20100629
allafrica

Johannesburg — December's global climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, should focus on areas where agreements could realistically be reached, leaving the debate on a legal framework for the deal to next year's conference in SA, European Union (EU) climate change commissioner Connie Hedegaard said yesterday.

20100628
allafrica

Kampala — The East African Community (EAC) Common Market, a customs union in which all factors of production move freely with the right of establishment and residence, will commence on Thursday July 1, 2010.

20100628
allafrica

Kampala — The Netherlands government has introduced two instruments through which small, micro and medium firms in the East African Community (EAC) among others can get grants.

20100627
allafrica

With the five other African representatives - South Africa, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroun and Algeria - already eliminated in the first round, Ghana has been adopted by the entire continent to carry her banner at the on-going World Cup in South Africa. There were celebrations across the continent from Lagos to Nairobi and from Accra to Cairo as the Black Stars sent the USA packing.

20100627
reuters

China has dismissed U.S. comments that Beijing is blocking a new trade agreement, saying that it was the United States that was stalling progress in the World Trade Organization's long-running Doha round.

20100627
reuters

G8 wealthy countries said on Saturday the global economic crisis threatened to undermine 2015 global targets for halving extreme poverty around the world.

20100626
reuters

World leaders cast about for a common approach on Saturday to securing an uneven economic recovery that is showing signs of fading.

Only few days remaining to the implementation of the East African Community (EAC) Common Market Protocol, Burundians ate still behind with regard to business opportunities and access to services. Mr. Jean Rigi, Burundian Permanent Secretary in the ministry in charge of EAC Affairs added that behavioural change takes time.

He however said, if Burundian wants to be competitive in EAC region, they have to change their behaviour and work more hours like others. He appealed to local traders to work in association and mobilize adequate finances in a bid to get access to the market with required monetary strength.

The five East African Community partner states that is Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda will from July 1 implement the EAC Common Market Protocol. The code of procedure entails free movement of people and goods in the region.

Tanzanian President Khalfan J. M Kikwete picked nomination forms in Dodoma, the new capital of the Tanzania to defend his seat in the coming general elections in October.

The ruling Revolutionary Party of Tanzania (Chama Cha Mapinduzi – CCM) Secretary General Yusuf Makamba handed over a presidential candidate form to President Kikwete, who is also CCM Party Chairman at CCM Head Office in Dodoma.

The president is at present the only CCM presidential candidate must be endorsed by 250 members from 10 regions on the Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar, according to party rules.

20100622
voanews

Research into the health of Africans takes a big step forward with the launch of the Human Heredity and Health in Africa Project.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the London-based Wellcome Trust are funding the project, with support from the African Society for Human Genetics.

20100622
voanews

A medical aid group says if G8 leaders want to improve mother and child health, they must first solve the malnutrition problem.

20100622
voanews

African countries are making the most overall progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. So says a new analysis by the London-based Overseas Development Institute and the U.N. Millennium Campaign. The report’s been released prior to the G8 and G20 summits at week’s end in Canada.

20100621
africanews

A group of scientists from the central Netherlands University of Wageningen have discovered that an imitation foot odour could be the latest weapon to fight against malaria - the deadliest tropical disease - in Africa. The specialists hope to produce socks with special aroma to shy away mosquitoes at night.

20100621
reuters

Europe will import its first solar-generated electricity from North Africa within the next five years, European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said in an interview on Sunday.

20100621
reuters

Executives from three Australian mining firms, Gindalbie, Sundance Resources and Western Areas are missing after their aircraft disappeared in West Africa, the companies said on Monday.

20100619
bbc

The global economic crisis must not be allowed to interfere with the delivery of new vaccines to the developing world, a global health body has warned.

20100619
voanews

In the run-up to next week’s G8 and G20 summits many NGOs and humanitarian organizations are calling on world leaders to boost funding and fulfill past promises. But the troubled global economy may play a role on what leaders decide to do.

20100619
africanews

The United Nations Center for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) advised the continent to watch its step and take advantage of South-South Cooperation (SSC).

20100615
aljazeera

The number of refugees voluntarily returning home has plunged to its lowest rate in two decades, partly due to chronic insecurity in war-torn nations, according to the UN refugee agency.

20100614
africanews

The International Tobacco Growers' Association (ITGA) has expressed outrage at the devastating impact that the latest set of recommendations from the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) would have on the jobs and livelihoods of millions of tobacco growers around the world.