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capital Newspaper Ambassador Valentine Rugwabiza from Rwanda is one of only a handful of African female Permanent Representatives of their countries to the UN in New York. In Africa Renewal’s series profiling the African women representing their countries at UN Headquarters, she spoke with Zipporah Musau about her priorities, the challenges so far and why she is advocating for more female Permanent representatives. Here are excerpts: Africa Renewal: Let’s start with your journe...

Vanguard News In death, Sankara marches from victory to victory On By Owei Lakemfa THE first time I saw Blaise Compaoré was at the African Union, AU, Heads of State Summit that held in Addis Ababa in 2013. At that time, at 62, he had been Burkina Faso President for 26 years, but was little respected. He slunk around like a defeated man. He had not only betrayed his predecessor Captain Thomas Sankara who had implicit trust in him, he had also tried to abort the African dream. He seemed isolate...

Angop  369 vizualizações  0  17h08   Closing the Heads of States’ Summit on Security in CAR, João Lourenço underlined the need for the rebel forces and the civil opposition to respond to the gesture of good will of President Faustin Touaderá. "We are now before the possibility to define a framework in which to put in motion the mechanisms achieved with the armed opposition," said President Lourenço, who is also the act...

By Owei Lakemfa THE first time I saw Blaise Compaoré was at the African Union, AU, Heads of State Summit that held in Addis Ababa in 2013. At that time, at 62, he had been Burkina Faso President for 26 years, but was little respected. He slunk around like a defeated man. He had not only betrayed his predecessor Captain Thomas Sankara who had implicit trust in him, he had also tried to abort the African dream. He seemed isolated and already condemned by history. He was one of those infernal cha...

In death, Sankara Marches From Victory To Victory By Owei Lakemfa He was one of those infernal characters in history who hid a Brutus dagger in his cloak to stab the trusting Julius Caeser. Compaoré was like a walking corpse, and people seemed to avoid him. Who will not avoid a Judas who was willing to pump over a dozen bullets into his master for a few shekels of silver? History had already condemned him; he merely awaited the weighty sentence which was sure not just to sink him and his famil...

In Death, Sankara Marches From Victory To Victory, By Owei Lakemfa ADVERTISEMENT The first time I saw Blaise Compaoré was at the African Union (AU) Heads of State Summit that held in Addis Ababa in 2013. At that time, at 62, he had been Burkina Faso President for 26 years, but was little respected. He slunk around like a defeated man. He had not only betrayed his predecessor Captain Thomas Sankara who had implicit trust in him, he had also tried to abort the African dream. He seemed isolated a...

Progress and momentum as National Consultations on Solutions Initiative get underway in South Sudan Format 15, March 2021 Juba – The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), UNHCR, the Refugee Agency and partners, applaud progress toward lasting solutions for forcibly displaced persons as national consultations took place last week in Juba, South Sudan. The two day event successfully marked another milestone for South Sudan’s implementation of the Sudan and South Sudan Solutions I...

Meanwhile, back in Zimbabwe, the struggle continues. The Save Zimbabwe Campaign (SZC) is a broad coalition of organisations spearheaded by the Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (CA). Its members include the factions of the MDC, other opposition parties, church groups, civil rights groups and trade unions. The campaign’s aims include the restoration of democracy, human rights and a legitimate government in Zimbabwe through providing early, free and fair elections under proper international supervisi...

The East African Tuesday March 02 2021 A view of the main highway in the city centre of DR Congo capital Kinshasa. PHOTO | AFP Advertisement As the Democratic Republic of Congo awaits formal admission into the regional bloc, purveyors of false news have been spreading misinformation in the country. Since Saturday, some politicians and prominent bloggers have been announcing that Kinshasa has become the seventh member of the East African Community (EAC). Bestine Kazadi, a special adviser of Pres...

Fidel Castro as Cuban leader believed in children and youths and was confident that once the country took good care of them, the Cuban...