Angola: Foreign Minister Discusses Bilateral Cooperation with Cameroonian Counterpart
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Zimbabwe: Zim union leaders denied bail
Two Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) leaders have been denied bail when they appeared in court on Monday, ZCTU said in a statement. ZCTU president Lovemore Matombo and secretary general Wellington Chibebe were remanded to May 23. ZCTU acting information officer Last Tarabuku said the presiding magistrate ...
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Kenya: Months After Dump Scare, Problems Persist
Every day, the Dandora dumpsite in the eastern part of Nairobi receives 2,000 tonnes of rubbish -- about half of the waste generated daily by the capital's 4.5 million people. The 12-hectare site is a low mountain of smouldering trash. Vultures and marabou storks circle overhead in anticipation of a ...
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Zimbabwe: MDC says regional observers enough for run-off
The leader of Zimbabwe's main opposition group said today he would contest a presidential run-off against veteran President Robert Mugabe even if only regional observers could be present. Morgan Tsvangirai had previously called for unfettered access for international observers, which the government rejected. "At the moment the obligation is ...
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Zimbabwe: Hackers shut down Zimbabwe state newspaper website
Hackers attacked the website of Zimbabwe's state-owned Herald newspaper and shut it down for three days, the newspaper said today. The Herald is widely seen as the official mouthpiece of President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party and has been critical of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which ...
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Angola: Fourth National Defence Course Starts Tuesday
The Institute of National Defence (IDN) will open this Tuesday in Luanda its fourth course of National Defence for young people, ANGOP has learnt. The training will last till May 23 and aims at promoting a strategic study for the continuation of the national defence policy. Participants at the ...
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Zimbabwe: Harare suspends duties on cooking oil, flour
Zimbabwe today suspended import duty on some basic commodities, including cooking oil and flour, in response to a sharp spike in prices following the flotation of the local currency by the central bank last month. "The high level of (import) duty, incidental to the current inter-bank rate used in ...
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Zambia: IFC starts Zambia hydropower feasibility study
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has started feasibility studies for the development of Africa's largest hydropower plant in Zambia, a senior official said today. IFC senior investment officer Javier Calvo told reporters in Lusaka that a team of technical and legal experts started feasibility studies this week for the ...
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Zimbabwe: Minister calls for peace ahead of Zimbabwe run-off
Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has appealed to Zimbabwean political parties to refrain from resorting to violence ahead of the country's presidential run-off elections. Addressing a parliamentary joint sitting during her department's budget vote debate, Dlamini-Zuma said South Africa hoped that Zimbabweans would display the same peaceful behaviour they ...
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Eritrea: Eritrea denies Djibouti border accusation
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki denied today sending troops into neighbouring Djibouti, saying Asmara had no desire for another crisis in the Horn of Africa. Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh said earlier this month Eritrean soldiers had entered his nation, digging trenches and building defences. He said the armies were ...
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Senegal: SA artists shine at Africa's premier art gala
Crystal Orderson South African artists are causing a storm at the Dakar Biennale, Africa's most prestigious art event. The Dakar Biennale, now in its 16th year, is a platform for artists from Africa and the Diaspora to showcase their work to the gurus of the art world. This year only ...
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South Africa: Scientists Seek Continent`s `Einstein`
Physicist Steven Hawking, who has been described as "the most famous living scientist on the planet," gave his first public lecture in Africa in Muizenberg, Cape Town, on Sunday. The lecture launched an initiative by the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) to find Africa`s answer to "the next Einsten". ...
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe a risk to growth: SARB
An important downside risk for growth in Africa would comprise heightened risk aversion by investors as a result of tensions flowing from the Zimbabwe elections, the SA Reserve Bank (SARB) said on Tuesday in its latest Monetary Policy Review. However, Africa's economic outlook remained positive, given the contiuned favourable ...
