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  • South Sudan: EU Citizens Evacuated From South Sudan

    SUDAN, 2016/07/15 Germany and Italy have begun evacuations from South Sudan next fighting between rival Sudanese factions in Juba. Berlin and Rome said people of other nationalities were as well being airlifted to Uganda and Djibouti. A fragile ceasefire seemed to hold in South Sudan's capital Juba on Wednesday as Germany, Italy and the USA implemented emergency measures and aid workers said bodies remained lying on streets. At least 270 people were killed, mostly last Friday, in clashes between President Salva Kiir's troops and former rebels loyal to Vice President Riek Machar.

  • South Sudan capital rocked by renewed violence,

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  • Cavendish doing it for Africa

    FRANCE, 2016/07/04 Team Dimension Data’s Mark Cavendish will wear the yellow jersey as the leader of the Tour de France today next winning the initial stage on Utah Beach yesterday. He dedicated his win to Africa. Cavendish, riding for a South African team with South African sponsors and three African riders, powered around world champion Peter Sagan (Tinkoff) and German Marcel Kittel (Etixx-QuickStep) to take the yellow jersey for the initial time in his 10th Tour start.

  • Lagos hosts 2016 Africa fashion week Nigeria

    NIGERIA, 2016/07/04 The 2016 African fashion week Nigeria (AFWN) kicked off at the weekend in Nigeria’s commercial city, Lagos. The week long event commenced with first ever “Textile and Garment Manufacturing Conference on Friday at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Lagos. The conference was aims to boost job creation in the Nigerian fashion industry as well as redefine textile and garment production processes in Nigeria.

  • South Africa’s Biggest Labor Group to Balance Pay With Job Security

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2016/07/04 South Africa’s major labor group said it will encourage its member unions that represent 1.9 million workers ranging from teachers to miners to balance wage demands with the need to preserve jobs at the same time as fee negotiations in their industries begin. “You don’t want to get an increase and again thereafter people are retrenched and only a few remain to enjoy the benefits of that particular increase.,” Bheki Ntshalintshali, general-secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, or Cosatu, said Thursday in an interview at Bloomberg’s Johannesburg office.

  • 20 Players With African Roots Playing At Euro 2016

    EUROPE, 2016/06/28 The 2016 European Championships are underway in France, and a lot of of the players who are representing European nations have African roots. Some were born in Africa, while others have parents that call the African continent home. Either way, all of the featured players in this slideshow could have been playing for African national teams instead of their European sides.

  • Smart Thinking for Healthy Lifestyles

    DAKAR CITY, 2016/06/11 Since the start of this millennium, we have witnessed a lot of success stories in world health. Death from infectious diseases like malaria and tuberculosis have been cut in half. A child is twice as likely to survive completed their fifth birthday than he or she was fifteen year ago. Hunger and malnutrition remain, but affect a smaller % of the world’s people than ever before. From presently on there is an area where the trends are not in our favor. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), inclunding cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, cancer and diabetes, are the world’s leading cause of poor health, and growing in prevalence. In low-and middle-gain nations (LMICs), where health systems are often strained, under-equipped and under-staffed, NCDs lead to the premature death of over 13 million people each year.

  • My Diplomatic Moment with Mohammed Ali

    UNITED STATES, 2016/06/11 While a lot of recall and some still criticize Mohammed Ali’s refusal to be drafted to fight the U.S. war in Vietnam as a conscientious objector, I remember the time at the same time as the boxer conscientiously took on a tough fight for his country. In December 1979, the army of the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. What did this event have to do with Mohammed Ali, the American boxing champion? The Soviet aggression against Afghanistan was such a blatant illegitimate act that President Jimmy Carter was totally enraged. He wanted to punish the Soviets. He decided that the United States would boycott the Olympic games scheduled to be held in Moscow during the summer of 1998. In addition, he unleashed an international diplomatic offensive designed to persuade each other government to boycott as well.

  • Ending Africa’s Culture of Impunity

    AFRICA, 2016/06/11 Africa has a long tradition of leaders who inflict great brutality on their own people and who, next flaunting their contempt for human rights, escape accountability for their actions as long as they remain in power. This creates a precedent of impunity for next despots. A much-needed break in the sordid trend occurred this week, as Chadian dictator Hissène Habré was sentenced to life in prison by a Senegalese court for war crimes committed during his policy from 1982 to 1990. This marks the initial time an African leader has been prosecuted and sentenced by the courts of an extra African country.

  • The Child Migrants of Africa

    ITALY, 2016/06/11 LAST year, the news media focused intensely on the European refugee crisis. Some 800,000 people crossed the Mediterranean to Greece, a lot of fleeing wars we had a hand in creating, in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Each segment of their journey was carefully documented by thousands of reporters and photographers. But there is an extra humanitarian crisis in Europe we have heard much less about: the roughly 200,000 migrants and refugees who left Africa for Italy since last year. This year alone, some 2,000 have died while making the voyage.
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