Southern Africa in Crisis
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Sunday, 31st May 2009From 1994-Present over 3,000 Farmers have been murdered in S.Africa.
Many thousands of their farm workers have also been murdered too.
Click here for Photos & Updates - WARNING: Very Graphic & GruesomeAfrica: Continent's Human Rights Conflict
Saturday 30-May-2009: The regional overview for Africa of Amnesty International's 2009 report on "The State of the World's Human Rights":As in many countries across Africa, Guinea's population was hit hard by rising food a (By Jan)...Africa: Arms and Air Transport
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Washington, DC - "Air cargo companies involved in illicit or destabilizing arms transfers to African conflict zones have also been repeatedly contracted to deliver humanitarian aid and support peaceke (By Jan)...Nigeria: War in the Creeks - Military Attack Premeditated - Dokubo Asari
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Emma AmaizeDelta People Volunteer Force (NDPVF) cum People Salvation Front (PSF), Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari was understandably angry on Tuesday when he spoke to Sunday Vanguard in Warri, Delta St (By Jan)...Nigeria: Kidnapping - What Will Save the North?
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Nuruddeen M. AbdallahKidnapping, before now, was associated with the militants in the restive Niger Delta, who resorted to taking foreign oil workers hostage to draw national and international atte (By Jan)...Nigeria: Niger Delta War - Human Casualties And Other Costs
Monday 25-May-2009: By Omon-Julius OnabuLagos - Odi could be described as a sleepy community in Bayelsa State in Nigeria's South-South geopolitical zone, until it hit international limelight, albeit notoriously, in 1999. (By Jan)...Africa: Renewing Africa's Competitive Spirit - Lessons and Opportunities from the Global Economic Crisis
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Nicky OppenheimerA speech given at the Africa Day celebrations in the plenary hall of the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa on May 25, 2009. Nicky Oppenheimer is chairman of De Beers (By Jan)...WWIII: China is the problem - not North Korea
Friday 29-May-2009: Hours after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea detonated its second atomic device, Beijing condemned the test. "The DPRK conducted another nuclear test in disregard of the common opposition of (By Gairk)...Liberia: William R. Tolbert - 'In The Pantheon Of Great African Leaders'
Friday 29-May-2009: By Richard TolbertMonrovia - Dr. Richard Tolbert, chairman of the National Investment Commission of Liberia and nephew of former president William R. Tolbert, recalled the many contributions of the f (By Jan)...Nigeria: War in the Creeks - Chased From Home, Driven Away From Refugee Camp - Horrifying Tales of Victims
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Emma AmaizeTHURSDAY, May 21, five days after the Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta started the bombardment of Ijaw communities and militant camps in the creeks of Gbaramatu kingdom, Warri S (By Jan)...The Blacks who worked for Apartheid - South Africa: Black Apartheid criminals follow Vlok's example
Monday 25-May-2009: [Note: This is an old article from 2006, that I've only picked up now. This is actually sad. These were the blacks who fought communism. These were the blacks who fought the ANC. These blacks were (By Jan)...Nigeria: Militant Leader Shot Dead
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Emma Amaize, Dayo Johnson, Samuel Oyadongha and Tordue SalemAkure - Odi militant leader, Ken Nweigha, also known as Daddy Ken, key actor in the killing of 12 policemen in Odi in 1999 and arrested T (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Who's Spinning a Yarn?
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Dumisani MuleyaWHO is telling the truth? Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has been quoted in the media as saying the ongoing farm invasions and disturbances are "isolated incidents" that have been (By Jan)...Nigeria: War in Niger Delta - MEND Blows up Chevron Flow Station
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Sam Akpe, Ofonime Umanah and Bassey Udo,Adeola YusufAbuja/Port Harcourt/Lagos - From the Joint Task Force (JTF) came the disclosure on Monday that militants are being funded by wealthy Nigerians an (By Jan)...Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report
Friday 29-May-2009: Politics and PolicyFarmer Still Under Consideration for Obama Administration Position, Takes Harvard Medical School Appointment[May 28, 2009]While Partners in Health co-founder Paul Farmer is still be (By Jan)...Nigeria: Timeline of Recent Events in Niger Delta
Saturday 30-May-2009: Dakar - Thousands of people are displaced in the Niger Delta region after the military stormed the area in pursuit of militants it said had attacked government troops. The move comes two months after (By Jan)...South Africa: Economists Warn of Recession Shock
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Miriam IsaSA's leading indicator of economic growth, which predicts trends six to 12 months in advance, fell by a record 15,1% in the year to March - backing fears this year's recession may be wors (By Jan)...WAR: Nigeria: Military Onslaught on Niger Delta Militants Continues
Monday 25-May-2009: [It seems there is a small war raging in Nigeria. Nigeria seems to be coming unstuck. Jan] Abuja - As the military onslaught against militants in the Niger Delta region enters its 13th day, the Joi (By Jan)...Zim: Prime Minister plays down farm attacks
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Farming community outraged by Tsvangirai's comments that farm invasions were 'isolated incidents' that have been 'blown out of proportion' By Alex BellMembers of Zimbabwe's farming community, (By Jan)...Nigeria: Military Extends Offensive to Rivers State
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Tunke-Aye Bisina, Emma Gbemudu and Harris-Okon EmmanuelNine hostages were on Sunday rescued by the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Gbaramatu community, one of the main theatres of battle between troops a (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe-Tsvangirai Battle Looms
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Dumisani MuleyaJohannesburg - A FIGHT is looming between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai over the fate of Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono, who is fighting (By Jan)...Africa: Somali pirates hone their tactics
Monday 25-May-2009: Istanbul - The Somali pirates who hijacked the Danish tug Svitzer Korsakov telephoned Yemen, Djibouti and Dubai in a futile search for someone to collect a ransom and forward it to them for a fee. To (By Jan)...South Africa: Central Bank Expected to Cut Rates
Friday 29-May-2009: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - INFLATION subsided more slowly than expected last month, but the odds are still very much in favour of the Reserve Bank cutting interest rates aggressively today.Confirmati (By Jan)...FINALLY, I understand Globalism, the New World Order, Super-Bankers, etc... And the answer is NOT what you think...
Monday 25-May-2009: I must tell you, the most fascinating book I have read in decades, is a book whose name you've never heard. The book has the strange title of "The Pied Piper", and it is the rather bland account of Al (By Jan)...Things Just Went From Bad to Worse
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Daniel SteinmannWindhoek - This week the South African Reserve Bank painted a bleak picture of financial and economic conditions in their country. To make matters worse, Standard & Poors announced (By Jan)...Zim continues with crackdown on white farmers
Thursday 28-May-2009: "He's talking like Mugabe now" Jan RaathHarare - President Robert Mugabe's controversial "land reform programme" took a new twist on Wednesday when a court ordered the eviction of a man who is (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Prime Minister Plays Down Farm Attacks
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Alex BellMembers of Zimbabwe's farming community, which has been left reeling by the ongoing farm invasions, have reacted with outrage to comments by Prime Minister Tsvangirai about the attacks.Dur (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Farmers Blast GNU for Failure to Halt Land Seizures
Monday 25-May-2009: By Caiphas ChimheteFARMERS' representatives have accused the inclusive government of failing to protect commercial farmers from fresh farm invasions which have brought agricultural production on many (By Jan)...Al Franken's Newest Allies, The Communist Party USA?
Wednesday 27-May-2009: [It sounds like a certain far left ideologue and Obama supporter Al Franken just got the backing of the Communist Party USA to hurry it up in the court room battle against his opponent Norm Coleman wh (By Lone Wolf)...Nigeria: Odi Militant Leader Killed in Shoot-Out
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Segun JamesYenagoa - Twenty-four hours after being arrested by the police, militant leader, Ken Niweigha - the alleged mastermind of the killings of 12 policemen which eventually led to the Odi mas (By Jan)...Nigeria: REA - Again, Scam Rocks National Assembly
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Charles AjunwaLagos - Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) last Wednesday arrested the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Power, Senator Nicholas Yahaya Ugbane, over hi (By Jan)...South Africa: Job loss, repossession fears increase
Sunday 31-May-2009: At least 35 000 people have lost their jobs every month since October, when the global financial meltdown began to hurt the economy.Last week's announcement that the country is in recession has prompt (By Jan)...Somalia: Govt Raises Illegal Fishing, Toxic Waste Dumping at Anti-Piracy Talks
Sunday 31-May-2009: The Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia met at United Nations Headquarters in New York on May 29, 2009, and agreed upon the following statement:The Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast o (By Jan)...Central African Republic: Paying for Justice
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Katy GlassborowBangui - Locals say they turn to vigilantism because just getting police to register a crime costs money."There are no exceptions, everyone has to pay [money] for justice in this cou (By Jan)...Nigerian Militants Blow Up Chevron Pipeline
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Omon-Julius Onabu, Sufuyan Ojeifo and Ejiofor AlikeLagos - The onslaught by the Joint Task Force (JTF) against militants in the Niger Delta has entered its 14th day with a new twist: the militants (By Jan)...Mbeki's motives help to predict Zuma's actions on Zimbabwe
Sunday 31-May-2009: As his problems with Zuma and his union allies deepened, he kept a like-minded opposition from coming to power on his doorstep CommentPaul WhelanFor nearly a decade, the South African press an (By Jan)...South Africa: Entire sex industry should be criminalised
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Errol NaidooThe question of legalising prostitution in South Africa for the World Cup is becoming increasingly pertinent in view of compelling evidence. On July 7, 2000, Germany was announced as th (By Jan)...Zim: Get a credit card - they work, says confident Biti
Sunday 31-May-2009: Why does an economy the size of Bloemfontein need a central bank? Peta ThornycroftTendai Biti, the Zimbabwean finance minister, has ring-fenced Gideon Gono, the central bank governor. In a lon (By Jan)...World: 'This is a war for our survival'
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Arif AliLahore - A suicide car bomb attack Wednesday flattened a police building in Pakistan's city of Lahore, killing 23 people in what the government branded revenge for an offensive against the (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Farmer Prosecuted for Being On His Land
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Alex BellA commercial farmer based outside Mutare has become the latest farmer to be prosecuted and sentenced by Zimbabwe's courts, raising fears that the fast track court prosecution of the countr (By Jan)...Nigeria: Task Force Uncover's Tompolo's Foreign Link
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Emma Amaize, George Onah and David RejeWarri - COMMANDER of the Joint Task Force, Major-General Sarkin Yakin Bello, Wednesday at Camp 5, told Vanguard that he has uncovered materials linking Govern (By Jan)...Africa: United States Aiding Victims of Gender-Based Violence
Friday 29-May-2009: By Jim Fisher-ThompsonThe underlying issue of gender inequality that leads to violence against women in civil conflicts is a problem in many parts of the world, but there is a difference in "scope and (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mbanje Dealer Killed in Shootout With Police
Friday 29-May-2009: Harare - A SUSPECTED mbanje dealer ferrying more than half a tonne of the drug was shot dead while three of his four accomplices escaped on Sunday morning after a shootout with police near Mutoko alon (By Jan)...World: Q & A session on N.Korea's nuclear programme
Monday 25-May-2009: By Jon HerskovitzSeoul - North Korea said on Monday it had conducted a nuclear test, the second for the secretive state after a 2006 blast that was seen by experts as only a partial success due to its (By Jan)...Canadian Communist Party Justifies Those Violent Somali Pirates
Saturday 30-May-2009: [Oh this is so typical of some Leftist or Marxist shill to make something up to why the Somali pirates are acting this way. Really, what the Somali pirates really are doing are being unofficial armed (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Couple shot dead in 'killing field'
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Jacques BreytenbachThe execution-style murder of a young couple in open veld in Hammanskraal has brought the number of people that have been murdered in the area to eight since last year, with fou (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Tik Has Created a Breed of Violent Rapists'
Monday 25-May-2009: By Bronwynne JoosteThe drug tik has created a breed of violent teenage rapists, according to the Cape Town-based Rape Crisis.The organisation, which will this week launch a booklet detailing the lesso (By Jan)...South Africa: Probe into pensioner's death too late
Monday 25-May-2009: Apparent sloppy and tardy police work has enabled a Pretoria pensioner's killers to escape. The body of Llewellyn Koch, 80, who police said had died of natural causes, was found with bullet wounds on (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Tik has created a breed of violent rapists'
Monday 25-May-2009: By Bronwynne JoosteThe drug tik has created a breed of violent teenage rapists, according to the Cape Town-based Rape Crisis.The organisation, which will this week launch a booklet detailing the lesso (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema in hot water over rape claims
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Julius Malema's comments on President Jacob Zuma's rape accuser have contributed to the "culture of silence and shame" attached to being a victim of sexual violence - and are very likely to result in (By Jan)...Africa: Women as Victims of Rape - What of Men?
Monday 25-May-2009: Arusha - Rape is said to be the crime of forcefully having sex with someone against his or her wish. This inhumane activity is usually committed against the weaker sex - females- or better stills the (By Jan)...Zim: Witch flies naked 120km in a basket to kill?
