The West African Catholic Bishop's Conference (WACBC) has condemned the broadcasting of Big Brother Africa show, describing it "as an abuse of human dignity for cheap dollars".

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) could play a vital role in improving agriculture and boosting food security in Africa. However, only a few African countries are capable of developing such systems, partly because of a lack of basic geographical data.

Compared to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, two democratically-elected politicians who later became dictators, Robert Mugabe is nothing but a tyrant.

The continent has impressive conventions on refugees but not on internally-displaced populations which are often denied, by their own governments, the rights accorded to foreigners running away from similar situations in their countries.

Peter Miles. Will he represent Uganda at the awards?

Pay television service provider MultiChoice Africa has been given the rights to broadcast four new channels from London based British Broadcasting Corporation Channels and ESPN Classic, starting September 1.

MPs from Africa on Tuesday moved to address food shortages, adverse effects of climate change and poverty in the continent.

It is apt that a key world meeting on climate change and food security attended by 150 legislators from 15 countries in Africa and Europe as well as Japan should be held in Kenya.

Fuel subsidies should be scrapped, if the fight against the increase in greenhouse emissions is to be won, the United Nations has said.

Catholic development organisations and representatives of the Church in Africa will next week appeal to the international community for effective aid to the continent.

Across The Nation

Delegates of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries have declared their intension to send a hand of fellowship to their counterparts of Central and Latin America so they sit on one negotiating table in order to reach a compromise that can be endorsed by the competent authorities of the World Trade Organisation and put an end to the long drawn so called banana war.

A Democratic Party fringe meeting in Denver yesterday considered the question of whether having an American president with family in Africa will affect US policy toward Africa, particularly in regard to the Aids epidemic.

Climate change is not the most pressing issue facing mankind today.

A United Nations-sponsored conference that aims to tackle the environmental causes of diseases that claimed almost 2.5 million African lives each year begins in Gabon today.

A conference on climate change has started in Nairobi with calls on African countries to stop relying on development aid.

A tuberculosis strain initially thought to be untreatable because it was resistant to most drugs has now been conquered.

AFRICA has a high aviation accident rate proportional to its air traffic, an aviation conference heard yesterday.

Politics and Policy

The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today deplored the assassination of a senior Nigerian newspaper journalist, who was shot dead last week.