Mar 31

HORN OF AFRICA: IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-up 320 for 25-31 March 2006
Reuters AlertNet - London
An estimated 2.5 million Ethiopians are suffering from the drought that has wreaked havoc in the Horn of Africa, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said. ...

Angola: Avian flu takes Angolan Govt officials to South Africa
African News Dimension - Johannesburg,South Africa
... Ministers of Health and of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sebastião Veloso and Gilberto Buta Lutucuta, respectively, left today for South Africa in order ...

Africa in pictures: 25-31 March
BBC News - UK
... Several countries in West Africa lay in the path of the total eclipse, including Benin, where this family views the spectacle through special glasses. ...
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PanAfrica: Africa Second Only to Latin America in Forest Loss ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The net rate of forest loss in Africa is the second highest in the world, behind Latin America, often due to lax enforcement of laws, and the continent leads ...
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 276 for 25-31 March 2006
Reuters AlertNet - London
... UN's World Food Programme revealed this week that it had taken a substantial loan to ensure that more than nine million people in Southern Africa would not ...
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PanAfrica: Africa Should Learn From Latin America
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
AFRICA should learn from Latin America and introduce revolutionary political parties to achieve development, South African Communist Party general secretary Dr ...
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Mar 30

'Barren future' for Africa's soil
BBC News - UK
Africa's farmland is rapidly becoming barren and incapable of sustaining the continent's already hungry population, according to a report. ...
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East Africa: World Bank, ADB Offer $209 Million for Transport
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The World Bank, in collaboration with African Development Bank (AfDB), have injected $209m (about Shs382b) into the East African Trade and Transport ...
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Agricultural Production and Soil Nutrient Mining in Africa
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
About 75 percent of the farmland in sub-Saharan Africa is plagued by severe degradation, losing basic soil nutrients needed to grow the crops that feed Africa ...

PanAfrica: AU to Launch Second Decade for Education in Africa
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The second Decade of Education for Africa (2006-2015) will be launched by the African Union (AU), in September 2006, following the unimpressive record of the ...
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South Africa: Grindrod Grows Southern African Business With Cross ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... sum. The move, subject to regulatory approval, further cements its foothold in the movement of containers in southern Africa. Cross ...
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Total Eclipse Wednesday Over Africa
Voice of America - USA
This Wednesday, March 29 th , parts of Africa will experience a total solar eclipse. ... He spoke to English to Africa Joe De Capua about the celestial event: ...

AFRICA: Economies worst placed to cope with knock-on effects of ...
Reuters AlertNet - London
... have said. About 43 percent of Africa's land surface is arid and low rainfall is considered a normal fact of life. However, drought ...

Evangelical boom in Africa
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... Evangelical Christianity is flourishing in Uganda, leading a boom across Africa that's attracting millions of converts each year and changing the social and ...

Red Cross Says Famine Can Be Prevented in East Africa
Voice of America - USA
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says there is still time to prevent the growing food shortages in Eastern Africa and the ...
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Ohio unit headed for Africa
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
... Dell said. Chad, in central Africa, has been repelling forays by rebels aligned with Arab militia groups in neighboring Sudan. The ...
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Cost of Blue Helmets in Africa Grows
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba
Kinshasa, Mar 26 (Prensa Latina) The costs of the United Nations peace-keeping operations can exceed this year 4 billion dollars, with decisions to add new ...
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The new scramble for Africa
MyADSL - Melville,South Africa
MTN’s fight for market share in Africa has required the mobile phone operator to take on extreme risk, be it political or otherwise. ...
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Africa has 17 of 193 Roman Catholic Cardinals
AngolaPress - Angola
... Friday at the Vatican by Pope Benedict XVI, the Roman Catholic Church of 1.098 million faithful, now has a College of 193 Cardinals, including 17 from Africa. ...

West's pollution threatens millions in Africa and India
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
... International Development. It pointed out that a quarter of Africa's population lives within 100 kilometres of the sea coast. As ...

Fresh from the dark heart of Africa
The Sunday Times - UK
... diabolical. To some, this will be a weakness of the film, that once again Africa is being interpreted through a white man’s experience. ...

