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Ghana: Amponfi Jnr. ElevatedMr. Kwame Amponfi Jnr. Secretary General of the Ghana Table Tennis Association (GTTA), has been elected the Vice President of the Africa Zone III Table Tennis Federation for a Four-year term.
Source : AllAfrica | 05-Jan-2009 18:17
Yoruba films are the best -Jide Kosoko
The Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners has been adjudged the biggest and foremost association in the country with no fewer than 30,000 members.
Source : Topix.net | 04-Jan-2009 02:23
China, Benin sign economic, technological cooperation pact
China and Benin signed on Monday in Cotonou, the capital of Benin, a pact on economic and technological cooperation, said the Chinese Embassy in Cotonou andthe Benin Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday.
Source : Topix.net | 01-Jan-2009 01:00
Violent Crime Threatens Markets, Livelihoods
A recent increase in violent crime threatens to further impoverish Benin by choking off small business, according to law enforcement and arms control officials.
Source : AllAfrica | 31-Dec-2008 06:49
BENIN: Violent crime threatens markets, livelihoods
A crowd develops outside a bank in Godomey on the outskirts of Cotonou shortly after a robbery on 18 December 2008 COTONOU, 30 December 2008 - A recent increase in violent crime threatens to further impoverish ...
Source : Topix.net | 31-Dec-2008 00:52
BENIN: Violent crime threatens markets, livelihoods
COTONOU Tuesday, December 30, 2008 (IRIN) - A recent increase in violent crime threatens to further impoverish Benin by choking off small business, according to law enforcement and arms control officials.
Source : irinnews.org | 30-Dec-2008 20:20
Can Microcredit Turn FGM/C Cutters to New Trades?
For years, the Togolese government and its NGO partners have been trying to convince women who perform female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) to trade in their knives for microcredit loans and agricultural equipment.
Source : AllAfrica | 29-Dec-2008 07:28
In Togo, a 10-Year-Old's Muted Cry: 'I Couldn't Take Any More'
By Kevin Sullivan Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, December 26, 2008; Page A01 LOME, Togo -- Adiza ran scared and crying into the street. Ten years old and 4-foot-9, she fled the house where she had worked for more than a year, cleaning and sweeping from before dawn until late at night. She ran to a woman selling food in the street and told her that since the day she had arrived in this capital city from her village in the country, her employer had beaten her almost daily and kept her in slavelike conditions
Source : Topix.net | 26-Dec-2008 21:45
BENIN-TOGO: Can microcredit turn FGM/C cutters to new trades?
TCHAMBA, 26 December 2008 - For years, the Togolese government and its NGO partners have been trying to convince women who perform female genital mutilation/cutting to trade in their knives for microcredit ...
Source : Topix.net | 26-Dec-2008 21:09
BENIN-TOGO: Can microcredit turn FGM/C cutters to new trades?
TCHAMBA Friday, December 26, 2008 (IRIN) - For years, the Togolese government and its NGO partners have been trying to convince women who perform female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) to trade in their knives for microcredit loans and agricultural equipment.
Source : IRIN | 26-Dec-2008 19:10
AFRICA: New hope for malaria vaccine
DAKAR Monday, December 22, 2008 (IRIN) - The world?s most clinically advanced malaria vaccine trials have given new hope in the fight against the disease, which in sub-Saharan Africa kills a child every 30 seconds.
Source : irinnews.org | 23-Dec-2008 11:55
POLITICS-AFRICA: Constitutions Affirmed as Essential for Democracy
One of Africa's main challenges is ensuring that constitutions reflect a consensus amongst all sectors of the population, including vulnerable groups such as women, are rarely taken into account in ...
Source : Topix.net | 16-Dec-2008 16:36
Press Release 08/323
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund has completed the fifth review of Benin's economic performance under the SDR 15.48 million Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility arrangement.
Source : Topix.net | 16-Dec-2008 01:43
Gas Pipeline Starts Operations
The much-awaited West African gas pipeline (WAGP) project has began pouring natural gas from Nigeria for supply to their designated regions. A statement issued by the Director, Corporate Services of the Volta River Authority (VRA), Mr. Kofi Asante indicated that the quality of gas to be supplied to the system was now within specification, and as at Saturday 6th December 2008, the offshore line was successfully filled with natural gas all the way to Takoradi and shut in.
Source : AllAfrica | 12-Dec-2008 19:47
AFRICA: Tell us more ? Children call for sex education
DAKAR Thursday, December 11, 2008 (IRIN) - Children in sub-Saharan Africa want to know more about sex and how to protect themselves from HIV, but taboos surrounding children's sexuality can mean life-saving information is kept from them, according to an international NGO.
