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2008-10-08 04:20	AllAfrica.com	Kenya: Oil Price Controls On the Way The Government escalated its battle with oil companies on Tuesday announcing that plans for price controls were being worked out by the regulator....
2008-10-08 04:20	AllAfrica.com	Kenya: Wananchi Group Launches New Data Cable Telecommunications service provider, Wananchi Group, has unveiled Kenya's first triple play cable- a value added retail product....
2008-10-08 04:20	AllAfrica.com	Somalia: Govt Cautions On Face-Off American and Russian naval forces have been asked to deal with the mv Faina pirates firmly, but cautiously, to protect the crew being held hostage aboard the Ukrainian vessel....
2008-10-08 03:40	AllAfrica.com	Kenya: Two New Energy Parastatals Set Up Efforts to end the country's energy problems were stepped up on Tuesday following the establishment of two new parastatals in the sector....
2008-10-08 03:20	AllAfrica.com	Uganda: Commonwealth Chief Calls for Increased Food Production COMMONWEALTH finance ministers should adopt extension services and create strategic food reserves to minimise the consequences of high food prices, the Commonwealth Secretary General, Kamalesh Sharma, has said....
2008-10-08 03:20	AllAfrica.com	Uganda: Women Win Agricultural Award EIGHT Ugandan women researchers have been awarded prestigious agricultural awards by the new African Women in Agricultural Research and Development Programme (AWARD)....
2008-10-08 01:40	AllAfrica.com	Africa: Wiping Out Hunger - One Fruit Fly at a Time For years, farmers in one of Senegal's most mango-rich zones, Keur Mbir Ndao, 80km east of the capital, were losing more than half their harvests....
2008-10-07 13:40	AllAfrica.com	Namibia: Minister's Address to Investor Forum Prepared remarks to the Namibia Investor Forum on Trade and Infrastructure Investment Opportunities in Washington, DC by Dr. Hage Geingob, the minister of trade and industry. ...
2008-10-07 11:20	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: Telkom Rolls Out Its Own 3G Network South African telecoms company Telkom will over the next month deploy its own third generation (3G) wireless network across the country....
2008-10-07 10:00	AllAfrica.com	Africa: Trade Liberalisation a Downturn to Economy, Says Unions Trade unions in Africa have been urged to unite in protesting the signing of Economic Partnership Agreements that worsen unemployment on the continent....
2008-10-07 10:00	AllAfrica.com	Kenya: Govt to Form Power Company The Government will create two State-owned companies in the Energy ministry to meet market demands in the sector....
2008-10-07 10:00	AllAfrica.com	Africa: Raila Sees U.S. Financial Crisis Affecting Continent Prime Minister Raila Odinga joined world leaders in warning on Monday that the financial crisis on Wall Street will inflict significant damage on African economies, including Kenya's....
2008-10-07 09:00	AllAfrica.com	Namibia: Lecturers Strike Averted, But Threat Lingers The strike by dissatisfied lecturers at teachers training colleges around the country was averted, albeit for a while....
2008-10-07 08:00	AllAfrica.com	Uganda: Country Takes Steps to Turn Bananas Into Cash Crop Farmers, scientists and policy makers from around the world, are meeting in Mombasa to formulate a ten-year strategy expected to unlock the potential of banana as the next commercial crop to alleviate poverty and generate wealth....
2008-10-07 08:00	AllAfrica.com	West Africa: Sameer Looks to Region to Expand Market for Powder Milk Sameer Agriculture and Livestock has extended its exploits in the powder milk market to West Africa as the company seeks to become a leader in an industry dominated by foreign brands....
2008-10-07 07:40	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: All Eyes on the JSE South African markets recuperated somewhat this morning after enduring one of their worst days in years yesterday....
2008-10-07 07:20	AllAfrica.com	Botswana: CIC Energy, International Power Seal Successor Deal CIC Energy Corp last week said that it has signed a successor agreement with International Power plc (IPR), its partner for the Mmamabula Export Energy Project in Botswana....
