Africa

So, the wind is now coming from the northeast out of India, across the Indian Ocean, this way towards Africa.

So what we're trying to piece together here is a story. It involves flying reptiles like this Pterosaur that we reconstructed from Africa.

We were simply glad to be back in primitive Africa again and in an atmosphere where the unexpected might just possibly happen.

A step towards this will come today, with the signature of an "Africa-India Framework for Co-operation" and a "Delhi Declaration" , he said.

He smelled the tar and oakum of the deck as he slept and he smelled the smell of Africa that the land breeze brought at morning.

South Africa has seen political protests against apartheid, but not the sort of race riots and pogroms America's South suffered from.

Mr Aristide said he was "ready" to return from South Africa.

South Africa was the only BRICS nation to approve the resolution, but it became the leading force mediating for a cease-fire in Libya.

You might have heard that Mozambique is trying to evacuate about 10, 000 of its nationals out of South Africa.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A century ago, it was the explorers and infantrymen of Europe's great powers slugging it out for slices of Africa.

Among other plays on the geo- political chess board, Obama could turn out to be something of a foil for Beijing's plans in Africa.

Africa is in many ways going through something of an economic renaissance.

Omar Bongo was one of Africa's youngest leaders when he took power at the age of 31 after the death of Gabon's first president, Leon M'ba.

Since the dawn of humanity in Africa, drums have provided the pulse of our history. They continue to help us celebrate our common humanity.

The idea would seem to fit with a few tantalising finds that have emerged from Africa and the Middle East over recent years.

When conditions are right, we know and see that that innovation is ready to explode in rural Africa, just like anywhere else.

Rescuers were today searching for a British couple feared to have been kidnapped by pirates off the east coast of Africa.

That the budget of one war enough to satisfy the hungry Africa, not to mention the budget arm of one of the major powers.

In the case of an attack on Libya, a fourth war theater would be opened up in North Africa, with the risk of military escalation.

Tamarind is native to Africa, and its seeds have been used traditionally to treat a range of disorders, including burns.

DEBUNKING: This is often trotted out to explain the high toll of AIDS in Africa.

The company expects sales in Africa to grow by an annual 10-13% over the next few years, handily outstripping economic growth.

Premier Anna Bligh said the area about three quarters of a disaster area, the equivalent land area of South Africa.

If all this were to happen, South Africa's press would end up being subject to restrictions not seen since the days of apartheid.

Without it, a cargo ship sailing from Italy to Singapore had to go around the southern tip of Africa, doubling the time and distance.

Their clients are to be found in New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Washington and a few other rich urban agglomerations outside Africa.

Here we are on the Serengeti Plain in Africa, where an ostrich has abandoned an egg and a hungry jackal means to make a meal out of it.

He was by a river in East Africa, facing the camera and up close to it, squatting down, getting ready to take a photograph of something.

"China is in Africa for China primarily, " he said, according to a confidential cable written by the US consul-general in Lagos.

She then experienced a vision from God calling on her to save Africa.

But, Lelyveld writes, "South Africa . . . challenged him from the start to explain what he thought he was doing there in his brown skin. "

South Africa believed that the voice and experience of indigenous and local communities had been a vital contribution to the IGC's work.

Just a few days ago I came across Robert Setshedi, a young pharmacist working in the rural Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

In large parts of Africa, cancer is only diagnosed in the late stages, pain relief is lacking, and palliative care is in its infancy.

It had occurred on land, in rainforests of South America and Africa, where landowners had been paid not to cut the trees down.

One result, he said, was that protocols were improved and more countries added: South Africa, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Thailand.

Indeed, mutual recriminations seem to be on the rise. What is China up to in Africa?

A conductor of a train in South Africa reported seeing a man and a woman engaging in sexual acts while on the train tracks.

He gave all his fortune to the poor children in Africa.

He made it clear that if Africa wanted to be treated fairly on the international stage, it had to get its own house in order.

With an 18. 9% increase, Africa was the only region to see premium traffic rise.

