Africa | World
Children | Children | Cooperation | Development | Finance | Food Security | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Primary Education | Social Services | Socio-economic
School meals boost education, new report
afrol News, 24 November - A new report from the World Bank and the World Food Programme (WFP) shows that school feeding and other food-based safety net programmes are vital to keeping children in school, improving their learning and health, and promoting food security. Read more
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Africa | World
Development | Economic rights | Education | People | Policy | Policy | Policy | Social Services
Women researchers still scarce, UNESCO
afrol News, 23 November - Although the number of researchers working in developing countries over the last five years has increased by 50 per cent, women only occupy a very small percentage of these positions in some regions, according to a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) report released today. 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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Nigeria
Development | Development | Natural sciences | Science | Social sciences
Nigeria to get agro-research park
afrol News, 9 November - The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture on this weekend unveiled a strategy to boost agricultural research in Africa with plans to establish a "Global Research Park" in Nigeria.
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Ethiopia
Natural sciences | Nature | Science
It's confirmed: New ocean to split Ethiopia
afrol News, 5 November - Since a gigantic rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia in 2005, scientists have speculated the rift was the first step in a process that will split eastern Ethiopia and Somalia from the African continent by a new ocean. Now, they have found proof it indeed will.
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South Africa
Development | Science | Social sciences
South African mortality crisis overcome
afrol News, 5 November - Mortality rates, which have been increasing in South Africa since the 1990s, are on their way back down, reflecting a downturn of the AIDS epidemic and signalling longer lifespans for South Africans, statistics published today reveal.
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Central Africa | West Africa
Development | Natural sciences | Nutrition | Poverty | Science | Social sciences
Maize research splendid investment for Africa
afrol News, 3 November - A new book looking at the history and effect on maize research in West and Central Africa reveals it is among the best spent funds to achieve poverty reduction. Every million US$ spent on maize research had lifted 35,000 Africans out of poverty, it claims.
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Africa | World
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Development | Development | Disasters | Events | Infrastructure | Management | Nature | People | Policy | Policy | Policy | Science | Social Services
Indian Ocean nations to test tsunami warning system
afrol News, 6 October - Eighteen countries around the Indian Ocean Rim will participate in a United Nations-backed tsunami exercise on 14 October to coincide with World Disaster Reduction Day, the first time that the warning system set up following the devastating disaster that struck the region in 2004 will be tested. Read more
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Africa | World
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Development | Elections | Events | People | Policy
UNESCO elects new chief
afrol News, 23 September - The United Nations Cultural and Scientific Organisation (UNESCO) has chosen its new leader, the former Bulgarian Foreign Minister Irina Bokova. Read more
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Africa | World
Affairs | Development | People
Two African candidates for UNESCO head
afrol News, 21 September - Two African candidates remain in the fourth round of voting will be held today to try to select the next head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) after none of the candidates for the post were able to obtain a majority of ballots at the weekend. Read more
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Zimbabwe
Affairs | Affairs | Children | Children | Cooperation | Development | Economy | Finance | People | Policy | Poverty | Primary Education | Social Services | Socio-economic
$70 million to revive Zimbabwe’s education
afrol News, 15 September - The government of Zimbabwe, UNICEF and the international donor community yesterday unveiled a $70 million partnership through the Educational Transition Fund (ETF) and the revitalisation of the Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM) to ensure access and quality education for the country’s children. Read more
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Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Development | Finance | Policy
EU commissioner in Africa to boost science partnership
afrol News, 7 September - The EU Commissioner for Science and Research Janez Potoènik will today start the official visit to the African Union and Kenya from 7 to 9 September, during which he will hold high-level political meetings and will visit EU-supported research centres in Nairobi (Kenya) and in Addis-Ababa (Ethiopia). Read more
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Malawi
Children | Cooperation | Development | Finance | Infrastructure | People | Policy | Poverty | Primary Education | Social Services
New teacher training college for Malawi
afrol News, 27 August - A new teacher training college was inaugurated in Malawi today to enhance the foundation of primary education in the country. Read more
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Congo Kinshasa
Affairs | Children | Children | Finance | People | Policy | Poverty | Primary Education | Socio-economic | War & Peace
UNICEF grants DR Congo $500.000
afrol News, 25 August - The Republic of Congo has received a $500,000 influx from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to boost health, nutrition and education initiatives to help ease the impact of the global economic crisis on the country’s most vulnerable people. Read more
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Africa | World
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Democracy - Dictatorship | Development | Economy | Finance | People | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social Services | War & Peace
$1.7m grant for African Leadership Centre
afrol News, 14 August - The King’s College London has been awarded a grant of $1,680,500 from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to fund Peace and Security Fellowships at the African Leadership Centre (ALC), an initiative that offers opportunities to young Africans and equips them with the skills and knowledge to become leading analysts and policymakers on peace, security and development in Africa. Read more
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Africa | World
Affairs | Children | Children | Development | Economy | Policy | Policy | Poverty | Social Services | Socio-economic
Poverty a threat to education, UN
afrol News, 5 August - Poverty is the biggest threat to the educational development of children around the world, a senior United Nations official today warned hundreds of students gathered for the start of the first ever Global Model UN (GMUN) conference. Read more
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Africa | World
Affairs | Cooperation | Development | Development | Diseases | Humanistic sciences | Medicine | People | Policy | Science | Social Services
Scientists publish discovery of Malaria origin
afrol News, 4 August - Scientists have reported to have discovered the origin of malaria, saying Chimpanzees, native to equatorial Africa, have been identified as the original source of the parasite that likely moved from them to humans via mosquitoes. Read more
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Sudan
Affairs | Children | Development | Economy | Finance | Infrastructure | People | Poverty | Primary Education | Refugees - Displaced | Social sciences | Social Services | Socio-economic | Violence | War & Peace
AU-UN mission provides funds to Dafur
afrol News, 4 August - The African Union-United Nations peacekeeping operation in Darfur has provided a financial boost of almost $250,000 for the construction of classrooms, toilets and water pumps in the violence-ridden region of Sudan. Read more
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Morocco
Development | Finance | Infrastructure | People
Morocco signs €155 million loan agreement with France
afrol News, 7 July - The Moroccan government has signed three loan agreements worth 1,700 million dirhams (155 million euros) with the French Development Agency (AFD) to finance the reform of the education system, rural roads rehabilitation and the infrastructure projects for Rabat. Read more
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Uganda
Conservation | Management | Natural sciences | Nature | People | Policy
Uganda could be a dessert in 40 years
afrol News, 19 June - A new global report on Environment has warned that Uganda could be a total dessert in 40 years if the government fails to protect the country’s forests. Uganda has reportedly lost more than 30 percent of its forest between 1990 and 2005. Read more
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