RICH countries' agricultural subsidies and denial of market access to produce from developing countries were partly to blame for low crop production in developing nations, President Mugabe has said.
The UN's Eminent Group of Expert report on rebel militias in the DRC is expected to reveal Spanish and French connections to the FDLR militia, The New Times has been informed.
A newspaper claim that a Nigerian has faked a marriage with his daughter to secure a United Kingdom visa for her has sparked renewed debate for immigration control in the country.
An expensive round of score-settling and legal cases among the purported financiers and conspirators behind the 2004 coup plot in Equatorial Guinea is likely to be the immediate outcome of the release of convicted plotter Simon Mann, a dual British and South African national, in Malabo on 2 November.
Swiss authorities yesterday convicted Abba, one of the sons of the late military dictator, General Sani Abacha, for graft and ordered $350 million worth of assets to be seized from him.
The 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, an event that marked the beginning of the end of Communism, has been a huge story almost everywhere in the world.
Africa, the continent already most affected by hunger and food scarcity, is likely to see its woes increased due to climate change and the changing rain patterns it provokes, experts and scientists say.
Rising from a recent summit on Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) organized by a group of developing countries in Maldives to fine-tune their position at the next month's climate change meet in Copenhagen, zero carbon tolerance has been canvassed.
European private investors are hungry for shares in unlisted African firms and could provide the needed shot in the arm for a continent that has taken a beating from the financial crisis the West is emerging from, reports LEE MWITIT
Rwanda offers one of the best investment opportunities on the African continent and doing business in the country has been eased by a set of reforms that favour investors, a renown Germany entrepreneur told The New Times yesterday.
Following yesterday's arrest of FDLR leader Ignace Murwanashyaka and his deputy, Straton Musoni, in Germany, government has welcomed the move, saying the two are part of a terrorist group that has not only committed crimes in Rwanda, but also in the DRC.
The Italian Ambassador to Ghana, Mr. Luca Fratini, has called for the establishment of a partnership between Italy and Ghana for mutual benefit.
The US and Britain have expressed concern over the alleged politicisation of humanitarian aid in Ethiopia ahead of elections and called for immediate investigation.
British oil explorer Heritage Oil will sell its fields in Uganda to Italian oil group Eni SpA for between $1.3b and $1.5b, the London-based Sunday Times said yesterday.
"We lived like fishes in the water. We were not lazy. We worked hard. We lived a very natural way of life by eating fish and green vegetables and fruits that was abundant in the forests. Nature was our refrigerator."
