Africa's climate change deal negotiators on Monday accused their colleagues from rich nations of sidelining them while making critical decisions and failing to create a legally binding agreement to cut their carbon emissions.
New efficient border posts being considered by the EAC, SADC and Comesa blocs will significantly reduce the cost of cross-border trade.
Below is an interview with African Development Bank president Donald Kaberuka.
The Nobel may be the most recognised, coveted and prestigious prize in the world today, but there are other equally prestigious international prizes awarded each year.
The main session of the UN climate talks in Copenhagen was suspended Monday just before noon, following protests led by African countries, Reuters reports. The African countries accused developed countries of trying to wreck the existing Kyoto Protocol.
A four-year clinical trial involving nearly 10,000 women in East and Southern Africa has found that the vaginal microbicide gel, PRO 2000, is safe but not effective at preventing HIV infection.
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), East African Community (EAC) and the Southern Africa Development Cooperation (SADC) member states have opened the first-ever one stop border post (OSBP) facility that will increase the region's trade and reduce cross border delays by up to 50%.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen that the world has simultaneous environmental and economic deliverance within its grasp, but only if it can find the political will to act.
ICOM, a global network of independent advertising and marketing communications agencies, has appointed Gullan&Gullan Advertising, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Noah's Ark Communications, Lagos, Nigeria, to represent the network in their respective countries.
The deadline for entries into the 2010 Daniel Pearl Awards competition is 15 January 2010. The awards honour the world's best cross-border investigative journalism and are given by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), a project of the Centre for Public Integrity in Washington, DC.
BIG Brother (BB) 4 Revolution has come and gone just like Project Fame and Idols and now the question that must be uppermost in the minds of most of local fans and former participants in the shows is: "What next?" Itai Makumbe flew back into the country last Tuesday from South Africa where he had a good run on the Big Brother reality show that ran for three months on Dstv.
ECOBANK group scooped 11 awards at the Banker magazine's 'bank of the year' awards ceremony. Moukaram Chanou, Ecobank Niger's managing director received the awards on behalf of the Ecobank group at the Intercontinental Hotel in London recently.
The marathon United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, has entered its second week today.
About 30,000 protesters including a Nobel laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, yesterday took to the streets to demand for climate justice, urging all countries participating in the ongoing 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) to urgently sign a climate treaty that would help developing countries adapt to climate change reality.
Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane, or even the United States. It is the cow. Unfortunately, the beast will not be having a seat at Copenhagen to explain how it will mend its ways.
In Africa, childbearing is considered a blessing and in some communities shouts of joy erupt when a new baby arrives. This may be followed by naming ceremony or baby celebration. With tradition, it presupposes that a newly married couple is expected to have as many children as possible without giving consideration to the means of rearing such.
This year marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, the great pioneer of post-colonial Pan-Africanism. It also marked the 40th anniversary of the Libyan revolution and political ascendancy of Muammar al-Gaddafi, heir to Nkrumah's legacy of Pan-Africanism.
Guinean club, Horoya FC of Guinea, defied the massive home support for their opponents, Gomido Football club of Togo, to qualify for the final of the 24th Eyadema Cup at the Municipal Stadium here in Lome.
The official opening of this year's edition of the Africa Finance and Investment Forum (AFIF), organised by the Brussels-based EMRC, in cooperation with the Netherlands Development Finance Company FMO, will take place today, 14 December 2009.
Looking for gifts that are not too expensive, but still attractive, enjoyable, and perhaps even educational as well? Check out these new Africa music CDs.
Twenty-five years into the HIV epidemic, a multitude of laws, international guidelines and government commitments have been drafted to ensure the rights of people living with HIV, but few cases have found their way into the courts, and even fewer have led to successful outcomes.
Coordinator of the Group of 77, Ambassadors Lumumba Stanislaus-Kaw Di-Aping, yesterday at the ongoing 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, described the European Union (EU's) budget of 7.2 billion euros a year for 2010-2012 as insignificant, saying that "the EU leaders are acting as climate skeptics."
The world's poorest countries want two billion dollars from the developed world to replenish the Least Developed Countries Fund.
A United Nations General Assembly panel that met this week broke new ground and helped build new momentum for ending human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity, a coalition of sponsoring nongovernmental organizations said today.
Kenya is not a failed state. Not yet, anyway. The reason the country is often portrayed as on its way to becoming a basket case is partly because it has the highest concentration of foreign correspondents in Africa, who therefore have a front row seat to report the numerous negative stories that emerge in the country.
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