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2009-06-30 10:00	AllAfrica.com	Tanzania: Speaker Denies Blocking Tangold Debate in House The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Samwel Sitta, yesterday denied blocking MPs from debating Tangold, Mwananchi and Deep Green Finance companies, saying he closed debate on Meremera Gold Company only....
2009-06-30 10:00	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Pollution Has Created Human Rights Tragedy in the Niger Delta Amnesty International today called the situation in the Niger Delta a âhuman rights tragedy,â saying that the people of the Niger Delta have seen their human rights abused by oil companies that their government cannot or will not hold to account....
2009-06-30 08:20	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Crude Price Rises Above $70 PB THE price of crude oil, yesterday, rose above the $70 per barrel mark as militants in the early hours of the day bombed an offshore platform of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) located at Forcados in Delta State and purportedly sank a gunboat carrying between 20-23 soldiers, a claim that the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta promptly denied....
2009-06-30 08:20	AllAfrica.com	Comoros: Plane Goes Down Off Coast A Yemenia airline Airbus A310 is reported to have crashed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros Islands....
2009-06-30 08:00	AllAfrica.com	East Africa: Undersea Cable to Provide East Africa With High-Speed Internet Access The landing of The East African Marine System (TEAMS) undersea communications cable in Mombasa this month has gone largely unheralded, reports BizCommunity.com....
2009-06-30 07:40	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: State Undermines BEE Objective WHEN the broad-based black economic empowerment scorecard was introduced it was hailed as a "carrot rather than stick" approach....
2009-06-30 07:40	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: State to Review Trade Policy to Give Support to Industry THE Department of Trade and Industry is planning to review its trade, industrial and black economic empowerment policies, a move welcomed yesterday by Parliament's trade and industry portfolio committee....
2009-06-30 07:20	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: VP Woos Investors for Solid Minerals Devt Vice President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has urged businessmen and investors to explore the opportunities in solid minerals development in Nigeria, stating that government was determined to diversify the country's economy....
2009-06-30 07:20	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: Rand's High is Double-Edged Sword for Factories, Imports THE rand surged to a near 10-month peak at R7,87/ yesterday, in a move which may prove to be a double-edged sword for SA's faltering economy....
2009-06-30 07:20	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Govt Plans Disarming of Militants Enugu State will serve as the co-ordinating centre for disarmament and the demobilisation of militants, THISDAY has learnt....
2009-06-30 07:20	AllAfrica.com	Rwanda: Country's Coffee Heads for UK US coffee retail giant Starbucks plans to start selling high grade Rwanda coffee that is fair-trade certified in its 800 outlets in the UK, effective February next year....
2009-06-30 06:40	AllAfrica.com	Southern Africa: SA-SADC Success 'Example for Africa' SA's successful experience in trading and investing on the African continent, especially in the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) region, sets an example for other African countries to exploit similar opportunities, says a United Nations (UN) study....
2009-06-30 06:20	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: Young, Educated And Unemployed Unemployment among young South Africans is hovering at 30 percent, shooting up to over 60 percent for youths in their late teens and early twenties. But tertiary education and skills development seem not to be making much of a dent in what is now regarded as a crisis....
2009-06-30 06:20	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: Baloyi Says Talks Must End Today Today's deadline for concluding negotiations between the government and public service trade unions on the occupational specific dispensation for state employees would not be extended, Public Service and Administration Minister Richard Baloyi insisted yesterday....
2009-06-30 06:20	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: Country Thinks Again on Import Tariff Pledge THE government is considering raising import tariffs on garments to maximum levels agreed to by SA in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), contradicting its undertaking as part of the Group of 20 (G-20) countries not to resort to protectionist measures in the global economic downturn....
2009-06-30 06:20	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: Government Will Have Its Work Cut Out THE African National Congress-led (ANC) government has so far remained firm in its insistence that it will be able to create "decent work" even in the economic decline....
2009-06-30 06:00	AllAfrica.com	Somalia: Al Shabaab Shut Down Five Bakara Businesses for 'Expired Foods' Sheikh Ali Mohamed Hussein, the Al Shabaab chief in Mogadishu, showed reporters the expired foods including rice and flour bags....
2009-06-30 05:40	AllAfrica.com	Uganda: Urgent Action Needed on Number-Plate Scam OVER 340 fake number-plates have been found to be in circulation. Up to four cars in Uganda share the same registration number....
2009-06-30 05:00	AllAfrica.com	Zimbabwe: State Should Secure Zouma LAST week hundreds of fortune-seekers descended on Zouma resettlement area in Gutu after the discovery of alluvial gold at a disused mine....
