United States, Canada and Africa

News : United States, Canada and Africa

The considerable interest in the US presidential election around the world may partly reflect just its entertainment value. (AllAfrica)

American politics is tribal. Not in the sense of Kikuyu and Luo and Kalenjin and Kamba and all our competing ethnic groups, but is the racial and ethnic characteristics that make up the richly diverse country. (AllAfrica)

The American International Group Inc, AIG will now concentrate its efforts on its core property and casualty insurance businesses, which includes AIG Uganda, the company's Chairman and CEO, Mr. Edward Liddy, has announced. (AllAfrica)

NAMIBIA and the United States yesterday said that the document that sparked controversy over lodge concessions in Etosha National Park had been leaked before the details had been finalised. (AllAfrica)

THE United States (US) government has given Zambia US $1 million towards the holding of the October 30 presidential election. (AllAfrica)

Kenya is under no obligation to explain the deportation of the author of a book that discredits US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, the Foreign Affairs minister said On Wednesday. (AllAfrica)

THE rand slumped to its weakest in nearly seven years and the JSE shed almost 3% as global markets shrugged off interest rate cuts on both sides of the Atlantic yesterday. (AllAfrica)

When my oldest son was a little boy, he'd always cause a ruckus at the local restaurant. (AllAfrica)

The family of the slain writer and Ogoni rights activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, has said the impending trial of oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum, in the United States over the 1995 hanging of Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists is a big relief. (AllAfrica)

In spite of the global economic crisis, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua yesterday assured the nation to remain calm, saying there was no cause for panic as government was doing everything possible to ensure that its impact did not affect government policies.He added that government-private sector partnership would remain the only way out of the crisis. (AllAfrica)

Just weeks after praising Kenya's economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday that the country will be among six African states "hit hardest" by the global financial meltdown's effects on trade. (AllAfrica)

THE following is the text of an interview between SW Radio's Violet Gonda and US Ambassador James McGee. (AllAfrica)

While the US media was yet to get a close up of Beyonce's 'wedding' ring, the singer is reportedly holding on to quite an expensive package. (AllAfrica)

This paper has reliably learnt that 25 Liberians who have been residing in the United States are expected to be deported by that country to Liberia for their alleged involvement in criminal activities in that country. (AllAfrica)

A former detainee at Guantanamo, Mr Mustafa Ibrahim Mustafa, who was released after seven years, has told of the suffering that he faced at the notorious prison after his arrest in Pakistan in 2001. (AllAfrica)

Local subsidiaries of American International Group Inc. maintained a "business-as-usual" approach even as the parent company set in motion a restructuring process that will see it spinning off some of its operations. (AllAfrica)

The presidential race in the United States of America is on the home stretch with just one debate and less than a month to go before the polls on November 4. (AllAfrica)

THE UN Peace Keeping Mission in the DR Congo (MONUC) has called for a joint strategy to deal with the Lord's Resistance Army and the Allied Democratic Force (ADF) rebel groups. (AllAfrica)

When I called for Somali's division last week, I expected the vitriolic reaction I have received from the war-weary country's refugees in the US, Britain, Denmark, Eritrea and Mogadishu. (AllAfrica)

While underlining Canadian people's best intentions for the African continent, Gerald Caplan argues that his country and the rest of the Western world should understand that many existing practices around trade, aid, lending, investment, and recruiting in relation to Africa cause far more harm than good. Without an approach that goes beyond mere compassionate humanitarianism, the author stresses that the efforts of millions of courageous African social activists will be in vain. (AllAfrica)

The term "African American" is something of a contradiction, like "military intelligence." America gives us the short end, and most of us aren't informed enough about Africa in the past or present to know what we're looking up to or down upon, as the case may be. (AllAfrica)

Women all over the world must have been overjoyed to see the possibility of a fellow woman become second in command over the affairs of the world's most powerful country. (AllAfrica)

A United Nations military inspection team has expressed satisfaction over Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) readiness to redeploy its peacekeeping troops in the troubled Sudanese western region of Darfur. (AllAfrica)

Pan Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere has flayed the award of N9.3b to an American firm for the management of refuse in Ibadan, Oyo state capital by the state government. (AllAfrica)

Nigerians are working themselves to a fitful frenzy over the oncoming United States Presidential Election in November. (AllAfrica)

Chief Executive of Oceanic Bank International Plc, Dr. (Mrs.) Cecilia Ibru has described the collapse of frontline financial institutions in the Untied States of America as a wake up call to authorities in Nigeria to ensure effective regulations of industry operators so as to strengthen and maintain stability of the financial market. (AllAfrica)

In celebrating the 50th anniversary of the State Department's Africa Bureau, both Africans and Americans should look back at its history but also look forward to build upon the engagement, excellence and, at times, sheer persistence that have defined its work for the past 50 years, a senior U.S. official says. (AllAfrica)

The new Japanese ambassador to Zimbabwe yesterday presented his credentials to President Mugabe at State House in Harare. (AllAfrica)

The Government will next week issue a ministerial statement to explain the measures it was taking to prevent Kenya from succumbing to the ongoing global financial meltdown. (AllAfrica)

ARE WE SUPPOSED TO cheer the fact that the Government threw out the anti-Obama author, Jerome Corsi? Boo to the person who made that decision. Whoever you are, you have proved once again that this country is the bedrock of intolerance. (AllAfrica)

Angolan Foreign minister, Assunção dos Anjos, Thursday in Luanda, received in audience the US deputy assistant secretary of Defence for Africa, Theresa Whelan, with whom he discussed matters related to defence between the two countries. (AllAfrica)