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A list of video reports about today's blasts in Uganda's capital, Kampala, after the end of the soccer world cup. ...

At least 64 people have been killed in two bomb blasts in Kampala, capital city of Uganda in East Africa. A Somali islamist group is suspected to be behind this, as reported by Reuters news agency. ...

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Libyan authorities have agreed a deal to allow a group of Eritreans in immigration detention, reportedly turned away from Italian shores last year, to remain in the North African country, sources said on Wednesday. The 245 migrants and asylum seekers have been at the centre of a row in Italy over allegations they have been ...

AlJazeera english report a study from Amnesty International about the risk of being raped by many women in Kenya who do not have the necessary privacy in toilets (they often have to use public facilities with poor privacy) and when they bath. Women “need more privacy than men when going to the toilet or taking ...

The Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers (ZIE) UK Branch will hold an infrastructure investment conference between 22 and 23 July 2010 at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) headquarters in Westminster, London. The conference will focus on the infrastructure requirements for Zimbabwe, including the government’s perspective and strategy; foreign direct investment; opportunities for private sector investment in ...

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At least 220 people are feared dead after an oil tanker exploded and set fire to parts of a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The truck, travelling from Tanzania, overturned in the village of Sange near the country’s eastern border. The fuel oil spread through the village before exploding, AFP news agency said. Wikio Wikio ...

Infrastructure and agro-industry are the key themes of the “Italy and Africa Partners in Business” Forum taking place in Rome on 1 and 2 July 2010. The Forum is being organised by the Ministry for Economic Development in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and SIMEST. It will be opened by Minister Franco Frattini. The ...

A Bill passed by the Kenya’s Government last week, if signed into law by President Kibaki, will radically change the manufacture, consumption, and advertising, bar licensing, drinking hours to warning signs on beer bottles. It was sponsored by one of the MP John Mututho, and seeks to regulate every aspect of the alcohol business. The Bill ...

The Hawks on Thursday swooped on a Pakistani-run factory in Brits, north of Pretoria to bust an operation described as a “mini-Home Affairs” office. The bust was part of an ongoing investigation into a highly organised syndicate. The unit has, in recent weeks arrested more than 30 Pakistani’s for immigration fraud. During the arrest police ...

Gauteng health MEC Qedani Mahlangu has dismissed as “baseless, malicious and misleading” claims that the health department has not paid mental health sector nongovernmental organisations (NGOs). “We remain committed to ensure that NGOs and other organisations which assist the department to deliver services receive funding without any delays as their role is essential in the ...

Road widening works on highways in Gauteng were about 80 percent complete, the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) said on Thursday. In addition, 20 of 34 interchange improvements had been completed, Sanral said in a statement. Most of the road works had been suspended for the 2010 World Cup and would resume after the ...

A strike by National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union members over wages at the University of SA spread to other provinces on Thursday, the union said. Hundreds of employees protested outside the university’s head office in Pretoria on Wednesday. “Staff in other campuses in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo have joined the strike,” union spokesman ...

White job applicants should be given preference over foreign black candidates, Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana said this week, as foreign nationals were not targeted for affirmative action under the Employment Equity Act. While the elimination of unfair discrimination in the workplace applied to all employers and employees, affirmative action provisions applied only to designated employers ...

Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has praised emergency services and security guards for their prompt action after a fire broke out at an Armscor facility in Centurion. It is reported that the fire broke out around 8pm on Wednesday. Defence spokesperson Siphiwe Dlamini says fire fighters and police isolated and prevented the fire from spreading to ...

Jonathan Shapiro’s cartoon of “Lady Justice” about to be raped by ANC president Jacob Zuma with the help of his political allies did not constitute hate speech, unfair discrimination or a violation of any human right enshrined in the Constitution, the South African Human Rights Commission has found. The Commission this week dismissed ...

South Africa’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Jerry Matjila, should have used “more elegant” language when he opposed adding gay rights to the UN’s anti-racism and discrimination agenda, his boss said yesterday.  But Ayanda Ntsaluba, Director-General of International Relations and Co-operation, nonetheless supported Matjila’s controversial stand that adding gay rights would “distract” the UN ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will visit South Africa for the World Cup final on July 11, the Department of International Relations said on Thursday. “Brazil is hosting the World Cup in 2014 and it is customary for Fifa to invite the President of the next host country to the final,” Director-General Ayanda ...

A South African rescue team on Thursday (last week) left for the DR Congo to help retrieve the remains of the victims of an air crash. The plane, carrying the board of Australian mining firm Sundance Resources, crashed into a dense jungle in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday. “Rescue SA received an official ...

A Foreign Ministry official says South Africa is probing whether the shooting in Johannesburg last week of Rwanda’s former army chief was a political assassination attempt. Four people were arrested after exiled general Faustin Nyamwasa was shot in the stomach and wounded on Saturday as he was entering his home in the northern suburbs of ...

President Jacob Zuma addressed foreign leaders at a G20 gathering in Canada on Saturday, calling for more meaningful partnerships between the international community and Africa in order to promote growth and development in the continent. “As Africa we bring to the G20 Summit the key message that we must, together as the developing and developed worlds, promote ...

In about a week’s time President Jacob Zuma will be discarding his suit for a soccer kit and boots. Zuma, a keen soccer player in his youth, will be captaining a team at a Unity Cup tournament on July 3 before the World Cup quarter-final game at Cape Town Stadium. The tournament is part of ...

Former US President Bill Clinton said on Thursday South Africa’s successful hosting of the World Cup had defied the country’s critics and cast the country in a positive light. “South Africa has branded itself in this World Cup in a very special way. Lots of people didn’t think you can pull it off,” Clinton said ...

President Jacob Zuma on Thursday expressed his condolences to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva following the deaths of 45 people in flooding in north eastern Brazil. “At a time when we, the people of the south, should all be rejoicing on our achievements, I have learnt with a deep sense of sadness of ...

Jane Ekayu, former child soldier, spoke for all child soldiers in the world during “A special evening on justice” held in Kampala (Uganda) on the eve of the ICC review review conference the 30 May 2010. Wikio Wikio ...

President Jacob Zuma declared Africa “open for business” in an address to business leaders before the G20 meeting in Toronto, Canada, on Thursday. Speaking at a lunch-time meeting, attended by Stephen Hayes, President and CEO of the Corporate Council on Africa and Lucien Bradet, president and CEO of the Canadian Council on Africa among others, ...

The project for a tunnel linking Morocco and Spain under the Strait of Gibraltar was officially presented to EU Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot on Friday by Morocco’s Transport Minister Karim Ghellab and his Spanish counterpart Magdalena Alvarez. Preliminary planning for the 40-kilometre began in 2004. Morocco and Spain are seeking co-financing from the EU for the ...

Miss South Africa Nicole Flint was congratulated by President Jacob Zuma on Friday for her passion for bringing education to all children of the country.  “We ended up talking about important issues, national issues. I am so passionate about education and you are so passionate about education,” Zuma said to Flint on the steps of ...