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Jamaica now has a seat on the Executive Council of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Director of the Meteorological Services Branch, Evan Thompson, was elected President of the Regional Association (RA) IV of the World Meteorological...
In May, Burundi held a presidential election which was won by Evariste Ndayishimiye, candidate of the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy - Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) party.
Ndayishimiye was hurriedly sworn in after the untimely death of president Pierre Nkurunziza in June.
Rights violations continue
The Council encouraged donor countries which had suspended aid to Burundi to continue dialogue towards resumption of development assistance.
A report by a UN watchdog in September said human rights violations were still being committed in Burundi, including sexual violence and murder.
The country was plunged into a crisis in April 2015 when Ndayishimiye’s predecessor Pierre Nkurunziza decided to run for a controversial third term, which he ultimately won in July 2015.
His candidature, which was opposed by the opposition and civil society groups, resulted in a wave of protests, violence and even a failed coup in May 2015.
Hundreds of people were killed and over 300,000 fled to neighboring countries.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola's Minister of Trade and Industry, Victor Fernandes, said Saturday that Angola's entry into the Free Trade Area of the African continent was an opportunity for the country's business class.
The President of Namibia, Dr. Hage Geingob, has commended the African Union (AU) for achieving what some thought would be impossible - a free, democratic, self-governing and most importantly an Africa without incessant civil wars.
READ: Commemorative Message on the 57th Africa Day - the Africa We Want
He said when the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was formed, as it was then known before it metamorphosed to AU, its primary mandate was Africa's decolonization.
Geingob noted that in light of Its commitment to freeing Africa, acting at state level, without sacrificing state sovereignty, OAU was largely transaction in nature and it was able to promote unity and cooperation amongst African states.
The Namibian president noted that in order to better fulfill its mandate, the AU placed emphasis on the need for self-financing with the understanding that if Africa aims to achieve its developmental aspirations, Africans should fund such efforts in this regard.
Geingob said this made African leaders to decide in 2016 that institutional reforms of the AU were urgent and necessary, given the AU's expected role in driving the Africa We want under Agenda 2063.
[Radio Dabanga] Wadi Fira (Chad) -- Darfuri refugees in Wadi Fira in eastern Chad seek to return voluntarily if they will get individual and collective compensation, and if the villages, that were destroyed or damaged during the civil war that broke out in Darfur in 2003, will be rebuild.
The New York Philharmonic is a world-renowned symphony orchestra that has been around since 1842. And recently, Grace Moore, a 12-year-old Black composer from Brooklyn, […]
Despite aggressive disconnection drives and a vigorous campaign to leverage moral suasion, Jamaica’s electricity distributor has revealed that power theft for all of 2019 was billed at US$178 million. That amounts to J$26 billion at today’s rate....
