Africa News Update
Africa News Update offers news, background and feature articles from African sources twice weekly. The newsletter is free of charge and is edited by the Norwegian Council for Africa. Some of the articles may be shortened.
Sudan: A test for the African Union
Juba (Sudan) - The African Union (AU) is to play a key role in discussions between Northern and Southern Sudan following a referendum that is widely expected to initiate the secession of the latter. Read >
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
Africa: The end of EPA acrimony may be in sight
Windhoek (Namibia)- Southern African trade ministers have pledged to sign a significantly scaled down economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) before the end of 2010. Could this be the conclusion to years of divisive negotiations? Read >
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Inter Press Service (IPS)
Somalia: Observers commend Somaliland's elections
Hargeisa (Somalia) - A group of international observers says the recent concluded presidential election in Somalia's separatist region of Somaliland was free and fair. Read >
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Garowe online (Somalia)
Nigeria: Furore over Nigeria at 50 summit in London
Abuja and Lagos (Nigeria) — The Nigeria at 50 summit taking place in London is generating ripples at home with the Organised Labour, opposition political parties and politicians querying the rationale behind it. Read >
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
This Day (Nigeria)
Africa: Diabetes cases to double by 2030
Dakar (Senegal) — Without a major breakthrough in preventing and treating diabetes, the number of cases in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to double, reaching 24 million by 2030, according to the Brussels-based International Diabetes Federation (IDF). Read >
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks(IRIN)
Tanzania: Oil prospects get even brighter
Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) - A recently concluded geological assessment in Tanzania's Southern offshore deep oil exploration project has shown prospective resource potentials of over a billion barrels of oil and gas. Read >
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
The Citizen (Tanzania)
Uganda: Rwandan envoy dismisses refugee report
Kampala (Uganda) — Rwanda's High Commissioner to Uganda Maj. Gen. Frank Mugambagye has dismissed as superficial a report released by a local human rights organisation, saying Rwandan refugees living in Uganda are not willing to return home because they believe that their home government is "repressive". Read >
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
New Vision (Uganda)
Rwanda: Linking government to journalist's shooting is outrageous, minister says
Kigali (Rwanda)— The Rwandan Government has strongly dismissed allegations that it was behind the Thursday killing of local journalist, Jean Léonard Rugambage, calling it "outrageous". Read >
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
The New Times (Rwanda)
Uganda: Too young to know, yet too young to die
Kampala (Uganda) - Thirteen-year-old Jacinta Okello and her fellow primary school classmates call it "doing bad manners". But when you ask her what she knows about sex, she breaks into a shy smile, looks to her feet and giggles. Read >
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Inter Press Service (IPS)