AllAfrica: Top Headlines

[Public Agenda] Former president John Agyekum Kufour has blamed the poor performance of farmers and the consequent devastating food deficit in Africa on successive African governments. According to him, good governance and knowledge as well as the political will needed to adopt and pursue holistic and integrated agricultural, food and nutrition policies were missing.

[Public Agenda] Despite the ongoing extensive anti-HIV/AIDS campaigns, the total number of people living with HIV in Ghana is projected to increase to 317,872 by 2015 from 272,780 in 2010, states the Ghana AIDS Commission in its National HIV& AIDS Strategic Plan 2011-2015.

[Public Agenda] At 72 years, Hon Anna Margareth Abdallah has an enormous of experience as a Member of Parliament (MP). She has had eight terms of five years each in Tanzania's Parliament and is still a member of the house which she first entered when she was 32.

[Egypt Online] Head of the Advisory Council Mansour Hassan said on Friday that Egypt is currently passing through a dangerous stage. Therefore, we need to accelerate and unite efforts to weather this tense phase and reach political and security peace easily, he added.

[Egypt Online] Two American women kidnapped by gunmen in Sinai Peninsula on Friday have been released, Minister of Tourism Mounir Fakhry Abdel-Nour said on Friday.

[Egypt Online] The people who were wounded in clashes near the Interior Ministry headquarters hit 2,532 in number, the Health Ministry said in a statement on Friday.

[State Department] The World Health Organization (WHO) is intensifying efforts to prevent, control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases, ailments that plague the developing world. The new WHO campaign aims to eradicate at least 10 of these illnesses by 2020.

[OSI] The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is the most important and effective financial facility addressing AIDS. It has saved and prolonged millions of lives. Yet at this precise moment when the global community should be doing all it can to support the Fund, it is under the most serious assault it has endured in its ten-year history.

[African Arguments] Across South Sudan demonstrations have been held in support of President Salva Kiir's decision to shutdown its 350,000-barrel daily oil production.

[Hirondelle] The Hague - The International Criminal Court has rejected Aisha Gaddafi's request to submit information about her brother Saif al-Islam, stating it was "misplaced" and contrary to court procedures."

[Shabelle] Mogadishu - The president of Somalia's Transitional Federal government TFG Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed has announced on Monday that his government is planning to open at least 100 schools with veracity levels in Mogadishu to enhance the educational system.

[Aswat Masriya] As clashes continue, security forces have used fireworks to attack protesters, in Mansour Street near the Ministry of Interior, early Sunday.

[Capital FM] Nairobi, Kenya - Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta has dared Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Mutula Kilonzo to file a Motion of no-confidence in Parliament to strip him of the post.

[Aswat Masriya] Led by martyrs' mothers, a group of female protesters have organized a demonstration by the parliament to call for an immediate halt to the ongoing violent clashes, Sunday.

[Leadership] The barbarism and incivility characteristic of our uniformed men took a different dimension on Friday, January 30, in Ibadan, when four officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Oyo/Osun Command, invaded the premises of United Senior Secondary School, Ijokodo, Ibadan and beat a teacher, Mr. Gbenga Ogunleye, to a pulp. Ogunleye's offence was that he dared to discipline their colleague's son, Allison Chukwuebuka, a senior secondary school 3 student who, alongside other students, was guilty of indecent d

[Leadership] The popularity and performance ratings of Kwara State governor, Alh. AbdulFatah Ahmed suddenly looked up during the week.

[SAPA] An ANC report on the mining industry rejects nationalisation of the sector, but nevertheless proposes fundamental changes, City Press reported on Sunday.

[SAPA] Suspended ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has been given a 14-day reprieve to argue for a lesser sentence after he failed to have his suspension overturned.

[Nation] International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has dismissed requests by Kenyan suspects to be allowed to appeal the decision confirming their cases.

[Leadership] Nigeria's ability to meet its quota at the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is now in doubt as militants in the Niger Delta region have resumed hostility.