Weekly Southern African Report
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 12th July 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: Obama in Ghana, What Kind of Change?
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: Washington, DC - President Barack Obama's trip to Ghana, beginning today, will be rich in symbolism. But those hoping for a new direction in U.S. Africa policy are tempering their hopes with skepticis (By Jan)...Zim: Hitchmann speaks on three-year prison ordeal
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: "It was alleged I was the commander of the Zimbabwe Freedom Movement" By Violet GondaViolet Gonda of SW Radio Africa's Hot Seat programme interviews Michael Peter Hitschmann soon after his rel (By Jan)...Liberia: TRC's 'Most Notorious'
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: The Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) is still putting its final touches to its controversial report, but it has released a list of 98 individuals described as "most notorious perpetrators" of war crimes (By Jan)...Africa: What the G8 Leaders Say On Africa
Friday 10-Jul-2009: L'Aquila, Italy - Leaders of the world's eight major industrialized countries meeting in L'Aquila, Italy, have devoted about one-third of their declaration to African issues. The verbatim text of the (By Jan)...Egyptian Secret Police Instigating Anti-Coptic Pogroms Via Muslim Mobs?
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: [Here's something quite odd that's going on in Egypt. It seems the Egyptian secret police are certainly engaged in provoking anti-Coptic pogroms, via inciting Muslim mobs upon Christian villages and (By Lone Wolf)...Africa: Barack Obama's Address to Ghanaian Parliament - As Delivered
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: Accra - The following are the remarks by the President of the United States to the Ghanaian Parliament at the Accra International Conference Center as delivered and released by the White House.12:40 P (By Jan)...Nigeria: Onne Oil & Gas Zone in Rivers State is a Rip-Off-Pengassan
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: By Jimitota OnuyumeComrade Higgins Chika Onuegbu, an Economist, a member of the International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA), an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (C (By Jan)...Uganda: Fallout Over Raid On Entebbe
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: Nairobi - President Amin blamed those who assisted Israel to raid Entebbe, pointing out neighbouring Kenya, France, West Germany and the US. He was particularly angry with Kenya.He said: "This decisio (By Jan)...Africa: Barack Obama?s Address to Parliament
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: By Barack ObamaAccra - Good morning. It is an honor for me to be in Accra, and to speak to the representatives of the people of Ghana. I am deeply grateful for the welcome that I've received, as are M (By Jan)...Africa: The 'Change We Need'? - Obama in Ghana
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: By Charles AbugreAs US President Barack Obama heads to Accra, Ghana, this week, Charles Abugre hopes a new 'wind for change' is blowing. Coming from a 'son of Africa' held with pride and esteem by Afr (By Jan)...Zimbabwe's law of the land
Monday 06-Jul-2009: Farm invasions and intimidation are alive and well. There have been hundreds of reports of violent incidents Despite a court ruling in their favour, white farmers in Zimbabwe are still being f (By Jan)...A Zimbabwean arrogantocracy
Friday 10-Jul-2009: Sharing power with a dominant loser, they risk being seen as bandwagoners on the Mugabe gravy train CommentChenjerai HoveImagine a scene in a science laboratory. Three scientists are busy on a (By Jan)...S.Africa & Zimbabwe: Where did the Whites go wrong? What does 20/20 hindsight teach us?
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: [Eddie Cross recently posed this question and I will include his piece in this. Then another Rhodesian who was deeply involved in the politics of Rhodesia started asking the question himself, and tryi (By Jan)...Guinea: Human Rights Abuses Continue, Says Watchdog
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: New York - Respect for human rights by the coup government that took power six months ago has been undermined by arbitrary arrests and detentions, restrictions on political activity, unpunished crimin (By Jan)...Shocker: S.Africa's Banking Homeloan crisis...
Friday 10-Jul-2009: [I actually got this stunning article at work from an online course we are all doing - for the very reason that banking profits, customer-bases and jobs are a serious problem. They're trying to inculc (By Jan)...South Africa: '2010 will draw crime'
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: By Lindsay DentingerCape Town - Crime levels in the city will not decrease before the 2010 World Cup, and tourists will be a soft target that attract criminals, says the city's new police chief, Rober (By Jan)...World: US concerned about Iraq
Friday 10-Jul-2009: Baghdad - Bombs killed nearly 60 people in Iraq on Thursday in the worst violence since US combat troops withdrew from urban areas last week, and American forces released five Iranian officials suspec (By Jan)...Africa: Views From America
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Etse SikankuAccra - What people are saying about Obama's visit to Ghana.For the first time in the post-modern era, a definitive consensus on American exceptionalism is emerging. But even more unpre (By Jan)...Zim: They treat us like animals
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: Behind the two men is a security guard Tomaz and Sibanda accuse of beating them Geoffrey YorkJohannesburg - With his bandaged head and empty wallet, Johannes Sibanda is just another casualty o (By Jan)...Africa: Full Text of G8 Pledge of U.S. $20 Billion for Agriculture
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: L'Aquila, Italy - 1. We, Heads of State, Government and International and Regional Organizations convened in L'Aquila, remain deeply concerned about global food security, the impact of the global fina (By Jan)...South Africa: Gunbattle leaves one dead in Kempton Park
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: A robber was shot dead and two others were wounded in a shootout with police in Kempton Park, Gauteng police said on Tuesday.Captain Julia Claassen said the incident took place at boot manufacturing c (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema shows up in court for his hearing
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: ANC Youth League President Julius Malema made a low-key entrance at the Johannesburg Equality Court on Friday where he is facing a hate speech charge.The small court was already filled with media, gen (By Jan)...Zim: Mugabe loyalists step up politically motivated attacks on MDC activists
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: His attackers were definitely Zanu PF: they had assaulted him last year The latest violence may be linked to a plan to intimidate people ahead of a constitutional referendum, writes Bill Corco (By Jan)...South Africa: Minister seeks ways to tackle violent heists
Monday 06-Jul-2009: The government is to ban so-called "soft cars" from transporting money as part of the minimum safety standards for the cash-in-transit industry.This, according to Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa, shoul (By Jan)...South Africa: Woman fights off seven armed men
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: When an Amanzimtoti woman was confronted by seven knife-wielding men who had robbery in mind, she had other ideas.Sanele Khanyile, who was on her way to work at nearby Athlone Park, was not the soft t (By Jan)...Nigeria: Revealed - How Traditional Rulers Are Aiding Kidnapping in Abia
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: By Anayo OkoliLagos - For about two years now, Abia State has been infested with a serious problem that has given both the government and the entire people sleepless nights. That single problem is kid (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Rapist' asks for forgiveness 20 years later
Friday 10-Jul-2009: Dumisani Rebombo had not been circumcised, did house chores considered girls' work and was sick of being taunted for not being a man. So he took the only other course considered "manly" in his rural S (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: The Case for a Debt Audit
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Obert GutuTHE unpalatable fact is that the Republic of Zimbabwe is virtually bankrupt. As at December 1 2008, Zimbabwe's external debt stood at US$5, 255 billion, with a current account balance of (By Jan)...South Africa: Teens arrested for robbing woman
Monday 06-Jul-2009: Two teenage boys and a 25-year-old man were arrested in Finetown on Sunday morning for allegedly snatching a woman's bag and then shooting her companion, Sebokeng police said.Constable Edwin Ntsheo sa (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma warns KZN ANC members
Monday 06-Jul-2009: Kwazulu-Natal ANC party members should not relax after their overwhelming win of the province, African National Congress President Jacob Zuma said on Saturday."It is important that you handle your vic (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops crackdown on bad drivers
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: By Kyle Venktess and Gill GiffordOperation Nomakanjani is back. On Wednesday officers from the Joburg metro police arrested 20 offenders for bad driving in the city.The controversial crackdown, which (By Jan)...South Africa; The Christian Coalition
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: [Here follows a letter we received from the Christian Coalition. Gairk] [Thanks for your reply Peter. I’m going to post this on the site. I think other people will be interested and may want to mak (By Gairk)...South Africa: Cops treated like criminals - Mthethwa
Monday 06-Jul-2009: Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa says his officers are treated like criminals for shooting dangerous suspects and protecting the public, and this must stop.He wants to reinstate apartheid-style law to g (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Leaders say Farm Compensation is Britain's Problem
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: By Alex BellPrime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday admitted the government cannot compensate any farmers for farms acquired in the land 'reform' programme, echoing Robert Mugabe's sentiments tha (By Jan)...Explaining Globalism: The CIA's Secret Armies - East Africa: U.S. Pays Uganda to Arm Somali Fighters
Friday 10-Jul-2009: [I've mentioned before that the CIA manages wars and uses MONEY to achieve a lot of its aims. Here is an example of a news report from Africa which explains this. South Africa, for example, was litera (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema case dredges up Zuma rape trial
Friday 10-Jul-2009: Details of President Jacob Zuma's rape trial were resurrected in the defence of one of his staunchest supporters in the Equality Court in Johannesburg on Thursday.ANC Youth League president Julius Mal (By Jan)...Africa: ICC - Africa's Cold War Battlefield?