What is the worst thing you could possibly do when widespread famine in Africa is all over the news?

Africa, he argues, is a black continent, a place where blacks deserve not just a piece of pie, but most of it.

Most of sub-Saharan Africa seems to be sunk in a perpetual drought that has fed a numbing series of civil wars.

Thabethe, who was diagnosed with HIV in 2001 and told she had a year to live, calls South Africa "the epicenter of the epidemic. "

The new vaccine is the result of a deliberate effort to get ahead of these epidemics, at a price affordable in Africa.

The company used to deal with Africa only through unsolicited emails but is now considering opening an office in Lagos.

He is trying to counter the impression in parts of Africa that China is engaged in a neo-colonial scramble for mineral resources.

well, I grew up in Africa, so I learned quite a few different languages.

A year ago, she traveled to Africa, where she met with many of the children for whom she works to recruit sponsors.

She said the US had already provided $431m this year in emergency aid to the Horn of Africa, but that was "not enough" .

After listening to his mother talk about Kenya and his father's life there, Barry visited the public library and read a book on East Africa.

"He brought me a giant wooden giraffe from Africa, " she said, adding that Clinton had also bought the Chanel watch she was wearing.

African Union head Alpha Oumar Konare said the meeting had understood Africa's aspirations for a partnership on an equal footing.

Most of the studies in the review had been conducted in the United States, while one came out of Canada and the other out of South Africa.

TINY, landlocked Rwanda is sometimes touted as Africa's high-tech economy. It is still a bit early for that, however.

With the 2010 World Cup in South Africa just a few months from now, an official World Cup game from EA Sports was a virtual certainty.

To get a sense of just how long, he says, imagine a giant with her head in Baltimore and her toe off the coast of South Africa.

He argued that, 'China has always supported Africa and that this position has not changed. '

When it looked as though they would vote against his proposal for a united Africa, he briefly tried to ship them out to sea.

Even South Africa, whose spineless president, Thabo Mbeki, is still refusing to criticise Mr Mugabe outright, has begun to turn against him.

The boat had sailed round the Cape of Good Hope , up the western coast of Africa , and finally to England .

We have no idea how the string of revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa this year is going to turn out.

The Bank plans to nearly double agricultural lending to Africa from US$450 million to US$800 million over the next year.

"Africa is lacking in samples, " a deficiency he attributes in part to an unfortunate accident. "Early on, I had a rack collapse, " he said.

WHEN he became president of South Africa just over a year ago, Jacob Zuma promised to quench South Africans' thirst for renewal.

This was mainly a bid for a legacy, but he also believed Africa's poverty made it a breeding ground or haven for terrorism.

But it was also a year when a long-term collaboration culminated an affordable vaccine to eliminate one of Africa's biggest health problems.

Hasselblad accom-paned him on a world tour that took him to Egypt, Italy, Mexico, India, Japan, Thailand and finally to Africa.

'We just have to see about that, whether it works in Africa, ' he said.

As in South Africa, they might have found a different way.

Martin Skrtel is hoping his World Cup dream is still alive as he battles to be fit for South Africa after his metatarsal break.

A species of acacia tree found in Eastern Africa seems to be protected from elephant damage - by the ants that live on it.

The second phase of funding is due to be announced at the beginning of April with a further 25 projects across Africa to be announced.

I love to improvise and he loves to improvise, so it was just a jam session in Africa.

So that birds going to Siberia, to Europe, and to Africa carried the virus, which had not previously been possible.

Warm temperate conditions are typical of South Africa, making it a popular destination for sunshine-seekers.

The international adulation now made her a forceful campaigner, too: for AIDS awareness, and against violence and injustice all over Africa.

Within the last 200, 000 years, we all share an ancestor, a single person, Mitochondrial Eve -- you might have heard about her -- in Africa.

Country Style Flowers was an international success selling in Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and South Africa.

Angola was the third stop on an African trip that has already taken her to Kenya and South Africa.

