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World Bank And Partners Award $4 Million to Agricultural Projects
More than $4 million was awarded in seed money to 22 innovative agricultural projects last week in Washington at the end of the 2008 Development Marketplace, a competitive grant program organized by the World Bank to fund innovation in development.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 17:50

Angola: Luanda Hosts World Habitat Day Events
Angola's capital city, Luanda, is hosting Monday the main celebration of the World Habitat Day, with the participation of the UN executive secretary for Urban Settlement, Anna Tibaijuca.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 17:23

Sudan: Top UN Peacekeeping Official Begins Week-Long Visit
The head of United Nations peacekeeping today began a week-long visit to Sudan, where the world body currently has two operations - one to support the 2005 north-south peace deal and the other to quell the violence that has plagued the western region of Darfur since 2003.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 16:44

Zimbabwe: No Hope for Country With Gono's Policies
ZIMBABWE needs to allow the national budget to fund all activities and stop money printing if the country is to chart an economic recovery path, a document by a United Nations agency shows.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 16:32

Africa: UN Refugee Chief Appeals for World's Poor
The welfare of the world?s poor and uprooted people is increasingly at risk as the international community struggles with a combination of adverse economic, social and political trends that threaten to trigger even more displacement in the years to come, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres warned Monday.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 16:11

Zimbabwe: Care International Workers Down Tools
Workers at Care International, one of the few non-governmental organisations that provide food aid to starving villagers, last week downed tools following a tax dispute with their employers.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 16:09

Africa: IBA Calls on the ICC to Expand its Outreach and Public Information Mandate
The International Bar Association (IBA) today called upon the International Criminal Court (ICC) to increase its public information activities and engage more actively with lawyers from national jurisdictions around the world.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 16:04

Africa: Warda DG makes Strong Case for Agriculture at UN MDG Meeting
Invited by the UN Secretary General as a lead discussant for the thematic roundtable on Poverty and Hunger at the recent UN high-level event on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Africa Rice Center (WARDA) Director General Dr Papa Abdoulaye Seck affirmed that Africa could become one of the largest granaries of the world, provided African leaders and stakeholders recognize and make optimal use of the continent?s huge multi-faceted and untapped resources.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 15:52

Kenya: Eight Back From Ethiopia Want Police Charged
A group of Kenyans who were recently flown back into the country after being held in Ethiopia for several months as terrorist suspects now want to sue the state for kidnapping.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 15:46

Rwanda: ICTR Judges Start Visit to Genocide Sites
Judges from Trial Chamber III of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) yesterday started their one week tour of sites in the country where four former ministers are reported to have committed genocide and crimes against humanity in the 1994 Tutsi Genocide.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 15:30

Africa: Women's Rights Linked to Good Governance
In an interview marking the publication of the 2008 Ibrahim Index of African Governance, Mary Robinson, a board member of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, discussed with AllAfrica's Katy Gabel the correlation between women's rights and good governance.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 14:41

Africa: Journalists Reflect On Coverage of Food And Fuel Crisis
Journalists covering the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting in Castries, St Lucia reflected on the way the story of the rising food and fuel crises has been covered in their respective countries and newsrooms and resolved to be more comprehensive and complete in future coverage of the story.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 13:50

Congo-Kinshasa: Monuc Force Commander Remains Optimistic
During the weekly MONUC press conference of 2 October 2008, MONUC Force Commander General Babacar Gaye said that despite the crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a lot of progress has been accomplished thanks to the help and support of MONUC.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 13:43

Africa: High Food And Fuel Prices to Dominate Commonwealth Talks
The Commonwealth Finance Ministers meeting opens in Castries, St Lucia on Monday with the high global food and fuel prices expected to dominate the talks.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 13:02

Uganda: WB Gives $5 Million to Country's Mining Sector
Uganda is to receive a $5 million credit in additional financing from the World Bank to strengthen its mineral resource management in the wake of steady progress in the mineral sector over the past five years.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 12:47

