Africaid's Whizzkids Scoop Global Sports Forum Award | Good News ...

Pretoria ? A non-profit organization, which teaches young people life lessons through soccer strategies, has scooped the Global Sports Forum award for best.

Create Jobs in Africa, and All Else Will Follow | Good News Africa

By Rosa Whitaker - Bill Gates' commitment at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to give $10 billion over the next decade to develop and.

East Africa new frontier for oil exploration | Good News Africa

HOUSTON, Texas ? East Africa has become a promising new frontier for oil exploration and major multinationals are jostling for the rights to search for black.

Africa: African Leaders Support Agribusiness Development Plan at ...

High-level representatives from 44 African countries wrapped up a United Nations-backed conference in Nigeria today with the approval of an ambitious plan to generate employment, income and food security across the continent through ...

Networking group for CIOs launched in SA

Executives' Global Networks (EGN), the worldwide organisation specialising in national and global information-sharing between executives, has launched a.

ITU releases standards for emergency satellite communication

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Virtualization is a key enabler of cloud computing

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Nigeria: Task Force on Niger-Delta Destroys Illegal Refineries ...

The Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta have destroyed fresh 500 illegal crude oil refineries and arrested six suspected oil thieves at Egbekebor and Gbelekumor communities in Delta State. More: Nigeria: Task Force on Niger-Delta ...

West Africa: ICT Unavoidable in West Africa's Development ? Ecowas ...

As the world continues to develop at a faster pace in the 21st century, access information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) has become a critical tool in human advancement. Knowing this potential very well, the Economic Community ...

Sudan: Humanitarian Response to New Arrivals in West Darfur IDP ...

On 9 March, UNAMID, collaborating with other humanitarian agencies, conducted a mission to Taiba Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp, about 40 km north of Zalingei, West Darfur. More than 600 people, mainly women, children and ...

South Africa: Airline Refutes Price-collusion and Vows to Fight ...

SAA maintains its innocence in the ongoing ticket-price collusion investigations and promises to deal with lost baggage claims in the run up to the 2010 World Cup. Go here to read the restContinue reading here: ...

ITU: ICT regulation drives investment in networks

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NGO News Africa: UNICEF aims to immunize 85 million children ...

Posted by NGO News Africa on: Tuesday, March 09, 2010. NEW YORK, USA, 5 March 2010 ? For children in West and Central Africa, the threat of the crippling disease polio, eradicated in much of the world, still looms. ...

Kenyan government suggests ban on second-hand computers

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East African Backhaul System needs $35 million injection

The East African Backhaul System (EABs), a project aimed at linking terrestrial fibre from five East African countries to submarine cables in Mombasa and Dar es.

South Africa: Malema Pours Scorn On Vavi's ANC Ambitions, Tilts At ...

AFRICAN National Congress (ANC) Youth League president Julius Malema said yesterday Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi would not have an easy ride into the ANC's national executive ...

South Africa: Rural Security ? Reinstating Some Discarded ...

THE most interesting aspect of the new rural security strategy announced by Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa ? which includes border patrols by the army, a beefed-up reservist force and a dedicated rural safety unit ? is how much it ...

South Africa: In Climate Change Hot Seat ? Van Schalkwyk May Be ...

TOURISM Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has worked hard over the years to shed his image as the overly junior head of the disintegrating New National Party. Since then he seems to have outgrown his tainted roots, ...

South Africa: Cele Blames High Crime Rate On Bail, Parole | Get ...

Controversial national police commissioner Bheki Cele yesterday sharply criticised other elements of the criminal justice system ? notably those granting bail and parole ? for making already dangerous police work even more so. ...

Southern Africa: Companies Can Donate Talent in Employee Volunteer ...

CAF Southern Africa has launched this year's Employee Volunteer Week, to run from March 15 to 21. Read the rest here: Southern Africa: Companies Can Donate Talent in Employee Volunteer Week. Topics: caf, employee, employee-volunteer, ...

