Shout-Africa News – President Jacob Zuma has commended Miss South Africa, Nicole Flint, on her community work during their meeting yesterday in Pretoria. Ms Flint paid a courtesy call on President Zuma ahead of the Miss Universe contest taking place at the beginning of August. Miss Universe 2010, the 59th edition of the pageant, will be held at the Mandalay Bay Events Centre in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA on 23 August 2010. Miss South Africa shares with President Zuma the passion to fight poverty and the need to uplift especially the children and youth of the country from deprivation. President... Continue Reading
Shout-Africa News – NEW YORK — On West Africa, the World Food Programme (WFP) says that the UN Humanitarian Aid Service will cease all flights into Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia starting tomorrow. And this is due to a $2.5 million funding shortage. Without the air service, WFP says many of its operations in the region will not run as efficiently as required. One of the smaller services of the UN air service, the West African Coastal Service has been providing air transport for an average of 500 UN aid workers, among others, every month.
Shout-Africa News The lobby group AfriForum will meet with a senior legal team this week to decide on legal steps agains the SouthAfrican government in response to the latter’s neglect to protect thelives and property of South Africans in Zimbabwe. On 9 June2010, AfriForum served a lawyer’s letter to the Department of Tradeand Industry to demand that the South African government shouldintervene urgently to protect citizens in Zimbabwe. There was no response to AfriForum’s letter to the Department was given time to midnight, 15 June 2010. This step followed after several South Africans farming in Zimbabwe had become subject to... Continue Reading
Shout-Africa News – KUWAIT – On the second day of her official visit to Kuwait, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Monday opened the new Embassy of the Republic of Liberia near Kuwait City, heralding the start of a strengthened bilateral relationship between the State of Kuwait and Liberia. In remarks made at the opening ceremony, the President said she was pleased that the relationship had been “reactivated,” and that the two countries could now “begin to rebuild upon that historic and important relationship,” and together promote the development of Africa and strong partnership and relationship between the Arab States and... Continue Reading
By Ronald Murevererwi – Zimbabwe joins the rest of the African continent in commemorating the day of the African in light of the innocent children who were brutally killed in Soweto during the apartheid in defence of their right to education through protest. This year’s commemorations come at a time when Africa stands as the continent with the highest number of children who are out of school at the backdrop of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aiming to achieve free education for all children in Africa by 2015. As the continent is taking the centre stage culminated with the hosting of... Continue Reading
