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Nonagenarian Mugabe’s darkest secret: An U.S.$990bn blood diamond mine he’s running with China’s Red Army

Nonagenarian Mugabe’s darkest secret: An U.S.$990bn blood diamond mine he’s running with China’s Red Army

Across a remote tract of southern Africa, naturally fortified by mountains and patrolled by hundreds of soldiers with dogs trained to tear intruders apart, teams of mining experts are hard at work. Yet they are not speakers of Shona, the native language of this land on the border between Zimbabwe and Mozambique. No, thousands of […]

South Africa will allow expropriation of land without compensation

South Africa will allow expropriation of land without compensation

South Africa will amend its laws to allow expropriation of land without compensation for owners as it tries to speed up the redistribution of land to its black majority, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday. Expropriation without compensation would mark a radical policy departure for Zuma’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), shifting from a willing […]

MP Blames Ghana’s Judicial System for Land Guard Menace

MP Blames Ghana’s Judicial System for Land Guard Menace

Former Deputy Interior Minister, James Agalga, has partly blamed the menace of land guards in the country on Ghana’s judicial system, which he said, is unable to adjudicate land cases expeditiously. Contributing to a statement on the floor of Parliament Thursday, he argued that when people are unable to get justice in land cases, they […]

S.African Govt to Conduct Pre-Colonial Land Audit to Transform The Historic Patterns of Ownership, Use And Occupation

S.African Govt to Conduct Pre-Colonial Land Audit to Transform The Historic Patterns of Ownership, Use And Occupation

Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti says government will conduct a colonial land audit to transform the historic patterns of ownership, use and occupation. The Minister said this when he participated in day one of the debate on the State of the Nation Address at the National Assembly on Tuesday. He said this […]

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Hosts Nigerian Trade Minister as Both Agree to Work Together

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Hosts Nigerian Trade Minister as Both Agree to Work Together

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s U.S.-Africa Business Center Tuesday hosted the Nigerian Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment Dr. Okechukwu Enelamah for a roundtable discussion with U.S. business executives at their office in Washington, D.C. The conversation focused on enhancing trade and investment relationship between both countries. This comes in the context of a telephone […]

White Opposition Politician Slams Mugabe’s ‘Racist’ Land Laws

White Opposition Politician Slams Mugabe’s ‘Racist’ Land Laws

MDC-T Bulawayo Senator Michael Carter has ripped into the Zanu PF sponsored Land Commission Bill for allegedly being racist and impoverishing nearly a thousand former white land owners and their black workers. He was speaking during debate on the proposed law in the upper house on Thursday during which fellow Senators took turns to slate […]

Split of Rwanda Natural Resources Authority Okayed

Split of Rwanda Natural Resources Authority Okayed

LEGISLATORS in the Lower House, on Tuesday, passed a series of Bills that will see Rwanda Natural Resources Authority (RNRA) dissolved and replaced by three independent and specialised bodies focused on oil, gas, and minerals as well as land, water, and forestry. The basis of the draft laws was unanimously approved by the House, last […]

Political flux threatens stability of business environment in East Africa for 2017

Political flux threatens stability of business environment in East Africa for 2017

Macro-economic instability fuelled by low oil prices and global economic sentiment will continue to be the main driver of business risks across East Africa in 2017. Governance improvements and the embedding of certain democratic practices and norms will limit the scope of potential for deterioration, but challenges will still persist. Cyber-attacks are advancing in nature. […]

Burkina Faso Exceeds its Development Plan Objectives By A Very Wide Margin

Burkina Faso Exceeds its Development Plan Objectives By A Very Wide Margin

The President, His Excellency Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, and the government of Burkina Faso, managed to mobilise almost 28 billion euros (18,500 billion CFA francs) within the framework of the conference of partners for the financing of the National Economic and Social Development Plan. More than 350 people participated in the first day of the […]

Nigeria Signs Billion Dollar Deals With China for it’s Oil and Gas

Nigeria Signs Billion Dollar Deals With China for it’s Oil and Gas

The agreements set the stage for jointly developing, financing, and constructing several high profile projects including crude oil and gas pipelines, oil refineries, port, highways, and railways across Nigeria. Chongqing Construction Engineering Group Co. Ltd (CCEGC) Chairman/Party Secretary General Mr. Yang Jingpu, Tianjin Energy Resources Ltd (Tianjin) Managing Director Engr. Peter Lin, Oilserv Limited (Oilserv)Chairman […]

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