Enthusiasm for Africa may be growing; finding an outlet for that enthusiasm can be a problem at the moment.

In Africa I met a girl, who was crying as if her heart would break and said that she had had no food for two days.

Due to his unique personal experiences in South Africa, Coetzee lapses into a state of perplexity.

Beth: Oh, no! I don't like snow. I really miss South Africa. There the sky is always blue, and the sun shines brightly.

He had come to the Sahel from Australia four years earlier with his wife and infant son (they would have three more children in Africa).

We got to talking and I learned more about his country and the continent of Africa in 30 minutes than I ever knew before then.

There was one from someone in Africa in the first round who was going to use the house as a means of baiting and trapping mosquitoes.

Paul's request presented a bit of a challenge since I am by no means an expert on Africa, but it was a welcome one nonetheless.

Critics say such munificence is just a way for Chinese firms to get a leg up over competitors in the scramble to lock up Africa's resources.

Within the last 200, 000 years, we all share an ancestor, a single person, Mitochondrial Eve -- you might have heard about her -- in Africa.

Country Style Flowers was an international success selling in Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and South Africa.

You would need several, however, to count the number of new Africa funds launched since the beginning of this year.

She had a very positive attitude as she spoke of friendship and partnership between China and Africa.

Angola was the third stop on an African trip that has already taken her to Kenya and South Africa.

Enthusiasm for Africa may be growing; finding an outlet for that enthusiasm can be a problem at the moment.

In Africa I met a girl, who was crying as if her heart would break and said that she had had no food for two days.

Due to his unique personal experiences in South Africa, Coetzee lapses into a state of perplexity.

Beth: Oh, no! I don't like snow. I really miss South Africa. There the sky is always blue, and the sun shines brightly.

He had come to the Sahel from Australia four years earlier with his wife and infant son (they would have three more children in Africa).

Angola was the third stop on an African trip that has already taken her to Kenya and South Africa.

Enthusiasm for Africa may be growing; finding an outlet for that enthusiasm can be a problem at the moment.

In Africa I met a girl, who was crying as if her heart would break and said that she had had no food for two days.

Due to his unique personal experiences in South Africa, Coetzee lapses into a state of perplexity.

Beth: Oh, no! I don't like snow. I really miss South Africa. There the sky is always blue, and the sun shines brightly.

He had come to the Sahel from Australia four years earlier with his wife and infant son (they would have three more children in Africa).

We got to talking and I learned more about his country and the continent of Africa in 30 minutes than I ever knew before then.

There was one from someone in Africa in the first round who was going to use the house as a means of baiting and trapping mosquitoes.

Paul's request presented a bit of a challenge since I am by no means an expert on Africa, but it was a welcome one nonetheless.

Critics say such munificence is just a way for Chinese firms to get a leg up over competitors in the scramble to lock up Africa's resources.

We got to talking and I learned more about his country and the continent of Africa in 30 minutes than I ever knew before then.

There was one from someone in Africa in the first round who was going to use the house as a means of baiting and trapping mosquitoes.

Paul's request presented a bit of a challenge since I am by no means an expert on Africa, but it was a welcome one nonetheless.

Critics say such munificence is just a way for Chinese firms to get a leg up over competitors in the scramble to lock up Africa's resources.

Some people say that this is the least punished crime in the world, and I also want to underline that it is not only a problem in Africa.

If he did, I'm sure we'd have found some way to communicate by now, even it was one of those clicking languages from southern Africa.

As is often the case in Africa, the customers enjoy the drink on the premises, the deposit on the bottles being too dear.

Years of agonizing challenges no doubt lie ahead for Africa.

I've been shot, stabbed and beaten more times than I can recall. These here, was a spear thrust by a tribesman of Africa.

Lessing's fiction is deeply autobiographical, much of it emerging out of her experiences in Africa.

Years of agonizing challenges no doubt lie ahead for Africa.

I've been shot, stabbed and beaten more times than I can recall. These here, was a spear thrust by a tribesman of Africa.

