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Merkel Voices ‘Deep Shame’ On First Visit To Auschwitz

December 6, 2019 2:40 pm

Angela Merkel visited the former Auschwitz Nazi death camp on Friday for the first time as chancellor and said admitting Nazi crimes was a key part of Germany’s identity that could combat growing anti-Semitism.

“Remembering the crimes… is a responsibility which never ends,” Merkel said during the visit in a message aimed at calls from the German far right for a shift away from a culture of remembrance and atonement.

“To be aware of this responsibility is part of our national identity, our self-understanding as an enlightened and free society,” she added.

Merkel is only the third chancellor ever to …

Buhari Voices Concern Over Desert Encroachment

December 6, 2019 11:49 am

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed concern about desertification engendered by climate change that is having effect on families as their farm lands shrink in size.

He called for action to address this global threat while receiving the Letter of Credence of the High Commissioner of Australia to Nigeria, Mrs. Claire Ireland, yesterday in Abuja.

In a State House statement, the President lamented that the vagaries of the weather was posing greater risks for the future.

He said the global attention on taming the effects of climate change was important, noting that population had been on the increase in Nigeria, and …

Elumelu, Kenyans Feature In African Voices

November 23, 2019 5:30 am

Economist, phiIlanthropist and entrepreneur, Anthony Onyeamaechi Elumelu, and two Kenyan change makers will this week feature in the compilation edition of African Voices, a magazine programme of the Cable News Network (CNN).

The Kenyans include Elizabeth Njoroge, founder of the Art of Music Foundation who deploys the transformative power of classical music to provoke positive change in the lives of young Kenyans and Peter Tabichi, 37-year-old winner of the 2019 Global Teacher Prize.

Elumelu, 56, will share the details of how his sheer grit and raw confidence earned him his first job as a salesman at the defunct All States …