Zimbabwe will on Thursday open an international investors conference where 100 world renowned international financiers have been invited by the inclusive government as it steps up efforts to revive the country's comatose economy.

Overall business confidence in Botswana has sunk sharply to very low levels as companies cast a gloomy outlook due to the global economic crisis.

Zimbabwe has been given an ultimatum to demilitarise recently discovered diamond fields in the eastern parts of the country following an investigation under the Kimberly Process (KP).

In an effort to better understand the mindset of the African youth, United States President Barack Obama has asked young people across the continent to engage with him on MXit, the vastly popular mobile social network and instant messenger.

We are in the middle of winter and this time round, the temperatures are very low as evidenced by the single digits recorded almost every day. Unlike previous years, temperatures have remained cold for the better part of May and

The frequency of strikes by both the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and their non-academic counterparts says much about the unenviable state of tertiary education in the country. Our concern here is not necessarily the merit or otherwise of

THE on- going strike embarked upon by medical health workers of teaching hospitals across the country has paralysed activities at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), as hundreds of patients were discharged yesterday due to absence of nurses and

Deputy Minister of Public Works, Hendrietta Bogane-Zulu, says government will intervene if the need arises in negotiations to end the strike in the construction industry.

The Chinese aggression to control markets in Africa and gain a foothold on the mineral wealth of the continent, is gaining notoriety, especially in Ghana, as foreign nationals, believed to be Chinese, are taking advantage of the remoteness of the

Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Wednesday moved to end boardroom wars between ministers and their permanent secretaries over the hiring of parastatal chiefs.

How times have changed. Who would have thought a day would come when the government of Kenya would think that the Mercedes Benz, the ultimate status symbol, was bad for its image?

Sh960m meant for investigation of people implicated in the embezzlement of money from the Global Fund for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, has disappeared from Bank of Uganda.

Wheat farmers are bracing themselves for another showdown with millers over the sale of their produce and importation of duty free wheat.

A top State House official has been suspended over the purchase of new luxury vehicles.

Concrete moves to privatise State institutions have been rather slow since the Safaricom IPO was concluded in June last year. It had been expected that the State would raise Sh8 billion in the 2008/9 budget, but this was never to

Burundi has lowered import tariffs after joining the East African Community's customs union, reports Reuters.

Government yesterday signed a contract to that effect with the Noble Energy, Petronas consortium.

The document was adopted in a workshop organised by the National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies yesterday.

Seven years after having their livelihoods destroyed, victims are growing impatient at lack of economic justice.

Authorities of the Ministry of Industries, Mines and Technological Development launch reflection on new takeoff.