From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 2nd August 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 & Gruesome[Afrikaans] S.Africa… Afrikaner Vryheidsbulletin Junie/Julie 2009
Friday 31-Jul-2009: IN HIERDIE UITGAWE • VRYHEID : ONS TOEKOMS - Stryd van Bittereinders lê grondslag vir vryheidstryd van 21ste eeuse Afrikaners • BOEREGROND VIR BOEREVOLK - Jongste verwikkellinge in aa (By Gairk)...Sudan: Chad's Domestic Crisis - The Achilles Heel for Peacemaking in Darfur
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Less than a week after Chad and Sudan inked a formal agreement to set aside their differences this past May, the Sudanese government gave Chadian rebels the green light to launch a cross-border attack (By Jan)...VERY SHOCKING: Scathing Canadian views on the crashing Whitehouse - Obama bringing America down with him...
Monday 27-Jul-2009: [Here is a brilliant and shocking article from Canada. I got this from Wayne - not sure what country he is in. He wrote:- Jan: Your article on Obama's sermon to won't run, I suspect your server is so (By Jan)...Africa: Backsliding On Aids Funding
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Washington, DC - "Why is it not possible to allocate sufficient money for every aspect of global health, of which AIDS is but a part, and in so doing, meet the Millennium Development Goals - money whi (By Jan)...USA: HORROR: The Obama Communist Regime: Obama lied, the economy died – One man Nuclear Holocaust
Friday 31-Jul-2009: [I have remarked before that Obama is not being correctly labelled. He is NOT “very Liberal”. The term Liberal originally evolved from the FREE MARKET concept, which was a concept Professor Adam Smith (By Gairk)...Africa: U.S. House Committee Hearing on Peacekeeping - Susan Rice
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: On July 29, 2009, the United States House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs held a hearing entitled - "New Challenges for International Peacekeeping Operations" - in Washington, DC. The (By Jan)...The Country's Forgotten Political Prisoners
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Henning MelberNamibia may perform well in rankings on human rights and democracy, Henning Melber tells Pambazuka News, but its response to the secession attempt in the Caprivi region ten years ago (By Jan)...S.Africa: Johannesburg... a filthy battleground for strikers... the communists at it again...
Monday 27-Jul-2009: There have been more and more strikers striking across South Africa recently and in typical communist style it is accompanied by violence, filth and massive disruption. This morning on my way to w (By Jan)...Africa: India - An Ideal Partner?
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Renu ModiAs global economic downturn staunches the flow of investment from China and the West, African interest in India as an alternative source of funding is growing. Renu Modi reports back to Pa (By Jan)...USA: Economic Warfare - How the Financial Bailout Really Works
Monday 27-Jul-2009: In 1942, German intelligence officers rounded up skilled Jewish prisoners and launched Operation Bernhardt, a clever scheme designed to counterfeit hundreds of millions of dollars worth of British Pou (By Gairk)...Africa: Ambassador Carson On Secretary Clinton's Africa Trip
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Will show Obama Administration's commitment to making Africa a priority(begin transcript)U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATEOffice of the SpokesmanJuly 30, 2009ON-THE-RECORD BRIEFINGAssistant Secretary of State (By Jan)...Nigeria: Violence Spreads to Other Northern States
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By Isa Umar Gusau, Mustapha Isah Kwaru, Ahmad Salkida, Hamza Idris and Ja'afar Ja'afarFollowers of the radical Boko Haram Islamic sect yesterday expanded their attacks against the security agencies to (By Jan)...Africa: Civil Society Urges States Parties to the Rome Statute to Reaffirm Their Commitment to the ICC
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: On 3 July 2009 the African Union (AU) agreed that its members should withhold cooperation from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the arrest and surrender of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. (By Jan)...[Humor] Understanding BEE
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Three contractors - one from Soweto, another from Pretoria, and the third from Benoni - are bidding to fix a broken fence at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. They go with a Union Buildings officia (By Gairk)...Nigeria: Clashes Spread to Other States
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Lagos - The bloody clash between the police and members of an Islamic fundamentalist group known as Boko Haram ("education is sin"), which left many dead in the early hours of Sunday in Bauchi, has sp (By Jan)...The Interim EPA - Why the Govt Shouldn't Sign
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Wallie RouxThe Namibian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and local civil society organisations are united in their support of the government's reluctance to sign an interim Economic Partnership Agr (By Jan)...Zim: How Chelsy Davy's father, Chinese gangsters and a ruthless Mugabe henchman are linked by a vile trade that's driving the Black Rhino to extinction
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Andrew MalonePlayfully butting his handler, Tatenda, a young black rhino, is frisky and mischievous. It is feeding time, and his nostrils are flaring at the scent of food. He munches on tr (By Jan)...Nigeria: Police-Sect Clashes Killed 700, Says Commander
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Lagos - A commander of the state adhoc security group, codenamed, 'Operation Flush' deployed to tackle members of the Boko Haram fundamentalist sect which last week inficted violence on Bauchi and Bor (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Remembering Battle of Kavalamanja
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Harare - This is the second and last part of an article by Dr Godfrey Mahachi on the commemoration of the Battle for Kavalamanja, a battle that was fought on Zambian land during the Zimbabwean war of (By Jan)...Nigeria: Questions Trail Killing of Sect Leader
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Lagos - Questions and concerns are being raised over the death of the notorious leader of Boko Haram Islamic sect, Mohammed Yusuf who was killed, Thursday while in the custody of the Nigerian police a (By Jan)...USA: Don't Talk About the National Debt
Monday 27-Jul-2009: As we wind our way towards an election between the professional liars that have been put forward as candidates for U.S. President, it seems to be a great time to remind us all about the issue being ro (By Gairk)...Kenya: The Country and the U.S. - Meeting the Growing Challenge in East Africa
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Johnnie CarsonWashington, DC - Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson's remarks at the National Endowment for Democracy on Fri, 31 Jul 2009, in Washington, DC:President Ger (By Jan)...Nigeria: Militant Leader Justifies Recent Violence
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Patience Ogbodo Bauchi, Uduma KaluIt will be a long war, Boko Haram Boko Haram, the group behind the latest violence in Northern Nigeria, is known by several different names, including al_Sunnah w (By Jan)...Sudan: Testimony of David H. Shinn at Hearing on Sudan
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By David H. ShinnWashington, DC - Testimony of David H. Shinn, Adjunct Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Rel (By Jan)...Nigeria: Military Battles Sect Members, Death Toll Rises
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Sukuji Bakoji (Kaduna), Paul Arhewe, Aramide Oikelome (Lagos), Chesa Chesa, Sule Lazarus, Otei Oham, Augustine Madu-West (Kano) and Abdulkareem Haruna (Maiduguri)Abuja - Federal lawmakers on Tuesda (By Jan)...The Best TV Reality show in South Africa that all Blacks need to see: The American Kid Nation program...
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Normally the SABC is the worthless, racist, Mouth of the ANC (ruling party). The SABC has gone from a massive money-spinning national TV broadcaster to a collapsing, anti-white racist, bankrupt, incom (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Race Remains Big Issue in U.S.A
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Tendai Hildegarde ManzvanzvikeIT was just after midday when on July 16 eminent Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr, incensed by police behaviour told Sergeant James Crowley of Cambridge Police D (By Jan)...Uganda: Army Faces Al Qaeda Threat in Somalia
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Els De TemmermanMogadishu - FOR 13-year-old Mohamed Ismaeli, the Ugandan nurse of the African Union peacekeeping force, must seem like an angel in the midst of Mogadishu's madness. She carefully ba (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Gono Has Done a Great Job
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Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: This is not the first time a recession or a depression has occurred. It is an event that happens again and again, a recurring problem, which has yet to be solved. It is unlikely Congress will be able (By Gairk)...Nigeria: Rage And The African-American
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Tayo AgunbiadeLagos - We should not be deceived about the fact that events in God's Own Country in the past few weeks have shown that the racial divide is still as wide as ever. That we saw blacks, (By Jan)...South Africa: SA debt troubles soaring
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Thousands of South Africans are losing their homes and cars in the economic slump, and it is forecast that the number of people seeking help with their debt stress will soar to 120 000 in 2009.Accordi (By Jan)...USA: A Post-Racial President?
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Monday 27-Jul-2009: [Oh what rubbish! What complete rubbish and total nonsense this is. Dr Blade Nzimande, the leader of the South African Communist Party and now also the Minister of Higher Education (aimed at turning S (By Jan)...Africa: Nigerian troops storm Islamist mosque, kill 100
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Friday 31-Jul-2009: [How insane is this of the Obama administration giving Constitutional rights to foreign born terrorists? This time the Obama administration is giving Constitutional rights to shoe bomber Richard Reid (By Lone Wolf)...Nigeria: Leader of Fundamentalist Group Killed
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Juliana Taiwo, and Michael Olugbode in MaiduguriAbuja - After nearly two days of military bombardment of his Maiduguri, Borno State base, the leader of the Islamic fundamentalist group, Boko Haram, (By Jan)...World: Mosul, Falluja rocked by violence
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Baghdad - Violence mounted in two of Iraq's most tense cities on Monday, with a series of bomb and gun attacks in Mosul and Falluja, security sources reported.In the northern city of Mosul, 400km nort (By Jan)...Nigeria: Dozens Killed in Bauchi Religious Crisis
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By George Akpayen and Godwin Egbarabauchi / lagos - Bauchi returned to its violent ways on Sunday morning, leaving 200 people dead, in a cue taken from neighbouring Maiduguri where, on Friday, the res (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Political Violence Growing in Rural Areas
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Harare - Families are turning on each other in Zimbabwe's rural areas, where a higher premium is being placed on political allegiance to either President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party or Prime Ministe (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai is fooling only himself
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Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Since the emergence of militia groups, teachers fear for their safety Harare - Families are turning on each other in Zimbabwe's rural areas, where a higher premium is being placed on political (By Jan)...Zim: Robert Mugabe 'in bid to wreck unity'
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: "What is most worrying is that we are not seeing any counter-tactic from the MDC" Alex Duval Smith in HarareZimbabwe is on the verge of a new political crisis, amid growing evidence that Presi (By Jan)...Africa: Scores of bodies dumped at police stations
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Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Suppressed resentment of Tsvangirai By Dumisani MuleyaPrime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday came face to face with army, police and intelligence chiefs who last year publicly vowed not to (By Jan)...Nigerian Sect Leader Shot Dead in Police Custody
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Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Maiduguri, Nigeria - Fighting raged for a fourth day running on Wednesday in northern Nigeria as troops tracked down remnants of an Islamist sect after clashes that have left at least 250 dead.Sounds (By Jan)...Too 'politically incorrect' to remember white slavery?
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: “Slaves were still slaves, whether they are black or white, and whether they suffered in America or North Africa.” COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study suggests that a million or more European Christians w (By JanOlifant)...Zim: When the cops are the robbers
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: In late 2008 soldiers embarked on a looting spree in the capital Harare - The demise of the all-but-worthless Zimbabwe dollar and its replacement with foreign currency is being mirrored by a r (By Jan)...Nigeria: Killings by Security Forces in North
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Amnesty International today condemned the illegal killings by the Nigerian security forces during the recent fighting in the north of the country and called on the Inspector General of Police to publi (By Jan)...Nigeria: Navy Ignored Security Warning On Atlas Cove
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Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Kigali - Uganda has deployed security forces in the western districts of Masaka, Sembabule and Lyatonde after xenophobic attacks on Rwandan refugees aimed at driving them out of the country, say local (By Jan)...Germany/USA: The best warriors of WW2
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Submitted by List: Here a data about the best aces of WW2 in different arms. It seems that the side that lost the war had the best aces almos everywhere. The best submarine aces. Top 3 subma (By JoAn)...USA: Is Obama a Racist?
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: How do we decide who is a racist? The dictionary tells us a racist harbors feelings of antagonism and superiority based on biological differences, such as skin color. So, what demonstrates that Presid (By Gairk)...Nigeria: Shoot-Out as Soldiers Battle Fanatics
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By George Oji and Michael OlugbodeAbuja and Maiduguri - Members of the Islamic fundamentalist sect, Boko Haram, came under serious attack yesterday in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, as soldiers stor (By Jan)...South Africa: Violence mars day one of strikes
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Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Isa Umar Gusau , Tashikalmah Hallah and Nasidi A. Yahayamaiduguri/Abuja - From The battle between security forces and followers of the Boko Haram sect appeared to have come to an end with the kill (By Jan)...USA: Obama Cartoons
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Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Baghdad - Bank robbers made off with at least $3.8-million in a pre-dawn raid on Tuesday, leaving eight police guards dead in one of Iraq's biggest-ever heists.Police said the raid had likely been the (By Jan)...USA: Statement of Charles A. Ray Ambassador-Designate to Zimbabwe Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
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Sunday 02-Aug-2009: The SA National Defence Force is in an "appalling" state of readiness. It could not handle much beyond the most trivial crisis, experts and politicians say.Despite the purchase of big-ticket items in (By Jan)...Africa: Launch of the African Economic Outlook-Challenges and Opportunities in Times of Crisis
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Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Michael GeorgyPresident Jacob Zuma appears to have emerged the winner after South Africa's council workers' union ended a five-day pay strike after gaining a big pay rise, but less than it had soug (By Jan)...South Africa: Wife of missing top cop alleges abuse
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Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Elisabeth O'Leary and Jason WebbMadrid - A bomb placed under a police car killed two officers on the Spanish holiday island of Mallorca on Thursday, in what authorities called the second major atta (By Jan)...Soldiers Raid Radicals' Enclave in Nigeria
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Abdulfattah Olajide, Isa Umar Gusau and Mustapha Isah KwaruSecurity forces yesterday raided the enclave of the radical Boko Haram sect in Maiduguri, in an all-out attempt to crush the group whose s (By Jan)...South Africa: Joburg's municipal workers say what they want
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Thousands of striking municipal workers handed over a memorandum of demands to Johannesburg mayor Amos Masondo on Monday."[We want] a better life for all. Not just a better life for Masondo and othe (By Jan)...Africa: Envoy Hails Clinton's Trip to Africa, Focus On Hunger, Agoa
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Jim Fisher-ThompsonSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's trip to Africa, where she will emphasize the need to provide lasting food security by improving the continent's agricultural sector wi (By Jan)...Sierra Leone: Sexual Violence Defies New Law
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Freetown - Sierra Leone in 2007 passed innovative laws aimed at reinforcing women's rights and clamping down on sexual violence, but as the government and social services struggle to implement the law (By Jan)...Nigeria: Rage Over Oil Bill - Petroleum Industry Bill, a Threat to the Polity?
