Just hours after her arrest in France, Agathe Kanziga Habyarimana, widow of former president Juvénal Habyarimana was released on bail. Her arrest on an international warrant, issued by the Rwandan government came barely a week after French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Rwanda, in the first visit by a French president in over a quarter decade. [...]
Pirates in Somalia have captured a small Saudi tanker and its crew. The announcement came from the EU naval force in the Gulf of Aden. It is alleged that the tanker was travelling from Japan to Jeddah, and was empty of its cargo when pirates hijacked the vessel and took its crew captive.. The tanker, [...]
Nairobi, Kenya 2nd 2010 … Kenya is inches aways from releasing a new constitution as the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on the new constitution hand over the harmonized draft today in parliament to be debated for 30 days for its adoption before it is put to a referendum. PSC Chairman Abdikadir Mohammed said that [...]
The Guinean government have announced a 50% increase in the salaries of public servants in the country. A move which is aimed at softening the impact of a 30 percent increase in fuel prices. According to an official statement read on state media – An important increase – of 50 percent in the salaries of [...]
Nairobi,Kenya 1st March,2010 – The European Union is funding a pilot project on the fight against illicit accumulation and trafficking of firearms in Africa to the tune of 344 million shillings(3.3 million Euros).The funds will be channelled through the Nairobi-based Regional Center on Small Arms in Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa. European [...]
Kenya and Malawi governments have been challenged to chart the way towards accomplishing the task of realizing the full potential of the business opportunities that exist between the two countries. Noting that trade and investment potential between the two countries is immerse, both Malawian Minister for Trade and Industry Eunice Kazembe and her Kenyan counterpart [...]
The government of Liberia has imposed a curfew in the county of Lofa, in the northern part of the country, after clashes between Christians and Muslims. The curfew orders were issued on Saturday after the Talawayon hospital in Vionjama confirmed that four people had died and 18 more injured in clashes on Friday. The fighting which took place near the [...]
Southern Sudan’s economy received a boost on Tuesday as members of the Arab League convened in Juba to explore investment potentials with First Vice President Salva Kiir Mayardit touting to League members Southern Sudan’s attractive investment opportunities. The Arab League Conference on Investment and Development in Southern Sudan began with Amr Moussa, Secretary General of the Arab League States, [...]
The Ministry of East African Community (MEAC) has asked service professionals in the country to position themselves prior to the roll out of the Common Market in July to reap fully from its opportunities. Speaking yesterday in Nairobi, MEAC Assistant Minister Peter Munya called on professional bodies to reduce stringent conditionality that might hamper the [...]
After three months of medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, President Umaru Yar’adua returned back to Nigeria on Wednesday. He arrived in the country when it was already dark and was whisked off from the airport by a waiting ambulance. His spokesman Olusegun Adeniyi said “President Yar’Adua wishes to re-assure all Nigerians that on account of their [...]
New York, February 24, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about politically motivated censorship in Ivory Coast after authorities banned international French broadcaster France 24 on Monday on bogus allegations of unprofessionalism over coverage of political unrest in the West African nation.
Speaking to Reuters today, Frank Anderson Kouassi, the president of Ivory [...]
