A banker (pictured) implicated in the embezzlement and money-laundering case against Isabel dos Santos, daugther of late President of Angola, has been found dead in Lisbon. Mr Da Cunha was found dead at one of his properties in Lisbon. A police source told Portuguese media that “everything points to suicide”. Banker implicated in embezzlement case…
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Libya: EU promotes Berlin process
“Confronted with the worrying recent military escalation in Libya and also in view of the Foreign Affairs Council scheduled for Friday 10th January, we met in Brussels today to reaffirm our commitment to immediately halt the fighting around Tripoli and elsewhere and to discuss how the EU can further contribute to the UN mediation and…
Sahel meeting in Paris postponed
Today at doorstep of the European Council in Brussels French President Macron announced the a postponement to early 2020 of a meeting of Sahel countries, he said. EN DIRECT | Déclaration du Président @EmmanuelMacron à l’ouverture du Conseil européen. https://t.co/ddDCQ9xgPm — Élysée (@Elysee) December 12, 2019 “I made the decision yesterday with President Issoufou to…
Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi
Russia delivered two nuclear-capable bombers to South Africa on a training mission on October 23, a flight apparently timed to coincide with President Vladimir Putin’s opening of a flagship Russia-Africa Summit conceived to ensure Russian influence. #Sochi, Russia-Africa Summit: Meeting with President of the Central African Republic Faustin-Archange Touadera https://t.co/0AL3GQ3gvy pic.twitter.com/cNqKfYPDvR — President of Russia…
Sindika Dokolo repatriates African heritage
#IncarNations exhibition of African artefacts intends to break the established patterns, presenting African in its aesthetics magnitude, but regard it as a philosophy. The synergy between Congolese art collector Sindika Dokolo (47) and South African artist Kendell Geers (51) produced a concept of appreciation of continent’s cultural heritage bypassing traditional outlook. (Image above: Sindika Dokolo (right) and Nadia Yala Kisukidi,…
Museum Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac free visit
Paris museum Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac will be “free for ten days” to pay tribute to the former head of state at the origin of its creation, said it director, Stéphane Martin. « Il n'existe pas plus de hiérarchie entre les arts et les cultures qu'il n'existe de hiérarchie entre les peuples. C'est d'abord cette conviction,…
Rare Angola Mask at BOZAR
The rare mask from Angola is at display at BOZAR, Brussels, among the artefacts of the IncarNations exhibition. The “Chihongo” masculine mask, meaning a spirit of wealth, belong to tradition of Chokwe people of Angola, used to honour the male ancestors, believed to have power to bestow prosperity to the worshipers. The missing Chokwe mask…
G7 focus on Africa
“Let me also say that the EU has concrete proposals for Africa. We are keeping our longstanding commitment to the Global Fund against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, and we will contribute 550 million euros to the replenishment of the Fund. This means that our overall involvement will exceed 1 billion euros” said the president of the…
France: tribute to Africans soldiers
Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to the Second World War heroes of the landing in Provence on August 15, 1944, a majority of African soldiers who wrote this “crucial page” of the history of France, imprinted it with “freedom and dignity“. African participation amounted up to a half of the French contingent, indigenous soldiers from what…
Pope Francis calls to assist migrants
Pope Francis celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica to mark the VI anniversary of his visit to Lampedusa on July 8, a small Italian island 90 miles off the coast of Tunisia. Pontifex called for an end to the rhetoric which views migrants as ‘other,’ saying they are human beings and among those Christ has commanded…
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