Uganda churches make big business of aid
In Uganda, church communities may get access to major development aid funds. A new study shows that many church leaders abuse these funds and start neglecting religious ...
View ArticleDR Congo gets US$ 7bn debt cancellation
The main creditors of Congo Kinshasa (DRC) have agreed to cancel Congolese foreign debts totalling US$ 7.35 billion. Much of the unsustainable debt was accumulated under ex-Dictator Mobutu Sese ...
View ArticleRwanda wins, Burkina loses corruption fight
Chantal Uwimana, the Africa Director of Transparency International, explains afrol News why the corruption situation Rwanda is strongly improving, while Burkina Faso seemingly is loosing the fight ...
View ArticleBUAV answers to Mauritius campaign reporting
The UK activist group BUAV, which is running a campaign against alleged mistreatment of monkeys by Mauritian breeders, threatens afrol News with "legal consequences" over its reporting of ...
View ArticleAlgeria protests risk losing momentum
Organisation errors by the protest movement and clever manoeuvres by the government are strongly challenging the pro-democracy protests in Algeria. It is unsure when new protests will be ...
View ArticleHigh alert over Tanzania deadly virus
A deadly disease which broke out in Tanzania this year risks spreading to Southern Africa, posing a mortal threat to more than 50 million sheep and goats and bringing risks of famine to the region, ...
View ArticleCentral African Rep clamps down on poachers
An operation by special police forces earlier this week in the Central African Republic led to the arrest of a key wildlife smuggler and seizure of elephant tusks and cat ...
View ArticleMauritius breeders hit back at UK campaign
Over the last weeks, UK animal welfare activists have flooded the web with "shocking pictures" of cruelty against macaque monkeys trapped and bred in Mauritius. Local firms now hit back, ...
View ArticleUN report "revisionist" on Rwanda genocide
A recent UN report looking into Rwandan war crimes in Congo Kinshasa (DRC) legitimises a "double genocide theory", confusing victims and perpetuators to the Rwandan genocide, according to ...
View ArticlePedal power may clean up Tanzania slum
The slums of the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam, are an unhealthy and smelly place due to freely flowing sewage. Now, a researcher has found a low-threshold technology without needing electricity ...
View Article"Fake unity govt" in Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea's Dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema has decreed the establishment of a "national unity government," including opposition forces. The main opposition party however calls ...
View ArticleBotswana split over Kalahari court ruling
The Botswana government is frustrated about yesterday's Court of Appeal decision to allow the indigenous San ("Bushman") people of a Kalahari reserve drill for water. Human rights ...
View ArticleCold War secrets of Namibia, Angola revealed
Journalist David Lush in the February 2011 edition of Namibia's ground-breaking monthly 'Insight Magazine' has interviewed Nghiyalasha Haulyondjaba, a veteran of SWAPO's long ...
View ArticleMajor gas discovery off Mozambique
A US oil company has announced "a string of major deepwater natural gas discoveries off the coast of Mozambique." The discoveries believed to be are large enough to secure commercial ...
View ArticleClose victory for Cape Verde ruling party
Cape Verde's ruling socialist PAICV party made major losses in yesterday's parliamentary elections, but closely managed to maintain its majority, according to preliminary results published ...
View ArticleNamibia's Sam Nujoma "hospitalised"
Former Namibian President Sam Nujoma "has been hospitalised, following a pacemaker procedure or pacemaker implantation," according to "highly placed family and medical ...
View ArticleNigeria presidential campaign kicks off
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan today is kicking off his campaign for the 9 April presidential elections. Southerner Jonathan is challenged by three popular politicians from the Muslim ...
View ArticleStill no intl pressure on Swaziland
As democracy revolts are spreading around the world and pressure on dictatorships to reform grows, the totalitarian Swazi kingdom still is left without pressure; even without ...
View Article"Thousands of child soldiers in Chad"
A new report documents the extensive recruitment of child soldiers in Chad. "Boys as young as 13-years-old are being used as soldiers by officers of the Chadian national army and armed ...
View ArticleNamibia, Botswana connect to 5.12 terabit cable
Last week, the powerful WACS submarine fibre optic cable was landed in Swakopmund, Namibia. Now, the work has started to make WACS provide high-speed telecom services to consumers in Namibia and ...
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