President Ali Bongo Ondimba, officially opened the Stade de l’Amitié, also known as the ‘friendship stadium’ on Sunday 27th November in the presence of the Chinese Ambassador, Mrs Li Fushun. The stadium has a 320metre long metal arch structure, the largest in Africa, built to represent the friendship that has been established between Gabon and [...]
African visionary and International designer Ozwald Boateng, has collaborated, it was announced last week, with Nigerian businessman Kola Aluko, and Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Limited, to establish a multi-million dollar charitable organisation. The organisation, Made In Africa Foundation, is dedicated to bringing innovative ideas and capital to Africa, whilst also focusing on the first stage [...]
The CEMAC Market Opportunity (CMO) conference that took place at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London in October was led by founding chairman Elizabeth Andony-Traore, and focused on potential investment within the region. The Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) is comprised of six countries located in Central Africa; Cameroon, Central African Republic, [...]
On October 16, 1978, the world stood breathless as the news was announced that the Conclave of Cardinals had elected the Polish Archbishop, Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II. The subsequent twenty-seven years of his pontificate became remarkable in their goal to welcome the Third Millennium as a Church renewed in doctrine, credible in witness, [...]
In a recent General Audience (23-11-11), Pope Benedict reflected upon his November visit to Benin. The Pontiff stated that the purpose for his Apostolic journey was three-fold: to pay homage to that nation’s late Cardinal, Bernard Gantin; to consign a document synthesizing the deliberations of the 2009 Synod of Bishops on Africa, and to commemorate [...]
The ANC must have had a headache when they saw the bill in the morning. The near unanimous passing of the Protection of Information Bill by South Africa’s ANC was always going to cost them, but local protests over the censorship plans has been bolstered by worldwide denunciation of what media and commentators are calling [...]
African National Congress (ANC) Youth League president Julius Malema has been suspended from the party for five years. The youth leader, perennially in the headlines, is still a topic of discussion despite losing his official position. The commentariat is energised as they continue to discuss his downfall and what it means for the ANC and [...]
BlackBerry App World, the application distribution service and application by Research In Motion (RIM), is now to be available to users in nine additional African nations. Customers in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Lesotho can now access and use the range of mobile applications that BlackBerry Smartphones [...]
As principal investigator at the Harvard School of Public Health, Max Essex, was recently awarded $20 million to study HIV prevention in Botswana – a meagre reward for the man who played a pivotal role in creating the current conceptual model of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, compared to the billions distributed annually. Essex’s erroneous research spawned the theory [...]
A new report from leading Swedish technology and services provider Ericsson suggests that mobile data traffic will grow 10-fold between 2011 and 2016, mainly driven by video use. Whilst this is expected to profoundly affect technology use worldwide, Ericsson believe it has particular implications in Africa where the telecommunications industry is widely viewed as the [...]