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: The Turnout At the Beginning of the Three day public hearing on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) last Monday was unprecedented in the ten year history of the present National Assembly. It was perhaps (By Jan)...World: ETA blamed for bombing of barracks
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Burgos, Spain - The Spanish government accused the Basque separatist group ETA of targeting women and children on Wednesday in a powerful car bombing outside a police barracks in northern Spain which (By Jan)...Africa: Launch of the African Economic Outlook 2009
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Location: Pretoria, South AfricaChallenges and Opportunities in Times of CrisisThe 2009 edition of the African Economic Outlook (AEO) has been launched in Pretoria on 27 July 2009 at the National Trea (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Civil Society Clashes With Govt Over Constitution
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Wongai ZhangazhaHarare - GOVERNMENT should immediately halt the parliament-led constitution-making process or risk the rejection of a draft constitution resulting from the flawed procedure at a ref (By Jan)...Liberia: Taylor Accuses UN of Linking Him to Sierra Leone Fighting
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor today accused the United Nations of making him responsible for the presence of Liberian fighters among rebel forces in Sierra Leone during its 11-year conflict. This misco (By Jan)...South Africa: To Fight TB, Focus On HIV Too, Say Experts
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Johannesburg - SA HAS made progress in controlling and curing tuberculosis (TB) since experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) visited the country in 2005, but after their visit last week they (By Jan)...Africa: Fugitive given vast ranch in Zimbabwe
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Peta ThornycroftAt a time when all but a few hundred of Zimbabwe's white farmers have been kicked off their land, fugitive businessman Billy Rautenbach has been handed a vast tract in the south, le (By Jan)...Sudan: Testimony by USAID Acting Assistant Administrator Earl Gast at Hearing on Sudan
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Earl GastWashington, DC - Testimony by acting Assistant Administrator Earl Gast, Bureau for Africa, United States Agency for International Development, before the Committee on Foreign Relations, Un (By Jan)...Nigeria: 'The Country's Agric Budget Exceeds Maputo Target'
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Etim ImisimLagos - Agriculture and Water Resources Minister, Dr. Abba Sayyadi Ruma, said Nigeria's agricultural budget had gone beyond the Maputo target, while receiving the report of the Vision 20 (By Jan)...North Africa: African Sun May Light Up European Homes
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Julio GodoyBerlin - Twenty German companies have drawn up ambitious plans to meet at least 15 percent of the European electricity demand by 2020 from solar thermal power plants installed in the Nor (By Jan)...South Africa: Rights to the River
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Mandisi MajavuCape Town - Millions of litres of water are being unlawfully diverted into dams set up by South Africa's major industries, big mining companies and commercial farmers - with potential (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (29-07-2009)
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- More ZANU PF treachery. "Zimbabwe's Deputy Youth Minister Thamsanqa Mahlangu was arrested on Tuesday over the theft of a mobile phone belo (By The BeardedMan)...The development of Military Strategy - Eeben Barlow
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Another bit of blatant advertising – an abridged extract from my in-process book Techniques of War (a working title). If we arrive, as our forefathers did, at the scene of battle inadequately equip (By JanOlifant)...Film exposes violence against Zimbabwe's women
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Humiliated, beaten, kicked Cape Town - Little more than a year ago, Memory Shiriinorira was a healthy young mother of two. Life was hard, but she had hope, despite the depressing environment o (By Jan)...Nigeria: 38 Boko Haram Members Arrested in Abuja
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Abdulsalam Mohammed & Patience OgbodoThirty eight members of the Boko Haram Sect were yesterday arrested in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has said.According to the PPRO, (By Jan)...Nigeria: New Petroleum Law Must Include Stronger Protection for Human Rights and the Environment
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: The Petroleum Industry Bill, currently being considered by the national legislature, reflects the most comprehensive review of the legal framework for the oil and gas sector in Nigeria since the indus (By Jan)...Africa: Countries 'Can Reverse Economic Crisis'
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Maputo - African countries "are in a privileged position to reverse the economic crisis", claimed the governor of the Bank of Mozambique, Ernesto Gove, on Thursday.To achieve this, he said, they must (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: President Mugabe Threatens NGOs
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Caesar ZvayiMunyonyo - ZIMBABWE may soon reconsider the advisability of letting non-governmental organisations operate in the country as most of them are exceeding the terms of their registration b (By Jan)...Ghana: AG Frees Two Interdicted Police Officers
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By Alfred AdamsSekondi - THE Attorney General's Department in Sekondi has exonerated two police officers, from the Drug Enforcement Unit in Takoradi, who were interdicted for allegedly assaulting a ci (By Jan)...Zim: Mugabe takes steps to avoid SADC censure
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: This week saw a raft of reforms in Zimbabwe Dumisani MuleyaZimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is making concessions to allow the implementation of a number of points in the political accord th (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops out to tarnish my name: Zulu
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Irene KuppanDurban businessman and socialite Prince Sifiso Zulu has repeatedly claimed that he was not driving his vehicle in March 2008 when it was involved in an accident that left two people dea (By Jan)...Nigeria: MEND, OPC and a Napping Navy
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Kunle AkogunLagos - To all men of goodwill, lovers of peace and genuine progress of the Nigerian state, the recent destruction of the Atlas Cove Jetty in Apapa, Lagos is as condemnable as the contr (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (28-07-2009)
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Howzit I initially read this story last night - and all it does for me is prove that ZANU PF and Mugabe are not interested in participating in a power-sharing coalition. " Finance Minister Tend (By The BeardedMan)...South Africa: KZN police plan live surveillance for 2010
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Kamini PadayacheeA comprehensive security plan is being developed to prevent crime in KwaZulu-Natal during the 2010 soccer World Cup.The plan includes the use of hi-tech mobile cameras, purpose-bui (By Jan)...South Africa: ANC Needs Urgent Reform to Retain Support
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By William GumedeTaking to the streets is often the last resort, says William Gumede, and the community protests against poor service delivery sweeping across South Africa are evidence that 'democrati (By Jan)...Science: Water crisis uproots Syrian farmers
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Khaled Yacoub OweisShaizar Castle, Syria - Only a few decades ago, fish were plentiful in the Orontes river which for thousands of years has provided water to the lush Syrian plains, at the crossro (By Jan)...Zim: The price of reconciliation
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: "We can't talk about reconciliation until there has been transitional justice" By Andrew HardingHarare - As Zimbabwe launches a debate about "national healing" after years of political violenc (By Jan)...South Africa: Cele shoots from the hip
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Wendy Jasson da Costa"A gangster with a badge, but he gets things done." That is how one journalist described the newly appointed national police commissioner.Bheki Cele, a former school teacher, i (By Jan)...Sierra Leone: From a Victim to a Victor
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Alfred Sorie KargboFreetown - Sierra Leone is well-known as a country that has many mineral resources; resources that can help to develop the economy of Sierra Leone and improve the lives of her ci (By Jan)...Zimbabwe negotiators endorse use of controversial Kariba Draft
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Biti may not have put his signature to something his party does not agree with By Violet GondaAn advert in the weekly Standard newspaper on Sunday, which was placed by the negotiators of the G (By Jan)...Southern African grouping rules out early summit on Zimbabwe issues
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Blessing ZuluWashington - The Southern African Development Community has ruled out calling an extraordinary summit to take up issues that have been troubling the national unity government (By Jan)...Nigeria: Mohammed Yusuf - Life And Times of New 'Maitatsine' Leader
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Uduma KaluThe leader of an Islamic sect blamed for days of deadly violence in Nigeria was killed in police custody, police officials say last Thursday. The news came just hours after security force (By Jan)...Africa: Launch of the African Economic Outlook 2009
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Location: Maputo, MozambiqueThe African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Development Center, in collaboration with the United Nations Econom (By Jan)...Africa: HIV Laws Do More Harm Than Good
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Miriam MannakCape Town - In Sierra Leone, a mother who transmits HIV to her child can be fined, jailed for up to seven years, or both. Human Rights Watch reports that in 2008, several men were arre (By Jan)...Nigeria: Thousands Flee Violence in Northeast
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Maiduguri - Government emergency management teams in Nigeria are distributing blankets and water to thousands of people displaced from the northeastern city of Maiduguri following clashes between an a (By Jan)...Liberia: Taylor Denies Recognizing Sierra Leone Junta
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Alpha SesayLiberia, in concert with other West African countries and the rest of the international community did not recognize the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) junta in Sierra Leone, C (By Jan)...Africa: Yar'Adua puts security forces on full alert
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Abuja - Nigeria's president placed security forces on maximum alert after two days of battles with radical Islamists in the north which sources said left more than 150 dead.While authorities have so f (By Jan)...Africa: Epa - a Carrot for Africa
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Abuja - This is the moment of decision for Nigeria and by extension Africa.The Europeans are mounting pressure that African countries sign the controversial Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). But e (By Jan)...Kenya: EU Piles Pressure On Govt Over Poll Trials
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Bernard NamunaneNairobi - The European Union on Monday told the Kenyan Government to quickly form a special tribunal to try election violence suspects.In a critical and wide ranging assessment of t (By Jan)...South Africa: 'I saw school children stranded'
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Thousands of municipal workers took to the streets on Monday to demand better pay, harassing hawkers, emptying refuse bins in streets and leaving South Africans with minimal services."We would appear (By Jan)...Africa: U.S. Law Promotes Stock Exchanges on Continent
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Charles W. CoreyKigali - The historic U.S. African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has created a positive impact across sub-Saharan Africa, and one such development has been the establishment of (By Jan)...Zim: Chief Chiadzwa, family flee security agents
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Mushohwe said he was a sell-out because he had supplied evidence of human rights abuses to the KP team By Caiphas ChimheteChief Newman Chiadzwa is now in hiding after state security agents tri (By Jan)...South Africa: Reprieve for accused
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Irene KuppanHlengiwe Nene, the girlfriend of alleged Umzinto serial killer Thozamile Taki, will not stand trial for the murder of 13 women.Although she initially faced the same 13 counts of murder (By Jan)...Nigeria: 43 Extremists Killed in Yobe, as Military Offensive Rages
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Paul Arhewe, George Akpayen, Adeola Yusuf (Lagos), Abdulkareem Haruna (Maiduguri) and Baba NegeduKaduna - Over 180 wives of Jihadists have since last week been rescued from where they were locked u (By Jan)...Liberia: Taylor Wanted UN Authorization For Use Of Force In Sierra Leone
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor supported the decision of West African states to remove the Sierra Leonean junta from power in 1998, but wanted any use of force for that purpose to be authorized by the U (By Jan)...Africa: Agriculture Can Lead Poverty Reduction
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Sabina ZaccaroRome - Sabina Zaccaro interviews MOHAMED BEAVOGUI, IFAD director for West and Central AfricaAgriculture is vital to the economies of West and Central African countries, but poverty re (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Exiles Lash Out as SA plans to Redeploy Army Border Patrols
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Alex BellThe Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF) has lashed out at the South African government's plan to redeploy the army to patrol the border with Zimbabwe, saying the move will pose a serious risk to Z (By Jan)...South Africa: Exonerated man back in jail
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Logan GovenderA Chatsworth man, who was acquitted of murder and hijacking charges by the Durban High Court last year, is languishing in Westville Prison, awaiting trial on fresh charges.POST can di (By Jan)...South Africa: High hopes for new TB vaccine trials
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Kanina FossIF HIV is the killer, then TB is its henchman. And a new TB vaccine - soon to be tested in Johannesburg - could be the thing to foil their collusion.TB is the leading cause of death amon (By Jan)...Africa: Tsvangirai urges exiles to return to Zim
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai got a warm reception on Saturday in Johannesburg as he appealed to exiled Zimbabweans to invest in and return to their country."The reconstruction cannot (By Jan)...South Africa: Robber killed in cash heist
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: A robber was killed and his accomplice seriously wounded in an attempted cash-in-transit heist at the Vaal University on Friday, Gauteng police said."Four armed men entered the university grounds at 1 (By Jan)...South Africa: Killer smoked R300 cocaine a day
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Sherlissa PetersAn "emotional explosion" by murder accused Jaiseelan (Jason) Govindsamy was the culmination of a spiral downwards that included a R300-a-day cocaine habit.Govindsamy, 41, is charged (By Jan)...Clinton to pressure SA on Zim
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Clinton leaves on Monday for a seven-nation trip to Africa Washington - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will press South Africa to use its influence with Zimbabwe's hardline President Ro (By Jan)...Ghana: Investors Turn Illegal Miners
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Basiru AdamWassa - It is true; the Chinese are into 'Galamsey' mining in the country. Not only that; they have mined into River Ankobra, a prominent river that serves as the only source of drinking (By Jan)...South Africa: Yet More Delays Await Land Claimants
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Johannesburg - CHIEF land claims commissioner Blessing Mphela's announcement last week that the government had run out of money to pay for land restitution claims came as a bitter blow to Alpheus Matl (By Jan)...Africa: Police arrest MDC lawmaker for theft
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Harare - Zimbabwean police arrested a deputy minister from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC party for alleged theft, state media reported on Wednesday, in a move that could raise tensions in the (By Jan)...South Africa: Gold miners agree on salary deal
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By James MachariaSouth Africa's biggest union agreed a wage deal with gold and coal producers on Tuesday, averting a strike in the crucial mining industry and easing political pressure on President Ja (By Jan)...Africa: Bodies litter streets after Islamist uprising
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Maigduguri, Nigeria - Bodies littered the streets here on Saturday after Nigerian forces crushed an Islamist sect's uprising and controversially gunned down the movement's leader after his capture.Doz (By Jan)...Sudan: Testimony of Special Envoy Scott Gration for Hearing on Sudan
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Jonathan S. GrationWashington, DC - Testimony of Jonathan S. Gration, Maj Gen, USAF (Ret), the President’s Special Envoy to Sudan, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, July 30, 2009 (By Jan)...Africa: Residents too scared to leave homes
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Ibrahim MshelizzaMaiduguri, Nigeria - Authorities in the northern Nigerian state of Borno said on Thursday they had beaten back radicals behind unrest which has killed more than 180 people.The army (By Jan)...South Africa: New Police Chief Vows Hard Line Against Criminals
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Karima Brown, Hajra Omarjee and Amy MusgraveJohannesburg - BRUSHING aside strident criticism, President Jacob Zuma yesterday appointed KwaZulu-Natal transport and community safety and liaison MEC B (By Jan)...World: One hostage believed to be alive
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Kate KellandLondon - Two more British hostages held in Iraq had been killed by their captors, meaning four of a group of five Britons seized in May 2007 are now dead, an Iraqi official confirmed on (By Jan)...The ebb and flow of Zimbabwean migrants
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Criminal gangs have repeated opportunities to rob and rape migrants Johannesburg - Only about 12 percent of the Zimbabwean migrants who cross the border into South Africa - estimated at betwee (By Jan)...South Africa: Job stats not surprising: Cosatu
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: The increase in the country's unemployment rate is alarming but not necessarily surprising, labour unions said on Tuesday.Union federation Cosatu was "seriously concerned" at the news of yet another i (By Jan)...Economy Weighing on Voters' Minds
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Louise RedversLuanda - Angola's economy may be booming on the back of high oil prices and strong diamond exports, but six years after a peace deal ended the 27-year civil war, unemployment stands a (By Jan)...South Africa: Headless woman linked to sex ring
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Jacques Breytenbach and Graeme HoskenPolice have made a major breakthrough in their investigation into the gruesome murder of a woman whose headless body was found in a smouldering suitcase in the (By Jan)...Nigeria: Police Arrest 2 Suspects Over Murder of Benue TUC Boss
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: The Benue State Policed Command has arrested two suspects in connection to the recent assassination of the Chairman of the Trade Union Congress TUC, Benue State chapter.The Commissioner of Police in c (By Jan)...South Africa: Where will the criminals hit next?
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Thabiso ThakaliAs Joburg City Power races against time to improve its electricity supply infrastructure to meet the demands of the city's burgeoning customer base, cable theft is setting the utilit (By Jan)...South Africa: Legalising Prostitution
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Thelma Tafadzwa MadondoFollowing proclamations by the Gauteng premier on national television in support of legalising prostitution, Thelma Tafadzwa Madondo talks to Pambazuka News about the negativ (By Jan)...Armed Thieves Injure Three Police Officers
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Maputo - A group of five thieves, armed with four AK 47 assault rifles and a pistol, injured three police officers in a shoot-out in central Maputo on Monday evening, according to a report in the inde (By Jan)...Zim: Finance minister Tendai Biti receives bullet in mail
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: "I'm fine though, but what can I do" By Tichaona SibandaFinance Minister Tendai Biti on Monday morning received a live bullet and a handwritten note enclosed in a khaki envelope, and addressed (By Jan)...Africa: Dozens killed as rebels strike in Nigeria
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Ibrahim MshelizzaMaiduguri - Muslim rebels on Monday expanded their attack on Nigerian security forces to three northern states, with at least 80 people dead in two days of clashes, security source (By Jan)...South Africa: SA gears up for week of strikes
Monday 27-Jul-2009: The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Sunday pledged its support for the municipal workers' strike that is set to cripple the public transport system and municipal services."The munic (By Jan)...Ghana: Obama N' Ghana
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Gamal NkrumahBy heart he spoke and his people listened. However homecoming it was not, assesses Gamal NkrumahYou are straight into it with United States President Barack Obama, no messing around. H (By Jan)...South Africa: Police swoop on 'drug haven'
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Nontobeko MtshaliA well-known "drug haven" woke up to visitors of a different kind. A convoy of police vehicles started lining the street behind the Protea Glen Police Station at about 6am on Thurs (By Jan)...Kenya: Security Teams Blamed for Killings
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Fred MukindaNairobi - Kenya's security agencies and politicians are to blame for the brutal murders of 42 people in clashes between Mungiki and vigilantes in parts of Central Province.The victims w (By Jan)...South Africa: Clinton seeks SA's help
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Washington - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will press South Africa to use its influence with Zimbabwe's hardline President Robert Mugabe when she is in Pretoria next week, a senior American of (By Jan)...Africa: Nigerian troops, rebels exchange heavy fire
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Maiduguri, Nigeria - Troops pounded parts of a northern Nigerian city in pursuit of fleeing members of an extremist sect on the fifth straight day of gun battles that have left more than 300 dead and (By Jan)...Nigeria: Illegal Software Rises By One Percent As Microsoft Outlines Implications
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Emeka AginamLatest reports from the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has revealed that software piracy on personal computers (PC) in Nigeria has risen to 1% from 2007 to 2008.Half of the 110 countr (By Jan)...Zim police arrest MDC lawmaker for theft
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Said to have stolen a cellphone belonging to Joseph Chinotimba Harare – Zimbabwean police arrested a deputy minister from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (M (By Jan)...South Africa: Robbers flee with cash after bombing ATM
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Jacques BreytenbachA "large amount" of money was stolen early on Saturday morning, after an Absa ATM was bombed in Claremont. At about 4am, an unknown number of men bombed the ATM, situated at the (By Jan)...China Blocks Namibia on Internet
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyNAMIBIA has disappeared off the face of the earth as far as the Chinese government is concerned, at least.People in China keen to read about the fate of fellow countryman Yang Fan foll (By Jan)...Renamo Delivers Its Nomination Papers
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's largest opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, on Wednesday morning delivered the nomination papers for its candidates in the 28 October parliamentary and provincial (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Charcoal Profits Fuel War in East
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Goma - Charcoal profits are helping to fuel the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where militia groups and some segments of the national army control the production of and trade (By Jan)...Why did Zimbabwe ban the BBC?.
