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Daily news and weekly updates from Africa
- Monday 7 July 2014
CAR: Alarming Levels of Malnutrition Among Refugee Children and Women Flooding Cameroon
Since March 2014, more than 1,600 children with severe acute malnutrition were admitted in the therapeutic feeding centers available at the arrival points and refugees’ sites and hospitals. - Friday 4 July 2014
Uganda: Police, Army Take Over Kampala After Airport Terror Warning
Hundreds of officers in battle dress, some wielding high velocity sniper rifles and others light weapons patrolled the city suburbs, causing panic among city dwellers during the morning rush hour. - Friday 4 July 2014
CAR: One Killed and 10 Injured in Grenade Explosion in Bangui
Thousands of people are reported to have been killed in fighting and about a million displaced in CAR Congo. - Friday 4 July 2014
West Africa: Health Ministers Agree on Priority Actions to end Ebola Outbreak
The scale of the ongoing outbreak is unprecedented with reports of over 750 cases and 445 deaths in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia since March 2014. - Friday 4 July 2014
Zimbabwe: President Mugabe Warns Black Farmers Against Returning Land to White Settlers
Land reform policy of seizing most of Zimbabwe's white-owned farms launched in 2000 and which was accompanied by violent evictions, aimed to resettle blacks on 4000 commercial farms caused the country's economic meltdown in the last decade 2009, say critics. - Thursday 3 July 2014
Africa: Develop Hydro Power, Says Kufuor
Adopt Climate Smart Agricultural and energy polices to enable you to achieve food security goals while adapting to the ravages of climate change, African countries told. - Thursday 3 July 2014
Tanzania: Country Tops Foreign Direct Investment Destination in EAC – UN
Recent data from UNCTAD indicates, in 2013 Tanzania had USD 12.7 billion in FDI stock, eclipsing both Kenya and Uganda which stood at a low USD 3.4 billion and USD 8.8 billion respectively. - Thursday 3 July 2014
Tanzania: Country Leads in Use of Mobile Banking Services, M-Pesa
December 2013 alone, Tanzanians conducted 99.9 million transactions worth a combined total of Tshs 3.1 trillion ($1.8 billion), not a simple feat considering that only 14% of Tanzanian adults use banks, less than half the rate in Kenya, and on a par with Zambia towards the bottom of the table. - Thursday 3 July 2014
South Sudan: UN Officials Complain After Government Block Staff from Traveling Based on Ethnicity
U.N. Security Council almost doubled the mandated number of peacekeepers in late December 2013 to 12,500 troops and 1,323 police, but so far only some 8,100 troops are on the ground. - Wednesday 2 July 2014
South Sudan: Top UN Mission Official Says Situation in the Country is Bleak
Humanitarian situation in the new nation is making it difficult to deliver aid to some areas inaccessible by road, yet not enough is prepositioned in preparation for rainy seasons, says Johnson. - Wednesday 2 July 2014
CAR Congo: Children Rights Being Violated in Conflict Situation with Total Impunity, says UN Official
In 2014, Children of CAR continue to face unspeakable violence, a deadly mix of attacks and retaliation motivated by religion, a worsening humanitarian crisis and complete lack of law and order that continues to plague the country, says Zerrougui. - Wednesday 2 July 2014
DRC Congo: UN Slaps Sanctions on Fighting Uganda’s ADF Rebel Group
ADF attacked numerous villages in eastern Congo in 2014, prompting more than 66,000 people to flee into Uganda, decapitating at least 5 people in the Kamango area, shooting several others and kidnapping dozens more, says U.N report. - Wednesday 2 July 2014
Uganda: Discuss Sex and STI’s With Your Children, Parents Told.
Statistics show that HIV prevalence stands at 7.1% and at 2.8% among women and men aged 20 to 24 years respectively. - Tuesday 1 July 2014
South Sudan: Pervasive Violence Against Healthcare Deny Services to the Most Vulnerable, Report
The aim of the report is to encourage dialogue and raise awareness about the impact of the crisis on the provision of medical care, and encourage positive change towards ensuring safe access to healthcare for the people of South Sudan. - Monday 30 June 2014
Equatorial Guinea:Over 2 Million Africans Petition African Leaders at AU Summit to Do Agric
ONE.org officially launched its “Do Agric, It Pays” campaign on 20 January 2014 along the margins of the 22nd Ordinary Session of the AU Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in support of the 2014 AU Year of Agriculture.