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Jul 19, 2013

AFRICA News, Jul 19, 2013

6th Africa Agriculture Science Week opens in Ghana

Ghana Business News
maize The 6th Africa Agriculture Science Week (AASW), organized by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), in collaboration with the Government of Ghana, has opened in Accra. A statement issued by FARA and copied to the Ghana News ...
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Africa urged to partner to improve agricultural production

Ghana Business News
Speaking at the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) pre-plenary meetings, a side event of the ongoing 6th Africa Agriculture Science Week (AASW), being hosted in Ghana, Mrs Tumusiime said because the need and demand for food was ...
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Agriculture Science Week sets agenda for Africa's food security

The Statesman Online
“The recommendations emanating from the pre-plenary meetings, which will be presented at plenary will take center stage in shaping Africa's agenda for food security, poverty reduction and economic development over the next three years and will also ...
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6th Africa Agriculture Science Week opens

BusinessGhana

A statement issued by FARA and copied to the Ghana News Agency, said President John Dramani Mahama was expected to open the Week on July 18 anchored by the theme: "Africa Feeding Africathrough Agricultural Science and Innovation."

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African leaders urge more health funding

Rappler
HEALTH SUMMIT. Flags of countries fly outside the venue of the African Union Summit on health focusing on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Abuja on July 15, 2013. Photo by AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei. ABUJA, Nigeria - African leaders called for increased ...
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Africa's way with words

The Voice Online

There are internationally-renowned writers out of Africa such Half of a Yellow Sun author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, yet to better gauge the wider state of the movement, awards like the Caine Prize forAfrican Writing act as a searchlight in unearthing ...

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Equatorial Guinea Ranked Second In Literacy In Africa By African Economist ...

Wall Street Journal

The Republic of Equatorial Guinea (Republica de Guinea Ecuatorial) is the only Spanish-speaking country in Africa, and one of the smallest nations on the continent. In the late-1990s, American companies helped discover the country's oil and natural gas ...

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AFRICA FX WEEKAHEAD-Kenyan shilling, Nigerian Naira seen weaker

Reuters

"Egypt unrest is a big factor going forward, that could hit the shilling," said Duncan Kinuthia, head of trading at Commercial Bank of Africa. Kenya's central bank said, during a monetary policy meeting on Tuesday that left its key lending rate ...

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Sudan President Bashir's Nigeria visit causes anger

BBC News

Human rights groups have condemned Nigeria for hosting Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, and have demanded his arrest on genocide charges. Mr Bashir is attending a health summit convened by theAfrican Union (AU) in the capital, Abuja. His visit was ...

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6th Africa Agriculture Science Week underway in Accra

Ghana Broadcasting Corporation

The sixth Africa Agriculture Science Week and Forum for Agricultural Research is under way in Accra. Delegates will focus on the theme "Africa Feeding Africa through Agricultural Science and Innovation". The Minister For Food and Agriculture; Clement ...

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Africa food crisis: UK pledges £35m to Malawi and Zimbabwe

BBC News

The UK is to provide £35m to Malawi and Zimbabwe to alleviate the "looming food crisis" in southernAfrica. International development minister Lynne Featherstone, who is on a visit to Malawi, said the funds would "save countless lives". Price hikes and ...

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Piracy 'slows worldwide, surges off west Africa'

Fox News

LONDON (AFP) – The number of attacks by pirates worldwide has fallen in the last year but armed robbery and kidnappings at sea have surged off the coast of west Africa, a maritime body said on Monday. Pottengal Mukundan, director of the International ...

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Olympic lobbying bandwagon heads to Africa

SI.com

LONDON (AP) - The Olympic bandwagon heads to Africa this week with bid cities, presidential candidates and sports federations chasing votes in the final weeks of their election campaigns. A meeting of African Olympic committees in Abidjan, Ivory Coast ...

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Africa needs to boost regional trade flows-UN

Reuters Africa

The UNCTAD study showed that Africa's oil-exporting countries such as Libya, Angola and the Republic of Congo were especially dependent on trade with non-African markets, exporting less than 5 percent of their merchandise to the rest of the continent.

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Mauritius offers Africa investment route for Indian firms

Business Standard

Presenting it as a 'gateway to Africa' for investments in various sectors, a high-level delegation from Mauritius, comprising policymakers and industry players, has come here to meet industry bodies and other stakeholders to apprise them about the ...

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Experts arrive in Accra for Africa Agriculture Science Week

African Business Review

'Feeding Africa through Agricultural Science and Innovation' is this year's theme at the sixth AfricaAgriculture Science Week (AASW) which kicks off on Monday (July 15, 2013) in Accra, Ghana. More than 1,000 attendees are expected to convene to ...

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Elumelu urges private sector-led China-Africa relations

The Guardian Nigeria

Elumelu, Chairman of Heirs Holdings, the pan-African proprietary investment company, said “the China-Africa relationship has historically been characterised by government-to-government engagement. However, Nigeria's leadership – and increasingly that ...

