From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 20th September 2009From 1994-Present over 3,000 Farmers have been murdered in S.Africa.
Many thousands of their farm workers have also been murdered too.
Click here for Photos & Updates - WARNING: Very Graphic & GruesomeAfrica: Spanish trawlers armed against pirates
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Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Harare - President Mugabe yesterday challenged international investors to seize opportunities in the mining sector and assured them that Government was formulating and implementing appropriate investm (By Jan)...South Africa: 'We are devastated'
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: Traumatised, broken and still searching for answers. That is the state of despair of an elderly Tongaat couple, almost a year after their son, Tongaat professional soccer player and Home Affairs chief (By Jan)...Zim: Aid will not come before reforms, EU tells Mugabe
Monday 14-Sep-2009: "This removal of sanctions cannot be a precondition for dialogue, we made that very clear" Jan Raath in HarareZimbabwe can expect no major financial aid or lifting of sanctions until it carrie (By Jan)...Zim: Tsvangirai puts heat on Mugabe as EU retains sanctions
Monday 14-Sep-2009: "We cannot have partners of looters" David Smith in JohannesburgMorgan Tsvangirai, the prime minister of Zimbabwe, took a new tough stance against President Robert Mugabe yesterday, warning: " (By Jan)...Science: 'SA does have a plan on climate change'
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: By Eleanor MombergA week after South Africa announced it was not ready to set targets for the reduction of carbon emissions, because this might harm the economy, Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelw (By Jan)...Nigeria: Checking Kidnapping in Niger Delta
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By Ifeatu AgbuLagos - Joblessness among Nigerian youths is now a serious security threat that can no longer be treated cavalierly. The increasing cases of kidnappings in the Niger Delta and the South (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Calls for 'Transparent' Probe Into Diamond Field Abuses
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By Alex BellPrime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday called for a 'transparent' investigation into the widespread abuses and deaths at the Chiadzwa diamond fields, just two weeks after yet another (By Jan)...Zim: Mugabe's man undermining govt: Tsvangirai
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: "George Charamba is the problem" By Clara SmithHarare - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has told President Robert Mugabe to rein in his press secretary, George Charamba, who the Pr (By Jan)...South Africa: Another school stabbing in Cape Town
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Michelle JonesTwo pupils suspected of stabbing two younger boys at a Bonteheuwel school are to appear in court on Wednesday. The latest stabbings bring to over 60 the number at Cape Town schools th (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Farmer Reaps Fruits of Land Reform
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Isdore GuvamombeHarare - Scores of workers frolic in waist-high green peas, picking mature export quality pods and stashing them into crates.Others collect the crates and form a beeline towards the (By Jan)...South Africa: Why am I coming home?
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Alex EliseevDespite all the terror, Alan Paterson decided to give South Africa another chance.The decision to emigrate was taken two years ago after the Paterson family was terrorised by thenotorio (By Jan)...SA family chased off Zim farm
Monday 14-Sep-2009: At his wits' end Fanie van RooyenPretoria - A South African man and his family, who've been farming in Zimbabwe for over ten years, were removed from the farm for the umpteenth time on Friday (By Jan)...South Africa: 'We'll hunt you down', cops warn gangs
Monday 14-Sep-2009: Mitchells Plain police swooped on suspected drug merchants and gang leaders in the township at the weekend and have taken 70 people into custody, after a fatal drive-by shooting of an anti-drug campai (By Jan)...Africa: Migrants feared dead after boat accident
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: Tangiers, Morocco - Rescuers scoured the sea off the coast of Morocco on Sunday for dozens of African migrants who are missing and feared dead after their boat capsized in an accident that killed eigh (By Jan)...South Africa: Could Cosatu be losing its focus?
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Cosatu is holding its 10th congress on Monday amid a recession and rising unemployment.This year, several Cosatu members took to the streets, with some strikes turning violent. Yet, at the same time, (By Jan)...Leader Of Russian Federation Communist Party Visits Communist Vietnam; States Soviet Russia Armed Viet Cong
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: [Now isn't this oh so typical here? All those on the far left back then were obvious Useful Idiots for Communism to be victorious in Vietnam. Now a certain leader of the Russian Federation Communist (By Lone Wolf)...Frelimo Warns Its Members to Avoid Violence
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party has warned that it will take action against any of its members found to be involved in acts of violence during the current election campaign.Party activities (By Jan)...Africa: Congo sends genocide suspect to court
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: By Joe BavierKinshasa - The Democratic Republic of Congo transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Sunday a man accused of the massacre of at least 2 000 Rwandan Tutsis d (By Jan)...Nigeria: A Questionable New Found Zeal of EFCC
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By By Y. Z. YauIt took the shock therapy that the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, administered on the ailing banking sector for Mrs. Farida Waziri's Economic and Financi (By Jan)...South Africa: Cosatu wants to be on Reserve Bank board
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Caiphus KgosanaLabour federation Cosatu wants worker representatives on the Reserve Bank's monetarypolicy committee and has called for the government to take complete ownership of thecentral bank.C (By Jan)...South Africa: Cope shot down in legal battle with company
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Andisiwe MakinanaPolitical WriterCope has been ordered to pay more than R226 000 after failing to defend itself against a lawsuitbrought to the Western Cape High Court by a localprinting company.Th (By Jan)...South Africa: Son of slain man awarded damages
Friday 18-Sep-2009: The son of a senior SA Reserve Bank official, who was assaulted and thrown in a police van while his father lay dying in their driveway, has been awarded R50 000 damages.The High Court in Pretoria on (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Parties Divided Over Unity Deal
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Takunda Maodza and Farirai MachivenyikaHarare - YESTERDAY marked the first anniversary of the signing of the inter-party political pact called the Global Political Agreement between Zanu-PF and the (By Jan)...South Africa: De Lille now to take on high bank charges
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Lyse CominsFresh from her victory in the battle to reduce the cost of cellphone calls, Independent Democratsleader Patricia de Lille is rolling up her sleeves for her next fight - a reduction in hi (By Jan)...Uganda: Museveni Wins Battle But War Still On
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Daniel K. Kalinaki.President Museveni displayed a combination of military might and political nous in forcing Buganda Kingdom to pull off Kabaka Ronald Mutebi's visit to Kayunga.The government had (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: 2,500 Prisoners Freed Under Amnesty
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Freeman RazembaHarare - TWO of the country's longest-serving prisoners, who have been behind bars since the 1980s, yesterday tasted freedom after nearly three decades behind bars following the rece (By Jan)...World: Iraqi shot after throwing slipper at Marines
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By Abdul-Qadir Al-SaadiFallujah - American Marines shot and wounded an Iraqi man in the former flash point city of Fallujah believing he was throwing a grenade at them, the United States military sai (By Jan)...Election Campaign - Still No Sign of Dhlakama
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: Nampula - By Tuesday, the third day of the campaign for Mozambique's presidential elections, Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, who is standing for (By Jan)...Lynch Mob Attacks Police Station
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Maputo - An angry mob attacked a police station in Inhamizua, an outer suburb of the central Mozambican city of Beira, on Monday and demanded that the police hand over a supposed kidnapper arrested th (By Jan)...Uganda: Museveni to Brief Parliament on Buganda Violence
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Kampala - President Museveni will address an emergency session of Parliament today in which he is expected to explain last week's riots that left about 24 people dead and further strained relations be (By Jan)...Liberia: Taylor Denies Commanding Rebels to Release UN Hostages
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor did not command Sierra Leonean rebel commander Issa Sesay to release the United Nations hostages, but rather conveyed the message of the international community that the p (By Jan)...Liberia: Human Trafficking Ring Spreading, says Security Source
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Following alarm bells of terrorists trooping into the country, a top-ranking security source linked to the current inveHuman Trafficking Ring Spreading: Security Sourcestigation of arrested Pakistanis (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma Condemns Rebellious Troops
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Gabi KhumaloJohannesburg - President Jacob Zuma has expressed his concern and disappointment about the behaviour of some soldiers who marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria about two weeks ago. (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Why did they have to shoot him?'
