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A squad of Ethiopian runners will battle it out with Russia Sunday in a bid to repeat last year`s success when the 2005 Yokohama International Women`s Ekiden guns off in Yokohama, Japan, says the IAAF. The Ekiden is a road relay contested over the marathon distance course, divided into 5km, ... Read Africa News at AngolaPress Archived: 2005-02-27 A Botswana beauty pageant crowned 32-year-old Cynthia Leshomo "Miss HIV" today in a contest aimed at fighting the stigma of the killer disease that has infected more than a third of the population. The 12 contestants - aged 21 to 35 and coached by Miss Botswana 2004 - strutted on ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 Taxpayers with travel allowances should take a reading of their vehicle's mileage tomorrow for their 2004/05 tax returns, the SA Revenue Services said today. "As this is the final day of the 2004/5 tax year, it will help taxpayers to accurately fill in their logbooks which will then ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 South Africa take on Zimbabwe in the second of three one day internationals in Durban this morning. Shaun Pollock and Makhaya Ntini, South Africa's premier bowlers, are to be rested for the remaining two matches. Moabi Litheko, the media spokesperson for Cricket South Africa, says swing bowler Charl ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 ECONOMISTS queued up last week to criticise the Central Bank and labelled the ambitious inflation target of 20-35% by the fall of the year "too optimistic". The round up came after inflation rekindled its northwards drift in January. Figures released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show an upsurge ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 By Oscar Pilipili Mathare United goalkeeper Duncan Ochieng has been dropped from the Kenya team, Harambee Stars. Ochieng’s name is conspicuously missing from Harambee Stars team of probables that was named yesterday by the Kenya Football Federation ahead of next month’s Africa Cup of Nations/World Cup qualifying match ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 Bafana Bafana have qualified for the semifinals of the Cosafa Castle Cup regional competition after beating hosts Mauritius 1-0 in Curepipe today. The only goal of the match was scored by Katlego Mphela of Racing Strasbourg. Besides sending a below strength side Bafana Bafana managed two wins in two ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 More than one candidate will be able to stand in presidential elections in Egypt under a constitutional change proposed by President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday, partially meeting opposition demands for reform. The move would allow the first multi-candidate presidential elections since the 1952 revolution, and follows pressure from the ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2005-02-27 The chairperson of the African Union, Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday hailed the decision of Togo's army-installed leader Faure Gnassignbe to step down ahead of elections as a "victory for democracy". "What happened in Togo was a coup d'etat dressed in the borrowed robes of democracy and we ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2005-02-27 Survivors of Rwanda's 1994 genocide have criticised newly released films set amid the massacres, saying they failed to capture the full extent of the horror or contained historical inaccuracies. While some Rwandans welcomed Hotel Rwanda as a reminder for the world of the killings of 800 000 people, survivors ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2005-02-27 By Helmo Preuss South Africa's trade balance with its non-Southern African Customs Union (SACU) trading partners is expected to swing back into a 500 million rand deficit after December's 2.833 billion rand surplus, which was the first surplus after eight consecutive monthly deficits. The range is from a one billion ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2005-02-27 Nexus Connexion, a 19% equity shareholder in the Second Network Operator (SNO), announced on Thursday that it had withdrawn its litigation pertaining to the SNO process. "We are satisfied that all the issues that were subject to the litigation process have been resolved by all the parties in the ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2005-02-27 MARANELLO - Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has warned their rivals not to underestimate the reigning champions. "No-one has fallen asleep over these past months," Montezemolo said when the world champions launched what they said was their best ever car but which will not be raced for the first four ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2005-02-27 Supreme Court for the second time dismissed the suit filed by Federal Government challenging the bid by Lagos State to regulate telecommunication operation in the state.The Court had in September last year struck out a similar suit challenging a bill pending before the Lagos State House of Assembly seeking to ... Read Africa News at