Pan Africanism for the new generation conference at University of Oxford marks a turning-point in the history of Pan-Africanism. To be held on the 04th June 2011, at St. Antony College, University of Oxford; the event shall unite students, activists, and academics across United Kingdom to reflect on challenges facing their countries at the turn [...]
A new Regus business centre in the country’s capital, Kampala, offers a valuable platform for businesses to explore revenue opportunities in East Africa. It is global workspace provider Regus’ first centre here, and brings the number of countries where it operates to 87, of which 13 are in Africa. ‘Uganda’s economic stability makes it a [...]
The International Crisis Group (ICG) has expressed concern over the ever deteriorating situation in Ivory Coast. They have called on ECOWAS to ensure Laurent Gbagbo’s removal from power by all necessary means before it is too late and the situation descends into violent anarchy and ethnic cleansing. They note how any debate about the outcome [...]
President Ali Bongo Odimba was in London for the newspaper, Times CEO Summit on Africa on the 21st and 22nd of March. He was one of the keynote speakers along with his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame and British Foreign Secretary, William Hague held at the two day event at the recently reopened Savoy Hotel. In [...]
The world is well aware of the atrocities committed by Colonel Gaddafi on his own people both in recent weeks and over his 40 year reign in the North African country. Yet, it is the sight just outside the city of Benghazi where his World Revolutionary Centre (WRC) was located that saw the start of [...]
FIFA have decided not to alter the amount of places occupied by African teams for the ‘14 World Cup. There were fears following the relatively unsuccessful World Cup, on the field, by the African sides at South Africa ‘10, with the exception of Ghana, that they could lose a place. And the decision to preserve [...]
The first black cricketer to represent the country caused tremendous controversy in ‘03 when he, along with his captain Andy Flower, wore black armbands during a cricket World Cup match to mourn the death of democracy in Zimbabwe. Olonga has since called time on his cricket career having been forced into exile, branded a traitor [...]
The stadium built just last year to host the Africa Cup of Nations now sits unused and deserted. We are now approximately 13 months on from when Egypt defeated Ghana to become the continent’s champions for the third time successively and seventh in total. Since then the stadium has been put into little use with [...]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported on the 25th February that across six malaria infected African countries as many as 30% of anti-malaria drugs tested were not up to the required international quality standard. The sample was taken from Cameroon, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. On top of this 11.6% from the sample were [...]
Abuja, the Federal Capital of the Federal Republic is the most gigantic project ever undertaken by the Federal Government since independence in 1960, and even before. This is not just with respect to the huge cost of the entire project but also in respect of the socio-economic, political and environmental impact of the relocation of [...]
