London, August 29, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The Nigerian government has backed down, forced to slash its visa fees for Americans travelling to Nigeria. The Wednesday afternoon announcement comes less than 24 hours after the United States announced increases in its visa fees for Nigerians as a way of retaliating Nigeria’s high fees. However, it is not immediately ...

London, August 29, 2019 (AltAfrica)–Joe Biden has described racism in the US as an institutional “white man’s problem visited on people of colour”. Former Vice President, Biden is leading his Democratic challengers for the presidential nomination in almost all polls “White folks are the reason we have institutional racism,” Mr Biden said. “There has always been ...

London, July 17, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The US Treasury on Tuesday imposed sanctions on an Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group in Mali that carried out deadly attacks on the west African country’s armed forces. The measures target Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) — designated a terrorist organization by Washington last September — and its commander Bah Ag Moussa, an ...

London, November 9, 2018 (AltAfrica)-Sudan on Thursday welcomed a US announcement that Washington was willing to remove Khartoum from its blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism and said it was ready to cooperate. The US State Department Wednesday said Washington was prepared to “initiate the process of rescinding Sudan’s designation as a state sponsor of ...

London, October 27, 2018 (AltAfrica)-The United States Consulate General Lagos, in collaboration with RoboRAVE International, a U.S.-based robotics education academy, trained 187 Nigerian students on robotics. Robotics deals with the design, construction, operation and use of robots, as well as computer systems for their control, sensory feedback and information processing. These technologies are used to ...

London, October 22, 2018 (AltAfrica)-American Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs, Tibor Nagy, is expected to visit Nigeria and five other countries on promoting stronger trade and commercial ties between the United States and Africa. According to a statement released on the U.S. state department website on Monday, Mr Nagy would visit the ...

London, October 18, 2018 (AltAfrica)-A rare but devastating polio-like virus appears to have made itself at home in the United States, partially paralyzing hundreds of children. There have been 127 cases reported in 22 states so far this year, with 62 confirmed as acute flaccid myelitis, said Dr. Nancy Messonnier, head of the National Center for ...

London, September 24, 2018 (AltAfrica)–Arthur Perrault, a fugitive priest accused of child sexual abuse who fled New Mexico in 1992 has been extradited from Morocco. FBI agents assumed custody of Perrault from Moroccan authorities on Thursday, September 20, and extradited him from Morocco to the US to face federal child sexual abuse charges in New Mexico. “Bringing Arthur Perrault back ...

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