The Daily IIJ

AfricaNews.com has launched a mobile news website. This latest innovation follows an unprecedented mobile phone revolution in Africa in the past years. The mobile version of AfricaNews.com makes the company one of the few African media outlets to both source and publish content via mobile devices.

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One day while taking his rounds for food in the house Mouse came across a new, big rat-trap. Mouse got really worried. He knew that the big rat- trap in the Farmer’s hut was designed for him. His life changed. There was a new fear in his life. A new crisis. Mouse needed help fast. [...]

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JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s powerful labour movement on Tuesday condemned the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for continuing to handle Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe with kid gloves while the country suffers under the weight of a deepening political and economic crisis.

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JOHANNESBURG – Graca Machel, the wife of Nelson Mandela, on Wednesday said Zimbabwe’s government had lost all legitimacy by turning against the people and demanded release of human rights and opposition activists jailed in Harare.
President Robert Mugabe’s government had violated human rights while its failed policies had resulted in the death of thousands of people, [...]

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By Sinqobile Ndlovu
United States of America’s President Barack Obama wrote his own piece of history on Tuesday January 20 when he was sworn in as the first black man to lead the world’s most powerful nation. Obama’s inauguration, which has been referred to as the most glitziest ever in recent history also attracted a [...]

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President Barack Obama took the oath of office as the 44th US president and made history as the first African-American president of the world’s most powerful nation. Did you miss it? Enjoy this courtesy of C-Span.

more about “Of Obama’s inauguration and speech“, posted with vodpod

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Ghanaians expressed the most optimism among 17 countries that an Obama regime would turn the world around into better prospects. 87% of people polled in Ghana predicted “better things under Obama” according to BBC World Service survey conducted recently ahead of Obama’s swearing-in on Tuesday.

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Today the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe unveiled what is to become the country’s highest denomination, a $100 trillion note which is equivalent to US$50 according to today’s parallel market rates.
The unveiling of the note comes barely four days after the unveiling of what was the country’s highest denomination; a $50 billion note.
The decision by the [...]

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By Trufi Murdiani
Indonesia deposited its instrument of ratification of the ASEAN Charter at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, on November 13. Mr. Haris Nugroho, Acting Director for Political, Security and Territorial Treaties, Department of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia handed over the instrument of ratification to Mr. Nicholas T. Dammen, Deputy Secretary-General of [...]

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A Barack Obama branded mobile phone is now selling like hot cake in Kenya. Handset vendor, Mi launched the handset dressed in the colours and logo of the US president-elect. Kenya – the home country of the president’s father – is booming with an Obama fever as the 20th January inauguration draw close.

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