More than 70 heads of state and government are expected in South Africa this week to attend funeral events for former president Nelson Mandela, with most due to attend a huge memorial service in Johannesburg on Tuesday, officials said. “The whole world is coming to South Africa,” foreign ministry spokesman Clayson Monyela said. After what […]
The African Examiner As the world mourns the death of the former South African President and statesman Dr Nelson Mandela, the World Leaders have continued to pay tribute to the great freedom fighter of our time. African Examiner compiles the reactions of the world leaders and here is how they reacted to the news of […]
By Eric Ojo A renowned erudite scholar and African activist, Prof. Yaa Lenge Ngemi has reiterated the need for all descendants of the African continent to support the propagation of the vision and ideals of Pan Africanism. Prof. Ngemi said generations of Africans everywhere in the world are failing because they have been denied the […]
Agency Report Two French radio journalists were killed by gunmen in northern Mali on Saturday shortly after being abducted in the town of Kidal, French and Malian officials said. The French government confirmed that 58-year old Claude Verlon and Ghislaine Dupont, 51, both journalists at RFI radio, had been found dead. “The French president … […]
By Eric Ojo The European Union (EU), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the West African Economic and Monetary Union UEMOA have resolved to resume negotiations of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) as soon as possible. Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are a scheme to create a free trade area (FTA) between […]
Agency Report Prominent South African businessman and anti-apartheid stalwart Tokyo Sexwale was arrested in New York after his name was on a list of people banned from entering the United States, national broadcaster SABC said on Sunday, citing his lawyer. South African businessman and anti-apartheid stalwart Tokyo Sexwale Sexwale, a rival of President Jacob Zuma […]
Agency Report Police in Somalia have stormed the Mogadishu headquarters of the independent radio station, Shabelle, forcing it off the air. The authorities said they were taking back possession of the building, which belonged to the government. The radio station is well known for being critical of senior officials. The move is the latest in […]
The Malian authorities say 72 people are now known to have died when a boat capsized a week ago on the River Niger. Rescuers found the bodies of dozens more passengers after the boat was refloated, Mali’s Security Minister Sada Samake said. He said 210 people survived the accident, in which the vessel broke up […]
Cameroon’s ruling party has won a sweeping victory in parliamentary elections, a move that extends President Paul Biya’s three decade hold on power. The Supreme Court Thursday published official results from the September 30 polling, with results showing the Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement won 148 of the 180 seats in the national assembly. The country’s […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda named a former African Union economic commissioner as finance minister on Tuesday in a cabinet reshuffle triggered by a graft scandal that started with the shooting of the national budget director. Paul Mphwiyo survived last month’s shooting but the incident sparked an investigation by the landlocked southern African nation’s Anti-Corruption Bureau […]
The Libyan man who was seized earlier this month in a US raid in Tripoli has been transferred to the US to face charges in New York. Officials said Abu Anas al-Liby, whose real name is Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, had been questioned on board a navy ship while travelling to the US. He is accused […]
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Tragedy struck at Ikotun area of Lagos, Nigeria when three Togolese siblings were killed and their father seriously burnt when fire gutted their house. The incident, which occurred on Friday at No. 8, Odofin Close, Ikotun saw the house being razed by fire. It was gathered that the sibling’s father, one Pele […]
At least 27 people died when a boat carrying more than 200 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean, Malta’s prime minister has confirmed. Italian and Maltese ships – backed by helicopters – were scrambled to the scene and are searching in darkness. Maltese PM Joseph Muscat said 203 people had so far been rescued. The boat […]
The OPCW, the body overseeing destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee said it was in honour of the OPCW’s “extensive work to eliminate chemical weapons”. The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was established to enforce the 1997 Chemical Weapons convention. It recently sent inspectors […]
Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been released hours after being seized by militiamen, the government says. A former rebel group loosely allied to the government, the Revolutionaries Operations Room, had detained Mr Zeidan, saying they were acting on the orders of the prosecutor general. The justice ministry had denied this. The militia was one […]
By Chigozie Chikere, Lagos It was the thriller maestro James Hadley Chase who wrote the novel, A Coffin from Hong Kong, in which Nelson Ryan a private investigator arrives his office to discover a dead Chinese girl, obviously murdered. With this development, Ryan is pitched right into the teeming and sordid nightlife of Hong Kong to […]
By Eric Ojo, Pretoria Section of the Sexual Offences Act that sought to criminalise sexual acts between teenagers in the South African Bill of Rights have been declared unconstitutional and invalid by the Constitutional Court of the country. The court in a unanimous judgement delivered last week by Justice Sisi Khampepe ruled that it is […]
The African Examiner, Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains strong with growth forecasted to be 4.9% in 2013. Almost a third of countries in the region are growing at 6% and more, and African countries are now routinely among the fastest-growing countries in the world, according to the World Bank’s new Africa’s Pulse, a […]
Italian divers have recovered dozens more bodies from a boat carrying African migrants that sank on Thursday. Thirty-eight bodies were freed from the hull, which divers had previously been unable to access. The official death toll now stands at 232. Divers “unpacked a wall of people”, a navy officer said, adding that corpses were “so […]
Two weeks ago, some major Ghanaian newspapers and prominent radio stations reported that the First National Bank (FNB) of Nigeria has received final approval from the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to take over the assets of International Commercial Bank (ICB). Curiously, the terse statements did not mention the sale price for the ICB shares that were […]