2009-06-30 02:40	AllAfrica.com	Egypt: Country Making Progress in Water, Sanitation - UN Egypt has made great strides in improving access to drinking water and is well-situated to address remaining challenges related to water and sanitation, a United Nations independent human rights expert said today....
2009-06-30 02:20	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Enugu to Receive Militants' Weapons Enugu State will serve as the co-ordinating centre for disarmament and the demobilisation of militants, THISDAY has learnt....
2009-06-30 02:00	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: Doctors Defy 'Return to Work' Court Order STATE doctors in KwaZulu-Natal yesterday defied a court order that they return to work, even as the Public Sector Bargaining Council expressed confidence that talks on the occupation specific dispensation for health workers would be concluded today....
2009-06-30 02:00	AllAfrica.com	Tanzania: Country Opens Alternative Trade Route THE Tanzania Ports Authority has announced the opening of an alternative route to the sea through Dar es Salaam for goods from and to Uganda and the rest of the region....
2009-06-30 02:00	AllAfrica.com	Rwanda: Starbucks to Sell Local Coffee in Its 800 UK Outlets US coffee retail giant Starbucks plans to start selling high grade Rwanda coffee that is fair-trade certified in its 800 outlets in the UK, effective February next year....
2009-06-29 18:40	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Deregulation - Labour Threatens Strike The organised labour has warned that the ongoing rallies and protests in some state capitals would escalate into full blown strike should the Federal Government pay deaf ears to workers' demands on to stop deregulation....
2009-06-29 18:40	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Towards Reconciliation in Ogoniland A palpable wind of restitution recently blew towards Ogoniland with the decision by the Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell, to offer to pay $15.5million to the Ogoni people of Rivers State in an out-of-court settlement. In a suit filed by the Centre for Constitutional Rights in New York, USA, on behalf of the family of the slain writer and environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and eight others in 1996, the Nigerian subsidiary of Shell was accused of complicity in the hanging of the 'Ogoni nine' and the persecution of other environmental activists in the Niger Delta by the regime of the late General Sani Abacha. While the family of the late Saro-Wiwa and those of the other 'Ogoni eight' have accepted Shell's gesture as a fresh opportunity to move the Ogoni peace process forward, the families of the four prominent Ogoni leaders who were murdered allegedly by some Ogoni youths in 1994, the ripple effects of which led ultimately to the 1996 hangings, have expressed disappointment with the terms of the settlement....
2009-06-29 17:40	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Govt, Algeria to Sign Gas Pipeline Deal An agreement to build a gas pipeline from Nigeria across the Sahara Desert to Algeria will be signed next week in Abuja, Algerian Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil said on Monday....
2009-06-29 17:20	AllAfrica.com	Tanzania: Govt to Open Dar Port In a bid to reduce risks resulting from the fragile political climate in Kenya, the Tanzania government announced yesterday that it had opened Dar es Salaam port to handle extra four million tonnes of goods coming to Uganda....
2009-06-29 17:20	AllAfrica.com	Uganda: Cheaper, Faster Internet Beckons As Broadband Joins Market Ugandans may soon enjoy cheaper and faster internet services if another player, the Broadband company, launches its services in the country....
2009-06-29 17:00	AllAfrica.com	Kenya: CBK Should Act Swiftly Against Weak Banks The report by the multilateral lender, International Monetary Fund (IMF), that three banking institutions in Kenya are living on the edge with regard to capitalisation levels calls for sober reflection on the state of our financial industry....
2009-06-29 16:40	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Gazprom to End Gas Flaring THE coming of the world 's gas giant Gazprom to Africa's biggest oil producer Nigeria would put an end to gas flaring, Alexander Polyakov, the Russian ambassador to Nigeria, said on Tuesday....
2009-06-29 16:40	AllAfrica.com	East Africa: Five Countries to see Modest Growth Amid continued uncertainty about the prospect of a global economic meltdown a report authored by two of Africa's key economic institutions offered mixed projections on the continent's growth in the near future....
2009-06-29 16:40	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Militants Bomb Shell Facilities Again MILITANTS in the early hours of today bombed an off-shore platform of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) located at Forcados in Delta State and purportedly sunk a military gun boat carrying between 20-23 soldiers, a claim that the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta promptly denied....
2009-06-29 16:20	AllAfrica.com	Zimbabwe: Truth of Diamond Murders Threatened as MDC MP Jailed An MDC MP who was set to reveal the truth about the mass murders in the Marange diamond fields last year, was this weekend jailed for seven years, on trumped-up charges....
2009-06-29 16:20	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Mend Claims Another Sabotage of Shell Wellhead DESPITE President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's offer of amnesty to militants, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger- Delta at the weekend said it had blown up a wellhead in a Shell oil field in Delta State, citing provocation from the Joint Task Force (JTF)....
