The situation in Kadugli, capital of South Kordofan state, deteriorated further this week after intense fighting started two weeks ago. The North Sudan Army on June 16 vowed to continue fighting against the “armed rebellion” of the South Kordofan fighters.
A federal court jury in the United States has found two Liberian aid workers guilty of stealing funds donated to the African country by the US government.
Islamist militants from the Somali insurgent groups al-Shabab and Hizbul Islam have seized control of two radio stations in the capital Mogadishu
New HIV Cases Drop in Africa Shamsydeen Badmus UN research suggests Sub-Saharan Africa has seen a sharp decline in the number of new HIV cases. The United Nations Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) UNAIDS said that newly-reported HIV incidence declined by over 25 per cent between 2001 and 2009 in 22 countries [...]
Researchers at a South African university have developed a tea bag that sucks up toxic contamination from highly polluted water to make it safe to drink. Science news website SciDev.Net reported on Thursday that the new filter has been successfully tested on river samples and could be on the market in the next few months if approved by the South African Bureau of Standards.
The ruling party of South Sudan warned on Thursday that a vote on independence due in January will not be possible unless political issues within the country’s referendum commission are resolved in the next two weeks.
South African police are investigating the possibility that a syndicate in Pretoria is hiring out children from creches to beggars, African Interest Online has discovered. On Friday police took 20 children into care as part of a general crackdown on the use of children to beg in Pretoria, the capital. Since then 13 have been returned to their families.
Humanitarian Crisis in South Sudan By Shamsydeen Badmus South Sudan should prepare to deal with a humanitarian crisis regardless of the outcome of an independence referendum set for January, a government official warned on Thursday. The south’s minister of humanitarian affairs and disaster management, James Kok Ruea, said that foreign aid agencies and the United [...]
The Sudanese government said on Saturday that it would monitor all travel by United Nations and African Union peacekeepers in the conflict-ridden region of Darfur. Senior information ministry official Rabie Abdelati made the announcement one day after the UN Security Council extended the mission’s mandate for a further year.
Three leading scientific and health policy organizations have launched a global drive for signatories to the Vienna Declaration (www.viennadeclaration.com), a statement seeking to improve community health and safety by calling for the incorporation of scientific evidence into illicit drug policies. Among those supporting the declaration and urging others to sign is 2008 Nobel Laureate and International AIDS Society (IAS) Governing Council member Prof. Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, co-discoverer of HIV.
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