20101020
africanews

Nearly 400 people died in flooding in central and West Africa, with nearly 1.5 million people affected since the start of the rainy season in June, the United Nations said. It said last year floods killed almost 200 people in West Africa and affected over 800,000 others.

20101015
africanews

Farmers across Africa have been urged to take keen interest in conservation farming if they are to ensure long-term food security on the continent.

20101011
reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twenty-nine countries show alarming levels of hunger and more than a billion people were hungry in 2009, according to a new report on global hunger.

20101011
reuters

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - African governments should avoid rushing into big land lease deals with foreign investors or risk deepening poverty and ramping up social tensions, an official at the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Office said.

20101010
Daily News

Dar es Salaam — TAIFA Stars coach Jan Poulsen admitted that Tanzania now faces an arduous task in their 2012 African Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifying campaign following 1-0 loss against Morocco, but believes his side performed well and has bright future.

20101011
SAPA

The South African Football Association President Kirsten Nematandani has congratulated Bafana Bafana for a hard fought draw against Sierra Leone on Sunday.

20101010
This Day

The Syli Stars of Guinea yesterday handed Nigeria a costly 1-0 in a 2012 Nations Cup Group B qualifying match in Conakry and throw the landlocked West African country into a massive victory party. That shock victory was not the only upset of yesterday.

20101010
New Times


kigali — Amavubi Stars sloppiness in-front of goal was severely punished by Benin yesterday as the West Africans romped to a 3-0 win in the 2012 African Nations Cup qualifier at Amahoro stadium.

20101010
africanews

The International Criminal Court has ruled that a trial of an alleged Congolese warlord should resume again after a three-month suspension. The decision clears the way for the renewal of Thomas Lubanga's trial on charges of using child soldiers in a brutal conflict in eastern Congo in 2002-2003.

20101008
africanews

The Guinea FA said it has received a fax from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) detailing them to prepare for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against Nigeria on October 10.

20100927
IPS

London — Irked by accusations that it is the new coloniser of Africa, China is looking to use soft power and historical evidence of its ancient links to the continent to justify its economic embrace of Africa.

20100927
reuters

DAKAR (Reuters) - West Africa could re-emerge onto the world cotton stage in the coming years as higher world prices and the introduction of high-yield strains draw beleaguered farmers back into the fields.

20100927
africanews

Three top officials from three African nations have called for the continent to have a permanent representative in the UN Security Council, saying it was a mockery that the region that comprises so much of the body's work does not have a permanent place.

20100925
UN New

Somalia's President told the General Assembly today that the transitional Government he heads is striving to restore State institutions and provide services to the people despite the violence perpetrated by insurgents, and urged the United Nations to act decisively against groups engaging in acts of terrorism.

20100925
reuters

Somalia's President told the General Assembly today that the transitional Government he heads is striving to restore State institutions and provide services to the people despite the violence perpetrated by insurgents, and urged the United Nations to act decisively against groups engaging in acts of terrorism.

20100924
allafrica.com

With five years remaining to achieve the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made it clear that a concerted, multilateral effort to save the lives of over 16 million women and children, and improve the livelihoods of women and girls, will be the focus.

20100924
africanews

Prominent advocates for anti-malaria efforts in Africa cautioned the United Nations, that recent successes against malaria - however significant - are still fragile. Both the malaria parasite and the mosquitoes that carry it can develop resistance, to drugs as well as to insecticides, and therefore the fight against malaria must gain rather than lose momentum.

20100924
africanews

The Executive Committee of the Confederation of African Football, CAF, has nominated Moroccan-born Hicham El Amrani as the interim Secretary General of the African football governing body. This was the gist of the CAF Executive Committee meeting, chaired by its President, Issa Hayatou, at the institution's headquarter in Cairo, Egypt.

20100921
allAfrica.com

As world leaders gather this week in New York to assess progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), they will face stark challenges to social and economic development, given ongoing wars and the global economic recession.

20100921
allAfrica.com

On September 21, the United Nations will celebrate the International Day of Peace (Peace Day). Every year since 1982 this day has provided a rallying point for member states and individuals to join forces to end conflict.