The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor says he is pursuing a new case against senior Sudanese officials believed to be involved in the Darfur conflict.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo told reporters Friday he will announce details when he briefs the United Nations Security Council next week. He suggested the officials involved are at an even higher level than [...]

Nigeria appears to be at a tipping point, and President Yar’Adua may be the person to decide the direction it goes. After several decades of wasted resources and missed opportunities, it is just a matter of time before the twisted “national nuts and bolts” start popping out of alignment. To succeed, Yar’Adua must manifest in right measures, exemplary leadership qualities. And he has less than three years to prove he has what it takes.

In December 2005 Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus and the bank he founded, Grameen Bank, which created a new category of banking by granting millions of small loans to poor people with no collateral—helping to establish the microcredit movement across the developing world—won the Nobel Peace Prize. On its Web site, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said it [...]

Fact: Africa generates abysmally low output of electricity. While Africa is flush with biomass, a sustainable and cheap source of energy, its use as an alternative fuel source for electric power plant is yet to take foothold.
This may be changing soon - Timbuktu Chronicles reports on a biomass/biogas powered “off-grid” power plant [...]

The global food and fuel price crisis presents a “strategic opportunity” to West African states to become more food-secure according to agricultural analysts, but they will only achieve this by committing 10 percent of state budgets to agriculture and better exploiting their comparative advantage.
In the face of on-average 45 percent cereal price rises since mid-2006, [...]

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This another scintillating presentation from TED conferences. Dr Seyi Oyesola gives an impressive and passionate presentation on the state of health care in his home country, Nigeria, and how he and some of his colleagues were able to perform open heart surgeries in one of the most challenging environment. Enjoy!