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Strong Nigeria SA ties vital for Africa

Jean-Jacques Cornish — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000

Africa’s become the international investment flavour of the month, says Nigerian academic Cyril Obi.
However Pretoria-based Obi says sound Nigeria-South Africa relations are key to Africa really finding its voice.
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Cyril Obi, who heads the African Peacebuilding Network programme at the University of Pretoria, says relations between Nigeria and South Africa were strong when Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Olusegun Obassanjo were at the helm.
He says it’s time to end the rivalry that has grown to characterise ties between the two continental giants.
Obi proposes the formation of a Nigeria South Africa organisation and says this NISA could be Africa’s version of BRICS leading efforts to mainstream the continent and fighting for it at international economic fora.

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South Africa should take lead in fighting Ebola

Jean-Jacques Cornish — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:00:00 +0000

As an African beacon of public health, South Africa should be doing more in the fight against the Ebola crisis.

Professor Frans Viljoen of the Pretoria University Human Rights Centre says South Africa should step up and be prominent in the battle against the worst Ebola outbreak the world has seen.

Professor Frans Viljoen was speaking at a forum organised by Pretoria Univeristy

He acknowledges the mobile laboratory South Africa sent to West Africa to help curb the spread of Ebola.

But it should be more than supplying equipment.

The West is correctly being criticised for being slow to react to the Ebola outbreak.

But other African countries could also have responded more quickly and more substantially to the crisis.

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