Time up for Africa to achieve real green revolution, Annan says
Written by Adu Domfeh   
Thursday, 02 September 2010

Time has come to scale-up progress to achieve a uniquely African Green Revolution, former UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan and chair of African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) has said. But he acknowledged that Africa, with a lower density of critical infrastructure than Asia had in the 1960s, needs massive investments if agriculture is to have impact.

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Experts urge increase in agricultural investments
Written by Fidelis Khumalo   
Thursday, 02 September 2010

African agriculture would require an intensification of investments in key prime movers to “get it moving, Dr Anandaja-yasekeram Ponniah said at the ongoing Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) in Windhoek, Namibia.

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South African firm to promote, distribute MSD products in sub-Saharan Africa
Written by Henry Neondo   
Thursday, 02 September 2010

Adcock Ingram, South Africa's second largest pharmaceutical company will now be the distributor of MSD products in parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

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African media should take up the challenge of highlighting disasters unfolding in the continent more consistently and aggressively.

That malaria continues to kill innocent children when the disease is preventable and treatable is an anathema to scientists and the race to come up with new tools that would either help eliminate the disease or bring it under complete control is on....at times at a heavy trampling of human rights. But Prof Wen Kalema, coordinator of the African Malaria Network, AMANET says this should not be so.
Algeria is the highest ranked African country in terms of environment protection, according to the US Environmental Performance Index-2010 (EPI) researchers.
Africa has over 120 carbon market projects up and running or in the pipeline, in areas ranging from wind power to forestry schemes, a new assessment, published Wednesday shows.  However, in comparison to the rest of the world, the Continent is still lagging behind, with the potential for clean and green energy largely under-exploited. 

Kenya’s President, Mwai Kibaki opened the Second African Carbon Forum at the UN’s Complex Nairobi, lambasting COP 15 conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark last December for not coming up with any tangible binding resolution on climate change even when scientific evidence have shown the need for a Post-Kyoto Protocol framework.
Developing countries are currently importing large amount of livestock products to cover their deficits, yet ironically, they have numerous scientific research that could influence performance of their animal resources they own.

Marking the company’s first operator-branded delivery to Africa, Opera Software announces its new agreement with Namibia’s Cell One.

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