Provides the latest RSS feeds for 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/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/ en-us Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:32:43 -0400 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:32:43 -0400 30 A shoot-out between Somali pirates has occurred on a seized Ukranian ship. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/412967/cs/1/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:18:59 -0400 Africa Leader.com http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/412967/cs/1/ In the small rural village of Eshisiru in Western Kenya, hundreds of women in colourful dresses, many of them surrounded by a gaggle of children, queue patiently in the midday sun. These women are not waiting to draw water from a borehole or to buy food. Instead, they are waiting to be tested for HIV - something that campaigners say is virtually unheard of in Africa. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/412751/cs/1/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:03 -0400 Africa Leader.com http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/412751/cs/1/ London, Sep 30 : Just few days after being caught with drugs, popstar George Michael has hit the African safari with lover Kenny Goss. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/413015/cs/1/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:01:04 -0400 Africa Leader.com http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/413015/cs/1/ London, Sept.30 : Out of favour England fast bowler Darren Pattinson has revealed that he had disagreed with the England selectors' decision to play him in the second Test against South Africa at Headingley, and given the acrimony that followed his July call-up, the Victorian-born pace man said he would be content to never again play for England. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/412865/cs/1/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:02:40 -0400 Africa Leader.com http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/412865/cs/1/ Flag of Zimbabwe (Ross Land, Getty Images) HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe's opposition says its leader met with President Robert Mugabe but failed to agree on sharing Cabinet posts to finalize a p... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229492/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:08:25 -0400 Fox 23 http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229492/ Mbabane - Swaziland's new anti-corruption commission on Tuesday pledged to crack down on graft in the impoverished southern African kingdom as it was sworn in after months of delays. The commission... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229504/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:46:43 -0400 IOL http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229504/ AIRN ), a leading provider of WiMAX-based broadband wireless access networks, announced today that it has been selected by One Communications (OneCom), a newly-acquired subsidiary of Safaricom, as ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229489/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:13:36 -0400 Market Wire http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229489/ Officials in Kenya and South Sudan are denying reports that a shipment of tanks and other military equipment was headed for Sudan when it was seized by Somali pirates last week. The reports have promp... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229480/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:22:55 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229480/ A family of elephants and some zebras graze in the Masai Mara game reserve while a balloon with tourists takes flight in the background in Kenya earlier this summer. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229022/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:13:17 -0400 MSNBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229022/ September 30, 2008 · More than two dozen albino residents have been murdered in Tanzania since the beginning of the year. NPR's Tony Cox talks with Vicky Ntetema, bureau chief for the BBC in Ta... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229485/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:15:01 -0400 NPR http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229485/ MDC deny that Zimbabwe cabinet deal is imminent September 30, 2008, 13:15 Zimbabwe's opposition today denied a suggestion by President Robert Mugabe that a unity government deal was imminent, saying t... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229484/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:17:18 -0400 SABC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229484/ Call it a love of ethnicity and urge for authenticity, or a way of expressing the power of green. For all those elements are penetrating the shows of this summer 2009 season. Africa - its nobility, b... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229048/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:50:13 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229048/ A real agenda for action between now and 2015 has been drawn. We also want to do more when it comes to the global partnership for agriculture and food. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18228232/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:13:53 -0400 Daily Nation http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18228232/ 0 posts A debate over the traditional practice of virginity testing is occurring between the South African Zulu tribe and the government, which banned the practice for girls younger than age 16 last y... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229289/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:12:37 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229289/ + ] JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The rand regained some of its poise on Tuesday after falling to nearly six-year lows against the dollar overnight when U.S. lawmakers voted against a $700 billion bailou... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229521/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:02:19 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229521/ + ] (Adds analysts) NAIROBI, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Kenya's economy recovered from a 1.0 percent first quarter contraction, caused by the post-election crisis, to register 3.2 percent year-on-year gr... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229522/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:02:18 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229522/ + ] By Gordon Bell JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's credit and money supply growth eased in August, while the monthly trade deficit shrank, giving the central bank more reasons to leave inte... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229524/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:02:13 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229524/ Zimbabwe's opposition cannot agree Cabinet post deal with Robert Mugabe Spokesman: Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai appealing for help Opposition claims Mugabe trying to hang on to all major posts http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229520/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:02:26 -0400 CNN Asia http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229520/ United States officials have made it clear that Washington won’t fund economic recovery in Zimbabwe unless there’s genuine political power sharing. A recent agreement between President Robert Ro... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229482/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:22:40 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229482/ ANTANANARIVO, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- The 59th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China was celebrated here Tuesday at the Chinese Embassy with the presence of Madagascan Senate Pres... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229518/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:04:32 -0400 SINA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229518/ September 30, 2008 · On today's "Africa Update," we recap the ongoings at the Clinton Global Initiative. Plus, South Africa swears in a new president, and Nigerians make a bid to buy the Britis... