PETER CUNLIFFE-JONES, Lagos | Monday MTN Nigeria Ltd, the Nigerian subsidiary of South Africa’s Mobile Telephone Networks (MTN), launches its new mobile network Wednesday in a market that could eventually be a bigger earner than South Africa. Mobile phones are spreading across Africa, circumventing infrastructure problems, but, until this week, access to mobile phones has […]

INDUSTRIALISTS have called on the Kenyan government to improve the country’s business environment by tackling corruption, improving the infrastructure and reducing taxes, Reuters reported on Thursday. “We became a kind of spoilt boy and we took things for granted, whereas in fact Kenya is no longer a favoured destination for investment,” it quoted Suru Tanna, […]

IFAT Madar, the Israeli tourist who disappeared on 21 July while climbing the Chimanimani Mountains, has been found safe and alive. She was spotted by Mozambican officials on Thursday morning on the Mozambican side of Kweza Peak, the mountain range she was climbing when she went missing. Madar(22) strayed into Mozambique and miraculously survived near-freezing […]

Johannesburg | Monday THE South African automobile industry faces a strike by 21_000 members after last ditch talks on Sunday to resolve the deadlock were cancelled, a union official confirmed. “We decided not to have a meeting with the employers after realising that they will not provide any solution to the problem,” Dumisa Ntuli, spokesman […]

FIVE British members of parliament were on Sunday on a humanitarian fact-finding mission in the rebel held town of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A delegation spokesman said the team had to explore “the humanitarian situation in DRC,” especially in the east, which is controlled by the Rwandan-backed Congalese Rally for Democracy […]

THE Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions urged thousands of Swazi workers on Sunday to boycott King Mswati III’s consitutional summons. Mswati has called upon the entire Swazi nation to converge on Friday outside the capital Mbabane, where he will present the findings of a Constitutional Review Commission (CRC). Union leaders called on their supporters at […]

DIMENSION Data on Monday announced a new US management and organisational structure, pulling its recent acquisitions there together under one brand. Didata North America Executive Chairman Peter Hird said the new structure would bring all its existing US firms into one organisation to provide integrated services. Raul Fernandez, the former CEO of Proxicom, becomes chief […]

Freetown | Monday MORE than 1_000 combattants fighting in Sierra Leone’s protracted civil war laid down their weapons in the single largest day of disarmament in the key district of Kono, a United Nations official said on Sunday. Patrick Coker, acting spokesman for UNAMSIL, the UN mission in Sierra Leone, said a total of 1_088 […]

SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Sunday ZIMBABWE’S leading civic groups on Saturday called for an end to political violence, economic decay, land reforms and stressed the need for free and fair presidential polls next year. Some 500 delegates drawn from rights groups and labour unions across the country attended the one-day conference here dubbed “Crisis in […]