Latest Africa News
RSS-
Zimbabwe President Hails SMEs Urges Sector to Bank
THE informal sector has created nearly six million jobs in the country and contributes US$7,4 billion to the economy, but the money rarely finds its way into the formal banking system, a Government commissioned survey has revealed. The scientific survey was conducted with the assistance of the World Bank and its data was validated by Zimstat. Launching the Finscope Zimbabwe 2012 Small and ...
-
Africa FIFA Confirm Sep 4 for 2014 Qualifying Draw
FIFA have confirmed that the draw for the final round of African qualifying for the 2014 World Cup will take place in Cairo on September 16. Bafana Bafana will hope that they are one of the 10 teams in the pot for the draw, which will determine the five play-off ties, the winners of which will advance to the finals in Brazil. The top five teams according to the FIFA Rankings will be seeded, ...
-
South Sudan U.S. $2.24 Million Boost for Capacity Building in South Sudan
Juba - Five public institutions in South Sudan are set to benefit from a $2.24 million (SSP8.96 million) grant for capacity building from the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF). The Bank of South Sudan, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, the National Audit Chamber and the University of Juba will have their staff trained ...
More Africa News
RSS-
Africa UN Lancet Journal to Hold Meeting On Aids Response and Global Health
Heads of State, policymakers, scientists, advocates and private sector leaders will come together for the first time this month to explore how the AIDS response can be used to shape the future of global health in a United Nations-led meeting in Lilongwe, Malawi. Organized in conjunction with the Lancet medical journal, the UNAIDS and Lancet Commission: from AIDS to Sustainable Health, will give ...
-
Africa FG to Key Into Africas N250 Billion Annual Air Freight Market
Lagos - To benefit from the Africa's N250 billion annual air freight market, Nigeria has designated 13 airports as perishable cargo airports. The idea is to transform the aviation sector into a major revenue earner for the country said Mr. Yakubu Dati, Coordinating General Manager, Aviation Parastatals. The terminals will be built in Abuja, Akure, Calabar, Ilorin, Jalingo, Jos, Kano, ...
-
Kenya Sugarcane Farmers hit-out at Kenya Sugar Board.
Mumias sugar belts yesterday accused the sugar board director for the two belts, Billy Wanjala of being part of the sugarcane poaching syndicate that has gripped the multi-billion shillings business in a stranglehold. The farmers' spokesman, Nicholas Makokha Shikanda said Wanjala who is in charge of Mumias and Busia sugar belts that are the lifeline of Mumias Sugar in cane supplies should ...
-
Singapore Haze Soars to Hazardous Levels
A smoky haze fueled by forest fires in Indonesia continues to reach hazardous new levels in neighboring Singapore and is threatening to further irritate ties between the two countries. Singapore officials urged people to stay indoors Thursday, as a shroud of smog hanging over the city-state sent an air pollution index soaring to an all-time high of 371, shattering a record set the previous ...
-
Kenya Uhuru addresses 11th National prayer gathering
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am indeed very delighted to join other Kenyans in praying for our country. Let me begin by thanking God for bringing us here this morning to pray together, at my first national prayer breakfast as President. It is said that prayer is to the soul what food is to the body. This is indeed true. On a personal level, I am convinced that there is nothing more valuable than ...
-
All-white town spurns Mandelas Rainbow Nation
By F. Brinley Bruton, Staff Writer, NBC News KLEINFONTEIN, South Africa - An all-white enclave less than an hour from South Africa’s capital is fighting to hold on to a segregated life reminiscent of the country before Nelson Mandela toppled the apartheid regime. "We feel that our culture is being threatened and we want to protect it and we want to nurture it," said Marisa ...
-
Newborn Vaccination For Rotavirus In Africa Is Effective
Mayo Clinic and other researchers have shown that a vaccine given to newborns is at least 60 percent effective against rotavirus in Ghana. Rotavirus ...
-
Survey Reveals Male On Male Consensual Sex And Sexual Assault Common In South Africa
A survey of adult South African men published in this week's PLOS Medicine, shows that while overlapping sexual relationships with women appear to be common, roughly one in 20 men reported consensual sexual contact with a man, approximately one in ten reported being sexually assaulted by another man, and around 3% reported perpetrating such an assault. These findings highlight the need ...
-
Growing anti-Brotherhood uproar pressures Egypts
The growing voices against Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group, especially after President Mohamed Morsi appointed a number of controversial governors put extra pressure on his Islamist-oriented administration ahead of a planned massive protests on June 30 urged by activists and opposition leaders.On Sunday, Morsi appointed 17 new governors including seven from the MB and one from the ...
-
India to play five ODIs in Zimbabwe
India will tour Zimbabwe for a series of five one-dayers starting July 24 and ending on August 3, the BCCI has confirmed. It will be India's next international assignment after their tri-series in the West Indies that concludes on July ...
-
Denel names SA men killed in Somalia
Johannesburg - Denel has released the names of two of three employees who were killed after an attack on a United Nations facility in Somalia on ...
