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Saturday 19th May, 2012

  • US leads call to end global hunger, malnutrition

      US leads call to end global hunger, malnutrition

    The Africa News.Net

    WASHINGTON - Leaders of the world's industrial powers Friday turned to the private sector to help fight hunger and malnutrition for up to a billion people, with US President Barack Obama announcing ...

    • Angola’s economic revival bid praised

    Daily Nation

    The International Monetary Fund yesterday praised Angola's actions to stabilise its economy after the 2008 financial crisis caused the price of oil, its main export, to plummet. "Three ...

    • It is give and take time, tinkering with laws can create a perfect Kenya

    Daily Nation

    First, the Bill sought to give the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission, which has exhausted the miserly extensions allowed in law, a further three months to complete its ...

  • In Algeria, Belittling Elections, but No Arab Spring

    International Herald Tribune

    ALGIERS - As Islamists rode the wave of the Arab Spring to power in Tunisia and Libya, it looked as if that same tide would lift religious parties in this much larger nation in North Africa, ...

  • Africa: New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition

    All Africa

    At the Camp David Summit, G-8 and African leaders will commit to the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, the next phase of our shared commitment to achieving global food security. In ...

  • Helping Africa grow a better future

    Star Tribune

    WASHINGTON Cargill Inc. will invest in a five- to 10-year program with the government of Mozambique as part of an emerging international effort to make farming in Africa commercially successful. ...

  • Africa in a flash

    Miami Herald

    It was a few minutes before midnight and we’d just ordered a fresh round of drinks at a neighborhood bar. It was nearing the hour when bad decisions are usually made, and this one could be our ...

  • UN envoy to attend ECOWAS summit on Mali, Guinea-Bissau

    Global Times

    The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for West Africa Said Djinnit is set to participate in the Mediation and Security Council meeting of the ECOWAS on May 19 in Abidjan, Cote ...

  • Call for UN sanctions on Sudan over dispute

    The Herald

    The United Nations should impose sanctions on Sudan for failing to obey a Security Council resolution calling for an end to hostilities and renewed negotiations with South Sudan over oil and border ...

  • U.N. imposes travel ban on Guinea-Bissau coup leaders

    The Star

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Friday imposed a travel ban on five leaders of an April 12 military coup in Guinea-Bissau and threatened an arms embargo and financial ...

  • Madagascar's president hints at elections

    New Zealand Herald

    Madagascar's president says he hopes elections can take place "as soon as possible". The island nation in the Indian Ocean has been in turmoil since President Marc Ravalomanana was toppled in 2009 ...

  • Gunmen kill three persons in Nigeria's Kano State

    SINA

    KANO, Nigeria, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Three persons were shot dead when unknown gunmen riding on a motorcycle attacked them in northwest Nigeria's Kano State metropolitan on Sunday evening. ...

  • Australian aid given for African famines

    SBS

    Eight African countries facing serious drought Australia has donated an extra $16 million in emergency food and medical assistance in response to two escalating food crises in Africa. Foreign ...

  • Equatorial Guinea government resigns

    SBS

    The government of Equatorial Guinea's prime minister Ignacio Milam Tang resigned in line with a constitutional reform approved in November, the country's communications minister ...

  • Saving Somalia: Next Steps for the Obama Administration

    Heritage Foundation

    Abstract: Famine, drought, war, piracy, international terrorism, and the absence of democratic governance: The factors behind, as well as the symptoms of, the failed Somali state are legion. Despite ...

  • Portugal: Emigrate to Angola, jobless are told

    The Independent

    Portugal's unemployment is almost 15 per cent, VAT at 23 per cent has kicked in, and its bailed-out economy stutters along ever more painfully. But a solution, of sorts, is at hand for the ...

  • Obama: New aid pledge for Africa

    UPI

    Barack Obama , at a conference Friday before the Group of Eight summit, announced a New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition to help Africa. Obama said the initiative will combine aid from ...

  • Travel ban on Guinea-Bissau junta

    BBC

    The UN Security Council has imposed a travel ban on five leaders of the recent military coup in Guinea-Bissau. The resolution also demands immediate steps to restore democracy and ensure soldiers ...

  • South Africa targets rainbow tourists

    BBC

    There is arguably no worse place in the world to be gay than Africa. Today more than two-thirds of African countries have laws criminalising homosexual acts and across the continent the ...

  • Thousands of refugees are waiting for registration – KENYA-SOMALIA border

    API

    MoulidHujale/IRIN Thousands of refugees are waiting for registration DADAAB, – For new arrivals to the world's largest refugee complex, in eastern Kenya, life is particularly difficult. ...

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