World Bank Predicts 4.9 Percent Growth

The Star

The World Bank predicts that Kenya's economic growth will remain moderate in the face of a flat global growth prospect. Read more »

Mpedigree - an African Blueprint for Consumer Empowerment [opinion]

This is Africa

The idea for the mPedigree Network began to take shape the moment I grabbed the first pack of kashi cereals I ever bought and saw an 'organic seal' on the box. The organic seal... Read more »

'Why Africa Fails' Book Launched

EA Business

On the 7th of December 2012, I landed at O. R. Tambo International Airport. Read more »

Yichida Ndlovu - Zambia's First Female Non-Military Pilot

Times of Zambia

IMAGINE the anxiety of sitting in the cabin of an airplane, listening to the voice of a woman introducing herself as your pilot and requesting you to buckle up as the aircraft... Read more »

Columbia University Establishes First Global Center for Africa

Government of Ethiopia

Columbia University has established a Global Center for Africa in Nairobi, the first such institution in the continent. At the launching of the facility at Kenyatta International... Read more »

Local Software Key to Economic Growth - UN

SciDev.Net

Local software production and development can spur economic growth in Africa and other developing economies, says a report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development. Read more »

Using Mobile Apps to Spur Social Change

Africa Renewal

Want to report a problem to an elected official in your community? There is a mobile application, or "app," for that. Want to bring attention to a pothole that needs fixing?... Read more »

Govt to Distribute 10 Million Cell Phones to Farmers

Daily Trust

Federal government said yesterday that no fewer than 10 million cell phones would be distributed to farmers to boost agricultural production in the country. Read more »

Kicking Off! [column]

Daily Trust

With exactly one week to the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, ,most discussions on football in the continent are centered on the forth coming football extravaganza in South Africa. Read more »

Africa's Mobile Health Revolution

IPS

A nurse working in a remote clinic in Mueda, a small town in northern Mozambique's Makonde Plateau, receives a shipment of vaccines from the national health department. Using... Read more »

Facebook Lover Nabbed for Defrauding Friend

Vanguard

The Police in Lagos on Monday arrested a Facebook lover for defrauding his lover of N200,000. Read more »

Businessman Knighted by British Queen

Observer

Businessman Gordon Wavamunno has been admitted to the British royal order of chivalvry as a knight. He becomes one of a few Africans, among them former South African presidents... Read more »

Operafrica Embarks On Eye Operation Exercise

The Point

Operafrica, a charitable organization based in the United Kingdom on 15 January 2013 embarked on a massive eye operation exercise at the Gunjur Health Centre, Kombo South in the... Read more »

Nation Produces Hybrid Cassava Varieties to Boost Productivity

This Day

Nigeria has released two improved cassava varieties in an effort to maintain its lead as the world's largest producer of the root crop, improve incomes of farmers and make them... Read more »

African Press Review 24 December 2012

RFI

Newspapers in Africa are reporting on the referendum on Egypt's proposed constitution; young girls in Nigeria forced to undergo virginity tests; and the latest on Nelson Mandela's... Read more »