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Voxafrica To Launch The First Season Of The Voice In West And Central Africa

Voxafrica To Launch The First Season Of The Voice In West And Central Africa

No production of this magnitude has ever reached this part of Africa yet. Now Voxafrica, the Pan-African television station will launch the first season of The Voice in West and Central Africa. The Voice is currently the world’s biggest music show format. Produced and aired in over 180 countries, the show will run for 17 […]

Earlier Bed Delivery Could Have Halved Sierra Leone Ebola Outbreak

Earlier Bed Delivery Could Have Halved Sierra Leone Ebola Outbreak

Supplying beds for Ebola patients to health facilities in Sierra Leone saved tens of thousands of lives by isolating patients, but providing them just one month earlier could have halved the number of reported cases, researchers said on Monday. The delivery of nearly 3,000 beds by Britain, Sierra Leone and aid agencies between September 2014 […]

A British Nurse Who Contracted Ebola In Africa Last Year Has Been Hospitalised Again: Placed On Isolation

A British Nurse Who Contracted Ebola In Africa Last Year Has Been Hospitalised Again: Placed On Isolation

A British nurse who contracted Ebola is in a ‘serious condition’ in hospital today after falling ill with the deadly virus for a second time – ten days after she met Samantha Cameron in Downing Street. Pauline Cafferkey, 39, was flown from Glasgow back to the Royal Free Hospital in north London by the RAF […]

6000 Liberian Kids Lost Their Parents To Ebola: Painful Story Of What Happened To Orphans

6000 Liberian Kids Lost Their Parents To Ebola: Painful Story Of What Happened To Orphans

More than 5,900 Liberian children lost one or both parents to Ebola. Some are with a surviving parent, others found loving homes with friends or relatives, but many have been left orphaned on the streets or are finding it tough to adapt to new lives with host families. Sitting outside her former home, a now-abandoned […]

Baby, Maternal Deaths Increase In Sierra Leone On Ebola Fear

Baby, Maternal Deaths Increase In Sierra Leone On Ebola Fear

Maternal and newborn deaths in Sierra Leone have soared since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as fear of being infected and mistrust of health workers deter pregnant women from giving birth in health facilities, researchers said on Tuesday. Deaths of women during or just after childbirth rose by almost a third and those of […]

African Civil Society Under Threat: Mary Robinson

African Civil Society Under Threat:  Mary Robinson

The decline of human rights on average across Africa is worrying Mary Robinson, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and now a special envoy on climate change for the UN Secretary-General. Discussing this year’s Ibrahim Index of African Governance, she also underlined the need for more data on climate change. She spoke […]

Africa Is A Rich Continent With Poor People – Dlamini Zuma

Africa Is A Rich Continent With Poor People – Dlamini Zuma

AFRICA is a contradictory place being a rich continent with poor people, African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. She also said development will be very slow in Africa if women are left out. During a cockatil held for her at Melia Habana Hotel on Friday evening, Dlamini-Zuma said only skills and education could be an […]

The Value Of Dual Citizenship For African’s Wishing To Take Advantage Of Opportunities

The Value Of Dual Citizenship For African’s Wishing To Take Advantage Of Opportunities

The Value of Dual Citizenship for African’s Wishing to Take Advantage of Opportunities within the Continent and Abroad. It is estimated that only around 1% of the world’s population have two or more passports, making dual citizenship an exclusive privilege. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 5 October 2015/ “No man is an island” is the theme of […]

Africa’s Governance Winners, Losers And Surprises

Africa’s Governance Winners, Losers And Surprises

Zimbabwe is one of the African countries where governance has improved most in the four years up to 2014. Senegal just might surge ahead of its African counterparts in the future, to become one of the continent’s powerhouses. Developments in Somalia, long the worst-governed country in Africa, can be described as “a good news story”. […]

Africans Lead With The Highest Academic Achievements In The US Beating Asians

Africans Lead With The Highest Academic Achievements In The US Beating Asians

Africans have the highest educational attainment rates of any immigrant group in the United States with higher levels of completion than the stereotyped Asian American model minority. It is not only the first generation that does well, as estimates indicate that a highly disproportionate percentage of black students at elite universities are African or the […]

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