ALLISON MARTELL: For the next gold deals, small is beautiful

>African Barrick Gold Plc, the Tanzanian subsidiary of Canadian gold company Barrick Gold Corp, has been accused of illegal payments to government officials in the North Mara mine. In the process of buying land near the mine starting last year, African Barrick paid more than $400,000 (Sh670 million) in cash, mostly to Tanzanian government officials and consultants responsible for valuing the land, according to company invoices and copies of cheques reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Life would be perfect if…

anger had a STOP button

Mistakes had a REWIND button

Hard times had a FORWARD button

and Good Times a PAUSE button

The bird asked the bumblebee:

“You work so hard to make the honey and humans just take it away, doesn’t it make you feel bad?”

“No,” said the bee, “because they will never take from me the art of making it.”

What stands behind us and what stands before us are tiny matters compared to what is within us.

The happiness of our lives depends on the...

>Congolese President Joseph Kabila may or may not have decided to fiddle with his country’s constitution, but opposition groups aren’t waiting for him to make up his mind. Protests in Kinshasa and Goma this weekend were a pre-emptive warning that there will be consequences if he does try to remove constitutional term limits and keep himself in power.

As elephant poaching in Africa by organised crime gangs using high-tech equipment rises, those working to stop their extinction in the wild have turned to technology too.

Acting (STAMICO) Managing Director Engineer Edwin Ngonyani Left and Director Of Finance and Corporate Affairs Mr Peter Gembe. BY STAFF REPORTER PRODUCTION of gold at the Buckreef Gold Mine in Geita Region in which the State Mining Corporation (Stamico) has 45 per cent stake is expected to kick-start in November this year, it has been learned. Stamico signed an agreement for development of the project in the year 2011 with...

Stock Alert: Barrick Gold Corp. (GOLD) Shares Hit 52-Week High  Nasdaq

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There more places to go on Safari other than Africa, but if you want the best safari experience, Africa is where you should go, especially if you want to see the big five wild animal groups: the lion, the leopard, the elephant, the rhino and the buffalo. It’s not always easy getting a good photo of these beautiful animals, but here we have some incredible shots, enjoy some animal watching with this great photo series!

A female Leopard in heat up on a tree. According to the photographer,...

Litha Mdwaba and Neo Ntshingila, two "born free" voters explain why they chose to vote.