Provides the latest RSS feeds for Central Africa News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Africa Leader.com http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/10/id/af49e445d240beb9/ en-us Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:48:41 -0500 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:48:41 -0500 30 Uganda has signed two oil production agreements with an Anglo-Irish firm, Tullow oil. The agreements allow the company to finalize a long-delayed $2.9 billion asset sale to France's Total and China's http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203211278/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:16:12 -0500 VoA - Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203211278/cs/1/ The United Nations refugee agency says it is alarmed by reports of renewed atrocities committed against internally displaced Congolese. The UNHCR says it has reports of IDPs (internally displaced peop http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203211275/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:16:04 -0500 VoA - Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203211275/cs/1/ Somalia's famine has ended but drought in the Horn of Africa region continues to pose a threat to the area, the UN has said. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203220004/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:00:01 -0500 IANS http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203220004/cs/1/ The United Nations declared an end to famine conditions in Somalia today, but warned that the crisis in the Horn of Africa is not over and requires continued efforts to restore food security and help http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214197/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:15:21 -0500 U.N. - Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214197/cs/1/ JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling ANC on Saturday upheld a decision to ban youth leader Julius Malema for five years for bringing the movement into disrepute, sending into the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203235421/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:24:06 -0500 West Australian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203235421/ A black ribbon on the tie of Sudan's coach Mohamed Abdallah in solidarity with the victims of Port Said stadium in Egypt, as he holds his hand across his breast during a minutes silence at the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203235434/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:20:07 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203235434/ Libreville – History may be knocking on Gabon's door but coach Gernot Rohr was the epitome of calm on the eve of his team's quarter-final with Mali here on ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203235557/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:46:02 -0500 IOL http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203235557/ Bata - Zambia strode into the African Nations Cup semi-finals with a one-sided 3-0 win over Sudan to book a last four place for the first time in 16 years. They now await either Ghana or Tunisia as ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203235417/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:24:42 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203235417/ When will this cricket season please start? It is taking far too long to produce genuine cricket excitement. The HRV Cup had its moments but let's face it; that was domestic cricket. I was so ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203235422/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:30:00 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203235422/ The national government gave no names and provided few specifics. But a visitor doesn't have to spend much time in this province of 5 million people before seeing suspended or abandoned ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233662/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:12:29 -0500 Richmond Times-Dispatch http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233662/ NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's military has struck al Shabaab targets in one of the most devastating attacks against the al Qaeda-linked insurgents since it launched an operation in Somalia to ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233643/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:09:01 -0500 West Australian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233643/ PHOENIX, Arizona, February 4. THE February issue of Swimming World Magazine features an Olympic preview entitled Lane Lines to London, sponsored by Competitor Swim ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233644/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:06:44 -0500 Swimming World http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233644/ NAIROBI, Kenya -; A Red Cross official says 25 people have died in western Kenya after a truck crashed into a minibus. Kenya Red Cross spokesman Fredrick Gori said Saturday that the Friday night ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233571/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:05:06 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233571/ GIYANI, South Africa — The giant pipes lying idle along the road were supposed to deliver water from a dam completed six years ago to villages across the region. Instead, they have become a ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233632/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:46:17 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233632/ Young South African men walk on giant water pipes near the Limpopo province town of Giyani, South Africa, Thursday Feb. 2, 2012. The giant pipes lying idle by the dozens along the road were supposed ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233664/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:25:50 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233664/ The giant pipes lying idle along the road were supposed to deliver water from a dam completed six years ago to villages across the region. Instead, they have become a symbol of government greed ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233655/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:12:51 -0500 ABC News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233655/ Johannesburg - Convictions handed down by the National Disciplinary Committee to ANC Youth League leaders were upheld by an appeals committee on Saturday. However, the embattled leadership was ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233628/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:06:19 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233628/ Kisumu - At least 26 people are dead following a grisly road accident that occurred on Friday night on the busy Kisumu-Kakamega highway at the Mamboleo black spot. The accident involving two Nissan ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233652/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:06:11 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233652/ Bishop of Kotido on Evangelization, Education and DevelopmentROME, JAN. 27, 2012 (Zenit.org).- The bishop of Kotido explains that his diocese is the poorest in the central African country of Uganda. ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233648/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:53:29 -0500 EWTN http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233648/ UK-based Charity Seen as Prism for Global DynamicBy Edward PentinROME, JAN. 26, 2012 (Zenit.org).- Kakuru, age 22, greets you with a beaming smile as you enter his small mud hut in the remote Kagera ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233647/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:53:26 -0500 EWTN http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233647/ Enlarge Young South African men walk on giant water pipes near the Limpopo province town of Giyani, South Africa, Thursday Feb. 2, 2012. The giant pipes lying idle by the dozens along the road ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233636/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:53:09 -0500 Gadsden Times http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203233636/ Young South African men walk on giant water pipes near the Limpopo province town of Giyani, South Africa, Thursday Feb. 2, 2012. The giant pipes lying idle by the dozens along the road were supposed ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231598/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:30:02 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231598/ The hills around Nyeri will reverberate with the roar of turbo-charged machines when the KCB Micro Banking Rally goes to the slopes of Mount Kenya on ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231466/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:25:21 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231466/ But Zambia will prove stern opposition after they topped their group and the Chipolopolo are seeking their first semi-final appearance since ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231696/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:25:06 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231696/ "Cancer of the thyroid is one of the cancers in human beings that are curable when diagnosis and treatment is done early," Dr David Ndirangu, head of the nuclear medicine unit at KNH, ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231565/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:24:59 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231565/ Uganda on Friday signed production agreements with Anglo-Irish firm Tullow Oil, allowing the company to finalise a long-delayed $2.9 billion asset sale to France's Total and China's ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231697/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:24:46 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231697/ GIYANI, South Africa -- The giant pipes lying idle along the road were supposed to deliver water from a dam completed six years ago to villages across the region.Instead, they have become a symbol ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231670/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:23:02 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231670/ Mali in the CAF Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals tomorrow.The co-hosts have defied predictions since battle began a fortnight ago, claiming the scalps of previous winners Morocco and Tunisia, as ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231762/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:16:45 -0500 FIFA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231762/ The national government gave no names and provided few specifics. But a visitor doesn't have to spend much time in this province of 5 million people before seeing suspended or abandoned ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231704/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:50:16 -0500 Associated Press http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231704/ The world has developed a taste for South Africa's rooibos tea in recent years, mainly because of its perceived health benefits. Annual exports have quadrupled since 1999 to 8,000 tonnes, ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231685/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:35:26 -0500 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231685/ It will be a tale of three warhorses on Sunday when Gabon take on Mali in the quarter final of the Africa Cup of Nations. Mali have been helped on their road to the last eight by their special Ks - ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231761/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:28:47 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231761/ Growth is a decision THE experiences of the last 36 months since the formation of the Government of National Unity have proved that growth is a decision that any nation takes on its own accord. ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231267/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:28:42 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231267/ The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun distributing rations in Mozambique, where an estimated 70,000 people are in urgent need of assistance after the country was pounded by two ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231372/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:28:41 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231372/ NATIONAL Social Security Authority (NSSA) has acquired a controlling stake in ReNaissance Merchant Bank (RMB), businessdigest has established. Sources close to the deal said on Wednesday NSSA had ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231705/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:28:39 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231705/ Old Mutual Property is redeveloping and refurbishing several malls in previously disadvantaged areas as part of its contribution to sustainable community development and township upliftment in South ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231450/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:28:34 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203231450/ An A330-200 - with a weekly capacity of up to 160 tonnes - will operate every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday from Lusaka and Harare to Dubai, providing businesses in Zimbabwe and ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203228055/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:01:57 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203228055/ The stampede by wealthy states for arable land across Africa and other developing regions could trigger a series of conflicts if governments fail to protect the rights of their people, two recent ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203228644/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:34:05 -0500 UPI http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203228644/ Luena - The Angolan singer, Araújo Domingos "Ray-C", announced on Friday in Luena city, eastern Moxico province, his second "Single". This was said to Angop by the singer ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203228719/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:56:53 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203228719/ Luanda - The