NGO News Africa: How do Tanzanian parents provide children their ...

Posted by NGO News Africa on: Tuesday, March 09, 2010. HARD-to-deal-with social, economic and, sometimes, culture-related problems are driving the Tanzanian population to look at life in new and varying ways. ...

Africa: Glo-Caf Awards ? Lighting World Cup Fire in Africa | Get ...

The 2009 edition of the Glo-CAF Awards ceremony will showcase the burning passion of African footballer to excel on the world stage, as well as celebrate his natural fluidity and the rapid development of football skills on the continent ...

Africa: FG to Begin Gas Supply to West Africa, Europe | Get Some ...

Federal Government has said that while the gas-to-liquid project is being developed, it is in the final stages of supplying gas to the West African sub-region on the regional front. It also said that it has planned, ...

NGO News Africa: NIGERIA: More mass graves dug in Jos

Posted by NGO News Africa on: Tuesday, March 09, 2010. ABUJA, 8 March 2010 (IRIN) - Hundreds of people in the city of Jos, 350km northeast of Nigeria's capital, Abuja, have been buried in mass graves after machete-wielding intruders ...

NGO News Africa: Sudan: No access after Darfur clashes

Posted by NGO News Africa on: Tuesday, March 09, 2010. Weeks of fighting in parts of Darfur have raised concern over the plight of civilians, as insecurity has prompted humanitarian agencies to suspend activities in some areas. ...

NGO News Africa: Nigeria: United On Whip Not Child

Posted by NGO News Africa on: Tuesday, March 09, 2010. Lagos ? In Nigeria and other Africa countries, parents, teachers and guardians employ corporal punishment as corrective measure against their children. ...

South Africa: Debunking Denialism | Get Some News -- Africa

It is fitting that one of the sharpest minds and committed leaders of South Africa's illustrious AIDS activist movement has documented not only the atrocities perpetuated by the Mbeki-Manto reign, but also the evolution of one of the ...

Nigeria: NFF Appoints Lulu's Personal Lawyer, Mustafa, to Head ...

As THE August 28th date of the scheduled board election of the Nigeria Football Federation draw near, facts have begun to emerge on the identity of persons that were picked by the leadership of the federation to conduct the polls which ...

South Africa: Aids Activist Women Honoured | Get Some News -- Africa

The Treatment Action Campaign's General Secretary Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola and Chairperson Nonkosi Khumalo have received the John M Lloyd Foundation Leadership Award in Los Angeles. Read more here: South Africa: Aids Activist Women ...

NGO News Africa: Uganda: KAMPALA: MESSAGE OF COMMISERATION

Posted by NGO News Africa on: Tuesday, March 09, 2010. PRESS STATEMENT The Uganda Land Alliance (ULA) wishes to register its deep concern about the recent land slides that claimed hundreds of lives on the slopes of Mt. Elgon, ...

NGO News Africa: In Nigeria, children born with cleft lip & palate ...

Posted by NGO News Africa on: Tuesday, March 09, 2010. JOSEPH and Joy Oha were so eager to have their first baby shortly after they got married nine months ago. When Joy took in, two months after their traditional engagement, ...

NGO News Africa: Sudan: Water - A matter of life and death

Posted by NGO News Africa on: Tuesday, March 09, 2010. Jennifer Smith's blog. When my colleague Melanie Teff and I visited Upper Nile and Southern Kordofan states a few weeks ago, we spent a lot of time hearing and talking about water. ...

NGO News Africa: Segment #20: Sudanese child soldiers

Posted by NGO News Africa on: Tuesday, March 09, 2010. NEW YORK, USA, 1 March 2010 ? As a teenager, Abraham Kur Achiek served in the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), the rebel group that fought Sudan's Government for more than 20 ...

