Sao Tome and Principe News

Holidays are such an important part of each countries tradition along with supporting its culture.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday that the most likely timing for President Ma Ying-jeou to pay a state visit to Taiwan's diplomatic allies in Africa is sometime next year.

It's two inches long, grows on wood, and is shaped like a phallus. A new species of stinkhorn mushroom, Phallus drewesii, has been discovered on the African island of Sao Tome and graces the upcoming cover of the journal Mycologia.

It is all becoming clear. For years, rumors have abounded about how Mesquite was plotting to annex Bunkerville.

Lending by the International Monetary Fund to Africa is set to double this year as the region is gripped by the global economic crisis and more countries need aid, senior IMF officials said on Monday.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID AXE/THE WASHINGTON TIMES USS Nashville's Capt. Cindy Thebaud arrives at Sao Tome and Principe on April 18.

SAfO TOMA<, 20 May 2009 - Twenty years after the first case of HIV infection was recorded in the archipelago of SA o TomA© and PrA ncipe, off the coast of Gabon, six people living with HIV/AIDS have decided to take a stand against stigma and discrimination by telling their stories on national television.

Angola backs the principle for a general increase of the capital of the African Development Bank in order to strenghten the institution's financial capacity to face the effects of the world crisis into the african economies and secure the execution of its activities, Angola's reserve bank vice-governor, Rui Minguens, told Angop today.

Defence Ministers from Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Soa Tome and Principe have inaugurated the headquarters of the joint maritime surveillance centre for security in the Gulf of Guinea in Douala.

Ghana, Mali, and Mauritius had the highest press freedom ranking in Africa in Freedom House's annual Freedom of the Press Report released in Washington, DC.

Extending the theme, each of the very white and very kitsch rooms is named for something or someone in Tinseltown with framed posters to match.

The Angolan Parliament speaker, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, MPs Paulo Teixeira Jorge, Joao Melo, Cristovao da Cunha and Cesaltina Major are already in Sao Tome and Principe.

Malaria deaths reported from health facilities in Zambia have declined by 66%. This result along with other supporting data indicates that Zambia has reached the 2010 Roll Back Malaria target of a more than 50% reduction in malaria mortality compared to 2000.

Tim Brown considers the boycott of cocoa in 1909, a hundred years before Cadbury's recent announcement that it will be using fairtrade chocolate in its Dairy Milk bars What exactly is slave labour? That is a question that Quaker chocolate makers were trying to answer one hundred years ago For the background I can recommend a novel, Equator , that ...

The two islands of So Tom and Princip constitute a small independent island republic with a democratic government lying in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Gabon and forming part of the Atlantic Ocean Islands group associated with Africa.

There is an element of lonely self-gratification to blogging that calls to mind Woody Allen's description of masturbation as "sex with someone I love." Of course he also said the same thing about one of his children.

NEGOTIATIONS: The Mainland Affairs Council yesterday released pamphlets saying the agreement to be signed with Beijing would not be based on the Hong Kong model By Ko Shu-ling Taipei and Beijing may not sign an agreement on investment from China in local businesses during their upcoming high-level talks, but will in any case issue a joint statement ...

GIFT FOR THE GAFFE: The Presidential Office urged the media not to report on the president s faux pas in referring to Sao Tome and Principe as Burkina Faso By Ko Shu-ling STAFF REPORTER Wednesday, Apr 08, 2009, Page 3 President Ma Ying-jeou, right, shakes hands with Foreign Minister of Sao Tome and Principe Carlos Alberto Pires Tiny at the ...

Taiwan will use its assistance to its official diplomatic allies in Africa to raise local living standards, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.

'As I announced last Sunday in the Angelus, I will reflect today on my recent apostolic journey to Africa, the first of my pontificate to that continent.