THE AFRICAN COURIER. Reporting Africa and its Diaspora! The African Courier is an international magazine published in Germany to report on Africa and the Diaspora African experience. The first issue of the bimonthly magazine appeared on the newsstands on 15 February 1998. The African Courier is a communication forum for European-African political, economic and cultural exchanges, and a voice for Africa in Europe.
The African Youth Education Awards (AYEA) is an initiative to promote higher educational achievements among youth in African-origin communities in Germany. Every year, young people who have excelled in their educational and training careers are honoured with AYEA at a colourful ceremony in Hamburg. AYEA was initiated in 2010 to act against the observed low educational attainment levels of African-origin …
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Lufthansa announces another wave of flight cancellations
Lufthansa is cancelling more flights as travel operators in Germany continue to be plagued by staff shortages. Around 2,000 connections at the Frankfurt and Munich hubs will be affected until the end of August, a company spokesman said in Frankfurt on Wednesday. This is already the third wave of flight cancellations by Lufthansa this summer. First, the airline cancelled a …
Read More »Ferda Ataman named Germany’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner
For the first time, there is now an Independent Federal Anti-Discrimination Commissioner in Germany. The federal parliament, the Bundestag, elected Ferda Ataman into the office on Friday. Ms Ataman will also be the head of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency (Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes) as she succeeds Bernhard Franke, who had been the acting as head of the agency in recent years. …
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