GUEST COLUMN The demand of South Africa's ruling African National Congress that the government should pull out of the International Criminal Court is defeatist, naïve and reactionary, says Professor...
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Can Muhammadu Buhari Bring Peace, Development and Security to the Niger Delta?
opinion By Tarila Marclint Ebiede The recent presidential elections in Nigeria have bolstered hope for democracy, both in the country and across the African continent. The challenge now, as always,...
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At Least 74 Dead in Somali/Ethiopian Clash With Al-Shebab
At least 74 people were killed in fighting near Somalia's border with Ethiopia on Sunday, according to officials and witnesses. Somali and Ethiopian forces attacked the bases of Al-Shebab islamists...
Minova's Rape Acquittals Reveal Lessons for Congo
By Holly Dranginis and Timo Mueller, 20 May 2014 Analysis Washington, DC — If Congo and the international community are to learn anything productive from the Minova trial, they will look beyond its...
Congo-Kinshasa: Hope for Kids in Kinshasa
By Carolyn Miles, 5 May 2014 Despite horrific abuses perpetrated on women and children, the atrocities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) rarely make international headlines. Kinshasa, the...
More Than 40 Feared Dead After Dar Floods
SOME 41 people are feared dead as a result of floods caused by downpour that hit Dar es Salaam for about three days over the weekend, according to Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner (RC) Saidi Meck...
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Ebola Victim's Family Quarantined
BY C. WINNIE SAYWAH-JIMMY, 3 APRIL 2014 Since the confirmation by Liberia's Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Walter Gwenigale that the Ebola virus is in the country, reports gathered from...
Two New Ebola Deaths in Liberia, Health Minister Confirms, Seven Total
BY AL VARNEY ROGERS, 3 APRIL 2014 Monrovia — A woman confirmed to have traveled to the Firestone Plantation Camp in Liberia with the deadly Ebola virus has been pronounced dead. Health and Social...
Somalia - Federal Govt, Ethiopian Forces Liberate Strategic Town of Hudur
Hudur — Somali Government forces aided by battalions from the neighboring country of Ethiopia have liberated Bakool regional capital of Hudur from Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab fighters on Friday,...
World + 1 more
Africa: Lack of Water, Sanitation Drain Continent U.S.$28.4 Billion Annually
BY YEMI AKINSUYI, 6 FEBRUARY 2014 The estimated loss owing to lack of access to safe water and basic sanitation by the African continent is $28.4 billion a year, which is around five per cent of...
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Africans Give Govts Failing Marks On Power, Water Supplies
Cape Town — Although two of every three Africans believe their governments are performing well in the fight against HIV and Aids, fewer approve of their delivery of basic health services and...
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Feeding Africa Through Agricultural Innovation
BY CINDY SHINER, 30 SEPTEMBER 2013 After the agriculture heyday of 30 years ago, the sector got scant attention, especially from African presidents whose nations were well endowed with natural...
Kenya Fights Hidden Hunger Through Home Fortification
Nairobi — From the scribble on the walls to mothers clutching crying babies, the bustling ward at Mbagathi District Hospital is unmistakable as the children's unit. But amidst the activity is a quiet...
Activist Questions Sustainability of Zambia's HIV Funding Plan
By Jaclyn Schiff, 5 August 2013 Zambia's government says it has met the challenge raised in the 2001 Abuja Declaration for African countries to spend at least 15 percent of their annual budgets on...
Africa: Fund Invests to Break 'Unrelenting' Cycle of Mother, Child Death
INTERVIEW The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) will invest U.S.$787 million (£2.7 billion) to tackle undernutrition – which underlies over three million deaths of young children each year...
Malaria in Liberia - 'The Struggle Continues'
By Boakai Fofana, 25 April 2013 Monrovia — I woke up feeling the headache and chills, and made a couple of trips to the bathroom to ease the nausea. The experience was all too familiar; I was having...
Women-Led Farm Initiative Aims For Peace, Prosperity
BY DAVID NJAGI, 28 FEBRUARY 2013 MOLO, Kenya — Fear of violence surrounding the upcoming general elections next week has raised anxiety among many Kenyans, but less so for Nyokabi Wamuyu. She is...
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Closing the Gap - Meet Aims to End Extreme Poverty
Monrovia — When 17-year-old Sona Traore represented the Child Protection Network of Liberia at a civil society event organized in conjunction with a three-day United Nations meeting in this capital...
Cell Phones for Farmers to Cut Corruption, Deliver Services
By Tami Hultman Abuja — Nigeria's agriculture minister today responded to a barrage of criticism about the planned distribution of cell phones to the country's poorest farmers. Opposition politicians...
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Africa: Attacking Malaria Before it Sickens
interview "We are now witnessing a true renaissance, an awakening, about malaria," Carlos (Kent) Campbell said when he accepted a lifetime achievement award in November at the American Society of...