Africa striving as wolrd leaders commit to new dev’t goals

>As we are all very much aware that on Africa Day, we formally commemorate the creation of the Organisation of the African Unity in 1963, 51 years from this Sunday, as well as the inception of its successor, the African Union, just 12 years ago.

.Africans cannot prosper on just hopeful summit declarations – Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma

 Africa’s leaders unanimously agreed to end hunger and cut poverty in half by 2025 with the signing of the Malabo Declaration at the 23rd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union Heads of State and Government last month.

“Accelerated growth is essential if Africans at all levels are to achieve their aspirations for prosperity,” said AU Chairperson H.E Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma...

UNITED NATIONS, New York, 22 September 2014—More than 140 presidents, heads of government, ministers and high officials from around the world today reaffirmed their countries’ strong political support to the historic International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).
During the ICPD, held in Cairo in 1994, 179 governments agreed on a 20-year Programme of Action that included a bold new vision of the relationships between population, development and individual well-being. It...

As the Millennium Development Goals become Sustainable Development Goals, how much progress has been made?

How one Black Stars fan has tried to stay positive

The U.S. may have recently lost its title as most obese nation to our neighbours down south in Mexico, but America is still winning in a lot of other not-so-great categories. Our list of ways America is still #1 explores the true essence of what it means to be an American. with stupidity and dumbness for all.

Highest Incarceration Rate

The land of the free? Not unless you count free meatloaf in America’s jails. The U.S. boasts the highest incarceration rate of any country, with 730 people...

Rais Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete akisalimiana na baadhi ya maafisa waliofika kumpokea wakati akiwasili katika Uwanja wa Ndege wa Kimataifa wa Dulles tayari kwa Mkutano wa Viongozi wa Wakuu wa Nchi na Serikali wa Amerika na Africa (US-Africa Leaders summit) uliondaliwa na Rais Barack Obama wa unaotaraji kuanza Agosti 4-hadi 6, 2014, ambao utatanguliwa na mikutano mingine ya maendeleo ya sekta mbalimbali na uwekezaji (2-3 Agosti, 2014) jijini Washington DC. Kushoto ni Balozi wa Tanzania nchini...

Rais Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete na Mama Salma Kikwete wakiwasili katika Uwanja wa Ndege wa Kimataifa wa Dulles tayari kwa Mkutano wa Viongozi wa Wakuu wa Nchi na Serikali wa Amerika na Africa (US-Africa Leaders summit) uliondaliwa na Rais Barak Obama unaoanza Agosti 4-hadi 6, 2014, ambao utatanguliwa na mikutano mingine ya maendeleo ya sekta mbalimbali na uwekezaji  (2-3 Agosti, 2014)  jijini Washington… ...

>Rose Mlay is playing a big role in trying to help local Tanzanian women attain good health services during maternity. Mlay’s career as a midwife brought changes in the health sector in the country after she attended the first Global White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood workshop in India in 2002.