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Africa: Somalia's prime minister reshuffles cabinet
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Abdiaziz Hassan Nairobi - Somalia's Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke has reshuffled and expanded his cabinet in an attempt to end in-fighting as the government faces a stubborn insurgency, (By Jan)...Rwanda, Burundi Must Wait for New Internet Link
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Kezio-Musoke DavidNairobi - Rwanda and Burundi will have to wait another three months to be connected to the recently launched Seacom fibre-optic undersea cable.In the meantime, the country will be (By Jan)...Africa: Black Man's Burden - How Continent Subsidises the West
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Patrick GatharaSpeaking in advance of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's arrival for the 8th Agoa Forum in Nairobi, Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga was cheered when he declared that we in (By Jan)...Sudan: UNAMID Provides Training for North Darfur Prison Officials
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: UNAMID Human Rights and Rule of Law organized a four-day training course on 10 August, for prison officials working in North Darfur state on 'human rights standards and prison management'.The course w (By Jan)...Seven Members of Renamo Lose Seats in Beira Municipal Assembly
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Maputo - A group of seven members from the Mozambique's main opposition party Renamo, and members of the Beira Municipal Assembly, in the central province of Sofala, lost their seats on Thursday durin (By Jan)...Nigeria: Edochie's Kidnap Worsens Nigeria's Image - Akunyili
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Innocent Oweh Chukwujekwu Ilozue and Gbenga BadaAbuja/Onitsha/Lagos - Information and Communications Minister, Dora Akunyili, on Monday described the kidnap of Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie, as an (By Jan)...South Africa: Mdluli lied about Niehaus case - DA
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: The Democratic Alliance has complained to the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD), saying police had failed to investigate fraud charges against former ANC spokesperson Carl Niehaus and former Ga (By Jan)...Sudan: UNAMID Police establish Gender Crime Special Investigations Unit
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: UNAMID has established a gender crime special investigations unit within the police component that will be responsible for monitoring and reporting on investigations of crimes committed against women (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Spot fine' for red light ends in shooting
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Two North West police officers face charges of attempted murder, theft and hijacking after allegedly trying to force a Brits man to pay a spot fine.Christiaan Wynand Rudolf Nel was pulled over by two (By Jan)...South Africa: Cape website advertiser charged with fraud
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: A man accused of fraudulently advertising SA National Defence Force cars for sale on a website appeared in the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court on Tuesday.Willem Johannes Tobias Carstens, (By Jan)...South Africa: Mfeketo rules out DA arms statements
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: An attempt by the DA to highlight aspects of South Africa's arms trade in the National Assembly on Tuesday was cut short by Deputy Speaker Nomaindia Mfeketo.After hearing two Democratic Alliance membe (By Jan)...Somalia: Rebels Attack UN Compound
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Suspected Islamist insurgents stormed a U.N. aid compound in southern Somalia overnight, witnesses said today, but U.N. guards fought back and killed three of the attackers in a gun battle.One U.N. of (By Jan)...South Africa: OSD delay blamed for prison chaos
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: The delay in the implementation of the Occupational specific dispensation (OSD) was to blame for chaotic circumstances in which prisoners found themselves in on Tuesday morning, the Public Servants As (By Jan)...South Africa: Suspected serial killer has alibi, court told
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Nondumiso MbuyaziSuspected Umzinto serial killer Thozamile Taki was attending his sister's funeral in Port St Johns the day he was alleged to have killed one of the 13 victims in KwaZulu-Natal, the (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma 'misled' on land reform, says FF+
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: President Jacob Zuma is being "misled" by the incompetence of government officials into believing the willing-buyer/willing-seller principle is stalling land reform, the Freedom Front Plus said on Tue (By Jan)...YouTube Video: Al-Qaeda In Gaza Or Pallywood To Make Hamas Look Good?
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: [Now here's something suspicious that popped up a week or two ago of a little known al-Qaeda group known as the Supporters of God surfacing in Gaza and stating Hamas is "too moderate". But here's wha (By Lone Wolf)...Say Hello To Oslo 2.0?
