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  • The Fight Against Aids - No Time to 'Rest on Our Laurels' (interview)

    01 décembre 2012 ( #Get Involved )

    Saturday marks World Aids Day. Stephen Lewis, chair of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which helps fight HIV/Aids, says the human face of the disease needs to be restored and that it is no time for "resting on our laurels". In an interview with AllAfrica's...

  • Africa's Smallholder Farmers Merit Support

    13 novembre 2012 ( #Business )

    PRESS RELEASE Photo: Louis Stippel / USAID Dry season farmer (David Ocansey) at Adedetsekope near Ada is watering his corn plants from shallow wells sited in between the crops. With agricultural support, farmers in Ghana have improved their crop production...

  • Tanzanian President Joins Tweeting African Leaders

    13 novembre 2012 ( #Technology )

    PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete is among eight African leaders actively interacting with friends, colleagues and relatives through Twitter. Mr Kikwete joins his peers in Rwanda and Uganda where presidents Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni are also interacting...

  • Abstract African Art

    08 novembre 2012 ( #Arts&Culture )

    Africa is a really big nation and each portion of Africa has its own historical past. It is the 2nd greatest continent in the planet and is home to a diverse assortment of historical cultures. Artwork has been a portion of African background. There are...

  • Africa's Science Skills Dearth Slows Development

    07 novembre 2012 ( #News )

    London — The "remarkable recent economic growth" in many African countries may be able to sustain science through domestic funding (rather than through external sources) - but a lack of scientists and research capacity is threatening to reel back that...

  • Political storm over Chinese gas contracts

    07 novembre 2012 ( #Business )

    Opposition parties and anti-corruption activists call for investigations into and a renegotiation of Beijing’s energy and telecoms deals with Accra Leading opposition presidential candidate Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo and his New Patriotic Party are...

  • Best Beauty Secrets

    08 novembre 2012 ( #Beauty )

    It is no longer easy to spare some moments for ourselves. There are always a bunch of things to do like going to places, seeing friends and relatives, meetings to attend, eat every thing possible at happy hours etc. etc. Taking care of yourself is not...

  • Afrique Australe: Guerre dans l'est - la SADC prête à participer à la force neutre

    27 octobre 2012 ( #News )

    Les pays de la Communauté de développement de l'Afrique australe (SADC) sont prêts à faire partie de la force neutre internationale à déployer dans la partie Est de la RDC. La Communauté de développement de l'Afrique australe (SADC) a exprimé sa disponibilité...

  • West Africa: Tropical Diseases Spread After Flooding

    27 octobre 2012 ( #News )

    Countries gripped by a hunger crisis in West Africa's Sahel region urgently need additional help to combat a series of intestinal-worm and other Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) that have spread in the wake of regional flooding, the United Nations health...

  • Mali - Ansar Dine prêt à baisser les armes

    07 novembre 2012 ( #News )

    Arrivée vendredi à Bamako, après deux jours de discussions, la délégation du groupe Ansar Dine a rencontré hier enfin de journée le président burkinabè Blaise Compaoré, médiateur de l'Afrique de l'Ouest dans la crise malienne. A l'issue de cette rencontre,...

  • Kenya: Cattle in the Capital - Urban Agriculture Comes to Town

    27 octobre 2012 ( #Business )

    Dagoretti — Leonard Gichuru Gitau is a city dweller, but it doesn't take a detective to see that he is also a livestock farmer. The lowing of cattle greets visitors to his neatly built home of timber and sheet metal on the western outskirts of Nairobi,...

  • Cote d'Ivoire: Il est temps de mettre fin au cycle de représailles et de vengeance

    27 octobre 2012 ( #News )

    COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE Plus de 200 personnes, dont des membres du Front populaire ivoirien (FPI), le parti de l'ancien président Laurent Gbagbo, ont été arbitrairement détenues et torturées et beaucoup croupissent toujours derrière les barreaux, révèle...

  • Bénin: Trois proches du président Boni Yayi soupçonnés de tentative d'assassinat

    23 octobre 2012 ( #News )

    Au Bénin, trois proches du président ont été arrêtés dimanche 21 octobre 2012 pour avoir tenté de l'empoisonner. Selon le procureur de la République, Zoubérath Kora-Séké, une nièce de Thomas Boni Yayi qui travaillait à la présidence, Mudjaidou Soumanou,...