Monday 27-Jul-2009: "It was a beautiful winter's afternoon when I received the all-familiar rant on my mobile from Jonathan Moyo" Milton Nkosi, Africa Bureau Chief, BBC NewsThe BBC has been banned from Zimbabwe f (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Govt Withdraws Mines And Minerals Bill
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Paul NyakazeyaGOVERNMENT has withdrawn from Parliament the Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill that sought to cede 51% of all foreign-owned mining firms to Zimbabweans.Mines and Mining Development pe (By Jan)...South Africa: Producer Prices Beat a Sharp Retreat
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - PRICES at SA's factories, farms and mines dived a record 4,1% in the year to June, delivering the second pleasant surprise on inflation this week and reinforcing the case f (By Jan)...South Africa: Mayco member stoned by protesters
Friday 31-Jul-2009: A member of the city's mayoral committee had to beat a hasty retreat under police guard from angry protesters in Masiphumelele near Kommetjie when rocks rained down on the car in which she was travel (By Jan)...South Africa: Municipal workers weigh salary deal
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Alison RaymondSouth Africa's council workers union said on Thursday that wage negotiations had made progress but no deal has been reached and a strike will be extended, keeping up pressure on Presi (By Jan)...Burundi: SA Troops to Be Withdrawn From Country
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Pretoria - South African troops will be formally withdrawn from a peacekeeping mission in Burundi next Saturday.The South African National Defence Force Specialist Contingent (SANDFSPECC) was formally (By Jan)...Africa: Launch of the African Economic Outlook 2009-Positive Prospects for Lesotho
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Location: Maseru, LesothoThe African Development Bank, the OECD Development Center and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa have launched the 2009 African Economic Outlook (AEO) on Friday (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Backyarders and politics' behind violence
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: The spark for the violent protests which rocked Masiphumelele this week was "backyarders" - families living in backyards - facing eviction after plot owners in the area received subsidies to build bri (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Dangerous psychopath released to kill again'
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: One of the men who robbed and murdered Shirley van Rensburg and then dismembered her body before burying it in a warthog burrow was declared a dangerous psychopath 17 years ago. Correctional Services (By Jan)...Uganda: How to Plug Loopholes in NGOs
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Stephen KasengeKampala - The New Vision takes the fight against corruption one step further. It runs a series on how to plug the loopholes and demand accountability from public and private institut (By Jan)...Political tension rises in Zimbabwe as arraignment of MDC minister delayed
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: The handset was found in the possession of Saviour Kasukuwere of Zanu PF By Blessing Zulu, Chris Gande & Taurai ShavaWashington & Gweru – A Zimbabwean magistrate Thursday deferred for 24 hou (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Museveni Tells UK to Keep Hands Off the Country
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Caesar ZvayiMunyonyo - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni -- whose country holds the presidency of the United Nations Security Council -- has told British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to keep his han (By Jan)...South Africa: Tygerberg boosts security after baby drama
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By Michelle Jones and Caryn DolleyWestern Cape Premier Helen Zille has cracked down on security at Tygerberg Hospital, demanding a meeting with the private security company on whose watch a two-week-o (By Jan)...South Africa: Gone in 60 seconds - and sold for R6 000
Monday 27-Jul-2009: The luxury R1-million Mercedes-Benz that cost a Gauteng MEC and her chief financial officer their jobs has been sold for a mere R6 000 to a cross-border hijacking syndicate. And the three suspecte (By Jan)...Africa: Tap Into Power of Artisanal Mining, Analysts Say
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Koidu - As the Sierra Leone government, donors, mining companies and union members discuss how to reform industrial mining, analysts say they are overlooking the need for change in the informal or "ar (By Jan)...South Africa: Wanted: Police chief who can target crime
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Political BureauWith President Jacob Zuma expected to inform the cabinet on Wednesday who will step into the hot seat vacated by National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi, analysts, opposition par (By Jan)...Zim: Mudede role queried as diesel n'anga convicted
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Mavhunga claimed that Mudede supplied her with 125 litres of diesel which she poured through a pipe to deceive public officials From Walter Nyamukondiwa in ChinhoyiA Chinhoyi magistrate has de (By Jan)...South Africa: Desperate shoppers stealing to survive
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Charmel BowmanSouth Africans are resorting to shoplifting basic food to survive as more and more people find themselves unable to afford the bare necessities. The trend became evident last year and (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Kimberley Process Recommends Suspension of Diamond Trade
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Johannesburg - An interim report on Zimbabwe's diamond trade by the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) - an international initiative to stem the flow of conflict diamonds - has recommended a (By Jan)...Zim: Chinotimba suing arrested Minister for US$19 million
Friday 31-Jul-2009: "He alleges that he lost business during the time he didn't have his cell phone†By Violet GondaSelf styled war veteran and Zanu PF member Joseph Chinotimba is suing Thamsanqa Mahlangu the M (By Jan)...Nigeria: More Radicals Killed in Yobe State
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Lawani Mukairu and Abdulsalam MuhammadDamaturu - ABOUT 43 members of Boko Haram, the radical anti-western education Islamic sect were killed in a gun duel with security forces in Yobe state, yester (By Jan)...South Africa: Parties condemn Cele's appointment
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Opposition parties said on Wednesday President Jacob Zuma had made a mistake in appointing a political ally with no professional crime-fighting experience as the new national police commissioner.Bheki (By Jan)...South Africa: Drunk drivers 'to be treated like criminals'
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Bheki Mbanjwa and Nondumiso MbuyaziThe daily carnage on KwaZulu-Natal roads must be fought with the same intensity as the deadly HIV and Aids pandemic.So said KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Transport, Commu (By Jan)...Kenya: Cabinet in the Eye of a Storm
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Nairobi - The International Criminal Court (ICC) will be keenly watching how Kenya deals with post-election violence suspects in the wake of the recent Cabinet decision to try them in local courts.In (By Jan)...South Africa: Not fair, Mr Mayor
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Juggie NaranCivic leaders and academics are outraged over racist slurs at a recent eThekwini Municipality meeting where anti-Indian sentiments arose during talks on the Early Morning Market closure (By Jan)...Africa: Burundi sends more troops to Somalia
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Bujumbura - Burundi has deployed a third battalion of 850 soldiers to Mogadishu to reinforce the African Union peacekeeping mission in the Somali capital, Burundi's army said on Saturday.With the new (By Jan)...World: Iran to try 30 'rioters' in one day
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Tehran - About 30 people accused of rioting in the turbulent aftermath of Iran's presidential election face trial on Saturday, a report said, as a senior cleric called Friday for all protesters to be (By Jan)...South Africa: Masiphumelele quiet after violence arrests
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Nikita SylvesterPolice were monitoring the situation in Masiphumelele near Fish Hoek this morning after a service delivery protest there yesterday turned violent.On Thursday, police opened fire wit (By Jan)...South Africa: Police pounce on drug haven
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Nontobeko MtshaliA well-known "drug haven" woke up to visitors of a different kind. A convoy of police vehicles started lining the street behind the Protea Glen police station at about 6am on Thurs (By Jan)...South Africa: 'HIV Doesn't Ask for Any Religion' - Living With Aids # 398
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Khopotso BodibeIn 1996 Faghmeda Miller was the first Muslim to disclose her HIV status, despite fierce criticism from relatives, religious leaders and her community at large.In the 13 years she has (By Jan)...Kenya: Beating Digital Crooks at Their Game
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Sam WambuguNairobi - In his last Sunday's article, weekly columnist Philip Ochieng summed up his piece by asking a question many would: "Why is it taking so long for the whiz kids to come up with a (By Jan)...South Africa: Officer killed in robbery
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Jeff WicksA policeman was shot and killed after acting on a tip-off and responding to an armed robbery in Folweni, south of Durban, on Tuesday afternoon. It is thought that the detective-constable (By Jan)...Looking at China’s global actions in a different light: Africa in China's sights
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: The arrest of the four Rio Tinto executives suddenly has us looking at China’s global actions in a different light. We now realise that the Minmetals acquisition of OZ Minerals assets was part of a ma (By Gairk)...South Africa: 'President Zuma must intervene'
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Several protesters were injured by rubber bullets as thousands of municipal workers took to the streets on Monday to demand better pay, harassing hawkers and emptying refuse bins.In Plettenberg Bay, p (By Jan)...South Africa: Sister testifies against her brother
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Daleen Nel "loved her brother with all her heart". But she honoured justice more.And on Thursday in the Johannesburg High Court she gave damning evidence against her brother Wayne Nass.Nass and Boyce (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Threatens to Ban NGOs Again
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Harare - President Robert Mugabe has raised the spectre of banning the operations of non-governmental organizations in Zimbabwe, a threat he implemented in 2008 after the worst maize harvest on record (By Jan)...Somalia: UN Calls for 'Green Zone' in Strife-Torn Country
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Thalif DeenNew York - Somalia, a perpetually violence-prone country described as one of the world's failed states, may go the way of Iraq.Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the U.N. special representative for (By Jan)...World: Obama's race row a lesson?
Friday 31-Jul-2009: You can't solve a problem if you don't discuss it.That's why some say that despite all the accusations and emotions hindering the resolution of the imbroglio surrounding prominent black scholar Henry (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Chinotimba Suing Arrested Minister for U.S.$19 Million
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Violet GondaSelf styled war veteran and ZANU PF member Joseph Chinotimba is suing Thamsanqa Mahlangu the MDC Deputy Youth Minister for US$19 million for loss of business. Mahlangu was arrested on T (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma threatens violent protesters
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: South African President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday warned violent protesters will be arrested, after a wave of anti-poverty demonstrations rattled the country over the last two weeks."People have the rig (By Jan)...Nigeria: Obama's Broadside, Disturbing Realities
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Muhammad Al-GhazaliAbuja - A few weeks ago in Ghana, the American president Barack Obama delivered what many commentators have described as the most savage attack visited on the rabidly corrupt and (By Jan)...Namibia: Country Makes Strides in Paediatric HIV
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Servaas Van Den BoschWindhoek - While paediatric HIV remains a growing concern throughout Southern Africa, Namibian doctors have managed to put high numbers of babies on the life-saving antiretrovi (By Jan)...Africa: Desperate Somalis flee to Yemen
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Mogadishu, Somalia - Thousands of Somalis fleeing fighting around the capital have massed in a northern town, trying to cross the Gulf of Aden and sneak into Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency s (By Jan)...Zim: A response to Mugabe: African journalists have a duty to report the truth
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: He cannot expect positive coverage when he continues to spread mayhem and fails the unity government CommentRosebell KagumireWe journalists write stories, the big, the small, the controversial (By Jan)...South Africa: Criminal fugitives 'live the high life in SA'
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: South Africa has become "a safe haven" for notorious international fugitives because it is relatively isolated and there is the perception that the justice system can be easily manipulated. This has r (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Kariba Draft Splits MDC-T
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Takunda MaodzaHarare - Fissures have emerged in MDC-T over the constitution-making process with the party publicly slamming its deputy national treasurer, Mr Elton Mangoma, for signing a document t (By Jan)...Uganda: Economic, Political Power Will Follow Oil in Western Part of the Country
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Fred SekiwanoKampala - OIL production in Uganda is going to shift its economic centre of gravity as the western ledge becomes our national power house. Along with the the economic power house, the (By Jan)...World: UK will hang tough in Afghanistan
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Washington - Britain won praise from its United States ally in Washington on Wednesday for the "courage and sacrifice" of its troops serving in Afghanistan and vowed to see the mission through despite (By Jan)...Africa: Children freed as violence rages in Maiduguri
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Ibrahim MshelizzaMaiduguri - Security forces in northern Nigeria have freed scores of women and children during a crackdown on a radical Islamic sect responsible for violence that has killed at lea (By Jan)...Would the Real Diamond Please Stand Up
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Natasha UysAgainst the backdrop of sensationalist prostitution claims, I walk into Namibia's newest celebrity and the hot topic on most people's lips, Monica 'Diamond' Shafooli's townhouse in Windh (By Jan)...Africa: UN Urges Free Flow of Labour on Continent
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Johannesburg - UNLESS African states start embracing labour migration by enacting laws that will enable the free flow of skills and talent, the African Union's (AU's) facilitation of regional economic (By Jan)...South Africa: Power cuts costing Joburg millions - and harm
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By Louise Flanagan and Nontobeko MtshaliThe cost of the Joburg CBD power cuts could be tens of millions a day - but the cost to the city's reputation could be worse.About 40 city blocks were left with (By Jan)...Zambia: MMD Regrets Attacks on Scribes
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: THE MMD has regretted the harassment of journalists and has urged the affected media personnel to report the perpetrators of violence to the law enforcement agencies.Speaking in an interview in Lusaka (By Jan)...Kenya: It's Futile to Blame Kibaki And Raila
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Sarah ElderkinNairobi - I keep being told that the last General Election in Kenya was a contest between two personalities, Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga, and that the ensuing violence was their faul (By Jan)...South Africa: MXit aids in drug arrest
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Fiona GoundenPopular social network service MXit has almost always been viewed in a negative light, but police are now grateful for the communication system because it has assisted in them in catch (By Jan)...Africa: Early ART - A Stitch in Time
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Miriam MannakCape Town - A global call to put people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART) at an earlier stage of their illness is intensifying, but most developing countries, especially (By Jan)...South Africa: Blue light 'barbarians' taken to task
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Fiona GoundenIn a few days' time an Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) investigation into several cases of "blue light bullies" will be concluded. This comes in the wake of the driver in a bl (By Jan)...Africa: Clinton Plans Seven-Nation Trip
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Merle David Kellerhals Jr.Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will begin a seven-nation trip to Africa on August 5 to highlight the U.S. commitment to sub-Saharan Africa's economic developmen (By Jan)...Mauritania: Torture of Alleged Islamists Widespread
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Amnesty International is concerned about the persistent use of torture in Mauritania to extract confessions – especially from those accused of links with Islamic groups.In May 2008, approximatel (By Jan)...Uganda: Famine in Northern Uganda is a Wake-Up Call for Everybody
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Nobert MaoKampala - WHEN the guns fell silent in northern Uganda, we told our people to leave the IDP camps. After being concentrated in these squalid conditions for over a decade, going home was t (By Jan)...Nigeria: Niger Delta - No Amnesty, No Surrender
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Sabella Ogbobode AbiddeIt isn't an amnesty the people of the Niger Delta need to bring peace and security to the region, it's equity and good governance, Sabella Ogbobode Abidde tells Pambazuka New (By Jan)...World: Tensions rise between south and north
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Seoul - North Korea on Thursday seized a stray South Korean fishing boat and its four crew members, ratcheting up tensions after a week of aggressive sabre-rattling from the communist regime.South Kor (By Jan)...Science: China plans tougher laws on abortions
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Beijing - Fearing the approach of a ticking "bachelor bomb," China is planning tougher laws against sex-selective abortions that have boosted the number of boys in recent years, state media said on Sa (By Jan)...Kenya: Folly of Drowning Disease in Cash
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Philip StevensThe 5,000 researchers and activists making their way home from the International Aids Society meeting in Cape Town are in fighting mood.For the last ten years, Aids has been the singl (By Jan)...Nigeria: FG - Petroleum Varsity Remains at Effurun
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Ahamefula Ogbu in Port Harcourt, Onwuka Nzeshi in Abuja and Omon-Julius OnabuWarri - The Federal Government has moved to deny reports that it planned to relocate the Petroleum University from Effur (By Jan)...South Africa: Drowning a Single Illness in Cash Will Do More Harm Than Good
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Philip StevensJohannesburg - THE 5000 researchers and activists making their way home from last week's International AIDS Society meeting in Cape Town are in fighting mood.For the past 10 years, AI (By Jan)...South Africa: SA rocked by more violent protests
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Two more violent service delivery protests rocked South Africa on Tuesday in which state buildings were burnt and police cars stoned.In Thokoza, on the East Rand, police used rubber bullets to dispers (By Jan)...South Africa: Terror in the class captured on film
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Natasha Prince and Leila SamodienA teenager expelled from a Cape Town school stormed into a packed classroom with his brother, then they attacked a schoolboy with a metal pipe and what looked like (By Jan)...South Africa: Bullets break silence after two hours of hell
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Jacques BreytenbachTwo Pretoria men lived through two hours of hell before they were shot and critically injured in an armed robbery on their plot west of the city. It was unclear which of the men (By Jan)...Nigeria: Sect Leader Vows Revenge
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Ahmad SalkidaLeader of the radical Islamic sect opposed to western education, Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf, yesterday told Daily Trust that his group would not take kindly to the killing of dozens of its s (By Jan)...Somalia: Precision Arms for Amisom Forces?
