DUBAI: A house worker in Saudi Arabia attacked her boss, a housewife, after the two reportedly got into an argument. The African woman reportedly used a hammer to beat the woman in the head. According to local reports in the northeastern Saudi town of Hafr al-Batin, the housewife was taken to a local hospital with [...]
Libya’s telecommunication holding company LAP Green Network announced that it was to inaugurate new telecom services in Sierra Leone and Togo as well as wireless services in South Sudan as part of its expansion plan since the North African country emerged from a civil war this past fall. According to a statement from the company, [...]
A leading conservationist group has reported the Western Black Rhino is officially extinct and two othet rhinoceros species are close to meeting the same ugly reality. It is a dark time for Rhino in Africa, where poachers have decreased populations in order to sell their horns. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, [...]
Researchers of the Human Genographic Project have confirmed that the ancestors of modern humans in Europe, Asia and Oceania originally left Africa through Arabia. The confirmation comes after a six-year effort to map the genetic pattern of humans. Prior to the study, it was believed that the ancestors of modern day humans crossed through a [...]
CAIRO: The Coca-Cola Company has been named “Employer and Human Capital Investor of the Year” at the Africa investor (Ai) Investment and Business Leader Awards 2011. The award, presented on September 23, was handed at an invitation only ceremony during the annual World Bank meetings in Washington DC. Ai is an international investment research and [...]
China Telecom and France Telecom’s Orange signed a strategic partnership framework deal on Wednesday that will enable both companies to better complement each other’s networks and services, the companies said in a news release issued after the signing of the agreement. China Telecom, the world’s largest fixed-line telephone operator, and Orange believe the agreement “will [...]
The BBC recently obtained official figures from the United Kingdom which shows at least 400 children have been abducted and trafficked to the UK over the past four years. While it is not yet clear how these children are smuggled into the country, the reasons seem to point at African blood rituals, which have gained [...]
With Africa potentially on the eve of an economic renewal, a senior United Nations official on Wednesday called on the international community to grant the continent fairer access to markets for its exports and invest in its lucrative resources by funding the necessary infrastructure. “Even though aid is still important for most African countries, the [...]
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday that several large measles outbreaks have continued to spread in the past six months in Europe and Africa, and to a lesser degree in the Americas. So far, 40 European countries have recorded 26,025 cases between them since the start of the year. France has been the [...]
The Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has concluded its latest session during which it debated a Palestinian membership request and approved a program to strengthen its presence in Africa and other proposed reforms. The Board, which is made up of 58 Member States each serving a four-year term, on Wednesday [...]
Africa’s overall progress towards achieving the internationally agreed targets to eradicate extreme poverty and accelerate social development has been slow and generally insufficient to meet the 2015 deadline, the United Nations said in a new report unveiled on Thursday, noting, however, that there have been small gains. The continent’s efforts to achieve the Millennium Development [...]
Young men in Central and South America and Southern and Central Africa are most at risk of being killed in cases of homicide, while women face an increased likelihood of being murdered in domestic violence, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a report unveiled on Thursday. Evidence points to rising homicide rates [...]
A United Nations-backed initiative designed to accelerate efforts to attain social development and eradicate extreme poverty in rural Africa today launched its second phase, aiming to improve the living standards of an estimated half a million people across the continent. The Millennium Villages Project, a science-based partnership between academia, business and UN agencies to achieve [...]
The goal of eliminating HIV/AIDS infections among children and ensuring that infected mothers stay healthy throughout pregnancy and after delivery can be met by the 2015 deadline with sufficient political commitment and adequate resources, the head of the United Nations agency spearheading the global response to the pandemic said today. “Mother by mother, clinic by [...]
The increasing demand for ecotourism can play a vital role in saving endangered forests, a United Nations-backed partnership said on Wednesday, while also warning of the potential damaging effects if its expansion is not effectively managed. According to the findings of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), which consists of 14 international organizations and secretariats, [...]
Three African countries have signed a key protocol to a United Nations treaty aimed at encouraging more equitable sharing of the world’s genetic resources and their benefits, as the annual UN event to promote support for global pacts and conventions resumed on Monday. Niger, Cape Verde each added their signatures to the Nagoya Protocol on [...]
One year after its official launch, Connect To Learn announces milestones in technology deployments and partnerships for bringing a 21st century education to students in Africa, South America and in the Caribbean. In connection with telecommunication operator Bharti Airtel, some 5,000 students now have access to quality education in three countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana, [...]
Africa needs the support and solidarity of developed countries to activate its economy and provide assistance to victims of climate change, Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo told the General Assembly on Wednesday. Obiang noted that Africa has been hardly hit by the world economic crisis, and that even though the continent has great [...]
With much of Africa still unconnected to the Internet, broadband commissioners and representatives of governments, the private sector and civil society met in Rwanda’s capital to examine how to get the continent wired to high-speed networks, including the role of young people in getting Africa online. The forum focused on the role of youth in [...]
LONDON: Canada’s KeepCalling has signed a new agreement with British Telecom Global Services. British Telecom operates globally and delivers services to the world’s largest multinational corporations. The company provides an integrated portfolio of IP, data and voice services for multinational businesses, international carriers and Internet Service Providers. The new partnership will see British Telecom be [...]
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