Resource Development International, the world’s largest independent provider of UK university distance learning qualifications, plans to offer the opportunity to earn a UK university degree using mobile phones. The program will be piloted in Africa where cellphone reception trumps internet access.

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Election officials began counting ballots late Sunday in one of Africa's rare democracies, where voters are painfully aware of the example they are setting on a continent better known for coups, rigged elections and one-man rule.

ADDIS ABEBA, Ethiopia - Nokia has as history of getting deeply involved with local initiatives in crises situations across the globe, including Africa where it worked with the Red Cross in Ghana to assist with the long-term repairing of communities hit by the floods of 2007 and the civil turmoil in Kenya earlier this year. Most recently Nokia, Nokia Siemens and Save the Children Finland have forme...

amAze is a first of its kind free GPS navigation, mapping, yellow pages and local search service. It is completely free to download and use and it contains the maps of Europe, North America, South Africa and Australia with more countries added all the time, as well as over 100 cities with high resolution satellite

Here’s the first few lines from today’s Vodafone press release, hot off the press from Tavistock Communications: THIS PRESS RELEASE IS NOT AND MUST NOT, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, BE DISTRIBUTED OR MADE PUBLIC IN AUSTRALIA, CANADA, JAPAN OR SOUTH AFRICA. THE OFFER IS NOT BEING MADE TO PERSONS IN THOSE JURISDICTIONS OR ELSEWHERE WHERE THEIR PARTICIPATION

The following events actually happened recently and they go to prove the utility of any cell phone and particularly of any smartphone. A British surgeon was a volunteer with the French medical charity Medicin Sans Frontieres. David Nott found a boy in Africa who needed to have it’s gangrenous arm amputated. That’s when he asked for assistance from a London surgeon, Meirion Thomas. Thomas sent

Interpol taps into the YouTube generation Interpol has already nabbed two prolific paedophiles after unprecented public appeals netted hundreds of tip-offs, and has video clips of Rwandan war criminals on Facebook, Myspace and YouTube — sites it regularly monitors. But at a recent conference on tracking fugitives in South Africa, Interpol secretary general Ronald Noble said

The following events actually happened recently and they go to prove the utility of any cell phone and particularly of any smartphone. A British surgeon was a volunteer with the French medical charity Medicin Sans Frontieres. David Nott found a boy in Africa who needed to have it’s gangrenous arm amputated. That’s when he asked

Samsung and International Youth Foundation Forge Partnership to Address Unemployment, Promote Development for Young People SEOUL, Korea, -- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, has signed a new partnership agreement with the International Youth Foundation (IYF) to address youth unemployment in Africa as a part of its corporate