20100821
irna.ir

Vienna, Aug 21, IRNA – International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA) in a statement confirmed loading fuel into Bushehr power plant and said that Iran had begun loading fuel into its first reactor in Bushehr Power Plant.

20100821
Vanguard

Abuja — PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan Friday returned to heat and pressure of credible poll to the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) when he assented to the controversial Electoral Act, saying that his quest for credible election remains an article of faith.

20100821
Financial Gazette

Harare — SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma says ZANU-PF and the two formations of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) should resolve, within a month, outstanding issues threatening the government of national unity (GNU).

20100821
reuters

Africa is a step closer to setting up its own space agency, with the approval of a planned feasibility study by the 53 member states of the African Union earlier this month.

20100821
reuters

COTONOU (Reuters) - The head of Benin's parliament has rejected a request by lawmakers to impeach President Boni Yayi, saying they failed to follow procedures.

20100821
reuters

LUSAKA (Reuters) - The United States questioned Zambia's commitment to fighting corruption on Saturday after authorities said they would not appeal a court's refusal to allow recover funds from former President Frederick Chiluba.

20100821
reuters

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.

20100821
africanews

A cholera outbreak in Nigeria has killed 231 people this year across 11 states and infected more than 4,500 others, the country's chief epidemiologist said. Neighbouring Cameroon has been suffering its worst epidemic of cholera, a disease generally spread through food and water contaminated with bacteria, since 2004 and there had been fears that the outbreak could spread into Nigeria and Chad.

20100821
africanews

Al- Shabab, an Islamist group fighting against the transitional federal government of Somalia, burnt food aid in Mogadishu, over allegation that the foodstuffs had expiry date. The insurgent fighters raided a number of markets in the city and seized more than 500 bags of maize and wheat which they had attributed to the WFP then set fire to them.

Tehran, IRNA – The fuel injection operations started in the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran Saturday morning.

20100819
khamenei.ir

In a meeting with government officials of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khamenei the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution said this evening that the Islamic Republic will not negotiate with the west under threats and sanctions.

20100820
Nation

Nairobi — A case was on Friday filed at Kenya's referendum court seeking the nullification of the August 4 poll results, the total recount of votes and an audit of the electronic tallying software.

20100820
reuters

Although Liberia continues to make considerable progress in consolidating peace and security, enduring political and social divides, among other factors, could roll back the strides made so far, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon cautions in a new report.

20100820
Zimbabwe Independent

Harare — A ROW is brewing within the inclusive government over the timing of the next elections and the level of Sadc's involvement in any such polls as regional leaders increasingly view fresh free and fair polls as the way out of Zimbabwe's decade-long political stalemate.

20100820
reuters

DAR ES SALAAM Aug 20 (Reuters Life!) - Tiny Tanzanian toads that had been declared extinct only a few years after their discovery have been sent home to replenish stocks after being reared in U.S. zoos.

20100820
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African automobile manufacturers and a union representing thousands of auto workers reached a deal on wages, ending a costly eight-day strike, employers' body AMEO said.

20100820
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's market regulator is looking into the share price move of Dimension Data for signs of insider trading in the days before a $3.2 billion takeover bid from Japan's NTT, a senior official said.

20100820
reuters

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's al Shabaab rebels said on Friday they had burned more than 500 sacks of grain from the U.N.'s World Food Programme because they had expired and were a danger to public health.

20100820
reuters

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya kept a low profile on Friday after Britain warned against any repeat of the celebrations a year ago that greeted the release of a Libyan intelligence agent convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

20100820
reuters

ABUJA (Reuters) - A cholera outbreak in northeastern Nigeria has killed 231 people this year across 11 states and infected more than 4,500 others, the country's chief epidemiologist said on Friday.