African Spotlight Spotlighting Africans at Home and Abroad

Hotel groups around the world are contemplating investing hundreds of million of dollars in Africa in the coming years to meet increased demand from both international tourists and natives on the continent. InterContinental Hotel Group, Accor, Starwood and Rezidor Hotel Group, the group that operates the Radisson Blu chain, are among those looking to capitalize on the continent’s urbanization. In ...

Gunmen stormed two separate police stations across northern Nigeria, killing four police officers and two civilians in one attack and bombed a station in another on Monday night. The gunmen targeted the police station in the city of Tambuwal, Sokoto, after witnesses said they couldn’t break into a nearby bank. The gunmen sprayed the station with gunfire, killing the four ...

Ghana’s economy has been estimated to be the fastest-growing in the world for the first half of 2011, by EconomyWatch.com Other countries selected among the 12 fastest-growing economies in the world were India, Angola, Iraq, Ethiopia, Mozambique, East Timor and Laos. Ghana’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, was at the time estimated to be 20.146 percent. Qatar’s was next with 14.337 ...

Since 2004 when Facebook was founded by the then Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg, it has continued to help connect people to their long lost friends, family and loved ones. The site has affected the social life and activities of people in various ways, reuniting lost family members and friends. As useful as it is, you face a great risk if ...