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Fighting FGM in Africa
The slow retreat of female genital mutilation in Africa

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is not a secret anathema in Africa anymore. From Senegal to Tanzania, governments and organisations are outspoken on the harmful practice and public debate is brought to life. Results are ambiguous, but successes are always slow.

afrol News has followed African women's fight against FGM:

» Egyptians mobilise against FGM
» Togolese anti-FGM legislation shows results
» FGM now punished effectively in Burkina Faso
» Djiboutian Minister teaches West women's liberation
» Emergency FGM rescue operation fails In Tanzania
» Alternatives to FGM in Guinea-Bissau
» Senegal determined to eliminate female genital mutilation
» Tanzania fails to enforce law against female mutilation
» Djibouti to fight female genital mutilation
» Call for worldwide ban of FGM
» Women campaigns against genital mutilation successful

Background
» Data: Prevalence of FGM in Africa
» Fighting Female Genital Mutilation in Africa

Ghana
Politics | Economy - Development | Environment - Nature | Society
Ghana-EU sign first voluntary agreement on legal timber exports

afrol News, 20 November - Ghana will sign the historic agreement with the European Union, aimed at ensuring that only legally harvested timber from the West African country is exported to the EU market.

Algeria | Egypt
Economy - Development | Politics | Society
Algeria-Egypt’s World Cup place explodes into a diplomatic war

afrol News, 20 November - The rivalry between the north Africa neighbours, Egypt and Algeria has heightened beyond the fight for a place in the 2010 soccer event in South Africa.

Malawi
Economy - Development | Politics | Human rights | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society
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.

Africa
Economy - Development | Politics | Society
Industrial development key to Africa’s integration in global economy

afrol News, 20 November - The head of the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) has warned that Africa must overcome the obstacles to boosting industrial production and gaining a larger share of world trade to benefit from the global economy.

World
Economy - Development | Politics | Human rights | Society
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.

Central Africa | Central African Republic
Politics | Economy - Development | Human rights | Society
Cambodia troops arrive in CAR

afrol News, 20 November - The United Nations mission set up to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian aid in Chad and Central African Republic (CAR) received a boost this week with the arrival of troops from Cambodia.

Africa | World
Politics | Economy - Development | Society
UN-lawmakers' partnership can help the poor out of recession, Ban

afrol News, 20 November - National parliaments are key allies of the United Nations in its efforts to haul the world’s most vulnerable people out of the global economic crisis, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told an international gathering of lawmakers in New York.

Africa | World
Economy - Development | Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society
Developing countries urged to make agriculture a funding priority

afrol News, 19 November - On the final day of the World Summit on Food Security, the head of the UN’s rural poverty agency said he was pleased to see how developing countries are increasingly deepening their commitments to food security through investment in agriculture.

World
Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Economy - Development
Concluding Doha Round could boost recovery, WB

afrol News, 19 November - Countries can contribute to a more robust recovery from the global recession by rapidly concluding the Doha Development Round (DDA), which could bring up to US$160 billion in gains, according to new World Bank research.

Zimbabwe
Economy - Development | Politics | Human rights | Society
Zim govt report compliance progress to clean its diamond trade

afrol News, 19 November - The government of Zimbabwe has reported a breakthrough in the country’s diamond fields where the security forces had based.

Horn of Africa
Agriculture - Nutrition | Society | Economy - Development
Spain doubles aid for Horn of Africa

afrol News, 19 November - The World Food Programme (WFP) has today received a boost for its emergency relief efforts feeding millions of hungry people in the Horn of Africa, with the announcement of a $112 million donation from Spain.

Algeria | Egypt
Politics | Economy - Development | Society
Orascom to contest $6 mln tax bill

afrol News, 19 November - Egypt's Orascom Telecom has vowed to contest a $600 million tax bill issued by the Algerian tax authorities.

Africa
Economy - Development | Environment - Nature | Society
Preserve water sources - report

afrol News, 19 November - Africa has been urged to adopt urgent measures to preserve the continents fresh water resources as climate change threatens water sources.

Africa | World
Economy - Development | Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Society
FAO chief regrets no measurable targets adopted to fight hunger

afrol News, 19 November - The three-day United Nations summit on world food security wrapped up in Rome yesterday with its host lamenting that it produced neither measurable targets nor specific deadlines for ending a scourge that afflicts more than 1 billion people around the planet.

Gambia
Politics | Human rights | Society
Gambian president withdraws from Commonwealth meeting

afrol News, 19 November - The Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has backed out on attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting scheduled next week in Port of Spain, a government statement has said.

World
Economy - Development | Politics
World Bank adopts transparency policy

afrol News, 18 November - The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors have approved the new policy on access to information which positions the Bank as a transparency leader among international institutions.

Egypt
Economy - Development | Science - Education | Health | Culture - Arts | Society
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.

Guinea
Politics | Economy - Development | Society | Human rights
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.

Rwanda | Tanzania
Politics | Society | Human rights
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.

Cameroon | Nigeria
Economy - Development | Politics | Society | Human rights | Environment - Nature
Nigerian fishermen flee Bakassi Peninsula

afrol News, 18 November - Hundreds of Nigerian fishermen have fled the Bakassi Peninsula as harassment and violent attacks by Cameroon’s gendarmes have increased, reports have said.

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