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Liban AhmadThe collateral damage from clashes between Al -Shabab insurgents and the African Union Mission to Somalia ( Amisom ) forces backing up the Transitional Federal Government could have been (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma to Make His First Official Visit As President
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Bathandwa MbolaPretoria - President Jacob Zuma will in August travel to Angola, as his first official visit to any country."The fact that the first visit is in the continent is deliberate and it is (By Jan)...Nigeria: Ban Voices Alarm At Deadly Sectarian Clashes in North
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed his concern over reports of another round of sectarian violence in northern Nigeria, which has apparently led to scores of deaths.Mr. Ban "condemns the un (By Jan)...Africa: Shell-shocked Nigerians huddle among corpses
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By Aminu AbubakarMaiduguri, Nigeria - Frightened residents of a northern Nigerian city fleeing from the pounding of heavy mortar fire have sought shelter at a police station where fresh corpses line t (By Jan)...South Africa: Strike shuts Cape Town clinics
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: The City of Cape Town had to shut five of its health clinics on Tuesday as municipal workers went on strike for better pay."The major issue in the city has been the closure of municipal health clinics (By Jan)...World: Six die in religious violence in Pakistan
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Islamabad - Six Christians, including four women, were burnt alive in clashes with majority Muslims in a town in central Pakistan on Saturday, officials said.Tension has been running high between the (By Jan)...South Africa: Pitbull attacks anger community
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Two men were attacked by pitbulls in separate incidents in Ocean View this week, prompting a warning from welfare group Tears that it was a matter of time before a child was seriously injured or kille (By Jan)...South Africa: Auction buyer held to ransom by tenants
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: A Johannesburg property investor has been forced to fork out more than R500 000 to get into houses she buys on sheriff's auctions because the banks are not providing documentation on the previous owne (By Jan)...Sudan: U.S. Officials Disagree Over Strategy
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Danielle KurtzlebenWashington, DC - With the need for a comprehensive approach toward Sudan growing more urgent every day, U.S. policy remains a topic of disagreement amongst top Washington officia (By Jan)...South Africa: Oilgate: Judge criticises public protector
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: The Public Protector is obliged to probe claims that PetroSA syphoned State money to the ANC via a private company, the High Court in Pretoria has ruled.Some 20 months after hearing an application by (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Detectives in Court Over Gold Ore
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Harare - Three members of the Criminal Investigations Department yesterday appeared before a Bindura magistrate to answer charges related to the theft of 250 kilogrammes of gold ore.Constable Sinoia ( (By Jan)...Nigeria: Three Killed in Battle With Sect
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Segun Awofadeji BauchiLagos - Police Authorities yesterday confirmed that three security personnel, made up of two soldiers and one policeman, were killed during exchange of fire with the notorious (By Jan)...Four People Arrested After Injuring Police Officers
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Maputo - The Maputo police have claimed that four armed robbers who injured three police officers in central Maputo on Monday are now under arrest.The gang attacked a businessman as he was driving int (By Jan)...World: Obama says sorry
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Steve HollandWashington - President Barack Obama backed down on Friday from a statement that police had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black scholar in a racially charged case that was rapidly bec (By Jan)...South Africa: DA blasts ANC's 'destructive' labour policy
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: The latest unemployment figures released by Statistics SA illustrate the ANC's labour policy is misguided, the Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday.About 267 000 South Africans lost their jobs between (By Jan)...Africa: Woman convicted over 'diesel from rock' fraud
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Harare - A medicine woman who conned President Robert Mugabe's government out of about $1-million (about R7,8-million) by bamboozling ministers into believing she could tap diesel fuel from a rock has (By Jan)...South Africa: Missing baby: Zille demands answers
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Caryn Dolley and Michelle JonesPremier Helen Zille has cracked down on security at Tygerberg Hospital, demanding a meeting with the private security company under whose watch a two-week-old baby wa (By Jan)...South Africa: Alleged killer 'enjoyed attention in dock'
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Aarif Saib and Vivian AtwoodThozamile Taki sported a freshly shaved head and was casually dressed in a short-sleeved, yellow checked shirt and stonewashed jeans, as though he were enjoying a day's (By Jan)...Sudan: Obama Envoy Calls for Negotiated Darfur Deal
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Merle David Kellerhals Jr.Washington - President Obama's special envoy for Sudan says a negotiated political settlement to the civil strife in Sudan is the only way to bring a sustainable peace to (By Jan)...Africa: Egypt police kill migrant at Israel border
Friday 31-Jul-2009: El-Arish, Egypt - Egyptian police shot dead an African migrant trying to cross the border into Israel on Friday, security and medical sources said, the latest killing in an upsurge of violence at the (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Sparks Fly Over Constitutional Reform
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Dumisani MuleyaJohannesburg - THE gloves are off in Zimbabwe's hotly contested constitutional reform process, with major political players engaged in heated exchanges over the way forward.At stake (By Jan)...Polling Station Staff Warned Against Criminal Behaviour
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Maputo - Refusal by polling station staff to accept complaints made by the representatives of parties and candidates standing in elections is a criminal offence, Joao Nguenha, a judge on the Constitut (By Jan)...Liberia: UN, Ecowas Approved Contacts With Rebels, Says Taylor
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Alpha SesayThe Hague - Upon his appointment as head of the Committee of Five by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Charles Taylor regularly communicated and held meetings with (By Jan)...South Africa: City Strikes Persist While Mines Settle
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Amy Musgrave and Charlotte MathewsJohannesburg - WHILE a strike by municipal workers is set to continue for at least another day, gold and coal producers are more sanguine after last night signing (By Jan)...South Africa: Alleged drug ring busted in Malvern
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Three men suspected of running a drug syndicate in the country were caught with 185kg of Ethedrine in Malvern, Johannesburg, on Sunday, National Crime Intelligence officers said.The Ethedrine, with th (By Jan)...Nigeria: On Police-Islamic Sect Clash in Bauchi
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Lagos - It is reprehensible that the President of the Federation and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua, did not shelve his three-day visit to Brazil. We consider t (By Jan)...Sierra Leone: Tap Into Power of Artisanal Mining, Analysts Say
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Koidu - As the Sierra Leone government, donors, mining companies and union members discuss how to reform industrial mining, analysts say they are overlooking the need for change in the informal or "ar (By Jan)...Nigeria: Low Intensity At the Atlas Cove
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Kanmi AdemiluyiLagos - Did the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) actually bomb the Atlas Cove Jetty? If they did, then it would have been a calamitous error of judgment which (By Jan)...South Africa: Workers attack Joburg nurses
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Twelve primary health care clinics were closed in Johannesburg on Thursday due to intimidation of staff by striking municipal workers, the municipality said."The city was forced to shut 12 of its 87 p (By Jan)...Africa: Zim says cholera epidemic 'has ended'
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe's health minister said Thursday a cholera epidemic had ended, after at more than 4 200 deaths and 100 000 cases since last August, but warned new outbreaks remain a threat."The natio (By Jan)...Nigeria: A Window for Niger Delta
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Kayode KomolafeLagos - A new window may have opened for the troubled Niger Delta. In a way that is yet to be adequately acknowledged, the escalation of the crisis in the region in the last few mont (By Jan)...South Africa: Teen testifies to alleged police rape
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Sherlissa PetersAn 18-year old girl on Tuesday testified in the Pietermaritzburg High Court against a policeman who allegedly raped her.The girl, who was 16 at the time of the alleged attack, said (By Jan)...Neturei Karta Members Instigate Riots In Israel After Arrest Of Woman For Child Abuse
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: [I find it quite irrational that anti-Israel folks would accuse anyone of supporting Israel to be also supporting "evil" Jews. But the favorite Jewish group that anti-Semites like to defend is the Ne (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Municipal strike continues
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Municipal workers have vowed to strike for a third day on Wednesday despite an improved pay hike offer and a warning by Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana that the state would take a tough line."Wor (By Jan)...South Africa: Disgraced policeman dies in cell
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By Alex EliseevA policeman with 24 years' service has died inside a police holding cell while waiting for his drug-dealing and racketeering trial to start.Captain Sakhepi Shange was one of four senior (By Jan)...South Africa: End of 'sometimes arduous trial'
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Jade WittenDruglord and crime boss Kiyaam Rinquest will spend more than 30 years behind bars for his involvement in drug and abalone smuggling, car theft and money laundering.He was on Friday sente (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Grim Fate of Street Girls - Despite Tougher Penalties for Sexual Abuse, Many Crimes Go Unpunished.
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Héritier MailaLubumbashi - Bijou, 16, speaks in a soft, low voice as she paints a grim picture of what life is like for a young girl living on the streets of Lubumbashi, the second largest city in (By Jan)...Kenya: Rights Groups Reject Truth Commission Chief
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Emeka-Gekara Mayaka And Njeri RugeneNairobi - Attempts to address past injustices and reconcile the country could be headed for major setback after victims and human rights campaigners rejected the (By Jan)...Nigeria: A Niger Delta Republic?
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Sonnie EkwowusiLagos - From the tight corner of the oil esplanade where I sat, I saw a huge number of people impossible to count: men and women, children, the sick, traditional rulers dressed in di (By Jan)...World: Hope fades for hostages
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Kate KellandLondon - Two British hostages held in Iraq are very likely to have been killed by their captors, meaning four of a group of five Britons seized in 2007 are now dead, British and Iraqi o (By Jan)...South Africa: Rubber bullets fly at clinic
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Police fired rubber bullets at patients and nursing staff at Mashishing Clinic in the latest outbreak of violent service delivery protests in Mpumalanga.A group of people at the clinic started throwin (By Jan)...Khama Appoints 'Outsider' At Finance
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Ryder GabathuseFrancistown - President Ian Khama on Friday appointed award winning economist, Kenneth Matambo, to head Finance and Development Planning Ministry albeit on acting basis amid loud dis (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Shock Figures Reveal Thousands Deported from Botswana
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Alex BellNew figures released this weekend have revealed that thousands of Zimbabweans, including innocent, legal travellers have been deported from Botswana, as their impatience with the Zimbabwe (By Jan)...World: Iraq hostages 'likely dead' - report
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: London - Two more Britons from a group of five hostages kidnapped in Baghdad two years ago are "very likely" dead, according to media reports on Wednesday.The Foreign Office told the families of Alan (By Jan)...South Africa: Five detained in W Cape municpal protest
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Five municipal workers were "detained" by the police in Paarl on Tuesday while taking part in a protest for better pay, an SA Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu) official said."We have received reports o (By Jan)...South Africa: Union accuse police of intimidation tactics
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: The police decision to question then release 50 striking Empangeni municipal workers without charging them was an intimidation tactic, on Tuesday."How can you take 50 people in for questioning and not (By Jan)...Africa: Zim sugar daddies 'don't have sugar'
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Fewer Zimbabweans are being infected with Aids, and researchers speculate this is due, in part, to a battered economy that's leaving men short of money to be sugar daddies (older men who attract young (By Jan)...Massive Labour Unrest Sweeps South Africa - 150,000 workers to go on strike...
Monday 27-Jul-2009: [The South African Communist Party and COSATU, allied to the ANC are behind this. Remember President Jacob Zuma was singing to the blacks all through the election earlier this year about "Bring me my (By Jan)...Uganda: South Sudan Threatens Violence Over Bashir Arrest
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Angelo IzamaKampala - Uganda was warned by its neighbour, the semi-autonomous South Sudan, of grave consequences including war and instability, if it dared arrest indicted Sudanese leader, Omar El (By Jan)...South Africa: Cosatu squares up to state
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Christelle Terreblanche and Nondumiso MbuyaziCosatu, a key ANC ally, says it won't drop its demands on behalf of workers merely because the country is in recession - not while there is "crass mater (By Jan)...Zimbabwe's new Anglican leader urged to 'heal' Harare diocese
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Bishop Gandiya became Harare bishop despite a bid by Bishop Kunonga to block the consecration Harare - Zimbabwean Anglicans are urging the new leader of the Anglican church in their country to (By Jan)...Uganda: Peackeepers 'Poisoned' in Somalia
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Risdel Kasasira and Andrew BagalaKampala - Eight Ugandan soldiers on the Somali peacekeeping mission were by press time still in intensive care at a Nairobi hospital battling a strange ailment susp (By Jan)...Uganda: Mobile Phone Firms Launch Lake Victoria Rescue Project
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Dorothy NakaweesiKampala - A cost-free search and rescue initiative designed to reduce the number of fishing-related deaths on Lake Victoria has commenced.Lake Victoria is the world's second-larges (By Jan)...Sierra Leone: Streets Paved With Diamonds - Someday
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Koidu - Sierra Leoneans have welcomed government efforts to redraft mineral legislation, hoping this will lead to a boost in spending on much-needed public services, but analysts say more drastic refo (By Jan)...South Africa: Cameras 'absolutely critical' - Zille
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Caryn Dolley"When I saw the layout of the ward and how the staff are stretched, I could see how a determined abductor could get away with it," Premier Helen Zille said after visiting the Tygerberg (By Jan)...South Africa: Hunger strike at Limpopo prison drags on
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Nontobeko MtshaliPrisoners at the Kutama Sintumele Correctional Centre in Limpopo are on a hunger strike.According to Dennis McCarthy, the financial officer for South African Custodial Management, (By Jan)...Editorial: Does Africa Need Food Aid?
