[Business]
Kenya: Chiluba threatens to sue critics over pension freeze call
LUSAKA, Monday Related Stories Chiluba issues demand for a house Opposition protests as Chiluba seeks votes for Banda Former president of Zambia Frederick Chiluba has threatened to sue his critics over demands that the state freezes his pension following his campaigning for President Rupiah Banda"s ...
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Kenya: Bank speaks out for the poor
| LondonA robust programme to protect Africa"s poor from the effects of the global recession needs to be enacted soon, the president of the World Bank has said after a tour of the continent.Mr Robert B. Zoellick said the effects of the global food, fuel and economic crisis will be felt ... | Read Africa News article at Daily Nation - Related articles
South Africa: Eurozone"s fiscal problems weigh on rand
Africa: American union supports Fawu
Kenya: Sale of State firms to go on
South Africa: Opec oil price falls to 4-month low
South Africa: Natural medicines take lead in industry
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[Sports]
Kenya: Kenya reach quarters in New Zealand
| The Kenya national sevens team got off to a relatively good start in the first day of the Wellington leg of the International Rugby Board Sevens circuit.Kenya won their first two matches of the day by beating Tonga 15-7 and dismissing USA 24-7, but unceremoniously lost their last match to ... | Read Africa News article at The Standard - Related articles
South Africa: Drogba gives Terry a boost as Chelsea go top
| Terry showed no signs of being affected as he returned to the spotlight just 48 hours after being stripped of the England captaincy in response to allegations that he had an affair with the ex-girlfriend of international colleague Wayne Bridge. The Blues skipper received a warm welcome ... | Read Africa News article at Times Live - Related articles
Egypt: Egypt coach Hassan Shehata enters Nigeria coaching race
Kenya: Kenya can learn from Ghana"s team
Nigeria: Israeli Trained Cops For Garden City Games
Uganda: Police win, Villa returns against Arua
Ivory Coast: Ivory Coast to play South Korea in friendly in London
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[Health]
Uganda: Early Diagnosis of HIV Still Elusive
| HIV-positive Justine Kirumira* is a mother torn between doing what is right for her daughters and her own fear of HIV/AIDS. She suspects that her eight- and 12-year-old daughters may also have the virus. But she may never know the truth of their status because she refuses have them tested. ... | Read Africa News article at IPS Africa - Related articles
Somalia: Up to 240,000 under fives malnourished - report
| NAIROBI, 2 February 2010 (IRIN) - Somalia has one of the highest levels of malnutrition in the world, with up to 240,000 children under five affected, according to an early warning report published on 1 February by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit for Somalia (FAO/FSNAU) and FEWSNET. ... | Read Africa News article at IRINNews - Related articles
Haiti: Fear of the earthquake lives on
Haiti: The other disasters
Mauritania: Fatwa alone will not stop FGM/C
Africa: Rotavirus Vaccine Making Headway in Africa
Somalia: Galkayo hospital "desperate for supplies"
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[Arts & Entertainment]
South Africa: Taylor Swift looking for a funny man
| The "Love Story" star stands at an impressive 5ft 11in and admits her heart flutters at men who tower above her. Taylor - who split from her "Twilight" actor boyfriend Taylor Lautner in December, and has since been romantically linked to John Mayer and "Glee" star Cory ... | Read Africa News article at Times Live - Related articles
South Africa: Hollywood stars vie for London theatre awards
| Jones is shortlisted for best actor for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," alongside Law for "Hamlet," James McAvoy for "Three Days of Rain," Mark Rylance for "Jerusalem," Ken Stott for "A View from the Bridge" and Samuel West for "Enron." Weisz received a best-actress nomination for her ... | Read Africa News article at Times Live - Related articles
South Africa: "Live" show losing Touch
South Africa: Celine to host Cup parties
South Africa: My Health
Africa: Papa brings action to e.tv
South Africa: Nothing is impossible
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[North Africa]
Egypt: Senior Muslim Brotherhood members arrested
Egyptian security forces detained senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday, sources close to the group said, calling it a crackdown on Egypt"s biggest opposition group before elections this year. The Brotherhood, though banned, won a fifth of the seats parliament in 2005 when members ran as independents ...
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Egypt: Senior Muslim Brotherhood members arrested
Egyptian security forces detained senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday, sources close to the group said, calling it a crackdown on Egypt"s biggest opposition group before elections this year. The Brotherhood, though banned, won a fifth of the seats parliament in 2005 when members ran as independents ...
