Coal plant 'will hit African poor' The Guardian | Creating a new coal plant in Kent could lead to 100,000 more people in the developing world losing their water supply during dry seasons, it has been claimed. | Anti-poverty campaigners at the World Development Movement (WDM) also said the controversial plan could be responsible for up to 60,000 m...
Nigeria, Algeria agree to build Sahara gas link The Guardian (Adds background) By Randy Fabi ABUJA, July 3 (Reuters) - Nigeria, Algeria and Niger on Friday signed an agreement to build a multi-billion dollar gas pipeline across the Sahara that could send up to 30 billion cubic metres a year of supplies to Europe. "We have the expertise and I don't think there...
Domestic worker misery in MP village Independent online | By Nwabisa Msutwana-Stemela and Helen Bamford | Well-paid politicians, whose rent is just over R200 a month in parliamentary villages in Cape Town, have come under fire from unions and domestic workers for paying poor wages in return for long hours...
World Cup only the start Chicago Sun-Times | JOHANNESBURG -- Over a decade later, Ntombie Khofane still feels the warmth of Nelson Mandela's handshake and remembers his message to students at her school that life can get better. | Boosted by her belief that he was right, Khofane left her unem...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s Iron Lady of Finance This Day Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is a woman of history. A director of the World Bank, she was Nigeria's Finance Minister and then briefly Foreign Affairs Minister from 2003 to 2006, the first woman to hold either position. | As a Minister Ngozi stood out as the ...
Pay freeze threat to all public workers The Guardian | • Spending tsar wants action on wages | • Cuts must cover health and education | A freeze should be imposed on Britain's six million public-sector workers, the head of the government's spending watchdog says today. He also accuses party leaders...
Kenya's Kitwara wins Peachtree Road Race The Examiner Comments ATLANTA (Map, News) - Sammy Kitwara of Kenya won the 40th Peachtree Road Race with a time of 27:21 in his debut in the annual 6.2-mile event through the streets of Atlanta. | Ridouane Harroufi of Morocco was second, and Ethiopia's Gashu Ibra...
U.S. weapons to Somalia: The Disastrous Move Gareowe Online | by Faizal Mohamud | After all its endeavours failed to stabilize Somalia, the United States has upgraded its role of involvement to arming one side of the conflict to defeat the “radical” Alshabaab Almujahideen, an Islamist group that has taken...
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Oil up to near $72 on dollar fall, Nigeria attack Philadelphia Daily News | PABLO GORONDI | The Associated Press | Oil prices rose to near $72 a barrel Tuesday after briefly jumping above $73 as a weakening U.S. dollar and attacks on oil installations in...
Oil jumps above $73 on dollar fall, Nigeria attack The News & Observer | SINGAPORE -- Oil prices jumped above $73 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as a weakening U.S. dollar and attacks on oil installations in Nigeria helped push prices to eight-month highs. ...
SAUDI BOMBSHELLS, Part 2 Asia Times | Why US officials blamed Iran | By Gareth Porter | Part 1: | WASHINGTON - In March 1997, United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Louis Freeh got what he calls in his memoirs "the first truly big break in the case": the arrest in...
We disagree with Dr. Duffuor Modern Ghana The Minister of Finance, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor has told Citi FM, an Accra based radio station that the $535 million loan that has been approved for Ghana by the World Bank (WB) has no conditionalities attached to it, because of the prudent financial po...
Gov`t calls for need of new breed of professionals in refining of crude oil Modern Ghana The Deputy Minister of Energy, Dr. Kwabena Donkor, has observed that the refining of crude oil, which is a sub-sector in the oil industry, needs a new breed of professionals to improve the quality of fuel being produced for the consumption of custome...
Spain supports Police, Immigration Modern Ghana Spain has signed a 60 million euro loan agreement with Ghana, out of which 8 million will be used for the supply of equipment to the Ghana Police Service and 2 million euros for communication gadgets to the Ghana Immigration Service. | An amount of 5...
Voda can offer ISD, STD services, hive off tower business The Times Of India | Text: NEW DELHI: Vodafone Essar, the country’s second-largest GSM-based mobile operator, has finally received the go-ahead from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) to hive off its towers and related infrastructure to a separate arm called Ortus Infratel. The noda...
Inflation targeting to stay - Gordhan Business Report | Cape Town - South Africa will keep its policy of targeting inflation, which has helped to stabilise prices and encouraged economic growth, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Friday. | Inflation targeting has been a source of friction between the ANC government and its allies in the communist party and trade union movements, who want the poli...