Kenya: Michuki Leads Team to U.S. Meeting
Acting Finance Minister John Michuki left the country on Saturday night for a Commonwealth Finance meeting in Washington DC in the US.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 12:41

Africa: World Bank, OECD Report Mixed Results Towards Gender Equality
Women's health and education have improved substantially in most countries, but progress is lagging on improving their economic opportunities, according to a new report released today.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 12:00

Uganda: War Court Faces Legal Hurdles
The planned War Crimes Division of the High Court is facing legal hurdles that now threaten to delay its operations, Justice James Ogoola has said.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 11:40

189 Police Advisers Arrive to Support Joint UN-African Union Mission
A total of 189 police advisers from 12 countries, including 17 female officers, have arrived in Darfur to join the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation (UNAMID), which is trying to quell the deadly fighting and humanitarian suffering that have raged since 2003 in the western Sudanese region.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 10:18

Africa: Continent's Women to Benefit From New UN Gender Equality Project
Women in five African countries will gain new access to resources and services at the local level through gender-responsive planning, programming and budgeting under an $8 million, three-year United Nations programme announced this week.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 10:18

Rwanda: Key Genocide Trials Depend On Judicial Reforms
Rwanda is hoping to convince the International Criminal Tribunal to change its mind over refusing to transfer three genocide suspects to face trial at home, paving the way for extradition procedures to start against dozens of others living abroad in freedom.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 09:51

Liberia: More UN Police Soon
The head of the United Nations Mission in Liberia, UNMIL), Margrethe Loj said on Wednesday that there will be an increase number of the Police Form Units (FPUs) that are presently operating in the country.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 09:40

Africa: Sharma Sees the Quest for Globalism, Governance and Growth as Driving the Commonwealth Forward
On 2 October 2008, Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma outlined his vision for the Commonwealth in a major speech delivered six months to the day since taking up the post.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 09:34

Africa: Training Programe Aims to Advance ICT Strategies
Policy makers who formulate Information and Communication Technology agendas for governments will attend Commonwealth workshop
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 09:34

Africa: Commonwealth Think-Tank Launches Briefing On Global Economic Crisis
Experts discuss current food and fuel crisis at CPSU's headquartersThe Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit (CPSU) has launched a finance policy briefing on the world's economic crisis which will be presented to Commonwealth Finance Ministers when they meet in St Lucia between 6 and 8 October.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 09:34

Burundi: Country's Rival Ethnic Groups Learn to Live Side By Side in UN-Backed Pilot Project
Displaced people from Burundi's rival Hutu and Tutsi groups are being resettled side by side under a pilot project funded by the United Nations refugee agency aimed at seeking reconciliation and binding up the wounds of decades of bloody ethnic violence in the small central African country.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 09:01

Madagascar: Needy Farmers in Country Earn Boost From UN Rural Development Agency
Poor rural families across southern and central Madagascar will be able to increase their incomes after the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced a $19 million scheme to improve farming production.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 09:01

Do Not Deprive Darfurians of Their Right to Justice
AS SOUTH Africans reflect on the legacy of Thabo Mbeki's presidency, many have praised his foreign policy contributions.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 08:40

Africa: Market Panacea Fails in Africa
THE United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) came up with an extraordinary admission this month that market-driven policies had failed in Africa.
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Oct-2008 08:40

Kenya: Country's Mystery Arms Imports
A total of 77 tanks and 15 jet fighters were secretly imported by Kenya last year alone, according to official documents. Two rocket launchers and more than 40,000 automatic rifles and machine guns were also brought in, the United Nations says. Yet the government has not reported its arms purchases to the United Nations, as required by international agreements, the Sunday Nation can reveal.
Source : AllAfrica | 05-Oct-2008 12:54

Ethiopia: UN Calls for Extra $8 Million to Help Aid Operations
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is appealing for an additional $8 million to fund its humanitarian preparedness and response operations in Ethiopia, where prolonged drought has left hundreds of thousands of the Horn of Africa country's poorest people at serious risk of malnutrition or disease.
Source : AllAfrica | 04-Oct-2008 08:37

