Tag: africa
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No debt relief for you, U.S. warns Africa leaders
The U.S. top Africa diplomat, Tibor Nagy, warned in Pretoria, South Africa on Monday that African countries running up debt they cannot pay back, including China, should not expect to be bailed out by western-sponsored debt relief. The International Monetary Fund and World Bank began the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative in 1996 to…
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Western Sahara: When Nigerians hosted an African President
By Owei Lakemfa. State visits, are state visits. Usually drab affairs with polite speeches, handshakes and some reassurances. It is usually a state affair in which the people are rarely involved. Not so when President Brahim Ghali of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, SADR (Western Sahara) came calling mid- June. The notice of his visit…
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Nigeria can be agricultural power house in Africa — Adesina
Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, the President African Development Bank (AfDB) says Nigeria has all it takes to be “a power house in food and agriculture” on the African continent. Adesina, who said this on the sidelines of the Banks’s Annual Meeting in Malabo, expressed delight that the country had introduced a lot of agricultural initiatives to…
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Sudanese usurpers and Africa’s neo-colonial army – Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa. One of the most memorable places I have ever visited is the Corinthia Hotel on Nile Street, Khartoum. My favourite past time each time I visited, was having an early morning breakfast in the high rise restaurant in the hotel. There, I seat facing the confluence where the White Nile which began…
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Buhari to UN: We’ll continue to do our best to stabilise W/Africa
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed Nigeria’s commitment to stabilising the West-African sub-region within available resources. A statement by the President’s spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, said that Buhari stated this at the State House, Abuja during an audience with Mohammad Ibn Chambas, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, on…
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Africa needs partnership not aids – Dogara
Africa needs partnership that would develop the continent’s latent potentials and not aids and grants. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, made this known while receiving members of the Korea National Assembly, led by its Deputy Speaker, Mr Lee Ju-Young, accompanied by the Korean ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Lee In-tae, at the National…
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Al-Bashir, Bouteflika and Change in Africa
By Owei Lakemfa. As part of international delegations, I met Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir thrice when he was President of Sudan. At the first meeting, the gate had opened and there was a land rover-like jeep with a handful of soldiers. I had reflected that the State House seemed lightly guarded. Even state governors in…
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Nigeria now ranks among leading democracies in Africa – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said that Nigeria now ranked amongst the leading democracies in Africa and in the Commonwealth 20 years after it began to experience uninterrupted democratic culture. President Buhari was the visitor at the final day of the 50th Convocation Ceremonies of the University of Lagos, which also served as the convocation…
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Africa records decline in maternal deaths – UN
The United Nations (UN) has disclosed that there is a decline in maternal deaths in Africa and The Gambia, lauding the efforts of governments of the continent in achieving this feat. The Gambia Resident Coordinator of the United Nations System, Ms. Seraphine Wekana made this disclosure during the Pan-African Youth Conference holding in Banjul, The…
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ATAF sets agenda on how Africa can benefit maximally from taxing digital economy
…as experts gather to brainstorm, propose solutions to digital tax evasion, illicit financial flows, other tax challenges in Africa Reputed as the world’s second largest and second most-populous continent, being behind Asia in both categories with over 1.216 billion population (2016 estimate) and covering six per cent of earth’s total surface area and 20 percent…