Lessing's fiction is deeply autobiographical, much of it emerging out of her experiences in Africa.

It was not immediately clear how it reached west Africa, but experts said the priority was to contain it before it could spread any further.

Our assistance to and cooperation with Africa is selfless and has no political strings attached. This is clear for all to see.

Had he been less of a buffoon, South Africa's road to democracy might have been bloodier.

If it has as much "solidarity" with Africa as it claims, it could offer to lower tariffs on processed goods.

Some countries have played down the question of concurrent partnerships, a particular cause of trouble in parts of Africa.

He did not know from which part of Africa his ancestor had come.

He said that there have been frequent exchanges of visits and increasing cooperation between China and Africa this year.

Some countries have played down the question of concurrent partnerships, a particular cause of trouble in parts of Africa.

He did not know from which part of Africa his ancestor had come.

He said that there have been frequent exchanges of visits and increasing cooperation between China and Africa this year.

Studies show farmland in Africa is often lacking in important nutrients . But researchers say a combination of farming methods may help.

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And most of Africa is actually poorer today than it was a few decades ago, when aid dollars began to increase.

What Yao tried to say was that similar to China as it has sought to expand in Africa, Google has had to adapt to local rules in China.

After Alphie the piglet was abandoned by his mother, the owner Claire, who lived in Cape Town, South Africa, decided to bottle-feed him.

France, long a symbol of colonialist oppression in North Africa, looked once again like the hated imperial power it had formerly been.

He began to cultivate an image as the wise man of Africa, playing host to other leaders.

After Alphie the piglet was abandoned by his mother, the owner Claire, who lived in Cape Town, South Africa, decided to bottle-feed him.

France, long a symbol of colonialist oppression in North Africa, looked once again like the hated imperial power it had formerly been.

He began to cultivate an image as the wise man of Africa, playing host to other leaders.

This seems to be a problem that Africa as a whole will have to overcome.

He said Mr. Berlusconi agreed with him on the way forward both in respect of Africa and climate change.

Here, I wish to say a big thank you to all the friends here for your dedication to China-Africa cooperation and friendship.

For her part, Dlamini-Zuma says China is an important strategic partner in Africa's push for modernization and sustainable development.

"This is a South Africa I don't know, " he said. "The country became pleasantly alien to me. "

One of these products, the RTS, S candidate malaria vaccine, is now undergoing a very large phase III trial in Africa.

Swaziland has asked South Africa for a financial bailout as it risks running out of money, South Africa's top foreign affairs official says.

Swaziland has asked South Africa for a financial bailout as it risks running out of money, South Africa's top foreign affairs official says.

Chinese firms faced something of a popular and political backlash in Africa, and some warn a similar dynamic may be rising in Europe.

Sorghum is still used widely today in Africa. Now it looks as if it might be part of the original family recipe.

So, Homo erectus was the first human ancestor to leave Africa and begin its spread across the globe.

We'll have to see over the course of the next few days when he can fly to South Africa and join the squad.

She had not, however, been named a National Merit finalist, dug a well for a village in Africa, or climbed to the top of Mount Rainier.

ANNOUNCER: Thousands of would be migrants are taking advantage of summer weather and calm seas to try to cross from Africa to Europe.

"After 1990, when Mandela walked out of that prison, we saw it as a beginning of the creation of a new South Africa, " he said.

People in Europe and Africa will be able to see it high in the sky before dawn on Thursday.

The children must be taught at an early age that this is South Africa's game.

That would be a bit like Robert Mugabe apologising for the British South Africa Company's conduct in the Matabele wars.

Africa, he argues, is a black continent, a place where blacks deserves not just a piece of pie, but most of it.

Allan Jury is with the World Food Program. He said the situation is worsening and pleads for better access inside the Horn of Africa nation.

As I said earlier, Africa's future is up to Africans.

111. The United States continues to maintain that South Africa has no right to apply the Terrorism Act to Namibia or to those prisoners.

