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  • SKA associate director Professor Justin Jonas.

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2013/01/06 Winning the right to co-host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) has given South Africa and Africa as a whole a platform to prove to the world that the continent has what it takes to deliver a cutting-edge science project, says SKA associate director Professor Justin Jonas. Speaking at a gala dinner in Carnarvon on Monday, ahead of President Jacob Zuma's visit to the site of the SKA in the Northern Cape, Jonas expressed faith in the ability of South Africa and its partners on the continent to successfully pull off the venture.

  • Former president Nelson Mandela

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2013/01/05 Former president Nelson Mandela, recovering back at home next nearly three weeks in hospital with a lung infection, was "stronger than formerly", according to his grandson and the family's spokesman, Mandla Mandela. The retired statesman, who turned 94 in July, was discharged from a hospital in Pretoria on 26 December. He has since been undergoing home-based high care at his Houghton, Johannesburg home.

  • Former president Nelson Mandela

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2013/01/05 Former president Nelson Mandela, recovering back at home next nearly three weeks in hospital with a lung infection, was "stronger than formerly", according to his grandson and the family's spokesman, Mandla Mandela. The retired statesman, who turned 94 in July, was discharged from a hospital in Pretoria on 26 December. He has since been undergoing home-based high care at his Houghton, Johannesburg home.

  • South Sudan’s women await independence from poverty

    SOUTH SUDAN, 2013/01/05  ONE year next the formation of South Sudan, the country’s women say that independence has not resulted in the positive political, economic and social changes that they had hoped for. Women activists worry that even next separation from Sudan on Jul. 9, 2011, at the same time as South Sudan became the world’s newest country and Africa’s 54th country, the government has not done enough to improve the lives of its women. But as people across the country celebrate the prime anniversary of independence from Sudan, next a 21-year civil war, the year has been fraught with crises.

  • Protest culture taking a heavy toll on South Africa

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2013/01/05 South Africans have a long and proud tradition of what they call “struggle”: noisy turmoil marches against the government on issues large and small, from apartheid to electricity service. By some measures, they are the world champions of turmoil, with up to 6,000 protests per year.

  • First Female Mine Wolf operator in South Sudan

    SOUTH SUDAN, 2013/01/04 Nancy Sunday is a Mine Wolf operator in South Sudan. The 23 year old mother of 2 children joined Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) Mine Action programme in 2009 as an Intern in a little while next training as a driver at Yei Vocational Training Center run by NPA in Yei River County in Central Equatoria national, South Sudan.

  • Niger pays 300,000 euros in outstanding contribution to OIF

    NIGER, 2013/01/04 Niger has paid about 300,000 euros or about CFAF 200 million, representing a lot of years of outstanding contributions, to the International Organisation of the Francophonie (OIF). Niger’s arrears were completely wiped out formerly the XIV OIF Summit held 12 -14 October in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and attended by several heads of national including Nigerien President Issoufou Mahamadou.

  • Motorcycle taxis, known in Kenya as boda bodas.

    KENYA, 2013/01/01 Makena, 30, said she is aware her choice of business has caused some controversy and occasionally waves to dumbfounded residents as she passes by. Motorcycle taxis, known in Kenya as boda bodas, are a popular mode of transport for commuters seeking to avoid heavy traffic in urban centres. While it offers a decent livelihood for its operators, the business has typically been dominated by men.

  • The Mozambican government has almost doubled the Basic Social Allowance

    MOZAMBIQUE, 2012/12/30 The Mozambican government has almost doubled the Basic Social Allowance paid to the majority vulnerable poor households (such as those headed by children, or elderly or disabled people). This allowance was initially designed to increase the likelihood that children in such households will attend school, and reduce risks of malnutrition.

  • Hollande recognizes Algerian suffering

    ALGERIA, 2012/12/22 France’s President François Hollande recognized the suffering of Algerians during additional than a century of French dominion over the country Thursday, in the harshest description of the period by a French chief of national from presently on, denouncing the “profoundly unjust and brutal” nature of the colonial system.
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