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Financial Crisis Forces Swaziland’s Schools to Close
The vast majority of Swaziland’s primary and secondary public schools have not opened for the new term, after the government failed to settle the outstanding education fees of US$10.8 million for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC).
Children Worst Hit By Pakistan’s Latest Flooding Disaster
Heavy monsoon rain in southern Pakistan is in many ways hitting children worst of all, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which says five million people are affected.
Germany Withholds 50% Budget Support to Malawi Over Penal Code Amendment
The Federal Government of Germany has withheld half the budget support to Malawi because of concerns to the amendment of the Penal Code that gives powers to a minister to ban a publication, local press reported on Tuesday. How People Arrived Here: flag...
Church Leader Criticizes President of Senegal’s Comments on Christianity
Cardinal Theodore Adrien Sarr, the Archbishop of Dakar, has commented on the injuries and humiliation suffered by the country’s Christian community, after President Abdoulaye Wade’s statement on the Christian faith, in response to the criticisms raised...
Law Enforcement Agents From Africa Receive Advanced Training in Russia
A group of law-enforcement agencies from Algeria, Burundi, Egypt, Kenya, Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana and Sudan are receiving advanced training within a framework of a Russian government’s program, APA learned from the Russian Ministry of Interior on...
Russia Ready to Help Nigeria Build a Nuclear Power Plant
Russia has indicated its readiness to help Nigeria to builda nuclear power plant as soon as feasibly possible. The relevant agreement has been reached at a meeting in Moscow between Nigerian Science and Technology Minister Alhassan Bako Zaku and head...
Cholera Outbreak Claims 50 Lives in Kenya
Kenya’s minister for public health and Sanitation, Beth Mugo has disclosed that a fresh cholera outbreak in the country has claimed 50 lives in the past week alone, while 110 cases have been confirmed in the country, local media reported. The minister...
Government of South Sudan Threatens to Boycott 2010 Presidential Elections
Local media has reported that the government of South Sudan has threatened to boycott next year’s presidential elections over rigging claims by the North. The Head of Mission at the GoSS liaison office in Nairobi John Duku also sent a warning to the...
