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After hosting a successful World Cup last year, South Africa is doing it again. This time around it will be hosting the 17 Conference of Parties (COP17)..

…As Sanitation Considered Economic Benefit – By: Augustine N. Myers, returning from India – The much talked about Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene in Mumbai, India has come and ended. It was indeed an exciting Meeting with exclusive focus on one of the world’s crucial but overlooked issues, “sanitation”. It is estimated that about 2.6 billion people around the world lack access to adequate sanitation. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there will be 2.7 billion people without sanitation, if the current trend continues. The Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene organized by the Water Supply & Sanitation... Continue Reading

By Shout Africa.com Correspondent Hassan Abbas, Dar es Salaam – The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Tanzania Secretariat will on 23rd October, brief Zanzibar House of Representatives on the findings of an updated governance report which was released in September this year. Speaking in Dar es Salaam today the Executive Secretary of APRM Tanzania, Rehema Twalib said the seminar with House Reps will be preceded by one with Permanent Secretaries of various Ministries in the Isles on 18th October. “The report has contained views of the common citizens and experts from both sides of the Union. It is now high time to brief... Continue Reading

Shout-Africa.com , Report from Liberia  – News monitored from Liberia indicates that The National Elections Commission, the body overseeing the process maintains that it is forging ahead with the declaration of results declaring Saturday that it is simply too late for any of the political actors to disengage from the process. The Commission will announced the final results of the poll to the public on October 26, 2011. James Fromayan, the NEC chairman told a news conference on Saturday at the Commission’s Headquarters,  that it was too late for the parties to disengage from a process that has been declared... Continue Reading

By Peterking Quaye  – The Executive Board and Staff of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) extend their heartfelt congratulations to Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia; Leymah Gbowee, Executive Director of WIPSEN/Member of the African Women Leaders Network for Reproductive Health and Family Planning (AWLN), and Tawakkul Karman, Human Rights activist, for being joint awardees of the Nobel Peace Prize 2011 for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work”. This award is a significant recognition of the efforts that all 3 women have... Continue Reading