Sunday 31-May-2009: Woman to be kept in custody “just in case she flies back to Murehwa†She is remanded in court as expert confirms claimsBy Alice ChimoraA 21 year old woman stunned a court when she claimed (By Jan)...South Africa: Suspected bank robber shot dead by cops
Friday 29-May-2009: By Laura Ashbaugh and Mziwandile NkosiA suspected robber was killed in a shootout with police after a gang held up a bank in Germiston on Thursday. The robber was allegedly running away near the Wests (By Jan)...Nigeria: The Battle Continues - 100,000 BPD Lost to Mend Attack
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Mohammed Shosanya, Shehu Abubakar and Monday OsayendeAn oil pipeline belonging to oil giant Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), operator of the NNPC/CNL Joint Venture was vandalized in the Abiteye area (By Jan)...Nigeria: We've Only Had Two Years of Wobbly Democracy - Mbazulike Amechi
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Chukwujekwu IlozueLagos - Dara Akunwafor Mbazulike Amechi is the only survivor in the South East of those who formed the Federal Government at Independence. He was elected into the House of Represe (By Jan)...World: Taliban claims Lahore attack
Friday 29-May-2009: Lahore, Pakistan - Pakistan's Taliban claimed on Thursday it carried out a suicide attack, which killed 24 people and damaged offices of the country's top spy agency, to avenge an army offensive again (By Jan)...Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report
Thursday 28-May-2009: Across The NationCalifornia Gov. Schwarzenegger's Plan To Reduce State Spending Includes Cuts to HIV/AIDS Services[May 27, 2009]California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) on Tuesday sent state lawmaker (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Most Food Aid Dependent Country in the World
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Alex BellZimbabwe has this week been rated as the most food-aid dependent country in the world, a title that comes as the unity government continues to refuse to act on the ongoing land invasions.A (By Jan)...Nigeria: EFCC and the Power Scam
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Ebiye Dagogo- WilcoxLagos - One of the greatest paradoxes of our time is the on going trial of some high profile members of our national legislature and senior officials of the Rural Electrificatio (By Jan)...Nigeria: Crude War on Crude Oil
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Mcnezer FasehunLagos - The problems of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria are assuming an historical dimension of embarrassing proportion. The war of attrition that has raged in the region in the la (By Jan)...Zim: Tempers flare in politburo
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Simmering succession crisis exploded into a charged debate By Dumisani MuleyaTempers flared at a tense Zanu PF politburo meeting on Wednesday after President Robert Mugabe's simmering successi (By Jan)...Nigeria: The Mother And Father of Fuel Prices
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Rational PerspectivesIn a bold attempt to open up the economy and promote industrial growth, employment and enhanced social welfare of our people, former President Obasanjo in his first term in off (By Jan)...Human Rights Group Links Violations to Food Price Hikes
Friday 29-May-2009: A leading advocacy group has linked escalating food prices and the sharp rise in living costs across Africa to violations of human rights across the continent in the last year.It its annual report, "T (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (29-05-2009)
Saturday 30-May-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated -o00o- Not long ago, I wrote an open letter to Robert Mugabe, and the comments that it provoked included the threat of a 'public shaving' by some Mug (By The BeardedMan)...Analysis: Pains, Gains of Nigeria's Decade of Democracy
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Ademola AdeyemoLagos - On May 29, 1999, the then Military Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar handed over the reins of power to former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Today marks the tenth ann (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema's economic advice
Thursday 28-May-2009: ANC Youth League leader Julius Male-ma wants Cosatu to avoid strikes, but supports doctors' industrial action; appeals to workers not to expect a significant salary increase and banks not to repossess (By Jan)...Nigeria: Jailed Soldiers and a Faulty Judgement
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Tope TemokunHERE is the emotional prelude to the jailed soldiers' predicament.They were detained for 10 months while undergoing trial. These soldiers, among who are three women, Yetunde Olanihun, M (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Selfish Millers Deserve No Protection
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Rashweat MukunduI CANNOT claim to be schooled in economics apart from growing up vending fruit and vegetables in Marondera. However, economic imperatives affect all of us and the Zimbabwean situati (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Winter Wheat Left in Cold
Monday 25-May-2009: By Mabasa SasaHarare - For those who doubt this revelation, just look at the facts.For the past seven years or so, this time of the year has always seen the media apportioning significant space to the (By Jan)...South Africa: Family triumph in farm initiation battle
Monday 25-May-2009: By Botho MolosankweThe right to practise one's culture has triumphed over religion in a battle taken to court.When a farm manager refused to grant the occupiers permission to hold an initiation school (By Jan)...Renamo Postpones Its Congress
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has postponed its long awaited congress, and has blamed the ruling Frelimo Party for the delay.Renamo had announced that (By Jan)...Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Global ChallengesMeeting Addresses MTCT of HIV in Africa[May 26, 2009]Health officials recently held a regional consultation in Kenya to examine mother-to-child HIV transmission services and pediatric (By Jan)...South Africa: 'We are tired of gangsters'
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Esther LewisChaos erupted in Mitchells Plain on Monday night when hooded youths allegedly smashed the garage doors and windows of two houses the community alleged belonged to drug dealers, setting (By Jan)...South Africa: Minister Raises Hopes for Land Reform
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Stephen HofstatterJohannesburg - RURAL Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti is in a race to meet the ruling party's deadline of distributing more than 25-million hectares, at least 3 (By Jan)...South Africa: Pagad warned not to take law into own hands
Wednesday 27-May-2009: While Premier Ebrahim Rasool's office on Thursday shrugged off Pagad's demand for all the province's shebeens to be closed down, police have warned they would act if the organisation's threat to take (By Jan)...Ditshwanelo Decries Kalafatis' Killing
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Lekopanye MooketsiDitshwanelo, the Botswana Centre for Human Rights, has condemned the shooting of John Kalafatis by security forces last week.In a statement issued on Wednesday, Ditshwanelo said i (By Jan)...South Africa: Bloody attack a mystery
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By DASEN THATHIAHA vicious attack by gunmen clad in camouflage on a bakkie filled with women farm workers and another car, has left two people dead and seven injured.The bakkie's driver, businessman a (By Jan)...Southern Africa: Bobirwa - a Constituency Torn Between Two Countries
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Onalenna ModikwaSelebi-Phikwe - Though sandwiched between the South African and the Zimbabwean border line, Bobirwa constituency may appear to be hardly noticeable to people from other areas who en (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Children Are Silent Victims of Farm Invasions
Sunday 31-May-2009: Harare - RECENT farm invasions destabilising the farming community have driven thousands of already disadvantaged children out of school in another potentially far-reaching humanitarian disaster spawn (By Jan)...Palestinian Terrorist Whom Was Behind Pam Am Flight 830 In Lebanon, Helped Saddam Build Insurgency Network
Saturday 30-May-2009: [I think the USA poorly used the argument that the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was ever connectted to Osama bin Laden. Yet he was well connectted with another known terrorist group known as th (By Lone Wolf)...Zim: The unity government's 100 days in the doldrums
Tuesday 26-May-2009: "Any deadlock is yet to be communicated to us" Washington - The first hundred days of Zimbabwe's unity government were given the seal of approval by the Southern African Development Community (By Jan)...South Africa: Millions lost as businesses burn
Monday 25-May-2009: By Botho MolosankweNinety-one Joburg firefighters had their hands full when two fires broke out within minutes of each other, destroying six businesses and causing damage running into millions of rand (By Jan)...South Africa: Tycoon's billion rand offer to fight crime
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Peter BillsThe South African government under Thabo Mbeki rejected an offer of R1 billion from a leading South African businessman to help fight serious crime.The same offer, to pour money into hel (By Jan)...Science: Deadly Ebola virus can mutate - scientists
Saturday 30-May-2009: Paris - French scientists said Monday the Ebola virus can swap genetic material to create new strains, a finding with wide ramifications for attempts to curb this vicious pathogen.Until now, there was (By Jan)...World: Bomb defused on Iranian flight
Sunday 31-May-2009: TEHRAN - Iranian security officials defused a handmade bomb on board a domestic flight, officials said on Sunday, the latest violence the run-up to Iran's presidential election less than two weeks awa (By Jan)...South Africa: Poor evidence sees charges dropped
Friday 29-May-2009: Some charges against the men accused of attacking a Durban woman for violating a pants ban were dropped in the Umlazi Regional Court on Wednesday.In the dock were Inkatha Freedom Party headman Thulan (By Jan)...Nigeria: Adopt Abiola's Blueprint On Niger Delta - Hayford Alile
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Sam EyobokaThe pioneer director general of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Apostle Hayford Ikponmosa Alile, wants the nation to adopt the blueprint espoused by the late business mogul and acclaim (By Jan)...South Africa: Alleged robber commits suicide after heist
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Bongani MasangoA fleeing bank robber, cornered by police, killed himself moments before police could arrest him.The man was part of a gang of three that had earlier robbed a Nedbank branch at the S (By Jan)...World: North Korea 'must pay the price'
Tuesday 26-May-2009: United Nations - The UN Security Council unanimously condemned North Korea for testing a nuclear bomb as major powers mulled fresh punitive action and US President Barack Obama pledged support to Pyon (By Jan)...Sudan: Darfuri Women Live in Fear of Sexual Violence, Says Report
Sunday 31-May-2009: Cambridge, Massachusetts - Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has published a report documenting the scope and long-term impact of rape and other sexual violence experienced by women who fled attacks o (By Jan)...Africa: Political persecution harming progress - MDC
Sunday 31-May-2009: Harare - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Saturday "political persecution" of his supporters had not halted under the country's unity government and those opposed to change were slo (By Jan)...South Africa: SA man killed by tiger
Thursday 28-May-2009: A humble South African, who downplayed his role in saving a fellow cat handler from an earlier tiger attack, was himself fataly mauled by the the largest tiger in a New Zealand wildlife park on Wednes (By Jan)...East Africa: Somali Crisis a Genocide, Says President Museveni
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Barbara Among and Joyce NamutebiKampala - President Yoweri Museveni has described the situation in Somalia, where hard-line Islamists are battling the transitional Government, as genocide."This is (By Jan)...Rwanda: U.S. University Helps Mountain Gorillas
Monday 25-May-2009: By Irene V. NambiKigali - Rwanda's tourism sector is set to benefit from the Mountain Gorilla One Health Program that has been introduced in the University of California-Davis, this month.According to (By Jan)...Nigeria: Septuagenarian Detained 95 Days for Standing Surety
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Abdulwahab AbdulahA 70 year old retiree old retiree, Chief Patrick Chuks Okolie was detained at Ikoyi prison for 95 days for an offence that was allegedly committed in Delta state. The Lagos Magist (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: More Prisoners Die as Hunger Stalks Jails
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Alex BellPrisoners locked away in Zimbabwe's nightmare jails are still dying from hunger related diseases, as the widespread food crisis continues to cripple the country.This week alone, six inmate (By Jan)...Africa: How Michelle Obama Can Help Africa
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Janet FleischmanWhen Michelle Obama, the first lady of the United States, visits Ghana with President Barack Obama in July, the powerful voice she has used to empower disadvantaged girls at home ca (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Army Threatens War Over Gono Removal
Friday 29-May-2009: By Alex BellThe country's security chiefs have taken the current political fight over the reappointment of Gideon Gono a step further, threatening to take up arms to prevent the removal of the Reserve (By Jan)...Southern Africa: Region Still Kicking Against Controversial EPA
Friday 29-May-2009: By Servaas Van Den BoschWindhoek - High-level talks at a Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) meeting in Gaborone last week failed to produce an agreement on the signing of the interim economi (By Jan)...South Africa: Suspect confesses to role in robbery, murder
Friday 29-May-2009: The sun had yet to rise but Mandlenkosi Thusi was already dressed in his freshly ironed police uniform when gunmen stormed into his Inanda home and riddled him with bullets.Their aim was to eliminate (By Jan)...Africa: Can Kenya's coalition carry on?
Friday 29-May-2009: By Wangui KaninaNairobi - Wrangling in Kenya's dysfunctional coalition government has been cited as a major factor dragging down east Africa's largest economy.Here are possible scenarios for the gover (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema: We will never reconcile with Zille
Thursday 28-May-2009: ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has vowed to reclaim the Western Cape - ruled by his nemesis, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille - by flooding the province with "black" youngsters from the A (By Jan)...Somalia: Naval Forces Report Arrest More Pirates
Wednesday 27-May-2009: European Union (EU) naval forces operating off the Somali coast have reported a series of successes in their patrols against pirates, arresting 16 suspects after two attacks in the last four days.The (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: South African Presidency Accused of Hiding Violence Report
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Alex BellThe South African Presidency has been accused of deliberately hiding a suspected controversial report on the Zimbabwe security forces role in last year's deadly post-election violence.Pres (By Jan)...South Africa: Team Zuma gives hint of the boss's intentions
Sunday 31-May-2009: The inner circle reveals the thinking of the man at the top. It shows what kind of leader he wants to be. It uncovers where he'll source his plans. And Team Zuma has been quite a surprise, especially (By Jan)...Zim: Msika ready to quit party
Saturday 30-May-2009: Finally set in motion a process to manage Mugabe's succession By Dumisani MuleyaVice-president Joseph Msika is reportedly on the verge of quitting due to deteriorating health and resurfacing p (By Jan)...Nigeria: Oil Hits $63 as Opec Meets Today
Friday 29-May-2009: By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku and Ejiofor AlikeLagos - Crude oil prices hit a six-month high above $63 a barrel yesterday ahead of today's meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC (By Jan)...Uganda: Who is Spending NAADS Money in Ssembabule?
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Joshua KatoKampala - WHEN President Yoweri Museveni asked National Agricultural Adisory Services (NAADS) to put emphasis on six farmers in every parish every financial year, he might not have antic (By Jan)...World: Guru dies after temple clash
Monday 25-May-2009: Vienna - A visiting Indian guru died early on Monday after being shot in a clash between rival Sikh communities at a temple in Vienna in which about 30 people were injured, police said.The guru, Sant (By Jan)...Science: Komodo attacks terrorise Indonesia villages
Monday 25-May-2009: Komodo Island, Indonesia - Komodo dragons have shark-like teeth and poisonous venom that can kill a person within hours of a bite.Yet villagers who have lived for generations alongside the world's lar (By Jan)...Namibia: Angolan Drug Mules Admit Guilt
Monday 25-May-2009: By Werner MengesFIVE Angolan nationals who were arrested in mid-April after they were caught carrying cocaine into Namibia in their intestines all pleaded guilty to drug-dealing charges in the Windhoe (By Jan)...Nigeria: Resolving the Food Security Question
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Lucky FiakpaEnsuring food sufficiency and security in Nigeria will be near impossible without mechanised agriculture. So say participants at a workshop recently organised for Nigerian farmers to wh (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Zero Growth' is Best Country Can Expect This Year - Treasury
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - More job losses feared in first recession since 1992 with economy shrinking 6,4%SA's economy shrank at its fastest pace in 25 years in the first quarter of this year, signa (By Jan)...South Africa: Zille draws more fire over 'secret' land deal
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Western Cape Premier Helen Zille's description of a land transfer by the province's former ANC-run administration as "secret" continues to draw fire from the party that approved it.If it was a secret, (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Ex-MP Pote Defends Farmer
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Harare - FORMER Chiredzi MP and Zanu-PF Politburo member Cde Celine Pote has defended businessman and former commercial farmer Digby Sean Nesbitt, who is facing charges of refusing to vacate State-acq (By Jan)...Nigeria: Pastor Kidnapped in Church, Murdered Two Weeks to Consecration As Bishop
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Albert AkporNothing could have been more ungodly than for a man to grip a defenceless servant of God, tied his legs and had him murdered few metres from his church in cold blood just two weeks to h (By Jan)...Africa: Experts Call For Industry, Self-Reliance
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Annelise SanderGeneva - Colonisation can be blamed for Africa's underdevelopment but today Africans must take their fate in their own hands and become ambitious. The continent badly needs industria (By Jan)...South Africa: Alleged robber dies after shoot-out with cop
Saturday 30-May-2009: A robber in Port Elizabeth was shot dead after trying to rob a police officer in a taxi, Eastern Cape police said on Friday.Spokesperson Inspector Dumile Gwavu said a taxi driver being held at gunpoin (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Vice President Ready to Quit Party
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Dumisani MuleyaVICE-PRESIDENT Joseph Msika is reportedly on the verge of quitting due to deteriorating health and resurfacing power struggles in Zanu PF involving two rival factions and his restive (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma accused of lying about Zim report
Friday 29-May-2009: NGOs on Thursday accused President Jacob Zuma's office of covering up the existence of a damning report by retired generals about the role of the military in post-election violence in Zimbabwe last ye (By Jan)...Central African Republic: Under the Gun - Violence and Displacement
Friday 29-May-2009: Nairobi - Central African Republic (CAR) has been in the throes of a humanitarian crisis for more than a decade.Army mutinies, coups and attempted coups, rebellions, gangs that kidnap for ransom and, (By Jan)...South Africa: Woman allegedly kidnapped, robbed and raped
Thursday 28-May-2009: A woman told the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Wednesday how she was kidnapped, assaulted, robbed and raped by her attacker.The victim said she was also marched for 15 minutes in the city's busy stre (By Jan)...Somalia: Suicide Bomber Kills 10 in Mogadishu
Monday 25-May-2009: At least 10 people were killed Sunday including six government soldiers in the Somali capital Mogadishu when a suicide bomber targeted a military installation, Radio Garowe reports.The suicide bomber (By Jan)...WWIII: Muslim Persecution of Christians
Monday 25-May-2009: Christianity, born in the Middle East, is in danger of losing its two millenia-long presence there. If that notion sounds alarmist to Western ears, it is acknowledged by Middle Easterners as a growing (By Gairk)...South Africa: Banks accused of opposing debt counselling
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Charlene Smith"Banks were saying to consumers in 2005: 'Take this credit card to pay off your other two credit cards.' But now, without exception, the four mainstream banks are refusing to stick to (By Jan)...South Africa: Jail will be death sentence - fraudster
Sunday 31-May-2009: A clothing designer who pleaded guilty to tax fraud of R6 million, has told a court that sending him to jail would amount to a death sentence.Hein Reinders, 40, is HIV-positive. His lawyer, Pete Mihal (By Jan)...Africa: Seven killed in Somalia mortar attacks
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Mogadishu - At least seven people died late Tuesday when rebel mortar shells aimed at the presidential palace in Somalia's war-riven capital Mogadishu landed on homes, an army spokesman and witnesses (By Jan)...World: 'Drug hitmen kidnap, kill Mexican journalist'
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Durango, Mexico - Suspected drug hitmen kidnapped and killed a Mexican crime reporter in the northern state of Durango, the second journalist killing this month in an area that has become a new battle (By Jan)...Spectre of cholera still haunts Zimbabwe
Tuesday 26-May-2009: 55% of children who died of cholera were malnourished Johannesburg - The cholera infection rate in Zimbabwe is nearing the 100 000 mark in Africa's worst outbreak in 15 years, aid agencies sai (By Jan)...South Africa: Police chief's new crime plan
Friday 29-May-2009: By Caryn DolleyCommunity safety MEC Lennit Max wants the province's 147 police stations to undergo an internal audit to root out stations where officers may be manipulating crime statistics to make th (By Jan)...Kenya: Prime Minister Delivers Law School Commencement Address
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Ann WhitcherBuffalo - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga Saturday reaffirmed his commitment to human rights and the need for widespread political reform throughout Africa during a combined vi (By Jan)...Nigeria: The Case for Peace in Niger Delta
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Lagos - The renewed flare-up in the volatile Niger- Delta region came to a head last week when the military admitted that 12 of its men had been killed or taken hostage by the militants. By Thursday M (By Jan)...Somalia: President Attacks 'Foreign Fighters'
Tuesday 26-May-2009: The president of Somalia's interim government, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, told a Monday press conference in the capital Mogadishu that foreign fighters in the Horn of Africa country are 'international crimi (By Jan)...Nigeria: Stakeholders' Fears, Expectations, As Jostle for New SEC Boss Intensifies
Friday 29-May-2009: By Kingsley IghomwenghianTwo weeks after the hurried resignation of Musa Al-Faki, an indigene of Niger State, as director-general of the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), feelers are that the ra (By Jan)...Zimbabwe farm invasions continue unabated – farmer
Monday 25-May-2009: "I find it incredible that those kind of figures could be put out. They're not even close" By Ed CropleyJohannesburg - Zimbabwe's farming sector is in "dire straits" despite the new power-shar (By Jan)...Belarus Seeks 9 Billion Dollar Loan From Russia; Smuggling Ring Uncovered
Friday 29-May-2009: [Now this is quite strange. Here are two articles, one detailing Belarus likely being nuclearized by Russia under the guise of promoting a civilian nuclear program and the other article about a smugg (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Hume family tells of trauma
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Kamini PadayacheeAn emotional Hume family experienced some closure on Wednesday after 18 months of trauma, when three men accused of the kidnapping and murder of their wife and mother, Ballito esta (By Jan)...Nigeria: How a Governor Orchestrated My Sack -Ribadu
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Nuhu Ribadu, a bookish police officer with a legal degree, became head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of Nigeria. His job was to investigate corruption a problem that Ribadu estimates (By Jan)...A Step Beyond: What price vanity in Iraqi plastic surgery?
