Month: October 2010

A call by President Robert Mugabe to hold national elections in 2011 and end any possibility of extending the government of national unity (GNU) has been greeted with concern by NGOs, fearing a surge in […]

The Republic of Congo has launched a “farming village” project to boost food self-sufficiency, with the first one inaugurated in Nkouo, about 80km north of Brazzaville, the capital, on 8 October. It houses 40 families […]

Residents of western Côte d’Ivoire are relentlessly subjected to brutal physical and sexual violence by armed groups as the region festers in a state of near lawlessness, according to a report by Human Rights Watch […]

Professor Mrs Florence Ama Dolphyne, a former Lecturer of the University of Ghana, said most child mortality cases in the country were as a result of overdose of medicines given the children by their 93uneducated” […]

Ghana’s Black Satellites sealed their place for the Libya 2011 Orange African Youth Championship after beating Benin 4-1 in the second leg of the final round qualifier on Saturday at the Ohene Djan Stadium in […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi predicts that sub-Saharan Africa will remain the second-fastest growing region after Asia, but feels the African region can actually catch up to Asia. He said, “We […]

In an unprecedented United Nations-supported initiative, people who are blind and those who have other forms of visual disability will have access to published works through publisher intermediaries who will create accessible formats of publications […]

Germany`s  Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and his  Norwegian counterpart,  Jonas Gahr Støre will open a German-Norwegian expert workshop on renewable energies in Bonn today. Norway holds 50% of West European oil and gas reserves and […]