NewsTrust - Africa - Most Recent Stories: News (Mainstream)

Ushahidi - Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley: How to Track a Crisis

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Anand Giridharadas - Mar. 14 (Special Report) - A small Kenyan-born Web site called Ushahidi is bringing crowdsourcing to disaster relief and other humanitarian causes.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

No end to Nigeria cycle of violence

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Caroline Duffield - Mar. 12 (News) - The BBC's Caroline Duffield reports on the continued tension between rival communities in the Nigerian city of Jos after the recent slaughter of at least 100 people.

NewsTrust Rating: 4.3 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Ethiopia aid 'spent on weapons'

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Mar. 03 (News Report) - The BBC has evidence money donated to Ethiopia during the famine of 1984-85 was used to buy weapons.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Woolly mammoths resurfacing in Siberia

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Megan K. Stack - Mar. 02 (Special Report) - Reporting from Moscow - The beasts had long lain extinct and forgotten, embedded deep in the frozen turf, bodies swaddled in Earth's layers for thousands of years before Christ. Now, the Russian permafrost is offering up the bones and tusks of the woolly mammoths that once lumbered over the tundra.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.8 average (not enough reviews) - See Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Gaddafi thwarted over AU position

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:21:25 -0800

Reuters - Jan. 31 (News Report) - Libya's Muammar Gaddafi fails to extend his one-year term as AU president as Malawi's president takes over.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

After Americans Visit, Uganda Weighs Death for Gays

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jeffrey Gettleman - Jan. 04 (Special Report) - Human rights advocates say a conference with three Americans helped set the stage for a bill to execute homosexuals.

NewsTrust Rating: 4.2 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Change beckons for billionth African

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By David Smith - Dec. 29 (Special Report) - Africans born today are likely to live not in a village but in a "mega-city" since the continent's rate of urbanisation is the fastest the world has yet seen. Deaths from smoking or car crashes will be a factor as much as the more familiar health issues of malnutrition, malaria and Aids. These citizens will also be vulnerable to droughts, floods and desertification caused by climate change.

NewsTrust Rating: Not rated yet - See Info » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Radical Islam meets a buffer

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Karin Brulliard - Dec. 21 (News Report) - The Saharan sands stretching north from this fabled outpost have long been a trade route and cultural crossroads, and this past year has brought worrying signs that the desert might also help bring a violent brand of Islam to moderate

NewsTrust Rating: 3.8 average (not enough reviews) - See Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Threat of rising seas looms over coastal Africa

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - By Tim Cocks - Dec. 19 (Special Report) - "Like a slowly boiling kettle, the oceanic system has very long response time to changing conditions and the seas will go on slowly rising for centuries even if all greenhouse gas emissions stopped tomorrow," wrote Mark Lynas, a British climate expert and author who advises the government of the Maldives.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.7 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Bush birth control policies helped fuel Africa's baby boom

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Shashank Bengali - Dec. 15 (News Report) - At age 45, after giving birth to 13 children in her village of thatch roofs and bare feet, Beatrice Adongo made a discovery that startled her: birth control.

NewsTrust Rating: 4.3 average - 6 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

The Copenhagen battle over climate change funds

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Rob Young - Dec. 12 (News Report) - The Copenhagen climate summit's search for a deal to curb the world's greenhouse gas emissions won't succeed unless there is agreement on another thing too - money.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.5 average (not enough reviews) - See Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Mali villagers fight back against Sahara

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Andrew Harding - Dec. 11 (News) - Towards the end of an illustrious career in the Malian police force - during which he has battled locust swarms, chased drug traffickers and dabbled in some coup plotting - Col Tidiani Ascofare, bald, burly and unflappable, has taken on his most daunting opponent, the Sahara desert.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.9 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2009

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Policy - By Joshua Keating - Dec. 06 (Special Report) - Sometimes it's the page A14 stories -- the ones that never see the light of cable news or take a second life in the blogosphere -- that tell you the most about what happened during any given year. From a naval alliance that could shift the military balance of power on two continents to a troubling security gap in the U.S. passport system to a brand-new way to circle the globe, these are the stories that never got the attention they deserved in 2009 but could dominate the conversation in 2010.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.7 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

ERITREA: Reaping the wind

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

IRIN - Dec. 04 (Special Report) - The Red Sea, located in an arid tropical zone, is one of the hottest bodies of seawater, with surface temperatures going up to 30 degrees Celsius. Rainfall as low as 150mm to 200mm for an entire year nourishes algal blooms along its shores, which feed small fish such as anchovies, said Isaac Habte, of the environment and sustainable development section of the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

