20100827
africanews

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - The World Bank will lend Tanzania $150 million for a new power transmission project expected to improve the availability of electricity in mining regions.

20100827
africanews

DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal and Chinese firm CMEC signed a deal aimed at providing a gas-fired plant with capacvity of 42 MW to the local Senelec power company, struggling to tackle chronic power shortages.

20100827
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LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria will hand over management of its electricity grid to a Canadian, Indian or Irish firm by year-end as it embarks on the multi-billion dollar privatisation of its dilapidated power sector, a top official said on Friday.

20100827
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's elections and efforts to start rebuilding and reunifying the country after years of crisis will inflate the 2010 budget by 30 percent to 145.5 billion CFA francs, the finance ministry said on Friday.

20100827
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Standard Bank has agreed with China Guangdong Nuclear Power Company to work on nuclear power opportunities in South Africa, the chief executive of Africa's biggest bank said on Friday.

20100827
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The longer the process of selling Nigeria's rescued banks lasts, the less attractive they could become, said the head of South Africa's Standard Bank, which is interested in buying one.

20100827
africanews

Teachers in Kenya can now acquire laptops complete with broadband internet connection and other software from Safaricom at affordable rates. This follows the signing of a partnership between Kenya's leading telecoms firm, Safaricom, Equity Bank, Microsoft, Intel, Kenya Institute of Education and teachers' main employer body, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).

20100827
africanews

Thousands of ecstatic Kenyans waving national flags welcomed a new constitution for the East African country as President Mwai Kibaki signed it on Friday that curbs his sweeping powers and strengthens civic rights. The Nairobi Uhuru Park - Freedom Park - witnessed a ceremony full of military pomp and traditional dance.

20100827
africanews

At least 68 people have lost their lives in a fierce fighting between government forces and Al-Shabab fighters with both sides claiming advances.

20100827
africanews

Ghanaian actress Yvonne Nelson's desire of becoming the first Ghanaian actress to break into the leading movie industry, Hollywood, is likely to materialize in no time as there appears to be fertile grounds for her to nurse her Hollywood ambition.

20100826
africanews

Ghana's World Cup defender Hans Sarpei has contracted a two-year deal with last season's Bundesliga runners-up Schalke 04. Schalke coach Felix Magath made public the information Thursday.

20100826
africanews

A wind of change seems to be blowing in the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, with the emergence of new board members. After the Thursday elections, Aminu Maigari from the North-East Zone, emerged as the new president of the football governing body of the West African Nation.

20100826
africanews

The senior goalkeeper of West African nation Ghana, Richard Kingson, is unperturbed with pressure back home to take off his gloves from international football. The former Wigan Athletic goal tender sets the next four years to retire after the Nations and World Cups.

20100826
africanews

Zimbabwe officials have rubbished claims that president Robert Mugabe is being treated in Dubai over a cancer scare.

20100825
IPS

Lisbon — The oil interests of Angola, Brazil and Portugal could pave the way for former Spanish colony Equatorial Guinea to become the ninth member of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) two years from now, despite the country's poor human rights record.

20100825
IPS

New York — With the discovery of large amounts of oil in the Gulf of Guinea, the small archipelago of Sao Tome and Principe faces the possibility of benefiting from considerable oil revenues.

20100824
UN News

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that it may have to cut its feeding programme in the Central African Republic (CAR), where tens of thousands risk becoming malnourished unless new funding is secured.

20100824
Nation

London — The British government is threatening to withhold aid from resource rich African countries who have failed to show improvements in the transparency of government.

20100824
PlusNews

Johannesburg — A strike for better wages by South African health workers is putting the lives of HIV-positive people on the line as industrial action disrupts treatment programmes.

20100824
Garowe Online

At least 40 people civilians have been killed and 150 others injured in heavy shelling and gun fire exchanged between Somali government troops and rebel fighters in Somalia's capital Mogadishu since Tuesday, Radio Garowe reports.