2009-06-29 16:20	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Govt Loses 1.1Million Barrels of Oil Per Day to Niger-Delta Crisis in First Quarter THE Federal Government has announced a loss of about 1,101,488 barrels of oil per day (bopd) during the first quarter of 2009 alone mainly due to the crises in the oil rich Niger-Delta region....
2009-06-29 15:40	AllAfrica.com	Kenya: Optic Cable Arrival Stirs ICT Sector Arrival of the submarine fibre optic cable has sparked off the release of new products and consolidation as the information communication and technology sector gears up for the mass market....
2009-06-29 15:40	AllAfrica.com	Africa: End Round of Trade Talks, Urges WTO The World Trade Organisation has asked African countries to push for the conclusion of the current round of negotiations so that they can benefit from international trade....
2009-06-29 15:40	AllAfrica.com	Kenya: Captain Gives Evidence in Pirates Case Suspected Somali pirates did not look as if they were lost at sea, a magistrate's court was told on Monday....
2009-06-29 15:20	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: Current Status of U.S.-South African Relations The following is the prepared remarks of Johnnie Carson, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, at a conference on the future of United States-South Africa relations held at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, DC on June 10, 2009:...
2009-06-29 15:00	AllAfrica.com	Ghana: Teachers Run for Cover As GES Undertakes Headcount The Ghana Education Service (GES) is embarking on a head count of teachers in the Northern region as part of efforts to clean the bloated pay roll....
2009-06-29 15:00	AllAfrica.com	Africa: Don't Shut the Door These days, a dollar won't get you very far in a rich economy. But in a poor country like the one I come from, Sierra-Leone, even half a dollar can save a life or feed an entire family. Every penny invested in Africa counts today and to secure Africa's future....
2009-06-29 15:00	AllAfrica.com	Africa: Integration, Now Or Never The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has just out-doored the 2009 edition of its Economic Development in Africa Report in which it argues that the global financial crisis has brought about the need for a re-examination of current approaches to international development....
2009-06-29 14:40	AllAfrica.com	Africa: Unctad Advocates Stronger Regional Integration The 2009 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report - Economic Development in Africa - has presented a strong argument on the need for African countries to deepen regional integration to build stronger and more resilient economies, especially within the context of the current global economic meltdown, which is having its toll on the continent....
2009-06-29 14:40	AllAfrica.com	West Africa: Ecowas Delay On EPA Allows Ghana to Re-Think There are conflicting signals about whether west African countries will sign an economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union, as the original deadline of Jun 30 has been postponed and stakeholders hold different views on the new deadline of end Oct. This may still allow Ghana to re-think its interim EPA....
2009-06-29 14:40	AllAfrica.com	Ghana: Zoomlion Clears Over 300 Tonnes Waste in One Night Zoomlion Company Limited, a leading waste management organisation in Ghana, has in one night cleared a backlog of waste, in excess of 300 tonnes, at the Makola Market in Accra....
2009-06-29 14:40	AllAfrica.com	Ghana: SOS! SOS! SOS! to Mills THOUGH the government is watching the Takoradi Port with an eagle eye due to the new role the Port is expected to play in future, as transit point for the oil industry, the Port might eventually fail to play the role expected of it due to the grave challenges confronting it. This is because the Port is currently handicapped by the shallow waters which need deeper dredging to allow larger vessels to berth. This had been an issue that confronted the NPP Government, which tackled it with the assistance of the then Minister of Fisheries, Mrs. Gladys Asmah, who led a team of Government officials to promise the dredging of the waters but cash constraints forced an abandonment of the project. This difficulty has now become an albatross around the neck of the Mills administration....
2009-06-29 14:40	AllAfrica.com	Ghana: Gold Fields to Partner Stephen Appiah's Foundation Discussions are far advanced for the Gold Fields Ghana Foundation to partner with StepApp Foundation, founded by Black Stars Captain Stephen Appiah. StepApp Foundation is a Non Governmental Organization aimed at helping street children and those in dire need in the rural areas of Ghana....
2009-06-29 14:40	AllAfrica.com	Botswana: Chinese Burst Onto Mining Scene Statistics from the Department of Geological Services (DGS) indicate that 111 Chinese private entities currently hold exploration licences in Botswana, up from nearly zero four years ago....
2009-06-29 14:20	AllAfrica.com	Ghana: Vicome to Build Capacity in Oil & Gas Industry A GHANAIAN Company, Vicome Limited, has said Ghanaian businesses and individuals have to position themselves properly to take advantage of opportunities that would be presented by the country's emerging oil industry....


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