20100920
East African

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will hosts the world big men and women to review progress on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in New York from September 20 to 22.

20100920
reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pressed debt-ridden donor countries on Monday not to cut aid to the poor despite their budgetary woes.

20100918
reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund said on Friday it had raised $8 billion in new resources for poor countries from four donors, including China which has a growing presence in Africa.

20100917
africanews

Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are leading a global decline in new HIV infections, the UN has said. UNAids said 22 countries in the world's worst affected region had seen a drop in new cases of more than 25%. The fall was because of greater awareness and better use of preventative measures, it said.

20100917
africanews

Growing demand for the expulsion of one of the contestants of the ever popular continental reality show Big Brother Africa for punching a female housemate is gaining high proportion. Reports say women's rights activists have strongly criticized producers of the show and pushing for immediate sanctions.

LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - African environment ministers pledged on Friday to set up an international research body to study and protect the continent's wildlife, aiming to reverse the loss of its biodiversity.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund said on Friday it had raised $8 billion in new resources for poor countries from four donors, including China which has a growing presence in Africa.

20100914
africanews

ROME (Reuters) - The number of people in the world suffering chronic malnutrition fell for the first time in 15 years in 2010, but volatile food prices could hamper efforts to fight hunger, the United Nations' food agency said on Tuesday.

20100913
reuters

Cape Town — A high-profile international commission which advocates for Africa has criticized the "glacial" progress of talks on world trade reform that would enable the continent to take more responsibility for its own development.

20100912
allAfrica.com

New York — Ahead of the United Nations Millennium Development Summit to be held in New York later this month, the UN Foundation and its partners have ramped up efforts to educate the media about progress that has been made on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) thus far and what still needs to be done before the 2015 target date for achieving them.

20100912
Nation

Nairobi — It is now official: Kibera is not the biggest slum in Africa. The 2009 Kenya Population and Housing Census shows that one of the world's most famous slums houses just 170,070 residents, not one million, as previously believed.

20100910
africanews

A set of U.N. goals aimed at drastically reducing poverty and hunger worldwide by 2015 are achievable, despite setbacks caused by the global financial and economic crises, a draft document said. The 27-page draft declaration on the U.N. MDGs is expected to be formally adopted at a September 20-22 summit meeting at the UN.

20100907
africanews

Five years before the deadline set by world leaders in 2000 to achieve 8 major development goals, Africa is making progress. But more efforts are needed to reach the targets. Africa Renewal's André-Michel Essoungou reveals the trends.

20100906
africanews

The weekend was a busy one across the African continent as football took centre stage in some of the major capitals. The issue was the 2012 African Cup of Nations qualifiers. Some of the big names in the continent distinguished themselves and took pole positions in their quest to be present in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, the co-host for the ORANGE CAF Cup 2012.

20100906
africanews

A group of senior African parliamentarians has supported former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's call to action at the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF).

20100906
reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Increasingly erratic rainfall patterns related to climate change pose a major threat to food security and economic growth, water experts said on Monday, arguing for greater investment in water storage.

20100904
Daily News

Dar es Salaam — TAIFA Stars' promising performance in Algeria has led to a sudden surge of hopes that the country could end a 30-year wait to compete in the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals.

20100904
africanews

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - More than two dozen children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are among the hundreds of victims of a recent wave of rapes in the nation's conflict-torn east, the United Nations said on Friday.

20100902
africanews

International leaders expressed their commitment to transforming agriculture in Africa while opening the inaugural African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in Accra, Ghana. The AGRF, chaired by former UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, is being held for the first time in Africa.

20100824
Nation

London — The British government is threatening to withhold aid from resource rich African countries who have failed to show improvements in the transparency of government.