South Sudan: Country Calls for Increased Advocacy On Maternal Health Care
South Sudan on Sunday called on activists and community groups to focus more on giving messages about maternal health care, which is a major challenge in the new nation.
View ArticleNamibia: Minister Dismisses Oil Discovery Reports
Widespread media reports about the discovery of petroleum and related products in Namibia are false and are based "merely on geological data" that Namibia shares with oil-rich countries such as Brazil...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Pam Golding Wins At International Property Awards
Cape Town-based real estate group, Pam Golding Property (PGP), was presented with two major awards at the International Property Awards ceremony recently held in Dubai.
View ArticleSouth Africa: Increase in Minimum Wage of Domestic Workers
Domestic workers received an early Christmas present this year courtesy of the minister of labour. An increase in the minimum wages payable to domestic workers was announced by the minister and is...
View ArticleSouth Africa: E-Mobility, a BMW Sustainability Initiative for 2012
The BMW Group announced three major sustainability initiatives at the BMW Group Sustainable Future Conference held in Durban, South Africa.
View ArticleSouth Africa: Telecommunications Policy Vacuum Costing Country Dearly
SA's lack of a clear telecom policy is costing it dearly. Local companies and consumers have long complained that the high cost of telecommunications is a burden to business here.
View ArticleSouth Africa: Sandton Central Park to Open Early Next Year
As one of the key business, residential and retail nodes in the City of Johannesburg, the Sandton Central Management District (SCMD) is focused on how to develop and enhance the area's public spaces in...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Denel Appoints New Group Chief Executive
Denel has appointed Riaz Saloojee as the new group chief executive following the resignation of Talib Sadik. Saloojee brings with him a wealth of experience in the defence and manufacturing sectors and...
View ArticleNigeria: NYSC Decries Influx of Pregnant Women, Nursing Mothers to Camp
Ogun State Coordinator of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Mr. Olaide Adeniran, has decried the high rate of pregnant women as well as nursing mothers coming for the orientation activities in...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Packaging Is the Billboard of Wholesalers' Brand - Coolseal
Many South African wholesalers are underestimating the importance of packaging when it comes to marketing their products, according to Christo Pienaar, MD of CoolSeal SA.
View ArticleNamibia: Local Olive Oil Takes Market By Storm
ALONG the dry Swakop riverbed is a ten-hectare oasis turning the desert green with 4 000 olive trees.
View ArticleSouth Africa: Ford SA Awards Safmarine for Service Excellence
Regional shipping line Safmarine recently received three prestigious awards at Ford Motor Company of South Africa's (FMCSA) Customer Services Operations Division Award ceremony held in Johannesburg,...
View ArticleNamibia: Ntinda Responds to Hidipo Hamutenya's Claims
RECENT revelations about how the President of the Rally for Democracy and Progress, RDP, Hidipo Hamutenya, messed up two projects that were set up to create jobs for thousands of jobless Namibians,...
View ArticleAfrica: Crunch Time for Climate Talks
As Heads of State and ministers start arriving in Durban today for the UN climate talks, negotiators are hoping that come end of the week, some kind of political compromise will be reached to break the...
View ArticleNigeria: Curbing Maternal Deaths Through Education
It is said that the joy of pregnancy is in safe delivery. But this joy has never been felt by many who end up losing their lives in the course of childbirth. CHIBUNMA UKWU writes that education and...
View ArticleNamibia: Ore Mine Could Open By 2016
Namibia could start mining iron ore by 2016 after huge deposits of the mineral were discovered in the Opuwo area in Kunene.
View ArticleNamibia: Construction Worker Buried Alive
TRENCH TRAGEDY ... The Police and Windhoek fire brigade on Friday struggled for eight hours to retrieve the body of a man who had been buried alive in a five-metre-deep trench at a building site in...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Climate Talks - Sustainable, Small-Scale, and Peasant...
The UN climate talks in Durban have reminded the world that agriculture is responsible for almost one fourth of the world's emissions of greenhouse gases.
View ArticleSomalia: Top Shabaab Leader Held By Military
The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) are holding a top leader of the Al Shabaab militia group who defected as the terrorist group continued to suffer heavy losses following the military onslaught.
View ArticleKenya: Refugee Camp Explosion Kills Policeman
A policeman was killed and three people wounded in a explosion in Dadaab refugee camp Monday, the latest in a spate of grenade and landmine attacks in Kenya's border regions with Somalia.
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