Monday 25-May-2009: Baghdad, Iraq - Iraqi plastic surgeon Haider remembers only too well when most of his patients were disfigured victims of bomb blasts and suicide bombers. Now clients just want to be made beautiful.Ha (By Jan)...Zim: Shocking video shows police beating recruits
Sunday 31-May-2009: "We now call this syllabus E" By Tichaona SibandaSW Radio Africa has obtained exclusive video footage showing a number of police recruits in Zimbabwe being tortured and beaten in a series of s (By Jan)...Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report
Saturday 30-May-2009: Special NoticeImportant Changes as Kaiser Expands Its Daily Online Reports[May 29, 2009]The Kaiser Family Foundation is announcing several changes and enhancements in its Daily Reports. In April, the (By Jan)...Zim: Hope in Harare
Thursday 28-May-2009: Odours of death and decay replaced by the smells of medicines and food By MacDonald DzirutweHarare - The odours of death and decay are gone from the corridors of Zimbabwe's biggest hospital, r (By Jan)...Zim: Mix up delays inflation figures
Monday 25-May-2009: The government has stopped measuring inflation in local Zimbabwe dollar terms By Nokuthula SibandaHarare - Zimbabwe's government Central Statistical Office (CSO) has delayed issuing inflation (By Jan)...Africa: Suicide car bomber kills 7 in Mogadishu
Monday 25-May-2009: Mogadishu - A suicide car bomber killed six police officers and a civilian yesterday in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, where hardline Islamist insurgents are fighting pro-government forces. Abdifatah S (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Secret' ANC Land Deal Illegal - Zille
Monday 25-May-2009: The transfer of 1 000 hectares of provincial land to a national body has outraged Premier Helen Zille, who has accused the ANC of asset-stripping a day before the elections.She has also accused the fo (By Jan)...Recession 'Worse Than Feared'
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyECONOMIC growth prospects for Namibia dimmed even more this week with the latest diamond production and sales figures alerting economists to a worse-than-expected recession this year.O (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Shocking Video Shows Police Beating Recruits
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Tichaona SibandaSW Radio Africa has obtained exclusive video footage showing a number of police recruits in Zimbabwe being tortured and beaten in a series of sickening assaults by what appears to b (By Jan)...South Africa: Changes to Constitution Go Beyond Letter of the Law
Friday 29-May-2009: By Koos MalanJohannesburg - THE fact that the African National Congress (ANC) missed a two- thirds majority in last month's election was met with relief and elation in opposition circles.There was a n (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Firing the gun was negligent'
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Botho MolosankweThe man who accidentally killed a four-year-old boy while chasing his son's alleged robber has admitted he was negligent and pleaded guilty to culpable homicide.However, he pleaded (By Jan)...South Africa: District surgeon accused of rape granted bail
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Baldwin Ndaba and Botho MolosankweA medical doctor charged with sexually assaulting two of his patients was granted bail in the Johannesburg High Court after a lower court had ruled otherwise.The 4 (By Jan)...World: NKorea faces UN sanctions
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Jon HerskovitzSeoul - North Korea looks certain to face UN sanctions for this week's nuclear test, and South Korea on Thursday raised the military alert level for the peninsula after the reclusive (By Jan)...South Africa: Activists Mobilise Against Manto
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Anso ThomHealth activists are mobilizing against the appointment of former health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang as mentor and African Union Goodwill Ambassador on maternal, infant and child hea (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Finance Minister Plans Central Bank Reforms
Monday 25-May-2009: By Walter MarwiziHarare - FINANCE Minister Tendai Biti has finalised work on proposed amendments to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Act which will see a non-executive director taking over as chairperson (By Jan)...South Africa: Brave mom stands up to drug dealers
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Zara NicholsonNot many mothers would be brave enough to take on dangerous drug dealers - but Mitchells Plain mom Mymoena Pillay did.Pillay keeps a record of the registration numbers of cars that co (By Jan)...South Africa: Rush Job on NHI?
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Anso ThomAn ANC task team headed by the former Director-General of Health Dr Olive Shisana and heavily laden with trade unionists, is trying to convince the ANC and government to hastily implement (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Central Bank Chief Stays Put, Says Mugabe
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Harare - PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday defended Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono challenging those who claim he has done anything wrong to prove it.President Mugabe reiterated the positio (By Jan)...Botswana compelled to rehabilitate Zimbabwe's transmission lines
Sunday 31-May-2009: Rehabilitation of Zimbabwe's electricity supply infrastructure remains the only feasible option By Gowenius TokaPlans by Botswana government to draw electricity from Mozambique through Zimbabw (By Jan)...Africa: MDC suffering 'identity crisis'
Sunday 31-May-2009: Harare, Zimbabwe - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Saturday his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was suffering an identity crisis since entering government with his arch-rival, President (By Jan)...South Africa: Former policeman guilty of killing kids
Friday 29-May-2009: By Karen BreytenbachFormer Claremont acting station commander Marius van der Westhuizen has been found guilty on three counts of murder with direct intent, for shooting his three children in their bed (By Jan)...Zim: Election terror masters plead for protection
Friday 29-May-2009: Organ's chairman's bodyguard recently shot a man in a farm invasion power struggle Buhera - The people who were leading in the victimization of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) supporter (By Jan)...South Africa: 'We feel we are under attack'
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Nompumelelo MagwazaOn Christmas Day 2005 the Ndlovu brothers watched their youngest brother, Percy, die of wounds sustained when they were ambushed while travelling home to Greytown from Durban.Las (By Jan)...South Africa: Cop handed ultimatum on drug den action
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Caryn DolleyIf police do not clamp down on drug dens, and "clean up" the Mitchells Plain area by Thursday evening, leaders of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) will decide how "the commu (By Jan)...South Africa: Reserve Bank angers Numsa
Thursday 28-May-2009: The National Union of Metal Workers of SA (Numsa) on Wednesday expressed disappointment at the SA Reserve Bank's (SARB) failure to take delivery of a protest memorandum.The union had marched to the SA (By Jan)...SADC Fights Against Human Trafficking
Thursday 28-May-2009: Maputo - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is designing a response to the growing threat posed by human trafficking.To this end, a three day technical meeting of the organization began (By Jan)...Egypt: Financial Crunch Squeezes Suez
Tuesday 26-May-2009: At the Suez Canal, one of Egypt's fiscal mainstays, the threat of Somali piracy pales in comparison with the potential knock-on effects of the global economic depression."We're bracing for a significa (By Jan)...India Meets Its Own Demise Via Multiculturalism?
Tuesday 26-May-2009: [It would seem that in an ironic twist, which the far left propped up to support India's independence have unleashed India to become one of the most multicultural Asian nations aside from Communist Ch (By Lone Wolf)...World: Pakistani troops kill 28 militants
Sunday 31-May-2009: Peshwar, Pakistan - Pakistani troops killed at least 28 suspected militants on Sunday in fierce clashes in a restive northwest tribal area and known Taliban bolthole near the Afghan border, officials (By Jan)...Africa: Tsvangirai warns that MDC faces limitations
Sunday 31-May-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Saturday his party was struggling to deliver quick reforms in a new coalition government, but vowed that the democratisation process was irre (By Jan)...Trial date set for Zimind journalists
Saturday 30-May-2009: Allegations of publishing falsehoods prejudicial to the state Staff WriterA Harare magistrate yesterday set June 16 as the trial date for Zimbabwe Independent editor Vincent Kahiya and news ed (By Jan)...Nigeria: Police Kill Two, Arrest Four Robbery Suspects
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Albert Akpor and Evelyn UsmanTwo Suspected Members of a 20 man-robbery gang that engaged a team of policemen in a shootout, Monday, in Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos were yesterday confirmed dead, with (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Prosecuted Farmer Was Not on a Farm
Friday 29-May-2009: By Alex BellAs the current offensive against Zimbabwe's remaining commercial farmers gathers momentum, it would appear that even non-farming members of the community are being hounded, arrested and pr (By Jan)...South Africa: DA welcomes farm court ruling
Thursday 28-May-2009: A High Court ruling returning a farm to a woman evicted under government's "use it or lose it" policy is a victory for the rule of law and constitutionalism, the DA said on Wednesday.The Democratic Al (By Jan)...World: Crime may pay for US convict
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Gaffney, South Carolina - Like plenty of fathers, Kevin Bell took his young daughter to Chuck E Cheese's for her birthday. He just had to get a ride from his jail cell to do it.While serving his final (By Jan)...Nigeria: NGO Drags Govt to UN Over Military Action in Delta
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Lagos - A human rights non-governmental organization , Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has petitioned the United Nations (UN) over the festering crisis in the Niger Delta and (By Jan)...South Africa: Court hears how robbers burnt him, again
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Botho MolosankweA Winchester Hills businessman has testified how he screamed as his attackers burnt him with a hot iron in front of his daughter.Naresh Munga on Monday told the Johannesburg High Co (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Leadership in Denial
Monday 25-May-2009: Harare - THE Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has been with us for more than two decades. But hundreds of Zimbabweans still die from the disease not because they cannot find medication but s (By Jan)...Somalia: Fears of More Clashes as War-Wounded Overwhelm Hospitals
Friday 29-May-2009: Nairobi - Scores of civilians are fleeing their homes in the Madina district of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, amid fears of clashes between armed forces massing in the area, witnesses told IRIN on 27 (By Jan)...World: N Korea says truce no longer valid
Thursday 28-May-2009: Seoul - North Korea said on Wednesday it was abandoning the truce that ended the Korean war and warned it could launch a military attack on the South, two days after testing an atomic bomb for the sec (By Jan)...Kalafatis Killing Bad Omen - Lawyers
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Oliver ModiseThe Law Society of Botswana (LSB) has called for the prosecution of military intelligence officers who shot and killed John Kalafatis in Gaborone's Extension 12 last week.Yesterday the (By Jan)...Zim: MDC suffering identity crisis
Sunday 31-May-2009: "The crisis we face is a crisis of identity. The party is half a donkey and half a horse" Harare, Zimbabwe - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Saturday his Movement for Democratic Chang (By Jan)...Africa: Large Land Acquisitions Could Hurt Poor
Monday 25-May-2009: Land acquisitions are on the increase in Africa and other continents, raising the risk that poor people will be evicted or lose access to land, water, and other resources, according to the first detai (By Jan)...Nigeria: Niger Delta - Refuse to Roll Over And Die
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Tony Uranta"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning". - Winston ChurchillHaaaaaaa Niger Delta Peoples,Ancient Rome's Caesars k (By Jan)...Nigeria: Strike - How Doctor Was Beaten to Coma
Friday 29-May-2009: By Bose AdebayoFor the past one week, activities in Lagos State hospitals have been paralysed due to an industrial action embarked upon by the Medical Guild.The State Commissioner for Health Dr. Jide (By Jan)...Our Democracy is Under Threat
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Tebogo SebegoIn 1993 when I started reading law at the University of Botswana, I heard stories of brutality and killings by agents of the state against its own people.These were stories from other (By Jan)...Africa: Arise Africa Fashion Week - A New Day Dawns in African Fashion
Wednesday 27-May-2009: African Fashion International (AFI), organisers of the Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban Fashion Weeks, is proud to announce ARISE Africa Fashion Week, a showcase of the continent's leading fashion d (By Jan)...MP Steals the All-Party Show
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Gale NgakaneFrancistown - Chaos reigned supreme at a panel discussion that brought together five political parties at the Francistown civic centre recently.The topic under discussion, at this event (By Jan)...South Africa: Shaik not terminally ill - doctors
Sunday 31-May-2009: [He’s not terminally ill – they simply needed to get rid of the proverbial hot potato! AC reader who submitted this article] Convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik, whose parole on medical grounds has b (By Gairk)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (30-05-2009)
Sunday 31-May-2009: Howzit First prize would be to rid the country of the Reserve Bank governor, Gideon Gono, but even though he would appear to want to go, Mugabe is determined that he will stay. So, initially at l (By The BeardedMan)...South Africa: Group Using Software to Solve Crimes Says It Should Be Adopted By Police
Friday 29-May-2009: By Lesley StonesJohannesburg - PRIVATE crime fighters are using sophisticated software to solve burglaries, hijackings and kidnapping cases, but the South African Police Service (SAPS) is still debati (By Jan)...Assembly Passes Consumer Protection Bill
Friday 29-May-2009: Maputo - The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Thursday passed unanimously the first reading of a bill on consumer protection which, if taken seriously, will force major changes (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Suspected Witch Leaves Court in Quandary
Thursday 28-May-2009: Harare - A BIZARRE incident of suspected witchcraft where a woman -- who claimed to have travelled supernaturally in a winnowing basket (rusero) from a Murehwa village to Harare to kill her brother-in (By Jan)...Africa: 'The piracy business will have to stop'
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Abdiqani HassanEyl, Somalia - Driving a luxury 4x4 car and smoking imported cigarettes, with a satellite phone at his side, Mohamed Said fears his flashy lifestyle as a Somali pirate could be about (By Jan)...South Africa: Uranium Holds Growing Allure for Country's Top Gold-Mining Groups
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Charlotte MathewsJohannesburg - A FUNDAMENTAL change in the base price for uranium is encouraging SA's big three gold producers to realise more value from the uranium mined with gold in certain are (By Jan)...Nigeria: FG's Offer of Amnesty to Militants Still Open
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Lagos - From Juliana Taiwo in Abuja, Segun James in Warri, Ahamefula Ogbu in Port Harcourt and Victor Efeizomor in AsabaAs French Prime Minister, Francois Fillon prepares to visit Port Harcourt, River (By Jan)...Zimbabwe could attract $16 bln in mining sector - PM
Sunday 31-May-2009: There has been no exploration since 2002 By MacDonald DzirutweHarare - Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Friday the southern African country could attract up to $16 billion i (By Jan)...TB Alarm At Gaborone First Offenders
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Bashi LetsididiAn inmate who has recently been hospitalised at Princess Marina Hospital is at the centre of a health scare at the First Offenders Prison in Gaborone. Warders say that despite their (By Jan)...Zim: War veterans rally behind Gono
Sunday 31-May-2009: "We take pride in the fantastic job he did when the country was reeling under the Western-imposed illegal sanctions" Harare - The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association has thr (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Mbeki never got Zim report'
Friday 29-May-2009: Affidavits from the presidencyThe government has denied that former president Thabo Mbeki ever received an explosive written report on post-election violence in Zimbabwe.Instead, the Presidency claims (By Jan)...Nigeria: Militant Leader, Niweigha, Killed in Bayelsa
Friday 29-May-2009: By Sukuji Bakoji , Otei Oham, Sule Lazarus in AbujaKaduna - Militant leader, Ken Niweigha, who masterminded the foiled assassination of Bayelsa Police Commissioner, Onuoha Udeka, was killed by policem (By Jan)...Theft From Air Nam Account Lands Ex-Bank Official in Jail
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Werner MengesA FORMER Standard Bank Namibia employee, who used her position with the bank to steal more than N$132 000 out of an account of Air Namibia, received a three-year prison sentence in the (By Jan)...International Court Suspect Rewrites Tired Old Script
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Katy GlassborowThe International Criminal Court’s encounter with its first suspect to voluntarily come to The Hague to face justice has not only given the court a much-needed morale boost, bu (By Jan)...Africa: Conflict hampers hunt for genocide suspects
Sunday 31-May-2009: Arusha, Tanzania - Unrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo's east is hampering the hunt for the last suspects of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, according to a tribunal trying those involved in the mass (By Jan)...Africa: Agriculture Key to Continent's Development, Stresses UN-African Union Report
Friday 29-May-2009: African nations will be hit hard by the global economic crisis during the course of 2009, the United Nations and the African Union (AU) say in a new report, which stresses the need to focus on agricul (By Jan)...Batswana Have the Right to Know
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Thapelo NdlovuJohn Kalafatis was someone I (and I'm sure many others) had never heard of before, still don't know, but will now never forget.Indeed, such is the intensity of the ongoing publicity a (By Jan)...Law On Harmonising Elections Illicitly Changed
Thursday 28-May-2009: Maputo - Part of the law governing Mozambique's simultaneous presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections scheduled for 28 October is unconstitutional - but only because the text was illegitim (By Jan)...Nigeria: JTF Destroys Another Militants' Camp in Delta
