Zuma calls for upgrading Africa Europe relationship
President Jacob Zuma’s calling for the model of Africa-Europe relations to undergo a radical change. He tells a summit of more than 80 countries from the two continents that Africa must graduate from dependent junior partner to strategic equal partner. Addressing the African Union/ European Union summit in Abidjan, President Jacob Zuma says the new […]
Zuma to call for better UN funding of peace support operations in Africa
President Jacob Zuma will call for better United nations funding of peace support operations in Africa the he speaks at the gathering of African and European leaders that gets underway in Abidjan today. He’s one of five African Presidents who’ll address the African Union/ European Union summit in the Ivorean capital. More than 80 countries […]
Jacob Zuma joins summit of more than 80 countries from Africa and Europe
President Jacob Zuma arrives in Abidjan today for the summit of more than 80 countries with increasingly intimate connections. The gathering of African Union and European Union leaders is designed to tap the youth potential in the neighboring continents. But as always, pressing African issues are expected to dominate the agenda. Zimbabwe will loom large […]
Slavery shock will cloud Africa-Europe summit
Two centuries after its abolition, the specter of slavery hangs over the summit of the African Union and European Union opening in Abidjan tomorrow. African leaders say their warnings of dire conditions in Libyan camps housing would-be migrants to Europe have not been heeded. African leaders are demanding action after seeing shocking footage of young […]
French President Macro embarks on his first African safari
French President Emmanuel Macron is tacking his first African safari onto attending the summit of African and European leaders Abidjan this week. He’s in Burkina Faso today in well go to Aghan after the summit in Cote d’Ivoire, becoming the first French President to visit the former Gold Coast. Emmanuel Macron was not yet born […]