World Economic Forum on Africa 2016Welcome to the 26th annual World Economic Forum on Africa, live from the Rwandan capital, Kigali.The theme of the 2016 meeting is "Connecting Africa’s Resources through Digital Transformation" and the first session begins at 1300 CAT/CET. Take a look at the full programme here. (more…)
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Black Lives Matter: Protesters, counter-protesters and police gather for Melbourne rally
Around 1000 people have flocked to the State Library of Victoria for a Black Lives Matter rally today to protest police brutality and draw attention to the deaths of Indigenous Australians in custody.The rally made its way down Swanston Street before staging a sit-in at Flinders Street Station.A strong police...
Somali girls risk becoming child brides if forced to leave Dadaab – Malala
Somali schoolgirls risk losing out on education and becoming child brides if they are forced to leave the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya. Malala Yousafzai said on Tuesday that this could be their fate if they are forced to move to their war-torn country where there are not enough...
CHILD SNATCHER GUILTY Chilling moment Somali migrant kidnapped London schoolgirl by pretending to be an undercover police officer
Abdi Waise, 28, was found guilty of trying to kidnap five young girls and kidnapping another as part of his sick ruse in North London. One of his attempts was captured on CCTV and was used to convict the Somali national. Waise, of Tottenham, was heard to have pretended to...
Kong: Asean special taskforce needed to curb militants
PETALING JAYA: Asean must form a special taskforce to eradicate the Abu Sayyaf militants and resolve the security crisis off the coast of Sabah.MCA central committee member Datuk Paul Kong Sing Chu said the “escalating fear of abduction has engulfed the whole region”.The proposed special taskforce, he said, should comprise...
Secret aid worker: consultants aren’t the problem, it’s the people who hire us
After the sixth requested revision to our report, the fifth change in project manager, and the hostile conference call, I started to get really frustrated again about being a consultant. My colleagues and I had spent many months and considerable energy, resources and brain power working on a study commissioned...
Somalia’s president recently held first-ever meeting with Israeli PM
NAIROBI, Kenya – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently met with the president of Somalia in a first high-level contact between the two countries, a source close to the Somali leader told The Times of Israel. Israel does not have diplomatic relations with the East African nation, which has a population...
Israeli and Regional Leaders Pledge to Defeat Terrorism
A regional Heads of State and Government Summit on counter terrorism between the State of Israel and Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Zambia, South Sudan and Tanzania, has resolved to enhance efforts to fight and decisively defeat terrorism in all its forms because of the threat it poses to international peace...
Federal election 2016: Pauline Hanson says Islam no religion of peace
Pauline Hanson says Islam is not a religion of peace. In fact she doesn’t believe it’s a religion at all.The One Nation leader, who’s set to return to the federal parliament after almost 20 years, insists she’s not out to offend Australian Muslims.But she says it’s time to turn the...
Uganda Reconsiders Troops’ Pullout From Somalia, Museveni Says
Uganda is reconsidering plans to withdraw its troops from Somalia, where an African Union force fighting the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab reportedly hasn’t received allowances from the European Union, President Yoweri Museveni said. “We shall not pull out if we move in the right direction, especially the army,” Museveni told...