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: By Tendai Hildegarde ManzvanzvikeHarare - Luis Moreno Ocampo, chief prosecutor of the Hague-based International Criminal Court, is a man on a mission.His stubborn reaction to the decision by the Afric (By Jan)...Zim: MDC may quit over Mugabe’s new powers – Will the MDC rule Zimbabwe?
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: [As I have said from the start, Mugabe is a liar (apart from also being the murderer of PM Tvangirai’s wife, and a perpetrator of Genocide). Mugabe is not in this in order to truly hand over or transf (By Gairk)...World: Bomb blast kills four in Philippines
Monday 06-Jul-2009: Manila, Philippines - Suspected Muslim guerrillas detonated a bomb near a Roman Catholic cathedral in the southern Philippines on Sunday, killing at least four people and wounding 47. Seven were in cr (By Jan)...Zim: Violence dampens national healing
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: “I am happy he managed to save my hand but I cannot forget or forgive my attackers" By Caiphas Chimhete & Jennifer DubeJosphat Chidhindi, a 27-year-old MDC activist, shed tears as he signed (By Jan)...Uganda: Obama Attacks Tribal Politics
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: By Henry Ochieng & Angelo IzamaKampala - President Barack Obama who late on Saturday made a major speech in Accra, Ghana in which he outlined his administration's view of Africa hinted that he will no (By Jan)...Zim: Illegal gems still a sparkling opportunity
Monday 06-Jul-2009: In October 2008, Dubai Customs discovered bags of diamonds wrapped around the body of a Zimbabwean woman click here to download HRW reportclick here to download PAC reportFiona FordeLong befor (By Jan)...Kenya: Going the Somalia Way? Apparently Yes
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Julius BosireNairobi - US think tank Fund for Peace has ranked Kenya 14 out of 20 countries considered to be critical in the "failed state" category.In its Failed States Index annual report, the th (By Jan)...Shell Botswana Launches Efficient Diesel
Friday 10-Jul-2009: By Martin NyirendaThe New Shell Diesel Extra with fuel economy formula has been introduced to the Botswana market as the promoters move to double productivity through delivering environmentally-friend (By Jan)...Africa: In Light of the Global Financial Crisis, Will Donors Deliver on Aid Commitments or Buckle?
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Njongo NdunganeThis is that time of the year when reports about how well donors have performed in meeting their aid commitments are released. 2009 is unique because of the devastating effects of th (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Shock Report on Diamond Fields
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: By Clemence ManyukweHarare - THE Kimberly Process (KP) investigating team that visited Zimbabwe last week has produced a damning interim report implicating the government in human rights violations an (By Jan)...South Africa: Lawyer defends Malema's rape comments
Friday 10-Jul-2009: Julius Malema made his controversial comments about women who say they are raped in the context of the judgment in President Jacob Zuma's rape trial, the Equality Court heard on Thursday.Defending the (By Jan)...Africa: Support Democracy, Africans Urge Obama
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: By Tami HultmanWashington, DC - From across Africa, messages for President Barack Obama, submitted to allAfrica.com, have appealed for government by the people. "WE NEED DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA," insisted (By Jan)...Gutter Press Spews Lies And Libel Against AIM
Friday 10-Jul-2009: By Paul FauvetMaputo - For the second week running, Maputo's gutter press, the weekly paper "Zambeze", has devoted a lengthy article to denouncing me.On the one hand, I am flattered. This is the same (By Jan)...YouTube Video: Fatah TV: Fatah Offical Admits Fatah's Not Interested In Peace With Israel
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: [Isn't this oh so typical of "moderate" Fatah? It's still not interested in peace with Israel yet various American administrations and other Western governments are still pushing Israel to accept pea (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Malls easy targets for criminals
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: By Zara NicholsonThe recent spate of shopping mall robberies could be the result of security companies being penetrated by criminal syndicates, a crime researcher has suggested.Last week a jewellery s (By Jan)...Nigeria: Somali 10 - We Saw Hell For 303 Days
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: Lagos - For the 10 Nigerians who returned home two weeks ago after 303 days in the custody of Somali pirates, the agony they went through is unlikely to go soon. In this interview, the ship captain, G (By Jan)...USA: Mountain of debt: Rising debt may be next crisis
Monday 06-Jul-2009: [This article struck me as being most important. What is stunning is that the USA, historically has always been in debt except for 2 years! But now the levels are insane. Jan] The Founding Fathers (By Gairk)...West Africa: Drug Trafficking And Violence Threaten Gains - UN Official
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: West Africa's progress in consolidating stability and security is being jeopardized by coups and organized crime, the top United Nations envoy to the region warned today.Said Djinnit, the Secretary-Ge (By Jan)...Nigeria: NNPC, Police Connive With Pipeline Vandals - Nupeng
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Victor Ahiuma-YoungLagos - THE menace of pipeline vandals either in the Niger Delta region and other places where the pipeline runs across the country has been a major reason why the nation now dep (By Jan)...Michael Jackson - When the 'Invincible' Die
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: By Gasebalwe SeretseThe recent death of pop legend, Michael Jackson, plunged the whole world in a state of shock.Millions of fans and critics alike were caught unawares at the demise of a man, who has (By Jan)...Africa: DRC peace efforts in jeopardy
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: The fragile peace agreement aimed at ending years of violence in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is in serious jeopardy if that country's leadership does not deliver on promises made t (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema blames whites for trial
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: Julius Malema claims the hate speech court case against him is being driven by "whites opposed to black rule".And he is adamant that he will not apologise "to some Mickey Mouses" for his comments that (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema stands his ground
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: African National Congress Youth League chief Julius Malema won't apologise for his comments on rape, saying the hate speech case against him was driven by whites who are against black leaders."We will (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Blood Diamond Team Describes 'Horrific Violence' by Army in Marange
Friday 10-Jul-2009: By Alex BellA confidential memo by the head of a delegation of the Kimberley Process, which recently wrapped up an investigation into the reports of violence and killings in Marange, has detailed the (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: A Comprehensive Strategy to Disarm the FDLR
Friday 10-Jul-2009: Nairobi/Brussels - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONSThe joint Congo (DRC)-Rwanda military push against the Rwandan Hutu rebels has ended with scant results. Fifteen years after the Rwanda genocide (By Jan)...Uganda: Is Egypt Land Deal a Blessing or Curse for Country?
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Lydia NamubiruKampala - EGYPT is planning to acquire 200 hectares of land in Gulu district to introduce a variety of wheat that can thrive in Uganda.Egyptian and Ugandan agricultural experts analys (By Jan)...Uganda: Hunger Claims 35 As Minister Denies Crisis
Friday 10-Jul-2009: Up to 35 people are feared to have starved to death across the country but Relief and Disaster Preparedness Minister Tarsis Kabwegyere said yesterday that there was no crisis.In the West Nile region, (By Jan)...Africa: FAO Paper On Land Grab is 'Wishy-Washy'
Friday 10-Jul-2009: By Julio GodoyBerlin - The boom in the acquisition of arable land in Africa by foreign companies and governments has stirred an international debate between international institutions such as the Unit (By Jan)...South Africa: 'The murder might be muti-related'
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Jacques BreytenbachThe mystery behind the headless torso of a woman which was discovered in Sunnyside at the weekend has taken on all the characteristics of an award-winning crime novel.While some (By Jan)...Kenya: The Man Who Might Prosecute Violence Suspects
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: By Gakiha WeruNairobi - Until last year, the International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo was largely unknown in Kenya. He entered the national discourse when Justice Philip Waki wound u (By Jan)...Africa: Gender Finally Moving to Forefront of Aids Fight
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: By Danielle KurtzlebenWashington - With women now comprising 61 percent of all people infected with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa, international donors, governments and advocacy organisations are looking (By Jan)...World: US strike kills 10 in Pakistan - officials
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: Peshawar, Pakistan - A US missile strike slammed into a militant hideout in a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud on Tuesday with reports of up to 10 militants killed, security of (By Jan)...South Africa: Miners served with court interdict
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: A court interdict was served on the more than 500 miners striking underground at a mine in Brits on Friday afternoon, in an attempt to force them to release their hostages.The interdict requires the w (By Jan)...Ghana: Vengeance is His - Will He Repay Jammeh?