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Tunke-Aye Bisina, Emma Gbemudu And Harris-Okon EmmanuelJoint Task Force (JTF) Media Co-ordinator, Colonel Rabe Abubakar, disclosed on Tuesday that one of the bases militant leader Tompolo used as (By Jan)...South Africa: Man in court for botched teacher robbery
Tuesday 26-May-2009: A 20-year-old man made a brief appearance in the Khayelitsha Magistrate's Court for allegedly trying to rob a teacher at the Sobambisang Primary School, Western Cape police said on Tuesday.The man's c (By Jan)...Siba-Siba Murder - Back to Square One
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Maputo - A Maputo judge on Friday ordered the release of the only two people arrested in connection with the 2001 murder of Antonio Siba-Siba Macuacua, the interim chairperson of the scandal-ridden Au (By Jan)...South Africa: 'She told them pirates were attacking'
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Ntokozo MfusiTwo Durban men have described how they saved passengers on the cruise liner Melody when it was attacked by pirates last month. The men said on Monday they threw deck chairs at the adva (By Jan)...Science: China drug exports 'safe'
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Beijing - Chinese pharmaceutical exports are safe, a senior official said on Tuesday, dismissing media reports that the country was a major exporter of fake or shoddy drugs as "sensational.""I cannot (By Jan)...South Africa: Alleged hijacker, another shot dead
Tuesday 26-May-2009: A hijacker was shot dead and another arrested in Pretoria when they crashed their stolen car, police said on Monday.The Ford Fiesta they had allegedly hijacked collided with a minibus in Queenswood on (By Jan)...Nigeria: Missing Lawmaker - Police Quiz Driver's Wife
Monday 25-May-2009: Lagos - Police said they are quizzing the wife of the driver of Mr Hodewu Avoseh, Minority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly, who has been missing for some days.This is coming as the the Enu (By Jan)...Africa: MDC says Central Bank governor must resign
Sunday 31-May-2009: by MacDonald DzirutweHarare - Zimbabwe's MDC party on Sunday demanded the resignation of the Central Bank governor and attorney general, saying their continued tenure was sowing conflict and division (By Jan)...Africa: UK saves Brits from Mugabe's Zim ruins
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Peta ThornycroftHarare - The first five of about 500 elderly, destitute Britons - most of them born in Zimbabwe - to be repatriated by the British government will leave for London on Sunday.They ar (By Jan)...Noam Chomsky Has It Both Ways With Iran
Sunday 31-May-2009: [Isn't this quite a bit suspicious. It seems a certain pro-Communist ideologue Noam Chomsky is trying to have it both ways with Iran. Chomsky states he is supporting the Iranian "moderates" in the u (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: ANC warns union
Friday 29-May-2009: ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe warned trade unions on Thursday against public attempts to push the government to give in to demands."You are projecting the [President Jacob] Zuma leadership as w (By Jan)...Gambia: Food Vulnerability in the Urban Area of Banjul And Kanifing Municipality
Tuesday 26-May-2009: CONTINUATIONA meeting to present the Summary Report on the First Assessment Survey on Food Vulnerability in Urban Areas (VAMU) was held on Thursday, 7th May, at the NaNA office complex on the Bertil H (By Jan)...Zimbabwe's MDC keeps pressure on for central bank chief to step down
Thursday 28-May-2009: Framed the calls for his resignation as a personal vendetta By Blessing ZuluWashington - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's branch of the Movement for Democratic Change on Tuesday d (By Jan)...Smart Relief Needed As Floodwaters Fall
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Louise RedversLuanda - The flood waters are starting to recede as the rainy season ends for another year, but while the emergency is over in southern Angola, the long term outlook is bleak.Because (By Jan)...Nigeria: War in Niger Delta - a Tragedy Foretold
Monday 25-May-2009: By Dan AmorFor those readers who have no knowledge of the existing predicament in the Niger Delta before the military occupation of the area as sponsored by the all-powerful and sadistic Nigerian stat (By Jan)...Prominent Parliamentarians Leave Renamo
Saturday 30-May-2009: Maputo - Two prominent members of the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, Maria Moreno and Ismael Mussa, on Thursday announced that they have resigned from the main opposition party, (By Jan)...South Africa: Escaped murder suspect rearrested
Saturday 30-May-2009: A murder suspect who escaped from the Johannesburg Magistrates' Court has been rearrested, police said on Friday.Muzi Mkhatswa escaped from the court's holding cells on May 5 by overpowering a police (By Jan)...Africa: Radical group claims Mogadishu bombing
Monday 25-May-2009: By Mohamed Olad HassanMogadishu, Somalia - A radical Islamic group in Somalia claimed responsibility on Monday for a suicide bombing that killed seven people over the weekend.The political leader of t (By Jan)...Zimbabwe monthly inflation at -1.1 pct in April
Sunday 31-May-2009: The country discarded its worthless currency Harare - Zimbabwe recorded a monthly inflation rate of -1.1 percent in April as prices fell at a slower rate than in March, months after the countr (By Jan)...South Africa: W Cape not a threat, Zille tells Zuma
Saturday 30-May-2009: Western Cape Premier Helen Zille says she has told President Jacob Zuma he should see the DA-controlled province as an opportunity, not as a threat.Delivering her state of the province address on Frid (By Jan)...South Africa: Stabbing accused alleges assault by cops
Friday 29-May-2009: By Jade WittenA New Crossroads man held in connection with the murder of Kenilworth jogger Ian Cowburn has been moved to Pollsmoor Prison, at his request.Xolisa Peter, 27, appeared briefly in the Wynb (By Jan)...World: Photos show rape, sex abuse in Iraq jails
Thursday 28-May-2009: London - Photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse which US President Barack Obama does not want released include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse, Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Th (By Jan)...Nigeria: 18 Soldiers Still Missing, Says JTF
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Omon-Julius OnabuWarri - Commander of the military Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, Major-General Sakin Yaki Bello, has denied that a Lieutenant-Colonel was killed in the ongoing face-off (By Jan)...Africa: Diamond Magnate Calls for 'African Way' of Doing Business
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By John AllenCape Town - A South African businessman whose name is synonymous with the international diamond trade has told an African Union (AU) audience that the global economic crisis was caused by (By Jan)...Africa: Zim 'is hungriest country in the world'
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Zimbabwe is the most food aid dependent country in the world, aid agencies said on Tuesday.Also, nearly 55 percent of children who died of cholera in the southern African country were malnourished.Thi (By Jan)...Namibia: Bakondja Wants Bail
Monday 25-May-2009: By Werner MengesAFTER spending almost all of the past eight and a half years in prison, Namibia's former most wanted fugitive, Bakondja Katjiuongua, will hear on Friday if he will be allowed to taste (By Jan)...South Africa: Fire Set to Somali Shopping Centre Kills Two
Monday 25-May-2009: Somalia - At least two Somali citizens have been killed in Dallin village 130 kilometers to Cape Town in South Africa after their shopping centre was burnt as they were sleeping overnight in South Afr (By Jan)...South Africa: Police Shoot Dozens of Whales
Sunday 31-May-2009: Cape Town - As a police gunman walked from one end of Long Beach, Kommetjie, to the other, shooting whales, groups of rescuers made desperate last attempts to push the creatures back to sea.But, their (By Jan)...South Africa: Cosatu angry at rate cut
Friday 29-May-2009: Thursday's "minimal" 100 basis points repo rate cut will do little to help with economic recovery in the country, the Congress of SA Trade Unions said."The Monetary Policy Committee has let slip an op (By Jan)...Zambia: Criminal Shot Dead
Wednesday 27-May-2009: POLICE in Lusaka on Sunday shot dead a suspected dangerous criminal after he and two others snatched a motor vehicle, which was later recovered.The suspected bandit was gunned down in an exchange of f (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: SA Government Yet to Release Violence Report
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Alex BellThe South African government is yet to release what is suspected to be a highly controversial report, compiled by a group of retired army generals on the role Zimbabwe's security forces pl (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Massive Scam Unearthed At Zesa
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Sydney KawadzaHarare - ZESA HOLDINGS has unearthed a scam in which rogue employees might have prejudiced both the utility and its customers of tens of thousands of dollars over the past three month (By Jan)...Zambia: Is the Role of Care Workers in the Aids Fight Appreciated?
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Bruce ChoomaCOMMUNITY-based care givers and organisations are leaders in the fight against HIV/AIDS in southern Africa. Significant evidence shows how they have relieved overburdened healthcare sys (By Jan)...Will the Opposition Influence Really Cross Dibete?
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Ryder GabathuseFrancistown - With about five months left before Botswana goes to the polls, the country's opposition parties face a daunting task of making a meaningful impact in constituencies nor (By Jan)...South Africa: Aids should become a notable disease, readers
Monday 25-May-2009: By Ainsley Daniels A proposal by a Swaziland member of parliament that HIV-positive people be branded on the buttocks has been met with outrage.IOL asked its readers: Should Aids become a notifiable d (By Jan)...South Africa: Twist in pub killing trial
Monday 25-May-2009: By Mpume MadlalaThree of the five men accused of killing three men at a Durban pub in September last year, allegedly after a remark about penis size, have turned state witness.The charges against them (By Jan)...International Crime Fight Requires Cooperation - Speaker
Monday 25-May-2009: Luanda - The fight against organised international crime requires a closer cooperation among the intelligence and security services of the States.This was said Friday in Luanda by the National Assembl (By Jan)...South Africa: Alleged robbers arrested at shebeen
Monday 25-May-2009: Four men were expected to appear in the Peddie Magistrate's Court on Monday following an armed robbery at a store in Thyefu village, Eastern Cape police said.The four men allegedly apprehended a busin (By Jan)...Somalia: Fighters Take Nation Hostage, Says UN Envoy
Sunday 31-May-2009: New York - Somalia has been "taken hostage" by fighting, the top United Nations envoy to the Horn of Africa nation, whose capital has been the scene of clashes between Government forces and opposition (By Jan)...South Africa: Former Cop Guilty of Killing Children
Friday 29-May-2009: The Cape High Court has convicted former police officer Marius Van Der Westhuizen of the murder of his three children, saying he was guilty with "direct intent".As Judge Willem Louw read the verdict, (By Jan)...Law On Human Trafficking Still Not Implemented
Friday 29-May-2009: Maputo - The law on human trafficking in Mozambique, particularly concerning women and children, approved by the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, in April 2008, remains a dead lette (By Jan)...South Africa: Former cop guilty of killing children
Friday 29-May-2009: The Cape High Court has convicted former police officer Marius van der Westhuizen of the murder of his three children, saying he was guilty with "direct intent".As Judge Willem Louw read the verdict, (By Jan)...South Africa: Kunene judgment expected
Monday 25-May-2009: The Bloemfontein High Court is expected to deliver judgment in the murder trial of IT consultant Muziwendoda Kunene on Tuesday.Kunene, 45, of Ballito, Mumukeleni Khoza, 26, and Mphakamiseni Khumalo, 2 (By Jan)...South Africa: Renewed Cape Clashes Between Police, Shack Dwellers
Monday 25-May-2009: By Peter LuhangaAbout 250 protesters from an informal settlement near Milnerton in Cape Town ran amok on Thursday (21/05/2009) night, digging up a portion of a busy road, burning tyres and stoning pol (By Jan)...Nigeria: JTF Suspends Air Raid, Frees 14
Monday 25-May-2009: By Shehu Abubakar and Monday OsayandeThe Joint military Task Force (JTF) operating in the restive Niger Delta has suspended air raid in the creeks of Warri, Delta State, where they have been exchangin (By Jan)...South Africa: Swift police action saves kidnapped woman
Sunday 31-May-2009: IN A daring operation police yesterday rescued a woman kidnapped from a plush Constantia Village mall and held for three daysThey also arrested her abductors after the hand-over of what the kidnappers (By Jan)...Nigeria: Crude Oil Prices Rise Above U.S.$64
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku and Ejiofor Alike With Agency ReportLagos - Oil prices jumped to a new six- month high above $64 a barrel yesterday after the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OP (By Jan)...Science: New killer virus found in Africa
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Mike StobbeAtlanta - Scientists have identified a lethal new virus in Africa that causes bleeding like the dreaded Ebola virus.The so-called "Lujo" virus infected five people in Zambia and South Af (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops nab robbers in Bramley
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Five robbers got more than they bargained for when police walked in on them while they were robbing a Bramley family at gunpoint, Johannesburg police said on Wednesday."They hit a man visiting the fam (By Jan)...[5 Graphs] Fascinating, useful & scary Gold, Oil, Stock Market & US Unemployment forecasts - shockers for Obama supporters?
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Here are some graphs I recently got which are utterly fascinating. They seem to be generated by people who make use of the more cyclical forecast software. Back in the 1940's Dewey, a US Govt official (By Jan)...Bakondja Free On Bail
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Werner MengesFOR the first time in almost eight years, Bakondja Katjiuongua, once Namibia's most wanted fugitive, is a free man again - and this time it's all legal.A bail application that Katjiuon (By Jan)...Africa: Mugabe sings Gono's praises
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe's central bank chief, who presided over world-record hyperinflation, will keep his job despite objections raised within the unity government, President Robert Mugabe said on Monday.P (By Jan)...South Africa: N.Korea gets heat for nuclear missile test
Tuesday 26-May-2009: The South African government has condemned as "unacceptable" the nuclear explosion carried out on Monday by North Korea."The possession of nuclear weapons does not create security, but rather diminish (By Jan)...Portuguese Government Distorts Colonial History
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Paul FauvetMaputo - A number of prominent academics who specialize in the study of Portuguese speaking Africa, and of Portuguese colonialism, have written an open letter in three languages (English (By Jan)...Nigeria: Who Wants Oshiomhole Dead?
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Ehi AkhigbemuduRECENTLY the media was awash with stories of how the only Comrade Governor in the universe, Adams Aliu Oshiomhole would have been killed by his security operatives.It really made thi (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Army Should Confine Itself to Barracks
Saturday 30-May-2009: THE fight between Zanu PF and the two MDC formations over Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono's fate will apparently be with us for a long time. For all practical purposes, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangi (By Jan)...Mbeki never got Zim report
Saturday 30-May-2009: The Presidency claims that Mbeki was only given "oral reports" from the four retired generals Karyn MaughanThe government has denied that former president Thabo Mbeki ever received an explosiv (By Jan)...South Africa: Escapee: All I'm asking for is justice
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Thandi SkadeFarouk Meyer, the convicted triple murderer who made a brazen escape from prison on Monday, is back behind bars.Meyer, 33, honoured his word and handed himself over at the Sandton polic (By Jan)...Africa: 1000+ L.A. Students Respond to the Call of the Teach Africa Youth Forum
Thursday 28-May-2009: More than 1000 Los Angeles middle and high school students are expected to participate in the innovative Teach Africa™ Youth Forum.on Saturday, May 30 at UCLA Royce Hall starting at 10:00 a.m. (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops arrest suspected cash robbers
Thursday 28-May-2009: Two men believed to have planned a cash-in-transit heist were arrested in Phoenix on Wednesday by Durban's elite Organised Crime Unit.Police spokesperson Captain Thulani Zwane said the unit was tipped (By Jan)...WWIII: Iran watching US reaction to N. Korea
Wednesday 27-May-2009: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spent Monday engaged in "intensive diplomacy" concerning North Korea's reported nuclear test, according to the State Department. She had spoken by phone to her (By Gairk)...South Africa: Murderer's bizarre escape
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Thandi SkadeA convicted murderer has escaped from prison and asked a radio station to act as a go-between to hand himself over and meet the minister of justice, to whom he wants to present evidence (By Jan)...Africa: Food Prices Will Rise Again, Says Report
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Johannesburg - Food prices will rise again by 2015, when economies are expected to have recovered from the global recession, pushing up demand once more, says a recent UN report.2008 is seen as the ye (By Jan)...South Africa: DA blames ANC for recession
Wednesday 27-May-2009: The opposition Democratic Alliance on Tuesday blamed the ANC government for South Africa's first recession since the end of apartheid."This not only confirms that our economy is now in a full-blown re (By Jan)...Africa: Niger president in bid for third term
Sunday 31-May-2009: Niamey - The Niger president's dismissal of parliament and plans for a referendum to allow him a third term have sparked deep concern, with the opposition calling it a coup bid in the uranium-producin (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma can't appoint new police chief yet
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Karyn Maughan and Sibusiso NgalwaIt would be "reckless" for President Jacob Zuma to appoint a replacement for axed prosecuting head Vusi Pikoli while the latter's legal challenge against his dismis (By Jan)...South Africa: Whale beach saga ends in tragedy
Sunday 31-May-2009: As a police gunman walked from one end of Long Beach, Kommetjie, to the other, shooting whales, groups of rescuers made desperate last attempts to push the creatures back to sea.But, their efforts wer (By Jan)...Nigeria: Niger Delta - Whither TCND Report?
