| Mmegi Online - Jan 25, 2012 In a move that is likely to bring discontent among opposition parties, the central committee of the Botswana National Front (BNF) has decided that the position of Leader of the Opposition should rotate between them and the Botswana Movement for ... |
| Mmegi Online - 10 hours ago Former president, Festus Mogae reflects on his life, as a young Motswana, through his education to his period as a civil servant, and to that infamous episode in his Presidency when on a windy afternoon an old friend knocked on his door looking for ... |
Mmegi Online - 10 hours ago Some patients may find themselves paying more for health services by the beginning of next month. This was revealed at a press conference yesterday when Botswana Medical Aid Society (BOMAID) said certain private health service providers had informed it ... |
| New York Daily News - 22 minutes ago AP AP Syrian army defectors stand guard on a rooftop to secure an anti-Syrian regime protest in the Deir Baghlaba area in Homs province, central Syria, on Friday. |
| CBS News - 16 minutes ago Twitter logo is displayed at the entrance of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco on March 11, 2011 in California. (KIMIHIRO HOSHINO/AFP/Getty Images) Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of ... |
| Reuters UK - 17 minutes ago | LONDON Jan 28 (Reuters) - Islamist sect Boko Haram, whose attacks have killed hundreds in Nigeria, will continue its campaign until the country is ruled by sharia law, a senior member was quoted as saying by a British newspaper on Saturday. |
| Johannesburg - A leaked e-mail has led the ANC Youth League to accuse its parent body of using disciplinary procedures to settle political scores, reports said on Friday. |
Mmegi Online - 10 hours ago FRANCISTOWN: The long-awaited construction of the A1 road between Tonota and Francistown is set to begin in April this year. The mayor for Francistown, Shadreck Nyeku confirmed this at the first ordinary full council meeting this week. |
| Montreal Gazette - 54 minutes ago Amnesty International warned Thursday that Senegal was at a crossroads ahead of a tense election period that could see violence as leader Abdoulaye Wade pushes for a third term in office. |
| In an unanimous judgment delivered by its full panel, the apex court maintained that former governors Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Timipre Sylva (Bayelsa), Liyel Imoke (Cross River), Ibrahim Idris (Kogi) and Aliyu Wammako (Sokoto) ought to have vacated ... |
| Voice of America - 10 hours ago January 27, 2012 DRC Opposition Chips Away at Kabila's Influence Gabe Joselow | Nairobi Partial results from November's parliamentary elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo show President Joseph Kabila's party is losing seats in the legislature. |
| Voice of America - 1 hour ago 01-27-2012 Accountability In Kenya International Criminal Court has ruled that four leading political figures must answer charges related to the political and ethnic violence. |
| FRANCE 24 - 4 hours ago In an interview with FRANCE 24, Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouatarra insisted there will be no "impunity" as he vows to bring to justice those who committed crimes in the violence which followed last year's disputed elections. |
| New York Times - 20 minutes ago Ethiopian troops will stay in Somalia until African Union forces replace them to prevent a resurgence of Islamist militants, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia said Friday. |
| World Newsday > News > World Suicide bomb kills dozens in Iraq Published: January 27, 2012 8:11 PM By Shia militias on Sunnis that could pave the way toward open sectarian warfare now that US troops have left Iraq.. The powerful blast -- the second ... |
| Newsday - 17 minutes ago Nation Newsday > News > Nation Gingrich, Romney vying for Hispanic votes Published: January 27, 2012 9:41 PM By The Associated Press DORAL, Fla. |
| New York Times - 24 minutes ago The Central Election Commission on Friday barred Grigory A. Yavlinsky, founder of the liberal opposition party Yabloko, from competing in the March 4 presidential election. |
| San Francisco Chronicle - 13 hours ago The UN's top human rights official says Libya's transitional government must take control of all makeshift prisons to prevent further atrocities against detainees. |
| Mmegi Online - 10 hours ago The Competition Authority (CA) has given a provisional nod to a proposed takeover of Botswana's top distribution company CA Sales by South Africa's PSG Group, Mmegi Business has established. |
| New York Times - 38 minutes ago Evangelos Venizelos, left, the Greek finance minister, speaking to Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank president, on Monday before a meeting in Brussels. |
| Reuters Africa - 8 hours ago LONDON Jan 27 (Reuters) - A rise in oil, European power values and tight prompt supply of South African coal pushed coal swaps and physical prices higher by around 50 cents to $1.00 US a tonne on Friday. |
Mmegi Online - 10 hours ago Australian junior miner, Discovery Metals Limited (DML), is awaiting the award of two key permits from government as it braces for the construction of a 25-megawatt coal-fired station to power the Boseto Copper Project. |
| The mountains of Switzerland are reflected in a sign of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos on January 26, 2012. |
| New York Times - Jan 25, 2012 The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws. |
| Voice of America - 7 hours ago January 27, 2012 South Africa's Space Program Wants Twitter Input Nadia Samie | Johannesburg A new study shows that social networking is growing on the African continent, especially in South Africa, where the country's Twitter-active population posted ... |
| The Voice Online (blog) - Jan 26, 2012 Reigning queen, Miss Millennium 2011 Reginah Koata will officially handover the crown on February, Sunday 19 th . Miss Millennium is an annual beauty pageant for 40 year olds with the ultimate aim of choosing a model woman ready to be a community ... |
| Mmegi Online - Jan 26, 2012 M-Net's popular reality television show that keeps many viewers glued to their television screens, Big Brother Africa (BBA) is back with an increase in the cash prize, and a surprise announcement that for this season entrants will have to be in pairs ... |
| New Straits Times - 3 hours ago FRANCEVILLE: Guinea and Botswana will be pressed to win today after both teams lost their opening Africa Cup of Nations Group D matches. |
Mmegi Online - 10 hours ago The Group D AFCON clash between Botswana and Ghana on Tuesday in Franceville, Gabon, was viewed as a Goliath versus David fight. But in the end, the Goliath (Ghana) everybody feared turned out to be just ordinary, I mean ordinary. |
| San Francisco Chronicle - 3 hours ago (01-27) 15:29 PST -- It seemed baffling at first, but now I know why Jose Canseco tweeted Billy Beane last week, hoping to get a shot at the A's 2012 roster. |
| (AP) MARSEILLE, France - French authorities have filed preliminary charges against the former head of a now-defunct company accused of supplying potentially faulty breast implants affecting thousands of women. |
| Telegraph.co.uk - 7 hours ago Thirteen-month-old Imad Aleeyan, who has six teeth, was found chewing on the head of the 12 inch snake by his mother, who alerted the neighbourhood with her screams. |
| The Economist (blog) - 11 hours ago ON JANUARY 25th the European Commission formally unveiled an overhaul of the continent's data-protection rules. The proposal for a snappily titled "Regulation on the Protection of Individuals with Regard to the Processing of Personal Data and on the ... |
| ABC News - 10 hours ago Business and social media leaders teamed up Friday to tackle the transmission of HIV from mothers to babies, saying the medicine and the money are largely in place, and with the right organizational skills they can eliminate HIV-infected births by 2015 ... |
| MarketWatch - 6 hours ago Infinity Pharmaceuticals Inc. /quotes/zigman/102934/quotes/nls/infi INFI -39.90% shares declined sharply. The company halted a mid-stage trial of its potential treatment for pancreatic cancer after data showed patients lived longer taking a placebo. |
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