Why Washington-bound Zuma snubbed EU summit
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana Mashebane explains why President Jacob Zuma snubbed last year’s EU Africa summit because some of his peers were excluded… …yet he’s heading for the US Africa summit in Washington next week from which some African leaders have pointedly been left out. It’s all about the mechanisms, explains […]
Ebola fear cancels African Cup football tie
Seychelles has forfeited an African Cup qualifying game rather than play Sierra Leone which at the centre of an Ebola virus outbreak that’s killed 727 peple.. In Nairobi, the Sierra Leon team’s been barred from entering a plane bound for the Indian Ocean island. The Confederation of African Football confirmed Seychelles withdrawal in a statement […]
Cyclist tested for Ebola at Commonwealth Games
A Commonwealth Games athlete’s been tested for – and cleared of – Ebola fever. International fear grows about the deadly haemorrhagic disease spreading out of West Africa where it’s killed 729 people. But a White House official says the US Africa summit in Washington will go ahead next week despite the absence of presidents from […]