South Africa President Jacob Zuma has said that last year’s 8% increase in international tourist arrivals in Africa indicates the immense potential for further growth in the continent’s tourism sector. “Africa enjoyed an eight percent increase in international tourist arrivals to reach 58 million arrivals. This means that Africa is …
Read More »Donor dependence stifling peace efforts in Africa, PAP MPs told
MIDRAND, SOUTH AFRICA: The Chairman of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union, Amb. Mull Katende, has said heavy reliance on donor funding was affecting peace efforts on the continent. “Our major challenge is donor dependence, and this defeats the whole idea of African solutions to African problems,” …
Read More »Pan African Parliament MPs call for review of SDGs
MIDRAND, SOUTH AFRICA: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that were rolled out by the UN are not well tuned to Africa’s development challenges, MPs of the Pan African Parliament have said. The United Nations General Assembly adopted in September 2015 a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure …
Read More »KCCA FC ready for tough Morocco challenge
Saturday FUS Rabat vs KCCA Kampala, Uganda| KCCAFC MEDIA| Suspended from Kampala Capital City Authority Football Club’s opening game of the 2017 CAF Confederation Cup Group Stages tie against FUS Rabat, skipper Dennis Okot has a message for his teammates. Okot wants to see KCCA FC players play their hearts …
Read More »The inevitability of the inevitable as the African Union robs Africa of the top UNWTO job
AATC News by Prof. Wolfgang H. Thome The UNWTO Elections There is no easy way to say this but someone has to say it in a way that everyone can understand what just went down in Madrid, Spain where the Executive Committee of the UN World Tourism Organization just voted for …
Read More »Mugabe not asleep but resting his eyes
NOT SLEEPING: At 93, there is something that happens to the eyes and the President cannot suffer bright lights. If you look at his poise, he looks down, avoids direct lighting. Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, 93, is not asleep when he closes his eyes for …
Read More »UN President Thomson to visit Uganda
The President of the United Nations General Assembly Peter Thomson is on an African tour that will take him to Kenya, the Central African Republic and Uganda. Thomson arrives in Uganda on Thursday to visit the United Nations Regional Service Center in Entebbe to learn about its role in supporting regional peacekeeping …
Read More »OXFAM: Growing African repression causing migrant exodus
Durban, South Africa | AFP | African countries are becoming increasingly repressive and causing more people to leave their homes, British charity Oxfam said this week, as Germany warned of the destabilising effect migration is having on the continent. Political freedom and the problem of Africa’s brain-drain were among the …
Read More »ANALYSIS: First US military death in Somalia since ‘Black Hawk Down’
Mogadishu, Somalia | AFP | An American soldier has been killed in a night-time raid in Somalia, in what is believed to be the first US military death in combat there since the infamous events of “Black Hawk Down” 24 years ago. The death occurred three weeks after the US …
Read More »Experts meet in Nairobi, agree plan to defeat Africa’s armyworm
Multi-pronged approach key for effectively defeating fall armyworm in Africa NAIROBI, Kenya – Tackling the menace of the tenacious fall armyworm pest and avoiding economic hardship for smallholders across Africa requires multi-institutional collaboration, scientists attending a continental stakeholders consultation meeting on the fall armyworm, have said. In their meeting in …
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