http://africa.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for Africa en Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2049349 unknown@ma.gnolia.com The Kenyan economics expert James Shikwati, 35, says that aid to Africa does more harm than good. The avid proponent of globalization spoke with SPIEGEL about the disastrous effects of Western development policy in Africa, corrupt rulers, and the tendency to overstate the AIDS problem. Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2049349typographyrubyruby tutorialRuby on rails tutorialProgramming tutorialnfticoniconslarissameekDesignwebdesignScienceSocietyeducationpsychologymediaphotographyorganisationsocialcommunityimageeditorhtmlmarkdownwysiwymembeddedhow tocheatsheettutorialNewsAfrica http://web2announcer.com/go/2044904 unknown@Netscape.com Scientists believe they have discovered the biggest migration of wild animals on Earth, with an aerial survey revealing vast herds of gazelle and antelope on the move in southern Sudan in a region which had been assumed to have been denuded of its wildlife by years of civil war.(pictures included) Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:45:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2044904sudanWildlifemigrationenvironmentGazelleantelopeconservationAfricaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2042881 unknown@Netscape.com SOWETO, South Africa (Reuters Life!) - Jesus wants you to drive a brand new Nissan Navara 4x4. He'd also like you to live in a classy house, use the latest cell phone and wear the snappiest designer clothes. Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:56:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/20428814x4southAfricacarsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2039781 unknown@Netscape.com Sudan has secretly worked with the CIA to spy on the insurgency in Iraq, an example of how the U.S. has continued to cooperate with the Sudanese regime even while condemning its suspected role in the killing of tens of thousands of civilians in Darfur. Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:37:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2039781sudandarfurciaGenocidebushadministrationiraqAfricaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2033888 unknown@Netscape.com Germany's development minister said Friday the Group of Eight member states had agreed on a program worth more than $60 billion to combat the spread of HIV/AIDs in Africa. Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:35:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2033888g860billioncombataidsAfricaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2034994 unknown@Netscape.com The Kenyan economics expert James Shikwati, 35, says that aid to Africa does more harm than good. The avid proponent of globalization spoke with SPIEGEL about the disastrous effects of Western development policy in Africa, corrupt rulers, and the tendency to overstate the AIDS problem. Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:40:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2034994aidsAfricaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2034703 unknown@Netscape.com China's increased political and economic relations with Africa should not be regarded as a dangerous and bad thing, and it all depends on how Africa frames its relations with China, a senior South African official said on Thursday. Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:01:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2034703chinasouthAfricaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2018769 unknown@Netscape.com China is conquering Africa as it becomes the preferred trading partner of the continent's dictators. Beijing is buying up Africa's abundant natural resources and providing it with needed cash and cheaply produced consumer goods in return. Thu, 31 May 2007 18:18:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2018769chinaAfricatradeeconomicsnaturalresourcesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2006030 unknown@Netscape.com Gentleman warrior, military genius. The legend of Erwin Rommel, the German Field Marshal who outfoxed the British in North Africa, lives on. But a new TV documentary seeks to correct that image by arguing that his victories nearly brought the Holocaust to the Middle East. Wed, 23 May 2007 21:55:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2006030RommelHolocaustNorthAfricatvdocumentaryNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1964883 unknown@Netscape.com How bad is it in Somalia? Bad enough that people fleeing the capital have been reduced to renting trees for shelter. It's the sort of thing that happens when drug-addled warlords roam the countryside, imposing taxes of 50 percent on aid recipients. Sat, 19 May 2007 16:31:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1964883SomaliawarlordsAfricaMogadishuUnitedNationsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1956887 unknown@Netscape.com Documentary filmmakers in Uganda were subjected to intimidation and coercion and were the victims of break-ins while attempting to film what a former U.N. official calls "Uganda's secret genocide" in the northern part of that country. The filmmakers say these threats came from Ugandan officials and secret intelligence organizations there. Sat, 19 May 2007 05:45:07 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1956887UgandaAfricaGenocidephotographsdocumentaryNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1881491 unknown@Netscape.com What creates an Atlantic hurricane? The most devastating ones are spurred by intense thunderstorms in the Ethiopian highlands, according to new research. Sun, 13 May 2007 20:33:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1881491SciencelightninghurricanesAfricaUnitedstatesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1688314 unknown@Netscape.com Green is the new black -- but a leading conservationist says the green movement overdoses on bad environmental news. Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:25:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1688314AfricaconservationenvironmentanimalsScienceNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1427439 unknown@Netscape.com Africa is gearing up to produce its own essential drugs, reducing reliance on the West for lifesaving medicines for disease such as malaria and tuberculosis, the African Union said Wednesday. Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:49:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1427439AfricadrugsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1397289 unknown@Netscape.com From the article: "African migrants trying to reach Spain in a small, crowded boat hurled Molotov cocktails at a patrol vessel that tried to stop them, police said Tuesday - the first known attack from Africans risking their lives for a toehold in Europe. The wooden boat was carrying 57 people, including two children, when a Spanish patrol boat intercepted it April 4 off the coast of Mauritania, police in the islands said." Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:51:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1397289AfricamigrantmolotovcocktailspainImmigrantsEuropeNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1390643 unknown@Netscape.com About 120,000 elephants and countless lions, leopards, crocodiles and hippos run through Botswana's Chobe National Park. But the most dangerous thing -- to wildlife and humans -- is AIDS. Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:41:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1390643aidsWildlifeanimalsconservationAfricaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1318751 unknown@Netscape.com Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi urged Africa on Wednesday to form a unified continental army to defend its interests, and he said former colonial powers should pay compensation for the raw materials they had extracted. Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:53:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1318751gaddafiAfricaarmyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1302666 unknown@Netscape.com The extent of the deadly new strain of tuberculosis in South Africa and the region is not known and is cause for concern, an international health expert said Wednesday. Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:53:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1302666newtbStrainsouthAfricaaConcernNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1226870 unknown@Netscape.com Tiger is a pretty impressive cat. He's huge and he's only 2 years old, CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan reports. This Tiger Woods - and his famously named pals Madonna and Cathay - are all South China tigers, the most endangered species of big cats in the world today. Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:03:39 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1226870ChinesetigerssouthAfricaendangeredspeciesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1102873 unknown@Netscape.com African leaders must take a tougher stance against Robert Mugabe's regime to prevent Zimbabwe falling further into economic and political turmoil, the Zambian president has said. Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:38:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1102873ZimbabweAfricaMugabeNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1031691 unknown@Netscape.com At the only hospital in the capital of this tiny West African nation, a 3-year-old AIDS patient named Suleiman receives his daily dose of medication -- a murky brown concoction of seven herbs and spices served out of a bottle that once contained pancake syrup. Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:37:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1031691aidscureAfricajokeNews http://web2announcer.com/go/987943 unknown@Netscape.com A network of U.S. allies in East Africa secretly have transferred to prisons in Somalia and Ethiopia as many as 150 people who were captured in Kenya while fleeing the recent war in Somalia, according to human rights advocates here. The prisoners, include men and women of 17 nationalities and children as young as 7 months. Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:42:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/987943RenditionAfricaU.S.SomaliaethiopiaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/973302 unknown@Netscape.com Erratic weather patterns in southern Africa have devastated harvest prospects for millions of people and could spell yet another year of widespread food shortages Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:20:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/973302AfricashortageweatherharvestdroughtNews http://web2announcer.com/go/943291 unknown@Netscape.com An inspirational farmer proving just how much is possible for farmers in Africa, even in times of extreme drought. Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:52:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/943291agriculturewaterfarmdroughtAfricaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/913727 unknown@Del.icio.us.com No description for this story Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:35:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/913727photographyflickrAfricaphotossunset http://web2announcer.com/go/874358 unknown@Netscape.com Ghanaians turned out in their thousands Tuesday for colourful ceremonies marking independence from Britain 50 years ago when the country became the first black African state to break the bonds of colonial rule Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:16:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/874358AfricaGhanaindependenceNews http://web2announcer.com/go/746429 unknown@Netscape.com Angelina Jolie is back in Africa, traveling for a third time on behalf of the United Nations to monitor the crisis in Darfur, PEOPLE has learned exclusively. Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:38:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/746429angelinaJoliedarfurAfricaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/715857 unknown@Netscape.com The American military quietly waged a campaign from Ethiopia last month to capture or kill top leaders of Al Qaeda in the Horn of Africa, including the use of an airstrip in eastern Ethiopia to mount airstrikes against Islamic militants in neighboring Somalia, according to American officials. Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:26:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/715857usalqaedaAfricaethiopiaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/598924 unknown@Netscape.com A summit intended to strengthen ties between Africa and former colonial power France opened on Thursday but all eyes will be on a subject not on the agenda -- Sudan's battered Darfur province. Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:34:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/598924franceAfricaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/522139 unknown@Netscape.com A former UN investigator has told the BBC his enquiries into the 1994 downing of the Rwandan president's plane were abruptly stopped against his wishes. At the time, he says he had obtained detailed allegations that the then rebel leader, and now President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, was involved. Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:54:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/522139RwandaplaneGenocidepaulKagameAfricaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/474251 unknown@Netscape.com From Afghanistan to Iraq to Somalia and Darfur. War, war, and more war. Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:03:38 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/474251warEmpirepopulistSomaliadarfurAfricaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/441955 unknown@Netscape.com The band will play My Coke Festival 2007 with Hoobastank and Evanescence at Johannesburg's New Market Racecourse on April 27. They will also play Cape Town's Kenilworth Racecourse on May 1. Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:41:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/441955gunsnrosesAfricaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/434732 unknown@Netscape.com Despite the dangers of a new imperialism, China might still provide an opportunity for Africa which Europe and the U.S. have simply failed to deliver. Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:05:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/434732chinaAfricaUnitedstatesEuropeenergyoilcapitalismNews http://web2announcer.com/go/56261 unknown@Del.icio.us.com No description for this story Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:30:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/56261Africaphotographykingsphotosphoto http://web2announcer.com/go/56054 unknown@Netscape.com If we don't start making Africans important, they just might become so. For all the wrong reasons. Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:04:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/56054AfricaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/50277 unknown@YahooMyWeb.com No description for this story Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:24:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/50277fotosengineeringcontainermiddlecollidecomworldhosepolycarbonatearchangelinventcollisionairforcegunxangaairplane119harbotcannoncorporationfootballhottie7425photographyworldartsfavoritesto exploreinspirationphotos surreal artartistsexhibitionwritingnatureanimalsfilmEntertainmentAfricamuseumphotoartVideo http://web2announcer.com/go/48837 unknown@Del.icio.us.com No description for this story Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:30:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/48837Videoanimationpost-itartstopmotionphotographydiamondsjournalismAfricaphotos http://web2announcer.com/go/35443 unknown@YahooMyWeb.com No description for this story Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:08:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/35443symbolsadinkraAfrica http://web2announcer.com/go/9539 unknown@ma.gnolia.com Wikis as textbooks, neat! Mon, 04 Sep 2006 07:00:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/9539SoftwareproductivityBookmarkingcollaborationscriptingdevelopmentreferencetutorialcsssystem:imported-tbd-spurl.netbookmarkspopularauthenticationLinuxSecuritycreative latitudearticlesclient needsmicah choquettephotoshopbrushesgraffitistencilsstreetartstickersartweblogDesignfreewareappsonlineservicesocialtagsInternetrdftoolsmysqlmacOSXwebdiggweb2.0web20socialsoftwareresearchwebdevbrowsersweblogsweb designwritingMoneyinternet explorerquotesjavascriptquicklinkenjoyinglifehackblogTechnologygradientguidehowtoMusicmyspacevideosTopVideosystem:unfiledimportedgoogleimagetaggamedarwinevolutionBiologyconservatismwikiseducationAfricapoverty http://web2announcer.com/go/7665 unknown@Netscape.com Attempts to conserve wildlife have unintended consequences. Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:29:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/7665PoliticsWildlifeAfricaenvironmentconservationanimal rightsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/7076 unknown@Netscape.com A U.N. force is critical to prevent a "planned offensive" on Darfur by the Sudanese government, the U.S. State Department's top diplomat on Africa said Friday while accusing Sudan of committing genocide. Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:16:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/7076Newsjendayi frazerAfricasudan http://web2announcer.com/go/5317 unknown@Netscape.com Fascinating case study on how the logic of fund-raising can drive NGOs to push for policies that are known to be harmful. Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:48:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/5317PoliticsenvorinmentAfricaconservationNGOsfundraisingNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2589 unknown@Netscape.com In the early- to mid-1950s, Dr. Paul Kuroda from the University of Arkansas described the possibility of naturally occurring nuclear reactors lurking in the crust of ancient Earth. Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:12:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2589ScienceNuclear ReactornatureAfricaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2555 unknown@Netscape.com Past research has shown that copper has strong anti-bacterial properties against worrisome pathogens such as the superbug MRSA. Whereas all cells need a bit of copper to grow, an excess can overwhelm a cell's mechanism to bind to the metal, effectively killing it from over-exertion. Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:54:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2555ScienceCopperAfricagerm killerNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2399 unknown@Netscape.com As the 5th anniversary of the September 11th attacks approaches, this article tries to remember the world that was. Discussing the path of the world before the War on Terror became a general doctrine. It's truly of utmost importance to remember what actually happened. This article points out why it's also important to look at what never did. Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:05:36 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2399Politics911War on TerrorAfricaAnniversaryNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1874 unknown@Netscape.com IRAN is seeking to import large consignments of bomb-making uranium from the African mining area that produced the Hiroshima bomb, an investigation has revealed.A United Nations report, dated July 18, said there was “no doubt” that a huge shipment of smuggled uranium 238, uncovered by customs officials in Tanzania, was transported from the Lubu Mon, 07 Aug 2006 04:07:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1874PoliticsiranNuclearUraniumAfricaNews