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Egypt confirms site for its first nuclear plant
Egypt has picked the Dabaa site on the Mediterranean coast for its first nuclear power plant, the official news agency MENA said on Wednesday....read more »
Nigeria ready to release $2 bln for power, aviation
Category: Business. Location: Nigeria. Source: Reuters. Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
Nigeria's central bank said on Wednesday it was ready to release 300 billion naira from a fund set aside to stimulate credit to the domestic power sector and the troubled airline industry....read more »
10 now arrested in shooting of ex-Rwandan general
Category: General. Location: Rwanda. Source: Associated Press. Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
Police say they have now arrested 10 men in the shooting of a former Rwandan general exiled in South Africa....read more »
Semenya named in South Africa Commonwealth Games squad
Category: Sports. Location: South Africa. Source: Reuters. Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
Caster Semenya, the women's 800 metres world champion, was named in South Africa's Commonwealth Games squad on Wednesday.
Semenya has made just three competitive appearances since being cleared to race by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) after a series of gender verification tests....read more »
Semenya has made just three competitive appearances since being cleared to race by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) after a series of gender verification tests....read more »
Top S.Africa labour group threatens to widen strike
Category: General. Location: South Africa. Source: Reuters. Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
South Africa's biggest labour federation COSATU on Tuesday threatened to expand a state workers' strike next week to all of its members, which could deal a heavy blow to manufacturing in Africa's largest economy....read more »
Botswana needs cuts due to diamond drop: World Bank
Category: Business. Location: Botswana. Source: Reuters. Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
The world's largest diamond producer Botswana should cut its public sector by at least 25 percent to make up for potentially diminishing funds it will receive from the gems, the World Bank has said....read more »
Powerful ex-gang leader shot in Nigerian oil hub
Category: General. Location: Nigeria. Source: Reuters. Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
A powerful former Nigerian gang leader accused of helping to rig elections in the oil-producing Niger Delta was shot late on Tuesday, raising fears of retaliation in the volatile region....read more »
Ban Ki-moon sends top aide to Congo after mass rape
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent a top official to Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday after a mass rape of women by rebels in the east that U.N. peacekeepers say they only heard about over a week later....read more »
S.Africa to amend exchange controls for companies
Category: Business. Location: South Africa. Source: Reuters. Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
South Africa plans to revise its exchange controls for companies and will delay tightening rules that govern cross-border interest taxation until 2013, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Tuesday....read more »
Train rams minibus in S.Africa, at least 8 children dead
Category: General. Location: South Africa. Source: Reuters. Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
At least eight South African children were killed on Wednesday when a minibus carrying them to school drove through a barrier at a railroad crossing and was rammed by a train, officials said....read more »
Car bomber attack on Mauritanian army base thwarted
Category: General. Location: Mauritania. Source: Reuters. Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
A suspected Islamist attacked a Mauritanian military base with a car bomb on Tuesday night, but the attack was foiled when soldiers opened fire on the vehicle, a Mauritanian military said....read more »
Al Shabaab push towards the palace of Somali President
Category: General. Location: Somalia. Source: Reuters. Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
Somali Islamist rebels pushed towards the presidential palace late on Tuesday but were repelled by heavy shelling by government troops, an army officer said on Wednesday....read more »
Consensus in Egypt party for another Mubarak term
There is consensus in Egypt's ruling party backing Hosni Mubarak, 82, to run again for the presidency in 2011 but any bid would depend on a decision by the president, the party's secretary-general said....read more »
S.Africa aiming for 7 pct annual GDP growth: Zuma
Category: Business. Location: South Africa. Source: Reuters. Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
South Africa's economy should soon be able to generate 7 percent annual growth for years through economic plans currently being developed, President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday during a state visit to China....read more »
Nigeria: Feared gang leader believed dead, again
Category: Business. Location: Nigeria. Source: Associated Press. Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
Police believe unknown gunmen killed a Nigerian gang leader accused of helping rig the 2007 election in the nation's oil-rich and violence-wracked southern delta, authorities said Wednesday, though officers have yet to find his body....read more »
Shell shuts plant in Nigeria after protest
Shell has shut down an oil facility in southern Nigeria due to protests by a group of local women, a company spokesman said Wednesday, after a similar demonstration targeted a Chevron pipeline....read more »
Train hits van in SAfrica; kills at least 9 kids
Category: General. Location: South Africa. Source: Associated Press. Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
A driver taking children to school went around a closed railroad crossing gate Wednesday, then collided with an oncoming train that killed at least nine pupils and injured five others, police and witnesses said....read more »
Central Bank sets up fund for Nigeria power, air sectors
Nigeria's Central Bank on Tuesday said it has set up a 300 billion naira (1.6 billion euro, 2.0 billion dollar) fund to assist private investments in the power and aviation sectors.
"The purpose of the fund is to help sustain private sector investment in the two sectors," the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said in a statement....read more »
"The purpose of the fund is to help sustain private sector investment in the two sectors," the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said in a statement....read more »
Egypt clamps down on security after museum theft
Egypt pledged on Tuesday to implement strict measures to protect its cultural and archaeological riches after the theft of a Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece in broad daylight from an unguarded Cairo museum.
Antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass said alarm systems in museums across the country would be upgraded and linked to a central control room monitored by security forces....read more »
Antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass said alarm systems in museums across the country would be upgraded and linked to a central control room monitored by security forces....read more »
4 executed in Equatorial Guinea coup plot
Category: General. Location: Equatorial Guinea. Source: Associated Press. Posted by Justin Mensah on Wed, 25th Aug 2010.
Equatorial Guinea's government on Tuesday defended the execution of four alleged coup plotters just an hour after they were condemned in a case that Amnesty International called a "pretense of justice."...read more »
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