INTERVIEW - New climate partnership planned to protect forests The Star | OSLO (Reuters) - Governments will seek a new climate partnership in 2010 to protect tropical forests with funds going through the United Nations, the World Bank or bilateral channels, Norway said on Tuesday. People walk on the street with a huge globe in the background in Copenhagen in this Decemb...
China defends growing links with Africa Business Report | China rejected foreign concerns over its growing energy links with Africa on Sunday, saying it benefits African nations by bringing badly needed trade and infrastructure development. | "I have noticed that in the international community there are some who do not want to see the development of Sino...
MEC puts boot into tender louts Independent online | By Bheki Mbanjwa | Greedy entrepreneurs who try to secure government contracts only to make a quick buck at the expense of the poor will no longer "get away with murder", KwaZulu-Natal Finance MEC Ina Cronje has warned. | Speaking in Durban yesterd...
U.N. report: Much of Somalia's food aid diverted USA Today Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Up to half the food aid intended for the millions of hungry people in is being diverted to corrupt contractors, radical Islamic militants and local U.N. workers, acco...
Spain: Aid worker in Africa released by militants The News & Observer | MADRID -- A Spanish aid worker kidnapped late last year in Mauritania by suspected Islamic militants was freed Wednesday but two colleagues remain in captivity, the Spanish government said. | Alicia Gamez, 35, is now on a plane to Barcelona after s...
Farmers Ask FG to Split Agric Ministry All Africa A coalition of Small Scale Agro Producers of Nigeria, ASAPIN, has canvassed the breaking up of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources into two separate ministries. | ...
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'Grant system unsustainable' Independent online | Social Development Minister Edna Molewa defended government's welfare system on Tuesday amid reports that South Africa had become the "biggest welfare state" in the world. | "It ...
Poultry industry under the spotlight Independent online | Mureen Marud | Consumer Editor | The poultry industry is being investigated by the Competition Commission, which is alleging market abuse by the Southern African Poultry Associat...
Taxi bosses give minister ultimatum Independent online | Taxi bosses have given Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele an ultimatum: they want him to spell out their role in the World Cup transport plans within a week. | Irate South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) members told MPs on Tuesday that 93 days...
No-show SAA boss cheeses off MPs Independent online | By Caiphus Kgosana | Political Bureau | New South African Airways CEO Siza Mzimela angered MPs by failing to appear before a scheduled committee meeting on Tuesday. | He and several other senior managers of the national airline were supposed to hav...
Zuma impresses at Solidarity meeting Independent online | By Michelle Jones | Two mothers whose daughters were killed in violent crime feel President Jacob Zuma will work closely with trade union Solidarity in the fight against crime. | More than 100 000 anti-crime letters were handed to the president on ...
Audit Exposes Gaping Hole in Rwamagana Finances All Africa Rwamagana-Auditors from Office of the Auditor General have discovered cases of huge administrative and financial mismanagement in Rwamagana district. | ...
Libya issues warning on trade ties with USA The Star | TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. envoy on Wednesday to warn that ties will suffer if Washington does not apologise for caustic comments a U.S. official made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. | The Libyan Foreign Ministry protested over what it called ill-informed comments on Libya by a State Department official, "...
The Birth of the Billionth African Business Day Online Last year Africa's population finally reached a billion, making the continent the second most populated after Asia, mirroring its geographical size as the second largest continent after the latter. This is undoubtedly a historic milestone with profound implications for Africa's economies, polities, societies, cultures, and ecologies, as well as for...
