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THE police said, yesterday, that 49 people are to be charged with murder after communal violence left scores of villagers dead. Most of those facing charges are Muslims from the Fulani group, police spokesman Mohammed Lerama told the BBC.

Zimbabwe's new empowerment law that compels foreign-owned companies to give-up a 51% stake in their businesses to black Zimbabweans was greeted with shock by investors when first announced.

The power balance in Africa's crude oil production landscape is set to shift in the near future as a number of new oilfields come online.

PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma yesterday finally declared his financial interests but it is still unclear what the interests are.

Kenyans affected by the violence that erupted after the country's disputed presidential elections in 2007 may soon be able to speak out without fear. A new bill will offer better protection to state witnesses.

Whenever gender empowerment is a vibrant topic of discussion internationally, some of the countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America are invariably singled out for their success stories in politics, education, health care or civil liberties even as Africa is mostly left out of political reckoning - and wrongly so.

Botswana's government is totally against Kenya's plans of a 20-year moratorium on ivory trading.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on Sudan to renew its commitment to the 2005 agreement which ended the long-running north-south civil war, and to ensure a peaceful transition following next year's referendum on southern secession.

A tussle between the Treasury and the Department of Trade and Industry about local companies getting preferential treatment over foreign rivals in state procurement could scupper one of the pillars of the department's new industrial policy action plan, if not resolved soon.

It emerged yesterday that Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has forwarded a copy of the report of the Justice Mohammed Uwais-led Electoral Reforms Committee to the National Assembly unedited.

South African President Jacob Zuma has told the International Monetary Fund to resume lending to Zimbabwe as he continues the battle to end the illegal economic sanctions against Zimbabwe.

President Kagame, attended a lunch held in his honour at the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC), in London yesterday, and addressed the business members of the Commonwealth for the first time since Rwanda joined the Commonwealth.

THREE top officials in the Ministry of Health who were in charge of the malaria control programme were yesterday remanded to Luzira Prison after they were charged with corruption.

On 3 March, the state governors decided to block a vote that could have set in motion President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s enforced resignation on medical grounds. This has won his supporters in Abuja more time but does nothing to resolve the crisis caused by the power vacuum at the centre of government. Three days earlier, Acting President Goodluck Jonathan had tried to address the crisis by appointing a 26-member Presidential Advisory Council to speed up the implementation of government policy on key issues: the amnesty in the Niger Delta, rehabilitation of the electric power grid, electoral reform and stronger anti-corruption measures.

The government could save Sh200 million during a 30-day foreign travel ban imposed on Cabinet ministers.

A Hizbul Islam official called Bare Ali Bare was on Tuesday gunned down by unknown assailants in Mogadishu 's Bakara Market, a stronghold for Somali rebel fighters.

An insurance product that caters for farmers' inputs like fertilizers and certified seeds is being delivered through the use of mobile phone.

The leadership of South Sudan has downplayed fears of fresh conflict over oil reserves within its territory after the planned 2011 referendum to decide whether southerners will formally secede from their counterparts in the north.

The head of the global financial lending body, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has said it is still not prepared to offer Zimbabwe any new loans, citing the ongoing political crisis in the country.

The Principals to the Global Political Agreement on Monday failed to come to an agreement concerning the unilateral re-assignment of ministerial functions that were gazetted by government last week Friday.

A damning report outlining how Mugabe's regime has used torture and imprisonment to manipulate elections and other political processes will be launched at the Book Café in Harare on Thursday. The report entitled 'Cries from Goromonzi - Inside Zimbabwe's Torture Chambers' was commissioned by the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition and contains 23 harrowing testimonies from individuals tortured between 2000 and 2009.

Catholic papal Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday condemned the "atrocious" mayhem in Jos where over 500 people were massacred at the wee hours of last Sunday, also police said 49 people responsible would be charged with murder.

The Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta have destroyed fresh 500 illegal crude oil refineries and arrested six suspected oil thieves at Egbekebor and Gbelekumor communities in Delta State.

It costs more to vaccinate a child in Chad against polio - almost 70 US cents per child - than in any other country in the world at risk of polio outbreaks, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Rose Nakhayetse is lucky to be alive, but her ordeal is far from over. Having narrowly escaped last week's deadly landslides in eastern Uganda, she and thousands of others are facing fresh dangers.

The Trade Conditions Survey for February continued on its improved trait rising to 54 points.

A polio vaccination campaign in the violence-wracked central Nigerian city of Jos has been delayed until 13 March due to the violence and an on-going health worker strike, aid workers said.

THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) central committee has said the "centre" in the Presidency is not holding and blamed this on the inept coterie of people appointed to manage President Jacob Zuma at the Union Buildings.

A feasibility study into the proposed Orapa No. 3 plant is expected to be complete by year end, which could pave way for the development of a 12 million tonne per annum high-tech facility.