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  • Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:19:32 +0000: Africa: Taxing International Inbound Calls - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [Balancing Act] London - Many African regulators' have introduced a tax on international inbound calls. It started with Côte d'Ivoire and then spread like a plague to Gabon, Ghana and Senegal, to name but a few. The latest country wanting to join the fold is Liberia and operators are seeking to persuade the regulator LTA not to go ahead.
  • Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:49:54 +0000: Africa: South Africa Backs Vetoed UN Syria Resolution - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [BuaNews] Pretoria - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has voiced deep regret after Security Council members were unable to agree on a resolution backing an Arab League plan to resolve the crisis in Syria.
  • Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:33:15 +0000: Africa: Ghana, Tunisia Set for Afcon Battle - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [Leadership] It's West Africa versus North Africa today as tournament favourites Ghana will tonight take on Tunisia for the semi final ticket in the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations.
  • Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:07:04 +0000: Africa: Zambia Through to Semifinals At African Cup - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [GFA] Zambia was the first team through to the African Cup of Nations semifinals after a clinical 3-0 win over struggling 10-man Sudan on Saturday.
  • Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:54:56 +0000: Africa: Can 2012 - the Home Stretch - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [Nation] The first cull is done. It's goodbye to eight teams and the battle continues for the remaining eight.
  • Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:03:39 +0000: Africa: Quarter-Finals Begin - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [Nation] After eight days of action-packed football, we are now left eight teams as the quarter-finals of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations beckon.
  • Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:34:10 +0000: Africa: Study - Malaria Death Toll Nearly Twice the Official Count, Kills Many Adults - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [KPLU] A new global estimate of malaria deaths by researchers in Seattle has revealed the death toll is much greater than most experts had thought -- and is not, as had been universally assumed, mostly a killer of children.
  • Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:23:55 +0000: Africa: Malaria Kills Twice As Many People As Previously Thought, Research Finds - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [Guardian Network] Dateline - Malaria kills twice as many people every year as formerly believed, taking 1.2 million lives and causing the deaths not only of babies but also older children and adults, according to research that overturns decades of assumptions about one of the world's most lethal diseases.
  • Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:37:46 +0000: Africa: Malaria Mortality 'Underestimated' - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [IRIN] London - A new attempt to quantify malaria deaths over the past 30 years suggests the death toll, especially among adults, has been greatly underestimated. The figures also show the fragility of the gains made in fighting the disease.
  • Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:06:11 +0000: Africa: Malaria Kills Nearly Twice as Many People Than Previously Thought - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation] Washington, DC - Despite assumptions that mainly young children die from the disease, 42% of 1.2 million deaths occur in older children and adults.
  • Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:14:07 +0000: Africa: Other Issues Need Our Wrath Too - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [Fahamu] How genuine is the anger that has been expressed in some quarters about Africa accepting a gift of the new African Union headquarters from China? There are so many other issues of urgent concern around the continent that the critics should direct their wrath to as well.
  • Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:09:20 +0000: Africa: China's Gift a Tribute to Relations With Africa - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [Fahamu] Which other friend of Africa would be willing to fund, design, build and maintain a new $200 million AU headquarters in the middle of a global financial crisis?
  • Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:21:47 +0000: Africa: Britain's Thumbs Up to Somalia Mission - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [Nation] Visiting British Foreign Secretary William Hague has expressed satisfaction with the Amisom-led military mission in Somalia that has seen the troubled country show signs of recovery.
  • Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:04:48 +0000: Africa: The Next Fight in Egypt and Tunisia Will Be Among Islamists - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [Chatham House] Islamist movements did not start the protests that have so far unseated three Arab dictators.
  • Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:08:28 +0000: Africa: Cup Co-Hosts Wary of Ivorian Stars - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [CAF] Equatorial Guinea admit they did not want to face Ivory Coast Saturday in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals.
  • Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:03:58 +0000: Africa: BCI and IBCN Collaborate to Fight Breast Cancer - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [Public Agenda] Breast Cancer Prevention in Africa has taken another dimension with the launch of the International Breast Cancer and Nutrition (IBCN) project, a multinational initiative that seeks to establish the link between diet and breast cancer in Africa.
  • Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:03:52 +0000: Africa: Wishing AU Well On Free Trade Area - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [Public Agenda] The African Continent had in the past and to this present day been described in uncomplimentary terms: the 'Dark Continent', the 'Continent that Devours its People', the 'Scar on the Conscience of the World', among others. These descriptions, although inappropriate and widely exaggerated, had stemmed from certain incidents, events and happenings on the continent.
  • Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:45:22 +0000: Africa: Will Neoliberalism Make a Comeback in Africa Via Tunisia? - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [Fahamu] IMF held up Tunisia under Ben Ali as a model, yet ordinary people fed up with his excesses overthrew the regime. Now IMF appears to be courting the new leadership.
  • Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:32:22 +0000: Africa: Why Global Economy Needs Investment in Women - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [State Department] The following oped by U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer and Kim Azzarelli, president of the Women in the World Foundation, was published by Newsweek on January 30. There are no republication restrictions for use by U.S. embassies.
  • Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:29:11 +0000: Africa: The Rubbish of AFCON - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [New Era] JUDGING from the poor crowd attendance, cousined by the lukewarm showing of some of the top dogs at the ongoing 28th edition of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) - yours truly is obliged to conclude the powers that be in Cairo do not really appreciate the magnitude of hosting Africa's biggest showpiece - sports-wise!
  • Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:39:41 +0000: Africa: Concerns About Gibe 3 Dam - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [Fahamu] There is a powerful economic argument for Gibe 3 Dam. But there are also powerful arguments for ensuring that large-scale river-basin development projects provide genuine and sustainable development opportunities for the affected people.
  • Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:13:32 +0000: Africa: Tired of Starving Children Photos? - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [AlertNet] Last week, Oxfam and Save the Children published a report titled "A Dangerous Delay". The report details how, despite clear early-warning indicators of an upcoming drought and consequent famine in the Horn of Africa, the international community was too late to respond.
  • Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:03:17 +0000: Africa: AU's Score Just Average - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [Nation] The just-ended African Union summit in Addis Ababa arrived at the sagacious conclusion that Africa needs more aggressive trade policies, including the removal of tariff and non-tariff barriers between African countries.
  • Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:10:51 +0000: Africa: Empowering Women to Fight HIV - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [allAfrica.com] What makes a young African doctor decide to devote her career to helping women fight HIV? Dr. Sengeziwe Sibeko is a 37-year-old medical researcher with a degree in obstetrics and gynecology from the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) in South Africa, an MSc in epidemiology from Columbia University in the United States, and is about to take up a fellowship to study for her PhD at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. AllAfrica's Julie Frederikse interviewed Dr. Sibeko at the
  • Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:54:52 +0000: Africa: Back to the Lab - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [allAfrica.com] Professor Salim Abdool Karim, director of the Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (Caprisa) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Columbia University in the United States, spoke to AllAfrica's Julie Frederikse about the unexpected halt of a study into tenofovir vaginal gel. This followed a finding that the microbicide failed to prevent HIV transmission, in contrast to the positive result in a previous study conducted by his Caprisa team.
  • Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:41:32 +0000: Africa: No Changing Mindset on Contraception 'Overnight' - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [allAfrica.com] Dr. Quarraisha Abdool Karim is an infectious diseases epidemiologist and associate scientific director of the Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in South Africa (Caprisa). AllAfrica's Julie Frederikse spoke to the 51-year-old and asked her about the challenges facing her team as they search for effective ways to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
  • Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:32:57 +0000: Africa: No Time to 'Give Up' on HIV-Fighting Gel - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [allAfrica.com] Durban, South Africa - Africans tracking the worldwide HIV epidemic have not found much to celebrate since Aids began ravaging the continent 30 years ago, but researchers are optimistic that they are learning as much from their failures as their successes.
  • Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:14:17 +0000: Africa: Continent's Football Teams Head for Showdown - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [RFI] After nearly two weeks of skirmishes, we're down to the final eight.
  • Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:12:57 +0000: Africa: One Billion People Still Lack Electricity - Report - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [Citizen] Dar es Salaam - More than a billion people in the world still lack access to electricity, while another one billion have unreliable access stalling efforts for improving health, livelihoods and conserve the environment.
  • Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:34:26 +0000: Africa: Weak Land Rights Fuel Potential for Conflicts - Experts - AllAfrica News: Africa
    [AlertNet] The sell-off of prime land to buyers hungry for the developing world's natural resources risks sparking civil unrest unless governments and investors recognise the customary rights of millions of people who have toiled these areas for centuries, land rights experts said on Wednesday.

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