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Today is World Aids Day, and of the 33 million people living with the condition worldwide, over 60% percent live in Sub-Saharan Africa. (AllAfrica)

It is World AIDS Day today. Our country has been lauded for its effective and visionary handling of the HIV/AIDS problem. (AllAfrica)

The Ghana Research and Advocacy Programme (G-RAP) chose the theme "Transparency, Accountability and Development of the Oil and Gas Industry in Ghana" for its 2009 Research and Advocacy Organisations (RAOs) convention which ended on Tuesday. (AllAfrica)

Four years ago, a ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation collapsed in Hong Kong. (AllAfrica)

Service in some of the commercial banks in the country is really disgusting and something needs to be done urgently. (AllAfrica)

For a number of years now, many political and community leaders, have decried the proliferation of illegal brews that have been turning young men into zombies. (AllAfrica)

On Tuesday, Kenya joins the rest of the world in observing World Aids Day at a time when almost 33.4 million people are living with the virus. The majority of these cannot access life-saving treatment. (AllAfrica)

Today is the World Aids Day. In Uganda it will be 27 years since the first case of a person living with HIV/Aids was diagnosed and made public. But today's commemoration rather than mark a celebration of gains made in the HIV/Aids war, should be a deep reflection on achievements now threatened by stagnation and rise in new infections. (AllAfrica)

THERE is no justification at all to call for evil, ruinous and illegal sanctions against a people who have chosen to own what rightfully belongs to them, a people who have chosen to recover what was stolen from them. There is no justification in punishing a people for refusing to land Tsvangirai and his MDC T a job they were/are not qualified for and do not deserve. A job where one has to work for the people and not against the people. The economic sanctions brought destruction and not democracy. The effects of the sanctions were felt by every household, every sector of the industry, and social services and departments, writes CAD MASH from the United Kingdom. (AllAfrica)

There is no doubt that without compassion this world would be a hard and very lonely place to live in. The spirit of compassion gets all of us connected; thus hard and difficult times become much more easier, because people understand and care about the welfare of others. (AllAfrica)

THE number of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide continued to grow in 2008, reaching an estimated 33 million, according to the just released report of UNAIDS. (AllAfrica)

ZIMBABWE is entering its rainy season, a time that most welcome but also the time when cholera bacteria that have managed to survive the dry seasons are washed into rivers, puddles and wells and are able to start breeding again. (AllAfrica)

THE positive observations coming from qualified economic bodies on the performance of Zambia's economy is in stark contrast to some of the sentiments some people, especially those from the opposition would want the country to believe. (AllAfrica)

Lately local musicians have been trying their hand at acting and perhaps as the festive season kicks in, Batswana should invest in local talent and one of the products to look out for during this silly season is Kulenyane Studio's E ke ntolo Volume 2. (AllAfrica)

Versatile artist Joel Keitumele, best known for his talent search programme Mokaragana on Botswana Television (Btv), has released a comedy DVD namely Joelafik TV. (AllAfrica)

Township Rollers' direct football and a high fitness level has yielded positive results for the be MOBILE Premier League leaders. (AllAfrica)

Unlike many of her Cabinet colleagues, the new Minister of Education and Skills Development (MOE), Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi met with school heads and had an almost spiritual interaction. What has become the norm is that ministers visit their employees, simply to instill fear in them and threaten their job security. (AllAfrica)

The Majune District in southern Mozambique is truly blessed with forests of pristine beauty. (AllAfrica)

The MP for Mogoditshane, Patrick Masimolole has branded some parliamentarians bootlickers and accused them of failing to interrogate some decisions made by the executive. (AllAfrica)

MEMBERS of President Jacob Zuma 's cabinet are learning fast. After opposition MPs roasted some of them for staying in luxury hotels while their official homes were being renovated, and for extravagant expenditure on imbizos, they are now simply avoiding questions on subjects such as these. (AllAfrica)

WHAT do by-elections tell you about the public mood? Probably not much. They are too small and too isolated to suggest defining moments in anything other than rare times of political transition. Yet there has been at least one by-election that did in fact change South African history. (AllAfrica)

For the umpteenth time, no Nigerian footballer was among the five nominees for the 2009 BBC African Footballer of the year award. (AllAfrica)

It is funny. The more I listen to pharmaceutical industry players on increasing access to quality medicines, the more relevant Nkrumah's African unity becomes. (AllAfrica)

Talks are underway to launch a major debate on refocusing of Africa's development. Proponents argue that the theory that everything gets right when the market is right (market driven economy) has never worked and can never work for Africa. (AllAfrica)

Following the recent G20 meeting of Finance Ministers in Scotland that advocated more stimulus packages be implemented until in the words of British Finance Minister, Alistair Darling "The job is done", we examine the need for Ghana to have its own stimulus package rather than having to beg for money from the wicked IMF and World Bank. (AllAfrica)

IT is exactly nine hours left before the moment every Namibian has been waiting for. (AllAfrica)

The legal profession is in danger of losing its essence and respect as the profession is plagued with numerous but avoidable problems in almost every sector of the professional spectrum. Everyone I speak to complains about the deterioration of standards but that is where the matter ends. I have wondered who everyone expects to make the point in order to influence and trigger the necessary change. In Ghana, the system to ensure that there are flow processes to guarantee minimum thresholds is inscribed in legislation. (AllAfrica)

In her quest towards mitigating climate change, Ghana, would in January 2010, begin an ambitious nationwide afforestation project that also seeks to bridge the unemployment gap confronting the country. Climate change effects are already wrecking lives in Ghana and the rest of the African continent. It is seriously having a rippling effect on the people, especially, those in rural communities, where various creeks serving as sources of drinking water have dried up, because of the lack of trees to serve as a cover for these waterbodies. (AllAfrica)

Going by the current record of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda it is not a stretch to imagine that this court would acquit Herman Goering or any other person like that of crimes of genocide and other atrocities against Jews were it (ICTR) to find itself with the responsibility of trying big Nazis. (AllAfrica)

With a little less than two years before the conduct of a general and presidential election, voters have begun boycotting the polls - a situation that sends out wide signals and has sparked debates in all sectors of society. (AllAfrica)

It has been called the next golden commodity by investment firms, and 'neocolonialism' by the now repentant director general of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jacques Diouf. (AllAfrica)