Africa News

NEW DELHI: "The threat of climate change and its impact on agriculture is real. We have evidence that by 2025 in some parts of the world including India, parts of Asia and parts of Africa, crop yields will drop from anything between 20 and 40 per cent from rise in temperatures.

The caption for this photo, illustrating a story headlined "African advocates say Canada owes Congo" on the Vancouver, Canada-based Straight-com, reads, "Women are in constant danger in Eastern Congo, where most of the recent fighting has taken place and rape is widespread." The story, quoting two Congolese now in Canada, attributes the violence ...

Reporting from Isiolo, Kenya - Have the climate wars of Africa begun? Tales of conflict emerging from this remote, arid region of Kenya have disturbing echoes of the lethal building blocks that turned Darfur into a killing ground in western Sudan.

Two freelance journalists, one from Canada and the other from Australia, were freed on Wednesday after 15 months in captivity in Somalia, with the Canadian alleging she was tortured.

To understand the difficulties America faces in combating terrorism, look no farther than this Horn of Africa nation.

By Li Hong, People's Daily Online Two pieces of news coming out of the Horn of Africa have caught people's attention.

Public health specialists working on AIDS in Africa are fond of invoking "ignorance." It is a term assigned to any local attitude that stands in their way - from the cool reception Africans have given condoms to the lingering doubt in many African societies that sexual activity is the essential cause of AIDS.

For the first time in eight years, the number of students learning English in Urbandale schools has declined, but educators say they continue to struggle to find ways to meet the needs of a growing population of African refugees.

The Chief Marketing Officer Council today announced a creative advertising contest that invites consumers to produce attention-getting public service announcements for its Pause to Support a Cause corporate social responsibility initiative.

November 8, 2009 - The situations in Sudan have become complicated where the entire country which is ten times size of Egypt, is on the brink of collapse.

President Obama told American Indian leaders today he knows that Washington has broken many promises to the original settlers of this land, but "I get it." "I understand what it means to be an outsider," Obama said, son of a single mother and oft-absent father from Africa.

President Obama is preparing to break the deadlock in negotiations on a global deal on climate change by announcing a target for cutting US greenhouse gas emissions.

For Africa, 1989 was a watershed year. The promise of democracy heralded by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War was only comparable with the euphoria of the independence movements in Africa in the 1960s and Nelson Mandela's release from incarceration in 1990.

Rolihlahla "Nelson" Mandela was born to a tribal chief in Transkei, a former republic of Africa.

Zhang Yong with Sudan boys. The 52-year-old was the only Chinese high-ranking commander to join overseas peacekeeping missions.

Dancers clad in animal skins opened a royal ceremony Tuesday, a nod to tradition for the forward-thinking kings, queens and chiefs who jetted in to Johannesburg from across Africa to launch an institute they hope will expand their roles on the continent The two dozen leaders from Morocco to Swaziland describe their new Institute of African Royalty ...

Somalia's mobile phone business is booming despite the almost daily artillery fire that flies over expensive satellite dishes and the violence that has brought misery to the population of the Horn of Africa nation.

I am the Congo, the Congo has made me. I am making the Congo. -Patrice Lumumba Four years after his death, a lot of people talk as if Patrice Emergy Lumumba were still the Congo.

COMPARISON: FACE TO FACE TALK VS MOBILE PHONES, AND, THEIR EFFECTS Life without cell / mobile / satellite / I phones ! You will even hesitate to even ponder over this, avoid wasting time thinking such stupid matters.

A man who travelled to Kenya on a mercy mission has returned home to Brampton with plans to build an orphanage for homeless children in Africa.