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Daily news and weekly updates from Africa
- Tuesday 28 October 2014
CAR: Education Ministry Gradually Reopens Schools After Violence
Schools have remained closed now for well over a year, but the Ministry of Education and the UNICEF-led education cluster plan to gradually reopen them across the country starting next month. - Monday 27 October 2014
Guinea: Record on Women’s Rights to Face UN Scrutiny
Guinea is one of the 188 States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and is required to submit regular reports to the Committee of 23 independent experts on how it is implementing the Convention. - Monday 27 October 2014
Guinea: UN Report Documents Appalling Detention Conditions
It cites the “quasi-systematic recourse to provisional detention” and the lack of regular court hearings as key causes for the serious overcrowding in Guinean prisons. - Friday 24 October 2014
UK Secures €1 Billion European Ebola Commitment
Britain’s own redoubled efforts to fight Ebola follow a visit to Sierra Leone by International Development Secretary Justine Greening to see the results of Britain’s first tranche of support and identify next steps in the UK’s international work. - Friday 17 October 2014
FAO: Family Farmers Potential Agents of Change,SOFA Report
Evidence shows impressive yields on land managed by family farmers, many smaller farms are unable to produce enough to provide decent livelihoods for the families. - Thursday 16 October 2014
Africa: China Sends Ebola Drug For Trials As Food Crisis Looms
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday October 15, a total of 4,493 people have died from the world’s worst Ebola outbreak on record, and the situation in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is deteriorating as of October 12, 8,997 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of the virus had been reported in seven countries, with majority of them in the three West African nations. 
Thursday 16 October 2014Zambia: New Study Finds that Orange Maize Improves Vitamin A in Children
Vitamin A deficiency is widely prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa- Tuesday 14 October 2014
Africa:Family Farming On Focus During World Food Day
Family farming is the focus of World Food Day on 16 October, coupled with the theme: ‘Feeding the world, caring for the earth’. - Tuesday 14 October 2014
West Africa: Using Animation to Battle Ebola
According to the World Health Organization, 7,470 cases of Ebola had been reported as of Oct. 3, with 3,431 deaths in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. - Tuesday 14 October 2014
East Africa: EAC Member States to Migrate to E-passports By 2015
Multi-national tech-firms have pitched shop in Africa to tap in the first growing market, as countries race to adopt digital mode of doing things from government offices to primary schools in remote areas by laying fibre optic cables to increase access to internet and the digital world. - Tuesday 14 October 2014
Kenya: Alarm Over Rise In Modern Lifestyle Diseases Mortality
Findings by the UN taskforce indicate that approximately 100, 000, (27%) of deaths between people aged 30 to 70 in Kenya annually are due to various modern diseases such as heart ailments, diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory diseases, raising concerns over this statistics which are higher than the WHOs global target of less than 25% of premature deaths from NCDs by 2025. - Monday 13 October 2014
Malawi: Illegal Abortions Kills Dozens of Girls
According to the WHO, Malawi had a maternal mortality rate of 510 deaths per 100 000 births in 2013, of which about 17% due to unsafe abortions with studies by local researchers in 2011, indicating that 70 194 abortions and most of them illegal were performed in 2009 and about 19 500 others were treated in health facilities for abortion-related complications that same year. - Friday 10 October 2014
South Africa: Provide Better Services For Pregnant Women Says Amnesty International
WHO statistics show maternal mortality is unacceptably high with approximately 800 women dying from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth daily, of which more than half of 99% of all the deaths in the developing world occurs in sub-Saharan Africa due to low-resource settings and most, could have been prevented. - Friday 10 October 2014
African Economies Growing Stronger Despite Weakening Global Growth - World Bank and IMF
In a global forecast prepared for the next meetings, the IMF downgraded its outlook this year because Europe is at risk of slipping back into recession and persistent weakness is slowing Japan, China and Brazil, terming the recovery uneven as global growth this year would be 3.3%, one-tenth of a percentage point below its forecast in July thus lowering its outlook for 2015. - Friday 10 October 2014
Uganda: Museveni Blast’s ICC During 52nd Independence Celebrations
The ICC has received criticism over its perceived selective application of justice on account of only pursuing cases involving Africans; something which hasn’t olgered well with Africa countries as they watch in utter disbelief the court that they enthusiastically supported and signed signatory to, being turned into a modern day colonization tool used by the imperialists and biased, terming it a racist court.