| Indian IT companies eye Latin American, African markets for business expansion While the companies across the world are taking their time to overcome the impact of recession, Indian Information technology companies are exploring new and non-commercial markets in Latin America, Africa and Middle Eastern countries to expand their... | |
| 'Combat Barbie' gives Miss England swimsuit round marching orders Soldier Katrina Hodge, who represented England at the Miss World event in South Africa in 2009, has given marching orders to the swimsuit round of the beauty... |
| President Gul Leaves Turkey For Congo Turkish President Abdullah Gul departed from Istanbul on Sunday in a Turkish Airlines (THY) passenger jet at 10:40 hours and is on his way to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. President Gul is... |
| Maliki Has Shaky Lead In Iraq Vote Count Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's alliance is ahead in Baghdad and four southern provinces, with a small portion of the vote counted. Official results of the parliamentary elections may take a... |
| Mubarak Recovering Steadily, Doctor Says Cairo - Egypt's president, who had surgery a week ago, is returning steadily to health, the head of the medical team treating him in Germany said in a media statement on Saturday. Hosni Mubarak,... |
| Un Aid Agencies On Alert For Potential Floods In Southern Africa The United Nations is gathering supplies for some 130,000 people in southern Africa on alert for potential evacuation from flood-risk zones following weeks of torrential rains in northern Mozambique... |
| Security Council Extends Un Force For Two Months, As Talks With Chad Continuecontinue The UN Security Council on Friday extended the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic and Chad until May 15, with the discussions still going on about the future of... |
| Seven Chinese Fishermen Kidnapped Off Cameroon A Chinese fishing vessel with seven fishermen aboard was hijacked off the coast of Cameroon in the latest attack in the waters of West Africa's Gulf of Guinea, the Chinese embassy in Cameroon... |
| South Africa's 2009 Gold Output Falls 5.8% (MENAFN) A report issued by Johannesburg-based Chamber of Mines showed that gold production in South Africa fell 5.8 percent in 2009 from a year earlier, making the nation the world's fourth-biggest... |
| Uganda: Campaign Against Death Penalty For Gays Hundreds of anti-AIDS campaigners on March 1 urged Ugandan lawmakers to reject a proposed anti-gay law calling for tough penalties against homosexuality, including the death penalty, AFP said that... |
| World Briefing | Africa: Kenya: Financing Climate-change Fight Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fight with the Supreme Court makes clear just how much President Obama stands to lose in any such protracted... |
| S. Africa's World Cup Stadium Shines Amid Inequality Come June, soccer's World Cup will be hosted by South Africa. Though only four of the 64 games are to be played here in Nelspruit, a $137 million stadium was built for the... |
| French Navy Hands Over Suspected Pirates To Somalia BOSSASO: French navy officers handed over 22 suspected Somali pirates to semi-autonomous Puntland's authorities and they will be arraigned in local courts, officials said... |
| African-americans Have Highest Stroke Rate, Southerners More Likely To Die, Study Finds African-Americans age 65 and younger are more than twice as likely to have a stroke compared with Caucasians in any region, and people who have a stroke are more likely to die in the South... |
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| Coup Plot Foiled: Central African Govt The Central African Republic's government says it had foiled a plan to launch a coup d'etat next week, with intelligence implicating former president Ange Felix Patasse who strongly denied... |
| South African Charl Schwartzel, Ernie Els Share Ca Championship Lead | Golf Ernie Els drives from the tee on the 18th hole during the third round of the World Golf Championship-CA Championship at Doral Resort in Miami, Florida, on Saturday, March 13, 2010. Els is tied with... |
| Chinese Fishing Boat, 7 Crew Hijacked Off Cameroon YAOUNDE (Reuters) - A Chinese fishing vessel with seven fishermen aboard was hijacked off the coast of Cameroon in the latest attack in the waters of West Africa's Gulf of Guinea, the Chinese embassy... |
| Ushahidi - Africa’s Gift To Silicon Valley: How To Track A Crisis Snowmageddoncleanup.com In Washington, D.C., Ushahidi partnered with the Washington Post to warn of snow-covered roads. Imagine if any Pakistani could send an anonymous text message to the... |