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Okey Ndiribeminority groups in the Niger Delta- within the wider context of the region's quest for a resolution of the pervasive crisis that has rocked the area- resurfaced at a forum where it was (By Jan)...Nigeria: Niger Delta - Whither Technical Committee Report?
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Okey Ndiribeminority groups in the Niger Delta- with in the wider context of the region's quest for a resolution of the pervasive crisis that has rocked the area- resurfaced at a forum where it was (By Jan)...Liberia: Alleged Nigerian Armed Robber Nabbed
Saturday 30-May-2009: Police in Monrovia are investigating a Nigerian caught with a loaded pistol in the commission of alleged armed robbery.Simeon Uche was one of four alleged armed robbers who attacked the Star Business (By Jan)...South Africa: Zille extends olive branch to Zuma
Saturday 30-May-2009: Western Cape Premier Helen Zille on Friday extended an olive branch to President Jacob Zuma, in an attempt to end the vicious war of words that has raged since she was sworn in.Delivering her State of (By Jan)...World: 'It was a terrorist attack'
Friday 29-May-2009: Tehran - The death toll from a suicide bomb attack on a crowded Shi'a mosque in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan has risen to 23, the Fars news agency said on Friday.Mohammad Gholami, the head (By Jan)...South Africa: Court Overturns Minister's Land Grab
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Stephan HofstatterJohannesburg - THE North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria yesterday ordered the government to restore land to a black farmer evicted last month under its controversial "use it or lo (By Jan)...Zim: Gono stays put: President
Wednesday 27-May-2009: "Prove the wrong he has done. But knives are out for this man. We say stand with two firm legs, be strong!" Herald ReporterPresident Mugabe yesterday defended Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor (By Jan)...South Africa: Officers 'were racist and vulgar'
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Jade WittenA son has testified that police officers uttered racial slurs at him while they conducted a search-and-seizure operation in connection with his father's pending drug, theft and abalone c (By Jan)...Inmate Threatens Suit Over Voting Rights
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Lekopanye MooketsiGaborone First Offenders Prison inmate, Thomas Sibanda, has threatened to take the government to court if he is not allowed to vote in the coming general elections expected in Oct (By Jan)...Nigeria: Of National Pride and the Obama Snub
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Wakaman and Ibrahim Dan GabasAbuja - The President of the world is coming to West Africa. Sorry, he won't be visiting Nigeria. Nigeria is not a part of the world and don't jump to the map on your t (By Jan)...South Africa: Joburg police arrest 221 in crime op
Monday 25-May-2009: A total of 221 people were expected to appear in the Hillbrow and Johannesburg magistrate's courts for crimes ranging from fraud to drug-dealing, police said on Monday.They were nabbed during a crime- (By Jan)...South Africa: Crime is a 'terror'
Thursday 28-May-2009: Gauteng MEC for safety and security Khabisi Mosunkutu said crime was "terrorising" the community.He said the department had noticed an increase in "organised brutal criminal activities especially rela (By Jan)...South Africa: Growth News is Bad, But It's Not the Whole Story
Thursday 28-May-2009: Johannesburg - OUR thanks go to Dynamic Wealth economist Chris Harmse for pointing out that the economy didn't really shrink by 6,4% in the first quarter of this year, nor, arguably, is the economy ye (By Jan)...Africa: 'You mustn't be here for the Mujahedeen fire'
Thursday 28-May-2009: Nairobi - Hardline Islamist insurgents on Wednesday warned that prolonging the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia would only worsen the crisis, a day after the UN decided on extending its t (By Jan)...South Africa: Bad body double: court
Thursday 28-May-2009: The body double the police allegedly used to frame IT consultant Muzi Kunene of murder did a bad job, the High Court in Bloemfontein said on Wednesday.Judge MH Rampai was delivering judgment in the mu (By Jan)...South Africa: ANC angry about timing of Zille address
Monday 25-May-2009: Western Cape premier Helen Zille has defended her decision, amid angry protest from the ANC, to hold her opening address in legislature before President Jacob Zuma delivers his first state of the nat (By Jan)...Nigeria: A Peace Advocate in Crossfire
Monday 25-May-2009: By Nosike OgbuenyiLagos - Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan is one man who cherishes peace and security. That explains why peace and security is an integral part of his administration' (By Jan)...Greek Leftist 'Anti-Racist' Groups Join Muslim Rioters In Greece
Sunday 31-May-2009: [It would seem possible that subversives affiliated with the Greek Communist Party maybe engaged in the recent Muslim rioters in Greece, over a complaint that a Greek police officer misused the Koran. (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: MEC Max fears spread of vigilantism
Sunday 31-May-2009: Community Safety MEC Lennit Max is concerned that an upsurge of vigilantism in Lentegeur could spread to other areas - and he has appealed to residents to work with the police.He has also thrown down (By Jan)...Their Souls Seem Free But Ours Remain in Shackles!
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Kae Matundu-TjiparuroIT is interesting to see German citizens starting to ease up, loosening up and opening up not only to realise their full patriotic being but to also be ready to tell the whole (By Jan)...Africa: Cooperation With AU Crucial to Promoting Peace, Says UN
Saturday 30-May-2009: Enhanced collaboration with the African Union (AU) will help to promote peace and security in Africa, members of the Security Council delegation, which recently wrapped up a week-long visit to the con (By Jan)...South Africa: Don't use Zuma for your personal gains - NUM
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Carien du PlessisPolitical leaders posing for happy snaps with President Jacob Zuma to bring themselves good fortune in business is out, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has warned.The trade (By Jan)...South Africa: Remant fires back
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Rivonia NaiduDurban's controversial bus service has sharply rejected claims of defrauding taxpayers by more than R1-billion.Remant Alton has also challenged a private investigator, who handed an af (By Jan)...South Africa: More heat over Zuma NPA papers
Saturday 30-May-2009: DA court documentsThe State is under new legal pressure to reveal why President Jacob Zuma's former prosecutors thought the corruption case against him should only be quashed by a court of law.The DA (By Jan)...Africa: Police, protesters clash in Nouakchott
Friday 29-May-2009: Nouakchott - Police and protesters opposed to next week's presidential election clashed in the capital Nouakchott on Thursday, leaving several people hurt and others arrested.Officers used tear gas an (By Jan)...Africa: Tribal clashes in Sudan kill 244: minister
Friday 29-May-2009: Khartoum - Clashes between two major Arab nomadic tribes in Sudan's South Kordofan region this past week have killed 244 people, including police officers, Interior Minister Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamad said (By Jan)...Africa: Suspected pirates to be sent to Kenya
Friday 29-May-2009: Stockholm - Seven suspected pirates detained earlier this week in the Gulf of Aden after a failed hijacking of a freighter are to be flown to Kenya for a possible trial, the Swedish Armed Forces said (By Jan)...World: US vows to defend allies amid NKorea bluster
Thursday 28-May-2009: Washington - Washington stressed its resolve to defend Asian allies on Wednesday, warning North Korea against "saber-rattling and bluster" in the wake of its nuclear test will only deepen the country' (By Jan)...Robben Islanders 'Fleeced'
Thursday 28-May-2009: By John GroblerWHAT was supposed to be a retirement benefit for 62 of Namibia's freedom fighters, imprisoned on Robben Island during the apartheid era, has turned into a legal quagmire in the wake of (By Jan)...South Africa: Protesters threaten to storm Reserve Bank
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Angry National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) members broke a police barrier and threatened to storm the SA Reserve Bank (SARB) in Pretoria on Wednesday.This was their angry response when a bank repres (By Jan)...New Leader Takes Over Rebel Faction
Wednesday 27-May-2009: At least seven people were killed Tuesday in the Somali capital Mogadishu after suspected insurgents targeted the presidential palace and Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys was crowned the new leader of a rebe (By Jan)...Africa: UN backs keeping troops in Somalia
Wednesday 27-May-2009: United Nations - The UN Security Council on Tuesday extended the mandate of AMISOM, the African Union mission struggling to contain the violence in Somalia, which has been wracked by fighting between (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma, Zille chat away
Tuesday 26-May-2009: ANC military veterans want Western Cape Premier Helen Zille to stand up at the cabinet lekgotla on Tuesday and apologise to President Jacob Zuma, but the DA leader said she had a "relaxed and professi (By Jan)...Khama's Move to Sue Paper Threatens Democracy?
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Oliver ModiseThe principle of legal immunity for the president as enshrined in the constitution seems set for a test as President Ian Khama has recently made moves to sue a local paper.Last week th (By Jan)...Kenya: Equity Bank, Amiran Kenya Partner to Boost Food Security
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Cedric LumitiNairobi - Equity Bank and Amiran Kenya Limited have partnered to enhance food security.Small scale farmers in Kenya are set to benefit from a funding agreement the two signed last week (By Jan)...South Africa: ANCYL turns on Cape leaders
Monday 25-May-2009: The Western Cape ANC Youth League (ANCYL) has demanded that the party's provincial executive be removed from office because of its members' pursuit of personal interests and deep-seated factionalism.A (By Jan)...Sierra Leone: UN Chief Calls For More Support After Recent Political Violence
Sunday 31-May-2009: A recent eruption of political violence in Sierra Leone reinforces the need for the international community's continued support for the West African nation's efforts to rebuild following a brutal 11-y (By Jan)...Science: Biologist battles killer pythons in US park
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Tom BrownEverglades National Park, Florida - The man leading efforts to eradicate giant Burmese python snakes from Everglades National Park sounds almost fearful, and certainly not optimistic, when (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: To Give or Not to Give?
Friday 29-May-2009: By Brian KennedyLast week, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the South African Broadcasting Corporation that she was "not yet confident" that aid money to Zimbabwe would get direct (By Jan)...Ghana: MiDA to Adopt ADR Processes to Resolve Land Disputes
Friday 29-May-2009: By Richard Kofi AttenkahTema - Realising the difficulties, time consuming and expensive nature of the land adjudication process in the country, the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) has identifi (By Jan)...South Africa: Department probe boy's death
Thursday 28-May-2009: The death of a 16-year-old boy from suspected meningitis at the Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital was "shocking" and "inexcusable", the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday.This follows reports in The S (By Jan)...South Africa: Court told how jealous man shot his wife dead
Thursday 28-May-2009: A former security officer has been convicted of murder after admitting that he shot his wife through the neck at her work place in Pretoria's city centre because he lost his temper after suspecting he (By Jan)...Zim: Politicians, service chiefs rally behind Gono
Thursday 28-May-2009: Generals wade into the stand-off Munyaradzi HuniHarare – Anyone saying Reserve Bank Governor Dr Gideon Gono should go is calling for Zanu PF to leave and that will not happen, one of Zanu PF (By Jan)...Sudan: Govt in Heavy Fighting With Darfur Rebels
Tuesday 26-May-2009: The hybrid African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has condemned heavy fighting in and around the town of Umm Baru which left over 50 people injured and forced hundreds to flee their h (By Jan)...Nigeria: Transparency International Decries FG's Attitude to Corruption
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Vincent ObiaLagos - The global anticorruption network, Transparency International, has accused the government of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua of "foot-dragging" in probing high profile bribery cas (By Jan)...SA Farmers Moot Civil Suit Over Sasol Price Fixing
Monday 25-May-2009: By Mzwandile JacksWindhoek - SASOL could face civil action from Grain SA and agricultural union TAU SA before the end of the year as farmers demand compensation for Sasol's price-fixing activities bec (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mutambara Left in the Cold
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Brian MangwendeHarare - THE smaller faction of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-M) lurched into its worst crisis since breaking away from the MDC-T after scores of senior officials dumped th (By Jan)...Burundi: New Peace Structure to Bolster Stability
Saturday 30-May-2009: Bujumbura - With the integration of Burundi's last rebel groups into government institutions almost complete, the team that mediated the peace process has set up a structure to monitor the implementat (By Jan)...Veii Defends Nyae-Nyae Stance
Saturday 30-May-2009: SWANU would like to put the record straight by correcting what we consider as a misleading position taken by Gwen Lister in her Editorial Perspective of Friday, 15 May 2009 in which she compared Swanu (By Jan)...Science: Earthquake topples homes in Honduras
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Freddy CuevasTegucigalpa, Honduras - A powerful earthquake toppled dozens of homes in Honduras and Belize early Thursday, killing at least six people and injuring 40 as terrified residents spilled (By Jan)...South Africa: Guard injured in robbery
Friday 29-May-2009: A security guard responding to a house robbery was shot and seriously hurt in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday, KwaZulu-Natal police said.Senior Superintendent Henry Budhram said the police received a rep (By Jan)...Middle East: Venezuela sends uranium to Iran
Thursday 28-May-2009: In a sign the Foreign Ministry may be switching its focus from dealing primarily with the Palestinians to more "classic" functions involving the rest of the world, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon (By Gairk)...Africa: Continent Marks One More Anniversary
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Luanda - The African continent is celebrates Monday, May 25, its 54th anniversary since the proclamation of the Organisation of the African Unity (OAU), replaced by the African Union (AU) in 2002, wit (By Jan)...SA's Tourism Body Targets Batswana 'Big Spenders'
Monday 25-May-2009: By Wanetsha MosinyiA South African Tourism (SA Tourism) team is in Botswana to conduct market research as it continues to lure more travellers from here who constitute the bulk of the 4.5 million peop (By Jan)...Africa: Zim's 100-day plan 'pie in the sky'
Monday 25-May-2009: Zimbabwe's commercial farmers are warning that the unity government's new 100-day plan to boost agriculture is pie in the sky designed to tempt the international community to pour desperately-needed f (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: France Engages Unity Govt
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Davison MaruzivaHarare - FOR the first time in 13 years France on Friday sent a senior official to Zimbabwe as part of the West's growing interest in re-engaging Harare in order to play a critical (By Jan)...South Africa: Toyi-toyi threat to Zuma's big day
Sunday 31-May-2009: Angry ANC parliamentary caucus employees have threatened to disrupt President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation address, by staging protest action against temporary employment.They say that, being on s (By Jan)...South Africa: Unsuspecting property investors caught out
Sunday 31-May-2009: On the back of soaring property prices and low interest rates, unsuspecting investors poured more than R5 billion into property syndications in South Africa over a period of five years from about 2003 (By Jan)...South Africa: Domestic dispute turns deadly
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Fiona GoundenA domestic dispute led to an Overport man shooting his wife dead and then turning the gun on himself on Thursday night, according to police. Friends of the family yesterday said they w (By Jan)...On Trial - a Faster More Reliable Way to Clear Mined Roads
Friday 29-May-2009: Johannesburg - In Angola, new demining technologies for unearthing difficult-to-detect plastic anti-tank mines and clear the road network are being tried.Angola is one of the most heavily mined countr (By Jan)...Central African Republic: Caroline Ngoena, 'Today We Are Here, Tomorrow We Could Be Somewhere Else'
Friday 29-May-2009: Paoua - Cycles of political violence in the Central African Republic over the past decade have prompted tens of thousands of civilians to flee their villages or towns. Many still live in the bush, too (By Jan)...Rwanda: DR Tajudeen Abdul Raheem - Gone on Africa Liberation Day
Friday 29-May-2009: Kigali - That Dr Tajudeen Abdul Raheem, should die on the day Africa celebrates its liberation, a cause he dedicated the greater part of his life to, is not only ironic but tragic.Tajudeen as he is af (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Statement on Gono Unacceptable
Friday 29-May-2009: The statement by one of the principals that Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono is not going anywhere confirms that there is a deadlock over the central bank chief and the Attorney-General, (By Jan)...Zim: Zambia to help power Comesa summit
Friday 29-May-2009: Move to allay fears of embarrassing blackouts at Victoria Falls because of power rationing By Andrew MoyoHarare - Zimbabwe has asked neighbouring Zambia to be on standby to provide electricity (By Jan)...Africa: Europe Tries to Ease EPA Fears
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Jo-Maré DuddyTHE European Union (EU) is not motivated by commercial self-interest in seeking economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with Namibia and other African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) countries, (By Jan)...South Africa: Selebi to go, but who replaces him?
