All Africa
Tito Comes to Town
Zimbabwe Standard (Harare)
April 10, 2005
Posted to the web April 10, 2005
Kumbirai Mafunda
- South African central bank boss tells Gono to speed up reforms
SOUTH Africa's central bank Governor Tito Mboweni slipped into the country last week and held meetings with the RBZ's Gideon Gono on the need to accelerate economic reforms and synchronise Harare's macro-economic fundamentals with the rest of the region.
At 127,6 %, Zimbabwe's inflation rate is the highest in the region and analysts say Harare is SADC's "Achilles heel" in the quest for a single-digit inflation area by 2008. As part of the effort towards economic integration, SADC countries have committed themselves to lower down inflation to an upper limit of 8% for 2012 and 5% by 2015.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504100112.html
Senate Introduction Condemned
Zimbabwe Standard (Harare)
April 10, 2005
Posted to the web April 10, 2005
Our Own Staff
THE reintroduction of the Senate is going to fast track Zimbabwe's economic collapse, as it is an unwarranted and unbudgeted national expense, analysts have said.
During his campaign rallies for the recent parliamentary elections President Robert Mugabe hinted that if Zanu PF won a two-thirds majority in the recent parliamentary elections, it would effect constitutional changes and re-introduce the Senate.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504100110.html
The East African Standard (Nairobi)
April 10, 2005
Posted to the web April 10, 2005
Standard
Nairobi
Kenya has issued a polio alert along its border with Sudan following an outbreak in that country.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504100171.html
Mugabe Refuses to Sign NGOs Bill
Zimbabwe Standard (Harare)
April 10, 2005
Posted to the web April 10, 2005
Caiphas Chimhete
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has refused to sign the controversial Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Bill in its present state and has referred it back for further consultations, The Standard can reveal.
Sources said Mugabe felt the NGO Bill, which was crafted largely by vindictive former Minister of State for Information and Publicity in the President's Office Jonathan Moyo and Justice Minister, Patrick Chinamasa, was "too obnoxious" and would portray government in bad light in the eyes of the international community.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504100111.html
Residents Ignore Polls for Paraffin
Zimbabwe Standard (Harare)
April 10, 2005
Posted to the web April 10, 2005
Rutendo Mawere
ON 31 March, Zimbabwe's election day, scores of Harare residents were faced with a crucial decision: they either queued to vote or for fuel.
For most, the choice was simple - paraffin, a vital energy source for a majority of urban poor, which has been in short supply since the country began experiencing intermittent fuel shortages. It had been rumoured the scarce commodity was available at some of the service stations and those that could afford it were determined not to miss the opportunity.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504100116.html
Welcome to Eziowelle, Home of Cardinal Arinze
This Day (Lagos)
April 8, 2005
Posted to the web April 9, 2005
Charles Onyekamuo
Lagos
Nothing in Eziowelle suggests that this is the village that may produce the next Pope of the Catholic Church. Its most prominent son is Cardinal Francis Arinze, who is currently rated as one of the top three likely to succeed Pope John Paul II, from this dusty community. Charles Onyekamuo visits the village, speaks with the Cardinal's elder brother, inspects the family house, and reports
The road to Eziowelle is not exactly smooth. Right from the Afor-Igwe market junction in Umunachi, Dunukofia council area of the state which shares borders with the town, the three-kilometre stretch to Eziowelle reminds you of the utter neglect by governments, at both the second and the third tiers, of the various feeder roads that dot communities in the in Nigeria. Eziowelle, which literally means 'a good place', is an agrarian community lying about eight kilometres east of Onitsha, Anambra state's commercial nerve centre.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504090142.html
We'll Support Whoever Becomes New Pope - Arinze's Kinsmen
Vanguard (Lagos)
April 9, 2005
Posted to the web April 9, 2005
Anayo Okoli
Awka
Since the death of Pope John Paul II, last week, Eziowelle town,a sleepy community in Idemili North Local Governement Area of Anambra has become a mecca of a sort. Eziowelle is the home town of Cardinal Francis Arinze ranked as a strong contender to the office of Pope. Journalists, local and international have been trooping to the town to interact with the residents of the community, who are mainly Catholics.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504090172.html
New Pope Should Be African - Orombi
New Vision (Kampala)
April 7, 2005
Posted to the web April 7, 2005
Jude Etyang
Kampala
THE Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Henry Luke Orombi, yesterday said an African should replace Pope John Paul II.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504070577.html
Religion: An African Successor for the 'Symbol of Unity'?
Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
April 2, 2005
Posted to the web April 4, 2005
Moyiga Nduru
Nairobi
Even as Roman Catholics around the world mourn the death of Pope John Paul II, the attention of many is turning to the future -- and the question of who will succeed the Polish cleric as Bishop of Rome.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504040024.html
Lesotho: Demand for Aids Treatment Could Jeopardise Quality of Care
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
April 7, 2005
Posted to the web April 7, 2005
Maseru
A storm is quietly brewing in Lesotho after international media reports raised concerns that private doctors were dispensing anti-AIDS drugs without specialised training - putting the lives of many HIV-positive people at risk.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504070343.html
HIV/Aids Distorts Labour Market - Werikhe Warns
The Monitor (Kampala)
April 9, 2005
Posted to the web April 8, 2005
Elias Biryabarema
Kampala
The HIV/Aids pandemic is creating a distortion in the labour market with the available human resource increasingly mismatching the most desired employee qualities, according to the State Minister for Energy, Mr Michael Werikhe.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504080737.html
State Hospitals Buckle Under HIV/Aids Load
Business Day (Johannesburg)
April 7, 2005
Posted to the web April 7, 2005
Wyndham Hartley
Cape Town
The massive load placed on hospitals by the HIV/AIDS epidemic was demonstrated by the fact that 60% of all people admitted to KwaZulu-Natal hospitals had been infected by the virus, Parliament's health committee heard yesterday.
The head of the provincial health department, Ronald Green-Thompson, said a shortage of staff and increased workload in the province's hospitals meant the quality of services rendered were below the standard envisaged by the department.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504070367.html
Uganda: Army Rescues 100 LRA Captives As Hostilities Intensify
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
April 8, 2005
Posted to the web April 8, 2005
Kampala
The Ugandan army rescued more than 100 people kidnapped by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) during the month of March, and also killed 50 insurgents, an army spokesman told IRIN on Thursday.
"We rescued 110, mainly children, but also adults who had been abducted by the rebels from the [northern Ugandan] areas of Gulu, Apac, Adjumani, Kitgum and Pader," Lt Kiconco Tabaro, an army spokesman based in northern Uganda, said.
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Betty Bigombe Phones Kony
New Vision (Kampala)
April 6, 2005
Posted to the web April 6, 2005
Kampala
Chief peace broker Betty Bigombe has talked to LRA rebel chief Joseph Kony to revitalise negotiations aimed at ending the 19-year-long insurgency that has devastated northern Uganda, reports Alfred Wasike.
"I have talked to him about arranging a meeting to iron out obstacles. But I expressed very strong concern about their resumption of lip-cutting and other forms of terror that they used to engage in to terrorise the population in northern Uganda," said Bigombe, who works for the World Bank in Washington D.C.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504060621.html
U.S. Govt to Supply Intelligence On Kony
The Monitor (Kampala)
April 4, 2005
Posted to the web April 4, 2005
Moses Odokonyero
Gulu
The American government will help Uganda with intelligence information in the fight against the Lord's Resistance Army rebels.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504040062.html
Uganda: NGOs Suggest New Ceasefire in North
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
April 5, 2005
Posted to the web April 5, 2005
Kampala
A group of NGOs working in war-torn northern Uganda lobbied the government on Monday to offer a new ceasefire to the rebel movement, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), as an incentive to re-establish peace talks.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200504050002.html
New Zealand Herald
Pupils, teacher injured in school explosion
11.04.05 4.00pm
Five pupils and a teacher were taken to Kaiataia Hospital today after an explosion in a Kaitaia College metalwork class shortly after 1pm.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10119892
Woman dies after injury allegedly overlooked
11.04.05 4.00pm
A woman died in Tauranga Hospital of a spinal injury after an x-ray six days beforehand did not reveal such an injury, an inquest has been told.
A coroner's inquest at Tauranga District Court is probing the death of 57-year-old Te Ata Iraia Hammond, who died on April 11, 2003, from a spinal injury that damaged arteries carrying blood to her brain.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10119875
Yachties give library its biggest gift ever
11.04.05 2.00pm
An elderly American yachtie couple have given the single biggest financial donation ever received by Whangarei District Library.
