Yacouba Savadogo is a farmer, community leader and natural resource innovator from the village of Gourma, in the Yatenga Province of Burkina Faso. Yacouba began to experiment with planting pits and contour stone bunds (small dikes) in order to produce more sorghum and millet on his degraded land in 1979 after observing other farmers use similar techniques through an Oxfam program. By digging ...
Advocacy group the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), has called on SADC leaders to send a monitoring force into Zimbabwe, until a free and fair election to be held in 2011.
Zimbabwe's rough diamond trade has escaped a six-month suspension by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) - an international initiative to stem the flow of conflict diamonds - after its own investigating team recommended earlier in 2009 that the country be temporarily barred from importing and exporting the gems.
The sound of the evening bell at a local boarding high-school in Wajir, in the northeast of Kenya, did not always signal the end of the day's classes. Instead it marked the end of the evening bathroom break as "bucket toilets" were emptied for the day.
Turkey should not allow President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, an accused war criminal, to attend a conference in Istanbul, and should arrest him if he sets foot in Turkey, Human Rights Watch said today.
Uganda has long received praise for its successful handling of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the 1990s, when it engaged civil society in its prevention efforts and worked to reduce the stigma of the disease.[1] Prevalence rates declined as a result of government policies that promoted the empowerment of civil society, frank discussions of HIV transmission, pragmatic emphasis on comprehensive HIV ...
Campaigners on HIV and AIDS have welcomed a decision by U.S. President Barack Obama to remove entry restrictions to the United States based on HIV status and have called on other nations with similar policies to follow his example.
The word "Women" in Women Action for Development (WAD) has always labelled this non-governmental organisation an exclusive female entity.
President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali received more congratulatory messages from national organisations and associations, on his brilliant victory in the presidential elections.
A coalition of Igbo organization under the aegis of Igbo bu Igbo has come against those criticizing Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu over his statement warning the Appeal Court sitting in Enugu against granting the prayers of the 2007 governorship candidate of People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State, Dr. Andy Uba, who wants to be confirmed as the governor in waiting in the state.
Donors have promised US$40 billion in aid to agriculture in developing countries since the Rome "food summit" in 2008, but in some countries the bulk of this aid is uncoordinated, shortsighted and does not support government priorities, says NGO Oxfam.
Amnesty International is calling for an immediate stop to planned demolitions by the Rivers State Government of houses along Njemanze Road in Port Harcourt, Nigeria warning that hundreds of people could be left homeless following the exercise.
Succour may soon come the way of gifted but indigent children in Nigeria, as an international Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) under the aegis of African Children Talent Discovery Foundation (ACTDF), yesterday in Abuja, said it had concluded plans to raise N500 million, with a view to helping such children to maximize their full potentials.
Association of Anti-graft Activists (AAA) has called for the withdrawal of a national honour given the former chairman of Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), Chief Olabode George, by the Federal Government and his removal from Kirikiri prisons to Maiduguri.
South-east Peoples Assembly (SEPA) has condemned the role being played by Chief Chris Uba in Anambra politics,accusing him of precipitating the crisis engulfing the state.
