Posts having tag: aid and development
S. AFRICA TEAM IN COLERA AID TRIP ! A South African delegation is visiting Zimbabwe to decide how best to help deal with a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly 600 people there. It is already giving food and drugs, and is trying to decide how much additional aid is needed. The World Health Organisation has said nearly 14,000 ...
KENYA PM CALLS FOR MUGABE REMOVAL! Power-sharing in Zimbabwe is dead and it is time for African governments to oust President Robert Mugabe, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has saidHis comments are some of the strongest by an African leader against Mr Mugabe, says the BBC's Karen Allen in Nairobi "It's time for African ...
AFRICANS SEEK WORLD CUP BUSINESS BOOST! By Bill Wilson - Business reporter, BBC News, Johannesburg. The 12th edition of football business exposition Soccerex is meeting in South Africa, 18 months before the country is due to host the Fifa World Cup in 2010. As hundreds of overseas firms gather for the convention, it should not be ...
U.N. CALLS FOR RAPID ZIMBABWE DEAL! UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said Zimbabwe cannot afford to fail in negotiating a power-sharing deal if the country is to improve its humanitarian situation. Mr Ban said President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF and the opposition MDC needed a workable agreement soon, so they could tackle "formidable ...
THE PITFALLS OF AFRICA'S AID ADDICTION! By Sorious Samura - BBC Panorama reporter. Where I come from in West Africa, we have a saying: "A fool at 40 is a fool forever", and most African countries have now been independent for over 40 years. Most are blessed with all the elements to help compete on a global stage - ...
ZIMBABWE SITUATION IS 'CRITICAL' ! The leader of South Africa's governing party, Jacob Zuma, has described the situation in Zimbabwe as "critical". The ANC leader said Zimbabwe was worse than a month ago and it was an urgent matter because people were dying. Mr Zuma was speaking in Johannesburg after meeting a group of ...
DOWNTURN THREAT TO SA WORLD CUP! By Bill Wilson - Business reporter, BBC News, Johannesburg. Drive from Johannesburg's main international airport into the city during rush hour, and the silver lining to the slow-moving traffic is that you get to study the hoardings advertising the forthcoming Gautrain. The 80 kilometre ...
ZIMBABWE REFUSES ANNAN GROUP VISA ! Former UN head Kofi Annan and the former US president Jimmy Carter have cancelled a planned trip to Zimbabwe. They said the government had not granted them visas, making their two-day visit, with Nelson Mandela's wife Graca Machel, impossible. The three international figures are part of a group ...
GUINEA-BISSAU GOES TO THE POLLS! The people of Guinea-Bissau are voting in parliamentary elections which are seen as a major test for the small West African nation's stability. Four parties are expected to dominate the poll, including the new Republican Party for Independence and Development. President Joao Bernardo Vieira is ...
LESOTHO AIDS DIARY : ORPHAN ! The BBC is following the lives of seven people from the community of St Rodrigue, in Lesotho, who will share their hopes and fears as they each struggle to live with and work through the country's HIV/Aids crisis. I live in a village a few hours' walk away from St Rodrigue clinic, across the ...
MADONNA BACK MALAWI SCHOOL DRIVE! Pop star Madonna is urging her fans to dig deep to raise money to build a girls' school in Malawi, the home country of her adopted son David. The singer posted a message on her website saying the project was "very near and dear to my heart". She said she felt it was her mission to help ...
U.N. CUTS FOOD RATIONS IN ZIMBABWE! The UN food agency says it has started cutting rations to four million people in Zimbabwe. The World Food Programme says it has had no response at all to its $140m appeal to feed Zimbabwe. WFP warns that food will run out entirely by January unless fresh support is provided, as it takes six ...
MUGABE WINS OUT IN ZIMBABWE TALKS! By Jonah Fisher - BBC News, Johannesburg. In the run-up to Sunday's summit, hosts South Africa had promised to talk tough with the Zimbabwean parties and "force" an agreement. Many observers interpreted that as a sign that the region's most powerful country was at last going to ...
AFRICAN TROOPS TO BACK CONGO ARMY! Southern African leaders have said they want to provide immediate support to the Democratic Republic of Congo's army in its fight against rebel forces. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) said it would deploy military experts now, and may send a peacekeeping force later. The army ...
ZIMBABWE COMPROMISE CALL REJECTED! Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has rejected a compromise plan aimed at breaking the country's political deadlock. A summit of southern African leaders had told Zimbabwe's rival parties they should share control of the disputed home affairs ministry. The call came at the end of ...
ZIMBABWE ATTACKS 'KILL DIALOGUE' ! Renewed violence has ended hopes of negotiating an end to Zimbabwe's political crisis, the country's main opposition party has said. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) blamed President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party for an "orgy of brutality" across Zimbabwe. The statement came ...
MUGABE SEEKS NEW OBAMA RELATIONS! Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe says he is ready to mend relations with the United States following Barack Obama's victory in the presidential election. He congratulated Mr Obama and said he hoped to work with him to tackle the challenges facing developing countries. The US imposed ...
UN'S BAN TAKES ON DR CONGO CRISIS! UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he will travel to East Africa to push forward efforts at ending the ongoing crisis in eastern DR Congo. Mr Ban decried the "catastrophic consequences" of the conflict along the Rwandan-Congolese border. Recent fighting in the area between ...
PARADOX OF POWER IN AILING EGYPT! By Christian Fraser - BBC News, Cairo. In Cairo's industrial suburbs, workers at Magdi Tolba's clothing factory turn out 40,000 garments a day, mostly destined for well-known stores in the west. Despite warnings from President Hosni Mubarak the economy was likely to suffer in the global ...
S. AFRICA'S ANC ON BRINK OF SPLIT! By Martin Plaut - BBC News, Cape Town. This weekend marks a decisive moment in history of post-apartheid South Africa, with the governing African National Congress (ANC) on the verge of a split. Dissidents, led by the former premier of the region around Johannesburg, Mbhazima Shilowa, and ...
