20100824
PlusNews

Johannesburg — A strike for better wages by South African health workers is putting the lives of HIV-positive people on the line as industrial action disrupts treatment programmes.

20100824
africanews

A South Africa-based policy analyst Jonathan Mahlangu, has said that the plan by the African Union to commence a process that would lead to the establishment of a regional space agency in cooperation with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) aimed at focusing on the development of common space policy for the African continent was long overdue.

20100822
reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - SABMiller, the world's second-largest brewer, is considering buying the beer operations of Foster's Group, Australia's biggest brewer, for about 7 billion pounds, the Sunday Times reported.

20100821
reuters

Africa is a step closer to setting up its own space agency, with the approval of a planned feasibility study by the 53 member states of the African Union earlier this month.

20100817
reuters

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - East Africa needs to raise up to $25 billion, or nearly two-thirds of Kenya's annual output, over the next decade to upgrade its railways to boost trade, a senior regional official said on Tuesday.

20100816
reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - The growing burden of cancer in developing countries could be reduced without expensive drugs and equipment, scientists said on Monday, but it requires a global effort similar to the fight against HIV/AIDS.

20100816
Monitor

The South African cabinet is due to meet on Wednesday to consider deploying its forces to bolster the African Union troops in Mogadishu, the UK press reported yesterday.

20100814
xinhuanet

ADDIS ABABA-- African ministers responsible for civil registration on Friday met at the United Nations Economic Commission For Africa (UN-ECA) Conference Center here in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the first African Conference on Civil Registration.

20100810
reuters

DAKAR (Reuters) - Seasonal flooding has killed almost 100 people across West Africa, destroyed thousands of homes, encouraged the spread of disease and threatens to worsen a food crisis by washing away farmland, aid groups said on Tuesday.

20100808
reuters

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has selected 15 groups of companies to conduct feasibility studies for emission-cutting projects in nine developing countries to promote clean-energy technologies, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

20100806
IPS

Subsidies for agriculture in the industrialised countries of the world grew again in 2009, benefiting the largest companies and land owners, such as Prince Albert of Monaco and Queen Elizabeth of Britain.

20100801
IPS

In a tiny village near Kisumu city in Kenya, scientific researcher Mary Anyango Oyunga spends most of her time educating women about something they have always done - grow sweet potatoes.

20100801
IRIN

Dakar — The 2010 rainy season in West Africa has opened with hail storms in Guinea and the heaviest rain in 50 years in northern Chad. Floods have killed at least 80 people and destroyed homes, bridges, septic tanks, livestock, crops and food stocks; dams have broken, and wells and latrines and have been submerged.

20100802
africanews

Organizations involved in anti-tobacco campaigns in Sub Sahara Africa can get funding of up to $20 000 a year, for up to two years, in their efforts to stem the deadly effect of tobacco consumption on the continent.

20100731
reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A global fund to boost agricultural investment in the world's poor countries will release about $120 million in October to states who qualify, a senior U.S. Treasury said on Friday.

20100730
allafrica

Nairobi — At a church compound in Nairobi's Mathare slum, women and their children line up for food rations. Among them is Zipporah Mueni, an HIV-positive mother of five.

20100730
allafrica

Francistown — The vegetables Omphemetse Monyi sells at the Francistown bus rank come from 400 kilometres away in South Africa. One approach to development might seek to replace her suppliers with local farmers, but Southern Africa's water managers are considering the merits of reinforcing a regional trade in "virtual water".

20100730
allafrica

President Barack Obama will host some 120 African youth leaders from 40 African nations in Washington next week, part of a commemoration of 50 years of independence for 17 countries. The President's Forum is intended "to deepen and broaden our understanding of the trajectories of African societies, and to reflect on how the next generation are building their communities' and their nations' futures – just as their predecessors did in the era of independence from colonial rule," the White House said in a statement.

Representatives from civil society and the private sector will participate in a town hall meeting with the President and a series of workshops at the State Department on a range of issues, including transparency and accountability, job creation and entrepreneurship, rights advocacy, and the use of technology to empower individuals and communities. The Obama administration is also hosting the annual United States-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum, which was established by the African Growth and Opportunity (Agoa) Act passed in 2000 to promote economic ties with the continent. In part three of an AllAfrica interview, Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Johnnie Carson, discusses the administration's policy priorities.

20100730
allafrica

The Leon H. Sullivan Foundation Africa Policy Forum: a Vision for the 21st Century to be held in Atlanta in September, aims to help build a U.S.-Africa dialogue based on mutual respect and mutual benefit. It will encompass cultural discourse as well as talks on business and national security issues. Hope Masters, CEO of the Sullivan Foundation, spoke with Saratu Abiola and Carine Umuhumuza of allAfrica.com about what informed her approach to the conference, and what she would like to see in the future regarding U.S.-Africa relations.

20100727
africanews

US president Barack Obama has pledged to help Africa to develop in a message delivered to the heads of state at the AU summit on Monday by US Attorney General Eric Holder.