November 30

• UNDP Opens Data On Over 6,000 Projects in Transparency Drive

  UNDP

  The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today launched a new online portal allowing open, comprehensive public access to data on UNDP's work in 177 countries and... Read more »

• Five Years of Dramatic Change in Africa [analysis]

  OSISA

  As the rights revolution unfolded in Africa over the past two decades, one area in particular lagged behind: the right to information. Just five years ago, only four African... Read more »

• Conference Told of Growing China-Africa Trade

  Focac

  The trade volume between China and African countries will exceed 200 billion U.S. dollars this year, Sun Guangxiang, deputy minister of commerce, predicted at a conference on... Read more »

• States Have Obligation to Eliminate Violence Against Women - UN Officials

  UN News

  Countries have a responsibility to implement national policies to end violence against women, United Nations officials stressed today, adding that urgent action is needed to stop... Read more »

• One-Stop Site for Climate Change & Food Facts

  IRIN

  About one-third of food produced for human consumption gets lost or is wasted globally. This amounts to about 1.3 billion tons per year, the equivalent of six to 10 percent of... Read more »

• Africa Basketball Champions Cup - Day 1 - Tunisia's Etoile Du Sahel Beat Egypt's Al Ahly 49-44

  Tunis Afrique Presse

  Tunisia's Etoile Sportive du Sahel beat Egypt's Al Ahly 49-44 at the Africa Basketball Champions Cup day-1 men's group "B" day 1 game played, on Thursday in Malabo, Equatorial... Read more »

• Nutrition in HIV Treatment and Care Slows Down HIV [press release]

  WFP

  This World AIDS Day (1 December) we are observing unprecedented results in the prevention and treatment of HIV. Access to adequate and nutritious food for a person living with HIV... Read more »

• Chinese Firms Urged to Fulfill Social Responsibility in Africa

  Focac

  A China-Africa conference on Wednesday urged Chinese enterprises with ties to Africa to fulfill their corporate social responsibilities and abide by local laws and regulations. Read more »

• Helen Clark - Keynote Address At the Jica Symposium On the Tokyo International Conference for African Development [document]

  UNDP

  Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator Read more »

• Climate Change Triggers Nomadic Lifestyle

  New Era

  Humans have resorted to 'nomadic' lifestyles as they try to weather out the climate change storm. Only in this case the nomadic lifestyle is not only on finding greener pasture for... Read more »

• Commerce's Blank At Launch of 'Doing Business in Africa' [document]

  State Department

  U.S. Department of Commerce Read more »

• U.S. Issues Road Map to an Aids-Free Generation [document]

  State Department

  U.S. officials battling HIV/AIDS have a goal to bring an AIDS-free generation into the world. When that may happen remains unknown, but on November 29 Secretary of State Hillary... Read more »

• When It Happens to Another Woman, It Happens to You Too

  Gender Links

  One Saturday afternoon, I decided to take a walk alone. Having previously been accompanied everywhere I went by my mum or sister or nanny, I reveled in my newfound freedom to... Read more »

• Stout Somalia, Kenya Expulsions Steal Limelight

  CAF

  FINE sunny morning weather prevailed in Kampala on Thursday promising tolerable pitch conditions at the Nelson Mandela Stadium, Namboole after the horrendous muddy setting on... Read more »

• UBA Is African Bank of the Year

  Daily Trust

  The Banker Magazine, a publication of the Financial Times, has named United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) the African Bank of the year. Read more »

• Obama's HIV/Aids Blueprint is 'More Talk and Spin' - Aids Healthcare Foundation [press release]

  AHF

  Obama's 'PEPFAR Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-free Generation,' is more talk and spin, says AIDS Healthcare Foundation, noting that not enough US money is spent on lifesaving... Read more »

November 29

• AllAfrica Founder Named Among 'Most Influential Africans'

  allAfrica

  AllAfrica co-founder and chair Amadou Mahtar Ba has been included on New African magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential Africans. Read more »

• Africans in Bid to Save Kyoto

  IPS

  African negotiators attending the United Nations climate change talks in Doha, Qatar say they are determined to ensure that developed countries do not let the Kyoto Protocol die as... Read more »

• Europe Signs Pact to Protect Traditional African Agriculture Products

  Ghanaian Chronicle

  The European Commission has signed a co-operation agreement with the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) to improve the protection of traditional... Read more »

• Peace and Stability Hold Key to Future Development Vision

  UNDP

  The global burden of disasters and armed violence which affect over 200 million people and result in over 500,000 deaths each year will be the focus of a forum on conflict and... Read more »

• More Top Footballers to Join UNDP's 10th Annual Match Against Poverty

  UNDP

  Nearly 35,000 tickets already sold three weeks ahead of December event Read more »

• Patent Laws Key to Drug Innovation, Argues Report

  SciDev.Net

  Pharmaceutical innovation in middle-income countries such as Brazil and India could be boosted by stronger enforcement of intellectual property laws and by building up research... Read more »

• How to Identify Who Suffers Most From Riots and Why Does It Matter for Policy? [opinion]

  IDS

  Rioting has received a great deal of attention from policymakers, scholars and the general public in the recent past notably due to the presence of high profile riots in Europe... Read more »

• In the House of the Interpreter [book review]

  ThinkAfricaPress

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o's new memoir charts his life as a young man facing, and personally resolving, the contradictions he finds in being part of a colonial African elite. Read more »

• Landmine Casualty Rate Dropping

  IRIN

  Amid the odd relapse, progress towards a world free of antipersonnel mines is inching forward. A decade ago, the weapon was responsible for at least 32 casualties daily; by 2011,... Read more »