Egypt
Handicraft | History | Policy
UK returns ancient artefacts to Egypt
afrol News, 5 March - Egyptian culture authorities today confirmed the return of a large number of ancient artefacts from Britain, dating back to the early Stone Age till the pharonic era. The collection will be used for a new antiquities museum in Qena.
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Egypt
Development | History | History | People | Policy | Policy | Science | Tourism
Massive Pharaoh’s head unearthed
afrol News, 1 March - Archaeologists have made a discovery of a massive stone head depicting one of Egypt's most famous Pharaohs who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago in the city of Luxor, government officials have announced in the statement. Read more
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Botswana
Cinema | Cooperation | Development | Entertainment | Finance | HIV-AIDS | People | Policy | Policy | Policy | Social Services | Social services
Botswana youth get World Bank funding
afrol News, 8 February - The World Bank has awarded P1 million (about $100,000) to Botswana artists for the project aimed at encouraging behavioural change among youth and adults in Francistown. The young artists had submitted a funding proposal through the National AIDS Coordinating Agency last year. Read more
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Liberia
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Democracy - Dictatorship | Development | Events | Good governance | Law | Music | People | Policy | Policy | Social Services | War & Peace
First female wins Liberia's youth leadership award
afrol News, 22 December - A 19-year-old Vivian Akoto of Liberia has become the first female to win A Star is Born, a youth competition which since 2006 has used music as an instrument for social change, national unity, and an agent to promote peace and development in the West African country. Read more
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Kenya
Economic rights | Law | Lifestyle | People | Policy | Policy | Policy | Socio-economic
Kenya urged to adopt marriage bill
afrol News, 15 December - The Kenya Law Review Commission has urged the government to adopt the draft Marriage Bill of 2007, under which couples will not have to pay dowry to get married if the Bill is passed by Parliament into law. Read more
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Egypt
Cooperation | Development | Development | Diseases | History | History | Humanistic sciences | People | Policy | Science
Heart disease discovered in ancient Egyptian mummies
afrol News, 18 November - A cardiologist at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute and his research team from Cairo, Milwaukee, and Mission Viejo, Calif., have detected the hardening of the arteries in 3,500-year-old Egyptian mummies, indicating that heart disease is not just a condition found in modern humans. Read more
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Liberia
Affairs | Children | Children | Development | Entertainment | Music | Policy | Socio-economic | War & Peace
Young Liberians to audition for top music award
afrol News, 7 October - Young people across Liberia will get their shot at fame as national auditions get under way for a televised music contest in the West African country, the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) announced today as it helped launched the event. Read more
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World | Zambia
Cooperation | Entertainment | Events | Finance | Music | People
Zambian artist competing for $83,000 in Norway
afrol News, 9 September - A Zambian artist, Anawana Haloba of Livingstone, along with three other young artists - the Norwegians Ida Ekblad, Marius Engh, and Lars Laumann - have been nominated for the StatoilHydro art award 2009. The US$ 83,000 prize will be awarded in Oslo, Norway in December. Read more
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South Africa | World
Affairs | Development | Entertainment | Events | People | Trade
SA designer to show at New York fashion week
afrol News, 4 September - A young South African designer, David Tlale, will be showing his latest collection at the Mercedes Benz New York Fashion Week taking place in Bryant Park, New York on 11 September 2009. His show will form part of the Promise of Africa Collective Show, together with designers Tiffany Amber, Jewel by Lisa and Eric Raisina. Read more
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Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Economy | Events | Events | People | Policy | Trade
Tanzanian artists join in the theme art work for Europe week
afrol News, 11 May - A group of eight Tanzanian artists working together with six European artists will create and present a joint contemporary visual artworks using cheap local materials as part of activities to celebrate the European Week for 2009 which is the Europe Year of Innovation and Creativity. Read more
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Affairs | Cinema | Development | Entertainment | Events | Events | Industry | People | Trade
Nigerian filmmakers making a global mark
afrol News, 6 May - The Nigerian film industry has overtaken Hollywood and closed the gap on India, the global leader in the number of movies produced each year, according to a new United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report released yesterday. Read more
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Egypt
Corruption | Crime | History | History | Law | People | Policy | Trade
Egypt demands Pharoanic coffin back
afrol News, 23 March - Egyptian authorities are expected to make an official request to the United States government demanding the return of the Pharoanic wooden coffin which was allegedly smuggled out of the country over a century ago, the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt said in a statement. Read more
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Egypt
Events | History | History | People
Ancient gold found in Egyptian tomb
afrol News, 10 March - The Egyptian government has announced that Spanish archaeologists have found ancient golden jewelry in a pharaonic-era tomb that belonged to a senior official under Egypt's most powerful queen who ruled the country some 3,500 years ago. Read more
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Egypt
History | History | People | Tourism
Egypt finds 30 mummies
afrol News, 9 February - Egyptian archaeologists have discovered 30 mummies in the ancient burial complex of Saqqara outside Cairo from the tomb dating back to 4,300 year-old, Ministry of Culture said in a statement today. Read more
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