ZAMBIA
Zambia: Where are the workers?International investors are toasting Zambia's fast-growing economy, but economists and social rights activists point out that it is yet to make a serious dent in poverty.
SOUTHERN AFRICA
Southern Africa: Integration and the migrant migraine
The goal of Southern African regional integration is being set back by the outflow of Zimbabwean migrants to neighbouring countries, according to researchers.
SOUTH AFRICA
Limpopo's Marula Festival kicks off[Gcina Ntsaluba] An estimated 20,000 people are expected to attend the annual Marula Festival which kicks off in Phalaborwa, Limpopo, today, 29 February 2008.
WEST AFRICA
Chad govt issues new press lawThe Chadian government has adopted a new press law by decree which does not abolish prison terms for press offences, but instead makes the sentences much longer and makes it harder to launch a newspaper.
ZIMBABWE
And so it begins…Reporters Without Borders has voiced serious concern over a growing government crackdown on independent media with one month to go before presidential elections in Zimbabwe on 29 March 2008.
UGANDA
Tariffs tumble in search for subscribers[Walter Wafula] Calling charges of telecom phone companies in Uganda are falling as operators battle to win more subscribers.
ANGOLA
Poland to fund Angolan fisheries academyPoland will finance the estimated $22 million construction of a fisheries academy in the southern Angolan province of Namibe, says its ambassador to Angola, Piotr Mysliwiec.
AFRICA
Rapid increase in radio and TV channels in Africa, says new reportA rapid increase in the number of radio and TV channels in Africa over the last three years has piqued interest in the continent by international media players.