Source : irinnews.org | 11-Dec-2008 23:50
WEST AFRICA: Unplugging bottlenecks in ARV distribution
DAKAR Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (IRIN) - In West and Central Africa, large amounts of money are spent on buying antiretroviral (ARV) drugs but weak distribution systems mean many HIV-positive patients never get them, said speakers at the 15th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) in Dakar, Senegal, last week.
Source : IRIN | 10-Dec-2008 16:54
Smallpox Vaccine Effective for Decades
Although smallpox was eradicated in 1977, the possibility of a bioterrorist attack with the deadly virus has health officials worried.
Source : Topix.net | 07-Dec-2008 19:43
A glance at the state of democracy in Africa
Political scientists define a mature democracy as a country that has had two peaceful transfers of power from one democratically elected head of state to another.
Source : Topix.net | 05-Dec-2008 19:34
Gender
The third edition of the campaign against gender-based v iolence, called Festival of the Panafrican Gender-Based Violence , began We d nesday in the Senegalese capital, Dakar.
Source : Topix.net | 02-Dec-2008 09:54
WEST AFRICA: HIV law "a double-edged sword"
JOHANNESBURG Monday, December 01, 2008 (IRIN) - West Africa has the dubious distinction of having the most HIV legislation in sub-Saharan Africa: over 10 countries in the region have developed HIV laws, often with provisions that have sometimes been described as "terrifying", and a danger to HIV-positive people.
Source : irinnews.org | 01-Dec-2008 15:09
2 foreigners, 14 Nigerians arrested over militant activities
Nigerian troops keeping the peace in the country's restive Niger Delta oil region said Thursday they have arrested two foreigners and 14 Nigerians for ''suspected militant activities''. The Joint Task Force ...
Source : Topix.net | 30-Nov-2008 09:36
CTC international students thankful
By Iuliana Petre Killeen Daily Herald For some Americans, the Thanksgiving holiday means traveling to see family members and cooking big meals.
Source : Topix.net | 28-Nov-2008 09:30
The Motherland Influence: The Motherland Influence Nov. 23, 2008, Segment 1
Syliphone / Syllart Productions 10)Bobby Valentin "Use It Before You Lose It" from the CD "Broasted Or Fried" Harmless Recordings 11)Los Van Van "Dale Dos" from the CD "The Legendary Los Van Van" Ashe Records ...
Source : Topix.net | 26-Nov-2008 09:22
Funny Thing: Who oversees scams overseas?
Americans are about as popular around the world today as the president of your high school A.V. Club.
Source : Topix.net | 23-Nov-2008 07:22
AFRICA: World crises ?must not detract from poverty eradication?
ADDIS ABABA Friday, November 21, 2008 (IRIN) - Initiatives aimed at eradicating poverty in Africa must continue, despite global financial, food, energy and environmental crises, the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Asha-Rose Migiro, said on 20 November.
Source : irinnews.org | 21-Nov-2008 17:20
Gender
Gambian-born Executive Secretary of United Nations Econo mic Commission for Africa , Abdoulie Janneh, on Wednesday advocated women empowerment in Africa saying gender equality and women's empowerment are very ...
Source : Topix.net | 21-Nov-2008 04:00
Nigeria: Citizens in Benin Republic Get Severance Benefits Next Month
Workers of Save Sugar Company and Onigbolo Cement Company, the two Nigeria owned Companies, based in the Republic Benin, would soon be smiling to the banks, as the governments of both countries have concluded arrangements to pay their severance allowances in December, 2008.
Source : AllAfrica | 18-Nov-2008 17:59
FOR THE SAKE OF FREEDOM IN BENIN : SET ANDOCHE AMEGNISSE FREE
Officially condemned for contravening to the legislation on press, but in reality for having written and published in his bulletin TSYB 2011 ( Anything but Yayi Boni in 2011), that " Mr YAYI BONI BEATS HIS WIFE" Mr Andoche Amegnisse the president of the Forgotten People's Union (ULC) has been thrown in jail on Friday 14/11/2008. This inequitable and authoritarian political reaction befitting dictatorial regimes does not honour our country and our young democracy. It is against the ideals of the Democratic Revival. We firmly condemn this tyrannical drive of the regime of the "change." We demand the immediate liberation of our fellow countryman. And we call on all Democrats in Benin and all over the world so that they rise against this unbearable violation of the freedom of expression and political rights in Benin by the regime of President Yayi Boni
Source : Topix.net | 17-Nov-2008 22:17
DONATION
PLEASE ENDEAVOUR TO USE IT FOR THE CHILDREN OF GOD BECAUSE IT IS A VOW I MADE BEFORE GOD.
