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Articole din Iulie 2010

• Kenya: Debate Heats Up in Final Week Before Kenyan Constitution Vote
  
  (30.07.2010 ora 01:07)
  
  Campaigns in Kenya for the referendum on a new constitution enter the final week, with President Mwai Kibaki leading a spirited effort for the adoption of the draft, while a number of influential politicians and church leaders are waging a concerted effort to defeat it.
  
  
• Nigeria: Electoral Body Chairman Revises Estimate on Cost of Elections
  
  (30.07.2010 ora 01:07)
  
  NATIONAL Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday, said what the commission needed to compile a credible Voters Register was N84 billion and not N74 billion as he earlier said.
  
  
• Kenya: New Court Set Up For Piracy Suspects
  
  (30.07.2010 ora 00:07)
  
  A special court set up at Shimo la Tewa Prison is set to speed up the trial of suspected pirates, ease the workload for jail staff and cut costs. The courtroom, which is also handling other criminal cases, began its operations almost a month ago.
  
  
• Congo-Kinshasa: General Assembly Chief Voices Deep Sadness After Deadly Boat Accident
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 23:07)
  
  General Assembly President Ali Treki today expressed deep sadness after learning that a boat overturned on a major river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), reportedly killing around 140 people.
  
  
• Sudan: Darfur Peacekeepers Attacked
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 22:07)
  
  Peacekeepers on patrol in the west of the war-ravaged Sudanese region of Darfur were ambushed today by unidentified gunmen, with seven blue helmets sustaining injuries, the United Nations reported today.
  
  
• Uganda: World Cup Bombs Death Toll Hits 85 Mark
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 22:07)
  
  Nine more victims of the July 11 twin bomb blasts in Kampala have, in the past two weeks, succumbed to the injuries. This brings the death toll up to 85 from 76.
  
  
• Africa: Drug Resistance Threatens Sleeping Sickness Cure
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 22:07)
  
  Hopes for an effective new combination treatment for sleeping sickness have been challenged by the discovery of resistance to two of the drugs.
  
  
• Somalia: Militants Sneer at African Union
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 22:07)
  
  Sheikh Ali Mohamoud Raghe alias Sheikh Ali Dhere, the spokesman of al Shabaab, the radical Islamist group vehemently opposing the Transitional Federal Government in Somalia, sneered at the outcome of the African Union Summit in Kampala, Uganda.
  
  
• Burkina Faso: Africa and Brazil to Cross-Fertilise Agricultural Ideas
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 19:07)
  
  An ambitious development partnership aimed at strengthening agricultural collaboration between Africa and Brazil was launched at the 5th African Agriculture Science Week in Burkina Faso last week (21 July).
  
  
• Burkina Faso: Biofuels Could Increase Food Production, Says Report
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 19:07)
  
  Planting biofuel crops in Africa need not damage capacity to grow food and could even enhance food security, according to a controversial review prepared for the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA).
  
  
• Ghana: Journalists Condemn Prosecutions
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 18:07)
  
  The National Executive Committee of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) on July 23, 2010 called on the Ghana police to use constitutional mechanisms to address grievances and complaints they may have against journalists and the media.
  
  
• Senegal: Power Cuts Frustrate Dakar Residents
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 18:07)
  
  Muslim imams in Senegal have called on their followers to not to pay their electricity bills in protest against frequent power outage. Power cuts in Senegal have resulted in anger and frustration in the streets of the capital, Dakar, where blackouts can last up to ten hours.
  
  
• South Africa: Bank Pioneers New Way of Farming
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 16:07)
  
  STANDARD Chartered Bank is providing nearly R3bn to fund agricultural production in SA, using an innovative scheme that avoids the conventional approach of asking farmers to provide a physical asset as security.
  
  
• Africa: Amisom Capture Key Mogadishu Positions
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 13:07)
  
  JULY was a fruitful month militarily for peacekeepers and Somali government forces, a spokesman said.
  
  
• Southern Africa: EU Backs Off on EPA
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 13:07)
  
  European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht has appeased leading European civil society organisations about the negotiations for a Southern African economic partnership agreement (EPA), promising "not to put undue pressure" on countries.
  
  
• Somalia: 21 People Killed in Fresh Mogadishu Fighting
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 13:07)
  
  At least 21 people have been killed and 45 others injured in gun battle and mortars exchanged by Somali government troops backed by AMISOM and Al-Shabaab extremist militias since Tuesday, Radio Garowe reports.
  
  
• Rwanda: The Best is Yet to Come - Kagame
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 13:07)
  
  Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), Presidential Candidate, Paul Kagame, has said that his party still has a lot to offer to Rwandans beyond what it has delivered in the past seven years.
  
  
• Kenya: Let the People Decide - Congressional Black Caucus
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 03:07)
  
  Members of the Congressional Black Caucus released the following statement today on the upcoming Kenyan constitutional referendumAugust 4, 2010 will be an historic day for the people of Kenya. Citizens across the country will vote on a new Constitution, paving the way for a more democratic and...
  
  
• Kenya: Chinese, Kenyan Archeologist Seek Clues into Ancient Malindi Kingdom
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 01:07)
  
  A ninth century kingdom in Malindi is at the heart of a major archaeological excavation that has interested the Chinese, who are trying to establish when their forefathers started interacting with the East African coast.
  
  
• Kenya: Youth Changing the Workplace
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 01:07)
  
  They are tech-savvy, ambitious and easily bored and they are presenting new challenges to managers in many companies.
  
  
• Kenya: Source of Illicit Brew Unearthed
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 01:07)
  
  Administration officials in Kibera on Wednesday evening discovered the probable source of the brew that has killed at least 23 people in the slum.
  
  
• Zimbabwe: Diamond Researcher Slapped With Fresh Charges
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 01:07)
  
  Diamond researcher and human rights activist Farai Maguwu has been slapped with fresh charges, just over two weeks after his release on bail from Harare Remand Prison.
  
  
• Africa: Wise Move on Somalia
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 01:07)
  
  The decision by African Union leaders to adopt an earlier request by the Inter-Governmental Authority of Development to send 2,000 more troops to Somali, is a better option than war.
  
  
• Southern Africa: Zuma Sends Envoy to Kick Start Mediation in Zimbabwe - Again
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 01:07)
  
  South African President Jacob Zuma dispatched one of his top envoys to Zimbabwe, in yet another attempt to try to kick start power sharing talks that are gridlocked over various violations of the GPA by ZANU PF.
  
  
• Kenya: More Decorum From Our Leaders Desirable
  
  (29.07.2010 ora 01:07)
  
  These sudden exchanges between the President and his predecessor are unseemly and rather embarrassing.