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  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:55:45 +0000: Africa: Biting Nominations After Reversed Eviction
    M-NET'S Big Brother All Stars is into its second week and, in stark contrast to last week, the housemates were very clear about who they wanted to see up for eviction this time around.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:08:35 +0000: Africa: Obama Team 'Actively Engaged' to Promote Progress, Carson Says
    President Barack Obama will host some 120 African youth leaders from 40 African nations in Washington next week, part of a commemoration of 50 years of independence for 17 countries. The President's Forum is intended "to deepen and broaden our understanding of the trajectories of African societies, and to reflect on how the next generation are building their communities' and their nations' futures – just as their predecessors did in the era of independence from colonial rule," the White House said in a statement.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:27:10 +0000: Africa: Distributor of Satellite TV in Africa Wants to Improve Services
    African countries receiving Multichoice Africa satellite services will see improvements to the quality of the products supplied by the company, due to investments made in equipment and technology, Angop learnt from a source of the institution.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:39:26 +0000: Africa: Policy Failure Contributes to Incessant Poverty in Africa
    Dr. Rose Mensah-Kutin, Director, Abantu for Development, has attributed incessant poverty in Africa, particularly sub-Saharan Africa to policy failure.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:43:00 +0000: Africa: Continent Seeks Greater Role in International Affairs
    At the ongoing African Union (AU) summit in Kampala, Uganda, African leaders are being urged to push for Africa's interests on the international scene.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:04:00 +0000: Africa: Commonwealth Forum - Public Services Poised to Surmount Challenges
    Heads of Public Services in Commonwealth Africa have re-affirmed the need to fight corruption and engage in all stages of national planning.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:42:25 +0000: Africa: Shs3.6 Billion to Boost Policy Formulation
    frican Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) has given a grant of Shs3.6 billion to the Economic Policy Research Centre for the strengthening of research and policy formulation.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:27:09 +0000: Africa: The African Peer Review Mechanism
    As African leaders gathered between the numerous rolling hills and lush wetlands of Kampala, in the country of President Yoweri Museveni, Uganda, for the 15th summit of the African Peer Review Mechanism, Mauritius voluntarily submitted itself to Africa's home-grown governance monitoring endeavour. This summit was important in many ways, from opening up political space for debate, discussion and criticism, to legislative reforms and streamlining development efforts. The Country Review Report of Mauritius was therefore up for discussion. When the Prime minister received his first evaluation report card to bring back home to us, we could not help but reflect on the country which has already celebrated the 42nd anniversary of its independence.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:32:07 +0000: Africa: Addressing the Role of Religion in HIV Response
    At a church compound in Nairobi's Mathare slum, women and their children line up for food rations. Among them is Zipporah Mueni, an HIV-positive mother of five.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:30:42 +0000: Africa: Black Africa Unveil New Stars Louw and Wermann
    PREMIER league club Black Africa officially presented midfielders Bradley Wermann and Rudi Louw as their new signings for the 2010/11 season at the club's offices yesterday.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:58:47 +0000: Africa: Country to Host Third Session of the AU Ministers of Culture Conference
    Federal Government acceptance to host the 3rd session of the African Union (AU), Ministers of Culture Conference shows the commitment of Nigeria to the agenda and programmes of African Union.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:42:52 +0000: Africa: Continent to Tackle Poverty, Hunger And Malnutrition
    Many leaders who attended the African Union summit in Uganda are leading the way in bringing new energy and commitment to tackling hunger and malnutrition. And the African Union has declared its intent to build an Africa that ends hunger and empowers the continent to both feed itself, and ultimately to help feed the world.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:35:13 +0000: Africa: Fabian Beats Games' Mark as Teammates Flop in Semis
    Tanzania's Fabian Joseph Naasi beat the Commonwealth Games 10,000 metre mark easily despite finishing seventh in the African Senior Athletics Championship in Nairobi on Wednesday.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:51:44 +0000: Africa: Handball Team Set for Bamako Championship
    The Gambia U-20 female handball team are expected to participate in the second edition of the Africa Challenge female Zone II competition in Bamako, Mali, scheduled between August 15 to 22, this year.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:30:48 +0000: Africa: Flowing With Basil Davidson
