Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
By Caitlin Aylward This post is part of a series where Nourishing the Planet asks its readers: What works? Every week we’ll ask the question and every week you can join the conversation! As world population and incomes increase, so has the demand for fish and seafood. As of 2009, the world’s total fish […]
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, June 26, 2012 — Today, more than 35 countries from across Africa are represented at this year’s National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) Best Practice Sharing Workshop, entitled ‘Empowering Communities: The Heart of Malaria Control’. Convened by Novartis, this pivotal workshop brings together national and international malaria leaders to discuss key topics and […]
He may have had few chances in life, but Moses Sawanga now finds visible fulfillment in making the last thing most people will ever need – and doing so in a green way. World Environment Day on June 5 found Sawanga hammering away at coffins at his makeshift workshop in Huruma, a slum about 7 […]
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has officially welcomed President John Evans Atta Mills back home from his nine day medical check-up in the United States of America. Prior to the President’s trip, rumours were rife on some social networking sites that he had passed away with the opposition NPP being accused of fuelling the grapevine […]
The collapse of an opaque scheme to set up a multi-billion dollar national mining company prompts recriminations in Conakry and South Africa. The Guinean government’s decision this week to shut down a bid by South African businessmen who wield high-level political connections, to run its national mining company follows growing pressure from international financial institutions […]
Eliminated presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq said that professionalism requires all to respect the winner of the elections without any disputes. On Sunday, the Presidential Elections Committee declared the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Mursi Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, ending a transition period ruled by a group of army generals. Shafiq, who served as toppled President Hosni Mubarak’s […]
By Borja Santos Porras Debre Zeit — Since 2008 in Ethiopia, the Urban Gardens Program has strived to improve the general health and incomes of women, orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS, through urban agriculture. “My husband died from HIV/AIDS years ago and then I lost my first daughter the same way,” says […]
By Misheck Rusere Harare — While Uganda announced a decision to ban 38 NGOs supporting gay rights this week, in Zimbabwe, homosexuality is becoming an increasingly divisive topic. President Mugabe is on record describing homosexuals as “worse than pigs and dogs”. Prime Minister Tsvangirai says judgment should be left to divine powers. Meanwhile, the […]
The United Nations today called on South Sudan to develop a comprehensive plan for curbing violence in Jonglei state, as it released the findings of an investigation into inter-communal attacks that claimed hundreds of lives there in 2011 and early 2012. The report, compiled by the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) with support from […]
Dubai — Mohamad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has been declared the official winner of the first free Egyptian presidential elections. Cheers broke out both inside the briefing room and on Cairo’s Tahrir Square where protesters had been gathered since 22 June to protest what many had seen as a […]