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Carien Du PlessisThere is still no clarity on who will replace National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi - one of the targets the government set for its first 100 days in office,It was also unclea (By Jan)...South Africa: Cop cleared of fraud now eyes job at hand
Wednesday 27-May-2009: A newly appointed senior Pretoria police station commissioner has been found not guilty of fraud.Director Vuyokazi Ndebele, who was recently appointed as the Lyttelton police station commissioner, was (By Jan)...Nigeria: Taming Criminality in Niger Delta
Wednesday 27-May-2009: The limited military action on the Gbaramatu communities in Warri South west local government area of Delta state is generating concern within and outside Nigeria.The action which followed the killing (By Jan)...Liberia: An Encounter With Crime in Monrovia
Tuesday 26-May-2009: From Monrovia, AllAfrica's Boakai Fofana blogs on a recent experience with crime and of how a new initiative is helping to offset worries that it is growing.At 2am, I received a call from a friend war (By Jan)...Sudan: Unamid Deplores Fighting in North Darfur
Tuesday 26-May-2009: The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) today condemned heavy fighting in and around a North Darfur town that has injured more than 50 people and forced hundreds of civilians to se (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops to probe failed firm
Tuesday 26-May-2009: The police are probing possible charges against the directors of collapsed Hillcrest-based Edwafin Holdings (Pty) Ltd, which was placed under provisional liquidation on Friday, leaving some of its inv (By Jan)...South Africa: Cop unit 'like a sledgehammer killing an ant'
Monday 25-May-2009: By Ella SmookThe Department of Police has dismissed as "baseless" the opposition's claims that the new crime fighting unit replacing the Scorpions is facing a serious staffing shortage.The DA said yes (By Jan)...Africa Can Be Optimistic About the Future
Monday 25-May-2009: By Stephen AsiimweKampala - Today, May 25, is the African Liberation Day. I congratulate all Africans on the continent and in the diaspora for celebrating this historical moment.The day honours the 19 (By Jan)...South Africa: Legacy of abuses by the church
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Fiona FordeAs Patrick Mellet read through the Ryan Report last week, there was hardly a word of it that didn't resonate with him.The report documented 85 years of abuse at the hands of Irish Cathol (By Jan)...Malawi: Resuscitating Malawi
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Owei LakemfaMALAWI had been on the boil and its general elections had the potentials of either increasing or lowering its temperature. These were not to be ordinary elections.They were elections in (By Jan)...Somalia: Security Minister 'Attacked in Ethiopia'
Saturday 30-May-2009: Somalia's security minister was attacked as he traveled by road from Ethiopia on his way home by suspected insurgents, Radio Garowe reports Thursday.Col. Omar Hashi, who has been in Ethiopia alongside (By Jan)...South Africa: Hume murder was 'cold-blooded'
Friday 29-May-2009: By Kamini PadayacheeThe murderers of Ballito estate agent Lynne Hume should all be sentenced to life imprisonment as that was the only suitable sentence that could be imposed, the Bloemfontein High Co (By Jan)...South Africa: Father relives agony of young son's killing
Friday 29-May-2009: By Lebogang SealeGwadiso Richard Belang returned to the creche in Westdene where his little son was killed determined to watch as the graphic details leading to the tragedy were played out.The 47-year (By Jan)...Kenya: Slum-Dwellers Priced Into Hunger
Friday 29-May-2009: Nairobi - Millions of people who live in Kenya's sprawling slums are among those worst hit by the food price crisis, yet they receive far less humanitarian attention than other demographic groups, acc (By Jan)...South Africa: Zille has 'undermined our democracy'
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Anél LewisThe Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans' Association (MKMVA) has vowed to put the Western Cape government under siege with a series of protests - with the first march to the provinci (By Jan)...Somalia: Seven Killed in Shelling in Mogadishu, Islamists Fight in Southern Town
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Mogadishu - At least seven civilians have been killed in mortar shelling in Mogadishu after mortars were fired to the presidential palace, witnesses and officials said on Tuesday.Farhan Mahad Asanyo, (By Jan)...Zim: No electricity for Harare high density suburbs for four days
Tuesday 26-May-2009: In most cases electricity and water bills are more than the civil servants monthly 'allowances' of US$100 By Violet GondaHarare suffered a major breakdown of power service on Friday, resulting (By Jan)...South Africa: Child dies, mom lives in suicide attempt
Tuesday 26-May-2009: A police captain is in a serious condition in hospital after allegedly botching a suicide which claimed the life of her seven-year-old son.The policewoman, from the Pretoria Police Air Wing, where she (By Jan)...Nigeria: Aid Agencies Cut Off From Niger Delta Displaced
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Dakar - Aid agencies are unable to access an area in the Niger Delta where more than 2,000 people are believed to be hiding in the bush after a military offensive against militants forced families to (By Jan)...Somalia: Aid Work in Mogadishu Grinding to a Halt
Monday 25-May-2009: Nairobi - Local NGOs in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, have set up a task force in a bid to mobilise urgent help for thousands of displaced civilians."The situation is so bad that if nothing is done m (By Jan)...Science: Amazon hit by climate chaos
Monday 25-May-2009: Sao Paulo - Across the Amazon basin, river dwellers are adding new floors to their stilt houses, trying to stay above rising floodwaters that have killed 44 people and left 376 000 homeless.Flooding i (By Jan)...South Africa: Bullet-riddled bodies of girl, man found
Monday 25-May-2009: The bullet-riddled bodies of a girl and young man have been found in Lomanyaneng near Mafikeng, North West police said on Monday.They were found on Friday night in Setlopo Moonlight section, spokesper (By Jan)...Somalia: Islamic Courts Condemns Killing of Insurgent Chief
Sunday 31-May-2009: Somalia - The pro-government Islamic Courts Union has strongly condemned Saturday the killing of Insurgent commander who was killed in Mogadishu on Friday evening.Abdulkadir Hamsa better known as Qata (By Jan)...Nigeria: 'We Had No Intention of Stealing the Car ...
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Evelyn UsmanWe only used it to escape from the scene'The desperate shout for help from a duplex at number 17, Emmanuel Osakwe street in Egbeda area of Lagos, last Wednesday, distorted the peace and (By Jan)...South Africa: DA will not be deterred by ANC - Zille
Saturday 30-May-2009: The Democratic Alliance will not be deterred by "the ANC's plans" to disempower it through an orchestrated campaign to make the Western Cape "ungovernable", Premier Helen Zille said on Friday."We have (By Jan)...South Africa: Man sentenced for rape, murder
Saturday 30-May-2009: A 23-year-old man has been sentenced to a term of 40 years in prison for raping and murdering a 64-year-old woman, Mpumalanga police said on Friday.Thamsanqa Emmanuel Thami Mtshilibe, 23, was sentence (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Bring armed response closer to us'
Friday 29-May-2009: By Shalini RamachandranIn light of the media attention on recent school vandalism, Education MEC Donald Grant announced new plans on Thursday to act on school safety issues.Through a programme called (By Jan)...Somalia: UN Chief Deplores 'Campaign of Violence' Against Government
Friday 29-May-2009: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly condemned the continuing armed attacks against Somalia's Transitional Federal Government, expressing concern at the growing numbers of civilians killed, wo (By Jan)...South Africa: Nielson is new deputy mayor Haskin is ousted
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Anel LewisDA councillor Ian Neilson has been elected the fourth deputy mayor of the City of Cape Town since an alliance the party led took control of the council three years ago.He replaces ousted (By Jan)...South Africa: Violence at hostel 'not politically related'
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Nathi Olifant and Simphiwe NdwandweThe ANC in the eThekwini region on Wednesday rejected reports that violence at Umlazi's Glebelands Hostel which recently claimed one life was politically related, (By Jan)...Nigeria: Police Officers Meet Over Rumoured Terrorist Attack
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Rotimi AkinwumiAbuja - Police authorities are meeting in Abuja today to fashion out ways of curbing possible terrorist attacks on Nigeria, the rumour of which, has been rife in Abuja in the last fe (By Jan)...South Africa: Exuberant Zille showed 'subtle paranoia'
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Political BureauAs president Jacob Zuma's cabinet lekgotla was about to start on Tuesday morning, an exuberant Western Cape Premier Helen Zille - it appeared - could not trust anyone with her preci (By Jan)...South Africa: High speed police chase in Soweto
Monday 25-May-2009: A high speed police chase in Lenasia left an alleged house robber dead and two police officers injured on Monday morning, said Soweto police.Inspector Kay Makhubela said the 26-year-old man, allegedly (By Jan)...South Africa: ANC to 'reprioritise' election promises
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Moshoeshoe MonareA few days after the declaration of recession and hardly a week before President Jacob Zuma's first State of the Nation Address, the ANC wants to "reprioritise" promises in its ele (By Jan)...Zim: Gono could have learnt from UDI
Sunday 31-May-2009: Rather than allocate resources to the food manufacturers, Gono opted to import food hampers CommentSewlyn BazelyGideon Gono's self-seeking and rather pathetic efforts to deflect the scorn and (By Jan)...Country Blasts North Korean Nuke Test
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE Namibian Government has called on North Korea and other countries not yet signatories to international treaties on nuclear weapons to "do so without further delay".South Korean (By Jan)...South Africa: Coal Presses on With Vele Mine Plans
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Charlotte MathewsJohannesburg - DEVELOPING miner Coal of Africa (CoAL) has submitted environmental reports on its Vele coking coal project near Musina to the Department of Minerals and Energy, and (By Jan)...Interior Minister Acknowledges Organised Crime's Problem, Adverse Effects
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Luanda - The organized crime in most countries constitutes a problem taking into its complexity and adverse effects that it causes on the society, acknowledged Tuesday in Luanda, the Angolan Home Affa (By Jan)...World: NKorea accuses US of plotting war
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Seoul - North Korea vowed on Tuesday it would not give up its nuclear weapons programme and accused the United States of working on new plans to attack the communist country.The Korean peninsula is "o (By Jan)...Tell It Like It Is: Women with only trouble in mind
Monday 25-May-2009: By Sheila JohnstonThey came prowling out of the shadows, wreathed in smoke, wisecracks and stolen mink; women no better than they should be, with only trouble in mind. They never needed to diet, displ (By Jan)...Koës Rapist Sent to Jail for 15 Years
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Luqman CloeteKOËS resident Willem van Rensburg was sentenced to an effective 15 years in prison for the rape of a minor in the Keetmanshoop Regional Court on Wednesday.Van Rensburg, 38, pleade (By Jan)...Liberia: President Says Her Signature Was Forged
Friday 29-May-2009: By D Kaihenneh SengbehPresident Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has officially broken silence on the fraudulent transfer of more than US$1M from government's coffers at the Central Bank of Liberia to a private (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Condom' jibe at Zille
Friday 29-May-2009: By Lindsay DentlingerDA Leader Helen Zille has been accused by the ANC of using smaller, opposition parties "like condoms" to pursue her political aims to gain power and then dropping them when no lon (By Jan)...South Africa: Kwazulu-Natal Premier Urges Africans to Unite
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Siboniso NtuliDurban - KwaZulu-Natal Premier, Dr Zweli Mkhize, has urged South Africa and the rest of the continent to unite as Africans."Even though we have different languages and cultures, we ar (By Jan)...Somalia: Thousands Flee Mogadishu Ahead of War Build-Up
Thursday 28-May-2009: Thousands of people are fleeing the Somali capital Mogadishu as government forces and insurgent fighters gear up for renewed fighting, Radio Garowe reports.More than 20,000 residents have fled their h (By Jan)...South Africa: Museum resignations 'orchestrated': DA
Thursday 28-May-2009: The resignation of the Robben Island Museum council appeared to have been "orchestrated" by Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana, the DA charged on Wednesday.The mass resignation appeared to have b (By Jan)...South Africa: 'We think it was xenophobic'
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Natasha JosephTwo Somali men who ran a spaza shop in Darling have been killed in what community members describe as a xenophobic attack.The men, Omar Josef and Hazim Amad, died in their shop in the (By Jan)...South Africa: Alleged armed men rob store in Soshanguve
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Two armed men robbed a shop in Soshanguve on Tuesday, Pretoria police said."Around 9.20am two armed men held up a cashier and the shop manager at gun point," said Inspector Sello Mangena.After taking (By Jan)...Science: First home-grown HIV vaccine
Wednesday 27-May-2009: In a first for South Africa and the continent, HIV and Aids candidate vaccines developed by UCT scientists are to be used in human trials in June.The researchers, at UCT's Institute of Infectious Dise (By Jan)...World: Suu Kyi to testify
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Yangon, Myanmar/Burma - Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was to testify on Tuesday in a trial widely expected to end with an extension of her house arrest or a prison term of up to five (By Jan)...Gambia: Lawyer Martin Condemns Witch Hunting
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Fabakary B. CeesayMr. Assan Martin, a Human Rights Lawyer and Libertarian, in an interview with Foroyaa, at his office on Wednesday, 20th May, calls for the cessation of the ongoing 'Witch hunting' (By Jan)...Nigeria: Niger Delta Conflict to End in Days, Says Vice President
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Nuruddeen M. AbdallahVice-President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the armed conflict in the Niger Delta area would end in the next few days.Jonathan gave the assurance in Abuja during his meeting (By Jan)...Science: EU gives campaign the seal of approval
Sunday 31-May-2009: Nothing stirs the soul like the story of one individual's fight against seemingly insuperable odds.Francois Hugo is a man who has devoted his life to nature. Or, in his particular case, the protection (By Jan)...A Namibian Woman of Substance
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Frederick PhilanderSwakopmund - American talk show hostess, Oprah Winfrey, counts among her circle of influential and intellectual close friends acquired during a 40-year illustrious career a Namib (By Jan)...South Africa: Wife killer wants to 'make amends'
Friday 29-May-2009: Although a former security officer admitted shooting his wife to death in a fit of anger he asked the Pretoria High Court to have mercy on him when he is sentenced next month.William Mabitsi Thubakgal (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mayor Arrested in MP's Rape Case
Thursday 28-May-2009: Harare - Police have arrested Kwekwe mayor Shadreck Tobaiwa and lawyer Tapera Sengweni for allegedly obstructing the course of justice in the rape case of Kwekwe Central Member of the House of Assembl (By Jan)...Sudan: Darfur - Dozens of Sierra Leonean Police Officers Join UN-African Union Mission
Thursday 28-May-2009: Dozens of police officers from Sierra Leone today joined the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission, known as UNAMID, in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan.Tomorrow, a further 22 Sierra Le (By Jan)...World: Mafia suspects arrested in Italy
Thursday 28-May-2009: Rome - About 60 presumed Mafia members, including several clan bosses, were arrested early Wednesday in the Naples region in a sweeping crackdown, Italian police said."We had issued arrest warrants ag (By Jan)...South Africa: Numsa marches against interest rates
Thursday 28-May-2009: Hundreds of National Union of Metalworkers members have gathered in Pretoria to march to the Reserve Bank to protest against high interest rates.Spokesperson Alex Mashilo said he expected over 1 000 m (By Jan)...Africa: New Projects Keep African Mining Lively
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Charlotte MathewsJohannesburg - AFRICA's mining sector continues to be active with new projects in the pipeline and investment interest from China, India and Brazil, despite the economic slowdown a (By Jan)...South Africa: Hume trial judge lauds witnesses for State
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Kamini Padayachee'Strong, good and impressive" were the words used by a Bloemfontein High Court judge on Tuesday to describe State witnesses who testified in the trial of three men for the kidnappi (By Jan)...South Africa: Joburg strike is imminent
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Angelique Serrao, Anna Cox and Beauregard TrompThe City of Joburg and the unions are desperately trying to negotiate their way out of a potentially crippling sympathy strike in Joburg and other Gau (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Come Thursday, everything stops'
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Laura Ashbaugh and Thandi SkadeJoburg and Ekurhuleni are bracing for a strike likely to bring several services to a grinding halt. "Come Thursday, everything stops," SA Municipal Workers' Union (Sa (By Jan)...South Africa: Ex-soccer star identified as murder accused
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Former Orlando Pirates striker Mandla "Metroblitz" Sithole has handed himself over to the police after being sought in connection with the death of a 31-year-old man.Sithole disappeared on Sunday afte (By Jan)...Rwanda: Land Titles to Be Used As Collateral
