Kenya
Affairs | Affairs | Corruption | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Economic rights | Economy | Elections | Energy | History | Industry | Law | Macroeconomy | People | Policy | Political rights | Violence
Kenya leader shuns violence
afrol News, 25 October - Kenya's outgoing leader Mwai Kibaki has strongly spoke against electoral violence, fearing it might interfere with the voting patterns. Read more
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Egypt
History | Humanistic sciences | Natural sciences
DNA tests seem to identify Egyptian queen
afrol News, 17 July - Preliminary results from DNA tests carried out on a mummy believed to be Queen Hatshepsut is expected to support the claim by Egyptian authorities that the remains are indeed those of Egypt's most powerful female ruler.
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South Africa
Affairs | Events | Policy
South Africa fails to get World Heritage listing
afrol News, 29 June - The South African government had nominated two nature gems, Prince Edward Islands and Richtersveld, as natural sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List, but a failure to get a recommendation caused a silent retreat by authorities. Government now celebrates Richtersveld at least was inscribed as a cultural site.
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Sudan
History | Humanistic sciences
Gold processing centre found in ancient Kush (Sudan)
afrol News, 27 June - Archaeologists have discovered a gold processing centre in Sudan, along the middle Nile, an installation that produced the precious metal sometime between 2000 and 1500 BC. The centre, along with a cemetery they discovered, documents extensive control by the first sub-Saharan kingdom, the kingdom of Kush.
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Angola | Zimbabwe
Handicraft | Policy | Policy | Tourism
Angola, Zimbabwe go for cultural tourism
afrol News, 4 June - The governments of Angola and Zimbabwe have signed an accord relating to cooperation within the tourism sector. Both Southern African countries agree to promote cultural tourism and establish joint programmes to promote handicraft production.
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Ghana
Entertainment | Events | History
Ghana celebrates 50 years of independence
afrol News, 6 March - The Ghanaian President, John Kufuor, today led thousands of people in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, to celebrate Ghana's 50 years of independence. President Kufuor has lit the independence flame to throw Ghanaians festooned in national colours into total celebration at the Accra Independence Square.
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Burkina Faso | Nigeria
Cinema | Entertainment | Events | People
Nollywood absent in Africa's Fespaco film festival
afrol News, 2 March - Despite being the third biggest film industry in the world after Hollywood and Bollywood, Nigeria's Nollywood films have been absent from the Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), held in Burkina Faso. Addicted lovers of Nigerian films have not been at ease about the development.
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Guinea-Bissau
Crime | Entertainment | Events
Bissau carnivals claim 8 lives
afrol News, 23 February - It has been a tradition for Bissau-Guineans to celebrate the annual carnival, which is usually a moment for explosion of colours, masks and suggestive music, demonstrating a passionate of African and Catholic cultures. But of late, the event has been turned into moments of deaths, mainly as a result of overspeeding and drunkenness, among others causes.
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Ghana
Affairs | Entertainment | Events | History | History | People
No controversy to stop Ghana's 50th anniversary
afrol News, 16 February - On 6 March, Ghana will mark 50 years of independence from British colonial rule. Being the first black African country to be independent, Ghanaian authorities have lined up a whole year's "Ghana@50" jubilee celebration. But the country's former President, Jeremiah John Rawlings, has already opened the gate of controversy, arguing that there is little to celebrate.
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South Africa
History
South African museum displays Saddam's medals
afrol News, 18 January - The hanging of the former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, has succeeded in making him a martyr, with people now interested to know the achievements of the executed leader. Medals showing his achievements have become the centre of attraction at an exhibition in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Ethiopia
Events | History | History | Religion
Ethiopia gears up for millennium party
afrol News, 15 January - Ethiopia is still living in the year 1999, according to its own calendar, meaning that Ethiopians can look forward to yet another millennium party later this year. And authorities are planning a magnificant celebration for citizens and the many expected foreign visitors; launching projects worth birr 290 million (euro 26 million).