NGO News Africa: TANZANIA: Merging family planning and HIV services

Posted by NGO News Africa on: Tuesday, March 09, 2010. DAR ES SALAAM, 1 March 2010 (PlusNews) - A Tanzanian project is integrating family planning and HIV messages via community health workers who teach HIV-positive couples how to avoid ...

Should Africa ban second-hand goods? | Get Some News -- Africa

Every year tonnes of electrical goods and used clothing from the West find their way to Africa. Is this killing the continent? The rest is here: Should Africa ban second-hand goods? Topics: africa have your say, continent, ...

Nigeria: Trailers Crush 104 to Death At Lokoja, Benin Market | Get ...

Death took 106 lives in different forms in three states on Monday and Tuesday, 104 of them through road accidents in Lokoja and Benin, and two by the bullets of kidnappers in Onitsha. Read this article: Nigeria: Trailers Crush 104 to ...

East Africa Com 2010, 400% growth in registrations

East Africa Com 2010 Congress, to be held on 27-28 April 2010 in Nairobi, Kenya, has so far registered a record breaking number of delegates, with over 140.

Africa: Seeing Signs of Recovery After Global Crisis ? IMF | Get ...

With recovery getting under way, Africa should now address longer term challenges to the continent's future, including governance issues and climate change, to be able to press ahead with the region's economic transformation, ...

Spanish hostage in Africa freed | Get Some News -- Africa

A Spanish woman kidnapped in West Africa last year has been freed, Madrid says; and an Italian may also be free. Read more: Spanish hostage in Africa freed. Topics: africa, italian, last-year, madrid, woman-kidnapped ...

Angola: U.S. Spends Over a Million in Malaria Combat | Get Some ...

The United States of America spends at least one million US Dollars a year in the fight against malaria, under the Roll Back Malaria programme launched a few years ago. Read more from the original source: ...

South Africa: Africaid's Whizzkids Scoop Top Sports Award | Get ...

A non-profit organization, which teaches young people life lessons through soccer strategies, has scooped the Global Sports Forum award for best Sport and Health programme. Read more here: South Africa: Africaid's Whizzkids Scoop Top ...

Gambia: The Surprise Visits by the President Yield | Get Some News ...

As soldiers replaced police officers at every junction stretching from the Churchill Town Junction near the petrol station to the airport in rapid succession many people using the route began to ask: ?What is going on? What is Going on? ...

Zuma submits finance declaration | Get Some News -- Africa

South African President Jacob Zuma submits his declaration of interests, after critics urged an inquiry into his finances. More here: Zuma submits finance declaration. Topics: africa, after-critics, declaration, finances, jacob, ...

Liberia: Taylor Never Gave His Rebels Orders to Kill, Said Witness ...

A witness defending Charles Taylor today said he never heard of the former Liberian president giving orders to his own rebel forces to kill, rape, loot or burn people's houses, as alleged by prosecutors. ...

Nigeria: Yar'Adua ? Police to Stop Protesters Getting to Aso Rock ...

24 hours to the planned protest of the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, against continued absence of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua from national limelight due to illness and refusal of the Federal Executive Council to invoke Section 144 and ...

There is light at the end of South Africa's economic tunnel

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South Africa: Trade Conditions Continue to Improve | Get Some News ...

The Trade Conditions Survey for February continued on its improved trait rising to 54 points. Read this article: South Africa: Trade Conditions Continue to Improve. Topics: continued-on-its, its-improved, survey, trade, trade-conditions ...

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Ugandan businesses to manufacture goods from Sudan | Get Some News ...

As business grows and Ugandan businessmen and manufacturers scavenge more for ready market in southern Sudan, companies in Uganda have decided to start manufacturing their goods in southern Uganda. See more here: ...

Contractors 'divert Somalia aid' | Get Some News -- Africa

Up to half the food aid in Somalia is routinely diverted to corrupt contractors and militants, a UN report says. More: Contractors 'divert Somalia aid'. Topics: africa, corrupt-contractors, food, food-aid, half-the-food, ...