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Lagos - The Group of 8 at its last meeting pledged 20 billion dollars in agricultural aid to African countries to the delight the beggarly African leaders and some aid agencies, but not everybody is h (By Jan)...Africa: Finance chief unfazed by bullet in envelope
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe's Finance Minister and deputy leader of the former opposition Movement for Democratic Change, Tendai Biti, on Monday received a bullet and a written threat in the post at his home in (By Jan)...Nigeria: Atlas Cove Victim Gets Military Burial
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Eugene AghaLagos - Tears of sorrow flowed down the cheeks of both senior naval officers and ratings in Lagos as the remains of the officer In-Charge of Atlas Cove Jetty; Navy Commander Kayode Aweh, (By Jan)...South Africa: SAPS member arrested for corruption, theft
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Western Cape police have arrested a 35-year-old police constable for allegedly stealing and selling police radio equipment.A lengthy and thorough investigation resulted in the arrest of the constable (By Jan)...South Africa: Robber dies after shooting himself
Monday 27-Jul-2009: An armed man accidentally killed himself during a robbery at a store in Delft South.Police said three gun-wielding men had walked into the store on Saturday afternoon, demanding money. One man went be (By Jan)...Angolan in Court on Cocaine Count
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Werner MengesAN 18-year-old Angolan citizen has become the latest suspect to appear in a Namibian court in connection with a wave of arrests of alleged cocaine couriers who are charged with bringin (By Jan)...South Africa: Parents battle to pay school kids' fees
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Cape Town schools are facing a financial meltdown as parents battle to pay fees amid renewed calls to scrap them.Tough economic times find parents battling to pay their debts and this seems to have pu (By Jan)...Kenya: Under the Common Law, a Dog is Allowed One Bite Free
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Peter MwauraNairobi - William Shakespeare captures the spirit famously. In The Merchant of Venice, Shylock tells Antonio (in modern English): "You called me a dog before you had any reason to. But (By Jan)...Nigeria: Petroleum Bill - Niger Delta Governors Have Impressed Us, Says Ikpomnwen
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Simon EbegbulemBenin City - Former Provost Marshal of the Nigeria Army and Chairman of the South South Elders and Leaders Forum (SSELF), Brig.Gen. Don Idada Ikpomnwen is one of the foremost leaders (By Jan)...Africa: Clinton Should Stress Human Rights On Trip
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: New York - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should emphasize human rights on her seven-nation trip to Africa, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Clinton.The eight-day trip, to begin on (By Jan)...Egypt: Christian-Muslim Tensions Rise
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: A handful of recent clashes between Muslims and Christians has again raised the spectre of sectarian discord in Egypt. The incidents, though relatively minor, highlight longstanding tensions between t (By Jan)...Science: Secret dolphin slaughter captured on film
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Christine KearneyNew York - A tense new film shows Japanese fishermen luring thousands of wild dolphins into a hidden secret cove in Japan where activists say they are captured for marine amusement (By Jan)...World: 'Al-Qaeda' claims hotel attacks: blog
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Jakarta - An Internet blog purportedly speaking on behalf of a group calling itself "al-Qaeda Organisation Indonesia" has claimed responsibility for the July 17 Jakarta hotel bombings.The entry was po (By Jan)...Science: Fears that contagious bee disease has spread
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Craig McKuneThe contagious bee disease American Foulbrood (AFB) has now surfaced beyond the so called "capensis line", raising fears it could have spread from Cape honey bees to the African honey b (By Jan)...South Africa: Girl, 13, abuses brother after alleged rape
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: A 13-year-old girl, allegedly the victim of rape, is being put in a place of safety after sexually assaulting her eight-year-old brother in Wattville near Benoni, Gauteng police said on Wednesday.The (By Jan)...World: Robbers escape with officers' pay
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Baghdad - Robbers stole at least $4,8-million (about R32-million) in an overnight raid on a Baghdad bank that left eight police guards dead, police and a bank employee said on Tuesday.The money had ju (By Jan)...South Africa: Thieves might have started Joburg fire
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Power has been restored to most of the inner-city area that had no electricity, leaving only about 10 city blocks facing a few more days in the dark.City Power spokesperson Louis Pieterse said this mo (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Strikes could spark political concern'
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By Stella MapenzauswaSouth African council workers went into a second day of strikes for higher pay on Tuesday in the latest stand-off between President Jacob Zuma and labour unions that helped him to (By Jan)...Africa: Taylor denies cannibalism accusation
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: The Hague - Liberia's former president Charles Taylor yesterday denied he had eaten human flesh or ordered his troops to do so as he faced allegations at his war crimes trial."It is sickening. You mus (By Jan)...Zim: Paying the water bill prevents cholera
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: "If clean water is cut off, then residents to look for alternative sources" Harare - Zimbabweans have been given the good news and bad news about their water supplies. First, the government de (By Jan)...South Africa: D-Day in teacher rape case
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Lavern de VriesThe Director of Public Prosecutions was expected to meet police on Friday to decide whether they will arrest and charge a teacher implicated in the alleged rape of a 16-year-old pupi (By Jan)...South Africa: Cele should not be top cop - readers
Friday 31-Jul-2009: South Africa's new police commissioner has been appointed by President Jacob Zuma.IOL asked its readers: "Is Bheki Cele the right choice for the job of police commissioner?"Of the 1 248 people who par (By Jan)...Africa: Zim lifts reporting restrictions on BBC
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: London - The Zimbabwean government has lifted a ban on the BBC reporting freely from the former British colony, ending restrictions in place for eight years, the broadcaster said Thursday."The Zimbabw (By Jan)...South Africa: Three up for rape, armed robbery
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Three men were arrested on Wednesday for armed robbery and rape in Soshanguve, Gauteng police said.The three, aged 16, 18 and 29, were arrested after one of them was identified by their alleged female (By Jan)...South Africa: Banyana Banyana alleged killers in dock
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Three men accused of raping and killing Banyana Banyana soccer player Eudy Simelane were expected to appear in the Delmas Circuit Court on Wednesday.Khumbulani Magagula, Johannes Mahlangu and Themba M (By Jan)...Africa: MDC youth leader held by police
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe's deputy youth minister was arrested on Tuesday over a stolen cellphone, prompting a warning by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party that its lawmakers were being harassed.Thamsa (By Jan)...South Africa: Ex-Bafana star denies he fired fatal shot
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By Jade WittenFormer Bafana Bafana soccer star Bradley August has denied a suggestion by the defence in the Wynberg Regional Court that it was he who shot a 21-year-old man, killing him, outside a Hei (By Jan)...South Africa: R61m claim over police raid on kids
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Police and social services are facing a damages claim of more than R61-million following an early morning raid by a task team on the Genadeplaas headquarters nearly four years ago.During the raid 21 c (By Jan)...Uganda: Suspected Thugs Shoot at Police Spokesperson
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Chris KiwawuloKampala - SUSPECTED thugs attacked and shot at the Uganda Police Force spokesperson, Judith Nabakooba, as she retired from work on Thursday night.The attackers were moving in a saloon (By Jan)...South Africa: School bullies' rule of fear
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Doreen PremdevA spate of violent attacks on school pupils by their peers has exposed the frightening reality of bullying at schools. In the past few days, five cases of assault and assault with int (By Jan)...South Africa: Dangers of drag racing can be avoided
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Candice Bailey and Sameer NaikThe smell of burnt tyres fills the air. Souped-up cars line the narrow two-lane street. Groups of young people stand around, eagerly waiting and watching as the two co (By Jan)...Africa: United Nations Peacekeepers Overstretched, U.S. Ambassador Says
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Stephen KaufmanThe 93,000 U.N. peacekeepers deployed in 15 conflict areas around the world are saving lives and bringing stability to troubled areas, but U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan (By Jan)...South Africa: Suspected serial killer identified
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: A witness who identified a man accused of murdering 13 women and dumping their bodies in sugarcane fields, burst into tears when she explained the modus operandi used by the accused, the Scottburgh H (By Jan)...World: Spain weary as ETA marks 50th anniversary
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Madrid - Spain went on maximum alert on Friday as ETA marked its 50th anniversary after two bombings this week blamed on the Basque separatist group, including an attack that killed two police officer (By Jan)...Southern Africa: Angola Ends Presidency of SADC Defence and Security Organ
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Luanda - Angola ends its chair of the ministerial troika of political, defence and security cooperation body of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), after a three-year mandate.The cease o (By Jan)...South Africa: Court told of killer's methods
Friday 31-Jul-2009: A man accused of murdering 13 women and dumping their bodies in sugarcane fields, allegedly used the same method to lure his victims before he killed them, the Scottburgh High Court heard on Thursday. (By Jan)...Uganda: Peacekeepers in Somalia Hit By Strange Disease
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Kampala - A strange disease has killed two Ugandan peace-keepers in Somalia and affected 17 others who were flown to a hospital in Nairobi yesterday, according to the UPDF."One died in Mogadishu on Tu (By Jan)...Ghana: Civil Society Advocate for Speedy Development of Biofuel Policy
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Ama Achiaa AmankwahAccra - The Civil Society Coalition on Land (CICOL) has urged government to expedite action on the further development and implementation of the biofuel policy in Ghana.The coali (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Set to Meet Security Chiefs on Thursday
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Tichaona SibandaThe first ever meeting between the Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and the country's service chiefs is set for Harare on Thursday.The National Security Council (NSC), which was con (By Jan)...South Africa: Concourt seeks clarity on secret Hlophe probe
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: The Constitutional Court wants answers about the Judicial Service Commission's plans to hold a secret preliminary probe into Judge John Hlophe's alleged misconduct.And South Africa's highest court has (By Jan)...World: Aussie admits involvement in bomb plot
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Melbourne - An Australian convert to Islam on Tuesday admitted being part of a terror cell that plotted to kill thousands of people by bombing major sports events, just moments before his retrial.Shan (By Jan)...Science: UK unveils weapon to fight climate change
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By Nina ChestneyRenfrew, Scotland - A pilot project in Scotland has begun testing a method of cutting the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, which Britain hopes will be a leap forw (By Jan)...South Africa: Wife kidnapped during robbery
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By Jacques BreytenbachA Nigerian woman has been left "severely traumatised" after she was kidnapped by two men during a robbery at her Waterkloof Ridge home at the weekend.And after being freed by her (By Jan)...Africa: Clinton confirms seven-nation tour
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Washington - American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit seven African countries next month to "highlight" the priority President Barack Obama places on the continent, her spokesperson said (By Jan)...South Africa: Kids have crawled into my heart, says top cop
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Lavern de VriesThe Investigating officer who single-handedly exposed a porn ring in Beaufort West, in which a top ANC official in the town allegedly distributed images of under-age and poverty-stri (By Jan)...Africa: Darfur activists worry of US easing on Sudan
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Washington - Darfur activists are concerned that the latest comments by the Obama administration's special envoy for Sudan are a sign the United States is easing pressure on Khartoum.They are also exp (By Jan)...Zim: MDC MP held for denigrating Bob
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Picked up by plain clothes officers who accused him of playing a popular MDC song extolling Tsvangirai Harare - Zimbabwean police arrested a legislator from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's (By Jan)...ATMs are a Hazard
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Kae Matundu-TjiparuroWITTINGLY or unwittingly to genuine taxi drivers, or owners for that matter, it is a fact that taxis are used in many different crimes.Only this Monday, amid the commotion by t (By Jan)...Africa: 'Life is miserable here'
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Kamwaura, Kenya - "They've pulled up my crops again," said Jane Wangui, a Kikuyu who still lives in a camp for fear of returning to the farm near ethnic Kalenjin she fled last year. "I can no longer t (By Jan)...Investors Bankrolled Potgieter's Lavish Lifestyle
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Werner MengesTHE founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Prowealth group of companies, Riaan Potgieter, used tens of millions of Namibia dollars belonging to Prowealth investors to finance his o (By Jan)...South Africa: Arrest Rampaging Strikers, Says Zuma
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Amy MusgraveJohannesburg - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma says that striking municipal workers who have destroyed property and littered the streets should be arrested.More than 30 municipal employees have be (By Jan)...Country's Diamond Exports Drop 30 Percent
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Jo-Maré DuddyDIAMOND exports fell by nearly 30 per cent last year as the global economic crisis shrunk spending power worldwide.Despite mining 2,1 million carats, Namdeb only managed to export 1,61 (By Jan)...Africa: Ending Continent's Food Crisis
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Tarjei Kidd OlsenOslo - Africa's food crisis can be alleviated by modernising agriculture and reforming supply chains so that small-scale farmers get cheaper fertiliser and high-yield seeds, expert (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Selebi's reign had disastrous effects'
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: The Democratic Alliance on Tuesday urged President Jacob Zuma to appoint a national police commissioner with experience, expertise and independence."On the eve of the announcement of a new... commissi (By Jan)...South Africa: New effort to fight Aids unveiled
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: A new government initiative to fight HIV and Aids in South Africa was unveiled by Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor on Tuesday."South Africa is investigating every possible avenue to beat (By Jan)...Science: Offshore wind could be next wave for US
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By Scott MaloneHyannis, Massachusetts - The Cape Cod resort area, famous for sandy beaches and centuries-old fishing villages, could in the next few years claim a new title of home to the United State (By Jan)...Zim: Row on cabinet leaks
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: An MDC minister said reports in the public media were “leaks†from a “well-known senior civil servant†Potentially explosive political row has erupted over damaging leaks to the press (By Jan)...World: Iran plunged into fresh political turmoil
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Tehran - Iran was plunged into fresh political turmoil on Sunday as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sacked his intelligence minister while his culture minister resigned, saying the government has been w (By Jan)...The Last Nail in Microsoft's coffin - Death to Microsoft - Viva the Linux Revolution...
Monday 27-Jul-2009: [I've not dumped Microsoft yet, and I like a lot of what is in Microsoft, especially the extremely powerful macro facilities that most people don't know anything about. However, I am seriously thinkin (By Jan)...Uganda: Rights Activists Want Aurien Probe
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Francis KagoloKampala - WOMEN rights activists have asked the Government to order the re-investigation of the murder case against the former Mukono district Police commander, James Peter Aurien."We (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Number of Displaced in South Kivu Jumps By 600 Percent
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Kinshasa - The number of people fleeing fighting and reprisal attacks by Rwandan Hutu Forces démocratiques pour la libération du Rwanda (FDLR) militia in eastern Democratic Republic of C (By Jan)...Africa: MDC MP held for denigrating Bob
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Harare - Zimbabwean police arrested a legislator from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party on Friday for playing a song they said denigrated President Robert Mugabe, the Movement for Democratic Ch (By Jan)...South Africa: Thank you India - Mandela
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Former president Nelson Mandela has thanked India for its immense influence on South Africa's struggle for freedom from the oppression of apartheid.That influence was made in particular by Mahatma Gan (By Jan)...Kenya: Local Courts to Try Waki List Suspects
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Bernard Namunane and John NgirachuNairobi - A divided Cabinet on Thursday gave up on a local tribunal and decided to clean up the police force and the local courts and have them try post election v (By Jan)...Africa: Cholera epidemic contained, says Madzorera
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe's health minister said on Thursday that a cholera epidemic has ended, after more than 4 200 deaths and 100 000 cases since last August, but warned new outbreaks remain a threat."The (By Jan)...Cautious optimism returns to Zimbabwe
Friday 31-Jul-2009: "Here officially now, rather than sneaking around under cover" The Zimbabwe Government has told the BBC there is no ban on its operations and it can resume reporting, legally and openly, in Zi (By Jan)...South Africa: Service delivery protests erupt
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Nikita Sylvester and Henri du PlessisPolice and hundreds of residents clashed violently in Masiphumelele near Fish Hoek on Thursday morning, leaving a trail of rubber bullet casings and burning rub (By Jan)...Africa: Guinea-Bissau holds runoff vote on president
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Bissau, Guinea-Bissau - Voters in tiny Guinea-Bissau, battered by decades of coups and countercoups, have cast ballots for a new president, hoping to elect someone who can bring peace and stability t (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mawere Saga Simmers as Chinamasa & Mnangagwa Hold Firm
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Lance GumaDefence Minister Emerson Mnangagwa and Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa are holding firm in blocking the return of the Shabani Mashaba Mine conglomerate to its owner the South African b (By Jan)...Taxi Drama Continues - Eighteen Drivers Arrested
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: ABOUT 18 taxi drivers were arrested yesterday, after the fracas that started on the streets of Windhoek on Monday continued yesterday morning outside the Katutura Multi-purpose Youth Centre.The chaos (By Jan)...Cash Crunch Trips Up Bail of Lameck and Co
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Werner MengesTHE Teko Trading trio's time in custody in Windhoek Central Prison is set to stretch to a month before they will be applying to be released on bail.Four months after millions of Namibi (By Jan)...Africa: Taking the Aids Battle to 'Closet Gays'
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Dagi KimaniNairobi - Fearing the stigma and discrimination that their lifestyle attracts, most gay people in Africa hide behind a facade of normality -- even getting married and having children, in (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Civil Society 'Taking Charge' of New Constitution
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Stanley KwendaHarare - Barely two weeks after the start of an official process to draw up a new constitution for Zimbabwe was delayed by supporters of Robert Mugabe, it faces another challenge: civ (By Jan)...Zim: MDC formations to appoint 5 ambassadors
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Germany, Australia, Sudan, Nigeria and Senegal By Nqobizitha KhumaloBulawayo - Zimbabwe's coalition government will name former opposition officials to head diplomatic missions in five countri (By Jan)...Africa: Ethiopia finds foreigner guilty of terrorism
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Barry MaloneAddis Ababa - A Canadian citizen could face the death penalty in Ethiopia after a court found him guilty on Monday of being a member of a rebel group fighting for autonomy for an ethnic (By Jan)...Nigeria: Governors Storm Abuja Over Oil Bill
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Emma Amaize and Emmanuel AzikenWarri - GOVERNORS of the South-South region who stormed Abuja at the weekend, have started lobbying Senators towards throwing out certain provisions of the proposed P (By Jan)...Zimbabwe finance minister's aide attacked, MDC claims
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Last week Biti received a letter with a live bullet inside Harare - An aide of Zimbabwe's Finance Minister and deputy leader of the former opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Tend (By Jan)...South Africa: 'What if I also lose my husband?'
