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1. Black Stars: Carrying the hope of a continent

   (Newsletters)

   ... the third African team to reach the quarter-finals, after Cameroon and Senegal did so in 1990 and 2002 respectively. "We've created history," said right back John Pantsil. "It's the first time that Ghana ...

   Wednesday, 30 June 2010

2. Africa's booming tech space will define the continent's future

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   ... digital proving grounds Appfrica Labs opened its doors in Uganda in 2008. Since then, three additional tech hubs have opened around the continent. Limbe Labs Ventures Cameroon and Banta Labs in Senegal ...

   Thursday, 27 May 2010

3. Africa's influence: The 2010 Time 100 list

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   ... in Cameroon and grew up in Dakar, Senegal, in West Africa. After graduating from Thunderbird School of Global Management, in the US, Berg became the ICT Coordinator for the Millennium Villages Project ...

   Wednesday, 12 May 2010

4. Football and funny: encouraging action in Africa

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   ... Africa, Emmanuel Eboue of Arsenal and the Ivory Coast, Salif Diao, Abdoulaye Faye and Amdy Faye, all of Stoke City and Senegal, Sebastien Bassong of Cameroon and Spurs, Mamady Sidibe of Stoke City and ...

   Wednesday, 05 May 2010

5. Adopt a tree in Africa

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   ... and A.senegal, both of which can be used to make gum, rope and medicinal products, round off the offerings. Prices range from R69 (US$9.50) for a single A. senegal to R1 983 ($271) for a pack of 50 of ...

   Wednesday, 21 April 2010

6. Aid from the needy: Africa's support of Haiti

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   ... (DRC) has offered $2.5 million. Equatorial Guinea has offered $2 million. Senegal has offered $1 million in aid and repatriation to any Haitian who seeks to immigrate. Gabon, the Republic of the ...

   Wednesday, 17 February 2010

7. 2009: a good year

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   ... of Europe. Carbon offset programmes have also been a talking point in 2009, with countries like Senegal, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda all making a concerted effort to protect their natural resources and help ...

   Wednesday, 16 December 2009

8. China in Africa: Is the continent being re-colonised?

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   ... in Angola, Senegal, Gabon, Nigeria and Ghana attest to the rapidity of these developments. Due to all major Chinese enterprises being state-owned and decision-making extremely centralised in Beijing, China ...

   Wednesday, 23 September 2009

9. Sisters are doing it for themselves

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   ... they have visited Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, Cote d ‘Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, Liberia, Mali, Namibia, Senegal, ...

   Wednesday, 15 July 2009

10. The revolution will not be televised: the African blogosphere

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    ... information from back home and secondly sharing common experiences from the diaspora itself,” he says. The WAXAL Blogging Africa Awards, held in Dakar, Senegal in February this year, awarded two prizes ...

    Wednesday, 10 June 2009

11. African centres hope to produce top mathematicians

    (News/Education)

    Tags: [education, mathematics, Africa, Canada, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ghana, Ethiopia, Senegal]  ...

    Tuesday, 27 July 2010

12. Nigeria telecoms firms sign up to new broadband cable

    (News/ICT)

    Tags: [Main One Cable, undersea cable, Etisalat, MTN, Starcomms, SAT-3, Tyco, Cisco Systems, Steven Evans, Ghana, Morocco, Canary Islands, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Nigeria]  ...

    Thursday, 22 July 2010

13. Canada to support science and technology training for African youths

    (News/Education)

    Tags: [Canada, Stephen Harper, Next Einstein Initiative, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, South Africa, Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, Ethiopia]  ...

    Thursday, 15 July 2010

14. Main One cable goes live

    (News/ICT)

    Tags: [Main One, Europe, Submarine network cable, Fola Adeola, Morocco, Canary Islands, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Ghana, West Africa]  ...

    Tuesday, 06 July 2010

15. Musician uses power of music to help Senegal fight malaria

    (News/Health)

    Tags: [Youssou Ndour, Malaria, Africa Live: Roll back Malaria, Xeex Sibburu, Pape Moussa Thior, National Malaria Control Program, Cecilia Irma Gonsalves, Djibril Diop, Senegal]  ...

    Monday, 21 June 2010

16. Chad: Green wall starts to grow

    (News/Environment)

    Tags: [Green wall, tree planting, Hassan Térap, Abakar Mahamat Zougoubou, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Chad]  ...

    Friday, 18 June 2010

17. Canada invites African leaders to G8 meeting

    (News/International Relations)

    Tags: [Canada, Group of Eight summit, Stephen Harper, Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Africa]  ...

    Monday, 14 June 2010

18. Cup highlights Africa's bigger changes

    (News/Economy)

    Tags: [FIFA World Cup, investment, stock markets, Zain Africa, Bharti Airtel, Senegal, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa]  ...

    Monday, 14 June 2010

19. Open-source software intakes African universities

    (News/Education)

    Tags: [Academic research, African universities, Catalonia, Senegal, Mozambique, Cameroon, Madagascar, Equatorial Guinea]  ...

    Thursday, 10 June 2010

20. African states push for UN ban on female circumcision

    (News/Women and Youth)

    Tags: [United Nations, Female genital mutilation, African Union, Rose Gkuba, Yetunda Teriba, Mamadou Seck, Senegal]  ...

    Wednesday, 05 May 2010