 Reuters India But while the death of Gaddafi was at least partly the result of outside intervention, it is domestic pressure from Africa's increasingly demanding city-dwellers that is forcing the pace of wider political change on the continent. Recent African ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| African Markets - Factors to watch on Oct 21 Reuters Africa EMERGING MARKETS For the top emerging markets news, double click on AFRICASTOCKS For the latest news on African stocks, click on AFRICA FIXED INCOME For news on African fixed income, click on AFRICA CURRENCIES Rising domestic interest rates are likely ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Kenyan Troops Pursue Shabab Militants In Somalia NPR NEAL CONAN, host: As of last weekend, Kenya became the latest African nation to send troops into Somalia. Hundreds of Kenyan soldiers crossed into the drought and famine-stricken country with helicopters and tanks. The avowed goal is to push al-Shabab ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Success must follow calamity Citizen THEY must have plush carpets at Safa House because a lot of stuff has been conveniently swept underneath in recent times. The latest is, of course, “reading-the-rule-book-gate” which has now been put to bed with an official apology and a promise to do ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| McDonald's profit rises as same-store sales grow MarketWatch For the latest period, global same-store sales rose 5%. Same-store sales climbed 4.4% in the US In Europe, same-store sales rose 4.9%, growth the company said was aided in part by restaurant modernizations. The Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Corruption in South Africa The Economist YET another South African chief of police and at least two ministers look set to bite the dust in the latest swirl of corruption scandals to hit President Jacob Zuma's government. An array of other politicians—bosses of state-owned companies, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Voice of the Industry Screen Africa For 22 years the Screen Africa print magazine has been South Africa's most trusted source of industry news, with in-depth articles on issues affecting the industry, news of the latest productions shot in Africa and reports on global technology and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Spare Times for Oct. 21-27 New York Times By ANNE MANCUSO The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. Merchant's House Museum: Candlelight Ghost Tours (Friday and Saturday) Tours every half-hour from 6 to 9:30 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Africa's prospects - FW de Klerk Politicsweb Improvement in the area of democratic governance has slowed down during the past ten years: In its latest survey of political and civil rights, Freedom House in New York reports that there are 9 'free' countries in sub-Saharan Africa; ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Forex - Good morning Emerging Europe/Africa FXMarketAlerts.com It's all looking worryingly reminiscent as, according the latest German guidance, the rabble go into the weekend without a deal on the EFSF in place. Yet another deadline that bought time - almost rather too successfully - has now arrived without the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| ANTHONY BUTLER: Sexwale a worthy but discredited candidate Business Day At a recent "heritage month" launch in Bhisho, he promised tens of millions of rand for heritage projects in the province. Congress of South African Trade Unions general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, who has come to a tactical understanding with the youth ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| World digest STLtoday.com US surprised — As fierce fighting spread to new areas of Somalia on Thursday, US officials said they had been taken by surprise by Kenya's recent march into Somalia to battle Islamist militants. Kenya is one of the closest US allies in Africa, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Amid Spate of Exits, Norton Rose Partner Quits Abu Dhabi Base The National Law Journal Watson-Thorp is joining the financial services company as co-head of lending and finance for wholesale banking legal across the Middle East, Africa and Pakistan. His departure is the latest in a number of recent exits from Norton Rose's Middle East arm... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Jeweller eyes Europe with African-inspired designs Business Daily Africa By Mwikali Lati (email the author) Since coming to Kenya, Adèle Dejak has built her business of designing and making African inspired jewellery and bags with a focus on the Kenyan market. But in her latest collection, she seeks to take her brand to the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 'The Global Unconventional Gas Market Will Reach $75.2bn in 2011', Says ... SYS-CON Media (press release) Visiongain's latest report, The Unconventional Gas Market 2011-2021: Shale Gas, Tight Gas, CBM & Methane Hydrate predict significant growth across the 4 main types of unconventional gas: Shale Gas, Tight Gas, Coalbed Methane & Methane Hydrate. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| November elections in the DRC matter: to its citizens, to European taxpayers ... The Commentator The latest Amnesty International report details a litany of mass rapes and extrajudicial killings in the DRC. The Mo Ibrahim Foundation governance index rates the DRC 51 st out of 53 African countries. It would be easy to become fatalistic about the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Museum and Gallery Listings for Oct. 21-27 New York Times The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Going viral The Australian Sixteen years ago the film Outbreak, inspired by the Ebola virus, used the concept of a virus emanating from Africa and turned it into a thriller; Soderbergh's film covers similar territory but is much more grounded: less a conventional thriller than ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The End Of History OpEdNews Where is the money going to come from to finance Washington's African Empire? Not from Libya's oil. Big chunks of that have been promised to the French and British for providing cover for Washington's latest war of naked aggression. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Tea Party's Surprise National Journal In a recent NBC News/Marist poll, he led the second-place finisher, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, by 4 points. Among voters identifying themselves as tea partiers, Cain's lead grew to 9 points. The latest example of the tea party boosting a... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Blending Hip-Hop and Heraldry New York Times The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. “Black Barbie” collage in a customized frame by Rashaad Newsome. “This is me,” he said one recent afternoon in his studio in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| One More SEC/Citigroup Sweetheart Deal -- Five Reasons to Be Outraged Huffington Post The Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in South Africa granted amnesty for many terrible crimes, for example - but only after the wrongdoers acknowledged their misdeeds and promised not to repeat them. Yet once again bank criminals were allowed to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Giant car carrier calls on East London Creamer Media's Engineering News This is driven by the awarding of significant automotive contracts to local original-equipment manufacturers (OEMs), such as Mercedes-Benz South Africa's (MBSA's) contract with Daimler to produce the next-generation C-Class at its East London plant.... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Sudanese leader setting up Christians for suffering WND.com So, we are really alarmed by the latest statements by the government of Sudan," Racho said. Racho says Al-Bashir's move towards Shariah shows that the government of Sudan hasn't learned anything from its recent loss of the south. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Nokia launches E6, promises no outages IDG News Service "With the E6 , you do not have to go off for three days, unless your IT manager wants you to, " said Kenneth Oyolla, Nokia General Manager for East and Southern Africa. For those who are bit behind , the GM was poking holes at Blackberry Service's ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Scoop for Friday, October 21, 2011 Nashua Telegraph He got to combine work and pleasure for his new role as D'Artagnan in the latest sword-swinging take on “The Three Musketeers,” based on the Alexandre Dumas novel. “There were things I saw in those films that I liked,” Lerman says. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Smile and Metaphor, Crossing Borough Lines New York Times But Mr. Biggers, who was born in 1970 and teaches at Columbia University, has a tendency to overprogram his work conceptually, forcing viewers to read it with reference to a familiar, generalized background of African-American history. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Troika Dialog hires Citi's Walker in preparing for Sberbank era EmergingMarkets.me Walker's appointment is the latest in a recent series of senior recruitments made by Troika, which has been acquired by Sberbank in the latter's efforts to move into investment banking. Walker, who took up his Troika job on October 18, reports to the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Theater Listings for Oct. 21-27 New York Times 7) Evan Cabnet directs Julia Brownell's play about a modern suburban family, the latestoffering from Lincoln Center Theater's new-talent program, LCT3. Dad (CJ Wilson) is a former NFL star driving his daughter to glory as the school's top quarterback ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Libya Plans Gadhafi Burial Wall Street Journal Mr. Obama called attention to the efforts of the US and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies to stop Gadhafi's forces—presenting Thursday's events as the latestin a series of national security and foreign-policy successes that included the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Launching Two New Models in Busworld Kortrijk 2011, KINGLONG Accelerates the ... PR Newswire UK (press release) As leader of the Chinese bus and coaches in the overseas market, KINGLONG has proved itself in accelerated pace in expanding to the international market in recentyears. KINGLONG has covered Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and South America and... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Afternoon Fix: Perry campaign chartered plane used in drug-smuggling ring Washington Post (blog) Dennis Cardoza becomes latest Blue Dog to retire Moammar Gaddafi, President Obama and the 2012 election Is the flat tax Rick Perry's political silver bullet? WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED: * A plane chartered by Texas Gov. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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