[Business]
Ghana: `Ghana has huge investment opportunities` - Accra Mail :: Ghana News Leaders - Ghana News Business
The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Edmark International, Mr. Sam Low Ban Chai has indicated that Ghana abounds in huge investment opportunities which could be explored by all potential investors. According to Mr. Low, Edmark International is poised to use Ghana as a platform and a gateway to Africa, ...
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South Africa: Bad debt eats into FirstRand earnings
| The banking group, which yesterday reported a 2% drop in diluted headline earnings a share to 85.3c for the six months to the end of December, said it did not expect significant defaults in its second half because retailing bad debts had peaked. "We think the non-performing ... | Read Africa News article at Times Live - Related articles
Africa: Eskom causing an uproar
Kenya: Somali pirates seize ship, hold 10 Kenyans
South Africa: Sasol may abandon fuel liquids plant
Kenya: Sony to launch 3D TVs in June, rivals Samsung
Kenya: Africa presidents call for free Sudan polls
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[Sports]
Ivory Coast: Eriksson Ivory Coast link played down
| Sven-Goran Eriksson"s agent says the coach was unlikely to take charge of the Ivory Coast team at the World Cup.The Ivorian FA revealed they had held talks with the former England boss over the vacant post. The Swede met the Ivorian authorities last week but a deal is not likely. ... | Read Africa News article at BBC News - Related articles
Nigeria: South Africa 2010 Ladder of Riches
Nigeria used to be the last country in the list of top salary paying countries for the coaches of South Africa 2010 World Cup, back in the days of Shaibu Amodu. As the national team coach of the Super Eagles, Amodu made the rear at number 32, below the coach ...
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Kenya: Stop whining Hatimy, act and save local football from imminent death
Nigeria: The Africa Fire is Lit
Kenya: Shah, Njoroge tie to win KCB Golf Challenge
Kenya: Graft: Cemetery funds to be recovered
South Africa: Arsenal turn on the style as Bendtner silences critics
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[Health]
Uganda: Sanitary pad project "changes refugees" lives"
| KYAKA II, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) - A project using papyrus and waste paper to make sanitary pads has changed the life of Evelyne Banyamisa, who fled rebel violence in Bunia, north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2003 when she was only 13. After leaving the DRC, ... | Read Africa News article at IRINNews - Related articles
Somalia: Too many patients, one mental health facility
| BOSASSO, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) - The number of people seeking mental health treatment has increased in Bosasso, the commercial capital of Somalia"s autonomous region of Puntland, despite the existence of only one small health unit, officials said. "We have only two rooms; one for males and one ... | Read Africa News article at IRINNews - Related articles
South Africa: Rift Valley Fever reported in two provinces
Egypt: New plan to fight bird flu in Egypt
South Africa: Prescription Drug Abuse on the Increase
Global: Sniffing out immunity
Global: Free care for expectant mothers - is it enough?
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[Arts & Entertainment]
South Africa: Scanda
| Citing "personal reasons", Clarke, 28, has returned to his Sydney home. He left the team"s hotel on the eve of its third one-day international against New Zealand at Hamilton yesterday and it was not known if or when he would rejoin the tour, said Cricket Australia general manager ... | Read Africa News article at Times Live - Related articles
South Africa: Jackson"s "house of chaos"
| Jackson"s three children; Prince, 13, Paris, 11, and Blanket, 8, have been living at the Jackson family Hayvenhurst home in which more than a dozen family members live with their 80-year-old grandmother Katherine Jackson. According to the report the other children living in the house are out of ... | Read Africa News article at Times Live - Related articles
Ghana: Kalonji" spectacular concert ushers in Ghana at 53 - Accra Mail :: Ghana News Leaders - Ghana News Entertainment
South Africa: Rapper Lil Wayne heads to jail
South Africa: Hot list your guide to upcoming auctions
South Africa: Jeff Bridges credits wife for Oscar
Africa: Lance on how to stay strong
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[North Africa]
Libya: US apologises over Gaddafi comments
| The US State Department has apologised for comments made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi"s call for jihad, or holy war, against Switzerland.Department spokesman PJ Crowley, who made the dismissive comments, said they did not reflect US policy and were not intended to offend. Col Gaddafi had criticised a Swiss vote ... | Read Africa News article at BBC News - Related articles
Libya: Envoy apologises for Gaddafi "slur"
Washington - The US State Department apologised on Tuesday for dismissive comments its spokesperson made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi"s call for "jihad", often translated as "armed struggle", against Switzerland. "I understand that my personal comments were perceived as a personal attack," State Department spokesperson PJ Crowley told reporters. ...
