News Source: Daily Mail & Guardian
| 2 months ago
Zimbabwe's Parliament will debate legal reforms badly needed by the battered economy, including the crucial mining sector, in coming weeks, but analysts say foreign investors will wait to see how the laws are applied. President Robert Mugabe opens a...
News Source: BBC
| 2 months ago
He has reportedly argued that the money should be spent only after the government has agreed a budget. The unity government was formed in February in an attempt to save Zimbabwe's shattered economy. Donors have been wary of restoring too much aid to...
News Source: News 24
| 2 months ago
South Africa has dropped four places in the global index of African governance due to concerns about the rule of law, transparency, corruption and human rights. Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government released its 2009 Index of African...
News Source: Financial Times
| 2 months ago
Early last month the hotel, banking and retail group was accused of violating exchange controls and “specified”, meaning its assets and shares were suspended and two government agents appointed to run its affairs. Both the opposition Movement for...
News Source: The New York Times
| 2 months ago
Two independent ratings of Africa’s best- and worst-governed nations one released Monday, the other last week both put Mauritius at the top of the heap and Somalia at the bottom and reached often similar, though far from identical,...
News Source: Voice of America
| 2 months ago
PF activists, in effect putting both parties in pre-electoral mode. Mr. Tsvangirai reminded supporters that the Global Political Agreement underpinning power sharing says elections can be called at any time after a new constitution is in place. ...