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  • Ethiopia back as Cape Verde stun Lions

    Cape Verde Islands secured a place at the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time Sunday and former champions Ethiopia are back in the big time after a 30-year absence.

    The much-hyped return of striker and captain Samuel Eto’o helped four-time champions Cameroon to a 2-1 home win over Cape Verde, but a 3-2 aggregate loss means a second consecutive failure to reach the African football showcase.

    Alula Girma and Saladin Seid scored within three minutes during the second half in Addis Ababa to earn Ethiopia a 2-0 victory over Sudan and a ticket to South Africa next January on away goals after a 5-5 aggregate deadlock.

    An early Antonio Pereira goal was just what Cape Verde needed to settle the nerves in the intimidating cauldron of a packed 60,000-seat Ahmadou Ahidjo stadium in Yaounde.

    Achille Emana levelled soon after and there was relentless Indomitable Lions second-half pressure, including an Eto’o attempt that rebounded off the woodwork, but all they had to show for it was a late Fabrice Olinga goal.

    Eto’o was back after a year of international inactivity due to an eight-month ban imposed by the national football federation for instigating a bonus-related boycott of a friendly in Algeria.

    He also refused to turn up for the first leg in Cape Verde last month, labelling the national squad “amateurish and badly managed”, and his absence contributed to the worst day in Cameroonian football.

    Portuguese-speaking Cape Verde is an archipelago off the coast of Senegal with a population of just 500,000, and the national squad consists mainly of footballers at unfashionable European clubs.

    The qualification of the Ethiopian Black Lions confirmed a recent upsurge of fortunes that has seen them lead a 2014 World Cup qualifying group after holding South Africa away and defeating Central African Republic at home.

    They also won on away goals against Benin in the first elimination round for the 2013 Cup of Nations and now return to a tournament they won for the only time 50 years ago.

    Sudan won a goal-flush first encounter 5-3 thanks to a late Mohamed Al Tahir brace and were barely troubled during the opening half at the national stadium in the heart of the Ethiopian capital.

    As the hour mark passed without a goal it was looking good for the visitors, and then Girma and Egypt-based Seid turned the match on its head to the delight of a sell-out 30,000 crowd.

    Alain Traore struck five minutes into stoppage time to give Burkina Faso a 3-1 home win over giant-killers Central African Republic, who took a one-goal lead into the tie having stunned seven-time champions Egypt in the last round.

    Former Manchester United signing Manucho Goncalves scored twice in the early minutes in Luanda to secure a 2-0 win for Angola over Zimbabwe, overall victory on away goals after a 3-3 tie, and a fifth consective Africa Cup appearance.

    Niger left it much later to upset Guinea 2-0 and squeeze through on aggregate after a solitary-goal first leg loss with Mohammed Chikoto and Issoufou Garba netting in the closing stages.

    Emmanuel Adebayor of Tottenham was on target for Togo in a 2-1 win over 2012 co-hosts Gabon, who were held at home in the first leg. Wome Dove was the other Togolese marksman and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang grabbed a late consolation goal.

    Equatorial Guinea halved a four-goal first-leg deficit against the Democratic Republic of Congo after 35 minutes in Malabo, but Youssouf Mulumbu reduced the arrears before half-time and the home team had to settle for a hollow 2-1 win.

    Any hope Libya had of overhauling a one-goal loss first time out against Algeria did not last long in Blida with El Arbi Hilal Soudani and Islam Slimani scoring within seven minutes and the home side cruised to a 2-0 victory.

    An October 24 draw in Indian Ocean city Durban will divide the 15 survivors plus South Africa — automatic qualifiers as hosts — into four groups for the January 19-February 10 flagship tournament.

  • Korea, Africa Hold Cooperation Conference

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    South Korea and the African Union are jointly holding the Korea Africa Economic Cooperation Conference in Seoul from Oct. 15-18, bringing 150 ministers and heads of 18 African nations and international organizations.

    The South Korean foreign ministry says, “Africa is the last growth engine of the world economy, which has unlimited growth potential,” Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan said in a letter of invitation. “This forum is expected to provide a good opportunity (for South Korea) to strengthen ties with Africa.”

    The conference remains the biggest event co-organized between Africa and Korea.

    The theme of this year’s conference focuses on “inclusive and green growth,” and the program will include the ministerial roundtable, bilateral meetings of ministers, economic cooperation seminars, African countries’ investor relation activities, and one-on-one business meetings.

    AfDB Senior Management and Executive Directors from Regional Member Countries will attend all the conference activities.

    The conference outcomes are expected to increase inclusive economic growth of African countries through the application of Korea’s development approaches.

    It will also knowledge on inclusive growth in sectors such as human resource development, infrastructure, energy, information technology, agriculture and green growth; and to enhance political and economic cooperation between Africa and Korea through increased trade, investment and dialogue.

    The partnership between the African Development Bank Group and the Republic of Korea began in 1980, when Korea joined the African Development Fund (ADF) in 1980 and the African Development Bank (AfDB) in 1982.

