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October 2008

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» 31.10.2008 - Mbeki rejects reports of campaigning for ANC in 2009 polls
» 31.10.2008 - Opposition criticises constitutional amendment
» 31.10.2008 - Global shocks huge challenge for Uganda, IMF
» 31.10.2008 - Six tourists killed in road accident
» 31.10.2008 - Nigeria cuts oil production
» 31.10.2008 - Two Austrian hostages freed in Mali
» 31.10.2008 - Cameroonian militia threatens to kill hostages
» 30.10.2008 - Cholera spreads to Zim's capital
» 30.10.2008 - DR Congo rebel leader announce ceasefire
» 30.10.2008 - Pirates hijacks Turkish vessel
» 30.10.2008 - UN extends ban on arms and diamond in Cote d'Ivoire
» 30.10.2008 - Nigeria suspends $8.3 billion railway project
» 30.10.2008 - Gaddafi expected in Russia
» 30.10.2008 - MSF pulls out of Niger
» 30.10.2008 - Two African migrants die aboard fishing boat to Spain
» 29.10.2008 - Somaliland under terrorist attack
» 29.10.2008 - Zambia's vice president warns of violence ahead of polls
» 29.10.2008 - Ray of hope as power plant kicks off in Nigeria
» 29.10.2008 - Sudan condemns killing of oil workers
» 29.10.2008 - Major blow for Botswana beef exports
» 29.10.2008 - Victory for Botswana bushmen as mining company withdraws
» 29.10.2008 - UN halts rebel advances in DRC
» 29.10.2008 - Ethiopia blames Somali government for instability
» 29.10.2008 - French oil company plans to exploit tar sands in Congo
» 29.10.2008 - Investment in human lives essential amid financial crisis
» 28.10.2008 - West Africa under serious threat of illegal drug trade
» 28.10.2008 - IFJ condemns conviction of Algerian journalist
» 28.10.2008 - Somali woman stoned to death for adultery
» 28.10.2008 - Ex Mauritanian minister faces prison sentence
» 28.10.2008 - Congolese rebels expand attacks on army and peacekeepers
» 28.10.2008 - Egyptian couple arrested for swapping sex partners
» 28.10.2008 - Five Chinese oil workers killed in Sudan
» 28.10.2008 - SADC security body calls on leaders to resolve Zim crisis
» 28.10.2008 - Egypt's 1st Lady targets female genital mutilation
» 27.10.2008 - Conservationists cry foul of Southern Africa ivory auction
» 27.10.2008 - Schoolboy jailed for his love for Spanish team
» 27.10.2008 - Still no hope for hijacked Ukrainian ship in Somalia
» 27.10.2008 - SA Mining giants warned of deteriorating safety
» 27.10.2008 - Kenya needs US$4.5 billion to improve infrastructure
» 27.10.2008 - Angry DRC citizens attack UN compound
» 27.10.2008 - Pope to visit Cameroon and Angola next year
» 27.10.2008 - Somali peace deal acknowledged by UN envoy
» 27.10.2008 - Kenya's post-election violence must be tackled, UN official
» 25.10.2008 - Cape Town women face record strangulation risk
» 25.10.2008 - New coral reef discovered in Seychelles
» 25.10.2008 - Seychelles Central Bank governor resigns
» 24.10.2008 - Somali teenage jail birds receive UN assistance after release
» 24.10.2008 - SA recalls White Rabbit sweets
» 24.10.2008 - Banda calls for calm in Zambia's fourth presidential polls
» 24.10.2008 - Anti-poverty activits to push for more commitment on MDGs
» 24.10.2008 - EU respond to Guinea-Bissau's cholera epidemic
» 24.10.2008 - First UN-trained Chadian forces deployed to protect civilians
» 24.10.2008 - SA court declares 'samurai boy' fit to stand trail
