20110623
Reuters
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The chairman of the African Union believes the West will inevitably come round to accepting the organisation's plan for a ceasefire in Libya as NATO's bombing campaign has failed to dislodge Muammar Gaddafi.

20110610
Reuters
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade appealed to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday to step down, and offered to help ease his former ally's exit from power.

20110610
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger had the lowest number of meningitis A cases in an epidemic season this year after the introduction of a cheap vaccine designed for Africa, World Health Organisation (WHO) data showed on Thursday.

20110526
presstv
The African Union (AU) has called for a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Libya amid the increasing Western alliance pressure on the Libyan regime to relinquish power.

20110526
Reuters
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma will visit Tripoli next week for talks with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and is optimistic that the meeting could help find a lasting solution to the Libyan crisis.

20110526
Reuters
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested one of the masterminds of Rwanda's 1994 genocide, a United Nations court handling their cases said on Wednesday.

20110522
all africa
Last Sunday night, the second live eviction show of M-Net's Big Brother Amplified (DStv Channel 198) delivered yet more surprises as Namibia's Jossy was sent home after receiving the fewest votes from Africa this week. Confidence, Vimbai, Vina and Weza returned to the Heads' house to continue with the game; Ethiopia's Danny got sent to the Tails' house; and Botswana's hip-hop stars Vie and Scar had kicked off the show and set the bar for the evening high by delivering an electrifying performance.

20110522
all africa
The United Nation's Children Fund (UNICEF) has called for active participation of the general public on hand washing campaign, stressing that it can cut child hygiene related diseases as well as child morbidity rate by 44 percent.

20110521
cnn
(CNN) -- Rights groups are calling for the release of the body of a South African freelance photojournalist and investigation into the role Moammar Gadhafi's forces played in his death in the Libyan desert.

20110521
Reuters
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladeshi firms have joined Chinese and other companies looking to lease farmland in Africa as part of efforts to feed a growing population and offset creeping urbanisation at home.

20110518
allAfrica

Scientists have discovered two genes in cattle that may help African farmers improve their livelihoods by preventing premature deaths in their herds from the trypanosome parasite that causes "sleeping sickness".

20110516
Daily Champion

The hope of living in the US by over 22,000 people across the world, who were recently declared winners in the 2011 edition of the US Visa Lottery, has been dashed as the US State Department weekend said it mistakenly announced the 22,000 applicants winners.

Popular uprisings in North Africa have given a boost to democratization across the continent, but the world has marginalized Africa in the handling of recent crises in the continent, says former South African President Thabo Mbeki.

20110515
Monitor

The Ministry of Health yesterday confirmed a new outbreak of the deadly Ebola disease in the country, describing it as an epidemic. "Even one case is an epidemic because this is a very dangerous and fatal disease," said Dr Joaquim Saweka of the World Health Organisation.

20110515
reuters

The Group of Eight leading industrial nations delivered only 61 percent of the increased aid they promised to sub-Saharan Africa by 2010 in their 2005 summit, a study showed on Monday.

20110513
afrcanews

Google has made it possible for 99 new countries including 26 African nations to purchase apps from the Android Market. The internet giants believe the development will increase consumer access and developers' support for paid applications. The expansion of the Android Market gives access to the purchase of more games, social and productivity apps.

20110514
reuters

Seventeen years after the United Nations failed to stop a genocide in Rwanda, its peacekeepers in Africa still lack muscle and need reform, says the man who saved 1,200 people from the 1994 carnage.

20110513
IPS

Istanbul — The glass isn't exactly half-full, but it certainly is not entirely empty either. Within the broad failure of the weeklong Fourth U.N. Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV) in Istanbul that concluded Friday, many delegates are taking heart in a strengthening South-South front that has emerged.

20110513
Health-e

A multi-national study shows that if an HIV-positive person starts taking antiretroviral therapy early on, that is, when their CD 4 count is still high, their chances of infecting their HIV-negative partner can decrease by as much as 96%.

20110510
reuters

Nearly 600 people may have drowned when a boat broke up off the coast of Libya, the United Nations refugee agency reported today as it called on European countries to urgently improve their mechanisms for rescues at sea.