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 […]
Jun 27 2012 | Posted in
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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 […]
Jun 27 2012 | Posted in
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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 […]
Jun 25 2012 | Posted in
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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 […]
Jun 25 2012 | Posted in
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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 […]
Jun 25 2012 | Posted in
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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 […]
Jun 25 2012 | Posted in
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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 […]
Jun 25 2012 | Posted in
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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 […]
Jun 25 2012 | Posted in
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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 […]
Jun 25 2012 | Posted in
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The United Nations tribunal trying key suspects implicated in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, today transferred to Rwandan authorities the case of Aloys Ndimbati, a former local government official charged with crimes against humanity. Mr. Ndimbati, who was the bourgmestre [mayor] of the Gisovu commune from 1990 until the end of July 1994, currently remains […]
Jun 25 2012 | Posted in
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