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- A return to tradition: reconciliation in Sierra Leone
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- Sierra Leone: Operation starts at Africa's largest iron ore deposit
- "Africa is back" from global crisis, says IMF
- IMF chief to visit Kenya, SA, Zambia
- IMF to upgrade Africa growth view - Africa director
- Angola state oil company: profits of $2.4 billion
- Mauritius economy seen growing by 4.2 pct in 2010
- Guinea public servant wages hiked 50%
- Paris Club agrees to billion-dollar debt relief for DRC
- Africa's GDP growth could reach 7 pct in 2011
- Angolan government approves $250 mln for agro-credit
- Liberia on track for HIPC debt relief this year-IMF
- Zimbabwe’s tobacco sales marked by higher production
- Egypt prepares for its next economic leap forward
- "Easy to double African banana yields"
- Egypt opens country's investment potential
- Renault sets up car factory in Algeria
- Botswana predicts return to growth in 2010/11
- World Bank predicts Angola 2010 growth up to 7.5%
- Experts see Eritrea leading regional mining surge
- Africa to hit 4.3% growth in 2010: report
- Ivorian rubber to boom on China demand
- Mauritius' economy to grow over next three years: IMF
- Gabon raises minimum wage to boost purchasing power
- Uganda says oil money for infrastructure, development
- Rwanda: Measures to boost agriculture bear fruit
- Zimbabwe gold production up 35%: Chamber of Mines
- China to reinforce economic ties on Algeria visit
- Positive recovery for Africa in 2010
- Uganda: 70,000 jobs created, says Minister
- China to fund Kenya's second port, road and railway
- Demand for copper to double in 2010
- Zambia 2010 GDP likely above 7%
- Sudan ships first ethanol exports to EU
- DRC envoy welcomes IMF rating
- Economy back on track, Zimbabweans making merry at Christmas
- Outlook of African business leaders positive for 2010
- IMF extends $624 million in loans to DR. Congo
- Namibia economy weathering crisis, grow in 2010 - Fitch
- Kenya wind firm signs Vestas, to pick contractors
- Africa GDP to grow 5.5 - 6% in 2010: AfDB
- Zimbabwe's budget predicts growth and low inflation
- South Africa exits recession as factories rebound
- Ghana eyes 10% growth in 2010
- Gabon to ban export of unhewn timber from 2010
- Ghana lawmakers want oil profits invested responsibly
- Botswana recession end "within reach": president
- Ethiopia discovers mine with 40 tonnes of gold deposits
- Congo-Republic government sees oil boosting growth in 2010
- Algeria "not affected by global crisis"
- Ghana fit to double cocoa production
- Liberia may have over 1 bln barrels in oil resources
- US to give $37.7 mln economic stimulus to Tanzania
- Sliding Seychelles secures growth in 2010
- Nestlé unwraps new cocoa plan
- Zambia economy seen growing 6.3% in 2009
- Angola ups spending by 50% in 2010 budget
- Nigeria signs $875 million railway deal with China
- Africa heading for 2009 growth due to China
- Zimbabwe factory output doubles in 1st-half '09
- Rwandan economy grew by 9% in first half of year
- IMF positive about economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa
- Ghana selects Oando as lead developer in gas project
- IMF sees Zimbabwe economy growing 3.7% in 2009
- Egypt economy to grow by 5% in 2010
- Prospects are good for Africa agriculture
- Tackling climate change could earn Africa $1.5bn
- Financial services for 50 million poor by 2012
- Zambia's copper production set to increase
- IMF sees strong economic growth for Zambia in 2009
- Mauritius inflation rate falls to 5.2 pct in August
- Cost of living eases in Zimbabwe
- Kenya economy expected to improve in next quarter
- Mozambique coal projects to generate billions
- Farmer unions benefit from €5.4 million grant
- Algeria scores major deal in vehicles production
- Angola oil output to reach 2 milion bpd by 2010
- Kenyan farmers adopt drought-tolerant crops
- Saudi-based partners launch Africa rice farming plan
- Africa attracts $1 billion in fund flows this year
- Cameroon to boost rice production
- Global recession slows, but does not halt African growth
- Kenya bond market shows signs of recovery
- A new low cost airline created in Zimbabwe
- Ghana launches initiative to conserve forests
- Zimbabwe raises state wages by half
- Angola economy seen improving in second half
- Mozambique's rice production on the increase
- Angola pledges $1.2 bln to farming, food security
- $20m agri-programme launched in Mozambique
- Ghana prepares for oil boom
- Malawi moves to diversify exports
- Zimbabwe economy shows signs of recovery
- Biotechnology - Africa must not be left behind
- AfDB gives African trade finance $500m boost
- Angola to post double-digit growth in 2010
- Starbucks brings Rwandan coffee to UK stores
- Morocco expects 5.3% economic growth in 2009
- Zimbabwe's food production doubles
- Study identifies Africa's vast agriculture potential
- Nigeria to allow foreign investment in banks
- Ghana's economic outlook improving
- Tunisian economy Africa's most competitive
- Tanzania inflation falls on cheaper energy, water
- Zambia's copper industry on the mend
- African economies well balanced says AfDB study
- Uganda: national budget focuses on infrastructure, energy
- Malawi records 1.2 million tonne maize surplus
- Cameroon: satellite tracking curbs illegal trading
- Mauritania: compromise reached ahead of elections
- Reviving the Continent's "lost crops"
- Africa, Middle East attract higher levels of outsourcing
- Surging commodity prices offer African economies hope
- Algeria moves to cut dependence on foreign food
- India to outsource back-office work to Egypt
- Butterfly farming takes wing in Kenya
- Tunisia ranks highly as offshore destination
- Kenyan ex-convicts take up rearing livestock
- Portugal to increase air links with Senegal
- Nigeria lifts foreign exchange restrictions
- Rwanda unveils $500m-plus in construction projects
- IMF encouraged by Seychelles' success
- Three African countries become EITI candidates
- Angola commits $3.5 million to recapitalise AfDB
- U.S-based Cape Verdeans fuel progress at home
- Turning agriculture into a business
- Mozambique: foreign investment in minerals jumps sharply
- Morocco records 5.4% economic growth in 2009
- African Development Bank creates $2.5bn crisis buffer
- Venezuela looks to bolster Angola's micro-credit sector
- World Bank unveils manual on recovery of looted funds
- Saudi Arabia to invest in Madagascar
- Angola returns attention to agriculture sector
- Egyptian city reaps the benefits of hard work
- East Africa shows strong growth prospects for 2009
- Nigeria discovers largest African iron ore deposit
- Liberia cuts debt sharply
- African beer keeps head as other markets go flat
- Moroccan phosphate exporter sees 2008 profits up ninefold
- African banks gain foothold in Forbes' Global 2000 list
- Nigeria saves with online payment solution
- Kenyan bank tries out new lending facility
- Africa's concerns heard at G20 summit, says Ethiopia's Meles
- Randgold sees golden future for Massawa project
- Kenya projects 3.6% growth in 2009
- IMF doesn't see risk of strong African recession
- World Bank to grant Rwanda $172m
- Ghana budget aims to slash costs, create jobs
- Libya balance of payments surplus at $44 bln
- S.Africa still sees positive growth this year
- Africa's mineral wealth: a blessing not a curse
- African Development Bank to help African economies
- Sub-Saharan Africa's economy grew by 5.4% in 2008
- African economies stronger against external shocks
- Africa economy to remain robust despite global slowdown