ThisDay Archived: 2005-02-27 The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) says the imposition of a fuel tax in the Western Cape - to be used for maintenance and infrastructure development - would be regressive. Cosatu provincial secretary general Tony Ehrenreich said the "unilateral announcement" by Premier Ebrahim Rasool would "confront" poor working ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2005-02-27 Okyeame Quophi After the shocking revelation of the break up of Akyeame, one of the most adored rap duo in the country, minds immediately begun to wonder what the members would do and even how they would fare in the coming years. Okyeame Quophi who immediately recoiled into ... Read Africa News at Ghana Music.Com Archived: 2005-02-27 Standard Reporter The Standard Group has appointed Mr Kwendo Opanga as the Group Managing Editor in an acting capacity. Opanga has for the last 16 months been the newspaper’s Executive Editor and was before that the Managing Editor of the daily newspaper. In other changes, Ms Pamela Makotsi-Sittoni was appointed ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 Membathisi Mdladlana, the labour minister, says he is happy with the consultative nature of investigations by labour unions and management into the spate of accidents at the Sasol Natref refinery. More than 20 workers were injured in two separate explosions at the Natref refinery in recent months. The ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 Faure Gnassingbe announced over the weekend that he was standing down as Togo’s interim president after seizing power with the backing of the armed forces three weeks ago.Gnassingbe was declared head of state by the army on 5 February following the death of his father Gnassingbe Eyadema, who had ruled ... Read Africa News at IRINNews Archived: 2005-02-27 Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, said today he had proposed an amendment to the Egyptian constitution to allow more than one candidate to stand in presidential elections. Mubarak said in a televised address that he had proposed to parliament a change to the constitution "to give the opportunity to ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 Graeme Smith, the South African cricket captain, who scored his third one-day international century against Zimbabwe at the Sahara Stadium Kingsmead today, has been withdrawn on medical advice from the third match of the Standard Bank Series to be played in Port Elizabeth on Wednesday. Smith has an injured ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 Zimbabwe won the toss and chose to field in the second one-day international against South Africa today. South Africa fast bowler Charl Langeveldt has replaced the rested Makhaya Ntini, while Zimbabwe brought in all rounder Gavin Ewing for Elton Chigumbura in the only changes from Friday's first match in Johannesburg. ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has warned former army commander Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu against abusive language. “How could he call me a deaf man? How could he insult me that I am deaf? If he meant that I don’t listen to advice, that is arrogance on his part because he is ... Read Africa News at The Sunday Vision Archived: 2005-02-27 Museveni received the appointment from Stephen Wekomba, the firm’s managing director during the commissioning of the $2m plant last week. “Mr. President, I take this opportunity to appoint you as the marketing officer for the factory,” Wekomba said to applause. The mill is targeting the southern Sudan and the Democratic ... Read Africa News at The Sunday Vision Archived: 2005-02-27 Developing countries would make good strides in economic development only when they assume control of domestic policies and break reliance on International Financial Institutions, Dr Yao Graham, co-ordinator, Third World Network, has said. Speaking at the opening of a global civil society strategy meeting on International Financial Institutions, Dr ... Read Africa News at The Accra Daily Mail Archived: 2005-02-27 Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama, will always be remembered for his well thought of and chosen subject, indiscipline, which poses a social danger in every civilised society which wants to make it to commanding heights. The ongoing GBC TV programme, which is made in the form of an advertisement ... Read Africa News at The Accra Daily Mail Archived: 2005-02-27 By Alari Alare Kenya Golf Union patron President Mwai Kibaki will grace this year’s Kenya Open at Karen Country Club next month. Sources within the Kenya Golf Open Limited (KOGL) disclosed that the head of state will preside over the event’s presentation on March 13. Last year, the president ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 South Africa has again beaten Zimbabwe comprehensively by 131 runs in the second One Day International match of the visitor's tour played in Durban today. After being sent in to bat first Graeme Smith, the South African captain, steered his team to 329 despite playing with an injured foot. ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 A delegation of South African traditional leaders is due to depart for Zimbabwe on Tuesday to assess Zimbabwe's land resettlement policy. The National House of Traditional Leaders (NHTL) which will be led by Inkosi Mpiyezintombi Mzimela has been invited by President Robert Mugabe. "The NHTL feel honoured by ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 More and more organisations are joining the Congress of SA Trade Unions' (Cosatu's) blockade to Zimbabwe which starts on March 9 and will continue until the Zimbabwean election on March 31. The latest to join Cosatu's blockade campaign is The Young Communist League (YCL), the youth wing of ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 Orlando Pirates are through to the next round of the Absa Cup after beating Silver Stars at the Johannesburg Stadium today. The only goal of the match was scored by Jimmy Kauleza. Stars will have themselves to blame for failing to convert a lot of clear cut chances. Orlando ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 Hawk Makepula and Gabula Vabaza both scored resounding victories over their Fillipino opponents to win vacant WBA and WBC international titles at the Orient Theatre in East London over the weekend. Makepula's fight against Rolly Lunas kept the fans on their toes throughout. Despite being hit with an ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 The Namibian fishing industry is going through difficult times. A number of companies are failing to cope with the economic conditions and have indicated that they intend to suspend their operations until further notice. Hundreds of jobs in the sector are on the line, while contribution to the Treasury by ... Read Africa News at The Namibian Archived: 2005-02-27 In an international row between conservationists and politicians, Kenya has been asked to abandon plans to export hundreds of its wild animals to a safari park in Thailand. Conservation groups around the world say one of the leading animal tourism destinations cannot afford to give away its already diminishing ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2005-02-27 Washington - United Nations officials fear the sex-abuse scandal among peacekeepers in Africa is far more widespread and appears to be a problem in each of the global body's 16 missions around the world. As the world body seeks to crack down on the abuse, it could bar countries ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2005-02-27 It is all systems go for Burundi's referendum on the constitution. This much-awaited referendum will see almost 6.2 million Burundians participate. This is part of the peace process to end a decade of civil war that saw about 300 000 people killed. Tomorrow's referendum is the first democratic vote ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 Captain Brian O'Driscoll kept Ireland's Six Nations grand slam dreams alive today with a second half try which gave the home team a 19-13 win over world champions England. O'Driscoll, who missed the second round match against Scotland with a hamstring injury, scored in the 57th minute after a ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 Stuart Baxter's South Africa beat Mauritius to win the Cosafa Cup mini-tournament South Africa beat hosts Mauritius 1-0 on Sunday to win the first Cosafa Cup mini-tournament and qualify for the final competition to be held in August. Katlego Mphela enhanced his credentials as ... Read Africa News at BBC News Archived: 2005-02-27 Dolly the dolphin has followed Max the gorilla into animal history, after Port Elizabeth's famous bottlenose died on Thursday, aged 36. The oldest Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin to be born and bred in captivity died at Port Elizabeth's Bayworld oceanarium late Thursday afternoon, Bayworld spokeswoman Eluise Matthys said. There are ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2005-02-27 A group of Somali cabinet ministers and MPs has denounced government proposals to deploy foreign peacekeepers. They issued a statement saying troops from neighbouring Ethiopia and Djibouti would not be acceptable. The move came as exiled President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed continued his tour of Somalia, as part ... Read Africa News at BBC News Archived: 2005-02-27 The Democratic Republic of Congo says it will spare no effort in tracking down those behind the killing on Friday of nine United Nations peacekeepers. Defence Minister Adolphe Onusumba said the time had passed when such acts would go unpunished. The minister is visiting the eastern Ituri ... Read Africa News at BBC News Archived: 2005-02-27 By Standard Team Mr Raila Odinga yesterday asked President Kibaki to take action against corrupt ministers only hours before the President’s visit to Nyanza. Without saying what exactly his party was up to, Raila said the Liberal Democratic Party would not rest until action was taken against all ministers implicated ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 Cyrus Ombati Two security organs at the Wilson Airport in Nairobi are locked in a controversy over a new wave of inflow of aliens from Somalia