Tag: Committee
Zuma Faces Tough Challenge as ANC Votes
AFRICANGLOBE - Delegates attending South Africa's ruling ANC's conference were on Monday evening expected to vote in an election pitting under fire President Jacob...
Revisiting Italian Atrocities in Ethiopia
AFRICANGLOBE - The early days of 1937 were one of the most horrifying in Addis Ababa’s history. Fascist Italy’s top general, Rodolfo Graziani, had...
White Farmers Refuse to Vacate Zimbabwean Land
AFRICANGLOBE - A total of 210 White commercial farmers are under prosecution throughout Zimbabwe for refusing to vacate farms gazetted for redistribution to landless...
Nigeria to Revitalise Defence Industries Corporation
AFRICANGLOBE - The Nigerian government is repositioning the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) in order to make it more competitive and to attract...
Republicans Turn Their Hate Towards Susan Rice
AFRICANGLOBE - President Barack Obama lashed out at senior Republican senators Wednesday over their criticism of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice in the aftermath of the deadly...
UN Body Asks Jamaica to Make Some Exceptions for Abortion
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has asked Jamaica to reconsider criminalizing abortion in cases where a pregnancy is a...
West African Defense Chiefs Meet On Mali
West Africa's defence chiefs will be meeting in Abidjan to finalize the road map for the deployment of ECOWAS Mission in Mali (MICEMA).
The two-day...
Ethiopia’s Ruling Party Discusses Growth Targets
Ethiopia's ruling party, Ethiopian People's Revolutionary democratic Front (EPRDF) Tuesday called for an extraordinary session, to review the state of the economy amid indications...
Nigeria to Unveil Locally Made Anti-Bombing Devices
The Nigerian Army will Thursday unveil locally made anti-bombing devices to curtail and immobilise vehicles used for suicide bombings, especially at worship centres across...
Nigeria Fines Shell U.S.$5 Billion for Oil Spill
The Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCO, has been fined U.S.$5 billion over the massive oil spill that occurred at its Bonga oil...
Eric Holder, Re-Open COINTELPRO Investigation
The Pine Ridge, South Dakota, Oglala Sioux have convinced the U.S. Justice Department to re-examine 50 possible political killings, from the mid-Seventies, some of...
Republicans Attempting to Lynch Eric Holder Over “Fast and Furious”
The U.S. House will vote Thursday on holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for withholding documents involving the failed Fast and...
ANC Youth League Demands Malema’s Reinstatement
The ANC Youth League has vowed to stop at nothing to have expelled leader Julius Malema, suspended secretary general Sindiso Magaqa and spokesman Floyd...
Sudan Sends Delegation to Uganda Amids Rising Tensions
A Sudanese parliamentary delegation is in Uganda to try to defuse tension between the two countries. A source at the Sudanese Embassy said that...
South Sudan Reveals Massive Slavery of Southerners by Sudan, Plans to...
A collective report from the Committee for Eradication of Abduction of Women and Children (CEWC) in South Sudan revealed that during the civil war...
Nigerian Govt Renews Commitment to Diversify Economy
Nigeria's federal government has renewed its commitment to diversifying the nation's economy to ensure the country depends less on crude oil as its major...
