GAVIN PATTISON and OWN CORRESPONDENT, Gulu | Thursday AN INTERNATIONAL team of health experts has arrived in northern Uganda to help contain an outbreak of the Ebola virus which has already killed 39 people – but health workers fear they will discover more cases in the next few days as medical teams reach remote villages. […]

SA power group Eskom has signed an agreement with its Nigerian counterpart to help repair Nigeria’s crumbling electricity grid. Negotiations between Eskom and Nigeria’s National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) are expected to be concluded by the end of this month. Financial details of the accord were not available. Eskom has an installed capacity to generate […]

HYDRO Air, a South African company, is launching its first-ever cargo service and first Africa-European air service in the first week of November – and is considering the possibility of launching a sea-air service between Europe and Africa in the longer term, because larger vessels could not serve smaller ports in Africa. ”The initial idea […]

THE International Monetary Fund has increased its loan programme for Kenya by $52m to help the East African nation deal with the effects of one of its most severe droughts ever. The Washington-based lending agency said it would increase its three year poverty-reduction loan to $247m, including $26 million which would be made immediately available. […]

KENYA’S parliament has passed a motion to stop the government laying off civil servants as part of a World Bank-backed plan to cut the size of the public sector. Opposition members of parliament pushed through the motion, which calls on the government to stop laying off workers until it provides detailed plans on how it […]

STELLA MAPENZAUSWA and OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Thursday SHARP divisions are starting to emerge in Zimbabwe’s beleaguered government after police and soldiers fought running battles with protesters in a Harare township for a third successive day of riots against soaring food prices. ZANU-PF parliamentarian Charles Ndhlovu said he would demand in parliament that the government […]

AFP and OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday A BOMB exploded on Wednesday outside a restaurant in Cape Town’s Kenilworth suburb, just south of the city centre, injuring four people, police and rescue sources said. The bomb exploded around 9:00am in front of the Something Fishy eatery, which was not open for business, on the […]

ANGOLA’S lawmakers have extended their own mandate for the third time because of the ongoing civil war, the deputy speaker of parliament Juliao Paulo Mateus said. While the constitution gives lawmakers a four-year term, the parliament formed after elections in 1992 have twice extended their mandates. Mateus did not say how long the new mandate […]

GRIFFIN SHEA, Harare | Wednesday ZIMBABWEAN authorities have deployed troops in the streets of Harare to help police quell riots in the capital, where residents have taken to the streets and clashed with security forces for two days running to protest soaring food prices. Shops closed, public transport shut down and schools turned students away […]

Own Correspondent, Cape Town | Wednesday A DEFIANT Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has thrown down the gauntlet to “profiteering pharmaceutical companies” by smuggling a cut-price consignment of generic drugs into the country to treat HIV/Aids-related diseases, saying affordable drugs could save thousands of lives. TAC chairman Zackie Achmat said the group has imported 5000 Biozole […]