A letter from Africa to #BlackLivesMatter
When you say Black Lives Matter do you mean just Black American lives? What about the tens of thousands of black lives in Cuba that have been lost due to the covert war and the economic embargo still being waged against Cuba by the US government? Or what about the black lives that were lost […]
Africa50 raises $830m for infrastructure
Africa50, the new and innovative infrastructure investment platform promoted by the African Development Bank held its Constitutive General Assembly on the 29th of July 2015 in Casablanca, Morocco. Twenty (20) African countries and the African Development Bank have subscribed for an initial aggregate amount of USD 830 million in share capital. These founding African countries […]
Collon: Eritrea needs protection
A Belgium-based journalist and writer says Africa and the world need to protect Eritrea to show that there’s another possibility. Michel Collon in a seminar Friday during the Eritrean Festival in Sweden said Eritrea needs protection because to Western countries it is a bad example of a country that is making it outside of western dictate. […]
Ambassador Nyenabo speaks in Sweden
Liberia’s ambassador to Belgium is expected to deliver the keynote address when Liberians residing in Sweden observe the 168th anniversary of their country’s independence this Saturday in Stockholm, the Swedish capital. According to a release issued by the Liberian Swedish Association (LSA) President Francis Mensah, the festivities begin on Friday with a mini football tourney […]
Liberians vote in Europe
Elections of a new set of leaders will be the main order of the day as Liberians living in Europe gather in Gent, Belgium this weekend to celebrate the 168th independence anniversary of their country. The West African nation of Liberia declared its independence on July 26, 1847. Representatives from various Liberian national organizations on the continent […]
Religious leaders urge respect for Africa’s riches
Speaking of the African Faith Leaders’ Statement on Financing for Development, issued following a side event at the 3rd United Nations Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Rev. Nicta Lubaale, general secretary of the Organization of African Instituted Churches, said, the key message from African faith communities is “respect Africa’s resources”. Lubaale was […]
Africa’s infrastructure investment a top priority
Closing Africa’s infrastructure gap is a top priority in order to put the continent on a path for double digit growth and sustainable development. This is according to world-renowned professor of economics, Jeffrey Sachs. “There is no choice, Africa needs 10 per cent per year of economic growth in the next 15 years,” Professor Sachs […]
World leaders meet to boost development finance
Over 30 heads of state and government, more than 110 government ministers and over 1000 business and civil society representatives gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Monday for the opening of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development with calls to ensure the necessary resources to improve people’s lives while protecting the planet. The meeting […]
Liberian war crimes suspect remains in custody
There are reliable reports that Switzerland’s attorney general has extended, until September, the detention of Alieu Kosiah, a Liberian held on war crimes, because criminal proceedings against him are still continuing. Nathalie Guth of the attorney general’s office however told Nordic Africa News in a recent email that “We can confirm, at this stage, that the criminal proceedings are still ongoing with […]
Ugandan kids born of war face huge challenges
Actual combat may have ended almost a decade ago in northern Uganda, but for many women abducted by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army and the children they conceived in captivity, the war is far from over. Sexual exploitation, beatings, stigmatization and community rejection, lack of medical care and education, and deprivation of land rights are […]