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Niyanta SinghDalene Gouws should have every reason to hate her husband Ashley, but she says she still loves the man charged with stabbing their two youngest children to death with a pitchfork.Ashle (By Jan)...Liberia: Johnson-Sirleaf Meets Pohamba
Friday 31-Jul-2009: The Sirleaf Administration will have a full hand and a full house in the next two days as it hosts President Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia and his entourage. The relationship between Namibia and Libe (By Jan)...Uganda: Arua Accident Kills 10, Injures 80
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Frank MugabiKampala - TEN people died and 80 suffered serious injuries after a lorry transporting over 100 tobacco farmers crushed on the Arua-Yumbe road yesterday.The late afternoon tragedy occurr (By Jan)...Namibia: Farm Protesters Continue to Defy Govt Order to Leave
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Denver IsaacsDEFIANCE is the message at Ongombo East, as the 300-strong group squatting on the fringes of the farm outside Windhoek, stay put despite being ordered to leave.They were given a 48-hou (By Jan)...Africa: Voters make their mark in Guinea-Bissau
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Bissau - Voters went to the polls in Guinea-Bissau on Sunday for a presidential runoff between two former heads of state of the coup-prone West African nation, whose veteran leader was assassinated in (By Jan)...Science: Greek hunters say no to solar energy
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Ingrid MelanderMegalopolis, Greece - Lignite power plants belch dust and smoke into the air above the southern Greek town of Megalopolis, but residents resistant to environmental arguments have blo (By Jan)...Uganda: Police Boss Free of Wife's Murder
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Hillary NsambuKampala - THE Director of Public Prosecutions has withdrawn the murder case against the former Mukono district Police commander, James Peter Aurien, following the mysterious disappear (By Jan)...Nigeria: Court Sends Commission's Boss, Nine Others to Kuje Prison
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By Ise-Oluwa IgeA Federal high court sitting in Abuja yesterday issued an order remanding the Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Mass Literacy Adult and Non formal Education, Dr Dayo O (By Jan)...World: Al-Qaeda man jailed for Bush plan
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Washington - United States national Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for joining an al-Qaeda plot to assassinate then-president George W. Bush, court officials said.The sen (By Jan)...South Africa: Electricity at the half the price
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Mogomotsi MagomeEskom is losing millions of rands in stolen pre-paid electricity to a syndicate operating in Pretoria townships.Some residents in Atteridgeville, Garankuwa, Hammanskraal and from as (By Jan)...South Africa: Little Geely pops a big wheelie for metro cop
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Can a Chinese-made Geely car cover 4,6km in just 19 seconds - at 871km/h? Yes say the Joburg metro police, this is quite possible. For, on April 26, they caught Midrand motorist Francisca Al-Halaseh o (By Jan)...Rwanda: FDLR Rebel Shot While Defecting
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Stevenson MugishaRusizi - A FDLR rebel is admitted at Gihundwe Hospital after he was shot and injured by his colleagues as he tried to defect to Rwanda from the militias' base in the DRC.The rebel, (By Jan)...South Africa: No danger of a recession, assures Manuel
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By David CanningFears of a looming United States and global recession seemed unfounded, said Finance Minister Trevor Manuel in Durban at the weekend.He was addressing a banquet ahead of a Durban econo (By Jan)...Africa: Yar'Adua proposes new oil bill
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Lagos - Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, his country hit by an unprecedented fall in crude production after three years of militant attacks, is facing mounting pressure to divert more government rev (By Jan)...South Africa: SA warns Bashir
Friday 31-Jul-2009: South Africa will arrest Sudan's President Omar al-Beshir if he visits the country, despite an African Union decision to ignore a war crimes warrant against him, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. (By Jan)...South Africa: Sentencing put on hold in gang rape case
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: The sentencing of seven men found guilty of brutally raping a woman in 2005 was postponed in the High Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday.Judge Lucy Mailula postponed sentencing to August 26 as reports, (By Jan)...South Africa: Hospital Security inadequate - readers
Monday 27-Jul-2009: It 's something that every new mother fears: her newborn baby being stolen from hospital.A baby boy has been snatched from a maternity ward at a hospital where his mother is lying in a coma, unaware h (By Jan)...Tsvangirai backs payouts for Zimbabwe's victims
Monday 27-Jul-2009: "Some form of compensation has to be considered" Lizwe SebataZimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday said the government would consider compensating victims of last year's politi (By Jan)...South Africa: ATM bombed at Walter Sisulu University
Monday 27-Jul-2009: An ATM was bombed and security guards robbed at Walter Sisulu University in Butterworth, Eastern Cape police said on Monday.Three armed men robbed the security guards of their cellphones at gunpoint i (By Jan)...Kenya: Fake And Expired Drugs Seized
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Barnabas BiiNairobi - Counterfeit and expired drugs were seized in Kenya's Eldoret Town on Friday and a suspect arrested in a crackdown by the Pharmacy and Poison Board.Also confiscated in the raid (By Jan)...South Africa: Farmworker mistaken for guinea fowl, shot
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: A supervisor at a farm in Sweizer-Reneke was arrested for allegedly shooting dead a farmworker he allegedly mistook for a guinea fowl, North West police said on Saturday."The 21-year-old supervisor sa (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Meets Generals in Groundbreaking Meeting
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Tichaona SibandaThe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and the country's powerful service chiefs met on Thursday in Harare, the first such meeting at the highest political level since the formation o (By Jan)...World: Bud Light for 'mediator' Obama
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By David AlexanderWashington - President Barack Obama played bartender-in-chief on Thursday at a White House "beer summit" featuring the main players in a racially charged case that distracted him fro (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Generals 'Not Obliged' to Salute Tsvangirai
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - Zimbabwe's Defence Minister says army generals are not obliged to salute Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai despite the power sharing agreement with President Robert Mugabe.T (By Jan)...Liberia: Govt And Namibia Sign Agreement
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Monrovia - Liberia and Namibia have signed an agreement on cooperation and a Memorandum of Understanding on Fisheries.Under the tourism agreement, signed at the Roberts International airport Thursday, (By Jan)...Africa: OECD and AfDB Join Forces in the Fight Against Corruption
Friday 31-Jul-2009: The fight against corruption will gain momentum with the launch of the Anti-Bribery and Business Integrity in Africa initiative supported by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the OECD.As the wor (By Jan)...Liberia: Sirleaf Moves Cautiously On Truth Commission Report
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Gbarnga - When Liberians elected President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in a tightly-fought presidential race in 2005, they did so out of hope for a brighter Liberia. In the President's Special July 26 Messa (By Jan)...Nigeria: Governors Adamant Over Amnesty Pull-Out
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Leke Adeseri, Emma Amaize, Chris Ochayi and Oscarline OnwuemenyiIkeja - THE Governors of the South-South remain adamant on their readiness to pull out of the Federal Government's amnesty for milita (By Jan)...Rival Presidents Embrace in Senegal, Disputed Election Results Annulled
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Ofeibea Quist-ArctonDakar, Senegal - The two rival presidents of Madagascar met face to face on Wednesday, inan unprecedented peace gesture organised by the Senegalese president,Abdoulaye Wade, und (By Jan)...South Africa: Drug syndicate case postponed
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Three foreign nationals suspected of running a drug syndicate in South Africa appeared in the Cleveland Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, the National Crime Intelligence Unit said.Senior Superintendent (By Jan)...South Africa: From Zim to the Cape, boy tells of journey
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By Francis HwesheHe is only 15 years old, but earlier this year Tapiwa Chiwanda embarked on a gruelling four-day journey from his home in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe, to Cape Town.Here, he hoped to start a new l (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops push to identify 12 who died in crash
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Southern Cape police will on Monday continue with their efforts to identify the victims of a Plettenberg Bay N2 crash, caused by a driver suspected of being under the influence of alcohol. The acciden (By Jan)...World: Two killed in Tel Aviv gay centre shooting
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Jerusalem - A masked man opened fired on crowd in front of a gay community centre in Tel Aviv Saturday, killing a man and a woman and wounding at least 10 other people, Israeli emergency services said (By Jan)...World: Sailor charged with murder commits suicide
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: San Diego - A sailor charged with murder who committed suicide in a military jail at Camp Pendleton asphyxiated himself by stuffing toilet paper in his mouth, according to a US Navy spokesman.Petty Of (By Jan)...Southern Africa: Bumper Harvest Expected in Tanzania, SADC States
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Wilfred EdwinNairobi - Food production in Tanzania is set to increase to 11.5 million metric tonnes, an additional 600,000 tonnes from last year's 10.9 million.This is in line with other countries (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Brace yourselves for more interest hikes'
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: South Africans must brace themselves for more interest rate hikes this year, economist Adam Jacobs said on Tuesday.The rates could go up another three or four percentage points, Jacobs, former senior (By Jan)...South Africa: Police probe torture allegations
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: An investigation has been launched into allegations that police tortured the wife of a missing Ga-Rankuwa detective, Superintendent Eugene Opperman said on Friday."Everything will be investigated ... (By Jan)...Africa: Guinea-Bissau votes
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Alberto Dabo Bissau - Guinea-Bissau must decide between two former leaders in a presidential run-off on Sunday that many fear could stir violence rather than restore stability following the assassi (By Jan)...South Africa: 'State stopped early Krion probe'
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: The trade and industry department stopped a probe into a forerunner of the Krion investment scheme because it believed investors had been paid back, the High Court in Pretoria heard on Wednesday.This (By Jan)...Fuel Companies Go On Strike
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Maputo - Despite government promises that they will be compensated for the difference between Mozambican and international fuel prices, private fuel companies have begun to go on strike, reducing the (By Jan)...Papal Envoy Calls for an End to Witchcraft
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: The outgoing papal representative in Angola and Sao Tome & Principe, Archbishop Angelo Becciu, has called for an end to witchcraft accusations against children.During a mass marking the 124th annivers (By Jan)...South Africa: Protest turns violent in Simile
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: A police officer was hurt as protesters burnt down a library and set fire to municipal vehicles over poor service delivery in Simile township near Sabie, Mpumalanga police said."Two Thaba Chweu munici (By Jan)...Africa: Horror Zim accident leaves scores dead
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Harare - At least 33 people were killed and several others injured when a bus overturned after colliding with a lorry south of the capital on Sunday, state radio reported.Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corpo (By Jan)...Africa: Thirty-three die in Zim crash
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Harare - At least 33 people were killed and several others injured when a bus overturned after colliding with a lorry south of the capital on Sunday, state radio reported.Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corpora (By Jan)...South Africa: 'He allegedly then undressed and raped her'
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: A 74-year-old man was arrested in Jabulani for allegedly raping his 16-year-old stepdaughter, Soweto police said on Sunday.Inspector Kay Makhubele said the man was arrested on Saturday following the J (By Jan)...Free Higher Education for All
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Nicky MutendaWe have established the obvious fact that education is the key to the socio-economic development of the country and releasing the potential of the individual in terms of human resource (By Jan)...South Africa: Mining Company Sets Plan to Retain JSE Listing
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Charlotte MathewsJohannesburg - MINING investment and exploration company White Water Resources would have devised an operational, technical and financial plan within the next six months that would (By Jan)...South Africa: Woman escapes sex attack
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Sherlissa PetersA Pietermaritzburg woman is counting her blessings after surviving a brutal attack in her home.Supt Henry Budhram said the 36-year-old woman was attacked in her Alexandra Extension (By Jan)...Africa: Bissau votes in presidential run-off
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Bissau - Voters go to the polls on Sunday in Guinea-Bissau where two former heads of state are in a run-off to lead the coup-ridden West African nation which has become a haven for drug runners.The tw (By Jan)...Africa: SA will honour ICC pledge
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Pretoria - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir - who faces an international warrant of arrest for alleged war crimes - would be arrested "today" if he were to land in South Africa, the department of int (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Heroes Day - 12 Days to Go Dr. Herbert Musiyiwa Ushewokunze
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Harare - Variously described as controversial, flamboyant and traditionalist, Dr Herbert Musiyiwa Ushewokunze was a charming cadre who ignited Zimbabwe's political scene by his witticism and openness. (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Body parts' case postponed
Friday 31-Jul-2009: The case against a man who allegedly sold body parts in Lydenburg was postponed in local magistrate's court on Thursday, Mpumalanga police said.Captain Leonard Hlathi said funeral parlour worker Ben M (By Jan)...South Africa: New Top Policeman is Not in Unfamiliar Territory
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Hajra OmarjeeJohannesburg - BHEKI Hamilton Cele is not a policeman, but he is in familiar territory as the new national police commissioner.He led the African National Congress's (ANC's) efforts to (By Jan)...Africa: UN envoy urges improved Chad-Sudan relations
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: United Nations - A senior UN envoy called on Tuesday for efforts to reduce tensions between Chad and Sudan and to tackle increasing insecurity in the neighbouring Central African Republic in order to (By Jan)...Science: Prehistoric goo may speed warming
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Dmitry SolovyovDuvanny, Russia - Sergei Zimov bends down, picks up a handful of treacly mud and holds it up to his nose. It smells like a cow pat, but he knows better."It smells like mammoth dung," (By Jan)...South Africa: Man charged with Zondi murder killed
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Makhosabo Mkhize who was charged with the murder of Inkosi Mbongeleni Zondi was killed at his home in KwaMashu outside Durban, police said on Wednesday.Mkhize, 25, and his co-accused, Siphamandla Mhlo (By Jan)...South Africa: Cop's disappearance 'not linked to his cases'
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By Lesego MasemolaProvincial police spokesman Eugene Opperman on Thursday dismissed speculation that the disappearance of top Ga-Rankuwa police Detective Andrew Rapeta might be linked to cases he was (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Krion was Ponzi-type scheme'
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: The collapsed Krion investment scheme was a Ponzi-type scheme operated by an "organised crime family", the High Court in Pretoria heard on Tuesday.Prosecutor Arno Rossouw said the scheme was a Ponzi, (By Jan)...South Africa: Mom killed in front of kids
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By Sherlissa Peters"If I can't have you, nobody else will. Till death do us part!" These were the chilling words that Jaiseelan (Jason) Govindsamy is alleged to have uttered as he repeatedly stabbed h (By Jan)...South Africa: Gunman kills himself during shop raid
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: An alleged robber became his own victim when he accidentally shot and killed himself during an attack on a Somali-owned shop in Delft over the weekend.The incident took place after 4pm on Saturday whe (By Jan)...Zim: Committee wants Zanu PF officials charged
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Paul Mangwana was not available for comment. David Coltart was also not available By Lizwe SebataBulawayo - A special parliamentary committee leading Zimbabwe's constitutional reforms wants to (By Jan)...South Africa: Noisy sex romp led to killing, court told
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Newspapers are for wiping your bum with and rolling dagga joints. At least in prison.This statement was part of the evidence presented by a state witness in the Johannesburg High Court trial of Wayne (By Jan)...Tanzania: Multinationals Now Target Land
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Zephania UbwaniArusha - Tanzania's huge land mass could be eyed by multinationals intending to lease it for bio fuel production.Already five regions; Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Coast, Tanga and Mbeya h (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Syndicate involved' in R1.8m Vodacom fraud
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: A Vodacom employee accused of fraud worth R1.8-million was granted bail on Friday in the Johannesburg Commercial Crimes Court.Mbokodana Khoza is alleged to have used his position as a Vodacom engineer (By Jan)...Rwanda: Soldier Kills Two, Shoots Self
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Robert MugabeKigali - Three Rwanda Defence Forces soldiers attached to 61 Battalion operating near Virunga National Park at Rwanda-DRC boarder are dead following a shoot out in incident that occurr (By Jan)...Africa: Clashes displaces thousands in CAR
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Natasha Elkington London - Fighting in the north of Central African Republic (CAR) has uprooted more than 125 000 people in the last year and access to them is likely to worsen with the approaching (By Jan)...BEE Policy Still Stuck in Starting Blocks
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Brigitte WeidlichFIVE years after Government decided to create a policy for black economic empowerment (BEE), the actual draft document is still waiting for the ruling Swapo Party leadership to giv (By Jan)...Robben Island Vets Get Some Land of Their Own
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Denver IsaacsABOUT 60 liberation struggle veterans, who spent years of their lives locked up on Robben Island, yesterday became the official owners of about 380 hectares of farmland on the expropri (By Jan)...Africa: Chinese Agricultural Boom 'Holds Lessons for Continent'
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Carol CampbellOudtshoorn - Africa can learn lessons from China about how technology can make better use of fertile agricultural land to feed people, according to a new report.A section of the repor (By Jan)...South Africa: Boy climbs out window as fire engulfs house
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Botho MolosankweA traumatised domestic worker's employer called out to her to open the gate minutes before he, his wife and son perished in a fire.When Manie Roos, 43, called Margaret Mokoroane to (By Jan)...Somalia: Impose Sanctions on Peace Spoilers in Country
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: THE UN Security Council earlier this month warned Eritrea it would consider action against anyone undermining peace in Somalia.The warning followed an unprecedented appeal by African Union leaders to (By Jan)...Nigeria: Oil Not for Niger Delta People Alone - Sambe
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Terna DokiJOHN SAMBE is a teacher in the Department of Mass Communication at the Benue State University (BSU) Makurdi. In this interview with Correspondent, TERNA DOKI, in Makurdi, the don says the (By Jan)...Nigeria: AP - CBN Absolves Access Bank of Blames
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Kingsley IghomwenghianLagos - A week after the foreign exchange face-off between African Petroleum Plc and Access Bank blew into the open, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), at the weekend called f (By Jan)...Liberia: 'Shame' Felt By Young Assault Victim's Family Decried
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: The president of Liberia spoke Friday on the sexual assault of an 8-year-old Liberian refugee in Phoenix, Arizona, decrying reports that the parents believe their family has been shamed by the girl.Pr (By Jan)...Central African Republic: Senior UN Aid Official Visits Town Beset By Recent Deadly Violence
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: A senior United Nations humanitarian official has kicked off a five-day visit to the Central African Republic (CAR) by visiting a north-eastern town that last month was the scene of deadly inter-ethni (By Jan)...South Africa: Most workers on the job: Masondo
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Most municipal employees showed up for work on Tuesday, SA Local Government Association (Salga) chairman Amos Masondo said."We appreciate that on Monday at least 60 percent of our essential service wo (By Jan)...Africa: Kidnap victims freed after Nigerian unrest
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Nigerian police said on Saturday they have rescued 230 women and children kidnapped from several northern states and brought to the city of Maiduguri during this week's deadly Is (By Jan)...World: Bin Laden in Pakistan?
