Tuesday 7 June 2011
The Festival is accompanied by 3rd Africa Produce Forum, where 10 African filmmakers compete with their projects to get funding from European producers, while 4th Photoafrica competition offers to African photographers 3 000 euros in prize money.
Monday 6 June 2011
The initiative aims to encourage innovative ideas that improve access to safe and sustainable water supply for communities where it is presently at risk.
Monday 6 June 2011
Scientists warn disaster looms for parts of Africa and all of India if chronic food insecurity converges with crop-wilting weather.
Saturday 4 June 2011
The most affected areas of this latest drought are in central and southern Somalia, southern and south-eastern Ethiopia, Djibouti, northern and eastern Kenya as well as parts of Uganda.
Friday 3 June 2011
The Kenyan dairy sector could more than quadruple in size and earn the country in excess of Ksh300 billion, according to a report launched by Tetra Pak East Africa, a leading food processing and packaging solutions company.
Friday 3 June 2011
Poland assumes European Union Commission Presidency on July 1, 2011 at a time when Europe relationship with African will center on several immigrants crossing from unstable North Africa countries. Other urgent challenges include crime, piracy, human and drug tracking and poverty and underdevelopment.
Thursday 2 May 2011
The initiative, called a ‘Mapa-thon,’ and which was launched in late April this year, saw more than 60 members of the Southern Sudanese diaspora come together to locate and map schools, hospitals, and other social infrastructure using Google’s mapping platform consisting of Google Earth, Google Map Maker and Google Maps.
Tuesday 31 May 2011
The e-Soko platform is part of the e-Rwanda initiative - a World Bank-funded ICT project being implemented by RITA - and is intended to mitigate against current information gap for farmers with the use of ICTs.
Monday 30 May 2011
The equipment support, to be implemented in the next two months, will benefit the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service’s (KEPHIS) recently launched Muguga pest risk analysis laboratory.
Wednesday 25 May 2011
Eritrea is now celebrating its 20th independence more experienced and more matured in all domains to excel and expedite the progress achieved.
Wednesday 25 May 2011
New Scorecard reveals governments’ failure to meet commitments to invest in children.
Monday 23 May 2011
The PEPFAR MSM guidance comes at a time when MSM in low- and middle-income countries are on average 19 times more likely to be infected with HIV than the general population.
Friday 20 May 2011
The Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines (GALVmed) has unveiled an ambitious plan to empower African livestock keepers by facilitating the development of the tools they need to control African animal trypanosomiasis, also known as nagana - or simply tryps--- a disease considered to be “one of Africa’s greatest constraints to socio-economic development”.
Friday 20 May 2011
Gaël Hankenne, Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) head of Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo warns that the measles epidemic is spiralling out of control; the disease is spreading like wildfire.
Wednesday 18 May 2011
The use of fodder shrubs has increased milk production, resulting in more income for the farmers
