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  • UN officials urge intensified efforts to eliminate violence against women 26 Nov 2009 23:32 GMT
    ... make greater efforts to tackle the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. “In ... compensation,” she said. Development / Accra / Ghana / Africa / ...

  • Ghana manages only 30 percent of her waste - Dr Dartey 26 Nov 2009 23:20 GMT
    ... General News of Thursday, 26 November 2009 Ghana manages only 30 percent of her waste ... of Ghanaians used shared latrines and in West Africa, Ghana ranked 14 out of 15 countries ...

  • African Gender Ministers Commit to Renew' and Intensify' Efforts to Empower Women 26 Nov 2009 22:11 GMT
    ... African ministers responsible for gender and women's affairs ... took place 16-20 November in Banjul, The Gambia. Speaking on the last day of the ...

  • Hip Hop, youth culture and globalisation 26 Nov 2009 21:13 GMT
    ... Caroline Mose reviews Mwenda Ntarangwi's 'East African Hip Hop – Youth Culture and Globalization', ... now-common associations with the Griot traditions of West Africa. He highlights specific eastern African musical traditions ... analysis of lyrics by Hiphop artists like Somalia’s K-Naan and South Sudan’s Immanuel Jal for ...

  • Miss World beauties meet South African President Jacob Zuma in Johannesburg 26 Nov 2009 21:10 GMT
    ... for the second consecutive year, met South African President Jacob Zuma in at the Presidential ... challenges facing the world, such as poverty, disease and conflicts, and promote action for peace, ... by Miss Canada, Lena Ma, and Miss Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kargbo, held at the Nelson ...

  • GM: The food of the future? 26 Nov 2009 20:34 GMT
    ... as the answer to food security in Africa, Khadija Sharife asks in Pambazuka News whether ... ECOWAS recently revealed that food production in West Africa had doubled during the past two ... development of new allergies, new toxins, new diseases, antibiotic resistance, and changed nutritional value.’ Dr ...

  • Namibian politics: The pathology of power and paranoia 26 Nov 2009 20:34 GMT
    ... gripping many within the ruling SWAPO (South West Africa People's Organisation) party. Many in the party ... democracy as such is worse than the disease it is supposed to cure, for it ...

  • Aflasafe application improves grain quality 26 Nov 2009 18:54 GMT
    ... Nigerian farmers participating in the biocontrol of aflatoxins ... cleaner seeds. The seeds do not have disease on them as before.” The trials which ... Agriculture Development Programme and funded by the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) and European Union’s ...

  • Ruth Rendell supports fight against FGM (female genital mutilation) 26 Nov 2009 18:53 GMT
    ... out across parts of Europe, Asia and Africa. There are at least 29 African communities mainly ... the horn of Africa affected which are Benin, Burkino Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Dijbouti, ... African Republic, Dijbouti, Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, ...

  • Anyone else worth considering? 26 Nov 2009 17:20 GMT
    ... NAMIBIA is the fifth country in southern Africa to hold multiparty elections this year. As ... place in 1994. In Namibia, formerly South West Africa, presidential and parliamentary elections to be ...

  • Four ways to feed the starving billions 26 Nov 2009 15:16 GMT
    ... scientists who crossed Asian rice with an African species. Nerica competes better with weeds than other ... the CGIAR's African Rice Center in Cotonou, Benin. "We need them back." Even if they ... IITA, CGIAR's tropical agriculture lab in Ibadan, Nigeria. He says Africa would not need imported ...

  • Why FG Must Streamline Water, Sanitation 26 Nov 2009 15:04 GMT
    ... children die yearly from diarrheal diseases in Africa, which is caused by poor sanitation and ... which accounts for 88% of these death. Nigeria and Ethiopia have been ranked as the ... 588 million Africans practice open defecation with West Africa Accounting for about 211 million. "With ...

  • Big Brother Africa 4 - the 'Caring Revolution' 26 Nov 2009 15:01 GMT
    ... the previous season finales of Big Brother Africa. Although this week's eviction is between three ... in the final, two are obviously from Nigeria, Nkenna and Kevin - although he is ... and family who are living with the virus. Almost everybody nowadays knows somebody who is ...

  • How the Country Can Avoid Becoming a Petro State [analysis] 26 Nov 2009 14:15 GMT
    ... and war. It is a pity that African states that have had oil before Uganda ... out or killed by oil such as Nigeria, or have not been developed because of ... rendering most other exports uncompetitive (the Dutch disease). The reduced competitiveness then crowds out other ...

  • Children join to celebrate Africa 26 Nov 2009 13:14 GMT
    ... stage like the warm glow of the African sun last night as hundreds of children ... and drummed with ease and confidence. The infectious rhythm of the music meant it wasn't ... as the children danced about life in Nigeria and chanted some South African sayings. A ...


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