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  • Africa’s security landscape has changed significantly over the completed decade.

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  • European schemes target migration source countries in Africa

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2016/01/30 Next the sweltering heat of the day, a group of young Gambians pour water over neat corridors of crops, laughing and jostling each other at the well. They are taking part in a youth training scheme that over nine months aims to equip them with skills to develop their own livelihoods. The Livelihood Empowerment Agricultural Project (LEAP) was initiated in response to the increasing numbers of mainly young Gambians risking their lives crossing the Mediterranean to reach Europe.

  • Africa: Low Food Prices but Poor Still Go Hungry

    AFRICA, 2016/01/17 World food prices are at their lowest level in years, but thanks to the exceptionally strong US dollar poor people in developing nations suffering severe climate shocks are seeing no benefit. The FAO Food Price Index for 2015 was 19 points down on 2014, marking the fourth consecutive annual decline across a basket of commodities. "Abundant supplies in the face of a timid world request and an appreciating US dollar are the major reasons for the general weakness that has dominated food prices in 2015," said the index, released last week.

  • Yassine Abdel Sabour, the first MP for the Nubian people in the new Egyptian parliament

    EGYPT, 2016/01/10 The initial deputy for the Nubians in Egypt’s parliament, Yassine Abdel Sabour, is well-aware of the weight on his shoulders to deliver and achieve the demands of his people, who claim that the national has neglected Nubians for 120 years. In an interview , he underscores a lot of of the problems Nubians suffer from, mainly health and sanitation issues, and the desire of the Nubian people to achieve their historical request to return to the banks of the Aswan High Dam. He as well expressed his fears of the demise of the Nubian language and criticized the national for overlooking the history and achievements of Nubians in public education curricula.

  • S/Africa: Libyan funding to Zuma refuted-Presidency

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2016/01/10 The South African government has refuted a Mail and Guardian newspaper statement alleging that President Jacob Zuma secretly received money from the late Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, the Presidency said Saturday.The high office as well rebuffed claims that Zuma harboured fears that “his government could be toppled due to perceived corruption and alleged incompetence since he became leader of the country.

  • Egypt: Officer, conscript killed in Giza

    EGYPT, 2016/01/10 An Egyptian police officer and a conscript were killed Saturday morning next they were shot dead by two unknown assailants in Giza. Colonel Ali Ahmed of Giza traffic department was leaving his home, and his driver was waiting for him inside a police vehicle, at the same time as two armed men opened fire at them and hurled Molotov Cocktail at the car.

  • Uganda hosts new Burundi peace talks

    BURUNDI, 2016/01/10 Burundi’s government has demanded the withdrawal of key opposition figures if peace talks, restarted in Uganda on Monday, are to continue. Initial deputy chairman of the country’s ruling CNDD-FDDD party, Victor Burikukiye, speaking in Entebbe today said: “I would like to mention that if those who participated in the [May 2015] coup are here, we shall not continue with the talks.”

  • Ethiopians celebrate Orthodox Christmas

    ETHIOPIA, 2016/01/10 The domestic counters of Addis Ababa Bole International Airport are heaving with passengers going to Lalibela, a town in northern Ethiopia which is home to what a lot of consider to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Lalibela churches are 11 ancient monolithic structures carved out of solid granite. It is here that a lot of pilgrims of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church from different parts of the country travel to celebrate Christmas. The airport is particularly busy on the eve of Ethiopian Christmas, which falls on Jan. 7 each year.

  • Djibouti cuts diplomatic relations with Iran

    IRAN, 2016/01/08 Djibouti said Wednesday it has cut diplomatic relations with Iran amid a diplomatic crisis with ally Saudi Arabia. The tiny Horn of Africa country is a strategic port on the Gulf of Aden with a key position on one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. Djiboutian Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf has "severed diplomatic ties with Iran," a government statement read.

  • South African race storm over Facebook slur

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2016/01/08 South Africa’s ruling ANC party on Wednesday launched legal action over a white realtor’s Facebook comments that compared black beachgoers in Durban to monkeys in a growing row about post-apartheid racism. The African National Congress, which led the struggle against white-minority policy, said it was pursuing a case against Penny Sparrow and a recent spate of other allegedly racist online postings. The Durban beaches were reserved for the white people during the apartheid era that ended in the early 1990s.
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