Africa: This Time It's Different
My final destination in this week's visit to Africa was Zambia, where I sought the views not just of the government but also of the people?in a town hall with civil society, students, and the media. Zambia has one of the highest economic growth rates in sub-Saharan Africa: 6.3 percent in 2009 and the outlook for 2010 appears positive.
Africa: New Player Transfer System by Fifa
The world football's governing body, FIFA, is set to tighten player transfer regulations after discovering many loopholes with the current player registration system.
Africa: Straight Talk with Global Fund Director Michel Kazatchkine
The executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Michel Kazatchkine, sat down with IRIN/PlusNews at the launch of the organization's 2010 report, where he answered some hard questions on what may be a turning point in HIV/AIDS funding.
Africa: Embrace Modernized Farming Techniques - UN
In order for Africa to be liberated from hunger and unemployment among its youths, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) yesterday advised the continent to embrace modern method of farming.
Africa: Fewer Meningitis Cases but More Deadly
This year there are less than half the reported meningitis infections than in the same period in 2009, but more patients are dying - 13 percent in 2010 versus 8 percent in 2009 - according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Multi-Disease Surveillance Centre in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, which tracks 14 countries prone to meningitis outbreaks between Senegal and Ethiopia.
Africa: Drogba Named African Footballer of the Year 2009
Chelsea striker Didier Drogba was on Thursday named African Footballer of the Year for 2009. This is the second time the Ivory Coast international his won the award.
Africa: African Countries 'Must Clean Up Tender Bidding'
AFRICAN countries such as SA must have clean and transparent tender processes that offer equal opportunity to all bidders, a senior visiting US trade official said yesterday.
Africa: IMF Boss Impressed by Continent's Recovery
International Monetary Fund is optimistic about the economic prospects of Africa and says the continent has weathered the effects of the global financial crisis.
Africa: Africare to Receive Nobel Prize Money from President Obama
Africare, the oldest and largest NGO working exclusively to provide development and humanitarian assistance to Africa is among 10 charities that will receive a portion of President Obama?s Nobel Peace Prize money awarded to him in October 2009.
Africa: Low-Cost Prosthetics Provide Hope to Amputees in Developing Countries of a Return to Daily Activities
Jonathan Naber, an undergraduate at the University of Illinois, won the Lemelson-MIT Illinois Student Prize for innovation on 3 March for his work on developing an affordable prosthetic arm for people in developing countries. The materials science and engineering major accepted the $30,000 cash prize on the behalf of the Illini Prosthetics Team (IPT).
Africa: Global Health Advocates and UN Officials Meeting at Westminster Say U.K. and World Leaders Must Keep Their Promise to More Than 10 Million People with AIDS Who Need Treatment
With Britain leading the way, G8 leaders pledged at the U.K.-led Gleneagles G8 Summit in 2005 to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care by 2010. Significant progress has been made in some areas yet, as the universal access pledge comes due, only one-third of people in need of HIV treatment worldwide receive it, while more than 10 million more people in urgent need of life-saving HIV treatment wait. Most people living with HIV are still unaware of their status. And fewer than half of pregnant women living with HIV receive the drug regimen that can extend their own lives and save their children from infection.
Africa: Training Academy And Ship Vetting Study Two of African Oil Refiners'? Major Project
A dedicated African academy for education in the oil refining industry, and research that could result in the better vetting of ships that carry oil around African coasts are two of the ?coming of age? projects that have been embarked on by the African Refiners Assocation (ARA) which held its 5th annual conference in Cape Town this week.
Africa: Drogba Crowned African King
Ivorian international Didier Drogba, was last night named the winner of the Glo-African Footballer of the year award for the year 2009 at an impressive ceremony that was staged in Accra, Ghana. Drogba beat his closest rivals Samuel Eto'o of Cameroon and Ghana's Michael Essien to the award.
