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US President Barack Obama's trip to China and other East Asian states last week appeared like a routine visit, but it emitted some signals of major significance to African countries and the global economy. (AllAfrica)

HARVARD University President Prof Drew Faust and University of Johannesburg (UJ) vice-chancellor Prof Ihron Rensburg yesterday announced their universities were collaborating in establishing an institute that would train South African school principals. (AllAfrica)

THE United States Agency for International Development (USAID) last week gave Namibia's Church Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) a huge budgetary boost with a N$9,1 million donation. (AllAfrica)

At a time when the United Nations Office on Drugs and Corruption is expressing deep concern about illicit drug trafficking in West Africa, a United States government and a Chicago Court have linked and traced an alleged drug smuggling king pin to Nigeria and declared him a fugitive offender, although he is believed to be a citizen of neighboring Benin Republic. (AllAfrica)

Someone who returned to this city a couple of years ago after a stint in Europe admits he was amazed at how much transformation there was in the fashion industry. The girls' dress sense was very much in step with what he had seen in some of the fashion capitals of the world. (AllAfrica)

THE American Embassy has advised its nationals in Uganda against using boda bodas, following crime incidents in which its citizens have been targeted. (AllAfrica)

As our UN helicopter landed in Muglad, the large crowd of locals and tribal elders quickly approached our small plane. We were quickly ushered into a meeting hall, where we listened intently as the Misseriya tribal elders spoke passionately about their community’s concerns. (AllAfrica)

The US ambassador, Mr Alfonso Lenhardt, yesterday swore in 38 Peace Corps Volunteers ahead of their two years of service in Tanzania. (AllAfrica)

The world's most prestigious film academy, the New York Film Academy, is to open its institute in Nigeria in February, 2010, as part of the its drive to train Nollywood actors and actresses for optimal competition in the international arena. (AllAfrica)

Ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, we asked people on Facebook one question: What do you want to ask the U.S. global AIDS coordinator? What follows are your questions and Ambassador Eric Goosby's responses. (AllAfrica)

A court in Canada has formally proffered genocide charges on Jacques Mungwarere, a genocide suspect arrested in Canada earlier this month. (AllAfrica)

US President Barack Obama on Monday night delivered his strongest rebuke yet to Robert Mugabe, labelling him a 'dictator,' while criticising his regime of 'oppressors' for their brutal treatment of human rights activists. (AllAfrica)

A British high street solicitor laundered huge sums of money in bribes to Nigeria via accounts in Switzerland and France, a London court was told during an extradition hearing yesterday. (AllAfrica)

The Minister for Trade, Industry and employment, Hon. Yusupha Kah has said that the Gambia's total trade with the United States amounted to D785.4 million in 2008 acocu8nting for 10.5% of the Gambia's total trade. (AllAfrica)

In the early 1980s, Zimbabwe's Magodonga Mahlangu witnessed the massacre of thousands in Matabeleland, including family members, and she decided it was intolerable that the people of Zimbabwe were forbidden to know the truth about what was happening in their country. (AllAfrica)

Albert Einstein said several years ago that the hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. Ronald Reagan, one time President of the United States of America also underscored the importance of tax when he asserted succinctly "We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him ' (AllAfrica)

FORMER world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield is set to challenge South African Francois "White Buffalo" Botha for the World Boxing Federation heavyweight belt at Mandela National Stadium in Kampala on January 16. (AllAfrica)

The Ethiopian government has vehemently rejected accusations that it has excluded some opposition supporters from a food-for-work programme, charges that are the focus of growing international concern in the run-up to elections in 2010. (AllAfrica)

Leaders of the pressure group, Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), on Monday took their message of peace to the White House in the United States, where they were presented with a prestigious human rights award by US President Barack Obama. (AllAfrica)

The full text of remarks by President Barack Obama at the presentation to Magodonga Mahlangu and Jenni Williams of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) of the 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on November 23, 2009. (AllAfrica)

The government of Somalia's Puntland state has strongly rejected a recent statement issued from the office of US Congressman Donald M. Payne who is the Chairman of the House Sub-Committee on Africa and Global Health under the aegis of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. (AllAfrica)

This daily press review is compiled by the Information Section of the Public Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. (AllAfrica)

Contrary to the rumour that he had been declared wanted in the United States of America, business mogul and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwart in Ogun state, Prince Buruji Kashamu, is neither a fugitive nor a wanted man in the U.S. (AllAfrica)

1986 to Ugandans was a turning point when NRM, led by a youthful Museveni, shot into power on the 26th day of January. That same year in September, the media and the world witnessed another revolution. A young Oprah Gail Winfrey rolled out the effervescent talk show; The Oprah Winfrey Show. (AllAfrica)

Remarks by Jenni Williams, accepting on behalf of Women of Zimbabwe Arise, the  26th Annual Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, November 23th, 2009 at the White House, Washington, DC. (AllAfrica)

Remarks by Magodonga Mahlangu accepting the 26th Annual Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, November 23th, 2009 at the White House, Washington, DC. (AllAfrica)

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) benefits Ethiopian garment and textile manufacturers even though the volume is low compared to other African countries, Ethiopian Textile and Garment Manufacturers Association (ETGAMA) disclosed. (AllAfrica)

The government of Cuba yesterday appealed to Tanzania to support its decision to pressurize the United States to free five Cuban nationals currently being held in US jails. (AllAfrica)

A few weeks ago I was invited to speak on a radio talk show in Uganda and responded to questions from listeners. One particular caller asked me my opinion as to what products could be made in Uganda and marketed in North America. I promised I would consider the questions in greater length before answering it. (AllAfrica)

The US and Britain have expressed concern over the alleged politicisation of humanitarian aid in Ethiopia ahead of elections and called for immediate investigation. (AllAfrica)

"We lived like fishes in the water. We were not lazy. We worked hard. We lived a very natural way of life by eating fish and green vegetables and fruits that was abundant in the forests. Nature was our refrigerator." (AllAfrica)