Nigerian businessman and Africa’s richest man, Mr Aliko Dangote, Thursday announced plans to put up a Sh35 billion ($400 million) cement factory in Kenya as the two countries pursue stronger trade relations.
Speaking at a Kenya-Nigeria investment roundtable, Mr Dangote said one of his companies, Dangote Cement, would begin construction of the two-million-tonne-capacity factory within the next few months.
Dangote Cement...
Cab drivers, IT workers and a host of the self-employed have catapulted Minneapolis City Council candidate Abdi Warsame to the top tier of candidates in the city in terms of fundraising. Should he win the election in November, he will be the city's first Somali City Council member.
Somali-born Warsame is the endorsed Democratic Party (known as the DFL in...
New York Fashion Week kicked off Thursday. The focus is on the Spring 2014 collections. Just as there are very few models of color on the NYFW runway so too are the designers.
350 spring/summer 2014 collections will be on display during fashion week. Those tracking Fashion Week say 22 of the collections showcased at NYFW this year is the...
Nasibu Sareva, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at the African Development Center (ADC) has been named Interim Executive Director by the center's board following the August 25 death of Hussein Samatar after complications arising from Leukemia. Samatar was the center's founder and executive director.
Sareva, a native of Tanzania, has since May been in charge of operations at the center...
Today August 28, 2013 is the 50 anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I have a Dear Speech”. Nobody can deny the concrete progress of African Americans and other people of color, but the terrible legacy of over three hundred years of slavery, nearly one hundred years of separate but equal treatment of African Americans, and nearly sixty...
The military's attention on Africa continues, as its secretive Office of Net Assessment has hired contractor Booz Allen Hamilton to study the continent's future, military documents show.
The Office of Net Assessment is an internal Pentagon think tank that tries to anticipate future needs through a series of studies and war games. Created in 1973, it has been run by...
Hussein Samatar, a Somali-American former banker turned entrepreneur and politician, died yesterday (Sunday, August 25, 2013) following complications from leukemia. He was 45.
His death was relayed to the Mshale newsroom in an email message from the board of directors of the African Development Center at 8:39pm Sunday. Samatar founded the African development Center in 2004.
In a March 6 message...
Obi Emelonye had to battle Lagos airport bureaucrats, indifferent banks and skeptical peers to release his plane-crash thriller, a movie production on a scale rarely seen in Nigeria’s film industry.
“The biggest challenge was negotiating the diplomatic nightmare, potholes, even land-mines — taking over 100 people every day and passing them through security to go air-side with technical equipment,” the...
South African president Nelson Mandela has countless streets named after him, his own foundation, his own fan page and now his own social network.
The website Mandela.is allows users, called "citizens", to connect, share inspirational thoughts, photos and articles in an effort to emulate the apartheid icon’s positive effect on the world.
The site is the brain-child of two Mandela grandsons...
The same morning Hillary Clinton was using her highly visible stature at the recent American Bar Association convention to call for increased protection for Americans’ right to vote, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed a law that strips all residents of same-day voter registration, shortens early voter registration and imposes onerous voter ID requirements.
“We view the attacks on voting...
