Italian Interior Minister Anna Maria Cancellieri said on Wednesday 16th May that 1,056 undocumented migrants on a total of 23 boats have landed in Italy from Libya and Tunisia so far this year. The migrants arrived mainly in the southern regions of Apulia and Calabria, as well as the tiny island of Lampedusa south of [...]
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Rome and throughout the world! “Surrexit Christus, spes mea” – “Christ, my hope, has risen”. (Excerpts – on Africa) May the jubilant voice of the Church reach all of you with the words which the ancient hymn puts on the lips of Mary Magdalene, the first to encounter the risen [...]
The divisions that led to the recent summit of the pan-African body failing to elect new commissioners to guide its affairs are signs that the union could well be sliding back to the days of the one-dimensional Organisation of African Unity, writes Desmond Davies When the African Union was launched with great fanfare in Durban [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Although Tullow Oil plc first arrived in Ghana in 2007, the company had been operating for 26 years, starting its first operations in Senegal. Earlier this year, Tullow celebrated its 25th anniversary. The company’s founder and Chief Executive, Aiden Heavey, had the idea, in the 1980s, of venturing into the oil and gas business when [...]
‘Tim was a messenger of truth. You can kill the messenger, but you can’t kill the truth.’ These were the words of renowned Sierra Leonean documentary filmmaker Sorius Samura at the launch of the Tim Hetherington Award Scheme. Held in Freetown in memory of the late internationally acclaimed photojournalist, the award is a testament to [...]
On my first visit to the Jemaa El Fna, the central square in Marrakech, in 2006, I was fortunate enough to meet Moulay Mohamed El Jabri. This old man was sitting in his faded grey djellaba declaiming to a small circle of devoted listeners. With the help of my translator Ahmed I interviewed him for [...]
The annual Zimbabwean culture festival Zimfest will this year contribute funds to the East Africa Crisis appeal of the British Red Cross. The 11th Zimfest music, sport, arts and culture event which takes place in Rayne’s Park, West London on the 27th of August will donate funds to the East African crisis which has seen [...]
