Juicy Deals for Investors in Electricity Sector
The government is dangling complete feasibility studies, joint ventures and firm guarantee to buy all the power in a bid to entice investors into the energy sector, as it seeks to shore up ...
View ArticleWhy Big Men Are Not the Answer to Africa's Conflicts
offers an interesting new approach to the development and influence of informal networks of political, social and economic power in conflicts in Africa. Taking the concept of the Big Man from ...
View ArticleGovt Seeks to Tax Sale of Energy Company
Maputo - The Mozambican government is no longer prepared to tolerate the sale of Mozambican assets abroad without Mozambique itself receiving any benefit. Last Thursday, the Minister of Mineral ...
View ArticleMaputo Council Working to Regulate Informal Trade
Maputo - Maputo City council has set up a working commission with representatives of owners of the stalls and kiosks that are being removed from the city's pavements in order to discuss other ...
View ArticleReintegrating Ex-Combatants in Vulnerable Environments
The availability of suitable livelihood opportunities for ex-combatants is vital to the success of peace-building efforts after war, especially in Africa. That is, in order to encourage ...
View ArticleYouth Job Creation a Priority Says PM
Maputo - Mozambican Prime Minister Aires Ali on Monday challenged Mozambicans to be prepared to make better use of the advantages flowing from the country's possession of massive reserves of ...
View ArticleDutch Govt Looks Critically at Aid to Continent
That means the government has to make drastic savings. If you ask Dutch people where the axe should fall, their answer couldn't be clearer - development aid. A recent opinion poll indicated ...
View ArticleAirline's Profits up by 15 Percent in 2011
Maputo - The publicly owned Mozambique Airlines (LAM) increased its operating profits by 15 per cent in 2011, according to a Monday press release from LAM. The volume of traffic grew by five per ...
View ArticleFarmers Mobilize to Protect Fertilizer Subsidy
Farmers in North Rift region have given a company 14 days to withdraw a case intended to bar the government from selling subsidised fertiliser. Led by Cherangany MP Joshua Kutuny, the farmers ...
View ArticleDecisive Round of Oil Talks Between Nations On Tuesday
Khartoum - The governments of Sudan and South Sudan are set to start a decisive round of talks on oil in the Ethiopian capital on Tuesday but with slim prospects of success. Khartoum's ...
View ArticleEmployers, Trade Unions Denounce Constitutional Council
Maputo - Mozambican employers and trade unions were in unusual agreement on Monday, in denouncing a legal ruling that an article in the labour law seeking to make mediation in labour disputes ...
View ArticleCitizens Without a Pension Gamble With Their Future
Accra - With a large informal sector, only few formally employed Ghanaians are contributing to the state pension scheme. Many of those outside the formal sector are left to their fate as they do not ...
View ArticleRaila's Sister Sacked Over Pensions Scheme Flaws
Beryl Odinga and eight members of the Kenya Railways Retirement Scheme were last week sent packing. Beryl - the sister of Prime Minister Raila Odinga-is the chairman of the board. She and other ...
View ArticleFertiliser Dispute Worries Farmers
The tender dispute over the importation of 60,000 tonnes of fertiliser will be sorted out this week as maize farmers exerted pressure on the government to deal with the matter. The National Cereals ...
View ArticleUnion and Government Meet to Ease Rising Tension
Representatives of the interim government and the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) met last Saturday to mend the rift that has opened between the two institutions. A series of protests have been ...
View ArticleNurses Trash Deal to End Strike
Nairobi - Nurses and other health workers on Monday defied a return-to-work deal struck the previous night by their union representatives and the government. The nurses said all the issues they had ...
View ArticleDisarmament in Jonglei State to Kick-Off in Mid-March
http://www.irinnews.org ) Juba - The SPLA spokesperson Colonel Phillip Aguer Panyang told the Citizen yesterday on a phone interview that the disarmament of the civilian population in Jonglei ...
View ArticleFood Crisis Subsides, but Humanitarian Needs Remain Acute
Because of the failure of seasonal rains, Somalia has been in the grip of a severe drought that started in October 2010 and had dramatic humanitarian consequences in 2011. Nearly two decades of ...
View ArticleCameroon urged to overhaul laws criminalizing gay relationships
LGBTQ rights flag LONDON: Laws criminalizing consensual same-sex relationships must be repealed by the Cameroonian government, Amnesty International said as it called for the release of those ...
View ArticleGhana approves enhanced hydro-carbon extraction
LAGOS: Ghana's Parliament has approved a $150 million subsidiary agreement between Ghana and China Development Bank Corporation (CDB) to finance the ICT-enhanced Surveillance and Monitoring ...
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