“The government response to accepting the South Sudanese refugees has been overwhelmingly positive, progressive, and welcoming,” said Sacha Manov, deputy director in Uganda for the International Rescue Committee, which provides health and protection services for refugees.
But refugee agency UNHCR said Uganda was struggling to provide food and shelter.
Former Minister of Education and Convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Group, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili said, “For Nigeria to survive, it must overthrow the existing order especially the 57-year-old political class and entrenched pattern. We can’t continue to allow a few people who have hijacked our government to decide our fate, the citizens must rise to disrupt the status quo. A well constituted non-partisan group of intellectuals must help Nigeria fight this war because it cannot be a war fought without knowledge. We need a conversation of economic structure, inequality and governance that comes from the people. Its time to interrogate the dreams of the founding fathers, we must think differently. How long will it take for Nigeria to lift 100 million out of poverty when China used only 30 years to lift 700 million out of poverty. Its time for the citizens to organise a collective action that can produce results. Today, our literacy level is still 59 per cent while Rwanda has progressed to 72 per cent within two decades since the genocide.”
In a Gazette notice dated July 22, 2017 President Uhuru Kenyatta termed the Kenyan Asian community an integral part of the national fabric.
“Let us individually and collectively continue to make a difference in addressing the most pressing challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment,” President Jacob Zuma said in a message marking the Mandela Day.
“We became concerned that Kanu has finally crossed the boundaries of Nigerian laws and has blatantly breached international laws that specifically frown at the use of terror to achieve a goal”.
“We cannot borrow anymore, we just have to generate funds domestically enough to fund our budget,” Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun said.
African Union (AU) saying the recent U.S. exit decision negatively affects Africa’s vulnerable agriculture sector, said Josefa Sacko.
Raila Odinga, in full Raila Amolo Odinga (born January 7, 1945, Maseno, Kenya), Kenyan businessman and politician. Read Raila Amolo Biography And Profile.
United Nations says: Algeria and Morocco should assure safe passage to 41 Syrian refugees stranded along the border between both countries.
France secretly armed Biafra in the self-proclaimed republic’s attempt to break away from Nigeria in a bid to weaken British and US influence in Africa.
Kiir: “I directed the prosecutor general to immediately review the cases of those who have committed crime against the state, commonly known as political prisoners, and ensure the necessary steps taken are taken to lead their release.”
Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru was born on the 10th day of April 1958 in Port Harcourt. Read Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru biography and profile.
African National Congress (ANC) formed 1912 to unite African people and spearhead the fundamental political, social and economic change. Read more.
Nelson Mandela born Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela July 18, 1918, Mvezo, Mbashe River in Transkei, South Africa. Read Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Biography.
“No refugee crisis today worries me more than South Sudan,” Valentin Tapsoba, the Africa chief for the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR, said in a statement.
Morgan Tsvangirai and Joice Mujuru would seek to form coalition government to bring political change. President Robert Mugabe has run Zimbabwe since 1980.
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission presented its findings and acknowledged that security forces had taken disproportionate measures in some areas.
Stella Nyanzi, a university research fellow and lecturer, called Museveni “a pair of buttocks” and his wife, who doubles as education minister, “empty-brained” in a post on her Facebook page.
Patrice Talon was born on May 1, 1958, of a father who was a native of Ouidah and a mother of the Guédégbé family of Abomey. Read Patrice Talon Biography.
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ZAMBIA POLITICS: Edgar Lungu Virtually a Dictator
👤PoliticoscopeZambia has slid into dictatorship under the leadership of President Edgar Lungu, an expert on Africa said, adding that “something is definitely wrong” in that country.
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