December 11, 2012
Africa: UN Official Calls for Boost to Smallholder Farming [interview]
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The African Green Revolution Forum held earlier this year in Arusha, Tanzania, aimed to put smallholder farmers at the center of the conversation … Read more »
Mali: Prime Minister Resigns After Arrest
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Malian Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra has resigned, with all the members of his cabinet. Read more »
December 09, 2012
Egypt: Mursi Backs Down - Partially
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President Mohamed Mursi has backed down in response to protests across Egypt and rescinded a November decree granting himself sweeping powers, but has refused to call off a… Read more »
December 06, 2012
Egypt: Several Dead in Egyptian Clashes
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Six people were killed and 450 injured after clashes between protesters and supporters of President Mohamed Mursi on Wednesday night, reports Ahram Online from Cairo. Read more »
Africa: Twelve Countries Rank in Top 75 on Anti-Corruption Index
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Twelve African countries are ranked among the 75 least corrupt nations in the world, according to the 2012 index published Wednesday by Transparency International. Read more »
December 05, 2012
Africa: Preparing Youth for Africa As a Country [interview]
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More than 1,000 participants from around the world recently gathered in Doha, Qatar, for the fourth annual World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), convening under the theme… Read more »
Africa: U.S. Africanists Worry Over Obama's Next Secretary of State
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As President Barack Obama decides whom to nominate to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state during his second term, Africa specialists in the United States are beginning to… Read more »
November 30, 2012
Africa: The Fight Against Aids - No Time to 'Rest on Our Laurels' [interview]
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Saturday marks World Aids Day. Stephen Lewis, chair of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which helps fight HIV/Aids, says the human face of the disease needs to be restored and that it… Read more »
Ethiopia: Africa's First Commodity Exchange Revolutionizes Economy [interview]
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While government leaders, NGOs and corporations devise strategies to churn out more food for future generations, Eleni Gabre-Madhin is taking a different approach. Concerned by a… Read more »
November 29, 2012
Africa: AllAfrica Founder Named Among 'Most Influential Africans'
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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 »
November 22, 2012
Cote d'Ivoire: Ouattara Names New PM
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Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara has named Daniel Kablan Duncan as the country's new prime minister, reports Radio France Internationale (RFI). Read more »
November 21, 2012
South Africa: Protesters Camp Out to Oppose 'Secrecy Bill'
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"We love Zuma but down with him", chanted a group of more than 20 protesters at the gates of Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, during a rally against the implementation of the… Read more »
November 20, 2012
Eswatini: Ellinah Wamukoya Becomes Africa's First Female Bishop
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The Anglican Church of Southern Africa has consecrated the continent's first woman bishop. Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Rebels Seize Goma
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Rebels of the M23 group seized part of the regional capital of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, reports Radio Okapi. Read more »
November 19, 2012
Liberia: Pipe Dreams - Waiting for Water in Monrovia
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"The hanging latrines" of West Point are not one of Liberia's most celebrated beauty spots. But this modest collection of elevated toilets, erected on the banks of the Mesurado… Read more »
South Africa: Chasing the Final Flush
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There is no shortage of jokes and a long list of euphemisms when it comes to talking about toilets. Read more »
Liberia: Tapping Official and Grassroots Efforts On Water
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In July 1990, as then-rebel leader Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia advanced on Monrovia, Taylor's guerrilla fighters attacked the White Plains water treatment… Read more »
South Africa: Dreams of Better Sanitation Go Down the Toilet
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Gogo Sikhosana Ngcobo is 76 years old. Growing up, she says she had dreams of what her life would be like. They featured a brick house with a flushing toilet. Those dreams, like… Read more »
Mali: No Quick Fixes for a Complex Crisis [guest column]
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The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) has agreed on a revised concept of operations for the deployment of an international military force of 3,300 soldiers to help… Read more »
November 15, 2012
Africa: Global Poll Reveals Africa's 'State of Mind'
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Gallup, a leading research consultancy known for its opinion polls, has released its "Global States of Mind: New Metrics for World Leaders" report, which seeks to provide leaders… Read more »
November 14, 2012
Africa: Using Family Planning as a 'Liberating Force' [interview]
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Nearly 20 years ago, 179 countries came together and made a commitment to provide sexual and reproductive health care, including family planning, to their people. The… Read more »
Kenya: Operation Hirola - Saving Africa's Rarest Antelope
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While the world focuses on the African Union effort to oust Al Shabaab militants from Somalia, another operation is quietly plugging away along the country's southern border with… Read more »
Africa: New Plan to Fill Training Gap for Medical Workers [interview]
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A new program to send doctors and nurses as volunteers to Africa is gathering momentum and aims to fill a training gap among Africa's medical workers. The doctors and nurses will… Read more »
November 13, 2012
East Africa: U.S. to Send Medics to Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda [interview]
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A new program to send doctors and nurses as volunteers to Africa is gathering momentum and aims to fill a training gap among Africa's medical… Read more »
Central African Republic: President Detains Son Over 'Unpaid Hotel Bill'
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The Central African Republic's leader Francois Bozize has reportedly had his son arrested for failing to pay a huge hotel bill. Read more »