Tag: Commonwealth
Zimbabwe applies to re-join the Commonwealth
President Emmerson Mnangagwa officially applied for Zimbabwe to re-join the Commonwealth it left in 2003 and invited the grouping of former British...
Ramaphosa leaves CHOGM early
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa cut short his visit to Britain by a day to return home to deal with protests in...
Gambia back in the Commonwealth
Gambia rejoined the Commonwealth, the tiny West African former British colony's foreign ministry said, five years after its now exiled former authoritarian...
A centenary of caring for Commonwealth war graves
The Imperial War Graves was established by the signing of the Royal Charter on May 21, 1917 establishing the Imperial War Graves...
Gambia pulls out of ‘neo-colonial’ Commonwealth
Gambia has withdrawn from the Commonwealth, the 54-member grouping including Britain and most of its former colonies, branding it a "neo-colonial institution,"...
Commonwealth summit starts,dogged by questions over its relevance
Leaders of the Commonwealth group of mostly former British colonies met for a three-day summit under pressure to get tougher on human...
Commonwealth seeks to avoid slide into irrelevance
A proposal to appoint a Commonwealth human rights commissioner to steer a more proactive rights agenda looks set to test a summit...
Human rights to test Commonwealth leaders
A proposal to appoint a Commonwealth human rights commissioner to steer a more proactive rights agenda looks set to test a leaders'...
Too soon for Commonwealth gesture to Zimbabwe-UK
A British government minister sharply criticised Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and said it would be premature for Commonwealth leaders to hold out...
Commonwealth Secretary-General to visit Rwanda
Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma will make his maiden official visit to the Commonwealth's newest member, Rwanda, this week.
He will be in...