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  • Swaziland police: 3 traditional healers charged with desecrating graves for healing rituals Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 9:35AMPolice in Swaziland say they have arrested three traditional healers for allegedly desecrating graves to retrieve human skulls and bones for healing rituals.
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  • Mozambique Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 6:46AMKey facts, figures and dates
  • Southern Africa: EU Backs Off on EPA Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 5:20AMEuropean Union (EU) Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht has appeased leading European civil society organisations about the negotiations for a Southern African economic partnership agreement (EPA), promising "not to put undue pressure" on countries.
  • Somali pirates release Turkish cargo ship: lawyer Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 4:35AMSomali pirates on Thursday released a Turkish-owned cargo ship and its crew of 21 people nearly four months after seizing the vessel, a company lawyer told AFP.
  • Pirates release Maltese-flagged ship Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 3:57AMSomali pirates this morning released a Turkish-owned cargo ship and its crew of 21 people nearly four months after seizing the vessel, a company lawyer told AFP.
  • India Essar still in race to buy Shell's Europe plants Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 3:25AM(Adds details)
  • Somali pirates release Turkish cargo ship Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 3:17AMANKARA (AFP) - Somali pirates on Thursday released a Turkish-owned cargo ship and its crew of 21 people nearly four months after seizing the vessel, a company lawyer told AFP.
  • Somali pirates release Turkish ship Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 2:54AMSomali pirates have released a Turkish-owned cargo ship and its 21-man crew nearly four months after seizing the vessel, a company lawyer says.
  • Alexa Karkenny earns master's degree Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 12:51AMMontvale - Alexa Karkenny recently graduated summa cum laude from Drexel University, Philadelphia, Penn. She earned a bachelor of science degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University’s School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems.
  • Alexa Karkenny earns master's degree Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 12:41AMShe attends Drexel University.
  • Mozambique, Cape Verde discuss cooperation Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 10:24PMThe governments of Mozambique and Cape Verde on Wednesday discussed ways of strengthening the relations of cooperation between them.
  • Mozambique needs more investment: PM Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 8:55PMMozambican Prime Minister Aires Ali has urged the Southern African country to attract more investment for development, local media reported on Wednesday.
  • Outstanding issues take backstage as Zimbabwe focuses on constitution, elections Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 8:55PMSouth African President Jacob Zuma may have used the benefit of foresight when he said early this year that the parties in Zimbabwe's inclusive government should prepare for the holding of fresh elections in 2011.
  • EU supports Mozambican seed quality control Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 7:24PMMozambique is to have its seed quality control strengthened thanks to the rehabilitations planned to take place in the five laboratories in the Southern African country's northern, central and southern regions, local media reported on Wednesday.
  • Transfusion or curse? Counting the cost of Zimbabwe's 'blood diamonds' Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 2:42PMGemstone finds in the country's wild east have brought spies and paranoia and turned Mutare into frontier town Gamba has just bought big. This week he paid $22,000 (£14,300) for a single diamond. Judging by the big wad of folded US dollar bills in his pocket, it will not be his last. In three years Gamba estimates he has made more than $200,000 from black market diamond dealing, enough to buy ...
  • Zimbabwe's 'blood diamond' rush Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 2:42PMGemstone finds in the country's wild east have brought spies and paranoia and turned Mutare into frontier town Gamba has just bought big. This week he paid $22,000 (£14,300) for a single diamond. Judging by the big wad of folded US dollar bills in his pocket, it will not be his last. In three years Gamba estimates he has made more than $200,000 from black market diamond dealing, enough to buy ...
  • Counting cost of Zimbabwe's 'blood diamonds' Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 2:42PMGemstone finds in the country's wild east have brought spies and paranoia and turned Mutare into frontier town Gamba has just bought big. This week he paid $22,000 (£14,300) for a single diamond. Judging by the big wad of folded US dollar bills in his pocket, it will not be his last. In three years Gamba estimates he has made more than $200,000 from black market diamond dealing, enough to buy ...
  • Biofuels could increase food production, says report Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 1:01PM[OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO] Planting biofuel crops in Africa need not damage capacity to grow food and could even enhance food security, according to a controversial review prepared for the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA).