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Francis Hweshe and Murray yWilliamsStaff Reporters"Why did they have to shoot him? He couldn't have hurt a fly."This was the anguished cry this morning from the inconsolable family of wheelchair-bo (By Jan)...Zim: Tsvangirayi rattles sabre
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: How dangerous it is to threaten Mugabe and fail to follow up CommentBy Rejoice NgwenyaMore often than not, we commentators are desperate to bring good tidings to our fellowmen, because it is t (By Jan)...South Africa: Ex-CIA directors urge Obama to drop probe
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: Seven former CIA directors have called on US President Barack Obama to end a probe into claims the agency abused terror suspects, warning it will cause "serious damage" to intelligence operations.The (By Jan)...Beneficiaries of NWR Partnerships Revealed
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By John GroblerA SMALL but elite group of businesspeople and companies, most of whom are closely associated with Swapo, have emerged as the beneficiaries of concessions awarded over seven prime Namibi (By Jan)...Nigeria: Eight Former Bank CEOs Get U.S.$15.6 Million Bail
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Innocent Anaba and Emma OvuakporieLagos - Former Managing Director of FinBank Nigeria Plc, Mr Okey Nwosu and seven former non-executive members of Intercontinental Bank Plc who are facing trial for (By Jan)...Kenya: Cattle Rustlers Kill 32 in Gunfight
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By James KariukiNairobi - Thirty two people were killed on Tuesday by cattle rustlers in Laikipia North District.Witnesses said the raiders, from Baringo East, attacked a manyatta at Kanampiu House ar (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Chinamasa Blasts EU Troika
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Michael PaderaHarare - Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa yesterday took a swipe at the European Union delegation that was in Harare over the weekend as part of the Zimbabwe-EU di (By Jan)...Africa: Madagascar 'could split over crisis'
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Alain IloniainaAntanarivo - Madagascar's prime minister has accused the international community of betraying President Andry Rajoelina and warned the mineral-producing island risked being torn into (By Jan)...Investors make tentative return to Zimbabwe
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: The façade is freshly painted... By Richard Lapper in HarareThe imposing façade is freshly painted, the hardwood floors and panelling are repaired and polished and the oil portraits of Cecil (By Jan)...Trial on Cocaine Death to Continue April 2010
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By Werner MengesThe trial of alleged drug smuggler Bruno Da Silva Paiva, who is facing charges of murder and dealing in cocaine after an ill-fated trip to Brazil in April 2006, is set to continue only (By Jan)...Nigeria: Edevbie Not on Trial, London Police Insist
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Francis UgwokeLagos - Principal Private Secretary to the President, Mr. David Edevbie, is not on trial in London, the British Metropolitan Police insisted in an email exchange with THISDAY yesterda (By Jan)...Liberia: Taylor Denies Supplying Weapons From Residence
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Alpha SesayWeapons were never transported from Charles Taylor's White Flower residence in Monrovia for use by rebel forces in Sierra Leone, Mr. Taylor told the Special Court for Sierra Leone today. (By Jan)...South Africa: Cop acquitted in Gugger shooting case
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: "I told you I'm a policeman. Didn't you hear the police radio?" Inspector Daniel Pienaar said as he walked to the man kneeling on the ground."Sorry. I thought you were hijackers," Eric Gugger replied (By Jan)...South Africa: Have SA and EU made a deal about Zim?
