Charles Okah, the brother of former MEND leader Henry Okah, has been arrested in Lagos in connection with the October 1st bombings in the capital Abuja. A security source in the city told the Associated Press that Charles was arrested for providing funding for the attack, and for distributing MEND information via emails. The arrest [...]
CNN’s African Voices is a series of weekly interviews focusing on the achievements of individuals of African and Caribbean descent. Week beginning 10th August Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Koroma talked about the turnaround his country is experiencing, and how he has achieved it. But alongside figures such as Mozambican pop star Feliciano Dos Santos and [...]
The President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, is using the threat of disruption at next year’s referendum on secession to sow discord and barter for his own freedom. A statement issued by the International Centre for Policy and Conflict (ICPC), an NGO that promotes stability in sub-Saharan Africa, said, ‘The latest threats to reject the referendum [...]
British journalist and filmmaker Louis Theroux has recently released a documentary of his trip to Nigerian megalopolis, Lagos, where he had been hoping to uncover high level and institutionalized corruption. The programme, which aired at 9 pm on the 10th October on BBC2, was titled Law and Disorder in Lagos, and followed two groups supposedly [...]
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have announced that they will launch an African owned initiative to promote innovation in pharmaceutical development. Speaking in Nairobi on the 12th October, WHO Regional Director for Africa; Luis Sambo, declared that the formation of the new African Networks for Drugs [...]
The Archbishop of Sudan, Daniel Deng Bul Yak visited the UK on the 5th and 6th of October as part of a series of diplomatic and public events to raise international awareness towards the upcoming referendum in the country. NAA spoke with him about his hopes for his country’s future. As head of the Episcopal [...]
Finance ministers and senior officials from the 54 Commonwealth Nations met in Washington on the 7th and 8th October to discuss their priorities for economic policy over the coming years. The meeting was convened by Commonwealth Secretary-General, Kamalesh Sharma and chaired by the Canadian Finance Minister, James Flaherty. In attendance were Dominique Strauss Kahn, Managing [...]
New Africa Analysis is thrilled to launch its print edition in South Africa. We are looking forward to bringing together the issues affecting the country with those affecting the rest of the continent by offering news analysis and exclusive features. As your new fresh and progressive fortnightly magazine, the business of South Africa’s further integration [...]
In a speech delivered to an Africa tax symposium in Dubai, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Associate Director Michael Butler has explained the regulatory challenges that investors will face in Africa. With very few exceptions (Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Mauritius, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia)almost every potential investor in Africa will have to negotiate exchange control regulations (excon) before they [...]
Foreign multinationals and local corporations are in a scramble for pieces of the globally important wetland of Tana Delta along the country’s coastline. The companies want to exploit the delta already listed as an important bird area (IBA) for export crops, bio-fuels and minerals, but conservation groups led by Nature Kenya- The East Africa Natural [...]
