Chansa commends Zambia preparation
Zambia midfielder Isaac Chansa said his nation's recent success has had much to do with professional preparation and coaching. Zambia midfielder Isaac Chansa said his nation's recent ...
View ArticleAl Shabaab Launches Suicide Bomb Attack
Al-Qaeda linked al Shabaab rebels says they carried out the suicide car bomb attack in the Hotel Muna in Hamarweine district in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, on Wednesday which killed at least ...
View ArticleBashir Accuses Foreign NGOs of Exploiting Darfur
Khartoum - The Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir has accused foreign groups of profiting from the crisis in Darfur, vowing to fully implement a deal aimed at ending years of insurgency and ...
View ArticleTip-Off Leads Task Force to Boko Haram Arms Cache
Aliyu Adekunle/Vanguard ) The Security Joint Task Force (JTF) has discovered a large cache of arms and ammunition in Kano State, bolstering recent progress in its bid to halt the terrorist ...
View ArticleMTN Ghana launches new reward scheme
MTN logo LAGOS: Africa's largest mobile phone operator MTN has announced it was launching a new rewards scheme for customers in Ghana in West Africa. The goal is to reboot their brand in the ...
View ArticleGhana telecoms threaten legal action against regulator
Ghana's telecom operators' logos. LAGOS: Ghana's leading telecommunications companies are threatening to take legal action against the country's Public Utilities Regulatory ...
View ArticleSomalia piracy inflicts high costs on shipping industry
Piracy leaving shipping industry in downturn. New York (dpa) – The global shipping industry suffered up to 80 per cent of the nearly 7 billion dollars in economic costs due to Somali piracy ...
View ArticleCPS Layoffs Unfairly Affected African-American Teachers
CHICAGO (CBS) — The Chicago Teachers Union wants federal investigators to review the school board’s teacher layoff policy to see if it has unfairly impacted African-American teachers. ...
View ArticleRibadu welcomes Nigeria oil post
Nigeria's ex-corruption chief Nuhu Ribadu said he viewed his appointment as chair of a new task force to police the oil sector as a national calling. His 21-member team will track revenues ...
View ArticleShould Libya rebuild Gaddafi hometown of Sirte
The final battle for Muammar Gaddafi's home-town last October was brutal and drawn-out. Hundreds died on both sides, and it is hard to find a building undamaged by bullets or shells. ...
View Article'Tough year ahead' for ANC
South African President Jacob Zuma is preparing to address the nation in his state of the union address. But it is not the state of the union, but the state of the ruling ANC party that is ...
View ArticleGhanaians rally to support Gyan
Ghana have rallied to support team-mate Asamoah Gyan, after his penalty miss against Zambia in the Africa Cup of Nations semi-final. The striker missed a vital spot-kick in the last-four tie, ...
View ArticleNorth Africa gets giant car plant
The biggest car factory in North Africa has been officially opened in Morocco by the French firm Renault. The plant is in Melousa, a small town on the Mediterranean near Tangiers, in an area close ...
View ArticleUganda 'not behind anti-gay bill'
Uganda's government has defended its right to debate an anti-gay bill but says the draft legislation does not have official backing. MP David Bahati this week retabled his bill after it was ...
View ArticleWill Sirte accept Libya's revolution
Libyans will soon be marking the first anniversary of their uprising against Colonel Gaddafi. But in Sirte, the new government still faces a formidable challenge in persuading Gaddafi loyalists to ...
View ArticleLibya’s New Government Unable to Control Militias
TRIPOLI, Libya - As the militiamen saw it, they had the best of intentions. They assaulted another militia at a seaside base here this week to rescue a woman who had been abducted. When the guns ...
View ArticleGhana hikes minimum wage by 20 pct
ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana has raised its minimum wage by 20 percent to 4.48 cedis per day, a committee of representatives of government, labour and private employers said in a statement on ...
View ArticleCameroon scraps planned fuel subsidy cut
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon has decided to keep subsidies on fuel through 2012 in an effort to help ordinary citizens, a state-run agency said on Thursday, ditching a plan to slash the costly ...
View ArticleRhino dies during procedure to deter poachers
Hern says the reserve began treating horns to make them unattractive to poachers after losing a pregnant rhino and her calf to poachers in 2010. She says Thursday's death was the first among up ...
View ArticleElephant calf dies in Zimbabwe
Conservationists in Zimbabwe said around-the-clock efforts to save a baby elephant, separated from his mother on a busy highway, have failed. The six-week-old calf who has been hand fed for three ...
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