Four selections of Europe conquered their vacancy on this Saturday, after the next to the last round of the preliminary rounds for the World Cup of 2010. Denmark, Serbia, Germany and Italy didn’t give chances to their opponents and stamped their respective passports. Of the nine groups, only two will still need to define which [...]

A lack of optometrists in the world’s poorest countries means that the poor cannot have their much-needed glasses. One such country is Ghana where there is just one optometrist for every eight million people.
There is now a technological solution to this situation which could ‘provide glasses for one billion people.’ Joshua Silver, a physics professor [...]

Heavy torrential rains in West Africa have caused flooding in several cities and affected over 350,000 people.
In Burkina Faso, this is the worst flooding in 40 years. Burkina Faso is the last country that suffered the impact of these torrential rains that flooded the capital, Ouagadougou, in a few hours. About 110,000 inhabitants of this [...]

President Obama’s Words of Hope in Africa
President Barack Obama’s visit to Ghana has been significant as he spoke the words of hope and encouragement to the sub Saharan Africa. He made it rather clear that although the painful history of colonialism still remains, Africa must take charge of its own destiny in this 21 st [...]

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has developed an index of economic shock and food entitled ‘Economic Shock and Hunger Index.’ Based on a study of the five countries of Armenia, Bangladesh, Ghana, Zambia, and Nicaragua, the responses of households reveal a rather similar pattern: reduction in the number of meals, option for cheaper [...]

International investors continue to cast their sights on farmlands, especially the best ones, in the African continent. These arable lands constitute the livelihood of local people who are likely to lose access, but African governments pay little attention to them. This phenomenon was analyzed in detail for the first time by experts from the International [...]