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18 bodies from Yemen Airways crash found, Tanzanian police say
Johannesburg - Fishermen have pulled 18 bodies from the Indian Ocean off Tanzania more than a week after 152 people died in a Yemen Airways plane crash, a police spokesman said Friday. The spokesman told the South African radio station SAFM that a we...

[Posted on : 2009-07-10 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Zimbabwe's toddler 'terrorist' struggles to reintegrate - Feature
Harare - A three-year-old Zimbabwean, nicknamed the world's youngest terrorist after his abduction last year by state security agents and imprisonment for three months, is struggling to adjust to life as a free infant. Nigel Mutemagau was two when ...

[Posted on : 2009-07-10 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Mugabe appeals for international investment in Zimbabwe
Harare - President Robert Mugabe on Thursday appealed to international investors to come to Zimbabwe, saying laws limiting foreign ownership of businesses had not been understood. Foreign direct investment is most welcomed as it brings new technolog...

[Posted on : 2009-07-09 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Former UN head Annan provides list on Kenya unrest to The Hague
Nairobi/The Hague - Former UN general secretary Kofi Annan provided to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague a list of names of suspects thought to be behind the bloody rioting after the Kenya's 2007 presidential elections, it was repor...

[Posted on : 2009-07-09 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Mugabe's party forces delay in major constitutional meeting
Harare - The first major meeting of all key participants in Zimbabwe's nascent process to draft a new constitution, due to begin on Friday, has been delayed after demands from President Robert Mugabe's ZANU(PF) party, the head of the draft organizing...

[Posted on : 2009-07-09 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

PREVIEW: Obama-fever in Africa - will he cry for victims of slavery?
Nairobi/Accra - Technically, it is only a short two-day visit, following the G8 summit. But across the continent of Africa, the arrival of US President Barack Obama will be a home-coming of epic proportions. The trip to Ghana will be Obama's first tr...

[Posted on : 2009-07-08 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

400,000 refugees in Eastern Congo since March, says Red Cross
Nairobi/Goma - Fighting between government forces and the rebel militias in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has forced 400,000 people to flee their homes since March, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Wednesday. The bigge...

[Posted on : 2009-07-08 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Somali pirates capture Turkish freighter
Istanbul - Somali pirates captured a Turkish freighter Wednesday in the Gulf of Aden, Turkish news agency Andolu reported. Five armed men stormed the Horizon-1 as it passed through Somali waters. ...

[Posted on : 2009-07-08 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

Comoros confirms 'around 10 bodies' found off Tanzania
Johannesburg - The government of the Comoros islands, where 152 people perished last week in a Yemen Airways plane crash, said Wednesday that Tanzanian authorities had alerted it to the discovery of a number of bodies in Tanzanian waters. The foreig...

[Posted on : 2009-07-08 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

UN: West Africa is transit for 1-billion-dollars of cocaine - Summary
New York - West Africa remains a major transit point for cocaine smugglers who annually channel 20 tons of the drug valued at 1 billion dollars from Latin America to final destinations including Europe, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said Tuesday. ...

[Posted on : 2009-07-07 ] Category : [ Africa (World) ]

 

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