Tag Archives: Africa
S.Africa wants nuclear contracts to stay at home
Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:13pm EDT * Foreign firms under pressure to find local partners * Nuclear power needed for teetering electric grid By Sherilee Lakmidas JOHANNESBURG, April 23 (Reuters) – South Africa wants to see its firms eventually being
South Africa honors late US Sen. Edward Kennedy, 30 others on democracy …
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Africa: Intra-African Trade or Global Integration – a Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma?
Geneva — Though the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has long held that trade between African countries is too low, experts at the South Centre, an inter-governmental think tank of developing countries, say intra-continental trade is already significant in manufactured goods
Princess providing royal aid to South African swimmers
Princess Charlene of Monaco, an ex-South Africa Olympic swimmer, has invited the swim team to camp in the principality in June for their final buildup to the games, Swimming South Africa said on Monday. Charlene Wittstock, who married Prince Albert
African viewpoint: The Olympic divide
24 April 2012 Last updated at 04:50 ET In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, Ugandan writer Joel Kibazo considers whether is Africa interested in this year’s Olympic Games due to held in London. London, the beloved city where
Expelled South African youth leader awaits appeal decision
Johannesburg (CNN) — Julius Malema will learn Tuesday whether his suspension from South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party will be overturned. Malema, the controversial former president of the Youth League of the ANC, was banned earlier this month from
Anglo sells Scaw South Africa for $440 million
Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:53am EDT (Reuters) – Miner Anglo American (AAL.L) has sold the South African arm of steelmaker Scaw Metals for $440 million to an investment consortium in a long-awaited deal, bringing proceeds from its drive to divest
India, Africa slow global progress in measles fight
By Kate Kelland LONDON | Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:12am IST LONDON (Reuters) – Death rates from measles fell 74 percent between 2000 and 2010, missing an internationally agreed target for a 90 percent fall mainly because of low vaccine
Upheaval in West Africa: Could Nigeria Be Next?
The recent coups in Guinea-Bissau and Mali raise question regarding whether radical political change will sweep other parts of west and sub-Saharan Africa. The region is of course no stranger to dramatic and frequent political change, with 26 successful coups
