Sable Mining Africa Says Initial Drill Results Confirm High Prospectivity of Nimba Project Mineweb Sable Mining Africa Limited | Sable Mining Africa Limited, the AIM listed resource company, is pleased to announce that initial results from the Company's reconnaissance drilling campaign at the 123.5 sq km Nimba Iron Ore Project in south-east Guinea (‘Nimba') have confirmed its high prospecti...
Climate ship plots course through the battering waves BBC News The European Union hosts this week what could be one of the most significant meetings of the year on climate change. | Last December's UN climate summit, in the South African port of Durban, saw heated discussions on a proposal that governments should commit to agreeing a new comprehensive glob...
Navy Hands Over Seized Oil Bunkering Vessel to EFCC All Africa [Vanguard] The Nigerian Navy (NN), yesterday handed over an oil bunkery ship to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for further investigation and prosecution , five months after its seizure. | ...
Fiki Marine Blazes Trail in Fishing Expedition All Africa [This Day] Tourists and other picnickers to Lagos beaches have been having a swell time in the last four weeks, thanks to a tourism and leisure firm based on Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, Victoria Island. The firm, Fiki Marine Services has launched seven br...
Japan to pay up at R1m a day Independent online The Japanese owner of the ill-fated Eihatsu Maru, expected to arrive in Cape Town today after the vessel was successfully towed off Clifton First Beach on Friday, was apparently delayed by visa issues. | But fears that the estimated R1 million a day ...
Port Harcourt Explosion - Police Cordon Off Hospital All Africa [Leadership] Men of the Rivers State police command have cordoned off the premises of Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital (BMH), Port Harcourt where the victims of Thursday's commercial bus explosion at Rumuokoro roundabout, Port Harcourt, were ...
Cargil among agribusinesses to invest $3B in African food program Star Tribune | WASHINGTON - Cargill will invest in a five- to 10-year program with the government of Mozambique as part of an emerging international effort to make farming in Africa commercially successful. | The giant agribusiness based in Minnesota is among 45 ...
AGNI Steel developing Coega plant Independent online Three Port Elizabeth-based businessmen have “broken new ground” by becoming the first wholly black-owned company to operate a steel melting facility in the Eastern Cape, according to Ayanda Vilakazi, marketing and communications manager a...
Maritime Security Economic Spin-Offs Are 'Amazing' - Sisulu All Africa [Biz-Community] Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said that the South African National Defence Force's maritime security strategy will remain a priority for some years to come, Independent Online reports. Speaking in the National Assembly during debate...
Secular or Islamist? Egypt chooses a president Herald Tribune | CAIRO - Sixty years after their country came under military dictatorship, Egyptians are for the first time freely electing their president. | The voting that begins Wednesday is the greatest prize won by the multitudes who took to the streets to overthrow unpopular Hosni Mubarak in the string of people-power uprisings that upended the Middle East...
