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U.S. Chamber of Commerce Hosts Nigerian Trade Minister as Both Agree to Work Together

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Hosts Nigerian Trade Minister as Both Agree to Work Together

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s U.S.-Africa Business Center Tuesday hosted the Nigerian Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment Dr. Okechukwu Enelamah for a roundtable discussion with U.S. business executives at their office in Washington, D.C. The conversation focused on enhancing trade and investment relationship between both countries. This comes in the context of a telephone […]

Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Allowed To Travel To U.S. Following Arrest In South Africa

Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Allowed To Travel To U.S. Following Arrest In South Africa

The rapper formerly known as Mos Def is returning to the U.S. after his use of a “World Passport” landed him on South Africa’s “undesirable persons” list. Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) has spent the majority of 2016 unable to leave South Africa. The rapper was arrested for attempting to use a “world […]

US diplomats walk out of Uganda president’s inauguration

US diplomats walk out of Uganda president’s inauguration

The U.S. delegation to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s inauguration walked out of Thursday’s ceremony in protest against his disparaging comments about an international war crimes tribunal and the presence of Sudan’s leader, whom the court has indicted, the State Department said. Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said U.S. Ambassador to Uganda Deborah Malac and a visiting […]

U.S and UK Knew Location of Nigerian Girls abducted by Boko Haram

U.S and UK Knew Location of Nigerian Girls abducted by Boko Haram

The former British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr Andrew Pocock, has disclosed that the United States and the United Kingdom knew the whereabouts of about 80 of abducted Chibok girls by Boko Haram but failed to launch a rescue mission. Pocock further claimed that a large group of the missing girls were spotted by the […]

U.S. Military Shot Down Malaysia Airlines MH370 Because They Thought It Had Been Hacked By Terrorists

U.S. Military Shot Down Malaysia Airlines MH370 Because They Thought It Had Been Hacked By Terrorists

A former airline boss and writer claims the U.S. downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 because the military feared it had been taken over by hackers and was about to be used in a 9/11-style attack. Marc Dugain, the former chief executive of now-defunct Proteus Airlines, said the jumbo jet was shot down near a U.S. […]

Iran nuclear talks face US deadline

Iran nuclear talks face US deadline

Pressure is mounting on world powers and Iran to reach a deal on its nuclear programme and avoid the issue becoming bogged down in the US Congress. If a final agreement is not reached by Friday, Congress will double the time it takes to review an accord. That will delay the lifting of US sanctions. […]

Fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony suffering from diabetes

Fugitive African warlord Joseph Kony suffering from diabetes

The fugitive leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army is sickly and in retreat from an international manhunt that includes U.S. forces, a Ugandan military spokesman said Monday, citing the accounts of recent defectors who are backing up reports that the rebel group is in decline. Joseph Kony is possibly suffering from diabetes, according to defectors […]

U.S. to feature a woman on its currency notes

U.S. to feature a woman on its currency notes

The U.S. plans to feature a woman on its currency notes for the first time since Martha Washington adorned silver certificates more than a century ago, the Treasury Department said. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew and his advisers will solicit public comment at town hall meetings and other events in coming months about the planned […]

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