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Feb 28
Africa
struggles to spend AIDS billions
Reuters
- USA
WELAMASONGA, Tanzania — With billions of dollars
pouring in to fight Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic, Tanzanian AIDS
counselor Gandencia Bazil has a simple request.
Competing
in Africa
International
Herald Tribune - France
The
birthplace of mankind, Lake Victoria in the African nation of Tanzania,
is famous for its abundant ecosystem. But these days, most of the
endemic fish have become extinct.
Feb 27
Concern
over africa bird flu spread
Scotsman
- United Kingdom
The
deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been confirmed in a third African
country, deepening experts' fears that the disease is becoming endemic
on the poor, ill-equipped continent...
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Heads
of UN aid agencies start to visit Africa's Great Lakes ...
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
Heads
of three UN aid agencies on Sunday started a joint tour of Africa's
Great Lakes region, designed to highlight its refugee crisis.
Greenpeace
to expose illegal fishing on Africa coast
Reuters AlertNet - London
CAPE TOWN — Greenpeace activists set out from Cape Town harbour
on Monday to expose illegal fishing off Africa's west coast...
Feb 26
S.Africa's
Mbeki: research needed on AIDS deaths
Reuters
AlertNet - London
JOHANNESBURG — South African President Thabo Mbeki said in a newspaper
interview on Sunday that research needed to be done to determine what
impact HIV/AIDS was having...
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Crew
member of S.Africa hijack film gets hijacked
Reuters AlertNet - London
JOHANNESBURG — A senior member of the crew that made the
Oscar-nominated South African film Tsotsi about a young car hijacker
has been the victim of a hijacking himself.
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Former
envoy to Africa, academic
Miami
Herald - FL
WASHINGTON — Mabel M. Smythe-Haith, former ambassador to Cameroon and
Equatorial Guinea and deputy assistant secretary of state for African
affairs until 2000, died Feb. 7.
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Africa's
new guard looking like the discredited old one
Houston Chronicle - United States
ADDIS ABABA — Like the elephants that roam the East African savannas,
this region's Big Men once looked to be an endangered species.
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Muslims
in South Africa Origins, Struggles and Achievements
Islam Online - Doha, Qatar
There are no reliable statistics on the number of Muslims in South Africa. Estimates range from 500,000 to 1,000,000.
Feb 25
Feb 23
UN
warns world on Africa drought
BBC
News - UK
The world is in danger of allowing a drought in East
Africa to become a humanitarian catastrophe, the UN warns.
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Out
of (South) Africa comes an affirmation
Newsday - Long Island, NY
Gavin Hood recognizes
that the most famous film to come out of South Africa is probably
the 1980 comedy "The Gods Must Be Crazy."
Feb 22
Feb 20
Feb 19
Drought
Comes Again to East Africa
Forbes
- USA
Babies in East Africa are starving again. They lie in battered beds, hooked up to IV drips, their skeletal mothers beside them.
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Bird
flu could hobble Africa's AIDS fight-UN
Reuters AlertNet - London
DAR ES SALAAM — Bird flu poses a major threat to Africa's
fight against its AIDS epidemic, challenging overburdened healthcare systems
and ...
Drought
threatens East Africa's wildlife
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg
A searing drought has killed dozens of wild animals in Kenya and
neighbouring Tanzania, and has partially disrupted the annual migration
of wildebeest and zebras...
South
Africa hit by power outages
Forbes
- USA
JOHANNESBURG — Parts of southwestern South Africa
as well as its largest city, Johannesburg, were hit by power failures
Sunday...
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Feb 18
Clooney
to donate Casino profits to Africa
contactmusic.com
Generous movie star GEORGE CLOONEY insists his proposed hotel and
casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, will not be purely a money-making venture,
because he'll give profits to the poor in Africa.
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Marine copters crash off Africa
Indianapolis
Star - United States
WASHINGTON — Two U.S. Marine Corps helicopters crashed Friday off the
coast of northern Djibouti, and rescuers were searching for 10 missing
crew members...
S.Africa's
Mbeki hails Haiti poll, mum on Aristide
Jackson
News-Tribune - Jackson
JOHANNESBURG — South African President Thabo Mbeki on Saturday hailed
Haiti‘s election outcome, which local officials have said could lead to
the return of ousted former President...
South
Wire: Exhibit traces banjo roots from Africa to Appalachia
WKYT - Lexington, KY
Banjo maker Dave Ball says you can't tell how an old banjo will play by
its looks, but every scuff, scratch and worn fret stirs dreams of where
it may have been.
Cross
listing of stock markets in east Africa on course
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
Chief executives of the three East African stock markets have agreed to
fast track the program to allow mass cross listing of securities
beginning next month.
