Kenyan producers want plastic bags banned
Posted 2 hours agoNAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 11 - Manufacturers are now calling on the government to put in place a law that will encourage the recycling of plastic bags as a way of eliminating the rising environmental and health menace in the country. Kenya Association of
Aid to Sierra Leone 'siphoned off'
Posted 2 hours agoBritish aid to Sierra Leone is being siphoned off, Denis MacShane warned MPs British aid to Sierra Leone is being siphoned off by senior politicians in the West African country, it has been claimed. Former foreign office minister Denis MacShane called
SMG South Africa scores Silver for Innovation in Media
Posted 2 hours agoThis week, the Internationalist Magazine awarded Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) South Africa a Silver Internationalist Award for Innovation in Media for the activation of SA?s biggest swimsuit shoot for P&G?s Gillette Venus Breeze campaign. SMG was
INSTANT VIEW 2-S.Africa's January manuf. output up 3.7 pct y/y
Posted 2 hours agoJOHANNESBURG, March 11 (Reuters) - South Africa's manufacturing output grew by 3.7 percent year-on-year in volume terms in January compared with a 3.2 percent expansion in December, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday. Compared with December,
IN EASTERN AFRICA, REGIONAL INTEGRATION COMES VIA A RAILWAY
Posted 2 hours agoEconomy and Politics, Brief To contribute toward the development of the economies and trade oaf the countries of eastern Africa, today, in Kampala, a two day conference has begun aimed at promoting the re-organization of the railway network between
Tapestry of violence haunts central Nigeria
Posted 2 hours agoJOS, Nigeria -- Christians and Muslims once shared their lives together in Nigeria's fertile central belt, buying each other's goods in mixed neighborhoods and cultivating each other's farms across a sun-baked plateau. But growing religious hatred,
Six Afghans, South African die in Afghan violence
Posted 2 hours ago17 mins ago 24 mins ago Iraqis were still awaiting preliminary results Thursday four days after a national election they hoped would bring stable? More 29 mins ago 52 mins ago 1 hour 35 mins ago 1 hour 38 mins ago 1 hour 42 mins ago Iranian President
Violence-hit Nigeria state begins fast for peace
Posted 3 hours agoJOS, Nigeria (AFP) - Residents of a central Nigerian state scarred by deadly clashes between Muslims and Christians began a three-day fast Thursday in a symbolic commitment to reconciliation. Plateau state governor Jonah Jang announced late Wednesday a
SUDAN: EU to observe the April general elections
Posted 3 hours agoThe European Commission is deploying an EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) for the general elections in Sudan, scheduled to take place between 11 and 18 April 2010. Led by Véronique de Keyser, Member of the European Parliament, the 130 EU observers
Hefty fines for Ethiopian publishing houses
Posted 3 hours agoNew York - The Ethiopian Supreme Court reinstated fines on Monday against four newspaper publishing companies over their coverage of the disputed 2005 national election. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ethiopian authorities to end their
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To ease the struggles of their daily lives, the sapeurs of Congo look at thei...
Stephanie McCrummen
Posted 9 hours agoKINSHASA, CONGO -- This vast central African nation is known for many things: the massive corruption of the late leopard-hat-wearing dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, grinding poverty, a devastating conflict in the east. But it is worth noting that Congo is also home to a formidable cult of high fashion,...
U.S. envoy pushes for Darfur peace deal before Sudanese elections
Sudarsan Raghavan
Posted 13 hours agoNAIROBI -- The U.S. special envoy to Sudan warned Wednesday that efforts to bring peace to the country's troubled Darfur region could become less of a priority for the Obama administration if a full-fledged peace agreement is not reached before Sudanese elections scheduled for mid-April.
Abusive Congolese colonel got aid
Stephanie McCrummen
Posted 2 days agoNGUNGU, CONGO -- The United Nations peacekeeping mission in eastern Congo provided food, fuel and logistical support to a Congolese colonel overseeing soldiers accused of gang rapes, massacres and other abuses, months after U.N. human rights investigators included him on a list of the army's most...
Foreign news roundup: Captured Islamists blamed for bombing in Russia
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Posted 4 days agoRUSSIA Russian authorities said Saturday that Islamist militants who were killed and captured in an offensive last week were responsible for the November bombing of a luxury train to St. Petersburg, the deadliest terrorist attack on Russian soil outside the volatile North Caucasus in years.
Key U.N. Security Council nations hedging on calls to sanction Iran
Colum Lynch
Posted 6 days agoUNITED NATIONS -- The United States and its allies face resistance to sanctions on Iran not only from China, but from other influential countries on the U.N. Security Council, principally Brazil, Lebanon and Turkey, raising the possibility of a sharply divided vote on a sanctions resolution.
Sarkozy describes France's 'blindness' to genocide in Rwanda
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Posted 13 days agoKIGALI, RWANDA -- France made serious errors in judgment over the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and wants to ensure that all those responsible for the slaughter are caught and punished, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday.
WHO: Swine flu outbreak has not yet peaked
Rob Stein
Posted 14 days agoThe World Health Organization announced Wednesday that it was too early to declare that the H1N1 pandemic had peaked and urged nations around the world to remain vigilant.
World news in brief: Dutch coalition government collapses
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Posted 18 days agoNETHERLANDS The Dutch coalition government collapsed Saturday over whether to extend the country's military mission in Afghanistan, leaving the future of its 1,600 soldiers fighting there uncertain. An early election is expected.
Former IAEA chief ElBaradei greeted with hero's welcome in Egypt
Associated Press
Posted 19 days agoCAIRO -- Hundreds of supporters greeted former U.N. nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei at the airport upon his return to his native Egypt on Friday, singing songs, chanting pro-reform slogans and calling on the Nobel Prize winner to run for president.
