AfricaNews-The African Union chairperson and Malawi president, Bingu wa Mutharika, said Barak Obama managed to convince rich countries to change Africa food support policy. He said there was now a shift from supporting Africa with food aid to providing needs to self food sustenance.Speaking during the official launch of the Malawi 2010 Agricultural Fair, Mutharika said Obama's new approach to providing Africa with means to produce its own food and feed itself was a better option.
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Ghana's World Cup defender Hans Sarpei has contracted a two-year deal with last season's Bundesliga runners-up Schalke 04. Schalke coach Felix Magath made public the information Thursday."We noticed in the last two games against Aalen (German Cup) and Hamburg (Bundesliga) that we have young talent on the sides, but they are not yet ready," said Magath."After the departure of Rafinha, we had to find a player capable of filling the left side or right side of defense," the trainer added.
Garowe Online (Garowe):Fighting in Somalia's anarchic capital Mogadishu entered a fourth day Thursday, as African Union-backed Somali interim government forces continued street clashes and artillery exchanges with Islamist insurgents, Radio Garowe reports.Various sources, including medical workers and government officials, have confirmed a death toll of at least 115 people, including 33 people killed inside Hotel Muna on Tuesday in a brazen Al Shabaab militant attack that killed the deaths of six Members of Parliament (MPs). The Al Shabaab fighters shot the hotel guests one-by-one and then blew themselves up in a suicide bombing.
IRIN-Johannesburg — The army has deployed more 1,800 medical staff to 47 public hospitals throughout South Africa to substitute for striking doctors and nurses as the nine-day industrial action becomes increasingly ill-tempered.Thousands of public servants marched in South African cities on 26 August, pushing for an 8.6 percent salary increase and a R1,000 (US$136) housing allowance, which the government has steadfastly refused, citing public spending limitations, and has offered a 7 percent raise and R700 ($95) in housing allowance. Inflation is at 3.7 percent.
VOA News-Roadside bombings have killed three U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.NATO says two of its service members were killed Friday in a bomb attack in the east, another in the south.Afghan officials say another bombing killed at least two police officers and two civilians in the northern province of Kunduz late Thursday. At least 14 people were wounded in the blast.In the eastern province of Kunar, NATO says it is investigating allegations Afghan civilians were killed Thursday during a NATO air strike on insurgents attacking a NATO military post.
VOA News-The Chinese government maintains silence about reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is in China. News organizations, including Chinese media, report heavy security and high-level motorcades in a northeastern Chinese city where Mr. Kim is believed to be visiting.Television news Friday showed a 30-car motorcade, believed to be Kim Jong Il's, zooming through the northeastern city of Jilin, and signs of increased security there.
Aljazeera-As many as one million people have been displaced in Pakistan's Sindh province since Wednesday, as the country's devastating floods sweep southward.New flooding in the Thatta and Qambar-Shahdadkot districts, caused by a bloated Indus River, forced the mass displacement over the past 48 hours, Maurizio Giuliano, a UN spokesman, told reporters.Though around 800,000 people throughout the country remain so isolated that they can only be reached by air, Sindh - through which the Indus flows south toward the Arabian Sea - is becoming the focus of concern.
Ajazeera-Jimmy Carter, the former US president, has completed a trip to North Korea after securing the release of an American man jailed for illegally entering the country.Carter flew out of Pyongyang on Friday with US citizen Aijalon Mahli Gomes following negotiations with North Korean officials for a special pardon, the Atlanta-based Carter Centre said.A spokeswoman for the centre said the former president and Gomes were expected to arrive in the US city of Boston later on Friday.
By RFI:The French media reported on Friday that a UN report will detail mass killing of Hutu refugees by Rwandan forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the late 1990s.Friday's Le Monde newspaper has seen what it describes as "an almost definitive version" of a 600-page UN report. The document investigates human rights abuses in eastern DRC, between 1993 and 2003.
By RFI:Sudan's President Omar al-Beshir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged atrocities in Darfur, arrived in Kenya on Friday for the formal adoption of the country's new constitution. Rights groups and Darfur rebels have called on Kenya to fulfill its commitment to the ICC and arrest the wanted president.Lastest News
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