AFRICA News, Aug 31, 2011

U.S. Probes Oracle Dealings Wall Street Journal Oracle is the latest company to be tripped up by a US probe into bribery allegations inAfrica, where it is trying to expand its presence. It sells a wide-range of computer technology, data management and applications software for businesses and ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

Growth in South Africa? Go North… Knowledge@Wharton But is South Africa at risk of losing ground in SSA's “economic renaissance” to China and the other growth-hungry BRIC markets of Brazil, Russia and India? That question was posed in a recent analyst note from Deutsche Bank. While SouthAfrica is “in ... See all stories on this topic » Knowledge@Wharton

Kenya gets grip on rates but faces confidence crisis CTV.ca The benchmark NSE 20 index was the second-best performer in Africa in 2010 but hit a 20-month low last week. The central bank has won some sympathy in the markets for its argument that ramping up benchmark interest rates to fight inflation would be ... See all stories on this topic »

Africa: Fear And Loathing in South Africa - the Malema Phenomenon AllAfrica.com NATO is overthrowing Gaddafi in the latest of the ebbs and flows of the Arab Spring; the indignant of Spain and Greece are rising up against austerity programmes; and global dominance is seeping away from a debt-ridden US. The world is changing. ... See all stories on this topic »

Al Qaeda Ties Seen for Nigeria Group Wall Street Journal That marked roughly the beginning of a string of attacks this summer attributed to the group here in Africa's most populous country, an important oil exporter. Nigeria's latestattack, a suicide bombing Friday at the UN compound in the capital, Abuja, ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

Ministers, NAACP Say Police Shootings, Violence Plague African-American Community 10TV A group of ministers and the Columbus chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said on Tuesday that the recent police-involved shootings and other violence plagued the African-American community more than any other. ... See all stories on this topic »

Behind Liberty Properties profitable portfolio Moneyweb.co.za ALEC HOGG: Are you doing any of those developments in conjunction with Shoprite because Whitey Basson was telling us, again in a recent interview, how Africa is still very appealing to him, particularly now that other people are doing the development ... See all stories on this topic »

Africa: China/Africa - Development Lessons, 1 AllAfrica.com China-DAC Study Group While the rising economic involvement of China in Africa has drawn wide attention in recent years, there has been significantly less attention to the impact of the Chinese model in thinking about development strategies in Africa. ... See all stories on this topic »

Nearly 800 pieces of ivory seized in Hong Kong WWF International “This latest Hong Kong seizure further underscores Malaysia's role as an intermediary country in the illicit flow of African ivory to Asia,” said Milliken. “It's time for Malaysia to get tough on international ivory smugglers, who are tarnishing the ... See all stories on this topic »

Ecommerce news: Amazon launches South Africa-based customer service centre Hostway When we offer customer services let's make it from people who are nice, we found that in South Africa." In addition, Mr Onetto suggested that the recent announcement could signal an increase in activity in South Africa after halting shipments to the ... See all stories on this topic » Hostway

Local Musician Adam Klein on Malian Artist Vieux Farka Touré Flagpole Magazine One of the latest and most significant rising stars of Malian music, Vieux has performed before one billion people along with Alicia Keys, Black Eyed Peas, and fellow Malians Tinariwen at the 2010 World Cup, leapt from the shadows of his late father, ... See all stories on this topic » Flagpole Magazine

Obama's approval rating remains at a record low Los Angeles Times Since then, the president's approval rating has steadily evaporated to where in the group's latest computations, only African Americans, Democrats and liberals continue to give Obama majority support. At 83%, Obama continues to receive broad support ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

September start for domestic cricket Independent Online “I am sure we all look forward to the next group of players following the same path with the recent results of South Africa A, the Emerging Squad and South Africa under-19 being highly encouraging.” – Sapa. See all stories on this topic » Independent Online

ANTON HARBER: Zulu papers escape trend of falling circulation Business Day It may also explain the recent shake-up in management and editorial positions in that company. Most of the newspapers said nothing about their latest circulation figures. Usually, they find some way of using the figures to their advantage, ... See all stories on this topic »

Information Fact Sheet 4-traders (press release) Golden Rim Resources Ltd (ASX: GMR, Golden Rim) today announced its latest Information Fact Sheet (attached). The Information Fact Sheet will initially be distributed at the Africa Down Under Conference which begins today in Perth, Western Australia. ... See all stories on this topic »

Black women avoid exercise to maintain hair The Voice AN AFRICAN American doctor has urged women who forgo exercising in order to protect their hairstyles, to focus more on their health instead. At a recent hair show in Atlanta, Dr Regina M. Benjamin explained that women, in particular black women, ... See all stories on this topic » The Voice

James Bond 23 Titled 'Carte Blanche'? Plot Details Revealed? Screen Rant A recent article from Blic Online has revealed that Serbian cellist Jelena Mihailovic was approached by Mendes and his fellow Bond producers to work on the opening theme for 007′s latest venture. However, the juiciest piece of information revealed in ... See all stories on this topic » Screen Rant

Local News from All Over Earth Island Journal When the Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell decided to start exploring for natural gas in South Africa's semi-desert wilderness called the Karoo, company officials bought ads in several prominent newspapers to boast how safe the practice of hydraulic ... See all stories on this topic » Earth Island Journal