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Africa Hydrocarbons Reaches TD on BHN-1 Well in Tunisia

MarketWatch

CALGARY, ALBERTA, Jul 15, 2013 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- Africa Hydrocarbons Inc. (CVE:CA:NFK) ("AHI" or the "Company") today announced that a total depth of 2745 metres has been reached at the Company's BHN-1 exploration well on the ...

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Zimbabwe political rivals vie for voters in diamond-rich region

Daily Nation

PHOTO | JEKESAI NJIKIZANA Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe and leader of the political party Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), addresses an election campaign rally at Nzvimbo growth point in Mashonaland Central ...

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Let's move to Africa, we are not safe in America after Zimmerman acquittal - Akon

The Statesman Online

Another fan also commented: “That [is] just f******g stupid @Akon African Americans have lived in America for so many years n I highly doubt this trial had anything to do with race. You [are] just like every other African American bringing in the f ...

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IBF CONTINENTAL AFRICAN CHAMPIONS SHINES AT THE IBF I/C RATINGS

EastsideBoxing.com

NTERNATIONAL BOXING FEDERATION AFRICA (IBF/AFRICA) – TUESDAY 16, JULY, 2013, DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA – IBF progression path has started to bear fruits by uplifting the levels of Africanboxers after its Continental and International ...

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EU pledges aid to Central Africa Republic, urges donor action

Reuters

BANGUI (Reuters) - The European Union is to increase its aid to Central African Republic to tackle a humanitarian crisis gripping the impoverished nation since rebels seized power in March. The toppling of former president Francois Bozize by the Seleka ...

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C. African Republic leader says security improving

Ellwood City Ledger

The transitional leader of Central African Republic says the security situation is improving in his coup-plagued country, despite reports to the contrary from aid groups. During a visit to Burkina Faso on Monday, Michel Djotodia said the biggest ...

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Infectious diseases, threat to Africa's development - Jonathan

Nigerian Tribune

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has raised alarm over the danger infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and malaria pose to the socio-economic development of Africa and has therefore called for a concerted effort to deal with the situation.

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ICC rejects request to hold trial of Kenya's Ruto in Africa

Reuters

Their decision will be controversial in Kenya and Africa more broadly, where sensitivities about European and Western influence run deep. Earlier this year, heads of state and government at an African Union summit urged the ICC to refer the charges ...

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7/16 Arizona Cardinals news: Punt returns, Acho in Africa, Dockett ...

By Jess Root

Would you hang out with a player from a rival team? Should Tyrann Mathieu return punts?

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Piracy slows worldwide but surges off west Africa | Capital News

By AFP

LONDON, July 15 – The number of attacks by pirates worldwide has fallen in the last year but armed robbery and kidnappings at sea have surged off the coast of west Africa, a maritime body said on Monday. Pottengal Mukundan, director of ...

Capital News

Assassins Creed IV Black Flag trailer details naval ... - IT News Africa

By Charlie Fripp

Games developer Ubisoft has released another trailer for their highly-anticipated Assassins Creed IV Black Flag title. The latest trailer, titled A Pirate's.

IT News Africa news alert

USCCB awards $1M to Church in Africa : News Headlines - Catholic ...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Subcommittee on the Church in Africa has awarded $1.05 million in grants to 39 projects. The grants were funded by a special collection taken up in many US dioceses. “We owe a debt of ...

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english/ministers-from-africa-asia-latin-america-meet ... - Africa News

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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, July 12, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- A high-level workshop on a new “Partnership for Skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology in Africa” began today in the Ethiopian capital.

Africa News - News from Africa

Air France, Airtel partnership lifts Gabon - IT News Africa

By Staff Writer

Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), a leading telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, has signed a partnership.

IT News Africa news alert

AfDB's Africa50 fund to explore opportunities for financing Africa's ...

By gbn

AfDB The African Union Commission (AUC), the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and theAfrican Development Bank (AfDB) plan to explore opportunities for financing Africa's infrastructure and in particular, through the AfDB's Africa ...

Ghana Business News

TAKE ACTION NOW! Insist on Renewable Energy in Africa - Care2 ...

By Cal Mendelsohn

Ensure that energy project in Africa is based on renewable energy.

Care2 News Network

Roundtable on financing Africa's infrastructure in Tunis | Africa News ...

By admin

TUNIS, Tunisia, July 15, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- AUC Chairperson, Mrs Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, ECA Executive Secretary,Mr Carlos Lopes and AfDB Group President Mr Donald Kaberuka (http://www.afdb.org), will meet ...

Africa News - News from Africa

Pacific Rim gets mobile game tie-in - IT News Africa

By Staff Writer

Reliance Games, an international developer and publisher of mobile games, today has asked gamers to pilot a giant Jaeger robot and defend Earth from invading.

IT News Africa news alert

Keith Sweat Coming To Africa - The Standard

American Artist Keith Sweat Coming To Africa. Updated Saturday, July 13 2013 at 17:27 ... R&B-rock Singer Tina Turner weds at 73. Pulse, International News ...

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INSIGHT: Africa makes the grade for richest US ... - Yahoo! News

From Yahoo! News: By Tosin Sulaiman JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - America's wealthiest universities are venturing into Africa's fast-growing frontier markets in ...

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