into the country. The Immigration Department is reportedly in support of the continuous coming of the aliens while police are opposed to it. Police ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 Linda Keya The Coca-Cola Foundation has launched a Sh70 million water and sanitation project in Nyanza Province. The project will be jointly run with relief agency Sustainable Aid in Africa International (Sana) and the Millennium Water Alliance. Its objective is help local communities gain access to and have control ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 An Australian academic fighting deportation from Botswana said today the government of Festus Mogae, the country's president, was seeking to muzzle free speech in a country often hailed as one of Africa's few success stories. Botswana wants to deport him as an illegal immigrant, but Professor Kenneth Good and his ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 Clear facts have emerged on why elder statesman, Chief Anthony Enahoro, decided to ignore the special invitation extended to him by President Olusegun Obasanjo to join the National Political Reform Conference in Abuja. The Enahoro-led National Reformation Party (NRP) has, in conjunction with his Movement for National Reformation (MNR), observed ... Read Africa News at ThisDay Archived: 2005-02-27 Governor of Gombe state Danjuma Goje, has warned delegates to the national conference on political reforms against venturing into areas declared by President Olusegun Obasanjo as settled areas. Addressing a press conference in Abuja, Goje commended Obasanjo for restricting the conference from discussing the unity of the country, practice of ... Read Africa News at ThisDay Archived: 2005-02-27 Membathisi Mdladlana, the labour minister, will wrap up his Free State Imbizo tour tomorrow by visiting various projects that are funded by the department. The minister has been in the province since Thursday in order to interact with ordinary workers and service providers in various areas. Mdladlana has also ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 Oxfam is supplying clean water and other essentials in the region A leading UK aid agency says the world is still not doing enough to protect more than two million displaced people in the Darfur region of western Sudan. Oxfam, one of the biggest providers ... Read Africa News at BBC News Archived: 2005-02-27 Graeme Smith scored his third century and Justin Kemp provided late fireworks as South Africa recovered from a tardy start to amass 329 for six against Zimbabwe in the second one-day international today. The South African captain, who top scored with 117 off 129 balls, was the steadying influence after ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 By Bosco Magare The US government has increased HIV/Aids funding to Kenya by over 50 per cent. Kenya will now receive about Sh110 million to fight the pandemic, compared to the Sh70 million received last year. Speaking during the launch of the Ahero green town programme and ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 By Chris Mbaisi Former world 5,000m champion Richard Limo defied strong opposition from Paul Kimugul to win the men’s 12km race during the East Africa Cross-Country Championships at Ngong Race-course. The win helped Kenya retain the title with 61 points. Tanzania mainland was second with 415 points with Uganda ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 WINDHOEK - Reaffirming its strategy to make cost-effective and functionally rich business and financial software solutions available to companies across Africa, Microsoft has released Navision 4.0 to the Namibian market. The solution represents the first major product ... Read Africa News at The Namibian Archived: 2005-02-27 A recently established independent paper in Zimbabwe, the Weekly Times, has been shut down for allegedly violating the country's tough media laws, its owner Godfrey Ncube said Saturday. The paper, the fourth to be closed in the southern African country since the enactment of the media laws in 2002, ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2005-02-27 Militiamen killed nine United Nations Bangladeshi peacekeepers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday in the worst attack against the UN force in the country. Two UN patrols of up two 30 troops were ambushed in the lawless Ituri district, said a UN military source. "The peacekeepers ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2005-02-27 NRG Gestetner SA, the wholly owned multinational subsidiary of NRG, has entered into a 9 million rand black economic empowerment (BEE) partnership with Chaka Chaka Investments led by singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka who will take on the role of CEO at Gestetner Tshwane. Together, the partnership has invested in ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2005-02-27 With the increase in the number of people who perform hiplife almost everyday, the impression being given is that highlife music has become extinct. The assertion cannot be true because there are a good number of artistes who still perform the