African News

Senegal: State Media for Aspirants

By Our Correspondent According to the APA news agency in Dakar,political campaigning is in full swing in Senegal with the various (...)

| February 2007 | 713 views

Guinea: Lansana Conte May Soon Go.

Over 50 people have died in the recent disturbances in Guinea-Conakry and our sources in that troubled country have predicted that this is the beginning of (...)

by Gibril Koroma | February 2007 | 1204 views

Guinea suspends export of foodstuffs

The Guinean government has decided to ban "any export and re-export of farm produce which are part of the people’s staple food" for 12 months. This (...)

| February 2007 | 1098 views

Nkrumah, African Unity and Development

Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, in Ottawa, Canada responds to Gamal Nkrumah’s depiction of the illusory picture of Pan-Africanism today by arguing that by failing to (...)

| January 2007 | 1077 views

Some Refinements on the Development Fronts

COMMENTARY By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, Ottawa,Canada. To advocates of opening, refining, and appropriating Ghanaian cultural values for development, (...)

| January 2007 | 912 views

Ki-Zerbo the Giant has Passed Away

By Our Correspondent. The distinguished Burkinabe historian and academic heavyweight professor Joseph Ki-Zerbo(photo) has recently passed away at his (...)

| December 2006 | 1002 views

African accused of rape set free in London

By Abu B. Shaw,with files from the Sun newspaper, London. Anti-rape campaigners were horrified in the aftermath of a recent acquittal of an alleged (...)

| December 2006 | 1216 views

AU Communique.

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| December 2006 | 838 views

Madagascar general urges overthrow

By Johnny Hogg BBC News, Antananarivo An army general in Madagascar has declared military rule in the country. General Fidy said the move, (...)

| November 2006 | 896 views

Good African leaders to get award

By Abu B. Shaw, Vanguard London Bureau Chief Initiators of the award for African leaders - former presidents to be precise - have highlighted good (...)

| November 2006 | 28763 views