20100927
africanews

Chad's national electoral commission on Saturday delayed parliamentary and local elections to 2011 due to difficulties with preparations, according to AFP.

20100927
africanews

JOHANNESBURG/LONDON (Reuters) - Wal-Mart is in talks to buy South Africa's Massmart, a $4 billion deal that would give the U.S. retailer a big presence in fast-growing Africa and boost its emerging markets strategy.

20100927
africanews

More than 3,000 former employees of Macha Mission's Brethren of Christ Church, in remote area of Chief Macha of the Tonga people of Southern Zambia in the rich farming District of Choma, have been displaced; and more than 100 of these, have their houses burnt to ashes, to give way for large scale production of Jatropha cultivation.

20100927
africanews

The UN chief Ban Ki-moon has thanked Rwanda's President Paul Kagame for keeping peacekeeping troops in Sudan, despite anger over looming genocide accusations against the Rwandan army, according to an AFP report.

20100927
africanews

Three top officials from three African nations have called for the continent to have a permanent representative in the UN Security Council, saying it was a mockery that the region that comprises so much of the body's work does not have a permanent place.

20100927
africanews

Kenyan Police have arrested 34 Somali migrants last weekend at the border town. The migrants were heading to Nairobi as a transit place to other countries, police said. Two taxi drivers were also detained for trying to negotiate with the security personnel to release the migrants.

20100927
africanews

The coach of the Simbas of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Frenchman Robert Nouzaret has published a list of 23 players, including 16 local players for the October 9 game against Cameroon. The list, made public since September 16 has been described by some football enthusiast as 'intriguing.'

20100926
reuters

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Military chiefs from four Saharan countries met on Sunday to set out a joint strategy for fighting al Qaeda's north African wing, the group holding seven foreigners hostage in the Sahara desert.

20100926
reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian cabinet is seeking more transparency in state land deals, a spokesman said on Sunday, after a court ruled a contract with Egypt's biggest listed property developer should be scrapped because it was illegal.

20100926
reuters

PARIS (Reuters) - The seven foreigners, including five French nationals, that were kidnapped earlier this month in Niger are being held in a mountainous region in northwestern Mali, France said on Sunday.

20100926
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma said on Sunday he would ask his cabinet ministers to set their own performance targets that he would then monitor to try to improve the delivery of services to citizens.

20100926
reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Zimbabwe must show greater respect for human rights and political freedoms before the U.S. sanctions on the impoverished African nation can be removed, the U.S. State Department said on Sunday.

20100926
SW Radio

Thousands of people are calling for a complete reform of the international diamond trade monitor, the Kimberley Process, over is decision to certify diamonds mined at Chiadzwa.

20100926
RFI

A moderate Islamist party has pulled out of the Somali government days after the country's prime minister quit. The Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca announced on Saturday that it has withdrawn from the administration, with whom it signed a power sharing deal in March.

20100926
RFI

Army chiefs from Algeria, Mali, Mauritania and Niger are meeting in southern Algeria on Sunday to discuss security in the region. Meanwhile, AFP says a Malian source has confirmed that seven hostages kidnapped in Niger last week are alive in Mali.

20100926
Nation

Nairobi — African diplomats have told India that they will not allow their sportspeople to lodge in facilities that do not meet minimum hygienic standards after their inspection of the Commonwealth Games village discovered it was in "unsanitary with inadequate bed-capacity".

20100927
New Times

The United States is strengthening its relations with two breakaway regions in Somalia while also urging Japan to help Kenya meet the costs of prosecuting Somali pirates.

20100926
Nation

Nairobi — Political intolerance is growing by the day and this has caused prominent Ghanaians to call the main players in the country's politics to order.

20100926
BuaNews

Pretoria — South Africa has called on the international community to redouble its efforts in support of peace in the Sudan and to ensure that a schedule referendum in that country is held in a peaceful environment.

20100926
Vanguard

Lagos — DEPUTY Senate Leader and member National Assembly Joint Committee on Constitution Review, Senator Victor Ndoma Egba SAN, yesterday, said that fresh amendment of the 1999 Constitution and Electoral Act 2010 would be tight but stressed that the exercise would be carried out because of the exigencies of the moment.