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Conference Seeks to Make Early Childhood Development Priority in Africa (webremix.info)

A seminar held in Tunis on Thursday on women's soccer, was attended by Mr.Thierry Regenass, FIFA Associations Development Director, Mr. Cyril Loiseau Development Director in Africa, Director of FIFA Regional Football Development Office and of Goal project for North and Eastern Africa Mr. Taha Ismail, a FIFA official in charge of women's football and Mrs. Marion Daube, an expert in marketing and communication within FIFA. (webremix.info)

Wen encourages Chinese companies to contribute to Africa's development (webremix.info)

SENEGALESE President Abdoulaye Wade has asked leaders in Africa to desist from religious divisions for a better future. Wade said religion had divided people, thus hindering development. (webremix.info)

No one size fit all approach to development challenges in Africa - ERD (webremix.info)

BRAZZAVILLE, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - Renewed clashes in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have led to a further wave of refugees, leaving corpse-littered villages in the affected area deserted, say humanitarian officials. (IRIN)

NAIROBI, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - HIV-positive women in western Uganda want fewer children than women not living with the virus, but often do not have access to family planning services, a new study reveals. (IRIN)

DAKAR, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - Guineans and the international community are watching mediation efforts of Blaise Compaoré, as international investigators begin to probe the 28 September deadly military attack on civilians in the capital Conakry. The latest violence stunned even a nation with a long history of military repression of civilians – an era Guineans had hoped would pass with the death of 24-year leader Lansana Conté and arrival of Moussa Dadis Camara in December 2008. Here is a timeline of some events since independence from France in 1958. (IRIN)

MONROVIA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - In Liberia rape survivors are increasingly speaking up and seeking help as awareness of rights increases, but social taboos persist and seeking justice does not always mean that justice is served. (IRIN)

There is greater frankness today about development policy failures in Africa. It was reflected in President Barack Obama’s speech in Accra, Ghana on July 11 when he stated: "Development depends on good governance. That is the ingredient that has been missing in far too many places for far too long." (webremix.info)

The distinguishing feature of human development activity throughout history is the use of labour to make goods so that society can improve itself and transform its habitat. (webremix.info)

Dr Alhassan Zaku, Minister of Science and Technology, on Tuesday urged African University of Science and Technology (AUST), Abuja, to conduct researches into issues that could solve Africa's development problems. (webremix.info)

Key players in Uganda's agricultural sector will meet on October 29, at Speke Resort Munyonyo to sign a compact on the comprehensive Africa agricultural development programme. (webremix.info)

Africa is changing faster than many realize, and there is definite momentum for economic reform and development in several African countries, says longtime investment banker Thomas Gibian. (webremix.info)

Investment Opportunity: Infrastructure (webremix.info)

Water is fast becoming a constraint to development in South Africa. (webremix.info)

HARARE, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - The recent "suicide" of a senior army officer in the wake of a break-in at a military armoury in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, is sowing fears that the missing guns may be used to fuel instability. (IRIN)

BUJUMBURA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - Next year's elections in Burundi, billed as a milestone on the country's long road to sustainable peace, could trigger more conflict because of a combination of widespread illegal weapons and well-organized youth wings of political parties, according to analysts. (IRIN)

HARGEISA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - Aden Muhumed Hassan, 46, a divorced father of one, lost his hands 11 years ago after he accidentally picked up unexploded ordnance [UXO] planted during fighting between the Somali National Movement (SNM) and former President Siad Barre's army in Somaliland's liberation struggle between 1981 and 1991, and during the Ogaden war between Somalia and Ethiopia in the late 1970s. (IRIN)

NAIROBI, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - Residents of a coastal town in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland saved the crew of a fishing boat when they foiled an attempt by pirates, who had captured the boat, to sail away. (IRIN)

MONROVIA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - Water and sanitation services in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, are getting worse as a growing urban population tries to squeeze more out of already skeletal services. On 19 November, World Toilet Day, NGOs are calling on the government to up its allocation, and on international donors to reprioritize funding to stamp out cholera and cut child mortality. (IRIN)

JOHANNESBURG, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - In less than seven months South Africa will host the world's biggest single sporting event - the FIFA World Cup. The chance to reach millions of local and visiting football fans presents a golden opportunity, not only for the country's business and tourism sectors, but also for its efforts to combat HIV/AIDS. (IRIN)

SIAYA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - When Dorothy*, a single mother of five, told her neighbours in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, she had tuberculosis (TB), she expected sympathy and maybe even offers of help. Instead, she found herself so severely ostracized, she felt she had to move out. (IRIN)

Former Caribbean junior (under-18) table tennis champion Kenwin Small is among four players who will represent Trinidad and Tobago on a development tour to Barbados at the end of the month. Small, ... (webremix.info)

Former Caribbean junior (under-18) table tennis champion Kenwin Small is among four players who will represent Trinidad and Tobago on a development tour to Barbados at the end of the month. (webremix.info)

JOHANNESBURG, 18 November 2009 (IRIN) - The number of Zimbabweans displaced after some of their shacks in an informal settlement outside De Doorns, a farming town about 140km from Cape Town, South Africa, were attacked and demolished by local South African residents, has risen to about 3,000, said the South African Red Cross Society. (IRIN)

NAIROBI, 18 November 2009 (IRIN) - Escalating violence in the Somali town of Galkayo, Mudug region, is creating a climate of fear, which in turn has adversely affected livelihoods, residents say. (IRIN)

DAKAR, 17 November 2009 (IRIN) - The recent upheaval in Guinea has thrown into question the status of toxic chemicals discovered earlier this year at several sites throughout the capital Conakry, according to UN experts. (IRIN)

Development group's chief, Ibrahim Mayaki, says help needs to be given to small farmers since majority of Africans live in rural areas (webremix.info)

SPONSOR WIRE Washington, DC — Africare, a leading international development organization specializing in development assistance to Africa, has chosen Darius Mans, Acting Chief Executive Officer... (webremix.info)

JOHANNESBURG, 17 November 2009 (IRIN) - Fearing a resurgence of xenophobic attacks, around 2,500 Zimbabwean migrants have taken refuge in government buildings in De Doorns, a farming town about 140km from Cape Town, South Africa, after some of their shacks in an informal settlement were attacked and demolished, said a police official. (IRIN)