Some recent studies also suggest that by 2015, more than 5.6 billion personal devices will be connected to mobile networks, and at least 788 million users will be connected to the Internet exclusively from mobile platform (see Mobile Africa Report 2011, p. 11).
Vietnam was the "top destination for rhino horn", fuelling a poaching crisis in South Africa, the report said.
The competition is open to all professional journalists based in Africa, with head offices in Africa, who report on African issues.
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Even though the number is expected to fall slightly in North Africa, the report estimates it will still stand at 26.7% in 2017, with the Middle East projected to have 28.4% of its young people out of work by that date.
According to a recent McKinsey report, Africa already has more middle-class consumers than India, which has a larger population.
John Parker will run Asia Pacific, Africa and Mazda and also report directly to Mulally.
The IRB is awaiting the report from South Africa via their judicial officer Alan Hudson.
Before the panel's country report, South Africa had made its own self-assessment.
Though the draft report highlighted South Africa's post-apartheid achievements, including its liberal constitution, sound economic policy, generally sensible new laws and free politics, it did not shy away from spelling out problems it has yet to solve: still brittle race relations, rising xenophobia (against immigrants from Zimbabwe, for instance) and the lingering reluctance of some whites to embrace the new South Africa.
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According to the AFDB report, members of Africa's growing middle class are better educated than their poor counterparts and tend to have salaried jobs or small businesses.
One militia in particular, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, "quickly became a front for drug smugglers from Gao, " Wolfram Lacher, a German expert on West Africa, wrote in a 2012 report for the Carnegie Endowment.
Associated Press writer Gerald Imray contributed to this report from Stellenbosch, South Africa.
The implications for the Kenyan economy are huge, Patriba Thaker, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) regional director for Africa told BBC's World Business Report.
Joseph Massaquoi, Director of the UNESCO Nairobi Office and Dr Kevin Urama, one of the four authors of the chapter in the report on sub-Saharan Africa.
Additionally, a report issued last week by Africa Analysis, part of Financial Times Information, suggested that Talisman now is seeking to divest its stake in Sudan's GNPOC.
The report said strong economic growth in Africa had significantly reduced the extent of poverty in Africa over the past decade or so.
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An earlier World Bank report showed that, though South Africa is less entangled in red tape than many other countries, its companies find it harder to hire and fire.
According to the FIFA report, the results of South Africa's matches with Thailand, Bulgaria, Colombia and Guatemala were prearranged for the benefit of convicted Singaporean match-fixer Wilson Perumal and his Football 4U organization.
From what we know now, Agency officials in the end concurred that the text in the speech was factually correct i.e. that the British government report said that Iraq sought uranium from Africa.
The first report of a zolpidem awakening came from South Africa, in 1999.
Certain regions of the world (South and Central America, Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East) report more anthrax in animals than elsewhere.
In 1979, in South Africa, John Vorster resigned as president after the Erasmus Commission report implicated him in a scandal involving misappropriation of government funds while he was prime minister.
The EFA regional coordination meeting for sub-Saharan Africa will begin with the launch of the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2012 which this year focuses on Youth and Skills: Putting education to work.
But according to a report by DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa), the G8 have since "shuffled at half-pace on aid, and fell backwards on trade".
According to a media report, nearly 400 people died in air accidents in Africa last year, which has a crash rate six times the world average.
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As South Africa prepares for the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report, opinion in the country seems as divided as ever.
The new report was produced in conjunction with the UN Economic Commission for Africa and the African Development Bank - ironically, one of the organisations that some argue should replace the World Bank.
The main difference between the East and West African pirate activities is that almost all the incidents in Nigeria are conducted within its territorial waters, whereas most of the incidents along the East coast of Africa and the Gulf of Aden occur on the high seas, the report said.
Wines of South Africa head Sue Birch told the BBC she was "upset" by the report, saying it lacked balance.
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