President Jacob Zuma of South Africa is leading calls for the creation of a new global financial architecture that will have the capacity to insulate more vulnerable countries in the developing world in the future from the maelstrom caused by the present financial crisis.
In his address at the XV Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in the [...]
Military forces from 20 countries in West and Central Africa have launched a regional HIV network to share information on combating HIV within their ranks and communities. It follows the example of other military-led efforts to fight the spread of HIV.
‘We need to harmonize our interventions,’ army captain Sami Kambiré from Burkina Faso told IRIN. [...]
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Northern regional minister, Stephen Sumani Nayina, has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to bridging the educational gap between the North and the Southern parts of the country.
Nayina said promotion of quality education was the only and surest tool to ensure accelerated development of the people, and therefore challenged all stakeholders to complement the efforts of the [...]
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By Kaifala Marah, Governance and Institutional Development Division, Commonwealth Secretariat.
The ongoing financial crisis – which is no fault of the developing economies – has dealt a devastating blow to their stability, now teetering on the brink of the worst economic crisis ever recorded. The magnitude of the downturn has led the World Bank to estimate [...]
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Zimbabwe and Botswana have reported their first suspected cases of swine flu as the H1N1 virus began to establish a foothold in southern Africa.
Neighbouring South Africa has reported 54 laboratory confirmed cases of swine flu so far, 32 of which have been linked to a squash tournament at a university in Johannesburg. No deaths have [...]
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A UN court has sentenced the former governor of the capital Rwanda, Kigali, to life in prison for his role in the 1994 genocide. The international court, which is based in Arusha, Tanzania, convicted Tharcisse Renzaho on five counts including genocide, rape and murder. Prosecutors said Renhazo played a central role in the mass killings
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A civil servant has been jailed for three years for insulting President Hosni Mubarak in a poem, according to newspaper reports. Moneer Said Hanna’s family said he wrote satirical poetry for fun, to entertain his work colleagues, and never meant to hurt anyone. The case was largely unknown until the family asked a newspaper to [...]
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Players taking part in the Under-17 World Cup will be subjected to MRI bone scans to determine their ages. Accusations of age cheating have blighted Nigeria’s success at international age group tournaments in recent years.
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The authorities here have seized 300kg (660 lbs) of illegal ivory hidden in coffins on a plane bound for Laos. The haul included 16 elephant tusks and black rhinoceros horns. Officials said the blood on the ivory suggested the animals had been killed very recently. The flight – which stopped in Nairobi – originated in [...]
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A Swiss court has ruled that the assets of Mobutu Sese Seko, former leader of Zaire, now the DR Congo, who died in 1997, be returned to his family. The court rejected an appeal to extend a freeze on assets worth more than $6m that are held in Swiss bank accounts.
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