Africa News

[UN News]The United Nations humanitarian chief today stressed the international community must do more to ensure the people of Sudan's Darfur region can better provide for themselves.

[Deutsche Welle]UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon und World Bank President Jim Yong Kim are working on a new strategy to end the conflict in DRC. Their joint trip to the region also raises questions about the UN's role.

[Capital FM]Juba -President Uhuru Kenyatta and his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir have agreed to fast-track the implementation of the Lamu Port and Lamu Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET) project.

[Pambazuka]A reflection on five decades since the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), while the Pentagon and NATO escalate their war drive on the continent

[Oxfam]A new era of high and volatile food prices is causing life-changing shifts in society, according to Oxfam and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in a joint report published today.

[IPS]United Nations -PATH, a Seattle-based global health development organisation, is aiming to save two million lives by 2015 by jointly tackling diarrhea and pneumonia, the leading killers of children globally.

Militant leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar masterminded the two suicide bombs in Niger on Thursday which killed 20 people, a Mauritanian news agency reports.

[AI London]This is part of a special 'People on the Move' series, highlighting the human rights violations faced by migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in every part of the world. These profiles are being published around the launch of Amnesty International's Annual Report 2013.

[UN News]Civilians in Sudan are paying the biggest price in the war between the Government and rebels, the United Nations humanitarian chief reiterated today as she wrapped up a visit to the country urging more sustainable support for displaced populations, many of whom have been living in camps for a decade.

[RFI]The Signatories in Blood group, led by Algerian jihadi Mokhtar Belmokhtar, has threatened more attacks against French and other interests in Niger after Thursday's double suicide bombings that claimed more than 20 lives.

[RFI]Eritrea celebrates its 20th anniversary of independence on Friday with state-run media describing festivities across the country. But Amnesty International has decried the alleged human rights abuses committed by the one-party government run by President Isaias Afewerki, asserting that some 10,000 people are being held in jails.

[NEWS]The Liberian Government has got more problems now perhaps than during the years of violence. The problems are multiple and hugely insurmountable in many respects, and it is glaring that the government does not have answers to all of them.

[ERTA]Ethiopia's economy is estimated to expand by 11.3 per cent in the 2012/13 budget year. This is according to a 9 month performance reported to the Budget and Finance Affairs Permanent Committee of the Parliament by Sofian Ahmed, Minister of Finance and Economic Development.

[ERTA]Ethiopia's economy is estimated to expand by 11.3 per cent in the 2012/13 budget year. This is according to a 9 month performance reported to the Budget and Finance Affairs Permanent Committee of the Parliament by Sofian Ahmed, Minister of Finance and Economic Development.

[SciDev.Net]Geneva -Playing games is helping to engage communities with the complex scientific information used to forecast natural disasters, as well as encouraging people to take steps to mitigate future risks, experts say.

[World Bank]Kinshasa -Along the Nlandu road to the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital city Kinshasa, small businesses are springing up and local entrepreneurs are thriving. This is because Nlandu road is newly renovated.

[Namibia Economist]The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Angola's Ministry of Agriculture to help strengthen the collaborative effects between the two countries to boost the status of animal health and prevent the spread of animal diseases along the common border by vaccinating livestock on both sides of the border.

[New Dawn]The Federation of Road Transportation Union of Liberia (FRTUL) has named Central Bank Governor Dr. Mill Jones as "Chief Driver" of the Republic of Liberia.

[FrontPageAfrica]Reports filtering in to FrontPageAfrica indicate that the Minister of Public Works Samuel Kofi Woods has already tendered in his resignation to his employer President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

[FrontPageAfrica]In the wake of a reported interest from the Indian steel giant, Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL), one of India's major steel producers with a significant presence in sectors like Mining, Power Generation and Infrastructure, the Chinese government has for the first time publicly disclosed previously speculated interest in Liberia's Wologisi mines.