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Peter FabriciusThe South African Government is rather chuffed at its recent admission to the rather exclusive club of the European Union's "strategic partners",which includes such big names as the (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Jomic Starts Tour of Farms Amid Intensified Land Seizures
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Alex BellMembers of the tripartite committee responsible for ensuring the full implementation of the Global Political Agreement have this week started a tour of threatened farms, months after a ren (By Jan)...World: Widow killed in merciless attack
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Chris BrookeDaily MailAn 85-year-old widow was brutally murdered by a drunken thug who broke every bone in her face and robbed her of $350, a court heard yesterday.Jobless Robert Tozer, 20, had rec (By Jan)...South Africa: Illegal abortion blitz: Shocking truths arise
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Barbara ColeMunicipal authorities have landlords in their sights in their crackdown on backstreet abortionists operating in central Durban."It is illegal to rent out property for illegal use," Huss (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Electricity Lines Overhead but Never Seen a Light Bulb
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By Stanley KwendaKinshasa - "We produce electricity but we manage darkness. We have big energy sources of electricity but only 20 percent of the population has access to electricity because most of th (By Jan)...Africa: Post-Conflict Security in Need of Women
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By Suzanne HoeksemaUnited Nations - Women need to get involved more actively and more equally in the reform of the security sector in post-conflict states, says Ecoma Alaga, a Gender and Security Sect (By Jan)...Renamo Still Trying to Expel Its Former Deputies
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, is demanding the expulsion from the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, of nine former Renamo deputies w (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma is not above the law, says Zille
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: The statement by President Jacob Zuma's lawyers that he cannot be prosecuted during his term in office reveals the extent of the ANC's threat to the Constitution, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zill (By Jan)...South Africa: Father shot dead after false hijack alarm
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: Police on Sunday night shot dead a Centurion man waiting in his driveway for his son.Eric Gugger, 47, died in the Unitas hospital an hour after being shot in the chest by police in his Cresswell Stree (By Jan)...Frelimo and Renamo Launch Nampula Campaigns
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Nampula - The head of the parliamentary group of Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party, Manuel Tome, launched his party's campaign in Nampula city on Sunday with a well attended rally in the most densely (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: UN Reports Describe Possible War Crimes
Monday 14-Sep-2009: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said Wednesday that two new reports on a series of human rights abuses, including possible war crimes and crimes against humanity, in the easter (By Jan)...Southern Africa: Call for Papers - Governance and Small-Scale Agriculture in Southern Africa
Monday 14-Sep-2009: From 9th to 11th November 2009, Idasa’s Economic Governance Programme will host a conference on ‘Governance and Small-scale Agriculture in Southern Africa’. The aim of the conference (By Jan)...Tanzania: One Shot, Ten Arrested As Bid to Invade Gold Mine is Foiled
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Ambrose WantaigwaOne person was shot and injured by the police, when a group of about 150 villagers attempted to invade a gold mine yesterday.Acting Tarime-Rorya police special zone commander Const (By Jan)...World: Three arrested in US attack probe: officials
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: Washington - Three men of Afghan origin have been arrested for making false statements to FBI agents investigating an alleged plot to launch an attack in the United States, US officials said.The US Ju (By Jan)...S.Africa: Our Useless Nurses - My Mother's hospital hell - The Dying prefer to leave hospital...
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: I am just popping in quickly, since some people asked about how my mother is doing. Well, prior to this, I really did not have all that much experience of hospitals, but now I have a lot to say after (By Jan)...Africa: Investors are welcome, says Mugabe
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe told businessmen on Wednesday that their potential investments in Zimbabwe would be safe, while the finance minister announced the country is $5.7-billion i (By Jan)...South Africa: Man sues cops for R7m over broken neck
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By Bianca CapazorioA man whose neck was broken during an arrest for possession of dagga in 2006, is suing the government for R7-million in the Cape High Court.Christiaan Kansanga's case against the Mi (By Jan)...Zim: Zanu PF split over Moyo
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: Mnangagwa is said to be vigorously pushing for Moyo's unconditional admission By Patricia Mpofu and Clara SmithHarare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF party is split over an appl (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe 'Ready' to Engage the West
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe says he is not "rough and racist" as most people in the West believe.Speaking in a private meeting with over 200 foreign investors who ar (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Penis joke killer' acted in self defence
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: The man accused of killing four others in a bar during a fight over the size of their genitalia was merely trying to defend his brother, his lawyer told the Durban High Court on Tuesday.Jay Naidoo tol (By Jan)...Southern Africa: SADC Banks Survive Crisis
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Wanetsha MosinyiGabarone - Exactly a year after the US economy started its downward slide due to the dramatic collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers that wreaked havoc on both Wall Street and (By Jan)...Zim: JOMIC tours troubled commercial farms
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: "There are conflicting statements about valid and invalid offer letters" By Hendricks ChizhanjeHarare - A tripartite committee comprising Zimbabwe's main political parties on Monday began tour (By Jan)...South Africa: Twist in 'King of Bling' case
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Mogomotsi MagomeHigh-ranking police officials are involved in concerted efforts to keep alleged crime kingpin William "Mashobane" Mbatha behind bars for their own interests, his lawyers have claime (By Jan)...Africa: Nonproliferation, Climate Change Top U.S. Issues for UN Meeting
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Stephen KaufmanThe Obama administration is considering global issues such as climate change and food security to be immediate security challenges, along with more traditional security topics like n (By Jan)...South Africa: Govt Acts to Stop Illegal Mining
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Cape Town - Minister of Mineral Resources Susan Shabangu says government is taking strong action to combat illegal mining and criminal syndicates are feeling the heat."I want to assure the criminal sy (By Jan)...Somalia: Militants Vow More Terror Attacks
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By Abdulkadir KhalifMogadishu - Islamist rebel group Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Raghe vowed Thursday the movement will continue terror attacks on foreign targets.Sheikh Raghe's statement (By Jan)...South Africa: Six held in R600m drug bust
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Nompulelo MagwazaSix people have been arrested and about R600-million worth of hashish and heroin was seized at two locations in Durban yesterday.Three British citizens and two South Africans were (By Jan)...Kenya: Controversial Oil Contract Proves Too Slippery for Kebs Boss
