CAR tops agenda at EU-Africa summit

Themed Utilising Commonwealth to Combat Challenges to Socio-Economic Development in Africa, the conference will attempt to find out reasons behind the Africa’s failure to eliminate, if not eradicate, poverty, against the backdrop of an outstanding economic growth registered in the continent.

BY PATRICK VIDIJA The U.S is set to deliberate on possible ways to support the African countries fighting with terror groups. Assistant secretary of state for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield has said, the forthcoming U.S Africa Summit will provide a platform to discuss on how to partner with African governments to fight Boko Haram and Al Shabaab terror groups. “Terrorism affects all countries and president Obama through this three-day summit will re-align and re-affirm the...

Kick-starting the sluggish global economy and funding the climate-change fight top the agenda this week as finance ministers and central bank chiefs from around the world gather in Peru.

>After a two-month holiday, Parliament reconvenes today to debate the financial scam that took place in the Office of the Prime Minister as well as decide the fate of Bubulo West MP Tonny Kipoi who faces dismissal over continued absenteeism.

>Conflict and humanitarian crises rather than growing economies and development top the agenda for African leaders this week, as they meet for a summit of the continental bloc.

>US and African political leaders and corporate chiefs will get down to business Tuesday as Washington hopes an historic summit will trigger a surge in trade and investment between the two sides.

>Conflict in Central African Republic and South Sudan dominated the agenda as Africa’s leaders gathered today for a two-day summit of the continental bloc in Ethiopia.

The entire transitional council of the Central African Republic (CAR) has flown to Chad to attend a summit aimed at restoring peace in the country.

South Africa is named as the country with the highest number of dollar millionaires in Africa, with Johannesburg at the top.