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: By Christopher Yaw MyineviSome time in 2005 the deaths and disappearances of some 44 Ghanaians and other West African nationals were reported in the Gambia. One of the Ghanaian nationals who survived (By Jan)...Somalia: Al Shabaab Puts Mogadishu's Rapists And Robbers On Notice
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Charles Onyango-ObboNairobi - A few days ago Somalia's radical al Shabaab insurgents, who control large parts of the country and might well overrun the fragile government in Mogadishu, made an exam (By Jan)...South Africa: Hi-Tech Means High Risk in Juvenile Relations
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: Johannesburg - JUST two months ago, 17-year-old Durban schoolboy Rodney Chetty was beaten up, allegedly by the outraged father of a schoolmate. This was after he had allegedly sent the girl an SMS say (By Jan)...Nigeria: 'Economy May Face Hard Times By 2014'
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Onwuka NzeshiAbuja - The House of Represent-atives has warned that the Nigerian economy which largely depend on crude oil exports may witness a major shrink in five years time unless the Federal Go (By Jan)...Kenya: Fears Over New Land Deal
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Joyce MulamaNairobi - Concern is mounting in Kenya that the government has leased a big slice of agricultural land to the Qatari foreign investors to produce food for export.Land rights activists a (By Jan)...Rwanda: Kagame Saved RPF/A From Annihilation, Gen. Kabarabe
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: By Ignatius SsuunaMulindi - The battle to liberate Rwanda by RPF/A would have failed had President Paul Kagame not been in charge, RDF's Chief of Defence Staff, Gen James Kabarebe has said.Addressing (By Jan)...Central African Republic: Frustration Over Limited Reparations
Friday 10-Jul-2009: By Katy GlassborowBangui - Seven years after having their livelihoods destroyed, victims are growing impatient at lack of economic justice."Now that you have taken our voice, how will it help us?" Cle (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops seek body parts owner
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: Police are investigating whether more than one corpse in Lydenburg, Mpumalanga, fell prey to an alleged pair of body-parts thieves.And they have not discounted the possibility that the search for the (By Jan)...Africa: African Leaders Urged to Halt Food Crisis, Violence On Continent
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Benjamin Mensah, GNA Special Correspondent, Sirte, LibyaAccra - African leaders have been urged to commit more resources to agriculture to reverse the escalating food crisis, and to end the renewed (By Jan)...World: Hundreds of rioters arrested in China
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Tyra Dempster and Mark ChisholmUrumqi, China - At least 140 people have been killed in rioting in the capital of China's northwest region of Xinjiang, with the government blaming exiled Muslim sepa (By Jan)...Africa: Mugabe seeks investors to buoy economy
Friday 10-Jul-2009: Harare - President Robert Mugabe on Thursday appealed to international investors to come to Zimbabwe, saying laws limiting foreign ownership of businesses had not been understood."Foreign direct inves (By Jan)...Nigeria: The Economy Loses N2.2 Billion Daily to Attack on Chevron's Offshore Production
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: By Adeola YusufLagos - Nigeria's revenue base on Tuesday kept on eroding with the latest attack on Chevron's offshore production adding to the plummeting level of the country's income by N2.2 billion (By Jan)...Uganda: Museveni Acts to Secure Oil Fields
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: By Angelo IzamaKampala - When this newspaper started making calls about the threat of 'rebels' in Bunyoro last week, few people in the know could make head or tail of it.Yet, the latest special Cabine (By Jan)...An Old Government by Deception Reader writes to me... I am being proven right... White Homeland, etc
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: [Someone who read Government by Deception a long time back, wrote me a note. On the subject of a race war or civil war in SA, I made this fun remark to a friend one day. I said to her that I don't thi (By Jan)...South Africa: Building a better police force starts now
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: By Wendy AddisonWith the Selebi saga appearing to be coming to an end, South Africans have good reason to fear the awesome power granted to police officers. It is timeous and appropriate for citizens (By Jan)...Somalia: AU Could Deliver a Portent Punch Against Al Shabaab Fighters
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: By Gitau WarigiThe Amisom is highly unpopular with Al-Shabaab which has openly declared that the AU force's departure is its priority if it takes power, writes Gitau WarigiAfrican Union summits always (By Jan)...Zim's underhand arms trade
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: Shipment of 1 349 MAG58 bodies, 2 051 barrels and other parts to Montenegro Fiona FordeZimbabwe is not only stockpiling modern weapons, but is also circumventing sanctions by exporting arms to (By Jan)...Africa: Militaries Unite to Fight HIV
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: Dakar - Military forces from 20 countries in West and Central Africa have launched a regional HIV network to share information on combating HIV within their ranks and communities, following the exampl (By Jan)...Nigeria: Oil Well 'War' - When Battleground Shifted to National Assembly
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: By Sufuyan OjeifoLagos - Cross River and Akwa Ibom states have engaged each other on different fronts over the 76 (or 75) oil wells that the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMA (By Jan)...Africa: Gunmen demand ransom for aid workers
Friday 10-Jul-2009: Khartoum - Sudan is negotiating with the kidnappers of two Darfur aid workers for their safe release, preferably without paying the demanded ransom, Sudanese officials said on Thursday.Six gunmen snat (By Jan)...Nigeria: Task Force Foils Attack On Pipeline
Friday 10-Jul-2009: By Sufuyan Ojeifo, Segun James, Ahamefula Ogbu and Omon-Julius OnabuLagos - Two suspected militants were yesterday arrested by operatives of the Joint military Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta at F (By Jan)...Zim: My aid is bigger than yours
Monday 06-Jul-2009: Mnangagwa is heading a Zanu PF delegation to China. His party is angry at being largely excluded from Tsvangirai's tour of Europe and the US CommentJason MoyoWith its coffers desperately dry, (By Jan)...Africa: Somalia clashes kill dozens
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: Mogadishu, Somalia - Islamic insurgents fought their way toward Somalia's presidential palace on Sunday in fighting that killed dozens and wounded about 150, officials said. African Union peacekeepers (By Jan)...Africa: Critics of the ICC Doing It for Selfish Reasons Themselves
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: By Kevin KelleyNairobi - An Africa-centred campaign to discredit the International Criminal Court (ICC) could have repercussions for a potential move to bring before the court the cases of Kenyans acc (By Jan)...Zim: Rogue image persists
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: Competition to see who can appear the most delusional CommentThe two formations of the MDC appear to be in competition to see which can appear the most delusional about our national situation. (By Jan)...Equatorial Guinea: Govt Looting Oil Revenues - Report
Friday 10-Jul-2009: By Marina LitvinskyWashington - The government of Equatorial Guinea has looted billions of dollars in oil revenue instead of improving the lives of its citizens, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a rep (By Jan)...World: Obama to talk arms deal with Medvedev
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Michael StottMoscow - US President Barack Obama and Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev are to announce a framework deal on arms cuts at a Kremlin summit on Monday but the rest of Obama's first visit as (By Jan)...World: Obama to warm Russia ties
Monday 06-Jul-2009: Moscow - US President Barack Obama visits Russia on Monday in the hope of finding agreements on military transit and weapons reductions to revive a relationship that last year plunged to a post Cold W (By Jan)...Zim: Zanu PF official's farm guard commits suicide
Monday 06-Jul-2009: Madzongwe muscled out its original owner Peter Etheredge By Tendai MarongaChegutu - A guard, who was being accused of killing a man at Senate President Edna Madzongwe's newly acquired Stockdal (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Rogue Image Persists
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: THE two formations of the MDC appear to be in competition to see which can appear the most delusional about our national situation.Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Industry minister Welshman Ncube (By Jan)...West Africa: Eyeing the Wealth of the Savannah
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: Johannesburg - In the 1980s a group of farmers in the West African country of Burkina Faso decided to fight back against years of drought by resuscitating their barren rock-hard land to grow more food (By Jan)...Nigeria: This So-Called Subsidy
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By By Abel I. ObakaAjaokuta - Successive Nigerian governments since the mid-1970s have been advocating and implementing 'appropriate pricing' of petroleum products, which is a euphemism for price hike (By Jan)...Nigeria: 'Independent Candidacy Best For The Country'
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: By Kayode KetefeLagos - At relatively short notice, Chief Babatunde Olushola Benson, SAN agreed to an afternoon chat with JUDE IGBANOI and KAYODE KETEFE in his Ikorodu residence. BOB as he is popularl (By Jan)...Eritrea: Isaias Afewerki and a Nation's Tragedy
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Selam KidaneSince winning its de facto independence in May 1991, Eritrea has come to represent a tragedy, laments Selam Kidane. Having fought and suffered alongside one another during the country's (By Jan)...South Africa: Hawks spread their wings
