The claim that biofuels are a threat to food security comes from multinational oil companies, who fear that biofuels are a threat to their business, alleged Jose Bellini, coordinator for agrobusiness of the Brazilian Agriculture and Livestock Research company, EMBRAPA, in Maputo on Thursday.
HAPPYMORE Mapara, the group chief executive officer (CEO) of AICO Africa Limited was this week sent on suspension pending investigations into the operations of the company after falling out with key shareholders at the Zimbabwe Stock Exch-ange (ZSE)-listed conglomerate.
An expert on Friday warned that the banning of hunting in preference to photographic safaris could have a devastating effect on the environment and the wildlife it is expected to preserve.
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.
IN one of the few political debates to have taken place in the run-up to elections next week, 11 of Namibia's 13 political parties on Monday discussed poverty and inequality.
The United Nations refugee agency today condemned the latest xenophobic attacks that have driven some 3,000 foreigners, including refugees and asylum-seekers from Zimbabwe, from a community in South Africa.
MINES minister Obert Mpofu did not float a tender to select prospective investors to partner government in diamond extraction in the Marange Diamond Fields amid allegations he overlooked better equipped and experienced diamond miners.
IF SIR Mark Thatcher was the son of an African ruler his conduct would confirm the worst prejudices of the west. Instead, as the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, he is mostly regarded as a wayward, mildly dim embarrassment.
THE town of Outapi in the Omusati Region, which once again experienced violent clashes between supporters of the ruling Swapo party and the RDP opposition party on Sunday, has the potential "to be the spark that could put Namibia on fire," RDP Secretary General Jesaya Nyamu said yesterday.
THIS weekend is awash with massive gigs that have been lined up across the country.
The MDC has accused ZANU PF of mobilizing its militia to re-open torture bases countrywide, to intimidate the electorate into accepting the controversial Kariba Draft constitution. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party says it has unearthed evidence that meetings are being convened to revive terror squads to harass, intimidate and torture people to endorse the draft constitutional document, ...
FIFTEEN political parties will contest the forthcoming Presidential and National Assembly elections. Of these fifteen, the overwhelming majority of them can't claim to have a constituency that is broadly a reflection of the diversity of our Republic.
CABINET will soon decide on the course of action to take against ministers who looted State assets before the formation of the inclusive government in February amid indications that there is convergence in the thinking of the three principals in the transitional arrangement to wield the axe on those caught on the wrong side of the law.
Fresh negotiations to deal with the so-called outstanding issues in the unity government are expected to begin in earnest this weekend nearly two weeks after the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Troika directed at its meeting in Mozambique that Zimbabwe resolves its niggling issues within 30 days.
When Kgomotso Mogami threw her name into the hat to contest the Gaborone Central parliamentary seat it was easy for many people to write her off.
