Reports

[allAfrica]Cape Town -Zambia police have reportedly freed the university students detained on the president's orders after they protested against the government's decision to drop the maize and petrol subsidies. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]President Barrack Obama will visit Dakar next month,ording to reports in the Senegalese press. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Cape Town -The call for transparency and good governance across Africa is not a new one, but it assumed a new prominence at this month's World Economic Forum (WEA) regional meeting for Africa. In session after session, and in conversations outside formal presentations, attendees tied Africa's economic performance and its delivery on social and development goals to competent and responsive governing. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Cape Town -Madagascar's leader Andry Rajoelina has ignored a request by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), not to run in the upcoming elections, reports AFP. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]In disclosing in the New York Times on Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy, actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie also called attention to the many women in Africa and other developing regions who die from breast cancer each year. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Cape Town -The announcement by the Rockefeller Foundation of an initiative to create jobs in Africa focusing on the digital field has been lauded as an important strategy by Jack Leslie, chairperson of Weber Shandiwick, a leading public relations firm. "Digital holds tremendous opportunity for Africa," Leslie said, particularly for Africa which "holds great promise". (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Cape Town -Voter registration is under way in Swaziland amid calls from opposition parties to boycott an electoral process that some have described as a mere formality. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]'The tears that are now running from Somalia's golden sands into the Indian Ocean must stop' declared Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2011, following a highly charged visit to Mogadishu at the height of the 2011 Somali Famine. The Turkish Prime Minister had arrived to a rock star's welcome in the Somali capital – at every stop his motorcade was greeted by crowds shouting 'Soo dhawoow Turkey' (Welcome Turkey). Turkish flags adorned the city, and mothers promised to name their sons 'Tayyip' and their daughters (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Washington, DC -U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has tapped Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a widely respected career Foreign Service officer, to the department's top Africa post,  sources have told AllAfrica. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Cape Town -Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who describes himself as a simple man driven to help his country prosper, faced challenging questions at a World Economic Forum session here on Friday. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]It has been two decades of mayhem, chaos and bloodletting in Somalia. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Cape Town -The riskiest country in the world to be a new mother is the Democratic Republic of Congo. That's according to Save the Children's 2013 State of the World's Mothers report. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Cape Town -Zambia's vice president Guy Scott launched an astonishing attack on President Jacob Zuma when he reportedly compared him to South Africa's last apartheid leader, FW de Klerk. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Nairobi -The twittersphere in Kenya was abuzz after the arrest of political activist and award-winning photojournalist Boniface Mwangi during a protest at a Workers' Day event. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Cape Town -Zambian Vice President Guy Scott hit out at opposition parties and observers who have accused him and President Michael Sata of repressive policies and perpetuating violence. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]New York -The government of Rwanda is completing a busy month at the helm of the United Nations Security Council, a task that rotates among members - both the five nations with permanent seats and the 10 non-permanent members who are elected to two-year terms by the UN General Assembly. Rwanda assumed one of three African seats in January, replacing South Africa. In New York on April 1, Rwanda's UN Representative Eugene-Richard Gasana began to chair Council meetings, and Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwa (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]After more than three months of suspension, Ethiopian Airlines resumed its Boeing 787 Dreamliner service over the weekend with a successful flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Cape Town -Botswana President Ian Khama received two stitches in his face after being clawed by a cheetah, according to local media reports. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Johannesburg -"Eight thousand newborn babies will die during this conference." (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Abuja -The statistics are shocking. Over 300,000 Nigerians die from malaria each year – more than in any other country. An estimated 250,000 are children younger than five. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]A question had been nagging at Ghanaian researcher Alexander Nartey. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Imagine that snake attacks were killing a person a minute. Or that it was dogs, or foxes or chickens that were killing three-quarters of a million people a year. Envision the non-stop media coverage - and the public outcry to stop the carnage. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Monrovia -I woke up feeling the headache and chills, and made a couple of trips to the bathroom to ease the nausea. The experience was all too familiar; I was having another bout of malaria, even though that wasn't changing my day's routine. Growing up here, I have suffered more than a dozen times from the disease. A trip to the nearby clinic was going to be later in the day. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Washington, DC -Although Africa is moving forward, the United States is pulling back, says Mo Ibrahim, the billionaire entrepreneur and father of Africa's mobile phone revolution. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Water and energy are fundamental to poverty reduction and economic transformation on the African continent. When experts, policymakers and high-level representatives met this week in Addis Ababa at a conference to discuss water storage and hydro development, the World Water Council was there to call upon them to take actions to prepare the world, as the past is now a poor guide to an uncertain future. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Cape Town -Karim Wade, son of former Senegalese president Abdulaye Wade, has been incarcerated at Rebeuss Prison, a correction centre in the capital of Dakar. Wade is being asked to justify a fortune estimated at 694 billion CFA, equal to more than $1.37 billion, amassed in various bank accounts. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Nigerian and South African scientists have joined hundreds of other experts from more than 80 other countries to launch the Scientific Declaration on Polio Eradication – a statement endorsing a new strategy aimed at wiping out polio by 2018. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Some of the world’s poorest countries, including two in sub-Saharan Africa, are showing the greatest political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition, while some of the most economically powerful nations are failing to make adequate effort, according to new research released on Thursday. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Cape Town -The Malawian government has criticised American pop icon Madonna, accusing her of exaggerating her contributions to the Southern African country and unreasonably demanding special treatment during her tour, reports Nyasa Times. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]This year's Pan African Film Festival featured an African Artists Shorts Series. There were four films: "African Cowboy", "Maffe Tiga", "Papa" and "Try". Two of the films are set in Namibia and two are set in the United States. (AllAfrica)

[allAfrica]Geneva -Every February, roughly 3,000 of the world's economic and political elite gather for the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the snowy ski town of Davos amidst the beautiful backdrop of the Swiss Alps. This event is well known largely because the global media ritually shed a great deal of ink in its honor. There seems to be widespread belief that the purpose of the WEF is for global elites to find 'collective solutions to the world's biggest problems'. (AllAfrica)