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: Members of the "Hawks", the police's newly launched crime-fighting unit, must brace themselves for turbulence as they take over from their predecessors, the ousted Scorpions, a former Scorpions boss w (By Jan)...Africa: Alleged Suez plotters held in Cairo
Friday 10-Jul-2009: By Cynthia JohnstonCairo - Egypt has arrested 26 people suspected of links to al-Qaeda accused of plotting to attack oil pipelines and foreign ships in the Suez Canal, the Interior Ministry said on Th (By Jan)...West Africa: Tracking Fake Medicine, Dirty Money, Siphoned Oil
Friday 10-Jul-2009: Dakar - Contraband trafficking threatens rule of law, democracy and the health of people throughout West Africa, a region that offers criminals "resources, a strategic location, weak governance and an (By Jan)...Kenya: Land Policy a Delicate Balancing Act
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Ibrahim MwathaneNairobi - Arguably, Kenya's is the most unequal society in East Africa.It is not unusual to find the very poor and landless pitching camp outside thousands-acre swathes of land inva (By Jan)...Renamo Demands That Prosecutors Investigate Stae
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: Maputo - Luis Gouveia, head of the election office of Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has called on the Public Prosecutor's Office to investigate the Electoral Ad (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema refuses to apologise
Friday 10-Jul-2009: Gallery: Julius MalemaJulius Malema wants to "explain" his controversial rape comments - but he won't apologise for them.After leaving the Equality Court in a fit of pique on Thursday, the ANC Youth (By Jan)...Zim: Security forces will not withdraw from Chiadzwa diamond fields
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: "Because that financial route has been blocked, their only source of funds is Chiadzwa" By Tichaona SibandaThe army and the police will not withdraw from the Chiadzwa diamond fields, but will (By Jan)...Sudan: Africa And the International Criminal Court
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Kofi AnnanELEVEN years ago when I opened the Rome conference that led to the founding of the International Criminal Court, I reminded the delegates that the eyes of the victims of past crimes and t (By Jan)...Liberia: Banned - TRC Throws Political Bombshell
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: Monrovia - Former President Charles Taylor heads the list of several armed faction leaders the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has recommended for war crimes, prosecution, while Prsident Ell (By Jan)...South Africa: Ex COPE member Idolises Mbeki
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: By Caiphus Kgosana and Sibusiso NgalwaCOPE suffered a double blow on Tuesday when two of its leaders - Lynda Odendaal and Simon Grindrod - resigned, with the latter accusing some party leaders of "ANC (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema uses key document to make his point
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: African National Congress Youth League leader Julius Malema on Monday accused ANC members who oppose calls to nationalise South Africa's mines of undermining the Freedom Charter and the ruling party.M (By Jan)...Africa: G8 Nations Propose U.S. $20 Billion in Food Assistance
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: By Merle David Kellerhals Jr.The world's most advanced industrial economies agreed to provide $20 billion over the next three years to help farmers in the poorest nations improve food production and h (By Jan)...South Africa: Revoke 'racist farmer's' bail: community
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: By Poloko TauThe Brits community came out in force to protest against the courts' handling of "racist farmers' cases" as Dawie Swart appeared on four counts of attempted murder.The angry community wer (By Jan)...Nigeria: Alarming ATM Frauds
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: Abuja - When the Automated Teller Machine, or ATM, was introduced some years ago, it was meant to facilitate financial transactions, decongest the banking halls, and for their owners to have quick acc (By Jan)...Nigeria: Again, Militants Attack Shell Facility
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku in Lagos and Ahamefula Ogbu With AgencyPort Harcourt - Militants in the Niger Delta yesterday launched yet another attack on a Shell oil well head in the Cawthorne Channel aro (By Jan)...Uganda: New Rebellion in North?
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Paul Amoru, Sam Lawino & David OkumuKampala - The northern Uganda region, just settling from two decades of the Joseph Kony-led LRA's brutal military campaign, is on the verge of slipping into anot (By Jan)...Africa: Weapons flowing in and out of Zimbabwe
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: By Fiona FordeZimbabwe is not only stockpiling modern weapons, but is circumventing sanctions by exporting arms to the US via Eastern Europe, according to a report to be released this week. According (By Jan)...Africa: AU Under Fire Over Boycott of International Criminal Court
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: By Alex BellThe African Union (AU) is facing heavy criticism from international human rights groups, dignitaries and even some African governments, after the body last week resolved to ignore the Inte (By Jan)...South Africa: Lucky break for police
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: By Shaun SmilliePolice believe they have caught the sixth member of the Thora Crescent Gang after he was pointed out by his own associates. The gang terrorised the north-western suburbs of Joburg for (By Jan)...Africa: UN Forces Insufficiently Armed to Protect
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - IF peacekeeping operations in Africa were properly armed, it would show the UN's resolve to protect populations under imminent threat and encourage countries such as S (By Jan)...South Africa: Net closing in on former Land Bank executives
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: By Sibusiso Ngalwa and Eleanor MombergSenior former Land Bank executives and a former Gauteng politician will be arrested this month on charges of corruption, MPs have been told. The revelation comes (By Jan)...South Africa: Criminal justice shame
Friday 10-Jul-2009: By Siyabonga Mkhwanazi and Carien du PlessisOne in four prisoners - 40 000 people - should not be behind bars, according to South Africa's monitor of prisons.This emerged in a searing indictment of th (By Jan)...Somalia: For Puntland, the Future Cannot Be Held Hostage
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: The people of Puntland have decided their destiny. Federalism is the only option.The Italian colonialists chose Mogadishu as the seat of power during the 19th century, when they conquered much of Soma (By Jan)...Nigeria: Kogbara And the Anti-Saro-Wiwa Sentiment
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: By Patrick NaagbantonDONU Kogbara, the veteran writer and daughter of the late Chief Ignatus Vibel Kogbara, the prominent Ogoni elite, is a courageous woman. Courage can be displayed when one either i (By Jan)...South Africa: Police kill robbery suspect, arrest four
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: Eastern Cape police shot dead one man and arrested four others believed to be responsible for a spate of violent house robberies in Mthatha, a spokesperson said.Three people were assaulted with an iro (By Jan)...Ghana: There's More Than Democracy in Obama's Visit
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: By Kevin J KelleyNew York - The White House is touting Ghana's democratic development as the main incentive for the two-day visit by President Barack Obama that commences on Friday.But controversial o (By Jan)...Albano Silva Strikes Back At Campaigns of Libel
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: Maputo - The main pressure against the independence of the judiciary in Mozambique comes from organised crime, and not from politicians, according to one of the country's most prominent lawyers, Alban (By Jan)...World: Obama reaches out to Russia
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: Moscow - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the United States wanted a strong, prosperous but also democratic Russia, as he set out his vision of the US relationship with its former Cold-War era f (By Jan)...Africa: Liberia urges Obama to invest in Africa
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: By Lesley WroughtonWashington - Liberian leader Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf hopes President Barack Obama will underscore during his visit to Ghana this weekend that the United States cares about Africa and (By Jan)...Ghana: Obama Visits a Hopeful Nation on a Troubled Continent
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: By Richard JosephGuest columnist Richard Joseph, an Africa expert at the Brookings Institution and Northwestern University in the United States, has been travelling to Ghana for 30 years. Beginning 20 (By Jan)...Team monitoring diamond trade rebukes Zimbabwe
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: "I am from Liberia, sir. I have experienced too much senseless violence. This has to stop" By Celia W DuggerJohannesburg - A team assessing Zimbabwe's compliance with international standards t (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Govt Warned Over Conflict Diamonds
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - Zimbabwe has been given an ultimatum to demilitarise recently discovered diamond fields in the eastern parts of the country following an investigation by the Kimberly Proce (By Jan)...South Africa: Will Section 49 be licence for cops to kill?
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: Giving police sweeping powers to shoot to kill would result in the death of innocent people, says Mary de Haas, a KwaZulu-Natal violence monitor"Police are trained to shoot to disable if possible, not (By Jan)...Africa: Would Africa Have Been Better Off With Hillary Clinton?
