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Posts by Afrakomah Chinery-Hesse
Zanzibar, in Tanzania, votes on power-sharing change
Category: General. Location: Tanzania. Source: Reuters Posted by Afrakomah Chinery-Hesse on Sat, 31st Jul 2010.
Tanzania's semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar voted on Saturday on whether to change its constitution to allow rival parties to form coalition governments, after decades of bitter party politics....read more »
Sudan criticizes UN/AU force, sets travel controls
Category: General. Location: Sudan. Source: Reuters Posted by Afrakomah Chinery-Hesse on Sat, 31st Jul 2010.
Sudan said on Saturday it would monitor travel by U.N./African Union peacekeepers in Darfur -- a day after the U.N. Security Council extended the force's mandate and told Khartoum to stop hindering its work....read more »
Food fund to release $120 mln in October-official
Category: Health. Location: Rest of the World. Source: Reuters Posted by Afrakomah Chinery-Hesse on Sat, 31st Jul 2010.
A global fund to boost agricultural investment in the world's poor countries will release about $120 million in October to states who qualify, a senior U.S. Treasury said on Friday....read more »
Nigeria nears deal for private power producers
Category: Business. Location: Nigeria. Source: Reuters Posted by Afrakomah Chinery-Hesse on Sat, 31st Jul 2010.
Nigeria is close to agreeing a framework to make private power generation for the national grid commercially viable, potentially unlocking billions of dollars of investment and helping end chronic power shortages....read more »
Zimbabwe c.bank threatens action on interest rates
Category: Business. Location: Zimbabwe. Source: Reuters Posted by Afrakomah Chinery-Hesse on Sat, 31st Jul 2010.
Zimbabwe's central bank said on Friday it would intervene to force banks to slash "punitive" lending rates of as high as 50 percent that are partly blamed for slowing economic recovery....read more »
Burundi ruling party wins senate by landslide
Category: General. Location: Burundi. Source: Reuters Posted by Afrakomah Chinery-Hesse on Sat, 31st Jul 2010.
Burundi's ruling party CNDD-FDD won a vote for the senate by a landslide, further tightening its grip on power, official results showed on Friday....read more »
Kenyan PM resurfaces, says feeling great
Category: General. Location: Kenya. Source: Reuters Posted by Afrakomah Chinery-Hesse on Sat, 31st Jul 2010.
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga made his first public appearance on Friday since leaving hospital on July 4 after an operation to relieve pressure on his brain....read more »
Eastern Africa polio-free, but cases found in Russia
Category: Health. Location: Kenya. Source: Reuters Posted by Afrakomah Chinery-Hesse on Sat, 31st Jul 2010.
Eastern Africa is free of polio again, with four countries -- Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda -- having reported no cases of the crippling disease for more than a year, U.N. and other aid agencies said on Friday....read more »
Everglades and Madagascar forests on Unesco danger list
Category: Health. Location: Madagascar. Source: BBC Posted by Afrakomah Chinery-Hesse on Sat, 31st Jul 2010.
A UN panel has added Florida's Everglades National Park and Madagascar's tropical rainforest to a list of world heritage sites at risk....read more »
Nigeria lauds efforts to achieve stability in G.Bisssau
Category: General. Location: Nigeria. Source: AFP Posted by Afrakomah Chinery-Hesse on Sat, 31st Jul 2010.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday lauded international efforts to achieve lasting peace and political stability in crisis-wracked Guinea-Bissau, his office said....read more »
U.N. tells Darfur peace force to focus on security
Category: General. Location: Sudan. Source: Reuters Posted by Afrakomah Chinery-Hesse on Sat, 31st Jul 2010.
The U.N. Security Council extended the stay of peacekeepers in Sudan's western Darfur region by another year on Friday, telling the force to focus primarily on protecting civilians and aid deliveries....read more »
Sudanese head to Canada to learn referendum lessons
Category: General. Location: Sudan. Source: AFP Posted by Afrakomah Chinery-Hesse on Sat, 31st Jul 2010.
Senior MPs from north and south Sudan are heading for Canada this weekend to learn from Quebec's independence referendums, officials said Friday, as the African state prepares to vote on southern secession....read more »
UN extends Darfur force mandate
Category: General. Location: Sudan. Source: Al Jazeera Posted by Afrakomah Chinery-Hesse on Sat, 31st Jul 2010.
The United Nations Security Council has extended its peacekeeping mission in Sudan's western Darfur region for another year....read more »
Liberia to require registration of new births
Category: Health. Location: Liberia. Source: Associated Press Posted by Afrakomah Chinery-Hesse on Sat, 31st Jul 2010.
Liberia's government, still recovering from a 14-year civil war and previous decades of poverty and illiteracy, said Friday it will now require all children to get birth certificates, a document most of them lack....read more »
Thousands flee Congo clashes, security worsens
Category: General. Location: Congo. Source: Reuters Posted by Afrakomah Chinery-Hesse on Sat, 31st Jul 2010.
Almost 90,000 people have fled fighting in eastern Congo in the past month, aid agencies said, underscoring a worsening security situation despite the official end of Congo's 1998-2003 war....read more »