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: [Doesn't it seem like a repeat of the errors of the first Oslo Accords? It seems here that Israeli President Shimon Peres is hoping that Russia will aid it in promoting Oslo 2.0. Precise problem...t (By Lone Wolf)...Egypt: Union Eyes the Silver Bullet
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Cam McgrathCairo - Property tax collectors from across Egypt gathered last week in Cairo to protest fresh attempts by the official state trade union to undermine their independent syndicate."By sou (By Jan)...Liberia: Taylor Did Not Have Control Over Those Who Travelled To Sierra Leone
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Alpha SesayAs Liberian President, Charles Taylor did not have any control over Liberian fighters who travelled to Sierra leone to join rebel forces there, and further, he expelled a British Nationa (By Jan)...Veteran Status Not Enough for Ex-Detainees
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: THE Veterans Affairs ministry's announcement last week, that former detainees in Swapo's Lubango dungeons will qualify as war veterans, should not be seen as the end of the dungeon debate, a civil soc (By Jan)...Ghana: Monitor Behaviour of Land Commission Staff
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By David Alan PainstilThe Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Mr. Henry Ford Kamel, has called on the 24-member Central Regional Lands Commission, to monitor the activities of the Lands C (By Jan)...Africa: Ill-prepared Africa braces as swine flu hits
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Poverty, disease and overburdened health systems make Africa an easy target for swine flu, which health experts say will be difficult to track as it spreads across the continent.Africa is the last con (By Jan)...World: Iran 'ready for unconditional talks'
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Tehran - A top Iranian nuclear official said Tehran was ready to hold talks with the West on its atomic drive "without preconditions," state television reported on Tuesday, amid US threats of more san (By Jan)...Nigeria: 'Yar'Adua Can't Fight Corruption'
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Davidson Iriekpen, Gboyega Akinsanmi and Akinwale AkintundeLagos - The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) yesterday expressed lack of confidence in the government's ability to pull the country back fro (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Reintroduce Zim Dollar - Gono
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Harare - Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono has proposed the reintroduction of the Zimbabwe dollar anchored on gold valued by an independent body comprising all stakeholders.He said the (By Jan)...Africa: Poor Hillary, Just Good Enough for Africa
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Gitau WarigiNairobi - A discreet subtext of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's seven-nation tour of Africa was the unspoken fact that she is struggling to assert her primacy in conducting Amer (By Jan)...South Africa: Harmony's First Dividend in Five Years
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Charlotte MathewsJohannesburg - HARMONY Gold Mining yesterday declared its first dividend distribution in five years, at 50c a share, after it strengthened its balance sheet and predicted capital s (By Jan)...Uganda: Angry Tenants Lynch Landlord
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Fred MuzaaleA landlord who tried to sell his land despite protests from his tenants was lynched and his body set ablaze on Sunday. The incident happened in Kayonza Sub-county, Kayunga District bare (By Jan)...South Africa: Pregnant woman bludgeoned in daylight
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Sherlissa PetersBoom Street in Pietermaritzburg, one of the busiest business areas in the CBD, ground to a halt for more than an hour on Monday afternoon after the gruesome death of a young woman.P (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Be Veary careful of political opportunists'
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Lavern de Vries and Jade WittenPeople Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) has flooded Mitchells Plain with flyers questioning the ability of the area's police and its station commissioner to deal (By Jan)...Nigeria: Diseases - Women Need Economic Empowerment
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Funke OlaodeLagos - Despite prevention and control efforts, malaria, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS remain the biggest health issues in West African sub region with children, women, especially pregnant one (By Jan)...South Africa: Money for Projects At First Uranium
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Charlotte MathewsJohannesburg - GOLD and uranium miner First Uranium had enough funding to complete its developing projects at Mine Waste Solutions (MWS) and the Ezulwini underground mine, CEO Gord (By Jan)...South Africa: Government to Change Current Land Redistribution Model
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Nthambeleni GabaraGiyani - President Jacob Zuma has announced that changes will be made to the "willing-buyer, willing-seller" model of land redistribution in South Africa."We have recognised that (By Jan)...Africa: Zuma to focus on trade in Angola
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Luanda - South African President Jacob Zuma travels to Angola on Wednesday in a bid to strengthen ties between the continent's biggest economy and one of its top oil producers.It will be Zuma's first (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Minister Mhashu Robbed in South Africa
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Lance GumaNational Housing and Social Amenities Minister Fidelis Mhashu was assaulted and robbed at gun-point in South Africa, while on a visit to the home of businessman and friend Mutumwa Mawere. (By Jan)...South Africa: Oil Price Fall a Double-Edged Sword for Engen
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - WHILE the falling crude oil price in the past financial year lowered fuel retailer Engen's input costs, it was a double-edged sword as it sold fuel at lower prices, Eng (By Jan)...South Africa: Four high-rise death suspects walk free
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Charges have been withdrawn against four people accused of killing two foreign nationals by forcing them to jump off a Durban high rise building, the city's magistrate's court heard on Tuesday.The Sta (By Jan)...South Africa: Two shot during heist
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: A security guard and a correctional services officer were shot and wounded during a cash-in-transit heist on the Moloto Road near Pretoria on Tuesday, police said.At 9am two security guards travelling (By Jan)...South Africa: Gardener sought after murder