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Prof. Ali A. MazruiBarack Obama's Africa policy may become more active in a positive sense in the months and years ahead. But on the evidence so far it does seem credible that the African continent (By Jan)...Africa: Hospitals 'jail' patients who don't pay
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: Nairobi - Widowed and HIV-positive, Beatrice Acheing had no money to have her baby delivered in a hospital. But she admitted herself anyway, to reduce the risk of transmitting the virus during childb (By Jan)...Zim: Storm brews over China deal
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: If the Chinese were to get 50% of the equity, they should pay between US$15b and US$20b By Dumisani MuleyaFurther details have emerged over Zimbabwe's controversial platinum deals and credit f (By Jan)...Rwanda: Rebels Intensify Attacks on DRC Forces
Friday 10-Jul-2009: By James KaruhangaKigali - Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a group made up of remnants of the masterminds of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda which saw over a million p (By Jan)...South Africa: Robbery suspects and police officer held
Friday 10-Jul-2009: By Nompumelelo MagwazaTwo suspects believed to belong to a gang who have robbed a string of Spar supermarkets and other businesses in the province have been arrested in KwaMashu and Inanda.A police of (By Jan)...Africa: New Technologies Strengthening Continent's Economy
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: By Megan NeffWashington, DC - Across Africa, new technologies are being joined with local customs to strengthen the continent's infrastructure and economy.Using information and communication technolog (By Jan)...Africa: Made in Africa
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Michel SidibéWHEN African leaders discuss economic growth in Africa at this week's African Union Summit, their options will be constrained by the growing AIDS epidemic and slow progress on reaching (By Jan)...Rwanda: DRC Approves Envoy
Friday 10-Jul-2009: By Edmund KagireKigali - The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has approved the newly appointed Rwandan Ambassador to DRC, Amandin Rugira, as the two nations continue to mend strained diplomatic rela (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma Warns on Financial Crisis at G5 Talks
Friday 10-Jul-2009: The global financial crisis has brought severe damage to the less-developed countries and Africa is the biggest victim, says President Jacob Zuma.He was speaking at a meeting of the G5 which are the f (By Jan)...Africa: Algeria sponsors Sufism to fight extremism
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: By Lamine ChikhiAlgiers - After using police raids, arrests and gun battles in its fight against Islamist insurgents, Algeria is now deploying a new, more subtle weapon: a branch of Islam associated w (By Jan)...World: Indonesia votes in presidential poll
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: Jakarta - Indonesia voted in only its second direct presidential election since the fall of the Suharto dictatorship on Wednesday with ex-general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono tipped to win a second term.O (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Diasporans Fear Being Forced to Return Home
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Kholwani NyathiTHE hostile reception that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai received from Zimbabwean exiles in the United Kingdom demonstrated that people in the Diaspora fear that they will be forc (By Jan)...South Africa: Net Closes On Former Bank Bosses
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: By Sibusiso Ngalwa And Eleanor MombergSenior former Land Bank executives and a former Gauteng politician will be arrested this month on charges of corruption, MPs have been told.The revelation comes t (By Jan)...World: Chinese leader leaves G8 summit
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: L'Aquila - The heads of the world's industrialised powers gathered for their annual summit on Wednesday with talks overshadowed by turmoil in China which prompted President Hu Jintao to hurry back to (By Jan)...Africa: Land disputes undermine Liberia's peace
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: Monrovia - Long-standing land disputes have fueled ethnic tension in northern Liberia, which some fear could flare into armed conflict and threaten the country's fragile peace following two civil wars (By Jan)...Southern Africa: SA to Shelter Illegal Zimbabweans
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: Harare - Johannesburg city authorities will provide accommodation to more than 1 000 Zimbabweans illegally settled in South Africa as efforts to regularise their residence gather momentum.This follows (By Jan)...South Africa: Cosatu to boycott farmers
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: Cosatu will call a boycott on all farmers who exploit farm workers, secretary-general Zwelinzima Vavi said on Tuesday."We will boycott products produced in farms where workers are assaulted, harrassed (By Jan)...South Africa: Cape's roads of death
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Michelle PietersenA staggering 12 348 people have died in car crashes on the Western Cape's roads from 2001 to 2008. Car crashes have, on average, claimed four lives a day - or 1 544 a year - over (By Jan)...Africa: GM Sorghum Test Approved
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Busani BafanaJohannesburg - As Africa grapples with the question of food insecurity, biotechnology buffs seem to have an answer: genetically modified crops that could feed a continent vulnerable to (By Jan)...Africa: Brother Barack Admonishes - and Encourages - Africa
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: By John AllenSpeaking to Africans with the intimacy of a brother, and citing the heritage he shared with them, President Barack Obama of the United States delivered an uncompromising message to the co (By Jan)...Nigeria: President Barack Obama in Ghana - Matters Arising
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: By Fr Matthew Hassan KukahLagos - Since the news of President Barack Obama's planned trip to Ghana en route from Russia became public, some Nigerians have been acting like a jilted wife on the matrimo (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Unity Govt Holds Crucial Investor Conference
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - Zimbabwe will on Thursday open an international investors conference where 100 world renowned international financiers have been invited by the inclusive government as it s (By Jan)...South Africa: Alleged cop killer shot dead
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: A "triggerman" who allegedly gunned down a student constable in Mariannhill was shot dead in Mpophomeni outside Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Wednesday.The 24-year-old constable was s (By Jan)...South Africa: Cope Chasing Mlambo-Ngcuka to ease tensions
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: By SIBUSISO NGALWA and CARIEN DU PLESSISFormer deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka could be selected Cope's second deputy president to replace Lynda Odendaal, as the troubled party wants a "counse (By Jan)...Kenya: Why Annan Acted on Post-Polls Violence
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: Nairobi - Chief mediator Kofi Annan handed over the Waki list and haul of evidence to stop further delays in bringing suspects to justice, he revealed on Friday.Speaking a day after his unexpected mov (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: First Things First
Friday 10-Jul-2009: Harare - DEPUTY Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara is one of the most energetic and emphatic members of the inclusive government. He is being accorded acres of space in the State media to rally the natio (By Jan)...World: Bomb blasts rock Mosul, Baghdad
Friday 10-Jul-2009: By Saad Abdul-KadirBaghdad - A suicide bomber on Thursday killed at least 34 people and injured 70 near a judge's house in northern Iraq, and two roadside bombs in Baghdad killed seven people, authori (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Ruwa Murder - Boy Accuses Father of Witchcraft
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: Harare - The 17-year-old Ruwa boy charged with killing his parents in cold blood last year has, in turn, accused his father of using him as a "goblin" to sustain his "mysterious" business empire.The t (By Jan)...South Africa: Leftist Cosatu Trade Unions creating climate of racial tension say White farmers
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: [Absolutely. These guys are always trying to create and exploit racial tensions to use against White Farmers. They're the embodiment of evil, wanting to find any excuse to foment their communist agend (By Jan)...Zimbabwe farmers leader murdered in axe attack
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: The couple had been attacked three times in the last six months By Peta Thornycroft in HarareBob Vaughan-Evans, a director of Zimbabwe's Commercial Farmers' Union, has been axed to death at hi (By Jan)...Liberia: TRC's Economic Criminals
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: Contest over the economy was one of the prime reasons for the prolongation of the war and its attending horrors as the plunder of meagre resources intensified. The TRC, in its report based on its mand (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Hundreds of Refugees Arrested in Johannesburg
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Alex BellHuman rights groups in South Africa have slammed this weekend's arrest of more than 300 people, mainly Zimbabwean exiles, taking shelter at Johannesburg's Central Methodist Church.Police s (By Jan)...S.Africa: Police beat up White Woman - White Man murdered by Police
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: [I heard the following from a regular supporter. He sent me an email about this. Jan] He said:- lady friend of mine was beaten up IN the Magrate police station and hospitalized for 3 days as a re (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (11-07-2009)
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: Howzit The internet has a report that Akim Ndlovu would be buried as a hero today. I ask myself, who is Akim Ndlovu?According to the report in The Herald, he was a ZIPRA commander, and I have no re (By The BeardedMan)...Zimbabwe: Army Refuses to Evacuate Diamond Fields
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: By Tichaona SibandaThe army and the police will not withdraw from the Chiadzwa diamond fields, but will remain there to maintain 'law and order', a state controlled newspaper said on Friday.The weekly (By Jan)...Africa: Sudan's truckers undaunted by bandits
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: Nyala, Sudan - They risk being robbed or kidnapped, but Sudan's truckers still deliver food aid to thousands displaced by conflict in Darfur, where banditry is often overshadowed by the fighting betwe (By Jan)...South Africa: SA faces a dilemma
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: The South African government faces a dilemma over the African Union summit's decision on Friday not to help the International Criminal Court (ICC) to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war c (By Jan)...Nigeria: Mend Wrecks Chevron's Offshore Operations
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: Militants on Monday claimed to have blown up Chevron's manifold in Okan, which accounts for 80 per cent of its offshore operations in the Deep South.The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delt (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Govt Shocks the Markets With Move On Mines
