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Daily news and weekly updates from Africa
- Monday 21 July 2014
Kenya: World Bank To Fund 4.2 Billion Shillings Petroleum Project
Tullow Oil Company estimates to have found more than 300 million barrels of oil equivalent resources after making three discoveries in Kenya’s South Lokichar Basin, with Twiga becoming the first well in Kenya to produce oil at a commercially viable rate and has the potential to produce 5,000 barrels a day in February. - Monday 21 July 2014
Kenya: Gunmen On Rampage Kill At Least 4 And Injure 11 In Mombasa City
Gunmen go on shooting rampage in Mombasa and leave leaflets explaining attack as retribution for recent raid on Mpeketoni, Kenya police say. - Monday 21 July 2014
South Sudan: Rebels Claim Capture Of Strategic Nasir Town As UN Condemns Attack
Talks between the two parties, currently on hold, is seen as the best alternative to the country's seven-month old conflict that has killed thousands and displaced nearly 1.5 million South Sudanese. - Friday 18 July 2014
Uganda: Fishing Communities at High Risk of HIV / AIDS Says IOM
Covering 42 fishing communities from six Ugandan districts, the study looks at the level of knowledge and its relationship with the attitudes and practices of people in the fishing communities. - Thursday 17 July 2013
CAR: Study Reveals Massive Levels of Death Due to Violence Against Muslims
Between December 2013 and January 2014, several hundred thousand people fled abuse and violence in CAR, seeking refuge in Chad and Cameroon, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. - Wednesday 16 July 2014
Nigeria: Boko Haram Kills 2,053 Civilians in 6 Months, Says Human Rights Watch
The Abuja attacks may demonstrate a southward trend of Boko Haram operations, Human Rights Watch said. - Wednesday 16 July 2014
Sudan: Humanitarian Needs Reach US$982 million
The first half of 2014 saw more people displaced in Darfur than in any single year since the height of the crisis in 2004. - Monday 14 July 2014
South Sudan: Child Malnutrition Rates Skyrocket
More than 13,270 children, most under the age of five, have been admitted to MSF feeding programmes in South Sudan so far this year, amounting to 73 percent of the 18,125 admissions during the whole of 2013. - Monday 14 July 2014
Uganda: Invasive Dangerous Weeds Threatening Wildlife in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Says official
About 6,300 tonnes of the water hyacinth has been invading Lake Victoria per day, for about three years now, threatening to choke the lake like it did in the 1989-1990’s. - Monday 14 July 2014
Uganda: Root For Girl Child Rights, Say Archbishop of J’burg
African governments and non-governmental organizations have placed more emphasize on girl child rights, such as right to quality education, fight against female genital mutilation and early marriages so as to encourage gender parity and alleviate poverty in our societies. - Monday 14 July 2014
Egypt: 8 Dead, 25 Injured in Sinai’s Blasts
Egypt has been hit by an Islamist insurgency led by Sinai-based militants, who have mainly targeted security forces since last year’s army ouster of elected Islamist President Mohamed Morsi last July, after mass protests against his rule. - Monday 14 July 2014
Angola: Illegal Ivory Trade At Peak
CAR is estimated to host 81,000 of the continent’s about 500,000 elephants, according to a 2012 report by the U.N. Environment Program with Southern Africa, being a home to about 290,000, followed by Botswana and Zimbabwe respectively. - Monday 14 July 2014
South Africa: I Support ‘Mercy Killing’, Tutu
Netherlands was the first country in the world to legalize euthanasia in April 2002 followed by Belgium in September in the same year, while Switzerland allows suicide assisted by doctors but it is not legal. - Thursday 10, July 2014
Africa Receives More Than Half Of China's Recent Foreign Aid
In 2011, China put its total foreign aid over the past six decades at 256.29 billion Yuan (USD 41.32 billion). - Thursday 10 July 2014
Africa Wants More Than Survival to be Able to Compete Globally, Kagame
Through literature African writers have been able to stand up against poor leadership and authoritarian governments, pointing out the ills of our societies, depicting the suffering of the people in the black continent causing many of them to go into exile, killed, branded terrorists or communists such as Kenyans, Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Wahome Mutahi.