Experts advocate promotion of immunology in Africa
AngolaPress - Angola
... said their presentations focused on malaria, HIV/AIDS, veterinary immunology, immunopathogenesis, autoimmunity, vaccine trials in Africa, allergy, cancers ...

Mar 24

WHO Says Tuberculosis Remains A Major Health Concern In Africa
Voice of America - USA
... It attributes this to the grip the disease has on Africa, where people with immune systems weakened by HIV/AIDS are more likely to catch and fall sick with TB. ...
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Feel-good fashion in Africa
CNN International - USA
... If British Designer Katharine Hamnett, whose been highlighting ethical issues for years, has her way all of West Africa's cotton farmers will be soon be ...

Africa in pictures: 18-24 March
BBC News - UK
... counted in Nigeria's first census for 15 years. For more on Africa this week tune in to the BBC's Network Weekend Africa programme.
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Italy, S. Africa woo Chinese tourists
Xinhua - China
... Meanwhile, South Africa's top tourism minister believes that China will become one of the African country's top three sources of tourists by 2010. ...
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Mar 23

A&M medical student helping needy children in Africa
Bryan College Station Eagle - TX, United States
The West African country of Cameroon is plagued by disease and political unrest. But a Texas A&M medical student who calls the country home wants children there to have the same opportunities he was given.

Almost Africa
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
For a moment, Danielle Belcher was transported to a village scene in eastern Africa.

Annan To Work In Africa After Retirement
Daily Graphic - Accra, Ghana
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said that he would spend his retirement doing grass roots work in Africa as South Africa's anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela hailed him as one of the best UN bosses ever.
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Africa to benefit from the creation of "water peacekeepers"
AngolaPress - Angola
MEXICO CITY — The president of the World Water Council (CME), Loïc Fauchon, has announced in Mexico City of the creation of a group of "water peacekeepers" to mainly intervene in Africa.
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2010 FIFA World Cup: Host cities announced for South Africa ...
noticias.info - Spain
At FIFA's Executive Committee meeting on Friday 17 March 2006, the host cities and stadiums proposed by the South African Local Organising Committee were formally approved.
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METALLICA Perform In South Africa: Audio Available - Mar. 18, 2006
Blabbermouth.net - White Plains, NY
South African radio station 5FM broadcast two songs from METALLICA's performance at Saturday's (March 18) Coca-Cola Colab Music Festival at Supersport Park in Centurion, South Africa.
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In Africa, corruption doesn't go without notice anymore
Seattle Times - WA
NAIROBI — Carol Wanjiku's latest run-in with petty corruption occurred when a policeman saw her double-park near her house. Instead of issuing a ticket or a warning, she says, the policeman demanded "something little."
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HORN OF AFRICA: UN envoy calls for support to drought-affected ...
Reuters AlertNet - London
NAIROBI — The United Nations special humanitarian envoy for the Horn of Africa has appealed for donors to support funding appeals to help millions of people who have been affected by extensive drought...
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Food insecurity hits Africa
News24 - South Africa
MEXICO CITY - Africa is the only continent to experience a reduction in agricultural output per inhabitant, according to a report tabled...

Venezuela pushes ties with Africa
BBC News - UK
Venezuela is launching a big diplomatic offensive to build closer ties with the African continent.

Woman jailed for dumping kids in Africa
The Age - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
An American woman who left her seven adopted children in Africa, where they were found malnourished at an orphanage, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud.

Picasso and Africa exhibit extended
iAfrica.com - Cape Town, South Africa
Standard Bank will extend the Johannesburg run of 'Picasso and Africa' by one week due to the enormous public interest and the success of the exhibition.

State On Human Rights In Africa
Voice of America - USA
The U.S. State Department has issued its latest report on human rights around the world. The report paints a mixed picture of the human rights situation in Africa in 2005.

UN Report Shows Progress, Problems of Africa's Transition to Democracy
Voice of America - USA
A new report by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, or ECA, looks at how Africans are rating their government's transition to democracy.

