Nairobi/Accra - Opposition candidate John Atta Mills is to be sworn in as the president of Ghana on Wednesday after winning a tight run-off election. Atta Mills, representing the National Democratic Congress (NDC), on Saturday took the presidency by ...
7 Jan 2009
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday he supports a proposal by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Speaking to the UN Security Council, Abbas expressed his "appreciation, indeed support" for ...
7 Jan 2009
Senate Democrats are looking for ways to defuse the standoff that has denied Roland Burris the vacated Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama of Illinois, but maybe not much longer. While Burris' paperwork was rejected at the opening of the ...
7 Jan 2009
Injured South African cricket captain Graeme Smith was given a standing ovation by the crowd at the Sydney Cricket Ground as he came out to bat in the last session of the third Test. Fast bowler Makahya Ntini was at the crease as his captain came out ...
7 Jan 2009
The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. Once labelled "The Magician" of the tennis courts because of his cunning armoury of soft-balling and two-handed strokes, South African Open ...
7 Jan 2009
In the same boat after all: both Kevin Pietersen and Peter Moores could be out of a job as England seek to end the infighting Photo: GETTY IMAGES In the background: Hugh Morris (r) has been given the authority to sack Peter Moores and Kevin Pietersen ...
7 Jan 2009
COMMENT ON THIS ! Your Views! Kevin Pietersen's relationship with England coach Peter Moores was doomed from the very start as the skipper respects only South African coaches or those who have been world class players, claims his former county team Nottinghamshire's Director of Cricket Mick Newell.
7 Jan 2009
Against the backdrop that Africa and other developing nations are not bound to be affected by the global financial crisis, former World Bank president, Mr. James Wolfensohn has stoutly dismissed such speculation, insisting that African countries would be hard hit.
7 Jan 2009
Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Corn in South Africa, the largest producer of the grain in Africa, rose by its maximum daily limit. White corn for March delivery, the most active contract on the South African Futures Exchange in Johannesburg, climbed 50 rand, or 2.8 percent, to 1,865 rand ($199) a metric ton as of 9:04 a.m. local time.
6 Jan 2009
African art from across the continent is spotlighted in the Cantor Center for Visual Arts' new exhibition, 'Timbuktu to Cape Town', which continues through March 22.
6 Jan 2009
Two new contingents of Nigerian police officers trained in high-risk operations have joined the joint United Nations-African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission in the war-ravaged Darfur region of Sudan.
6 Jan 2009
Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- South African Safety and Security Minister Nathi Mthethwa asked President Kgalema Motlanthe to replace the country’s police commissioner, Business Day reported, citing the minister’s spokesman.
6 Jan 2009
If the media reports hold up, here's the significance: We have the unsightly spectacle of the Senate majority leader (who represents a state -- Nevada -- that has never elected an African-American senator) judging the people of Illinois ...
6 Jan 2009
A new study tries to debunk the notion that California African-American voters spurred to the polls by the election of the first African-American President,
6 Jan 2009
The article is authored by Myron Magnet and is titled, “The Great African-American Awakening: Some brave voices are shifting the conversation from victimhood to responsibility.” Here’s the link for those interested in reading it in ...
6 Jan 2009
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6 Jan 2009
He is the founder of the Africatamtam entertainment group, and used to teach African drumming and dance at ASU. Now he's following in the footsteps of his grandmother, who had a restaurant in his village. ...
6 Jan 2009
A new debate in the open access journal PLoS Medicine questions whether all African children with fever should be treated presumptively with antimalarial drugs, or if treatment should wait until laboratory tests confirm malarial ...
5 Jan 2009
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