    In 2009, Korea provided a temporary AfDB capital increase of US $306.1 million and supported in 2010 the historic General Capital Increase (GCI) VI of 200 per cent and ADF-XII replenishment amounts of UA 53.86 million (KRW 94.77 billion) representing an increase of 66 per cent from its ADF-XI contribution.

    At the recently concluded ADF-12 Mid Term Review in Cape Verde, Korea played an active role in the discussions and highlighted the Bank’s focus on energy and natural resources, including the role of PPPs in infrastructure development.

  • Korea, Africa Hold Cooperation Conference

    afdb.jpg
    South Korea and the African Union are jointly holding the Korea Africa Economic Cooperation Conference in Seoul from Oct. 15-18, bringing 150 ministers and heads of 18 African nations and international organizations.

    The South Korean foreign ministry says, “Africa is the last growth engine of the world economy, which has unlimited growth potential,” Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan said in a letter of invitation. “This forum is expected to provide a good opportunity (for South Korea) to strengthen ties with Africa.”

    The conference remains the biggest event co-organized between Africa and Korea.

    The theme of this year’s conference focuses on “inclusive and green growth,” and the program will include the ministerial roundtable, bilateral meetings of ministers, economic cooperation seminars, African countries’ investor relation activities, and one-on-one business meetings.

    AfDB Senior Management and Executive Directors from Regional Member Countries will attend all the conference activities.

    The conference outcomes are expected to increase inclusive economic growth of African countries through the application of Korea’s development approaches.

    It will also knowledge on inclusive growth in sectors such as human resource development, infrastructure, energy, information technology, agriculture and green growth; and to enhance political and economic cooperation between Africa and Korea through increased trade, investment and dialogue.

    The partnership between the African Development Bank Group and the Republic of Korea began in 1980, when Korea joined the African Development Fund (ADF) in 1980 and the African Development Bank (AfDB) in 1982.

    In 2009, Korea provided a temporary AfDB capital increase of US $306.1 million and supported in 2010 the historic General Capital Increase (GCI) VI of 200 per cent and ADF-XII replenishment amounts of UA 53.86 million (KRW 94.77 billion) representing an increase of 66 per cent from its ADF-XI contribution.

    At the recently concluded ADF-12 Mid Term Review in Cape Verde, Korea played an active role in the discussions and highlighted the Bank’s focus on energy and natural resources, including the role of PPPs in infrastructure development.

  • 15 Families on River bank to be Relocated

    Residents living near the river passing through BRALIRWA to their residential area will be relocated following the negative effect that the river is causing among residents.

    Its said the river overflows and demolishing houses and other property of residents.

    In a meeting held to discuss the issue, the Western Province and BRALIRWA agreed to relocate affected families while looking for long lasting solution.

    Relocated families will receive iron sheets and plots of land where they will establish new houses.

    The move comes after the 28th September’ visit of Prime Minister Dr. Pierre Damien Habumuremyi who urged local authorities to deal with status of the river for solutions.

    BRALIRWA estimated budget of Frw250 Million for the whole activity.

  • 15 Families on River bank to be Relocated

    Residents living near the river passing through BRALIRWA to their residential area will be relocated following the negative effect that the river is causing among residents.

    Its said the river overflows and demolishing houses and other property of residents.

    In a meeting held to discuss the issue, the Western Province and BRALIRWA agreed to relocate affected families while looking for long lasting solution.

    Relocated families will receive iron sheets and plots of land where they will establish new houses.

    The move comes after the 28th September’ visit of Prime Minister Dr. Pierre Damien Habumuremyi who urged local authorities to deal with status of the river for solutions.

    BRALIRWA estimated budget of Frw250 Million for the whole activity.

  • Bank Robber Arrested

    A suspected thief is being questioned at Muhima Police station in connection with attempting to rob a bank.

    Soko Salim 21, is said to have stormed into Ecobank-Biryogo Branch armed with a toy pistol and wearing a hood covering his head and face.

    Police reports that when Soko entered the bank immediately put everybody present at gun point and forced the teller to fill his bag with bank notes. In the process, a cleaner cried from inside calling for help.

  • Bank Robber Arrested

    A suspected thief is being questioned at Muhima Police station in connection with attempting to rob a bank.

    Soko Salim 21, is said to have stormed into Ecobank-Biryogo Branch armed with a toy pistol and wearing a hood covering his head and face.

    Police reports that when Soko entered the bank immediately put everybody present at gun point and forced the teller to fill his bag with bank notes. In the process, a cleaner cried from inside calling for help.

  • LDK School Contributes Frw6 Million to Agaciro

    Teachers and Students of Lycée de Kigali have contributed over Frw 6 Million to Agaciro Fund -a solidarity fund initiated by Rwandans to improve the level of financial autonomy of Rwanda.

    Lycée de Kigali students contributed Frw 303,775 while teachers donated Frw6,146,000 to the development fund.

