Africa News
Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba has been awarded the 2010 FANRPAN Food Security Policy Leadership Award in recognition of his contributions to the country's fisheries policies for a food-secure Africa.
The award was announced in Windhoek, Namibia at the FANRPAN Annual Regional Policy Dialogue recently. President Pohamba and his government have been instrumental in creating responsible fisheries policies in Namibia which have already been recognised by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation in 2009.
Tech-savvy young Nigerians are gearing up to use BlackBerries, mobile phones and social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook to monitor polls in January, in an effort to stamp out electoral fraud.
Mozambique's government will reverse a bread price increase after food riots in which 13 people were killed last week, the planning minister said on Tuesday.
Junta-ruled Niger said on Tuesday it had secured $41 million in aid from international donors to stage elections, raising prospects for a peaceful return to civilian rule in the uranium-producing state.
African countries that have partnered with South Africa in its Square Kilometre Array bid met in Ghana recently to step up their efforts to trump a competing bid from Australasia to host what will be the world's most powerful radio telescope.
Liberians in the United States have welcomed the news that Delta Airlines has launched direct flights from the United States to Liberia.
Arrangements to help thousands of refugees who fled from conflict and disaster areas to reunite with families and friends through the use of mobile technology have been finalised.
Increasingly erratic rainfall patterns related to climate change pose a major threat to food security and economic growth, water experts said on Monday, arguing for greater investment in water storage.
Ivory Coast's presidential candidates have all accepted a voter list produced by the electoral commission, the prime minister said on Monday, a sign that a poll delayed for five years may finally take place.
The inaugural African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) has reportedly ended with a series of outcomes that will move a united Africa forward in the quest to transform agriculture and tackle food security.
