Full Coverage: Africa
October 2007
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10/31/2007
Rwanda's president urged African heads of state and industry leaders at a major conference to promote the development of their continent through home-grown information and communications industries, saying that "in just ten years...the mobile phone has become a basic necessity in urban and rural Africa."
Read moreFrom: New Times (Rwanda) |
10/31/2007
Nokia ja Plan kehittävät yhteistyössä kokeellista sosiaalista verkkomediaa yhdistämään kenialaisia ja tamperelaisia viidesluokkalaisia.
Read moreFrom: maailma.net Related: [Finland] [Kenya] [Children] [Internet] |
10/31/2007
Twice a year the Juba River overflows, flooding the surrounding Somali villages and farmlands, inciting hunger, and pushing people out of their homes. With the help of a Kenyan engineer and a disaster relief organization, however, villagers have learned to replace their ineffective sand bags with clay-based levees.
Read moreFrom: Mercy Corps Related: [Somalia] |
10/31/2007
PARIS, October 30 (IPS) - A new project to develop an integrated sugarcane facility in Kenya could be a boost for biofuels production in east Africa.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service (IPS) Related: [East Africa] [Kenya] [Agriculture] [Energy] [International Cooperation] [Corporations] [Business] [Trade] [Renewable Energy] |
10/31/2007
As the Kenya Human Rights Commission prepares to sue the British Government for personal injuries sustained in detention camps by survivors of the Mau Mau war for independence, Mukoma Wa Ngugi unravels the colonial myths of Christianisation and civilisation and exposes the reality of torture, murder, slavery, landlessness, dehumanisation and internment.
Read moreFrom: Pambazuka News Related: [United Kingdom] [Kenya] |
10/31/2007
As a two-day summit on improving Africa’s information technology infrastructure wrapped up in Rwanda, the head of the United Nations telecommunications agency reminded investors that Africa is “open for business and looking for partnerships.”
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10/31/2007
Three French journalists have been charged in Chad with kidnapping minors and fraud for covering the alleged attempt by Arche de Zoé (Zoé’s Ark) to evacuate 103 African children to France.
Read moreFrom: Reporter Senza Frontiere Related: [France] [Chad] |
10/30/2007
Civil society representatives from Darfur have called for a greater role in ongoing peace efforts by emphasizing the role they could play in re-unifying the parties to the conflict, notably key rebel groups absent at the current talks.
Read moreFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related: [Sudan] [Civil Society] [Conflict Resolution] [Peace] Image: A woman from South Darfur, one of 2 million people displaced by the violence. © Refugees International
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10/29/2007
Worldwide, more than a billion people live in slums, with as many as one million in Kibera, Africa’s largest such settlement, in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Slum Survivors, IRIN’s first full-length documentary, tells some of their stories.
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10/29/2007
The sixteen countries covered by the report are: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.
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10/29/2007
Oxfam and Internet giant MySpace have teamed up to present 31 "Rock for Darfur" concerts around the United States plus Australia and South Africa on November 10. Last year's concerts raised $50,000 to support the people caught up in the violence in western Sudan.
Read moreFrom: Oxfam America Related: [Sudan] |
10/29/2007
In the fight for control of Kenya's lucrative telecoms industry, competition is becoming a useful weapon in the hands of rival firms -especially those that need to play the catch-up game to remain in the race
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10/29/2007
Taistelut Iturin alueella Kongon demokraattisen tasavallan koillisosassa ovat pääsääntöisesti rauhoittuneet, mutta siviiliväestö kärsii yhä raskaasta väkivallasta.
Read moreFrom: Suomen IPS Related: [Congo] [Human Rights] [Gender] [War and Peace] Image: Lääkärit ilman rajoja (MSF)
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10/28/2007
President Kabila's ruling party has been charged with carrying out torture and murder of political opponents in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Read moreFrom: Amnesty International - International Secretariat, allAfrica.com Related: [Democratic Republic of the Congo] Image: Family in Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. © Refugees International
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10/27/2007
The UN Children's Fund has criticised an attempt to separate more than 100 young Chadian children from their parents and take them to France for adoption as “illegal and totally irresponsible".
Read moreFrom: United Nations Related: [France] [Chad] |
10/27/2007
BBC World Service Trust has launched an exciting new training website for journalists on post-conflict justice in Africa. The site includes a handbook, internet resources, news and information on international criminal courts, truth commissions and other forms of transitional justice in five project African countries.
Read moreRelated: [Human Rights] [ICT] [Internet] |
10/26/2007
Six women from various nations in Africa recently traveled to the UK to raise awareness about fistula, an easily preventable but debilitating disease that pregnant women develop after extremely long and difficult labor. Meet the women and read about their efforts to promote more regular and safer maternal care in their home countries.
Read moreFrom: UN Population Fund Related: [United Kingdom] |
10/26/2007
A police officer In South Africa manhandled and confiscated equipment belonging to The Star photographer Matthews Baloyi while chief photographer Chris Collingridge was arrested for talking down the registration number of a private car used by a police officer. He was later released.
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10/26/2007
Zimbabwe’s telecommunications group NetOne has started erecting new base stations in resort centres to improve communications and help ease congestion ahead of the Fifa World Cup scheduled for South Africa in 2010. Work has already begun with the commissioning of the second mobile switching centre in the country's second largest city Bulawayo.
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