The BBC has today announced its first-ever dedicated daily TV news programme in English for African audiences. The new programme, BBC Focus on Africa, brings together the expertise of the [Read more]
ARUSHA, Tanzania, June 6, 2012/ — Africa's Top Bankers gathered in Arusha, Tanzania, to celebrate the 6th edition of the African Banker Awards, under the patronage of the African Development [Read more]
A passenger plane carrying 153 passengers between Abudja and Lago has crashed in a residential area, no hope for survival. Authorities have declared three days of national mourning for the [Read more]
A cargo plane has crash-landed in Ghana's capital Accra, hitting a bus full of passengers, officials say. Ten passengers on board the bus were reported to have been killed while [Read more]
CAIRO — Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his former interior minister, Habib al Adly, were sentenced to life in prison for complicity in the killing of protesters during the [Read more]
PRESS RELEASE AfDB President Kaberuka thanked the Japanese Government for their continued support ARUSHA, Tanzania, May 31, 2012/ — Japan's Senior Vice Minister of Finance, Yukihisa Fujita, [Read more]
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor listened today with his eyes closed as he heard the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, Netherlands, sentence him to prison for 50 [Read more]
KAMPALA, Uganda, May 24, 2012/ — Airtel Uganda (http://www.airtel.com) has today announced new harmonized calling rates to all African destinations, cutting costs for Ugandans who communicate with family, friends and [Read more]
On 16 May, convicted war criminal, Charles Taylor, delivered a 30-minute speech – part plea for clemency, part lubricious defence of his actions, and part grandstanding – before his trial [Read more]
A day after his social media company went public, Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday. The news was announced nowhere else [Read more]
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, now convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in relations to atrocities committed in Sierra Leone, has stressed the need for former US President [Read more]
PRESS RELEASE Donald Kaberuka will take part in an extraordinary meeting to discuss the critical issue of food security in Africa WASHINGTON, May 17, 2012/ — Dr. Donald [Read more]
In Greece yesterday, the Olympic flame was lit by beautifully clad “Greek Goddesses” in Athens; to mark the beginning of the customary journey that ushers in every Olympic session. The [Read more]
Francois Hollande defeated French President Nicolas Sarkozy in a presidential runoff Sunday, signaling a shift to the left as the country and Europe fight to dig out of a weak [Read more]
Suddenly, ex-President Jerry Rawlings has had epiphany about the on-going Ghana/African enlightenment movement. Face-to-face with some lethal cultural inhibitions that have been demeaning Ghanaians’/Africans’ humanity, Rawlings, in the manner of [Read more]
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