South
Africa moves to ban foreign landowners
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The era when Britons were free to acquire farms and homes in South
Africa was drawing to a close yesterday when an official panel
recommended a "moratorium" on foreigners buying or selling any land.
(Related story:
S.
Africa may bar new foreign land owners)
Feb 17
Africa
corruption crisis
BBC News -
UK
The outgoing leader of the African Union, the Nigerian president
Olesegun Obasanjo, has said that corruption costs Africa an estimated
twenty-five percent of its collective national income.
SOUTHERN
AFRICA: Policy revised to shed light on urban refugee ...
Reuters AlertNet - London
The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, is taking a fresh look at its
policy for urban refugees amid concerns that it is not meeting their
particular needs.
US
says helping to fight Africa bird flu outbreak
Reuters AlertNet - London
DAKAR — The United States is providing Nigeria with technical assistance and expertise to help fight its bird flu outbreak...
South
Africa maize prices firm ahead of data
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg
JOHANNESBURG — South African maize prices firmed on Friday but remained stuck
in a fairly tight range ahead of key data on Tuesday.
S.Africa
panel urges halt to foreigner land sales
Reuters
AlertNet - London
PRETORIA — A
government-appointed panel of experts on Friday recommended that South
Africa immediately suspend sales of land to foreigners...
'Death'
and Duty in Africa
Washington
Post - United States
Twenty years ago, Nigerian playwright Wole
Soyinka became the first African to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
Feb 16
Annan
urges more global help for peace, development in Africa
Xinhua - China
UNITED NATIONS — Highlighting the incidence of armed conflict and other
scourge in Africa, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the
international community on Thursday to do more
SOUTHERN
AFRICA: Too white to be black - the challenge of albinism
Reuters AlertNet - London
JOHANNESBURG — Professor John Makumbe was almost killed at birth by a
shocked mid-wife in a mission hospital in rural eastern Zimbabwe.
SOUTHERN
AFRICA: Remittances - curse or blessing?
Reuters AlertNet - London
JOHANNESBURG — The World Bank's Global Economic Prospects (GEP) 2006
report highlights the importance of migration and remittances to
development...
South
Africa's Hindus angered by radio programme
Hindu - Chennai,India
DURBAN — Outraged by a local radio station's broadcast of a programme hurting
their religious sentiments, South Africa's Hindu community
has asked the country's Human Rights Commission to launch an investigation...
Africa
bird flu alert turns some off chicken, eggs
Reuters AlertNet - London
NIAMEY — In West Africa's bustling markets and street
eateries, some consumers are spurning chickens, eggs and even their favourite
dishes...
A record backing
South Africa's charged former deputy president ...
BBC News - UK
A record backing South Africa's charged former deputy president, Jacob Zuma, has sold 50,000 copies.
Straw
presses Africa to tackle graft
Swissinfo
- Switzerland
ALGIERS — Britain will not hesitate to take a tough stand against
African leaders who fail to fulfil promises to root out corruption and
could suspend aid to them if necessary...
Feb 15
World
Cup expensive for South Africa
TVNZ
- New Zealand
South Africa will spend up to $NZ1.2 billion
on infrastructure for the 2010 soccer World Cup, the National Treasury
said on Thursday.
Analysts
criticize South Africa budget
BusinessWeek
- USA
A
budget touted as a means to spread the benefits of a sustained economic
boom to the poor black majority won praise for Treasury Minister Trevor
Manuel...
Red
Cross: E Africa faces hunger crisis
Aljazeera.net - Qatar
A major hunger crisis in
East Africa will last until at least July, the international Red
Cross has said. Up to seven million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are affected by the drought...
Bristol-Myers
to license AIDS drug in India, Africa
Reuters AlertNet - London
CHICAGO — Bristol-Myers Squibb <BMY.N> on Wednesday said it cut a deal with two generic drugmakers to
allow cheap versions of its newest AIDS drug to be made in sub-Saharan
Africa and India...
R7.1
bln allocated by S.Africa for high speed train project
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,South
Africa
CAPE TOWN — South Africa's Treasury
will allocate 7.1 billion rand over the next three years for the construction
of a controversial 20 billion rand billion rand high speed train project...
S.Africa
to spend $94 mln on nuclear energy development
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa will spend 580 million rand in fiscal
2006/07 on the development of a pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) as it
searches for new energy sources...
Branding
South Africa
Mail &
Guardian Online - Johannesburg
Manana Moroka took
up the position of CEO of Proudly South African from November 1 last year.
She took the reins when the company was on a back foot...
Feb 13
Diplomat
says South Africa is 'safe'
China Daily - China
A South African diplomat reassured Chinese yesterday that his country is "safe" for travel or business ...
Report:
Africa`s key role in oil and gas
Monsters
and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
LONDON — An influential
energy consultancy says Africa will account for 30 percent of the
world`s liquid hydrocarbon production increase by 2010.
