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Burkina Faso
Culture - Arts | Society
Burkina Faso's "crazy opera" is rising

afrol News, 19 October - Even architect Diébédo Francis Kèrè "thought it was a joke" when he was commissioned to build an opera village in the Burkinabe countryside to host the African parallel of Germany's famous Bayreuth Festival. Not any more.

South Africa
Society
World Cup camps get SA kids off the streets

afrol News / Gender Links, 8 July - School is out, the World Cup is on, and South African organisations and groups are using the opportunity to deliver important life skills to the country's youngest soccer supporters.

South Africa
Society | Economy - Development
World Cup "good investment" for SA

afrol News, 2 July - South Africa not only has seen 1 million foreign visitors in June. Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan says benefits from the rand 33 billion (euro 3.4 billion) World Cup investments will be lasting.

Western Sahara
Culture - Arts | Society
Sahrawi refugee to court: "I'm not a slave"

afrol News, 17 June - Sahrawi refugee Fetim Salam Hamdi has been portrayed as a slave in a poorly translated documentary film. But Ms Hamdi insists she is a free woman and now goes to court to stop the film's screaning.

South Africa
Society
SA World Cup attendance higher than in 2006

afrol News, 15 June - After more than ten football matches plaid in South Africa, spectator attendance to Africa's first FIFA World Cup is slightly higher than that of Germany in 2006, figures released by FIFA today showed.

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» 08.06.2010 - Zuma orders South Africans to celebrate
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» 07.06.2010 - SA vultures killed to predict World Cup winner
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» 03.03.2010 - UNAIDS partner with rock icon to fight AIDS
» 02.03.2010 - SAB strategises for World Cup gains
» 18.02.2010 - British Princes coming to SA World Cup
» 15.02.2010 - SA’s mute and deaf man wins lottery jackpot
» 10.02.2010 - New TV series target Kenyan youth
» 08.02.2010 - Botswana youth get World Bank funding
» 08.01.2010 - World celebrities climb Kilimanjaro to raise funds
» 09.12.2009 - Kenya goes digital
» 08.12.2009 - Minister says SA skies among world safest
» 04.12.2009 - Security jellied from bomb threats
» 25.11.2009 - Gaddafi to mediate Algeria-Egypt row
» 10.11.2009 - SA hotel industry warned of price inflation
» 09.10.2009 - African music awards to boost war against AIDS
» 08.10.2009 - PUMA unveils 2010 African football team kits
» 07.10.2009 - Young Liberians to audition for top music award
» 25.09.2009 - Fans warned of fraudulent World Cup tickets
» 09.09.2009 - Zambian artist competing for $83,000 in Norway
» 04.09.2009 - SA designer to show at New York fashion week
» 20.08.2009 - South Africans raged by sexuality tests of Semenya
» 28.07.2009 - Dow Jones wins SA tourism 2010 contract
» 06.05.2009 - Nigerian filmmakers making a global mark
» 04.05.2009 - SA gets regional support for power support
» 30.03.2009 - Soccer stampede kills 22
» 19.02.2009 - Kenya to host new Africa reality TV show
» 28.11.2008 - Watch Equatoguinean dictator's partying
» 02.10.2008 - 19 die in Tanzania disco stampede
» 18.09.2008 - SA construction workers to get free world cup tickets
» 16.09.2008 - Football riots kill 13 in Congo
» 01.06.2007 - Tanzanian women getting ready for World Cup 2010
» 11.04.2007 - Tunisia blocks video-sharing web
» 28.03.2007 - Zambia's female boxing star challenges stereotypes
» 27.03.2007 - Swaziland addresses heavy-drinking reputation
» 06.03.2007 - Ghana celebrates 50 years of independence
» 02.03.2007 - Nollywood absent in Africa's Fespaco film festival
» 23.02.2007 - Bissau carnivals claim 8 lives
» 16.02.2007 - No controversy to stop Ghana's 50th anniversary
» 15.01.2007 - Moroccan journalists fined for blaspheming jokes
» 04.01.2007 - South Africa begins erecting 2010 stadiums
» 20.12.2006 - 546 children named after Gambian President
» 08.12.2006 - African blood diamond film hits theatres
» 07.12.2006 - Apartheid flag lifting angers South Africa
» 29.11.2006 - Crime shrouds South Africa's 2010 World Cup
» 31.10.2006 - Selling sex, crime & soccer to South Africans
» 11.09.2006 - Mogadishu Islamic courts crack down on press
» 04.09.2006 - Somali Islamists ban music; "intimidated" top artist agrees
» 26.05.2006 - "Self-censorship increasing in South Africa"
» 15.05.2006 - African movie channel launched in UK
» 07.03.2005 - South Africa's "Drum" wins at Fespaco
» 03.03.2005 - Ouagadougou culture life blossoms during Fespaco
» 28.02.2005 - Two killed as Burkina Faso film festival opens
» 22.02.2005 - Africa gets own MTV channel today
» 10.02.2005 - South Africa's Robben Island hosts Valentine's weddings
» 03.02.2005 - Cape Verde's Cesária Évora receives prizes
» 18.01.2005 - Johannesburg bids to host 2010 "gay Olympics"
» 05.01.2005 - Dakar rally crosses Western Sahara with Polisario blessing
» 17.12.2004 - New book celebrates Miriam Makeba
» 19.11.2004 - Race discussion reaches South Africa's sports
» 21.10.2004 - Cape Verde mourns Creole singer Ildo Lobo
» 13.10.2004 - "Alcohol ban behind Lesotho arts festival failure"
» 04.10.2004 - Preparations for "Miss Francophonie" in Burkina Faso
» 30.09.2004 - Next year's carnival prepared in Guinea-Bissau
» 13.09.2004 - Nigeria's filmmakers "comply with censors board"
» 19.08.2004 - Zambian TV employees fired after "masturbation film"
» 12.06.2004 - Miriam Makeba honoured at US-Africa event
» 03.06.2004 - Launch of new independent media in Gabon
» 15.05.2004 - South Africa to host 2010 World Cup
» 05.05.2004 - South Africa tops FIFA's World Cup 2010 rating
» 26.04.2004 - South Africa celebrates 10 years of freedom
» 19.03.2004 - Walvis Bay celebrates 10 years re-integration into Namibia
» 09.02.2004 - Grammy for Cape Verde's Cesária Évora
» 13.01.2004 - Ugandan authorities to shut down 50 broadcasters
» 29.07.2003 - Senegalese singer to raise AIDS awareness
» 19.05.2003 - South Africa's DJ Khabzela in AIDS polemics
» 17.05.2003 - Swazi first black African on Mount Everest?
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