Carl and Mary Leonard, who live for six months of the year on their schooner Annabelle in Whangarei's Town Basin, have given $25,000 to the library.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10119832
Turning in fugitive mother was 'heartwrenching'
Juliette Gilbert
11.04.05 11:45am
A Rotorua real estate company employee says it was "heartwrenching" helping American and New Zealand authorities catch US fugitive Juliette Gilbert.
The woman was involved in the capture of Gilbert in Rotorua on Saturday morning.
Gilbert was wanted by the FBI after fleeing Washington in 2002 with her nine-year-old son Sky. American courts had awarded joint custody to Sky's father Roby.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10119842
Pakistan appeals for release of official held in Iraq
Malik Mohammad Javed
11.04.05 1.00pm
By Lutfi Abu-Oun and Mariam Karouny
BAGHDAD - Pakistan appealed on Sunday for the safe release of an official in its Baghdad embassy who was seized by an insurgent group in the latest kidnapping of a foreigner in Iraq's lawless capital.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119835
Kurds hope election will bring democracy for all
11.04.05
by Rebecca Walsh
More than 300 members of Auckland’s Kurdish community celebrated the election of Iraq’s first Kurdish President at the weekend - an event they hope marks the beginning of democracy for all people in Iraq.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119803
Polls send mixed message to Blair's Labour party
11.04.05 4.20pm
LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair received mixed messages from two polls on Monday, with one putting his ruling Labour Party well ahead of the opposition Conservatives and another showing them tied.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119890
Blair publishes election manifesto
The face of Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair (left) features with that of Conservative party leader Michael Howard on a new Labour party election campaign poster seen in London. Picture / Reuters
11.04.05 1.00pm
By Mike Peacock
LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair has heralded the release of his Labour Party's election policies as campaigning hit full swing with polls showing he is on track to secure a third term in power.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119860
Cardinal seeks to quell curiosity about new pope
Cardinal Camillo Ruini urged people on Sunday to contain their curiosity and let God do his work. Picture / Reuters
11.04.05 1.00pm
By Crispian Balmer
VATICAN CITY - A senior Roman Catholic Cardinal tried on Sunday to quell mounting speculation about who will succeed Pope John Paul, urging people to contain their curiosity and let God do his work.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119877
Sudan seeks $2.6b to heal Africa's longest feud
11.04.05 1.00pm
By Alister Doyle
OSLO - Sudan will seek $2.6 billion on Monday to rebuild its south devastated by Africa's longest civil war but donors are wary because of the continued conflict in Darfur.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, leaders of the Sudanese government and the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) will attend 60-nation talks in Oslo on Monday and Tuesday after a January accord to end the 21-year war.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119867
Sharon criticises mortar fire as violation of truce
11.04.05 1.00pm
By Jeffrey Heller
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Maryland - Israeli leader Ariel Sharon flew on Sunday to President Bush's Texas ranch and criticised a barrage of Palestinian mortar fire at Jewish settlements in Gaza as a "flagrant violation" of a truce deal.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119843
Israel seals off shrine to foil Jewish march
11.04.05
JERUSALEM - Thousands of Israeli police sealed off a flashpoint shrine in Jerusalem on Sunday to foil a march by ultranationalist Jews that Palestinian militants had warned could scupper their ceasefire.
Israel banned the march by Jews bent on derailing Israel’s plan to pull settlers out of Gaza. Scuffles broke out as police blocked approaches to the site revered by Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) and Jews as Temple Mount.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119779
Thousands riot in China village, 50 police injured
11.04.05 7.00pm
BEIJING - Thousands of villagers rioted in eastern China injuring dozens of police after two women among about 200 elderly anti-pollution protesters were killed during efforts by police to disperse them, villagers and officials said on Monday.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119898
Quake jolts Tokyo, no tsunami warning issued
11.04.05 12.20pm
TOKYO - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 jolted the Tokyo region on Monday morning, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of serious damage.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119865
The weather at Scott Base (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Cloudy
-21.0°
Updated Monday 11 Apr 7:59PM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
36 °F / 2 °C
Clear
Windchill:
29 °F / -2 °C
Humidity:
75%
Dew Point:
28 °F / -2 °C
Wind:
8 mph / 13 km/h from the NNW
Pressure:
29.47 in / 998 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Clear -
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