Changing Perceptions

The president and CEO of the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa has told VOA that important stories about Africa continue to feature less prominently in mainstream American media outlets.


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Tired of reading accounts of Africa through the eyes of outsiders, 14 African writers have set out to document the diversity of their content in a series of books and blogs partly inspired by the soccer World Cup.


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Zimbabwe will speed up the release of election results and bar police interference in voting in future, a senior government minister said on Thursday, two years after President Robert Mugabe's disputed re-election.


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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has hailed the "tremendous progress" Sierra Leone has made in consolidating peace and development less than one decade after the end of the West African nation's brutal civil war.


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Gambian police seized 2.5 tonnes of cocaine bound for Europe and arrested a dozen suspected traffickers after a joint investigation with British detectives, a security source said on Tuesday.


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Angola approved a law on Thursday to tackle money laundering and the financing of terrorism, months after it was accused of not complying with international rules on the issues.


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Recent signs of openess by Angola's famously opaque government have been welcomed by political analysts, but the oil-rich country must now turn the transparency talk into action, the same experts say.


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Two South African anti-corruption police officers have earned themselves huge respect after rejecting a two million rand (about US$ 270,000) bribery offer from an alleged drug dealer.


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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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