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Posted in Africa on Apr 8th, 2010
The European Union announced on Wednesday that it has withdrawn its poll observers from Sudan’s conflict-ridden Darfur region because of safety concerns. The decision came as one of the country’s main opposition party joined a growing boycott of national elections due to start on Sunday. A spokesman for the Uma party said on Thursday that [...]
Posted in Africa on Apr 6th, 2010
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has sworn in the members of the country’s first human rights and electoral commissions. South African negotiators who are mediating talks between Zimbabwe’s unity government partners said the move, completed last Wednesday, was a breakthrough towards electoral reforms and new elections. The BBC said analysts believe the two commissions are politically [...]
Posted in Africa on Apr 1st, 2010
The origin of the human race gets complicated with new discoveries, each one a direct antithesis of the other. The idea that man migrated out of Africa about a million years ago and back again is not new. A theory now claimed to be wrong because of the recent discoveries at Dmanisi in Georgia, dated [...]
Posted in Africa on Mar 29th, 2010
A six-fold pay rise for health workers in Sierra Leone was agreed late on Saturday night to end the 10-day old strike. The strike organiser, Dr Freddie Coker, said that doctors would now get a take-home salary of 600 US dollars – up from 100 US dollars a month. The strike led to the closure [...]
Posted in Africa on Mar 27th, 2010
The impact of the global financial crisis could cause Africa to miss the millennium development goal of halving poverty by 2015, the United Nations said on Thursday. The executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Abdoulie Janneh, said that Africa is the only continent not on track to meet the target. He [...]
Posted in Africa on Mar 24th, 2010
A long-running campaign against a controversial project to build a giant hydropower dam in Ethiopia has escalated this week amid claims that thousands of local people would lose their livelihoods as a result. Tribal rights group Survival International said on Wednesday that over 200,000 Ethiopians who rely on fishing and farming will have their livelihoods [...]
Posted in Africa on Mar 21st, 2010
Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Ghaddafi, has an interesting antidote to the frequent religious riots in Nigeria: break the country into two – something like the Islamic Republic of Northern Nigeria and Christian Republic of Southern Nigeria. In his own calculations, this is the ultimate recipe for peace and stability. There would be no more religious [...]
Posted in Africa on Mar 19th, 2010
Harmful traditional practices that put African women and children at risk should be ended, an African Union official has said. The AU’s Commissioner for Social Affairs and Culture, Bience Gawanas, told news agency Voice of America that a campaign to fight traditional practices in Africa such as female genital mutilation, child trafficking and underage forced [...]
Posted in Africa on Mar 17th, 2010
Human traffickers in Ethiopia have been using the upcoming football World Cup in South Africa to attract people into smuggling systems, according to the Ethiopian government. IRIN News reported on Tuesday that the State Minister for Labour and Social Affairs, Zenebu Tadesse, claimed smugglers are using the notion that the World Cup had created employment [...]
Posted in Africa on Mar 16th, 2010
The failure of civil servants to deliver government-run health, education or agricultural services due to small-scale corruption may put long-term development in Africa at risk, the World Bank said on Monday. The organisation released its Africa Development Indicators 2010 report describing the so-called practice of “quiet corruption” as one that involves small amounts of money [...]
