The foreign secretary of Tunisia, Abdelwahab Abdallah, will meet tomorrow his Italian colleague, Franco Frattini, in Rome. The meeting will start around at noon in the Farnesina headquarter, the Italian foreign ministry said in a press release.
Zimbabwe: Motlanthe urges SADC to solve crisis
The president of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, said yesterday, Monday the 26 of January, that a resolution to the crisis in Zimbabwe must be found and that the time for talking was over. He said this during an extraordinary Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit.
African views on Obama's election
We copy and paste a comment related to our time and president Obama‘s election. It is a few lines blog post that inspired us. It is available at southafricanproject.org/blog, by the title “looking beyond our borders”. We can no longer afford indifference outside our borders. The words of President Obama rocked the nation today. We […]
Italy's Camera approves treaty with Libya
From the Parliament: Chamber: Green light for Italy-Libya treaty 22 January 2009 The Chamber of Deputies has approved the bill for the ratification of the friendship, partnership and cooperation treaty between Italy and Libya signed on 30 August 2008 by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and the Libyan leader, Gheddafi. The bill, which now goes to […]
New opportunities for students in North Africa
The Italian foreign ministry website has just published a list of countries and institutions offering grants and opportunities to students willing to relocale for a period of time. The participants will be younger than 35 years of age. The offering African countries are Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. This is the web address where you will […]
Immigration and you !
Africanews.it correspondent Peter Ewanfoh Obehi reviewed last 18th January about recent changes in Italy‘s immigration laws. “If today is world immigrant’s day, then it’s a moment of reflection about those who for one reason or the other are compel to live in other people’s countries. Apart from the universal human right declaration, which presses for […]
Cairo's book fair will host Italian culture
“Image of Italy: Books as worldwide ambassadors for Italian culture” is the title of the Italian cultural initiative to the Cairo’s International Book Fair. This year is the third time Italy takes part to the Cairo’s book fair. The Fair takes places in the Eliopolis exhibition district until the 2 of February 2009.
Norwegian council for Afrika launches blogger list
The Norwegian council for Afrika published yesterday a web page of some of the most well known African bloggers. Su www.afrika.no/blog sarà possibile avere un panorama degli ultimi post dall’Africa. These are the African bloggers listed by the Norwegian council for Afrika:
Addis Ababa will host African Union summit
The 12th summit of the African Union will be hosted by the 26th of January in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. The theme of this edition will be the development of infrastructure in Africa. As stated in a press release by the African Union the summit will follow this schedule: 26-27 January 2009: 17th Ordinary Session […]
Zimbabwe
Full Name Zimbabwe Capital Harare Form of Government Semi-Presidential System Date of Independence 18 April, 1980 Date of Entry into the UN Total Area 390,757 km2 (60th) 150,871 sq mi Total Population (2007 estimate) 13,349,000 (68th) Time Zone CAT (UTC+2) Currency Zimbabwean Dollar GDP (Nominal, 2007 estimate) $4.723 billion GDP Per Capita $402 Human Development […]