AUC Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma Renaissance Woman of the Year
Addis Ababa, December 14th 2012 – Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, African Union Commission’s Chairperson, received on the 9th December, 2012, the international Renaissance woman of the Year Award 2012,...
View ArticleRwanda has fastest Internet on the continent
According to statistics featured on Ookla’s NetIndex, Rwanda has the fastest Internet speed in Africa - faster than Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa. The central African country currently has an average...
View ArticleSouth African traffic police fitness test sees seven killed in 35 degress...
The massive crowd of unemployed jobseekers, mostly aged between 18-20, took part in the test, held in a football stadium, after they each received text messages informing them they had been...
View ArticleCentral African leaders prepare for peace talks with rebels
BANGUI, Central African Republic: The government in the Central African Republic was preparing Thursday to go to peace talks with rebels in Libreville, while the military situation on the ground...
View ArticlePresident Banda Outlines Her Vision for Malawi
Malawi President Joyce Banda has outlined her vision for the country, which she said is to improve the lives of Malawians by saving the troubled economy and creating good paying jobs. “My vision is a...
View ArticleFarewell Mido Macia
AT THE behest of his older brother Sergio Macia, Mido Macia’s father, Josefa Macia agreed to let his then 10-year-old son come to South Africa. It turned out that that young boy, Mido Josias Macia’s...
View ArticleMido found lying in a pool of blood: Court Hears
The Benoni Magistrates Court on Monday heard that an Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) official found Mozambican taxi driver, Emidio Macia, 27, lying in a pool of blood at the...
View ArticleNo to ICC indictment of Uhuru Kenyatta
Kenyan President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta has urged the international community to accept the results of last week’s presidential election, in which he scored a narrow victory, 50.07%, over Prime Minister...
View ArticleHow Malawi flew dead president’s body to South Africa
Malawi President Joyce Banda has received a report from a Commission of Inquiry constituted in June 2012 to investigate circumstances surrounding the death of her predecessor Bingu wa Mutharika. Mr...
View ArticleHumanitarian crisis deepens in Central African Republic
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 28, 2013 – African Press Organization (APO) – The crisis in the Central African Republic, including the seizure of power by the Seleka coalition on 24 March, has exacerbated...
View ArticleSinister force on the move – minister
Cape Town – “Sitting here, I’m still wondering how we lost it. What happened? Is it that indeed the information was not there, or is it that we underestimated the extent?” Defence Minister Nosiviwe...
View ArticleAfrica’s Leading Women
In a continent that is well known for being patriarchal, with the male figurehead being understood as the authority figure, Africa has made major strides in the empowerment of women in the arena of...
View ArticlePresident Robert Mugabe
Robert Mugabe was born on February 21, 1924, in Kutama, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). In 1963, he founded ZANU, a resistance movement against British colonial rule. In 1980, when British rule...
View ArticleHow Africa tweets
Communications agency Portland has looked at tweets from Africa to determine what languages are used the most and what issues drive the conversation. Johannesburg was the most active Twitter city in...
View ArticleBring Back our Grils – Campaign
On the night of 14–15 April 2014, a group of militants attacked the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria. They broke into the school, shooting the guards and killing one soldier.
View ArticleMalawi court blocks President Banda election annulment
Ms Banda had earlier said Tuesday’s vote had been marred by rigging, multiple voting and computer-hacking. She said a new vote should be held within 90 days but she would not stand again in any new...
View ArticleAfrica Day: It Is Time to Take Stock
Today continental and Diaspora Africans celebrate the 51st anniversary of the founding of the Organisation of African Unity that spearheaded decolonisation of the continent up to 2002, when it passed...
View ArticleProfile: President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria
Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s former military ruler, is a Muslim from the country’s north and seen as the main challenger to Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the south. The former leader, who ruled...
View ArticleMore than 140 killed in Kenya attack, say officials
Al-Shabab gunmen rampaged through a university in northeastern Kenya at dawn on Thursday, killing 147 people in the group’s deadliest attack in the East African country. Four militants who had strapped...
View ArticleMozambique Breaks Political Impasse
When Mozambique held peaceful elections in October, observers and analysts hailed the vote and the peaceful transition of power from one leader to another as a turning point in the Southern African...
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