A DROUGHT-induced famine is currently ravaging Burkina Faso’s northeastern Dori region, threatening livestock and causing an exodus, especially of labourers, the Danish NGO Danida said Tuesday. “The cereal shortage is causing prices to rise on the local markets,” said Issoufou Ganou, Danida official in charge of Dori. Prices of millet, for instance, has tripled, Ganou […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kigali | Wednesday COUNTRIES and rebel groups accused by a UN-appointed panel of fuelling the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo by plundering the countrys resources have rejected the charges. Rwanda scoffed that they were “without foundation”. Uganda called them “baseless”. Burundi dismissed them as “false”. The Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), […]
STEVEN SWINDELLS, Pretoria | Wednesday THE world’s mightiest drug companies are reconsidering the resumption of their court battle against a South African law allowing imports of cheap copies of their patented anti-Aids drugs. The Business Day newspaper and the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported early on Wednesday that the 39 companies would drop the case […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday THE world’s most powerful drug firms have come under a renewed deluge of criticism from Aids activists, who say the industry puts profits ahead of the lives of the 25 million Africans who live with HIV-Aids. The attack came before the resumption of a landmark case in the Pretoria High […]
SOUTH Africa’s all-items consumer price index rose by 7.4% in the year to March, while the CPIX index targeted by the central bank rose by 7.5%, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. A Reuters consensus poll of economists had forecast CPIX rising 7.4% from 7.7%, while CPI was predicted to gain 7.4% versus 7.8% in […]
OFFICIALS in Benin have boarded a ship suspected of trafficking child slaves that docked in the country’s commercial capital, but there was no sign of the scores of children the vessel was thought to have been carrying. Ramatou Baba Moussa, the social protection minister, said the Nigerian-registered MV Etireno, which UN and local officials originally […]
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MOZAMBIQUE has begun issuing tourist visas at the country’s main borders and at Maputo airport, the nation’s top tourism official said on Monday. “The measure is aimed at increasing tourism in our country, which has made a significant contribution to the national economy,” said national tourism director Antonio Saia. Although called a tourist visa, Saia […]