Posts having tag: aid and development
G-BISSAU ASKS NOT TO BE ABANDONED! Guinea-Bissau's new leader Raimundo Pereira has appealed for international help to stabilise the country in the wake of the president's assassination. The parliament's speaker, who was sworn in as interim leader on Tuesday, asked the world not to abandon his country. He said that he ...
MPs PASS ZIMBABWE UNITY DEAL BILL ! Morgan Tsvangirai is expected to be sworn in on 11 February Zimbabwe's lower house of parliament has passed a constitutional amendment paving the way for the country's political rivals to share ...
ZIMBABWE AID CONDITIONAL, SAYS US ! Robert Mugabe will remain as president under the proposed unity government The US says it will only consider easing sanctions against Zimbabwe when it sees evidence of real power-sharing between ...
NO CONSENSUS ON AFRICA UNITY PLAN ! Col Gaddafi was elected as the African Union's new head this week African leaders meeting in Ethiopia have failed to reach a consensus on a proposal by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for a United ...
UK TO 'KEEP UP SQUEEZE' ON MUGABE! Robert Mugabe will stay as president under the power-sharing deal Sanctions must be maintained on Zimbabwe to "keep the squeeze" on President Robert Mugabe's inner circle, a British ...
ZIMBABWE DOLLAR SHEDS 12 ZEROS ! Notes valued at millions of Zimbabwe dollars have been virtually worthless Zimbabwe is revaluing its dollar again, removing twelve zeros from the currency with immediate effect. The country's ...
RELIEF AND TREPIDATION IN HARARE ! As Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) agrees to join a unity government with President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF, the BBC's Brian Hungwe in Harare describes a sense of relief tinged with trepidation. Curious human faces were peeping out of busy Harare skyscrapers, as crowds ...
ONE-WOMAN AID MISSION TO ZIMBABWE! By Jonah Fisher BBC News, Johannesburg Fiftieth ...
KENYAN MPS TO CONSIDER POLL COURT ! Some 1,500 people died in the clashes that erupted after the elections Kenya's parliament is reconvening shortly, two months before it was due to end its recess to pass legislation setting up a poll ...
CALL TO SAVE KENYAN POET'S HOME ! The fretwork was meant to keep the damp out At least £2m in donations are required to save the London home of a Kenyan poet which features intricate wooden carvings, the National Trust has ...
THOUSANDS CHEER ETHIOPIA PULL-OUT! Somalis climbed on an abandoned tank after the Ethiopians left the stadium Tens of thousands of Somalis have gathered at the football stadium in Mogadishu to celebrate the withdrawal of Ethiopian ...
MOZAMBIQUE IN FOOD CRISIS WARNING! The UN has warned it is running out of funds to help the 350,000 people in Mozambique in need of food aid. The World Food Programme (WFP) told the BBC that seven of the country's 11 provinces face an acute problem because of poor harvests. Central and southern regions have had less than half ...
NIGERIA'S GAS PROFITS 'UP IN SMOKE' ! By Andrew Walker BBC News, Nigeria ...
ANC LAUNCHES ELECTION MANIFESTO ! South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has unveiled its election manifesto at a packed stadium rally. The party promised massive public spending to create jobs and more government intervention in the economy. With elections in a few months, tens of thousands of supporters ...
GUINEA'S JUNTA MAKES ARMY ARRESTS! The new military leadership in Guinea has made a series of arrests, including some senior military officers, in the past few days, military sources say. There has been no official statement, but some army officials have said that those detained include the former army chief of staff and a former ...
WHAT LIES AHEAD FOR AFRICA IN 2009? By Patrick Smith Editor, Africa Confidential After Ghana's cliff-hanger presidential vote, Africa's election watchers will quickly shift their attention to southern Africa where Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa will all go to the polls in 2009. The economic and ...
FEAR STALKS KENYANS ONE YEAR ON! By Juliet Njeri - BBC news Nairobi . Isaac Mweperi squints in the glaring sun as he stands outside the makeshift UN refugee agency-branded tent that has been his home for the past year. He fled from his home in Kenya's Narok District, where he ...
ZIMBABWE CHILD MALNUTRITION RISES Some five million Zimbabwean rely on food aid, the aid agency says ...
NIGERIA GETS FIRST OIL MINISTER. Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua has named a new minister in charge of the country's troubled oil sector. Rilwanu Lukman, former secretary general of the oil cartel Opec, will now head the petroleum ministry. Until now it was a post the president had kept for himself, as did his ...
S.A. FOOTBALL REVELS IN NEW RICHES ! By Alex Capstick =BBC News, Johannesburg The gleaming new stadium in Soweto is a stunning symbol of the transformation that is taking place in club football in South Africa. The rickety open stands, the uneven playing surface and the sub-standard facilities for players and fans have been ...
