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Rwanda Removes Visa Requirements for Africans
AFRICANGLOBE - The International Coalition of Tourism Partners (ICTP) has lauded Rwanda following its move to issue entry visas to nationals from all African...
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...
Accelerating the East African Integration Process
The East African Community (EAC) integration has reached a critical stage that requires the partner states to work closely to stump out any barriers...
Regional Leaders to Deploy Forces in Congo
The proposed international neutral force to pacify the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will be deployed within three months, regional leaders meeting in...
Anti-Zuma Sentiment On the Rise Across South Africa
“No ANC leader is going to lead the organisation for life. It’s five years only.”
So said ANC Gauteng chairman and Minister of Arts and...
Regional Leaders Agrees Regional Force for DR Congo
A neutral international force will be set up to hunt down armed groups in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), regional...
Miami School Board Objects to Michelle Obama’s Visit to School
First lady Michelle Obama will stop in Miami on Tuesday to recruit residents to vote and volunteer to reelect her husband, President Barack Obama.
But...
Zimbabwe Rejects Western Demand to Include Gay Rights in its Constitution
Zimbabwe has rejected a recommendation from some United Nations member states to include homosexuality as a human right in the country's Constitution, a Cabinet...
Security Council Considering African Request for Stabilization Force in Mali
Condemning the forcible seizure of power in Mali earlier this year, the United Nations Security Council today demanded the immediate and unconditional cessation of...
EAC Tourism Launched in Kigali, Rwanda
A new platform to promote tourism in the east African region was on June 25 launched in Kigali, Rwanda.
The platform was launched at Kigali...
World Bank to Decide on New President Today
A successor to the out-going President of the World Bank, Mr. Robert Zoellick, will emerge Monday between 5pm and 7pm (12 noon and 2pm...
Experts to Discuss Africa’s Changing Role in the World
Africa's changing role in the world as her economies continue to grow faster than the rest, will be the focus of discussion at the...
East Africa Single Currency Deadline in Limbo
The deadline for the East African countries to adopt a monetary union, set for 2012, might be extended, if conditions for establishment of single currency in the region are not met.
Colonial Creep: Zambia Gets White Vice President
Zambia has taken ten steps backwards yesterday when its newly elected president Michael Sata named his 19-member cabinet which included a white vice president Guy Scott.
African Govts Call for Permanent African Seat On UN Security Council
West African countries today called for enlarging the 15-member UN Security Council to give their continent its due representation on the United Nations body whose decisions are legally binding, as opposed to the recommendations issued by the 193-member General Assembly.
UN Employee Implicated in Mineral Smuggling in Congo
Congolese authorities yesterday thwarted the alleged attempt by a member of staff of the UN Stabilization Mission in DRC (MONUSCO) to smuggle the consignment of cassiterite ore when they stopped a UN vehicle at the border crossing in the DRC town of Goma, before it proceeded into Gisenyi in Rwanda.