  • Sub-Saharan Africa news in brief: 15–28 July 2010 Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 11:16AMAfrican Union clarifies the role of Equatorial Guinea observatory The African Observatory for Science, Technology and Innovation, to be hosted by Equatorial Guinea, will gather data on science and technology performance on the continent and will not do original research, African Union (AU) told SciDev.Net . The reaffirmation has been necessitated by the confusion that arose after the government ...
  • AU leaders debate action on Somalia Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 10:24AMKAMPALA - African leaders met behind closed doors to discuss boosting the African Union's force in Somalia following a plea by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to "sweep the terrorists" off the continent.
  • Chaka Chaka warms up for Bots with hot show in Kampala Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 10:18AMKAMPALA: If news from Kampala, Uganda, is anything to go by then lovers of Yvonne Chaka Chaka's music must brace for a treat when the songbird comes to perform here on August 13 - 14, as part of her Mother Africa Tour currently on going.
  • Two former African presidents in G’town Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 10:02AMRHODES is fast earning a reputation as South Africa’s university of presidents after Zambia’s founding father Dr Kenneth Kaunda and former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano both accepted student invites to the City of Saints this week.
  • Malawi Rejects World Bank-Backed Mozambican Electricity Plan as Too Costly Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:42AMMalawian President Bingu wa Mutharika rejected a World Bank-backed plan to source power from neighboring Mozambique and said the southern African nation should build hydropower plants to meet its own requirements.
  • KenolKobil of Kenya Returned to Profit in First Half as Revenue Surged 40% Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:42AMKenolKobil Ltd. , a Kenyan fuel retailer with operations in seven African countries, returned to profit in the first half as sales surged amid more stable global oil prices.
  • Cove moves into Kenya deepwater play Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:29AMLONDON -- Cove Energy has conditionally agreed to farm into five contiguous deepwater blocks offshore Kenya.
  • State Senate candidate to deploy to Africa Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:48PMRepublican state Senate candidate Christopher Dent of Nahant will deploy to the southern African nation of Mozambique with his Marine Corps Reserve unit in support of Exercise Shared Accord 2010.
  • Angolan delegation leaves for Maputo for CPLP games Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:19PMAngola's 114-member delegation, including 70 athletes, left here on Tuesday for Maputo, Mozambique to take part in the 7th Games of Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP).
  • North Sea safe from massive sell-off, insists BP Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 6:16PMBP has insisted the company's lucrative North Sea operations will be largely spared from the £19.3 billion sell-off announced in an attempt to bolster its balance sheet in
  • Sequoia Technology Spearheads Novel Communications System To Greatly Improve The Quality Of Mozambique's Early Infant ... Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 3:23PMFrom 2007 to 2009, Mozambique saw a rapid expansion of the National Early Infant Diagnosis program for diagnosis of HIV/AIDS in newborn children to include over 235 health centers across the country. However, transportation of samples and results between remote districts and two central laboratories often takes many weeks. To accelerate the return of results, Sequoia Technology devised an ...
  • Hedge funds and the true cost of vulture capitalism Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 12:03PMA single commodity trader in London hit the headlines this month when he snapped up 7 percent of the world’s entire cocoa bean production. His actions drove the price to its highest level in more than three decades.
  • Africa: AU Debates Action Against Terror Threat Amid Split on Bashir Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 5:35PMAfrican leaders met behind closed doors to discuss boosting the African Union's force in Somalia following a plea by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to "sweep the terrorists" off the continent.
  • American AIDS Policy Changing Focus Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 5:32PMWhen was the last time you heard someone thank the U.S. for our role in the world? This report in The New York Times highlights how American funding for AIDS treatment has changed lives - and saved lives - in Africa: The last decade has been what some doctors call a “golden window” for treatment. Drugs [...]
  • Small Investment Could Save 11 Million African Lives Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 4:14PMIn the next five years, 11 million African women and children could be saved by creating near-universal availability of key life-saving interventions, according to The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health and the Countdown to 2015 Decade Report (2000-2010).The Countdown report estimates that these interventions -- antenatal care, emergency care at the time of birth, post-natal ...
  • Danielle Nierenberg: Hope and progress in the developing world, despite daunting challenges Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 3:13PMWho better to consult -- and to equip with the tools to help out -- in the global effort to combat hunger than the youth, women and farmers who will most benefit from it?
