20100921
Business Day

President Jacob Zuma closed the door on new economic policy discussions when he delivered his political report yesterday, instructing delegates to the African National Congress's (ANC's) review gathering to confine discussion to the examination of the party's performance and not the introduction of new policies.

20100921
RFI

Nigerian officials report that more than 18,000 people have been affected by lead poisoning following massive lead contamination because of illicit gold mining.Up to 200 children have also died in the most affected villages around the gold mining areas of Bukkuyum and Anka in the northern Zamfara state.

20100921
Garowe Online

The interim Prime Minister of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) has resigned from the post after a months-long feud with President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, Radio Garowe reports.

20100921
allAfrica.com

As world leaders gather this week in New York to assess progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), they will face stark challenges to social and economic development, given ongoing wars and the global economic recession.

20100921
allAfrica.com

New York — At the opening of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit on Monday, mixed reactions greeted the World Bank's announcement of an additional U.S.$750 million funding of basic education in sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the world that are not on track to meet the education MDGs by 2015.

20100921
RFI

Nigeria's electoral commission called on Tuesday to postpone presidential elections in the country from January to April in order to be better prepared for the vote. The commission said that the process will take at least two additional months after the 22 January 2011 date which was set last week.

20100921
africanews

Ghana's oil sector on Monday received a major boost when China agreed to invest $3 billion in that sector.

20100921
allAfrica.com

On September 21, the United Nations will celebrate the International Day of Peace (Peace Day). Every year since 1982 this day has provided a rallying point for member states and individuals to join forces to end conflict.

20100921
africanews

The Namibian government has set its sights on netting N$12billion approximately US$ 1.5b from the mining sector by 2014 following a boost in production brought about by the uranium rush in the Erongo region of the country.

20100921
africanews

Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has threatened to boycott all the country's elections if is marred by violence, this comes a day after supporters of rival President Robert Mugabe stoned a constitutional meeting. "I will not commit anyone to any election if it is a declaration of war," Tsvangirai said.

20100921
africanews

Somalia, stricken by more than two decades of civil war, has been declared the world's worst place to go to school, in a new report released Monday. Somalia and Haiti are the two worst countries in which to be a school child at a time when $4.6 billion has been cut from education budgets worldwide.

20100921
africanews

Enumerators trained for the 2010 Population and Housing Census (PHC) in the West African country Ghana have been advised to refrain from partisan politics during interaction with respondents and try to educate the public on the essence of the exercise geared towards national development.

20100921
africanews

Somali Prime minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmake has resigned after weeks long tensions with President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. "After considering the political crisis in the government and increasing insecurity in Somalia, I have decided to resign from my post as prime minister," Sharmarke told reporters in Mogadishu.

20100922
africanews

The president of Somalia Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has welcomed the resignation of the Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke, who stepped down from the Transitional Federal Government earlier on Tuesday, according to Xanano.

20100920
This Day

Abuja — A major constitutional crisis is in the offing as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it may ask for an extension of time for the registration of voters and the general election.

20100920
UN News

A committee involving the United Nations has produced a preliminary draft peace document aimed at ending the bloody conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, in which some 300,000 have been killed and 2.7 million other driven from their homes in the past seven years.

20100920
RFI

A Côte d'Ivoire man arrested by the FBI in New York last week while attempting to buy weapons has turned out to be an army colonel who was there on state business. Côte d'Ivoire's armed forces say Yao N'guessan is a colonel in the army and that the arms deal was official state business.

20100920
East African

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will hosts the world big men and women to review progress on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in New York from September 20 to 22.

20100920
allAfrica.com

Monrovia — Until recently, the emergency room at Liberia's main hospital was "a place you came to die," says Dr. Braden Hexom, who teaches emergency medicine at New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine. With perhaps the world's highest rate of newborn mortality, Liberia had not a single pediatrician. The hospital had no means of administering treatment intravenously. There was no imaging equipment – not even a simple x-ray machine.

20100921
reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire Richard Branson urged people on Monday to invest in Zimbabwe, saying the world was wrong to wait instead of helping the politically volatile, impoverished southern African nation revive itself.