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By David OkwembahNairobi - Just days before he was sacked last Thursday, Kenya Bureau of Standards managing director Dr Kioko Mang'eli defied a government decision to nullify the award of a petroleum (By Jan)...Somalia: Clannish Fighting Kills Five, Injures Three Others in Central Somalia
Monday 14-Sep-2009: Somalia - At least five people have been killed and three others haven injured after clannish fighting started at Jalalaqsi district in Hiran region, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Saturday.Reports (By Jan)...World: Gaza violence leaves two dead
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: Gaza - Two Palestinian militants were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, associates of the men and Palestinian medical workers said.An Israeli army spokesperson said troops aimed mort (By Jan)...MISA Condemns Violence against Reporters
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Maputo - The Mozambican chapter of the regional press body MISA (Media Institute of Southern Africa) has strongly protested at the brutal beating of a community radio journalist by members of the coun (By Jan)...Rich and Poor - One Country but Worlds Apart
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Louise RedversLuanda - A chauffeur guides a shining 4x4 BMW out of a gated condominium, ferrying a smartly-dressed executive and her three uniformed children out into another morning in the Angolan (By Jan)...South Africa: Gold Leaps As US Fed Chief Calls an End to Recession
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Edward West with BloombergJohannesburg - THE gold price surged to an 18- month high yesterday after US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said "the recession is very likely over" and the dollar (By Jan)...Africa: US raid triggers angry response
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Mohamed AhmedMogadishu - Somalia's al Shabaab insurgents called on Wednesday for more foreign militants to join them in the failed Horn of Africa state after US forces killed one of the region's mo (By Jan)...South Africa: Eskom boss gets 27% pay increase
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Michelle JonesIN a salary increase that the National Union of Mineworkers has slammed as "greed", Eskom chief executive Jacob Maroga is to get 26,7 percent - nearly three times what Eskom gave its (By Jan)...World: Bin Laden slams Obama
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Maamoun YousefCairo - Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden described President Barack Obama as "powerless" to stop the war in Afghanistan, and Americans' inability to grasp why the September 11 attacks (By Jan)...South Africa: Decriminalise prostitution, urges Cosatu
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Carien du PlessisCosatu has called for prostitution to be decriminalised and unionised in a draft document due to be discussed at the union's 10th conference in Midrand on September 21. The union (By Jan)...Africa: Somali president 'undeterred' by attack on AU
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on Saturday vowed that twin suicide attacks which killed 21 people, including 17 peacekeepers, would not deter efforts to restore law and order."Such barbaric acts (By Jan)...Nigeria: Education, Labour Ministers Escape Kidnap Plot
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By Ise-Oluwa IgeAbuja - The State Security Service (SSS) paraded, in Abuja, yesterday, three undergraduates of the University of Abuja and a suspected fraudster who allegedly attempted to kidnap two m (By Jan)...Rwanda: Former Official Pleads Guilty to War Crimes
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: A former top Rwandan official today pleaded guilty to war crimes at the United Nations war crimes tribunal set up in the wake of the mass killings that engulfed the small African nation in 1994.Michae (By Jan)...Zim: Another death in Chiadzwa as military grip on diamond fields tightens
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: The death followed a visit to the diamond fields by General Sibanda By Alex BellThe military's brutal grip on the diamond fields in Chiadzwa, which has continued despite an international repor (By Jan)...Uganda: Government Should Prioritise Food Security
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Jonathan ByasiKampala - FOOD and nutrition security remains Uganda's most indispensable challenge for human welfare and economic growth. Many people are incapable of attaining and effectively utili (By Jan)...World: Alleged paedophile tortured to death
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Daily Mail ReporterA man was tortured to death with scissors in the mistaken belief that he was a paedophile, a jury was told today.The body of Alan Street, 26, of Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was fo (By Jan)...South Africa: Wounded cop undergoes surgery
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: A police officer who was wounded in both legs during a cash heist in Kameeldrift, Pretoria underwent surgery and is doing well, police said on Tuesday."He is in a stable condition and is doing very we (By Jan)...Southern Africa: Learning From Criticism, U.S. Committed to Aids Fight
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Stanley KwendaHarare - The United States has embarked on a mission to restore Africa's trust in U.S. commitment to global AIDS relief.During the first months of his administration, president Barack (By Jan)...Africa: Mugabe ally blasts EU mission
Monday 14-Sep-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa accused a European Union delegation that visited Harare at the weekend of trying to undermine the fragile unity government, state media reported on (By Jan)...South Africa: Robbers kill pensioner and injure his wife
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Mogomotsi MagomeA Pretoria pensioner is recovering in hospital from injuries sustained in an armed robbery at her home which claimed the life of her husband.Herbanus Groenewald, 79, was killed by r (By Jan)...Burundi: Tackling Impunity for Violators of Child Rights Next Step for Burundi, Says Ban
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has lauded the fact that all children associated with armed groups in Burundi have been released and united with their families, but noted that a climate of impunity for (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Insecurity Continues to Bedevil Aid Work in Northeast
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Bunia - Militia attacks in parts of northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the past few months are worsening the humanitarian situation there and preventing access to affected populati (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Cops who thought BMW was stolen shot at me'
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Alex EliseevRespect Mkhwanazi sat frozen in the driver's seat, his arms raised, eight gun barrels staring at him. A police officer yelled for him to climb out, but he was too scared to reach for th (By Jan)...South Africa: Torture claim after school principal's murder
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Kowthar SolomonsAn admin clerk at Guguletu's Sithembele Matiso High School, the principal of which was murdered last month, has laid a charge at the Bellville police station against police officers (By Jan)...South Africa: TB Patients Sell Sputum to Grant Fraudsters
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Brenda NkunaCape Town - Desperate for an income, unemployed people are paying TB patients for sputum samples so they can dupe doctors into getting them onto the social grant system.TB-ridden reside (By Jan)...Nigeria: Former Bank Chiefs Get Bail
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Lagos - FORMER Managing Directors and Chief Executive Officers of three banks -- Mrs Cecilia Ibru (Oceanic Bank Plc); Mr. Sebastian Adigwe (Afribank Plc) and Bartholomew Ebong (Union Bank of Nigeria P (By Jan)...Electoral Commission Under Pressure to Bend Law
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Maputo - The campaign for Mozambique's general elections, scheduled for 28 October, had not even begun, but last week the National Elections Commission (CNE) came under enormous pressure, from foreign (By Jan)...USA: The Economic Meltdown - Parallels between 1930 and 2009...
Monday 14-Sep-2009: [The following is an excerpt from the Jason Kelly newsletter. In short he is pointing out that we might be seeing a bear market rally, and that at this same point in 1930, the market still went on to (By Jan)...Is Russia Making False Promises To Israel Over Iran?