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: A gardener in Cove Rock farm is being sought in connection with the murder of a farmer, East London police said on Tuesday.Superintendent Mtati Tana said police were looking for the gardener after Vuy (By Jan)...World: Kabul suicide bomb kills five
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Kabul - A suicide car bomb targeting foreign troops exploded on a busy road in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, killing five civilians and wounding 30 others two days before key elections, officials sai (By Jan)...South Africa: State to Bail Out 283 Emerging Black Farmers
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Stephan HofstatterJohannesburg - THE government would bail out 283 emerging farmers on whom the Land Bank was poised to foreclose as part of a joint support package by the finance, agriculture and (By Jan)...South Africa: Bomber's lawyer 'disappointed' with judgment
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Jan Wagener, lawyer for apartheid policeman Wybrand du Toit, expressed disappointment on Tuesday at a Constitutional Court decision against his client.The highest court in the land dismissed a bid by (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Corrupt cops denting SAPS image'
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Mpumalanga police officers arrested for corruption should be fired if found guilty as they dented government's efforts to fight crime, a provincial MEC said on Tuesday."If we are serious about combatt (By Jan)...South Africa: Parents in dock after kids killed
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Mogomotsi MagomeTwo Pretoria parents will remain behind bars after appearing in separate courts on Monday for allegedly killing their own daughters.Elizabeth Thabethe, 49, who is accused of killing (By Jan)...Liberia: Country Still Faces Security Challenges, Says UN
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Liberia continues to make significant progress in consolidating peace after more than a decade of civil war, but the gains remain fragile, especially with regard to security, rule of law and job creat (By Jan)...Kenya: Consolidation to Drive Petroleum Brands
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By George WachiraQuite a number of global brands have vanished from the Kenyan petroleum market in the recent years and many reasons have been cited for their exit.We have seen Esso, Agip, Mobil, BP, (By Jan)...World: Dissident cheated death to win presidency
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Seoul - South Korean democracy campaigner Kim Dae-Jung survived assassination bids, a death sentence, prison and exile under army-backed governments and went on to win the presidency and the Nobel pea (By Jan)...Rwanda: Activists Condemn Tribunal's Planned Move of Archives
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Irene V. NambiKigali - Organisations representing survivors of the 1994 Genocide yesterday contested speculations that the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) could send genocide arch (By Jan)...Nigeria: Banks' Bailout May Hit Trillions
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Our ReportersLagos - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is currently considering the injection of more funds into some of the five undercapitalised banks whose managing directors and executive direc (By Jan)...South Africa: Man shot after battering woman to death
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Sibusiso Mboto"Please help me, he is going to kill me, he has already attacked my friend." This was the plea from Nokuthula Motloung, 24, who had just witnessed a fatal attack on her friend, Nompum (By Jan)...South Africa: Ginwala flays ANC
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Carien Du PlessisFormer National Assembly speaker Frene Ginwala has lashed out at ministers for not giving MPs the recognition they need to do their job, and said it won't improve under President J (By Jan)...South Africa: Stronger Political, Business Ties on Agenda in Angola
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma 's first state visit to Angola on Thursday ushers in a new era of relations -- not only between the two countries -- but also between Zuma and Angola (By Jan)...South Africa: No mercy for Emily's killers
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Botho MolosankweSitting at the back of her mother's car, Emily Williams heard gunshots. Together with her mother, younger sister and schoolmate, the 12-year-old dived down while robbers and securit (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma Launches Plan to Boost Farming
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - THE government had pledged more than R2,6bn in conditional grants to provinces, which would in part be used for agricultural infrastructure, President Jacob Zuma said yes (By Jan)...South Africa: Service delivery protest turns violent
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Michelle JonesPolice will continue to maintain a strong presence in Khayelitsha to counter any violence in service delivery protests, while a 35-year-old off-duty police officer recovers in hospita (By Jan)...South Africa: Businessmen lose fortune in daylight robbery
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Graeme Hosken and Jacques BreytenbachRobbers made off with hundreds of thousands of rands in cash after ambushing two Pretoria businessmen moments before they could deposit their money at a city ba (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma violated constitution - DA
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: As Justice Sandile Ngcobo emerged as the only nominee for the position of chief justice, the DA has charged that President Jacob Zuma "never had any intention" of consulting opposition leaders about t (By Jan)...South Africa: Killer loses bid to be policeman again
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: The Constitutional Court on Tuesday dismissed a bid by former apartheid policeman Wybrand du Toit to get his job back."The appeal must be dismissed," said Chief Justice Pius Langa, handing down a unan (By Jan)...World: Language barrier leads to deadly robbery
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Philadelphia - A West African college student who was learning English was shot and killed during an attempted robbery in which he could not understand a gunman who confronted him in a southwest Phila (By Jan)...South Africa: Drug addict guilty of slaying wife
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Sharika RegchandA Pietermaritzburg father of two was on Monday found guilty of the murder of his wife, who he killed in front of his children at Howick Falls in March 2007.Jaiseelan Govindsamy, 41, (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (18-08-2009)
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Howzit Okay - I'll attempt to do a normal posting this morning. I am back at the hospital this afternoon to see the specialist - hopefully he will take out the holding bolt, I will be left in th (By The BeardedMan)...Zimbabwe heading for a Rwandan-style genocide?
