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The Mpohor Wassa East District Security Council (DISEC) in the Western Region has finally waded into the Adum-Trebom farmland dispute The youth in the area are resisting attempts by the chief of the area, Nana Nuako III, to ‘cunningly’ deprive them of their farmland. They have capitalized on an ongoing ... Read Africa News at The Ghanian Chronicle Archived: 2006-02-22 VIOLENCE AND confusion erupted when hundreds of protesters of the Representation of People (Amendment) Bill (ROPAB) currently before Parliament clashed with the police yesterday at the entrance of the Castle Osu. The demonstration, which otherwise would have ended peacefully, was marred when some of the demonstrators started throwing stones ... Read Africa News at The Ghanian Chronicle Archived: 2006-02-22 The country's banking industry is in the process of rolling out smart card technology in which all bank cards will be converted to chip enabled cards. The banks hope this will draw them closer to winning the battle against fraudsters. The new smart cards are fitted with a tiny ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Jerome Vakke, the FIFA Director of Marketing, say preparations for the 2010 Soccer World Cup are in order. Vakke revealed this at the KPMG 2010 Soccer World Cup seminar in Johannesburg today. The FIFA delegations who have visited this country over the last 18 months have never been disappointed. ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Togo has named German Otto Pfister as the World Cup finalists' coach, replacing Stephen Keshi following the team's poor performance at the African Nations Cup. Pfister, 67, has been coach of the former Zaire and Ghana and has also worked with clubs in Egypt and Tunisia. Rock Gnassingbe, the ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Kobus van der Merwe, the Stormers coach, has made one change to the starting line up for Friday evening's Super 14 rugby match against the Brumbies at Newlands in Cape Town. Springbok centre Jean de Villiers has recovered from injury and will replace Gus Theron. The ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva flew to Algeria on Wednesday at the start of an African trip to foster business ties and build support for his country's campaign for a permanent UN Security Council seat. Lula's tour of Algeria, Benin, Botswana and South Africa is part of ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2006-02-22 Ivory Coast's cocoa co-operatives which produce 90 percent of the country's crop said on Wednesday they were striking to demand the return of levy payments and threatened to disrupt truck deliveries to ports. "If we don't get this money... tomorrow (Thursday) we're going to ask producers in the bush ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2006-02-22 The Burundian government has declared famine in five provinces and set up a fund, known as the National Solidarity for Food Security, through which civil servants, private companies and individuals can contribute money to feed hundreds of thousands of people who are facing food shortages. In a presidential decree signed ... Read Africa News at IRINNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Six men were arrested in Maputo for allegedly smuggling people from that country to South Africa. The men where arrested while attempting to trasport 43 people into South Africa. Ilidio Miguel, the Mozambique's interior ministry spokesperson, says that many people were smuggled into South Africa from Mozambique's poor ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 As the deadly H5N1 virus spread to a seventh state in Nigeria, the country’s West African neighbours convened in Dakar on Tuesday for emergency talks aimed at setting out a regional road map to contain the disease.“Failing containment, this plague could destabilise African societies,” warned Bernard Vallat, Director General of ... Read Africa News at IRINNews Archived: 2006-02-22 in on Wednesday, in Luanda, by President José Eduardo dos Santos. In the Presidential Palace, the new deputy governors of Bie, Ana Maria Mvuayi, Cabinda, Feliciano Lopes Toco, and Malanje, Jose Maria Durbalino de Carvalho, vowed to respect and enforce the Law. Other officials, who also promised fidelity to ... Read Africa News at AngolaPress Archived: 2006-02-22 By Mike Holmes SA IS poised to be the springboard for a franchising revolution in Africa. An African Development Bank (ADB) study has shown the potential for franchising throughout Africa is "enormous", says Brenda Macqueen, who chairs the Franchise Association of Southern Africa. At the same time franchising is ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 BANGKOK - Flag carrier Thai Airways International said it would launch direct flights from Bangkok to Johannesburg, South Africa, in October due to rising demand. "Johannesburg is the hub of air travelling in Africa. It is a good connection and we can get passengers from North and East Africa," said ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 After days of heavy fighting, a tentative calm has returned to the Somali capital of Mogadishu, with no reports of clashes since Tuesday night, local sources told IRIN. "There