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Kgomotso MatheJohannesburg - ZIMBABWEAN Finance Minister Tendai Biti shocked the markets on Friday when he announced that Zimbabwe would re- evaluate all mining contracts and introduce a "use it or (By Jan)...Africa: DR Congo hospital near the front lines
Monday 06-Jul-2009: Rutshuru, DR Congo - With her bright yellow nightdress, it is impossible to miss Dafrose, 50, lying on a bed at the far end of a ward in the Rutshuru hospital in the east of the Democratic Republic of (By Jan)...World: Iranian clerics lash out at China over unrest
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: Tehran - Iranian clerics condemned China on Sunday for "horribly" suppressing Muslim Uighurs in deadly unrest between the Uighurs and Han Chinese that has killed more than 180 people."It is true that (By Jan)...Zim: Mugabe's party forces delay in major constitutional meeting
Friday 10-Jul-2009: "I don't understand the strategic importance of a delay. We tried to make sense of it" Harare - The first major meeting of all key participants in Zimbabwe's nascent process to draft a new con (By Jan)...South Africa: Hawks swoop to avert robbery
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: By Alex EliseevAmid great confusion, the police have announced that the Hawks - the country's new crime-busting unit - have made their first breakthrough.A police spokesman in KwaZulu-Natal boasted ye (By Jan)...Africa: World Food Body Urging G8 Leaders to Meet Hunger Needs
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: By Sholain Govender-BatemanPretoria - The World Food Programme (WFP) is urging G8 leaders to turn words into action and meet urgent hunger needs in Africa and other developing nations as they gather i (By Jan)...Liberia: Trurh Body Under Fire For Recommending Prosecutions
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: Monrovia - Barely few days after the Jerome Verdier-led Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released its final report, a local peace promotion organization, Coalition for Peace and Tranquility i (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Two Illegal Panners Crushed to Death
Monday 06-Jul-2009: Harare - Two illegal gold panners died on the spot early Tuesday morning after they were crushed by a rock while attempting to steal gold at Patchway Mine in Kadoma.Prince Moyo and Nicholas Zengeya di (By Jan)...South Africa: Rape ruling causes outrage
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Baldwin Ndaba, Kutlwano Olifant, Matedi Mothibe and Sibusiso SgwaneA convicted rapist was given a four-year jail sentence because he was a "well-educated man" and the complainant a "grown-up woman" (By Jan)...Nigeria: Using Mobile Technology in Conflict Situation Takes Centre Stage At GMF
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Emeka AginamBonn - With the global paradigm shift from traditional to new media, how best to use mobile phone as a tool in conflict situation and political hot spots was focus of discussion at the (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Supports Mugabe's Govt Role
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Kholwani NyathiPRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says he differs with President Robert Mugabe on tactics and strategy but will defend the veteran leader's place in the transitional government to sav (By Jan)...Africa: Obama savours Ghana moment
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: By Mark S SmithWashington - For a new president, there inevitably comes that moment: the first time he hears a foreign crowd hoarsely chanting his name, or sees thousands of well-wishers surging forwa (By Jan)...Africa: Past comes back to haunt Liberia's leader
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: By Claire SoaresAfrica's first female president was propelled to power on a tide of democratic passion by voters eager to turn the page on the years of civil carnage. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was hailed (By Jan)...Nigeria: MEND Bombs Another Shell Facility, Disowns EK Clark
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Emma Amaize and George OnahTHE Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) says it has destroyed an oil well head at Cawthorn Channel 1, which supplies crude to Bonny loading terminal i (By Jan)...Zim: Mugabe lauds China for unconditional credit
Monday 06-Jul-2009: "All that nonsense that it's the MDC and so on is just politicking" Harare - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has applauded China for unconditionally extending a 950 million US dollars credit (By Jan)...Zim: Call to withdraw troops from conflict diamond field
Monday 06-Jul-2009: Govt says there is an international campaign of "falsehoods" Harare - The Kimberley Process (KP), the international watchdog body fighting trade in "conflict diamonds", has urged the governmen (By Jan)...South Africa: Global Markets, Oil Tank on Faltering Global Recovery
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Edward West and Thabang MokopaneleJohannesburg - EVIDENCE that the global economic recovery may be faltering is likely to weigh on the oil price this week and strengthen the dollar against the euro (By Jan)...Sudan: Can Local Investors Beat Foreign Investment?
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Blake Evans-PritchardKhartoum - Sudan is hoping to use foreign cash to reinvigorate its under-performing agricultural sector, but there is growing disagreement over the extent to which outsiders, r (By Jan)...West Africa: Nigerian Militants to Target Trans-Sahara Pipeline?
Monday 06-Jul-2009: Lagos - There were fears at the weekend that the multi-billion dollar Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline project being midwifed by Nigeria, Algeria and Niger is now a target for sabotage by the Movement for t (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: The Kivus Slide Into 'A General Chaos'
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: By Josh KronNairobi - After the dust settles from the public relations-triumph that was the Rwanda and Congo joint-operations in eastern Congo, the killing there, specifically in South Kivu, has grown (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe calls Obama's Black American official an Idiot & female official a prostitute
Friday 10-Jul-2009: It’s the Johnnie Carson Show, featuring Bob Mugabe. Whenever things get a bit dull and dreary in sub-Saharan Africa don’t despair because everyone’s favourite Uncle Bob is just five minutes away fr (By Gairk)...Nigeria: Of Kidnappings And King Pins
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: By Kunle AkogunLagos - Not many people were surprised by last week's revelation that two prominent traditional rulers in Abia State were deeply involved and personally participated in the now profitab (By Jan)...World: China blames separatists for Xinjiang riot
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Chris BuckleyUrumqi - At least 140 people have been killed in rioting in China's north-western Xinjiang region, with the government blaming exiled separatists for the traditionally Muslim area's wo (By Jan)...Africa: AU Representatives Committee Session Continues
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Bathandwa MbolaSyrte - The 18th ordinary session of the African Union's Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC), which opened on Wednesday in Syrte, central Libya, continues today.The meeting hel (By Jan)...Neo-Colonialism: Zimbabwe: Mugabe calls Obama's Black American official an Idiot & female official: a prostitute
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: [Any insult one receives from Mugabe should be worn as a badge of honour and as an indication that YOU ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING! That Mugabe is calling American officials names is good. EXCELLENT. Wh (By Jan)...West Africa: UN Security Anxious Over Drugs, Niger, Mauritania
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: The Security Council today voiced its concern over the fragile democratic and economic progress achieved in West Africa, which continues to face grave challenges ranging from coups d'état to or (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Crisis in East Worsens
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: Kinshasa - Humanitarian and security conditions in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Kivu provinces worsened in June, when almost 100,000 people were displaced, many of whom had fled violence pre (By Jan)...Gender Violence Linked to Apartheid
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE prevalence of domestic and gender-based violence in Namibia's society could have to do with the family patterns that evolved during colonial apartheid times, when men were sent (By Jan)...South Africa: Single bullet kills toddler
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: By Jacques BreytenbachThe killing of 16-month-old Tebogo Serumula by house robbers while being breastfed by his mother in their home has deeply shocked the entire Eersterus community. Killed by a sing (By Jan)...World: Riots sweep across Yemen
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: San'a, Yemen - Two people were killed and nine others injured when police clashed with protesters in southern Yemeni cities detaining dozens, opposition members and local doctors said on Tuesday.Thou (By Jan)...South Africa: Alleged house robber shot dead
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: A house robber was shot dead in Hartbeespoort when he and his accomplice entered a couple's residence, North West police said on Tuesday.Superintendent Lesego Metsi said the 36-year-old man was with h (By Jan)...Cocaine Mules Sent to Jail for Eight Years
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Werner MengesFOUR Angolan nationals who in mid-April were caught carrying cocaine into Namibia inside their digestive systems were yesterday sentenced to eight years' imprisonment each."Your aim wa (By Jan)...Africa: Guinea warns of coup plot
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: By Alhassan SillahConakry, Guinea - Guinea's military leaders have uncovered a plot to overthrow the government in the poor, unstable West African nation, state radio reported.It reported that militar (By Jan)...Somalia: Fighters May Be Committing War Crimes, Says UN Official
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: It is clear that grave violations of international human rights and humanitarian law - possibly amounting to war crimes - are being committed in strife-torn Somalia, a top United Nations official said (By Jan)...Kenya: 'Kenyans Support New Rebel Group'
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: Kampala - SOME Kenyans and Kenya-based organisations have been assisting the new rebel group, known as the Uganda People's Front (UPF), security minister Amama Mbabazi has said.Briefing Parliament yes (By Jan)...Africa: 'Critical moment for Somalia'
Friday 10-Jul-2009: By Patrick WorsnipUnited Nations - The UN Security Council warned Eritrea on Thursday it would consider action against anyone undermining peace in Somalia, in a threat of possible sanctions on Asmara (By Jan)...South Africa: Suspects shot, stabbed by vigilantes
Friday 10-Jul-2009: A robber may not walk again after both his legs were broken when a vigilante mob attacked him in Mthatha, Eastern Cape police said on Thursday.Superintendent Mzukisi Fatyela said police were taking a (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Govt Ordered to Pull Out Soldiers From Mining Fields
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: By Kitsepile NyathiZimbabwe has been given an ultimatum to demilitarise recently discovered diamond fields in the eastern parts of the country following an investigation under the Kimberly Process (KP (By Jan)...Africa: Plan to fight West Africa crime
