Aid News
News on development and aid topics collected by The Road to the Horizon
Africa: Investor Sees Africa Risks Easing, Plenty of GrowthPolitical risks to investment are easing gradually across Africa, making it easier to tap into the continent’s robust growth, Africa’s top private equity investor Emerging Capital Partners (ECP) has… |
Africa: Race On for BP's African AssetsBP Plc is in talks with India’s Reliance Industries and Essar Group to sell its African retail assets, including those in Namibia, that could be worth as much as US$500 million, four sources with… |
Southern Africa: EU Backs Off on EPAEuropean Union (EU) Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht has appeased leading European civil society organisations about the negotiations for a Southern African economic partnership agreement (EPA),… |
Somalia: 21 People Killed in Fresh Mogadishu FightingAt least 21 people have been killed and 45 others injured in gun battle and mortars exchanged by Somali government troops backed by AMISOM and Al-Shabaab extremist militias since Tuesday, Radio… |
Nigeria: INEC Targets 70 Million Voters, Seeks Additional N10 BillionIndependent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Prof. Attahiru Jega yesterday gave an insight into the number of Nigerians expected to be registered in the new voters’ registration… |
Somalia: Somaliland President Names New Cabinet MinistersThe new elected president of Somalia’s breakaway republic of Somaliland, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamud (Silanyo) named on Wednesday new Cabinet ministers for his government, Radio Garowe reports |
Africa: Amisom Capture Key Mogadishu PositionsJULY was a fruitful month militarily for peacekeepers and Somali government forces, a spokesman said. |
Rwanda: The Best is Yet to Come - KagameRwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), Presidential Candidate, Paul Kagame, has said that his party still has a lot to offer to Rwandans beyond what it has delivered in the past seven years. |
Impressive democratic credentials -Sierra Leone's Head of State Ernest Koroma gives a master class in good governanceThe West African state of Sierra Leone has seen a dramatic upgrade of its stature around the world as a result of the democratic credentials |
Uganda eyes decision on Heritage tax row soonKAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda will decide in two weeks whether to resolve its tax dispute with British oil explorer Heritage Oil through arbitration in London or via local courts, the government said on… |
Ghana: Guinea worm reduces by 99%Ghana has achieved 99.99 per cent reduction of the Guinea Worm disease since its inception two decades ago. |
Battling child witchcraft accusationThe flowering of The African Century, as a material progress scheme, is also an enlightenment struggle. Most African elites have not thought about this despite |
New TB test must reach more people - expertSource: Reuters By Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG, July 29 (Reuters) - A new diagnostic tool that reduces to two hours the time needed to detect drug-resistant tuberculosis must be made available to… |
Floods in Sudan's Jonglei at alarming level officialsBy Philip Thon Aleu July 28, 2010 (BOR) a At least seven (7) of eleven (11) counties in Sudan’s Jonglei state experienced severe floods, an assessment by Southern Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation… |
MAG Sudan report - May/June 2010MAG (Mines Advisory Group) Activities: 36,058 square metres (sqm) manually cleared |