South Africa, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana face a difficult first round in the 2010 World Cup soccer finals, while Nigeria will contend with familiar opponents and Cameroon can probably count themselves luckier than their African counterparts.
China is continuing to show an interest in developing African research capacity with the announcement of a cooperation programme in science and technology.
A small group of indigenous people have travelled here to the historic Copenhagen climate talks to show negotiators dramatic documentary videos they made about the immediate impacts of climate change on their homelands and way of life.
The Government of Sweden last week in Addis Ababa, signed an agreement with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), committing 60 million Swedish Kronor (about $8.5 million) in support of ECA's African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC), established in the framework of the Climate Information for Development in Africa (ClimDev-Africa Programme).
Although tobacco use is not as prevalent in Africa as it is in other regions, that will change unless immediate action is taken, the United Nations health agency warned today as it announced a new tobacco control effort for the continent.
Southern Africa is in agreement with the rest of the continent on a common position for the upcoming climate change negotiations in Copenhagen.
Soccer coaches have welcomed the 2010 Final Draw schedule, promising that each team will perform their best during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
RWANDA'S top referee Celestin Ntagungira a.k.a Abega is still uncertain on whether he will officiate at next year's Africa Nations' Cup in Angola.
he demand for the mineral coltan, 80 per cent of which is in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), continues to fuel the conflict in the DRC. Various rebel groups control the mines and according to a recent article (an excellent detailed resource and who's who in the country by Robert Miller in Znet), many of the multinationals operating in the region are British. The one country missing at ...
As the African and Chinese ministers gathered to negotiate and bargain at the current Forum for Cooperation between China and Africa (FOCAC), it has become necessary to determine the impact of civil societies from both regions on this intergovernmental process. Driven by the accentuation of the globalisation process, and the need to seek potential energy and mineral sources, China in October 2000 ...
As global awareness grows around the Congo and the silence is finally being broken on the current and historic exploitation of black people in the heart of Africa, a myriad of Western-based 'prescriptions' are being proffered. Most of these prescriptions are devoid of social, political, economic and historical context and are marked by remarkable omissions.
Darfur just may be the tip of the melting iceberg. A new study suggests that if world leaders fail to reach a meaningful agreement in Copenhagen to curb climate change, Africa will be ravaged by more wars and corpses in the coming decades. 'If the sub-Saharan climate continues to warm and little is done to help its countries better adapt to high temperatures, the human costs are likely to be ...
South Africa, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana face a difficult first round in the 2010 World Cup soccer finals, while Nigeria will contend with familiar opponents and Cameroon can probably count themselves luckier than their African counterparts.
INTERNATIONAL finance institutions have made a rather strange plea to African governments, saying they should put the "right policies and frameworks" in place to fast-track the construction of cross-border transport networks.
A life-changing jackpot of $200,000 (sh400m) is up for grabs. The grand finale is on this Sunday at 8:00pm. The 91-day Big Brother Revolution ends in a two-hour show featuring international Hip-Hop and R&B star, Bow Wow will dazzle audiences across Africa, while the surviving five contestants in the house will have their fingers crossed, awaiting the moment one of them will be announced ...
LAST week's episode of M-Net's face of Africa model search was notable for two things: it was short, seemed to last all of 15 minutes and that two more girls had their dreams come to an end.
Thirty-one-year-old Chouchou Namegabe is revolutionizing journalism in her native country of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the face of a patriarchal countrywide mindset, a small amount of funding, and even death threats to herself and her team.
While global vaccination coverage has reached an all-time high, there are still a number of access barriers to vaccines for a substantial number of children living in developing countries. This is the determination of the "State of the World's Vaccines and immunizations" report, released at the end of October by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Climate change, the economic crisis, and conflict are pushing more and more of the world's poor into further suffering. Yet donor countries are doing far too little to prepare for and prevent the ramifications of natural disasters, conflict, and other situations which are crippling the developing world, according to the Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) released this month by the Development ...
Four million mothers, newborns, and children in sub-Saharan Africa could be saved each year if adequate health care was made available, according to a report released this week by the African Science Academy Development Initiative (ASADI).
Achieving sustainability in child health and education continues to be a challenge for national governments and development experts alike. Despite the fact that billions of dollars have been spent through a variety of programs in recent years, success has been mixed throughout the global South. One Childhood, however, offers simple and effective ways by which Eritrea has been investing in its ...
Lack of access to multi-lingual scholarly journals hinders development in the Arab world, according to Muna AbuSulayman, Secretary General of the Alwaleed Bin Talal Kingdom Foundation, United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, and Yale 2009 World Fellow.
Despite a taboo against homosexuality in Kenya, the government has decided to acknowledge the existence of men who have sex with men, in an effort to curb new HIV infections in the country. A survey of gay attitudes and behaviors in the Kenyan cities of Nairobi, Kisumu, and Mombasa will be conducted in early 2010 with the help of the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief ...
Despite international efforts to halt the trade of ivory, the criminalized industry is once again flourishing on multiple continents, according to a new report released by the Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS). The findings of the report signal a threat to reverse valuable gains achieved in the elimination of elephant poaching over the last two decades.
When the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) released its Palm Oil Buyers' Scorecard on 28 October 2009, a stark situation was brought to the world's attention: despite the availability of safe, earth-friendly palm oil options, Western companies were not meeting commitments to purchase those alternatives.
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