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Daily news and weekly updates from Africa
- Thursday 27 June 2013
Somalia and EU Set to Announce “The New Deal for Somalia Conference”
The Conference is set to build on the momentum of progress and change in Somalia, supported by the recent international conferences on the country. - Thursday 27 June 2013
Senegal: US President Kicks off African Tour
Obama arrived in the Senegalese capital of Dakar on Wednesday night with his family and is due to meet country’s President MackySall later on Thursday. He is also expected to visit Goree Island, a former slave processing spot from where Africans were sent into slavery in the New World. - Tuesday 25 June 2013
South Africa: Mandela still remains in “Critical” Condition
On Sunday the government announced for the first time the distressing situation as critical, more than two weeks after the beloved anti-apartheid leader was admitted to hospital with a lung infection. - Tuesday 25 June 2013
Africa: Orange Launches the Third Edition of Orange African Social Venture Prize
The prize promotes social innovations in support of development that use Information and Communication Technology (ICT). - Friday 20 June 2013
Kenya: CAMAC Energy to invest Ksh 3 billion
The CAMAC Energy investment comes at a time when the Government, in its quest to attract Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in the country, has pledged to facilitate oil and gas companies in the processing of their tax exemptions for duty, Import Declaration Fees (IDF) and Value Added Tax (VAT) on goods, equipment and services they procure and/or import into the country to accelerate their oil and gas exploration programmes - Tuesday 18 June 2013
Two Kenyan Projects Qualify for Global “Hack for Good” Championship
The two winning projects - one by Team DKK (which enables volunteers to collect data offline and synchronizes it with an online server when connection is available) and the other, developed by Team ACID, an online web registration system called “Ref Unite Plus” that has finer details that makes it easier to locate a refugee – will now have the opportunity to present their projects at Kakuma Refugee Camp on Thursday June 20 as part of the World Refugee Day celebrations. - Tuesday 18 June 2013
Uganda LRA Rebels Kill CAR Villagers in Assault
At least 16 people have died in clashes between rebel fighters of the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) group and villagers in the Central African Republic (CAR), military officials have reported. - Tuesday 18 June 2013
Niger: Detained Aljazeera Journalist Released
The team was initially detained at around 9:00 GMT on Saturday, questioned, and asked to hand over the material from a story they were filming about refugees. - Monday 17 June 2013
Kenya: Youth Use Sport to Curb the Drug Menace
The league brought together 38 wrestlers from four teams within Nairobi to engage in a freestyle Africa wrestling aiming at getting the best from the teams. - Monday 17 June 2013
Egypt: AfDB Supports a Greener Pathway
The study came up with six recommendation to foster clean technology transfer based on Egypt’s existing capacities, market potential, and needs. - Friday 14 June 2013
South Sudan: Thousands at Risk of Death as Medical Care is Cut Off
Many of the displaced people fled for their lives into the bush amid intensified fighting between South Sudan’s army (the SPLA) and the David Yau Yau armed militia group over the past month. - Friday 14 June 2013
Kenya: Orange Signs 15-year Tower Management Partnership with Eaton Towers
The fifteen-year tower management and leasing deal is focused on both the maintenance of existing sites by Eaton Towers and the building of new sites. - Thursday 13 June 2013
Tunisia: AfDB and ECOWAS Organize Workshop on Improved Regional Mobility and Deeper Integration
The workshop will serve to guide the development of a modern day migration policy. - Tuesday 11 June 2013
Nigeria: Country Joins G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
As one of the newest members of the New Alliance, Nigeria will be a strong advocate for substantive initiatives to improve agricultural production and incomes, focusing attention on empowering women farmers. - Tuesday 11 June 2013
Senegal: Stakeholders to Evaluate Right to Food Progress in West Africa
The consultation, convened by the UN Special Rapporteur for the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, and co-organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), will bring together representatives from Benin, Burkina Faso, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo.