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Renewable energy, Africa’s huge potential Ahead of the June 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development — also known as “Rio+20” — Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International...

Africa: The slum is a failure of the state – Joan Clos Africa’s cities are growing very rapidly. By 2050, 1.2 billion people, or 60 per cent of all Africans, will live in urban areas. For the United Nation...

Ethiopia: Confusion over new communication legislation Ethiopia has passed new legislation that will make the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) like Skype and Google Talk illegal and punishable by...

Today’s Qatar forged by gas exports Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa al Thani has become the unlikely apostle of Arab democracy from the Maghreb to Syria, but Qatar’s emergence would not have ha...

Qatar’s big bucks and soft power drive a dizzying ascension The emirate, home to media network Al Jazeera, is a source of finance and political connections across the Middle East and North Africa.

Testing time for Zimbabwe’s indigenisation plan Zimplats is one of the first major foreign companies to face the new indigenisation law that will lead it to divest 51% of its operations in the count...

South Sudan documents foreigners South Sudan has come up with drastic measures to document foreigners and illegal immigrants, as the country fears it is being flooded by aliens.

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Premium badgeUganda – Kenya: Museveni gets tough on ngiTurkana rustlers Always positioning himself as a pan-Africanist, Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has been reluctant to take a tough stance against neighbouring countr...
© Zimbabwe Vice President and Health Minister General Constantino Chiwenga, who recently passed a controversial procurement bill in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s absence. (REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo)

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Premium badgeZimbabwe: President Mnangagwa bows to pressure, rescinds controversial procurement law Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has distanced himself from a new law meant to conceal how taxpayers’ money is used to procure assets and equip...
© Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa speaks during a handover ceremony where he received medical emergency and police helicopters from Sergey Chemezov the Director General of the Russian State Corporation “Rostec” at the Robert Mugabe International Airport in Harare on May 18, 2023. (Photo by Jekesai NJIKIZANA / AFP)

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Premium badgeZimbabwe: President Mnangagwa blames business for currency chaos President Mnangagwa has blamed the recent local currency devaluation on businesses taking advantage of cheap foreign currency and sabotaging the gover...

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© File photo of a Turkana warrior with cattle approaching a settlement in Ilemi Triangle, Kenya (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)

CENTURY-OLD PROBLEM

Premium badgeUganda – Kenya: Museveni gets tough on ngiTurkana rustlers Always positioning himself as a pan-Africanist, Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has been reluctant to take a tough stance against neighbouring countr...
© Zimbabwe Vice President and Health Minister General Constantino Chiwenga, who recently passed a controversial procurement bill in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s absence. (REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo)

party struggle

Premium badgeZimbabwe: President Mnangagwa bows to pressure, rescinds controversial procurement law Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has distanced himself from a new law meant to conceal how taxpayers’ money is used to procure assets and equip...
© Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa speaks during a handover ceremony where he received medical emergency and police helicopters from Sergey Chemezov the Director General of the Russian State Corporation “Rostec” at the Robert Mugabe International Airport in Harare on May 18, 2023. (Photo by Jekesai NJIKIZANA / AFP)

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Premium badgeZimbabwe: President Mnangagwa blames business for currency chaos President Mnangagwa has blamed the recent local currency devaluation on businesses taking advantage of cheap foreign currency and sabotaging the gover...

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Côte d’Ivoire: Ex President Gbagbo’s war by proxy A bid by militant supporters of former Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo to stage a coup against President Alassane Ouattara has been thwarted.

Zimbabwe: Minister Kasukuwere denies nationalistion of mines As negotiations rumbled on in Zimbabwe about the indigenisation of Zimplats platinum mine, minister of youth development, inigenisation and empowermen...

Ghana’s Inflation up at 9.3 per cent in May Ghana’s annual inflation rate for May 2012 rose marginally to 9.3 per cent from 9.1 per cent in April, the government announced Wednesday.

Hate Radio: Race matters in multimedia Hate Radio, a play by the German-based International Institute of Political Murder, returns to the studios of Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Colline...

Telecoms: Econet Zimbabwe’s CEO on why its revenues are bucking the trend Douglas Mboweni, chief executive of Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, on the mobile phone company’s rising profits and the early success of its new EcoCash mo...

Ethiopia gets $400m laon from World Bank Ethiopia and the World Bank signed late on Tuesday three loan agreements worth $400 million to finance various existing projects.

Kony’s jungle cover and overwhelmed US commandos US and African Union forces are on a new offensive to neutralise the Lord’s Resistance Army, but they are unsure of when and how it can be stopped.

South African: Poisoned chalice for new police chief as Zuma sacks Cele After weeks of silence and rumours about the imminent dismissal of the country’s top cop, President Jacob Zuma has fired suspended police chief, Bheki...

Air Iberia begins direct flight to Ghana in July Iberia Group, one of the largest airlines in the world, is to begin direct flights to Ghana from July.

Zimbabwe bank closes amid liquidation crises A Zimbabwean bank on Monday voluntarily gave up its licence, while another was placed under curatorship of the central bank, as the banking sector con...

Uganda: Crocodile attacks on the rise The number of Ugandans being attacked by crocodiles on lake shores has been on the increase, as people move closer to rivers in search of livelihoods.

African Angles: We need to be united to help Syria The international community would be able to speak with one voice if Russia played a more constructive role and negotiated an end to the violence.

Chinese community in Zimbabwe worried as polls approach The spectre of polls in Zimbabwe has sent jitters across the Chinese community in that country, as elections in the southern African nation are often ...