By H.E. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey), On August 19, 2011, under the shining sun of Africa, the plane carrying Prime Minister Erdoğan, his family and a large delegation composed of the different segments of Turkish State and society landed in Mogadishu. This was one of the first international […]
Continue ReadingBy Nick Paul, THE Rand has had a lot of flack for its devaluation over the past couple of years. As I already wrote about a few countries with a weaker note and now let’s take a look at African countries who’s currencies are stronger than ours.
Continue ReadingBy Thomas C Mountain, AS THE deadly virus named Ebola continues to rage in west Africa there maybe homeopathic medicines that prevent and cure this disease but due to what would best be described as the criminal ignorance dominating the medical “industry” it is highly unlikely that we will ever know if this is possible. […]
Continue ReadingBy Tema.ru (Travel), ERITREA is a remarkable country. All sorts of horror stories are written about it everywhere. There’s hunger there, there’s fascism there, there’s communism there, the people there are not allowed to leave their country, photography is forbidden there, it’s doomsday there. The country ranks 178th out of 178 in terms of freedom of […]
Continue ReadingBy Hilal, IT is customary to see African summits being held in different parts of the world. All of these summits are designed to safeguard the economic and national security interests of the sponsors and not of Africa and Africans. They are often described as a gathering place of tyrants, dictators and genociders. A Kodak Moment […]
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Plautz, PRESIDENT Obama announced Friday that African leaders attending a summit in Washington, D.C., next week will be screened for Ebola. At least 729 people have died and more than 1,300 people have fallen ill from the viral disease in the worst outbreak ever, primarily affecting Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
Continue ReadingBy Alemayehu G. Mariam, THE African Circus is coming to town. It is officially called “U.S-Africa Leadership Summit” (not Ringling African Brothers). It is scheduled to be held on August 5-6 in Washington D.C. The theme of the “Summit” is “Investing in the Next Generation”. According to the pre-Summit hype, in the first ever “U.S.-Africa […]
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Maddux, SOUTH Sudan is now the world’s most fragile nation, displacing Somalia, which has held the top spot for the last six years. The Fund for Peace, in partnership with the Foreign Policy Magazine have tracked South Sudan since 2012, not long after it became the African continent’s newest country.
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