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: By Anupreeta DasUnited Nations - Three UN bodies and Interpol have teamed up to fight smuggling and organised crime in West Africa where it is corrupting governments, aiding insurgents and polluting t (By Jan)...World: G8 gathers in quake zone
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: L'Aquila, Italy - An Italian city devastated by an earthquake less than 100 days ago plays host to the world's major leaders on Wednesday to review efforts to shore up the foundations of the global ec (By Jan)...World: Obama to meet powerful Putin for first time
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Jeff MasonMoscow - US President Barack Obama meets Russia's most powerful politician, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, for the first time on Tuesday as part of a trip designed to improve relations be (By Jan)...Nigeria: Alleged N250 Million Anambra Money - Police Launches Fresh Investigation
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Ikenna AnyanwuLagos - Contrary to speculations that the case of recent recovery of a whooping sum of N250 million in cash in a private office of Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State in Apapa, Lagos (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Cops ignore Kebble murder accused'
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Sibusiso Ngalwa and Karyn MaughanPolice have not yet acted on 52 extraditions, including Brett Kebble murder accused John Stratton. Yet they seem to have made moves to extradite a nurse accused of (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Boycott - a Betrayal of Public Confidence
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Joseph ChitezaHarare - Honourable Government Ministers from MDC-T who boycotted last Monday's Cabinet meeting must be told to uphold reasonable standards of behaviour or risk bringing themselves an (By Jan)...Uganda: Govt Accuses New Group of Rebellion
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Barbara AmongKampala - THE Army yesterday released the names of people accused of establishing a rebel group, the Uganda Patriotic Front (UPF). The group is led by renowned medical doctor, Henry Ob (By Jan)...Workers' World Party Remembers Michael Jackson
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: [It seems the Workers' World Party enjoys supporting non-whites so long as they are able to use their race to ensure they are not convicted of any crimes. The same Marxist shills happily embrace Mumi (By Lone Wolf)...Africa: Obama Explains Food Security Initiative
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: During a news conference after the G8 Summit ended in L'Aquila, Italy, on July 10, President Barack Obama explained and answered questions on the summit's announcement on food security. Excerpts of th (By Jan)...Equatorial Guinea: Account for Oil Wealth
Friday 10-Jul-2009: Madrid - The government of Equatorial Guinea has set new low standards of political and economic malfeasance in handling its billions of dollars in oil revenue instead of improving the lives of its ci (By Jan)...Zim: We cannot sideline Gono
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: "There is no family without quarrels" Herald ReporterDeputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara yesterday said he was prepared to work with Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono and ple (By Jan)...World: 'No green light for Israel to attack Iran'
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: Washington - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the United States had "absolutely not" given Israel a green light to attack Iran over its nuclear program, but he said Washington cannot "dictate to (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: UN Denounces Pact of DRC, Rwandan Rebels
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: Goma - The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), MONUC, has denounced a coalition formed by Congolese militia, the Mayi-Mayi, and Rwandan Hutu rebels of the Forces démocratiques (By Jan)...World: Xinjiang protests resume
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Chris BuckleyUrumqi, China - Hundreds of Uighur protesters clashed with Chinese anti-riot police in the capital of China's Muslim region of Xinjiang on Tuesday, two days after ethnic unrest left 15 (By Jan)...Country Will Not Disconnect Zimbabwe's Power Yet
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's Minister of Energy, Salvador Namburete, has said that, for the moment, Mozambique will not cut off the supply of electricity to Zimbabwe - despite a Zimbabwean debt of tens of mi (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Fuel Prices Shoot Up, Rising International Costs Cited
Monday 06-Jul-2009: Harare - FUEL prices have gone up in and around Harare as suppliers respond to firming prices of the commodity on the international market.Prices of diesel on the global market went up by an average U (By Jan)...Africa: Controversy Over Government Loan to Fund Privatisation
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: By Vusumuzi SifileGaborone - Controversy has erupted over a decision by Botswana's government to accept a loan from the African Development Bank, a departure from over two decades of running Africa's (By Jan)...Is the Best of African Art Inaccessible to Africans?
Friday 10-Jul-2009: By Kwame OpokuA major exhibition on Ife art, Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria, opened on June 16, 2009 at the FundaciÃ'n Marcelino Botin, Santander, Spain and will move fr (By Jan)...Ghana: Illegal Miners Clash With Military, Police
Friday 10-Jul-2009: By Issah AlhassanKumasi - THE TOWNSHIP of Konongo in the Asante Akyem North District of the Ashanti Region was reportedly thrown into a state of anarchy yesterday morning, when some angry galamsey ope (By Jan)...South Africa: ANC hails endorsement of SABC board
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: The African National Congress welcomed the endorsement of the five-member SABC interim board by the National Assembly on Tuesday."With legal, business, media and political background, the interim boar (By Jan)...South Africa: Govt Launches New Anti-Crime Force
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Proffesor NdawondeJohannesburg - The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), to be known as the Hawks, will leave no stone unturned in efforts to combat crime and bring perpetrators to (By Jan)...Africa: White House Explains New Approach to Food Security
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: L'Aquila, Italy - The vast majority of the world’s poorest people depend on agriculture for food and household incomes. When world food prices spiked last year, the G8 acted, including by advanc (By Jan)...Mozambique Trade and Investment Conference July 15-16, 2009 in Maputo
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: The U.S. Embassy has the pleasure to inform you that it is organizing a Trade and Investment Conference at the national Joaquim Chissano Conference Center on July 15 – 16, in collaboration wit (By Jan)...Africa: Somali troops clash with insurgents
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: By Abdi GuledMogadishu - Clashes between Islamist insurgents and Somali troops killed at least 20 people on Saturday including a senior police officer and a foreign militant in the heaviest fighting f (By Jan)...Jail Stay for Graft Suspects
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: By Werner MengesWindhoek - WINDHOEK Central Prison is set to be the home of former Public Service Commissioner Teckla Lameck and Chinese national Yang Fan, who were arrested this week in connection wi (By Jan)...World: One dead in China quake
Friday 10-Jul-2009: Beijing - An earthquake in a sparsely populated region of southwest China killed one person, injured hundreds and flattened more than 10,000 houses, an official and state media said on Friday.A govern (By Jan)...Liberia: TRC Furore Overshadows Peace Building Proposals
Friday 10-Jul-2009: Monrovia - As an angry debate rages over the 200-plus people recommended for prosecution by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), an independent body set up under the 2003 peace agreement, ci (By Jan)...South Africa: Body parts 'found in suspect's possession'
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: North West police have obtained an exhumation order to search for the body of a missing man believed to be buried in a shallow grave at the Tweelagte village near Sun City,Constable Botshelo Mothutsan (By Jan)...South Africa: Vavi denies ANC, Cosatu rift allegations
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: There is no truth to recent claims of tensions between the ANC and its trade-union allies, says general secretary of the Congress South African Trade Unions, Zwelinzima Vavi.He said rumours of tension (By Jan)...Kenya: Police Most Corrupt in Region - Report
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Francis AyiekoNairobi - Widespread corruption in key public institutions in East Africa could soon cripple trade and development in the region, a new report has warned.The bad news was delivered la (By Jan)...South Africa: Limpopo residents attack robbery suspects
Monday 06-Jul-2009: Thohoyandou residents were cautioned against participating in acts of vigilantism on Monday after a 23-year-old suspected robber was assaulted, Limpopo police said.Captain Mashudu Malelo said the susp (By Jan)...Africa: Fighting in Somali kills 12
Monday 06-Jul-2009: Mogadishu, Somalia - Heavy shelling between Somali rebels and government forces near the presidential palace killed at least 12 people on Sunday, witnesses said, and the prime minister looked for help (By Jan)...Donors sidestep Zim's tainted central bank
Monday 06-Jul-2009: "Gono still has access to export money, and other undetected revenue streams" Peta ThornycroftDonors and potential investors are trying to avoid channelling their money through the Reserve Ban (By Jan)...South Africa: Third man arrested in Witbank casino robbery
Monday 06-Jul-2009: A third man was arrested on Saturday following the robbery of a Witbank casino last month, Mpumalanga police said.This followed the granting of bail on Friday, of R10 000 each, to Bongani Nsimbi Dladl (By Jan)...South Africa: Niehaus seeking redemption
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: NEWSPAPER posters read "Carl on his Knee-Haus" and "Carl begs for a job" in the week that he told the National Press Club that he wished to free himself from the shadows. He said they obscured the ide (By Jan)...South Africa: A 'sunshine era' for Zuma allies: Mo Shaik
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: The change of government has opened doors for the once "discredited" allies of President Jacob Zuma, with Mo Shaik admitting to enjoying the "sunshine era".But Shaik warned the current government not (By Jan)...South Africa: Masiphumele battles end in court
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: By Esther LewisTwenty-four people were due to appear in the Muizenberg Magistrate's Court on Friday morning after Thursday night's running battles between police, Neighbourhood Watch members and angry (By Jan)...South Africa: ANC determined to hinder DA, says Zille
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: The African National Congress is determined to prevent the Democratic Alliance from introducing its policies in the Western Cape, DA leader Helen Zille said on Friday.Writing in her weekly newsletter, (By Jan)...West Africa: UN Launches Initiative to Rid Region of Organized Crime And Drug Trafficking
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: To combat organized crime and drug trafficking wreaking havoc in West Africa, the United Nations today launched a new initiative to tackle the scourge in the region, where $1 billion worth of cocaine (By Jan)...Ghana: Newmont Mining Corporation Depleting Forest Reserves?
