Hailemariam Desalegn wurde am 20. September 2012 als Premierminister vereidigt. Er hatte das Amt bereits interimsmäßig seit dem Tod Meles…
Demeke Mekonnen, EPRDF, Hailemariam Desalegn, Meles Zenawi, Persson, Schibbye, WirtschaftswachstumPosts by Category: News
Malawian journalist Terence Mwamlima investigates the actual presence of child labor in two market scenes in Malawi’s economic capital Blantyre….
Blantyre Market, Child labor, Limbe market, Malawi, rural areas, tea and tobacco estates, Terence Mwamlima, urban areas, urbanizationEine Bestandsaufnahme aus ghanaischer Sicht: Interview mit dem in Hamburg lebenden Ghanaer Emmanuel Asiedu Ghanas Erfolgsgeschichte ist ohne Vorbild. Seit…
Bevölkerungsexplosion, China, Erdöl, Ghana, Interview, John Atta Mills, John Demani Mahama, Parlamentswahlen, Präsidentschaftswahlen, WirtschaftswachstumDaily urban life in Stellenbosch, South Africa, captured by eufrika.org photographer Roeland Hemsteede After its photo-series launch about daily urban…
Yesterday UNICEF published, together with the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, its progress report on Child Survival claiming…
decrease, health, mortality rate, UN Inter-Agency Group, UN Millenium Goals, under 5 mortality rate, UNICEFTrotz eines internationalen Haftbefehls gegen den ehemaligen libyschen Geheimdienstchef Abdullah al-Senussi lieferten ihn die mauretanischen Behörden am 5. September an…
Al-Senussi, CIA, Foltervorwürfe, Gaddafi, Internationaler Strafgerichtshof, MI6, Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit(eufrika) – Dr. Solomon Ayele Dersso is senior researcher with the Peace and Security Council Report Programme at the Addis…
Hailemariam Desalegn, Human Rights, Meles Zenawi, Regierungswechsel, Somalia(eufrika) – In den deutschen Medien werden Afrikaner auch heute noch gerne als triebgesteuert wahrgenommen und porträtiert. Ein aktuelles Beispiel…
Afrikabild, Faure Gnassingbé, Frauenbewegung, Media, Politics, Proteste, Sexismus, Togo, Wahlen, Westafrika
(eufrika) – The name says it all: It’s truely about Southern Africa Reggae Pioneers when Black Dillinger and Vido Jelashe…
Berlin, Black Dillinger, Germany, MKZWO, Reggae, South Africa, Southern Africa Reggae Pioneers, Vido Jelashe
(eufrika) – With September being announced as first official Mbira Month, Zimbabwean musicians and artists throw a new light on…
cultural importance, curriculum, Mbira, Mbira Exhibition Online, Mbira Month, Zimbabwe(eufrika) – Seit 2001 befindet sich der schwedisch-eritreische Journalist Dawit Isaak in eritreischer Haft – nach wie vor ohne offizielle…
Dawit Isaak, Eritrea, Flüchtling, Pressefreiheit, Reporter-ohne-Grenzen(eufrika) – South Africa’s Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor announced on Tuesday that a new drug to treat Malaria…
(eufrika) – Artists from Zimbabwe have recently declared September annual Mbira Month. Since generations the mbira has inspired people to…
Mbira, Mbira Centre Harare, Mbira Month, Zimbabwe(eufrika) – For over 50 years there has been a dispute over the border between Malawi and Tanzania. Attempts from…
border dispute, Dar es Salaam, International Court of Justice, Lake Malawi, Malawi, Mzuzu, oil exploration, TanzaniaDaily urban life in Nkongsamba and Bafoussam, Cameroon captured by eufrika.org photographers With this new Photo Report Series, eufrika.org extends…
Bafoussamphoto report, cameroon, Nkongsamba, urban daily lifeTwo months after the first reported cases the Ebola outbreak is under control, according to the Health ministry of Uganda….
