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Africa: Africa Is Back

The Foundation - Africa news - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 22:00
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.
Categories: Africa, Filla

Africa: Funding Shortfalls Foil New Treatment Guidelines

The Foundation - Africa news - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 21:31
Global funding shortfalls for fighting AIDS could make it impossible for developing countries to implement new World Health Organization treatment guidelines, activists have said.
Categories: Africa, Filla

Africa: Create Jobs in Continent, and All Else Will Follow

The Foundation - Africa news - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 20:08
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."
Categories: Africa, Filla

Africa: Google Holds Software Contest for African Students in Dublin

The Foundation - Africa news - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 19:44
Search engine giant, Google, has announced the start-off of it's annual African software programmers competition which is coming barely two weeks after the launch of it's latest map domains which featured an elaborate and very extensive navigable map of Nigeria and that of thirty other African countries.
Categories: Africa, Filla

Africa: Internet Set for Radical Change

The Foundation - Africa news - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 18:36
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.
Categories: Africa, Filla

Africa: Decisive Moment for Global Transparency Effort - Most Countries Miss Deadline to Demonstrate Openness on Petroleum, Mining Revenues

The Foundation - Africa news - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 16:38
An international initiative that seeks to promote more openness about how countries profit from their oil, gas, and mining resources should not weaken its modest membership standards because governments are unable or unwilling to meet them, Human Rights Watch said today.
Categories: Africa, Filla

Africa: Africa Needs to Rebuild Economic Defences - IMF

The Foundation - Africa news - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:19
With its economies recovering, Africa needs to start rebuilding reserves and thinking about tightening spending to build defences against future crises, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Monday.
Categories: Africa, Filla

Africa: Tata to Capitalise on Sea Cable for Growth

The Foundation - Africa news - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 11:58
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.
Categories: Africa, Filla

West Africa: Polio Vaccination Targets 85 Million in West Africa

The Foundation - Africa news - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 11:50
A massive polio vaccination campaign targeting about 85 million children is underway in West and Central Africa.
Categories: Africa, Filla

Africa: South Africa 2010 Ladder of Riches

The Foundation - Africa news - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 10:58
Nigeria used to be the last country in the list of top salary paying countries for the coaches of South Africa 2010 World Cup, back in the days of Shaibu Amodu.
Categories: Africa, Filla

West Africa: Declining Postal Service Worries West Africa

The Foundation - Africa news - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 10:55
West African sub-regional poster service operators yesterday converged in Lagos to brainstorm on how to improve on quality of goods and services in the continents.
Categories: Africa, Filla

Africa: 200 Million Africans Need U.S. $620 Billion for Food

The Foundation - Africa news - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 10:55
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.
Categories: Africa, Filla

Africa: Niger - Against Renaissance of Military Rule in Africa

The Foundation - Africa news - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 09:54
This newspaper sheds no tears for Mamadou Tandja, the erstwhile dictator of the Republic of Niger. We award no garlands to his captors either. Rather our heartfelt sympathy goes to the poverty-stricken masses of Niger who have had to endure one tyranny after another.
Categories: Africa, Filla

Africa: Local Delegation at the Conference On Agro-Business in Africa

The Foundation - Africa news - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 09:35
An angolan delegation, headed by the secretary of state for agriculture, Jose Amaro Taty, is attending in Abuja a conference on agro-business and agro-industry in Africa opened today in the capital of Nigeria.
Categories: Africa, Filla

Africa: 2010 Africa Ski Championships in Namibia

The Foundation - Africa news - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 09:04
The minister of youth, national service, sport and culture, Hon. Willem Kondjore on Wednesday officially launched the 2010 All Africa Water-Ski championships to be hosted in Namibia.
Categories: Africa, Filla

Africa: HIV/Aids, TB, Malaria Mortality Rates Down

The Foundation - Africa news - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 07:15
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.
Categories: Africa, Filla

Africa: Calls to Speed Up Charter

The Foundation - Africa news - Tue, 03/09/2010 - 07:15
African civil organisations want the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance to come into force by the end of 2010.
Categories: Africa, Filla

Africa: More Funds Needed for HIV Prevention and Treatment

The Foundation - Africa news - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 23:09
Decreasing or levelling HIV funding will destabilise developing countries' health systems, a group of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) warned. They demand that governments worldwide own up to their promise of achieving universal access to HIV treatment.
Categories: Africa, Filla

Africa: Five Years to Children Born Free of HIV

The Foundation - Africa news - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 23:08
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.
Categories: Africa, Filla

Africa: South Africa and Nigeria to Issue Bonds

The Foundation - Africa news - Mon, 03/08/2010 - 22:20
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.
Categories: Africa, Filla