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Zimbabwe: Zim: Mbeki's role takes another knock
President Thabo Mbeki's role as a mediator in the Zimbabwean crisis took another knock after disclosures that he ignored the advice of two judges he commissioned to observe that country's 2002 general elections, the Business Day reported on Monday. Mbeki commissioned judges Sisi Khampepe and Dikgang Moseneke to observe ...
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Kenya: Online Edition | Refugees demands Sh500,000
Refugees demands Sh500,000 Published on May 14, 2008, 12:00 am By Steve Mkawale Displaced people in Nakuru have made fresh demands to the Government, a day after the State held a fundraising for their resettlement. They now want a minimum Sh500,000 each for those whose business ...
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Zimbabwe: US slams Zimbabwe for 'harassment' of diplomats
The US condemned Zimbabwe's government for its "harassment" of the US ambassador and other diplomats questioned by police after visiting post-election violence victims at a hospital. State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack said US ambassador James McGee and diplomats from Britain, the European Union, Japan, the Netherlands and Tanzania, were ...
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Ghana: Ambassadors for biodiversity World Migratory Bird Day 2008
By Nana Kofi Adu-Nsiah, Executive Director, Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission The theme for this year's World Migratory Bird Day: "Migratory Birds - Ambassadors for Biodiversity" draws attention to the link between migratory birds and wider biodiversity as well as the overall state of our environment. Birds are considered ...
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Zimbabwe: 'Zim violence could reach crisis proportion'
Levels of post-election violence in Zimbabwe are escalating in urban and rural areas and could reach crisis proportions, the United Nations' senior representative in the country said on Tuesday. "These incidents of violence are occurring in communal farming and urban areas and there are indications that the level of ...
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Zimbabwe: Free and fair run-off conditions needed: US
Zimbabwe must guarantee the safety of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai as one of several conditions to ensure a fair presidential run-off election, a senior US official said on Monday. "Right now the conditions aren't there for a free and fair run-off. Certainly we hope the conditions can be put ...
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Algeria: Algeria rebels kill six soldiers
Rebels linked to Al Qaeda's north African wing killed six Algerian soldiers in the deadliest attack on government forces in three months, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. The soldiers were on patrol when their convoy came under fire on Sunday in Medea province, 90 km south-west of the capital ...
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe needs help in run-off poll: youth groups
Zimbabwe needs urgent and drastic assistance from the African Union (AU) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders in order to have fair run-off elections, South African and Zimbabwean youth organisations said today. “The people of Zimbabwe need change and they need it urgently," says Zimbabwe Youth Network co-ordinator ...
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Kenya: Online Edition | I am innocent, says Kamani
I am innocent, says Kamani Published on May 14, 2008, 12:00 am By Cyrus Ombati The key suspect in the Anglo Leasing scam, Mr Deepak Kamani, says he had committed no crime to make him request for amnesty. Kamani, who returned to the country last Friday after ...
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Zimbabwe: Mbeki, religious leaders discuss Zimbabwe crisis
President Thabo Mbeki and religious leaders have agreed that the Zimbabwean situation should be resolved as speedily as possible. Mbeki briefed members of the presidential religious working group at the Union Buildings in Pretoria today on his facilitation of events in Zimbabwe. Co-chairperson of the religious group, Ashwin Trikamjee, ...
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Zimbabwe: Election Run-off Delayed
The second round of Zimbabwe`s presidential election will be delayed yet again, raising new questions over whether the opposition will take part. The chairman of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), Justice George Chiweshe, told the state-run Sunday Mail newspaper at the weekend that the law requiring a second round to ...
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TChad: Chad Denies Involvement in Khartoum Attack
Chad`s government has denied allegations made by neighbouring Sudan that it backed rebels who raided the Sudanese capital Khartoum on 10 May. "The government denies all involvement in this adventure that it condemns without reservation," Chadian government spokesperson Mahamat Hissene said in a statement released in N`djamena on 11 May. ...
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