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Tunisia: Paolo Perrelli exhibits at Tunis ITALCAR showroom
Egypt: Brotherhood members held in Egypt
Algeria: Algeria wants to cut flu vaccines order; ministry
Libya: Libyan court acquits Swiss businessman Rachid Hamdani
Libya: "Libya drops case against Swiss businessman"
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[South Africa]
South Africa: NGO blames govt for Balfour violence
| As renewed protests flared in the township on Monday, Cormsa said a visit to the area by President Jacob Zuma and a team of ministers last year had not yielded any results. "Despite the visit of a task team of ministers to the area, no effective and ... | Read Africa News article at Times Live - Related articles
South Africa: Steyn praises new coach Corrie
| The South African fast bowler showed he was a bowler for all conditions as he combined express pace and reverse swing to return career-best figures of seven for 51. Steyn wiped out India"s lower order in the first innings by taking five wickets for three runs with classic ... | Read Africa News article at Times Live - Related articles
Namibia: Fiji relive glory days with win
South Africa: ConCourt approached on Selebi witness
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe strike forces Bennett trial delay
South Africa: Fawu to use World Cup to put pressure on ABI
South Africa: "We are not at war with Youth League"
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[East Africa]
Kenya: House team to question top Education officials
| The Ministry of Education will Tuesday morning have a date with Parliament"s Public Accounts Committee to respond to audit queries in its 2006/2007 and the 2007/2008 budgets. Related Stories Speak out over education scandals, Raila told PS wants ministry unit dissolved over scandal While still reeling under ... | Read Africa News article at Daily Nation - Related articles
Sudan: Darfur peacekeepers" suspected killers arrested
Sudan today announced it had arrested a number of men suspected of killing three Rwandan peacekeepers in an ambush in Darfur, the first of two deadly attacks on the mission. The three members of Darfur"s joint United Nations/African Union (UNAMID) mission were killed when gunmen opened fire on their ...
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Sudan: US says Sudan government undermining peace process
Uganda: Italy"s ENI withdraws bid for Uganda oil
Kenya: Raila free to go anywhere: Uhuru
Kenya: Incumbent wins flawed Nigerian poll
Kenya: Baby Obama heralds rhino revival in Uganda
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[West Africa]
Togo: Mass protest in Togo against African Cup football ban
| More than 10,000 people have demonstrated in Togo against a decision to ban the country from the next two African Cup of Nations tournaments. The Confederation of African Football (Caf) suspended Togo for withdrawing from this year"s competition in Angola. Togo pulled out after an attack on its team bus ... | Read Africa News article at AfricaNewsBreak - Related articles
Guinea: Dozens injured during violence in Guinea
At least one person died in two days of clashes between Christians and Muslims in eastern Guinea and dozens more were injured, but the violence had mostly subsided by Sunday, witnesses and officials said. Residents of Nzerekore reported widespread gunfire in the town on Saturday, a day after several ...
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Nigeria: Incumbent declared winner in flawed Nigeria poll
Nigeria: INEC Admits Lapses, To Review Voters" Register
Gambia: Four Gambian ministers go in cabinet changes
Ghana: Ethiopian jet "black box" retrieved - Accra Mail :: Ghana News Leaders - Ghana News Africa
Nigeria: Foreign Monitors: Election"s Free and Fair
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[Great Lakes]
Congo: Rebels desert army in Congo
| When he was sure no one was looking, he picked it up. To his surprise, he could read it. It was written in Kinyarwanda, the language 30-year-old Elias Sanvura had learned as a boy in neighbouring Rwanda. It asked a simple question: What"s keeping you from going home? ... | Read Africa News article at Times Live - Related articles
Congo: Vodacom sails on through troubled waters
| It is only February, but 2010 has not been kind to Vodacom CEO Pieter Uys. Since New Year he has faced shareholder dissent in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), ongoing issues with the group"s regulator, and damaging reports relating to the tenure of former CEO Alan Knott-Craig. ... | Read Africa News article at Times Live - Related articles
Burundi: Burundi peacekeepers on trial over Somalia mutiny
Congo (DRC): DRC to reach Freeport contract decision soon: World Bank
Burundi: Burundi tries "mutinous peacekeepers"
Burundi: Burundi tries "mutinous peacekeepers"
Congo (DRC): DRC to reach Freeport contract decision soon: World Bank
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[Horn of Africa]
Somalia: Somalis rescue migrants in Gulf of Aden
| Some 126 people have been rescued by Somali fishermen from the Gulf of Aden after human traffickers reportedly forced them into the sea at gunpoint.The migrants, mostly from Somalia and Ethiopia, said they had set off from northern Somalia a week ago. They said their boat had developed engine trouble ... | Read Africa News article at BBC News - Related articles
Somalia: Bomb survivors tend to IDPs
| NAIROBI, 8 February 2010 (IRIN) - A bomb explosion was the last thing Abdiqani Sheikh Omar, 26, expected on his graduation day, after six years of studying medicine at Somalia"s Benadir University in the capital, Mogadishu. "It was a beautiful day, not too hot and [with] a very ... | Read Africa News article at IRINNews - Related articles
Somalia: Shelling kills at least 9 in Somalia: group
Ethiopia: Ethiopian troops enter Somali towns
Ethiopia: Legat smashes US 5 000m indoor record in debut race
Ethiopia: Ethiopian troops enter Somali towns
Somalia: Shelling kills at least 9 in Somalia: group
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