Premier Dalton McGuinty just pulled off the fastest head spin since Linda Blair grossed us all out in The Exorcist.

Meanwhile Finance Minister Tendai Biti has called for a complete overhaul of the laws governing the country's diamond trade, saying all the mining leases that the government has awarded to…

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 9, 2010) - VVC EXPLORATION CORPORATION (TSX VENTURE:VVC)(FRANKFURT:V7S) ("VVC" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has signed a Letter of Intent ("LOI") to…

TORONTO, ONTARIO-- - VVC EXPLORATION CORPORATION is pleased to announce that it has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire a 100% interest in the Beauce-Bellechasse Gold Property consisting of…

RAPAPORT... Judge Michael Stallman dismissed a petition brought before the court to void the New York Diamond Dealers Club bylaws change vote of December 2008. He determined that votes cast…

USA star is bowled over by the warmth from Toffees fans. EVERYBODY, by now, knows of the merits of Everton manager David Moyes.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - March 9, 2010) - GGL Resources Corp. (TSX VENTURE:GGL) ("GGL") is pleased to report that Rio Tinto Canada Exploration Inc. ("RIO") (formerly, Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc.)…

Sprott Asset Management's Chief Investment Strategist believes gold could gain another 30% this year this year as a greater proportion of the public realizes the degree of difficulty that sovereign debt is in. Interview with the Gold Report

The operator of the $3bn copper and gold joint venture between Barrick and Antofagasta still hopes it will go forward despite a government threat to scrap it

An Australian gold explorer in the Tennant Creek field of Australia's Northern Territory clearly has a difference of opinion with the mighty AngloGold Ashanti Ltd on terms for a claw-back arrangement.

While accommodative monetary policy has helped the world back onto its feet, there is a cost involved

Annual gold production could double by 2018 but the group believes there is a size, beyond which one doesn't want to grow

CEO, Richard O'Brien says, while not an overriding factor, it is something the group has to consider

Mark Mobius, manager of the Templeton Emerging Markets investment trust, said strong economic growth and low inflation continue to support the outlook for emerging markets.

Research by broker Wins suggests Lowland Investment trust may struggle to retain its premium rating given manager James Henderson's dip in relative performance this year.

Franklin Templeton has opened its Luxembourg-registered Templeton Emerging Markets Smaller Companies SICAV to UK investors with a sterling-denominated share class.

The exposure of Shires Income investment trust to preference shares led to a fall in net asset value over the first six months of the year.

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.

A polio vaccination campaign in the violence-wracked central Nigerian city of Jos has been delayed until 13 March due to the violence and an on-going health worker strike, aid workers said.

Some 5,000 West African farmers are reaping the rewards from a United Nations scheme aimed at helping them export produce to the growing organic food market in the industrialized world.

The United Nations human rights chief said today she was appalled by the latest "massacre" of hundreds of villagers in northern Nigeria, and called for authorities to tackle the underlying causes of the tension in the region.

The Plateau State police command yesterday said the early morning attack on three villages in Jos South Local Government on Sunday was a reprisal by some Fulani people who lost their tribesmen and cattle in the January crisis.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Monday on Nigeria to find and punish those responsible for the killings of more than 500 Christians in a wave of sectarian slaughter.

DAKAR Tuesday, March 09, 2010 (IRIN) - The poorest households in Chad will find themselves with no food reserves in the coming weeks, according to the US famine early warning systems network, FEWSNET.

ABUJA Monday, March 08, 2010 (IRIN) - Hundreds of people in the city of Jos, 350km northeast of Nigeria's capital, Abuja, have been buried in mass graves after machete-wielding intruders attacked residents at 3 a.m. (local time) on 7 March.

DAKAR Tuesday, March 09, 2010 (IRIN) - A polio vaccination campaign in the violence-wracked central Nigerian city of Jos has been delayed until 13 March due to the violence and a recent health worker strike, aid workers said.

LOMÉ Sunday, March 07, 2010 (IRIN) - An empty market, tightened security and a general wariness of possible violence have greeted the announcement of President Fauré Gnassingbé’s re-election, pending constitutional court approval, with 61 percent of the two million votes cast on 4 March.