- Africa economic growth still strong
- Spreading and sustaining growth in Africa
- Africa experiencing best growth since independence
- Africa's economy expected to grow faster
- 'Big-Box' stores are good news in Africa
- IMF drops debt of 13 African countries
- G8 drops the debt
- Trade and Investment
- IMF to help Africa monitor gold, diamond sectors
- West African farmers enter international organic food market
- China in talks to help build economic zone in Egypt
- Sao Tome invites offers for oil exploration
- Malawi, Zambia set for big US infrastructure aid
- Kenya: Country kicks out Sri Lanka as world leading tea exporter
- Morocco: WB doubles loans to $2.4bln
- Bharti confirms $10,7bn bid for Zain Africa assets
- Malawi approves extra $76 mln budget for drought woes
- IFC invests $2 bln in sub-Saharan Africa 09/10
- Morocco to launch $2.5 bln high-speed train line
- Egypt to tender land for industrial development
- Libya free trade zone approved
- BP to invest $10 billion in Egypt in next few years
- Ghana gets €130 million from Germany
- Mozambique approves Riversdale coal mine
- India boosts ties with Africa, expands credit lines
- US reaffirms commitment to emerging African economies
- Irag, Angola's Sonangol strike deal over oil field
- Zambia Sugar to double EU exports in 3-4 years
- S.Africa plans to invest $600 mln in Zambia
- Stock exchanges in West Africa to integrate
- Liberian govt secures huge investment in palm oil production
- Agricultural research reduces poverty in sub-Saharan Africa
- Zimbabwe, S.Africa sign investment protection deal
- UK's Blair encourages investment in Sierra Leone
- US investments in Tunisia top $1 billion
- ‘Made in China' now made in Egypt
- Saudi Arabia resumes livestock trade with Somalia
- African nations seeking united front on trade talks
- Ethiopia to launch online trading for agro-exports
- China to invest in Zambia despite downturn
- Zimbabwe offers 'enormous' opportunities for SMEs
- IMF endorses Nigeria's oil industry reform bill
- MTN Uganda raises $100m loan for expansion
- Malawians abroad aid economy with $1 million in remittances
- A call to set up an African Immigrant Bank
- World Bank injects $74 million into Zimbabwe's agriculture
- Research shows the potential for green energy in Africa
- Venezuela to supply Kenya with cheap oil
- Malawi Government to improve research on crops
- Congo to finalise South Africa land deal
- Nigeria partners with Brazil to boost energy production
- 'Oil discovered' off Sierra Leone
- Nigeria begins vast river dredge
- UK unveils funding plan to rebuild the Congo's road network
- Investment in Rwanda up in 6 months to June 2009
- South Africa to lead the continent into the final frontier
- Chinese buying of West African oil hits new high
- Ivory Coast eyes $2.9 bln in debt restructure
- SA, Angola sign trade and development deals
- E.Africa trade bloc to streamline commercial laws
- Africa: booming business opportunity for U.S.
- Alrosa to invest $500m in Angola building sector
- Angola investing in manufacturing industries
- Africa's century for development: World Bank chief
- India firms invest $85m in biofuel and paper works
- U.S. - Africa renew trade ties
- China, others shove US in scramble for Africa
- Tongaat Hulett to invest $18.5m in Zim operations
- US chamber embarks on trade mission to Africa
- Ethiopian Airlines' purchases new aircraft
- Major natural gas strike off Namibia
- Algeria to attract investors with revised working week
- Rwanda joins East Africa customs union
- Major brewer expands operations in Angola
- A major boost for Gold mining in Ghana
- M-Tech builds first mobile phone plant in Africa
- $326 million road project to link Ethiopia and Kenya
- New Chinese partners for $750m Mauritius project
- Trading blocs collaborate to boost exports
- IBM expands its operations in Kenya
- Kenyan small hold farmers get financial boost
- Indian telecom tigers descend on Africa
- Saharawis to get 'University of the Desert'
- Zambezi Airlines spreads its wings
- Kenyan banks plough $452m into South Sudan housing
- Sainsbury's looks to source coffee from DRC
- Botswana's investment climate ranked top in Africa
- Investors looking, but not leaping, back into Africa
- Egypt: horticulture firm plans to double cultivation
- Sime Darby to create 20,000 jobs in Liberia
- Zimbabwe: government plans spinoff of mobile provider
- Nigeria approves $150 million maintenance hangar
- Mauritius firm launches Africa investment fund
- Tanzanian bank kicks off IPO
- Djibouti pledges to invest in Malawi's inland port
- Swiss offer to return $130m in bribes to Nigeria
- Pact offers Rwandair entry to Europe markets
- Mozambique's sugar cane to be used in making ethanol
- Ivory Coast targets tripling rubber output by 2025
- US/Nigeria trade reaches $42.2bn
- Botswana comes top in Africa for mining investment
- Standard Bank invests further into Russia
- Mauritius says stimulus package saved 1,700 jobs
- Ghana Stock Exchange to go electronic at end of March
- Alwaleed-backed Africa fund expands amid downturn
- Ethiopia exports to United States double under AGOA
- Angola eyes new investments at home and abroad
- Nigeria, Ethiopia top African investment potential index
- Africa: ripe for investment
- Africa catches investors' eyes
- African leaders create giant trade bloc
- FDI creating jobs in Africa
- Foreign investors recognise allure of Sub-Saharan Africa
- New fund to boost innovation and reduce rural poverty
- FDI into Africa doubles
- FDI in Africa hits historic high
- Doing Business
- African leaders support agribusiness plan at UN-backed conference
- Gabon unveils measures against corruption, for industry
- $20 million loan to support smallholder agribusiness in Zambia
- 50 000 East African fruit farmers empowered by Coca-Cola deal
- Ethiopian Airlines eyes China/India profit boost
- Abidjan port launches scheme to cut fraud, delays
- Over $1 bln recovered from Nigeria bad bank debtors
- Emirates begins Luanda-Dubai flights
- A boost for African carbon offset projects
- Internet prices drop by 90% in Cameroon
- BBC launches TV series dedicated to African business
- Angola praised on Asian oil deals
- Market respect for new S.Africa cenbank governor
- Investment monitoring tool to boost business in Africa
- Egypt makes strides in fighting software piracy
- Indonesia, Namibia agree to join forces
- Business in Africa: an idea that's changing the world
- Africa's private sector flowers
- Africa - open for business like never before
- Banking in Africa: The big picture
- Doing business gets easier in Africa
- Innovation
- Egypt says it will propel African science agenda
- Net puts Kenya at centre of Chile rescue efforts
- Network will bolster African fisheries research
- New maize varieties to boost output
- WFP, Vodafone project distributes food vouchers by text message
- Malagasy labs to receive upgrade
- Tunisia launches first nanotech project
- Egypt puts archives on web to boost Arabic content
- Nigerian project wins top award
- Egyptian show hopes to shape science stars
- China sets its sights on African research cooperation
- Satellite insurance to pay farmers if land turns brown
- Botswana tries spicy solution to keep elephants at bay
- Angolan activist launches website to expose corruption
- Somalis get first-ever debit card
- DNA tests to help slave descendants trace ancestry
- Post offices in West Africa offer electronic money transfer
- Egypt to accept patent applications in Arabic
- Benin farmers unite against effects of climate change
