Africa & Middle East

Italy: Record number of would-be immigrants arrive

Rome, 13 Nov. (AKI) - A record number of would-be immigrants arrived in Italy this year, according to the daily Corriere della Sera. Over 40,000

African challenges for Barack Obama

FACTBOX-African challenges for Barack Obama 07 Nov 2008 10:47:41 GMT Source: Reuters Nov 7 (Reuters) - Barack Obama's U.S. election victory has sparked euphoria and high expectations ...

Africa’s population to double by 2050

Posted on Thursday 30 October 2008 - 10:07 Mugira Fredrick, AfricaNews reporter in Kampala, Uganda Africa's population of 967 million could grow to 1.9 billion by 2050; ...

Africans abroad may send less money home

Kampala - Coins clank softly and Ugandan shillings shuffle their way through counting machines at a foreign exchange bureau in central Kampala. Yet ...

Crisis Underscores World Lending Institution Role as Africa's Safety Guarantor

Nigerian Journalist Ibrahim Sheme - Download (MP3) Nigerian Journalist Ibrahim Sheme - Listen (MP3) ...

Bangladeshis beat a visitor to the Eritrean Embassy in Kuwait

Kuwait : Police arrested two Bangladeshis for assaulting an African visitor to the Eritrean Embassy in Jabriya and damaging his car, reports Al-Dar daily.Police rushed ...

US Africa command starts work, faces hostility

Thu 2 Oct 2008, 5:34 GMTBy Barry MoodyJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The U.S. military's new Africa command went into action on Wednesday, but hostility and cynicism ...

Will Africa feed rich nations?

Africa's abundant natural resources long have invited foreign exploitation. Over generations, the continent has been stripped of its gold...By Edmund SandersLos Angeles TimesWAD RAWAH, Sudan ...

African energy ministers set to meet in Tanzania over power trade

NAIROBI, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- African ministers responsible for energy from nine countries bordering the Nile will meet in Tanzania this week to review how ...

How we came to feed Tel Aviv's African refugees

Last update - 12:30 19/09/2008 Fugee Fridays Jewish World / How we came to feed Tel Aviv's African refugees By Jesse Fox Tags: Israel, African refugees The ...

Egypt accused in killings of African refugees

By Ellen KnickmeyerWashington Post Foreign ServiceFriday, September 12, 2008; A08CAIRO -- Egyptian security forces are killing an increasing number of Darfurian refugees and other African ...

Egypt to return five unaccompanied Eritrean refugee children through UNCHR

2008-09-12 Egypt - Eritrea - Refugees APA-Cairo (Egypt) Egypt on Thursday agreed to return to Eritrea five Eritrean refugee children who are presently at the ...

Selective compensation: A look at the Italy-Libya agreement

Published Friday September 12th, 2008By Gwynne DyerLibya was the diplomatic crossroads of the planet last week, with Condoleezza Rice making the first visit by a ...

AFRICA: When culture harms the girls - the globalisation of female genital mutilation

"Hawa's StoryHawa comes from Eritrea, a country in the Horn of Africa with a 90 percent compliance rate, practising types 1, 2, and 3 FGM. ...

Egyptian police kill two Africans at Israel border

Tue 9 Sep 2008, 10:00 GMT[-] Text [+]ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian police shot dead two African men on Tuesday as they tried to slip across the ...