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.

Global funding shortfalls for fighting AIDS could make it impossible for developing countries to implement new World Health Organization treatment guidelines, activists have said.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A massive polio vaccination campaign targeting about 85 million children is underway in West and Central Africa.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

African civil organisations want the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance to come into force by the end of 2010.

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.

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.

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.