Source : Topix.net | 17-Nov-2008 14:55
Stephen Wiltshire
British artist Stephen Wiltshire is known as the "human camera" for being able to render images of entire cityscapes in uncanny detail after only viewing the real scenes once.
Source : Topix.net | 15-Nov-2008 14:47
Jesus uber alles
"My first clue," he says, "was when Senator Jesse Helms, the extremely conservative senator from North Carolina, turned up, and the next week there was a visit from Kjell Magne Bondevik, the prime minister of ...
Source : Topix.net | 13-Nov-2008 14:36
WEST AFRICA: Remittances set to fall in 2009
DAKAR Tuesday, November 11, 2008 (IRIN) - For the first time in over a decade remittances to sub-Saharan Africa are set to fall in 2009, increasing people?s vulnerability to poverty, officials at the World Bank say. Remittance income in developing countries is expected to decline by about 1 percent from 2008 to 2009.
Source : IRIN | 11-Nov-2008 17:50
Christine Callahan
There is magic in these photographs by New York photographer, Christine Callahan .
Source : Topix.net | 11-Nov-2008 14:25
Liberia: "We Are Catching Hell"
Liberians living in the West African state of Benin says they are facing severe hardship and want the government find ways to repatriate them back home.
Source : AllAfrica | 11-Nov-2008 14:17
Women Left Out of New Govt
"Every change is a step backwards in this new era. It's disheartening," is Claire Houngan Ayémona's response to Benin's newly-appointed cabinet.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Nov-2008 13:49
AFRICA/BENIN - Rector of the Philosophical Interdiocesan Seminary in the Diocese of Abomey appointed
Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect for the Congregation of the Evangelization of Peoples, on September 19, 2007 appointed Fr.
Source : Topix.net | 05-Nov-2008 18:01
GLOBAL: Falling foul of the Fund
NAIROBI Tuesday, November 04, 2008 (IRIN) - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was formed in 2001 for the purpose of setting up an innovative approach to providing finance to combat the three diseases that kill more than six million people worldwide every year.
Source : IRIN | 04-Nov-2008 22:00
GLOBAL: Helping health providers treat trafficking victims
DAKAR Tuesday, November 04, 2008 (IRIN) - Health providers ? frequently the first professional a trafficking victim consults for help ? are often thrust into the fight against organised crime without adequate preparation, according to the International Organization of Migration (IOM). The agency said there is an urgent need to ensure care for victims of trafficking and hopes to fill the gap with its soon-to-be released guidelines for health workers.
Source : IRIN | 04-Nov-2008 21:45
Claire Beckett
Boston-based photographer Claire Beckett earned a BA in Anthropology from Kenyon College and an MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art.
Source : Topix.net | 04-Nov-2008 13:10
AFRICA: Investment key to doubling rice production
NAIROBI Monday, November 03, 2008 (IRIN) - Greater investment to double rice production in Africa is needed to reduce food insecurity as well as improve livelihoods, specialists urged.
Source : irinnews.org | 03-Nov-2008 17:30
West Africa: Ecowas Brown Card Scheme Making Slow Progress
Citizens in the sub-region have been yearning for an enabling environment where there would be free movement of persons, goods and services for sub-regional integration, irrespective of where you are coming ...
Source : Topix.net | 02-Nov-2008 12:43
WEST AFRICA : End of rainy season won?t bring an end to cholera
DAKAR Friday, October 31, 2008 (IRIN) - West Africa?s rainy season is coming to a close, but the yearly cholera outbreak continues to claim lives throughout the region.
Source : IRIN | 31-Oct-2008 22:55
Kidjo takes Africa global
World music superstar and Grammy Award-winner Angelique Kidjo makes her way to Pittsburgh as part of her North American tour Oct.
Source : Topix.net | 31-Oct-2008 12:40
Tunisia Play Benin Next Month
Tunisia coach Humberto Coelho has wasted little time in starting his preparations for next year's qualifying campaign ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Tunisia with a friendly match against Nigeria's West African neighbours Benin scheduled to take place in Tunis on November 19.
Source : AllAfrica | 30-Oct-2008 22:43
Benin: Screening Out Morally Unfit Crime Fighters
One year after the country's top anti-drug officials were sacked for alleged corruption, Benin's new drug control boss has promised to revive the government's fight against traffickers.
Source : AllAfrica | 29-Oct-2008 19:10
GLOBAL: UN chief calls for protection of migrants amid financial crisis
MANILA Wednesday, October 29, 2008 (IRIN) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on countries battered by the financial crisis to keep their doors open to foreign workers, stressing that migration could be used to help lift them out of economic gloom.
Source : irinnews.org | 29-Oct-2008 16:10