Zimbabwe has taken over US food group HJ Heinz Co's 49 per cent stake in the African nation's leading cooking oil maker, the first major move in a drive by President Robert Mugabe to control foreign-owned firms.

This cannot go on much longer. Surely the country will collapse within the next year.

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September 4th 2007 @ 00:04

Posted By: Harry - Category: Politics, Africa

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World diamond group head to assess gem claim (LINK)

The World Federation of Diamond Bourses, which represents exchanges from Bangkok to Antwerp, agreed to assess a stone claimed to be the world`s biggest diamond.

Today we bring you news from the esteemed Mining Journal! I'm sceptical about this diamond being real. I'm not a fan of the colour either, the Cullinan diamond is much prettier even though it's half the size.

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August 30th 2007 @ 23:40

Posted By: Harry - Category: Misc, Africa

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World's biggest diamond unearthed (LINK)

Mystery and tentative excitement surrounded reports yesterday that by far the world's biggest diamond has been unearthed by a small mining company in South Africa.

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August 29th 2007 @ 00:19

Posted By: Harry - Category: Misc, Africa

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Morocco's strongman dies in Paris (LINK)

One of Morocco's best known political figures during the rule of the late King Hassan II, Driss Basri, has died in a Paris hospital aged 69.

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August 28th 2007 @ 00:21

Posted By: Harry - Category: Politics, Africa

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EGYPTIAN archaeologists discover 'oldest human footprint' (LINK)

EGYPTIAN archaeologists have found what they said could be the oldest human footprint in history in the country's western desert, the Arab country's antiquities' chief said overnight.

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August 21st 2007 @ 23:12

Posted By: Harry - Category: Science, Africa

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Fossil Discoveries Challenge Theory of Human Evolution (LINK)

Scientists say two new skulls unearthed in Kenya challenge the conventional view of human evolution. Instead of one human species evolving in succession after the other over the past two million years, the fossils reveal that two species at the dawn of human development evolved side by side.

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August 8th 2007 @ 23:42

Posted By: Harry - Category: Science, Africa

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