- African food production on the rise
- Sierra Leonean mobile money transfer takes off
- Drought-hardy maize ready for field trials
- Rat demining agency finalist in Google Award
- Drip irrigation boosts food production in West Africa
- Nigeria relaunches research fair to boost industry links
- Fight against malaria builds mosquito net industry
- Liberia converting old rubber trees to electricity
- Kenya maintains innovation despite political strife
- Microsoft to smarten cheap phones
- Nigeria's first locally built armoured carrier
- Kenyans welcome first solar-powered phone in Africa
- Algeria delivers on research funding promise
- Science research enjoys a windfall in Tanzania
- Ghana: Maker Faire Africa kicks off
- Microfinancing giving birth to eco-friendly town
- Kenya launches digital villages project
- Nigeria to roll out fungus-resistant soybean crops
- Emerging markets to push mobile gaming to $18 billion by 2014
- Chinese agricultural boom 'holds lessons for Africa'
- Pedal power for Kenya's mobiles
- West Africa: disaster-risk reduction made simple
- Rwanda invests $2 million in telemedicine
- Purchasing fuel through a mobile phone
- Kenyan stock exchange makes sales via SMS
- Multi-nationals launch SMS services for Uganda's poor
- Sudan's first biofuel plant comes online
- MTN's Mobile Money changing banking in Uganda
- Swahili version of Facebook launched
- Tunisian teenager simplifies Bernoulli's theorem
- China, Brazil offer free satellite images
- Uganda: mobile software alerts users to blackouts
- "Poor man's car" offers hope of affordable transport
- East Africa gets its first mobile social network
- Cameroon: recycler devises novel use for old car batteries
- Somali entrepreneurs pioneer ambulance service
- Solar-powered cardboard cooker 'meats' needs of rural Africa
- Uganda: helping farmers at the touch of a button
- East African countries take part in pro-poor housing project
- Uganda leads rice research
- Rwanda: The world's social innovation capital
- Solving everyday problems with African ingenuity
- Africa innovation site makes Time top 50
- Entrepreneurship
- War veterans in Sierra Leone get micro-grants
- West African youth to benefit from Cocoa development grant
- IBM expands corporate programme in emerging markets
- Ivorian ex-fighters build new businesses
- From bush to bike - a bamboo revolution
- Africa's biggest resort woos entrepreneurs
- Microfinance for Togolese HIV/AIDS victims
- Senegalese market women receive affordable health insurance
- New device lures fish, telephones fishermen
- African Development Bank bolsters microfinance in DRC
- New, private Egyptian airline in the offing
- African game developers target iPhone market
- SA and Egyptian entrepreneurs selected for elite network
- Africa - open for business like never before
- Infrastructure
- Infrastructure
- Energy
- Ghana gets local solar panels
- Senegal working with France on Nuclear plant
- Great Lakes could produce up to 4 000 MW of clean energy
- Sierra Leone's hydro-power dam lighting up Freetown
- North African country attracted by SA nuclear reactor technology
- Tunisia: Most electrified country in Africa
- Congo Republic hails successful dam turbine test
- Ethiopia launches hydro-power plant
- Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya to build power link
- Morocco to invite bids for solar station in Feb
- Zimbabwe, Botswana ink power generation deal
- Nigeria: Crude oil production hits record 2.4 million BPD
- Kenya to end power shortages
- Nigeria's power supply rises after Delta amnesty
- Major power project completed in Sierra Leone
- Morocco to upgrade power link with Spain
- Zim power generation recieves a boost
- Morocco unveils $9 bln solar power scheme
- Sahara sun 'to help power Europe'
- AfDB lends Botswana $225m for energy project
- Green projects in South Africa and Tunisia receive funding
- Rwanda to cut power prices by a third
- New African renewable alliance established
- Nigeria's electricity generation rises to 2,900MW
- Egypt aims to triple power capacity by 2027
- Hydro brings light and hope to Sierra Leone
- SADC reaffirms Inga as a regional power project
- Small hydro plants to help boost development in rural Africa
- Kenya plans 24 MW electricity surplus by October
- Southern Africa: flood of renewable energy projects
- Africa's biggest windfarm to be built in Kenya
- Southern African countries commit to $225m power project
- Siemens backs plan to harvest energy from Africa's deserts
- Egypt allocates land to boost wind farms
- Munich Re envisions Sahara solar parks
- Mozambique will push ahead with $5B oil refinery
- Ghana pushes on with power schemes despite financing crisis
- Grand Inga Dam to power Africa
- East Africa to share power network
- Sales of generators booming in Ethiopia
- Eritrea: Reaping the wind
- Kenya looks to geothermal technology to boost power
- Mozambique signs $30m gas exploration deal
- Energy-saving month kicks off in Tunisia
- Biofuels largest market for southern Africa farming
- S. Africa to invest $1.2 bln in wind energy
- AfDB and Egypt sign $450m loan for thermal power projects
- Nigeria's oil production to grow 20% by 2013
- Mozambique to increase gas output
- Mozambique approves $8.5bn for energy projects
- Electricity demand in Africa will drive growth
- Morocco to invest $10bn in energy projects
- Zambia launches $400m power project
- Mozambique plans jatropha biofuel strategy
- S.Africa says keen to go green on energy supply
- Oil in Africa
- Africa's major oil producers
- Africa starts to gear up for biofuels
- African energy
- Roads and rail
- New railway links north and south Sudan
- Egyptian firm to invest $150 million in East African rail
- Inter-state rail link to get finances
- China injects $349 million into Ethiopia's road link
- Mozambique revives historic railway line
- Chinese begin work on Congo Republic coast link road
- Mozambique to build $500m railway line by 2015
- Ethiopia plans new rail system
- Better roads a boon for Cameroon's cocoa output
- Equatorial Guinea to invest to double port size
- Infrastructure development to stimulate Kenya growth
- Britain joins rush to rebuild Africa's transport network
- ICT
- Google Maps lands in Ghana
- Kenya wins GSMA award for mobile broadband strategy
- Vodafone launch 'world's cheapest phone'
- Africa: 448 million mobile network subscribers
- UBA Uganda introduces mobile banking services
- Tanzania to complete fibre-optic link in June
- Africa telecom investment to exceed $70 bln by '12
- East African mobile communication market to reach $9 billion in 2015
- Private network to interconnect universities in Kenya
- Econet exceeds 3 million subscribers in Zimbabwe
- Kigali to become wireless city
- Zain Zambia subscriber base hits 3 mln
- Econet launches new solar handset in Burundi
- Windows 7 to be translated into 10 African languages
- Egypt: internet to speak Arabic
- Mobile phone use soars in Africa
- Nigeria's anti-graft police shut 800 scam websites
- IFC invests $100m in Nigeria telecom
- Tanzania first to lower internet rates
- Africa's handset demand shoots up
- Africa telecoms investment to reach $141bn by 2013
- World Bank to invest $215 mln in African internet
- IBM offers low-cost computing solution for Africa
- $8 billion invested in Africa's ICT in 2008
- Kenya's TEAMS cable goes live next week
- Glo1 submarine cable debuts in Lagos
- African broadband to rise 500%
- Mobiles key to web connectivity in Africa
- Egypt, SA develop supercomputers to respond to disasters
- Expansion of ICT sector fuels Egypt's growth
