Drogba mother dishes up for fans
While Ivory Coast's Didier Drogba is on the football pitch, his mother is cooking for Africa Cup of Nations fans. Clotilde Drogba's makeshift kitchen is at a dusty stadium on the ...
View ArticleSomalia's refugees ponder their future
100,000 people may have died in the Horn of Africa last year because of the famine - more than half of them children under five.Gaapow Ibrahim has no plans to go home yet. "Here we are ...
View ArticleAfrican Union fails to elect new chief
Gabon's Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Minister Jean Ping and the new A.U. chairman speaks to the media at the 10th African Union Summit in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, February 2, ...
View ArticleSudan's Bashir advised against war
Omar al-Bashir to avoid war with neighboring South Sudan, local independent media reported. South Sudan announced it was shutting down oil production in protest of alleged pilfering by Khartoum, ...
View ArticleSomalia breaking down, official warns
Andrew Mitchell , British secretary of state for international development, said following a tour of Somalia that most of the international effort in the country so far has failed. "The famine ...
View ArticleScores dead in cattle raid in South Sudan
Sudan South Sudan has accused its former foes in the Sudanese government of arming gunmen who killed 79 people in a cattle raid."A militia group from Unity state penetrated into Warrap ...
View ArticleGabon, Tunisia do battle in pool
The right to stay put in Libreville will be at stake when co-hosts Gabon and Tunisia do battle tonight in a final 2012 Africa Cup of Nations Group C match. Both teams are already through to the ...
View ArticleForget Hague trials, devolution is the current big deal for Kenya
Kenya once again finds itself in the unfortunate situation of being caught between the euphoria of politicians over the ICC trials and the almost time barred implementation of the new ...
View ArticleGoogle-Kenya boss exits as data scam purge takes toll
Google country manager Olga Arara-Kimani has left the firm days after the Internet giant said it had taken action against employees implicated in a recent data poaching ...
View ArticleKenya Airways profits to drop by 25 per cent
Kenya Airways expects at least a 25 per cent drop in profits in the year ending March from what it earned last year despite growing its customer ...
View ArticleGeneral Electric to invest in Kenya’s infrastructure sector
US infrastructure firm, General Electric, has signed an agreement with the government to modernise Kenya's transport, health and aviation ...
View ArticleIvory Coast reserves too strong for Angola
Emmanuel Eboue and Wilfried Bony scored for the Elephants, who topped the final table with three wins while Angola lost out to Sudan on goal difference in the battle for second ...
View ArticleSao Tome and Principe President Visits Angola-
0 de enero de 2012, 16:31 Luanda, Jan 30 (Prensa Latina) The President of Sao Tome and Principe, Manuel Pinto Da Costa, arrived in this capital on Monday for a two-day official visit, aimed at ...
View ArticleIvory Coast 2-0 Angola
Emmanuel Eboue and Bony Wilfried scored the goals which saw Ivory Coast go through to a quarter-final meeting with African Nations Cup hosts Equatorial Guinea after winning Group B. The win also ...
View ArticleUNICEF and EU-supported training for teachers boosts education quality in Angola
LUANDA, Angola, 17 January - Just off the main road, next to the ruins of a whitewashed chapel, a jacaranda tree is in bloom. Beneath the petals, children sit on brightly coloured plastic chairs, ...
View ArticleUp to 500,000 may need food aid in Sudan
The World Food Program estimates that as many as a half million people could be forced to flee Sudan if the government in Khartoum does not allow humanitarian aid into the country, while a top US ...
View ArticleCongo Official Dismisses Opposition Leader's Call for Strike
An official of the Democratic Republic of Congo government insists the public will now follow the call for a nationwide strike by main opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi.
View ArticlePivotal Moment in Effort to Eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases
Sabin Vaccine Institute , applauds today's announcement of unprecedented collaboration to fight neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Leaders from 13 pharmaceutical companies, governments of the ...
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