Yellow Fever under Control in Angola and DRC- WHO
15/09/2016By Isabela Cocoli A yellow fever outbreak in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been brought under control after a vaccination campaign of millions of.
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Gender
Female Farmers Rebuilding Agriculture in the Central African Republic
15/09/2016By Laura Angela Bagnetto Farmers in the Central African Republic are struggling to bounce back from years of intermittent violence, where smallholder female farmers were unable to tend their fields.
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Tanzania: More than 5bn Needed to Repair Quake-Hit Houses
15/09/2016More than 5 billion is needed to repair over 5,000 houses, which were badly damaged by last weekend’s earthquake in Bukoba Municipality and its environs. As experts are still conducting.
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Peace and Security
Obama Lifts Sanctions against Ivory Coast, Citing Progress
15/09/2016U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday lifted decade-old sanctions against Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest cocoa producer, citing a successful presidential election last year and its progress in tackling.
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Physician Says Clinton ‘Recovering Well’ From Pneumonia
15/09/2016By Ken Bredemeier Hillary Clinton’s doctor says the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate is “recovering well” from pneumonia and remains “fit to serve as president of the United States.” In a.
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Governance and Policy
Congo Government Strikes Deal With Some Opponents on Elections Sequence
15/09/2016Backers of Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila and part of the opposition agreed on Wednesday on the sequence of a series of upcoming elections, potentially removing a major.
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Africa: Agricultural Sector Gets US $30 Billion Boost
15/09/2016By Wanjala Danson, Contributor African leaders, businesses and development partners have pledged more than US $30 billion dollars in investments for Africa smallholder farmers. The investment will go into.
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African Aviation Displays Healthy Growth
14/09/2016Analysis of International air travel to Africa this year (January to August) by ForwardKeys, a company that predicts future travel patterns by crunching and analysing 14m booking transactions a day,.
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Africa Oil Week Brings Together the Leading Corporate Players in Cape Town
12/09/2016There is still time to register for the world-class 23rd Africa Oil Week 2016 in Cape Town (31 October-4th November) on the current discounted fees option shown here, which ends.
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Africa’s Off-Grid Solar Market is Booming
09/09/2016By Maarten Kleijn, SNV (Netherlands Development Organisation) As prices for solar components go down and new innovative business models arrive, the off-grid solar market in Africa is seeing a huge.
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