- Broadband connectivity reaches across East Africa
- Egypt IT exports poised to reach $1bln by 2010
- Zimbabwe's fibre-optic implementation intensifies
- More East African countries to benefit from broadband
- Zain initiative to save lives along Lake Victoria
- Experts predict digital revolution for Africa
- IT infrastructure outsourcing boosted in Nigeria
- Undersea fibre-optic cable connects Africa
- Mideast, Africa mobile broadband to explode
- East Africa telecoms hold fastest growth
- Free mobile TV service launched in Nigeria
- Fibre-optic submarine cable lands in Ghana
- Uganda links to Kenya via fibre-optic cable
- High mobile penetration drives internet growth
- Internet and mobile phones key to growth
- Fibre-optic cable in Kenya ignites ICT sector
- Econet Zimbabwe receives equipment from Ericsson
- SafariCom launches Kenya's first mobile internet portal
- Ghana to receive Africa's largest technology park
- Mobile phone banking comes to Somalia
- Kenya: undersea fibre optic cable comes online
- Low cost handset sales in Africa set to rise
- Africa-Europe submarine broadband cable extended
- MTN launches mobile TV
- Office software in Amharic nears completion
- Rwanda to Host OLPC Learning Centre
- Financing agreed for West African sub-sea internet cable
- $66 million approved for fiber optic cable
- Ethiopia's telecoms provider slashes rates
- Mobile money takes off across Africa
- ICT investors jostle for African niche
- Orange Kenya hits a million subscribers in 8 months
- Morocco invests in fiber-optic link to Mauritania
- Construction of SEACOM cable completed
- Google Maps updates Africa images
- Kenya to honour contributions to open source
- Rwanda signs $24 million broadband grant
- Nokia unveils Internet phones for developing market
- Angola's mobile sector to increase fourfold
- Nigeria to launch $1m Telecoms park
- Ghana, Burkina Faso agree fibre-optic pact
- Mauritius wrests back control of .mu domain
- Mobile Internet use grows rapidly
- MTN hits 100 million subscribers
- Kenyan website industry booms
- Village phone connects rural Nigerians
- Tunisia, Mauritius score well in global ICT survey
- Burundi mobile phone users up 78% in 2008
- Kenya sees $5-$10bn ICT investments by 2010
- Seacom's cable reaches ocean floor
- 100% mobile penetration for Kenya and Tanzania by 2013
- Uganda ICT projects get $75m boost
- MTN brings mobile-banking to Uganda
- Turning the digital divide into the digital multiply
- African ICT sheltered from economic storm
- A mobile revolution
- MTN: the pan-African solution
- Low-cost phones for Africa
- Connecting the world's other three billion
- Africa to get cheaper, high-quality Internet
- Infrastructure finance
- UK gives 67mln pounds for African infrastructure
- Ghana to fast-track infrastructure for oil: Mills
- Burkina Faso: $40m for rural electrification
- Zambia won't face power crunch in 2010: official
- Zambia gets $125m India loan for key projects
- Uganda funding for road transport development approved
- South Korea in $10bn Ghana homes deal
- Chinese bank says will finance Ghana oil projects
- AFDB supports Morocco to boost electricity
- AfDB lends Tanzania $245 mln for road upgrades
- Kenya: Chinese Power Firm Makes Entry
- Kenya to invest $349 mln on airports over four years
- International firm to invest US $30 billion in Niger-Delta
- Construction to boost steel demand in N Africa, Middle East
- Brazil to invest $300 mln in Mozambique infrastructure
- Construction in Nigeria 'to become world's fastest growing'
- Govt investments in infrastructure drive Angola's industry
- Absa, IFC in $150m infrastructure investment
- Kenya to spend $3.27 bln on development projects
- Mozambique: building more than the Zambezi Bridge
- Angola: one million homes for the underprivileged
- Ugandan power firm receives $25m for expansion
- Egypt improves access to water and sanitation
- Ghana: $95 million urban transport project
- Kenya to build $200 million cargo terminal
- Donald Trump interested in Kenyan development
- Maputo airport to undergo major facelift
- Financiers pledge $1.4bn for African infrastructure
- Rwandan energy sector receives $228m boost
- Ghana to receive $1.2bn from the World Bank
- Development
- Development
- Education
- Backing grows for African research chairs
- MTN Nigeria strengthens its educational initiatives
- Cameroon puts brain drain into reverse
- UNESCO fights brain drain with computing gain
- Madonna breaks ground on Malawi girls school
- $70 mln to help resuscitate education in Zimbabwe
- Ethiopian university lecturers trained in English
- $1.7m grant for African Leadership Centre
- First South Sudan University opens
- Senegal to become part of ambitious maths network
- Ghana to expedite ICT delivery in education
- New radio series explains ICC mandate
- Ethiopia: education via TV
- Famous adventurer promotes transfrontier conservation
- Botswana builds new science university
- West Africa: Multinationals tackle youth unemployment
- Zimbabwe: looted money returned to universities
- Private higher education boosts Senegal economy
- Bringing ICT to Kenyan school children
- Tower sharing offers mobile providers major cost savings
- Zimbabwe: making schools work
- Algeria moves to slow its brain drain
- Swaziland: judge rules for free education
- The knowledge generation
- Over R225m raised for Africa's schools
- Health
- New maps guide African truckers to AIDS clinics
- New HIV/AIDS research agenda to better respond to women and children
- Mobile phones latest tool to beat HIV-AIDS in Africa
- New drive to fight polio in Africa
- Boosting treatment 'could halt HIV in five years'
- Africa plans leap into drug R&D
- HIV drugs prevent infection in African study
- African gene trawl may provide secrets to long life
- Sugar technology keeps vaccines stable in the heat
- Stamping out the Guinea worm 'dragons' of Sudan
- High hopes as new TB vaccine proves effective
- In Kenya, UN partners with MTV to dramatize stories of love - and HIV infection
- New malaria vaccine shows promise in children
- Breakthrough could create better ARVs
- Vaccine highly effective in preventing severe rotavirus in African study
- Gates says malaria vaccine may be ready in three years
- S.African vaccine maker boosting continental reach
- SA surgeon appointed head of international society
- Kenya may buy Ugandan ARVs
- Circumcising babies could help Africa AIDS fight
- Glaxo offers free malaria research, vaccine nears
- New malaria vaccine initiative aims to stunt parasite within mosquitoes
- Gene map of anti-malaria plant could boost supply
- UN partners seek to eliminate HIV in children
- TB diagnosis boosted by faster, cheaper test
- US lifts HIV/Aids immigration ban
- WHO: Increased funds show results in malaria battle
- United States pledges $2.7 bln for Kenya HIV battle
- Genetic finds could mean medicine tailored for communities
- Top Nigerian faith leaders pledge support for malaria campaign
- Zimbabwe's HIV infection rate drops 5%
- WHO says 36 million cured of TB in last 15 years
- SA President announces expansion of HIV/AIDS testing, treatment
- World AIDS Day: Africa's universal access hit parade
- Satellites identify mosquito breeding sites
- Largest ever yellow fever immunization program wraps up in West Africa
- HIV infections and deaths fall as drugs have impact
- Egypt to make 5 mln H1N1 flu drug doses in 2010
- African reality TV fights HIV
- Global fund grant to boost Zimbabwe ailing health system
- Vaccine price drop to help millions of children
- Kenya: HIV risk to be reduced for 1m men
