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| Botswana Politics | Economy - Development Botswana to exercise strict value budget spending, minister afrol News - Botswana, Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Kenneth Mathambo presented the 2010/11 budget proposal calling for a robust transformation of the national economy in response to the challenges facing the country. |
| Angola Politics | Society Angola elects speaker afrol News - The Angolan parliament has elected the former prime-minister António Paulo Kassoma, as the new parliament speaker, replacing Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos. |
| Botswana Economy - Development | Politics | Human rights | Society Khama accused of trampling on Bushmen’s rights afrol News - Botswana’s President, Ian Khama has come under fire again for disregarding the rights of the Kalahari Bushmen. |
| Botswana Culture - Arts | Economy - Development | Society | Health Botswana youth get World Bank funding afrol News - The World Bank has awarded P1 million (about $100,000) to Botswana artists for the project aimed at encouraging behavioural change among youth and adults in Francistown. The young artists had submitted a funding proposal through the National AIDS Coordinating Agency last year. |
Economy - Development | Travel - Leisure | Environment - Nature Tarring scenic Lesotho-SA mountain pass causes protest afrol News - Over the Sani Pass, a spectacular dirt road connects South Africa and eastern Lesotho attracting a growing number of tourists driven in 4x4 vehicles. Tarring the pass would alienate tourists, the industry, locals and environmentalists hold. |
Politics | Human rights | Gender - Women | Society SA’s Zuma confirms fathering a child afrol News - South African President, Jacob Zuma has confirmed fathering a child in an outside marriage relationship with the daughter of a local soccer boss, Irvin Khoza. |
| South Africa Economy - Development | Politics | Society UN ammunition illegally impounded afrol News - A South Africa ammunition firm, New Generation Ammunition (NGA), says police have illegally confiscated eight metric tons of ammunition purchased by the United Nations for VIP-protection, saying this could endanger the lives of senior representatives of the world body. |
| Angola Politics | Society Angola’s new cabinet is sworn-in afrol News - Angola's President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos has named a new cabinet after the approval of the new constitution by legislature last month, the state-owned Angola press has said. |
| Zimbabwe Politics | Agriculture - Nutrition | Economy - Development | Society Zimbabwe needs 500 000 tonnes of maize afrol News - Zimbabwe’s minister of Agriculture says the country needs to urgently import 500,000 tonnes of maize to avert corn shortages following an extended dry spell that has adversely affected crop production. |
| Malawi Society | Human rights | Gay - Lesbian Gay rights activist arrested in Malawi afrol News - Malawian police have arrested a gay rights activist for putting up gay-rights posters in Malawi's main city Blantyre, in protest of the continued detention of a newly-wed gay couple. |
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