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New Troubles for the Obama Administration

New Troubles for the Obama Administration

AFRICANGLOBE - The Justice Department's investigation and surveillance of the Associated Press and Fox News…

Senate Panel Approves Immigration Bill; Obama Praises Move

Senate Panel Approves Immigration Bill; Obama Praises Move

AFRICANGLOBE - A far-reaching bill to remake the nation's immigration system is headed to the…

Boxer Floyd Mayweather Tops Highest-Paid U.S. Athletes’ List Again

Boxer Floyd Mayweather Tops Highest-Paid U.S. Athletes’ List Again

AFRICANGLOBE - Undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. is the highest-paid professional athlete in the United…

Teen Sitting On City Bus Shot Dead By Stray Bullet

Teen Sitting On City Bus Shot Dead By Stray Bullet

AFRICANGLOBE - A 14-year-old girl was shot dead by a stray bullet as she sat…

Videos

South Africa – a Top Tourism Destination

AFRICANGLOBE - South Africa’s heritage and culture tourist attractions are taking centre stage at this year’s South African Tourism Indaba hosted in Durban. The Indaba is the largest travel and tourism trade show and marketing event on the African tourism calendar.…

South Africa – a Top Tourism Destination

Japanese Mayor Says Wartime Sex Slaves Necessary

AFRICANGLOBE - The Japanese military's forced prostitution of Asian women before and during World War II was necessary to "maintain discipline" in the ranks and provide rest for soldiers, an outspoken nationalist Japanese mayor has said.…

Japanese Mayor Says Wartime Sex Slaves Necessary

Don’t Call Us Tribes: Neo-Liberal Thinking and the Problem of Politicised Ethnicity

AFRICANGLOBE - In insisting on referring to Africa's ethnic groups as 'tribes' and publishing the idea that the continent's woes have their origins in the tribalism of its leadership and its peoples, we collaborate in a degrading and demeaning description of Africans…

Don’t Call Us Tribes: Neo-Liberal Thinking and the Problem of Politicised Ethnicity

St. Yared of Aksum

AFRICANGLOBE - Saint Yared (April 25, 505 – May 20, 571) was a legendary Ethiopian musician credited with inventing the sacred music tradition of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Ethiopia's system of musical notation.…

St. Yared of Aksum

How Western Oil Companies Deliberately Fuel Wars and Conflicts in Africa

AFRICANGLOBE - On the initiative of a young Winston Churchill, the British government had taken a stake in BP and the Royal Navy switched its fuel from coal to oil. With fuel-hungry ships, planes and tanks, oil became "the blood of every battle". …

Business

Own Your Own Business Manufacturing Quality Beverages, Here is How

Own Your Own Business Manufacturing Quality Beverages, Here is How

AFRICANGLOBE - Soda King, a South Africa-based manufacturer of soft drinks, purified still & flavoured waters, fruit juices and speciality malt drinks, is offering business people and entrepreneurs across the continent a unique franchise opportunity to establish a bottling plant…

China Colonising Africa is a Myth,’ Says Calestous Juma

China Colonising Africa is a Myth,’ Says Calestous Juma

There is another dimension to Africa’s relationship with China, which is rarely talked about. While…

Africa Can Industrialise Massively On Basis of Commodities

Africa Can Industrialise Massively On Basis of Commodities

AFRICANGLOBE - Africa has the potential to become an industrial hub and benefit directly from…

Grand Inga: SA-DRC to Construct World’s Largest Hydro-Electric Plant

Grand Inga: SA-DRC to Construct World’s Largest Hydro-Electric Plant

AFRICANGLOBE - The Grand Inga project on the Congo River is expected, once all the…

Africa

‘Deracialising South African Suburbs a Priority’

‘Deracialising South African Suburbs a Priority’

AFRICANGLOBE - The “deracialising” of South Africa's residential suburbs is a priority, said South Africa's…

Egypt: Poverty Rates, Food Insecurity Up Sharply Over Past Three Years

Egypt: Poverty Rates, Food Insecurity Up Sharply Over Past Three Years

AFRICANGLOBE - Poverty and food insecurity in Egypt have risen significantly over the last three…

Africa Loses U.S. $50 Billion Annually to Illicit Fund Flow

Africa Loses U.S. $50 Billion Annually to Illicit Fund Flow

AFRICANGLOBE - The Chairman of the United Nations High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows…

Ghana: IAEA Members States Meet On Nuclear E-Learning

Ghana: IAEA Members States Meet On Nuclear E-Learning

AFRICANGLOBE - African nuclear experts and policy makers are meeting in Ghana to push for the introduction of e-learning platforms for nuclear education and training.…

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