Often the hardest thing is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn – David Russel
Posted in Africa on Aug 18th, 2009
According to estimates by the Nigerian Red Cross Society, more than 1000 children lost parents in July’s clashes between militant Islamist group, Boko Haram and police. Some news reports placed the death toll of people killed during the clashes in Borno and Bauchi state as high as 700. Head of the Nigerian Red Cross, Bullam […]
Posted in Africa on Aug 17th, 2009
Figures released by the Rwandan government show significant progress has been made in providing HIV treatment and care nationwide. More than 70 per cent of people in need of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs have access to them, according to the government’s Treatment and Research AIDS centre. Sixty per cent of HIV positive women can access treatment […]
Posted in Africa on Aug 14th, 2009
A Zambian court has delayed its verdict in the long-running corruption case against former president, Frederick Chiluba. According to a BBC news report, the case has been postponed until Monday. Chiluba is accused of embezzling half a million dollars in public funds during his 10-year rule, which ended in 2001. He denies the charges. He […]
Posted in Africa on Aug 13th, 2009
Services were paralysed at Zimbabwe’s state-run hospitals on Wednesday after doctors demanding better pay went on strike. The union, the Hospital Doctors’ Association (HDA) said doctors had walked out of the four major hospitals in Harare and Bulawayo after negotiations with the government ended inconclusively. They are demanding their annual salaries are raised above 1,000 […]
Posted in Africa on Aug 12th, 2009
A UN report says around 700,000 children under the age of five in the Central African Republic are severely malnourished. A recent survey by the UN’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in three of the country’s provinces found that 16 per cent of children under five are acutely malnourished and in just over five per cent of […]
Posted in Africa on Aug 11th, 2009
The recent uprising in Northern Nigeria, had its genesis in June when members of the Yusufiyyah sect {Boko Haram had a clash with Operation Flush 11 leading to the shooting of seventeen of their members. The sect members were on their way to burying four of their members who died a day earlier in an […]
Posted in Africa on Aug 11th, 2009
Madagascar’s political rivals have agreed a power-sharing deal in order to install a transitional government later this year. Madagascar has faced increasing isolation from other African countries, and cuts to its non-humanitarian aid after Andry Rajoelina seized power in a coup last year, forcing the then President Marc Ravalomanana into exile. The new agreement, signed […]
Posted in Africa on Aug 9th, 2009
The United States Secretary of state Hillary Clinton will be in Nigeria on Tuesday, this is the second African country she is visiting, she is shedulled to visit seven African Countries. The visits which started last Thursday at the university of Nairobi in Kenya, between Hilarry Clinton and the people of Kenya will be repeated […]
Posted in Africa on Aug 7th, 2009
Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania are to receive 151 million US dollars from the World Bank to improve their communication sectors. The funding is part of a wider project aimed at linking eastern and southern Africa to reliable and high-capacity communication services. The region is the only one not fully connected to the world’s broadband networks, […]
Posted in Africa on Aug 6th, 2009
Thousands of people in Mozambique this week protested against a government decision to close 23 HIV daycare centres across the country. Protesters in the capital Maputo handed Health Minister Paulo Ivo Garrido a letter condemning the move, which they say could jeopardise the health of HIV-positive patients. An estimated 16 per cent of Mozambique’s 21 […]
