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Daily news and weekly updates from Africa
- Friday 2 November 2012
Kenya: Italy Commits 150,000 Euros to Support Participation of Women in the Electoral Process
This funding will specifically target to increase opportunities for women participation in the ongoing electoral process that will culminate into a general election on March 4, 2013. - Friday 2 November 2012
Africa: Regional Integration Can Boost FDI, Says Experts
By banding together through regional integration arrangements, member countries can enhance their bargaining power in international economic relations. - Thursday 1 November 2012
Africa: Ericsson Launches Developers Competition For ICT Innovators
The regional competition opened on October 29, runs until January 25, 2013. Entries will be accepted in two categories - one for students and the other for small and medium-sized enterprises. - Wednesday 31 November 2012
South Sudan: Thousands Remain Stranded as Barge Convoy Leaves Renk for Juba
The river convoy is IOM’s 6th this year from the border town of Renk to assist South Sudanese nationals returning from the Republic of Sudan - Tuesday 30 October 2012
Growing Role for Africa in the “Golden Age of Gas” – Report
The report spotlights Africa’s rapidly evolving natural gas sector, and while Algeria, Nigeria, Egypt and Libya are identified as holding significant reserves, the production of gas is considerably lower in these countries. - Monday 29 October 2012
Burundi: Peace Remains Fragile
The dust has not yet settled since the 2010 elections. After boycotting the electoral process, the opposition parties formed a coalition (the Democratic Alliance for Change ADC-Ikibiri) and several opposition leaders went into exile. - Friday 26 October 2012
Kenya: New Fund to Help Communities Adapt to Climate Change
The Climate Adaptation Fund will disburse £500,000 (68.5 million shillings) over the next year in Isiolo County. If successful, the approach could be replicated in other counties of Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands. - Thursday 25 October 2012
Kenya: Amnesty Urges Govt to Investigate Excessive use of Force and Drop Charges Against Human Rights Defenders
The seven human rights defenders and community activists face charges of incitement to violence and disorderly conduct. - Thursday 25 October 2012
Ericsson’s Bowser to Enable Users to Make Audio and Video Calls
With Bowser, which is available on iPad/iPhone and on android devices, one can establish audio and video calls with other devices using WebRTC. - Thursday 25 October 2012
CoDA: US $ 50 Billion Siphoned out Africa Illegally Every Year
Details about the funds, also known as illicit financial flows (IFF), are contained in a yet-to-be-released report titled “Illicit Financial Flows from Africa: Scale and Developmental Challenges” which accuses multinational corporations of economic sabotage, by “perpetuating Africa’s economic dependence on other regions.” - Wednesday 24 October 2012
African Countries Share Drought Resilience Initiatives
The Horn of Africa is one of the most food-insecure regions in the world, with the highest malnutrition rates, severe food shortages and high food prices. - Wednesday 24 October 2012
Africa: Leaders Call for Proper Exploitation of Natural Resources
The AUC boss said that in most African countries, the natural resources “are simply being extracted” and not processed, meaning that these countries are thereby denied the benefits of value addition and higher returns for the resources and industrialization of the economy. - Tuesday 23 October 2012
Burkina-Faso: CCAFS hosts High Level Meeting to Discuss Needed Changes In Agriculture
The program is carried out through an adaptive “placed-based” research structured around four Themes (Adaptation to progressive climate change, Adaptation through risk management, Pro-poor mitigation and Integration for Decision Making). - Tuesday 23 October 2012
Nigeria: Amnesty Urges Govt to Halt Execution of Appeal-case Prisoners
According to information received by Amnesty International, neither the convicted prisoners nor their families have been informed of the planned date of execution. - Tuesday 23 October 2012
World: Ericsson Unveils New Broadband Network Gateway for Connected Homes
The BNG – which supports the rise in subscriptions and growing bandwidth usage that comes with increased connectivity - opens fresh opportunities for fixed and converged service providers to offer high-quality broadband and personalized services, supporting the growth of smart devices in the home.