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: [Alex Matthews on the unnerving parallels between the situation in the two countries.] Once upon a time there was an African country that after several years of instability seemed to be moving shak (By Gairk)...Zimbabwe: The White Farmers - an historical perspective
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the land (William Jennings (By Gairk)...Nigeria: If a Bank is Sick, the Signs Are Self-Evident, Says Sanusi
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Lagos - Few hours after the CBN governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi announced the sack of the managing directors/chief executives as well as the executive directors of five banks; he exclusively spoke to t (By Jan)...South Africa: Cape man's prison ordeal
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Karen BreytenbachDaniel Hoffman lodged his appeal 11 days after he was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for theft of goods valued at about R1 000, but it was to take six years for his appeal to (By Jan)...Africa: Zim banks begin issuing cheque books again
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe's gradual recovery from economic collapse was marked on Monday with the return to the country's banking system of one of the rest of the world's most basic business instruments - the (By Jan)...Africa: MDC official released from jail after appeal
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Harare - A High Court judge in Harare on Monday ordered the release from custody of a top official of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change.The MDC official had spent 11 da (By Jan)...World: Russian dam disaster kills 10
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Ilya NaymushinCheryomushki, Russia - Ten people were killed on Monday and up to 72 were missing after a turbine room flooded at Russia's largest hydro-power station, forcing steel and aluminium pla (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Dossier Names Mugabe Party Perpetrators
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Caiphas ChimheteA confidential dossier prepared by the MDC-T's security department has implicated senior Zanu PF officials in cases of murder and political violence during last year's elections ami (By Jan)...Africa: Zuma's big 11 to warm Angola ties
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: President Jacob Zuma goes to patch up relations with Angola this week with nearly half the cabinet and a "huge" delegation of ministers and business leaders.Eleven ministers will accompany Zuma to Lua (By Jan)...South Africa: 'The students chased and stoned him to death'
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: A suspected criminal who held up University of Zululand students died after students stoned him on Sunday night.Student leaders have since called for better protection for their colleagues.University (By Jan)...South Africa: Remaining survivors of Blairgowrie fire die
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Angelique SerraoThe last surviving victims of a deliberate fire in Blairgowrie, Randburg, the second twin and the father, have both died. The mother, Maice Moyo, her twin 14-month-old babies and th (By Jan)...World: Spurned woman confesses after wedding blaze
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Kuwait City - The ex-wife of the groom at a Kuwait wedding where a raging fire killed 43 women and children has confessed to starting the blaze as an act of revenge, local newspapers reported on Monda (By Jan)...Science: Dirty money, indeed!
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Washington - United States paper currency is roughed up and often soiled in circulation, but a study has found that 90 percent of greenbacks contain traces of cocaine, giving new meaning to the term " (By Jan)...Africa: Chiluba cleared by judge
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Lusaka - A magistrate acquitted former Zambian president Frederick Chiluba of corruption charges on Monday after a six-year trial in a ruling that left his supporters jubilant but clean-government cam (By Jan)...Africa: UN compound raided by rebels
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Abdi SheikhMogadishu - Suspected Islamist rebels attacked a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) compound in southern Somalia, witnesses said on Monday, but UN guards fought back and shot dead (By Jan)...Rwanda: Land Tenure Regularization Gets a GBP20 Million Boost
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Rodrigue RwirahiraThe UK Department for International Development (DfID) has granted £20 million for the next phase of the land tenure regularization.Given that Rwanda is one of the most dens (By Jan)...World: Truck bombing leaves 20 dead
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Nazran, Russia - A truck packed with explosives rammed through the gates of a police compound in southern Russia on Monday and exploded in a suicide attack that killed at least 20 people and wounded a (By Jan)...Liberia: Secretary Clinton's Address to Liberian National Legislature
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Monrovia - The full text of remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to a joint session of the Liberian National Legislature on August 13, 2009:SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you (By Jan)...Liberia: On Haddad Exoneration, 'Legislators Acted Wisely'
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By J. Nathaniel DaygborFormer Finance Minister David Farhat has disclosed that the 52nd National Legislature acted wisely by exonerating Lebanese business tycoon George Haddad in the sale of the Bucha (By Jan)...Africa: U.S. Military Edging Out Diplomacy - Report