NewsTrust Rating: 4.2 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

China eyes industrial bases in Africa

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Financial Times - By James Lamont, Geoff Dyer - Dec. 04 (News Report) - The World Bank and Beijing are in discussions about setting up low-cost factories in new industrial zones in Africa to help the continent develop a manufacturing base and reverse its declining share in global trade. Robert Zoellick, the president of the World Bank, said Beijing had shown “strong interest” in proposals to set up manufacturing bases to help African countries achieve high growth paths similar to Asian ones.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.5 average (not enough reviews) - See Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Wealthy nations outsource crops to Ethiopia’s farmland

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Globe - By Stephanie McCrummen - Nov. 29 (News) - In recent months, the Ethiopian government began marketing abroad one of the hottest commodities in an increasingly crowded and hungry world: farmland. “Why Attractive?’’ reads one glossy poster with photos of green fields and a map outlining swaths of the country available at bargain-basement prices. “Vast, fertile, irrigable land at low rent. Abundant water resources. Cheap labor. Warmest hospitality.’’

NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 average (not enough reviews) - See Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Madagascar's lemurs in trouble

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Robyn Dixon - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - Its endless virgin forests have been decimated and Madagascar has been left paralyzed and lawless in the wake of a coup this year — perfect conditions for the pillaging of the lemurs' remaining habitat.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 average (not enough reviews) - See Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

US NGOs concerned by Obama's Darfur envoy, policy

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Agence France-Presse - By Christophe Schmidt - Oct. 03 (News Report) - US non-governmental organizations are pressing President Barack Obama to launch a new peace initiative for Darfur, as they express concern about the approach being taken by US envoy Scott Gration.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.5 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Sudan's simmering struggle

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Times - By Austin Bay - Oct. 03 (Special Report) - The "third civil war" would be as vicious as the last, but given current political conditions, it could rapidly expand beyond Sudan and become a regional war involving several other impoverished, fragile states in East Africa - a war of the poor creating greater poverty and anarchy.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.9 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Life dries up in Kenya's Mau forest

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By James Morgan - Sep. 29 (News Report) - High in the hills of Kenya's Mau forest, some 20,000 families are facing eviction from their farms - accused of contributing to an ecological disaster which has crippled the country.

NewsTrust Rating: 4.7 average - 4 Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Darfur rebels accuse Sudan army of attacks

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Sep. 18 (News Report) - Darfur rebels accused Sudanese government forces of attacking their positions on Thursday and Friday, weeks after a senior peacekeeper said the region was no longer in a state of war. The reports came after a period of relative calm in the region, where more than six years of fighting has driven an estimated 2.7 million from their homes. Commanders from an arm of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) told Reuters Sudan's army, backed up by allied militias, launched ground and air attacks on their positions in territory around the North Darfur area of Korma.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.7 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Nile Delta: 'We are going underwater. The sea will conquer our lands'

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jack Shenker - Aug. 21 (News Report) - "Egypt is a graveyard for occupiers," observes Ramadan el-Atr, a fruit farmer near the antiquated town of Rosetta, where authorities have contracted a Chinese company to build a huge wall of concrete blocks in the ocean to try to save any more land from melting away. "Just like the others, the sea will come and go – but we will always survive." Scientists aren't so sure.

NewsTrust Rating: 4.2 average (not enough reviews) - See Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Cap-and-trade & Health Care & Insurance Reform I see these two issues as one and the same thing. The first one is to heal our planet, and the second is to heal our human bodies. Also, both issues have to deal with how the 'healing' is delievered and wh

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Foreign policy, EU news, climate, green technology, health. - Aug. 21 (Investigative Report) - Experts and politicians on whether health care reform will trump climate change.

NewsTrust Rating: 4.4 average (not enough reviews) - See Reviews » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

The Women’s Crusade

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, SHERYL WuDUNN - Aug. 19 (Special Report) - The liberation of women could help solve many of the world’s problems, from poverty to child mortality to terrorism.

NewsTrust Rating: 4.9 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

U.S. reshaping Darfur policy

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Peter Wallsten, Edmund Sanders - Aug. 04 (News Report) - The Obama administration is working on a new approach that may soften some sanctions against the Sudan government, which is implicated in the killing and displacement of tens of thousands.

NewsTrust Rating: 3.5 average (not enough reviews) - See Review » - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer