The Ghana Tourist Board and the Tourists Clubs Association of the Western Region have undertaken a tree planting exercise at the Sekondi Sports Stadium to mark the celebration of World Tourism Day. This years celebration was on the theme: Tourism-Responding to the challenges of climates changes. The Sekondi Sports Stadium is one of ....

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I-Net Bridge The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) appealed for R1.3 billion to provide vital relief rations over the next six months. The group warned that without additional contributions, it would run out of stocks in January 2009, at the very peak of the crisis."Millions of Zimbabweans have already run out of food or are surviving on just one meal a day, and the crisis is going to ....

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AFP Zimbabwes annual inflation soared to 231 million percent in July, a state daily reported today, citing official statistics. The Herald newspaper said the annual rate of inflation gained 219.8 million percent, up from the June rate of 11.2 million percent, adding that it was "driven faster by food prices". "The month-on-month rate rose 1 760.9 percentage points on the June rate of 839.3 percent to 2 600.2 percent," ....

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AFP The Libyan government has decided to halt oil deliveries to Switzerland, said the Libyan oil company Tamoil. "Libya has requested the company to halt all oil deliveries to Switzerland," Tamoil CEO Issam Zanati told AFP in a telephone interview."It is a decision of Libya and not Tamoil," he said.Zanati was unable to say how long the suspension would last or why the decision was taken.Libyan authorities declined to ....

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AFP The Democratic Republic of Congos envoy to the United Nations called on the Security Council to intervene, what he called an "imminent" Rwandan attack on the eastern DRC city of Goma. Atoki Ileka told AFP that DRC authorities had "observed concentrations of Rwandan troops in the Rwandan border town of Gisenyi", and this suggested an attack on Goma, located just across the frontier, was "imminent".Goma is the capital ....

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The World Bank has assured Nigeria that global financial crisis will not affect the country. It is coming a month after the Central Bank of Nigeria had envisaged a minimal impact of the global financial turmoil on the country, owing to what is referred to as very strong macro-economic fundamentals. But the World Bank believes that with the Nigerian ....

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AFPNegotiators for Zimbabwes President Robert Mugabe and his main rival Morgan Tsvangirai are going to meet again in a bid to save a faltering power-sharing deal, an opposition spokesman said.The two men agreed more than three weeks ago to form a unity government that would also include a splinter group of Tsvangirais Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).So far they have failed to agree on how to divide key ministries, ....

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AFP An Algerian army major died in a bomb attack blamed on Islamic militants in Msila, 250 kilometres southeast of the capital Algiers, the countrys newspapers reported today.However, there has been no official confirmation of the attack by Algerian authorities.The independent newspaper Al Watan, said the army major died when a bomb exploded yesterday.It added that the bomb was hidden under the dead body of a man, who an ....

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AFP Kenyas foreign minister denied a cargo manifest produced by the BBC was evidence that military hardware seized by Somali pirates last month was destined for southern Sudan. Moses Wetangula said the initials GOSS, a commonly used acronym for the government of South Sudan, included in the contract number had been misinterpreted, and is in fact a code used by Kenyas defence ministry."I have personally seen the bill of ....

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Lionel Richie well known pop musician will perform in South Africa next month. The musician will start his performances on November 22 in Cape Town and three days later at Absa stadium in Durban. He will wind up his shows with the last performance at Coca cola Dome in Johannesburg, according to adverts in SA. Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr., was born on ....

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Lives in most rural Kenya communities revolve around jiggers. They know little about everything else as they are busy grappling with a problem Kenyans seem to ignore. As the world come to grips with the effects of the US financial crisis, the jigger-infested victims are in a cocoon of their own. They have become so accustomed to jiggers that nothing ....

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AFP South Koreas leading fixed-line operator KT Corp said, it has signed a $38 million deal with the Rwandan government to build network infrastructure. The agreement with the Rwandan Information Technology Authority, calls for KT to establish a nationwide communications network for internet access.The firm said the project is expected to use some 2 200 kilometres of fibre-optic cables in 30 cities.The project is due for completion by November ....

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AFP Gabons Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong announced a reshuffle of the cabinet, with Paul Toungui moving from the economy and finance ministry, to the foreign ministry.Toungi, one of the barons in the government of President Omar Bongo Ondimba, who managed the countrys finances since 2002, replaces Laure Olga Gondjout as foreign minister.Ndong, speaking on national television named Blaise Louembe, who served as the head of the treasury, as ....

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AFP School exams in Zimbabwe should be cancelled because strike action by teachers has left pupils unprepared, a teaching union said yesterday. "For the record, there was no meaningful learning and teaching in 2008 and all examination classes are not prepared," Takavafira Zhou, leader of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), told journalists.Teachers went on strike when classes began in January, demanding pay increases and better working conditions.The ....

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Kenyan authorities have deported Jerome Corsi, an American who tried to launch a book smearing Barack Obama. He had been planning to launch his book, The Obama Nation Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. Corsi, was arrested on Tuesday. He is a leading American neo-conservative author. Dr Corsi was described as author of a ....

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The WBC heavy weight champion Samuel Okon Peter The Nigerian Nightmare will fight Vitali Klitcko this weekend. The Nigerian who is the current WBC will be fighting Klitcko in Germany for the title. Peter and Klichko have won the WBC title but Klichko have since been out of fight because of injury. Peter took the title after defeating Maskia ....

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Archbishop Tutu of South Africa has apologised for recent cases of xenophobic attacks on Africans in that country. What we did was due to lack of gratitude and ignorance, we should be grateful for the roles the various African countries played by sharing their resource to earn us our freedom, he said. Tutu apologised in Cape Town on Monday ....

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AFP Pirates holding a Ukrainian ship carrying tanks and military hardware with 21-member crew off the coast of Somalia said a deal could be reached in a day for the vessels release. "A deal might be sealed by Wednesday and then we will issue a statement regarding the end of the matter," said Sugule Ali, a spokesman for the estimated 50 pirates holding the MV Faina since September 25.The ....

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Over 70,000 people have been hit by floods in the northwestern Cameroon and southern Chad. Disaster workers with the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) predict a longer and wetter rain season than normal. Thousands of people have remained homeless in Chad and Cameroon since the floods. More than 8,000 families in Logone Occidentale, Mayo ....

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The global financial crisis will hit Kenyas economy badly, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said on Monday. He rejected previous assertions that African states would emerge largely unscathed from the chaos. This will impact very negatively on the Kenyan economy in the short and medium term, he added. Emerging markets, which benefited greatly ....

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Herdsmen in Kenya have turned to an age-old contraceptive device, the olor, to protect their precious goat herds from an ongoing drought. The olor is made from cowhide or a square piece of plastic, and is tied around the belly of the male goat. It prevents the bucks from mating with the female goats. The herdsmen who are mainly from the ....

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Governance has improved in almost two-thirds of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa, according to an index published. The 2008 Ibrahim Index of African Governance said 31 of 48 sub-Saharan nations recorded higher scores than in last years survey, with Liberia the best improver, the survey said. Mauritius was the best-run country and Somalia the ....

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AFPZimbabwes opposition renewed a call for regional mediators to help break an impasse over a fragile power-sharing deal, denying it planned new talks later in the day with President Robert Mugabes ruling party.The state-run Herald newspaper reported that new talks would be held today on how to allocate contentious cabinet posts under the deal, which would keep Mugabe as president while naming opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai as prime minister.But ....

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AFPIraq said that it has called on Egypt to collaborate in rebuilding the countrys oil industry after Cairo announced it was ready to re-establish a diplomatic mission in Baghdad. Egypt has been asked to send oil industry representatives to discuss possibilities in "rehabilitating the infrastructure and cooperating in areas of drilling, pipelines and other facilities," the government said in a statement.Egyptian Oil Minister Sameh Fahmi was in Baghdad on ....

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AFPAngola will ask a French court to scrap the trial opening later Monday of 42 politicians, businessmen and other public figures accused in the arms-to-Angola scandal of the 1990s, its lawyer said.Angola will invoke French confidentiality laws allowing third countries to defend their military secrets to argue that the trial be aborted, said Francis Teitgen, representing the Luanda government.Late French president Francois Mitterrands son Jean-Christophe, former interior minister Charles ....

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