Monday 25-May-2009: By Stephen TumusiimeGiven the past experience of commercial banks with non-performing loans, and also under the influence of the global financial crisis, bank loans are ever harder to obtain. The chie (By Jan)...South Africa: Man killed, daughter critical after attack
Monday 25-May-2009: A 25-year-old man was found hanging from a tree in Madombidzha village outside Louis Trichardt on Monday, after chopping his girlfriend's father to death with a panga, Limpopo police said."The man wen (By Jan)...South Africa: Rich 'must help poor'
Sunday 31-May-2009: By CARIEN DU PLESSISRicher South Africans must tighten their belts even more to help poorer South Africans survive the economic storm, Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana has said."We need social sol (By Jan)...South Africa: Man's burnt body found
Friday 29-May-2009: The burnt body of an unidentified man was found near the railway line in Thabong in the Free State, police said on Friday.The body of the man, believed to be between the ages of 25 and 30, was found a (By Jan)...Uganda: HIV Prevention Bill Might Accelerate Infection Instead
Friday 29-May-2009: By Mary MigishaA lot has been said, and more is still being said on the criminalization of intentional transmission of HIV by the proposed HIV Prevention and Control Bill.This, among others, is believ (By Jan)...Extradition Target Allowed to Work in Country
Friday 29-May-2009: By Werner MengesISRAELI-BORN extradition target Kobi Alexander may continue to live and work in Namibia until a current dispute he has with the Immigration Selection Board over the granting of a work (By Jan)...South Africa: Woman's body found after 4 weeks
Friday 29-May-2009: By Thandiwe MthethwaThe Shallcross Railway Station informal settlement community is shocked by the police's discovery of a woman's body which was buried in a shallow grave.Ntombenhle Shezi, 25, was la (By Jan)...South Africa: Scores arrested in crime op
Thursday 28-May-2009: A total of 92 people were expected to appear in the Johannesburg and Hillbrow Magistrate's Courts on Thursday for crimes ranging from housebreaking to car theft, police said.They were nabbed during a (By Jan)...South Africa: Forfeited Farm Dispute Resolved
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Ernest MabuzaJohannesburg - THE Supreme Court of Appeal seems to have found a solution to the problem of immovable property that has to be forfeited to the state but belongs to a couple married in (By Jan)...South Africa: Readers face recession at home
Thursday 28-May-2009: South Africa has lurched into a recession for the first time in 17 years, data released by Statistics SA shows."This not only confirms that our economy is now in a full-blown recession, but also that (By Jan)...South Africa: Dying inmate seeks to go home, like Shaik
Wednesday 27-May-2009: A terminally ill inmate at C-Max prison will soon know whether he may go home to die with his family or face his end alone in prison.The Pretoria High Court on Tuesday ordered that the Medical Parole (By Jan)...South Africa: Community Links Murder to Xenophobia
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Natasha JosephTwo Somali men who ran a spaza shop in the Boland town of Darling have been killed in what community members describe as a xenophobic attack.The men, Omar Josef and Hazim Amad, died i (By Jan)...South Africa: Chaos as crashed truck blocks N1
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Hundreds of motorists were caught in traffic chaos on the N1 in Pretoria when an out-of-control truck smashed into a construction barrier before it fell on its side, blocking the highway.The late-nigh (By Jan)...South Africa: Community links murder to xenophobia
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Natasha JosephTwo Somali men who ran a spaza shop in the Boland town of Darling have been killed in what community members describe as a xenophobic attack.The men, Omar Josef and Hazim Amad, died i (By Jan)...World: Security tight after Sikh rioting
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Jagmohan SinghAmritsar, India - Security was tight across the northern Indian state of Punjab on Tuesday, with armed police enforcing a curfew in all major towns and cities a day after deadly rioti (By Jan)...Africa: Africa's worst outbreak
Tuesday 26-May-2009: The cholera infection rate in Zimbabwe is nearing the 100 000 mark in Africa's worst outbreak in 15 years, aid agencies said on Tuesday.The death rate was slowing down but the threat of cholera remain (By Jan)...South Africa: Alleged car thief nabbed
Tuesday 26-May-2009: A 32-year-old man believed to have been part of a gang that stole a Toyota Corolla parked at a Pretoria shopping complex has been arrested, police said on Tuesday.The man's arrest follows a high speed (By Jan)...South Africa: Back to basics for airport firefighters
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Caryn DolleyCape Town International Airport firefighters responsible for creating safety hazards on runways on two occasions last month have been reassigned temporarily and are being retrained.And (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Nepad to Assess Country
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Jennifer DubeMIDRAND, South Africa -- The New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) will this week dispatch a delegation to Zimbabwe to explore areas of partnership with the inclusive govern (By Jan)...South Africa: I was terrified, says ANC youth leader
Monday 25-May-2009: By Barry BatemanTshwane ward councillor Lucas Mdhluli was arrested last night on allegations of kidnapping and assaulting the ANC Youth League's regional secretary, Charles Masemola. It is alleged he (By Jan)...South Africa: Media and funding 'fatigue'
Monday 25-May-2009: By Shalini RamachandranAs the international financial crisis continues, HIV and Aids organisations are feeling the pinch and facing an international backlash against disease-specific funding, Aids pro (By Jan)...World: Hong Kong march marks Tiananmen crackdown
Sunday 31-May-2009: Hong Kong - Thousands of protesters marched through Hong Kong on Sunday to commemorate the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing 20 years ago, including one of the leaders from Tiananme (By Jan)...World: Iraq ex-minister arrested, plane turned round
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Muhanad MohammedBaghdad, Iraq - Police on Saturday detained Iraq's former trade minister in connection with graft allegations involving food rations, ordering a plane in which he was flying to Duba (By Jan)...South Africa: School bust nets drugs,knives
Sunday 31-May-2009: By LESEGO MASEMOLAHlanganani High School pupils were caught by surprise on Friday when Soshanguve police pounced on them during a school bust targeting schools in the area. Six pupils tested positive (By Jan)...Penicela Case - Prosecution Demands Maximum Penalty
Saturday 30-May-2009: Maputo - The prosecution in the case of the murder of alleged criminal Abrantes Penicela has demanded the maximum sentence for the police officer accused of the killing, Alexandre BalateBalate is said (By Jan)...Nigeria: Relief Workers Slowly Access Conflict-Hit Delta Creeks
Saturday 30-May-2009: Dakar - The Nigeria Red Cross says conflict-hit areas it has been able to access in the Niger Delta are in better condition than anticipated, but that continued restrictions on aid workers' movement l (By Jan)...East Africa: Comesa on Track With Establishing Customs Union
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Stanley KwendaHarare - Zimbabwe will finally host the 13th Common Market for Eastern and Southern African (COMESA) summit in the resort town of Victoria Falls in June where the regional grouping is (By Jan)...EU not yet ready to renew ties with Zimbabwe: letter
Saturday 30-May-2009: "No property rights" Brussels - The European Union is not yet ready to establish normal ties with Zimbabwe or resume aid despite a "positive evolution" in politics there, according to a letter (By Jan)...Uganda: Chameleone Arrested Over Fake Cash
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Chris KiwawuloKampala - MUSICIAN Jose Chameleone was arrested by the Police yesterday over allegatgions of paying a fake sh50,000 note at Kobil petrol station near Bat Valley Primary School on Bomb (By Jan)...BoN - Banks Charge Too Much Interest
Friday 29-May-2009: By Jo-Mare DuddyBANK of Namibia (BoN) Governor Tom Alweendo believes there is no reason why local commercial banks should charge consumers a prime lending rate that is so much higher than the repo rat (By Jan)...Zimbabwe's destitute Britons to be repatriated
Friday 29-May-2009: The first five will return this weekend By Peta Thornycroft in HarareUp to 500 destitute Britons living in Zimbabwe are to be repatriated after their savings and pensions were wiped out by Pre (By Jan)...South Africa: Mpshe wrong to drop Zuma charges - claim
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Carien du PlessisA retired judge has questioned whether the decision to drop corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma was in accordance with the rule of law.Speaking on Wednesday at a confer (By Jan)...South Africa: Concern as pupil dies of meningitis
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Sinegugu NdlovuA KwaZulu-Natal pupil has died of meningitis and another is receiving treatment for a confirmed meningitis infection.Shakaskraal Primary School grade 1 pupil Sinethemba Dlodlo, 8, di (By Jan)...South Africa: 'My son didn't have to die'
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Angelique SerraoA 16-year-old boy has died from suspected meningitis after being misdiagnosed four times, left untreated in hospital for three days and denied an ICU bed during his final hours.By t (By Jan)...Security Ministries Botch It, Murder Accused Gone
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Bame PietMinister of Justice, Defence and Security, Dikgakgamatso Seretse, says he is eagerly awaiting a report from the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs on the deportation of Zimbabwean murder (By Jan)...Africa: Call for sanctions "irresponsible": Eritrea
Thursday 28-May-2009: Nairobi - Eritrea has dismissed as "utterly irresponsible" an African Union (AU) request for U.N. sanctions against it for allegedly supplying weapons to insurgents fighting Somalia's new administrati (By Jan)...Nigeria: Saro-Wiwa Trial Begins Today
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Ejiofor Alike With Agency ReportLagos - The trial of Anglo-Dutch super major, Shell, over its alleged complicity in the death of Mr. Ken Saro-Wiwa, leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Og (By Jan)...Africa: Support for AfDB Short-Term Support Strategy
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Tunis, Tunisia - The strategy, which covers the next 19 months to December 2010, is anchored on support to the Inclusive Government (IG) formed in February 2009 on the basis of a Global Political Agre (By Jan)...Nigeria: N3billion Rice Scam - Prosecute, Not Persecute
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Lagos - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has accused the Vaswani brothers - Sunil, Haresh and Maresh - of defrauding the federal government of the sum of N3billion in unpaid custom (By Jan)...Uganda: Rebel LRA Warned Against Regrouping
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Chris OcowunKampala - FORMER Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have been warned against regrouping to fight the people of northern Uganda.Gulu resident district commissioner Col. Walter Ochora sa (By Jan)...South Africa: Man held for girlfriend's alleged murder
Tuesday 26-May-2009: A 27-year-old Orange Farm man has been arrested for allegedly beating his girlfriend to death, Sebokeng police said on Tuesday.The man was arrested late on Monday following the death of his girlfriend (By Jan)...South Africa: Metrobus cautioned on imminent strike
Monday 25-May-2009: By Thandi SkadeMetrobus, the company whose striking drivers have left thousands of commuters stranded, can save Joburg from a potentially crippling strike likely to disrupt all major departments, incl (By Jan)...Uganda: Pan Africanist Tajudeen is Dead
Monday 25-May-2009: Kampala - Dr. Raheem Tajudeen, the general secretary of the Global Pan African Movement is dead.According to one of his best friends, Gulu LC V chairperson Norbert Mao, Tajudeen died at around 1:00 am (By Jan)...South Africa: Dogs poisoned in solar panel theft
Monday 25-May-2009: The poisoning of two dogs and the theft of solar panels from a Hartswater farm are being investigated, a Northern Cape police spokesperson said on Monday.Superintendent Hendrik Swart said the two Boer (By Jan)...Nigeria: Delta Lawmaker Kidnapped, Police Orderly Shot
Monday 25-May-2009: By Victor EfeizomorAsaba - Delta State House of Assembly member representing Sapele Constituency, Chief Monday Igbuya was on Thursday night kidnapped by gun men suspected to be militants.His police or (By Jan)...World: Tamil Tigers admit leader is dead
Monday 25-May-2009: Colombo - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers have admitted for the first time that their leader was killed by government troops a week ago, but the remants of the rebels appeared split over the future of their (By Jan)...Amendment proposes non-executive chairman for Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe
Sunday 31-May-2009: Supplanting RBZ Governor Gideon Gono in that post By Blessing ZuluWashington - Zimbabwe's cabinet has approved an amendment to the Reserve Bank Act proposed by Finance Minister Tendai Biti whi (By Jan)...World: Call for probe into Sri Lankan deaths
Sunday 31-May-2009: Colombo - Amnesty International called on Saturday for an independent investigation into the number of civilians killed in the final weeks of Sri Lanka's civil war and said the UN should reveal its ow (By Jan)...South Africa: Cellphone chaos fears
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Kashiefa Ajam and Candice BaileySouth Africa's cellular providers have been given less than a year to jack up their service - or risk their operating licences.Communications regulator, Icasa, warne (By Jan)...Nigeria: EFCC Quizzes NSE Boss, Okereke-Onyiuke
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Dekunle Adekoya and Tordue SalemAbuja - DIRECTOR-GENERAL of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and Chairman of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc (Transcorp), Prof. Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, was ye (By Jan)...Nigeria: Army Frees Nine Suspected Militants
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Emma AmaizeWarri - JOINT Task Force on the Niger-Delta has released nine persons it arrested around Okerenkoko, close to the notorious militants' base, Camp 5 in a wooden boat.Those arrested and re (By Jan)...South Africa: Behind the scenes of the Snuki show
Saturday 30-May-2009: For many he epitomised the noose around the neck of the news division at the public broadcaster, yet Snuki Zikalala strongly defends his tenure at the SABC, which ended a month ago."It's not easy to l (By Jan)...South Africa: Suspect 'confessed while on dagga'
Thursday 28-May-2009: An accused in the murder of safari ranch owner Franz Richter told the High Court in Johannesburg on Wednesday that he was high on dagga when he made a false confession, SABC radio news reported.Richte (By Jan)...Ghana: Gov't Called Upon to Support Palliative Healthcare
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Samuel AgbewodeHo - The Executive Director of a Ho-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), New Seed International, Mr. Livinus Acquah Jackson, has called on Ghanaians to develop an interest in t (By Jan)...South Africa: Cosatu, ministers to discuss OSD
Wednesday 27-May-2009: The Congress of SA Trade Unions has secured a meeting with various ministers for Wednesday to discuss the slow implementation of occupation specific pay rises, which has been highlighted by doctors' p (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Plot to Incriminate Gono Backfires
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Harare - A PRISON officer allegedly went into a cell where a fraud suspect, Joseph Banda, was locked up at Harare Central Remand Prison and demanded that he concoct incriminating evidence against Rese (By Jan)...South Africa: They throw you away like a condom - union
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Louise FlanaganNearly two years after signing a strike-breaking agreement, the public service still hasn't sorted out pay packages promised to its most skilled and most difficult to retain professi (By Jan)...South Africa: Protect your children
Monday 25-May-2009: By Francis Hweshe, Nontobeko Mtshali and Hanti OttoMore than 900 children are reported missing in South Africa - half of them in the Western Cape.It's as if "a whole school of children has just disapp (By Jan)...South Africa: Gang robs Shoprite
Monday 25-May-2009: A Shoprite supermarket store in the Dobsonville Mall was robbed of an undisclosed amount of money by a gang of 20 armed robbers, Soweto police said on Monday.Inspector Kay Makhubela said the men walke (By Jan)...South Africa: State doctors hail public support
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Mogomotsi MagomeKeetile BontsibokaeDoctors working in the public health sector are encouraged by the support they received from different corners of society who have pledged solidarity with them as (By Jan)...Africa: Australia to send warship to combat pirates
Friday 29-May-2009: Canberra - An Australian warship will join international efforts to combat pirates operating from Somalia, the government said on Friday.Australia will send a frigate and maritime patrol aircraft curr (By Jan)...South Africa: Police Seize Fake Goods
Friday 29-May-2009: By Fouzia Van Der FortA strand flea market was cordoned off and law enforcement officials stopped stallholders in their tracks as a raid of counterfeit clothing began.Metro Police moved quickly on Wed (By Jan)...South Africa: State 'sets record straight'
Friday 29-May-2009: By Ella SmookThe presidency has denied that the appointment of a permanent National Director of Public Prosecutions is imminent, saying that a statement released on Wednesday was merely aimed at setti (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Beware of vehicle finance scam'
Friday 29-May-2009: The public should beware of a vehicle finance scam which targets vehicle owners unable to honour their payments, the SA Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric) said on Thursday."The scam begins with (By Jan)...South Africa: Is HIV Self-Testing the Future? - Living With Aids # 391
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Khopotso BodibeBetween 5% - 15% of the South African population has ever tested for HIV.This is despite the fact that testing services are widely available in the public health sector. A recent pil (By Jan)...South Africa: Police seize fake goods
