[Balancing Act] London - Many African regulators' have introduced a tax on international inbound calls. It started with Côte d'Ivoire and then spread like a plague to Gabon, Ghana and Senegal, to name but a few. The latest country wanting to join the fold is Liberia and operators are seeking to persuade the regulator LTA not to go ahead.

[BuaNews] Pretoria - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has voiced deep regret after Security Council members were unable to agree on a resolution backing an Arab League plan to resolve the crisis in Syria.

[Leadership] It's West Africa versus North Africa today as tournament favourites Ghana will tonight take on Tunisia for the semi final ticket in the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations.

[GFA] Zambia was the first team through to the African Cup of Nations semifinals after a clinical 3-0 win over struggling 10-man Sudan on Saturday.

[Nation] The first cull is done. It's goodbye to eight teams and the battle continues for the remaining eight.

[CAF] With all group games at the 28th edition of the Orange Africa Cup of Nations completed Cafonline.com sat down with Chief Onigbinde the CAF Techinical Study Group member based in Franceville for a review of Group D matches.

[Nation] After eight days of action-packed football, we are now left eight teams as the quarter-finals of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations beckon.

[KPLU] A new global estimate of malaria deaths by researchers in Seattle has revealed the death toll is much greater than most experts had thought -- and is not, as had been universally assumed, mostly a killer of children.

[Guardian Network] Dateline - Malaria kills twice as many people every year as formerly believed, taking 1.2 million lives and causing the deaths not only of babies but also older children and adults, according to research that overturns decades of assumptions about one of the world's most lethal diseases.

[IRIN] London - A new attempt to quantify malaria deaths over the past 30 years suggests the death toll, especially among adults, has been greatly underestimated. The figures also show the fragility of the gains made in fighting the disease.

[Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation] Washington, DC - Despite assumptions that mainly young children die from the disease, 42% of 1.2 million deaths occur in older children and adults.

[Fahamu] How genuine is the anger that has been expressed in some quarters about Africa accepting a gift of the new African Union headquarters from China? There are so many other issues of urgent concern around the continent that the critics should direct their wrath to as well.

[Fahamu] Which other friend of Africa would be willing to fund, design, build and maintain a new $200 million AU headquarters in the middle of a global financial crisis?

[Nation] Visiting British Foreign Secretary William Hague has expressed satisfaction with the Amisom-led military mission in Somalia that has seen the troubled country show signs of recovery.

[Chatham House] Islamist movements did not start the protests that have so far unseated three Arab dictators.

[Balancing Act] London - Africa has begun to join in the fun on crowdsourcing some of the funding for feature films. Crowdsourcing is getting lots of small contributions from individuals that taken together can make up a good chunk of change. Furthermore it connects the film to the audience at pre-production stage. Russell Southwood and Sylvain Beletre look at how it might improve film finance and speculate on whether it could do the same for local TV programmes.

[Biz-Community] This March in Johannesburg, speakers from the US, UK plus many from South Africa are gathering for the first International Customer Experience World event to take place in South Africa.

[CAF] With the 'men' separated from the 'boys' after the group phase at the 2012 Orange Africa Cup of Nations, Sudan coach Mohammed "Mazda" Abdallah tells Cafonline.com there are no longer minnows in African football. The Sudanese trainer added that the performance exhibited by participants so far is enough to kill the notion of 'big teams' and 'small teams'. Below are details of his interview with Cafonline.com on his team's performance and the tournament in general.

[CAF] Guinea forward Ibrahima Traore has thrown his weight behind Michel Dussuyer to stay on as coach despite the teams inability to make it out of the first round at the Africa Cup of Nations.

[CAF] Experience will be the key to Ivory Coast beating Africa Cup of Nations' co-hosts Equatorial Guinea in Saturday's quarter-final, coach Francois Zahoui believes.