Often the hardest thing is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn – David Russel
Posted in Africa on Oct 20th, 2009
South African police forces have shot and killed a total of 556 people in the last year in what is the highest annual toll in the country for a decade. The figure has been released by the country’s Independent Complaints Directorate following the death of a 30-year-old hairdresser who was mistakenly shot by police in [...]
Posted in Africa on Oct 19th, 2009
Zimbabwe’s cabinet is due to meet tomorrow despite the boycott declared last Friday by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai‘s party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Commentators say President Robert Mugabe‘s decision to hold the weekly cabinet meeting without the leader of the former opposition party is an indicator of the fragility of the power sharing agreement [...]
Posted in Africa on Oct 16th, 2009
The United Kingdom will provide 100 million US dollars in aid to Zimbabwe this year, the largest ever annual donation to the country. The British ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mark Canning, announced the decision yesterday. Mr Canning said the aid money would support the coalition government formed after political rivals Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai signed [...]
Posted in Africa on Oct 15th, 2009
Guinea and China have signed a mining and oil deal this week that will bring more than seven billion US dollars in Chinese investment to the African country. The agreement was announced on Tuesday by Mamadi Kallo, Guinea’s secretary of state in charge of public works. China has yet to confirm the deal. Chinese investment [...]
Posted in Africa on Oct 14th, 2009
Around 70,000 women die every year and five million others develop complications as a result of unsafe abortions, according to a new report released yesterday. Despite a fall in the general number of abortions worldwide, the research by the US-based Guttmacher Institute found that restricting the availability of legal procedures does not reduce the number [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 12th, 2009
It is the story of a girl born to a clan of nomadic goat herders in Somalia who flees her remote village at the age of 13 when she discovers her family have arranged for her to be the fourth wife of a man more than twice her age.
She travels from Mogadishu to London [...]
Posted in Africa on Oct 12th, 2009
China’s investments in Africa are doing more for the continent’s development than Western aid programmes, Rwandan President Paul Kagame has said. Current trade flows between China and Africa are estimated to be of over 100 billion US dollars per year. Kagame told the German business newspaper Handelsblatt that Chinese investments are helping establish African companies [...]
Posted in Africa on Oct 12th, 2009
ADDIS ABABA has accused Asmara of sowing havoc in the region and reiterated calls for sanctions over Eritrea’s alleged support for Somalia’s rebels.
“It is going on and on with its creating havoc agenda. The character of this regime is not changing,” Agence France Presse (AFP) quoted Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi Meles as telling the [...]
Posted in Africa on Oct 10th, 2009
An African Union panel led by former South African president, Thabo Mbeki, has produced a report that aims to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region. Handing over the report to the AU in Ethiopia yesterday, Mr Mbeki said the Darfur conflict can only be resolved by the Sudanese people. The [...]
Posted in Events on Oct 10th, 2009
Innovating for Africa: Uncommon Service is a documentary film showing how to move Nigeria forward. It celebrates Dr Oluyombo
Awojobi, a Nigerian innovator and physician, who for the past twenty
years has transformed a rural community with no modern infrastructure
into an exemplary health care center.With the support of the people of Eruwa, a subsistence farming
community in Oyo [...]
