Niger : Where childhood ends on the marriage bed
Fifteen-year-old Hadjo Garbo’s child-like features belie a history more tragic and life-altering than many adults four times her age will have experienced.
Two years ago...
Kenya: Inefficient peace committees frustrate reconciliation in clash areas
Mother-of-four Ann Wacu is afraid to return to her home in Kenya's New Molo District, where inter-ethnic violence has killed dozens and displaced thousands...
Somalia: Prime minister to name new, leaner cabinet
Somalia's new prime minister Nur Hassan Hussein has dismissed his government just three weeks after its formation in favour of a “small but effective...
Philip D. Harvey : King of porn , Master of charity
DKT International, an NGO, made itself known, yet again, by virtue of the coffee flavoured condoms they are marketing in Ethiopia. The man behind...
Drogba operated : The Ivorian hopes to get better for the CAN 2008 kick-off
Didier Drogba was finally operated upon last saturday for recurrent pains in his knee. The Ivorian international hopes to get better before the beginning...
CAN 2008 : Nigeria wants its footballers in time…
The Nigerian Football Association (NFA) has asked foreign clubs to release Nigerian players selected to represent the country during the 2008 African Cup of...
Oprah Winfrey backs Barack Obama
Oprah Winfrey votes for Barack Obama ! Those were her words last Saturday at Des Moines, the Iowa state capital which plays host to...
Kenya: “Revenge attacks and rumours” fuelling hostilities in Molo
Revenge attacks, rumours, inaccurate media reports and provocative public statements by politicians have fuelled hostilities in Kenya's New Molo district, where clashes have displaced...
Nigeria: Gas flaring wrecking Delta communities
Civil society groups in the Niger Delta region have warned that the government is destroying communities’ health and Nigeria’s environment by flouting laws against...
Can 2008 : 30 candidates for the Benin Ecureuils
Benin has just completed the recruitment of international footballers wishing to play to uphold the country’s pride during the African Cup of Nations, which...
Kenya Airways : Human error behind the Douala Crash
The former Camerounian minister for transport, Dakolé Daïssala, declared that human error was the cause of the the Kenya Air transport company’s Boeing...
South Africa : Miners ask for more security
South African miners went on strike last Thursday to ask for better security measures in the country’s mines. The negligence in this sector has...
Harubuntu 2008 : a competitive exam to push those who contribute to Africa’s development
A competition to bring out the African potential and those who make it happen. This is what Harubuntu 2008 is about. It is open...
Ananzie.net, Africa and its diaspora’s website
Some months back, Ananzie.net made a remarkable appearance on the Afro Virtual scene. The reason being their peculiar design aimed at african and diaspora...
For the African woman’s emancipation through Safem arts and crafts
The fifth edition of the international exhibition of arts and crafts for women (Safem) takes place in the artisans village of of Wadata, Niamey,...
Sudan : A british School teacher judged for offending Mohammed
A british teacher appears before court, this Thursday, at Khartoum, to have allowed her pupils to name their class teddy bear Mohammed. Gillian Gibbons,...
Sierra Leone : The war is over but violence against women continues
Raped, tortured and used as slaves during the civil war, the maltreatment of women continues in Sierra Leone. Despite some latest changes, neither the...
Living with HIV and sexual bliss
contracting HIV is often viewed as an event that brings a sex life to a screeching halt, but Africans of diverse age groups have...
AGROED: bioenergy at the service of african development
The new french industry will begin its activites in Mali and Burkina Faso. Producing bioenergy while contributing towards development in developing countries. This is...
France: controversy surrounding a wall dedicated to those lost in the Algerian war
Sunday’s inauguration of the “wall of the lost, death without tombs in Algeria (1954-63)” is widely criticised by human rights and left wing activists....
Queen Elizabeth II opens CHOGM summit
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) opened in Kampala Friday with Queen Elizabeth II calling on member-countries to remain united.
The Commonwealth Heads of...
Sudan-Ethiopia: Thousands of Sudanese to return from Ethiopia in 2008
Close to 30,000 Southern Sudanese who fled the country's 21-year long north-south war are to return home from camps in neighbouring Ethiopia during 2008...
Nigeria: Abuja’s splendid centre surrounded by urban blight
Patience Israel, a 20-year-old hairdresser, lived in a decent home in Karimo, a squatter settlement near Nigeria's political capital, until it was demolished in...
Guinea-Bissau-Senegal: On the child trafficking route
In northern Guinea-Bissau, in the dark of night, a dilapidated bus carrying 17 children is parked on a quiet side road. Its driver awaits...
Euro 2008 : England eliminated, foreigners targeted
A day after their demise at the Euro 2008 qualifying match, the English are asking themselves if the high number of foreigners in the...
DRC: Poor harvest threatens food security, transport problems close feeding centre
Many tens of thousands of displaced people in Democratic Republic of Congo's conflict-ridden South Kivu province face serious food shortages in the coming months...
Afro-Americans fighting against racism
Part of the black community of the United States denounces a rise of racist crimes and the partiality of Justice, which they estimate to...
UN emergency fund CERF and NGOs – “Progress made, progress to make”
In a January report, Save the Children UK - one of the more vocal non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on humanitarian financing reforms - criticised the...
Ethiopia: Six more NGOs to operate in Somali region
More aid agencies – including three medical organisations - have been approved to operate in the troubled Somali region of Ethiopia.
Mercy Corps, International Medical...
Bakassi – where Cameroon is already in control
Some 10 minutes after leaving the jetty in the Nigerian border village of Ikang, our speedboat pulls up to a muddy bank now under...