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Choose a page number: 1 Africa RSS FeedsZimbabwe: Tsvangirai Appeals to Zuma - Again - Zimbabwe's Prime Minster Morgan Tsvangrai has once again turned to South African President Jacob Zuma to intervene after fresh disputes erupted in Harare's troubled coalition government....Feed Source: allafrica.com South Africa: Civil Servants to Strike - THE Department of Home Affairs would be hardest hit by the public service workers' strike, a union warned yesterday.... Kenya: Chinese Archeologists Seek Clues of Ancient Kingdom - A ninth century kingdom in Malindi is at the heart of a major archaeological excavation that has interested the Chinese, who are trying to establish when their forefathers started interacting with the East African coast.... Sudan: Peacekeepers' Pilot Missing in Darfur - The United Nations today expressed its deep concern over a helicopter pilot who has been missing for two days in the south of Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.... Burundi: Ruling Party Sweeps Parliament Poll - Burundi ruling party won an overwhelming victory in the country's parliamentary elections as opposition parties boycotted the vote.... Madagascar: Political Crisis Places Biodiversity at Risk - Vast portions of Madagascar's unique biodiversity could be lost - possibly forever, and at incalculable cost to ordinary Malagasy and the world - by the continued suspension of environmental funding in response to an ongoing political crisis, says a new report by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the main environmental donor.... Zimbabwe: To Return or Not to Return Home? - THE successful hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup was undoubtedly a plus for South Africa, a country whose crime rate is among the highest in the world. While the event offered South Africa an opportunity to be truly the Rainbow Nation that it has always wanted to be, the spectre of xenophobia threatens to spoil that huge milestone as the welfare of thousands of foreign immigrants who contributed to that country's successfully hosting of the World Cup skirt the knife's edge of simmering racial intolerance.... Chad: Nutrient-Rich Algae Can Boost Women's Incomes And Tackle Malnutrition - UN - A local variety of the nutrient-rich, blue-green algae known as spirulina could boost incomes for women in Chad who harvest the product as well as help fight nutrition, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today.... Burkina Faso: Africa and Brazil to Cross-Fertilise Agricultural Ideas - An ambitious development partnership aimed at strengthening agricultural collaboration between Africa and Brazil was launched at the 5th African Agriculture Science Week in Burkina Faso last week (21 July).... Burkina Faso: Biofuels Could Increase Food Production, Says Report - Planting biofuel crops in Africa need not damage capacity to grow food and could even enhance food security, according to a controversial review prepared for the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA).... Senegal: Power Cuts Frustrate Dakar Residents - Muslim imams in Senegal have called on their followers to not to pay their electricity bills in protest against frequent power outage. Power cuts in Senegal have resulted in anger and frustration in the streets of the capital, Dakar, where blackouts can last up to ten hours.... Gambia: Ghanaians Protest Against President Jammeh - Ghana's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Chris Kpodo has given the assurance that the Ghanaian Government would ensure that the human rights situation in the West Africa-sub region, particularly; the deteriorating situation in The Gambia is improved.... South Africa: Bank Pioneers New Way of Farming - STANDARD Chartered Bank is providing nearly R3bn to fund agricultural production in SA, using an innovative scheme that avoids the conventional approach of asking farmers to provide a physical asset as security.... Rwanda: The Best is Yet to Come - Kagame - Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), Presidential Candidate, Paul Kagame, has said that his party still has a lot to offer to Rwandans beyond what it has delivered in the past seven years.... Africa: Amisom Capture Key Mogadishu Positions - JULY was a fruitful month militarily for peacekeepers and Somali government forces, a spokesman said.... Africa: Race On for BP's African Assets - BP Plc is in talks with India's Reliance Industries and Essar Group to sell its African retail assets, including those in Namibia, that could be worth as much as US$500 million, four sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters yesterday.... Africa: Investor Sees Africa Risks Easing, Plenty of Growth - Political risks to investment are easing gradually across Africa, making it easier to tap into the continent's robust growth, Africa's top private equity investor Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) has said.... Southern Africa: EU Backs Off on EPA - European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht has appeased leading European civil society organisations about the negotiations for a Southern African economic partnership agreement (EPA), promising "not to put undue pressure" on countries.... Somalia: 21 People Killed in Fresh Mogadishu Fighting - At least 21 people have been killed and 45 others injured in gun battle and mortars exchanged by Somali government troops backed by AMISOM and Al-Shabaab extremist militias since Tuesday, Radio Garowe reports.... Somalia: Somaliland President Names New Cabinet Ministers - The new elected president of Somalia's breakaway republic of Somaliland, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamud (Silanyo) named on Wednesday new Cabinet ministers for his government, Radio Garowe reports... Nigeria: INEC Targets 70 Million Voters, Seeks Additional N10 Billion - Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Prof. Attahiru Jega yesterday gave an insight into the number of Nigerians expected to be registered in the new voters' registration underway.... Kenya: Let the People Decide - Congressional Black Caucus - Members of the Congressional Black Caucus released the following statement today on the upcoming Kenyan constitutional referendumAugust 4, 2010 will be an historic day for the people of Kenya. Citizens across the country will vote on a new Constitution, paving the way for a more democratic and stable country. Kenyans have worked tirelessly in a peaceful and transparent process of drafting a new Constitution. According to the Constitution of Kenya Review Act of 2008, the process ?accommodates the diversity of the people of Kenya, including socio economic status, race, ethnicity, gender, religious faith, age, occupation, learning, persons with disabilities and disadvantaged.? The Act also established a Committee of Experts and a Parliamentary Select Committee.... Guinea: Climbing Out of the Donor Funding Gap - More than two million Guineans do not have enough to eat, basic health services are a shambles and the country is in a fragile transition from decades of military rule, yet most aid donors do not see Guinea as an "emergency".... Zimbabwe: Minister's Swearing-In Delayed 'Indefinitely' - The Supreme Court has ensured that MDC Treasurer General Roy Bennett will not be sworn in to his post as Deputy Agriculture Minister any time soon, after postponing his acquittal case 'indefinitely'.... Zimbabwe: Diamond Researcher Slapped With Fresh Charges - Diamond researcher and human rights activist Farai Maguwu has been slapped with fresh charges, just over two weeks after his release on bail from Harare Remand Prison.... Zimbabwe: Zuma Sends Envoy to Kick Start Mediation - Again - South African President Jacob Zuma dispatched one of his top envoys to Zimbabwe, in yet another attempt to try to kick start power sharing talks that are gridlocked over various violations of the GPA by ZANU PF.... Somalia: 17 Civilians Killed in Mogadishu Clashes - At least 17 civilians were killed in clashes between Islamist insurgents and Somali government troops in Mogadishu. Somalia's embattled government welcomes the African Union's decision to send more troops to Mogadishu... Africa: Europe Eyes Continent for Salvation as Priests Get Scarce - Africa's brain drain is no longer restricted to engineers, doctors, teachers or nurses; priests are becoming the hottest commodity.... Kenya: Kibaki and his Predecessor in Firestorm over Constitution - Relations between President Kibaki and his predecessor, Mr Daniel Arap Moi, on Wednesday degenerated into an old-fashioned, political punch-up.... Africa: Uganda Still Leads in Alcohol Consumption - Uganda has maintained the lead in consumption of harmful alcohol in Africa, experts have revealed. Dr Nazarius Mbona, a senior lecturer at Makerere University Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, said Uganda's per capita consumption of alcohol is 19 litres per year compared to an average four litres in other African countries.... Copyright © 2010, Donna's List. All Rights Reserved. |