'Give Africa new Aids drug'
News24 - South Africa
LAGOS — Medical aid agency Medecins sans Frontieres called on a major US drugs firm on Wednesday to make an anti-Aids drug, which needs no refrigeration, available to electricity-deprived Africans. (Related story: Doctors group wants AIDS drug in Africa)

IMF head says debt relief not enough for Africa
Xinhua - China
LUSAKA — International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Rodrigo de Rato, said Wednesday that debt relief extended by international donor communities to African countries is not enough...
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EAST AND HORN OF AFRICA: Environmental health key to decreasing incidence of drought
Reuters AlertNet - London
NAIROBI — More frequent and more severe droughts are likely to blight the Horn of Africa as global warming increases...
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Meningitis vaccine to be tested in Africa
Reuters AlertNet - London
LONDON — A vaccine against meningitis A will be tested and if all goes well could be available in the next few years in Africa where the ... (Related story: WEST AFRICA: Meningitis breakthrough could be on horizon)

China predicted to influence S. Africa's economy
Xinhua - China
JOHANNESBURG — Rapid growth of bilateral trade will put China in place to influence the value of the currency of South Africa...
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UPDATE 2-US Treasury's Snow postpones trip to Africa
Reuters - USA
WASHINGTON — US Treasury Secretary John Snow is putting off a mid-month trip to Africa, a Treasury spokesman said on Monday...
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Bird flu - show us the money, say govts
Reuters AlertNet - London
JOHANNESBURG — Southern African countries have expressed confidence about dealing with an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu...

Experts endorse draft small arms convention for west Africa
Xinhua - China
LAGOS — West Africa's economic bloc ECOWAS said Monday independent experts from Africa, Europe and the United States had endorsed a draft convention for the sub-region to check the menace of small arms and light weapons...

They don't just allow any old turkey into Africa
TMCnet - USA
Visas must be obtained for travel to most African countries. In order to obtain such a visa, you must go through a process. This can be slow. It can also be expensive.
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UN fears measles outbreak in drought-hit E.Africa
Washington Post - United States
KAALOKOL, Kenya — Millions of children in drought-hit East Africa are threatened by a "lethal cocktail" of measles and malnutrition and urgently need vaccinations...
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Mar 10

Korea to Boost Financial Aid to Africa
Chosun Ilbo - Seoul,South Korea
During his visit to Nigeria, President Roh Moo-hyun announced an ambitious aid plan for Africa to triple Korea's Official Development Assistance over the next three years.
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Changing a continent: Africa: Promises, pain and progress
Independent - London
It will be exactly one year tomorrow that Tony Blair's Commission for Africa - starring Bob Geldof, Gordon Brown and assorted African luminaries - issued its report. (Related story: Africa 'is still waiting for Blair reforms')
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Traditional Healers in South Africa Trained To People To Get Tested for HIV ...
Kaiser network.org - Washington, DC
A group of traditional healers in South Africa is being trained to encourage people to get tested for HIV, BBC News reports.

The rhythm of Africa
ic Huddersfield.co.uk - Huddersfield
Lots of Huddersfield schoolchildren, particularly in the Lockwood-Crosland Moor area, have been learning about the rhythms of Africa in recent months, thanks ...

Africa To Get Training Institute On Democracy
Daily Graphic - Accra,Ghana
An institute that will provide training for government officials and others seeking theoretical and practical education in the specialised field of democracy and the rule of law is to be set up in an African country...