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Kevin KelleyNairobi - A combination of leadership shortcomings and inadequate funding is undermining US diplomacy in Africa, an internal State Department review has found."Embassy platforms are col (By Jan)...Africa: Sharing Money Important, But Not Enough - UN Rapporteur
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Fortune is pleased to take part in an unusual but very productive collaboration with other media outlets in Africa and Europe. Organized by www.afronline.com, and together with newspapers in Senegal, (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma has faired okay - readers
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: Monday marked President Jacob Zuma first 100 days in office.IOL asked its readers: Is it fair to expose sex pest teachers on the Internet?Of the 1 274 people who participated in the poll, 53 percent (By Jan)...East Africa: U.S. Sanctions Hampering East Africa Tea Exports to Iran
Tuesday 18-Aug-2009: By Bernard SangaNairobi - Tea exporters from East Africa are ruing on the impact of US sanctions on financial institutions dealing with Iran.These come on top of the Islamic state's already stringent (By Jan)...Multiple Murder Suspect Fails to Get Bail
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Justice Modiri Letsididi has denied a man charged with killing six people bail pending trial.Modise Tlhokamolelo wanted the court to grant him bail because none of his relatives has ever paid him a vi (By Jan)...'Torture Killer' Cops Still Free
Monday 17-Aug-2009: To-date the officers implicated in the killing by torture of Italy Setlampoloka have neither been arrested nor arraigned before court, Botswana Police spokesman, Christopher Mbulawa, has confirmed.But (By Jan)...South Africa: Varsity 'mob' blamed for death of intruder
Monday 17-Aug-2009: A group of students residing at the University of Zululand campus took the law into their own hands when they allegedly killed a knife-wielding intruder in "self defence", the institution said on Mond (By Jan)...Nigeria: Nation Heading Towards a Failed State, Says Soyinka
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Emma AmaizeNOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka was in Benin City, Edo State, last weekend, on a private visit and guest of the State Government, but, he took time off his schedule to appear on a (By Jan)...Nigeria: Clintion - A U.S. Diplomat With the Eve Complex
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Lagos - Hillary Clinton has an Eve complex. When she declared that governance has failed in Nigeria and we should do something about it, she did not misspeak. She was trying to let us eat the fruit of (By Jan)...Francistown South; Elections Issues, Problems, Opportunities And Possible Solutions
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Cde. Dr. Elmon M TafaMost of the problems that bedevil Francistown South constituency are not very different from those of other towns in Botswana.In many ways they are similar to third world citie (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: HCB, Zesco to Continue Power Exports
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Harare - Mozambique's power generation company, Hydro Electre de Cahora Bassa (HCB) and Zambia Electricity Supply Company (ZESCO), have agreed to continue exporting power to Zimbabwe under a debt rest (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: U.S. Partnership With DRC Against Gender-Based Violence
Monday 17-Aug-2009: On August 11, 2009, in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced $17 million in total new funding to support U.S. Government efforts to prevent and res (By Jan)...Kenya: State Should Support Land Reforms
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Ibrahim MwathaneI found working for the government a most humbling experience. Too many factors drive the dynamics. Sometimes political, at others institutional while yet on others, self-interest.O (By Jan)...Uganda: Wold Bank Commits U.S.$20 Billion to Food Security
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Aggrey NshekanaboEntebbe - The World Bank has committed US$20billion to combat food security in Africa. This was revealed by Mr. Robert B. Zoellick, the World Bank President during a meeting with P (By Jan)...World: Systematic killing of gays in Iraq - claim
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Militiamen are torturing and killing gay Iraqi men with impunity in a systematic campaign that has spread from Baghdad to several other cities, a prominent human rights group said in a report.Human Ri (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Doctors' Strike Threatens Health Care Gains
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Harare - Industrial action for better wages by Zimbabwe's doctors is threatening the country's ability to deal with H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu, and the possible resurgence of a deadly cho (By Jan)...Somalia: Gunmen Attack Aid Compound
Monday 17-Aug-2009: The United Nations has strongly condemned the attack against its aid compound in southern Somalia on Sunday, the fourth time in two months that the world body's offices in the Horn of Africa nation ha (By Jan)...Older Banks to Follow FNB's Lead in Mobile Banking
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Wanetsha MosinyiDespite Standard Chartered Bank Botswana and Barclays Bank of Botswana being the oldest banks in the country, it is only this month that they will launch mobile and on-line banking. (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma on First State Visit to Angola
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma is to pay his first official visit to Angola on Wednesday, said the Department of International Relations and Cooperation.The President will be accompanied by eleven of (By Jan)...Swaziland: Sugar Prices Tempt Small Farmers Away From Food Production
