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  • Zambia: Lusaka Mayor Bans Public Gatherings

    ZAMBIA, 2016/03/16 LUSAKA Mayor George Ngendwa has banned all public gatherings in the city as additional measures are being put in place to stop the increase in the number of cholera cases currently standing at 94. Mr Ngendwa directed all council officers to ensure that no public gatherings were allowed as per directive. He identified parties and funerals as gatherings that could contribute to the spread of the disease as a lot of people shared food at such functions, which posed a health risk.

  • CLOSAG calls for re-negotiation of base pay

    GHANA, 2016/01/11 The Civil and Local Government Staff Association, (CLOSAG) has called on its members to continue their normal duties while the Association finds ways of engaging the Government to re-negotiate their conditions of service. In a statement signed by Mr Issac Bampoe Addo, Executive Secretary of CLOSAG, said the (2015) increases in the salaries and allowances were done without considering increases in utility and petroleum prices. It said transportation fares are expected to rise with the resultant increase in food prices and other products.

  • Press awash with deaths in Lassa fever outbreak, Bayelsa rerun election, Nigeria

    NIGERIA, 2016/01/11 Confirmation of 40 deaths in Lassa fever outbreak, arrest of ex-Customs boss and the tension created by the Bayelsa national governorship rerun led the Nigerian press on Saturday.Country and a lot of other newspapers focused on government’s confirmation of the death of 40 Nigerians in a Lassa fever outbreak in 10 states. Eighty-six people were infected in Bauchi, Nasarawa, Niger, Taraba, Kano, Rivers, Edo, Plateau, Gombe and Oyo. Guardian reported that President of the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS), Prof Oyewale Tomori has blamed the resurgence of Lassa fever outbreak on the country’s weak surveillance system, poor funding of epidemiology studies, inadequate diagnostic centres and poor awareness of the disease part Nigerians.

  • Senegal – Macky Sall to hold reference to REDUCE presidential term to five years

    DAKAR CITY, 2016/01/06 Senegal’s President Macky Sall said on Tuesday he would hold a referendum this year to reduce the presidential term to five years from seven, seeking to “set an example” at a time at the same time as some African leaders want to lift their term limit. Sall declined to say whether he would seek a second term in his West African country, regarded as a bastion of democracy in a turbulent region, though he is widely expected to do so.

  • South African general to head UN force in DR Congo

    CONGO KINSHASA, 2016/01/03 South Africa's General Derrick Mgwebi was on Tuesday named the new commander of the UN Force for Stabilization of Congo (MONUSCO), the UN mission said in a statement. Mgwebi replaces Carlos Alberto Dos Santos Cruz, a Brazilian general who left MONUSCO last month next serving for two years. In the statement, the UN office highlighted the national and international military experience of Gen. Mgwebi who led the UN Mission in Burundi between 2004 and 2006, and is currently the Director of the Joint Operations Division of the South African defense forces.

  • Mali Peace Accord Under Pressure

    MALI, 2015/08/27 Two months next a peace accord for northern Mali was signed amid fanfare, the transaction is looking extremely fragile. The Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), a coalition Touareg and Arab rebels which is a key player, has just pulled out of the peace accord's monitoring committee. The CMA announced its decision at a conference on Sunday in Bamako with representatives of the international mediation led by Algeria. Even if the CMA has only announced a suspension, this raises fears of new violence spreading in northern Mali. The rebel coalition's decision is in turmoil at being driven from the town of Anefis in recent fighting with militia of the "Plateforme", a term that in Mali designates armed groups supporting the government in Bamako.

  • Buhari Endorses Jonathan's Minister Adesina for AfDB Presidency

    NIGERIA, 2015/04/25 The president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has asked the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to support one of President Goodluck Jonathan's right-hand men, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, to emerge the next president of the African Development Bank (AfDB). Dr Adesina is the current minister of agriculture and rural development. To this end, Buhari has communicated his support for Adesina's candidacy to the Ghanaian president, John Dramani Mahama, who is the current chairman of the sub-regional group, ECOWAS.

  • Lusaka mayor woos Indian investors

    ZAMBIA, 2014/03/13 LUSAKA Mayor Daniel Chisenga has implored multi-national companies and the private sector in India to invest in Zambia because of the good economic policies prevailing in the country. Mr Chisenga asked the Indian infrastructure and medium-heavy manufacturing sector to take chance of the enabling environment for foreign investments. The Mayor was speaking on the sidelines of the 10th Conclave on India-Africa Project Partnership (CIAP) that took place at the Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi, India.

  • Cape Town’s commitment to quality gets results

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2013/10/24 Each of the ten partners in the BestCities World Alliance demonstrates the same outstanding qualities, efficiencies and high standards expected as membership criteria. BestCities is the initial world alliance to put in place a certification program – with standards certified by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA). Together with nine other partners, Cape Town & Western Cape Convention Bureau undertakes a rigorous internal and external audit each year and has been rewarded with recertification each time.

  • The MasterCard African Cities Growth Index

    GHANA, 2013/06/28 A new statement has identified Accra, Lusaka and Luanda as Africa’s capital cities with the highest potential for increase over the next five years. The MasterCard African Cities Increase Index, which rated the capital cities of Ghana, Zambia and Angola high on the inventory, said although South Africa and Nigeria were the only nations with three cities in the index, none featured in the top five. Professor George Angelopulo of the University of South Africa and Prof George Roger of the University of Cape Town, who compiled the statement, noted: “While additional established cities offer the expected potential for increase, other less prominent ones are quietly establishing themselves as those with even higher increase potential. Accelerated increase factors included health, education, governance, infrastructure development and the relieve of doing business.”
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