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The Value Of Dual Citizenship For African’s Wishing To Take Advantage Of Opportunities

The Value Of Dual Citizenship For African’s Wishing To Take Advantage Of Opportunities

The Value of Dual Citizenship for African’s Wishing to Take Advantage of Opportunities within the Continent and Abroad. It is estimated that only around 1% of the world’s population have two or more passports, making dual citizenship an exclusive privilege. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 5 October 2015/ “No man is an island” is the theme of […]

Africa’s Governance Winners, Losers And Surprises

Africa’s Governance Winners, Losers And Surprises

Zimbabwe is one of the African countries where governance has improved most in the four years up to 2014. Senegal just might surge ahead of its African counterparts in the future, to become one of the continent’s powerhouses. Developments in Somalia, long the worst-governed country in Africa, can be described as “a good news story”. […]

Extreme Poverty ‘To Fall Below 10%’: World Bank

Extreme Poverty ‘To Fall Below 10%’: World Bank

The World Bank has said that for the first time less than 10% of the world’s population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015. The bank said it was using a new income figure of $1.90 per day to define extreme poverty, up from $1.25. It forecasts the proportion of the […]

Africans Lead With The Highest Academic Achievements In The US Beating Asians

Africans Lead With The Highest Academic Achievements In The US Beating Asians

Africans have the highest educational attainment rates of any immigrant group in the United States with higher levels of completion than the stereotyped Asian American model minority. It is not only the first generation that does well, as estimates indicate that a highly disproportionate percentage of black students at elite universities are African or the […]

Guinea Bissau Leader Dissolves Cabinet After Judgement

Guinea Bissau Leader Dissolves Cabinet After Judgement

Guinea Bissau’s President Jose Mario Vaz has dismissed his two-day-old cabinet after the Supreme Court ruled that his appointment of a new prime minister was unconstitutional, a presidential decree has said. Vaz removed popular prime minister Domingos Simoes Pereira in August and replaced him with Baciro Dja, plunging the coup-prone nation into a political crisis. […]

Guinea-Bissau president José Mário Vaz dismisses government

Guinea-Bissau president José Mário Vaz dismisses government

The president of the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau has dismissed the government led by Domingos Pereira, the prime minister. Jose Mario Vaz made the announcement on a national radio programme late on Wednesday, after months of political infighting between the two leaders. The African Union had suspended Guinea-Bissau following a coup in April. The […]

Why Should West Africa Hesitate to Endorse Term Limits?

Why Should West Africa Hesitate to Endorse Term Limits?

President Barack Obama’s widely-publicised remarks in Addis Ababa on African presidents who refuse to step down when their terms end highlights a vigorous debate which is going on across the continent. The debate is particularly intense in new democracies, where human rights defenders vigorously oppose moves to extend the rule of presidents in countries where […]

Multiple Agreements Signed during King Mohammed VI’s Visit to Four Countries

Multiple Agreements Signed during King Mohammed VI’s Visit to Four Countries

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI continued his economic diplomacy in Africa these past weeks visiting Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, and Gabon. The most remarkable feature of these visits is the down-to-earth bilateral projects agreed to, which wed Moroccan expertise and resources with specific human and economic development goals in each country. Morocco is not only the […]

Angola Praises ‘Harmonious’ Election in Guinea Bissau

Angola Praises ‘Harmonious’ Election in Guinea Bissau

The National Assembly (Angolan Parliament) speaker Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos Tuesday in Luanda praised the “harmonious way” the general elections in Guinea Bissau went, adding the polls pave a new path for the Guinean people and for the consolidation of peace and development. Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos was speaking Tuesday at […]

World Bank to Support Regional Trade and Integration in West Africa

World Bank to Support Regional Trade and Integration in West Africa

Washington — The World Bank Group’s Board of Directors today approved support for a regional transmission network to enable electricity trade among the western African countries of The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal. The US$200 million IDA* credit will finance the construction of transmission lines to connect the electrical networks of the four countries and […]

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