EDUCATION-MALAWI By Mar 18 Local Language Dictionary Released - The thickest book on secondary school teacher Hellen Ndalama’s desk is her indigenous language dictionary. It is also her most-used book. MORE >>
ECONOMY-SENEGAL By Mar 18 'Only The Rich Get Loans' - Despite the financial sector boom in Senegal, small and medium sized businesses (SMBs), which represent over 90 percent of the industrial fabric of the country, struggle to access funding for their development, their representatives claim. MORE >>
WEST AFRICA By Mar 18 Stopping the Polio Virus - The World Health Organisation (WHO) and its partners hope to eliminate the circulation of the polio virus in West Africa as soon as June by launching the first round of national synchronised immunisation days against the debilitating disease. MORE >>
POLITICS-RWANDA By Mar 17 Woman Vies for Top Job - On average women constitute 18.8 percent of representatives in parliaments across the world according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). This gender imbalance has been subject to much feminist criticism and many campaigns for change have been staged to address the status quo. The situation is however different in Rwanda. MORE >>
SOUTHERN AFRICA By Mar 17 Unexpected Low Custom Revenue Causes Budget Shortfalls - Plummeting revenues from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) could cause severe financial difficulties in the region, economic experts warn. To make matters worse, the organisation is split over the future of its tariff pool that largely bankrolls the national budgets of its poorer members. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT By Mar 17 Spain’s New Drive to Extend its Interests in Africa - Spain is breaking new ground in its relations with Africa through an ambitious programme which has seen it increasing its development funding to the continent more than six-fold from 2004 to reach 1,4 billion euros in 2008. MORE >>
EDUCATION-SIERRA LEONE By Mar 17 Government Ignores Demands for Additional Teachers - Ismail Conteh has been teaching for the past year-and-a-half at a primary school in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown – without receiving a single cent. He is one of hundreds of teachers recruited by schools to match the ever-growing number of pupils. MORE >>
WORLD CUP By Mar 17 But South Africa Will Win - Less than a hundred days to go, and the world looks on, often more with scepticism than anticipation. MORE >>
POLITICS By Mar 16 Sahel Leaders Meet on al Qaeda Threat - Representatives from seven North African and Sahelian states convened in Algiers on Tuesday to discuss the growing threat of al Qaeda's North African affiliate in the region. MORE >>
NAMIBIA By Mar 16 "If You Kiss for Five Minutes You Get It" - "At home we have a bar," says grade seven learner David Bravo* (14). "When my mother puts on the music I cannot concentrate on (my) schoolwork anymore. Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I just sit there and watch the people." MORE >>
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