Africa: Civil Society Must Hold Govt Accountable, Says IMF Chief
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), this week made his third trip to Africa in a year, visiting Kenya, South Africa and Zambia between March 8 and 11. In Johannesburg, AllAfrica senior correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault put to him questions sent in by our readers.
Africa: Website Provides Farmers With Fertilizer News
Food insecurity on the African continent is severely aggravated by a depletion of nutrients in the soil that leads to a decrease in soil productivity.
Africa: Rats Help to Clear Landmines
For quite some time, dogs have been one of the main tools used to detect land mines. However recently, there is a new animal that is proving to be just as useful in sniffing out landmines and other unexploded ordinances-rats. The non-profit APOPO, based in Tanzania, has been training rats for mine detection and is currently putting them to work in Mozambique to clear minefields left over from conflicts in the 1960s, 70s and 90s.
Africa: Glo CAF Awards - Eto'o On the Podium !
By press time most bookmakers tipped him favourite.
Africa: 8th African Cotton Days Kick Off Today
In a news conference in Yaounde yesterday, the association's president, Ahmed Bachir Diop, assured that all was ready for the three-day reflection on African cotton.
Africa: Continent Still Hungry Despite Annual U.S.$3 Billion of Aid and U.S.$33 Billion of Food Imports - UN
One in three Africans is chronically hungry, despite $3 billion spent on food aid for the continent annually and $33 billion in food imports, the director of the food security at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has warned.
Africa: African Stars, Stories Honored at the Oscars
This year, the 82nd annual Academy Awards ceremony, known as the Oscars, reflected the growing influence of African artists -- and issues -- on the American movie industry.
Africa: Copenhagen Accord - What Future for the Climate?
As the dust settles after what appeared to be a failed climate change convention in Copenhagen, leaders, delegates and experts have gone back to the drawing board to look at what went wrong and how to avert such in the future.
Africa: Region Imports U.S.$33 Billion Food Annually
Africa imports $33 billion worth of good annually. The continent also gets about $3 billion food aid annually to bridge the gap between domestic food supply and demand, the Secretary General, UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has said.
Africa: New Oil to Flow From Continent's Hotspots
The power balance in Africa's crude oil production landscape is set to shift in the near future as a number of new oilfields come online.
Africa: Continent Gives Global Lead in Empowering Women
Whenever gender empowerment is a vibrant topic of discussion internationally, some of the countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America are invariably singled out for their success stories in politics, education, health care or civil liberties even as Africa is mostly left out of political reckoning - and wrongly so.
Africa: UN - Continent Spends $33 Billion On Food Imports Yearly
The Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Mr. Abdoulie Janneh yesterday said food imports from the developed world into the African continent annually gulps $33 billion.
Africa: Something New Out of Africa: A Global Player
Africa: Minister Urges Africans to Exploit
Ghana's tourism Minister, Mrs. Zita Okaikoi, has called on Africans to take advantage of the upcoming South Africa 2010 to harness the tourism potentials on the continent.
Africa: Ghana May Bid to Host 2016 Nations Cup
Ghana may bid for the hosting of the 2016 African Cup of Nations, two years after hosting the continent's most historic event. Gabon and Equatorial Guinea are billed to jointly host the next biannual showpiece in 2012, before Libya takes the stage two-years on.
Africa: Nigeria Extradites Al-Qaeda Suspect to U.S.
A TERRORIST suspected to belong to the Al-Qaeda network, Ibrahim Haman Ahmed, who was extradited to the United States of America by Nigerian government officials had been on the wanted list of the United States Central Intelligence Agency for more than two years, security and diplomatic sources in Abuja told Vanguard, yesterday.
Africa: Gambia Prepares for 35th Africa Travel Agency Confab
The Gambia Tourism Authority (GTA), in collaboration with the Gambia Hotel Association (GHA, is preparing for the forthcoming 35th Annual Congress of the Africa Travel Agency (ATA) to be held in the Gambia in May 2010. It is in this regard that a business forum was held at the Kairaba Beach Hotel attended by the members of the Hoteliers Association, senior officials of GTA and other stakeholders.
