 Daily Nation He said the government was planning to use a recent story on the new law that he wrote for Nation online portal, the Africa Review, to press charges, but this was only a cover, according to him. “Their real issue is WikiLeaks and how their plot to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| WFP West Africa gets up to speed with the latest on nutrition Reuters AlertNet In country teams, participants had to design a nutrition project for a fictitious West African country with high levels of chronic and acute malnutrition but in a non-emergency setting. In recent years, nutrition has become an increasingly high ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Sweco Wins Major Energy Contracts in Africa Worth EUR 8.7 Million Business Wire (press release) Sweco has longstanding experience of working in Africa and has carried out a number of similar assignments in both urban and rural areas in recent years” Sweco (STO:SWECA)(STO:SWECB) has been awarded several contracts in Africa. The latest projects are ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Schedule: Poetry & Prose pavilion Washington Post Cunningham's most recent book is “By Nightfall.” Signing at 11:30 am In 1993 Rita Dove was appointed poet laureate of the United States by the Library of Congress, making her the youngest person and the first African American to receive this honor. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| High Tide: From Belarus Helping Iran To Brazil's Latest Resignation Wall Street Journal (blog) The FCPAProfessor looks at recent filings in major foreign-bribery cases. Tom Fox on how to prepare for the end of facilitation payments because of the Bribery Act. The Economist says the Bribery Act is smarter than the FCPA because it has a compliance ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The French rumour-mill The Economist Once, he says, the cash was stashed in African drums; another time in a sports bag. He conceded, though, that he had no proof. It comes as no surprise that such practices existed in the past, when a mesh of post-war French ties to Africa known as ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Robertson Global Health Solutions Announces Partnership With Social Network MXit MarketWatch (press release) Robertson Global and MXit recognize significant potential synergies through the integration of RHealth Advisor into MXit and the provision of an RHealth Advisor online consumer offering to be made available to its current user base in South Africa, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Commercial Fleets Will Power Global Natural Gas Vehicle Market Through 2016 Truckinginfo The majority of NGVs are located in Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa, particularly in countries like Pakistan and Iran that lack extensive gasoline refining capacity. In North America, due largely to a lack of convenient refueling stations, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Schedule: History & Biography pavilion Washington Post Her latest work is “Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World.” Signing at 12:30 pm Eric Foner has been on the faculty of Columbia University since 1982. His most recent work, “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| New fiction The Economist Yet the ten novels that have earned him recognition as a sophisticated voice in modern fiction—and one of Africa's most important writers—are all set in Somalia. They combine an intimate dissection of power within the family with a strong dose of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Tourism Australia unveil Dream Team ad campaign NEWS.com.au But Tourism Australia's latest campaign has a message for jeering Aussies: Put your money where your mouth is. Managing director Andrew McEvoy said research had found 86 per cent of Australians think they could sell the country better than his ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| "The Rainbow Project" Gathers Superstars for the Benefit of African Children Soompi Hallyu frontrunner Bae Yong Joon, star producer Park Jin Young, recent Cannes attendee Jeon Ji Hyun and singer/actor Rain led an A-list line-up of actors and idols participating in “The Rainbow Project,” a charity auction to help African children. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Charlotte's music book is wide open Montgomery Newspapers Recorded in one take and accompanied only on the kalimba, an African instrument also known as a thumb piano, Sometimes describes the track as “my lullaby to myself.” “I was dating this guy and he had these kalimbas,” she said. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| A season for all tastes Delaware County Daily Times Meanwhile, the Delaware Theatre Company explores the importance of hats among women in theAfrican-American community in “Crowns,” Theatre 1812 looks at taboos in David Mamet's “Boston Marriage,” and Theatre Exile follows last season's production of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Conroy's gold potential exciting, but can it deliver a mine? Mineweb The latest exploration drilling results at Conroy Gold and Natural Resources' Clontibret gold project in Ireland would seem to add a new gold area within the proposed mining zone which was defined in therecent Wardrop scoping study. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Remittances slip in July -- BSP data BusinessWorld Online MONEY SENT HOME through banks in July by Filipinos working abroad slipped from June, while annual growth rate for that latest month on record was the slowest since April, data the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) released on Thursday show. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Soldier of Fortune Magazine, the NRA and Far-Right Gun-Nuttery Run Amok AlterNet Sign up to stay up to date on the latest News & Politics headlines via email. When I was in sixth grade my parents took away my collection ofSoldier of Fortune magazines. This was in the mid-1980s, the Rambo-era heyday of the "journal of the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Osteen teaches happiness to attendees at service and in new book Houston Chronicle Osteen's friendly persona goes with the positive message that he's known for and the subject of hislatest book, Every Day a Friday: How to Be Happier 7 Days a Week, released on Tuesday. Happiness would seem to be a hard message to tout during such a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Newspaper Briefing, including 'Goldman Sachs forced to withdraw hedge fund ... Proactive Investors UK The 1990s deal, which included BAE Systems, Swedish group Saab and other European companies and was estimated to be worth R30 billion, has been mired in controversy for years amid allegations against senior members of the ruling African National ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Egyptian junta re-enacts an old law to inhibit press freedom The Guardian Look at the latest state of play in Egypt where the ruling military council has reactivated the emergency law once enforced by the administration of deposed premier Hosni Mubarak. The announcement came despite the supreme military council's commitment ... See all stories on this topic » |
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