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For a long time there has been a public outcry on the number of days it takes, for one to acquire an ATM card. Those who are tired of queuing in banks for a long period of time have always demanded for better and innovative ways of easing the banking processes.

Borders with Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will begin to operate on a 24-hour basis this year.

Following Rwanda's formal acceptance into the Commonwealth and the flag-raising ceremony, President Paul Kagame and the First Lady Jeanette Kagame were hosted to a banquet by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.

FORCING the rand to weaken would be a "very shortsighted" move for SA to make, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, MD of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said yesterday.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has launched an astonishing attack on Nelson Mandela, accusing the former president of failing black people.

An International Criminal Court agent forged a letter in which officials of a Congolese militia group purportedly threatened to kill a witness for agreeing to testify against Thomas Lubanga, ICC judges heard today.

The Kanifing Magistrate Court on March 8, 2010 remanded Edwin Nebolisa Nwakaeme, a local human rights defender and a Director of Programmes of the Banjul-based Africa in Democracy and Good Governance (ADG) in police custody for allegedly "giving false information".

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has said his government will send evidence to France to prove that Ms Agathe Habyarimana, the widow of the assassinated president Juvenal Habyarimana, participated in 1994 Rwanda genocide.

Former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has joined the growing number of Nigerians calling for the removal of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, maintaining that the only viable option out of the present political logjam in the country is for the Executive Council of the Federation (EXCOF) to declare the President incapacitated and have him impeached.

Plateau State Governor Jonah John Jang has blamed the army for last Sunday's killings in the Jos South Local Government Area of the state.

The first priority of Acting President Goodluck Jonathan is to conclude the electoral reform programme and ensure that a credible Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) is put in place because government will just be wasting time if the next election is not free and fair, retired General Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday.

Tsholotsho legislator Professor Jonathan Moyo's bid to nullify Mr Lovemore Moyo's election as Speaker of the House of Assembly failed after the High Court yesterday threw out the challenge.

President Paul Kagame, yesterday, on his second day of a working visit to England, addressed the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) on the role of the youth in the development in Rwanda, Africa and the Commonwealth.

"THE weather was bad as we left Lwakhakha. I told my colleagues not to worry because death is instant in a plane accident. They became cheerful," Prime Minister Apolo Nsibambi, admitted in Mulago Hospital, told his visitors yesterday.

The East African Community (EAC) secretariat is organising a regional conference aimed at actualisation of a US$900bn East African Railway Master plan which will cost $900 billion.

African hip-hop prides itself on a more positive portrayal of women, but traditional cultural attitudes towards women still dominate the industry, say Namibian female rappers.

Fourteen-year-old Isaac Wadyegere of Bundesi village in Bududa district woke up to a rainy and chilly Monday morning and went to school as usual.

A TERRORIST suspected to belong to the Al-Qaeda network, Ibrahim Haman Ahmed, who was extradited to the United States of America by Nigerian government officials had been on the wanted list of the United States Central Intelligence Agency for more than two years, security and diplomatic sources in Abuja told Vanguard, yesterday.

Regional Heads of State and Government meeting in Nairobi yesterday asked Sudan to ensure that the forthcoming elections are free and fair.

The heat of the fuel inspection controversy finally smoked out the authorities. Yet, instead of clearing the air, the Ministry of Industrialisation -- which gazetted the higher 0.675 per cent levy to be charged by a new company contracted last year to inspect imported oil -- struggled to feign ignorance.