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Nations represented at the G8 Summit of the world's major industrial powers have promised to raise U.S. $20 billion to promote sustainable agricultural development in developing countries.
The army and the police will not withdraw from the Chiadzwa diamond fields, but will remain there to maintain 'law and order', a state controlled newspaper said on Friday.
Humanitarian and security conditions in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Kivu provinces worsened in June, when almost 100,000 people were displaced, many of whom had fled violence previously, according to humanitarian officials.
It is clear that grave violations of international human rights and humanitarian law - possibly amounting to war crimes - are being committed in strife-torn Somalia, a top United Nations official said today.
The transitional authority in Madagascar is willing to bring forward elections for the presidency and the legislature and hold them before the end of this year, writes Iloniaina Alain in the Antananarivo newspaper, L'Express de Madagascar.
The detained leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Mr. Henry Okah, yesterday accepted to benefit from Federal Government's unconditional amnesty for Niger Delta militants.
DESPITE THE much-talked about historic visit of US President Barack Hussein Obama to Ghana today, Friday, July, 10, most people in Bolgatanga are not enthused about this visit.
Côte d'Ivoire's political parties have the responsibility for ensuring that much-delayed presidential elections, now scheduled to take place on 29 November, are held on time and are free, fair and transparent, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says, urging them to act appropriately.
Cape Coast, the former colonial capital, on Thursday afternoon went agog as both the aged and the youth trooped to the Victoria Park (Jubilee Park) to catch a glimpse of the United States of America Airforce helicopters, which have been deployed to the place in preparation towards the visit of the US President, Barack Obama.
Voter registration ahead of the 28 October general elections begins on Friday among Mozambicans resident in the diaspora.
The Zanzibar Government has re-stated its position on oil and natural gas resources, saying they should be excluded from the Union list.
A significant amount of Government money is diverted to personal use each year by corrupt senior public officials, President Jakaya Kikwete said yesterday.
The Government has until September 30 to prove that it is committed to setting up of the special tribunal to try perpetrators of the 2008 post election violence, failure to which the International Criminal Court (ICC) might take over prosecutions.
Zimbabwe and Botswana have reported their first suspected cases of swine flu as the H1N1 virus began to establish a foothold in southern Africa.
United States President Barack Obama has again used the Kenyan example to impress upon the African leadership on the need for policy change.
1. We, Heads of State, Government and International and Regional Organizations convened in L'Aquila, remain deeply concerned about global food security, the impact of the global financial and economic crisis and last year's spike in food prices on the countries least able to respond to increased hunger and poverty. While the prices of food commodities have decreased since their peak of 2008, they ...
For more than a decade, much of Africa has been moving forward. Economic growth is rising, poverty is falling and democratic governance is spreading. But the global financial crisis threatens to undo this progress by reducing investment, exports and aid just as they should be expanding to build on these successes.
During a news conference after the G8 Summit ended in L'Aquila, Italy, on July 10, President Barack Obama explained and answered questions on the summit's announcement on food security. Excerpts of the relevant remarks, as published by the White House:
President Obama is visiting Ghana July 10-11 as the third consecutive U.S. president to travel there because that country stands as an admirable example of strong, democratic governance and a vibrant civil society, and has achieved tremendous development progress over the past decade, a senior White House official said July 9.
The inaugural NEPAD Transport Summit 2009 and Africa Expo, which promotes regional integration through transport networks will commence in Johannesburg on November, 2009.
Political parties have asked the International Criminal Court to make public the names of suspected perpetrators of the 2008 post election violence.
FURTHER details have emerged over Zimbabwe's controversial platinum deals and credit facilities with China which have now provoked a storm in government as the main political leaders fight to claim glory for the funding.
Southern Sudan could face a food crisis this year because of erratic rainfall in several states, insecurity disrupting farming patterns, and poor infrastructure affecting aid delivery, local specialists said.
Military forces from 20 countries in West and Central Africa have launched a regional HIV network to share information on combating HIV within their ranks and communities, following the example of other military-led efforts to fight the spread of HIV.
Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a group made up of remnants of the masterminds of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda which saw over a million people killed, has intensified its attacks on the Congolese army (FARDC) in several parts of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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