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The South African coastal city of Cape Town becomes the centre of the footballing world this week as preparations for 2010 FIFA World Cup draw hit overdrive.
For the first time in years, Nigeria's Niger Delta seems to be looking up.
DARK clouds of anxiety, frustration and confusion hung over most parts of Namibia late yesterday as the Electoral Commission of Namibia failed to release any official election results on the first day after the polls closed in Namibia's fourth post-Independence Presidential and National Assembly elections.
Rwanda and France have agreed to restore diplomatic relations three years after the two countries severed ties after an incident triggered by controversial indictments issued by a French Judge.
African countries are ready to conclude the Doha Round on the basis of current proposals, but warn against any attempt to renegotiate them at the seventh ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that opens in Geneva today. Meanwhile, the Africa Trade Network demands a moratorium on the Doha talks.
US senator Russ Feingold's statement
A Chinese energy firm has chosen Kenya as its entry point into East Africa, where it expects to invest millions of dollars in the next three years.
A high powered South African delegation is expected in Zimbabwe to speed up talks among the three governing parties who are racing against time to meet a Saturday deadline to conclude negotiations.
It's going to be a Christmas of political intrigue, as MPs on Sunday stepped up the war of words over the conservation of Mau forest and deal-making ahead of an election which is still three years away.
Four political parties that contested the November 2009 Presidential and National Assembly (NA) elections issued a joint statement to voice their great concern and dissatisfaction about alleged irregularities during voting.
Barring any further serious dislocations in the global economy which could affect domestic financial system, the revenue of the Federal Government will hit the N7.59 trillion-mark by the 2012 fiscal year while the aggregate expenditure will hover around N4.65 trillion.
The Ministry of Defence (MINADEF) announced yesterday that Rwanda is now a mine - free country, after it completed a demining campaign ahead of the December 1, 2010 deadline set by the Ottawa Convention.
A committee set up by about 40 organisations of people living with HIV/Aids is investigating reports of ghost patients receiving anti retroviral drugs from the Ministry of Health's certified Aids treatment centres.
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai - who has over the years denied the existence of economic sanctions on Zimbabwe - yesterday made a major climb-down and acknowledged the existence of the ruinous embargo.
UGANDA has welcomed the entrance of Rwanda into the Commonwealth, becoming its 54th member. The decision was announced at the end of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago.
Ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it is not aware of any pressure being mounted on Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan to resign on the account of the health of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.
Debt forgiveness to prominent Nigerians and companies is generating furore among shareholders, banking officials and other stakeholders who see it as politically-motivated and undue favour to beneficiaries.
UGANDA'S high maternal and infant mortality are a threat to development, finance and economic development minister Syda Bbumba has warned.
The self-proclaimed leader of Somalia's Al-Shabaab militant has vowed that his group will intensify its war with Un-backed Somali government and African Union peacekeeping troops in the restive capital Mogadishu.
Last November 19 marked the day that a group of concerned private citizens of the world under the aegis of World Toilet Organization (WTO) decided to draw global attention to the dire consequences of neglecting man's toilet needs.
The recently signed East African Community Common Market Protocol will also address social and cultural matters, according to a senior East African Community official.
The Court of Appeal of Tanzania, which is the supreme judicial authority in the country, has found itself on the receiving end of a judgement by an administrative tribunal.
Korea Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will continue to support Tanzania in its poverty strategy by increasing aid to the country.
Several Hizbul Islam officials led by Sheikh Ahmed Mohammed Islam (Madobe) have reportedly crossed the border into neighbouring Kenya, escaping the wrath of Al-Shabaab who ousted them out of Somalia's southern region of Lower Jubba, sources said.
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) urged African leaders to resist the Corporate Industrialization of African agriculture which will result in massive land grabs, and for the issue to be raised at the upcoming climate negotiations in Copenhagen, at the Pan African Network workshop held from November 23rd -25th, 2009 at Wasamara Hotel here.
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