2008-10-07 06:00	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Passenger Traffic Soars At MMA2 With more airlines operating from the newly constructed multi-billion naira Murtala Muhammed Airport 2 (MMA 2), the terminal is getting congested like what used to be at the old domestic terminal....
2008-10-07 06:00	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: France to Sign MoU With Country On Electricity French minister of state for foreign trade, Mrs AnneMarie Idrac, will tomorrow sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the minister of state for energy, (power),Mrs Fatima Balaraba Ibrahim, on co-operation in the field of electricity....
2008-10-07 06:00	AllAfrica.com	Zambia: Prices' Downward Spiral to Continue ACTING Republican President, Rupiah Banda has assured of continued price reductions in the essential commodities in the country....
2008-10-07 05:40	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Nupeng's Deadline Ends Tomorrow, May Begin Strike The deadline given by members of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) to Chevron Nigeria Plc will expire tomorrow....
2008-10-07 05:40	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Oil Thieves Now Armed Robbers The security outfit, Joint Task Force (JTF), yesterday said those involved in illegal bunkering in the Niger Delta region have now turned to armed robbers, because JTF has paralysed the illicit oil business....
2008-10-07 05:40	AllAfrica.com	Zimbabwe: Unesco Programme to Benefit Teachers Living With HIV/Aids TEACHERS living with HIV and Aids will benefit from a network to be formed under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation this year....
2008-10-07 05:40	AllAfrica.com	Zimbabwe: Rationalised Bank Charges Laudable SOME banks have for some time been subjecting customers to unfair treatment, levying unjustified and to a very large extent, extortionate service charges and fees....
2008-10-07 05:40	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Investments in Telecoms Sector Hit U.S. $11 Billion President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has said from 2001 to 2008, the telecommunications industry in Nigeria has experienced major changes in terms of structure and growth, as investments into the sector has reached the $11 billion mark....
2008-10-07 05:40	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Crude Oil Price in Free Fall Oil prices dropped to a new record yesterday on fears that demand would tumble further as investors confidence on US bail out package for the financial system continue to flounder....
2008-10-07 05:20	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Parliament Fails to Agree on Budget The joint Committee of the National Assembly again failed yesterday to find common ground on the troubled 2008 Appropriation (Amendment) bill and shifted deliberation on the matter to 6 pm today....
2008-10-07 05:20	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: Weapons Firm Seeks Govt Funds The successful conclusion of arms manufacturer Denel's turnaround strategy, and its future long-term sustainability as a going concern, require additional state funding of R1,7bn, former CEO Shaun Liebenberg said in his last report before his departure from the group....
2008-10-07 05:20	AllAfrica.com	Africa: Global Panic Hits Local Currency PANIC erupted in world markets yesterday with stocks and commodities continuing to take a battering as the credit crisis spread across the globe....
2008-10-07 05:00	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Teachers Score Yar'Adua's Administration Low Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President Abdul-wahed Ibrahim Omar yesterday warned that Presi-dent Yar'Adua's administration is bound to fail because of its non-challant attitude to education, even as he described the administration's seven point agenda as an illusion that cannot make the country one of the largest economies in the world come 2020 as envisaged....
2008-10-07 05:00	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Again Senate, Reps Fail to Harmonise 2008 Budget The joint Committee of the National Assembly again failed yesterday to find common ground on the troubled 2008 Appropriation (Amendment) bill and shifted deliberation on the matter to 6 pm today....
2008-10-07 05:00	AllAfrica.com	Nigeria: Private Sector to Bail Out Stock Market Efforts to find a solution to the nation's lingering stock market meltdown continue today as officials of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) meet to work out a plan that will inject private funds to bail out the market....
2008-10-07 04:20	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: We are Not Immune THE thing about banks is they take a very small amount of capital and leverage it up tenfold or more, to a very large amount of lending. They borrow short and lend long....
2008-10-07 04:20	AllAfrica.com	Kenya: Website Blew the Whistle On Arms A France-based website blew the whistle on South Sudan's importation of weapons through Kenya in contravention of a UN embargo in February....
