Madagascar envoy eyeing top job sacked
The Madagascar ambassador to Switzerland who is planning to join the next presidential race has been sacked. The decision to dismiss Guy Rakotomaharo Rajemison was made during a cabinet sitting ...
View ArticleTechnology investments eat into airlines earnings in Africa
Photo/FILE A KQ plane graces the sky. Kenya Airways fleet development manager Francis Musila said the national carrier is looking to partner with other airlines with superior experience, both in ...
View ArticleChina firm in talks on Uganda refinery
Chinese oil giant CNOOC is negotiating with Uganda to invest in the African country's first oil refinery, state media said Thursday, as Beijing ramps up investment in the resource-rich ...
View ArticleA Battle for Land and Water
A controversial resettlement program in Ethiopia is the latest battleground in the global race to secure prized farmland and water. Correspondent Cassandra Herrman reports as part of the Food for 9 ...
View ArticleProteas take ODI series against Kiwis in a canter
South Africa on Wednesday cantered past New Zealand by six wickets in the second one-day cricket international, clinching the series with a game to spare.
View ArticleZimbabwe carpenter arrested over balloon comment
HARARE, Zimbabwe -; A lawyers group says police arrested a carpenter who questioned whether Zimbabwe's president still had the strength to blow up balloons at his 88th birthday ...
View ArticleRanger among 4 poaching arrests
JOHANNESBURG -; South African wildlife officials say a ranger is among four Kruger National Park workers arrested on rhinoceros poaching ...
View ArticleEast Africa loses broadband as four submarine cables are severed in quick...
Four submarine cables linking East Africa to the Middle East and Europe have been severed within a two-week period, the Wall Street Journal reports, affecting data transfer rates in as many as nine ...
View ArticleJudges in Egypt NGO case quit
CAIRO - Three judges handling the trial of 43 foreign and Egyptian NGO workers accused of receiving illegitimate foreign funding have resigned from the case.
View ArticleLibya's Attorney General praises UAE's support to the Libyan...
WAM Cairo, Feb 29th, 2012 (WAM) - Attorney General of Libya Abdul Aziz Al Hasady praised the support given by the United Arab Emirates to the Libyan revolution. Addressing the 5th Conference of ...
View ArticleS.Africa mulls shark net for Cape Town beach
Officials in South Africa's tourist drawcard of Cape Town said Wednesday that a trial shark net is being considered for a top swimming beach where three attacks, two deadly, have taken ...
View ArticleS.Africa's Kruger Park officials arrested for rhino poaching
South Africa's Kruger National Park on Wednesday said four staff members, including a field ranger, have been arrested for rhino poaching, which has killed 43 of its animals so far this ...
View ArticleShip's anchor cuts Internet access to six East African countries
The outage - caused when the anchor cut a cable - comes as Kenya has assumed a leading regional role in technology, largely due to fast, reliable broadband connections, and could affect growing ...
View ArticleHaiti's bid to join the African Union
Yet anyone who has been to Haiti, or even compiled a hasty historical timeline of the Western hemisphere, can scratch out a tenable storyline that explains Haiti's unusual, but not unfathomable ...
View ArticleThis African encounter is up close and personal
Such aspirations from a young girl in a remote Zambian village might normally be met with derision, but this is Kawaza, and Kawaza makes things happen.This small village of mud-and-thatch houses on ...
View ArticleAssad, Syria tougher player and regime than Libya
Short-term interest rates have been near zero for more than three years and are likely to stay near zero for years to come. ButFederal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke says rates still might be too ...
View ArticleMSM Still Not a Priority in Many Countries, Report Says
The authors of a study conducted by the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) and the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health state that programmes financed through the Global Fund usually ...
View ArticleCcms Are Not the Best Vehicle for Getting Money to Grassroots Groups
The funding model employed by the Global Fund is not working for grassroots organisations, says Sara L.M. Davis. "The Global Fund and other international donors need to think from the margins, ...
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