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AllAfrica: Africa News
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Liberia: Some Women Ready to Fight Again Female ex-combatants are twice as likely as men to take up weapons again to escape poverty, based on a recent US-funded survey of more than 1,000 former fighters in Liberia. Almost 30 percent of the people surveyed said they were willing to take up arms again to earn a living wage, family and community acceptance, and respect for their tribe or religion.
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Africa: India-Brazil-South Africa Should Align With China The India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) formation could have enough clout to stand up to the European Union and the U.S. but it needs the help of emerging superpower China. Alternatively it should align with the BRIC (Brazil-Russia-India-China) group.
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Zimbabwe: Power-Sharing Deal Collapsing Former South African president Thabo Mbeki is expected to arrive soon in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, in a bid to salvage a power-sharing deal that is in danger of collapsing a month after it was signed.
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Sierra Leone: Tony Blair Mission Due in Freetown As part of his role as an unpaid advisor to His Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma, Tony Blair has this week sent a small team of his staff to support the Government of Sierra Leone in attracting private investment and working with the government to further improve on governance processes and capacity building.
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Tanzania: Jubilant Opposition Celebrate a Win Jubilant Chadema supporters painted the town blue as they celebrated convincing victories over the ruling CCM in the poll which saw Mr Charles Mwera and Mr John Heche win the parliamentary and civic seats, respectively.
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Malawi: Help for Women With Obstetric Fistula A group of 138 unhappy and mostly destitute women from Malawi's lake district of Mangochi have something to look forward to this week: They will have a chance to restore their dignity and pride by accessing a medical service usually not available to them.
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Zimbabwe: Power-Sharing Deal Faces Parliament Scrutiny Zimbabwe's fragile power sharing agreement was facing parliamentary scrutiny on Tuesday as former South African President Thabo Mbeki pressed on with efforts to break the impasse over the allocation of cabinet posts.
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Ghana: Party Leader Rebukes Rawlings Over Atrocities Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Flag bearer, has openly rebuked the founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings over atrocities committed under his regime.
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Rwanda: Ex-Minister Pleads Not Guilty to Genocide A former Rwandan cabinet minister, Augustin Ngirabatware, 50, Friday pleaded not guilty to ten counts of genocide and crimes against humanity during his initial appearance before the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), reports Hirondelle Agency.
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Africa: What's Working? What's Not? - U.S. Policy Opening remarks by Ambassador Frances D. Cook at the October 7th plenary session, "U.S. Policy in Africa: What's working? What's Not? - Creating stronger partnerships while promoting stability and growth" of the U.S.-Africa Infrastructure Conference sponsored by the Corporate Council on Africa.
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Nigeria: Senate Probes Chevron Gas Project The Senate Committee on Gas Resources was yesterday told how Chevron Nigeria Limited allegedly inflated the Escravos Gas-to-Liquid (EGTL) project from $1.7 billion to $5.9 billion without due process.
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South Africa: Union Boss Decries Battles in Ruling Alliance THE independence of the trade union movement has been compromised by "factional battles" in the tripartite alliance, embattled National Union of Mineworkers of SA (Numsa) general secretary Silumko Nondwangu said yesterday at Numsa's eighth national congress.
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South Africa: Ruling ANC Suspends Dissident Leader IN ITS strongest action yet against African National Congress (ANC) dissidents, the party last night suspended former defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota and former deputy defence minister Mluleki George.
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Zambia: Police Directed to Shoot to Kill Inspector-General of Police, Ephraim Mateyo has directed police officers countrywide to shoot and kill dangerous armed criminals because the law allows them to do so.
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Zimbabwe: Civil Society Calls for Protests Against Mugabe The Secretary General of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) Raymond Majongwe, and Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) leader Jenni Williams, have both called for street protests against Mugabe's move to grab the key ministries.
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Africa: Global Finance Crisis Threatens Refugees The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, has appealed to international donors not to cut back on aid to humanitarian programmes amid a global financial crisis that has shuttered financial institutions in rich countries.
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Liberia: Mental Health Problems Breed Violence Liberia's only mental health specialist says the country is experiencing an increase in post-traumatic stress disorders because the country's two disarmament processes during 14 years of conflict did not address the psychosocial needs of ex-combatants, especially that of youths.
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Nigeria: Oil Windfall Savings Gone, Says Central Banker NIGERIA'S enormous savings from the oil windfall have been depleted and what is left may not tide the country over any financial turn down should oil price fall below the budget benchmark of $62 per barrel, according to the Governor of the Central Bank (CBN), Professor Chukwuma Soludo.
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Mozambique: Not Enough Trained Teachers for 2009 Despite the efforts undertaken to step up teacher training, the Mozambican Education Ministry simply will not have enough trained teachers available to fill all of next year's teaching vacancies.
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