April 30, 2012
Central Africa: U.S.-Sponsored Visit to Anti-Kony Staging Camp Produces Flurry of News
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An unusual dateline - Obo, Central African Republic - appeared in newspapers and on radio broadcasts across the globe Monday morning. Read more »
April 29, 2012
Africa: Fugitives Take Note - Justice Can Be Done [guest column]
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Liberia's "big man" surely thought he'd enjoy a comfortable retirement when he left power back in 2003. But on April 26 the Special Court for Sierra Leone convicted Charles Taylor… Read more »
April 27, 2012
Malawi: President Banda Announces Her New Cabinet
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Malawian President Joyce Banda has announced her new 23-member cabinet, which includes members from various political parties. Read more »
April 26, 2012
Liberia: The Crimes of Charles Ghankay Taylor [document]
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The special tribunal which tried the former Liberian president found him guilty of aiding and abetting crimes including acts of terrorism, murder, rape, sexual slavery,… Read more »
Africa: Fighting Malaria - 'Best Investment in Health in Decades'
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The pay-off from investment in anti-malaria programmes has been nothing short of spectacular, and every effort must be made to maintain these efforts, says the director of the… Read more »
Liberia: Taylor Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity
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Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has become the first African leader to be found guilty of war crimes by an international court. Read more »
Sudan: African Union Calls For End to Bombing, Troop Withdrawals
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The African Union has called on Sudan to stop its aerial bombing of South Sudan and expressed "dismay and deep disappointment" with both countries for their involvement in the… Read more »
April 25, 2012
Africa: Malaria - a Mass Killer Under Fire
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Malaria is in the bull's eye of a global campaign. The target is zero malaria deaths by 2015. The challenge is how to get there -- and stay there. Read more »
East Africa: Obama Extends U.S. Search for LRA's Kony
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U.S. President Barack Obama has announced that American advisers helping with the mission to capture Joseph Kony will remain in East Africa to "bring this madman to justice.". Read more »
April 24, 2012
Africa: U.S. in Drive to Boost Africa's Energy Supply [guest column]
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As I fly over Africa at night - a regular occurrence in my job - the continent is an indelible image of sporadic pinpricks of light that identify the largest cities and towns, with… Read more »
April 23, 2012
Zimbabwe: Petition Requests UN to Supervise Polls
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More than 200 singing and drum-beating demonstrators took to the streets of London in the hopes that their protest will push the United Nations (UN) to supervise the next general… Read more »
April 13, 2012
Guinea Bissau: Country Rocked By Apparent Coup Attempt
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Guinea-Bissau's military has taken control of the ruling party headquarters and national radio station on Thursday night as shots and rocket fire were heard in the capital,… Read more »
April 11, 2012
Africa: U.S. Congress Bill Calls On Obama to Engage African Markets [guest column]
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Brother, can you spare a dime? Read more »
April 07, 2012
Malawi: Banda Asserts Control, Summons Cabinet
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Malawi's Vice-President Joyce Banda made a bid to take control of the country on Saturday, announcing the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika and calling a Cabinet meeting. Read more »
Malawi: Ministers in Bid to Block V-P From Taking Power
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The struggle for power in Malawi came out into the open on Friday night when a group of Cabinet ministers appeared at a news conference to declare that Vice-President Joyce Banda… Read more »
April 06, 2012
Malawi: How Vice-President Joyce Banda Fell Out With President Mutharika [interview]
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Malawi's Vice-President Joyce Banda gave her view of the deterioration of her relationship with President Bingu wa Mutharika in an interview with AllAfrica last September. She told… Read more »
Malawi: Chief Justice, U.S. Tell Govt to Transfer Power to V-P
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Malawi's chief justice has told the country's government that it must obey the constitution and transfer power to Vice-President Joyce Banda, reports the Nyasa Times. Read more »
Malawi: Govt Faces Crisis After Mutharika Dies
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Malawi faced a political crisis on Friday after President Bingu wa Mutharika suffered a heart attack in Lilongwe on Thursday, and was reported on Friday to have died. Read more »
April 05, 2012
Africa: Are Maternal Deaths a 'Right to Life' Issue?
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Picture yourself in a room with 30 other women - knowing that one of you will die during pregnancy or childbirth. That's not a concept for a macabre TV show - unless it's reality… Read more »
Africa: Kickstarting Entrepreneurship and Progress [interview]
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KickStart, a non-proft that promotes technology and entrepreneurism in Africa, was among those honoured at the first Innovation Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls held… Read more »
Africa: Empowering Through Employment [interview]
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In three years, Samasource has paid more than U.S.$1.5 million in real wages to over 2,000 trained workers in places where most people survive on less than $3 a day. The social… Read more »
Malawi: President Mutharika Collapses After Heart Attack
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An unconscious President Bingu wa Mutharika was scheduled to be flown to a hospital in South Africa on Thursday night after suffering a heart attack earlier in the day, Malawi… Read more »
April 04, 2012
Somalia: Suicide Bomber Attacks National Leaders
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A suicide bomber blew herself up at an event in Somalia's national theatre in Mogadishu on Wednesday, killing dignitaries including sports chiefs. Read more »
April 03, 2012
Kenya: Slum Midwives Bridge Labour Gap
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To the casual visitor, the dusty, dimly lit room may not look much like a birthing center. But many women consider their babies lucky to enter the world in this mud-walled space in… Read more »
Mali: West African Leaders Clamp Down With Sanctions
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West African leaders have imposed a wide range of stringent sanctions on the military junta in Mali. Read more »