By Novell Zwange – Pretoria, a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa ruptured to rock music and dance as scores of young children accompanied by their families descended on the Menlyn Park Shopping Centre this Sunday 12 September to catch the pomp and funfair at the country’s second My Camp Rock Road Show event. The subsequent entertainment that took place in Pretoria was not just another music and dance showcase but a successive follow-up to the My Camp Rock Road Show’s first event held in Cape Town on the previous day. My Camp Rock Road... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson – Cairo- Egypt is to hold a second round of peace talks of Israeli and Palestinian leaders which take place at the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. The Palestinian Authority has said it will walk out of the negotiations if building on occupied territory resumes. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that some of the thousands of new homes planned for the West Bank might not be built, but hinted that the moratorium on all construction might not be renewed. “We will not freeze the lives of the residents,” he said. However, the chief Palestinian negotiator... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson – Kampala – (CPJ)–A Ugandan freelance journalist Paul Kiggundu was on Saturday evening beaten to death by Motorcycle taxi drivers , local journalists told CPJ. The drivers accused Kiggundu of working for the police, even though he had identified himself as a journalist, and attacked him while filming some of them demolishing a house of another driver, Frank Kagayi, who they accused of committing murder and robbery, a bystander told the Ugandan Human Rights Journalist Network Kiggundu received treatment at Kalisizo Government Hospital but later died of internal bleeding and was buried Sunday in a town outside... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson – The UK ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair’s commission for Africa said ” billions more dollars are needed to find solutions to poverty in Africa. The commission’s report has been published ahead of a global poverty summit in New York later this month. Africa, this report argues, has changed a great deal in five years. The Commission for Africa says the world’s poorest continent has made “extraordinary progress” since 2005. But poverty reduction has also become more challenging in many parts of Africa, it says. There has been what the commission calls “dramatic” economic growth and a surge... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson – El Arish – The Egyptian government security sources on Sunday said it will re-open its border with the blockaded Gaza Strip at the end of the Islamic Eid holiday period. The Rafah crossing in the Sinai Peninsula will be open in both directions to Palestinians holding appropriate paperwork as of Monday. The government of Egypt closed the border last Friday for the three-day Eid al-Fitr holiday which it had opened in June for what was said at the time to be an “unlimited” period following the killing of nine Turkish activists aboard a Gaza-bound aid flotilla... Continue Reading
