Street vendors strip women naked in Malawi
Lilongwe – Two weeks after engaging in running battles with police in Malawi’s capital city Lilongwe over trading spaces, street vendors Tuesday morning set out on a morality path as they stripped naked all women found wearing trousers and tight skirts. Women scampered around Lilongwe’s Old Town business centre in search of wrappers to cover [...]
UDF party suspends Malawi’s former president and expels son for disregard of party etiquette and undermining authority
Lilongwe - Former ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) Tuesday suspended its former chairperson and the country’s ex-president Bakili Muluzi for sowing seeds of confusion in the erstwhile popular party. At a National Executive Committee meeting called in a spur-of-the-moment following the dissolution last week of all party positions by the then secretary general Kennedy Makwangwala, [...]
Breakthrough in technology as Whip-Speed gives petrol more miles to the gallon
As investors line-up to take on the huge potential that Sierra Leone offers, there has been a breakthrough in technology as Motorists and fuel users around the world are set to benefit from a significant reduction in fuel costs as a new product is introduced in the market. Imagine buying fuel that was intended to [...]
Combating Poverty: New Battle Gear for an Ancient War
(A review of Combating Poverty: Structural Change, Social Policy and Politics: A Report by United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, UNRISD, August 2010) – Since antiquity, the problem of poverty has engaged the consciences of statesmen and thinkers, but few have dared to draw the obvious context – and fuel – for it: inequality. [...]
Newstime Africa launches the Africa Forum
Newstime Africa has today launched its Africa Forum website to provide a medium for its readers and people from across Africa and the diaspora, to engage in lively debates and Q&A sessions. The Forum is the first of its kind - and all the countries of Africa are fully represented. Everyone must register to enjoy [...]
China to help Africa boost food production by exporting its technology
China has agreed to transfer her agricultural technology to Africa to enable the continent boost production which will guarantee the continent food security. The Beijing declaration for the massive agricultural technology transfer came as the China-Africa Agricultural Forum, drew to a close today. This will involve rural farmer education, setting up of modern farming demonstration [...]
Gordon Brown says aid to Africa should focus on kick-starting business-led growth
The former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, while addressing politicians in Uganda, in what was his first major speech since leaving office, has said that the future growth of the world economy is reliant upon the development of Africa. Mr Brown said he wanted to see the continent achieve its full potential.Mr Brown also made [...]
Jacob Zuma’s Wife is Pregnant – But it Seems the President is Not the Father – The Bodyguard May Have Gone Too Far!
The South African people have been made to endure a national embarrassment once more as a result of the presidency of Jacob Zuma. President Jacob Zuma, the polygamous leader of South Africa is battling another scandal concerning his private life, this time involving a local newspaper report that his second wife is pregnant after an [...]
Namadi Sambo is Nigeria’s New Vice President
Parliament in Nigeria has confirmed Namadi Sambo who is a Muslim and a northerner as the country’s new vice president, thereby maintaining the regional balance of power in the country’s ruling party. As expected, both the Senate and House of Representatives approved Sambo with little debate since President Goodluck Jonathan’s ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) [...]
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