is an unofficial ceasefire in place, and it appears to be holding," Abdullahi Shirwa, of the Civil Society in Action, one ... Read Africa News at IRINNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Zimbabwe police have detained 73 women at a protest marking President Robert Mugabe's 82nd birthday on Tuesday. A lawyer confirmed the women were still in detention in the capital, Harare, on Wednesday afternoon. They had been calling for changes to the constitution to protect women's rights and other ... Read Africa News at BBC News Archived: 2006-02-22 Britain will provide an additional 20 million pounds sterling (US $34.8 million) to support the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS), said international development secretary Hilary Benn during a visit to the Sudanese region of Darfur, where the AMIS peacekeeping force is deployed."Funding for AMIS is running low, and the ... Read Africa News at IRINNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Ghana midfielder Emmanuel Osei has been banned by the Romanian first division club Politehnica Timisoara for six months for insubordination. "Osei rebuffed any attempt to communicate with the team's coach Gheorghe Hagi and also failed to cooperate with the team on and off the field," general manager Ion Craciunescu ... Read Africa News at BBC News Archived: 2006-02-22 The Greater Accra Regional Police Commander, ACP Douglas Akrofie-Asiedu, has rubbished the ugly noises being made by certain top ranking members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), masterminds of the violent ROPAD demonstration and argued that the police took the right decision. Speaking to the media in Accra yesterday, ACP ... Read Africa News at The Accra Daily Mail Archived: 2006-02-22 Ugandans are preparing to go to the polls for the country's first multi-party presidential and parliamentary elections for 26 years. There are five presidential candidates, but the main contest on Thursday is between President Yoweri Museveni and bitter rival Kizza Besigye. Security is heavy, with 12,000 army reserves ... Read Africa News at BBC News Archived: 2006-02-22 Men, women and children from the Central African Republic are continuing to flee into Chad daily, with at least 4,000 pouring in so far this month to escape violence that refugees say has killed 50 people in February alone, and shows no signs of subsiding, the UN refugee agency said. ... Read Africa News at IRINNews Archived: 2006-02-22 The Angolan Government granted USD 30 million to be spent as from next March, on the rehabilitation of the system of captation, treatment and supply of piped water of Huambo city and outskirts, informed on Tuesday the provincial director of Energy and Waters, José Adolfo. Speaking to ANGOP, the provincial ... Read Africa News at AngolaPress Archived: 2006-02-22 Economists say there's still hope for a cut in lending rates later this year, following the increase in the Consumer Pirce Index (CPI). Statistics South Africa says the CPIX, which the Reserve Bank uses for inflation targetting, rose to 4.3% percent in January, from 4% in December. Dawie ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Several roads in Johannesburg's central business district will be closed to traffic this morning as 20 000 Transnet workers are expected to march to the parastatal's head office at the Carlton Centre. The march is part of a three-day strike to protest against restructuring at Transnet. Hundreds of ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 The US is demanding the UN Security Council approve a resolution by the end of the month to send UN troops to Darfur. Washington has introduced elements of a draft resolution that would deploy UN peacekeepers to the western Sudanese region to replace beleaguered African Union (AU) forces. But ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 The corruption trial of former Western Cape premier Peter Marais and co-accused David Malatsi was postponed to July in the Bellville Regional Court. The case relates to payments into the bank account of the New National Party in 2002, which the State claims were bribes to smooth the approval ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 Zimbabwe police detained 43 women activists as they tried to march on Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean president's birthday to press for a new constitution in place of one seen entrenching his rule. Mugabe, who has been in power since independence from Britain in 1980, turned 82 yesterday in the shadow ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Some 270 Kenyan peacekeepers serving under the UN Operation in Burundi, known as ONUB, left the capital, Bujumbura, on Wednesday, marking the start of their withdrawal from the country.These peacekeepers are the first of a 816-strong Kenyan battalion to leave.ONUB military spokesman Maj Momar Diagne said on Tuesday that the ... Read Africa News at IRINNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Fears of violence are rising in Uganda, ahead of tomorrow's general elections. Ugandan military chiefs have accused members of the opposition of an intention to disrupt voting. The military has ordered a massive deployment of troops: a move that is likely to raise tension across the country. ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 In the first four years following Nigeria's return to democratic rule in 1999, at least 10,000 people were killed in communal violence across the country, but in recent months, these clashes have been notably less frequent. But this latest unrest in Plateau State is a worrying indication that these ... Read Africa News at BBC News Archived: 2006-02-22 The spread of bird flu in Nigeria could spell disaster for the region, the United Nations agriculture agency has warned, as it changes its advice. The FAO is now recommending vaccination because the current strategy of containment and slaughter of at-risk birds is not working, it says. ... Read Africa News at BBC News Archived: 2006-02-22 By Hendrick Mphande The Cape Law Society has threatened to bring interdicts against 190 lawyers in the Eastern and Western Cape because they are practising illegally without fidelity fund certificates. Among the firms that have been blacklisted by the society is that of former rugby boss Silas Nkanunu, of Nkanunu ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 Government has hailed the adoption of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) electoral laws, passed yesterday, as a major step forward in the peace process. The approval of the electoral laws in the Congolese parliament now paves the way for landmark elections scheduled for June this year. The ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Security forces guarded religious buildings and patrolled streets in several Nigerian cities after violence rooted in rising political tensions killed dozens of people and forced thousands from their homes. Cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and rumours of a Koran desecration and opposition to constitutional change provided the catalysts ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club has dispelled rumours in some sections of the media that ex-President Jerry John Rawlings is being considered for an appointment as Chairman of the Council of Patrons of the Club. A statement signed by Mr Commodore Mensah Board Chairman of the Club copied to ... Read Africa News at The Accra Daily Mail Archived: 2006-02-22 By Ben Agina The Department of Defence has now ordered for fresh tenders for the controversial Sh10 billion-radio communication equipment. The tender for procuring Combat Net Radios, Combat Net Radios Interface Units, Field Computers and rechargeable batteries was cancelled after it was discovered that one of the bidding companies ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2006-02-22 The South African Local Government Association (Salga) has dismissed criticism of its disciplinary investigation into corruption charges against the municipal manager and financial director at the West Coast district municipality of Moorreesburg. Salga was responding to a statement by the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) that the ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Kenya's government will find itself hard put to reclaim public funds that have been misappropriated in a string of corrupt deals linked to state officials and businesspeople, say legal and banking sources in the East African country. These sentiments were voiced as the administration claimed it was ... Read Africa News at IPS Africa Archived: 2006-02-22 The popular Eastern Cape holiday town of Jeffreys Bay, was strewn with rubbish today as workers from the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) protested about unequal salaries of workers in the Kouga Municipality's different towns. The workers complain that the council has been constantly delaying addressing the problems ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 By Shoks Mzolo As the three-day strike at Transnet entered its second day yesterday, employees marched on the office of the Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin in Tshwane to urge him to provide leadership to ensure state-held Transnet did not implement its decisions unilaterally. In accepting the memorandum, ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 Travelex, which provides foreign exchange services to more than 30 million people every year, has entered the commercial foreign exchange or foreign payments (CFX) market in SA. Lloyd M Dorfman, executive chairman and founder of Travelex, which is headquartered in London, says that Travelex is the world's largest non-bank ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 Springbok and Bulls lock Victor Matfield is likely to have to wait another week before he can get onto the field again. Matfield, who was injured in the pre-season game against the Cats on January 11 at Ellis Park, has recovered well and is almost up to the fitness levels ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 By Dave James TURIN - Italian police and Austria's Olympic Games nordic squad were locked in a bitter wrangle yesterday after another doping raid targeted one of the team's Alpine bases. The police operation, aimed at a chalet in Pragelato in the Italian Alps, came just two days after ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 The National Prosecuting