Monday 24 October 2011
There is deepening confusion over what to do with Gaddafi's body with the emergence of a will appearing to indicate that the dictator's final wish was to be buried in Sirte.
Saturday 22 October 2011
Known as Index Based Livestock Insurance or IBLI, payouts are triggered when satellite images show that grazing lands in the region have deteriorated to the point that herders are expected to be losing more than 15 per cent of their herd.
Friday 21 October 2011
President Obama last year signed into law a bill that requires his administration to end the threat of the LRA, a rebel group originally from Uganda known for killing, mutilating, and abducting civilians in four central African nations during its predatory insurgency.
Wednesday 19 October 2011
The report further describes nine countries - out of a total of 108 malaria endemic countries and territories - which are preparing to move towards nationwide elimination of malaria.
Tuesday 18 October 2011
With the 8th highest birth rate in the world and an average family size of seven children, Somalia illustrates the terrible quandary of millions of the world's most vulnerable women.
Friday 14 October 2011
According to the report, lessons learned from Asia’s Green Revolution about the damage intensive farming can cause are being ignored in the race to help Africa feed itself.
Thursday 13 October 2011
This process must be guided by a new, internationally supported mediator, who is able to counter the competitive approach to peacemaking that has defined the Darfur mediation thus far.
Tuesday 11 October 2011
Using partnership as its primary strategy, NEPAD effectively made progress with the issues of peace and security in Africa, effectively linking economic development and growth with peace and security on the continent.
Friday 7 October 2011
Kenyans confronted this hunger challenge head-on recently when Hon. Gideon Ndambuki, the assistant minister of agriculture, flipped the switch for a new irrigation project in Njoro that will provide water for field trials of hundreds of new varieties of high yielding, yellow and stem rust-resistant wheat.
Tuesday 4 October 2011
Tributes continue to pour in for the Nobel Laureate whose achievements were rarely recognized at home
Thursday 29 September 2011
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki has clear ideas on the conditions for rural development in Africa. In this exclusive interview with Afronline.org (Italy), Addis Fortune (Ethiopia), Sud Quotidien (Senegal), Les Echos du Mali (Mali) and Le Républicain (Niger), the Chief executive of NEPAD explains his vision on this crucial issue.
Wednesday 28 September 2011
Research by climate scientists at the Colombia-based International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT, by its Spanish acronym), reveals that an expected annual temperature rise of more than two degrees Celsius by 2050 will leave many of West Africa’s cocoa-producing areas too hot for chocolate.
Monday 26 September 2011
The training to be offered by GEMS Education, the world’s largest kindergarten to grade 12 education provider, The Varkey GEMS Foundation and UNESCO, is part of the ‘10,000 Principals Leadership Programme’ which was announced by President Clinton as a ‘commitment to action’ at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York Friday.
Saturday 24 September 2011
In its latest report Guinea: Putting the Transition Back on Track, the Brussels-based think tank warns that President Alpha Condé’s unilateral effort to overhaul the electoral system has gained little praise, and that with his party’s gloomy prospects for the legislative elections, suspicion is increasing.
Wednesday 21 September 2011
Despite impressive gains in gender equality, nearly 4 million poor women “missing” each year in developing countries.