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Mbabane - Swaziland's small-scale farmers are succumbing to the temptation of soaring sugar prices, cultivating cane at the expense of edible crops in the food-stressed country.Raw sugar prices have r (By Jan)...South Africa: Woman bludgeoned to death
Monday 17-Aug-2009: A 21-year-old pedestrian was bludgeoned to death in Pietermaritzburg on Monday, KwaZulu-Natal police said.Superintendent Henry Budhram said Nompumelo Ndlovu and a friend were walking along Boom Street (By Jan)...South Africa: Former MEC denies animal cruelty allegations
Monday 17-Aug-2009: A former provincial agriculture minister embroiled in a chick killing saga has denied animal cruelty claims alleging he left his chicks to starve to death."The whole story about the dumping of the chi (By Jan)...South Africa: Serial killer sentenced to life
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Serial killer and rapist Sibusiso Duma, already serving two life sentences plus 35 years in jail, was on Monday sentenced to a further six life terms plus 104 years by the Pietermaritzburg High Court (By Jan)...South Africa: Man stabs wife to death, found guilty
Monday 17-Aug-2009: A man who stabbed his wife 19 times but pleaded not guilty to killing her was convicted of murder in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday.Jaiseelan Govindsamy, 41, admitted to stabbing his wife, (By Jan)...Teko Trio's Assets to Stay Frozen
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Werner MengesTHE financial squeeze that has been put on Public Service Commissioner Teckla Lameck, her business partner, Kongo Mokaxwa, and Chinese national Yang Fan with the freezing of their asse (By Jan)...Gambia: Overwhelming Response to Presidential Call
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Assan Sallah, Alieu Ceesay And Musa NdowAs weeding takes centre stage in the farming arena, thousands of volunteers continue to descend on President Jammeh's farms to support in weeding the farms.T (By Jan)...Nigeria: A Weak Naira - Matters Arising
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Lagos - True, the nation initially had a buoyant foreign exchange reserve amounting to about U.S. $63billion but the reality is that more has been going out than coming in - to the extent that the CBN (By Jan)...Africa: Mubarak to meet with Jewish groups
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Washington - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is set to meet on Monday with key US government officials, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, ahead of his first White House visit in five year (By Jan)...Nigeria: Re-Branding a Fake Product?
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Zulfikar A. AdamuAbuja - So many innocent babies who were not even old enough to decode their names died needlessly because of the greed that has come to characterize the Nigerian enterprise. It wa (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Small-Scale Miners Seek U.S. $3 Million
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Harare - SMALL-SCALE miners require at least US$3 million to purchase compressors used for drilling in the extraction of gold to increase their production capacity.Mining is the country's major foreig (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: 'Aim for Maximum Yields'
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Harare - Local cotton growers should aim for maximum yields for them to earn meaningful profits, the director-general of the Cotton Growers Association of Zimbabwe Mr Godfrey Buka has said.The 2008/09 (By Jan)...Kenya: Odinga Eases Tensions Over Forest Removals
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Dan Otieno and Geoffrey RonoNairobi - Prime Minister Raila Odinga appeared to extend an olive branch to Rift Valley MPs during his second visit to the province in as many weeks."I have no problem w (By Jan)...Nigeria: Go After Bank Loan Defaulters, Yar'Adua Tells Security Agents
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Daniel Idonor and Michael EbohAbuja - PRESIDENT Umaru Yar'Adua, yesterday, ordered security agents to move against those who took non-servicing huge loans from the five banks, which received the Ce (By Jan)...Uganda: Minister Gets Death Threats On Bunyoro
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Conan BusingeKampala - THE State Minister for Internal Affairs, Matia Kasaija, says he has received death threats in relation to the on-going impasse between the Banyoro and the Bakiga."I received (By Jan)...Kenya: Traditional Crops Key to Food Security
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Kaburu MugambiNairobi - With 4.5 million Kenyans living off food aid from the government and the World Food Programme, the State is giving a closer look at traditional crops more than before.The nu (By Jan)...Africa: Zuma to remedy SA-Angola quarrel
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Harare - Does Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe regard President Jacob Zuma's State visit to Angola this week with satisfaction or concern? It would be revealing to know.Angolan President Jose Eduard (By Jan)...South Africa: Taki trial adjourns early for court function
Monday 17-Aug-2009: The trial of the alleged "sugarcane" serial killer was adjourned early on Wednesday to allow the Scottburgh High Court's female officials to attend a women's month function."It has come to my attentio (By Jan)...Science: TV to help addicts kick the habit
Monday 17-Aug-2009: London - A former London banker whose cocaine addiction cost him his high-flying job and nearly destroyed his marriage has created Britain's first television channel to help addicts and their families (By Jan)...Science: Why are celebrities so prone to addiction?
