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As Yar’Adua speaks to BBC
Lagos (Nigeria) – Nigerians woke up on Tuesday morning to the news of President Umaru Yar’Adua speaking to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Hausa Service. The President said he was responding to treatment and would return to the country ‘as soon my doctors discharge me to resume my duties’.
He thanked Nigerians [...]
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All Africa
Haiti: African continent lends a hand
Nairobi (Kenya) — Africa has not been left behind in the scramble to provide international assistance to Haiti. The following ...
Democracy is our security for the World Cup
Johannesburg (South Africa) — There is little need to take seriously the warnings in some European newspapers that ...
US cotton lobby bids for African support
West African cotton growers have long accused US subsidies of impeding international competition in the cotton marketplace. Now American cotton growers are ...
Drug seizures in west Africa prompt fears of terrorist links
There was little for the investigators to go on. The remains of the plane's skeleton, smouldering on a remote airstrip ...
Netbooks gain popularity in Africa
Portability, low cost, minimal power demands and availability of bandwidth have led to the growth of netbooks in Africa, as ...
Federation of West African Chamber of Commerce and Industry meet in Accra
The Ghana Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GNCCI), will host the first ever workshop of the Federation of West African ...
Alicia Keys Wants To Take You To Africa
About a decade ago, a 19-year-old Alicia Keysvisited Africa, an experience she said "totally changed [her] life." In 2010, she plans ...
England work the floor in South Africa to advance their World Cup bid
Only 11 miles separate Soweto's Orlando Stadium from the Sandton Conference Centre at which the principal players in the race ...
South Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies
PRETORIA, South Africa — South Africa announced ambitious new plans Tuesday for earlier and expanded treatment for HIV-positive babies and ...
Ghana
EU assists Ghana with 52 million dollars for economic stabilisation Accra, Jan. 5 – The European Union (EU) has disbursed about 35 million euro”s (an equivalent of 70 million Ghana cedis and approximately 52 million dollars), to Ghana for economic stabilisation.
A statement issued by the Delegation of the EU in Ghana in Accra on Monday said, this followed a financing agreement signed between Dr Kwabena [...]
Liberia
Ellen: Sportswoman of 2009 In 2009, records show that the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf-led administration provided more moral and financial support to the senior national football squad, evidenced by Lone Star’s participation in the joint qualifiers of the 2010 African Cup of Nations in Angola and the World Cup in South Africa.
The government provided more than US$500,000 and commissioned the [...]
Nigeria
There’s no constitutional crisis, says Senate President Nearly two months after President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua left country to Saudi Arabia on medical grounds, the Senate President David Mark has declared that the head of state’s absence has not generated any constitutional crisis.
This comes as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) claimed that opposition politicians are determined to cause confusion [...]
Ivory Coast
Drilling results boost confidence for new Côte d’Ivoire gold mine JOHANNESBURG – ASX-listed gold explorer Perseus Mining MD Mark Calderwood on Tuesday reported that positive drilling results at the Sissingue prospect in Côte d’Ivoire had added confidence that the Tengrela project could host a second gold mine within three years.
“Infill drilling continues to reveal the presence of very high-grade gold mineralisation at Sissingue that is [...]
Gambia
Iran and Gambia vow closer cooperation BANJUL — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday vowed closer cooperation with Gambia at the end of a 24-hour visit to the west African nation and stressed the country’s identical views on world issues.
“We will continue to further our cooperation in all areas for the benefit of the two countries,” he told a press conference, [...]
Senegal
Acquisition of a New York Development Site by Republic of Senegal Completed The Republic of Senegal and Hotel E 44th St LLC together with East 46th Street Development Company announced today that the sale of a development site on East 44th Street, New York, New York to the Republic of Senegal has closed.
The parcel, between Second and Third Avenues, will be the home of Maison du Senegal, [...]
Sierra Leone
Taylor Claims Peacemaking Role in Sierra Leonean Conflict THE HAGUE – The accused former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, has told the Special Court for Sierra Leone in the Netherlands that in 1999, he hosted Revolutionary United Front (RUF) leader Foday Sankoh, his deputy, Sam Bockarie, and Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) leader, Johnny Paul Koroma, for a meeting in Liberia.
Taylor was answering questions [...]
Burkina Faso
Farmers act on climate change Disappointed by the “failure” of the Copenhagen talks to adequately help poor countries adapt to climate change, the Burkina Faso government and farmers are working to adjust farming techniques to changing weather patterns.
“Despite the failure of Copenhagen we must follow adaptation at our own cost because we have been experiencing the [...]
Benin
BENIN: Steady growth in private tertiary institutions After four years steady growth in the private tertiary education sector, Benin now has 15 private institutions. Many are affiliated to universities in France, Belgium and Canada, and there are plans to set up satellite campuses of European universities in the West African nation.
Many would-be students who cannot gain admission to Benin’s few public universities [...]
