Africa: New Oil to Flow From Continent's Hotspots
The power balance in Africa's crude oil production landscape is set to shift in the near future as a number of new oilfields come online.
Africa: Continent Gives Global Lead in Empowering Women
Whenever gender empowerment is a vibrant topic of discussion internationally, some of the countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America are invariably singled out for their success stories in politics, education, health care or civil liberties even as Africa is mostly left out of political reckoning - and wrongly so.
Africa: Copenhagen Accord - What Future for the Climate?
As the dust settles after what appeared to be a failed climate change convention in Copenhagen, leaders, delegates and experts have gone back to the drawing board to look at what went wrong and how to avert such in the future.
Africa: Region Imports U.S.$33 Billion Food Annually
Africa imports $33 billion worth of good annually. The continent also gets about $3 billion food aid annually to bridge the gap between domestic food supply and demand, the Secretary General, UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has said.
Africa: Something New Out of Africa: A Global Player
Africa: UN - Continent Spends $33 Billion On Food Imports Yearly
The Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Mr. Abdoulie Janneh yesterday said food imports from the developed world into the African continent annually gulps $33 billion.
Africa: African Leaders Support Agribusiness Development Plan at UN-Backed Conference
High-level representatives from 44 African countries wrapped up a United Nations-backed conference in Nigeria today with the approval of an ambitious plan to generate employment, income and food security across the continent through agribusiness.
Africa: Climate Change Index Insurance for Farmers
The Copenhagen Accord puts the issue of climate change adaptation centre stage. For Nigeria this is important. The linkage between adapting to climate change and tackling growing poverty in Nigeria is particularly strong. Today, climate change is perhaps one of the greatest barriers to achieving the MDGs. Disaster risk assessment, management, reduction and sharing are strong components of the framework for adaptation agreed upon in Copenhagen. A climate-based insurance tool will provide poor farmers and other vulnerable groups with measures to cope with climate variability and change. Insurance could help the poor deal with the risks they face on daily basis.
Africa: Malta Guinness "Street Dance Africa" Wears New Format
The Malta Guinness Street Dance Competition, which debuted with 'Top of the World' vitality and excitement in 2008, and continued with the most incredibly 'Out of Naija' feeling in 2009, will be thrilling its audience across the country with new and exciting ideas as the custodians of the brand have concluded plans to hold the third edition of the prestigious dance event in a new and exciting format. This year, Malta Guinness is rewarding it's customers by giving them the exclusive opportunity to vote for their favourite dance crew.
Africa: Kidney Transplant Opens New Frontier for Patients in Africa
The cord of love between two sisters proved unbreakable when one put her life on the line to save the other.
Africa: South Africa Airways to Operate 24-Hr Flight for World Cup
South African Airways (SAA) has concluded plans to increase capacity to operate a 24-hour flight schedule to accommodate the various match times and people wanting to move around for the FIFA 2010 World Cup.
Africa: Nigeria Extradites Al-Qaeda Suspect to U.S.
A TERRORIST suspected to belong to the Al-Qaeda network, Ibrahim Haman Ahmed, who was extradited to the United States of America by Nigerian government officials had been on the wanted list of the United States Central Intelligence Agency for more than two years, security and diplomatic sources in Abuja told Vanguard, yesterday.
Africa: Create Jobs and All Else Will Follow
Bill Gates' commitment at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to give $10 billion over the next decade to develop and distribute vaccines to children in the world's poorest countries has stimulated an interesting discussion on what would be the best use for such a large charitable gift. It's an important discussion too, as more very wealthy entrepreneurs use their charitable giving to change the whole paradigm of aid to the "bottom billion."
Africa: Seeing Signs of Recovery After Global Crisis - IMF
With recovery getting under way, Africa should now address longer term challenges to the continent's future, including governance issues and climate change, to be able to press ahead with the region's economic transformation, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said.
Africa: European Commission Launches Its Climate Talks Rescue Plan
European Commission proposals for advancing post-Copenhagen climate talks, launched today, were welcomed by Oxfam International. However the international agency said that while the EC had thrown a spotlight on emissions reduction loopholes in the Copenhagen Accord - the political agreement brokered at the UN Climate Summit in December - it had ignored major loopholes on climate finance.
Africa: Africa Needs U.S.$620 Billion For Agribusiness - CBN
With the current level of agribusiness financing put at about $5 billion per year, total projected demand needed for the development of the sector between now and 2050 has been pegged at about $620.4 billion, with an annual demand of $6.5 billion.
Africa: Africa Is Back
In the wake of the global financial crisis, there is a fresh energy in Sub-Saharan Africa--and a broad consensus on the road ahead. Above all, there is the strong sense that Africa's destiny will be driven by Africans, not by others.
Africa: Internet Set for Radical Change
The board of the international body that assigns internet addresses will this Friday vote on key strategic policies that will drive the future of internet.
Africa: From Crisis to Opportunity Through Clean Technology
Calestous Juma is professor of the Practice of International Development and director of the Science, Technology and Globalization Project at the Harvard Kennedy School. He also directs the Agricultural Innovation in Africa Project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Juma currently is writing a book, tentatively titled, "Going for Green Growth: Low-Carbon Innovation Strategies for Africa." He spoke in an email exchange with AllAfrica's Cindy Shiner about climate change and Africa.
Africa: Glo-Caf Awards - Lighting World Cup Fire in Africa
The 2009 edition of the Glo-CAF Awards ceremony will showcase the burning passion of African footballer to excel on the world stage, as well as celebrate his natural fluidity and the rapid development of football skills on the continent.
Africa: Funding Shortfalls Foil New Treatment Guidelines
Global funding shortfalls for fighting AIDS could make it impossible for developing countries to implement new World Health Organization treatment guidelines, activists have said.
Africa: Pressure Forces IMF to Review Lending Terms
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is ditching its prescriptive fund disbursement method for a quicker, country-specific process.
Africa: Tata to Capitalise on Sea Cable for Growth
GLOBAL telecoms giant Tata Communications was set to increase its investments in Africa to capitalise on the arrival of new submarine data cables, CEO Srinath Narasimhan said last week.
Africa: 200 Million Africans Need U.S. $620 Billion for Food
More than 200 million people in Africa are malnourished and the continent requires $620 billion to feed its people in the next 40 years, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi said yesterday.
Africa: HIV/Aids, TB, Malaria Mortality Rates Down
African countries have seen a decline in HIV and AIDS, Tuberculosis and malaria mortality rates, says the 2010 Result Report released by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
Africa: Calls to Speed Up Charter
African civil organisations want the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance to come into force by the end of 2010.
Africa: Five Years to Children Born Free of HIV
A world where all children are born free of HIV infection is possible in only five years if donors continue to fund global efforts to combat the virus.
Africa: South Africa and Nigeria to Issue Bonds
South Africa and Nigeria intend to issue sovereign bonds worth $2.5 billion (Sh188 billion), indicating their confidence in the global financial markets that may be emulated by other prospective issuers, including Kenya.
Africa: Global Celebrations Mark Commonwealth Week
Commonwealth Week kicked off this week with leaders around the world praising the theme of 'Science, Technology and Society'. The annual event is intended to promote understanding on global issues, international co-operation and the work of the Commonwealth.
Africa: Obasanjo - Africans,Their Own Worst Enemies
Taking a critical look at the problems facing the African continent, former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said Africans are their own worst enemies.
