http://www.allafrica.com/ News feeds provided by Newslookup.com en Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:00 EST http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070165.html [Sudan Tribune] Juba - The president of South Sudan Salva Kiir on Monday launched a fierce attack on his Sudanese counterpart Omer Hassan al-Bashir calling him a "thief" and urged him to surrender himself to the International Criminal Court (ICC). http://allafrica.com/stories/201202071288.html [IPS] Yaounde - Ahmadou Lamine has been forced to close his business selling fuel imported from Nigeria, known locally as "zoa-zoa", because of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070843.html [African Arguments] If I were a Somali I would thank Allah for the pirates. For more than 20 years the world has stood by while successive civil wars destroyed the country, killing hundreds of thousands of people by bullets, disease and starvation and reducing what was once a prosperous land to a war zone. But the seizure of more than 200 ships by kids with guns in small craft has changed all that. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202071327.html [New Vision] NEW Members of Parliament have started receiving sh103m each for purchase of vehicles. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070417.html [HRW] Thousands of children in northern Nigeria need immediate medical treatment and dozens of villages remain contaminated two years into the worst lead poisoning epidemic in modern history, Human Rights Watch said today while releasing a video on the issue. Four hundred children have died, according to official estimates, yet environmental cleanup efforts have not even begun in numerous affected villages. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070414.html [PlusNews] Nyatike - Inside a smoky makeshift kiosk, Julie*, 16, can hardly cope with the demand from her clients for a cup of tea and a snack - the men are parched from their work as gold miners in the western Kenyan district of Nyatike. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202062250.html [African Arguments] Across South Sudan demonstrations have been held in support of President Salva Kiir's decision to shutdown its 350,000-barrel daily oil production. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202071332.html [New Vision] President Yoweri Museveni has revealed that he ordered the Minister of Energy to sign the agreement with Tullow Oil last week. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202071325.html [RNW Africa] Yaoundé - A young Cameroonian engineer has built the first fully touch screen medical tablet that could soon save many African lives. He first has to find the necessary funding to mass-produce the device. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202071244.html [Vanguard] Yenagoa - Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, codenamed Operation Pulo Shield, has launched a manhunt for the alleged masterminds of weekend attack on the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC, facility in the mangrove swamp of Brass in Bayelsa East senatorial district. Already, the names of the suspects, it was gathered, are with the security forces. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202071235.html [Vanguard] Abuja - Presidency, yesterday, said there was no reason for Nigerians to embark on panic-buying of petrol as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, had adequate stock to serve the country for 33 days. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202071198.html [AlertNet] Most aid workers know it doesn't make sense to build a house or install a water pump in a spot that's flooded every year, nor to get farmers to switch to crops that will make them more money now but yield less as temperatures rise. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202071120.html [This Day] Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has disclosed that while the Nigerian economy grew at the rate of seven per cent for the past five years, unemployment has actually doubled at same period. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202071105.html [This Day] French oil major, Total has engaged ultra-deepwater drillship, Pacific Scirocco on a one-year drilling contract for Egina Deepwater field, located 150kilometres offshore Nigeria, at the rate of $470,000 per day. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202071062.html [This Day] To identify genuine marketers from those who 'played games' with petrol subsidy, Ejiofor Alike writes that the House of Representatives' Ad-Hoc Committee investigating the management of the fund should adopt the recommendation of the Chief Executive Officer of Oando Plc, Mr. Wale Tinubu, that any player who claimed to have imported petrol into the country should be made to provide the bills of lading; certificates of discharge and letters of credit of the imported cargoes http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070997.html [Nation] The controversy about introduction of an electronic system in the collection of fees in the Maasai Mara game park is getting out of hand. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070959.html [Times of Zambia] THE Government has started withdrawing the K3.1 trillion illegally printed and released into the Zambian economy by the former administration in the run-up to last year's tripartite elections. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070887.html [Daily Trust] "The idea of the absolute power of the markets that should not be constrained by any rule, by any political intervention, was a mad idea" .-French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Toulon, September 2009 http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070837.html [Monitor] Kanungu - Residents of Ishasha near Queen Elizabeth National Park in Kanungu say lions have continuously invaded their homes and eaten their goats and cows. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070673.html [Daily Trust] Accra - The Ghanaian authorities and representatives of Ghana Trade Union Congress (TUC) have agreed to a 20 per cent reduction in the pump price of petroleum products in the country. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070667.html [State Department] Washington - More than 400 global policymakers, development chiefs and technology leaders have gathered in California for a three-day conference to discuss using connection technologies, like the Web and mobile phones, to advance sustainable development in the fields of health, the environment, agriculture and economic growth. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070544.html [SAPA] Cape Town - The ANC will not nationalise mines as it is not viable for South Africa, Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu said on Tuesday. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070495.html [EA Business] Being a landlocked country, Burundi's economy depends a lot on her neighbours for transport for both import and export. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070446.html [iMaverick] The phrases 'Julius Malema' and 'nationalisation' have gone together for so long in our politics that it's quite difficult to think of one without the other. As events have transpired, and Malema's pendulum swings very much the other way, you would think mine nationalisation is on its way out. It does indeed seem like that. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070444.html [iMaverick] As surfers wax their boards and parliamentarians hum and hah about returning to work, Cape Town, queen of African cities, welcomes 7,200 delegates to the Mining Indaba. It's quite a show. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070307.html [East African] The East African Business Council is putting pressure on Kenya to compensate Ugandans and Rwandan traders for the losses incurred during the post election violence between 2007 and 2008. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070216.html [East African] Africa requires at least $12 billion for its HIV/Aids response in the next three years to stem the scourge, although this financial injection is threatened as donors hold back due to mismanagement of funds. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070147.html [The Herald] A ZIMBABWEAN delegation is in Cape Town, South Africa, for this year's mining indaba that started yesterday. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070144.html [The Herald] MARANGE diamonds cannot be classified as conflict gems, newly-elected Kimberley Pro-cess Certification Scheme chairperson Ambassador Gillian Milovanovic has said. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202070131.html [The Herald] ESSAR Global Limited, the Indian firm that acquired stake in New ZimSteel, formerly Zisco, has applied for a power generation licence.