Johannesburg, Sep 2 – India and South Africa are trying to strengthen trade links, constituting sector-specific task forces to jointly explore business opportunities and putting on the fast track mutually beneficial trade agreements. A business delegation, led by Commerce Minister Anand Sharma and comprising top executives from India Inc like Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata, [...]
Johannesburg/New Delhi, Sep 1 – Indian and South African businesses may jointly tap investment opportunities in the rest of Africa, taking advantage of the inherent synergies between the two economies. The areas that could foster tie-ups are pharmaceuticals, healthcare, food processing, automobiles, components, biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications, infrastructure, roads and railways. This came out clearly [...]
Tripoli, Sep 1 – An ex-Guantanamo detainee and 36 other militant Islamists were released from prison in Libya, according to a charity organisation Tuesday. The release was announced in the capital by the charity foundation of Seif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, one of the sons of Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi. The foundation said the prisoners had corrected [...]
Mogadishu, Sep 1 – At least fifteen people were killed and more than 30 injured Tuesday after a roadside bomb explosion hit two passenger buses in the Somali capital Mogadishu, officials and witnesses said. The explosion ripped through the buses as they plied the only road connecting the divided city and is used by Somali [...]
Nairobi/Mogadishu, Sep 1 – A roadside bomb has killed eight people and injured 12 in the Somali capital Mogadishu, the Horn of Africa nation’s information ministry said Tuesday. Nobody claimed immediate responsibility for the blast, but the information ministry blamed Islamist insurgent group al-Shababb, which has links to Al Qaeda. Al-Shabaab, which is battling to [...]
Nairobi/Khartoum, Aug 30 – Three Russian aircrew members have been kidnapped in Sudan’s restive Darfur province as an American woman held for months was released, the United Nations said Monday. Earlier reports said that only two pilots had been seized, but the UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said in a statement that three [...]
Mogadishu, Aug 30 – Four African Union peacekeepers were among 10 people killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu Monday as the Horn of Africa nation’s president called for help against a growing insurgency. The radical Islamist group al-Shabaab, which is battling to oust the weak Western-backed government, last Monday launched an offensive against the government [...]
Harare, Aug 29 – Zimbabwe’s bankrupt central bank is to retrench 85 percent of its bloated staff complement to help it move back into the black and function as a reliable national bank, according to Finance Minister Tendai Biti. The layoffs will mark the end of what analysts say was the use of the Reserve [...]
Mogadishu, Aug 28 – At least 15 civilians died and 25 others were wounded in a heavy fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu overnight, officials said Saturday. The clashes are between Islamist insurgents Al-Shabaab, and the weak Western-backed government, backed by African Union peacekeepers. Fighting this week has already claimed dozens of lives. ‘We have [...]
Nairobi, Aug 27 – Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki Friday signed into law a long-awaited new constitution, weeks after it was passed in a national referendum. A massive crowd gathered to watch the president sign the document, which is part of a reform process aimed at preventing a repeat of the violence that followed disputed presidential [...]
Cairo, Aug 27 (IANS/AKI) Egyptian telecom tycoon Naguib Sawiris has offered a 140,000 euro reward for information leading to the recovery of a stolen masterpiece by Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, according to broadcaster Europe1. Sawiris is the first businessman to have publicly offered a reward for Van Gogh’s ‘Vase and Flowers’, worth $55 million, [...]
Banjul (Gambia), Aug 27 – Three Gambian nationals and three Senegalese were arrested after over one tonne of cannabis was found in their possession. Officers of the National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDEA) and the military arrested the six offenders in Seewol village in the country’s western region, Xinhua reported Thursday. The arrest was made following [...]
Khartoum (Sudan), Aug 27 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Three people in Port Sudan city froze to death in a refrigerating facility which charged $2 per hour for sitting inside it. A few local businessmen have set up big refrigerators as ‘cool-down facility’ for the Sudanese people who seeking shelter from the heat. They charge five Sudanese (about [...]
Pretoria, Aug 26 – Thousands of government workers, including teachers and health staff, took out rallies across South Africa Thursday after nine days of strikes over salary hike, forcing authorities to call for negotiation. Public servants and teachers unions walked off their work places Aug 18 demanding better wages and an increase in housing allowance. [...]
Nouakchott (Mauritania), Aug 26 – A British Boeing 757 was forced to land at the Nouakchott international airport in Mauritania, after one of its engines caught fire. The pilot of the plane, which was carrying 108 passengers, noticed that one of the plane’s engines had caught fire and immediately contacted the airport’s control tower to [...]
Kinshasa, Aug 26 – At least 19 people including the pilot were killed in a plane crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo, police said. The accident took place around midday Wednesday when the plane was landing at the airport in Bandundu, the capital of Bandundu province, spokesman of the UN mission in Congo, Madnodje [...]
Cairo, Aug 25 – At least 17 people were killed and five were injured in two road accidents in Egypt Wednesday, police said. A truck crashed into a minibus and flipped onto it, killing 14 people and injuring three others on a highway between Cairo and Alexandria. Meanwhile, three members of the same family were [...]
Nairobi/Mogadishu, Aug 24 – Somali politicians were among 31 people killed in an attack on a Mogadishu hotel Tuesday, as an insurgent offensive that has claimed at least 60 lives entered its second day. Radical Islamist group al-Shabaab is battling to oust the weak Western-backed government, which is penned into small enclaves in Mogadishu protected [...]
Mogadishu/Nairobi, Aug 24 – At least 42 people, including ten lawmakers, have died in fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu after Islamist insurgents declared ‘a final war’ against African Union (AU) peacekeepers. Radical Islamist group al-Shabaab is battling to oust the weak Western-backed government, which is penned into small enclaves in Mogadishu protected by around [...]
Nairobi/Goma, Aug 24 – More than 150 women have been raped by rebels in a remote area of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, an aid agency and the UN said. A Rwandan rebel group, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), occupied the town of Luvungi July 30 and embarked on a four-day [...]
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