News & Info From The Horn of Africa
Links open in a second window |
|
| General | Business | Sports | Health | Arts & Entertainment News |
|
|
Regional & Specific News Feeds |
| Djibouti | Eritrea | Ethiopia | Somalia | Somaliland | Sudan | |
|
|
| GENERAL NEWS |
| |
Ethiopia: Hefty fines for Ethiopian publishing houses
The Ethiopian Supreme Court reinstated fines on Monday against four newspaper publishing companies over their coverage of the disputed 2005 national election. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ethiopian authorities to end their continuing pursuit of politically motivated charges related to the election. Judge Dagne Melaku, presiding over ...
Read Africa News article at IndependentOnline - Related articles
Somalia: Mogadishu saga: 23 dead, fighting continues
Fighting between Islamist insurgents and government forces continued for a second day in the Somali capital as medical officials say at least 23 people died in the clashes. The head of Mogadishu"s ambulance service, Ali Muse, said on Thursday he saw 20 bodies on Wednesday after fighting broke out ...
Read Africa News article at IndependentOnline - Related articles
Somalia: UN agency acts on Somali food-aid claims
The UN"s food agency has blacklisted three contractors named in a UN report which alleged that food aid in Somalia was being diverted.The World Food Programme said it would not engage in any new work with the contractors and welcomed the report. The WFP stressed that it had dealt with ...
Read Africa News article at BBC News - Related articles
Somalia: Somali clashes claim 17 lives
Fighting between Somali government forces and al Shabaab rebels in the north of Mogadishu today killed 17 people and wounded 65, a Somali human rights group and rescue services said. Residents said al Shabaab also beheaded two employees of a telecommunications company in the capital who had been accused by ...
Read Africa News article at SABCNews - Related articles
Ethiopia: Hefty fines for Ethiopian publishing houses
The Ethiopian Supreme Court reinstated fines on Monday against four newspaper publishing companies over their coverage of the disputed 2005 national election. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ethiopian authorities to end their continuing pursuit of politically motivated charges related to the election. Judge Dagne Melaku, presiding over ...
Read Africa News article at IndependentOnline - Related articles
Somalia: Dozens die in Somalia in two days of fighting
Heavy fighting between Somali insurgents and pro-government troops has killed at least 43 people over two days, and African Union peacekeepers have used tanks to help the beleaguered government beat back an insurgent attack. Militants attacking from the north on Wednesday came within 2km of the presidential place in ...
Read Africa News article at IndependentOnline - Related articles
Somalia: Mogadishu saga: 23 dead, fighting continues
Fighting between Islamist insurgents and government forces continued for a second day in the Somali capital as medical officials say at least 23 people died in the clashes. The head of Mogadishu"s ambulance service, Ali Muse, said on Thursday he saw 20 bodies on Wednesday after fighting broke out ...
Read Africa News article at IndependentOnline - Related articles
Somalia: Security forces kill Somali food protester
Somali security forces on Monday opened fired at crowds protesting rising food prices in Mogadishu, killing one and wounding four others, witnesses said. "A police patrol opened fire on a crowd in K4 area, killing one and wounding another," said Ahmad Ali Bashir, a witness. Three other demonstrators ...
Read Africa News article at IndependentOnline - Related articles
Somalia: Seventeen killed in Mogadishu
Fighting between Somali government forces and al Shabaab rebels in the north of Mogadishu on Wednesday killed 17 people and wounded 65, a Somali human rights group and rescue services said. Residents said al Shabaab also beheaded two employees of a telecommunications company in the capital who had been ...
Read Africa News article at IndependentOnline - Related articles
Somalia: Somali food prices protest turns violent
Mogadishu, Somalia - Troops fired into tens of thousands of rioting Somalis, killing two people in the latest eruption of violence over soaring food prices around the world. Wielding thick sticks and hurling stones that smashed the windshields of several cars and buses, the rioters jammed the narrow streets ...
Read Africa News article at IndependentOnline - Related articles
Powered by AfricaNewsSearch
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
African News - Index |
|
|
Southern Africa |
|
|
Northern Africa |
|
|
Eastern Africa |
|
|
Western Africa |
|
|
The Great Lakes Region |
|
|
The Horn of Africa |
|
|
World News |
| |
|
|
| |
|
BUSINESS NEWS |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Africa: SA UK agree to double trade
This would take trade back to where it was before the global recession, he told a media briefing at Parliament, following Cabinet"s fortnightly meeting. During talks held during President Jacob Zuma"s recent state visit to the UK - the delegation had included 216 South African business ...
Read Africa News article at Times Live - Related articles
Ghana: DISEC and RESEC urged to fight illegal mining - Accra Mail :: Ghana News Leaders - Ghana News Business
Akyem Pameng (E/R), March 10, GNA - The Minerals Commission has called for efforts from District Security Councils (DISEC) and Regional Security Councils (RESEC) to fight illegal mining and chainsaw activities in their areas. Mr Stephen N.K. Piedu, Deputy Chief Inspector of Mines, said if these activities were not stopped ...
Read Africa News article at The Accra Daily Mail - Related articles
Ghana: GNPC Acquires Land For Gas Processing Plant - Accra Mail :: Ghana News Leaders - Ghana News Business
The Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC) has acquired a large tract of land near Bonyere and Kabla Suazo in the Western Region for the construction of a gas processing plant.The plant will cost between US$800 million and US$1 billion and it will be constructed in phases.The company has already ordered ...
Read Africa News article at The Accra Daily Mail - Related articles
Zimbabwe: Review SA, Zim labour accord
"While the original [memorandum of understanding] signed between us confined itself to the regularisation of the status of Zimbabwean workers in the Beit Bridge area in Limpopo, current circumstances dictate that it be extended to the whole country," said South African Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana. "We have agreed ...
Read Africa News article at Times Live - Related articles
South Africa: Home - Pick n Pay workers challenge dismissal
Submit your comment Sixteen Pick n Pay cashiers in Vryheid have taken the chain store to the CCMA to challenge their “unfair dismissalâ€. Speaking to Sowetan yesterday one of the employees, Zinhle Mthembu, said they were fired for allegedly being short of more than R90 000. She said ...
Read Africa News article at IOL BusinessReport - Related articles
South Africa: Home - Consumer Protection Act has "serious implications"
Submit your comment The Consumer Protection Act (CPA)- to be introduced in October this year - has serious implications in every aspect of business relating to consumer relations, said consultancy House of Performance on Thursday. Gregoire Aucamp, an advisor at the consultancy which focuses on continuous improvement, said retailers, ...
Read Africa News article at IOL BusinessReport - Related articles
Powered by AfricaNewsSearch
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Health News |
|
|
Arts & Entertainment News |
|
|
Sports News |
|
|
|
|
|