    Cyusa Dan, a student at LDK said they have voluntary donated to Agaciro fund due to the fact that they have known the real benefits of the fund to Rwandans and themselves.

    Since its beginning now the fund stands at over Frw20 billion.

  • LDK School Contributes Frw6 Million to Agaciro

    Teachers and Students of Lycée de Kigali have contributed over Frw 6 Million to Agaciro Fund -a solidarity fund initiated by Rwandans to improve the level of financial autonomy of Rwanda.

    Lycée de Kigali students contributed Frw 303,775 while teachers donated Frw6,146,000 to the development fund.

    Cyusa Dan, a student at LDK said they have voluntary donated to Agaciro fund due to the fact that they have known the real benefits of the fund to Rwandans and themselves.

    Since its beginning now the fund stands at over Frw20 billion.

  • Why teenage girls have sex and how parents can help them

    Imagine a 15-year-old girl who thinks she might be pregnant. This was her first sexual experience. It was unplanned. It was even unwanted, but now she thinks she may be pregnant and she doesn’t know what to do.

    Now imagine another 15-year-old girl who is on her sixth partner this year. She’s been lucky; she has not got pregnant. She’s thinking of getting tested for STDs. She may be regretting her choices, maybe not.

    What is the difference between their motivations and ours? There is really very little difference. The reality is that these girls are simply acting, to the best of their ability, to find a lover of their soul.

    We are relational beings. We desire to know and be known. We crave intimacy. We all want to be loved, recognised and accepted.

    Teenagers are also looking for acceptance and recognition, and without knowing it, they are looking for the lovers of their souls. They are going about it as they assume they must from the messages they are given from our culture. Sex is everywhere: TV, music, movies. Kids talk about it all the time. The casual way in which it is discussed gives you a clue as to how it is approached. Many of the ways sex is acted out among teenagers would shock you.

    What we see are girls trying to fulfill relationship and intimacy needs as well as the need for recognition and acceptance with sex. They are looking for power and equality but do not realise that that is exactly what they are giving away.

    Why do you think teenagers have sex? These are the reasons they give: boredom, nothing else to do, a way to pass the time, hormones, bragging right, goal setting, peer pressure, pressure from partner, curiosity, to get it over with, and sometimes, “they think they’re in love.”

    They talk about sex, yet what they are most interested in is relationship skills. Most girls want to know how to tell a guy, “no” without hurting his feelings. They also want to know how to deal with the pain of a break-up (because they know a break-up is inevitable).

    But most teenagers are verbally sexually active, meaning they talk about sex as if they are participants. And recent studies show that 13-year-olds are physically sexually active.

    This is not only true of the “unchurched” crowd. At the our Pregnancy Care Centre, we see girls from the churches. And there are many we do not see. These girls take care of their unwanted pregnancy quickly and quietly so no one else will know. It is their big secret. Many times it is kept from their parents and even their friends. Secrets like that can be very painful and divisive, and can follow generation after generation.

    Many girls are desperate for love. They feel they don’t have the option to say, “no.” And with today’s society so focused on sex and many girls so willing to accommodate boys’ requests, they may be right. To refuse to “put out” is to lose the relationship, and with the girls so desiring of relationship they feel to “put out” is their only option.

    Sex has lost its sacredness and beauty and has become recreational and casual. It’s gone from being the culminating act of a loving commitment to a precondition, a tryout, for future involvement.

    There is a frequent complaint that boys rarely ask girls out anymore. Instead they go to parties, drink, pair off and if the mood suits, have sex. Young women who feel as sexually free as it is possible to feel are still powerless. Girls like boys boast of their sexual experience, but are aware that their reputation have been badly damaged and that the boys lose respect for them.

    Some girls meet their intimacy needs by creating their own families. They aren’t meeting it through sex. Sex is just the vehicle. They are using men to have children, and are creating their own “family” so they can love, be loved and be needed. They are creating their own “community.”

    Then there is the gang community. When a girl joins a gang, especially in school, she is treated as the lowest on the totem pole. They have to be accountable to the gang and follow the rules. These rules are not for their own good as they would be in a family, but the girls join anyway. For attention and acceptance, these girls find they need to be down and dirty. They laugh at the same jokes, even the sexually degrading ones, and treat sex as a recreation, a conquest, not as an emotional commitment.

    If you are a parent of a teenagers, what can you do to help them make wise choices about their sexuality?

    Let them know your expectation of them in the area of sexuality. Be very clear about your own values and attitudes. Set definite boundaries for them in the areas of dating and weekend activities. Make them accountable to you as to their whereabouts and activities. Sometimes a lack of opportunity is all the help they need.

    Help them see the discrepancies between the media and real life. Use time spent together watching TV or movies to facilitate a discussion on sex and dating.

    Learn to listen. Start communicating early and often. Keep discussion open; don’t over or under explain. Avoid lecture format. Show them what good, responsible relationships should be.