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Mwanawasa is no more
19 08 2008 Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa died in a French hospital on Tuesday after suffering a stroke in June, Vice President Rupiah Banda said.The late president was 59 years of age."Fellow countrymen, with deep sorrow and grief, I would like to inform the people of Zambia that our president Dr. Levy Patrick Mwanawasa died this morning at 1030…
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Africa-Turkey Summit Opens
19 08 2008 A four day summit has started in Turkey's capital Istanbul between African heads of state and Turkey. The summit is aimed at strengthening cooperation between Africa and Turkey. African countries are represented by various regional bodies and the African Union.Speaking in an interview the deputy head of the African Union, Erastas Minchel told…
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Zambian president's health deteriorates
19 08 2008 Zambia's vice president Rupiah Banda said in a statement that president Levy Mwanawasa who is currently in France is in dire need of more medical attention since his health was deteriorating. After making steady progress, Dr Mwanawasa's health worsened since Sunday night.The Southern African country which has been without their president…
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WFP worker killed in Somalia
19 08 2008 Abdulkadir Diad Mohamed 33, a Somali UN World Food Programme (WFP) officer has been shot dead, the UN agency said on Monday. The driver of the vehicle he was using who was not a WFP staff member was also killed as a third person in the vehicle escaped.In a statement issued following the killing, WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran said that the…
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Voter registration starts in Malawi
19 08 2008 Voter registration exercise for the 2009 parliamentary and presidential elections started in the Southern African country Malawi on Monday. People flocked the registration centres early in the morning in an exercise which is expected to run for two weeks.During the exercise, voters are expected to receive voting cards after registration. This could…
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Tanzania: Inflation shoots in July
19 08 2008 The annual inflation for the Southern African country Tanzania went up last month due to the rise in food prices, the country's National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday. According to the bureau's statement, the inflation rate shot to 9.5 percent last month from 9.3 percent in June.The bureau admitted that the rise in inflation had come…
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Museveni predicts victory for his party
19 08 2008 The presidential elections for Uganda might be a couple of years away but President Yoweri Museveni sees no obstacle that would stop his party, the National Resistance Movement, from winning the election."Why should the NRM lose elections? We are the ones who restored democracy in Uganda. Who else should win in this country? The President told…
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Malawian youths demand female condoms
19 08 2008 The Youth in Malawi have complained that delays in carrying out a comprehensive roll-out programme for female condoms (FC) is exposing them to the unnecessary risk of contracting Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs).Kenneth Mtago, projects officer for Blantyre Young Voices (BYV), said in Blantyre today, the increased spate of rape, mainly orchestrated…
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Zambian president dies
19 08 2008 Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa has died. Death robbed the country of its leader this morning from the military hospital in France where he was admitted since June this year. In an address to the nation on State Radio and Television this afternoon, Vice President Rupiah Banda broke the sad news to the country.His death comes at a time when the political…
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Saved by a female condom
18 08 2008 On Saturday August 9, 2008 Magdalene Chandamale Moyo, was attacked by armed robbers at her home she shares with her 2 daughters and a son. Her husbanda, a truck driver was away that time.On this day Mayo woke up normally at 05:20am, went to draw water some 200 metres away from her three bed-roomed house, heated it and had a bath. Moyo has been…
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Mbeki due in Zimbabwe for talks
18 08 2008 South African President Thabo Mbeki is expected in Zimbabwe for the continuation of the power sharing talks between the country's biggest political partiesSouth African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Monday that President Mbeki who assumed the chairmanship of the Southern African Development Community spent most of last week in Zimbabwe…
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AIDS prevalence reduces in Ghana
18 08 2008 The Ghanaian HIV/AIDS commission has revealed that the national HIV-prevalence has reduced from 3.5 percent to 2.2 percent attributing this intensive awareness education.Speaking to journalists in Accra, the Director-General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, noted that the steady decline was as a result of enhanced multi-sectoral response programmes implemented…
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Mbeki expected in Zimbabwe for the continuation of power sha
