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Posted By:  ekwuruke
Posted On:  Dec 23, 2007

  Abuses Against Women Obstruct HIV Treatment
The Zambian government is failing to address the life-threatening obstacles facing Zambian women living with HIV who experience domestic and gender-based violence, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Gender-based violence and insecure property rights are preventing Zambian women...... [view]
Posted By:  ekwuruke
Posted On:  Dec 4, 2007

  Africa Needs Real-Practical Solutions
There was nothing significantly new as business leaders at the recently concluded Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) continued the same story of Africa's latent and unexploited potential but fell short of clear and realistic work plans for Africa's way forward. One meeting themed,...... [view]
Posted By:  ekwuruke
Posted On:  Dec 4, 2007

  Africa Needs to Prevent HIV/Aids Despite Its Origin
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have been given thumps up by the Director General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, Prof. Sekyi Awuku Amoa for contributing immensely to reducing HIV/AIDS infection in the country. Prof. Amoa said the role of the CSO in supporting efforts of his outfit in particular...... [view]
Posted By:  ekwuruke
Posted On:  Nov 27, 2007

  Humanitarian cost of climate change understated
Donors should provide an additional US$85 million for humanitarian and development programmes by 2015 to deal with the global food shortages and increasing frequency of natural disasters that will be caused by climate change, the UN Development Programme warns today. The figure marks an...... [view]
Posted By:  ekwuruke
Posted On:  Nov 27, 2007

  Commonwealth ICT Project for Rural Africa
The Commonwealth heads of state assembled in Kampala last week launched an information communication technology (ICT) project, a move that is hoped to improve ICT connectivity in poor African countries and reduce the digital divide between the more developed northern hemisphere and the less...... [view]
Posted By:  ekwuruke
Posted On:  Nov 27, 2007

  African Development Fund Approves U.S. $ 264 Million Loans
Kenya, Madagascar and the Gambia are the beneficiaries of loans and grants with a combined value of 167.8 million Units of Account (UA*), about US$263.76 million, approved in Tunis on Wednesday by the Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) the concessional lending arm of the...... [view]
Posted By:  ekwuruke
Posted On:  Nov 21, 2007

  Facing the scourge of corruption in the context of the Africa’s judiciary
Judges, magistrates and anticorruption civil society actors met under the theme, “Deepening the Judiciary’s Effectiveness in Combating Corruption”. The meeting grappled with the dual complexity faced by the judiciary in curbing corruption and the need for the judiciary to purge itself of...... [view]
Posted By:  ekwuruke
Posted On:  Nov 10, 2007

  Kufuor urges African leaders to respect human rights
President John Kufuor of Ghana and Chairperson of the African Union (AU) has called on Africa to play a frontline role in respecting and upholding human rights in the continent. Addressing the opening session of the Seventh Ordinary Session of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) in Midrand,...... [view]
Posted By:  ekwuruke
Posted On:  Nov 10, 2007

  NEPAD And 5-P Holdings to Construct Uhurunet
The NEPAD e-Africa Commission and 5-P Holdings LLC, have signed an MOU to begin the construction of the NEPAD ICT Broadband Infrastructure Network (IBIN), known as the UHURUNET on 24 October 2007 in Pretoria, South Africa. With a capacity of 3.84 Terabits/sec, the undersea submarine cable is...... [view]
Posted By:  ekwuruke
Posted On:  Nov 10, 2007

  Buying Food Aid Locally Also Has Risks
The port city of Douala is still a major hub for international food aid heading to Chad and Central African Republic, but the World Food Programme (WFP) in Cameroon is buying an increasing amount of its requirements locally. Of the 70,000mt of food aid WFP’s regional office in Cameroon is...... [view]
Posted By:  ekwuruke
Posted On:  Nov 7, 2007

  Improving Basic Economic Statistics in Support of National Accounts
The African Centre for Statistics (ACS) at the Economic Commission for Africa and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) are co-convening a Regional Workshop for African countries on Compilation of Basic Economic Statistics on 16-19 October in Addis-Ababa. The main purpose of the...... [view]
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