Category: East Africa

Broker Buy: Gryphon Minerals

Gryphon Minerals (GRY)   Broker Calls Credit Suisse – BUY Deutsche – BUY RBC – BUY RBS Morgans – BUY Argonaut – BUY Eagle Research – BUY Alpha Broking – BUY   Chart: Share price over the year to 04/08/2011 versus ASX200 (XJO) Gryphon Minerals (GRY), a West African focussed Gold exploration company with projects [...]

Health: Global Fund against HIV-AIDS resumes activities in Mauritania

Global Fund against HIV-AIDS – The Global Fund for the Fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will resume activities in Mauritania after ‘a successful negotiation between the government and its partners,’ according to a statement from the Mauritanian ministry of Health. The resumption of funding will enable the country receive substantial resources estimated at about [...]

Mauritanian Football Federation elects new president

2011-08-01 Mauritanian football fans can look forward to new leadership in the sport as the country looks to rebuild its programme. By Mohamed Foily Samba Vall for Magharebia in Nouakchott – 01/08/11 [Mohamed Foily] For the first time in its history, Mauritania’s football federation held a competitive election for new leadership. The Mauritanian Football Federation [...]

Gambia: The President’s Ramadan Gift

The Daily Observer (Banjul) Daily Observer 3 August 2011 editorial The Holy Month of Ramadan is not only meant for fasting and abstinence. It is also a month when good and God-fearing Muslims remember the poor and needy. It is a time when Muslims extend a helping hand to those in need, a time for [...]

Sanyang happy to be a Sounders player

Sanyang happy to be a Sounders player Gambian youngster Amadou Sanyang heard all about the Sounders before he was signed to the club last week and expressed his happiness to be a Sounders player. On Monday, Baresi celebrated his 20th birthday. He got an early gift from the Sounders FC when the club announced they [...]

Gambian journalists face death penalty

Three Gambian journalists are among seven people facing the death penalty for making and distributing t-shirts that called for an end to the dictatorship exercised by the country’s president Yahya Jammeh, who has been in power for 17 years. The journalists are Ndey Tapha Sosseh, now in exile in Mali, Mathew K. Jallow and Famara [...]

Zimbabwe Kickboxing Association hosts international tournament

Zimbabwe Kickboxing Association will on Saturday present the first-ever international kickboxing tournament which will see Finland and Equatorial Guinea battling it out with the Zimbabwean team at Girls’ High School in Harare. The Zimbabwe Kickboxing Association manager Mohammed Omar said a Zimbabwean team comprising of young athletes was looking forward to giving the visitors a [...]

Delmar delivers mooring equipment to Noble Energy – PennEnergy

Offshore staff BROUSSARD, Louisiana – Noble Energy EG has awarded Delmar Systems a contract to supply an eight-leg preset mooring system for use in Noble Energy’s Aseng development off the coast of Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. Delmar provided Noble Energy mooring equipment including Delmar’s patented OMNI-Max anchors and Delmar Subsea Connectors (DSCs). All equipment has [...]

Women urged not to copy men’s bad habits

By Brian Homewood NYON, Switzerland (Reuters) – Women’s football is refreshingly free of the histrionics which blight the men’s game and must not allow itself to be contaminated by success, UEFA’s first female executive committee member told Reuters in an interview. Karen Espelund said the recent success of the women’s World Cup won by Japan [...]

To stay or not To stay: a young Congolese refugee opts for a life in Gabon

To stay or not To stay: a young Congolese refugee opts for a life in Gabon News Stories, 4 August 2011 LIBREVILLE, Gabon, Aug 3 (UNHCR) – Anita is old enough to remember her homeland, the Republic of Congo, but at a pivotal time in her life she has decided to settle in Gabon after [...]

Gabon tackles doping ahead of 2012 Nations Cup

| Print | E-mail Written by Thursday, 04 August 2011 GABON authorities are spreading awareness about performance enhancing drugs in sports a few months before the 2012 African Cup of Nations, to ensure a scandal-free tournament. A symposium on sports medicine and doping began on Monday in Libreville, capital of the co-host of the 2012 African Cup of [...]

Olowi midwater arch repaired, production resumes offshore Gabon

Offshore staff CALGARY, Canada – Canadian Natural Resources (CNR) has reinstated production at the Olowi field offshore Gabon. The temporary suspension was caused by the failure of a midwater arch supporting production and gas-lift flowlines and the main power line. This has since been re-secured following a thorough evaluation/testing program. Output was restored at the [...]

Zimbabwe’s image problem: Facebook caning linked to human rights abuse

Zimbabwe clearly has an image problem. When we posted a note on Monday about the caning sentence for a Chiredzi boy who ‘slandered’ a local woman on Facebook, we sincerely thought two cane strokes was not a big deal. Really. For us the important thing was that someone had managed to get some kind of [...]

Kicked out of Zimbabwe, he’s now a top sportsman

 I think with playing sport at an elite level comes a responsibility Pundits have touted him as a future Wallabies captain, which would be welcomed by Australian rugby fans who have delighted in his unfulfilled Springboks dream  MELBOURNE — A child of evicted Zimbabwean farmers, David Pocock arrived in Australia with a few suitcases and [...]

Mugabe praises coalition government with rivals

Mugabe, who turns 88 on Tuesday, has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, but has shared power with Tsvangirai’s rival Movement for Democratic Change since 2009 under a coalition after violent and disputed elections. Despite the agreement, Mugabe and Tsvangirai have continued to fight over government posts and policy, including Mugabe’s drive to [...]