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Pope Meets with President Andry Nirina Rajoelina of Madagascar
Stability, Democracy, and Education Among Topics DiscussedVATICAN CITY, April 26, 2013 (Zenit.org) - This morning, Pope Francis received Andry Nirina Rajoelina, president of the High Transitional Authority of Madagascar, in audience at the Vatican Apostolic Palace. Shortly after, President Rajoelina met with Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for Relations with States.The talks, which ...
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Iran Bars Election Candidacies of Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad Aide
Iran says a conservative body has barred two prominent figures from competing in next month's presidential election - moderate former president Hashemi Rafsanjani and a leading conservative allied to current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Iranian interior ministry said Tuesday the Guardian Council of clerics and jurists excluded the two politicians from a final list of eight ...
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Iconic Clubs Team Up to Grow US Soccer League
Major League Baseball's New York Yankees and English Premier League football club Manchester City are joining together to enter an expansion team in U.S. Major League Soccer (MLS). The new team will be named New York City Football Club and expects to begin play in 2015 as MLS's 20th franchise. MLS Commissioner Don Garber said "this is a transformational development that will ...
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Kerry Visits Oman Seeking Syria Peace Consensus
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has held talks in Oman on his latest stop in a campaign to help arrange an internationally-sponsored Syrian peace ...
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UN Works to Contain Disease Epidemics in Two African Countries
A child from the Central African Republic receives a measles vaccine in a refugee camp set up by the UNHCR in Nangungue, eastern Cameroon, April 12, ...
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Liberace Film Spotlights Gay Rights at Cannes
CANNES -- The relationship between the flamboyant pianist Liberace and his young lover dazzled at the Cannes film festival on Tuesday and threw the spotlight on gay rights at the movie industry's largest annual gathering. Director Steven Soderbergh said he struggled five years ago to secure funding for "Behind the Candelabra" because some financiers thought the film would only ...
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Oklahoma Tornado Victims Share Stories of Survival
The deadly tornado that ripped through the midwestern state of Oklahoma on Monday left entire neighborhoods flattened, homes, businesses and schools destroyed. As emergency workers sift through the wreckage Tuesday, survivors are sharing their experiences. Among the countless buildings struck by the three-kilometer-wide tornado were two elementary schools - hit just as students were about to ...
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Jordan Army Turns Back Syrian Refugees at Border
A girl wears a headband in the colors of the Syrian revolutionary flag and painted her face with hearts during a protest in front of the Syrian embassy in Amman, Jordan, May 17, ...
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Columns Juicy UK tale of $2b gemstone export from Kenya
UK newspapers , the Guardian and the Financial Times a three-judge Bench Court of Appeal has invoked the doctrine of open justice and allowed the newspapers to report on the intriguing but contested allegations which are likely to vibrate in the diplomatic and business communities in ...
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Microsoft unveils next Xbox games console
Microsoft Corp has given a first look at its new game console, hoping the newly named Xbox One will build on a solid core of gamer fans and become a hub for living room entertainment. The third-generation console, coming eight years after the Xbox 360, was unveiled by games unit chief Don Mattrick at an event at the software company's campus near ...
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S Africa to set up USD258m wind farm
(MENAFN) South Africa's Government Communication and Information System announced that the country will establish a USD258 million wind farm to produce clean energy, reported Xinhua News.The project, which will be carried out by the state-own electricity utility Eskom, will be fully operational by the end of next year, with an average energy output of nearly 233,000 MWh per year.The wind ...
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Uganda - Security forces seize Ugandan media outlets
The crackdown on four media houses on 20 May 2013 by security agencies under unclear circumstances is a serious threat to media freedom and freedom of expression in Uganda. The security agencies' actions to deactivate KFM and Dembe FM - and the besieging ...
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Blind eye to poaching endangers Africa
Illustration: Liu Rui/GT Nairobi hosted two celebrities from China recently, about a month after Chinese President Xi Jinping toured Africa.Chinese actress Li Bingbing and former NBA star Yao Ming were on a trip to Kenya that sought to raise awareness about the illicit wildlife trade. Li linked the vice to global criminal rings.The UN says the number of elephants killed in Africa has doubled in ...
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Man dies from coronavirus in Tunisia
Sixty-six-year-old Tunisian man dies of coronavirus after visiting Saudi Arabia, the first reported case and the first death in the African ...
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D.C. organizing biz trade missions to Colombia South Africa Toronto
Interested in globe hopping for the sake of your business? Now's your chance, with ExportDC. The District's Department of Small and Local Business Development on Tuesday released its calendar of upcoming trade missions to the membership of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce. Between June and September, they'll hit four continents, a pair of Caribbean islands and, for those wanting to stay ...
