[The European Union on Sunday urged Gambia to honour a freeze on the death penalty after the tiny west African nation’s supreme court upheld death sentences against seven officials for treason. Gambian President Yahya Jammeh last month announced a temporary halt to…

[Rwanda will replace South Africa on the UN Security Council when the latter relinquishes its non-permanent seat at the end of the year. Rwanda, who had the backing of the African Union, joins Australia, South Korea, Luxembourg and Finland for two years…

[The First Pan African Conference on Sustainable Tourism Management in African National Parks was opened Monday this week in northern Tanzania’s tourist city of Arusha, with commitments from African governments to develop responsible tourism. UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Secretary General Dr….

[Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma begins a four-year tenure as the head of the African Union’s executive arm  .    Under Dr Ping, the AU made some progress especially in Somalia, Cote d’Ivoire and in the Sudan’s protracted peace negotiations .Former South African Home Affairs minister…

[Du 12 au 14 octobre, la capitale congolaise accueille le 14e sommet de la francophonie.François Hollande, attendu à Kinshasa après une étape aujourd’hui à Dakar, effectue son premier déplacement officiel en Afrique.Jusqu’au dernier moment, la ville s’est préparée à cet événement, diversement…

[Today, Uganda – the Pearl of Africa – becomes the third of the five East African Community (EAC) nations to mark 50 years of its independence. Rwanda and Burundi clocked 50 three months back on July 1, and now Uganda has followed…