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Daily news and weekly updates from Africa
- Tuesday 3 June 2014
Libya: Medical Services Suffer Effects of Fighting in Benghazi
The Libyan Red Crescent, with ICRC support, is striving to respond to the most acute needs in affected areas. Since the outbreak of the current fighting in Benghazi, its volunteers have been working in difficult conditions to remove the injured and the dead. - Tuesday 3 June 2014
Malawi: New President’s Inaugural Address
My governments foreign policy would be based on what is best for Malawi, says Mutharika. - Tuesday 3 June 2014
Libya: 15 Killed and 43 wounded in Dawn clashes in Benghazi
Benghazi Central Blood-bank has issued an urgent request for all citizens to donate blood at the city’s hospitals as they are currently running on reserve supplies, as fighting intensify. - Friday 30 May 2014
Ghana: 347,000 People Screened for TB
Every day 174 trained community health volunteers worked in pairs, talking to people about their health, TB, how it is spread, the new screening process and the availability of free treatment. - Friday 30 May 2014
Egypt: Sisi Wins Presidential Election
Most Egyptian newspapers, who have been showering Sisi with praise for months, celebrated the result, with state-run Al-Akhbar calling it "a day of hope for all Egyptians". - Friday 30 May 2014
Kenya: Troops May Join UN Mission in South Sudan
If Kenyan government gives a green light, the soldiers will join a “protection task-force” of East African troops that will be led by an Ethiopian commander, operating under UN Mission in South Sudan (UNmiss). - Thursday 29 May 2014
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Flees Hospital Bill Amidst Claims of Bankruptcy
Tsvangirai told step down by his MDC party lieutenants for failure to dispose the incumbent President Robert Mugabe from power, even though he has remained very popular amongst the people of the southern Africa nation. - Thursday 29 May 2014
Africa: Competition Increases for Countries Seeking FDI into their Power Sectors
The 16th annual Africa Energy Forum will take place in Istanbul on 18 – 20 June 2014. - Thursday 29 May 2014
Kenya: Negligence of Boy Child Now Threatens Vision 2030
Concerns have increased over the marginalization of the boy child even as the girl child continues to get rising support, says report. - Wednesday 28 May 2014
Africa: Digital Migration Marred with Controversies
Digital migration June 2015 deadline will not be revised to fit any country that have not made any progress so far. - Wednesday 28 May 2014
Kenya: Master Plan Unleashed to Ease Gridlock in the City
Urban planning has been the major challenge for post colonial Africa, with increased rural-urban migration and a fast growing rate of middle income households in need of private transport. - Wednesday 28 May 2014
Mozambique: IOM, UNHCR Organize Mixed Migration Meeting
At the meeting, which was funded by the US State Department’s Bureau of Population, Migration and Refugees (PRM), government, non-government and UN partners came together to assess the progress of implementation of the regional action plan developed by South African Development Community (SADC) member states in Dar-es-Salaam in 2010. - Wednesday 28 May 2014
Kenya: Public Transport Goes Cashless
Cashless payment will curb the menace of hiking of fares during peak hours as it will allow a fair pricing system with no issuance of change. - Tuesday 27 May 2014
Kenya: Equity Bank to Offer New Affordable Mobile Banking Services
Equity Bank drives a cashless payments strategy in anticipation of growth in the African market with the imminent migration of the transport and public sectors to electronic payments. - Tuesday 27 May 2014
Egypt: Ex-army Chief Favorite to Win the Election
Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood and revolutionary youths boycotts the vote, for fear of Gen. Field Marshall Sisi being an autocrat.