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Libya: Envoy apologises for Gaddafi "slur"
Tunisia: President Ben Ali receives invitation from Muammar Gaddafi to attend Arab Summit in Libya
Egypt: Rio"s World Cup faith
Tunisia: President Ben Ali receives Portugal"s Foreign Affairs Minister
Tunisia: Nabeul to host Neapolis Contemporary Art Forum
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[South Africa]
South Africa: Hip hop star and friend spend another night in jail
| Two men accused of killing four teenage boys in a car crash are spending a second night in a Soweto police cell. One of the men is a hip-hop star. The two were allegedly racing down a two-way street when they lost control of their cars. One drove into ... | Read Africa News article at SABCNews - Related articles
South Africa: Motsoaledi stresses importance of HIV/Aids prevention
| Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says he is worried that people still do not understand that the most effective weapon against HIV/Aids is prevention. There are about 920 000 people on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment in South Africa. Motsoaledi says he needs to address the issue of prevention urgently. "We do accept ... | Read Africa News article at SABCNews - Related articles
South Africa: Service delivery protests move to Parys
South Africa: Mantashe to address Bophirima ANC task team
Zimbabwe: Jane Mutasa in court over US$750 000 fraud
South Africa: Solidarity satisfied with outcome of meeting with Zuma
Malawi: Patrilineal Inheritance Prevents Women"s Access to Land
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[East Africa]
Kenya: Why using country codes for company websites pays off
African organisations and companies have been advised to use their country"s code name while registering businesses on the Internet.According to participants attending on-going 37th ICANN meeting in Nairobi, this approach would enable entities get specific correspondents across borders. "Organisations should change from using generic names like the dot.com or dot.org ...
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Kenya: Land scandal started off as part of noble move
A well-intentioned idea by City Hall to buy cemetery land ended up providing an avenue for fraudsters to swindle taxpayers of a whopping Sh260 million. Related Stories Key players in land deal that cost taxpayers Sh260 million There was easier way to get plot Mudavadi probed in ...
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Uganda: Kenya gives 123 tonnes of food aid
Kenya: Kenyans starve as food worth millions of shillings rots
Kenya: Zimbabwe Speaker wins election case
Uganda: Landslides rescue: Soldiers fall sick
Uganda: SA women rally behind victims of Haiti, Chile and Uganda
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[West Africa]
Ghana: Seized cars" overseer is innocent - Alex Segbefia - Accra Mail :: Ghana News Leaders - Ghana News Main News
Alex Segbefia is the Deputy Chief of Staff at the Presidency There are moves to get the chairman of the Confiscated Assets Committee, Karl Wilson, dismissed, Deputy Chief of Staff Alex Segbefia alleges.Mr Segbefia says some persons calling for the removal from office of Mr ...
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Nigeria: FG Approves Funds to Restart Ajaokuta, Itakpe Plants
The Federal Government has approved N650 million for the re-opening of the Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited (ASCL) and the National Iron Ore Mining Company (NIOMCO), Itakpe. Government, however, said it had so far spent a total of $6 billion on the Ajaokuta plant since its inception in 1979.It said the ...
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Chad: Hungry season sets in early
Nigeria: Department declines to comment on Nigeria ransom money
Nigeria: Lukman: Deregulate or Face Worse Fuel Crisis
Nigeria: Family awaits return of South African kidnapped in Nigeria
Nigeria: Nigeria urged to prosecute those behind village massacre
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[Great Lakes]
Congo: Congo oil minister to examine delayed deals
Democratic Republic of Congo"s newly appointed oil minister will review exploration contracts yet to be approved by the President, and wants a new oil code passed into law by the end of March, he said late on Monday. The central African country produces just 25 000 barrels a day ...
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Congo: Congo oil minister to examine delayed deals
Democratic Republic of Congo"s newly appointed oil minister will review exploration contracts yet to be approved by the President, and wants a new oil code passed into law by the end of March, he said late on Monday. The central African country produces just 25 000 barrels a day ...
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Congo (DRC): Congo launches gun campaign
Congo: Bemba trial delayed
Congo: Bemba trial delayed
Congo: How not to bore the kids
Burundi: Tensions high in run-up to Burundi elections
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[Horn of Africa]
Somalia: Senior rebel leader killed in Mogadishu
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a senior official of the Somali rebel group Hizbul Islam in Mogadishu"s main market on Tuesday, sparking several revenge killings, officials and witnesses said. Hizbul Islam has often fought side-by-side with the more hardline al Shabaab rebels against government forces in a drive to topple ...
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Somalia: Gunmen kill senior Somali rebel leader
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a senior official of the Somali rebel group Hizbul Islam in Mogadishu"s main market today, sparking several revenge killings, officials and witnesses said. Hizbul Islam has often fought side-by-side with the more hardline al Shabaab rebels against government forces in a drive to topple Somalia"s Western-backed ...
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Somalia: Senior rebel leader killed in Mogadishu
Somalia: "British hostages safe"
Somalia: Commander gunned down
Somalia: European naval forces capture more pirates
Somalia: France seizes 35 Somali "pirates"
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