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229486/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:15:01 -0400 NPR http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229486/ Though Dr Mwangi revealed that his bank will start off with six branches, Equity is keen on saving costs through its Eazzy 24/7 solution compared to investing in brick and mortar. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229487/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:14:10 -0400 Daily Nation http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229487/ The UN Security Council has decided to extend the peacekeeping mission in Liberia for at least one more year while reducing the number of troops and increasing the number of police. The 15-member cou... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229361/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:56:01 -0400 CBC News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229361/ -(Dow Jones)- South African trade union Solidarity Tuesday called on the country's newly elected president to urgently release the findings of a mine safety audit. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18228442/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:06:56 -0400 Morning Star http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18228442/ + ] By Phakamisa Ndzamela JOHANNESBURG, Sept 30 (Reuters) - African countries can save more lives with free health care and rapid diagnostic tests to fight malaria, one of the world's deadliest di... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229526/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:02:09 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229526/ + ] (Updates with pirates' quotes) By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Somali pirates holding a Ukrainian ship carrying 33 tanks reiterated their demands for a $20 million ransom on Tu... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229527/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:02:08 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229527/ -(Dow Jones)- The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries may hold an early meeting if oil prices suffer a sustained fall but this option will only be assessed when the final outcome of a ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229516/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:06:55 -0400 Morning Star http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229516/ Kenya Football Federation secretary Sam Obingo said the match had reverted to the original date that was decided by the Guinean football administration after Fifa scrapped plans to have all matches in... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229488/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:14:07 -0400 Daily Nation http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229488/ + ] By Andrew Cawthorne NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Ukrainian ship captured by Somali pirates en route to Somalia is carrying at least 30 tanks, a regional maritime organisation said on Friday. Ukrainia... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229530/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:02:04 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229530/ September 30, 2008 — IDG News Service — African communications regulators are moving to combat poor services by mobile service providers by imposing heavy fines. The regulators are dev... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18228435/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:44:29 -0400 CIO http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18228435/ By Paul-Marin Ngoupana BANGUI, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Central African Republic's parliament has passed an amnesty law seen as crucial to efforts to end northern rebellions, but opposition deputies boycot... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229529/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:02:05 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229529/ September 30, 2008 George Michael is on safari in Africa. The Fast Love singer - who was arrested in a UK public toilet earlier this month and cautioned for possessing crack cocaine and marijuana -... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229133/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:47:05 -0400 Tonight http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229133/ September 30, 2008 · Shoppers in Zimbabwe are now paying for goods using $10,000 and $20,000 notes. Prices are rising so fast that people are using up all their paper money, and the country's r... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18228598/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:14:59 -0400 NPR http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18228598/ + ] (Adds Afghan envoy, paragraphs 10-11) By Mark Heinrich VIENNA, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Syria said on Tuesday it would pursue its bid for a seat on the U.N. nuclear watchdog's governing body desp... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229528/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:02:07 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229528/ Mercy Akide-Udoh has targeted the African Championship in November to make her international comeback. The United States-based Nigerian striker has not been seen in a Super Falcons jersey since the... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229497/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:53:47 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229497/ HARARE, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai have failed to break a deadlock on forming a unity government despite direct talks, the oppositio... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229519/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:02:21 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229519/ + ] RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's economy grew 6.5 percent year-on-year in the second quarter, down from 7 percent a quarter earlier, but almost treble the rate a year ago as farms recovered from drou... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229523/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:02:16 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229523/ In this Monday, Nov. 5, 2007 file photo Senegalese port workers prepare for the arrival of the USS Fort McHenry at the port in Dakar, Senegal. A new command takes over all U.S. military operations in ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229494/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:58:34 -0400 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229494/ VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 30, 2008) - Africa Oil Corp. ("Africa Oil" or "the Company") (TSX VENTURE:AOI)reports that an insider of the Company has agreed to provide a loan to Af... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18228234/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:13:40 -0400 Market Wire http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18228234/ + ] By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) - Williams made a loss of 21.4 million pounds in 2007 compared to a deficit of 27.7 million pounds the previous year, according to accounts filed by the Formula... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229525/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:02:12 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229525/ Population Services International , has distributed almost 60 million condoms in the country during the past two years in an attempt to scale up the fight against HIV/AIDS, http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229293/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:12:28 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229293/ Washington — The director of the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) warns that the burgeoning global food crisis is “a silent tsunami striking the most vulnerable” wherever they are located. Joset... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229493/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:01:57 -0400 America.org http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229493/ JOHANNESBURG, 30 September 2008 (IRIN) - Temporary shelters set up for foreigners displaced by xenophobic violence earlier in 2008 have to close, said a South African provincial government spokesman. ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229491/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:10:45 -0400 IRIN http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229491/ "They are expected to meet... soon and finalize the issue of government," Nelson Chamisa, spokesman for Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change told AFP. "It can happen anytime. It could happen ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229515/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:06:57 -0400 Morning Star http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229515/ + ] By Stephen Brown ROME (Reuters) - The 19 Europeans and Egyptians kidnapped in the Sahara were not rescued in a military operation but were released by their captors and driven to safety by thei... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229532/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:02:01 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229532/ Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on Tuesday denied a suggestion by President Robert Mugabe that a unity government deal was imminent, saying talks were still deadlocked. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229490/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:12:21 -0400 Mail & Guardian http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229490/ + ] BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two men have died from their wounds in a bomb blast in north Lebanon, taking the death toll from the attack to seven, security sources said Tuesday. The bomb attack Monday ta... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229533/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:01:59 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229533/ ) - Adjusting to college or university life can be rough – moving into residence, living with roommates, balancing academic demands with those of social life. Now try taking your antiretroviral ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229535/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:01:55 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229535/ ) - In Dongamuzi village, in the Lupane district of Zimbabwe's Matabeleland North Province, Jestina Moyo, 56, is making a deal she knows is unfair, but she also knows she has little choice but to bar... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229536/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:01:49 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18229536/ In this Dec.21, 2005 file picture a mother gently places her son in a basket, as she takes him to a Medecins Sans Frontieres clinic, in Lankien, Southern Sudan after he contracted malaria. An internat... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224449/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:24:30 -0400 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224449/ Dubai: Majority of Muslim countries celebrated Eid Al Fitr on Tuesday, September 30, but some countries will be celebrating on Wednesday, October 1, according to reports from Islamonline.com. Egypt, S... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224434/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:05:42 -0400 Gulf News http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224434/ An Islamist group in Somalia has destroyed a derelict church in the southern port town of Kismayo, an eyewitness has told the BBC. The destruction took place after prayers to mark the Eid al-Fitr f... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224451/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:19:10 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224451/ In May, the government ordered the IDP camps closed upon the conclusion of Operation "Rudi Nyumbani" (Return Home) that targeted hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Rift Val... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224463/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:05:33 -0400 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224463/ + ] By Vincent Fertey NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Mauritania will turn to Arab partners for aid and development funds if western donors slash their assistance to the Saharan Islamic state as a result of... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18222742/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:05:30 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18222742/ Hibernian manager Mixu Paatelainen has confirmed he will sign a new goalkeeper before the end of the year. Khalid Sinouh is on trial at Easter Road and is a free agent after his release from Turkish ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224453/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:19:08 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224453/ Stockholm - A Rwandan man suspected of committing genocide in his homeland between 1990 and 1994 has been detained by Swedish authorities. Prosecutor Lars Hedvall says 52-year-old Sylvere Ahorugeze... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224459/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:11:50 -0400 IOL http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224459/ Los Cristianos, Spain - Nearly 230 African boat people were taken to Spain's Canary Islands after authorities rescued them at sea, in the largest immigrant landing in two years, officials said on Tues... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224460/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:11:44 -0400 IOL http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224460/ Uganda's government has urged aid agencies to stop supplying food to the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Minister for Disaster Preparedness Tarsis Kabwegyere said this would increase pressure on ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224452/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:19:12 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224452/ . The raiders are reported to be from Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army, a group accused of forcibly enlisting child soldiers and of massacring thousands during what has been one of Africa's lon... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224473/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:34:15 -0400 Morning Star http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224473/ JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) _ Making tests and treatment for malaria free dramatically increases the number of people who seek treatment for the disease that kills 1 million people a year, an inte... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224461/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:10:24 -0400 Newsday http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224461/ Port Harcourt - A Nigerian military official says more than 400 suspected militants have been arrested following a spate of attacks in the restive southern oil region. Military spokesperson Lieuten... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224456/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:12:15 -0400 IOL http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224456/ Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Monday that he expected a unity government to be formed by the end of this week, ending an impasse with the opposition over cabinet posts. "We di... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224457/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:11:56 -0400 IOL http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224457/ GOVERNMENT has approved the injection of N$14 million into the coffers of TransNamib after an illegal strike earlier this month left the transport company unable to pay workers' salaries. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224469/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:05:30 -0400 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224469/ In this CFR Special Report, Michelle D. Gavin discusses how President Robert Mugabe's mismanaged and violently repressive government has driven Zimbabwe to social and economic ruin. Gavin argues that ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224462/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:09:05 -0400 CFR http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224462/ + ] By Shapi Shacinda LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia is willing to renegotiate mining taxes set earlier this year with foreign firms facing difficulties arising from them, a minister said on Tuesday. I... