[Business]
: SAB reaches black ownership deal
| The world"s second biggest brewer SABMiller is to allocate 10% of the shares in its South African unit SAB to black investors.The shares will be divided between SAB employees, retailers selling SAB products and community groups. The deal will help SAB comply with the government"s policy of shifting more ownership ... | Read article at BBC News - Related articles
Zambia: Millers’ probe continues
THE Zambia Competition Commission (ZCC) is still investigating the alleged created cartel by Millers Association of Zambia (MAZ) members aimed at buying maize from farmers at lower prices. ZCC executive director Thula Kaira said during a meeting with Commodity Task Force chairperson, Maxwell Mulendiwa that the investigations had taken long because ...
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Ghana: ECOWAS Delay on EPA Allows Ghana to Re-Think
Zambia: Lafarge resumes Burundi exports
Zambia: June inflation drops
Sudan: Firms target nutrition for the poor
Africa: Deny Neoliberal Consensus
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[Sports]
Uganda: KCC beat Mazembe at Cecafa
| KCC of Uganda won a thrilling match against TP Mazembe on the second day of the Cecafa Club Championship.Mazembe, from DR Congo, are guest entrants in the tournament for East and Central Africa. They will start their campaign in the group stages of the African Champions League later this month ... | Read article at BBC News - Related articles
Ivory Coast: Ivory Coast go top in Africa
| Ivory Coast have overtaken Cameroon as the top team in Africa, matching their highest ever position in the Fifa world rankings.The Elephants are now 18th in the world, up 20 places on last month. Elsewhere, African champions Egypt and World Cup hosts South Africa have both moved up two spots. ... | Read article at BBC News - Related articles
Zambia: ‘Tragedy derailed us’
Zambia: ‘Tragedy derailed us’
Sudan: CECAFA ready for kick-off
Zambia: NOC courts Britain for 2012 Olympics
Zambia: Desert Foxes gear up preps
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[Health]
Egypt: Maternal Mortality, A Human Rights Catastrophe
The right to the highest attainable standard of health: not the most fashionable of human rights, but the limits on people"s enjoyment of their right to health often coincide with continuing inequalities behind claims of economic growth or political reform.The quality of life of women and children - particularly poor ...
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Senegal: Fistula Sufferers Left To Their Fate
In Senegal’s southern region, 58 percent of deliveries take place at home without any medical assistance, according to state reproductive health officials in Kolda, a town 425 km from the capital, Dakar. Women in the region suffer from exceptionally high rates of fistula.Obstetric fistula occurs when extended pressure damages the ...
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Liberia: ‘‘19th WEF on Africa Just About Elite Agendas’’
Rights: Honour Pledges on Reproductive Health
Lesotho: Cultural Beliefs Threaten Prevention of Mother-Child HIV Transmission
Egypt: Move to End Organ Trafficking
Lesotho: Help At Hand for Orphans
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[Arts & Entertainment]
Zambia: The blond wins commendation
TSUNGAI Garise has followed-up on his two-man stage play, Desperate Love, with another equally hilarious comedy production.The Blond, the Maid and the Millionaire,opened to the public on Tuesday at the alliance Francaise.The play was watched by among others, Jason Kabanana (Kangwa Chileshe) and former vice- president and now this country’s ...
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Zambia: Danny flies Fluffy at Smugglers
THERE has always been a tongue-in-cheek song on almost all of Danny’s albums, but the way he recorded and the manner in which he is delivering Fluffy, one of the hit tracks on the current album, 10 Years, speaks a decade of excellence.Last Friday at the Smugglers Inn in Lusaka, ...
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Zambia: Rhythm of Life simply breathtaking
Zambia: My Own Boss to unveil winner this evening
Zambia: Tuku jets in for Rythm of Life Festival
Zambia: Catherine Kaseketi gets True Ebony Award
Zambia: Catherine Kaseketi gets True Ebony Award
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[North Africa]
Libya: Gaddafi wants Caribbean states to join AU
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the head of the African Union, has called on Caribbean nations to join the grouping. "These countries are considered to be African, but they are in the Caribbean," he said in opening an AU summit in the coastal town of Sirte in Libya on Wednesday. ...
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Libya: Summit takes AU back to its roots
| Muammar Gaddafi"s home town, Sirte, is not the most accessible venue for an African Union summit.It is a hot and bumpy four hour drive from the Libyan capital Tripoli to a town reached by only two chartered flights each day. Such is the shortage of hotel accommodation here that journalists ... | Read article at BBC News - Related articles
Egypt: Clashes after shopkeeper allegedly kills teen
Libya: African troops - "fig-leaf" for Somalia?