- Largest-ever vaccination drive to be launched in African countries
- Kenya hopeful it can eliminate malaria
- Polio vaccination for 2.6 million children in DR Congo
- Kenya: new survey to inform HIV programming for MSM
- East African health sector goes digital
- Africa: $336mln to fight malaria
- Promising malaria vaccine being tested across Africa
- Sierra Leone link to India medics
- Burkina Faso to hand out 6 million mosquito nets in 2010
- Insecticide 'wallpaper' lethal to malaria mosquitoes
- Alliance plans to immunise 130 million children against Pneumonia
- Malaria tests minus the blood
- Big pharmaceutical firms agree to generic drugs for Rwanda
- Affordable cholera vaccine closer to reality
- Plans cemented for African health innovation
- Rwanda: new microbicides tests for better protection against HIV
- Rwanda to immunise children against measles
- More than 4 million HIV-Positive people receiving treatment
- New treatment for sleeping sickness
- Scientists use nanotech to 'upgrade' TB drugs
- Scientists and healers team up to test AIDS remedy
- Great leap forward on free healthcare
- First positive results from an HIV vaccine
- World Bank gives Malawi $30 million to fight HIV/Aids
- African leaders to launch major anti-Malaria campaign
- UNAIDS enters partnership to keep babies HIV-free
- Vaccines offer solutions to high childhood pneumonia rates
- Oil firm to compensate Ivory Coast poison victims
- New compounds may destroy TB's defense mechanism
- Vaccines could halve sickle-cell deaths in Africa
- Ethiopians offered free AIDS tests by text message
- South Africa launches child vaccination campaign
- New-found weakness in HI virus boosts vaccine hopes
- 700m bednets to help Africa sleep better
- Rwanda's efforts to stop the spread of HIV, TB praised
- Beating infant mortality in Guinea-Bissau
- NBA basketball star opens HIV/AIDS treatment centres in DRC
- $50m to fight HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe
- Tanzania to get $111m for fight against malaria
- Côte d'Ivoire concludes nationwide polio campaign
- Nigeria considers tough tobacco control legislation
- $6.8 million awarded to develop health lab systems
- Scientists discover the origins of Malaria
- Pfizer to pay Nigeria $75m for harmful clinical trials
- Millions of children to be immunised during health week
- Namibia makes strides in paediatric HIV
- Accreditation for Africa labs to improve services
- Trial of continent's first HIV vaccines underway
- Using ARVs to eradicate HIV/AIDS
- Killer parasites' genes decoded
- UK firm pledges $97m in the fight against HIV/Aids
- Innovation allows for easier diagnosis of sleeping sickness
- African militaries unite to fight HIV
- Ghana combating counterfeit drugs
- River blindness drug trial launched
- Measles infections declining in Burkina Faso
- 250,000 Malawians on free ARVs
- Using telecoms to improve health in West Africa
- In the Congo dial 115 and save a child's life
- South Africa's HIV rates levelling off
- Uganda uses the law to enforce polio immunisations
- Key phase of malaria vaccine trials begins
- Bats identified as human vector for Ebola
- MTN dedicated to battling malaria in Africa
- Senegalese preemies get the joey treatment
- Somaliland: water quality improving
- African countries respond to threat of swine flu
- DNA technology to track disease-bearing mosquitoes
- Wyeth donates vaccine to Rwanda
- Drugmaker ready to roll out malaria vaccine trial
- Telemedicine centre brings healthcare to rural Cameroon
- Zambian malaria deaths plummet
- Tanzania: using SMS to encourage safe sex
- Medicinal plants boost livelihoods in Kenya
- Africa-India satellite gets the nod in Nigeria
- Using fish to fight Malaria
- HIV: individuals with natural resistance guide research
- Lesotho inoculates girls against killer cancer
- Possible new role for ARVs: blocking transmission
- Sudan: biking for safer childbirth
- Zimbabwe: Researchers Developing New Ways to Purify Water
- Nigeria: syringe factory will help fight aids and create jobs
- New vaccine could mean the end of meningitis in Africa
- Uganda: 50,000 more to receive free ARVs
- Saturday night condom fever
- The role of disease in Africa's underdevelopment
- Ridding Africa of HIV in 10 years
- Poverty
- Kenya: covered for drought
- Solar-powered irrigation a shining success in Benin
- UN helps Côte d'Ivoire resuscitate agricultural sector
- Kenya harvest example on reversing food shortage
- Maize research a good investment for Africa
- Food agency gives a helping hand to farmers in Zimbabwe
- Botswana president promises to tackle high housing prices
- UK-funded land rights project launched in Rwanda
- Aid plus trade can end extreme poverty
- Angola receives UN support to increase access to water
- Uganda water project targets 100% access in urban areas
- SADC implements plan on human trafficking
- "Better to be idle in a new apartment than a slum"
- New fund launched for Africa's small farmers
- Poverty alleviation and development: 5Ps for Africa's prosperity
- Women and Youth
- Kenya: working to protect children from internet abuse
- Serena to build more schools in Africa
- UN teaches DR Congo women to tackle rape
- Uganda bans female genital mutilation
- Zimbabwe woman, receiving rights award, speak out
- S.Africa, Lesotho among top 10 in gender equality
- Big changes to Namibia's child law
- Rwanda provides credit for women's development
- Tanzania launches bank for women
- Ghana sentences human traffickers
- Demobilisation of Darfur child soldiers commences
- Support for female circumcision declining in Egypt
- AU delegates see progress on rights of African women
- "This is my wife!"
- Ghana: women's microfinance institution wins award
- Kenyan women's sex boycott ends, with some success
- Women's football in Senegal gets a boost
- Lesotho initiates grant to help Aids orphans
- Southern Sudan enacts child-protection law
- Warriors, and warriors in waiting
- Taking a stand for sustainable development: Kenya's Wangari Maathai
- Fighting corruption and doubling growth: Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
- Aid
- Chad: UN boosts efforts to tackle food insecurity
- EU, Mauritius sign largest aid deal yet
- UK provides extra $30 million for Ethiopia
- Britain to give 90 million dollars in aid to DR.Congo
- Qatar says it will donate $1 bln to Sudan fund
- Japan extends green aid to Malawi
- EU gives Zimbabwe $13 million for smallholder farmers
- Ghana is second biggest donor to Haiti
- Central African Republic receives new UN peacebuilding funds
- $100 million for 14 neglected humanitarian crises
- African musicians poised to aid Haiti
- Senegal offers land to Haitians
- UN budget boost for Africa missions
- IMF announces 3-yr, $100 mln aid deal for Mauritania
- ‘Great progress' in Zimbabwe: UN official
- Geldof in Ethiopia to mark 25 years since famine
- South Korea agrees to double aid to Africa
- Libya inks 71-million-dollar deal with UN food agency
- US Aids program undaunted by recession, head says
- Bill Gates pledges 120 million to boost African farmers
- U.S. Government to donate $2m to demining in Mozambique
- Lesotho signs $25 million agreement with WB
- Thousands of Ugandans return to their farms after years in camps
- Angola secures IMF loan agreement
- Senegal receives $540 million grant to help reduce poverty
- Senegal wins $540m U.S. aid over 5 years
- Japan grants Burundi $35.7m debt relief
- Botswana's San population receive grant
- US financial assistance to Africa can be more effective
- Somali women go where aid agencies fear to tread
- Sudan allowing NGOs back into Darfur
