20111026 Reuters (Reuters) - Rapidly growing megacities in Africa and Asia face the highest risks from rising sea levels, floods and other climate change impacts, says a global survey aimed at guiding city planners and investors.
20111026 Reuters (Reuters) - A proposal to appoint a Commonwealth human rights commissioner to steer a more proactive rights agenda looks set to test a leaders' summit this week, with host Australia backing the plan but India and South Africa reported to oppose it.
20111025 Reuters (Reuters) - The United States is increasing food aid to drought-hit and strife-torn Horn of Africa nations where millions of people are at risk of starvation and malnutrition, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday.
20111020 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Morocco showed the biggest improvement as a place to do business this year, leading a surge of business-friendly reforms in Africa and Eastern Europe, a World Bank study showed on Wednesday.
20111019 Reuters NAIROBI (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund forecast on Wednesday a rosy outlook for Sub Saharan Africa growth in 2012 but warned of significant risks from global financial volatility that could subdue demand and private inflows into the world's poorest continent.
20111018 Reuters DAKAR (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's deployment of 100 military advisers to help defeat Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) may yield him a popular foreign policy win but risks triggering more violence if it fails.
20111016 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said in a letter to Congress on Friday he is deploying around 100 U.S. military advisers to Uganda to support regional forces pursuing Joseph Kony and other Lord's Resistance Army commanders.
20111014 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - By 2060 three quarters of Africa's 2 billion-plus people will be cities and most countries will be "upper middle income", but economic growth will still lag Asia's, the African Development Bank (AfDB) said on Thursday.
20111014 Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Malawi will allow Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir into the country for a regional trade summit starting on Friday and has no plans to arrest him under an International Criminal Court warrant, a senior government official said on Thursday.
20111010 Reuters ROME (Reuters) - Food prices are likely to become more volatile in coming years, increasing the risk that more poor people in import-dependent countries will go hungry, the United Nations said in an annual report on food insecurity published on Monday.
20110927 Reuters BERLIN (Reuters) - Africa is starting to appear on the radar screens of western retailers as they look for the next growth opportunity in emerging markets while having to cope with subdued consumer spending at home.
20110926 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the world's finance czars clamored this week for decisive action to clean up Europe's debt crisis, ministers from the planet's poorest region Africa were quietly saying "been there, done that".
20110924 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A global downturn may tone down the roar of Africa's bounding "lion" economies, but they can keep a spring in their step if governments deepen reforms and maintain prudent policies, the World Bank and IMF say.
20110921 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is building a ring of secret drone bases in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of an aggressive campaign against al Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing U.S. officials.
20110920 Reuters BANGUI (Reuters) - At least 21 people have been killed in running gun clashes between two former rebel groups seeking control of a diamond-mining area in Central African Republic, sources told Reuters on Monday.
20110825 Reuters OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso, a former recipient of large amounts of Libyan aid, has offered Muammar Gaddafi exile but has also recognised the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) as Libya's government.
20110820 Reuters DAKAR (Reuters) - Expected aid cutbacks in developed nations and a push by some African governments to tackle yawning infrastructure gaps by public-private partnerships present a real opportunity for investors on the continent, the World Bank private sector arm said on Friday.
20110721 Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao told his South African counterpart, Jacob Zuma, on Thursday that China will work with the African Union in finding a solution to the Libyan crisis, state news agency Xinhua reported.
20110707 Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - More than a billion people in 19 countries are now covered by laws requiring large, graphic health warnings on tobacco packs but too many countries are still not doing enough to cut smoking rates, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday.
20110630 Reuters ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court's deputy prosecutor rejected charges it unfairly targets Africa on Wednesday, saying the victims were also African and that indictments were led by referrals from Africans themselves.