$76 Million Global Initiative to Support Poor Farmers
The World Food Programme (WFP), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation have unveiled a groundbreaking initiative to help poor farmers across the developing world significantly increase their incomes.
Source : AllAfrica | 03-Oct-2008 15:12

The Uncompleted De-Colonization of the UN Trust Territory of British Cameroons
The UN Trusteeship Council executed a trust Agreement on December 13, 1946 with Britain over a clearly defined territory known as British Cameroons that was located between Nigeria and another UN trust territory then known as French Cameroun that gained sovereign independence on January 1, 1960.
Source : AllAfrica | 03-Oct-2008 14:50

South Africa: Plan to Assist Recruitment of Women Peacekeepers Adopted
The National Consultative Workshop on Gender Mainstreaming in Peace Missions, held in Pretoria this week, has adopted a joint National Action Plan which will aim to encourage more women to become peace keepers.
Source : AllAfrica | 03-Oct-2008 13:54

South Africa: World Must Be Committed to Non-Violence - Dlamini Zuma
The world would be a better place if every country committed to the values and principles of non-violence, says Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma.
Source : AllAfrica | 03-Oct-2008 13:54

Peace Process Near Collapse in Country
The peace process in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is on the verge of collapse due to resumed hostilities between Government forces and rebels loyal to Congolese general Laurent Nkunda.
Source : AllAfrica | 03-Oct-2008 11:34

UN Firm On ICTR Closure
An informal working group from the United Nations Security Council has reiterated the UN's position on the closure of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
Source : AllAfrica | 03-Oct-2008 11:34

Zimbabwe: Comesa Summit is Hasty Show of Support for Government
The Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) has given Zimbabwe a second chance to hold the regional bloc's 13th summit, in what would appear to be a hasty show of confidence in the country as a result of the power sharing deal.
Source : AllAfrica | 03-Oct-2008 10:37

Ugandan Babies Die of Avoidable Causes - Report
A new report on the health of new-born babies in Uganda has revealed that many of them die of preventable causes due to failure to abide by simple life-saving practices.
Source : AllAfrica | 03-Oct-2008 10:27

World Bank Approves Additional N16.8 Trillion for Health Sector
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors on Wednesday approved additional financing, totaling US$140 million (about N16.8 trillion) in IDA Credits, for two health sector projects in Nigeria.
Source : AllAfrica | 03-Oct-2008 10:22

Nigeria: Tertiary Institutions Get N2.281 Billion for Step-B
The World Bank yesterday disclosed that a total of N2.281,930,962billion ($22.067million) has been disbursed to about 56 tertiary institutions in Nigeria to be used for the Science and Technology Education Post-Basic (STEP-B) project in the country.This amount is from the $180m budgeted for the project by the World Bank.
Source : AllAfrica | 03-Oct-2008 09:40

Ban Voices Concern Over Instability Ahead of Elections
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern over the volatile security and political atmosphere in Guinea-Bissau, where crucial elections are slated to take place next month, in his latest report to the Security Council on the West African country.
Source : AllAfrica | 03-Oct-2008 08:28

IMF Praises Country 's Economic Recovery
The International Monetary Fund has commended the Government for maintaining economic stability in the wake of post-election violence.
Source : AllAfrica | 03-Oct-2008 08:25

East Africa: East African Towns Polluting Lake Victoria With Sewage
As the clock ticks towards the World Habitat Day on Monday, Kisumu residents remain a worried lot.
Source : AllAfrica | 03-Oct-2008 08:25

Rendition Victims 'Missing' in Country
A new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) accuses the Ethiopian government of detaining at least 10 victims of unlawful rendition incommunicado and without charge since early 2007.
Source : AllAfrica | 03-Oct-2008 07:52

Zimbabwe: Urgent Aid Needed as Countyry's Humanitarian Crisis Worsens - UN Relief Chief
The humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe is deteriorating and will continue to worsen into next year, according to the top United Nations humanitarian official, who has called for urgent aid to avert increased human suffering in the Southern African nation.
Source : AllAfrica | 03-Oct-2008 07:44