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 pageUN Pledges Funds for Food Crisis- June 19, 2008 Food and Agriculture Organisation director-general Jacques Diouf said the UN agency had resolved that the food crisis needed to be addressed once and for all. He appealed to countries with land and wa...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15635270/ Presidential Panel Blames Obasanjo Over Ajaokuta, Itakpe- June 19, 2008 The House of Representatives Joint Committee on Privatisation and Steel was told yesterday by the Presidential Monitoring Committee on the concession of Ajaokuta Steel Company that the collapse of the...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15635283/ Bakassi Resettlement Committee Demands N6bn- June 19, 2008 As Nigeria finally pulls out of the Bakassi Peninsula on August 30, the Reconstituted Committee on the Resettle-ment of Displaced Nigerians from Bakassi, has called on the Federal Government to make a...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15635280/ Uchumi Partner Search Attracts Foreigners- June 19, 2008 He said Uchumi would immediately seek to return to the stock exchange once the strategic partner is identified. Mr Ciano announced that the sales revenue for the first six months of this year had incr...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15635277/ Federal, State Govts Set Aside $5.2 Billion For Power Sector- June 19, 2008 Bothered by the epileptic power supply situation in the country and in a frantic move to get the situation arrested the Federal and state governments have decided to pull together a total sum of $5.2b...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15635281/ Tough Rules to Check Rogue Stockbrokers- June 19, 2008 Rogue stockbrokers will be suspended from trading at the Nairobi Stock Exchange and their bank accounts frozen if a Bill seeking to protect investors is passed by Parliament.http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15635276/ Power to Be Split Into Two Firms- June 19, 2008 Energy minister Kiraitu Murungi said on Wednesday that the utility firm will soon be restructured to create a government-owned transmission company and a private sector majority-owned distribution com...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15635275/ House Price Fall of 40 Percent- June 19, 2008 SOUTH African real estate veteran Lew Geffen&039;s warning of a 40% drop in high-end residential property prices may not be so farfetched, if you take into account what is happening in other markets such ...http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15635298/ Explorer Seeks to Drop BEE Partner- June 19, 2008 DIAMOND explorer BRC DiamondCore had applied to the Johannesburg High Court for an order to cancel its agreement with its black empowerment partner, Sefalana Mineral Resources, it said yesterday.http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15635296/ Nersa Dashes Eskom Hopes of 53 Percent Hike- June 19, 2008 The increase will enable Eskom to recover costs of R2,8bn. Nersa&039;s decision falls short of the 53% hike Eskom had requested and now puts the onus on the government to offer it financial support.http://story.africaleader.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c1ab2109a5bf37ec/id/15635299/ |