AFRICA ArchiveJERUSALEM IS THE SITE OF ANCIENT EDEN AND EVERYONE WANTS A PIECE OF HER From Jacob Sayer The original garden of Eden may have disappeared but the geographic location didn’t. Explorers, geologists and archaeologists could never pin-point her location, not without... PAN-AFRICAN UNIVERSITY GETS WELCOME BOOST OF FUNDS From Carl Retzig LAUNCH OF African Development Bank’s US$45 million GRANT IN SUPPORT OF THE PAN-AFRICAN UNIVERSITY PROJECT OF THE AFRICAN UNION. SMOKERS QUIT LEGAL SELLERS AS SOUTH AFRICA\'S ILLICIT TRADE BOOMS From Anton Reyes At present, 29% of cigarettes sold in South Africa, are illicit or do not comply with regulation in some way. That is seven billion illicit cigarettes out of a total of 29-billion... RWANDA USES MICRO-ENTERPRISE LOANS AS A ROUTE OUT OF POVERTY From Shelley Potts In Kigali, Rwanda, a little girl runs up to passers-by with samples from her mother’s new thriving market stall business that sells sweet potatoes, fruit, sugar, cooking... ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD VISION BEING UNDERMINED BY DIS-UNITY From Peter Janssen To the critics, the idea of bringing laptop computers to parts of the world that has war, starvation, drought and appalling infrastructure issues, seems like a waste of ... AFRICA LEADS THE WORLD IN MOBILE CASHLESS TRANSACTIONS From Patrick Keeley In Kenya, a staggering 68% of adults use mobile money (by far the highest rate in the world, partly because regulation is extremely light), more than 40% also have... SOUTH AFRICA FACES HUGE CHALLENGES AS THEIR MENTOR, NELSON MANDELA, DIES AT 95 From James Glover The former South African President who championed the end to apartheid has finally been set free from his own frail mortality. Yet in spite of his best efforts he did not live to see.... | Are you a budding Journalist? Are you working on a story? Can you factually support a future outcome to your subject that will interest our readers? Want to get paid for your story? Then get it published on this news site. We Guarantee publication. Going on vacation? Don't forget your camera. There's a story there, we need to hear about. So GET PAID while you're on vacation. Earn money from your talents. Bring your story, or content, to a Global Audience and join the thousands who contribute content to this site every day. Bringing a New Product or Service to market? Launching a New Website? Written a New Book, Script or Screen-play? Want to publicise a Press Release? Submit your content today and get noticed. FREE ADVERTISING through our index library and Optional Banner Ads available for direct links to your site or business. FOR RESEACHERS, full archive access using the latest in word search. Ideal for students and reporters. |