» 24.10.2008 - Another small plane crash in South Africa
» 23.10.2008 - Nine captured pirates handed to Somali authorities
» 23.10.2008 - Two jailed for toxic dumping, but oil company sparred
» 23.10.2008 - US to disburse community grants to fight Malaria
» 23.10.2008 - Somali's internal refugees increased
» 23.10.2008 - SADC launches observer mission to Zambia's election
» 23.10.2008 - Senegalese leader opposes sanctions on Mauritania
» 23.10.2008 - Namibians stand up to AIDS challenge
» 22.10.2008 - East and Southern Africa launch trade unity campaign
» 22.10.2008 - Somali piracy not easy to overcome
» 22.10.2008 - Human rights bodies convene in Nairobi forum
» 22.10.2008 - South African court clears way for appeal against Zuma
» 22.10.2008 - IMF commends South African
» 22.10.2008 - Rwandan reporter released after 14 years detention
» 22.10.2008 - Somali children given first priority in crisis food distribution
» 22.10.2008 - Security Council raises concerns on DRC's resurgent violence
» 22.10.2008 - Current crises threaten anti-poverty goals - Migiro
» 22.10.2008 - SADC groundwater and drought management website launched
» 21.10.2008 - "Hypocrisy to cancel banks' debt, not DRC's debt"
» 21.10.2008 - Six perish in SA aircrash
» 21.10.2008 - Thousands displaced by Kenya flash floods
» 21.10.2008 - South Africa and Botswana discuss military cooperation
» 21.10.2008 - Innocent Nigerian prisoners die on death row
» 21.10.2008 - Massive African ivory sales increase poaching fears
» 20.10.2008 - "Nigeria may escape intl crisis"
» 20.10.2008 - Fear of Kenya, Uganda border dispute
» 20.10.2008 - Côte d'Ivoire cocoa investigation targets big fish
» 20.10.2008 - Clearing Liberia of Marijuana an uphill battle
» 20.10.2008 - Satellite system to help speed up Sudan's border dispute
» 20.10.2008 - Nigeria makes further cuts on 2009 budget
» 20.10.2008 - Nigeria strengthens its health systems
» 20.10.2008 - SA judge receives international justice award
» 20.10.2008 - Former Botswana leader gets good governance award
» 20.10.2008 - Swaziland combats fuel smuggling
» 17.10.2008 - Uganda joins UN Security Council
» 17.10.2008 - Food prices may head downwards
» 17.10.2008 - Ghanaian president hails breast cancer treatment mission
» 17.10.2008 - US threatens to launch new sanctions if Zimbabwe deal fails
» 17.10.2008 - South African gold mines resume operations
» 17.10.2008 - Nigerian journalist slained near his home
» 17.10.2008 - Sudan's president has not yet escaped ICC arrest
» 17.10.2008 - Bioenergy could reverse poverty in West Africa, UN study
» 17.10.2008 - Djibouti's debt service to Paris Club reduced
» 17.10.2008 - $6.4 Million for rural agricultural project in Angola
» 16.10.2008 - World leaders must keep promise to fight hunger in Africa, Annan
» 16.10.2008 - Kenya under attack threat from Somali Islamists
» 16.10.2008 - Ghana joins global fight against breast cancer
» 16.10.2008 - Nigeria has hope of eradicating polio
» 16.10.2008 - UN welcomes Guinea-Bisaau election process
» 16.10.2008 - Zimbabwe’s education in much deeper crisis
» 16.10.2008 - 15 million euro food aid for east Africa
» 16.10.2008 - South Africa shuts two of continent largest gold mines
» 16.10.2008 - ANC dismiss early election call
» 16.10.2008 - Developed countries' citizens willing to pay to half hunger by 2015
» 15.10.2008 - International tribunal for Kenya..?
