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46.137.226.203:55440 ]]> Sun, 03 Jun 2012 17:22:24 CEST flow007 Technology / Science 5 http://www.my-african-news.com/technology-science/an-update-on-the-censorship-in-ethiopia--1/ http://www.my-african-news.com/environment-nature-and-wildlife/ghanaian-non-profit-turns-trash-to-exports-environment-/ British architect Stuart Gold didn't want to accept the problem as intractable and founded the non-profit organization "Trashy Bags" which started to make hand bags from the discarded water sachets. ]]> Wed, 02 May 2012 13:47:53 CEST flow007 Environment / Nature 2 http://www.my-african-news.com/environment-nature-and-wildlife/ghanaian-non-profit-turns-trash-to-exports-environment-/ http://www.my-african-news.com/human-rights/mali-war-crimes-by-northern-rebels-human-rights-watch/ HRW also received credible information that Malian army soldiers have arbitrarily detained and, in some instances, summarily executed ethnic Tuareg members of the security services and civilians.
The recent fighting and insecurity, scarcity of food and medicine, and lack of functioning banks, schools, and services have caused tens of thousands of Malians to flee to the government-controlled South and neighboring countries. ]]> Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:59:31 CEST flow007 Human Rights 3 http://www.my-african-news.com/human-rights/mali-war-crimes-by-northern-rebels-human-rights-watch/ http://www.my-african-news.com/human-rights/ethiopia-netizens-outraged-as-ethiopia-steps-up-internet-censorship-%C2%B7-global-voices/ [...]
A recent document [am] said to be shared by sources close to The Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SMNE), an opposition movement based in the US, has made stronger claims that China supports Ethiopia’s online surveillance capacity in name of building Ethiopia’s national security. ]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:30:59 CEST flow007 Human Rights 3 http://www.my-african-news.com/human-rights/ethiopia-netizens-outraged-as-ethiopia-steps-up-internet-censorship-%C2%B7-global-voices/ http://www.my-african-news.com/politics-in-africa/egypt-the-drama-of-the-presidential-race--1/ The Ministry of Interior, however, failed to prove that his mother has US-American citizenship. The final decision of the Supreme Committee for Elections is now eagerly awaited.
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Lilian Lelei is an entrepreneur and a trained biogas mason. She sums up her engagement in three words, "biogas is real". Since 2005, Lilian started her own biogas construction company six years later employing four other masons to her now expanding business.
Constructing four biogas plants a month since she started, with a target to build between 30-40 plants per month, she now has over 20 functioning plants to her name in the North Rift regions of Tranzoia and Uasin Gishu counties of Kenya.

