Addis Ababa (AFP) - The African Union decided Monday to allow Morocco back in the fold after a 33-year absence, despite stiff resistance from some member states over the status of Western Sahara. After an emotional and tense debate, member states decided by consensus to leave the question of the disputed territory of Western Sahara for another d ...
Addis Ababa (AFP) - The African Union on Monday agreed to readmit Morocco 33 years after it quit the bloc, in an emotional and difficult debate over the status of Western Sahara, according to presidents attending the summit. Morocco is now a full member of the African Union. There was a very long debate but 39 of our 54 states approved the retu ...
Addis Ababa (AFP) - Chad's foreign minister Moussa Faki Mahamat was named Monday as the new AU Commission chairperson, beating four others to succeed South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, diplomats told AFP. Several delegates leaving the election hall confirmed the win, while grinning Chadian delegates hugged each other in celebration. Forme ...
Addis Ababa (AFP) - African Union leaders grappled with Morocco's divisive bid to rejoin the bloc at a summit Monday and sounded alarm for the continent over US President Donald Trump's immigration ban. The very country (where) our people were taken as slaves... has now decided to ban refugees from some of our countries, outgoing AU Commission ...
Addis Ababa (AFP) - UN chief Antonio Guterres criticised Monday the closure of borders even in the most developed countries in the world , after US President Donald Trump slapped a ban on travellers from seven Muslim countries. The new UN secretary general was speaking at the opening of an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, where he praised A ...
Washington, DC, January 26, 2017 mdash; The Aspen Institute announced today the 2017 class of the New Voices Fellowship , a groundbreaking program designed to ensure experts from the developing world have a voice in the global development discussion. The 20 new Fellows are leading public health specialists, doctors, scientists, activists ...
Addis Ababa (AFP) - African Union leaders meet in Ethiopia on Monday for a difficult summit likely to expose regional divisions as they debate whether to allow Morocco to rejoin the bloc, and vote for a new chairperson. The two-day summit comes after several shake-ups on the international stage: the election of US President Donald Trump and a ne ...
Lusaka (AFP) - A Zambian law that entitles women to take one day off work a month when they have their period is stirring increasingly fierce debate in a country reluctant to discuss sexual health. Discreetly called Mother's Day, the 2015 law -- unique in Africa -- enables women to be absent from work without notice or a doctor's note to help th ...
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