Kenya to float tender for pipeline in December Reuters Africa We can not go forward, we need to replace this pipeline by December 14 at the latest," said Nyoike. East Africa's biggest economy has faced constant fuel shortages in therecent past primarily due to inefficiencies of the refinery, almost crippling the ... See all stories on this topic » Reuters Africa

Nightwatchman's still keeping a close eye on Gov. Walker Madison.com This latest effort incorporates everything from hypnotic African spirituals (“Facing Mount Kenya”) to blasts of riff-rock guitar shredding that wouldn't have sounded out of place in his other band, Rage Against the Machine. “This was a record where I ... See all stories on this topic »

Australia condemns 'irresponsible' Wikileaks cable leak BBC News In a statement on its website, Wikleaks said its latest release contained 133887 cables sent from US embassies around the world to the state department - more than half its whole cache. "For the first time, the diplomatic cables are available from ... See all stories on this topic »

Eid-ul-Fitr celebrated with great religious zeal, fervor Associated Press of Pakistan WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (APP): Pakistan is ranked as one of top countries that registered high growth rates in broadband Internet penetration among their populace, the latest worldwide data report for Q1 2010 to Q1 2011 says. Serbia leads all countries ... See all stories on this topic »

Calling The Marc Cape Business News ... a respected club rugby team that won the English premier division this year (with the help of a few South African players). Despite Saracens recent successes (it was runner up in the premier division last year) Remgro's latest results to end March ... See all stories on this topic »

Pan African Shopfitters Business Excellence Magazine That may seem a paradoxical claim, but when it is considered that Pan African's customers include world leading companies like British Home Stores and Clarks, whose designers are onto the latestmarketing devices a season before the trade ever hears of ... See all stories on this topic »

Zinnovation Spruces Mobile Banking Technology Bulawayo24 Interact is a result of Zinnovation's partnership with Absolute systems in South Africa, one of the largest financial solutions company in South Africa, who are already dominating the southern space with the very same technology. In the near future, ... See all stories on this topic » Bulawayo24

Pressure Grows on Hillary to Challenge Sinking Obama NewsMax.com His poll figures among Latinos have fallen from 85 percent approval in 2009 to 49 percent now. His figures among African Americans remain in the 80s, but only this month Rep. Maxine Waters urged supporters to “unleash” her and other Congressional Black ... See all stories on this topic »

Too Much of a Good Thing The Vienna Review In 1970 he moved to South Africa where he worked as a press photographer for Daily Mail and the Sunday Times in Johannesburg. His essays documenting the apartheid system of that time became classics of photo-journalism as well as camera art. ... See all stories on this topic »

New tournament for PSL NewsDay The latest sponsorship comes at a time when the majority of local clubs continue to struggle with viability challenges due operational costs. Local football fans have in recent years been starved of local cup competitions as the economic situation in ... See all stories on this topic »

Print is dead…or not BusinessLIVE With the recent closure of two prominent UK magazine titles, one would be inclined to agree with the doomsayers: print is where words go to die. She, the 65th most purchased magazine in the UK, has closed. Cosmopolitan Bride has also been shut down. ... See all stories on this topic »

Microsoft Donates $8M Software Grant to Thurgood Marshall College Fund ... MarketWatch (press release) This most recent partnership resulted in an $8 million software grant from the Redmond, WA-based company to help support TMCF-member schools. Over the past seven years, Microsoft has provided TMCF-member schools with $21 million in software. ... See all stories on this topic »

More SA government websites running Joomla! Media Update “Joomla! has built up a dedicated following across the world and in South Africa because it is so effective and easy to use,” says Walter Penfold, managing director of Prefix Technologies, whose pMailer product was a sponsor of the recent Joomla! ... See all stories on this topic »

More uncertainty for Forties forecasting Commodities Now Online But as Forties almost always sets the price of Dated Brent, itself the basis of crude prices throughout Europe and West Africa, the change is significant. Forties is one of the main constituents of "paper" Brent, the over-the-counter market that ... See all stories on this topic »

Suicide bombing: It's time to renegotiate Nigeria - Eminent Nigerians, groups ... Nigerian Tribune It said that the spate of bombings in the country, especially the latest suicide attacks on the police and the United Nations headquarters as well as the untold casualties so far recorded was compelling enough to necessitate an urgent process of ... See all stories on this topic »

Fall preview 2011: international books Quill & Quire (blog) Known for his stories in Jesus' Son and the National Book Award–winning novel Tree of Smoke, hislatest work tells the story of Robert Grainer, a forlorn labourer in the 20th-century American West, struggling to cope with the loss of his family. ... See all stories on this topic »

Shop til you drop ArabianBusiness.com The survey also showed how the regional outlook was improving on all five points, and that the Middle East's aggregate score of 83.4 was substantially higher than that of Asia/Pacific (61.5) and Africa (73.8). See all stories on this topic » ArabianBusiness.com

UPI NewsTrack TopNews UPI.com "Livelihoods and local economies depend on swift relief and assistance in the event of a natural disaster," Price said, "and the millions of Americans affected by Irene and other recent events can't afford to wait around while Republicans pick another ... See all stories on this topic »

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Great white shark suspected in fatal hit on South African surfer; latest ... Great white shark suspected in fatal hit on South African surfer; latest in spate of ... bit his leg and groin off Lookout Beach, South Africa's News 24 reported. ... A wave of recent shark attacks have occurred in waters that are generally jaws-free. ... articles.nydailynews.com/.../29939677_1_shark-attack-andy-d...

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