Authority attached the property of three men allegedly involved in a multi-million rand low-cost housing scam, Northern Cape police said. Superintendent Mashay Gamaldien said the assets of former Vryburg mayor, Goatlhotsemang Galeng, Vryburg council head of housing Nelson Xolani and Kimberley businessman Moga mat Abduraza Cader were ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 Five Inkatha Freedom Party supporters have been killed in Empangeni in KwaZulu-Natal in the past month, the party said. "We in the IFP are outraged. We have no doubt the violence in the area has political connotations." "It is part of some dirty game in the run-up to the local ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 Mr. Andy Schmit, Service Director of Halisburg Ghana Limited, dealers in spare parts, has attributed the slow pace of investment in the country to "red-tapeism". He also mentioned corruption and the difficulty encountered in the acquisition of operational documents as other contributory factors. Mr. Schmit said although a lot ... Read Africa News at The Accra Daily Mail Archived: 2006-02-22 The technical team of the Black Stars and goalkeeper George Owu will fly out of the country for the United States this weekend ahead of the March 1 friendly against Mexico in the US city of Dallas. Owu is the only locally based player called up by coach Dujkovic for ... Read Africa News at The Accra Daily Mail Archived: 2006-02-22 The Defence Minister of Portugal, Luís Amado, in proceeding with his three-day official visit to Angola, assessed on Tuesday, in south Benguela province, the structures of the military aeronautics training school of Lobito city, under the jurisdiction of the National Air Force. In Lobito`s aeronautics training school, the Portuguese official ... Read Africa News at AngolaPress Archived: 2006-02-22 At least 180 people of Dange-Quitexe district, 40 kilometres to the south of Uíje city, were left homeless due to strong rains that fell last weekend, ANGOP learnt on Tuesday from a source of the local administration. According to the source, the rains fell for two hours without ceasing ... Read Africa News at AngolaPress Archived: 2006-02-22 Nigeria Monday introduced the wholesale Dutch Auction System (DAS) of foreign exchange allocation to replace the old retail DAS in a bid to further liberalise the country`s Forex system, according to a deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Obadiah Mailafia. Mailafia told journalists in Lagos that the ... Read Africa News at AngolaPress Archived: 2006-02-22 Nigeria has introduced a new agricultural financing scheme pegging lending rate to the sector at 14 percent. Under the new scheme, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will subsidise loans to operators in the sector by six percent, while the commercial banks will charge them only eight percent to bring ... Read Africa News at AngolaPress Archived: 2006-02-22 About 500 members of the three trade unions, United Association of South Africa (Uasa), United Transport and Allied Trade Union and Satawu are marching to the Transnet head offices at Carlton Centre in Johannesburg in protest over the reconstruction at the parastatal. This is the third day of a strike ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 The current Transnet workers' strike will continue if management refuses to engage unions constructively, the United Association of South Africa (Uasa) said today. Leon Grobler, a Uasa official, said: "We are receiving conflicting messages from the trade and industry minister (Alec Erwin) ... on the one hand, he ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Metrorail says it will increase the number of buses on Johannesburg routes affected by the Transnet strike to 235 today. The company says train services have improved further today as the strike enters its third day. Thousands of Transnet workers will march to the parastatal's headquarters in central ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 The presentation of the Political Agenda of the ruling MPLA party, initially schedulled for this Wednesday, in Bailundo village, about 80 kilometres to the north of Huambo city was postponed, informs a source from the party. The source did not reveal the reasons for postponing the event, still without ... Read Africa News at AngolaPress Archived: 2006-02-22 By Wagdy Sawahel, Padma Tata and Catherine Brahic Egypt and India are the latest developing nations to detect outbreaks of the H5N1 bird flu virus, which has killed 93 people since 2003. Egypt has declared a state of emergency, having detected outbreaks in eight provinces, including the capital Cairo, in ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Burundi's president has ordered employed citizens to give part of their income to famine relief, underscoring his mantra that only Burundians' hard work will lift the central African country out of ruin. The drought that is spreading across east and central Africa, threatening millions with hunger, is just one ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2006-02-22 As Burundi successfully ends a four-year extended transitional period with the election of a new president, the tiny African country still faces tough