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Education | African Child Celebration 2013 ...Theme: 'Eliminating Harmful Social And Cultural Practices Affecting Children Education: Our Collective Responsibility'

Society | African Women Plan Strategies to Solve Women Issues

Market place | Sudan Formally Orders Firms to Shut South's Oil Flow

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Growing Optimism in African Power Market as Africa Energy Forum Starts in Barcelona This Week

Some 800 power professionals, including 11 African ministers, as well as heads of utilities, regulators and international energy companies, will attend the Africa Energy Forum from 18-20 June in Barcelona to address pressing issues concerning Africa’s power sector, including partnerships, finance, investment and renewable energy. ...

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Social Entrepreneurship

Huawei in Kenya Partners with SlumCode Group to Invest in Skills Transfer for Youth in Slums

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, and SlumCode Group an organization founded by the youth to change their community through access to information and digital literacy, today signed a partnership that will see emerging entrepreneurs transforming their business processes through ICT. The two parties will build partnership throughout the year to encourage the youth on taking up technology in their day to day business.

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Market place

Sudan Formally Orders Firms to Shut South's Oil Flow

Sudan's oil ministry formally told oil companies on Tuesday to block the export flow of South Sudanese crude oil, following an order from President Omar al-Bashir. Oil Minister Awad Ahmad al-Jaz presented the written directive in a meeting with senior executives of the GNPOC joint operating company and Petrodar, the ministry said.

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Leadership

African Youths Demand Involvement In Governance

Ask members of the African political elite, civil society activists or anyone else about the role of youths in national development and you will hear a lot of profound, if trite, catchphrases, such as 'The youths are the future; they are the leaders of tomorrow.' African leaders even declared 2009-18 the African Youth Decade. Before that, in 2006, they adopted the African Youth Charter, with one of the goals being to lure younger people into participating in political debates and decision-making processes.

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Work place

Apple's Tim Cook Defends Tax Claim

The technology giant Apple has been defending itself against accusations that it's avoided paying tax on tens of billions of dollars in profits. Chief executive Tim Cook told a US Senate committee Apple paid all the taxes it owed, complying with both the law, and the spirit of the law. He said last year it paid $6bn to the US Treasury, a tax rate of about 30%.

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Environment

World Day To Combat Desertification 2013; Theme: Don’t Let Our Future Dry Up

The goal of the 2013 World Day to Combat Desertification is to create awareness about the risks of drought and water scarcity in the drylands and beyond, calling attention to the importance of sustaining healthy soils as part of post Rio+20 agenda, as well as the post-2015 sustainable development agenda.

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Health

Breastfeeding can Reduce High Blood Pressure

It is known to have health benefits for both mother and baby, but a new study shows that breastfeeding can also lower the chance of mothers developing high blood pressure - even decades later. The researchers, from the University of Western Sydney, also found that the longer a woman breastfed, the lower her odds of developing high blood pressure before the age of 64.

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Education

African Child Celebration 2013 ...Theme: 'Eliminating Harmful Social And Cultural Practices Affecting Children Education: Our Collective Responsibility'

37 years ago (1976 -2013) today in Soweto, South Africa, thousands of black school children took to the streets in a march more than half a mile long, to protest the inferior quality of their education and to demand their right to be taught in their own language. Hundreds of young boys and girls were short down; and in the two weeks of protest that followed, more than a hundred people were killed and more than a thousand were injured. To honour the memory of those killed and the courage of all those who marched, the Day of the African Child has been celebrated on 16 June every year since 1991, when it was first initialized by the then organization of African Unity, now the African Union. The day draws attention to the lives of African Children today.

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CSR Reports

Renowned Fashion Entrepreneur Bertha Owusu Launches ‘The Bertha Owusu Ovarian Cancer Foundation'

The Bertha Owusu Ovarian Cancer Foundation will be launched on Saturday 17th August at the Alisa Hotel, North Ridge in Accra Ghana at exactly 10am. The launch will attract women in higher offices in Ghana and other African countries.

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Social Initiatives

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim to Make Historic Joint Visit to Africa’s Great Lakes Region May 22-24

World Bank Group President Dr. Jim Yong Kim and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make an historic joint visit to Africa’s Great Lakes region from May 22nd – 24th in support of a recent landmark peace agreement and to push for economic development in one of the world’s most troubled regions.

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Society

African Women Plan Strategies to Solve Women Issues

African women have been challenged to come up with strategies that will help address the numerous challenges faced by women on the continent. The challenge was thrown to them at the opening of the 2013 African Women in Leadership Conference currently underway at Akwa Ibom state in Nigeria.

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Features

Dates Set for African and European Qualifying Draws

The FIFA World Cup™ Local Organising Committee has set the dates for the draws of the African qualifying third round and the European play-off stage.

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African Leaders Ideas Exchange

3rd Annual IT Infrastructure Africa Summit Set to Target IT Executives

The 3rd annual IT Infrastructure Africa Summit will be held at the Westin Hotel in Cape Town from 20 to 21 June 2013. Hosted by international business-to-business conferencing company, Kinetic. The Summit will provide definitive analysis on IT infrastructure and Operational technologies and trends.

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AfricanCEO

'Technology that Enriches Lives', an Interview on Huawei’s Work in Africa

Mr. Dafeng In a previous 'Huawei Android Challeng' event. (Image: CSR Africa Files)

CSR Africa’s Publisher, Dr. John Muthee met Mr. Dafeng, Huawei’s Regional President for East and Central Africa on the sidelines of the 5th BRICS summit at Durban, South Africa. Partly sponsored by Huawei, the summit brought the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa together in a shared goal of achieving peace, security and development through mutual cooperation.

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AfricanCIO

Equatorial Guinea's First Lady Awarded For Her Leadership In Social Development

In a speech at the Millennium Development Goals 2013 Women's Progress Awards, Constancia Manque Nsue de Obiang, First Lady of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, received the Millenium Development Goals 2013 Women's Progress award at a gala hosted last night by Voices of African Mothers, Reed for Hope Foundation and Bethesda Counsel held at the United Nations. Mrs. Obiang was honored for her leadership in social development in the country and her contributions to improving the standard of living of Equatorial Guinea's women and children.

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Lifestyle

Miss ECOWAS Ghana 2013 Takes Off

This year's Miss ECOWAS Ghana 2013 auditions will kick off on Friday, June 14th at the Golden Tulip Hotel Accra at exactly 8:00am. This Peace Pageant looks for intelligent, bold and beautiful young ladies of Ghanaian descent, 18 to 24 years of age who are passionate and goal- driven, and given the chance to be heard.

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