Africa

Africa leaking billions in capital flight, report

Africa lost $18.4 billion annually between 1970 and 2008 as a result of capital flight, a new report shows. The […]

Zambia, Zimbabwe to co-host Tourism General Assembly

Zambia, Zimbabwe and the United Nations World Tourism Organisation efforts to host the UNWTO General Assembly in August 2013 received […]

South Africa deal to remove ‘rude’ Zuma painting

A South African art gallery has agreed not to display a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals […]

Cases of Africans losing their cash to Japan based used car fraudsters increasing

By Clement Nyirenda For most of us in Africa, buying a brand new car is not easy. We, however, benefit […]

Somali president escapes ambush

Somalia’s president Sharif Shekh Ahmed escaped an ambush unharmed Tuesday as Al-Qaeda linked Shebab fighters attacked his armoured convoy in […]

African farmers’ livelihoods at risk

Representatives of hundreds of thousands of African tobacco farmers will gather at the International Tobacco Growers Association Africa Regional Meeting […]

Why Africa needs women power

Malawi’s new president Joyce Banda is really shaking things up. She announced that she will work to overturn Malawi’s law […]

ICC not for Africans – say new prosecutor

The prosecutor-elect of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has dispelled what she termed as “perceptions” that the Hague-based court is […]

Malawi ready to host AU summit

Malawi will be a battlefield when the African Union convenes for its summit in July as regional blocks ensure that […]

UN tells Africa to stop begging and grow food

The declaration by the UN that Africa has suitable conditions to feed its people was spot on. At no other […]

Zambia ready to arrest Sudan’s Al Bashir

While Malawi is dithering on the matter of Sudanese president Omar Hassan Al Bashir, Zambia has broken ranks with most […]

IMF withdraws advisory team from Swaziland

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has withdrawn its advisory team from Swaziland, saying it is unable to support the government’s […]

Be firm – President Sata urges the Justice Lovemore Chikopa’s tribunal

PRESIDENT Michael Sata has urged members of the tribunal established to probe alleged professional misconduct of three judges not to […]

Swazis reject monarch in public poll

A public poll in Swaziland showed that 43% of the population disapproved of Africa’s last absolute monarch, King Mswati’s III, […]

Zanu PF raps Zuma over Malema

Some of President Robert Mugabe’s closest officials have attacked South African president and mediator to Zimbabwe’s political crisis Jacob Zuma, […]

Africa’s only female presidents join forces to support women

The only two female heads of state in Africa, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Malawian President Joyce Banda, have […]

Malawi vs. Zambia – WHAT A COINCIDENCE…

Amazing…………………..….. 1.    Both Dr. Kenneth Kaunda and Dr. Kamuzu Banda were longest serving President’s of both countries and their roots are somehow not traced from […]

TB Joshua Banned In Cameroon

The Cameroonian government has blacklisted Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, saying that he is […]