deaths, Ebola, health report, Kibale District, MSF, New Vision, UgandaNach einem Besuch der parlamentarischen Staatssekretärin Gudrun Kopp, sicherte die Deutsche Bundesregierung der malawischen Führung unter Joyce Banda am vergangenen…
Deutsche Bundesregierung, Economy, finanzielle Unterstützung, Gudrun Kopp, Joyce Banda, Lilongwe, Malawi, State HausThe death of Somalian athlete Samia Yusuf Omar has caused widespread reactions in European media and sheds a light on…
London 2012, Migration, Olympia, Samia Yusuf Omar, SomaliaOfficials in South Africa have confirmed that police forces have shot 34 mine workers dead and injured 78. The police…
What history hides behind the social composition of the Kivus? Episode IV: The impact of the strangers on local communities in…
Cholera, deforestation, diseases, DR Congo, drinking water, genocide, health care, history, housing, Katale, Kibumba, Mugunga, refugees, Rwanda, sanitation facilities, UNHCRDer Trierer Geograph und Politikwissenschaftler Johannes Michael Nebe hat in einem Interview für n-tv.de die Perspektiven afrikanischer Staaten nach fünf…
Development Aid, Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, Johannes Michael NebeWhat history hides behind the social composition of the Kivus? Episode III: The Rwandan Genocide and its significance for the…
Bahutu, Banyarwanda, Batutsi, DRC, extremists, FAR, Génocidaires, genocide, Habyarimana, Interahanwe, international community, KIVU-SERIES, North and South Kivu, Paul Kagame, refugees, RPF, Rwanda, UNHCRWorrying developments in DRC’s North Kivu have been recently reported. Besides heavy fighting and the region’s struggle with masses of…
cholera outbreak, clean water, death, devastating humanitarian situation, fighting, North Kivu, sanitation facilities, WHOFour days ago, thousands of people took to the streets all over the Democratic Republic of Congo to express their…
Congolese Army, displaced people, dissatisfaction, DRC, fighting, M23 movement, North Kivu, protestsAgain, an Ebola outbreak is hitting Uganda, frightening patients and health care workers all over Uganda as it is spreading…
Ebola virus, Filoviridae family, Kampala, Kibaale District, UgandaAl Jazeera and several international news agencies have been reporting that Paul Kagame’s government in Kigali has recently been put…
Aid, DRC, involvement, Kivu regions, national budget, pressure, Rwanda, warfareTimveni is to become the first child-run TV-station worldwide. In Malawi, the project has now been granted a license to…
child and youth journalism, license, Lilly Omondi, Malawi, Plan Malawi, Plan Sweden, Timveni, TV station, UNICEFWhat history hides behind the social composition of the Kivus? Episode II: The Rwandan Revolution (Hutu rebellion in Rwanda in…
Belgian Congo, Bukavu, Goma, Gregoire Kayibanda, Hutu rebllion, Kinyarwanda speakers, Kivus, Luvungi, Mwami Charles Mutura Rudahigwa, Nyangezi, refugees, Ruanda-Urundi, Rwandan Revolution, Tutsi Council of Ritual ChiefsTrauer in Ghana: Das ghanaische Staatsoberhaupt, Präsident John Atta Mills, ist plötzlich und unerwartet im Alter von 68 Jahren gestorben….