Egypt: Clashes after shopkeeper allegedly kills teen
Algeria: Ex-CIA operative charged with sex assault
Egypt: Brotherhood will not challenge succession
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[South Africa]
Comoros: Air crash survivor back in France
| The only known survivor of the Yemenia flight which crashed into the Indian Ocean has arrived back in Paris on a French government plane.The 12-year-old girl, Baya Bakari, was found clinging to wreckage in the sea, hours after the crash. She had been treated in hospital in the Comoros Islands ... | Read article at BBC News - Related articles
Zambia: OPINION
Over 500 local and international companies are taking part by exhibiting their goods and services and most are hoping to attract new clients. It is also hoped that many will also have on offer new products, services and technologies and they will share experiences, especially that the world is in ...
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Zambia: It’s all lies, says millers group
Zambia: ABSA sues Zambia
Zambia: Trade Fair opens to public
Zambia: Nine health workers dismissed
Zambia: Nine health workers dismissed
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[East Africa]
Uganda: UPC diehards want Miria Obote out
By Cyprian Musoke OVER 200 members of the UPC National Council have signed a petition seeking to remove party president Miria Obote from office. The members include senior officials whom Miria threw out of her cabinet recently, as well as members of Parliament previously holding high positions in ...
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Uganda: Benny Hinn lost sh4b in Uganda
Pastors Benny Hinn and Kayanja preaching at Rubaga Miracle Centre last month By Conan Businge PASTOR Benny Hinn made a loss of $2m (about sh4.4b) on his recent visit to Uganda and two other African countries. Speaking on Light House Television on Tuesday night, the ...
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Uganda: Uganda resists pressure on gay rights
Kenya: Online Edition :: Muthaura flown out
Kenya: Online Edition :: Power crisis update
Uganda: Museveni opposes Gaddafi on African political union
Uganda: Uganda resists pressure on gay rights
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[West Africa]
Liberia: Controversial Mayor is Talk of the Town
Myaha Johnson sits with her family beneath a flimsy shelter of black plastic, looking with despair at the charred remains of what used to be their home. Mary Broh, Monrovia’s controversial mayor-designate, had just swept through the neighbourhood with her task force, vigorously tearing down residential structures along the back ...
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Nigeria: FG: Only Criminals ‘Locked Out’ in N’Delta
The Federal Government yesterday denied a report in THISDAY that the Joint Task Force (JTF) was stopping persons displaced in the course of recent operations against militants, from returning to their villages.It said rather, the task force was taking necessary measures to keep “criminal elements” out of the communities, to ...
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Nigeria: JTF Invasion: House Advises FG to Pay N1bn Compensation
Nigeria: High Commission Denies Report on Reception
Nigeria: High Commission Denies Report on Reception
Ghana: People with disability and their rights in society
Ghana: ``Partisanship``
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[Great Lakes]
Congo (DRC): Bemba wants to be freed pending judgment
Lawyers for former DRC vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba asked judges to free him pending judgment in his trial for war crimes allegedly committed in the Central African Republic. "It is necessary to free Jean-Pierre Bemba," his lawyer, Aime Kilolo, argued in a special hearing before the International Criminal Court to ...
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Congo (DRC): Bemba to appear before the ICC
Congolese politician Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo is due to appear before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on Monday afternoon for a procedural hearing about his pre-trial detention. The ICC"s rules of procedure and evidence determine all detained suspects should be heard "at least once every year." The ...
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Congo: "Grim example of sexual violence"
Congo (DRC): Rioting prisoners rape 20 women
Congo: "Grim example of sexual violence"
Congo (DRC): Intergration of CNDP weakens FARDC - report
Congo (DRC): Intergration of CNDP weakens FARDC - report
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[Horn of Africa]
Ethiopia: "Why I took up arms against Ethiopia"
| Ahmed, 35, is a member of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), one of a number of separatist groups fighting for the independence of the Somali-speaking Ogaden region in the east of Ethiopia.The previous evening, he had participated in an attack against Ethiopian troops near the town of Babile. "The ... | Read article at BBC News - Related articles
Somalia: AU summit tackles conflicts across Africa
African leaders hold talks on Thursday regarding Somalia and a slate of other conflicts at a continental summit hosted by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who is lobbying for a powerful pan-African government. The opening of the summit on Wednesday was eclipsed by Gaddafi"s invitation to Iran"s hardline President Mahmoud ...
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Somalia: AU summit tackles conflicts across Africa
Somalia: AU summit tackles conflicts across Africa
Somalia: AU summit tackles conflicts across Africa
Somalia: AU summit tackles conflicts across Africa
Somalia: AU summit tackles conflicts across Africa
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