Zimbabwe is a deeply religious country. Daily discussions of the country's crisis end with Zimbabweans, black and white, saying: "We can only pray." So when the leaders of Zimbabwe's churches unanimously warn that the country faces "genocide" unless the international

Clients of the fallen Nyaga Stockbrokers will have to wait until September this year to know their fate, contrary to expectations raised of early refunds.

Clients of the troubled Nyaga Stockbrokers will not be paid soon even after lodging claims of about Sh500 million, statutory managers have said.

The Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) plans to open more branches in rural areas as part of its regional expansion.

About 6,000 public health workers will be hired in the next three years to reduce a shortage of staff in the sector, a Cabinet minister said on Tuesday.

Dr Mark Blaylock, the chief medical officer of Manguzi Hospital, has been suspended for a month without pay for putting a picture of KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Peggy Nkonyeni into a dustbin.

The Family Health Division of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has begun an 11-day training for health workers in Margibi County which is intended to broaden their knowledge in childhood illness management

The new Minister for Medical Services took over office and gave health graduates a reason to smile: The Government will recruit 6,000 employees in the next three years.

GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan's riverine Abigborodo community will soon be linked with a multi-billion Naira road/bridge project linking over 100 communities in the riverside communities of the state just as the management of the Abigborodo Trust applauds the development which received

Members urged the new Roads minister to give priority to marginalised regions.

Members expressed outrage at the poor state of roads in the country and challenged the grand coalition Government to give the sector priority.

Petrol prices have hit the Sh100 per litre mark in Nairobi, with crude oil trading at US $117 a barrel due to international supply fears and price uncertainties.

A Federal high court sitting in Abuja yesterday fixed Friday, this week, for ruling on a request by 8 prominent indigenes of the Bakassi Peninsula to enforce their fundamental human rights against the Federal Government over the ceding of Bakassi

Chairman of Waterloo rural district council Thursday said he has no electricity and good water supply to run his office well.

THE National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) together with the Federated Union of Niger Delta Students (FUNDS) yesterday condemned the Federal Government over its reluctance to stop gas flaring in the Niger Delta region in spite of the growing health

Mozambican president Armando Guebuza said in Maputo on Tuesday that the government has not been notified and was not aware of the presence of any Chinese ship in the country's waters carrying weapons to the neighbouring Zimbabwe.

National carrier Kenya Airways will increase fares on several routes within the next two months.

Politically motivated appointments are to blame for the slow revival of the Kenya Meat Commission, Livestock Development minister, Dr Mohamed Kuti, has said.

On Nairobi's Loita Street, the Libyan flag flies high atop the five-storey Embassy building, perhaps a sign of the country's passion to get a foothold in Kenya's oil and business sector. The stakes are high.

Mr Edward Gathege is a distraught man. He was a shareholder at the defunct Nyaga Stockbrokers. His shares worth about Sh800,000 were sold without his consent in February, and he has been camping at the offices of the joint statutory