Accra, Ghana, John Atta Mills, John Dramani MahamaThe news from Addis Ababa and Brussels are contradictory. According to a AFP source, Ethiopia’s head of state is in…
Addis Ababa, AFP, Belgium, Brussels, critical health condition, Ethiopia, Meles ZenawiWhat history hides behind the social composition of the Kivus? Episode I: Resettlement to the Kivus under Belgian rule Media…
DRC, history, Kivu, North Kivu, series, South KivuNigerian fashion designer Adebimpe Adebambo stands out not only as a designer and an artist but as the creator and…
Adebimpe Adebambo, Beampeh, Fashion, Nigeria, sustainabilityWhile the main attention was put on the actual preventive actions and the strategic positioning of UN forces of the…
DRC, Goma, helicopter attacks, M23, Monusco, North KivuGoma’s residents fear the rebels of the M23 movement. They are reported having seized several strategically important towns in the…
Bosco Ntaganda, CNDP, Desire Kamanzi, DRC, FARDC, Goma, ICC, Laurent Nkunda, M23 movement, peace agreement, Raymond Tshibanda, RPF, Thomas LubangaSince the outbreak last week, fierce fighting has been reported from the DRC’s North Kivu region. After rebel forces from…
DRC, fighting, Goma, M23 movement, Monusco, North Kivu, UNOMalawian designer Lilly Alfonso recently shared with Urban Life Malawi how from the young age of six she has grown…
Fashion, Malawi
Dressed in colorful robes and uniforms, thousands of people marched through the streets of Amsterdam to the Oostpark to celebrate…
abolition of slavery, Amsterdam, Antilles, Dutch colonies, Keti Koti Festival, memory, Oostpark, Suriname, the chains are cutAccording to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), there had been a violent incident in the refugee camp Dadaab in the…
al-Shabaab, Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya, kidnapping, Norwegian refugee council, Somalia“Nyasa Times” reported the arrest of Malawi’s Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Alexius Nampota. Fiscal police units arrested him on…
abuse of office, Alexius Nampota, Anti Corruption Bureau Malawi, arrest, Blantyre, Commonwealth Network, fiscal police, Malawi, Office of the President and CabinetIn an extensive interview with the news channel Al Jazeera, Malawi’s new Hon. President Joyce Banda talks about the future…
Al-Jazeera, Joyce Banda, Malawi, Talk to Al JazeeraIn einem Beitrag für die “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” hat sich FAZ-Korrespondent Hans-Christian Rößler mit der Lage von Flüchtlingen aus ostafrikanischen…
Eritrea, Migration, Refugees, South Sudan, SudanIn einem Beitrag für n-tv.de hat sich Kulturredakteur Markus Lippold vor dem Hintergrund der Ereignisse in Ägypten mit den neuen…
Arabischer Frühling, Comic, Edition Moderne, Egypt, Magdy El-Shafee, Markus Lippold, Protestkultur
It is not a totally new way of food production. Aquacultures were already used by several ancient populations for…
aquaculture, biodiversity, cameroon, Egypt, environmental protection, FAO, Kofi Annan, Malawi, Nigeria, overfishing, productivity, small scale farmers, Stavanger, sustainability, Uganda, World Business Conference on AquacultureAfrica’s Head of States were supposed to come together for the 19th AU Summit in Malawi’s capital city Lilongwe from…
19th AU Summit, Addis Ababa, arrest warrant, Ethiopia, foreign Donors, ICC, Joyce Banda, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Malawi, Omar al-Bashir, relief funds, SudanOfficials of the International Monetary Fund have visited Malawi from May 23 until June 6 2012. The mission came together…
Bingu wa Mutharika, boost, Commonwealth, dependence, ECF arrangement, economy, foreign Donors, IMF, Joyce Banda, Karmalesh Sharma, Lilongwe, London, Malawi, Queen Elizabeth II., SAPs, World Bank
Overfishing is a well known phenomenon we face all over the world. Whether salmon from the Atlantic,…
fingerlings, fisheries, fishing ban, Kenya, lake Naivasha, Ministry of Fisheries Development, restocking, TilapiaMake it in Germany: Bundesregierung tries to draw skilled workforce into the german economic system and establish a culture of welcome.