- African weather centre to help Red Cross
- Australia first Western power to raise Zimbabwe aid
- Europe gives Rwanda 175m euros for govt budgets
- Standard Bank to boost health aid efficacy in Africa
- Environment
- Egypt's Mediterranean coast protected in reserve
- Namibia: Converting bush encroachment problem into clean energy
- African countries fight banana disease
- Fertiliser can offset heat for African farmers
- Beans climb to new heights in Rwanda
- Kenya: Bumper maize harvest in coast and southeast
- Cameroon: Creation of national park will protect biodiversity and boost development
- Top emerging nations pledge climate aid for poor states
- Burkina Faso: Farmers act on climate change
- Liberia: Urban gardens to boost food security
- Kew shows Africa's plant wealth
- Kenya plans open-ended green energy fund
- WWF commends Zuma
- Commonwealth leaders agree to help poor countries deal with impact of climate change
- African climate policy centre receives $8.5 million from Sweden
- Kenya seizes tonne of ivory, arrests 65 in major op
- Nigeria set for 'Green Big Brother' show
- South African activist is new Greenpeace head
- Senegalese NGO plants 34 million mangroves to offset carbon emissions
- Africa presents united front at climate change negotiations
- World's fastest man adopts world's fastest feline
- Ethiopia to develop biofuels to cut oil imports
- $480 million to help in Ethiopia's food security
- Mali: faking snow in the desert to boost rain
- Uganda to combat global warming with reforestation project
- Thirsty eucalyptus trees get the chop in Kenya
- Desert greening could slow climate change
- More time to unravel the African monsoon
- Kenya appeal for $81 million to restore critical forest area
- Acacia tree can boost crops, and more, across Africa
- Kenya forecasts heavy rains from October
- Africa to seek billions in climate change compensation
- Africa leaders hold climate talks
- Scientists claim total victory on invasive locusts
- World Bank signs first biocarbon agreement in DRC
- Africa united at climate change negotiations
- Fungal pesticide saves crops from locusts
- Fund promotes African adaptation to climate change
- Kenya demands total ban on ivory trade
- Kenya seizes $1 million in rhino, elephant ivory
- Identifying the wealth of the Guinea Savannah
- Scientists use DNA to trace illegal elephant poaching
- Liberia receives $3.5 million for coastal defense
- Climate proofing the Zambezi
- African projects to save the earth
- UN launches environmental photo contest
- Africa initiates weather information network
- Shell settles 15-year-old "Ogoni 9" lawsuit
- Heroic rescue for endangered elephants in Malawi
- Madagascar chosen to receive conservation funding
- Rwanda: African ministers discuss climate change
- Ivorian victims of toxic-waste dump seek justice
- Kenyan villagers to test out UN carbon benefits project
- Nigeria can double maize production
- Tropical mangroves: an overlooked resource
- Court halts Kenya's proposed sugar project
- Two African projects awarded climate grants
- Senegal: Green charcoal to save forests
- Ecowas moves to counter West African climate change
- Rainforest activist is awarded "green Nobel"
- Mozambique's Mount Mabu holds unseen natural wonders
- Obama invites SA to high-level forum on climate change
- AfDB grants $47m for Congo Basin conservation programme
- World Bank approves $90m Lake Victoria enviro-loan
- Agronomists to map African soil
- Governance
- Governance
- Leadership
- South African school trains South Sudanese
- Togo votes peacefully despite fears of violence, rigging
- Niger junta names transitional government
- Tanzania president vows clean elections
- Niger junta appoints civilian prime minister
- UNDP allocates $25 million for governance in Africa
- Twenty years of freedom
- Nigeria's new acting president calls for unity
- African leaders meet to strengthen NEPAD
- AU-WB project to promote peace in Africa
- UNECA official expects "consultative" AU leadership from Mutharika
- Guinea Junta swears in civilian as prime minister
- Long-awaited Ivorian presidential polls possible this spring - UN envoy
- Guinean military appoints civilian prime minister
- Tunisian president reshuffles government
- UN chief encouraged by Guinea developments
- Kabila dismisses thousands for corruption in DR.Congo
- Gabon resumes census of civil servants to root out corruption
- Mauritania banks to repay ‘illicit transfers'
- Kenya unveils new draft constitution after poll unrest
- Zuma chosen as African president for 2009
- Obama praises Botswanan President
- Anti kidnapping legislation passes second reading
- African Union imposes sanctions on Guinea junta
- Leaders to sign treaty on refugee plight
- Former nurse's aide becomes Ugandan king
- U.S. hails Nigeria's anti-drug war
- Mozambique's ex-science minister heads to UNESCO
- African activists honoured for human rights campaigns
- Zimbabwe seeks friendly Western ties: Mugabe
- Mauritius scores highest in African governance survey
- Guinea-Bissau 'to tackle drugs'
- Rwanda hailed as African anti-graft example
- Ghana marks leader's centenary
- Zuma ditches 'quiet diplomacy' with Mugabe
- Nigeria recoups $170m bad debts
- Nigeria's anti-graft police pursue biggest bank debtors
- West African leaders caution Niger
- UN praises Senegal's efforts to strengthen migrant rights
- Soyinka to join protest over electoral reform
- Kenyan Prime Minister heeds Obama's words
- Kenya given August deadline to form tribunal
- Niger opposition goes to court to challenge Tandja
- South Sudan sees cabinet reshuffle
- Kenyan graft watchdog questions budget numbers
- ECOWAS warns Niger's Tandja against third term
- Sierra Leonean minister frankly admits corruption
- Women well-represented in Zuma's cabinet
- French judge opens case into African leaders
- African leaders' glittering assets draw French scrutiny
- African despots to be barred from Zuma inauguration
- Swiss bank freezes account holding Nigeria bribe money
- Nigeria's cabinet approves anti-graft bill
- DRC enforces tax compliance at the highest level
- Kenya's government signals intent to tackle graft
- Zimbabwe govt to arrest farm invaders
- Africa's new leaders herald a new dawn
- African leadership and good governance
- A new start for Zimbabwe
- New president for Ghana
- African countries improving transparency: World Bank
- Botswana's Mogae wins African Leadership Prize
- African governance improving
- Chissano honoured with African leadership prize
- Democracy
- Guinea sets date for first democratic vote
- Guinea sets date for first democratic vote
- ECOWAS lauds Ivorian parties for resolving political crisis
- Sudan's SPLM reaches 'breakthrough deal' on poll
- Guinea interim premier appoints transitional government
- Burkino Faso to hold November presidential polls
- Madagascar's opposition groups back power-sharing deal
- Troubled Chad moving to calmer phase: UN official
- Guebuza re-elected in Mozambique election
- Mozambique sees huge youth turnout in elections
- Botswana praised for holding peaceful elections
- Bashir pledges free Sudan vote in 2010
- Prospects for elections in Côte d'Ivoire brighten
- Madagascar army satisfied with power-sharing deal
- Ghana to implement hi-tech voting system by 2012
- Congo's Kabila cleans out judiciary in graft swoop
- Nigeria rebel leader accepts government amnesty
- Rwanda: 5 million voters registered for 2010 polls
- Amnesty International praises Togo
- Nigeria marks ten years of democracy
- Uganda's opposition calls for electoral reform
- UK sends team of diplomats to Zimbabwe
