Diamonds from Zimbabwe shine in India
Cheap roughs from Zimbabwe have bowled over diamantaires in India, leaving diamond giants Alrosa, De Beers and Rio Tinto struggling under price and selling ...
View ArticleHelio eyes double-double on Tanzania gold ounces
- Having doubled gold resources at its SMP project in Tanzania, Helio Resource (TSX-V: HRC) raised the prospect of doing it again - soon. On Tuesday Helio said measured and indicated resources in ...
View ArticleTullow Oil, Uganda sign asset sale deal
Uganda on Friday signed production agreements with Anglo-Irish firm Tullow Oil, allowing the company to finalise a long-delayed $2.9 billion asset sale to France's Total and China's ...
View ArticleBritain's thumbs up to Somalia mission
High Alert: Kenya Military Defence Force soldiers aboard a Hummer Vehicle patrol Ras Kiamboni area inside Somalia during the 'Operation Linda Nchi'. PHOTO / JARED ...
View ArticleWest Africa’s largest wildlife sanctuary faces extinction
Drought and lack of water is pushing thousands of wild animals out of West Africa's largest game reserve into human settlements in Burkina Faso. Environmentalists on Thursday described the ...
View ArticleAfrica steels Gilmore for surfing tour
Planting trees seven hours inland from the African coast doesn't sound like ideal preparation for a surfing competition but it's how Stephanie Gilmore has readied herself for a crack at ...
View ArticleAfrican villagers embrace U.S. role in hunt for Lord's Resistance Army...
McClatchy Newspapers OBO, Central African Republic -- On the edge of this quiet town in the isolated forests of central Africa sits one of America's newest military outposts, a base made ...
View ArticleManmohan Singh initiates action to increase supply of coal for power projects
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, who recently met a delegation of industrialists representing the majority of power producers in the country, has assured them that his office will work out a road ma
View ArticleSouth Africa eyes SKA telescope with bated breath
It is the date on which international board members of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope will meet to decide whether the core site for the giant instrument will be built in South ...
View ArticleNervous Al Qaeda and Al Shabaab Get Hitched
So Al Shabaab and al Qaeda have finally formalised their cosy little arrangement. Uncomfortable perhaps with all the flirting and co-habiting that was going on - a decidedly un-Islamic state of ...
View ArticleFG Seeks N1.3 Trillion Loan for Pipelines
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday asked Senate to approve his request for an external borrowing in the amount of $7,905,690,000 (or $2.64 billion a year) for the construction of oil pipelines ...
View ArticleEmpowerment Lies in Women in Indian Villages Talking to Those in Local Villages
I sit cross-legged on the floor of the village hall awed by the women I am with. It is in the Rangapur Manchala Mandal, a few hours' drive from Hyderabad. There are scores of women all in ...
View ArticleWhere Are We With Nepad's E-Schools
As far back as 2004, NEPAD, or the New Partnership for African Development facilitated a workshop on what was called the NEPAD e-Schools Initiative. 16 African nations were constituted into phase ...
View Article2012 Budget - Senate Alleges N1 Trillion Smuggled in By MDAs
Vanguard. ) The Senate Committee on Appropriation announced yesterday that it has uncovered how some government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) secretly smuggled in over N1 trillion ...
View ArticleZSE Firms Face Delisting
THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange is contemplating fixing the minimum capital for listed companies at US$1 million, which could see five firms being delisted. The listing committee discussed the matter on ...
View Article2012 Tobacco Selling Season Opens Today
Zimbabwe Rising ) THE 2012 tobacco marketing season opens today with 150 million kg of the golden leaf expected to go under the hammer. Firmer prices are expected following floods that destroyed ...
View ArticleNation Participates in International Telecoms Conference
Pretoria - Communications Minister Dina Pule is heading a South African delegation to Geneva that will participate in the International Telecommunication Union's World Radio communications ...
View ArticleSummit to Look At Mental Health Challenges
Pretoria - In preparing for the National Mental Health Summit taking place next month, the North West Department of Health will be holding a provincial Mental Health Summit highlighting the ...
View ArticleComesa to Raise U.S$1Billion for Infrastructure
THE Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has said it plans to raise at least US$ 1billion for infrastructure development in the region. Under code name Infrastructure Fund, COMESA ...
View ArticleFG Promises Incentives for Companies That Retain Corps Members
THE Federal Government on has promised to give incentives to companies that provide permanent employment to corps members at the end of their service year. The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi ...
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