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| Sasol Hones In On US Natural Gas As Road Fuel NASDAQ JO, SSL), a chemical company long known for squeezing motor fuel out of coal, is now turning its sights on the glut of natural gas in the US South Africa-based Sasol on Tuesday announced plans to build a plant, at a cost of as much as $10 billion, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| ShelterBox allocates more than $3.5 million to Horn of Africa relief San Francisco Chronicle (press release) The recent months have been busy for ShelterBox, with deployments to six countries involving dozens of ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) members. In the last few weeks, ShelterBox has deployed disaster assessment and response teams to six ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| US durum prices down slightly but still strong Bismarck Farm & Ranch Guide “As we anticipated sales to the European Union are down, but more dramatically, we have no sales on the books to North Africa as of yet,” Peterson noted. In its latest projections which were released the end of August the International Grains Council ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| SA a target for cyber crime The New Age Online The recent surge of new banking Trojans continues to give us more things to worry about. The latestone, named Feodo, has been around for months but is probably considered to be a just variant of the more popular ZeuS and SpyEye malware. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The myth of the 'China model' in Africa Asia Times Online From this perspective, the latest Western criticism may be off target. leave. And when you leave, you don't leave much behind for the people who are there. We don't want to see a new colonialism inAfrica." Asked whether China was a role model for ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| South Africa's farmers struggle to cope with changing climate Reuters AlertNet Recent studies at the University of Cape Town predict that temperatures will increase over the whole of South Africa due to climate change. According to Peter Johnson, an applied climatologist with the university, January temperatures are expected to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| MPs seek Cwele's version of spy drama Business Day Other reports linked the wrangle to the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League, with youth league spokesman Floyd Shivambu saying individuals who had been identified as state security agents were interrogating members of his organisation in a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| No South African recognition for Libya NTC ahead of African meeting NOW LEBANON The inclusive government should represent all of Libya's people, said Nkoana-Mashabane. SouthAfrica boycotted a recent conference on rebuilding the war-torn country in Paris, saying it was unhappy with how the UN agreement was implemented. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| South Africa: Department of Labour Employment Equity Directorate Will Be ... AllAfrica.com Oliphant said it was disturbing to note that while black people accounted for approximately 86 percent of employees covered in the latest reports analysed, they only accounted for 16,9 percent at Top management and 35,9 percent at the Senior Management ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cocaine use in Australia on the rise: UN NEWS.com.au The rise in cocaine seizures in recent years indicates a potential expansion of the cocaine market in Australia, the report released yesterday says, detailing the latest year of published data. Cocaine use is at its highest level since 1993, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Simple Steps Can Save Millions of Newborn Lives Voice of America The latest estimate is that more than three million babies die each year within the first month of life. A report says this is down from 4.6 million deaths in two thousand nine. Still, newborn babies represent about forty percent of all deaths in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Live Q&A: 11 am ET Washington Post (blog) A new space for the Washington area's African-American community. Checkpoint Washington is produced by the national security staff of The Washington Post. By Greg Miller Al-Qaeda has been decimated by a barrage of US operations in recent months but ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| $12bn power, water projects 'ongoing in ME' Trade Arabia The Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2011 report, produced by the United Nations Environment Programme showed that investment growth in the Middle East and Africa last year was up 104 per cent, with developing countries overtaking the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The 2011 Elections and the Advent of Vuvuzela Politics Liberian Daily Observer Similar or related scenarios have been played out elsewhere in West Africa. In Sierra Leone, President Tejan Kabbah witnessed his own Vice President beaten by Ernest Bai Koroma. Before Rawlings stepped aside for the opposition in 2000, Gen. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| GWEN ANSELL: Jazz Business Day IF YOU enjoyed DeeDee Bridgewater's spellbinding sets at the Bassline during the Joy of Jazz, you may already have her most recent album, last year's Billie Holiday tribute, Eleanora Fagan (DDB/Universal), in your collection. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 4 Outsized Stocks From The Aussie Region Seeking Alpha The company was formed in 2001 in a merger between BHP of Australia and Billiton, which had its base in London and operations in South Africa. BHP is currently valued around $225 billion, with a price/earnings ratio of 9.6 (for the trailing twelve ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The War Over Land in Guatemala Upside Down World (IPS) - The violent eviction of 91 rural families in northern Guatemala was the latest incident in the ageold conflict over land in a country where the army is frequently called in to force peasant farmers off their land. "This has been the government ... See all stories on this topic » |
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