So she has come up with a charity for her company to sponsor in Africa, and suddenly claimed that the meaning was back in her job.

"One of the challenges we faced in Africa was that there was very little information, " he says.

That might have been the beginning of the end for Kony, but Central Africa's turbulent regional politics had just shifted in his favor.

So much that I am not so sure if I really have a place in Africa I really can call home!

Ms Ramos, born in Lisbon, came to South Africa as a child with her mother and bricklayer father.

This was a connection, just a meeting with somebody who wanted to develop Africa's first telemedicine center, in Tanzania.

China also possibly is investing more in Africa than any other single country, he said.

The company sells about 60% of its phones in the U. S. and the rest mostly to dealers in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Though testing is widely available and treatment is often free, only 5 percent of South Africa's population has been tested, she said.

While it may be the largest in Africa, it is only a bit bigger than China's sixth-richest province.

Although South Africa is far behind the rest of the world, offering EFT as your only form of payment is no longer enough.

After a match with the national team in South Africa, then coach Passarella called me to his room and told me that Inter were to sign me.

At least one of every two 15-year-old boys in Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana is on track to die of AIDS.

Before that, every Brazilian hopes to see him in rude health in South Africa.

Such a stark contrast between the dark desolate lifeless desert of northern Africa and the Nile River teeming with life along its shores.

But Africa's slaving kings and entrepreneurs seem to have squandered their profits. They left no great political or commercial empires.

South Africa cannot block the unfreezing of the rest of Libya's assets indefinitely, as it has no veto at the UN Security Council.

If Africa wants to be thought of as a Bric it should not be as hard as it is often made out.

Fifa are investigating why thousands of fans failed to turn up for the opening matches of the World Cup in South Africa.

The duckling did not seem the least bit intimidated and for good reason, as Africa's gentle giants eat mostly fruits and plants.

South Africa, which had a rash of blackouts in 2008 and imports electricity from its neighbours, sorely needs more generating capacity.

Such a great feeling to be back with my camera among the wilderness and wild animals of Africa! Plenty of pics to edit already.

Mr. Gunton is now starting work on a series about Africa. He said each of the series take "between three and five years to make. "

They were obliged to make peace with him and to be content with dominion over Africa, leaving Sicily to Agathocles.

The company pegs the Africa home brew market at triple that of traditional beer.

The quality of Chinese construction in Africa is often perceived to be shoddy.

Leaving children behind is one of the hardest parts of migrant life, whether the home village is in southern Africa or east Asia.

The place that there is often a sand storm is mainly in Central Asia, North America, Central Africa and Australia.

Leaders from southern Africa said they were ready to send soldiers to Congo "if and when necessary" , raising fears of a regional war.

She had been scheduled to leave for Africa, but delayed her trip to get me through the necessary surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital.

Africa, of course, is not Atlanta, and Coke is, in a sense, sticking its hand into a bees' nest to get some honey.

I'm trying to bring the experience that I had at Swarthmore to Africa. I wish there was a liberal arts college in every African country.

IT SEEMS, for the moment, as if South Africa's governing class is being engulfed by charges of corruption.

In a recent book, Professor Easterly suggests bed nets given freely in Africa are often used for the wrong purpose.

And I think his message is basically in tandem with that of Obama - Africa should look up to itself, " Muluka said. "

But all that knowledge doesn't matter if there's no one to pass it along, as is often the case in rural hospitals in South Africa.

At the moment, according to Prado, Brazil's government spends just $17 million or so a year on agricultural cooperation projects in Africa.

The incident comes less than a year after a similar outage brought a halt to communications between Europe, Africa and Asia.

The World Bank president's comments came as he prepared to embark on a week long visit to Africa, beginning on Sunday, June 12.

As a result of that modeling I ended up in all places, in Eritrea, in the Horn of Africa.

It is tough to see how South Africa matches up to these four countries, never mind the BRIC countries.

AMONG the white tribes of Africa, it used to be said, the Rhodesians stood out for their ordinariness.