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Islamabad - Pakistan's civilian government reiterated on Thursday it had "no evidence" that al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden was in the nuclear-armed Muslim country, as Washington has charged."Al-Q (By Jan)...Science: Californians' green concern cools - poll
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Peter HendersonSan Francisco - The tough economy has undermined the environmental enthusiasm of Californians, hitting the US state that pioneered climate change legislation just as the federal gove (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Minister Arrested Over Cellphone Theft
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Innocent RuwendeHarare - Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empower-ment Deputy Minister Thamsanqa Mahlangu (MDC-T) was arrested yesterday after he was implicated in the theft of war veterans' l (By Jan)...South Africa: 'There is no drinking on our strike'
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Municipal workers spread litter around the second level of Cape Town station on Wednesday after tossing rocks and bottles at the police and starting a small street fire.The SA Municipal Workers' Union (By Jan)...Ethiopia: Disputed Land Outside Jurisdiction, High Court Rules
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Addisu AlemnehThe Federal High Court recently ruled they had no jurisdiction over a disputed plot leased from the city administration.The Eighth Civil Bench of the Federal High Court, presided by J (By Jan)...South Africa: Strike closes Pretoria municipal offices
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: The Centurion and Akasia municipal offices in Pretoria were closed on Wednesday when staff were intimidated."Striking municipal workers armed with sticks overturned refuse bins in Centurion and threat (By Jan)...South Africa: No guarantees as strike intensifies
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: The City of Johannesburg has admitted that because of high levels of intimidation, it cannot guarantee even a minimal service in many departments because of the municipal strike.City spokesperson Nth (By Jan)...World: 'She should burn in hell'
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: San Antonio, Texas - The warning signs were there. Otty Sanchez, a schizophrenic with a history of hospital stays, wasn't taking medication and was depressed after her son's birth, the boy's father sa (By Jan)...Africa: State knew about drug trials, says Pfizer
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Kano, Nigeria - US drugmaker Pfizer and Nigeria's northern Kano state have clinched a final out-of-court settlement concerning the 1996 drug trials that led to the deaths of 11 children, lawyers said (By Jan)...South Africa: Two burnt to death in truck accident
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Two passengers burnt to death when a truck collided with an iron bar on the N1 freeway at the Witvlug off-ramp on Tuesday, Limpopo police said.Captain Maano Sabike said the truck's brakes failed at 6a (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Any type of crime is not cool'
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By LESEGO MASEMOLAPupils of Hoërskool Silverton came face to face with the chilling reality of prison life when they stood side by side with criminals - some their own age - who are serving sente (By Jan)...World: Europe beats back wildfires
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Madrid - Firefighters gained the upper hand against deadly wildfires across southern Europe but warned on Monday that the flames could flare up again with sizzling temperatures and strong winds foreca (By Jan)...Science: Heart attack therapy 'fascinating'
Monday 27-Jul-2009: London: A treatment to repair the damage done by heart attacks is being developed by scientists. Researchers at Harvard University have pinpointed a protein that triggers the regeneration of the adult (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Sex workers can attend our meetings'
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Carein du PlessisSex workers will for the first time be invited to attend meetings of government's multi-sector Aids body amid talk that the oldest profession in the world could soon be decriminali (By Jan)...Africa: Pirates held off Somalia
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Ankara - A Turkish frigate captured seven pirates suspected of plotting attacks when it intercepted a skiff off Somalia in the Gulf of Aden on Friday, Turkey's military said.The Turkish vessel, Gediz, (By Jan)...Africa: More calls for Zim diamond ban
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Global Witness, which monitors the exploitation of natural resources, on Friday backed calls for a ban on trading in Zimbabwe diamonds due to human rights abuses in mining of the gem.A review by the K (By Jan)...South Africa: Pieters murder trial postponed
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: The trial of four men accused of killing East Rand rugby player Andries Pieters was postponed in the Brakpan Magistrate's Court on Friday, a court clerk said.The matter was put off to September 17 for (By Jan)...South Africa: Judy Sexwale's hijacker convicted
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Alex EliseevIt took 21 postponements and seven axed lawyers for the Wynberg Magistrate's Court to lose patience with the man accused of hijacking Judy Sexwale.Having ended his trial without legal r (By Jan)...South Africa: Banyana murder case postponed
Friday 31-Jul-2009: The murder case of Banyana Banyana soccer player Eudy Simelane was postponed in the Delmas Circuit Court on Thursday."There is only one more witness left to testify and if that's done on time on Frida (By Jan)...Nigeria: Police Helpless as Robbers Snatch Bullion Van in Uyo
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Clifford ThomasUyo - The helpless position of the police in the face of escalating crimes in Akwa Ibom State became glaring with the recent snatching of a bullion van in Uyo.Information has it that (By Jan)...Nigeria: As PTML Command Intercepts Arms And Ammunition
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Godwin OritseThe Port And Terminal Multi services Limited (PTML) Customs Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted 76 round of live ammunition and a spent bullet concealed in two (By Jan)...Opposition Leader Says Transitional Government to Take Power Friday
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Washington, DC - Opposition leader Marc Ravalomanana, who claims to have been cheated outof victory in the December presidential poll, told his supporters onWednesday that he was ready to assume power (By Jan)...Nigeria: Death Toll Rises in Ebonyi State Crisis
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Christopher IsiguzoAbakaliki - With a military man on peacekeeping operation now declared missing, death toll in the renewed bloody clash between the people of Ezillo and Ezza-Ezillo in Ishielu Loc (By Jan)...Somalia: Amisom Officials Deny Deployment of AU Troops in Mogadishu
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Hassan Osman AbdiMogadishu - Major Brigye Bahuko, the spokesman of AMISOM troops in the Somali capital Mogadishu has denied the deployment of AU troops into the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday (By Jan)...Zim: Presidents play journalism roles
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: "Why are media reports always lopsided?" By Henry MukasaThe on-going Smart Partnership Dialogue at Speke Resort Munyonyo yesterday had an unusual session where presidents and journalists excha (By Jan)...South Africa: Calls for alcohol limit rethink
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By Noelene BarbeauA road accident that killed two traffic pointsmen at the weekend has renewed the Automobile Association of South Africa's call to lower the current blood-alcohol limit.A young Johann (By Jan)...South Africa: Man in dock after fake IDs books found
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: A man allegedly found in possession of fake ID books and bank papers has appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on a fresh charge of fraud.Nkosinathe Martin, from Parklands in Table View, also h (By Jan)...Explaining Globalism: Beautiful Hoaxes and Gorgeous Lies: Women just can't resist LOVE beautiful lies...
Monday 27-Jul-2009: [I often get emails from women with all sorts of extremely beautiful or heart-rending stories that could make you just want to break down and cry. I've seen thousands of these emails by now and below (By Jan)...Health: The science of ageing well
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Lori ArataniEvery year hundreds of people travel to Baltimore for an unusual purpose. They are not there to tour the city's aquarium or sample its fabled blue crabs. They are not in search of fame (By Jan)...South Africa: Debating Polygamy
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: SAfm invited me to take part in an hour-long debate on radio, Wednesday 29 July, on the subject of polygamy. The other panel guests included a professor of Islamic Studies at Kwazulu Natal University (By Gairk)...Liberia: High Expectations Await Sime Darby -As Illicit Tapping Engulfs Guthrie
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By D. Kaihenneh SengbehGuthrie - Tens of thousands of job-hungry Liberians in Grand Cape Mount and Bomi Counties are holding a very high expectation for employment opportunities with Sime Darby, a mil (By Jan)...East Africa: Region Loses U.S.$500 Million to Counterfeit Goods
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Jim OnyangoMore than 30 per cent of medicines sold in Kenya are fake and could harm consumers, say the results of a study which seeks to underscore the negative effects of counterfeiting in east Af (By Jan)...Africa: Continent Must Protect Forests to Mitigate Global Warming
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Wangari MaathaiI recently attended a Nobel laureates symposium at St James Palace in London, where a memorandum emphasised the need for action based on scientific evidence on climate change.That me (By Jan)...South Africa: R2 000 bail for woman accused of extortion
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Jade WittenThe Delft woman accused of trying to extort R5 000 from the parents of a baby girl who went missing 12 years ago has been released on R2 000 bail in the Bellville Magistrate's Court.Glen (By Jan)...Rwanda: BNR Warns of Major Fraud in Popular Pyramid Scheme
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By John GahamanyiNyarugenge - The National Bank of Rwanda's (BNR) investigations into the business practices of Questnet have revealed that the company is operating a money swindling pyramid scheme an (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mutambara's Baptism of Fire
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Harare - DEPUTY Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara drew the ire of African leaders yesterday when he suggested that no African leader had a brand worth selling where national visions are concerned, and t (By Jan)...South Africa: Commissioner to be tough on crime
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Newly appointed police commissioner Bheki Cele said he will be tough on criminals."You can't be soft and you can't be moving around kissing crime. You need to be tough because you're dealing with toug (By Jan)...Africa: Back to Hengari - Thinking About the Impossible in Africa?
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Alexactus T KaureKNOWLEDGE, more than ever before, is power. But this remains a scarce commodity in much of Africa. How then do we salvage that situation? Alfredo Hengari posed that question in two (By Jan)...Be Mobile to Make Profit in Second Year
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Lekopanye MooketsiBotswana's ICT whiz kid, Thapelo Lippe predicts that the latest entrant into the cellular network provider market, be MOBILE will make profits in its second financial year. Be MOB (By Jan)...South Africa: Protests erupt again in Mashishing
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Protests related to service delivery have again erupted in a township in Mashishing municipality on Wednesday, Mpumalanga police said."The protests are still going on, we have just arrested two more. (By Jan)...South Africa: Namibia Cuts Phone Fees Before Nation
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Lesley StonesJohannesburg - OPPOSITION to the high cost of making a cellphone call from one network to another is rising, with SA now being derided for falling behind Namibia in its prices.The lobb (By Jan)...South Africa: Charge me, Grindrod tells COPE
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: COPE'S suspended head of elections, Simon Grindrod, has written to the party demanding that he be charged soon and that his disciplinary hearing be held in public.In a letter to COPE general secretary (By Jan)...South Africa: Kebble murder case delayed
Monday 27-Jul-2009: The trial of businessman Glenn Agliotti for the alleged murder in 2005 of mining magnate Brett Kebble was postponed to February 2010 in the High Court in Johannesburg on Monday, the SABC reported.This (By Jan)...South Africa: Strike on for at least two more days: Samwu
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Strike action by the South African Municipal Workers' Union will continue until at least Wednesday, the union said."We are in the process of getting mandates from our members across the country on a (By Jan)...Uganda: Crisis as ARVs Run Out
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Elvis BasuddeKampala - Uganda is running out of AIDS drugs (Anti RetroVirals - ARVs) and some major service providers are closing down outlets, leaving many people living with HIV/AIDS stranded.The (By Jan)...South Africa: Ndude blamed for COPE's debt
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Caiphus Kgosana and Carien du PlessisSome senior COPE members are gunning for treasurer Hilda Ndude, blaming her for the sorry state of the party's financial affairs while the campaign to oust parl (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops' stray bullet kills old dog
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: An elderly dog was shot in the throat, allegedly by police using rubber bullets, during this week's protests in Masiphumelele.Joanna van Biljoen, a volunteer nurse with welfare group Tears, said th (By Jan)...South Africa: 'There was so much drunkenness'
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By Thabiso ThakaliA Pikit-up motto emblazoned on the back of a T-shirt donned by Sipho Tshabalala proclaimed "a clean city - a clean game", in reference to next year's World Cup, as he strolled past a (By Jan)...South Africa: Bafana player's friend 'covering up'
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Jade WittenA close friend of former Bafana Bafana striker Bradley August has been accused by a defence attorney of covering up for the person who actually shot and killed Randall Kemp outside a Hei (By Jan)...Ghana: Public Education to Remedy Land Disputes
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Clement Boateng & Michael BoatengThe Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Alhaji Collins Dauda, has noted that vigorous public education on processes involved in land acquisition, was the reme (By Jan)...Motswana Woman to Head Stanbic Bank Africa Unit
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Stanbic Bank Botswana's Head of Corporate Banking, Jessica Gadimang, has been appointed the new Non-Bank Financial Institutions Sector Head for Stanbic Africa concentrating on franchises outside South (By Jan)...World: Baghdad bank robbers apprehended
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Baghdad - Police in Baghdad arrested a gang on Thursday who had shot dead eight people during a bank robbery two days earlier, the Interior Ministry said.The gunmen had stormed a branch of Iraq's stat (By Jan)...Beira Assembly Members Resign From Renamo
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has lost almost half of its members in the Beira Municipal Assembly, which was elected last November.Eight of the 17 Rena (By Jan)...South Africa: Suspected robbers in hospital
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Two men were short in a robbery on their Elandsfontein plot on Thursday morning, Pretoria West police said.Captain Dumisani Ndlazi said four robbers attacked one of the men at around 4am, as he left f (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Prime KZN land was going for $1'
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Prime coastal land in KwaZulu-Natal was to be sold to a developer for US$1 (R7,89) by the government of former premier S'bu Ndebele, says the suspended head of agriculture and environmental affairs, M (By Jan)...South Africa: Judge hears of murky Mercedes deal
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Two men suspected of hijacking Gauteng MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko's Mercedes-Benz have made confessions and were seen in possession of the vehicle.This emerged in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court o (By Jan)...Kenya: Mau Triggers Simmering Tensions
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Macharia GaithoNairobi - It looked like a drastic fallout between Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Agriculture minister William Ruto.But the spat over the Mau Forest issue was just the trigger to br (By Jan)...Kenya: Farmers' 24 Hour Helpline to Be Launched Soon
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Billy MuiruriNairobi - The concept was simple but crucial in this era of technology. A farmers' helpline would be set up. And farmers across the country would be able to call, day and night, and ge (By Jan)...Nigeria: Police on Red Alert in Abuja
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Yemi Akinsuyi and Ogochukwu ObiesieAbuja - There was apprehension at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja yesterday following the sectarian violence in some states in the North.The police hel (By Jan)...South Africa: Zondi case put on hold after accused killed
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: The murder of Makhosabo Mkhize, one of the two men charged with the murder of Inkosi Mbongeleni Zondi, forced the Umlazi Magistrate's Court to postpone court proceedings on Wednesday.Mkhize, 35, was k (By Jan)...South Africa: Baby's disappearance still a mystery
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: No suspects have yet been identified in the case of the missing baby who disappeared while his mother was in a coma at Tygerberg Hospital. By Tuesday afternoon police had taken in three of the hospita (By Jan)...South Africa: Six escaped prisoners on the run
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Six prisoners escaped while being transported to court in Mthatha on Tuesday, Eastern Cape police said.The prisoners, who are accused of serious crimes, escaped from the vehicle transporting them to C (By Jan)...'Jewish Group' denies Holodomor
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: It is illegal in many western states to deny the holocaust.Why can one deny one genocide, and not the other? After all, "history is written by the victors". --- The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Ãîëîäîìîð (By JanOlifant)...South Africa: Man wanted by Limpopo cops held in Moz
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: A man wanted in connection with the murder of seven people at a village in Giyani, Limpopo, has been arrested in Mozambique, the SABC reported on Tuesday.The public broadcaster said police could not d (By Jan)...South Africa: Three injured in Polokwane protest
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Three people were injured in Polokwane on Monday when a protest over service delivery turned violent, Limpopo police said.Superintendent Moatshe Ngoepe said about 3000 workers had been marching to the (By Jan)...South Africa: Fake cop nabbed
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: A Northern Cape man is facing corruption charges for allegedly offering women jobs in the police in return for "favours", police said on Sunday."It is alleged that the suspect gained unauthorised acce (By Jan)...Africa: NIgeria ignored warnings over violent sects
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Maiduguri, Nigeria - Muslim clerics in northern Nigeria say authorities ignored dozens of their warnings about an Islamist sect that last week attacked police stations and government buildings in a bl (By Jan)...Kenya: Shocked Churches Call On Government to Resign
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Nairobi - The country's Protestant and evangelical church leaders want the coalition government to quit and fresh elections held.This follows a Cabinet decision on Thursday not to establish a special (By Jan)...South Africa: Petrol price to drop
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: A drop in the retail price of petrol from next week should bring some relief to commuters, UASA the union said on Friday.Earlier, the department of energy announced that petrol 93 ULP and LRP and petr (By Jan)...South Africa: Four arrested after cash heist
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Four men were arrested on Friday following a cash-in-transit heist in Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape, police said."The incident occurred on Monday near a Shoprite Supermarket in Mdantsane, where robber (By Jan)...Africa: To Develop, Continent Must Utilise Its Endowments
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Margaret MuhangaKampala - IN April 2009, I went to Israel. During my time there, I visited an international agriculture trade show. A number of countries were exhibiting agricultural machinery, cro (By Jan)...South Africa: Three vans were full of our members: Samwu
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Scores of striking municipal workers were arrested in Empangeni, a South African Municipal Workers' Union spokesperson said on Monday afternoon."It has been reported to me that scores of members have (By Jan)...South Africa: Black Farmers Face Losing Their Assets
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Quinton MtyalaThe Land Bank says it will not repossess any farms from indebted emerging black farmers before it has exhausted all measures to make these struggling farms viable.This comes after the (By Jan)...South Africa: Black farmers face losing their assets
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Quinton MtyalaThe Land Bank says it will not repossess any farms from indebted emerging black farmers before it has exhausted all measures to make these struggling farms viable.This comes after the (By Jan)...East Africa: U.S. Names 'Military' Envoys to Kampala, Dar
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: By Kevin KelleyNairobi - The US Senate will likely soon confirm President Barack Obama's choice of two men with strong military ties as the next American ambassadors to Tanzania and Uganda.By nominati (By Jan)...Nigeria: Power - FG Spends N1.8 Billion Monthly On LPFO
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Yemie AdeoyeTHE Federal government has announced that expenses on Low Pour Fuel Oil (LPFO) to run the Egbin thermal station due to a shortage in gas supply has gotten as high as N1.8 billion naira (By Jan)...Somalia: Clashes Forcing More Refugees Across Gulf of Aden - UN Agency
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Fleeing escalating violence in the capital, Mogadishu, and central Somalia, thousands of Somalis are making the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden to begin new lives in Yemen, the United Nations (By Jan)...Somalia: Fighting Forces More Refugees Across the Gulf of Aden
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today’s Palais des Nations press briefing in Geneva. Further information can be found on the UNHCR websites, www.unhcr.org and www (By Jan)...South Africa: Drug binge day before slaying
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Sherlissa PetersJaiseelan Govindsamy was drowning himself in alcohol and taking cocaine the day before he stabbed his wife to death.This was his version of events put to two state witnesses at the (By Jan)...Sudan: Hundreds Flee LRA Attacks
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: United Nations humanitarian workers have taken part in a joint assessment mission in a border area of southern Sudan where hundreds of people have fled recent attacks by the notorious rebel group know (By Jan)...South Africa: Top cop follows leads in suitcase murder
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: Top cop Piet Byleveld is following certain leads in his investigation into the brutal murder of a woman whose torso was found inside a burning suitcase."The investigation is carrying on and I have cer (By Jan)...Zim activist sues govt for mistreatment
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: The charges were widely discredited and seen as an attempt to stifle criticism Harare - Leading Zimbabwean human rights activist Jestina Mukoko who shot to fame last year when she was abducted (By Jan)...South Africa: Marchers have my sympathy - Zuma
Monday 27-Jul-2009: The government was taking cognisance of service delivery protests, President Jacob Zuma said in Durban at the weekend."We are paying serious attention to the protests," Zuma said in a speech prepared (By Jan)...World: Firefighters battle blaze on Spanish island
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Las Palmas, Spain - Hundreds of firefighters on Sunday battled a huge forest fire on one of the Canary Islands, which has forced around 4 000 people to flee their homes.Around 500 firefighters, forest (By Jan)...South Africa: How much do you love your dog?
