SwiftRiver Beta Released from Ushahidi on Vimeo. They were already famous with Ushahidi, but now they did even more with SwiftRiver. As stated on the official website swiftly.org “SwiftRiver is an open source intelligence gathering platform which powers a number of different applications”. SwiftRiver lets users… Manage realtime data streams (e.g. RSS, SMS, Twitter, Email) Identify relationships between content (e.g. ...
Cote d’Ivoire’s first independent tower company “SWAP Technologies and Telecomms Limited” (SWAP) has gone live with its built-to-suit telecoms co-location cell sites, the first cell sites built for co-location went on air in Cote d’Ivoire in August 2010. SWAP commenced telecoms services operations in Abidjan in 2009 with the objectives of providing infrastructural support services ...
This is the speech made yesterday in University of Washington in Rome by Italy’s foreign minister, Franco Frattini. Rome 31 August 2010 · Migration is a global challenge that requires an active approach. Throughout human history, migration has been a courageous expression of the individual’s will to overcome adversity and to live a better life. Yet I believe ...
This is the video of the interview with the ambassador of the Republic of Congo in Italy just days before this year Africa day which is celebrated every year the 25 May. interview with the ambassador of the Republic of Congo in Italy from AfricanewsITALY on Vimeo. Wikio Wikio ...
Italy will once again be participating in the International Fair for Investment and Consumer Goods (FACIM) within a context of increasingly solid economic and trade relations with Mozambique. Present at exposition no. 46, from 30 August to 5 September, will be numerous Italian firms representing the sectors of energy, construction, infrastructure, agriculture, agri-industry, consulting, transport, telecommunications, ...
Cape Town – Striking public servants should keep their protests within the limits of “basic human decency”, President Jacob Zuma said on Saturday. In his first public address since his return from a state visit to China, he said government respected the right of workers to go on strike in support of their demands. “However, we reiterate ...
By James Ratemo ‘Now therefore in exercise of powers bestowed upon me by the Constitution of Kenya. “I Mwai Kibaki President and Commander in Chief of the Republic of Kenya declare that the constitution set out in the schedule shall be the new constitution of Kenya as from the August 27 2010,” this is the statement ...
Obama administration officials condemned an attack on a Mogadishu hotel that reportedly left 30 dead, including six parliament members in Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG), and said the United States will continue to partner with countries in the Horn of Africa and elsewhere against terrorism and violent extremists. Speaking August 24 in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, where ...
Nuruddin Farah interview at the Commonwealth Club of California, 2007. Heralded as “one of the finest contemporary African novelists” by Salman Rushdie, Nuruddin Farah is a contender for the Nobel Prize in literature for his beautiful and moving stories dealing with women’s liberation and government corruption in his native Somalia. Much of his work has been influenced ...
by Sure Kamhunga Johannesburg — THE future of Nedbank is again under speculation, after weekend reports that HSBC is the most likely buyer, this week, of Old Mutual ’s flagship asset in a deal potentially worth more than 5bn. A report in the Financial Times said, without quoting sources, that HSBC had emerged as the front-runner to ...
For all it cost. For all we’ve lost. For all who persisted, decade upon decade, in the face of every defeat. For the invisible heroes of four generations, who brought it to fruition. For those taken by the struggle, whose spirits we carry with us. For those who laboured for this and did not live to ...
“Abdoulaye TRAORE is a very talented guitarist who made Burkina Faso his source of wealth”, as written on a mail sent to our newsroom. Traore is experimenting with many styles from touareg music to peule, wassoulou, blues, flamenco, slam… both with electric and acoustic guitars. Abdoulaye TRAORE will take the stage this Thursday 26 August by 20.30 ...
We receive via email and we publish this call. “Monday August 23rd is International Slavery Remembrance Day On this day the United Kingdom, shoulder to shoulder with the rest of the world, will commemorate the millions of enslaved Africans who suffered and died, and also celebrate the tireless struggle of millions for emancipation”. For more informations on ...
Seven people have lost their lives because of the heavy rains in northern Algeria, according to media centre Tout sur l’Algérie. On Wednesday reliefs teams have found the bodies of four people in the region of M’sila. Three people were also found dead in Djelfa. Source: Afrik.com Wikio Wikio ...
