KHARTOUM (Reuters) - South Sudan's ruling party said on Monday it would accept a northerner in a key post on the commission planning a referendum on the region's independence because having the vote on time in January was more important.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Hundreds of mainly Ugandan troops have arrived in Mogadishu to strengthen an African Union peacekeeping force helping Somalia's government battle Islamist insurgents, an AU official said on Monday.
JUBA Sudan (Reuters) - South Sudan said on Monday that the central government had stopped paying its share of oil revenues in foreign currency, creating a foreign exchange crisis in the region ahead of a January vote on independence.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Striking South African state workers defied a court order to return to work on Monday and police fired rubber bullets to disperse strikers who were blocking entrances to a Johannesburg hospital.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria is seeking bidders for 11 electricity distribution firms in deals that could unlock billions of dollars of foreign investment and help end chronic power shortages, the privatisation agency said on Monday.
KIGALI (Reuters) - Investment in Rwanda doubled to $1.6 billion in 2009, a year after the tiny central African country was named top global business reformer by the World Bank, a government official said on Monday.
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria is seeking bidders for 11 electricity distribution firms in deals that could unlock billions of dollars of foreign investment and help end chronic power shortages, the privatisation agency said on Monday.
JOHANNESBURG/HONG KONG (Reuters) - HSBC is in talks to buy up to 70 percent of South Africa's Nedbank in a potential $8-billion-plus deal that would give Europe's biggest lender a broader gateway to the fast-growing African continent.
Despite a court injunction banning unions from closing emergency services, some one million South African civil servants are continuing their indefinite strike for a sixth day in a row. Police have fired rubber bullets at striking health workers, injuring several protesters in Durban.
The Sudanese government is planning to build a nuclear reactor which is first of its kind purposely for peaceful electricity by 2020, according to the state news agency, SUNA. It has also built dams along the Blue and White Niles, which merge in Sudan, to generate power. But large swathes of the country remain without regular electricity.
Ghana has 1.2 trillion cube feet of gas in the Jubilee field, in the western region, which could meet the requirement of 15,000 barrels of crude oil needed to operate the Aboadze Thermal Plant. There are 1.8 billion barrels of crude oil (recoverable reserves) in the Jubilee field, making it single biggest in Africa and second in the world.
A South African labour court has issued an order to striking public-sector workers not to "intimidate" colleagues who have not joined their work stoppage. And the government is talking tougher after four days of industrial action for higher pay.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is now stalled in preparing a time-table for next year's election following the power play between the Presidency and the National Assembly over the amended 1999 Constitution.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's government said on Saturday a labour court had granted an injunction banning civil servants in essential services from taking part in strike by more than one million public sector workers.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Eleven insurgent militiamen were killed by their own bombs when they went off prematurely in Somalia's capital, the government said on Saturday.
LONDON (Reuters) - SABMiller, the world's second-largest brewer, is considering buying the beer operations of Foster's Group, Australia's biggest brewer, for about 7 billion pounds, the Sunday Times reported.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan is planning to build a nuclear reactor and its first nuclear power plant for peaceful electricity purposes by 2020, the state news agency SUNA said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma, struggling with sluggish growth and worker discontent at home, seeks to boost trade on Monday on a trip to China, the last of the four "BRIC" economies he has visited in little over a year since taking office..
Tehran, Aug 21, IRNA – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that speed of country’s scientific progress, especially in the field of health and treatment is incredible.