Monday 17-Aug-2009: According to one onlooker, she was "totally out of it". When Lindsay Lohan turned up at a Golden Globes after-party held by Prince last week, the actress, who attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, wa (By Jan)...Kenya: New Inflation Computation to Cut Food Dominance
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Jevans NyabiageNairobi - Beginning in February Kenya will reduce the weight of food in its consumer-price index in a move that is likely to cut inflation, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics sa (By Jan)...Kenya: Grow Traditional Crops to Beat Hunger, Experts Urge Farmers
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Billy MuiruriNairobi - Kenyans would kiss hunger goodbye if only farmers were to change the way they go about their business.Experts have identified five strategies that could help farmers increase (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops monitoring KZN malls closely
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Police in KwaZulu-Natal are watching the spate of mall robberies in Gauteng and elsewhere, amid a warning that criminals may turn to other areas and targets as counter-measures harden there.Director J (By Jan)...South Africa: New MEC to crack the whip on crime
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Sharika RegchandAny hopes criminals had that new KwaZulu-Natal Transport, Community Safety and Liaison MEC Willies Mchunu would be softer on them than his predecessor, Bheki Cele, have been dashed (By Jan)...Africa: UN guards kill three rebels
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Hargeisa, Somalia - Suspected insurgents stormed a United Nations compound in southern Somalia, witnesses said on Monday, but UN guards fought back and killed three of the attackers."About ten armed m (By Jan)...South Africa: Wading in to Find Source of Malema's Minorities Rant
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Johannesburg - GRAB a miner's lamp, a pair of wading boots and a gas mask and let's head for the sewers under Luthuli House, headquarters of the African National Congress (ANC). That, I suspect, is wh (By Jan)...South Africa: Serial killer: the one who got away
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Mpume MadlalaDudu Ntetha took the witness stand in the Scottburgh High Court exactly two years to the day that she became the only person to have escaped the clutches of alleged Umzinto serial kill (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops left puzzled by 'brandy' deaths
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Police investigators are still piecing together the puzzle of what caused the deaths six Khayelitsha residents who died when they drank what they thought was brandy.Police spokesperson Billy Jones sai (By Jan)...Nigeria: Bomb Attack Cuts Power Generation to 1,400MW
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Hamisu MuhammadThe Federal Government's attempt to generate 6,000 mega watts of electricity by the end of the year was dealt a nasty blow yesterday when an explosion at the Utorogu Gas Plant in Del (By Jan)...South Africa: Lottery board warns against 2010 scamsters
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Clayton Barnes Scamsters claiming to be linked to national lottery operator Gidani have been sending out emails saying that "randomly selected" people have won $1.5 million (about R12.2m) in a 2010 (By Jan)...South Africa: Off-duty cop assaulted by angry residents
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By KOWTHAR SOLOMONS and FRANCIS HWESHEAn off-duty policeman who was attacked and beaten over the head with a large rock by protesting Khayelitsha residents is in a serious but stable condition in hosp (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops nab alleged gang of robbers
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Five men were arrested in Springs on Monday after a shop owner was robbed, Gauteng police said."Four men entered the shop pretending to be customers. They took a two litre cooldrink [and] when they ap (By Jan)...World: Nineteen dead in Russia car bomb attack
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Nazran, Russia - A truck packed with explosives rammed through the gates of a police compound in southern Russia on Monday and exploded in an attack that killed at least 19 people and wounded dozens, (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (17-08-2009)
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... May I welcome J & A to Derby, having moved over the weekend. I have known J for about 35 years... Obviously, there is much to be done, so if this po (By The BeardedMan)...Nigeria: U.S. Army Prepares for Country's Possible Break-Up
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Paul Ohia With Agency ReportLagos - The United States military had, in May 2008, conducted a war games test called Unified Quest 2008, to ascertain how its military might respond to a war in parts (By Jan)...Nigeria: Western Education Can't be Sin in This Century - Aliyu
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Akpandem James and Chiwendu NnadozieLagos - He had a very long day. But that is the routine of governors in Nigeria. They only know when they wake, not when they will go to bed. After the morning r (By Jan)...Nigeria: Dysfunctional Nation
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Dan AmorLagos - A sadistic cabal of recycling local imperialists in both khaki and agbada has since hemmed the supposedly "giant of Africa"When the Union Jack (the British flag) was, at the glitter (By Jan)...Nigeria: We Should Look PIB Holistically, Says Prof Tam David West
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Charles KumoluA FORMER Minister of Petroleum Resources, Professor Tam David West has alleged that there are people from the Northern part of Nigeria, who do not want the oil producing communities t (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma moves to quell row about top posts
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Carien du Plessis The ANC has moved to quell the fires sparked by ANC Youth League president Julius Malema's criticism that "minority groups" held key economic posts in the cabinet and that African (By Jan)...South Africa: Engen Plans a Way Ahead for Refinery
