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- Friday 12 August 2011
Somalia: Donors Asked to Rescue Neglected South West
The group asked the international community to urgently create further space for delivery of the much‐needed humanitarian assistance to residents of South West Somali, who are particularly affected by the current drought and famine. - Friday 12 August 2011
South Sudan to Join the African Union
South Sudan will be formally admitted in the African Union (AU) as its 54th Member State on Monday, 15 August 2011, in a Flag Raising Ceremony at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Thursday 11 August 2011
Africa: Countries to Benefit from Interconnected Commodity Exchanges
ACFEX is inviting clearing firms, trading firms, financial institutions and producer organisations to work with it to increase agro incomes in Africa and eliminate the spectre of surpluses in one part of the continent and chronic shortages of food commodities in other parts of the continent. - Wednesday 10 August 2011
Horn of Africa: FAO to Host High-level Operational Meeting to Agree on Concrete Action
The meeting will focus on a twin-track approach to resolving the famine in Somalia and the broader emergency in the Horn of Africa, building resilience over the long haul and supporting livelihoods over the short, medium and long-term. - Wednesday 10 August 2011
Somalia: AMISOM Force Commander Says Extremists Still Pose Threat And Appeals For More Troops
The extremists have not withdrawn completely. Pockets of insurgents remained in the city and in the outskirts, particularly near the pasta factory and north east of the stadium. - Tuesday 9 August 2011
Kenya: Political Parties Blame Govt over Famine and Drought Situation
Expressing their solidarity with the Kenyans for Kenya initiative, the parties urged for the adoption of long term solutions to food shortages. These should include adoption of proper farming methods, irrigation, marketing, storage and distribution. - Monday 8 August 2011
Africa: South Africa to Host Clean Technology Conference
The intention of Viridis Africa is to bring together investors and entrepreneurs from Africa and rest of the world, to jointly explore commercial initiatives in green technologies. - Monday 8 August 2011
Cape Verde: Citizens Go to the Polls to Elect President
A slow voter turnout was experienced in the early hours of the morning after polling stations opened up to an hour later than the scheduled 7:00 am local time (0800 GMT) throughout the ex-Portuguese colony of 10 main islands and eight islets, but voting proceeded smoothly throughout the day. - Monday 8 August 2011
Somalia: Special Envoy Welcomes News of Al Shabaab Vacating Mogadishu
There is no doubt that the departure of Al-Shabaab would be a positive development and a step in the right direction for a city that has seen so much misery and devastation. - Sunday 7 August 2011
Kenya: Stage Set for Annual KenGen Peace Race
The race provides a forum to bring together warring communities to deliberate on issues that affect the communities. - Friday 5 August 2011
Kenya: Study Roots For Use of Mobile Phones in Health Provision
Prof Bob Snow, who heads the group in Nairobi, said the role of the mobile phone in improving health providers’ performance, health service management and patient adherence to new medicines across much of Africa has a huge potential to engage and promote health to many people, who despite being poor and often living in remote areas, nevertheless have access to cell phone communication. - Friday 5 August 2011
Kenya: Chinese Firm to Control Media Signal
The Chinese company, the Pan Africa Media, a part of Star Times of China, has no experience in Kenya, having been registered in the country hardly a week before the tender was opened. - Thursday 4 August 2011
South Africa’s Seacom and Infinera trial World’s First 500 Gigabit/Second High-Speed Data Network
The trial was run over and looped back across Seacom's newly built 930-kilometre Dark Fibre Africa fibre route, which links the Seacom Mtunzini cable landing station on the coast of South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province to the Teraco data centre in Johannesburg. - Thursday 4 August 2011
Somalia: Special Envoy Praises Somalis Living in Diaspora
The envoy noted that despite this progress, one of the contributing factors to the famine has been the ongoing fighting in the country. - Wednesday 3 August 2011
Somalia: UN Official Warns Famine could Spread if Response Remains Limited
The drought in the Horn of Africa, which has also ravaged large areas of Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti, leaving an estimated 12.4 million people in need of humanitarian aid, is the worst in 60 years.