South Africa, the continent'seconomic powerhouse, is no longer as dominant as it once was in terms of mobile phone usage.

The company recently decided to put more focus on Africa, especially in Nigeria where it is trying to become a leader in selling generators.

"Without trying to make her look like the stupid one, I calmly explained, " Capecod is in Massachusetts, Capetown is in Africa.

Most of his group's money comes from transport and logistics, with a strong position in Africa, and from petrol distribution in France.

The epicentres of these quakes have so far been seen across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and other parts of the globe.

Nothing can erase from her mind the memory of the terrible experiences in her travel to Africa.

The method has previously been used to fight rinderpest in Africa and Asia and hog cholera in South America.

She said it is also in the U. S. interest to help the nations of Africa build stable societies.

Following the beating-up of MDC leaders last March, South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, has been trying to mediate between the two sides.

The idea of a Nilotic invasion was a way to explain away the existence of sophisticated kingdoms in the heart of Africa.

Economically, it continues to be seen as a collection of vastly diverse states, no more able to act as a single unit than, say, Africa.

Activists say Canada is trying to block a deal that ensures western nations live up to promises to boost aid to Africa.

Attacks on immigrants are nothing new in South Africa, and it's very easy to see where the tension is coming from.

Same-sex marriage is now legal nationwide in 11 countries, including Argentina and South Africa, as well as in parts of a further two.

Since the creation of the command, the question of a headquarters in Africa has been raised regularly.

He said it would be wrong to draw comparison between the situations in the Middle East and north Africa and that of China.

Africa is still something of a demographic outlier compared with the rest of the developing world.

'The economies of China and Africa are supplementary, ' he said. 'We think Africa will become a very important driver of global growth. '

The adjacent ship is going to Africa and is ready to accept another stock of products.

She said the world would be watching to see how Africa's leaders would respond.

Africa's progress is the result of the hard work, talent and determination of people and governments across Africa, she said.

Zurich - South Africa played its Nelson Mandela trump card at the very last moment to let the message ring out loudly: give it to us.

European trade with Africa is still more than twice that of China's and European Union foreign direct investment is far greater too.

Had the Axis powers finished off the British in north Africa first, they could have attacked Russia from the south as well as the east.

He might, for instance, suggest you become an official sponsor of the British Lions tour of South Africa and an arts prize.

Something of a contrast to the way European colonial powers plundered Africa!

She said the South African government would make every effort to protect the lawful rights of the Chinese nationals in South Africa.

The liberation and development of Africa cannot be accomplished in just a few years.

That the revered Nelson Mandela's rainbow nation is now turning to a man of Mr Zuma's stamp may sharpen prejudices about Africa.

It has been a tradition for more than twenty years for the Chinese Foreign Minister to visit Africa at the very beginning of the year.

But then there's a bit of me that envies Mexicans their geographic advantage over places like my homeland, Africa.

Scientists say the dry conditions in the Horn of Africa are at least partly the result of an event half a world away.

Diodes are also harder to break -- a real advantage for a technology that must endure a bumpy truck ride over the rutted roads of Africa.

I wish for you to help build a social movement of more than one million American activists for Africa.

The deal with South Africa's largest lender suggested Africa was no longer a curiosity but a potentially big source of profits.

A charity organisation asks you for a donation for a football school in Africa. How much would you be prepared to donate?

The current wave of cholera outbreaks which had begun several weeks ago in West Africa is still ongoing ( see map below).

If you could push Africa and south America together, they would meet at the Mid - Atlantic Ridge and close up the ocean between them.

In fact, it seems a shame that this tech is only being used in Africa right now.

But he has lost one of the big things that have kept him in power to date: the grudging support of Africa.

Chen Zuofu, vice- president of CCB, said the bank considered Africa to be a significant growth market.

In contrast, there seems to be a consensus that the poorest countries, mainly in Africa and Asia, shouldn't have to make emissions cuts.

For two-thirds of its history, Homo sapiens lived exclusively in Africa. Only now are the details of that period becoming clear.