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Daily news and weekly updates from Africa
- Friday 27 June 2014
East Africa:Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda Unite Efforts to Combat Illegal Timber Trade
The East Africa Initiative on Illegal Timber Trade and REDD+ represents an innovative cross-border, multi-sectoral effort that will create a powerful deterrent to Africa’s illegal timber trade. - Thursday 26 June 2014
Sierra Leone: 46 killed by Deadly Ebola Virus
The type of ebola strain appears to be different from the one in DR Congo and this is why we have sent 30 blood samples of the ebola strain to Harvard University for identification - Wednesday 25 June 2014
Horn of Africa: Djibouti Invests to Become Education Leader In the Region
University goes live on Oracle e-campus to deliver world-class education - Wednesday 25 June 2014
Africa: Pope Francis Launches Campaign to Help Albinos
Albino killings have been reported in a dozen African countries from South Africa to Kenya, but they are worse in Tanzania than anywhere else. - Wednesday 25 June 2013
South Sudan Recommits to Action Plan to End Recruitment and Use of Children
The Government of South Sudan formally renewed its commitment to the Action Plan signed in 2012 with the United Nations to end the recruitment and use of children in Government armed forces and other grave violations against children. - Tuesday 24 June 2014
Kenya: 5 killed in Fresh attack in coastal town of Lamu
Unknown assailants attacked Mpeketoni town in the Kenya coast killing at least 65 people last week. - Tuesday 24 June 2014
Egypt: Australian Journalist Jailed as Family and the World Explodes with Fury
The case has provoked an unprecedented international campaign involving global media and human-rights groups, who claim the arrest and trial of media staff is an act of political grandstanding by the Egyptian government in its regional dispute with Qatar, home of the Al Jazeera Media Network. - Tuesday 24 June 2013
Nigeria: Bomb Explodes at a College in Kano, Killing 8
The extremist group did not immediately claim responsibility, but Boko Haram often targets schools and Western medicine and which recently claimed responsibility for kidnapping 200 Nigerian schoolgirls. - Monday 23 June 2014
Egypt: 20 Journalists Sentenced to Jail amid an Ongoing Culture of Media Repression in Africa
Press freedom has been dealt a major blow in Africa in the recent months with Zimbabwe sentencing editor-in-chief of Chinhoyi community newspaper Western Star, James Muonwa to 6 months in jail. - Monday 23 June 2014
Kenya: KDF Air Strikes Pound 2 Somali Al-Shabaab Bases Killing at Least 80
The air strikes come one week after the Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for twin massacres on Kenya's coastal town of Mpeketoni in which at least 60 people were killed, although Nairobi blamed those attacks on local political networks. - Monday 23 June 2014
Ghana: Referendum to be Held on Death Penalty, Other Laws
Many African countries have scrapped away death penalty from there constitutions, replacing it with life imprisonment, mean while Kenya is seeking to do away with life sentence penalty to only a maximum of 25years with prospects of early parole, as a way of encouraging rehabilitation of prisoners. - Monday 23 June 2014
Kenya: U.S. Updates Kenya Travel Advisory, Relocates Staff
USA Department of State explained that its government continues to receive information about potential terrorist threats aimed at Western and Kenyan interests in Nairobi and the coastal towns of Mombasa and Diani, in south Coast. - Monday 23 June 2014
South Africa: Small Farms in Africa Receive $500 Million to Boost Food Security
Syngenta, the Swiss agribusiness, is investing $500 million (R5.3 billion) in Africa between 2012 and 2022, in effort to boost food security. - Friday 20 June 2014
Mali: 500 000 kids at Risk of Malnutrition
85% of the nearly 500 000 children at risk of acute malnutrition live in southern Mali, while in the more sparsely populated north the food crisis has been made worse by the deteriorating security situation, which has severely limited people's access to water, health care and education. - Friday 20 June 2014
Nigeria:Chibok Community Receives $855,000 Emergency Grant from Japan
The Summary of Support is the Protection of women from sexual and gender violence, psychosocial support for the abducted school girls and their families, says Japan.