- Millions to receive birth certificates in Burkina Faso
- South Africa: exemplary fourth presidential poll
- Appeals court overturns conviction of gay Senegalese
- AU accepts invitation to observe Algerian poll
- ECOWAS, lusophone body prepare for Guinea Bissau intervention
- President of Niger vows to step down at end of term
- Favourable shift in US policy towards Somalia
- Nigeria's opposition parties to unite for upcoming elections
- S.Africa court rules citizens abroad can vote
- The march of democracy in Africa
- Stronger govt in Guinea-Bissau
- Conflict
- Niger junta pledges to stay out of presidential polls
- Darfur war over, says Sudan's Bashir
- Key Darfur rebels sign ceasefire deal
- Darfur peacekeepers get helicopters
- MONUC continues help with integrating ex-combatants into army
- UN to help educate, employ former Nigerian militants
- Morocco, Polisario to resume informal Sahara talks
- African group leader says "never again" to coups
- UN anti-crime agency to help set up police academy in Guinea-Bissau
- EU agrees on mission to train Somali forces
- North, south Sudan to stay friendly after break-up
- AU lauds Guinea pact to end crisis
- End of Cameroon-Nigeria boundary dispute in sight
- Nigeria sets up committees in bid to pacify Delta region
- Southern Sudanese express hope over new agreement
- Rwanda and Zambia now mine-free
- Rwanda first landmine-free country
- Niger to lift security alert in north on rebel deal
- Darfur: over 300 former combatants discharged
- R55mil deal to support police-training project in Sudan
- Nigeria signs $1 bln EU pact to fight corruption
- Hutu extremist group leaders arrested in Germany
- Ivory Coast president approves ranks of rebel officers
- EU to greenlight Somalia security training plan
- Nigerian president in ‘fruitful' oil rebel talks
- Sudan: return to civilian life for 15,000 former civil war soldiers
- Shell helps retrain former oil militants in Nigeria
- Nigeria agrees $1.34 bln for oil delta development
- Burundi disarmament drive nets over 70,000 weapons
- Nigerian militants reinstate ceasefire
- Nigerian government aims to pacify farmer-nomad conflict
- Kenya cracks down on illegal guns
- Up to 15,000 Nigerian gunmen have taken amnesty
- Amnesty draws Nigeria closer to OPEC quota
- Tuareg rebels renounce arms in Libyan ceremony
- Uganda arrests most-wanted Rwanda genocide suspect
- Nigerian rebels give up arms, raising hope for peace
- Key Nigerian militant leader embraces amnesty
- Congo transfers suspect to Rwanda genocide court
- Nigerian oil activist campaign for legal option over armed struggle
- Capture of Uganda rebel a blessing, says cabinet minister
- Congo ready to settle displaced people
- Somali government in talks with insurgents
- Sudan's Darfur no longer at war: peacekeeping chief
- West Africa battles flow of illegal weapons
- Sudanese sign deal to bolster peace agreement
- Nigeria oil militants disarm, government hopeful
- Reorientation part of Niger delta amnesty
- DRC forces capture major Rwandan genocide suspect
- Military in West Africa join forces to check terrorism
- Nigerian rebel amnesty boosting oil production
- Thousands of Sudanese fighters enrol for disarmament
- Burundian refugees granted Tanzanian citizenship
- Nigeria oil rebels amnesty offer starts
- Former Somali officers to help beef up security
- US to give further assistance to Somali government
- Anti-piracy training planned for Somali forces
- Firms involved in 'conflict minerals' named in report
- Nigerian militants free hostages in peace bid
- Mali: ex-rebels to tackle al-Qaeda
- Ex-governor gets life for genocide
- Release of Nigerian rebel leader first step toward peace
- Darfur peace talks held in Egypt
- Ridding West Africa of organised crime, drug trafficking
- UN's Rwanda court gets more time
- Fight against 'blood diamonds' under review
- ICC orders Congo warlord Bemba to stand trial
- South Sudan rebels disarm
- UN: Sierra Leone sets resolution benchmark
- Chad provides Darfur refugees ID cards
- ECOWAS plans standby conflict force
- Angola tries out novel demining devices
- Ivorian rebels surrender control of the North
- Gulf of Guinea: US naval efforts seek to build stability
- Maritime surveillance centre goes live
- UN humanitarian chief hopeful on Darfur
- Leader of Burundi rebels disarms
- Kinshasa, Kigali hold talks over Congolese refugees
- Niger's government pledges peace with Tuareg rebels
- Mozambique clears four provinces of land mines
- AU extends $1 million to Somalia for peace and stability
- Sierra Leone reconciliation efforts get people talking
- Former rebels start disarming in Burundi
- Somali president optimistic on talks with foes
- Conflict in Africa: entering the Age of Hope
- Pan Africa
- Pan Africa
- Nepad
- African Renaissance
- Three African sites proposed for World Heritage List
- Five Africans make Time Magazine's "Influential People" list
- Nigeria: my address is "opposite Total filling station"
- British web site sees the dark continent's lighter side
- Africa's sudden splash of good news
- Africa on road to success: Oppenheimer
- Africa: From conflict to capital inflows
- Diaspora
- Report calls for lifting of restrictions on remittances to Africa
- Somalis in diaspora offer expertise
- Remittances to Kenya rise in July from 2008
- Global crisis could end Africa's brain drain
- The movies, they only show one side of America
- Kenyan in the thick of emerging markets financing
- Study reveals burgeoning purchasing power of U.S.-based Africans
- Africa comes to France in new TV programming
- Remittances to Kenya rise 6% in February
- Harnessing human capital: the African Diaspora
- International Relations
- Emirates Airline unveils new route to Dakar
- Portuguese PM in Mozambique to sign deals
- Sarkozy heads to Rwanda on mission of reconciliation
- US welcomes Sudan-Darfur rebel deal
- French Foreign Legion training Ugandan troops for peacekeeping mission in Somalia
- Tanzania signs loan agreement with Japan
- France restores development ties with Guinea
- US congratulates Nigeria's acting leader
- Businessman to fly African flags on space trip
- Angola, India ink oil exploration deal
- SA, Australia team up to help Zim
- World Bank President makes S.Leone first stop on Africa tour
- US confirms it could end block on Zimbabwe at IMF
- Commonwealth Secretary-General to visit Rwanda
- Spain sees sharp drop in migrants from Africa
- Italy offers Somalia help, urges others to follow
- France, Rwanda seek better ties after 'dark history'
- Chinese FM heads to Africa
- Rwanda joins Commonwealth, renews ties with France
- China pledges ‘all-out' help to Africa
- US praises emerging economies in response to global crisis
- U.S. unveils new policy of engagement with Sudan
- Nigeria and Gabon elected to UN Security Council
- France to return stolen relics to Egypt
- Spain to encourage EU - Zimbabwe dialogue
- Africa, South America pledge new era of cooperation
- President Obama to meet African leaders at the UN
- Top state department official affirms U.S. commitment to Africa
- EU seeks to renew Zimbabwe ties
- Clinton praises Liberia's progress in fighting corruption
- World Bank chief heads to Africa
- Clinton tells Africa 'investors want good governance'
- US Secretary of State to visit Africa
- Obama: Africa's time is now
- Ghana visit to highlight effective governance - Obama
- U.S. Official discusses upcoming Africa policy
- Libyan elected as next head of UN General Assembly
- Sudan's Christian expatriates: dwindling but unmolested
- Liberia gets direct air link to U.S.
