Changing Perceptions

The head of the World Bank hailed "progress" in Ivory Coast's political reconciliation efforts and promised assistance during a visit to the troubled West African state on Thursday.


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Actors, rappers and environmentalists are scaling Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to spotlight the global clean water crisis, which affects more than 1 billion people worldwide.


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There have been limited improvements in Libya's human rights record, including greater freedom of expression, New York-based Human Rights Watch has said.


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Some 5,000 Nigerian volunteers turned out Saturday armed with paint brushes to give a facelift to Mushin, a notorious slum in the centre of the country's commercial capital Lagos.


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Ministers, parliamentarians, top civil servants: hardly a week goes by without a prominent official going to jail in Rwanda where the government has declared zero tolerance for corruption.


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A Nigerian group said Tuesday it would next week mobilise over 5,000 volunteers to give a notorious slum in the centre of Lagos, the country's commercial hub, a facelift.


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The Chairman of Sierra Leone's Anti-Corruption Commission says he has stepped up efforts to weed out corruption. Abdul Tejan-Cole praised the legislature for enacting laws that he says boosts the commission's anti-graft campaign.


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The United Nations has awarded peace keeping medals to 120 Nigeria police officers for their meritorious service in Liberia. The Nigerian police are the fifth among the 130 UN police-contributing countries.


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The United States hopes President Barack Obama's decision to visit Ghana this month will spur other African governments to try and emulate the West African country's democratic record.


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Under a new initiative, international donors are backing Africa-based policy research to improve local decision-making on complex global issues with potentially enormous humanitarian consequences like food security and climate change.


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Botswana, Malawi and Gabon have been ranked as the most peaceful countries in Africa, in the 2009 Global Peace Index (GPI) compiled by the Institute for Economics and Peace.


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Malawi has sworn in its first female vice-president. Joyce Banda was sworn in at Friday's inauguration ceremony, held in Blantyre, Malawi.


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The creators of the animated TV series "South Park" last month devoted a half-hour episode to Somali pirates.


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"Ireland," I answered the taxi-driver's question when I first went to Ethiopia in 2006.

"You know ... Bob Geldof, Bono?", I continued, confident he would recognise the two rockers who many Westerners think fed the world during the 1980s.


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An international team of scientists has just completed a 10-year study of genetic diversity in Africa, unearthing fascinating information on the continent’s enormous linguistic and cultural diversity.


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A representative of  a regional maritime organization has slammed the international community's intense focus on the kidnap of one American in the horn of Africa even as nationals of poorer countries languish in the hands of Somali pirates.


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Tags: USA - Philippines - piracy - Somalia

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A former Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) government minister has become the first black head of a FTSE 100 company.


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When 32-year-old Talatu Umar tested positive two years ago after the death of her husband, she ruled out the possibility of ever marrying again.


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Tags: Nigeria

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sunshineonafricaOften misunderstood, mysterious, marginalised, and yet romanticised, Africa - a tapestry of 53 sovereign states that are home to a diverse population of almost 1 billion people speaking over 1000 indigenous languages and dialects, their great variety mirrored only in the unrivalled magnificence of the continent's fauna, flora and natural wealth - hardly registers among the most desirable nation brands, either collectively or as individual nations.

It is time to abolish the old Africa and proactively showcase the other face of Africa - the best of Africa.


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Tags: Algeria - Egypt - Nigeria - South Africa

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Africa still remains an enigma to many. The tremendous disparity and barriers between its countries make the creation of a single unifying African brand that represents its potential difficult - but also very necessary for its future success.


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Just when it seemed that Western images of Africa could not get any weirder, the July 2007 special Africa issue of Vanity Fair was published, complete with a feature article on "Madonna's Malawi." At the same time, the memoirs of an African child soldier are on sale at your local Starbucks, and celebrity activist Bob Geldof is touring Africa yet again, followed by TV cameras, to document that "War, Famine, Plague & Death are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and these days they're riding hard through the back roads of Africa."


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