  • Eleven Somali Pirates Jailed In Seychelles Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 2:13PM(RTTNews) - A court in Seychelles on Monday sentenced 11 Somali pirates to 10 years in prison each for attempting to seize a coastguard boat in December, according to reports.
  • Chris Paul Trade: Why The Hornets Star Point Guard Needs To Just Shut Up Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 12:09PMFor some reason, I was in a particularly bad mood last Friday night. I was tired. I was cranky. I was like Justin Bieber when his mom tells him it’s time for a haircut. Every little thing was pissing me off. And it only got worse when a few buddies called from San Diego, where they just so happened to be vacationing…without me. After a few minutes of small talk, I rushed them off the phone ...
  • Team Conducts Successful Equipment Offloaded for SHARED ACCORD ‘10 Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 11:08AMA joint team of six service members, along with privately contracted dock workers, successfully offloaded and staged 262 pieces of gear from the BELUGA FUSION, a Liberian flag ship, in support of Exercise SHARED ACCORD 2010 here.
  • U.S. and Mozambican Officials Announce SHARED ACCORD 2010 Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 11:07AMSpokespersons from the U.S. Embassy in Maputo, along with Mozambique military officials, jointly announced plans for Exercise SHARED ACCORD 2010 during a press briefing at the Mozambique Ministry of Defense here, July 23.
  • Receive the Royal Treatment in South Africa With SAA Vacations 'Safari Royale' Air-Inclusive Vacation Package Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 10:18AMSouth African Airways Vacations is offering a package fit for royalty, with nine days of 5-star luxury stays in Cape Town with tours, plus a safari and flights on South African Airways, Africa's most awarded airline. Â The "Safari Royale" package features four nights at the 5-star Cape Royale Luxury Hotel and Residence, a lavish enclave in the heart of Cape Town's metropolis. Â Its intimate and ...
  • Uganda wants terrorists to be swept out of Africa Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 3:55PMUganda ’s president has urged African Union (AU) leaders at a summit here to “sweep the terrorists” out of Africa , following recent deadly attacks by Somalia ’s Al Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels.
  • BancAbc opens branch in Chimoio Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 3:40PMREGIONAL banking group BancAbc has opened a new branch in Chimoio Mozambique as part of its plans to broaden its network in Southern Africa.
  • Africa: Leaders Accused of Breaking Their Promises As Africa Union Talks Start Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 2:51PMAfrican leaders have not kept their promises and are failing their citizens, according to a new report released today as Heads of State arrive in Kampala for the African Union summit.
  • Summit urged to 'defeat terror in Africa' Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 11:12AMKAMPALA (AFP) - Uganda's president urged African Union leaders at a summit here Sunday to "sweep the terrorists" out of Africa, following recent deadly attacks by Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels.
  • FACTBOX-What does the African Union do? Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 10:03AMSource: Reuters By Barry Malone July 25 (Reuters) - An African Union (AU) summit in Uganda just two weeks after bombs planted by Somali rebels killed 76 people in its capital will for the next three days tackle the ...
  • Uganda calls for defeat of terrorism in Africa Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 7:10AMUganda's president urged African Union leaders at a summit here on Sunday to "sweep the terrorists" out of Africa, following recent deadly attacks by Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels.
  • African leaders seek to beef up Somalia force Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 3:51AMAfrican Union leaders began a three-day summit in Kampala Sunday to boost the organisation's troop levels in Somalia and obtain a mandate to crush Islamist insurgents in the war-torn nation.
  • Mozambique's beaches and safaris make the perfect African holiday Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 2:24AMMozambique's game parks, pristine beaches and colourful capital city make it the perfect destination.
  • Obituary: Marrack I. Goulding / Led U.N. peacekeeping missions from 1986 to 1993 Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 11:50PMMarrack I. Goulding, who for seven years as an undersecretary-general of the United Nations oversaw peacekeeping missions around the world -- at times coming under fire himself -- died July 9 at a nursing home in Somerset, England.
  • African Peace Journey makers launch first phase journey in Ethiopia Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 11:40PMThe Peace Journey in Africa, an initiative by two Ethiopians, was launched on Friday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.