- Brazil offers support for Guinea Bissau elections
- Ghana prepares a welcome for President Obama
- Nigeria resolves regional maritime disputes
- Impending visit by Obama stirs Egyptian excitement
- AU, INTERPOL cooperate to fight transnational crime
- Zimbabwe seeks to come in from the cold
- Benedict visits Africa for first time as Pope
- Africa and the BRIC nations
- European Union and the United States
- Regional Integration
- Southern Africa youth exchange programme launched in Maputo
- West African nations agree to step up war on drugs
- Chad leader extends olive branch to Sudan's Bashir
- AU welcomes Sudan and Chad peace agreement
- ECOWAS will help Guinea organize credible elections, says official
- Zambia, Rwanda to jointly pursue genocide suspects
- Zambia and Zimbabwe to launch 'One Stop Border Post'
- Nigerian to head Darfur peacekeeping mission: UN
- Tanzanian refugee population drops below 100,000
- West African bloc bans arms transfer by member states
- East African bloc to sign common market treaty
- Rwanda group refugee status could be lifted by 2011
- Africa blocs draft giant free trade roadmap
- Madagascar leaders sign power-sharing agreement
- Burundian refugees return home from Tanzania
- Zambia to export maize to drought-hit Kenya
- Congo to use SA farmers to improve food production and skills
- US, East African nations begin major military exercise
- Nigerian govt announces landmark oil initiative for Niger Delta
- West African leaders impose arms embargo on Guinea
- W.Africa's ECOWAS to meet on Guinea, Niger concerns
- Egypt to call Palestinians to sign pact in October
- AFRICOM begins training in Gabon
- Rwanda and Congo making progress toward peace
- Morocco sends aid to Niger, Burkina Faso
- Restoration of DRC-Uganda ties shows new regional cooperation
- Ghana to support Togo elections
- SA President eyes stronger ties with Angola on first visit
- DRC, Rwanda presidents hold rare meeting on border
- Over 500 migrants benefit from voluntary return home
- Building new relations between the DRC and Rwanda
- Israeli, Egyptian Presidents hold talks in Cairo
- The wait is over: Kenya allocates land to 2,900 families
- Football helps to heal Rwanda's wounds
- Congo, Ugandan leaders boost oil, security ties
- Brand Africa
- Brand Africa
- Changing Perceptions
- World Bank chief hails Ivory Coast 'progress'
- World celebrities climb Kilimanjaro to raise funds
- Libya sees 'limited improvements' in human rights
- Nigerians give Lagos slum a facelift
- Heads roll as Rwanda gets tough on corruption
- Nigerian group to facelift a notorious Lagos slum
- Sierra Leone official lauds parliament for anti-corruption legislation
- UN commends Nigeria police for peace keeping role
- US hopes Obama's visit will be incentive for change
- Financial support for African think tanks
- Botswana ranked as Africa's most peaceful nation
- Malawi gets its first female vice-president
- Somali pirates star in foul-mouthed animated series
- We don't really need Bono and Bob Geldof
- Africa's genetic diversity unparalleled
- What about the Filipinos?
- Former Côte d'Ivoire minister becomes first black head of FTSE 100 company
- HIV-positive matchmaking brings hope in Nigeria
- Brand, Africa, brand - the other face of Africa
- Escalating Africa to brand greatness
- What Bono doesn't say about Africa
- Behold the new Africa
- Remembering African activism online
- Media
- Reshaping reportage on Africa
- AFP Somalia journalist clinches key press award
- Sudan's Bashir lifts censorship of newspapers
- Guinea military lifts broadcasting ban
- Highway Africa kicks-off discussion on 2010 journalism
- Gambian president pardons critical journalists
- Zimbabwe lifts restrictions on BBC
- Kenyan named best African journalist for 2009
- Unesco and AU to boost journalism in Africa
- Cameroonian reporter wins courage in journalism award
- Zambian filmmaker reaches final of Youtube competition
- Samuel Jackson to star as Kenyan pirate negotiator
- Ghana, Mali, Mauritius top for press freedom in Africa
- M-Net gathers rights to African films
- New independent daily newspaper for Zimbabwe
- Covering both sides of the coin
- Africa and the media: who is failing whom?
- Art and Culture
- Scientists discover early dinosaur relation
- Egypt to receive stolen sarcophagus from US
- Music enthusiasts drawn to Mali desert for tenth annual festival
- Tombs to lift lid on Egypt's ancient middle class
- 2,500-year-old tomb unearthed in Egypt
- New dinosaur species discovered in South Africa
- Oldest skeleton shines new light on human origins
- Largest library of African films launched
- Angola a fossil hotspot
- African author Uwem Akpan humbled by Oprah pick
- Africa emerges as TV production locale
- Pan-African Cultural Festival attracts thousands
- UN nuclear agency unlocks secrets of Egyptian mummies
- Hip-hop against political violence in Guinea-Bissau
- New boost for Nollywood film industry
- African music goes digital
- Karnival comes to Kampala
- Moroccan novel probes sources of alienation, terrorism
- Bulletproof: Namibia’s first comic book
- Caine Prize shortlist announced
- New book explores Saro-Wiwa's legacy
- Nigeria’s film industry eclipses Hollywood
- New book takes a broad look at African writing
- Penguin unveils new literary prize for African writers
- "Dig" may unearth Cleopatra's resting place
- Ghanaian artist captivates the Joburg Art Fair
- Kenyan film trounces Nollywood's offerings at African awards
- Zimbabwean author brings Harare to London
- Botswana stars as detective film debuts in US, UK
- "Africa's Oscars" close on a high
- 2010 Fifa World Cup
- World Cup organizers praise South African stadiums
- Football: Pele leads World Cup stars predicting African success
- Chinese firm becomes World Cup's first green energy sponsor
- Football legend Maradona praises S. Africa's World Cup preparations
- UN strikes biodiversity deal with African soccer giants
- Draw ignites FIFA World Cup fever
- South Africa readies for excitement of World Cup draw
- World-high expectations for Africa's six finalists
- Nigeria, Cameroon qualify for World Cup
- SA expects significant number of 2010 visitors from Africa - LOC
- South Africa tops Germany for World Cup volunteer hopefuls
- South Africa launches transport system ahead of 2010
- World Cup 2010 seen immune to global crisis
- Fifa rule change to bolster African football teams
- World Cup to leave a legacy after 2010
- SAPP pledges to help power World Cup tournament
- Free training for African journalists
- FIFA World Cup Trophy to tour Africa
- World Cup ticket applications pass one million
- World Cup could be catalyst for African Olympic Games
- MTN to establish World Cup 2010 Media Centre
- MTN kicks off 2010 campaign with anti-malaria drive
- 2010 FIFA World Cup - Africa in the spotlight of the world
- “There's more to Africa than famine” - Eto'o
- 50 years of African football on DVD
- All 2010 stadiums to be completed this year
- FIFA and AFP to train African sports journos for 2010
- 2010 World Cup set to contribute R55bn to SA’s GDP
- Free screening of World Cup games for Africa
- Travel and Tourism
- Lesotho lodge a top pick for 2010
- Belgian carrier to launch African airline
- SA international air traffic to soar over next 20 year
- Sierra Leone working to revive tourism
- Egypt eyes 2010 tourism revenue of $11.5 billion: minister
- Africa tourism 'lifted by Obama and World Cup'
- Monument lifted from Cleopatra's underwater city
- Mozambique tourist income more than doubles in 5 years
- Tunisia's tourism sector rakes in $2.5bn in 2009
- Senegal: New national airline unveiled
- Full Zimbabwe hotels point to wider recovery
- King Tut's tomb set for 5 year renovation project
- Kenya sees recovery in tourism sector
- Nigeria tackles infrastructure to boost tourism
- Delta inaugurates new flights between New York, Abuja
- Morocco invests $37.3 million in tourism
- Rwanda's tourism up despite global financial woes
- Painting the world Swaziland
- Blair visits Sierra Leone, talks up tourism
- Single tourist visas for East African states
- Mali’s marvellous capital
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