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The Egyptian club Al-Ahly of Cairo have won the African Champions League trophy for the sixth time, winning 4-2 on aggegrate over Coton Sport of Cameroon. They concluded their victory with a 2-2 away draw following a 2-0 home win. Al-Ahly has now won more soccer titles than any other club in Africa.
Health systems on the continent are riddled with inadequate policies, strategies, lack of institutional capacity, poor scientific review mechanisms and weak funding for research in the public and private sector, said Luis Sambo, regional director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Africa.
How can governance be improved to give development a chance in Africa? Political theorist Patrick Chabal believes a role has to be found for traditional methods of accountability to be used alongside formal systems recognised in the West.
The Commonwealth Secretary-General, Kamalesh Sharma, has warmly welcomed the outcomes of the meeting of G20 leaders in Washington at the weekend.
"The problem [with projections of President-elect Obama's foreign policy priorities] is that for a new leader promising change, they have tended to reflect the most traditional sorts of Washington priorities, neglecting other parts of the world that are starving for American moral and political leadership; places where Obama, by virtue of his unique background, offers particularly compelling ...
Dr. Gladys Ashietey, Deputy Minister of Health, has said the lack of access to medicines has contributed to millions of deaths and untold suffering in Africa. She said "The burden falls particularly on the poor, women and children.
African ministers in charge of forced displacement matters in the continent on Tuesday adopted an historic draft African Union Convention on the Protection and Assistance for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Africa.
The election of Senator Barack Obama, as the next American President is one global event that has elicited world-wide applause and commendation.
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) expresses concern over media and freedom of expression violations in Africa
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Tawana, also known as Tawana-bed-hopper or Tawanna-sum-more, has been irrevocably kicked out of the BBA3 house.
Former President, Nigerian Bar Association Mr. Wole Olanipekun (SAN), has advised Africans not to rejoice over the victory of Barack Obama in the just concluded American Presidential election because Africa may not benefit anything from his government.
In the midst of the most serious global financial crisis in a century, a new report on monetary and financial integration in Africa will be released this week by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) jointly with the African Union. The report finds that "African countries are experiencing enormous difficulties in achieving the desired macroeconomic convergence criteria set by ...
The use of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) to protect children from malaria has risen six-fold in the past seven years, according to research funded by the Welcome Trust. Despite this success, however, 90 million children still do not have access to this simple protective tool, and remain at risk from the life-threatening disease.
Human rights should not only be enshrined in every country's constitution, but they must be made real in order to safeguard the rights of citizens, said Dr Purna Sen, Head of Human Rights at the Commonwealth Secretariat.
Rwanda has jumped 17 places to sixth position in statistics capacity and data collection on the continent, making it the best in the East African region, according to Africa's STATS league 2007.
Many Civil Society Organisations from Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe, last week met at Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel in Entebbe, Uganda, to discuss trade and regional development issues.
After stumping their authority on the local scene, APR's ladies basketball team will now turn their prowess on the continental scene.
Africa's sole representative at the weekend's Group of 20 (G20) summit of world leaders, South Africa's President Kgalema Motlanthe, says reforms agreed on at the summit would require better representation for the continent in the international financial system.
Africa's first communications satellite has suffered an energy failure just 18 months after its launch.
Africare, the leading United States charitable organization helping Africa, has awarded President George W. Bush the 2008 Bishop John T. Walker Humanitarian Service Award.
LEADERS of the Group of 20 industrial and developing states meeting in Washington at the weekend have backed a plan to restore global growth and reform financial systems in an attempt to halt the crisis that has wiped trillions off share prices globally, led to the demise of top banks and bankrupted many companies.
Botswana's carbon emission per capita is higher than that of Africa and even Latin America.
Development strategies that are sensitive to cultural values can reduce harmful practices against women and promote human rights, including gender equality and women's empowerment, affirms The State of World Population 2008 report from UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.
Africa is not an easy continent to write about. In or outside of the academe, Africais not easily understood. And indeed, the misconceptions and stereotypes aboutthe continent can be perplexing and discouraging.
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