President Goodluck Jonathan will on May 7 pay a state visit to South Africa and two days after, move into Namibia. Amb. Sonni Yusuf, the Nigerian High Commissioner to South Africa said that the president would be received in Cape Town by his South African counterpart, President Jacob Zuma. “The visit is aimed at broadening [...]
South African President Jacob Zuma visited Nigeria on Tuesday and held talks with President Goodluck Jonathan on security issues facing the continent, Zuma said after the meeting. Details of the talks were not made public. Zuma, in brief comments to journalists in Abuja, said only that the meeting touched on “difficulties in a number of [...]
Economies in sub-Saharan Africa will ride out the bumpy global recovery in the next few years to post growth rates not seen outside Asia, the IMF said in its latest economic forecasts Tuesday. The International Monetary Fund’s latest World Economic Outlook predicted economic activity in Africa’s reinvigorated economies will “remain robust” this year and next. [...]
The South African President, Mr Jacob Zuma, is scheduled to pay a one-day official visit to Nigeria on Tuesday, an official said on Sunday.. Mr Sonni Yusuf, the Nigerian High Commissioner in South Africa, said in Pretoria that the visit was to further strengthen the relationship between the two countries. “Yes, I can confirm to [...]
Anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu, the former archbishop of Cape Town, was on Thursday awarded the $1.7-million Templeton Prize for his lifelong work to promote “love and forgiveness”. The 81-year-old Nobel peace laureate, who rose to fame in the 1980s as a vocal opponent of South Africa’s white-minority apartheid regime, will be presented with the award [...]
South African sports minister Fikile Mbalula is on a collision course with world football governing body FIFA over how to handle a pre-2010 World Cup match-fixing scandal. Mbalula wants an independent inquiry headed by a retired judge to delve into a FIFA report that claims four warm-up games involving Bafana Bafana (The Boys) were fixed [...]
Ethiopia snatched a dramatic 1-0 home victory over Botswana on Sunday to keep alive hopes of a first appearance at the World Cup in Brazil next year. Substitute Getaneh Kebede, who replaced fellow-striker Adane Girma for the second half in Addis Ababa, snatched the lone goal two minutes from time in the high-altitude east African [...]
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