A Nigerian governor accuses the army of ignoring warnings of attacks, as communal tension remains high near Jos.

The US State Department apologises for comments its spokesman made after Libya's Col Gaddafi called for a holy war against Switzerland.

A new scheme in Tanzania is taking medical workers out of retirement to plug gaps in health care. Is there such a thing as too old?

Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed says efforts are being made to release a UK couple held by pirates as soon as possible.

Bulgarian giants CSKA Sofia terminate the contract of former Cameroon international goalkeeper Daniel Bekono.

The Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi has denied the allegation which claimed that 95% of the $100m aid raised by Live Aid and others to fight famine in rebel-held northern Ethiopian in 1985 was diverted to be spent on weapons. He said the BBC had fallen for lies put out by his political opponents on the eve of a general election in Addis Ababa…

The UK donates £1m ($1.5m) to South Africa to buy 42m condoms, as the nation builds up to the football World Cup.

Liberian international Dulee Johnson has been granted Swedish citizenship and been issued with an European Union passport. Johnson who received the news from the Swedish immigration was visibly elated and hopes it would bring good tidings to him in the years ahead in Europe. “It’s a good thing to begin the year with. I’m so happy…

The Norwegian Minister of Environment and Development Cooperation, Erik Solheim, had asked the African Union (AU) leader, Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika to do all he can to ensure conflicts in Zimbabwe and Kenya ended amicably. In Zimbabwe, Tsvangirai and long-stayed President Robert Mugabe are sharing a government of national unity (GoU). Tension…

The National Security Adviser of Nigeria Sarki Mukhtar has been fired over the Jos crisis that led to the death of about 400 people on Sunday. The acting President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan replaced him with Aliyu Gusau, a one time National Security Adviser to former President, Olusegun Obasanjo. About 400 corpses from the Sunday massacre were given mass…

Former Ghanaian president JJ Rawlings had warned Nigerians against the use of violent reform of the nations political and socio- economic landscape. He said such times were gone and the best way to effect change lies in dialogue and peaceful means. The former coupist was speaking with journalists shortly after he had paid a courtesy call on the acting…

Legendary Senegalese film director, screenwriter and producer, Mahama Johnson Traore, has died, after a long illness. A founding member of the Pan-African Film Festival (FESPACO), Traore reportedly died Monday morning in Paris, France, at age 68. Born in 1942 in Dakar, he directed several feature films and movies with themes of societal and political…

South Africa's Standard Bank and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Fund for International Development (OFID) launched two unique African development financing initiatives. The first of the OFID/Standard Bank initiatives is a smallholder Risk Sharing Agreement, which is to work in support of the Agriculture Guarantee Fund…

Emirates Airlines has unveiled its intention to commence direct flights to the Senegalese capital, Dakar. According to a statement released Monday by the embassy of United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Dakar, the airlines said from the 1st September it will commence its non-stop flights to the Senegalese capital, five times a week. According to the statement,…

Ethiopia has seen an increasing number of oil exploration companies over the past ten years. Oil exploration in that country started in 2000 by the Hunt Oil, an American company. The country can now boast of about eleven companies all exploring oil. The eleven companies are working in petroleum exploration and prospecting with the 19 agreements in…

SouthWest Energy (Ethiopia), a company largely owned by Tewodros Ashenafi, struck a deal with Tullow Oil Plc of the United Kingdom (UK) last week, reliable sources disclosed. SouthWest Energy secured three blocks that cover 29,000 square kilometres in the Ogaden Basin of Eastern Ethiopia, after it signed a product sharing agreement with the Ministry…

A multimillion dollar lawsuit is imminent against American plane manufacturer Boeing in a US court by relatives of those killed aboard an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed into the Mediterranean off Lebanon in January, according to their lawyer. "We have filed, in Chicago, a petition for discovery which in this case was filed against the Boeing…

BP Plc's Zambia marketing wing is among the five African units lined up for sell by the London based global oil giant. BP Plc said it will sell its marketing operations in Namibia, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana after a 'strategic review' into its African operations. BP Plc said it will focus on South Africa and Mozambique while…