Full coverage: Africa

28.06.2006 Rwanda has been announced the winner of the United Nations global competition on public service on the African continent.

28.06.2006 A new report from the Health Communication Partnership (HCP) demonstrates how a powerful television serial drama about young adults living in a rural South African town impacted by HIV/AIDS led to improved attitudes about HIV/AIDS, stigma, living openly and positively with HIV and faithfulness among its viewers.

26.06.2006 "My name is Mohammed Sokor, writing to you from Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab. Dear sir, there is an alarming issue here. People are given too few kilogrammes of food. You must help." The UN World Food Programme receives a direct appeal from a disaster zone in the Horn of Africa.
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23.06.2006 Alcan Inc. announced today that it will support the Government of Ghana's efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through a 3-year US$300,000 collaboration, which is aligned with the Company's commitment to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC).

23.06.2006 from Ecogeek:
A Nigerian organisation has built a computer than can run on a single small solar panel and requires a fraction of the power most other computers use.

22.06.2006 UNESCO, together with the Naledi3d Factory of South Africa has recently embarked on a new collaborative project to take the concept of the Interactive3d Learning Object to a more integrated level.

22.06.2006 "A digital library is one of the very important academic equipments that the National University of Rwanda (NUR) in Huye District (Butare), has been missing for better academic excellence and I hope it's going to greatly help students and lecturers in their studies and research."

16.06.2006 Ethiopia has been selected as the first country to benefit from the pilot phase of the Pan-African E-network Project, a joint initiative between the Indian government and African Union (AU) to develop ICT infrastructure across the continent.

15.06.2006 The need to enhance information flow to farmers led to the inception of the Information and Communication Support for Agricultural Growth in Nigeria Project (ICS-Nigeria). The hope is that access to information will trigger an increase in farmers’ use of agricultural technologies, which in turn will increase their productive capacity.

15.06.2006 Diaspora Nigerians in Science and Technology (DiNiSAT) has called for strategic partnership with stakeholders in Nigeria to advance the development of science and technology in the country.

15.06.2006 Minister for Labour and Productivity, Dr Hassan Lawal, has advised that migration issues be addressed constructively and dispassionately, with a view to identifying its benefits.

13.06.2006 Tanzania last week signed two credit agreements with the World Bank worth US$240million for the implementation of the 4th Poverty Reduction Support credit (PRSC 4) and the Accountability Transparency and Integrity Project (ATIP).

13.06.2006 Grameen Foundation, a global non-profit organization that combines microfinance with new technologies to empower the world's poorest people, and local GSM network operator, MTN RwandaCell, are launching Village Phone Rwanda, an innovative new joint venture.

12.06.2006 Food aid in Niger arrived too late in 2005, despite widespread predictions that famine was imminent. The world has known for months that famine is also coming to southern Africa but policymakers are still not responding to the warnings. Read more about the importance of early warning in food security in Niger in the latest id21 insights.

12.06.2006 Recent developments in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) field are positively changing ways research is being done in the world and may be used to improve food distribution networks, development of population surveys and censuses and expansion of early warning systems in Africa.

08.06.2006 Gertrude from Shinyanga in Tanzania used the latest technology to tackle an age old problem – and cut through months of delay and frustration.

06.06.2006 Dr. Ham-Mukasa Mulira, an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) expert has been appointed as the first minister to serve in a new ICT ministry.

05.06.2006 On 24 - 25th April 2006, the Uganda Rural ICT Partners Workshop was held under the theme “Building Sustainable Partners for Community Led ICTs for Rural Development”.

02.06.2006 The increase in mobile phones tariffs, fuel and manufactured consumer products have pushed Uganda's headline inflation rate to 7.0 percent.

02.06.2006 Foreign ministers from countries in Asia and the Middle East have backed a proposal to create an "electronic university" serving their regions by next year.