Malawi
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Economy | Finance | Infrastructure | Land rights | People | Poverty | Social Services | Socio-economic
Malawi’s rural land development project gets additional funding
afrol News, 20 November - The World Bank has granted Malawi US$10 million for the Community-Based Rural Land Development Project (CBRLDP). The additional grant will also extend the project for another two years, the bank said. Read more
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World
Affairs | Affairs | Children | Children | Cooperation | Events | Policy | Policy | Social Services
Children’s rights still not assured, UNICEF
afrol News, 20 November - Despite considerable progress over the past 20 years in improving the lot of the world’s children, including a 28 percent drop in annual mortality of those under five from 12.5 million to an estimated 8.8 million, their rights are still far from assured, according to a new United Nations report issued today. Read more
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Guinea
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Elections | Law | People | Policy | Policy | Violence | War & Peace
International commission on Guinea’s crackdown dispatched
afrol News, 18 November - The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met today with the members of the International Commission of Inquiry set up to probe September’s violent crackdown on unarmed demonstrators in Guinea, ahead of the team’s visit to the country next week. Read more
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Rwanda | Tanzania
Affairs | Crime | Ethnic | Law | People | Violence | War & Peace | War Crimes
Former priest acquitted on genocide
afrol News, 18 November - The United Nations court has acquitted Former Catholic priest, Father Hormisdas Nsengimana, who was facing charges of the infamous Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. Father Nsengimana, had been imprisoned for seven years since his 2002 arrest in Cameroon. Read more
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Affairs | Crime | Law | People | Refugees - Displaced | Violence | War & Peace | War Crimes
Security Council calls for protection of civilians
afrol News, 18 November - The Security Council has called on United Nations missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic (CAR) and Sudan to coordinate strategies to protect civilians from the rebel Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which has killed, kidnapped and displaced thousands of people. Read more
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Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Ethnic | Law | People | Policy | Refugees - Displaced | Socio-economic | War & Peace
Unblock foreign visits to Sahrawi activists, HRW
afrol News, 17 November - The international human rights body has accused Moroccan authorities of blocking "unauthorised" visits by foreigners to the homes of Sahrawi activists in Western Sahara. Read more
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Somalia
Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Law | People | Terrorism | Violence | War & Peace
Somali judge shot dead
afrol News, 12 November - Somali rebels have gunned down a judge known for jailing pirates and members the country’s radical Islamist group al-Shabab in Bossaso, a port in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region, government officials have confirmed. Read more
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Africa | World
Affairs | Affairs | Development | Economy | Finance | Food Security | People | Policy | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social Services | Socio-economic | Trade
Africa’s poor to suffer due high food prices
afrol News, 11 November - Millions of people in dozens of poor countries are in desperate need of emergency humanitarian aid, despite good global cereal harvests this year. This due to stubbornly high food prices, the United Nations agricultural agency warned in a report released yesterday. Read more
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Congo Kinshasa | World
Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Diplomacy | Law | People | Refugees - Displaced | Terrorism | Violence | War & Peace | War Crimes
UN envoy backs Congo’s fight against rebels
afrol News, 10 November - The UN envoy in Democratic Republic of Congo, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has pledged support to the Congolese government to root out armed militias in eastern part of the country. Read more
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Western Sahara
Affairs | Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Economy | Law | Oceans - Fisheries | People | Policy | Policy | Socio-economic | Trade | War & Peace
Campaign against plundering of W/Sahara resources launched
afrol News, 9 November - The pro-Saharawi network, Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) has launched a campaign to sign letters to the EU Commissioner for Fisheries, asking EU to immediately stop the plundering of the natural resources of Western Sahara by Morocco. Read more
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Africa
Affairs | Children | Children | Cooperation | Development | Diseases | Events | Medicine | Policy | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social services | Social Services
Seven African states in Malaria trial
afrol News, 9 November - Seven African countries will take part in a historic malaria vaccine trials, as the world scientists strive to root out Africa’s number one killer. Read more
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