Yearly Archives: 2017
Joaquim applauds Santos exit
Former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano has congratulated retiring Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos for deciding to bow out as president.
Chissano, who served the...
RBS to cut 880 jobs by 2020
Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland plans to cut around 900 technology jobs at its London office by 2020, in its latest plan to reduce...
BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, AUGUST 21, 2017
My dear citizens,
I am very grateful to God and to all Nigerians for their prayers. I am pleased to be back on home soil...
Protests against Eyadema dynasty
Tensions have erupted in Togo after protests against the ruling Gnassingbe family dynasty over the weekend turned deadly.
Two protesters were killed and 12 gendarmes...
Rwanda plans to bid for World cup
Rwanda's Football Association (Ferwafa) is preparing to finalise its bid to host the 2019 Under-17 World Cup.
The Ferwafa president Vincent Nzamwita insists the country...
Japan fields robots at nursing homes
Faced with the worst labor shortage in decades, Japanese service companies are finally turning to labor-saving technology, an investment that could lift the sector’s...
First Marcus Garvey Annual Pan-Africanism Presentation Marked In London
Visitors to Willesden Green Library in the north-west London borough of Brent, can pop into the Brent Museum and find a bust of Jamaican-born...
Johnson & Johnson $417m liable from talc case
Johnson & Johnson, makers of Johnson baby talcum powder, has been ordered to pay $417m (£323.4m) to a woman who says she developed ovarian...
Ethiopian maid back home from slavery
An Ethiopian maid who was forcibly thrown from the seventh floor of a building in Kuwait has returned to the country four months after the incident...
UK deploys Public Health Rapid Support Team to Sierra Leone
The scale of the current Mudslides disaster in Sierra Leone may surpass the Ebola crisis according to health experts. The Government of Sierra Leone...
