Africa Day focuses on Youth and Development in 2011
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent; it is rich in diversity, abundant in ethnicity and bursting with languages. Africa Day (25 May), which marks the founding in 1963 of the Organisation of African Unity, now known as the African Union, provides an annual opportunity to reflect on the challenges and achievements of the governments and peoples of Africa.
This year Africa Day will be celebrated all over the continent and in the diaspora under the theme: "Accelerating youth empowerment for sustainable development". Africa Day is a day designated specifically to the celebration of African diversity and success. It is an
opportunity to acknowledge the progress that African countries have made, while reflecting on the challenges faced in a global environment.
Read some of the latest developments in Africa from the IPS newswire:
- UGANDA: First Woman Speaker of Parliament Changing Politics
- Protecting One of Africa's Most Enigmatic Creatures
- IBSA: India Cheers for Brazil, South Africa
- SOUTHERN AFRICA: Very Little 'Extraordinary' About Latest SADC Summit
- Sudan's Abyei 'Ablaze' After Capture by North
- POPULATION: Promise Rises With a Problem
- MIDEAST: Egyptian Activists Gear Up For Third Intifada
- U.S.: Congress Pushes for Vote on Libya Intervention
- KENYA: Marginal Profits Hamper Malaria Drug Subsidy
- NIGERIA: Women Giving Each Other a Hand Up
- Water, Sanitation Could Erase Cholera and Guinea Worm
- Illegal Logging Spreading in Madagascar
- EGYPT: Hidden Hands Stoke Sectarian Strife
- ZAMBIA: Making the Most of Limited Capital
- Sierra Leone Facing the Facts of Teen Pregnancy
- ZAMBIA: Young Voters Push Grassroots Issues to the Fore
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- Globally 75 million girls remain out of school and robbed of a fulfilling future
