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  • 'Nelson Mandela continues to show improvement'

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2013/07/31 Former South African President Nelson Mandela's health condition has continued to improve, even though he remains in a 'critical but stable' condition in hospital in Pretoria, the presidency said Tuesday. The update on the health of the world icon was the initial by the South African presidency since his 95th birthday was marked globally 18 July. The former President has been in hospital since 8 June over a recurring lung infection.

  • Famine and severe food insecurity in Somalia

    SOMALIA, 2013/07/21 Almost 260,000 Somali people, half of them children, died of dire hunger from 2010 to 2012, greatly additional than was feared at the time, an official statement said. Half of those who died were children aged below five -- almost a fifth of that age group died in the hardest-hit sector-- and UN officials admitted they could have done additional to prepare for the famine.  "Famine and severe food insecurity in Somalia claimed the lives of about 258,000 people between October 2010 and April 2012, inclunding 133,000 children under five," read the statement. 

  • Algeria's southern unemployed demand oil jobs

    ALGERIA, 2013/04/01 Protests by the unemployed in southern Algeria are raising the specter of rising unrest in the country's sensitive oil regions; Algeria's vast, sparsely populated Sahara only holds 10 % of the country's people but it is home to this North African country's enormous oil and gas reserves - the basis of the entire economy and the source of the government's power. Those who live there claim they aren't benefiting from that wealth, and can't get jobs with the oil companies.

  • The father of the nation, Nelson Mandela

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2013/03/31 It has become an ominously frequent ritual. Officials announce that Nelson Mandela, 94, is in hospital; their statements are hungrily dissected for subtexts and hints between the lines; the president\'s spokesman is bombarded with calls and fails to give satisfaction; TV crews gather outside a hospital on a best guess of where Mandela is being treated; editors polish obituaries and supplements; Twitter fills with prayers and unfounded rumours; and millions of South Africans are on edge, pondering: what happens next Mandela?

  • Nigerian Diaspora

    NIGERIA, 2013/03/30 Recently New York Times published an article about the increase of U.S. immigrants going back to their native nations to start up their own businesses. It is safe to say over the completed decade the nations grouped in the BRICS have been fortunate to receive a brain-gain, as a lot of of their best and brightest have seen their own nations as land of opportunities.

  • Diocese of Botswana Celebrates 40 Years of Existence

    BOTSWANA, 2013/03/07 Anglicans from the Diocese of Botswana on Sunday celebrated the diocese 40th anniversary and bade farewell to their bishop in a appropriate thanksgiving service held at the Holy Cross Cathedral in Botswana capital Gaborone. Thousands of jubilant Christians and a lot of high level dignitaries inclunding the president of Botswana His Excellency Lt General Ian Khama Seretse Khama and the Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu attended the event.

  • Africa's richest man for the third year in a row

    NIGERIA, 2013/03/06 Cement mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, moved up 33 places from the 76th position, which he occupied on the inventory of richest men and women in the world compiled by US-based Forbes Magazine last year, to emerge the 43rd richest man on earth in 2013. According to the magazine, Dangote was valued at $16.1 billion in 2013 and retained his position as Africa's richest man for the third year in a row.

  • Senegal speaking out against child marriage

    SENEGAL, 2013/03/04 At the same time as Abdoulaye Ba heard his local Imam in Dakar, Senegal, speaking out against child marriage, he found that the idea was not very palatable to him. As chief of his family, he had intended to marry off his three teenage daughters. Ba told us  that he had had "large plans" for his daughters aged 12, 14 and 17. But presently he is realising that it may not be the right thing for his children.

  • President Mugabe Celebrates 89th Birthday

    ZIMBABWE, 2013/02/24 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe celebrated his 89th birthday on Thursday. He remains Africa’s eldest statesman and one of the continents best and brightest leaders. He is as well the third longest serving leader in Africa. At an event hosted by his office on Wednesday, President Mugabe said he had been tasked by God to lead the county and would not backtrack on the “divine task.”

  • Two Africans Among Candidates for Next Pope

    AFRICA, 2013/02/15 African reaction to Pope Benedict's resignation announcement is half focused on whether his successor could come from the continent. Two West African cardinals, Peter Turkson of Ghana, and Francis Arinze of Nigeria, are considered to be part the top candidates to replace Benedict as chief of the Roman Catholic Church. Bookmakers in Britain name both men as likely favorites in the upcoming election by the church's College of Cardinals, along with Marc Ouellet of Canada.
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