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: [Now isn't this report oh so suspicious here? It seems Dmitry Medvedev may have convinced Israel not to attack Iran. But it's hard to trust those in the Kremlin whom are still supporting Palestinian (By Lone Wolf)...Civil servants' strike looms as Zimta makes U-turn
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: Accused Zanu PF of trying to “hijack†the job action A crippling civil servants strike is looming after government last week reneged on an agreement to meet unions to discuss fresh salary (By Jan)...Sierra Leone: Taylor Denies Radio Contact With Foday Sankoh
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor today dismissed as "lies" the evidence of a former radio operator for Sierra Leonean rebel forces, who said Mr. Taylor had talked regularly to Sierra Leone's top rebel co (By Jan)...Fuel Prices Push Up Inflation Marginally
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By Brian BenzaAfter an eight-months streak of decline, annual inflation is starting to stabilise as the effects of fuel price increases level off.For the month of August, the Central Statistics Office (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Another Death in Chiadzwa as Military Grip on Diamond Fields Tightens
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Alex BellThe military's brutal grip on the diamond fields in Chiadzwa, which has continued despite an international report recommending the demilitarisation of the zone, has resulted in yet another (By Jan)...Africa: Mugabe denies scuttling unity progress
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has denied impeding progress of the unity government with his long-time rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, state run media reported on Tuesday."If we could work w (By Jan)...Fuel Prices Set to Shoot Up Again
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyTHE petrol price will rise for the sixth time this year when pump prices increase by 25 cents per litre on Wednesday.Diesel will become 20 cents per litre more expensive at the same ti (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: World Churches Slam Sexual Violence Against Women
Monday 14-Sep-2009: Geneva - The World Council of Churches has urged its member churches "to publicly condemn violence against women" in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and declare that "violence against women is (By Jan)...Science: Cancer-killer cells identified
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Fiona MacraeA 'masterswitch' in the body's battle against cancer has been identified by British scientists, raising hope of new treatments.The key gene triggers the production of blood cells capabl (By Jan)...Africa: Villagers attacked in southern Sudan
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: By Skye WheelerJuba, Sudan - Tribesmen attacked a village in south Sudan on Sunday, overwhelming soldiers guarding the settlement and killing an unknown number, the army said.More than 1 200 people, m (By Jan)...South Africa: 'We hope that they just hand themselves over'
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: Local and British organised crime agencies have broken the back of an alleged international drug trafficking syndicate that used Durban front companies to transport drugs to the UK hidden in tourist s (By Jan)...Zim: Shamu, Charamba read Riot Act to ZBC managers
Friday 18-Sep-2009: "Shamu went to remove his jacket as if he wanted to fight us" Harare - Zimbabwe's Ministry of Information, Media and Publicity, Webster Shamu, and his permanent secretary George Charamba, on T (By Jan)...South Africa: PBMR's future 'hanging in the balance'
Friday 18-Sep-2009: A fleet of nuclear reactors will be built as a matter of urgency to satisfy the nation's energy needs, MPs have been told.Plans to go nuclear have been accelerated owing to global warming fears and in (By Jan)...World: Iran warns opposition protesters
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Tehran - Hundreds of thousands of Iranians were set to march across Tehran on Friday in an annual display of solidarity with the Palestinians but this year it could turn into a flashpoint between regi (By Jan)...Rwanda: Habyarimana Ally Pleads Guilty in Genocide Trial
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By Gashegu MuramiraArusha - A member of former president Juvenal Habyarimana's inner circle (Akazu) that planned and executed the 1994 Genocide of Tutsi, has pleaded guilty to Genocide crimes.Michael (By Jan)...Uganda: Returnees Bury the Bones of War Victims, but Concern Remains That Evidence is Being Lost
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By Gloria Aciro LakerGulu - As a semblance of peace has settled over northern Uganda, following the havoc wreaked by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, local communities have moved to wash awa (By Jan)...South Africa: Cape's bold new crime plan
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Murray WilliamsA Herculean effort was launched on Tuesday to end the reign of crime and violence in greater Cape Town and the Western Cape.Cape Town has the twin reputation of being one of the most (By Jan)...Science: South Africa lags own ARV targets
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Peroshni GovenderSouth Africa will not meet a target of providing life-prolonging drugs to 80 percent of HIV and Aids sufferers by 2011 due to logistical problems and a lack of personnel, Health Mi (By Jan)...South Africa: Bloody shooting caused by penis joke - claim
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: A joke about penis size between two patrons of an Umbilo pub was the apparent cause of an altercation which left four people dead last year.This was the evidence yesterday of a survivor of the Septemb (By Jan)...World: Obama focuses on economic reform
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Caren BohanNew York - United States President Barack Obama warned financial firms on Monday to heed the lessons of Lehman Brothers' collapse a year ago and get behind a regulatory overhaul he wants (By Jan)...Copper Prices Bring Good Tidings for BCL, African Copper
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Thato MosekiFollowing a grim start to the year, the clouds have cleared over the country's copper producers with international trends indicating the red metal is gaining value faster than other min (By Jan)...South Africa: Juicy contracts for Zuma's man
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: By Sibusiso Ngalwa and Xolani MbanjwaPresident Jacob Zuma's benefactor, wealthy Durban socialite Mabheleni Ntuli, was awarded two lucrative tenders worth R30 million for the presidential inauguration (By Jan)...South Africa: Five arrested for assaulting cop
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: Five people between the ages 17 and 25 were arrested for allegedly robbing and assaulting an off duty police officer in Zeerust, North West police said on Saturday."Three of them were arrested on Frid (By Jan)...World: Axe-wielding pupil wounds several in school
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Ansbach, Germany - An 18-year-old man threw petrol bombs into two classrooms and lashed out with an axe at his school in Germany on Thursday, severely wounding two girls, before police shot him in the (By Jan)...Zim: SA and the EU may have worked out compromise to lift targeted sanctions
Monday 14-Sep-2009: Mediators often resolve deadlocks by fudging the sequence CommentPeter FabriciusThe South African government is rather chuffed at its recent admission to the rather exclusive club of the Europ (By Jan)...South Africa: Anger at funeral of teen killed by cops
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Noor-Jehan Yoro BadatWhen the boot of the hearse was opened to reveal the white coffin of Alexander Luzane Thys, his father Willem and mother Claudia quietly and numbly looked on. Colourful flower (By Jan)...South Africa: Witnesses sought after rape of man
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By Weekend Argus ReporterPolice are appealing for information from anyone who might have seen a young man being bundled into a car in Broad Road, Wynberg, on Monday.The Family Violence, Child Protecti (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: MDC to Begin Consultations on Pulling Out of Unity Govt
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By Lance GumaThe MDC says it will begin a series of consultations and feedback rallies this weekend to assess whether to remain in the shaky power-sharing government with ZANU PF. In a press statement (By Jan)...Somalia: Ban Reassures African Union Mission of UN Backing After Deadly Attacks
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today personally assured the African Union Mission in Somalia of the United Nations' "steadfast commitment" of support following yesterday's deadly suicide bombing of its (By Jan)...Renamo Calls for Abolition of Conscription
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Beira - Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, has made abolition of conscription a plank in its election campaign.Speaking in the central city of Beira on Thursday, the Renamo Sofala Provincial (By Jan)...South Africa: Couple to share dock after 3-year-old killed
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: A woman is to appear in the Cape High Court next month, to face a charge of murdering her boyfriend's three-year-old son.Cynthia Buyiselwa is accused of murdering her boy-friend's son, Adilson Kasanda (By Jan)...South Africa: Six teens in court after youth's murder
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Crime WriterPolice have warned schools in Khayelitsha to look out for the formation of groupings among pupils, after a youth was beaten to death by an armed mob of schoolboys on Monday. Six teenage (By Jan)...South Africa: Maroga a victim of 'white racist elements'
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Political BureauThe National Union of Mineworkers (Numsa) has come to the defence of embattled Eskom CEO Jacob Maroga, saying he is the victim of "white racist and liberal elements" and "some co-op (By Jan)...South Africa: Farm worker killed during robbery
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: A farm worker was killed when four men robbed a farm house in Nottingham Road in the Midlands on Wednesday, KwaZulu-Natal police said."Police discovered the body of a 30-year-old male who has been ide (By Jan)...South Africa: 'I want my dead babies'
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: Manju Moodley is desperate to hold her two children. But the bodies of her daughter Tamesha and son Yaden lay in a Joburg mortuary after their father shot them before turning the gun on himself.The tr (By Jan)...Liberia: Questions Arise on the Fate of Alleged Terrorists Held in Monrovia Prison
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: There is a deafening silence as to where the six alleged Pakistani terrorists are being held after they were whisked from the Monrovia Prison Center last Thursday evening, with reports that the US Fed (By Jan)...South Africa: Maroga a Victim of 'White Racist Elements'
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Political BureauThe National Union of Mineworkers (Numsa) has come to the defence of embattled Eskom CEO Jacob Maroga, saying he is the victim of "white racist and liberal elements" and "some co-op (By Jan)...Africa: 'Muslims will retaliate' against US action
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Somalia's extremist Islamist militia on Tuesday vowed to avenge the killing in a US military operation of one of al-Qaeda's top regional leaders, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan."Muslims will retaliate against (By Jan)...Fake Soap Factory Busted
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Nangula ShejavaliTWO Chinese nationals were arrested in 'Chinatown' in Windhoek's Northern Industrial Area on Friday after the Namibian Police discovered that they were illegally producing a fake 2 (By Jan)...USA: Stiglitz Says Banking Problems Are Now Bigger Than Pre-Lehman
Monday 14-Sep-2009: Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize- winning economist, said the U.S. has failed to fix the underlying problems of its banking system after the credit crunch and the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings (By Gairk)...World: Protesters defy Iranian rally ban
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Tehran - Iran security forces clashed with supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi and arrested at least 10 of them during annual anti-Israel rallies in central Tehran on Friday, a witness (By Jan)...Nigeria: Where is the World Going With Bluetooth?
