South Sudan: Country Faces 'Gathering Storm' of Hunger -
About one-third of the population in newly independent South Sudan faces a "gathering storm of hunger," the UN's World Food Programme warned on Thursday.
View ArticleAfrica: UN Officials Urge Eradication of Sexual Violence in Continent's Great...
Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro today stressed that efforts to restore peace and stability in Africa's Great Lakes region will not come to fruition unless the scourge of sexual violence is...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Staple Foods Monitoring Systems Lax - Chamber
The National Chamber of Milling says government needs to beef up staple foods monitoring systems if it is to eliminate regulatory non-compliance.
View ArticleSouth Africa: Mango Palms Feather Awards in Three of Four ACSA Airports It Uses
Mango was last week recognised by the Airports Company of South Africa's annual Feather Awards in 3 of the 4 airports the carrier uses. It's OR Tambo International and Cape Town International airport...
View ArticleSouth Africa: 69 Mines Operating Without Water Licences
A reply to a parliamentary question has revealed that 69 South African mines are operating without a valid water licence - an improvement on the June 2010 figure, when 125 mines were operating without...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Act of Kindness Pays Off for Community
Situated in the heart of Devon Valley and approximately 10 minutes from the centre of Stellenbosch is Protea Heights Farm. The first farm in South Africa to cultivate protea flowers in the late 1940's,...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Evoques Handed Over to Ambassadors
Four local Range Rover Evoque City Shapers received their vehicles this week.
View ArticleGambia: Children's Rights On Parents - Part
All the prophets and lastly the prophet Muhammed (SAW) have stressed that the brief earthly stay of a human being is an introduction to the everlasting life of Eternity. It therefore follows that a...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Bulawayo Mayor Insists Donated Pink Bins Will Be Used
Bulawayo's Mayor Thaba Moyo has insisted the City Council will be using 20 dustbins donated by a gay and lesbian rights group, amid media reports that the Council had deliberately removed the bins.
View ArticleEgypt: Phase Two Press Release Number One
Preliminary report on the observation mission of the Egyptian Coalition for Electoral Observation
View ArticleRwanda: Teachers Urged to Protect Child Rights
Teachers in Nyamasheke District have been called in to fight against gender based violence, child labour and other forms of child abuse.
View ArticleGuinea: Letter to Monseigneur Coulibaly and El Haj Camara On Truth-Telling...
Monseigneur Vincent Coulibaly
View ArticleSouth Africa: New Search Tool From Hydra
A new search release, OneSearch, from Hydra, allows users to manage search campaigns in an integrated way, taking into account both natural search performance and paid search within the same view, as...
View ArticleSouth Africa: VWV Wins USA Millercoors Conference
For the eighth consecutive year, the VWV Group has been appointed by MillerCoors to conceptualise and produce its Distributor Conference, which is to be hosted in Las Vegas, USA in 2012.
View ArticleNamibia: Africa Needs Smart States to Engage China
ONE of the defining features of Africa's geopolitics and economics during the past decade has been the degree to which China has established itself as a leading political and commercial interlocutor in...
View ArticleZimbabwe: How Domestic Is "domestic Violence?"
Sisters, brothers, elders , children tell me just how domestic is domestic violence . What is domestic about domestic violence?
View ArticleSudan: UNAMID Celebrates International Human Rights Day
Human Rights International Day, commemorated globally on December 10, was celebrated in El Fasher, North Darfur as a joint event of the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and the...
View ArticleSierra Leone: Forceful Marriage - Fullah Chief May Be Dragged to Court
Police report has revealed that a popular Fullah businessman residing at No. 2 Upper ECOWAS Street may soon be dragged to court for gross human right violation and disrespect for the newly enacted...
View ArticleNigeria: As NSCDC Tackles Black Marketers in Jos
As fuel queues begin to appear in some filling stations in Jos, the Plateau State Capital, the state command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has deployed its men to areas where...
View ArticleUmushyikirano Recommendations Should Be Owned By Everyone
It was resolved that cabinet ministers will sign Imihigo (performance contracts) with the Head of State, while Ambassadors and High Commissioners will sign Imihigo with the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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