The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Union (AU) will once again convene Ministers of Finance and Economy for their annual Conference of Ministers meetings. the 2016 Conference of Ministers will be held from March 31 to April 5 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The meetings have become an important platform to discuss the most critical […]

A Liberian lawyer has filed a US$1m lawsuit against Belgian-carrier Brussels Airlines for action of damage.  Cllr. Moiffie Kanneh filed an eight-count suit at the Civil Law Court in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, recently alleging that the airline failed to find his missing luggage. The suit against the airline is in the amount of US$12,010.00 as specific damage […]

  Proportion of Danes who pay for ‘black work’ fell by 13 percent between 2010 and 2014 The Danish tax authority SKAT is most probably rubbing its hands with glee at the latest figures involving work that is paid ‘under the table’. A new survey from the Rockwool Foundation reveals the proportion of Danes who […]

    Monrovia –  Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has signed a Book of Condolence for victims of deadly terrorist attacks on Zaventem Airport, Brussels and the Metro Station near EU headquarters an hour later, leaving at least 34 dead cum over 230 as authorities have confirmed that one of the victims was a Liberian. […]

  Foreign Minister Børge Brende says Norway condemns the terrorist attacks in Brussels. ‘I condemn the attacks in Brussels in the strongest possible terms. My thoughts and sympathy are with those who have been hit by the attacks and their families. We stand together with Belgium and the Belgian people,’ the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs […]

  One of the most common stereotypes that I confront in Finland as a foreigner, and man of color, is that  men like me moved to Finland to take Finnish women.  First of all, this stereotype forces every foreign man and Finnish woman into a narrow stereotype that ignores the more positive story.  Many of us just […]

At the side lines of the landmark China-OIC Forum 2016 in Beijing, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), the private sector arm of Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group and China-Africa Development Fund (CADFund), a Beijing-based private equity firm focusing on Africa. The […]

The Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) is holding an exhibition on African women filmmakers at its library in Uppsala, Sweden. The films on display are made on African women. Began on March 8, the exhibition runs to the end of the month. “Part of NAI’s mission is to give voice to our African colleagues. The library does that primarily […]

The African Transformation Forum (ATF), held from 14-15th March in Kigali, Rwanda, concluded with the official launch of The Coalition for Transformation in Africa – a network of experts working across sectors and borders to drive policy and institutional reforms. The ATF was organised by the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) and the Government of […]

US-based Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) will host a public roundatble on Resolving African Conflicts: Towards An African Model of Peace Operations on Monday at the National Defense University in Washington DC. Participants will include Cedric de Coning of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes, Linnea Gelot […]