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Prince OsuagwuLagos - For Nigerian subscribers, perhaps the easiest that come to mind about the bluetooth technology is the wireless headset or handsfree as the case may be. The best outside these (By Jan)...South Africa: 25-strong gang robs mall shops
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Shaun Smillie and Poloko TauYet another Joburg shopping centre has been robbed - this time by 25 armed men with handguns and rifles. The Berg shopping centre in Bergbron, Roodepoort, was hit around (By Jan)...Nigeria: Relations With Israel
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Abuja - Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was in Nigeria earlier this month as part of an eight-day, five-nation tour of African states. The arrival in Abuja of Mr Lieberman, who doubles as (By Jan)...South Africa: Gugger shot at close range, says expert
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: The gun that killed Eric Gugger two years ago could not have been more than 30cm away from him when the fatal shot was fired.This conclusion came from ballistics expert Thomas Wolmarans, who was hired (By Jan)...South Africa: 2010 trade ban shock
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Colleen DardaganStrict Fifa rules are set to close shops along certain major roads and near stadiums affected by the World Cup next year. Traders along these routes whose goods are in competition w (By Jan)...South Africa: 'They even beat me with their guns'
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: The alleged "sugarcane" serial killer on Tuesday accused the police of forcing him to draw up a list of 13 people the State is accusing him of having killed.Thozamile Taki, 36, told the Scottburgh Hig (By Jan)...Somalia: Foreign Helicopters 'Attack Al Shabaab Insurgents'
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Mogadishu - At least four people were killed Monday in southern Somalia after unknown foreign army helicopters attacked a vehicle, killing passengers on board, Radio Garowe reports.The attack took pla (By Jan)...Two Injured, One Detained at Start of Nampula Campaign
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Nampula - A clash on Sunday in Nampula city, in which two people were injured and the police made one arrest, marred the start of the election campaign in this part of Mozambique.Nonetheless, the head (By Jan)...South Africa: Sex work is not job creation - readers
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Ainsley DanielsThe Congress of South African Trade Unions has called for prostitution to be decriminalised and unionised in a draft document due to be discussed at the union's 10th conference in Mi (By Jan)...South Africa: Fit to Judge?
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By Fiona FordeThe late Ismail Mohamed, the country's first black chief justice, once put words on the many and subtle qualities that comprise the judicial temper."Conspicuous among them are scholarshi (By Jan)...South Africa: Somali shop owner's death 'not surprising'
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By Mary-Anne GontsanaThree suspects were behind bars after the body of a Somali shop owner was found dumped in an open field in the Khayelitsha area yesterday morning.Mohammed Mohammed Abdi, 28, was o (By Jan)...Ex-Soldiers Caught in Scam
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Christof MaletskyA FLIMSY promise of up to N$490 000 in addition to a lifetime pension has seen around 5 000 former South West Africa Territory Force members swindled out of N$182 each over the pas (By Jan)...Zim: Harare diary: Almost normal
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: I would love for that to be my normal but it is not. Not yet anyway Esther (not her real name), 29, is a professional living and working in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. She describes how she is (By Jan)...Uganda: Country Goes Through the Worst Riots Ever
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: Kampala - The riots that spread like wildfire across the central region on Thursday and Friday were by far the most violent in recent history, having recorded the highest number of fatalities and casu (By Jan)...Energy Mix Best Future Option - Experts
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Brigitte WeidlichA mix of conventional energy sources like hydropower and coal together with solar and wind power and even nuclear energy would be the best option to secure Namibia's future electri (By Jan)...World: Green Zone rocked by mortars
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Ross ColvinBaghdad - Militants fired several mortars or rockets at Baghdad's fortified Green Zone government district on Tuesday shortly after US Vice President Joe Biden flew in, underlining the f (By Jan)...South Africa: Jailtime for cop who helped prisoner escape
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Jade WittenCourt ReporterA police officer has been sentenced to five years in prison for helping a prisoner escape from the holding cells at Cape Town Regional Court.Constable Peter Dean, 42, was f (By Jan)...Nigeria: Sect Suspects Arraigned for Treasonable Felony
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Segun AwofadejiBauchi - Two months after security agencies quelled a violent religious crisis in Bauchi, capital of Bauchi State, by a sect, Boko Haram, the state police command at Chief Magistrate (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Ziscosteel - Holistic Approach Needed
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Takunda MaodzaHarare - A company has been broke and its existence hanging on a thread for more than a decade but still exhibits a semblance of life, speaks volumes of its potential than its imminen (By Jan)...Nigeria: Two Expatriates Kidnapped As New Abia CP Takes Over
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Uduma KaluKidnappers yesterday struck at Aba, the commercial nerve centre of the South East in Abia state, and made away with two expatriates working at Dana Company, an Indian outfit.Also, yesterd (By Jan)...South Africa: Police investigate double murder
Monday 14-Sep-2009: A couple was gunned down in their Philippi-East shack on Monday morning, Western Cape police said.Inspector Nondumiso Paul said police were informed of a shooting at Somi Street at 5.30am and on arriv (By Jan)...Uganda: Ritual Murder Witness Denies Police Statement
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: By Hillary Nsambu and Ali MambuleKampala - MASAKA witch doctor, Umaru Kateregga, has disowned a statement he recorded at the Police immediately he was arrested over the murder of 12-year-old Joseph Ka (By Jan)...South Africa: Man killed in tavern robbery attempt
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: A 20-year-old man was killed when he attempted to rob a tavern patron of a cellphone and cash in East London, Eastern Cape police said on Sunday.Superintendent Mtati Tana said two men entered Natalie' (By Jan)...Nigeria: Students' Alleged Attempts to Kidnap Ministers Fail
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By Juliana TaiwoAbuja - The face-off between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may have taken a new turn as it was alleged yesterday that some students had pla (By Jan)...South Africa: Ennerdale robber shot
