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Africa will need to adopt robust bargaining skills for the forthcoming global climate change attacks, best referred to as COP16 (Conference of Parties)

By Nangayi Guyson – Arusha – AFP- Georges Rutaganda, 52 a former militia chief who was sentenced by the UN tribunal for Rwanda to life in prison for his role in the 1994 genocide, has died in Benin where he was serving his sentence, a statement said on Wednesday. The leader of the Interahamwe militia whose members did much of the killing during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, died of sudden complications from a long illness,” the tribunal said. Rutaganda died a natural death on Monday, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) said in a statement. He was also... Continue Reading

By Novell Zwange – JOHANNESBURG – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today named South African actress Hlubi Mboya as its National Ambassador Against Hunger. “I come from a family with a legacy of helping those in need. Let us all as a South African family stand united against hunger,” said Mboya, adding that in 2009 WFP had made record purchases of maize in South Africa to feed millions of hungry people across Africa. “Almost all the world’s undernourished people live in developing countries with 239 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa,” Mboya said. “Through all our efforts, we... Continue Reading

By Novell Zwange – PRETORIA – UNESCO organized a one-day consultative meeting with the four South African universities designated as centres of excellence/reference in journalism education. The meeting took place yesterday and was hosted by the University of Fort Hare at its East London campus. It focused on the implementation of one of the modules of the Reporting Africa syllabus, based on UNESCO’s Model Curricula for Journalism Education. Participants of the meeting shared ideas on how the four institutions, namely Rhodes University, Stellenbosch University, Tshwane University of Technology and Walter Sisulu University, could implement the module, Indigenous Language Media and... Continue Reading

By Own Correspondent – Sierra Leone’s former Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment or pay a fine of Le150m and a restitution of Le 300m totalling Le 450 million (about $120,000) which must be paid within the next four weeks. As the trial of Haja Afsatu Kabba ends today at the Freetown High Court No. 2 presided over by Justice Samuel Ademosu, she was found guilty on five counts of misappropriation of public funds and acquitted and discharged on two counts of alleged abuse of office. Since the beginning of 2010, the Anti... Continue Reading