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Rwanda: Kagame Hits Back at Critics
Tue, 09/07/2010 - 00:19Rwanda's President Paul Kagame hit back on Monday at his international critics, using his inauguration for a second term to insist that Africa needed no lessons from the wider world.
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Uganda: We Can End the War in Somalia
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 23:03Going through the internet-based media daily, and especially since the 11/7 tragedy in Kampala, one gets a sense of despair on the long Somali conflict. The feelings and signs of frustration and hopelessness are visible.
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Kenya: Poverty Holds Back Growth Plan
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 22:46Poverty eradication remains the country's biggest challenge in meeting the millennium development goals by the 2015 deadline, the latest UN assessment report says.
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Uganda: Mobile Money Transforms Business
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 22:45The days when you had to spend USh10,000 on bus fare just to deliver USh20,000 to a relative in the village or join a long queues in banking halls to pay bills are soon coming an end.
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Somalia: Military Chief Fired After Missing Weapons Scandal
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 22:42The president of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Sheikh Sharif Ahmed fired the country's top military chief Monday due to allegations that he 'sold weapons' illegally, Radio Garowe reports.
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Tanzania: Pastoralists Versus Tourism in Tanzania
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 22:28GRAZING their cattle in the barren land of the wildlife - rich Ngorongoro District in northern Tanzania, the Maasai pastoralists are still living a desperate life after a prolonged drought spell that has hit most parts of the area with more than 65,000 cattle dead.
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Nigeria: UN Body Apologises Over Claims on Ogoni Oil Spills
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 22:26The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) involved in investigating the extent of oil spills in Ogoniland has apologised for what it called a mistake on the part of one of its officials who relied on the Federal Government figures on the causes of spills to pass a judgment on the issue.
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Côte d'Ivoire: More Births Attended by Skilled Attendants
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 22:21As she leaves the community health centre in Abobo-Baule with her newborn baby, Abiba Tahoué is doubly satisfied.
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Namibia: Parties Win Election Appeal
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 14:54THE case in which nine opposition parties are challenging the conduct of Namibia's national elections late last year has been sent back to the High Court.
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South Africa: Public Workers Suspend Strike
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 14:52South Africa's three-week-old public sector strike has been suspended, but the main teachers' union says this does not mean they have accepted the government's latest wage offer. Workers will go back to work on Tuesday and will be given 21 days to consider their next move.
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Mozambique: Police Arrest Opposition Members Over Protests
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 12:09The Mozambican police have arrested six people in the northern city of Nampula, accusing them of mobilizing people for demonstrations against food price rises - but the detainees say they were simply planning a meeting to elect a local official of the main opposition party, Renamo.
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South Africa: Govt Criticised for Public Sector Strike
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 10:39The current strike by government employees which has left some patients dead and others without access to medication could have been avoided had government had a Minimum Level Service Agreement with unions to ensure that health care services do not shut down.
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Zimbabwe: Factionalism Hits Tsvangirai Party
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 09:57Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) has fired 19 senior security officers from its Harvest House headquarters as factionalism threatens to once again split the strongest opposition party to emerge since the country's independence.
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Zimbabwe: Controversy Surrounds Gaddafi's Son's Visit
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 09:56Son of long time Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, Al-Saadi, nearly caused diplomatic fallout between Harare and Tripoli recently when he turned up at the airport with a delegation of "businesspeople" who had no visas.
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Kenya: Culture Condemns Girls to Pregnancy at 13
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 08:07As pupils and students start streaming back to school on Monday for the third term, 13 girls from Kikambala Primary School in Kilifi District will have to remain with their parents at home.
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Nigeria: Govt to Try More Suspects in U.S. Oil Firm Scandal
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 07:40The Federal Government will charge more suspects to court in the Halliburton bribery scandal as soon as it gathers more evidence linking them to the sleaze, a top official of the Minister of Justice told This Day last night.
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Nigeria: UN Body Apologises Over Claims on Ogoni Oil Spills
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 07:37The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) involved in investigating the extent of oil spills in Ogoniland has apologised for what it called a mistake on the part of one of its officials who relied on the Federal Government figures on the causes of spills to pass a judgment on the issue.
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Nigeria: Govt Still Repaying 50-Year-Old Loans
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 07:37Some of the loans Nigeria is currently re-paying were obtained immediately after the nation attained independence in October 1960, according to Dr Abraham Nwankwo, Director-General of the Debts Management Office (DMO).
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Sudan: Armed Group Kills 50 in Darfur Market
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 07:13The security situation remains tense following separate incidents over the weekend.
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Zimbabwe: Refugees in South Africa Worry Over New Measure
Mon, 09/06/2010 - 06:51"The Zimbabwean refugees are very concerned about the regularization measure decided on by the South African government, as the situation in their country has not changed," says Fr Mario Tessarotto, Scalabrinian missionary in Cape Town who assists refugees from other African countries.
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