challenges on its path to full recovery from 12 years of civil strife and instability. Ex-Hutu rebel leader-turned-president Pierre Nkurunziza was sworn in on Friday as ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2006-02-22 The United Nations' top envoy to Sudan denied on Tuesday the government's accusations that he had exceeded his mandate, telling reporters he was operating correctly and impartially. Sudan's Foreign Ministry summoned Jan Pronk, the UN secretary-general's Special Representative, for a rebuke on Monday, saying his call for a UN ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2006-02-22 The current Transnet workers' strike will continue if management refuse to engage unions constructively, the United Association of South Africa (Uasa) said. "We are receiving conflicting messages from the trade and industry minister (Alec Erwin)," said Uasa official Leon Grobler. "On the one hand, he says there will be no ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 Opposition parties have questioned the circumstances surrounding the Western Cape's power outages resulting from the Koeberg nuclear power station's ongoing problems. Democratic Alliance Cape Town mayoral candidate Helen Zille said that reports of undisclosed problems at Koeberg over the weekend were liable to create serious concern among the public. "The ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 Kenyan Vice-President Moody Awori has spent two hours being questioned by MPs over his role in one of the country's biggest ever corruption scandals. The Public Accounts Committee is following up on a damning report from former corruption tsar John Githongo. The government signed contracts worth more ... Read Africa News at BBC News Archived: 2006-02-22 Global resources group Anglo American (Anglo, AGL) announces that its underlying earnings per share for 2005 increased by 38% to 258 US cents from 187 US cents in 2004. The group said its basic earnings per share declined 0.4% to 243 US cents from 244 US cents in 2004. ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 More glory beckons for Egypt when the 2005 African club champions Ahly meet Royal Armed Forces of Morocco in the African Super Cup in Cairo on Friday. Ahly, provided the bulk of the national squad that won a record fifth African Nations Cup title on 10 February in Cairo. ... Read Africa News at BBC News Archived: 2006-02-22 All 16 Premier Soccer League teams will be out in full force this evening in their bid to collect maximum points as the race for league honours and the relegation battle hot up. The toast of the night will be crunch match between Sundowns and Kaizer Chiefs dubbed ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Parliament has adopted a bill giving the Independent Electoral Commission 110 days to organise national democratic elections as soon as Congo's President Joseph Kabila signs the document into law, the commission's second vice-president, Norbert Bansegezi Kantintima, said on Wednesday. "We are reaching the final phase of organising the elections," Bansegezi ... Read Africa News at IRINNews Archived: 2006-02-22 As the fire truck rolled down the Ambohidahy Tunnel hosing the pedestrian walkway, a small knot of homeless people - children included - gathered up their belongings and ran.One woman, who with the other down-and-outs had planned to make the tunnel in the heart of Antananarivo her home for the ... Read Africa News at IRINNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Child rape - with victims as young as age four - is common across post-war Liberia, topping a list of abuses against children over the last year, a rights monitoring group says.The lack of effective laws to combat rape complicates the problem, the National Child Rights Observation Group (NACROG) said ... Read Africa News at IRINNews Archived: 2006-02-22 The De Beers Group is to invest US$150 million in a new processing plant at Mwadui Williamson Diamond Ltd (WDL) in Tanzania, The EastAfrican newspaper reports. Nerys John, the company's external affairs analyst, told The EastAfrican that the new processing plant would enable the firm to process 16 million ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 SAN FRANCISCO - The US city renowned for its 1960s anti-war "flower power" is exploring a more malodorous future - that of poop power. San Francisco city officials have directed their contracted trash-handling company to devise a system of turning pet droppings into methane gas that could be used as ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 Ugandan officials and foreign observers have urged calm ahead of Thursday's election, following a tense campaign. The elections will be Uganda's first multi-party vote since President Yoweri Museveni came to power in 1980. Until now, under the Movement system, candidates have been elected as individuals and not for ... Read Africa News at BBC News Archived: 2006-02-22 MADRID - Ronaldo could have played his last Champions League game in the Santiago Bernabeu, and perhaps even for Real Madrid, if the stories in the Spanish newspapers prove to be true. The three-time World Player of the Year opened his heart to the media on Monday, ahead of ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 On the plains of Kabkabiya town in North Darfur, numerous abandoned villages dot the empty landscape. Their burned remains bear witness to the escalation of the Darfur conflict in 2003."When the conflict began here," said a community leader who requested anonymity, "the Janjawid [militias] attacked the villages around Kabkabiya, especially ... Read Africa News at IRINNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Packs of armed youths killed dozens of people and set fire to mosques and Muslim properties on Wednesday in more revenge attacks against Muslims in the mainly Christian southern Nigerian city of Onitsha.Angered by weekend attacks against Christians in two northern cities, mobs of youths from the mainly Christian Igbo ... Read Africa News at IRINNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Mr Price Home, the furniture, homeware and home décor chain of stores owned by listed retailer Mr Price Group, has reached the 1.0 billion rand mark in annual sales after only seven years of operations, the company announces. "This is an important milestone for Mr Price Home", said CEO ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 By Lynn Bolin The CEO of Swedish financial services group Skandia, Hans-Erik Andersson, faced with the recent success of Old Mutual's 38 billion rand takeover of the company, has emphasised Skandia's improved operations and his belief in the soundness of its current business model in his comments regarding Skandia's 2005 ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 As the United States, Europe and others squeal over Iran’s vow to pursue its nuclear programme, Nigeria yesterday declared that the establishment of a regulatory authority in the country did not translate to aspiring to become a nuclear power.President Olusegun Obasanjo who stated this yesterday while inaugurating the Governing Board ... Read Africa News at ThisDay Archived: 2006-02-22 Credo of the upstart I come to Ghanaian politics, both pre-colonial, or traditional, and postcolonial, or modern, with a respectable pedigree and so the provenance - or familial etymology - of names and personalities are very significant to me.Needless to say, Ghana lapsed into two decades of socio-cultural, political and ... Read Africa News at The Accra Daily Mail Archived: 2006-02-22 President Yoweri Museveni is likely to extend his grip on power in Uganda's first multi-party elections since 1981 on Thursday despite an unprecedented opposition challenge led by his former doctor. Once a favourite of the West but now condemned by critics as a typical African "Big Man", Museveni, 62, ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2006-02-22 Liberia's president has inaugurated a panel to investigate crimes and gross human rights abuses committed in the war-battered country during the last quarter century. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission - inspired by the South African example - has a mandate to investigate crimes committed from 1979 until 2003, when ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2006-02-22 The Somali capital, Mogadishu, is calm following four days of fighting between rival militias. Local leaders, including traditional elders and the city mayor, met on Tuesday to discuss ceasefire plans. More than 20 people died in the recent clashes, which were the most violent seen in the capital ... Read Africa News at BBC News Archived: 2006-02-22 At least five Muslims are reported killed in the mainly Christian city of Onitsha in southern Nigeria. Violence broke out as crowds took to the streets in protest against anti-Christian rioting in the north. Nigerian police said hundreds of Christian Ibos attacked houses belonging to Muslim Hausas when ... Read Africa News at BBC News Archived: 2006-02-22 Anglo American South Africa CEO Lazarus Zim is to relinquish his executive responsibilities in Anglo American Group and his directorship of Anglo Platinum and will in future be involved in the future empowerment of the mining sector and specifically with the BEE structures being developed for Anglo Platinum. However, ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 QUEENSTOWN - An unbeaten half century by Daniel Vettori ensured a three wicket victory for New Zealand in their one-day cricket international against the West Indies here on Wednesday after a top order collapse threatened to put the modest target beyond reach. The West Indies could only manage 200-9 after ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 Malcolm Klaasen is not underestimating Lindile Tyhali when he makes his debut defence of his SA featherweight crown at Carnival City in Brakpan on Saturday. This is despite Tyhali's poor record which shows him to have won as many fights as he has lost. Tyhali, a Port Elizabeth-born ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 Willie Madisha, the Cosatu president, says he won't rule out the possibility of calling out all Cosatu affiliates to strike in sympathy with Transnet employees. Madisha said this while addressing more than a thousand workers who had gathered in front of Transnet headquarters in central Johannesburg. He has ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Jomo Cosmos