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A top UN official on Wednesday praised "great progress" in easing Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis, but urged donors to continue supporting the country's recovery from a decade of economic freefall.
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Tendai Biti will probably keep a tight rein on spending when he announces the 2010 budget tomorrow after the country failed to attract donor aid as it emerges from a decade-long recession.
At a groundbreaking for a replacement for Fiterman Hall, damaged on 9/11, City Councilman Charles Barron claimed that his role and that of students in getting it rebuilt had been ignored, prompting an angry retort.
Tendai “The Beast” Mtawarira, the burly Springbok and Sharks prop who is easily one of the most popular athletes in South Africa, is a Zimbabwean national. This has never raised anyone’s hackles in any meaningful way in the past. But suddenly South Africa’s Ministry for Sport, at the head of which sits Makhenkesi Stofile, has [...]
Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai complained Sunday that his unity government deal with President Robert Mugabe was not being implemented and appealed for South African help.
A new team of South African mediators have held their first talks with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe in a fresh bid to ease tensions within the strained unity government, state media reported Tuesday.
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Jodi Nichols cries when she talks about it. Her husband Kevin says he would rather be hit with a baseball bat. The couple from Wheeler, Miss., committed their lives to missions nearly two years ago. They planned to move to Russia with their four children in January.
From the Sundance Institute: “New for 2010, the Spotlight section is a tribute to the cinema we love. Regardless of where these impressive films have played throughout the world, the Sundance Film Festival is thrilled to light a marquee for them.” Narrative Bran Nue Dae/Australia (Director: Rachel Perkins; Screenwriters: Reg Cribb, Rachel Perkins and Jimmy Chi)—In the summer of 1965, a young man ...
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 3, 2009) - The Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, today announced that Canada will contribute an additional $30 million to the World Food Programme (WFP) to support its operations. This will help the WFP to meet the immediate food aid needs of vulnerable populations and respond to a range of humanitarian situations around the ...
Madison, New Jersey (December 01, 2009) - Damco announced the opening of an office in Maputo, Mozambique on 15 December, to improve presence and service levels in South East Africa.
Joe Kurmaskie will give a presentation Tuesday in Seattle on his summer of cycling through five African countries.
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