FRANKFURT -Germany's Daimler AG said Tuesday it would invest euro1 million ($1.46 million) in its South Africa plant and it had received an order for 460 Mercedes-Benz buses

and difficult births. They are common in Africa and other developing countries where prenatal care is limited. Women with fistula experience incontinence and often give birth to a

ACCRA, Ghana -President Barack Obama is promising to make sure that U.S. aid to Africa gets to the people who need it most, such as farmers and entrepreneurs, and not Western

Africa as president this weekend: "Welcome Home." The posters and banners bearing the warm greeting across Ghana's verdant tropical capital are borne from hope the world's most

, but by all accounts, they shouldn't be. A hundred years ago, West Africa's last giraffes numbered in the thousands and their habitat stretched from Senegal's Atlantic Ocean coast

TOKYO -Japan's soccer team is under a security curfew ahead of Saturday's exhibition game at World Cup host South Africa. Japan's players have been instructed not to leave

farmers in Africa increase production and get their crops to market. "If we can make small-holder farming more productive and more profitable, we can have a massive impact

MOSCOW (AP) ? A Russian-manned cargo ship that vanished last month in the Atlantic was found Friday near Cape Verde off the coast of West Africa, according to French

Channel's "Wizards of Waverly Place" know little about Africa or the issues facing it, Gomez noted. "That's why I feel very honored to have a voice that kids listen to and take

systems. "The rise of terrorism together with increased immigration from South America and North Africa have impelled EU member states and the European Commission (EC) to invest

, contacted Cherrypal earlier this year for help. To get started, Cherrypal sent 20 new laptops to the organization, with an option to send more if needed. The new "Africa" netbooks

ABOUT TROKOSI AND YOUNG GIRLS' SLAVERY IN TODAY' S WEST AFRICA" is the first mainstream feature film ( USD 5.8 M, Hollywood standard, 35 mm, 91 min., English Language

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- United Travel Group blasts the myth that an Africa vacation is only for the rich with their Guilt-Free Getaways, a collection of short

that their Kasigau Corridor REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) Project in Kenya has just been awarded the first GOLD level validation in Africa, under