tasted their first win at their new home ground, Huntersfield Stadium in Katlehong on the East Rand, when they beat Supersport United 1- 0 this afternoon. There was no score at half-time. The first half was a very dull affair, but in the second half it ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2006-02-22 A UN agency said on Thursday it would begin providing emergency food aid to 60 000 Sahwari refugees hit by recent flooding in western Algeria. The Rome-based World Food Program said in a statement that four out of five camps in the desert area near Tindouf had been badly ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2006-02-22 Releasing Swaziland's budget this week in parliament, Finance Minister Majozi Sithole revealed that two-thirds of the population earned less than a dollar a day. "The extent of poverty in the country, especially in the rural areas, cannot be overemphasised. This has seriously affected people’s ability to access basic necessities such ... Read Africa News at IRINNews Archived: 2006-02-22 Portugal`s Defence minister, Luis Amado, visited this Wednesday the premises of the Higher Military Institute (ISEM), located at Grafanil military field, in Luanda, in the ambit of his three-day working visit to Angola, Angop witnessed. During his stay, Mr. Luis Amado received information from ISEM`s director, Peregrino Isidro Wambu, on ... Read Africa News at AngolaPress Archived: 2006-02-22 The Constitutional Court has granted the African Christian Democratic Party's application for leave to appeal against the Electoral Court's ruling barring it from the municipal election in Cape Town. The case will be heard in the Constitutional Court at 3pm on Thursday. The Electoral Court rejected the ACDP's ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 Nearly 80 representatives from Africa's 34 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have attended a regional meeting in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, to prepare for a global mid-term review of their 10-year poverty reduction programme. "There has been enormous progress on the macroeconomic front, but there is still a way to go," ... Read Africa News at The Accra Daily Mail Archived: 2006-02-22 By Martin Mutua And Francis Openda Vice President Moody Awori and former Cabinet ministers Kiraitu Murungi and David Mwiraria finally appeared before the Public Accounts Committee on Wednesday, where they declared they were not involved in the Anglo Leasing scandals.... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2006-02-22 Obasanjo has yet to say whether he will contest polls again Nigeria is beginning public hearings on possible constitution change, including an amendment to allow President Obasanjo to run for a third term. The meetings have been organised by the Nigerian Constitutional Committee ... Read Africa News at BBC News Archived: 2006-02-22 The Special Committee on Review and Verification of Contracts awarded by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) between 2001 and 2003 led by the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, has uncovered large-scale fraud and financial recklessness in the period under review.The committee has also ... Read Africa News at ThisDay Archived: 2006-02-22 LONDON - Gary Neville has been fined 5,000 pounds (7,300 euros) and warned about his future conduct by the Football Association following his wild celebrations at Manchester United's late win against Liverpool last month. The United captain was found guilty of improper conduct by an FA disciplinary hearing. Neville did ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2006-02-22 Angolan Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, swears in this Wednesday, here, Provincial Deputy Governors of Bié, Ana Maria Mvuayi, of Cabinda, Feliciano Lopes Toco and of Malanje, José Maria Durbalino de Carvalho. President Dos Santos will also swear in at the Presidential Palace, two Deputy Governors of ... Read Africa News at AngolaPress Archived: 2006-02-22 Bujumbura, Burundi - Burundi's parliament approved the new president's choices for the first and second vice presidents on Monday, as the new government began to take shape. President Pierre Nkurunziza chose Martin Nduwimana as the first vice president. Nduwimana is a member of the Tutsi-led Union for National Progress, ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2006-02-22 Guinea-Bissau is waging a huge campaign to stamp out the embezzlement of public funds by high ranking officials, and the exercise Monday saw the arrest of several key officials, including Rene Barros, the head of the country`s electricity company (EAGB). Barros is suspected of stealing 43 million CFA francs ... Read Africa News at AngolaPress Archived: 2006-02-22 Algeria announced long-awaited details on Tuesday of an amnesty aimed at ending more than a decade of civil war, extending a deadline for Islamic guerrillas to surrender and shielding the military from prosecution. A government executive decree carried by the state agency APS gave Islamic guerrillas still fighting the ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2006-02-22 Click for list of daily articles |
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