and African Union High Representative for Somalia, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, says Africa failed to prevent excesses sponsored by some members of the international community during political upheavals in countries such as Libya and Cote d’Ivoire. President Rawlings said the political movements in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Cote d’Ivoire challenged the
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We often think of Egypt in terms of its massive and impressive ancient monuments, which have made that northeastern African country the great and unique tourist attraction that it has been for centuries. Early this year, however, in the wake of the so-called Arab Spring that swept the eastern moiety of North Africa – largely
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Thunderous chanting by thousands of demonstrators in Tahrir Square echoed on Falaky Street, hundreds of metres away, but fava bean seller Ashraf Ibrahim could find no reason to join in the revolutionary fervour. “The revolution has brought people like me nothing but loss and poverty,” Ibrahim, 36, told IRIN. “I wish it had never happened.”
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Today, the people of South Africa are ruled by a government led by the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa. The path to this destination was long and hazardous, painful, bloody. It was full of sacrifices in which many of the best sons and daughters paid with their lives to achieve this great freedom
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As countries debate a climate changing deal to save the planet, a new satellite-based survey released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) shows we lost forest cover the size of 10 football stadiums per minute in the 15 years between 1990 and 2005. The good news is that the net forest loss is
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Across the road from Maiduguri railway station, in the corner of a now abandoned property, a leafy neem tree provides a canopy for the remains
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Ghana’s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, has on a visit to Burundi praised Burundi and Uganda for their commitment to the peace process in Somalia. He said: “Burundi and Uganda must hold themselves in high esteem and we salute you for the bold decision to assist in securing peace in Somalia.” The 9,000-man
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