The Swedish Business Community in Eastern Africa will continue to play significant role in contributing to the country’s national response on HIV/AIDS.



Bjorn Haggmark, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Sweden in Kenya told a meeting where Swedish companies in Eastern region talked about their experience with the workplace HIV/AIDS programme.…

Onlangs weer in Kenia geweest om de projecten van Afri-can Foundation te bezoeken, de I Care meiden te spreken, KIRDI het startschot te geven en een mooie fotoreportage te laten maken voor de Stichting.



Ruim een half jaar geleden heeft de survey plaatsgevonden in verband met het te produceren wasbaar maandverband I Care powered by Afri-can Foundation.…

In april 2005 reisde Hannie Halma voor het eerst via Khartoem, El Obeid en Dilling naar Kadugli en Leira, waar de eerste Soedanese vredesconferenties plaatsvonden. Indrukwekkende bijeenkomsten waar vriend en vijand het woord voerden en velen de adem inhielden bij de beloftes die de gewezen vijand hen gaf.


In een ziekenhuisje lagen vrouwen en baby's…

In het zuid-oostelijk deel van Congo, grenzend aan Zambia en Malawi, hebben jongeren hun eigen tradi-moderne stijl van muziek gecreëerd, die ze Karindula noemen. Het verwijst naar een instrument dat een belangrijke rol speelt in hun muziek en dat het ook direct herkenbaar maakt.


De karindula ziet eruit als een uit de kluiten gewassen banjo gemaakt…

“The Engagement Party” was the cleverly chosen theme for the 11th edition of the Harare Festival of Arts, a 5-day festival of high quality.

The officially opening called “Treasure”, brilliantly produced by the South African Brett Bailey, surely engaged thousands of spectators.

I do no know how Brett manages to touch the Zimbabwean…

Mei, de maand van Afrika.



Ivoorkust heeft sinds vrijdag een nieuwe president; Alessana Quattara.

Vijf maanden na de verkiezingen, met veel geweld tot gevolg, was het nu tijd voor het officiële gedeelte.

“Ik beloof plechtig op mijn eer dat ik de grondwet zal respecteren en trouw zal verdedigen.”





Laurent Gbagbo is nog in het land,…

The Zambian people are well known for their hospitality, in fact second republican president Dr Frederick Chiluba during his reign declared the country a 'Christian Nation' as a way of preserving peace.



As the country prepares to celebrate its 47th birthday, the citizens are also bracing themselves for the presidential and parliamentary…

A luxury commuter bus pulls up by the kerb to pick up passengers. A young woman quickly jumps in, retrieves a smart card from her wallet and swipes it against a machine next to the driver before taking her seat. A routine occurrence in Germany or the US, but this is Rwanda, one of the world's poorest countries, where genocide in 1994 nearly brought…

The Private Sector and Civil Society Organizations in the region have agreed to develop a framework for dialogue amongst themselves and the EAC.



The creation of a Working Group comprising representatives from EAC, the East African Business Council, the East African Civil Society Organizations Forum was one of the key action points agreed on at…

The militant group Al-Shabaab has vowed that they will avenge the killing of world terrorist ring leader Osama Bin Laden, adding that his death will not have an effect on their present power in Somalia, local media reported. Bin Laden was killed in a US ground operation in Pakistan last week.


The rebels’ spokesperson Sheikh Ali Mahamud Rage told…

Diageo, the world's leading premium drinks business, has announced the finalists in the Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards, following a record number of entries. A shortlist of outstanding African business journalism will go through to the final of the eighth annual awards, to be assessed in 11 different categories.


Initiated by Diageo in…

Unit Trusts and Collective Investment schemes are the wave of the future for the capital market, according to the Chairman of the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).



Senator Udoma Udo Udoma says such investment instruments have a more balanced portfolio for protection against massive loss, acknowledging however that the schemes may…

Four children were dead on Sunday after what was termed as an abandoned military bomb went off in Ole Maroroi village, Kajiado County in the biggest province in the country, according to the local media report.

The children were said that they were playing with the dangerous explosive device before the explosion took place and disfigured many parts…

After destruction, chaos, atrocity and killing of innocent Nigerians in post election violence that left almost all northern Nigeria’s states ablaze is still hunting the mind s of patriotic Nigerians on way forward to end this human caused calamity from happening again in future. The Report which was just released said over 5 million dollar…

Another picture to my dialogue story

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