Africa News latest RSS headlines - Africa Leader.comProvides the latest RSS feeds for Africa News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home pageAbsa Comes Under Fire Over Expropriation Bill- June 19, 2008 Banking group Absa was yesterday accused by African National Congress (ANC) MPs of not supporting the new democratic order or the government of the day after yet another submission suggesting the Expr...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15635293/ Pioneer Aims to Reduce Shelf Prices- June 19, 2008 SA&039;s third-largest food producer, Pioneer Foods, said yesterday it would be doing what it could to ease the burden of rising food prices as commodity costs increased.http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15635300/ Fuel Bottleneck Solutions Discussed- June 19, 2008 A re-engineering exercise to manage the transport of fuel from Durban to the industrial heartland in Gauteng was under way to ensure there was no breakdown in supply over the next critical two years, ...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15635297/ Electricity Price Hike Will- June 19, 2008 FOLLOWING yesterday&039;s electricity tariff increase announcement, CPIX (consumer price index excluding interest rates on mortgage bonds) is unlikely to return to the targeted range until 2011, says Lehm...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15635295/ Majed to leadjuniors inTunisia meet- June 19, 2008 ASIAN junior champion Majed Saleh Majed will lead a seven-member Bahrain team for the Arab Junior Athletics Championships in Tunisia, writes Patrick Salomon. The event begins tomorrow and concludes o...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15635278/ Two arrested in Ivorian cocoa anti-graft crackdown- June 19, 2008 + By Ange Aboa ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Police in Ivory Coast say they arrested two leaders of a cocoa sector organisation on Wednesday in the first detentions of a government crackdown against corru...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15638448/ Algeria criticises Mediterranean Union, summit envoy unclear- June 19, 2008 + PARIS (Reuters) - Algeria&039;s prime minister criticised French plans for a Mediterranean Union in an interview published on Wednesday, leaving open whether Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15635271/ Joint north-south force arrive in Sudan- June 19, 2008 + KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A joint north-south force arrived to take control of Sudan&039;s disputed oil-rich Abyei town on Wednesday, hoping to end clashes which killed 89 people and forced about 50,000 ...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15635273/ Archbishop Tutu urges US Senate to pass AIDS bill- June 19, 2008 + WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa on Wednesday urged the U.S. Senate to pass a bill that would more than triple spending to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in A...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15638447/ Oil falls as Nigeria strike threat eases- June 19, 2008 (AP PhotoMike Groll)A gas station sign is seen in Moreau, N.Y., Wednesday, June 18, 2008. Oil prices rose Wednesday, rebounding from earlier losses on reports that Nigerian oil workers are about to s...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15635285/ |