Monthly Archives: July 2013
Ethiopia to join WTO in two years
Ethiopia expects to join the World Trade Organisation in 2015 without heeding to demands that it liberalises its state-run banking and telecoms sectors, the...
Intimidatory tweets land Home Office in firing line
The Home Office Twitter feed has come under scrutiny again, this time for featuring a tweet promising that 'there will be no hiding place...
Zimbabwe’s July poll: free and fair or false and fixed?
The final deadline for voter registration in Zimbabwe’s watershed elections on July 31 passed this week.
What is being billed as Zimbabwe’s first “free and...
Tope Folarin wins Caine Prize
Tope Folarin has been adjudged winner for the Caine Prize for African writing. Folarin who is based in the United States of America received...
Kenya plans medal swoop at IAAF World meet
The pride of the Kenyan sports industry is always to show its prowess and dominance on the continental and world stages over the long...
Auto parts groups partner up for SA market
International Automotive Components Group SA, known as IAC, has announced its entry into the South African market with the formation of a new joint...
Uganda announces plan for future development on tick
The office of Uganda’s prime minister has announced that the vast majority of the developing nation’s infrastructure projects will be given to Chinese companies.
A...
Home Office seeks to ban Boko Haram in UK
Home Secretary Theresa May has announced that the government is seeking to make the Nigerian-based extremist group Boko Haram, alongside the UK-based group Minbar...
Jury finds Angolan deportee was unlawfully killed in custody
A jury has found that an Angolan who died after being restrained on the ‘plane on which he was being deported from the UK...
Teachers turn down “inferior” pay offer
Kenya's teachers have rejected the government's Sh17bn (£132m) pay offer, terming it inferior.
Their union - the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) - also...