-
Tanzanias CRDB Bank rolls out agency banking to tap new clients
DAR ES SALAAM, June 20 | Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:54am EDT DAR ES SALAAM, June 20 (Reuters) - Tanzania's largest commercial bank, CRDB Bank, has started offering banking services through agents like shops and petrol stations, it said on Thursday, hoping to copy a model that has helped Kenyan lenders tap new customers and cut costs. Although boasting east Africa's second largest ...
-
Nigeria Govt Rushes Food to Suffering Nigerian Troop in Mali As Army General Threatens to Arrest Premium Times Reporter
The Federal government has today hurried food to Nigerian troop in Mali twenty-four hours after this newspaper reported that the 873-man contingent were being poorly fed and had not been paid allowances in the last three months. Defence sources in Abuja and Lagos told PREMIUM TIMES Wednesday that the defence headquarters was terribly embarrassed by the report and immediately ordered that food ...
-
Zimbabwe Principals Meet Over Amendments Poll Date
PRINCIPALS in the inclusive Government, negotiators to the Global Political Agreement and legal experts from all the sides met at State House yesterday to discuss issues surrounding the promulgation of amendments to the Electoral Act and proclamation of the election date. The meeting followed debate in Cabinet on Tuesday on the same issues. Presidential spokesperson Cde George Charamba ...
-
Nigeria Thanks Youths Against Terrorism
Young men in terror-afflicted Borno State recently decided to collaborate with the federal government's military Joint Task Force (JTF) to identify and, if necessary, arrest suspected terrorists and hand them over to the authorities. They know most of the Boko Haram members because they live/lived together with them. As a result of this effort of the courageous youth in Maiduguri and other ...
-
Tanzania Police Accused of Raping Torturing Sex Workers Drug Users and Homosexuals
Nairobi - Tanzanian police torture, rape and assault sex workers, sexual minorities and drug users, while medical staff deny them healthcare, undermining efforts to reduce HIV infection, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Tuesday. Homophobia is widespread across Africa and men who have sex with men in Tanzania face a jail sentence ranging from 30 years to life. But the Tanzanian ...
-
Nigeria PDP Spokesman Olisa Metuh Resigns
The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, has formally announced his decision to resign his position. Mr. Metuh announced his resignation at a brief press conference on Wednesday in Abuja, saying he would throw in the towel on Thursday at the party's National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting. "I want to inform you that I am resigning as the ...
-
Zimbabwe Poll Date Case Urgent Says Govt
GOVERNMENT yesterday filed an urgent chamber application to have the constitutional case it filed on Tuesday for the extension of the election date beyond July 31 heard on an urgent basis and the Constitutional Court will today hear arguments on the fresh application. Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa - through Government lawyer Mr Fred Gijima of FG Gijima and Associates - ...
-
Zambia Govt Releases KR238 Million for UNWTO
GOVERNMENT has so far released KR238 million towards the hosting of the 20th United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) General Assembly in August this year, Tourism Minister, Sylvia Masebo has told Parliament. In a ministerial statement in Parliament yesterday on the preparations to host the general assembly, Ms Masebo said the KR15 million budgeted in the Yellow Book had been released ...
-
South Africa Two SA Somalia Attack Victims Named
Soldiers and emergency personnel search through rebels at the UN office in Mogadishu after an Al-Shabaab attack. Johannesburg - Denel has released the names of two of three employees who were killed after an attack on a United Nations facility in Somalia on Wednesday. They were Morne Lotter, 42, of Oudtshoorn and Alan Simpson, 35, of Port Elizabeth, spokeswoman Vuyelwa Qinga said on ...
-
Somalia Multiple Fatalities As Al Shabab Attack UN Somalia Base
Soldiers and emergency personnel search through rebels at the UN office in Mogadishu after an Al-Shabaab attack. Militants linked to al Qaeda have caused multiple deaths after breaking into the United Nations' main compound in the Somalian capital, Mogadishu. The rebel group al Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack. Islamist rebel gunmen were reported to have detonated explosives ...
-
Zimbabwe Politburo Endorses Aspiring Candidates List
ZANU-PF'S Politburo has approved the final list of aspiring candidates who will contest the party's primaries next Monday ahead of harmonised elections slated for July 31. Addressing journalists after the decision-making body's meeting in Harare last night, Zanu-PF national chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo said the Politburo had made a few alterations to the list submitted by the ...
Sierra Leone Featured
-
Sierra Leone has a challenge on its hands
Sierra Leone is relatively unknown on the international stage, it is a tiny country of just 6 million people, perched on the edge of West Africa with its coastline gazing out into the Atlantic, a body of ocean that has played as important a part in the country’s history as the natural resources that have brought the state such infamy.
Sierra Leone, unfortunately, is known abroad, for those that have heard of the country, as a war-torn little state where social cohesion and everything that goes with it has collapsed entirely. World headlines in the 1990s were filled, appropriately, with stories of the civil war raging in the country at a time when the Revolutionary United Front was trying to overthrow the military dictatorship headed by Joseph Momoh. Read more
News from around our Network
