South Africa: DDT finds favour in fight against malaria
After years of resistance, people living in the rural areas of South Africa are beginning to embrace the use of DDT as an effective...
Zimbabwe: New forex policy “paralyses” NGOs
Zimbabwean non-governmental organisations (NGOs) claim their operations have been paralysed since the Reserve Bank raided their foreign currency accounts (FCAs).
In his mid-year Monetary Policy...
MEND claims responsibility for Shell pipeline attack
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack on a pipeline supplying crude oil to Shell's...
No clues yet to deadly attack on Cameroonian troops
Nigerian and Cameroonian officials met Thursday but no clues have yet been found to the attack that killed 21 Cameroonian soldiers in the Bakassi...
Sudan: Do more to contain Rift Valley Fever – WHO
The UN World Health Organization has urged Sudan to step up its efforts to halt the spread of Rift Valley Fever in the east...
MAURITANIA-SENEGAL: Is Mauritania ready for its refugees?
Mauritania, Senegal and the UN Refugee Agency recently signed an agreement that could turn the page on an ugly history in Mauritania, where 75,000...
Zoe’s Ark affair : Is Cécilia Sarkozy on-board ?
Daniel Gonzalez, a crew member of the Spanish flying company Girjet told the judge in charge of the inquiries that Cécilia Sarkozy was on...
Zoe’s Ark: French will stay in Chad’s prison
This Wednesday, the judge has refused to release the nine person accused in the Zoe’s Ark affair. His decision followed the huge anti-French march...
New improved disaster response tool
A new tool has been developed to help humanitarian agencies and donors analyse a disaster situation, make a comparison with another disaster that might...
Afro Americans browsing the Web to find their ancestors
The internet is the new useful tool for Afro American trying to find out their past History. How IT and Genealogy fit each other
While...
Ceasefire fails to quell Darfur violence
A unilateral ceasefire announced by Khartoum in late October has failed to improve security in Darfur, where armed groups continue to do battle, according...
Bill Gates, the new aid giant
Can the entrepreneurial zeal, innovation and super-size budgets of private foundations succeed where a sclerotic and undisciplined international aid industry has failed? Or is...
David Haye wins the WBA and WBC cruiserweight world titles
The Sports Hall "Marcel Cerdan" in Levallois (near Paris, France) was overcrowded last saturday to support local hero Jean-Marc Mormeck, defending his WBA and...
OCHA concerned over official’s expulsion from South Darfur
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sudan is holding talks with government officials over the expulsion of its South...
Aid agencies struggle to support over two million displaced Iraqis
As violence continues to force an average of 60,000 Iraqis from their homes every month, according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), aid agencies...
5 ex-Nigerian state governors ‘to return stolen 50b naira’
Five former state governors in Nigeria have agreed to return a total of 50 billion naira in looted public funds, so they will not...
Cameroon’s civil society rejects calls for limitless term for Biya
Cameroon's civil society organisations and opposition political parties, grouped under the "civil society's platform for democracy in Cameroon," have strongly condemned calls to change...
Ethiopia says Eritrea preparing for war over disputed border
Maintaining its stance to resolve the nine-year border dispute with neighbouring Eritrea through dialogue, Ethiopia late Thursday said Eritrea would bear the responsibility for...
Nigeria: Government hits tobacco companies with whopping law suit
The Nigerian federal government filed a suit in the High Court of Abuja on Tuesday against tobacco companies British-American Tobacco, Philip Morris International, and...
New clues to mystery illness
The number of people affected by a mystery illness that has already claimed the lives of 4 children on the outskirts of the Angolan...
Government accused of hypocrisy in Zoe’s Ark affair
Surrounded by the 103 African children caught up in an alleged abduction plot by a French charity, Chadian president Idriss Déby appeared before photographers...
Zimbabwe’s Attorney-General arrested
Zimbabwe's Attorney-General Sobusa Gula-Ndebele was arrested Thursday for behaviour inconsistent with his office, after he allegedly met a man on a police wanted list...
Kenyan manufacturers ‘must meet EAC quality standards’
Kenyan manufacturers have been urged to acquire the basic Standardisation Mark of quality in order to safeguard trade within East African Community (EAC) by...
Mogadishu residents trapped by violence – MSF
Increasing violence in parts of the Somali capital Mogadishu has trapped many residents, leaving them with no safe place to go, Médecins Sans Frontières...
Biafra separatist leader free and defiant
The jailed leader of a separatist movement in the south-east of Nigeria known formerly as Biafra was released from detention at the end of...
Qat cultivation threatening water resources, specialists warn
For Ahmed Rajeh, a 54-year-old farmer from Sanaa Governorate, qat is as important as water. “Qat is the of our economy,” Rajeh says,...
ZIMBABWE: HIV rate falls again
When Zimbabwe registered a decline in HIV prevalence rates in 2004, and again in 2006, the news was met with scepticism, but new official...
Deby-Sarkozy Meeting in N’Djamena
Chad President Idriss Deby Itno meet today French President Nicolas Sarkozy in N'Djamena for a short visit of... 2 hours! They spoke about the...
Faso 2007 : Tomasi captures his second
One had to wait until the penultimate day to witness a bunched sprint at the end of the stage. In such a register all...
President Bai Koroma off to Senegal
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) – Sierra Leonean President Earnest Bai Koroma left Freetown on Saturday for Senegal for a one-day visit at the invitation...