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Liberia
Affairs | People | Policy
Liberia scolded for trying to uproot Weah's statue
afrol News, 4 January - "Why was the image of the late President William Tubman not uprooted as well? We should learn to respect talents. George Weah is the first Liberian and perhaps the first African to win the 'World Best', 'Europe Best' and 'Africa Best' accolades in his career, and as such, we should honour him for putting Liberia on the world soccer map," a former lawmaker of Liberia, Joseph Kornomia, protested today.
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West Africa
Religion
Christmas "unique in West Africa"
afrol News, 22 December - Everybody longs home for Christmas, so also West Africans, who feel that nothing is like their own yuletide traditions. In the region, every country and people has their own traditions. "I want to feel at home," says Nigerian Johnson Adebajo, living in Senegal, explaining his decision to make an expensive Christmas trip back to Nigeria.
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Egypt
History | Policy | Policy | Tourism
Egypt's historic sites seriously threatened
afrol News, 11 December - Egypt's most important sites are experiencing major trouble, a new report suggests. All the three reviewed Egyptian World Heritage sites were in danger of losing the values that originally brought them into the prestigious Unesco list, and they were worst rated in the Middle East and North Africa region. The threatened sites include the Pyramids of Giza, the Islamic district of Cairo and the historic cities of Thebes and Luxor.
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Africa | Sierra Leone
Cinema | Entertainment | Mining | War & Peace
African blood diamond film hits theatres
afrol News, 8 December - Despite legislations and mountains of promises by the world, diamond companies still don't do enough to prevent the stones from being used to purchase weapons, fuel wars and create havoc in countries where poverty is endemic, campaigners claim. A new movie shaming the diamond business using the Sierra Leone example will now hit cinemas in Africa and beyond.
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Botswana | World
History | Humanistic sciences | Religion
World's oldest religion discovered in Botswana
afrol News, 1 December - Archaeologists have discovered what seems to be remains of the world's earliest religious worship site in the remote Ngamiland region of Botswana. Here, our ancestors performed advanced rituals, worshipping the python some 70,000 years ago. The sensational discovery strengthens Africa's position as the cradle of modern man.
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South Africa
Crime | Development | Development | Entertainment
Selling sex, crime & soccer to South Africans
afrol News, 31 October - South Africa's popular and successful 'Daily Sun' has published its 1000th edition, after reaching a brand new readership among poor South Africans with its focus on violence, sex and sports. Front page images of the controversial daily are often shocking, but revealing of township realities.
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Senegal
Policy | Policy
Senegal increases subsidies for private media
afrol News, 30 October - The Senegalese government has renewed its commitment to subsidise its private media. Knowing the significant role of media in informing and educating society, the Senegalese government sponsored the private media with a whooping sum of CFA 400 million (approximately US$ 1 million) - an exception in Africa.
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Mali
Development | Development | History | History | Humanistic sciences | Policy
Preparations for Timbuktu manuscript centre advance
afrol News, 13 September - Efforts to conserve, store and expose the estimated 700,000 Timbuktu manuscripts, one of Africa's principal cultural heritages, are going well ahead. Malians are educated into specialised manuscript conservators in South Africa and Tunisia and a new building to house the manuscripts is already being constructed in Mali's ancient town of Timbuktu.
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Mauritania
History | History | Humanistic sciences | Science
Mauritania's Prussian past revealed: A desert pharmacy
afrol News, 12 September - A lost desert island in Mauritania's far north was the object of desire of a score of European kingdoms wanting to secure trade routes on the continent, saw the unexpected discovery of medical plants and outlived a list of tyrannical governors. These are the ingredients of a new analysis of the Prussian island of Arguin and an aspect poorly studied in African history - the continent as source of medicines rather than diseases.
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Somalia
Democracy - Dictatorship | Entertainment | Music | Policy | Religion
Somali Islamists ban music; "intimidated" top artist agrees
afrol News / Awdal News Network, 4 September - Maryan Mursal, Somalia's top night club performer in the early 1970s and currently a patriotic voice admired by Somalis in the Diaspora, says that she is fully in support of the banning of music by the Somali Islamic Courts and urges all Somali artists to quit singing and performing drama. Her opinion causes shock among other Somali cultural personalities.
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