demographic change, Fachkräftemangel, Migration, Willkommenskultur, xenophobic fearsWitnesses and city authorities reported the crash of a passenger airplane in Nigeria’s largest city Lagos. According to the Nigerian…
International Airport Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, plane crashAn Egyptian court has sentenced the country’s late president Hosni Mubarak to life in prison. The judges found him…
After the devaluation of Malawi’s currency by the National Bank about two weeks ago, the launch of the new 1000…
De La Rue, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, Dr. Perks Ligoya, Inkosi Ya Makhosi Gomani II, Inkosi ya Makhosi M’mbelwa, James Frederick Sangala, John Chilembwe, K100, K1000, K20, K200, K50, K500, Malawi, Malawi Kwacha, NAC, Nyasaland, Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM), Rhodesia, Rose ChibamboOnce more the Great Lakes Region is shaken by enormous clashes between rebel forces and official soldiers of the Congolese…
DRC, fighting, refugees, UgandaWer kennt sie nicht, die Tage an denen die Sonne schon durchs Fenster lacht, der „Arsch schwer wie Blei“…
Brothers Keepers, Chima, Chimaobinna Enyiakanwanne Onyele, Frankfurt, Morgen, Musik, NigeriaThe news reports of the last days in Malawi concerning the Shire-Zambezi Waterway are highly contradictory. While People’s Party (PP)…
African Development Bank, Armando Guebuza, Bingu wa Mutharika, compensation, Jerry Jana, Joyce Banda, Land Grabbing, Lilongwe, Malawi, Maputo, mozambique, Nsanje Inland Port, PP, Shire-Zambezi waterway, ZambiaMaj. Gen. Caesar Achellam, one of the most important major generals among the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) was captured in…
AU, Caesar Achellam, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, joint guerilla coalition, Joseph Kony, River Mbou, South Sudan, Uganda, UPDF, US Special ForcesMalawi has announced a sharp, 33% devaluation of its currency, the Kwacha. The move follows pressure for the Southern African…
Bingu wa Mutharika, IMF, Joyce Banda, Kwacha, MalawiHalf a year passed since Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir last came to Malawi. By then late president Bingu wa Mutharika…
arrest warrant, AU, AU-summit, Bingu wa Mutharika, ICC, Joyce Banda, Lilongwe, Malawi, MCC Programme, Omar al-Bashir, Rome Statute, SudanThe fight against the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the hunt for its leader Joseph Kony continues in the…
Central frican Republic, Joseph Kony, Uganda, US Special ForcesThe Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a report in which it gives an update on current press restrictions all…
Censorship, CJP, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, the State of Eritrea24th April, World Malaria Day, Geneve: WHO celebrates the progress made in Malaria treatment and present their new initiative for…
DRC, Malaria, MSF, T3, WHO, World Malaria DayThe Malawi government on Thursday, 26 April announced the formation of a new cabinet. This follows the sudden demise of…
Atupele Muluzi, Cassim Chilumpha, Joyce Banda, Malawi, parliamentAfter Zambia sent five million liters of fuel to Malawi last week, South Africa joins and furhter provides Malawi with fuel which lasts…
fuel support, Jacob Zuma, Joyce Banda, Malawi, South Africa, Thombile Mabude, Zambia
Lake Victoria, located in the East African Rift Valley, is one of the oldest lakes in the world and…
East African Rift Valley, European Union, fishing, food stock, illegal fishing methods, IUU-Fishing, Kenya, Lake Victoria, Lake Victoria Basin, LVEMP, Nile Perch, population growth, Smart Fish, Tanzania, Tilapia, UgandaLast week Friday, Zambian energy minister Christopher Yalume announced a fuel support for Malawi. According to his statement, Zambia would…
Bingu wa Mutharika, fuel assistance, fuel shortage, funeral, Lilongwe, Lusaka, Malawi, mode of payment, Sata, Zambia
Ties between politics and fuel imports in the Southern African state of Malawi continue to determine the consumption of the…
Bingu wa Mutharika, fuel assistance, Joyce Banda, Lilongwe, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Malawi
ShipSpotting.com © Ibon Barandika Ugarte During the past month March, several African governments took a swipe against fishing vessels operating…
AMLEP, European Union, F/V DONIENE, Fisheries Agreement, Illegal fisheries, INPESCA, IUU Fisheries, Joint Maritime Committee, Liberia, mozambique, Nacala, NEPAD, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Spain, TV Sterenn, Txori Argi, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. NavyYesterday, Zimbabwe’s current leader Robert Mugabe returned home from Singapore. After his arrival in Harare he dismissed rumors about his…
airport Reuters, fit, Harare, Robert Mugabe, state of health, Webster Shamu, ZimbabweOn 5 February 2012, Nigerian leader of the Synagogue Church of All Nations Temitope Balogun Joshua (popularly known as T.B….