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224480/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:30:15 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224480/ + ] NAPLES, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Italian police issued more than 100 arrest warrants in a crackdown against suspected mafiosi in Naples on Tuesday, detaining dozens, including three men suspected of ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224489/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:29:58 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224489/ + ] RABAT (Reuters) - Moroccan property firm Addoha reported a 40 percent increase in its first-half net profit on Tuesday, but its shares failed to trade as analysts said the figure was below expec... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224481/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:30:12 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224481/ A new political party in Morocco backed by a close friend of King Mohammed VI is forming an alliance that should create the biggest group in parliament. The BBC's James Copnall in the capital, Raba... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224450/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:19:09 -0400 BBC http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224450/ + ] By Andrew Cawthorne NAIROBI (Reuters) - Nearly two years after being driven from Mogadishu, Islamists have re-taken swathes of south Somalia and may have their sights again on the capital. The... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224488/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:29:57 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224488/ (AFP)--Swaziland's new anti-corruption commission Tuesday pledged to crack down on graft in the impoverished southern African kingdom as it was sworn in after months of delays. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224474/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:34:13 -0400 Morning Star http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224474/ + ] By Matt Robinson and Margarita Antidze TBILISI (Reuters) - Russia cautioned on Tuesday that EU cease-fire monitors would not have immediate access to its "security zone" inside Georgia, drawing... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224491/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:29:56 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224491/ By Eileen Ng Kuala Lumpur - Pirates have released a second Malaysian tanker hijacked near Somalia in exchange for a ransom, the ship owner said on Tuesday. Malaysian shipping line MISC Berhad sa... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18223940/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:11:47 -0400 IOL http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18223940/ + ] WIESBADEN, Germany (Reuters) - Social Democrats in the German state of Hesse could oust Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and form a regional government with backing from a far-left party... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224490/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:29:55 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224490/ Evariste Nzamurambaho, recruited into the Forces démocratiques pour la libération du Rwanda (FDLR) militia at the age of 12, is still haunted by the experience. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224466/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:05:32 -0400 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224466/ With his pension, Golicha bought 100 goats to supply his family with milk as well as an income; the herd had doubled by April. However, an outbreak of the viral livestock disease, Peste des Petits Rum... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224464/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:05:34 -0400 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224464/ + ] (Adds details) JOHANNESBURG, Sept 30 (Reuters) - South African prosecutors on Tuesday filed an application to appeal against a ruling that dismissed corruption charges against ANC leader Jacob... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224477/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:30:20 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224477/ + ] JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Growth in demand for credit by South Africa's private sector slowed to 18.64 percent year-on-year in August, central bank data showed on Tuesday, falling below forecasts... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224483/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:30:02 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224483/ + ] By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is a more credible organisation on doping since the Beijing Games where only eight athletes were suspended for ... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224484/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:30:01 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224484/ + ] By Mark Heinrich VIENNA (Reuters) - The International Atomic Energy Agency chief said on Tuesday the agency's failure to detect nuclear arms work in Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the 1980s showed hi... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224492/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:29:54 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224492/ September 4, 2008 Johannesburg - The International Air Transport Association (Iata) forecasts losses for African airlines to widen to $700 million (R5.49 billion) in 2008. Releasing a revised indus... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18223243/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:42:06 -0400 Business Report http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18223243/ + ] SINGAPORE (Reuters) - World number three Vijay Singh is expected to be sidelined for at least two months because of an arm injury. Tendinitis in the Fijian's left forearm has ruled him out of t... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224485/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:30:00 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224485/ MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Disagreements between Somali pirates holding a ship laden with tanks and heavy weapons escalated into a shootout and three pirates are believed dead, a U.S. defense offi... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18222700/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:23:58 -0400 USA Today http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18222700/ Several other opposition parties withdrew from the race and decided to back Banda, who is standing on the ticket of the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD). http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224467/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:05:31 -0400 All Africa http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224467/ Rome - The 19 Europeans and Egyptians kidnapped in the Sahara were not rescued in a military operation, but were released by their captors and driven to safety by their Egyptian tour guides, the freed... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224458/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:11:53 -0400 IOL http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224458/ The failure of US lawmakers to pass the $700 billion financial bailout package – and the historic plunge on wall street Monday – are being watched closely around the world. http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224442/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:49:06 -0400 VOA http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224442/ It’s the stuff for a Hollywood blockbuster to rival Ridley Scott’s 2001 thriller “Black Hawk Down”: A bunch of 50 Somali pirates in speedboats and heavily armed with grenade la... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224494/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:29:53 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224494/ Thousands flooded by Sudan dam closure - villagers --> By Andrew Heavens KHARTOUM, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Thousands of Sudanese villagers were flooded out of their homes on Tuesday, village representa... http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224496/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:29:45 -0400 Reuters http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/18224496/