2008-10-07 04:20	AllAfrica.com	Zimbabwe: Misa Submits Recommendations On Proposed ICT Bill MISA-Zimbabwe notes current efforts by the Attorney General's Office to develop an Information Communication Technologies (ICT) Bill through the circulation of a questionnaire which, among other considerations, seeks to identify shortfalls in ICT related legislation in Zimbabwe....
2008-10-07 04:20	AllAfrica.com	East Africa: Secretariat Not Supportive - EA MPs THE East African Legislative Assembly have blamed the slow progress in fast-tracking of the common market on lack of support from the community's secretariat and inadequate coordination between the two bodies....
2008-10-07 04:20	AllAfrica.com	Uganda: Women Urged Development Loans WOMEN entrepreneurs have been asked to use the existing loan schemes to compete with men in running business....
2008-10-07 04:20	AllAfrica.com	Kenya: Vital Pill for the Economy The inauguration of the second economic advisory council by President Kibaki on Monday marked an important chapter in the quest to lift the country from regression....
2008-10-07 04:20	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: Judges 'Should Not Need Extra Remuneration' Chief Justice Pius Langa yesterday said the conditions of service of judicial officers should be such that they do not have to look elsewhere for remuneration or other benefits....
2008-10-07 04:20	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: Country Will Prosper By Curing Its Structural Ills, Says Review THE government believes that it is possible for SA to achieve a faster rate of growth and development, but this would depend on a national consensus around core ideas....
2008-10-07 04:00	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: Platinum Sinking as Global Recession Looms PLATINUM continued to tumble yesterday with the precious metal trading at a three-year low of $928,80/oz as a global recession looked likelier....
2008-10-07 04:00	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: Country May Battle to Sustain Growth SA's financial sector is still well shielded from direct fallout from the global credit crisis, but the economy may battle to maintain robust growth next year as several of its main trade partners slide into recession....
2008-10-07 04:00	AllAfrica.com	Southern Africa: SADC Leaders At UN Call for Increased Agricultural Investment Southern African leaders attending the 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly have called for increased investment in agriculture to ensure food security on the continent....
2008-10-07 04:00	AllAfrica.com	Kenya: 'Evil Tree' Turns Out a Saviour As Fuel Prices Bite When Samson Ochieng' read newspaper reports on the economic potential of biofuel crops, he set out to grow jatropha trees on his one-acre plot to benefit from the increased global demand of the crop....
2008-10-07 04:00	AllAfrica.com	Kenya: Seafarers' Organisation Head Arrested for 'False Statements' On Arms Shipment Destination Reporters Without Borders calls for the release of ex-journalist Andrew Mwangura, head of the Kenyan chapter of the Seafarers assistance programme, who was arrested by Kenyan police on 1 October for "making false statements"....
2008-10-07 04:00	AllAfrica.com	Kenya: Ministry Working On Fuel Price Controls A three-day National Energy Conference starts on Tuesday against the backdrop of runaway petroleum and electricity prices....
2008-10-07 04:00	AllAfrica.com	Kenya: Economic Team to Be Expanded The National Economic and Social Council will be expanded to include more ministers and representatives from the private sector....
2008-10-07 04:00	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: Old Mutual Downplays Risk From Taxi Financing INSURANCE giant Old Mutual yesterday downplayed any suggestion an investigation by the credit regulator into the lending practices of SA Taxi Finance (SATF) represented a risk to its investment in that company....
2008-10-07 04:00	AllAfrica.com	Africa: JSE Launches Africa Indices to Draw Funds AFRICA's largest stock exchange has launched two Africa indices as part of its strategy to tap more investment funds into the continent....
2008-10-07 04:00	AllAfrica.com	South Africa: Denel Seeks R1,7 Billion to Fulfil Turnaround The successful conclusion of arms manufacturer Denel's turnaround strategy, and its future long-term sustainability as a going concern, require additional state funding of R1,7bn, former CEO Shaun Liebenberg said in his last report before his departure from the group....


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