FARMERS in Nigeria get under half their harvest to market because of poor handling, bad roads, and marketing bottlenecks, the agriculture minister has said. Other problems cited were the scarcity and high cost of transportation in some rural areas and difficulties at the ports for exports. In the 1960s Nigeria was a major agricultural exporter […]
DIVERS have found the remains of ships, pink granite statues and a black granite stela from the pharaonic port of Herakleion, which had been lost to the sea for centuries, French explorer Franck Goddio announced on Thursday. “These new archeological discoveries, particularly the stela, allow us to identify the city as being that of Herakleion,” […]
Freetown | Monday SIERRA Leonean rebels have freed another group of child soldiers and the United Nations said on Sunday the move showed the peace process in the West African country was gaining momentum. The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels are notorious for making children fight in the country’s decade-long civil war and urging them […]
SOUTH African Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said that the country’s final telecoms policy plan would be released within weeks and would be little changed from a draft plan. “I don’t think we will have a very great, fundamental difference,” Matsepe-Casaburri told reporters. The minister said the government was looking at all public submissions on the […]
NIGERIAS hundreds of traditional rulers, royals and other dignitaries are battling a proposal in parliament to limit the use of traffic sirens. A bill currently working its way through the national assembly seeks to regulate the use of the siren by Nigeria’s rich and powerful to force a way through the country’s chronic traffic jams. […]
POLITICAL stability, macroeconomic fundamentals and growth and a plan to combat Aids are necessary to attract foreign investment to southern Africa, a business leader said on Friday. “Those countries who compete successfully are those that rank high on this list of criteria,” said Niall FitzGerald, co-chairman of the giant consumer goods company Unilever. FitzGerald was […]
MEMBERS of the South African parliament on Thursday angrily debated the conduct of its speaker after months of accusations that she had tried to control an investigation into a $5.5 billion-dollar arms acquisition deal. Opposition parties charged that speaker Frene Ginwala of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) had abused her power to protect fellow […]
A TEAM of British police are due in Zambia on Monday to help in the investigation of Friday’s murder of Paul Tembo, a former close aide of the Zambian president. Tembo was killed Friday by two unidentified gunmen in what is believed to have been a politically motivated murder. Tembo, 41 was killed on the […]
A 20-strong team of Nigerian police officers will soon leave for Kinshasa to train their counterparts in the DRC, a representative said on Monday. A squad to be led by an assistant police commissioner will conduct a training exercise there at the request of the DRC government, said force representative Haz Iwendi. – AFP
BRUSSELS | Friday A COURT in Brussels has found four Rwandans, including two Catholic nuns, guilty of taking part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide after a landmark eight week-long trial. College teacher Vincent Ntezimana, 39, factory owner and former minister Alphonse Higaniro, 51, as well as nuns Consolata Mukangango, 42, and Julienne Mukabutera, 36, alias […]