CBK Head Under Pressure to Reveal Banks Hoarding Dollars
Central Bank governor Njuguna Ndung'u, on Friday came under pressure to name the five banks he had blamed for the weakening of the shilling by hoarding dollars. Appearing before the newly ...
View ArticleFG to Recover Health Commodities Trapped At Port
Nigeria is to release 2011 counterpart funding to acquire health commodities from the UN Population Fund next week, health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu has announced. He added that government hoped to ...
View ArticleCivil Servants, Workers' Unions Cry Foul
CIVIL servants and labour unions yesterday said Finance Minister Tendai Biti's 2012 National Budget failed to address their concerns. Workers said the manner in which the budget was structured ...
View ArticleTaxpayers to Fork Out Shs182 Billion for Oil Firms
Taxpayers will pay billions of shillings in costs for the discovery, exploration and production of oil before the benefits of oil can start to trickle down. For their initial activities in the ...
View ArticleFG Will Work to Ensure Citizens in Diaspora Can Vote in Future Elections -...
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has pledged that his Administration will do all that it can to ensure that Nigerians in Diaspora are able to vote in future elections. Speaking at a meeting with ...
View ArticleGovernment to Dedicate Oil Well for Power Generation
President Museveni has said government will dedicate one of its oil wells for electricity generation. While officiating at the Investor's Roundtable at Munyonyo on yesterday, Mr Museveni said ...
View Article19 SPLM-N Members Issued Death Sentences
Sinja - Advocacy group says detainees were not involved in military action; calls judgment a "flagrant violation of human rights" A summary tribunal in the town of Sinja, Sinnar State, ...
View ArticleIllegal Logs Sold Back to Timber Companies
Maputo - The Mozambican state has just obtained 15.8 million meticais (about 590,000 US dollars) from the sale of many of the logs seized in July in the northern port of Nacala before they could be ...
View ArticleHealth Scare in North Darfur
El Fahser - 15 people have died in North Darfur's Eiyal Amin area in Atuesha locality as a result of a high-risk bacterial disease, the state's health ministry announced on Friday. The ...
View ArticleUN - 60,000 Displaced in Blue Nile
Damazin - The number of people fleeing from Sudan's southern Blue Nile state has reached 60,000 people, a report issued by the United Nations Office of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOHA) said on ...
View ArticleEDM to Provide 8,000 New Connections in Nacala
Maputo - The publicly owned electricity company, EDM, plans to provide eight thousand new connections in the northern Mozambican port of Nacala in 2012. The EDM director of distribution for the ...
View ArticleCoal Exports Require Upgrading Quelimane Port
Maputo - Investment in the port of Quelimane, capital of the central Mozambican province of Zambezia, is now urgent, in order for it to complement Beira and Nacala in the export of Mozambican coal, ...
View ArticleMDM and Frelimo Clash in Cuamba
Maputo - An ugly incident marred the municipal by-election campaign in the northern Mozambican city of Cuamba on Thursday when members of the opposition Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) attacked ...
View Article2012 Budget Hailed As People's Budget
For the first time in the history of the shaky inclusive government, consumers and the business community are singing the same tune, after the national budget announcement on Thursday. Finance ...
View ArticleGovernment Reaffirms Commitment to Press Freedom
Maputo - Mozambique's deputy justice minister, Alberto Nkutumula, has highlighted the importance of freedom of the press as a "weapon in the fight against corruption and inequality". ...
View ArticleHeritage Tax Ruling in Detail
Uganda early this week won the first round of the $435m oil tax case, a decision that reaffirms its ability to control and manage the nascent oil and gas industry. The Tax Appeals Tribunal after a ...
View ArticleHarare On 'High Alert' As Typhoid Continues to Spread
Harare residents are said to be on high alert as cases of typhoid in the capital continue to grow, with hundreds of people under observation for the bacterial disease. The Harare City Council has ...
View ArticleContinued Pressure On Tsvangirai Over 'Marriage'
The state media continued to put pressure on Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, over the mystery surrounding his alleged marriage to a Harare businesswoman. At the centre of the confusion are ...
View ArticleTranscript of Theresa Makone On Crisis Analysis
In an explosive and at times emotional interview with Lance Guma, the co-Minister for Home Affairs, Theresa Makone, responds to allegations that she is causing chaos within the MDC-T by meddling in ...
View ArticleRow Over Granting of Radio Licences Intensifies
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and various media groups have said the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) has been discredited by granting the country's first independent radio broadcast ...
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