TimeLine Layout

September, 2016

  • 26 September

    US-Africa Business Forum 2016

    The United States Chamber of Commerce and the Bloomberg Philanthropies co-hosted the US-Africa Business Forum in New York on 21 September. The forum played host to African business and political leaders and their American counterparts. Development in Africa is really shaping up, as more trade partnerships are being made with several global investors and stakeholders towards evolving the continent’s image, …

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  • 25 September

    Pro-Biafra Protests in Bonn, Germany

    Global protests move Biafra conflict back into spotlight

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  • 25 September

    “How and why we got into trouble,” President Buhari briefs Nigerians in America

    During his trip to New York to attend the 71st United Nations General Assembly and the 2nd annual United States-Africa Business Forum, President Muhammadu Buhari took time off his busy schedule to meet a selected group of Nigerian professionals in New York. Temi Douglas reports. They converged from different parts of the United States of America, top rate professionals all, …

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  • 24 September

    Cologne Film Festival showcases African talent

    The film industry in Africa is blossoming as more original stories emerge from the continent. If the packed theaters in Cologne are any indication, then the African film industry is on the rise. “Nollywood” in Nigeria has revolutionalized African storytelling through film and has inspired other countries to come up with their own industries such as “Riverwood” in Kenya and …

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  • 22 September

    Hundreds of rejected asylum-seekers resisting deportation from Germany at the last minute

    Some 35,000 deportations took place in Germany in the last 18 months. More than 600 were abandoned, however. Pro-free movement groups are offering information on how to successfully hinder a deportation.

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  • 21 September

    The Rough Guide to the Music of Ethiopia

    The outstanding feature of Ethiopian music is its use of a five-note pentatonic scale and its idiosyncratic love of irregular rhythms.

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  • 21 September

    “Let us come together in Hamburg,” NIDO president invites Nigerians in Germany

    The president of the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation (NIDO) Germany, Kenneth Gbandi, has called on his compatriots to turn out in large numbers at the forthcoming 4th Nigerian Business & Investment Summit scheduled for 30 September and 1 October in Hamburg. The event, part of the activities of the NIDO Germany Day 2016 to mark Nigeria’s 56th independence celebrations, will …

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  • 20 September

    Tunji Oyelana: A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79

    A welcome compilation of Nigeria’s golden musical past!

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  • 20 September

    Libyan rebels ‘miss Gaddafi’ after years of chaos created by Western intervention

    Libyans who mounted a revolution against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi now miss the stability provided by the old order because of the savage violence into which the country has descended, RT reports. The testimony has emerged in a number of on-the-ground interviews carried out by the Daily Mail and comes only days after a Commons Defence Committee report placed blame for …

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  • 20 September

    What German companies found during a recent exploratory visit to DR Congo

    Cologne-based business lawyer Christophe Kabambe accompanied a German business delegation on an exploratory visit to the Congolese city of Lubumbashi. He reports on the revelations of the journey. A delegation of German businessmen recently visited the city of Lubumbashi in the deep south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in June. Lubumbashi, with an estimated population of more than …

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