audience, Bingu wa Mutharika, death, Joyce Banda, Malawi, Michael Sata, prophecy, Robert Mugabe, statement, T.B. Joshua, Zambia, ZimbabweAfter Malawi’s President Hon. Bingu wa Mutharika suddenly died last Thursday, one of his most important critics, oppositional Joyce Banda…
Bingu wa Mutharika, Joyce Banda, Lilongwe, Malawi, Malawian ConstitutionOn last weekend’s Saturday Malawi’s top Human Rights activist John Kapito got arrested in Lilongwe, accusations: Possession of guns, seditious…
arrest, Atupele Muluzi, Bingu wa Mutharika, Dave Chingwalu, Dr. Bakili Muluzi, forex, Geneva, Human Rights activist, illegal possession, International Coordinating Committee National Human Rights Institutions, John Kapito, Ken Ndanga, Malawi, Malawi Human Rights Commission, National Bank, Police, Switzerland, UNDP, United Democratic Front (UDF)Several media institutions have been accused of reporting too negatively about current developments in Malawi politics. Intentions were among others…
Alfred Ntonga, Anthony Kasunda, Bingu wa Mutharika, Blantyre Newspaper Limited (BNL), Brian Ligomeka, DPP Director of Youth, Frank Mwenefumbo, freedom of expression, freedom of information, Fuko, Health and Population Minister, Jean Kalirani, Lilongwe, Malawi, Malawian Constitution, MISA, MISA-Malawi, Nation Newspaper, Nation on Sunday, National Publication Limited (NPL), Nyasa Times, State House, The Weekend Nation, threatsEgyptian media mogul Tawfiq Okasha has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for his insulting comments on torture victim Khaled…
Egypt, military, Tawfiq Okasha, TVLast Wednesday thousands of Kenyan public health care workers decided to end their 2 week strike after a meeting with…
Alfred Mutua, Kenya, Kenya Civil Servants Union, Kenya Union of Nurses, Khang'ati, MP Fred Outa, Nairobi, nurses, Parliamentary Committee on Health, public health sector, Raila Odinga, Robert Monda, sacking, Seth Sindano, StrikeLake Tanganyika is Africa’s second largest lake, providing fishing communities from all bordering countries with protein rich fish. Zambia is…
artisanal fishery, fish farms, Fusion Marine, industrial fishery, Kapenta, Lake Kariba, Lake Tanganyika, Prof. Carmelo Agius, Sub-Sahara Africa, Tilapa, Zambezi River, ZambiaLast May British construction worker Chris McManus and his Italian colleague Franco Lamolinara were captured in Nigeria’s Birnin Kebbi. Since…
Birnin Kebbi, Chris McManus, David Cameron, Franco Lamolinara, Jonathan Goodluck, Nigeria
A video by the organisation “Invisible Children” called “Kony 2012″ has gone viral this week. At last count it had…
The words were dropped last Sunday in Thyolo district in the South of Malawi. President Bingu wa Mutharika ceremonially opened…
Bingu wa Mutharika, demonstrations, DPP, DPP Youth Cadets, economic crisis, Fergus Cochraine-Dyet, foreign Donors, forex, fuel shortage, Gomile-Chidyaonga, Great Britain, hate speech, HRCC, Human Rights groups, IMF, London, Malawi, NGOs, protests
In its ongoing series “African Dream” BBC News Africa portrays African entrepreneurs. This week it introduces Rwandan business man…
Business, East-Africa, Entrepreneur, Rwanda, timeThere is a new East African Architecture Magazine out and it is the first of its kind. Anza Magazine which…
Architecture, East-Africa, UrbanisationEinen Blick auf die rasant wachsenden Städte in Ostafrika, insbesondere Dar es Salaam, wirft ein aktueller Beitrag im Schweizer Punkt…
Architektur, Ostafrika, Städte, UrbanisationNach jahrelanger Blockade gewährt die schweizer Jusitz Kenia in einem Korruptionsprozess, der als “Anglo-Leasing-Affäre” bekannt geworden ist, Rechtshilfe, berichtet die…
Gerichtsverfahren, Kenia, Korruption, Rechtshilfe, SchweizFair Trade ist eine wachsende Sparte bei vielen Produktkategorien. Doch warum gibt es bisher noch kein fair gehandeltes Mobiltelefon? Ein…
Economy, Fair Trade, Handys, Rohstoffe