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: A robber was shot and killed by a civilian minutes after raiding a shop at Ennerdale on Thursday, Gauteng police said.Senior Superintendent Noxolo Kweza said three men, two of whom were armed with gun (By Jan)...Zimbabwe finmin says blocked possible IMF aid abuse
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: "What I blocked are efforts to unprocedurally liquidate the SDRs into cash" By Cris ChinakaHarare - Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Tendai Biti said on Wednesday he had blocked possible "unprocedu (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: 'Mobilise Resources for Mining'
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Harare - THE inaugural Mining Indaba 2009, kicked off in Harare yesterday with the Minister of Finance, Mr Tendai Biti calling for resource mobilisation from both domestic and humanitarian sources to (By Jan)...Africa: Somali rebels call for reinforcements
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Mohamed AhmedMogadishu - Somalia's al Shabaab insurgents called on Wednesday for more foreign militants to join them in the failed Horn of Africa state after United States forces killed one of the (By Jan)...Somalia: Keeping a Lid on Somaliland
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: Hargeisa - There is a need for all-inclusive consultation and support for local mediation efforts in secessionist Somaliland, which has recently experienced sporadic opposition and civil society-led p (By Jan)...South Africa: Sasol Plans Power Play to Rely Less On Eskom
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - SASOL, SA's largest industrial company, is so desperate to secure independence from Eskom that it plans to generate at least half of its own electricity requirements in (By Jan)...Uganda: Things Fall Apart - Again...
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Kalundi SerumagaNairobi - Most people are familiar with the proverbial last straw that broke the camel's back. However, rarely does anyone get the chance to see the actual straw, and the moment whe (By Jan)...Senegal: One Landmine Gone, Hectares of Farmland Gained
Monday 14-Sep-2009: Kaguit - Three women walk through lush forest with bowls of rice plants on their heads. It is a spectacular scene in the verdant Casamance region of southern Senegal, but the beauty is marred by red a (By Jan)...Tanzania: World Investment Report's Vital Lessons for 'Kilimo Kwanza'
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By Tom MosobaThe World Investment Report 2009 that was released yesterday provides vital lessons from which the country's Kilimo Kwanza concept can be anchored to attain the desired agricultural revol (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Army Commander Declares War on 'Private' Radio Stations
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By Violet GondaThere are two main excuses that ZANU PF has been using as reasons that the Global Political Agreement has not been fully implemented - the issue of the 'sanctions' and the so-called 'pi (By Jan)...South Africa: Break the law and pay the price - Zuma
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: President Jacob Zuma on Thursday expressed concern about what he termed a "culture of extremity" in South Africa and warned striking workers and other protesters to respect the law."The extreme manner (By Jan)...Gambia: How Long Could the AFPRC Sustain International Pressure?
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Suwaibou TourayWe have been focusing on politics in this column with the objective to document the contemporary history of the Gambia and to help our readers appraise themselves with the happenings (By Jan)...World: Police search home of alleged kidnapper
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: San Francisco - Police carried out a fresh search of the home of Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnap suspect Phillip Garrido on Tuesday, looking for evidence in two unsolved child abductions from the 1980s.Inves (By Jan)...South Africa: New legislation to empower police
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Legislation empowering police to respond more forcefully to dangerous criminals is close to finalisation, Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa said on Tuesday.Consultation between Mthethwa and Justice Mi (By Jan)...Uganda: Smell of Death At Mulago - Relatives, Friends Mourn Victims
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Eve Mashoo & Alfred Nyongesa WanderaAs Kampala filled with acrid tear gas on Friday, choking thousands; to the east, Mulago Hospital reeked with fresh blood flowing from dead or injured victims on (By Jan)...South Africa: Six gunmen killed as police foil heist
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Johannesburg police on Monday shot dead six people in a foiled cash heist, drawing praise from the country's new police chief for a job "well done", a spokesperson said.The shootout took place at 1.45 (By Jan)...Kenya: Farmers See Opportunities And Risks As El Nino Rains Loom
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: For decades, the water pan in Daniel Waatho's farm at Njoro in Kenya's Rift Valley province had never dried up- until drought hit the area this year."I normally harvest rainwater, but last year [2008] (By Jan)...South Africa: Madisha slams Cosatu
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: Former Cosatu president Willie Madisha on Sunday accused the trade union federation of putting personality clashes above workers' concerns and said he would push ahead with plans to set up an indepen (By Jan)...Africa: Sierra Leone police shootings fuel tension
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: Military police patrolled a volatile suburb in the Sierra Leone capital Freetown on Saturday after angry crowds set up road blocks and threatened to burn down a police station after three youths were (By Jan)...South Africa: Cosatu lashes out at Zuma
Friday 18-Sep-2009: President Jacob Zuma's bashing of unions could give the impression that COPE founders and the previous administration were more tolerant of labour movements than the "progressive" government, Cosatu p (By Jan)...South Africa: One killed during tavern robbery
Friday 18-Sep-2009: A 60-year-old security guard was killed and two others were injured during an attempted robbery at a tavern in Mthatha on Friday, Eastern Cape police said.Superintendent Mzukisi Fatyela said around 13 (By Jan)...Africa: Museveni blames riots on the opposition
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Hereward HollandKampala - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni accused the opposition on Tuesday of exploiting a dispute between his government and the leaders of an ancient kingdom to foment last wee (By Jan)...Nigeria: International Monetary Fund Backs Banking Reforms
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Ayodele AminuLagos - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has endorsed the ongoing banking reforms by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, which necessitated the remova (By Jan)...South Africa: 'At least they're catching these b***ers'
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Jason WarnerRefugee support groups have lauded the arrest of two Home Affairs officials and an accomplice suspected of selling permits to foreign nationals for "considerable amounts" at the trouble (By Jan)...Uganda: Gunfire Rocks Bulange As Besigye Blames Museveni
