Japan to help double Africa’s rice production
Japan’s Prime Minster Shinzo Abe says his government will help double rice production in Africa over the next eleven years. He was speaking at seminar on the fringe of the seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development attended by 28 African heads of state including President Cyril Ramaphosa. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tells the seminar […]
Japanese host singing off the same song sheet as President Cyril Ramaphosa
With President Cyril Ramaphosa out of the country attending the G7 summit in Biarritz and the Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Japan there’s been political and economic tension in South Africa.Taxi drivers brought the heart of the administrative capital Pretoria to a standstill after they blamed foreign drug dealers for shooting dead one […]
More than 800 Namibian refugees in Botswana say it’s still not safe to go home
More than 800 Namibian political refugees in Botswana say it’s still unsafe to go home. Amnesty International calls on the government in Botswana not to carry out its threat to forcibly remove them. The members of the secessionist United Democratic Party, now banned in Namibia, say the reasons for their fleeing to Botswana 20 years […]
Discovery of mankind’s earliest ancestor is an evolutionary game changer
The discovery in Ethiopia of a 3,8 million-year-old fossilized skull of an early human ancestor is an evolutionary game changer. It casts into doubt previous thinking about the origins of man. The discovery of a remarkably complete skull of Australopithecus anamensis sheds new light on the evolutionary history of early human ancestors. The journal […]