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The African Union (AU) has unveiled an ambitious wish-list of priorities for Africa that would give the continent a stronger global voice, boost democracy and encourage peace and security. AU Ambassador to the United States, Amina Ali of Tanzania, presented the list of top priorities at a conference on 11 January held at Washington think-tank, the Brookings Institution. Among them ...

Johannesburg – Angola’s government must account for a staggering $32bn missing from state coffers in a country where most suffer immense poverty despite the nation’s massive oil wealth, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. The revelation comes the same week that Angola announced yet another huge offshore oil find and after deals were signed on Tuesday with seven major oil ...

A week after the Nigerian Senate passed the anti-gay sex bill, United state president Barrack Obama issued a presidential memorandum directing ‘all federal agencies engaged abroad to ensure that U.S. diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of LGBT persons. Below is the full text of Obama’s Memo, which was released on Tuesday 6th of December 2011, ...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir escalated the standoff between his country and Kenya on Friday night when he gave Nairobi a two-week ultimatum to overturn a High Court order for his arrest. In a terse statement, President al-Bashir said his country would slap a broad array of sanctions against Kenya, including banning flights by any airline originating from or destined to ...

Former US President George Bush and his family arrived in Zambia yesterday to a thunderous welcome despite Amnesty’s international calls for the former President’s arrest over human rights violations. Bush is on a health awareness three-African nation trip which has already taken him to Zambia’s north eastern neighbor Tanzania and later Ethiopia after Lusaka. The trip is aimed at raising ...