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: By Helena SelbyThe plight of the people According to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement of the Newmont Akyem project, the proposed open pit would be exactly 900 metres wide, 2,560 metres long an (By Jan)...South Africa: Construction workers down tools at 2010 sites
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: By Phumza Macanda and Alison RaymondSouth African construction workers began an indefinite strike on Wednesday, halting work at stadiums for the 2010 World Cup in the biggest industrial action since n (By Jan)...South Africa: One dead in Sharpville shoot-out
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: An alleged copper thief was killed and another wounded in shoot-out with police in Sharpeville near Vereeniging on Tuesday, Gauteng police said.Inspector Aubrey Moopeloa said two police vehicles on pa (By Jan)...Uganda: Small Scale Farmers in Need of Help
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Michael J. SsaliTwo international conferences took place in South Africa last month and at both conferences the small farmer was the main subject of debate. Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan a (By Jan)...Nigeria: Corruption Index - Deep Blue Energy Tom Pilot Nigeria Out
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Hector IgbikiowuboLagos - ANITA Omoile just retired as Forster Wheeler's Vice President for Sub Saharan Africa and without leaving anything to chance, she has launched herself into another enterpri (By Jan)...South Africa: Ex-cop tells about two-hour robbery ordeal
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Mogomotsi MagomeFor thirty-six years retired Soshanguve police captain Mmabumang Matlala fought crime; now he and his family are another house robbery statistic."I really thought that we were going (By Jan)...South Africa: Recession slowly abating, stats show
Monday 06-Jul-2009: Consumers could be seeing the first signs of a recovery, but tough times still lie ahead, warned Goolam Ballim, the Standard Bank chief economist. Ballim said although consumers remained stressed, the (By Jan)...Africa: Zim to withdraw army from diamond fields
Monday 06-Jul-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe's government will withdraw soldiers from poorly secured diamond fields in the eastern part of the country following criticism over rights abuses, an official told the state-owned Sun (By Jan)...South Africa: Readers give Obama food for thought
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: By Angelique SerraoShowing our characteristic lack of shyness, South Africans haven't held back on asking US President Barack Obama everything that is on their minds.The Star, along with its sister ti (By Jan)...Africa: 'Civilians abused at Zim mines'
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe's military is involved in illegal mining in diamond mine fields in the country's east where civilians are victims of "horrific" violence, a global diamond mining watchdog said on Wed (By Jan)...South Africa: Two held for Joburg armed robbery
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: Two men were arrested in the Johannesburg inner city for armed robbery, police said on Wednesday. Inspector Xoli Mbele said the two, aged 18 and 24, were arrested on Tuesday around 11pm for an armed r (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (08-07-2009)
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: Howzit B and I saw the surgeon yesterday afternoon - after they had removed the cast and after an x-ray. Initially I was a little concerned as it just didn't look right, but I told that the bone (By The BeardedMan)...South Africa: Scorpions Make Way for the Hawks
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: By Ernest MabuzaJohannesburg - THE Scorpions are officially no more, and in their place the Hawks yesterday officially took over to combat serious organised crime, serious commercial crime and corrupt (By Jan)...Africa: Botswana Slams Gaddafi Over AU Summit
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: By Wene OwinoGaborone - Botswana has declared the just-ended African Union Summit a failure and slammed Libyan President, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for lack of respect for established procedures and use (By Jan)...South Africa: Ruling Party Cool On Allies' Demand to Seize Mines
Wednesday 08-Jul-2009: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - THE African National Congress (ANC) yesterday sidestepped strident calls from within its alliance for the nationalisation of mines.Instead, it listed a series of state in (By Jan)...South Africa: Student cop killed in shoot-out
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Mercury reporterA student constable was shot and killed and six men were arrested during a shoot-out in Etshelimnyama, near Mariannhill, at the weekend.Constable Nkululeko Chagwe, 24, and other mem (By Jan)...Nigeria: 39 Years After, FG Destroys Civil War Bombs in Enugu
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: By Emmanuel NzomiwuEnugu - It sounded like an earthquake at the abandoned Onyeama Coal mines, near Enugu on Friday, where undetonated explosives recovered from areas affected by the Nigerian-Biafran C (By Jan)...South Africa: Serial rapist is a danger to society - lawyer
Tuesday 07-Jul-2009: Convicted serial rapist Tsediso Letsoenya was a dangerous criminal and a danger to society, it was contended in the Cape High Court on Monday.Prosecutor Christenus van der Vijver told that court he ha (By Jan)...World: 'A planned and organised violent crime'
Monday 06-Jul-2009: Beijing - China's state television broadcast dramatic images on Monday of what it said were deadly riots in the capital of the restive Xinjiang region, showing people being attacked and cars being sma (By Jan)...South Africa: Urbanisation 'fuels crime in W Cape'
Monday 06-Jul-2009: By Leila SamodienRapid urbanisation is one of the main contributors towards the Western Cape's high levels of crime with the province's murder, aggravated robbery and residential burglary rates increa (By Jan)...Liberia: 'We're Disappointed'
Sunday 12-Jul-2009: "We are saddened and disappointed by the final report of the Liberia Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This report falls short of the vision, mandate, spirit and intent of the Comprehensive Peace A (By Jan)...South Africa: Gang 'ringleader' found guilty
Saturday 11-Jul-2009: The "ringleader" of a gang that attacked guests at a farewell party for the then Tanzanian ambassador to South Africa was convicted on Thursday on five charges of robbery with aggravating circumstance (By Jan)...Keeping hope alive in Zimbabwe no easy task despite new unity government
Friday 10-Jul-2009: Raw sewage still bubbles up from the broken drainage system. Across the road mounds of decaying refuse remain piled as high as your knees Bill Corcoran revisits a township outside Harare to se (By Jan)...South Africa: Threats over illegal power connections
Friday 10-Jul-2009: By Irene KuppanPolice are protecting eThekwini Municipality's staff and contractors while they removed illegal electricity connections after they received threats from those responsible for them.The c (By Jan)...Liberia: Ex-Warlords Disappointed In Truth Commission Report
Thursday 09-Jul-2009: "We are saddened and disappointed by the final report of the Liberia Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This report falls short of the vision, mandate, spirit and intent of the Comprehensive Peace A (By Jan)...
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