20101023
Citizen

Uganda is the leading country in gender equality in East Africa, according to the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap report 2010.

20101022
Sudan Tribune

Juba — South Africa's former President, Thabo Mbeki on Friday held a high level meeting with South Sudan's President, Salva Kiir Mayardit to discuss how to salvage the recently failed talks on the conduct of Abyei referendum.

20101022
Sudan Tribune

Juba — The United Democratic Party on Friday called on the dominant parties of north and south Sudan to hand over the running of the referendum on the future of the oil-rich region of Abyei to the United Nations.

20101023
RFI

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that it is a "scandal" that Africa has no permanent seat on the UN Security Council at a summit of French-speaking countries in Switzerland Saturday.

20101023
Garowe Online

Nairobi — Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) has been urged to be more of itself by stopping internal cycle of political wrangles and repeated changes of its top leadership since its affecting its credibility among many Somali citizens.

20101023
Nation

Nairobi — One of the most eagerly-awaited debates in Parliament will be on Tuesday afternoon as MPs discuss the damning report of a departmental committee which found taxpayers lost hundreds of millions of shillings in dodgy deals abroad.

20101023
This Day

Kaduna — The Executive Director of the Human Rights Monitor (HRM) Mr. Festus Okoye has raised eyebrows over what he described as "the secrecy surrounding the arraignment" of the suspects linked with the October 1 bomb blast in Abuja before a chief magistrate court in Abuja.

20101023
Garowe Online

Reliable sources tell Somali news agency Garowe Online that a man wanted as a terrorist by the Puntland government in Somalia, and whose assets were frozen by the Obama Administration this year, is reportedly "hiding in Somaliland", a self-declared separatist region in northwestern Somalia that is actively seeking U.S. and international aid.

20101023
africanews

Washington — The United States today made it clear that it wants the January 2011 independence vote in South Sudan despite talks by northern officials about a postponement and a fresh push by Egypt in that direction.

20101023
africanews

Nairobi — Seven football fans, including a young woman, died on Saturday night when a stampede broke out at a highly-charged Kenyan Premier League football match between Gor Mahia and arch-rivals AFC Leopards at the Nyayo National Stadium.

20101023
africanews

Five people have been reportedly killed in Ivory Coast on Friday after the convoy of President Laurent Gbagbo - on a campaign tour - involved in a crash outside the economic capital Abidjan, L'Intelligent D'Abidjan said. Three journalists aboard the crashed vehicle sustained serious injuries and were immediately rushed to the hospital.

20101023
africanews

The National Red Cross Societies of Benin, Ghana and Nigeria received a sum of over $600,000 to assist a total of 40,000 people most affected by recent floods in the three West African countries.

20101023
africanews

Security at the Kenyan-Somali border has been beefed up following clashes between Somali Pro-government forces and the rebel fighters of Al-shabaab.

20101023
africanews

Guinea announced the postponement of the presidential run-off due for Sunday following concerns about the readiness of the West African country to pull through a hitch free election. "The October 24 date is not possible," the election commission head, General Siaka Sangare said.

20101023
africanews

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez arrived in Libya on Friday for talks expected to focus on boosting economic ties. Chavez met with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi shortly after landing in the capital of Tripoli.

وقد فازت شركة الهولندية العطاء لتعميق قناة ميناء مومباسا ، التي يقول خبراء البحرية وتعزيز مكانة الميناء الاستراتيجي كمركز للشحن العابر في المنطقة.

وبرزت الشركة ، فان أورد الجرافات البحرية والمقاولون ، وأفضل في التقييمات ، والضرب ثلاث شركات تقدمت بعروض الآخرين الذين في نيسان / ابريل من هذا العام.

وأرجأ موانئ كينيا السلطة (الجيش الشعبي الكوري) والحفر (تعميق وتوسيع أو ممر مائي ، لا سيما واحدة مخصصة للشحن) من العام الماضي حتى البناء المخطط له لمحطة الحاويات الثانية بدأت.

وينبغي لبناء محطة الحاويات الثانية والتجريف للقناة ، والبدء في وقت واحد لأن المواد التي سيتم حصد من البحر وسوف تستخدم لاستعادة جزء من الأرض للمحطة الثانية. وقال الجيش الشعبي الكوري السيد مدير المشتريات Yobesh Oyaro هم في عملية إعداد وثائق العقد الذي سيوقعه قريبا حتى يمكن أن تبدأ أعمال الحفر بحلول الشهر المقبل أو في آخر في يناير من العام القادم.

القيود المحطة الطرفية
وفقدت ميناء مومباسا الأعمال المسافنة في ميناء دار السلام في العامين الماضيين بسبب القيود محطة الحاويات. خطوط الشحن التي ترسو في دار السلام مدير العمليات في الميناء المهندس جوزيف Atonga ميناء سعت منافذ بديلة بسبب تأخر السفينة طويلة ، وقال في مقابلة AMINKenya. أن مومباسا هو البديل الأمثل ، والتي يمكن الاستفادة فقط في الأعمال التجارية بمجرد بناء محطة الحاويات الثانية ونعرات القناة.

ومن شأن توسيع قناة تمكين المنفذ لاستيعاب أكبر السفن التي تفضل الخطوط الملاحية. قناة ميناء مومباسا لديه عمق المياه محدودة والطاقة الاستيعابية للميناء.

خبراء البحرية التأكيد على الحاجة إلى المسار السريع لتطهير الميناء وبناء محطة ثانية للاستفادة من إعادة الشحن التجارية بالفعل تحت التهديد من الموانئ الإقليمية الأخرى.
حالما يتم إنشاء قدرات كبيرة ، وسيكون الهدف عبر ميناء الشحن التجارية من سيشيل وموريشيوس وطنجة ، وزنجبار ومابوتو.[/left]

20101022
allAfrica.com

Disputed polls held in 2000 led to widespread violence and the division of the country between the rebel-held north and the government-controlled south. During the conflict the nation became awash in arms. Among those who were armed were former militia members recruited by the government of President Laurent Gbagbo. However, efforts at disarmament have failed. Now armed men, largely operating out of western Cote d’Ivoire, are terrorizing the local population, according to a report released today by U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW). Matt Wells, HRW West Africa researcher, spoke with allAfrica about the violations occurring in the west, particularly against women.

20101022
Afran cooperator

Today, the opposition parties under IPC (inter-party cooperation ) headed by IPC flag bearer for the 2011general elections have stormed the Electoral Commission headquarters in Kampala to task the Head of the commission upon the preparations of A clean voter’s register ahead as a major perquisite to a free and fair election let come 2011.

20101022
Afran cooperator

NPR terminated the contract of Juan Williams on Wednesday after comments the veteran journalist and news analyst made about Muslims on Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor."

20101022
africanews

Foreign companies loot and dump toxic wastes in Somali seas in the full glare of the EU and NATO naval forces that patrol the Somali coastal lines, a Somali professor at the University of Minnesota has said.