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: Many pet owners thought that by spending a lot of money buying premium dog food brands, they were ensured that their pets were consuming the best.How wrong could they have been? The recent pet food sc (By Jan)...Science: 'Colonial past led to Aids pandemic'
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: The roots of South Africa's Aids pandemic, which is killing close to 1 000 people a day, lie in the country's colonial past, scientist and Aids expert Dr Hoosen "Gerry" Coovadia believes.Speaking at t (By Jan)...South Africa: World Cup 'to bring dangerous things'
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: HIV and Aids infection rates may increase when South Africa hosts the 2010 World Cup, the country's health minister said on Friday."2010 is going to come with good things but it may also come with dan (By Jan)...Nigeria: Catholic Church Condemns Violent Muslim Sect
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Abuja - The Catholic Church has condemned a militant Muslim sect whose confrontation with security forces this week caused deaths and destruction in the north of the country.Calm has reportedly return (By Jan)...World: Bus crash involving Dutch tourists kills six
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Madrid - At least six people died and dozens were injured, mostly Dutch tourists, in a bus accident late Thursday near Barcelona in northeast Spain, officials and tour operators said."There are six de (By Jan)...Zim: Kunonga attempts to stop Bishop's enthronement
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Attempts by Kunonga to stop the event meant that bolt-cutters had to be used to gain access to the cathedral By Pat AshworthThousands of people from parishes all over Harare gathered in the ci (By Jan)...South Africa: Man arrested for attempted murder of debtor
Friday 31-Jul-2009: A 28-year-old man was arrested for attempted murder on Friday in Rustenburg, North West police said.He allegedly shot several times at a 36-year-old man who owed him money in the Matebeleng section of (By Jan)...World: Taliban calls for poll 'jihad'
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Kandahar - The Taliban demanded on Thursday that Afghans boycott August 20 presidential elections and instead "free their invaded country" through holy war.In a media statement, the militia ordered it (By Jan)...Kenya: Cabinet Meets Over Polls Violence Tribunal
Friday 31-Jul-2009: By Lucas BarasaNairobi - Kenya ministers are holding a meeting of the cabinet to discuss the legislation for setting up a local tribunal and the explosive Mau issue.The meeting, chaired by President K (By Jan)...Whistleblower on killings in Zim evicted
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Forced to leave his home on Monday because he had co-operated with the Kimberley Process probe Peta ThornycroftHarare - Chief Newman Chiadzwa, who helped to expose the violent eviction of ille (By Jan)...South Africa: Cele 'the right choice': ANC
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Kwazulu-Natal's legislature was reshuffled on Wednesday, following the appointment of its transport and safety and community liaison MEC Bheki Cele as national police commissioner.The ANC's provincial (By Jan)...South Africa: Fake official arrested
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: A Northern Cape man pretending to be a police recruitment officer and who promised women employment in exchange for favours was arrested in Kimberley, police said on Wednesday.Captain Cherelle Ehlers (By Jan)...Rwanda: Central Bank Wants Loan Sharks Detained
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By John GahamanyiKigali - The Governor of the National Bank of Rwanda (BNR), François Kanimba has warned loan sharks who operate outside the law to cease the illegal act or face police arrests. (By Jan)...Rwanda: Kinyinya Residents Now Turn Guns on Housing Bank
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Bosco R. AsiimweKigali - A few days after receiving a letter from Gasabo Mayor, Claudine Nyinawagaga that they have full authority over their land, Kinyinya residents have now turned to Housing Ban (By Jan)...Rwanda: Refugees in Uganda Given Tight UN Deadline
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Kezio-Musoke DavidNairobi - Rwandan refugees living in selected camps in Western Uganda who fail to meet the July 31 repatriation deadline set by the United Nation High Commission for Refugees will (By Jan)...Nigeria: Four Killed and 53 Arrested in Attack
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Ibrahim ShuaibuKano - Twenty people were arrested on Monday in Kano, in the aftermath of the attack on Wudil Police Station, bringing the total number of those arrested to 53.Kano Police Spokesman, (By Jan)...From Popular Science: The Real chance of producing a Vaccine for AIDS
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: [The South African Govt recently proudly announced that a locally developed vaccine would go on trial. A number of such attempts have been made in Africa and all of them have failed. I spotted this pi (By Jan)...World: Cannibal seeks love and forgiveness
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Arlina ArshadPurbalingga, Indonesia - Indonesian cannibal Sumanto loves meat so much he dug up an old woman's body for a cheap and "tasty" meal."She was delicious," he told AFP from his room at a M (By Jan)...South Africa: Future of Cape Town in jeopardy - report
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Anel LewisA damning report by an international forum of democracies on Cape Town's regional development gives all three spheres of government a hard-hitting "wake-up call" about the risks of lettin (By Jan)...South Africa: Gauteng Online slammed as R3bn flop
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Angelique SerraoGauteng Online is still offline. A sample survey of schools around Gauteng has shown that the school computer project, which is costing taxpayers more than R3-billion, is beset by p (By Jan)...South Africa: Hijack terror for deaf friends
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Charlene RamjithHijackers, it seems, have no mercy, even for those who are hearing-impaired and can only communicate through sign language.Three hearing-impaired friends out to celebrate a birthday (By Jan)...South Africa: Readers not affected by strike
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Industrial strike action has been the order of the day across several industries from the construction industry to the health profession in recent weeks.IOL asked its readers: "Have you been affected (By Jan)...South Africa: Police inspector 'raped schoolgirl'
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: A 16-year-old Pietermaritzburg schoolgirl was raped by a police inspector when she sought his protection, the Pietermaritzburg High Court heard on Tuesday.Crime prevention unit Inspector Sikhosiphi Kh (By Jan)...South Africa: Mdladlana slams violent protests
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana on Tuesday "strongly condemned" violent protests by municipal workers."The supposedly peaceful wage increment demonstrations deteriorated into chaos as scores of (By Jan)...South Africa: 'There's a weird thing about 'missing'
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: By Caryn Dolley"You can't escape. The day your child disappears - it's like you're living that day every single day."This is the emotional torment Michelle Ohlsson has endured for more than 12 years (By Jan)...South Africa: Police officer gunned down in Ekurhuleni
Monday 27-Jul-2009: A 31-year-old Ekurhuleni metro police officer was shot dead and his colleague was seriously injured when unknown gunmen opened fire on them in Kempton Park on Sunday, said Inspector Mveli Nhlapo."The (By Jan)...Nigeria: Develop Credible Macroeconomic Policy - IMF
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: By David AgbaAbuja - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday stated that Nigeria needs to develop a clear, consistent and credible macroeconomic policy framework to help anchor expectations (By Jan)...Rwanda: Country is Food Secure-Kalibata
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: By Eddie MukaayaKigali - As other regional countries suffer from food shortages, Rwanda's newly appointed Minister of Agriculture, Agnes Kalibata, says that the country is food secure."Rwanda made eno (By Jan)...Noam Chomsky Defends Tamil Tiger Terrorists In Attacking Sri Lankan Government Over 'Genocide'
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: [Oh this is just oh so typical of the tactics of a certain Noam Chomsky. He admires terrorists whom are against the West. Quite disgusting that he's now providing propaganda for the Tamil Tigers. (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Cosatu support striking SABC workers
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Friday declared its support for striking SABC workers."Whilst the federation understands the financial problems facing the public broadcaster, the workers c (By Jan)...Government Meeting Economic Growth Targets
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Namaacha - Mozambican Finance Minister Manuel Chang announced on Wednesday that the government believes it will beat its own target of achieving average annual economic growth of above seven per cent (By Jan)...Government Formalises Special Economic Zone
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Luanda - The Cabinet Council Wednesday in Luanda formally approved the creation of the Luanda-Bengo Special Economic Zone (ZEE), Angop learned.The information was released by the minister of Economy, (By Jan)...Zimbabwe lifts reporting ban on BBC and CNN after eight years
Friday 31-Jul-2009: "CNN has not been allowed to operate in Zimbabwe" John Plunkett and Leigh HolmwoodThe BBC and CNN will be able to report freely from Zimbabwe for the first time in eight years after restrictio (By Jan)...South Africa: Police anger municipal workers
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Six protesting municipal workers were arrested in Tongaat outside Durban on Wednesday after they trashed streets, police said."They were arrested after they caused chaos in Tongaat. They have been cha (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Diamond Investors Blocked
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Martin KadzereHarare - AFRICAN Consolidated Resources plc has thrown spanners on potential diamond investors in Marange as the London Stock Exchange-listed resource firm insists their active intere (By Jan)...Konjore on World Cup
Wednesday 29-Jul-2009: By Corry IhuhuaMINISTER of Sport Willem Konjore gave the assurance that Namibia will draw the maximum benefits from the 2010 Fifa World Cup, to be hosted in South Africa."We are in the final process t (By Jan)...South Africa: Dina's family out to find 'missing answers'
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Orlando Rodrigues believes only one person can disclose the truth about the murder of six-month-old Jordan Leigh Norton: his sister Dina's former boyfriend, Neil Wilson.In an interview on the eve of t (By Jan)...South Africa: More women than men in SA - survey
Monday 27-Jul-2009: There are an estimated 49.32 million people in South Africa, Statistics SA said on Monday.Black people were in the majority (39.14 million) and constituted a little more than 79 percent of the total p (By Jan)...South Africa: Municipal strikes: 3 000 workers stop traffic
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By AZIZ HARTLEYAbout 3000 municipal workers - 17 percent of the City Council's workforce - went on strike on Monday and staged a protest march through Bellville where many of them emptied rubbish bins (By Jan)...South Africa: Urgent plans underway after tunnel fire
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Firemen managed to stop an underground power cable fire in downtown Johannesburg by mid-morning on Monday, emergency services said.Meanwhile urgent plans were underway to order new cables and feed in (By Jan)...Uganda: Cheeye Told to Pay Sh60 Million Bail
Monday 27-Jul-2009: By Anne Mugisa and Hilary NsambuKampala - The Court of Appeal has released Teddy Seezi Cheeye on cash bail of sh60m. He is also required to surrender his passport to the registrar.A visibly overwhelme (By Jan)...South Africa: 'The police members' lives were in danger'
Monday 27-Jul-2009: A tavern owner has laid criminal charges against the police and metro police after they had allegedly shot rubber bullets at patrons and caused thousands of rands of damages to his establishment."I fe (By Jan)...South Africa: Police pounce on divers near Robben Island
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Five people were arrested near Robben Island on Sunday for being in possession of prohibited equipment in a prohibited area, Western Cape police said.Captain Frederick van Wyk said the suspects were a (By Jan)...U.S. Recession Worst Since Great Depression, Revised Data Show
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: The first 12 months of the U.S. recession saw the economy shrink more than twice as much as previously estimated, reflecting even bigger declines in consumer spending and housing, revised figures show (By Gairk)...Russia Preparing To Help Venezuela And Its Honduras Ally Out?
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: [It seems that Russia is preparing to help Venezuela and its Honduras puppet out in its recent crisis. Will there be obvious war on the horizon? It seems the White House under Barack Obama has rever (By Lone Wolf)...Zimbabwe: UK Must Honour Lancaster Agreement
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Harare - ZIMBABWE on Thursday accredited Britain's new Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Mark Canning, who replaces Dr Andrew Pocock.As per diplomatic custom, President Mugabe gave Mr Canning the benefit of (By Jan)...YouTube Video: Russia Today Sperads Conspiracy Theories On Arrests Of North Carolina Jihad Cell
Friday 31-Jul-2009: [Isn't this oh so typical on what Russia Today has become? A literal example of recycled retro Soviet-like propaganda without the Marxist BS? It seems after the arrest of a suspected al-Qaeda/Jihadi (By Lone Wolf)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (30-07-2009)
Thursday 30-Jul-2009: Howzit First things first - your help is required please. I have received an email from a reader who would like to make comms with Claire 'Sugar' Bresler who we think is married to a Dr Rob Dyer (By The BeardedMan)...USA: A Revealing Beer Summit Photo. Who's helping who ..... Obama couldn't care less
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: [In Africa, the Black Liberation movements were TAUGHT BY THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS to create incidents so as to get it into the press. In fact, that is the core aspect of all terrorism: Mass Publicity. (By Gairk)...Converts to Islam Convert to Terror
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Military analyst Ron Ben-Yishai said on Friday that he is not surprised that the head of a terror cell just arrested in the United States was an American convert to Islam. Interviewed by Arutz 7, Ben- (By JanOlifant)...S.Africa: From Jan: Advice for anyone who would like to poison me...
Tuesday 28-Jul-2009: JoAn sent me a parcel from the USA and in it she was naughty and she put some sweets... or I think as you Americans would say, "candy". So I enjoyed the American sweeties... I even tasted some America (By Jan)...World: Cannibal craves love more than human flesh
Monday 27-Jul-2009: Purbalinga, Indonesia - Indonesian cannibal Sumanto loves meat so much that he dug up an old woman's body for a cheap and "tasty" meal."She was delicious," he told reporters from his room at a Muslim (By Jan)...Britain's bloodless genocide: 40% of under 20s in London are ethnic
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: The bloodless genocide of Britain’s indigenous population through mass Third World immigration has been taken to new heights with the news that at least 40 percent of the under twenty year old populat (By Giuseppe)...USA: Military planning for possible H1N1 outbreak
Sunday 02-Aug-2009: [How fricking bizarre is all this hey? Jan] The U.S. military wants to establish regional teams of military personnel to assist civilian authorities in the event of a significant outbreak of the H1 (By Gairk)...IDIOCRACY: America's Socialist binge... My Comments - Capitalism is the only way...
Monday 27-Jul-2009: [Captain Joe Smith who fought in Vietnam and Rhodesia sent me an email talking about nationalising Shell oil in America. I sent him some quick comments about the complete madness which is taking place (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (01-08-2009)
Saturday 01-Aug-2009: Howzit Please be aware that there will be no posting tomorrow as I have a local Royal British Legion meeting in the morning. -o00o- Unfortunately, I do not have any other conviction and sente (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (31-07-2009)
Friday 31-Jul-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- In the sidebar of this page, you will see a new addition. Called "Flag Counter", it reports on how many people have visited from different (By The BeardedMan)...
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