The tuberous roots of the cassava plant are most suitable to help African farmers face climate change. This is the…
agriculture, cassava, CIAT, climate change, Nigeria, reportDie anhaltende Euro Krise wirkt offenbar abschreckend auf andere potentielle Währungsunionen. So berichtet die Welt, dass Pläne für eine gemeinsame…
EAC, Economy, Euro, Ostafrikanische Gemeinschaft, WährungsunionIn einem Interview mit dem Verein deutscher Ingenieure (VDI) erläutern die beiden EU Komissare Michel Barnier und Antonio Tajani, warum…
European Union, Interview, Rohstoffhandel, WitschaftAfter three years the investigations are finally finished. Tanzania’s High Court pronounced sentences on the accused captain and one agent…
Augustine Mwarija, Dar es Salaam, High Court, Hsu Chin Tai, illegal fishery, joint naval patrols, judgement, MV TAWARIQ, Taiwanese trawler, Tanzania, TZS, US$, Zhao HanguingTwo weeks ago, South Africa’s current president Jacob Zuma presented a new set of banknotes to the public. The new…
ANC, Apartheid, banknotes, Finance Minister, Jacob Zuma, Nelson Mandela, Pravin Gordhan, South AfricaOn March 8 2009, Hsu Chin Tai, captain of the fishing vessel MV TAWARIQ and Zhao Hanquing and Hsu Sheng…
Exclusive Economic Zone, High Court, IUU-Fishing, John Magufuli, joint patrol, Kenya, mozambique, MV TAWARIQ, SADC, South Africa, TanzaniaRalph Kasambara ist auf freiem Fuß – wieder nur vorerst, wie viele Beobachter befürchten. Der ehemalige malawische Generalstaatsanwalt, der als…
Amnesty International, Malawi, Mutharika, Polizei, Ralph Kasambara, VerhaftungIn cooperation with the University of Dar es Salaam, the International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade (IIFET) will hold…
IIFET, International Fishery Conference, NEPAD, Tanzania, University of Dar es Salaam, USAID, World Bank, WWFIn October 2010 Nsanje Inland Port was ceremonially presented to the world. Zimbabwe’s Mugabe and Zambia’s then president Banda showed…
Bingu wa Mutharika, Fortunato Albrinho, Malawi, mozambique, Nsanje, Nsanje Inland Port, Shire River, Shire-Zambezi waterway, Zambezi RiverThe WHO, the UK Department for International Development, USAID, 13 pharmaceutical companies, like GlaxoSmithKline, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation…
bacterial infection, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, blinding trachoma, Chagas, GlaxoSmithKline, guinea worm, leprosy, lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis), Neglected Tropical Diseases, NTD, parasites, river blindness, schistosomiasis, sleeping sickness, soil transmitted helminthes (intestinal worms), UK Department for International Development, UN Millenium Goals, USAID, visceral leishmaniasis, WHO, Worldbank, worm infectionAfter the Lilongwe Vendors Association in cooperation with the Malawian police last week launched a campaign to clean the city’s…
anti-riot police, Lilongwe, Lilongwe Vendors Association, Malawi, street clashes, street vendors
Sierra Leone’s fishing grounds are among the richest in West African waters. Thousands…
artisanal fishery, EJF, IUU-Fishery, JMC, ministry of fisheries and maritime resources, navy, Sierra Leone, VMSThe Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) has announced an enforced regulation of newspapers. The step raises fears of renewed repressions on…
media, newspaper, The ZImbabwean, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Media CommissionThe first suspected cases occurred in last year’s October. Three months later at end of December already more than 1500…
Cholera, excreta, Harare, Henry Madzorera, sanitation facilities, Typhoid, WHO, ZimbabweRwandan president Paul Kagame this Thursday February 2nd chaired a Press conference in Village Urugwiro located in Rwanda’s capital city…
Kigali, Marc Trevidic, Natalie Poux, Paul Kagame, RDF, Rwanda, Rwanda Defence Forces