» 15.10.2008 - Seychelles tourist industry fears recession
» 15.10.2008 - Shell to challenge Nigerian court eviction order
» 15.10.2008 - UN assembly chief urges for continued commitment to Africa's development
» 15.10.2008 - Africa looks at strategies to root out corruption
» 15.10.2008 - UN forum targets improved African aviation safety
» 15.10.2008 - New party a certainty in South Africa
» 15.10.2008 - USADF and Malawi govt join to alleviate poverty
» 15.10.2008 - Vodacom South Africa to expand it's next-generation technology
» 15.10.2008 - Rwanda to host Africa regional higher education summit
» 14.10.2008 - South African ANC suspends rebellious executives
» 14.10.2008 - President Obiang denies rumours of his death
» 14.10.2008 - Swaziland bans intl civil rights meeting
» 14.10.2008 - Power sharing negotiations resume in Zimbabwe
» 14.10.2008 - Cape Verde industry rejects crisis fears
» 14.10.2008 - "Drastic decline" of Ivorian chimps
» 14.10.2008 - Global recession forces Nigeria to alter budget
» 14.10.2008 - Ethiopia makes global aid appeal
» 14.10.2008 - NCAP requests Ghana to act against water company
» 14.10.2008 - Govt alone cannot foster economic growth and personal wellbeing
» 14.10.2008 - Campaign to end Fistula upsized
» 14.10.2008 - Breakthrough to new African mystery disease
» 14.10.2008 - African business leaders to chart way forward on continent's industrialisation
» 14.10.2008 - Journalist detained on Mayotte
» 13.10.2008 - Malawi swaps HIV cash hand-outs for food
» 13.10.2008 - "Egypt's banks safe and solid," govt
» 13.10.2008 - Tried Rwandan denies genocide charges
» 13.10.2008 - Morocco enters EU market
» 13.10.2008 - Green Sahara more common than thought
» 13.10.2008 - Ibadan Malimbe sighted in Nigeria's newest proposed IBA
» 13.10.2008 - IDF calls for global action to keep diabetic children alive
» 13.10.2008 - New tourism investments in Cape Verde
» 13.10.2008 - Confusing and competing figures could starve Ethiopians
» 13.10.2008 - Zim's opposition threaten to pull out
» 13.10.2008 - Rumours say Equatoguinean President is dead
» 10.10.2008 - AU fears donors will cut African aid
» 10.10.2008 - SA economy in limbo
» 10.10.2008 - Banana farmers urged to up local market production
» 10.10.2008 - Global slow-down increases Africa's risks
» 10.10.2008 - Namibia independence gave Peace Prize
» 10.10.2008 - SA musicians sing against human trafficking
» 10.10.2008 - AU comments Niger journalist release
» 10.10.2008 - DRC rural communities receive farming grant
» 10.10.2008 - Africa’s response to emergencies to be boosted
» 10.10.2008 - Former Rwandan official pleads not guilty to genecide
» 10.10.2008 - "Millions more Ethiopians going hungry"
» 10.10.2008 - Cameroonian songbird jailed for rioting
» 10.10.2008 - "Africa needs warning systems for wildlife diseases"
» 10.10.2008 - US awards $4.7 million to strengthen workers' benefits of international trade
» 09.10.2008 - Africa to be hit by world crisis
» 09.10.2008 - African property boom drying up
» 09.10.2008 - Libya starts paying terror victims
» 09.10.2008 - Army base seized by rebels in DRC
» 09.10.2008 - IFAD funds poverty alleviating project in Senegal
» 09.10.2008 - Cairo among top ten emerging global outsourcing cities
» 09.10.2008 - Moroccan solar partnership to expand business interest to N/Africa
» 09.10.2008 - Former Rwandan official and genocide suspect transferred to Tanzania
» 09.10.2008 - New deal to erase Zambia's oil-import nightmares
» 09.10.2008 - Major food appeal for Zimbabwe flighted
» 08.10.2008 - Kenya deports anti-Obama author
» 08.10.2008 - AU urges urgent funds for its peace operations
» 08.10.2008 - Sierra Leonean refugees' benefits expire