  • Sombre bilan en Tunisie, un an après les élections

    23 octobre 2012 ( #News )

    Il y a un an, les Tunisiens se rendaient aux urnes pour l'élection historique de l'Assemblée nationale constituante. Le bilan est mitigé. L'Assemblée est loin d'avoir achevé la rédaction de la Constitution. Elle devait pourtant approuver le texte fondateur...

  • Suspects emerge in theft of Ghanaian king's jewels in Norway

    14 octobre 2012 ( #News )

    King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II had headgear and rings stolen Wednesday on his business trip in Oslo. The briefcase holding them was snatched in the lobby of the Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel, which prompted speculation he might be dethroned. Backtracking, representatives...

  • International Religious Freedom Report, 2012

    17 octobre 2012 ( #Arts&Culture )

    The Department of State released its annual International Religious Freedom Report on July 30, 2012; it covers the year 2011. The summary states, "In 2011, the world watched as people in North Africa and the Middle East stood up for dignity, opportunity,...

  • Liverpool Fashion Week (15th-20th October 2012)

    14 octobre 2012 ( #Fashion )

    PRESS RELEASE: "We are proud to be supporting designers of all capabilities, especially delighted to showcase students with learning difficulties and disabilities from Knowsley Community College who are creating clothes from recycled goods and clothes...

  • How to Wear Red Lipstick.

    13 octobre 2012 ( #Beauty )

    Wearing a red lipstick can be intimidating. When I was younger and felt more confident and bold about life, I used to wear red lipstick a lot. I felt sexy. It instantly boosted my mood, especially as I felt more noticed. As I have gotten older, things...

  • Congo-Kinshasa: Le message de François Hollande mieux accueilli par la majorité au pouvoir

    12 octobre 2012 ( #News )

    « Le gouvernement congolais apprécie la nouvelle priorisation des thèmes qu'a abordés le président de la République française parce que les déclarations qui nous avaient quelque peu fâché mettaient en exergue des prétendus dysfonctionnement dont nous...

  • Oprah gives inside peek from set of 'The Butler'

    14 octobre 2012 ( #Celebrities )

    Several Hollywood heavy hitters have been making history on the set of the upcoming film, “The Butler.” Oprah Winfrey and Lenny Kravitz gave fans a glimpse into their future when the media mogul Monday posted an instagram of the pair in age-advanced makeup...

  • Sommet de la Francophonie en RDC: Kinshasa quadrillée et ses opposants isolés

    12 octobre 2012 ( #Arts&Culture )

    KINSHASA — Les opposants voulaient crier "Kabila dégage" dans tout Kinshasa, vendredi, à la veille du premier sommet de la Francophonie en République démocratique du Congo (RDC), mais leur marche, interdite, s'est transformée en bref sit-in, dans la capitale...

  • Lifestyle ~ How To Get Rid Of Tummy Fat?

    14 octobre 2012 ( #Lifestyle )

    Tummy Fat The following text contains some good advice on how to eliminate the annoying tummy fat. We all know in what kind of world we live in. This world is the fast paced and there are many things and chores to balance in the course of every day. It...

  • Kenya Defence Forces Unearth Mass Grave

    12 octobre 2012 ( #News )

    The Kenya Defence Forces currently securing the port city of Kismayu in Somalia have reportedly unearthed a grave and recovered an undisclosed number of bodies. The unofficial report from the frontline is that bodies have been found, but their identities...

  • Singer Adele has reportedly given birth to a baby boy

    23 octobre 2012 ( #Celebrities )

    The 24-year-old Someone Like You singer is said to have given birth to her first child with boyfriend Simon Konecki last week and is said to be ecstatic. A source told The Sunday People: "Adele and Simon are ecstatic at their new arrival. "She was over...

  • Eco Fashion Week Vancouver (Spring/Summer 2013)

    14 octobre 2012 ( #Fashion )

    SAVE THE DATE: OCT. 16-19, 2012 There is no limit to human ingenuity and creative thought. And this is especially evident in the always-innovative, always-evolving fashion industry. Bringing in $300 billion a year in revenue, one might wonder what it...