Africa to decide on Darfur force
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation - Nairobi
The African Union is due to take the controversial decision on whether to ask the United Nations to take over its peace mission in Sudan's Darfur region. (Related story: Africa to decide on Darfur force)
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Poverty in Africa linked to water management-UN
Reuters AlertNet - London
NAIROBI — African countries will be hard pressed to emerge from poverty due to poor water management not a lack of available water...
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Africa 'needs bird flu fund'
News24 - South Africa
NAIROBI — The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday advised African countries to set up a fund worth billions of dollars to counter the effects of bird flu...
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S Africa Boosting Scientists
Prensa Latina - Havana, Cuba
JOHANNESBURG — In a bid to increase the number of black scientists and engineers, South Africa´s Education Department has set aside almos ...
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America's and Africa's duty in Darfur
Christian Science Monitor - Boston, MA
A voice of conscience is on a tour of American cities. Former Marine captain Brian Steidle, who saw firsthand the results of Darfur's black Arab Muslims killing black African Muslims, is one of thousands of Americans trying to end that genocide...
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Helping AIDS Families in Africa
WTVM - Columbus, GA
AIDS is a major problem in many African countries -- including Swaziland, located at the east edge of South Africa.
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Poultry trade seen as main bird flu risk in Africa
Reuters AlertNet - London
PRETORIA — The poultry trade poses a bigger risk for the spread of bird flu in Africa than migratory birds, experts said...
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UN chief to visit Africa
Xinhua - China
UNITED NATIONS — UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan will be traveling to Africa for a two-week visit... (Related story: Annan to visit S. Africa next week)
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Gender imbalances in the media need to be ...
Reuters AlertNet - London
JOHANNESBURG — The media should address the gender imbalances in news coverage and in the newsroom to draw a larger audience of women, urge activists.
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Mama Africa says farewell in Adelaide
ABC Online - Australia
The world's music and dance will come to Adelaide this afternoon when more than 400 performers begin entertaining crowds at Womadelaide.
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Mar 8

Jones urges more multinational efforts in Africa, Eastern Europe
Stars and Stripes - Washington,D.C.,USA
STUTTGART, Germany — Plans for the U.S. military in Europe in 2006 should include more cooperation with other nations to promote stability, its top commander told Congress this week.
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Africa should get sizeable slice of bird flu funds
Reuters AlertNet - London
NAIROBI — Africa should receive a "sizeable portion" of the $2 billion pledged to fight bird flu... (Related story: Birds from Africa will be tested)
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Africa: From "Black Continent" to Rising Market
Korea Times - South Korea
CAIRO — Often dubbed the "black continent," tainted with negative images of civil wars and coup d’etat as well as poverty and epidemics, Africa has been a forgotten land...
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US: Human Rights Improved in Parts of Africa, Still Bad in Zimbabwe, Sudan
Voice of America - USA
The US State Department says several countries in sub-Saharan Africa made progress on human rights in 2005.

Africa May Enter 'Persistent Famine'
FOX News - USA
LONDON — Africa may be entering a period of "persistent famine" with drought striking more often, and aid agencies urgently need more money to combat the scourge... (Related story: Uganda under pressure as food crisis hits east Africa, 20 million face threat of famine in Africa)
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AIDS Cuts Deadly Swath Through Portions of Southern Africa's ...
Voice of America - USA
Population growth in most of Africa is expected to rise sharply over the next 50 years. But, in southern Africa, AIDS is cutting a deadly swath... (Related story: AIDS Kills 480,000 in Cent Africa, Africa slowly taking care of AIDS children)

East Africa Facing Worst Drought in Years
Christian Post - San Francisco,CA,USA
East Africa is facing its worst drought in years, UK-based Christian Aid reports. The countries that are in dire need of immediate ... (Related stories: WER update: response to East Africa food crisis, Famine threatens 11m in East Africa after two-year drought)
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`Bluesman of Africa` Ali Toure is dead
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow, UK
BAMAKO — Grammy Award-winning African gurke player, Ali Farka Toure, died Tuesday at his home... (Related story: Africa loses innovative bluesman)
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Global Community Must Boost Aid to Central Africa, Says UN Refugee ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The international community must increase its support to Central Africa at a crucial time in its troubled history...
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Rain blesses east Africa, but drought not over
Reuters AlertNet - London
NAIROBI — Heavy rains from Burundi to central Kenya have drenched parched fields and flooded streets this week...

Africa and Catholicism
National Catholic Reporter - USA
Probably the most significant force reshaping the contours of global Catholicism today is the population shift from North to South, from the developed to the developing world...

