Is the Villagization Programme Changing People’s Lives?

[Ethiopian Herald] People who were gathered under the villagization programme are showing remarkable changes based on the social service facilities and trainings given to them.

[Ethiopian Herald] People who were gathered under the villagization programme are showing remarkable changes based on the social service facilities and trainings given to them.

source: AllAfrica News: Ethiopia

Agricultural Input Supply Tailored to Regions Objective Situation

[Ethiopian Herald] Ethiopian economy has been dependent on traditional agriculture for centuries. However, from the last few years, farmers have begun utilizing the modern agricultural technologies to increase their benefits from the sector. They have …

[Ethiopian Herald] Ethiopian economy has been dependent on traditional agriculture for centuries. However, from the last few years, farmers have begun utilizing the modern agricultural technologies to increase their benefits from the sector. They have shown incremental interest in the modern agricultural inputs especially during the summer season. Fertilizer has become farmers' day to day agenda as they have to prepare it before the sowing season.

source: AllAfrica News: Ethiopia

PFSA Says Efficient Drug Inventory System in Place

[Ethiopian Herald] Annual inventory of pharmaceuticals supply which used to take over two months is now being accomplished in about two weeks, says Pharmaceuticals Fund and Supply Agency (PFSA).

[Ethiopian Herald] Annual inventory of pharmaceuticals supply which used to take over two months is now being accomplished in about two weeks, says Pharmaceuticals Fund and Supply Agency (PFSA).

source: AllAfrica News: Ethiopia

State Department Press Briefing on Agoa Forum

[State Department] Washington, DC -Press Briefing with Mr. Peter Henry Barlerin, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, and Ms. Constance A. Hamilton, Acting Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Africa, Via Teleconference, Foreign Pr…

[State Department] Washington, DC -Press Briefing with Mr. Peter Henry Barlerin, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, and Ms. Constance A. Hamilton, Acting Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Africa, Via Teleconference, Foreign Press Center, Washington, DC OPERATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your patience in standing by. Welcome to the Preview Africa Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum. At this time, all of your participant phone lines are in listen-only mode, and later there will be an opportunity for your

source: AllAfrica News: Togo

Minister Tokozile Xasa Consults With Tourism Industry On National Tourism Sector Strategy

[Govt of SA] The Minister of Tourism Tokozile Xasa today consulted with the tourism industry on the Draft National Tourism Sector Strategy (NTSS). Hosted in Johannesburg, the consultative session was aimed at soliciting inputs, as well as stimulating t…

[Govt of SA] The Minister of Tourism Tokozile Xasa today consulted with the tourism industry on the Draft National Tourism Sector Strategy (NTSS). Hosted in Johannesburg, the consultative session was aimed at soliciting inputs, as well as stimulating the public and private sectors to ensure alignment and sharing of resources in the implementation of NTSS after approval by Cabinet.

source: AllAfrica News: South Africa

SA’s Racist Schools – an Opportunity for a Deeper Reflection On Race

[Daily Maverick] School segregation in South Africa, like everything else, was created by people who believed that biologically and culturally, white people are superior to black people and black inferiority was stamped from the beginning. After 60 yea…

[Daily Maverick] School segregation in South Africa, like everything else, was created by people who believed that biologically and culturally, white people are superior to black people and black inferiority was stamped from the beginning. After 60 years of apartheid and 350 years of colonialism such long-held historical ideas about black people, which had been turned into policy and law, could not have been miraculously expunged in one day, on 27 April 1994. What is needed is real and genuine reconciliation, and not one d

source: AllAfrica News: South Africa

Women At Work – an Annotated List of Seven Micro-Agressions All Women Can Relate to

[Daily Maverick] There’s irony in a day marked to honour women who fought against oppression being increasingly replaced by a collective gender micro-agression in the shape of unbridled consumerism. By AYESHA FAKIE.

[Daily Maverick] There's irony in a day marked to honour women who fought against oppression being increasingly replaced by a collective gender micro-agression in the shape of unbridled consumerism. By AYESHA FAKIE.

source: AllAfrica News: South Africa

Open Letter to ANC MPs On Eve of No Confidence Motion Debate

[Daily Maverick] We believe that the overwhelming majority of our citizens embrace the values of the Freedom Charter and the Constitution of our country and share this view. We would like to believe that we speak on behalf of all members of the ANC who…

[Daily Maverick] We believe that the overwhelming majority of our citizens embrace the values of the Freedom Charter and the Constitution of our country and share this view. We would like to believe that we speak on behalf of all members of the ANC who reject corruption; want to see the realisation of our potential as a nation, and the elimination of poverty and the unacceptable levels of inequality. By the ANC STALWARTS and VETERANS.

source: AllAfrica News: South Africa