Armed forces to tackle impact of HIV/AIDS
Reuters AlertNet - London
The impact of AIDS on the military has been a topic African armed
forces have preferred to keep under wraps, concerned with issues of
national security...
Rumsfeld
confident for North Africa
International
Herald Tribune - France
IFRANE, Morocco — Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld, wrapping up three days of talks in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia,
said Monday that he saw an "extremely low possibility" that Al Qaeda or a similar terrorist group might gain a foothold...
S.Africa
to probe deputy president in flight row
Reuters
South Africa - Johannesburg
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has launched an investigation into deputy president
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka's December holiday trip to the United Arab
Emirates...
Feb 12
Blair
vows to keep up pressure on aid for Africa
Reuters AlertNet - London
JOHANNESBURG — British Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed on Sunday to
keep up pressure for international help for Africa...
East
Africa Balances People and Wildlife
Forbes - USA
Elephants, buffaloes and other wild animals drink water on one side of a swamp. On the other, Maasai warriors watch hundreds of cattle...
Crisis in Africa
San Francisco
Chronicle - CA
In September 2004, the Bush administration
declared that the systematic murder, rape and destruction occurring in
Darfur, Sudan, constituted genocide.
Aid
issue hinders progress in Africa, EU trade talks
African News Dimension - Johannesburg
According to officials, dispute over whether Europe should provide aid to help African states prepare for increased competition ahead of a new trade regime, is hindering progress in talks between the two blocs.
A
plea for the forgotten countries of Africa
The Age - Melbourne, Australia
The suffering of the Zimbabwean people is likely to continue until there is a change of government.
Mandela, Blair hold pleasant meeting
African News Dimension - Johannesburg, South Africa
Former President Nelson Mandela and British premier Tony Blair made sure to have a pleasant conversation.
Feb 10
Feb 7
UNICEF
Says Children Face Crisis in Horn of Africa
Voice of America - USA
The United
Nations Children's Fund says millions of children in drought-stricken
Horn of Africa are in a state of crisis.
Africa
goes to Toronto
Moneyweb - Johannesburg
When RBC Capital Markets announces a conference, in Toronto,
on the mineral potential in central Africa, you know that times
are really changing.
SOUTH
AFRICA: Winning the war against malaria, so far
Reuters AlertNet - London
JOZINI — Jonathon Gumede knows the symptoms of malaria well: headaches,
persistent shivering, a high temperature and sore joints are the
initial warning signs of infection..
S.Africa
says China trade pact not on table yet
Reuters
South Africa - Johannesburg
PRETORIA — South Africa and China have agreed in principle to negotiate
a trade deal, but formal negotiations have not yet begun...
SOUTH
AFRICA: GM debate fought on cotton fields of KZN
Reuters AlertNet - London
MAKHATHINI FLATS — Taking a break from spraying his neat, one-hectare
plot of young cotton plants with herbicide, Moses Mabika surveys the
land that has been supporting his family for 45 years.
Feb 6
Ranbaxy
Labs forms JV in S Africa to sell AIDS drugs
Business Standard - India
The joint venture with Community Investment Holdings will be called Sonke Pharmaceuticals.
South
Africa Limits Power Supplies To Zimbabwe
Voice of America - USA
Zimbabwe has been short of electricity for years, but outages increased dramatically in the past two weeks.
S.
Africa to build 5 new stadiums for 2010 World Cup
Xinhua - China
CAPE TOWN — South Africa, host of the 2010 soccer World Cup, has agreed
with the international soccer governing body FIFA to build five new
stadiums for the tournament...
SOUTH
AFRICA: Newspapers barred from publishing Muhammad cartoons
Reuters AlertNet - London
JOHANNESBURG — A South African newspaper is set to challenge a court
interdict barring the publication of controversial cartoons of the
Prophet Muhammad, initially printed in Denmark..
S.
Africa to boost infrastructure, tourism for faster growth
Xinhua - China
CAPE TOWN — South Africa plans to upgrade its power plants, roads and
telecommunication services to pave a way to faster economic growth and
improvement of the people's life...
Africa
warns Europe of $2 bln loss in mine exports
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg
CAPE TOWN — African mining ministers demanded the European Union exempt mining products from a new chemical safety law...
Protests
Over Cartoon are Peaceful in West Africa
Voice of America - USA
Protests over the publication
of satirical cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in Europe have spread to
West Africa, but they have been peaceful.
S.Africa
says draft textile pact agreed with China
Reuters
South Africa - Johannesburg,South Africa
CAPE TOWN — South Africa and China have agreed in principle a pact to
regulate the import of cheap Chinese clothing and textiles...
Measuring
the size of the informal economy in South Africa
Moneyweb - Johannesburg,South Africa
The informal or unrecorded economy accommodated a substantial part of the South African workforce in 2004/2005.
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