S.Africa to bring post-apartheid lessons to Iraq
Reuters AlertNet - London
PRETORIA — South Africa will open an embassy in Baghdad to bring the lessons of its post-apartheid transition to Iraq...
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Five billion dollars to end child hunger in Africa-WFP
Reuters AlertNet - London
LONDON — Hunger and starvation among African children could be eliminated for $5 billion, the head of the World Food Programme (WFP) said...
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S. Korea Will Triple Aid to Africa by 2008
Korea Times - South Korea
CAIRO — South Korea will triple its financial assistance to African nations over the next three years, helping them overcome poverty by developing human resources.
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S. Africa provides Iran diplomatic cover
Jerusalem Post - Israel
With the international community poised to make a critical decision in Vienna regarding whether to send the Iranian nuclear dossier to the United Nations Security Council, South Africa's behavior on the issue has raised eyebrows...
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India-Africa oil conclave in May
Business Standard - India
Unveiling another facet of its oil diplomacy, India is now reaching out to Africa. On invitation from the petroleum ministry, top executives of the oil industry from 15 African nations will arrive in India this May...

Museveni urges integration to ensure better political changes in ...
Xinhua - China
KAMPALA — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni Monday said the task ahead is to work towards the integration of east Africa...
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Amid misery and tragedy, Africa still optimistic
International Herald Tribune - France
GAGA REFUGEE CAMP, Chad — Amouna Muhammad sat quietly in the shade of her canvas tent, imagining the future of her 3-month-old son, Haider, bundled in her lap.

South Africa celebrates winning Oscar award
Xinhua - China
JOHANNESBURG — Millions of South Africans, including President Thabo Mbeki, hailed Monday the country's first Oscar award winning film Tsotsi... (Related story:  Oscar Award Raises Southern Africa's Filmmaking Profile, 'Tsotsi': The Broken Heart of South Africa)
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Mar 5

Gold output in sight of South Africa's
Australian - Australia
At long last, gold production is back on the rise in Australia and is now within reach of overtaking South Africa as the world's largest gold producer. ...
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Millions face starvation in Africa
Scotsman - United Kingdom
Up to 11 million people across East Africa face starvation after the worst drought in 20 years hit the poverty stricken region...
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Bird flu a disaster for poor in Africa
Australian - Australia
Bird flu may soon present millions of poor African families with a stark choice: starve, or gamble with a disease that could kill their families.
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Mar 4

Ireland 'at the forefront of tackling Africa's problems'
Ireland Online - Dublin,Ireland
Ireland is at the forefront of the international response to the food crisis in the Horn of Africa according to junior foreign minister Conor Lenihan.

E. Africa must get drought aid in days - UN
Reuters AlertNet - London
EL WAK — Aid for victims of a drought across east Africa will run out in April unless help arrives in the next 10 days...
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Mar 3

Global Warming May Dry Up Africa's Rivers, Study Suggests
National Geographic - Washington,D.C.,USA
Many climate scientists already predict that less rain will fall annually in parts of Africa within 50 years due to global warming

Africa's bright outlook not curbing poverty - IMF
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg
DAKAR — Prospects for sub-Saharan Africa's economies are the rosiest in more than a decade but regional growth of 5 percent annually is still not enough to reduce biting poverty...

Mar 2

My Day in Africa
BBC News - UK
The 2006 BBC competition for Africa - My Day - is about a typical day in your life on the continent.

Mar 1

News - Africa Food Crisis Appeal
Reuters AlertNet - London
The British Red Cross is extending its appeal for aid to Africa as a food crisis threatens to engulf large swathes of the continent.

Africa given free journal access
BBC News - UK
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that it will give Africa free access to its journal archives.

UN chiefs urge more aid to Africa's Great lakes
Reuters AlertNet - London
KIGALI — Recent political progress in Africa's volatile Great Lakes region must be accompanied by more aid to fix problems left by more than a decade  of conflicts...

EasyJet launches first route to Africa
Ireland Online - Dublin,Ireland
Low-fare airline easyJet will fly to Africa for the first time when it opens new routes this summer, it was announced today.

Africa Becoming Major Source of Drug Trafficking
CRI - Beijing,China
United Nations anti-drug agency on Wednesday warned that Africa is becoming a hotbed of drug trafficking with criminal cartels preferring to use west, east and north Africa as major transit routes...

Baylor Med adds muscle to HIV fight in Africa
Houston Chronicle - United States
The world's largest child health advocacy organization, UNICEF, has enlisted the help of Baylor College of Medicine to expand treatment to HIV-infected African children...