The US Supreme Court said Monday that the government could fully enforce a revised ban on travelers from six mainly Muslim countries pending appeal, backing President Donald Trump in the year-long battle over the controversial measure. The court stayed October rulings from two lower courts that had blocked implementation of the open-ended ban on ...

The head of the UN's AIDS agency on Monday urged African countries to protect young women and children who are bearing the brunt of the continent's AIDS epidemic. A sharp rise of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has now slowed, but now is not the time to drop our guard, Michel Sidibe, executive director of UNAIDS, told ...

Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso on Monday began work to overhaul and expand a single-track rail line connecting Abidjan to the Burkinabe capital that is a vital link between the Sahel and Atlantic coast. Renovating the 1,260-kilometre (782-mile) track -- which had first been announced in 2015 with no work being started -- is expected to take eight ...

In response to the death threats made against Aun iacute;cio da Silva, an investigative journalist and editor of Ikweli, a weekly publication in Nampula City in the north of Mozambique, Amnesty International rsquo;s Regional Director for Southern Africa, Deprose Muchena, said: ldquo;Aun iacute;cio da Silva rsquo;s life has been th ...

Accra, Dec. 4, CDA Consult ndash; The African Court on Human and Peoples rsquo; Rights will undertake sensitization mission to Praia, the Republic of Cape Verde, from December 13 to 15, 2017. The sensitisation mission forms part of the on-going efforts of the African Court to interact with different stakeholders in order to deepen their ...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, December 1, 2017 ndash; Although Africa has registered strong economic growth in recent years, this growth is not inclusive. Poverty and inequality prevail. What is the role of African governments to drive industrialization in their countries? What makes industrial policies effective? What institutional and regulat ...