20100913
africanews

PRETORIA (Reuters) - Whites still dominate South Africa's mining industry, and changes to include more blacks in the sector are slow despite a decade of affirmative action, Minerals Resources Minister Susan Shabangu said on Monday.

20100913
africanews

LUANDA (Reuters) - Higher exports and oil prices have helped Angola's economy recover in 2010, while companies are spending more now that the government has started to pay off some of its debt, the deputy governor of the country's central bank said on Monday.

20100913
africanews

A Zimbabwe court released six health workers on bail, including four from the United States, accused of dispensing AIDS drugs without a licence. The six, who were each freed on $200 bail, are members of a Californian-based Christian volunteer health service which runs two clinics in Zimbabwe working with AIDS orphans and HIV positive patients.

20100913
africanews

Police in Conakry, Guinea deployed extra forces after street fighting between supporters of rivals for its presidential election left one dead and 50 injured. The violence prompted authorities to suspend all campaigning and rallies ahead of the second-round vote but so far there has been no move to delay the poll, aimed at restoring civilian rule.

20100913
africanews

Zimbabwean police have arrested four US health workers suspected of running an unregistered clinic and dispensing Aids drugs without a licence, the US embassy in Harare has said. Two Zimbabwean health workers were also detained. All six are expected to appear in court on Monday, the embassy said in a statement.

20100913
africanews

Youngster Dominic Adiyiah has been decorated with two prestigious awards at the 35th Sports Writers Association of Ghana Awards Night. The Reggina striker grabbed the Sports Personality of the year and Footballer of the Year Awards for 2009 against Michael Essien and John Paintsil.

20100913
africanews

The two main political rivals in southern African country of Zimbabwe - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe - had agreed to hold elections next year.

20100913
africanews

Extreme poverty and frequent natural disasters are a constant feature of life in northern Kenya and across the Horn of Africa. But continuous poor development and local conflict are worsening the already grim situation.

20100913
africanews

As a result of the weekend clashes between rival presidential candidates in Guinea and their supporters, campaigning for next Sunday's presidential vote in the West African country has been temporarily halted. Two deaths were recorded. The interim government would meet the candidates to decide on the next agenda.

20100912
allAfrica.com

New York — Ahead of the United Nations Millennium Development Summit to be held in New York later this month, the UN Foundation and its partners have ramped up efforts to educate the media about progress that has been made on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) thus far and what still needs to be done before the 2015 target date for achieving them.

20100912
Nation

Nairobi — It is now official: Kibera is not the biggest slum in Africa. The 2009 Kenya Population and Housing Census shows that one of the world's most famous slums houses just 170,070 residents, not one million, as previously believed.

20100912
reuters

ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt's interior minister will free a further 10 Bedouin detainees, state media and security sources said on Saturday, part of government efforts to assuage long-running tensions in the Sinai Peninsula.

20100912
reuters

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali police said they had foiled a suicide attack by Islamist rebels on the seaport in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday, two days after a bomb attack on the city's airport.

20100912
reuters

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party backed President Yoweri Museveni, in power since 1986, as its candidate on Sunday for next year's presidential election.

20100912
reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Trade Ministry plans to tender 500 million square metres of land for specialised trade zones next month, part of a plan to boost internal trade and lure more investment, the state news agency reported.

20100912
africanews

Several people have been injured in fresh clashes in Guinea's capital Conakry between opposing political parties. The fighting between supporters of former Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo and the opposition leader, Alpha Conde, came a week before the second round of the presidential election.

20100912
africanews

Former Nigerian Football Federation [NFF] president Sani Lulu Abdullahi and his three associates will continue to spend time in jail after failing to meet the deadline for their bail conditions. Their bail was set at N100 million each by Justice David Okorowo, along with two sureties.

20100912
africanews

About 70 000 people in Chad have been left homeless due to floods caused by heavy rains threatening the country's food security, a UN agency said. Almost half of the country's regions affected. Over 31 000ha of crops lost and about 145 000 people hit by flooding, according to UN Humanitarian office.

20100910
RFI

President Joseph Kabila has decided to suspend mining in three provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a minister in one of the provinces said Friday.

20100911
RFI

Two French judges were due in Kigali Saturday with a team to investigate the assassination of Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana in 1994. Rwanda cut off diplomatic ties with France in November 2006 over the investigation, after arrest warrants were issued against nine people close to President Paul Kagame. They have since been restored.