Efforts by the Police and other security operatives to rescue the four Nigerian Journalists kidnapped and their driver yielded positive results as the adduction saga came to a dramatic end precisely seven days after the crime took place. The four journalists and their driver were herded on four motorcycles by their captors and taken out [...]
This summer South Africa hosted an undeniably beautiful, well-orchestrated and, most notably, safe FIFA World Cup. The whole world seems to be proud of the nation’s achievements, none more than Africans themselves; ‘we have proven we can organize, we have proven we can receive, welcome and make people feel at home’, said former-UN Secretary General [...]
When you type ‘Rwanda’ into an Internet search engine the second option that usually surfaces is the ‘Rwandan Genocide’. This 1994 event dominates contemporary knowledge of the nation, as we seem to hear of little else.
The Rwandan Higher Commissioner Ernest Rwamucyo echoes this sentiment. In a recent meeting with New Africa Analysis he was keen [...]
The decision by the Federal Government to celebrate Nigeria at 50 may appear to be a welcome development. 50 years is worth celebrating, but not in such an extravagant manner as is currently being planned and Nigerians are reacting.
According to the federal government the N10 billion naira ($66 million USD) budgeted for the nation’s 50th [...]
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation risks feeding into popular perception that there are no good African leaders by not awarding its leadership prize the second year running.
Following the Foundation’s announcement Monday 14th June, executive director of the Royal African Society, Richard Dowden told New Africa Analysis: ‘It is a prize for exceptional leadership; however the dilemma [...]
While the eyes of the whole world zoom in on South Africa today, Londoners are gathering in Trafalgar Square to celebrate the first day of the first ever soccer World Cup to be hosted in Africa. The event is organised by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson in conjunction with the South African High Commission, [...]
South Africa’s tourism minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Tuesday 8th May, talked to business partners in London about the impacts and opportunities that big events like the soccer World Cup can bring to tourism. The meeting was organised by Visa, the payments technology company, which is also sponsoring a new Portal of Tourism specialising on mega [...]
As the 2010 soccer World Cup in South Africa kicks of Friday 11th May, the question of what South Africa and the rest of the continent actually gains from hosting this mega-event is raised more frequently. In terms of the social and economic impact, Africa is already benefitting greatly from the event with the creation [...]
Africa, south of the Sahara, today faces its brightest prospects in a generation. Before dismissing this statement as yet another belied optimistic forecast, consider the following facts:
•Before the onset of the global financial crisis of 2008-9 that morphed into an economic crisis, African economies were growing at 5 percent a year for over a decade, [...]
Oxfam has in a report admitted publicly for the first, ‘faults’ in the delivery of development aid. But, the report published Thursday 20th May says, despite its faults aid has helped transform the lives of millions of poor people in Africa and beyond and it will be irresponsible to cut or stop it.
The report 21st [...]