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Johannesburg - MULTINATIONAL oil and gas group Petronas, the majority owner of Engen, has a number of tough decisions to make about the fate of the Engen refinery in Durban.It is not alone: all owners (By Jan)...Zim: MDC unaware commissioners' nomination suspended
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Prarliamentary clerk Austin Zvoma yesterday said nomination of candidates had been suspended By Own Correspondent Harare - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC party on Sunday said it was no (By Jan)...No Bail in Well Murder Case
Monday 17-Aug-2009: THREE people, accused of killing two men at the farm Goodhope near Schlip in 2005, appeared in the Mariental Magistrate's Court on Mondy.They are Dawid 'Boeta' Majiedt (55), Wilma Majiedt ( 40) and Ja (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Bogus Chief Chiadzwa Exposed
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Hebert ZharareHarare - Illegal diamond dealer Newman Chiadzwa who is posing as Chief Chiadzwa has been accused of supplying undisclosed British nationals and the Kimberley Process Certification Sch (By Jan)...South Africa: Police swoop on Pagad
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Fifty-eight people, including Pagad (People Against Drugs and Gangsterism) executives Abeda Roberts and Osman Sahib have been arrested after attempting to march on a Lentegeur drug dealer in Mitchells (By Jan)...South Africa: Mother sick with worry about missing son
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Alex EliseevThe stress of not knowing where her son has been for four months has landed a Gauteng mother in hospital - and her family claims police have done nothing to help find her nine-year-old (By Jan)...Science: Drug addicts journey to vomit and vow
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Saraburi, Thailand - Fifteen-year-old Wanchai Nuantasiri is one of more than a dozen drug addicts kneeling in a row, vomiting violently into the gutter.Monks in dark brown robes stand behind the sick, (By Jan)...Zim: Minister robbed in SA
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Mhashu insisted he informed the relevant authorities of his visit to SA National Housing and Social Amenities Minister Fidelis Mhashu was on Friday assaulted and robbed in South Africa when ar (By Jan)...The "Zimdollar:" Dead, but still used for bus fare
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Zimbabweans survive on a mish-mash of currencies By Angus Shaw Harare - A woman pays her bus fare with 3 trillion in old Zimbabwe dollars - the equivalent of 50 US cents. The collector accepts (By Jan)...Zim: Suspected arms dealer Viktor Bout faces new move to extradite him to US
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Will spend several more months in a Thai jail pending the appeal Thai prosecutors announced today that they planned to challenge the decision of a lower court to reject a US request to extradi (By Jan)...Libya: Groups Condemn Killing of 40 in Country
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Simon EbegbulemA Coalition of civil society organizations in Edo state, under the aegis of the Committee for the Protection of Endangered Nigerians (CPEN), have condemned what it described as the e (By Jan)...South Africa: Opposition Wants Arms Control Minutes
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Jocelyn NewmarchJohannesburg - SA's arms control committee should provide minutes of all meetings it had held in the past five years when it appeared before Parliament, the Democratic Alliance (DA) (By Jan)...Africa: Continent's Food Crisis Still Prevalent - Warns Report
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Eddie MukaayaKigali - The 2009 Economic Report on Africa (ERA) has warned that the food crisis across Africa is not over yet although food prices are on the decline.The report which is a flagship p (By Jan)...South Africa: Protesters beat officer
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Michelle JonesAfter crashing his car in the midst of a service delivery protest, an off-duty police officer was assaulted by angry community members in Khayelitsha.The 35-year-old officer remains i (By Jan)...South Africa: Byleveld won't give up until he finds Rapeta
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By LESEGO MASEMOLATop cop Director Piet Byleveld is adamant that he will find missing Ga-Rankuwa detective Andrew Rapeta. It's been six weeks since Rapeta went missing and Byleveld has been tasked wi (By Jan)...South Africa: Emily Williams killers due to hear fate
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Botho MolosankweThe three men found guilty of killing Emily Williams are expected to be sentenced on Monday.The men - David Busakwe, Innocent Skotseni and Shadrack Showe - were on Friday found guil (By Jan)...Zim: Mugabe could have some cause for concern over Zuma's visit to Dos Santos
Monday 17-Aug-2009: Dos Santos and Mugabe have so far been major allies in the same camp in SADC Comment Peter Fabricius Does Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe regard President Zuma's state visit to Angola this (By Jan)...Economy Threatened As U.S. Confirms Oil Talks With Angola
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Adeola YusufLagos - Less than a week after the United States (U.S.) Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, visited Nigeria, the country's economy is under a major threat from the U.S., biggest consume (By Jan)...South Africa: Crime On the Rise As Recession Leads to Job Losses
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Chantelle BenjaminJohannesburg - ONE of the effects of the recession is an increase in crime, with the Consumer Goods Council of SA on Friday saying it had seen a spike in crime compared with last (By Jan)...South Africa: Cop's daughter dies in family shooting
Monday 17-Aug-2009: By Lesego MasemolaA shooting spree allegedly involving a Pretoria police inspector left his 14-year-old daughter dead and three other family members, including his wife of more than 20 years, wounded. (By Jan)...
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