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China vice-premier in Zimbabwe for start of trade and development trip before Africa summit
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Chinese vice-premier Wang Yang has arrived in Zimbabwe at the start of an official trip to view his nation's burgeoning trade and development ties in Africa. Officials at the Harare airport said Tuesday that the third ranking of China's four vice-premiers in President Xi Jinping's communist party is scheduled to meet with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on ...
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Rebels in Central African Republic protest at leaders headquarters protest living conditions
BANGUI, Central African Republic - Some members of the rebel alliance who overthrew the president of Central African Republic are protesting outside the luxury hotel where their leader is based. Their demonstration marks a dangerous development, underscoring the divisions that are emerging within the Seleka rebel movement. The rebels outside the Hotel Ledger Plaza Bangui said Tuesday they were ...
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5 Serbs released from Libya after 21 months in captivity
Officials say five Serbian citizens have returned home after spending 21 months in captivity in Libya. Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic says the men flew back to Serbia on Tuesday following months-long negotiations. He says that "we waited until they crossed the border to inform the families." Authorities say the men went to Libya to work as construction workers, but were ...
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New coronavirus spreads to Tunisia 66-year-old man dead
RABAT, Morocco The new coronavirus has now reached Tunisia. The novel SARS-like virus that's been infecting people who have been in the Middle East or those who have been in contact with recent travelers to the region, has killed a 66-year-old Tunisian man following a visit to Saudi Arabia. Two of his adult children were infected as well, according to the Tunisian Health Ministry. His sons ...
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Dubai seizes 259 African ivory tusks
A SHIPMENT of 259 elephant tusks smuggled out of Africa has been seized in the United Arab Emirates, the International Wildlife Fund for Animal Welfare says. The tusks were discovered at a Dubai port in a container shipped from Mombasa, Kenya labelled as wooden furniture. Demand for ivory in east Asia has prompted a surge in poaching in recent years, threatening the existence of animal ...
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Kenya My Life Is in Danger - Kalembe
THE Independent Party leaders Kalembe Ndile, yesterday morning narrowly escaped death after bandits allegedly stormed his Syokimau estate home but were repulsed by his personal security. Athi River police confirmed that one of the gangsters was arrested after he was cornered in the compound of the former assistant minister's house at 4am by Ndile and his security men. Area police boss ...
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East Africa Tanzania Could Boost Its Economy By Reforming the Port of Dar es Salaam - World Bank
DAR ES SALAAM, May 21, 2013 - Tanzania and its East African neighbors could boost their annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by up to US$1.8 billion and US$ 830 million respectively by taking measures to improve the efficiency of the Port of Dar es Salaam, according to the latest Tanzania Economic Update published by the World Bank. So far, Tanzania and six neighboring countries have missed this ...
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Kenya Revenues Behind Target By Close to Sh100 Billion
THE country was behind its revenue collection target by close to Sh100 billion by end of March, government data shows. According to the Treasury's latest issue of the quartely economic and budgetary review, total cumulative revenue collection including appropriation in aid, was below the target by Sh98.2 billion. Ordinary revenue collection amounted to Sh 531.6 billion against a target of ...
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Tunisia teeters as it grapples with jihadists
Tunisia, cradle of the Arab Reawakening in January 2011, has finally got tough with its hard-line Islamists as, like other North African states that overthrew longtime dictators, it finds itself struggling with the fallout of its groundbreaking pro-democracy uprising. After weekend clashes with the moderate Islamist government led by the once-outlawed Ennahda Party, the militants seem set to ...
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Somalia and the slippery slope of Jubbaland
If the latest development in Somalia gives you the feeling of being trapped in the Twilight Zone - somewhere between relative security and renewed bloodshed - you are not alone. Due to the array of competing internal and external interest groups and the federal government's lack of clear grand strategy or capacity to assert its authority, the formation of "Jubbaland State" is ...
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Three major African airlines to launch new regional player
West and central Africa may soon have a regional airline to connect the countries of the region and feed the three largest airlines in Africa, especially South African Airways, which has dominance on the continent, although it has indicated it will not provide financial support to such a venture.
There are exciting plans afoot in the African aviation industry the continent’s three largest airlines, South African Airways, Egypt Air and Ethiopian Airlines, considering the establishment of a regional airline in central and West Africa that would feed the larger airlines on loner routes or what they call ‘truck routes’. Read more
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