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Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda arrived in Lusaka, Zambia on Sunday for a private visit and to attend the 47th Independence celebrations for Zambia. Zambia President Sata had invited her and Malawi former president Bakili Muluzi to attend the Independence celebrations on 24th October. The Vice-President is in Lusaka for Zambia’s independence celebrations in “her personal capacity”, a sign that ...

Liberia’s opposition leader Winston Tubman has been flown to the neighboring Ghana to receive medical attention after he was reported to have collapsed, the Liberian Daily Observer reports. Counselor Winston Tubman is the flag bearer of Liberia’s opposition Congress for Democratic Change, CDC. A source at the United Nations Hospital in Liberia where Tubman was first rushed to after he ...

The Nigerian Export Promotion Council, NEPC, has said a total of 34 minerals of commercial quantities have been found in Nigeria. The Europe correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reported that the minerals include silver, tin columbite, calcium and lime stone. Mr David Adulugba, executive director of NEPC told NAN in London on Sunday that the NEPC was ...

There’s been a lot of rancor from almost anybody who can grab a radio microphone or TV camera about this strike action embarked upon on 8th October 2011 by the Ghana Medical Association. Interestingly though, most people have not paused for even a second to ask: “but WHY are the doctors on strike?”…they usually just launch straight into the doctor-bashing ...