latter. These include Richie P whose current album titled ... Read Africa News at Ghana Music.Com Archived: 2005-02-27 By Chris Mbaisi The national team’s allowances have been increased in an effort to boost their morale ahead of the World Cross Country Championships set for March 19-20 in France. The team, which has been earning Sh600 daily, will now pocket Sh800. The move to increase the perks was ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 PRESIDENT Mwanawasa yesterday recounted how his wife Maureen was hounded out of the Jehovah’s Witnesses sect after he decided to return to politics to contest the Republican presidency.In a moving testimony shortly before he was baptised at Twin Palm Baptist Church in Lusaka, Mr Mwanawasa said his wife who was ... Read Africa News at Times of Zambia Archived: 2005-02-27 Police in Togo have fired tear gas in an effort to disperse hundreds of opposition supporters who took to the streets of the capital, Lome. The police intervened after protesters gathered on main roads close to the Be area, an opposition stronghold. The violence came two days after ... Read Africa News at BBC News Archived: 2005-02-27 The Minister of Finance sprung a surprise on many of us last week when she tabled the amendments to the Income Tax Act in parliament. It is quite clear from the draft bill that the legislation was ... Read Africa News at The Namibian Archived: 2005-02-27 SAN FRANCISCO - Google's fourth-quarter profit surged to a sevenfold increase, accelerating the financial gains that have quickly turned the online search engine leader into a Wall Street favourite. The company said last week that it earned ... Read Africa News at The Namibian Archived: 2005-02-27 JOHANNESBURG - The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) on Monday launched banknotes with improved security features that went into circulation from yesterday. The bank said it regularly revises the security features and design of banknotes because the ... Read Africa News at The Namibian Archived: 2005-02-27 A contingent of 284 South African troops will depart for Sudan's Darfur region next week on a peacekeeping mission, Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota said on Friday. "This would indeed be a very difficult mission of the African Union, but the preparation has been very thorough," he told the soldiers ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2005-02-27 An explosion at an ammunition dump in a military training centre in the south Sudanese town of Juba killed 24 people on Wednesday as artillery shells rained down on large parts of the town, the interior ministry said. An army statement said the blast was caused by a warehouse ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2005-02-27 Below are the results of the second round of the National Championship of soccer and the respective standings: Saturday: ASA/Sagrada Esperança 1-2 Progresso do Sambizanga/Sonangol do Namibe 1-1 Sunday: 1º de Agosto/Inter, 0-0 Sporting de Cabinda/Benfica de Luanda, 1-0 Petro do Huambo/Sporting do Bié, 1-0 Académica do ... Read Africa News at AngolaPress Archived: 2005-02-27 The ruling MMD in LUSAKA has said President MWANAWASA has exhibited great leadership qualities by publicly apologising to first Republican President Dr KENNETH KAUNDA and the church. District Chairman PAUL MOONGA said in an interview that this shows that President MWANAWASA wants peace and unity to prevail in the nation. ... Read Africa News at AngolaPress Archived: 2005-02-27 By Dennis Onyango Vice President Moody Awori is among senior government officials the Law Society of Kenya plans to prosecute next week over the Anglo Leasing scandals, The Sunday Standard can reveal. Others to face the unprecedented action are the government’s chief legal advisor, Attorney General Amos Wako, and ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 LAST year proved to be rosy for Namibia's macro-economic landscape, said Floris Bergh, head of Investec Asset Management Namibia, at the group's quarterly investment report-back in Windhoek on Thursday. In his review for 2004, Bergh estimated that ... Read Africa News at The Namibian Archived: 2005-02-27 BRUSSELS - The European Union took a first step towards a possible new "banana war" with Latin America on Monday, notifying the World Trade Organisation (WTO) it would triple import tariffs on the fruit next year, officials said. ... Read Africa News at The Namibian Archived: 2005-02-27 LONDON - Ruud van Nistelrooy will make his first start for Manchester United in three months against Portsmouth in today's Premiership clash at Old Trafford. The Dutch striker has been sidelined by calf and achilles tendon injuries since late November but was able to play the last half hour of ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2005-02-27 The Public Accountants' and Auditors' Board (Paab) has announced a record pass rate of 70%, up from 61% the previous year, for the record number of candidates who sat the Public Practice Exam in 2004, including a record pass rate for Black African candidates. This exam represents the final hurdle ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2005-02-27 Richard Waddington Trade ministers meeting in Kenya this week must inject impetus into sluggish global talks on freeing up business in services, "the crisis item on the agenda," a top WTO official said. Without progress in services, there will be no deals in agriculture and industrial goods, other ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 Governor Joshua Dariye of Plateau State has asked delegates of Plateau State to the National Political Reform Conference to examine the issue of the structure and control of the Police, the fear of minorities as regards the issues of Federal Character, Indigeneship and Citizenship and Quota System. While clothing themselves ... Read Africa News at ThisDay Archived: 2005-02-27 MMD campaign manager for Kankoyo parliamentary by-election in Mufulira, Katele Kalumba, has accused UNIP of practicing corruption in the on-going campaigns.Dr Kalumba charged in an interview in Ndola that UNIP had hired trucks of Buka fish which was being distributed to Mufulira residents to influence their votes.Dr Kalumba, who is ... Read Africa News at Times of Zambia Archived: 2005-02-27 HON. Akisoferi Ogola, MP West Budama South and one of the most influential members of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) in Tororo on Friday crossed to the Movement during a public rally addressed by President Yoweri Museveni. “My people and I support the lifting of the presidential term limits and ... Read Africa News at The Sunday Vision Archived: 2005-02-27 The festival showcases the best in new African cinema The opening of the pan-African film festival Fespaco has been marred by the deaths of two people in a crush. Witnesses said as stadium gates were opened in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkino Faso, there was ... Read Africa News at BBC News Archived: 2005-02-27 Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama has indicated that unfair trade practices, such as highly restrictive quotes and high-priced tariffs against African products on the international markets are the major causes of low economic gains in the African Sub- region. He said such practices have also resulted in Africa's failure ... Read Africa News at The Accra Daily Mail Archived: 2005-02-27 Ojode breaks ranks with colleagues and complains that outbursts by ministers are making the work of Kenyan envoys difficult, writes Dennis Onyango. After his first mission as the country’s representative at an international diplomatic function, newly-appointed Foreign Affairs assistant minister Orwa Ojode broke ranks with his colleagues in government and ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 Another crisis looms over whether Kenyans will really get a new constitution before the year ends, writes Dennis Onyango. Amid threats of the return of mass action and questions over its continued existence, the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission has instructed its Research and Drafting Committee to come up with ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 Judgment was reserved in the Constitutional Court in an appeal bid by the state aimed at paving the way for the reprosecution of apartheid-era chemical and biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson. After five days of argument, the court will now consider submissions on behalf of the state that international ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2005-02-27 Australia's ACT Brumbies began the defence of their Super 12 title by beating the Canterbury Crusaders 32-21 in a bruising start to this year's series. New Zealand's Auckland Blues, the three-times champions, overcame a nervous opening to sweep aside the Otago Highlanders 30-14 in Dunedin. Australia's New South Wales ... Read Africa News at SABCNews Archived: 2005-02-27 Cocoa farmers in the Bibiani cocoa district in the Western Region have reiterated their call on the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) to ensure the payment of their bonuses for the 2003/2004 season without any further delay. They have therefore, threatened to embark on a demonstration against the board if ... Read Africa News at The Accra Daily Mail Archived: 2005-02-27 MultiChoice Ghana is excited to announce that Metro TV will be launched on the DStv bouquet in Ghana on March 1 2005. MultiChoice Africa offers the carriage of public broadcaster channel as a service to DStv subscribers who are based in areas where the public broadcaster analogue signal reception ... Read Africa News at The Accra Daily Mail Archived: 2005-02-27 Mulindi who resigned last week ran the club for hardly one year before calling it quits.... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 Mass action is beginning to feature in the vocabulary of the same forces that pushed for constitutional reforms in the previous regime, writes Dennis Onyango. After more than two years of flirting with the government, the forces that pushed for constitutional reforms and hounded Kanu out of power are regrouping ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 PARIS - Wales's hopes of keeping alive their dream of a first Grand Slam since 1978 rest with their exciting backs, coach Mike Ruddock claimed ahead of the mouth-watering clash with Grand Slam holders France. The 45-year-old said his pack was not yet experienced enough to go out and take ... Read Africa News at Sunday Times Archived: 2005-02-27 Federal Government yesterday approved the appointment of Engr. Festus Uchenna Chiedu Ugwu to the post of Director-General, National Maritime Authority (NMA) with effect from March 1.The new DG has been approved by President Olusegun Obasanjo according to sources in the Ministry of Transport.Ugwu replaces the outgoing NMA DG, Mr. Ferdinand ... Read Africa News at ThisDay Archived: 2005-02-27 Standard Reporter The information sector is gearing for a national ICT convention that is set to take place in Nairobi next week. The conference — the second of its kind in as many years – will focus on the formulation of a National ICT Policy. The Government through the Ministry ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 Standard Correspondent Thika United…2 Sony…0 Thika United scored two second half goals to beat Sony Sugar 2-0 in a Kenya Football Federation (KFF) Premier League match at Thika Municipal Stadium yesterday. Joseph Mwangi and Moses Irungu notched the goals that downed the sugar millers. Admin Police…1 Tusker…1 Kenya’s representatives ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 Where there is a security vacuum, all sorts of social undesirables move in. I have been having sleepless nights due to all these terrible stories of armed robbers and the harm they are inflicting on citizens. Honestly, any slight noise at night in my neighbourhood gets me into a ... Read Africa News at The Accra Daily Mail Archived: 2005-02-27 A KAFUE-BASED lawyer, Lameck Gondwe, has died after eating suspected poisoned food in unexplained circumstances.The lawyer who was rushed to Lusaka Trust Hospital on Saturday, died at mid-morning yesterday.Both police assistant spokesperson, Munganga Chanda and the family confirmed the death of Mr Gondwe, 33, who was running Gondwe Chambers on ... Read Africa News at Times of Zambia Archived: 2005-02-27 ZIMBABWE has several bodies dealing with elections and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) believes this is a ploy to confuse voters. David Coltart, the MDC secretary for legal affairs, says the government has successfully hoodwinked the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) into thinking the recently enacted Zimbabwe ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 Mr Francis T. Nartey, assistant commissioner of the Western Region Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has said tax incentives are meant to reduce the tax burden on taxpayers. He said the agricultural sector, real estate, rural banking and the Ghana Stock Exchange, are sectors that benefit from tax concessions. ... Read Africa News at The Accra Daily Mail Archived: 2005-02-27 The Director-General of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Prince Kassim Afegbua, has said that the party adopted former president, General Ibrahim Babangida, as its preferred candidate in the forthcoming 2007 presidential election because the NDP wants to start the presidential race in earnest and believes the former military leader has ... Read Africa News at ThisDay Archived: 2005-02-27 FIRST National Bank Namibia recently launched FNB Insurance in Namibia in a bid to offer customers a fully integrated financial service. The deal that has led to the formation of FNB Insurance Namibia will see Swabou Life ... Read Africa News at The Namibian Archived: 2005-02-27 The constitution review process has not just taken a major toll on the careers of a number of former reformists, it has also cost taxpayers billions of shillings. When Prof Yash Pal Ghai, the former chairman of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission, released the budget for the process in ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 Like the pigs in Animal Farm, Narc leaders became turncoats once in government, writes Philip Kichana. George Orwell stated that although his book Animal Farm was primarily "a satire on the Russian Revolution", it was intended to have wider application. That kind of revolution, which he defined as a violent ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 In an international row between conservationists and politicians, Kenya has been asked to abandon plans to export hundreds of its wild animals to a safari park in Thailand. Conservation groups around the world say one of the leading animal tourism destinations cannot afford to give away its already diminishing ... Read Africa News at IndependentOnline Archived: 2005-02-27 By Zoeb Tayebjee Sharad Ghai’s wings are clipped as far as the local scene is concerned but he has the consolation of sitting on a rattled chair due to the letter of law, courtesy of the International Cricket Council (ICC). On the one hand the ICC recognises the KCA. On ... Read Africa News at The Standard Archived: 2005-02-27 Click for list of daily articles |
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