GENEVA (AP) — Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz returns to a Geneva courthouse on Monday to appeal his conviction on charges of corrupting foreign public officials and forging documents, a case linked to his firm’s bid to reap lavish iron ore resources in the west African country of Guinea. The man considered by some to…
Angola’s former strongman president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, whose nearly four-decade rule of the oil-rich nation was marred by allegations of plunder and nepotism was laid to rest amid a family row. The funeral, which was disputed by some of his children, was held at the historic palm tree lined Praca da Republica in the…
International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor says South Africa is against the invasion of one country by another. She says Pretoria believes the conflict between Russia and Ukraine conflict should be resolved through negotiation. Pandor was answering questions in the National Council of Provinces and has dismissed accusations by some opposition parties that South Africa is…
Japan is set to promise some $30 billion in aid for African development at a conference to be held in Tunisia this weekend, the Sankei Shimbun daily reported on Friday. The aid, which will centre around developing human resources in order to promote economic growth, will be announced at the Tokyo International Conference on African…
Former Malawian President Joyce Banda says some African leaders are more focused on occupying leadership roles than serving their citizens. She was responding to the debate in South Africa around what Limpopo Health MEC Dr Phophi Ramathuba said to a Zimbabwean national who was admitted in hospital in the province. Ramathuba has this week received criticism for…
By TESFA-ALEM TEKLE The World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday accused Tigray People’s Liberation Front fighters of looting 570,000 litres of fuel from the UN agency’s warehouse in the region. Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, told reporters that Tigrayan forces on the morning of August 24, “forcibly entered” the World Food Program…
By HARRY MISIKO By MAWAHIB ABDALLATIF The first US ambassador to Sudan in nearly a quarter a century has arrived in Khartoum to take up his post. John Godfrey landed in the Sudanese capital on Wednesday, the local US embassy said in a statement, marking the end of more than two decades of under-representation of…
By AGGREY MUTAMBO Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Macharia Kamau was on Thursday named on a key advisory team for the UN Peace Building Fund. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres named the team known as the Advisory Group, which often supervises programmes for funded projects in countries recovering from conflict or on the brink of conflict.…
The MPLA remains in power in Angola. According to provisional figures announced by the National Electoral Commission (CNE), when 97 percent of the votes had been counted, the party that has ruled Angola since independence won the general elections with 51.7 percent and 124 seats. While UNITA won with 44.5 percent and 90 seats in…
By SAMWEL OWINO Four out of six of Kenya’s nominees to the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) won various elective parliamentary seats in the just concluded polls in Kenya that was held on August 9. EALA legislators Oburu Odinga, Florence Jematia, Wanjiku Muhia, Mpuru Aburi, Simeon Mbugua and Abdikadir Adensought elective positions in the Kenya…