]]> Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:06:35 CEST flow007 Technology / Science 1 http://www.my-african-news.com/technology-science/biogas-is-real-%E2%80%93-africa-biogas-partnership-programme/ http://www.my-african-news.com/education-health/south-sudan-thousands-of-civilians-fleeing-for-their-lives-with-no-aid-msf-medical-facilities-looted-and-damaged/ Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:28:12 CET flow007 Education / Health 1 http://www.my-african-news.com/education-health/south-sudan-thousands-of-civilians-fleeing-for-their-lives-with-no-aid-msf-medical-facilities-looted-and-damaged/ http://www.my-african-news.com/video/police+brutally+in+egypt+by+elfares-boda-mov--youtube/ Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:26:49 CET flow007 Video 1 http://www.my-african-news.com/video/police+brutally+in+egypt+by+elfares-boda-mov--youtube/ http://www.my-african-news.com/politics-in-africa/carter-center-drc-presidential-election-results-lack-credibility/ Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:39:37 CET flow007 Politics 1 http://www.my-african-news.com/politics-in-africa/carter-center-drc-presidential-election-results-lack-credibility/ http://www.my-african-news.com/technology-science/garage48-from-an-idea-to-working-service-within-48-hours/ Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:26:05 CET flow007 Technology / Science 1 http://www.my-african-news.com/technology-science/garage48-from-an-idea-to-working-service-within-48-hours/ http://www.my-african-news.com/politics-in-africa/the-lord%E2%80%99s-resistance-army-end-game/ Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:19:38 CET flow007 Politics 1 http://www.my-african-news.com/politics-in-africa/the-lord%E2%80%99s-resistance-army-end-game/ http://www.my-african-news.com/politics-in-africa/africa-without-qaddafi-the-case-of-chad/ Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:07:33 CET flow007 Politics 1 http://www.my-african-news.com/politics-in-africa/africa-without-qaddafi-the-case-of-chad/ http://www.my-african-news.com/education-health/dspace-open-access-repository-development-in-africa-mozambique-senegal-open-access-week/ Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:15:26 CEST flow007 Education / Health 1 http://www.my-african-news.com/education-health/dspace-open-access-repository-development-in-africa-mozambique-senegal-open-access-week/ http://www.my-african-news.com/human-rights/libya-apparent-execution-of-53-gaddafi-supporters-human-rights-watch/
Human Rights Watch called on Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) to conduct an immediate and transparent investigation into the apparent mass execution and to bring those responsible to justice.
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Capital news radio quoted a witness who said a man had asked to be let in to the bar shortly after 3 a.m. (0000 GMT), when he hurled a grenade and fled the scene. ]]> Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:38:17 CEST flow007 Politics 1 http://www.my-african-news.com/politics-in-africa/grenade-attack-at-nairobi-bar-wounds-12-police-alertnet/ http://www.my-african-news.com/food-agriculture/farm-africa-opens-calls-for-concept-notes-to-its-new-enterprise-fund-latest-news-farm-africa-1/
Maendeleo Agricultural Enterprise Fund aims to increase agricultural productivity in East Africa sustainably, generate income and to lift rural households out of poverty and food insecurity.
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Now, four years later, we are back in the same place, with President Yoweri Museveni threatening the fate of Mabira. This time, as a backdrop, there are soaring sugar prices, which he uses to justify the need to chop down the forest and grow more sugarcane. ]]> Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:07:08 CEST flow007 Environment / Nature 1 http://www.my-african-news.com/environment-nature-and-wildlife/freethinkers-night-august-2011-%E2%80%93-why-all-the-fuss-over-mabira-forest-freethought-kampala/ http://www.my-african-news.com/technology-science/daily-nation%C2%A0-news%C2%A0developing-toll-of-nairobi-fire-likely-more-than-100/
Emergency services were scrambled early on Monday as a huge fire went off at Sinai slums near a fuel depot off Lunga Lunga road in Nairobi’s Industrial Area.

Witnesses said oil leakage from a pipeline feeding a Kenya Pipeline petroleum depot that neighbours the slum. ]]> Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:49:37 CEST flow007 Technology / Science 1 http://www.my-african-news.com/technology-science/daily-nation%C2%A0-news%C2%A0developing-toll-of-nairobi-fire-likely-more-than-100/ http://www.my-african-news.com/education-health/how-african-nation-%E2%80%9Ceritrea%E2%80%9D-fight-successful-malaria-digob-com/
About $1 billion of Bill Gates donation/tax deduction was ear marked for research to find a vaccine to prevent malaria which is the number one killer in Africa.

Thomas C. Mountain lives in Eritrea in the Horn of Africa and the government there has reduced malaria mortality by over 80% in the last decade. This is the biggest breakthrough in preventing malaria mortality in history yet there has yet to be a single story on this in any of the major international media. ]]> Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:33:07 CEST flow007 Education / Health 1 http://www.my-african-news.com/education-health/how-african-nation-%E2%80%9Ceritrea%E2%80%9D-fight-successful-malaria-digob-com/ http://www.my-african-news.com/society/egyptian-blogger-on-hunger-strike-while-china-and-trinidad-crack-down-electronic-frontier-foundation/ Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:24:35 CEST flow007 Society 1 http://www.my-african-news.com/society/egyptian-blogger-on-hunger-strike-while-china-and-trinidad-crack-down-electronic-frontier-foundation/