| Zuma To Act As Mediator In Zimbabwe Submit your comment President Jacob Zuma is off to Zimbabwe this coming week to mediate between the three major political parties that form the unity government as South African ministers sent out... |
| Chad Collins Leads Delay-plagued Puerto Rico Open (FSY) chipped in for eagle on the par-5 second hole Saturday to top the Puerto Rico Open leaderboard at 9 under before second-round play was suspended because of darkness in the... |
| Central African Government Says Coup Plot Foiled LIBREVILLE (AFP) - The Central African Republic's government said Saturday it had foiled a plan to launch a coup d'etat on March 15, according to a recorded radio statement obtained by... |
| Telkom South Africa Level Three Championships: Day Two EAST LONDON, South Africa, March 13. AFTER setting an A-Qualification time in the 400m Freestyle for the Olympic Youth Games on Friday night at the Telkom Level 3 National Swimming Championships in... |
| Will South Africa's Bark Prove Worse Than Their Bite At The World Cup South Africa is getting into the World Cup spirit but the team may need more than some pieces of bark if they are to do well. Photograph: Jon... |
| Selling Off Africa's Resources Isn't 'development'. It's Greed | The Big Issue How food and water drive a new foreign land grab in Africa ", News). The result will be recently disenfranchised farmers working for wages. Oil supplies are being depleted and soon the major land... |
| 'you People Cannot Walk, You Only Move In Cars' With the help of three guides, two donkeys and a cart, Jason Florio and his partner took a walk around The Gambia. That's 1,000km – give or take a few hundred... |
| Supermodel Waris Dirie Going Home To Save Africa’s Girls END: Module - Module - M24 Article Headline with portrait image (b) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> SHE was 13 when she fled her home in the Somali desert and an arranged marriage... |
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| Orascom Keen To Continue Operations In Algeria Dubai: Algeria's Prime Minister Ahmad Ouyahia said Cairo-based Orascom Telecom, which owns a majority stake in Algeria's Djezzy, has said it wants to continue operating in the North African country,... |
| Algeria To Host Conference On Terror Algiers - Algeria is to host foreign ministers from the Sahara and Sahel on Tuesday for talks on fighting "a resurgence" in acts of terror, the Algerian Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Ministers... |
| Nigeria: Nigeria Moves To Check Illegal Trafficking Of Artifacts Awka — An artifact is any object made or modified by a human. It is part of the evolution of man in all its ramifications. It tells the greatness of a civilization and its age. Hence, artifacts... |
| Congo-kinshasa: Drc Army Accuses Advocacy Groups Of 'cooking Up Reports' Kigali — The Congolese army (FARDC) has accused advocacy groups of intentionally being fed with false and dangerous information by FDLR rebel elements, to 'cook up treacherous reports' and... |
| Nigeria: Plane Overshoots Runway Port Harcourt — Forty seven passengers and five crew members narrowly escaped death yesterday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, when a Nigerian Air Force plane veered out of control after landing... |
| Uganda: Pregnancies Fuelling School Dropout Kampala — When Universal Secondary Education was introduced in 2007 to supplement Universal Primary Education, the expectation of most Ugandans was that more students would stay in school and... |
| Namibia: Namibia Aims To Go Nuclear In 20 Years GOVERNMENT has decided to build a nuclear power plant in Namibia within the next 15 to 20 years, Mines and Energy Minister Erkki Nghimtina has confirmed. Nghimtina on Tuesday told Engineering News... |
| Nigeria Plane Crashes During Mock Rescue Exercise PORT HARCOURT: A Nigerian plane carrying more than 30 disaster response officials crashed on Friday in the oil hub of Port Harcourt in what was supposed to be a mock rescue exercise, but there were... |
| 14 Killed, 27,000 Homeless In Madagascar Storm Antananarivo, March 14 : A storm in Madagascar left 14 people dead, 27,000 homeless and thousands of houses damaged after ravaging the tropical island, national television reported... |
| Buy Kenyan And Build Kenya However, I realised that his criticism of Kenyan manufacturers was skewed as it portrayed them as solely to blame. He did not in any way show the strengths of our... |
| Ethiopia Slams Us Human Rights Report Addis Ababa - Ethiopia on Saturday slammed the United States for a report that criticised its human rights record, claiming that it demonstrated "serious intellectual deficiencies". The US State... |