Angolan Association of Reggae Music Friends (NARA) will organise, in Luanda, an international show to honour the 67th anniversary of the King of Reggae Music, Bob Marley, to be marked ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203228720/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:56:51 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203228720/ Kigali - A court in Kigali on Thursday postponed to April 2 the preliminary hearing in the trial of Leon Mugesera, a high-profile Rwandan citizen extradited by Canada on January 24 after a ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203228721/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:56:50 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203228721/ ST. LOUIS and DES MOINES, Iowa - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and DuPont announced a $4 million grant from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation to bring healthier sorghum to underserved ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203228635/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:29:39 -0500 Check Biotech http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203228635/ Gabon tuned up for Sunday's Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final with a training session at the country's national Omnisport stadium here on ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203222890/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:37:33 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203222890/ UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, in an unusually outspoken declaration on Sunday, told African leaders they must respect gay rights, an issue that is controversial in many African states. ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203222782/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:37:32 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203222782/ Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- A study into mine nationalization ordered by South Africa’s ruling African National Congress proposes a 50 percent resource-rent tax rather than taking over operations, a ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203221607/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:12:45 -0500 Business Week http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203221607/ Sudan's military bombed a Bible school built by an American Christian group in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan State. Two stone school buildings were demolished in the attack on the school, ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203221686/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:39:18 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203221686/ Download Some sports fans in Africa may be keeping an eye on Mathias Kiwanuka and the Super Bowl this weekend. But most will be following another sporting competition: The Africa Cup of Nations. ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214628/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:44:34 -0500 The World http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214628/ NAIROBI, Kenya -; The spokesman for Kenya's military says an estimated 100 Somali militants were killed after helicopter gunships targeted a gathering of more than 200 al-Shabab fighters in ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214419/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:38:59 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214419/ A fan cheers for Guinea during the African Cup of Nations match against Ghana at Franceville Stadium. The modern stadium in Libreville is never filled except the games of Gabon and the organizers ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214788/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:20:01 -0500 Turkish Daily News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214788/ HARARE -- Zimbabwe's media commission on Thursday said it will ask authorities to ban foreign newspapers that are not registered to operate in the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214603/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:02:57 -0500 The China Post http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214603/ Zambia, Ivory Coast, Gabon and Ghana appear the likely winners of the 2012 Cup of Nations quarter-finals across central Africa this weekend. The football feast begins Saturday with two fixtures in ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214787/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:25:45 -0500 Yahoo http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214787/ At least 37 people have been killed in South Sudan during a shoot-out at a peace meeting aimed at ending recent violence, officials said. Officials from three states and the UN had met for talks in ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214580/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:50:19 -0500 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214580/ Ghana midfielder Anthony Annan will not return home from the Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea despite the death of his mother. Annan lost his mother on Thursday but has opted ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214579/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:50:15 -0500 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214579/ Newcastle could give a debut to 10m striker Papiss Cisse alongside leading scorer Demba Ba in Sunday's match after both players returned from Africa Cup of Nations duty with Senegal. ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214577/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:50:09 -0500 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214577/ Harare - PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have stalled the crafting of a referendum law due to haggling on whether or not the diaspora vote should be included in the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214570/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:42:04 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214570/ John-Michael Maas/GlaxoSmithKline ) Washington, DC - Despite assumptions that mainly young children die from the disease, 42% of 1.2 million deaths occur in older children and adults. ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214574/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:41:53 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214574/ Johannesburg - The belief that the end is nigh for Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) - a small but ruthless transnational armed group operating in four African states - ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214575/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:41:51 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214575/ The United Nations is backing a mass vaccination campaign under way in northern Cameroon, where a new outbreak of yellow fever has killed at least seven people. The vaccination campaign, which ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214782/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:41:44 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214782/ The company contracted to market Angola overseas is owned by the president's children. While two-thirds of the population survives on less than $2 a day, the president and his proteges plunder ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214783/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:41:41 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214783/ UNHCR is alarmed by recent reports that internally displaced people have been tortured and killed by armed elements in the IDP camps of North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214784/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:41:39 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214784/ In November 2011, Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report that examined labour abuses in the Chinese state-owned copper mines in Zambia. Our report was based on 143 interviews with miners in ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214611/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:41:37 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214611/ Sydney Mahlangu/Backpagepix ) Libreville - Africa Cup of Nations co-hosts Equatorial Guinea will have their hands full on Saturday night (10pm Kenyan time) when they take on tournament favourites ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214785/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:41:36 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214785/ Lubango - Kabuscorp do Palanca and Banca de Luanda will on Saturday play in Lubango city, southern Huíla province, the final of the national juvenile males handball championship. To achieve ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214786/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:41:34 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214786/ RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor, Gideon Gono, has warned that the country's economic recovery may slow down on the back of knock-on effects from the Eurozone debt crisis and the continuing ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214612/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:41:34 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214612/ Quebec Auxiliary Moved to Mont-LaurierROME, FEB. 2, 2012 (Zenit.org).- The Vatican today announced several bishops' appointments.Bishop Paul Lortie, auxiliary of Quebec, Canada, was named ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214604/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:23:23 -0500 EWTN http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214604/ Aid groups say that improved harvests and food donations have ended risk of starvation, but warn that ongoing war in Somalia could still reverse gains ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214588/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:22:12 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203214588/ Wentworth Resources announced Friday that the onshore Ziwani-1 exploration well (Wentworth 52.225 percent) spud at 18:30 local time on Feb. 1, 2012. This is the first new well to be drilled in the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203205857/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:39:42 -0500 Rigzone http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203205857/ MANILA, Philippines - After acquiring 70-percent stake in geothermal projects for Chile and Peru, Lopez-controlled firm Energy Development Corporation (EDC) has indicated plans of expanding further ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206662/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:30:51 -0500 Manila Bulletin http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206662/ Cricket News: Dunedin, Though Zimbabwean bowlers performed well to restrict New Zealand, their batsmen could not match the effort as New Zealand defeated Zimbabwe by 90 runs in the first one-day ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206612/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:29:07 -0500 KeralaNext http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206612/ Hundreds of houses have been burnt in the inter-ethnic conflict ISIOLO, 3 February 2012 (IRIN) - Politically motivated violence in the northern Kenyan town of Moyale, which has left dozens dead and ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206622/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:26:27 -0500 IRIN http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206622/ CAPE TOWN, South Africa , Feb 3, 2012 (IPS) - When a financial crisis threatened the existence of ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206614/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:25:49 -0500 IPS http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206614/ Libreville – Free tickets are being offered in an attempt to fill up Gabon's stadiums at the African Nations Cup but even that measure is failing to bring in ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206816/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:37:18 -0500 IOL http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206816/ Protesters have clashed with security forces in Egypt's capital Cairo for a second day, amid anger over the deaths of 74 football fans on Wednesday. Police fired tear gas at stone-throwing ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206594/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:09:21 -0500 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206594/ Gunmen in Egypt's Sinai peninsula have kidnapped two American women tourists, Egyptian security sources say. They were travelling in a small bus with three other tourists from St ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206595/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:09:16 -0500 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206595/ The BBC's Mark Lowen finds the threat of a return to civil war hanging over Libya, with the government struggling to control armed ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206596/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:09:13 -0500 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206596/ Ghana have dispelled doubts over their chances of winning a fifth Africa Cup of Nations title following their lacklustre display against Guinea. The Black Stars topped Group D on Wedneday, but ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206597/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:09:10 -0500 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206597/ Africa Cup of Nations organisers in Gabon have pledged to offer free quarter-final tickets to fans, in an effort to address low attendances. Many games have been played in front of whole ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206599/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:09:03 -0500 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206599/ Uganda's government has signed production agreements with the London-based company Tullow oil. The deals pave the way for a $10bn (6bn) investment in a refinery and crude oil export pipeline. ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203205053/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:08:33 -0500 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203205053/ Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has tipped co-hosts Gabon to shock the continent and win their first title at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has tipped co-hosts Gabon to ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206815/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:03:17 -0500 soccerway http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206815/ Harare - With global funding for on the decline, Zimbabwe's innovative AIDS levy - a 3 percent tax on income - has become a promising source of funding for the country, with a dramatic increase ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206586/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:26 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206586/ Johannesburg - An application on whether it was constitutional for the government not to grant a visa to the Dalai Lama last year, was dismissed in the Western Cape High Court on Friday. Judge ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206588/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:23 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206588/ Cape Town - Human rights activists have welcomed the sentencing of four men who were found guilty of stabbing and stoning a 19-year-old lesbian to death in 2006. Khayelitsha Regional Court ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206589/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:21 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206589/ Windhoek - Prime Minister Nahas Angula says the Namibian government will at its own time and pace pronounce itself on the issue of reparations that the affected communities of Namas and Ovaherero, ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206591/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:16 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206591/ Sydney Mahlangu/Backpagepix ) Zambia are seeking to banish the ghosts of the last 16 years by reaching the African Nations Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1996. But opponents Sudan can ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206592/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:12 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206592/ Sydney Mahlangu/Backpagepix ) A one-sided quarter-final is in the offing when the all-powerful Cote d'Ivoire go up against co-hosts Equatorial Guinea in the African Nations Cup ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206593/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:10 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206593/ Twelve years ago, Equatorial Guinea made world sports headlines in the Sydney Olympics when Eric Moussambani posted the slowest record for swimming the 100m freestyle at an Olympic competition. Eric ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206800/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:07 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206800/ Sydney Mahlangu/Backpagepix ) Co-hosts Gabon take on Mali in their 2012 Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final at the Stade d'Angondje in Libreville on Sunday. And the battle might be as much ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206799/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:06 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206799/ Mobile morning calls and heavy traffic at 6.45am leave your correspondent feeling afflicted. My mind ran on an old classmate this morning. When I was at secondary school in south London , Eddie ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206801/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:04 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206801/ Luanda - Petro de Luanda are facing Juventude de Viana this Friday in the final of the national senior males roller skate championship. The final, which will be a three-game play-off, will take ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206803/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:59:59 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206803/ Luanda - Interclube won on Thursday for the third time the Super Cup title in ladies basketball, by defeating Desportivo do Maculusso by 74-34, ANGOP witnessed. Interclube's Astrida Vicente ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206802/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:59:57 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206802/ Luena - A person died on Wednesday in Kamanongue Municipality, eastern Moxico Province, victim of an electric discharge, caused by a heavy rain, ANGOP has learnt. A press note from the police, says ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206806/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:59:54 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206806/ Lubango - Iron and gold exploration in Cassinga areas, as well as in Jamba Municipality, southern Huila Province, might help boost the social and economic development of the region, says the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206807/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:59:50 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206807/ Luanda - The Ministry of Commerce has extended the deadline for the validity of business licences to March 31, ANGOP has learnt. A press note delivered to ANGOP says that the move is due to the ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206809/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:59:48 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206809/ Lubango - The governor of Huíla Province, Isaac dos Anjos, nominated this Friday, through a despatch, a working commission that will elaborate a proposal for the economic and social ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206810/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:59:44 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206810/ Ondjiva - The Angolan National Insurance Company (ENSA) in the southern Cunene province will inaugurate on Friday a counter in the bordering area of Santa Clara, Angop learnt. According to a press ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206811/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:59:42 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206811/ Johannesburg - Impala Platinum has fired 13,000 miners who went on an illegal strike at its Rustenburg operation, the company said on Thursday. "Approximately 13,000 mining employees who ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206626/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:59:41 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206626/ Cabinda - The Migration and Foreigner Services (SME) in the northern Cabinda province expelled out on 23-30 January at least 180 foreign citizens for illegally staying in this city. According to a ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206812/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:59:39 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206812/ Over the years, the South African government has released a plethora of strategies and initiatives in its post-apartheid policy reforms. Many of these recommendations and programmes have evidenced ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206627/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:59:38 -0500 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/af49e445d240beb9/id/203206627/