» 08.10.2008 - Split inevitable in ANC camp
» 08.10.2008 - WCF awards grants to Institutions in Cocoa-producing countries
» 08.10.2008 - Aid agencies suspend work in eastern Chad
» 08.10.2008 - Whales, dolphins and manatees win protection off West Africa waters
» 08.10.2008 - ITUC slams aggressive repression of Mauritanian trade unionists
» 08.10.2008 - US-Maryland man sentenced for holding Nigerian girl in forced labour
» 08.10.2008 - Kenyan ex-journalist detained for "spreading false information"
» 07.10.2008 - Spread of AIDS linked to colonialism
» 07.10.2008 - Trouser-wearing women beaten up in Sudan
» 07.10.2008 - South Korea considers Somalia pirate fight
» 07.10.2008 - Senegal bans China milk
» 07.10.2008 - Niger radio director freed after 384 days
» 07.10.2008 - MISA Zimbabwe acknowledges proposed ICT bill
» 07.10.2008 - SATAWU calls on members to ignore Archbishop Tutu's call
» 07.10.2008 - Lome based African Commercial Bank gets boost from ECP
» 07.10.2008 - Small space rock expected over Sudanese sky
» 06.10.2008 - Zuma back in court
» 06.10.2008 - 1 million Nigerians blind
» 06.10.2008 - Lesotho climbs one place in latest index of African governance
» 06.10.2008 - Junta breaks up coup protest
» 06.10.2008 - International financial institutions urged to consider poor nations
» 06.10.2008 - BHGI and Ghana combat breast cancer together
» 06.10.2008 - Botswana and Namibia voted less risky resource development African states
» 06.10.2008 - Joburg gay pride festival successfully completed
» 06.10.2008 - Ghanaian wins first African scholars award
» 06.10.2008 - African institutions to partake in governance research
» 06.10.2008 - Togo schools open after flood delays
» 03.10.2008 - Africa bound drugs seized in Belgium
» 03.10.2008 - EU to pay first Mauritanian fish deal
» 03.10.2008 - Sub-Saharan African women more infected by Genital Herpes
» 03.10.2008 - UN peace building office branches in Sierra Leone
» 03.10.2008 - COSATU campaigns for democracy in Zimbabwe and Swaziland
» 03.10.2008 - Nigerian military quell clashes in south-east region
» 03.10.2008 - Kenya indignant of 'West blackmail'
» 03.10.2008 - Swaziland seeks pact with South Africa to enhance investment
» 03.10.2008 - Zimbabwe needs urgent aid to avert worsened crisis
» 03.10.2008 - UN helicopters in attack action in eastern DRC
» 03.10.2008 - Congolese urged to stand against govt
» 02.10.2008 - US-Africa military command kicks off amid skepticism
» 02.10.2008 - IMF commends Kenyan economic reform
» 02.10.2008 - CAR receives healing funding
» 02.10.2008 - Ethiopia restores ties with Norway
» 02.10.2008 - Angola unveils new cabinet
» 02.10.2008 - Algerian floods kill 29
» 02.10.2008 - Contempt proceedings against local paper to start
» 02.10.2008 - 19 die in Tanzania disco stampede
» 02.10.2008 - Mbeki requested to retain mediatory role in Zimbabwe
» 02.10.2008 - US awards $58 million to eliminate exploitive child labour around world
» 02.10.2008 - New resort opens at Anahita, Mauritius
» 01.10.2008 - Uganda develops cold feet over US financial crisis
» 01.10.2008 - SA refugee camps' closure criticised
» 01.10.2008 - Still no breakthrough to Zim cabinet formation
» 01.10.2008 - Nigeria recovers unspent funds
» 01.10.2008 - Russian warships stop off in Libya
» 01.10.2008 - DRC forces still recruit child soldiers
» 01.10.2008 - Tanzania ends power supply rationing
» 01.10.2008 - ANC dismisses party split reports
» 01.10.2008 - Pirates deny shootout reports
» 01.10.2008 - More than 400 arrested in Nigeria's oil hub
» 01.10.2008 - Bissau death toll escalates
» 01.10.2008 - 230 African immigrants land on Canary Islands
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