Africa News Update
Africa News Update offers news, background and feature articles from African sources twice weekly. The newsletter is free of charge and is edited by the Norwegian Council for Africa. Some of the articles may be shortened.
South Africa: Union boss slams proposed media tribunal
Johannesburg (South Africa) - Cosatu has announced that it will not support the idea of a statutory media appeals tribunal, which the ANC wants to introduce as a way to regulate the print media in South Africa, but says the current system of self-regulation is also not desirable. Read >
Monday, 30 August 2010
Mail & Guardian
Africa: 'EA needs to emulate the European Union'
Kampala (Uganda) — Member states of the East African Community (EAC) should establish a network of service centres that would facilitate the free movement of goods and services. Read >
Monday, 30 August 2010
East African Business Week
Africa: Chinese firms take to Africa
Nairobi (Kenya) — The Chinese influence, in the form of its people, investment and business, is sweeping across the African continent like a wild fire. Read >
Monday, 30 August 2010
Daily Nation
Uganda: Oil deal goes bust
Nairobi (Kenya) — The simmering battle between Uganda and exploration companies over oil revenues boiled over last week with Irish firm Tullow Oil losing its rights to the 400 million-barrel Kingfisher well. Read >
Monday, 30 August 2010
The East African
Ghana: Biotechnology can change country's agriculture
Accra (Ghana) — A Ghanaian biosafety and biotechnology expert, Prof. Walter Alhassan has said that introducing Agricultural Biotechnology in the countrys agricultural sector will not only come to compliment the already traditional methods of farming, but deal effectively with issues of food security and the likely impact on farming from climate change. Read >
Monday, 30 August 2010
Public Agenda
Uganda : Opposition coalition cracks
Kampala (Uganda) — The Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) party, one of the five political parties that form the Inter-Party Cooperation (IPC), has opted out of the coalition over what it called irreconcilable reasons. Read >
Monday, 30 August 2010
Kenya: Bashir circus shatters ODM, PNU ceasefire
Nairobi (Kenya) - The Kenyan government was in a disarray on Sunday over the visit by Sudan President Omar al-Bashir who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes. Read >
Monday, 30 August 2010
Daily Nation
South Africa: President Zuma orders negotiations
Johannesburg (South Africa) - South African President Jacob Zuma has told his ministers to return to the negotiating table with unions to try and end an indefinite public sector strike. Zuma's spokesperson said on Monday that the president had met with ministers over the weekend. Last week the strike threatened to spread to South Africa's mining sector. Read >
Monday, 30 August 2010
Radio France International
South Africa: Zuma criticises strike
Johannesburg (South Africa) - South African President Jacob Zuma on Saturday accused striking state workers of abandoning the sick at hospitals and said he expected a deal to be reached soon to end the labour action by about 1.3 million. Read >
Monday, 30 August 2010
Mail & Guardian