Kananga (DR Congo) (AFP) - President Joseph Kabila on Tuesday accused international and religious groups of knowingly spreading misinformation about a conflict that has killed thousands, including two UN experts, over the last year in the volatile Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The violence in Kasai erupted last September w ...
Gaborone (Botswana) (AFP) - Nine elephants were electrocuted in a freak accident in Botswana after one of them knocked into an electricity pole and the high-voltage power line fell on them, a local official said Tuesday. The herd is believed to have broken out of the northeastern Makgadikgadi Pans Game Reserve and strayed into a nearby village o ...
Addis Ababa (AFP) - The United States on Tuesday urged Ethiopia to investigate deadly clashes between two of the country's major ethnic groups that have caused tens of thousands to flee. Fighting broke out in recent weeks along the border between the Oromia and Somali regions, which Oromia president Lemma Megersa said earlier this week led to b ...
African experts and government officials came together for the launch of African Risk Capacity rsquo;s (ARC) Outbreak amp; Epidemic (O amp;E) insurance on September 13-15 in Accra, Ghana. This product represents a significant improvement in the continent rsquo;s ability to protect against and respond to disease outbreaks and epidemics. R ...
Nairobi (AFP) - An independent Tanzanian newspaper has been suspended for two years, a government spokesman said Tuesday, accusing the publication of sedition and endangering national security. The critical Mwanahalisi newspaper was shut after publishing a letter on Monday from a reader containing insults against President John Magufuli and hi ...
Paris (AFP) - With braces on her teeth and sneakers on her feet, Zuriel Oduwole from Los Angeles may look like a typical American teen. But over the past six years, the willowy 15-year-old has been granted audiences with no fewer than 24 presidents and prime ministers on her crusade to promote education for girls in Africa. Zuriel is followin ...
You are the backbone of the global movement that led to the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015. In Paris, we rose to a global challenge. Now we have an even bigger challenge: raising ambition and staying on course. Emissions are going down, but not enough. The temperature is still rising. We see the consequences daily. We cou ...
UNITED NATIONS, New York ndash; Monday, 18 September 2017--United Nations Secretary-General Ant oacute;nio Guterres today called on world leaders, heads of international and regional organizations, and key civil society partners to stand with him in solidarity to condemn the scourge of sexual exploitation and abuse. Through this extraor ...
Abidjan, C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire, September 18, 2017 ndash; The African Development Bank (AfDB) is advocating closer linkages between development partners and policy-makers to enhance the informal sector rsquo;s contribution to building an African food and cuisine value chain. Like many other economic activities in Africa, large segmen ...
Abidjan, C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire, September 18, 2017 ndash; The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Brazil-Africa Institute (BAI) have launched the Youth Technical Training Program (YTTP) minus; an initiative that aims to train young African professionals in research and technology transfer, contributing to local capacity development. [/ ...
Kigali (AFP) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame has met with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in New York for rare talks, Kigali said Tuesday, as diplomatic ties remain icy over the 1994 genocide. Kigali has long accused France of complicity in the genocide of some 800,000 mostly ethnic Tutsis, at the hands of Hutu extremists, angering Paris ...
The people of the Sahel are forging networks and collaborations that will help them contend with the challenges of insecurity and climate change that are besetting Africa rsquo;s most vulnerable regions. The Sahel is a vast semiarid region of Africa separating the Sahara desert to the north and tropical forests and savannas to the south, ...
Nina Forgwe, who lives in Bamenda, in the northwest of Cameroon, missed the deadline to submit her doctoral application in March mdash;one of many victims of an Internet shutdown in her town and in the other English-speaking parts of the country. The Cameroonian government suspended services after Anglophone teachers, lawyers and student ...
Corporations and their partner foundations, supported by international organizations, financiers and bankers, as well as individual investors are transforming education across Africa mdash;from a government responsibility and social right to a series of investment opportunities. They say their reforms are designed to increase educational ...
The UN Private Sector Forum 2017, to be held in New York this September, will bring together corporate CEOs, captains of industry, heads of state and government, UN officials and civil society to explore partnerships and other ways the private sector can finance SDGs. Africa Renewal reached out to LiseKingo, the executive director of the ...
In the 2017 World Happiness Report by Gallup, African countries score poorly. Of the 150 countries on the list, the Central African Republic, Tanzania and Burundi rank as the unhappiest countries in the world. Some of the factors driving unhappiness are the poor state of the continent rsquo;s health care systems, the persistence of HIV/AI ...
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