20101129
allAfrica.com

A secret diplomatic cable sent to American diplomatic missions in the name of Secretary of State Hilary Clinton last April sought personal details – including fingerprints, DNA and iris scans – of leaders in the Great Lakes region, including political, military, business and religious figures.

20101130
africanews

Sudan is boycotting African-European summit that begins in Libya on Monday in protest at EU pressure on President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir not to attend, foreign ministry said. "Mr Bashir will not attend the summit and Sudan pulling out of at any level," said Sudanese foreign Minister Ali Ahmad Kari.

20101129
africanews

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni was on a brief visit to Somalia on Sunday where thousands of his forces are participating in African Union peacekeeping mission in the capital Mogadishu.

20101128
africanews

The amount of water available per person in Africa is declining and only 26 of the continent's 53 countries are currently on track to reduce by half the number of people without sustainable access to clean drinking water by 2015, according to a survey by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

20101121
Zimbabwe Standard

The Southern African Development Community (Sadc) mediation in Zimbabwe faltered again on Friday after the bloc's organ on politics, defence and security failed to meet.

20101122
allafrica.com

Washington, DC — In Europe, the Canary Islands may be best known as a nearby vacation spot with idyllic climate. Americans may have heard in history class that the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus provisioned and repaired his three ships in the Canaries before setting off on the journey that led him to Cuba. In Africa, the islands have been a popular transition point for those trying to enter Europe clandestinely to better their economic standing. The strategic location and its classification as an autonomous region of Spain, as well as an 'outermost region' of the European Union, are advantages. These attributes can be leveraged to boost engagement with Africa and with the United States, according to Paulino Rivero Baute, who has been president of the Canary Islands since 2007. During an interview at the offices of the Corporate Council on Africa following an address to CCA members, President Rivero outlined how U.S. companies that might be reluctant to tackle Africa's infrastructural and legal framework challenges can instead invest through his homeland.

20101119
ISS

The pan-African body responsible for ensuring that African States and States such as the USA, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom comply with the Treaty of Pelindaba establishing Africa as a nuclear weapon-free zone, took a step closer to being created when the First Conference of Parties was held in Addis Ababa on 4 November 2010.

20101113
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - With up to 17 African countries facing national elections next year, politics will loom large in the minds of investors but the risk of pre-poll fiscal blow-outs may not be the big threat many imagine.

20101113
reuters

RABAT (Reuters) - A significant level of rainfall over the main grain growing areas in North Africa has encouraged farmers in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia to speed up the sowing season which ends in few weeks, growers said on Friday.

20101109
reuters

PARIS (Reuters) - France's highest court reopened the way on Tuesday for a legal investigation into tens of millions of euros worth of assets held in the country by three African presidents or their families.

20101108
africanews

The government of Mali has joined forces with Mauritania in a fight against al-Qaeda through the establishment of the first ever joint patrols between the Malian and Mauritanian armies.

20101106
africanews

Africa countries have improved their ways of doing business. Rwanda led the table again as Africa's top reformer in the World Bank's annual Ease of Doing Business survey. Although it was beaten into second place by Kazakhstan on the global list, in Africa it moved up 12 places to a global rank of 58th.

20101106
africanews

A Switzerland based consultancy firm has been appointed by Southern Africa Development Committee (SADC) Justice Ministers to review the roles and responsibilities of the regional bloc's tribunal.

20101101
MediaGlobal

The fourth United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is approaching, and various committees are being launched to ensure the best possible outcome can be reached. While there seems to be a long way to go for countries to achieve graduation, there is hope.

20101026
Sudan Tribune

Washington — The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) special summit on Sudan has been moved from Nairobi to Addis Ababa in a bid to avert a diplomatic row over the attendance of Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir.

20101025
new vision

EAST African states have been advised to go slow in signing the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) unless they are satisfied with its content.
The European Union is reforming its trade deals with the African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries (ACP), which have existed for over a half a century.

20101025
reuters

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Sub-Sahara African countries should consider tempering expansionary fiscal policy now that economic recovery is under way across much of the continent, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.

20101023
RFI

France hopes to sell a nuclear power station to Libya and gain access to its massive oil reserves after the signing of a strategic partnership between the two countries on Thursday.

20101023
RFI

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that it is a "scandal" that Africa has no permanent seat on the UN Security Council at a summit of French-speaking countries in Switzerland Saturday.

20101023
africanews

The National Red Cross Societies of Benin, Ghana and Nigeria received a sum of over $600,000 to assist a total of 40,000 people most affected by recent floods in the three West African countries.