President George W Bush’s trip to Africa this week signalled a recent strategic decision to increase the United States’ military presence to bolster what Washington now sees as two important national interests on the continent — the supply of oil and the struggle against terrorism.
Britain’s intelligence community faces an unprecedented crisis of credibility in the wake of the Commons’s foreign affairs committee’s report on the decision to go to war in Iraq.
The widening gulf between the global haves and have-nots was starkly revealed this week when the United Nations announced that while the United States was booming in the 1990s, living standards fell in more than 50 countries.
World Bank projects costing hundreds of millions of dollars and aimed at cutting malnutrition among children in developing countries have completely failed to make a difference, according to a report published last week.
Analysts in Nairobi suspect that United States President George W Bush left Kenya out of his five-day African tour as a way of punishing the East African nation for its failure to support the US-led war against Iraq.
The candidate hoping to become Africa’s first woman president is not worried about her big-name rivals.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) soccer clubs St Lupopo and TP Mazembe came, saw, but could not conquer last week when the Kudu Horn trophy returned to Kaizer Chiefs in the Vodacom Challenge.
African Union leaders got a wake up call at their summit in Mozambique this week from a cash-strapped member who is muzzled because it is behind on its dues.
Leaders in the volatile Great Lakes region lack the political will to bring peace to the region, a European Union (EU) envoy said on the second day of the African Union heads of state summit in Maputo on Friday.
The process of choosing the AU’s permanent chairperson was reminiscent of the old Africa the union seeks to replace. President Thabo Mbeki was in league with his arch rival Moammar Gadaffi to ensure that Alpha Konare got the job of first permanent chairperson of the African Union Commission.