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Fouzia van der FortA strand flea market was cordoned off and law enforcement officials stopped stallholders in their tracks as a raid of counterfeit clothing began.Metro Police moved quickly on Wed (By Jan)...South Africa: Cash-in-transit guard robbed
Thursday 28-May-2009: A cash-in-transit guard was robbed of an undisclosed amount of money while collecting cash at a shopping complex in Soshanguve, Pretoria police said on Thursday.Inspector Sello Mangena said the G4 sec (By Jan)...Electricity a Powerful Weapon Against Poverty
Thursday 28-May-2009: Maputo - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza said on Tuesday that the national power grid must be used as a powerful weapon in the fight against poverty, because its availability will allow the insta (By Jan)...Cold War Shocker: Ohnesorg Killer Was Stasi Spy
Thursday 28-May-2009: Newly-discovered records show that the West German police officer who shot and killed unarmed peace protester Benno Ohnesorg in 1967 was in fact an undercover Stasi spy. (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Liberia: Country, S/Leone Launch Peace Park
Thursday 28-May-2009: A Trans-boundary Peace Park to join the Gola Forests between Liberia and Sierra Leone has been launched by Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma.Speak (By Jan)...Rwanda: HIV Tops Stigmatisation Index - Survey
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Charles KwizeraKigali - A survey on the rate of stigmatisation in the country has been released and indicates that at least 74 percent of people discriminated in different societies in the country (By Jan)...Africa: South Sudan to disarm civilians
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Skye WheelerJuba, Sudan - South Sudan's president on Tuesday said he would send out soldiers to disarm hundreds of thousands of civilians to stop a surge in tribal killings.Hundreds have died in th (By Jan)...South Africa: Nation Enters First Recession Since Democracy
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Cape Town - Africa's biggest economy, that of South Africa, contracted by a shock six percent in the first quarter of this year, confiming that the country has slid into its first recession in the dem (By Jan)...Nigeria: Warri Refinery Threatened by Products Offtake Crisis
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Lagos - Even in the face of shortage of petroleum products across the country, with its attendant dire socio-economic implication on consumers, the Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) is s (By Jan)...South Africa: Country Planning to Send Talks Mission to Myanmar
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Hopewell RadebeTHE South African government plans to send a delegation to Myanmar to facilitate negotiations among political parties after opposition leaders were arrested by the military junta.The (By Jan)...South Africa: Gem Production to Fall Further
Tuesday 26-May-2009: South Africa's diamond production will continue declining up to at least 2011, consultancy Frost & Sullivan said yesterday."This is amid signs that the global economic recovery will be protracted with (By Jan)...Sierra Leone: EU Food Facility to Boost Smallholder Farmers' Production
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Freetown - Smallholder farmers in Sierra Leone are soon to receive a production boost, thanks to a euro 5.4 million donation from the European Union to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).&l (By Jan)...South Africa: Downturn is shaping buying habits - study
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Peter RasmussenMost South Africans say concern about their economic future is causing a "considerable change in their buying behaviour", a study by the UCT Unilever Institute of Strategic Marketing (By Jan)...South Africa: Man held after teen is raped
Tuesday 26-May-2009: A 28-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday morning for allegedly raping his girlfriend's 12-year-old sister in Orange Farm, south of Johannesburg, Sebokeng police said.The man was expected to appear in (By Jan)...Uganda: Anger Over Aid Effort Prompts Breakaway Calls
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Bill OketchSome in north say region should secede because of Kampala’s perceived failure to help them.What began as a protest against the lack of government housing aid has renewed calls for (By Jan)...Rwanda: Ensuring Justice is a Responsibility For All
Monday 25-May-2009: By Frank KagaboKigali - Desire Munyaneza was on Friday convicted by the Quebec superior court in Montréal under Canada's Crimes Against Humanity, and War Crimes Act that was enacted in Canada a (By Jan)...South Africa: City wakes to early hijack drama
Sunday 31-May-2009: An early morning hijacking in Maitland ended in a shoot-out and a police chase across the city.Police shot and arrested the suspect on the Sable Way turn-off on the N1 after a chase that ranged from M (By Jan)...Robbers Flee Exchange Bureau With Over U.S$3,000
Saturday 30-May-2009: Luanda - Four non-identified armed on Thursday stormed into a foreign exchange bureau, in Sao Paulo ward, Sambizanga district, in Luanda, and left with 305,000 Angolan Kwanzas (nearly USD 3,900).Speak (By Jan)...Ghana: Foodspan Urges Gov't to Create Biofuel Policy Now
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Melissa Campanella & Ama Achiaa AmankwahMembers of the Food Security Policy Advocacy Network (FoodSPAN) have called on government to develop a comprehensive policy on Biofuel production in light of (By Jan)...Somalia: Government to Launch Attacks Against Insurgents
Saturday 30-May-2009: Mogadishu - The Somali fragile government said on Friday it will launch attacks against the Insurgents who are fighting against it.At least 40 people were killed and about 200 were injured in Mogadish (By Jan)...South Africa: Man sentenced to life for contract killing
Saturday 30-May-2009: Poverty was not a reason for reducing the life sentence of a 29-year-old man who committed a contract murder, a Pietermaritzburg High Court judge said on Friday.Judge Vivienne Niles-Duner sentenced Li (By Jan)...Zimbabwe game park falls prey to vandals, neglect
Saturday 30-May-2009: Ancient Bushman art peels off rock surfaces Godfrey MarawanyikaMatopos National Park - Ancient Bushman art peels off rock surfaces and endangered rhinos wander through derelict fences as negle (By Jan)...Nigeria: Ruling Party Accuses U.S. of Plotting to Destabilise Country
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Chuks OkochaAbuja - The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday accused the United States government and its embassy in Nigeria of conspiracy and plotting with opposition groups to destabil (By Jan)...U.S. Embassy 'Never Negotiated Over Doctors'
Friday 29-May-2009: Maputo - Mozambican Health Minister Ivo Garrido declared on Thursday that there were never any negotiations with the government for American doctors to come to Mozambique to treat sick Mozambicans.The (By Jan)...South Africa: Cosatu to meet Zille face to face
Friday 29-May-2009: Cosatu, which has accused Western Cape Premier Helen Zille of insulting women and black people, says it is to meet her face to face on Monday.Cosatu Western Cape secretary Tony Ehrenreich said on Thur (By Jan)...South Africa: Parliament defends Travelgate MPs
Friday 29-May-2009: Parliament on Thursday defended the right of MPs embroiled in the Travelgate scandal to return to its benches and head oversight committees.Acting secretary of the National Assembly, Michael Coetzee, (By Jan)...Nyae-Nyae Grass Not So Green
Thursday 28-May-2009: By Nangula ShejavaliTHE grass isn't always greener on the other side ... of the veterinary cordon fence!At least not for the livestock of farmers from Gam who illegally cut through the fence and moved (By Jan)...Africa: Woman nabbed for trafficking
Thursday 28-May-2009: Maputo - A woman has been detained for trafficking 10 children from rural Mozambique into Maputo, police told reporters on Tuesday night.Lurdes Mabunda, the head of child protection and domestic viol (By Jan)...South Africa: Hostel dwellers under attack: ANC
Wednesday 27-May-2009: People living in the Glebelands hostel in Durban have come under "continued" attack by those wanting to illegally occupy the premises, the ANC in the eThekwini region said on Wednesday."Those behind t (By Jan)...South Africa: Pagad demands action
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Esther LewisStaff ReporterPagad has set deadlines for action to be taken against alleged drug dealers and gangsters and will hand them over tonight when they meet police in Mitchells Plain.But Comm (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: U.S. Renews Calls for Removal of President Mugabe
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Harare - The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has renewed calls for the removal of President Robert Mugabe saying his departure would be in "the best interests of everyone."The Obama administrati (By Jan)...South Africa: When being neighbourly is dangerous
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By Michelle PietersenTwo weeks ago Eskom cut down dangerous electricity lines between Du Noon and Site 5 after an electrical box exploded. But residents simply reconnected the illegal wires.Across the (By Jan)...Ethiopia: Defendants Granted Bail in Bank of Abyssinia Case
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Abiy WendifrawThe Federal High Court late last week granted bail to 10 of the defendants arrested the preceding week for an alleged connection to the 57 million Br loss the Bank of Abyssinia (BoA) (By Jan)...South Africa: Accused await their fate
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Kamini PadayacheeThe family of Ballito estate agent Lynne Hume, who was kidnapped and killed two years ago, will know on Tuesday if the three men accused of her murder will be convicted of the crim (By Jan)...Spyl Guilty of Slander
Monday 25-May-2009: By Werner MengesWindhoek - A SLANDEROUS public attack that Swapo Party Youth League executive member Veikko Nekundi launched against Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Veiccoh Nghiwete and other top (By Jan)...South Africa: ANC concerned about critical allies
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Political StaffThe ANC wants to rein in its allies for threatening President Jacob Zuma's administration.The allies' behaviour required management "before it exploded in the open", according to a r (By Jan)...Nigeria: The Causes of Crime
Sunday 31-May-2009: By Donu KogbaraI abhor anarchy, strongly disapprove of violence and have worked closely with various government bodies for several years. So I think that I can safely be described as a responsible and (By Jan)...South Africa: Cabinet lekgotla to tackle issues head on
Sunday 31-May-2009: By XOLANI MBANJWA and CAIPHUS KGOSANAPresident Jacob Zuma's first State of the Nation address, the country's slide into recession, divisions in the Western Cape and the outcome of the cabinet lekgotla (By Jan)...South Africa: Doctors choose to save the nation - Cosatu
Saturday 30-May-2009: Doctors could make millions "out there" but they chose to stay and serve the nation, Cosatu president Sidumo Dlamini said in Durban on Friday."I notice that many of you are young and aspirant doctors (By Jan)...World: N Korea fires sixth missile: Yonhap
Saturday 30-May-2009: Seoul - North Korea Friday fired a short-range missile off its east coast, the sixth since it staged a nuclear test earlier this week, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said.The defence ministry declin (By Jan)...South Africa: Man killed in hijacking
Saturday 30-May-2009: A 45-year-old man was shot dead in a hijacking in Tembisa on the East Rand, Gauteng police said on Friday.Constable Tebogo Sesing said two men approached the man as he was getting into his golden Toy (By Jan)...Somalia: Food Agency Takes Over Feeding One Million
Friday 29-May-2009: The United Nations World Food Programmes (WFP) has agreed to feed more than 1 million people in central Somalia, after a non-governmental organization (NGO) was forced to withdraw from the area due to (By Jan)...Ghana: Court Meets on Cocaine Suspects
Friday 29-May-2009: By Ivy BensonBail conditions given to some six persons at the center of a case in which 61 slabs of whitish substance, suspected to be cocaine, which were intercepted at the Tema Port have been review (By Jan)...Diamond body to inspect Zimbabwe gem mines, Herald reports
Thursday 28-May-2009: Security forces killed scores of illegal miners The Kimberly Process, the global body created to curb trade in gems used to fund conflict, will visit Zimbabwe again next week to investigate cl (By Jan)...South Africa: DA wants to know where DPCI will get staff
Thursday 28-May-2009: The DA on Wednesday demanded Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa reveal how many investigators would join the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), which replaces the Scorpions and is said t (By Jan)...South Africa: Show my son mercy, begs mom he raped
Wednesday 27-May-2009: A mother who was raped twice by her son on Tuesday pleaded for mercy for him while giving evidence in mitigation of sentence in the Pretoria Sexual Offences Court.Her 45-year-old son has been found gu (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Zesa Fails to Pay U.S.$43 Million
Wednesday 27-May-2009: Harare - ZESA Holdings is struggling to pay Mozambique's Hidroelectrica de Cabora Bassa US$43 million for power imports.Zimbabwe imports most of its power from Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo (By Jan)...Elections Are Coming!
Wednesday 27-May-2009: This is an election year for Namibia and it is bound to witness so much interaction between the electorate and their political leaders. The country is also bound to witness the proliferation of politi (By Jan)...Nigeria: FG Underscores Need to Develop Solid Minerals Sector
Wednesday 27-May-2009: By David AgbaLagos - The Federal Government has restated that sustainable development of the solid minerals sector is fundamental to the diversification of the nation's economic dependence on oil and (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma mixes-and-matches his advisers
Tuesday 26-May-2009: President Jacob Zuma's advisers are a mix of his loyalists and others, mostly ministers, who served under Thabo Mbeki.It is understood that the government will this week name former superspy Vusi Mavi (By Jan)...Uganda: No Winner in City Pastors' Battle
Tuesday 26-May-2009: By Solomon NkesigaKampala - I have been following the accusations and denials traded among some city Pentecostal pastors over allegations of sodomy.This is very sad because both parties have lost the (By Jan)...South Africa: Who is to blame?
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Premier Helen Zille and national housing department officials are blaming each other for blocking housing delivery after the transfer of 1 000 hectares of land, owned by the province, to the newly-for (By Jan)...Sierra Leone: Govt Closes Clinics for Fake Drugs
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Sahr Morris Jr.Freetown - Sierra Leone has shut down a group of clinics run by Egyptian doctors for allegedly administering fake drugs as part of crackdown on illegal practices in the health sector (By Jan)...Barometer Shows Little Confidence in Govt
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyORDINARY Namibians feel that Government has failed miserably in addressing the harsh economic realities of the past year, the latest Afrobarometer indicates.The independent research pr (By Jan)...South Africa: Judges are not above the law: Ramatlodi
Saturday 30-May-2009: Judges need to understand they are not above the law, said Ngoako Ramatlodi, the head of Parliament's justice committee, in an interview published on Friday.Ramatlodi, who was recently appointed to th (By Jan)...South Africa: Campaign highlights plight of children
Saturday 30-May-2009: By Natasha PrinceAs child Protection Week draws to a close this weekend, child interest groups and the police are pulling out the stops in trying to educate communities on child abuse, children's righ (By Jan)...South Africa: Clearance certificate scam unearthed
Saturday 30-May-2009: A union shop steward screamed at the top of her voice as Joburg metro cops, city officials and a host of media arrived to arrest an allegedly corrupt employee - who, it turned out, was on sick leave.T (By Jan)...Commitments Given for 2010 Budget Support
Friday 29-May-2009: Maputo - The 19 donors and funding agencies which give direct support to the Mozambican state budget have pledged a total of 471.8 million US dollars in budget support for 2010 - an increase of six pe (By Jan)...South Africa: Teacher in court on rape charge
Friday 29-May-2009: One of five teachers suspended for alleged sexual misconduct appeared at the Umlazi Magistrate's Court on Thursday to face a rape charge.The teachers of Makhumbuza High School were suspended by the Kw (By Jan)...South Africa: Bearing greed's burden
Friday 29-May-2009: By Keith RossWorkers will demand pay increases of "12 percent and above" this year in spite of the economic crisis and the fact that South Africa is now officially in recession.The workers are very mu (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Diamond Trade Team Expected Next Week
Thursday 28-May-2009: Harare - A second team from the Kimberley Process, an international diamond trade watchdog, is due in the country shortly to audit local operations, officials said yesterday.Zimbabwe's diamond industr (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Funds Shortages Affect Winter Wheat Planting
Thursday 28-May-2009: Harare - WINTER wheat planting is progressing slowly as a result of shortages of funds with only few established farmers managing to plant.The funding of this winter's wheat programme has been affecte (By Jan)...Govt Gives P2 Billion Concessions for Mmamabula
Thursday 28-May-2009: Gaborone - Botswana government has approved over P2 billion in tax concessions for the Mmamabula Energy Project and extended coal prospecting licences in the country.Minister of Minerals, Energy and W (By Jan)...Science: Did WHO cause undue fear?
Thursday 28-May-2009: Mexico City - Mexico reported two more swine flu deaths on Tuesday, as World Health Organisation scientists asked if it had moved too quickly to declare the outbreak a pandemic.Authorities in Mexico s (By Jan)...Nigeria: Niger Delta Crisis - Nigeria's Opec Output Slides Below Angola
Tuesday 26-May-2009: Lagos - Ongoing military onslaught in the Niger Delta may have worsened the impact of the crisis in the oil region on Nigeria, as the country's production capacity has further slid, giving Angola the (By Jan)...
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