ACartier wristwatch that belonged to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis broke a new world record for a Cartier Tank when it sold for $379,500 (approximately £300,00) at the Christie’s Rare Watches and American Icons auction in New York. The 18-carat gold Cartier Tank was made in…
Media Statement: The Recapitalisation of the South Africa Airways
Government has decided to transfer funds from the National Revenue Fund to South African Airways to allow the airline to pay back its debt to Standard Chartered Bank thereby avoiding a default. This payment was done in terms of section…
MSF: HIV response in West and Central Africa will not succeed if key barriers remain unaddressed
As African heads of state meet today in Addis Ababa to endorse the Emergency catch-up plan led by UNAIDS to accelerate HIV treatment in West and Central Africa, the international humanitarian medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reiterates…
Agriculture ministers urged to address African rural youth unemployment
Youth employment should be at the centre of any strategy to face economic and demographic challenges in Africa, the Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization José Graziano da Silva told a joint African Union-European Union meeting, hosted at…
WHO declares an end to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the end of the most recent outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The announcement comes 42 days (two 21-day incubation cycles of the virus) after the…
There must be a breakthrough in Hungarian-Egyptian economic relations
On Monday, at the Hungary-Egypt Business Forum organised by the Hungarian National Trading House to coincide with the visit to Budapest of President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called for a breakthrough in Hungarian-Egyptian economic relations.…
African Union endorses major new initiatives to end AIDS
African heads of state have endorsed two major new initiatives to help end AIDS by 2030. The community health workers initiative aims to recruit, train and deploy 2 million community health workers across Africa by 2020. The western and central…
Top British Diplomat Visits Tanzania
Sir Simon McDonald, Permanent Under Secretary and Head of Her Majesty’s British Diplomatic Service is on a visit to Dar es Salaam helping to cement the close relationship between Tanzania and the UK, Tanzania’s number one foreign direct investor. …
Assistant Foreign Minister Qian Hongshan Attends National Day Reception of the Democratic Republic of Congo
On June 30, 2017, Assistant Foreign Minister Qian Hongshan attended at invitation the National Day reception marking the 57th anniversary of the Independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo held by the Congolese (Dem) Embassy in China, and exchanged…
President Zuma Appoints Acting Judges to the Constitutional Court
President Jacob Zuma has in terms of section 175 (1) of the of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, appointed Justice Dumisani Hamilton Zondi, a Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal, and Justice Jody Kollapen, a…