South African police fired rubber bullets to disperse crowds blocking roads and healthcare workers prevented patients from entering hospitals as a strike by more than a million civil servants grew on Thursday. Strike: Day 2 The walkout in pursuit of higher wages that started a day earlier has slowed the treatment of the sick and shut schools ...
NIAMEY, Aug 17, 2010 (IPS) – In April, the United Nations World Food Programme estimated it would need 190 million dollars to respond to a food crisis threatening more than 7 million people in Niger. By July, the WFP had revised the amount needed upwards to $371 million: a month later, the U.N. agency has ...
The Northern Ghana Youth Network for Development has commended the government for passing the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority bill. The group believes the policy will not only tremendously benefit people of northern extraction, but Ghanaians as a whole. This was contained in press statement issued in Accra. Below is the full statement issued by the group. PRESS RELEASE BY ...
Every August 12, the world commemorates the United Nations International Youth Day. Established by the UN General Assembly on December 17, 1999, the UN Session endorsed the recommendation made by the 1st World Conference of Ministers responsible for Youth that met in Lisbon in 1998 and agreed that August 12 of every year, be declared ...
Rwanda’s election has been described as undemocratic since the press were not free to report on actual issues on the ground. According to a journalist who wants to remain anonymous, the atmosphere was tensed on Election Day and the media was totally in bed with the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front of Paul Kagame. AfricaNews spoke to ...
Rwandans are voting Monday in their country’s second presidential poll since the 1994 genocide with incumbent Paul Kagame widely expected to win by a landslide following the virtual absence of a political opposition. Wikio Wikio ...
Journalist Steve Terrill provides insight into Rwanda’s presidential election. Wikio Wikio ...
Actress Mia Farrow tells court that she had heard supermodel Naomi Campbell say she had been given a huge diamond by Charles Taylor. The video report of Fashion411 Wikio Wikio ...
Before the holiday season the Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi has just (last 4 August) decided to stop any concession to foreigners. Recently the town hall of Caulonia, a city in the southern region of Calabria, allowed foreigners to be elected and to vote. The national government of Italy has just deleted this local law. Beside ...
In these videos from Al Jazeera English, British model Naomi Cambell tells a court in the Netherlands that she was given “dirty stones”, referring to diamonds. Mrs Campbell is talking to judges of the Court in The Hague in the prosecution for war crimes and other 11 charges to former Liberian president Charles Taylor. Wikio Wikio ...
Less than 12 hours after the polls closed in Wednesday’s referendum in Kenya, provisional results showed supporters of a new constitution headed for a landslide win. According to results from the Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC), the Yes side had 4,141,521 votes (67 per cent) against the No camp’s 2,054,946 (33 per cent). With a lead of ...
Scores of soccer faithfuls will attend Saturday’s sold-out Telkom Charity Cup tournament at Soccer City. The stadium’s capacity has increased from 84 000 to 88 000 and since its facelift, it will be the first time a domestic tournament is held there with the return of the popular pre-season tournament to the calabash-shaped stadium. The ...
IIEC started announcing the official final results per constituency a while ago. So far, results for 37 out 210 constituencies have been posted. Official tally at 1,287,757 for Yes and 527,282 for No. Source: nation.co.ke Wikio Wikio ...
by Prof Adam Habib, Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research, Innovation & Advancement at the University of Johannesburg The recent African Union (AU) summit in Kampala saw SA come under significant pressure to send troops to bolster Ugandan and Burundian peacekeepers in Somalia. African leaders, however, were not the only ones applying the pressure. It seems the Americans ...
by Patrick Laurence, a political analyst and contributing editor to The Star Jacob Zuma has assured the world that he respects international law, but he’d face the AU if SA did arrest Sudan’s president More than a year after the African Union (AU) unanimously passed a resolution committing member states to refrain from acting on a ...
by Chris Black, the Regional Legal Adviser of the Pretoria Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross. This article has been prepared in collaboration with Louis Maresca, an ICRC Legal Adviser in Geneva. The Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) – an international treaty that prohibits the use of cluster bombs, a type of ...