    Basil Risbridge Davidson is Not the Saint like hero that Ernesto Che Guevera conjures. He was not a Tarzan swinging through the African jungles, neither was he a missionary of some foreign religion who evangelised the continent at the cost of its land, culture, blood and wealth.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:30:42 +0000: Africa: Okagbare, Adigun Deliver Gold, Metu, Ogho Fail
    Nigeria's greatest hope for a medal at the African Championships, Blessing Okagbare lived up to expectation when she blew away the field to win the women 100m gold in Nairobi, Kenya yesterday.She ran 11.03 seconds to top the women in the hotly contested race.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:02:00 +0000: Africa: As Africa Youth Forum Ends, African Leaders Urged to Consider Resolution
    African youths have challenged African heads of state and government to consider the resolutions and observations made during the just ended Africa Youth Forum in Uganda and to institutionalise the African Youth Forum in their subsequent AU Summit and establish monitoring mechanisms to implement the African Youth Charter.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:47:10 +0000: Africa: New Leaders, Tools Can Transform Fight Against Malaria
    The just-concluded African Union (AU) meeting will be remembered for its courage. Just a few weeks after a devastating terrorist attack in Kampala, the AU still convened in Uganda's capital city to tackle our most urgent priorities.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:04:44 +0000: Africa: South African Theatre Group Performs On Climate Change
    South African rural communities have turned to theatre in a creative effort to respond to the challenges of climate change. Resource Africa, a Not-for-Profit organization working on natural resource management, is leading the way.
  • Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:50:28 +0000: Africa: Basil Davidson - Populariser of History
    I heard of Basil Davidson's passing at the honourable age of 95 from a former student who forwarded an obituary to me. For years Davidson's prolific work has been on reading lists I distributed to all students (regardless of ethnic background) on my African history courses.
  • Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:50:28 +0000: Africa: Basil Davidson - Revolutionary Spirit
    Basil Davidson joined the ancestors on 9 July 2010 at the age of 95. I want to add my voice to those who salute his passion for peace, justice and a world free of racism.
  • Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:50:26 +0000: Africa: Bishop Tutu - Using Moral Methods for Moral Ends
    Tinyiko Sam Maluleke writes about the continent's 2nd favourite elder, Bishop Desmond Tutu (Mandela being the first): Defender of human rights, storyteller, teacher, preacher, orator, debater - with a legendary sense of humour:
  • Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:50:25 +0000: Africa: Leave New Oil in the Soil
    Throughout Africa, oil has correlated with imperial subjugation, local authoritarianism and flagrant human rights abuses. It is now no longer in doubt that there are absolutely no guarantees that extractive activities are safe. One accident could jeopardise an entire ecosystem. It has been common knowledge in many oil-bearing communities in Africa that the discovery of oil in a local community is akin to a declaration of full-fledged war on such a community.
  • Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:50:23 +0000: Africa: Serving Our Life Sentence in the Shacks
    People all over South Africa have been asking the leaders of Abahlali baseMjondolo as to why the government continues to ignore the demands of the shack dwellers. They have been asking why, after all the marches, statements, reports and meetings, the Kennedy Road settlement continues to get burnt down through the endless shack fires. They have been referring in particular to the recent Kennedy Road shack fire on Sunday 4 July 2010, that took four lives, leaving more than three thousand people displaced and homeless.
  • Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:22:45 +0000: Africa: Women, the Silent Bearers of HIV Burdens
    When it comes to HIV, silence suffocates the women of Sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:50:53 +0000: Africa: Highest Number of Bloggers in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria
    Kenya has the third highest number of blogs in Africa after Nigeria and South Africa, a firm indication of the nation's increasing IT literacy.
  • Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:27:05 +0000: Africa: Drug Resistance Threatens Sleeping Sickness Cure
    Hopes for an effective new combination treatment for sleeping sickness have been challenged by the discovery of resistance to two of the drugs.
  • Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:57:14 +0000: Africa: It's How You Spend the Money That Saves Lives
    Members of the African Union (AU) reaffirmed at the end of their meeting on 27 July in Kampala, Uganda, that they would strive to spend 15 percent of their national budgets on health, but at the end of the day it is about how "effectively and efficiently" you spend the money, not about how much.
  • Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:30:28 +0000: 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.
  • Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:30:24 +0000: 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.

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