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All eyes are on the 18th African Union (AU) Summit that is currently underway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia until the 30th of January 2012. While the theme of the Summit is "Boosting Intra-African Trade", the election of the AU Commission Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson on 29 January will also take centre stage. This year, one of the most anticipated…
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has pulled out of the race for the presidency of the African Union's Assembly. Gambia's foreign minister Momodou Tangara informed AU officials that president Yahya Jammeh has decided to with withdraw from the race for the AU presidency after a closed-door meeting of foreign minister from the Economic Community…
Nigerian police said people speaking a Chadian language were among the attackers who waged bombing and shooting sprees in Kano last Friday, killing a total of 185 people according to the first official tally. "The extremists are said to be speaking accented Hausa language, Kanuri and Chad languages," the state police command said in its first…
Kenyan Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Uhuru Kenyatta has resigned on Thursday together with the Secretary to the Cabinet and head of the Public Service Ambassador Francis Muthaura. The two alongside Eldoret Member of Parliament William Ruto and radio journalist Joshua Sang were on Monday ordered to stand for trial by the International…
Malawi is losing $28 million (about MK4.6 billion) worth of fisheries resources each year due to unsustainable fishing in natural bodies, an estimate which represents 0.8 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to the Ministry of Finance and Development's Economic valuation of Sustainable Natural Resource Use report in Malawi. The report,…
Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan has appointed the assistant inspector general of police Mohammed Dikko Abubakar as acting inspector general, replacing Hafiz Ringim who was forced out Wednesday in the wake of heightening insecurity in the West African country. Ringim turned in his resignation a month early, 10 days after the main suspect…
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, Ambassador Augustine P. Mahiga has moved the office of the SRSG back to Mogadishu after an absence of 17 years. Ambassador Mahiga, who was welcomed at the airport by Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Somali Officials and foreign diplomats, said he was delighted that the UN Political…
Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma said is worried with Malawi's poor human rights status. Speaking in the capital Lilongwe after completing his visit to the country, Sharma said this is the main important area for any Commonwealth member state and has to be pursued with equality on both social and political agendas. “The main…
Lesotho's economy is inextricably linked to that of its giant neighbour, South Africa. As South Africa's economic difficulties threaten to drag Lesotho down the drain, the tiny landlocked kingdom is now looking at other avenues to stay afloat. For decades the mountain kingdom of Lesotho has relied heavily on South Africa to advance - until…
The Zimbabwe economy grew an average 9.3 last year as it continued to bounce back after a decade of economic decline, and will expand further in 2012 on the back of increased output in mines and farms if the political climate remains stable, treasury estimates predict. Political instability had seen real gross domestic product (GDP) fall by an excess…
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Queen Elizabeth II Holds Reception for British Media 
On the 28th November 2011: Queen Elizabeth II hosted a reception for 350 British Media to mark her forth coming Diamond Jubilee at Buckingham Palace in London. Both senior and junior members of the Royal Family were also present.
Royals included Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Media guests included Mr & Mrs Bernard Ampaw OBE TV and Mr. Alistair Soyode who represented some of the African Media... Read More
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