18 08 2008 South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Monday thatPresident Mbeki who assumed the chairmanship of the Southern African Development Community spent most of last week in Zimbabwe trying to bring the three leaders Arthur Mutambara, Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe into signing a powersharing agreement.SABC said President Mbeki was…
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Cameroon out of Olympics football race
18 08 2008 Cameroon has been eliminated from the Olympics football race. They were beaten 2-0 by Brazil after extra time for the men's quarter finals in Shenyang on Saturday 16 August 2008.Cameroon was one man down when Striker Albert Baning was sent off in the 52nd minute for a second bookable offence, but Brazil only took the lead after 101 minutes. …
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Cameroon tripple jump Mbango wins Gold
18 08 2008 In two Olympic participation, Francoise Etone Mbango, Cameroon's Triple Jump athlete, has bagged home two gold medals. After Athens, Greece in 2006, where Mbango, little known in the Triple Jump circle, took the world by surprise, and galloped 15 metres 30 centimetres.The Cameroonian sporting icon outplayed stiff challenger, Russian born Lebedeva.…
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SADC: March 29 basis for Zim power sharing
18 08 2008 The Southern African Development Community (SADC) on Sunday said the power sharing government between the opposition MDC and Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF should be formed on the basis of the March 29 elections that were won by the MDC.In a communiqué adopted after the end of the two day summit in Johannesburg, South Africa which failed to break the…
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Ethiopia gets Gold in Beijing
18 08 2008 Ethiopia gets its first Gold medal in Beijing Olympic in 10,000 women's run as it breaks previous record..10,000 meter women runner and 5,000 meter World Record holder Tirunesh Dibaba broke the women Olympic Record of 10,000 meter. Tirunesh finished the 10,000 meter in 29 minutes 54.69 micro seconds. The previous Olympic 10,000 meter recorder…
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Chad court sentences Habre to death
18 08 2008 Former Chadian President, Hissen Habre was on Friday 15 August 2008 sentenced to death by a Chadian court. He was accused of trying to overthrow the government. Reports say the court sentenced him in absentia along with 11 other rebel leadersThey were also accused of crimes against the state security.Thirty-one other rebels were convicted in absentia…
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Biotech boosts economy
18 08 2008 At the just concluded International Hands-on Training Workshop on Molecular Biology and Applied Biotech at Covenant University, Ota, it was agreed that a nation that does not take Biotechnology seriously will not make it in this 21st CenturyThe international workshop was held with the collaboration of Covenant University and Applied Biotech Institute,…
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Ivory Coast: Probo Koala victims hopeless
15 08 2008 Over two years after the dumping of deadly chemicals in Abidjan by the Probo Koala, the victims are losing hope and calling for urgent help to alleviate the strange diseases they got.Jules Dekagnan's wife is complaining of a throat disease and needs about ¤1000 to have his wife's case examined by doctors. She only received ¤300 in 2006 and…
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Conflict breeding street children in Somalia
15 08 2008 Fighting between insurgents and government forces in Somalia's Hiran region has resulted in a rise in the number of street children, a situation which is further compounded by food shortages.As life becomes more difficult so do more children roam the streets seeking to undertake small businesses. Others simply walk from one street to another…
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Twin towers for Uganda president and PM
15 08 2008 Construction of a new office block for the President and the Prime Minister will begin on November 1 this year, Uganda's Minister for Works, John Byabagambi, told the Parliament on Wednesday.The twin tower building to be erected on Sir Apollo Kaggwa Road in Kampala. It will be constructed by the Chinese government and will be completed within…
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Rwanda parliament dissolved
15 08 2008 In a move in line with the 2003 Constitution which empowers the President to close Parliament at least 30 days before Parliamentary elections, president Paul Kagame on Thursday dissolved the Lower Chamber of Parliament in the run-up to the September polls.The polls are slated for September 15, this year. Speaking at a function held at the Parliament…
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Vodafone acquires Ghana Telecom
15 08 2008 The parliament of Ghana has endorsed government move to sell majority 70% shares of Ghana Telecoms to the UK-based Vodafone Group Plc for $900 million.However, the acquisition has witnessed series of problems. The transaction has been characterized by demonstrations from pressure groups and quasi-political organizations for and against the sale. Three…
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HP to partner with African university
15 08 2008 The managing director of Hewlett-Packard West Africa, Mr. Ime Umo during a courtesy call on the vice chancellor and principal officer recently expressed HP's desire to partner with Covenant University in the area of Information Communication Technology, business and manpower development.Mr. Umo also used the occasion to furnish the management…
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