Jos (AFP) - Nach dem Massaker an Christen in Nigeria haben tausende in Schwarz gekleidete Frauen am Donnerstag ihre Trauer zum Ausdruck gebracht und den Abzug der in der Region stationierten Soldaten gefordert.
Johannesburg (AFP) - Im Kampf gegen die Immunschwäche Aids in Afrika verteilen die Behörden spezielle Straßenkarten an die Risikogruppe der Lastwagenfahrer.
Bamako/Madrid (AFP) - Im westafrikanischen Mali hat der nordafrikanische Ableger des Terrornetzwerks El Kaida eine weitere europäische Geisel freigelassen.
Jos (AFP) - Die nigerianische Polizei hat die Zahl der bei einem Massaker in der Gegend um die Stadt Jos umgebrachten Menschen deutlich nach unten korrigiert.
Jos (AFP) - Die nigerianische Polizei hat die Zahl der bei einem Massaker in der Gegend um die Stadt Jos umgebrachten Menschen deutlich nach unten korrigiert.
Rabat (AFP) - Heftige Regenfälle haben in Marokko Überschwemmungen und Erdrutsche ausgelöst, durch die mindestens zehn Menschen ums Leben gekommen sind.
Jos (AFP) - Nach den blutigen Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Muslimen und Christen sind am Dienstag erneut Menschen vor der anhaltenden Gewalt in der Region um die zentralnigerianische Stadt Jos geflohen.
Rumours about Nigerian president Yar'Adua, violence in Jos, controversy over what happened to aid money during Ethiopia's famine in the 1980s and International Women's Day all feature in Sokari Ekine's round-up of the African blogosphere. There's also good news for Zimbabwe, as a documentary about the remarkable singer Prudence Mabhena and her band Liyana scoops an Oscar, with its inspiring story about overcoming the stereotypes around disability.
This 8 March marks 100 years since Clara Zetkin first proposed the annual International Women's Day (IWD) at the International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen, Denmark, a motion unanimously approved by over 100 women from 17 countries. When IWD was honoured for the first time the following year, more than one million women and men attended rallies campaigning for women's rights to work, vote, be trained, to hold public office and end discrimination.
Today I was talking to a friend about women's rights in the constitution. She told me this story about how she recently met a young girl from a very impoverished school in a high density area - the kind of school where there are hardly any text books and you expect the kids to battle their way through to exams, and then probably do badly despite their very best efforts and despite the huge lengths their parents go to to try and get them an education.
The African Development Bank (AfDB) said on Wednesday in Abuja that it had earmarked $2 billion for the development of agriculture in Africa in the next five years.
After months of anticipation, the winners for best book and first best book from Africa have been announced and will now go through to the final stage of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in April.
One in three Africans is chronically hungry, despite $3 billion spent on food aid for the continent annually and $33 billion in food imports, the director of the food security at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has warned.
This year, the 82nd annual Academy Awards ceremony, known as the Oscars, reflected the growing influence of African artists -- and issues -- on the American movie industry.
The Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Mr. Abdoulie Janneh yesterday said food imports from the developed world into the African continent annually gulps $33 billion.
As the dust settles after what appeared to be a failed climate change convention in Copenhagen, leaders, delegates and experts have gone back to the drawing board to look at what went wrong and how to avert such in the future.
Africa imports $33 billion worth of good annually. The continent also gets about $3 billion food aid annually to bridge the gap between domestic food supply and demand, the Secretary General, UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has said.
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