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Sheila Naturinda, Robert Mwanje & Al-Madhi SsenkabirwaMany parts of Kampala City remained tense yesterday afternoon and the seat of the Buganda kingdom at Mengo was under a heavy military siege as (By Jan)...South Africa: Cell providers 'robbing' customers
Monday 14-Sep-2009: Here's something I'd love to know: what percentage of South African cellphone subscribers who are currently paying daily or weekly for cellphone "downloads" - games, music, wallpapers, ringtones - kn (By Jan)...South Africa: Burglar bars trap man in fiery hell
Monday 14-Sep-2009: A Dobsonville, Soweto, man died after being trapped by burglar bars inside his burning shack. "Please help me" were Thembinkosi Chonco's last words before he succumbed to the flames on Sunday morning. (By Jan)...South Africa: Alleged robber shot in the stomach
Monday 14-Sep-2009: A taxi driver en-route to Mthatha was shot dead by robbers pretending to be passengers, Eastern Cape police said on Monday.Superintendent Mzukisi Fatyela said the taxi, carrying several passengers, wa (By Jan)...Liberia: Lac Under Siege
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By A. Abbas DullehOne of the country's largest rubber plantations, the Liberia Agricultural Company (LAC), is under effective siege, as armed men, some with AK-47 assault rifles and single barrel guns (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (18-09-2009)
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- It doesn't matter what Moyo does, it will always cause division. I reckon that there should be some sort of regulation that if you leave (By The BeardedMan)...Somalia: Suicide Bombing Kills Peacekeepers
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned today's suicide bombing at an African Union compound in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, which has left at least nine peacekeepers dead.Two vehicles, reported (By Jan)...South Africa: Towards a Lively, Accountable Aids Council
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Khopotso BodibeDr Nono Simelela, newly-appointed Chief Executive Officer of the South African National AIDS Council, promises to improve the way in which SANAC will function in the future.Dr Nono S (By Jan)...World: Karzai denies major vote fraud
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Kabul - Afghan President Hamid Karzai denied on Thursday that major electoral fraud took place last month and urged foreign allies not to interfere over investigations into mounting allegations of vot (By Jan)...South Africa: Labour Union Calls for Radical Policy Interventions
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Amy MusgraveJohannesburg - THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has called for a number of radical policy interventions to ensure that SA's working class is not used as "cannon fodde (By Jan)...World: Officials botch execution attempt
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Mail Foreign ServiceAn Ohio death row inmate has been given another week to live after he was granted an astonishing last-minute reprieve because officials could not find a usable vein to give him (By Jan)...South Africa: Details of the arms tender revealed
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: THE TENDER: Mthobisi Zondi and the Origin Exchange Consulting set up their businesses within days of the tender being planned.On November 12, 2008, the documents for Department of Defence tender CPSC/ (By Jan)...Developmental Programmes Needed to Address Inequalities
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Catherine SasmanWindhoek - The opted-for neoliberal model for development is not serving Namibia or the region, and alternatives are needed, say researchers.In 2004, the Namibian Government present (By Jan)...Science: SA to launch first state satellite
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: South Africa and southern Africa's landmark first government-owned satellite was scheduled to be launched later on Tuesday from the central Asian republic of Kazakhstan aboard a Russian rocket.The R26 (By Jan)...Kenya: Rights Activists Leave for Hague to Press Justice
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Lucas BarasaNairobi - Two human rights campaigners have left for the Netherlands to press the International Criminal Court to speedily start investigations into the 2007 post-election violence.Keny (By Jan)...Gabon: Total Pulls Staff From Country Oil Hub
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: FRENCH giant Total has moved expatriate staff and their families from Gabon's industry hub Port Gentil to the capital Libreville because of post-election violence.Port Gentil has been hit by riots, lo (By Jan)...EU undermining Zim unity govt, says Mugabe ally
Monday 14-Sep-2009: "They just swallow, hook, line and sinker what the MDC says" Harare - A close ally of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has accused a European Union delegation which visited the country of se (By Jan)...World: Son of Israeli astronaut dies in crash
Monday 14-Sep-2009: Jerusalem - The pilot son of Ilan Ramon, the Israeli astronaut who died in the Columbia space shuttle disaster of 2003, was killed on Sunday when his fighter plane crashed during training, the Israeli (By Jan)...Africa: Dos Santos marks 30 years in power
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: Luanda - Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos celebrates 30 years in power on Monday amid delays over a new constitution that are likely to extend his marathon rule of Africa's top oil producer.F (By Jan)...France Prepared To Sell Mistral Class Helicopter Carrier To Russian Navy
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: [What's wrong with this picture? It seems France wishes for the European Union to one day be referred as the European Socialist Soviet Republics with Russia being merged as a member. Lone Wolf.] (By Lone Wolf)...Zimbabwe: Mining Indaba Providential
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Harare - WE hail the Government for organising the Mining Indaba that brought together domestic and foreign investors to explore opportunities offered by Zimbabwe's varied vast mineral wealth.The inda (By Jan)...Zim: Knife-edge tension at Zanu PF Women's Conference
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Muchena is accused of plotting with Mujuru to have Muchinguri removed Faith ZabaTension at the Zanu PF Women's League conference yesterday was at knife-edge over the selection criteria of cand (By Jan)...World: Woman dies after catching fire during surgery
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By Jim SuhrSt Louis - A southern Illinois woman died after being severely burned in a flash fire while undergoing surgery, a rare but vexing problem in operating rooms.Janice McCall, 65, of Energy, Il (By Jan)...South Africa: Quota limiting cops 'freedom'
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Officers are unable to respond to hijackings or robberies because the Gauteng Traffic Department has clamped their vehicles with red tape.Yesterday, several officers attached to specialised units in t (By Jan)...South Africa: ANC faces pressure on SABC board nominees
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: The newly nominated SABC board is loaded with ANC alliance members, a joint statement from three opposition political parties said on Thursday.The Democratic Alliance, Congress of the People and Indep (By Jan)...South Africa: Guard killed in Brits hostage drama
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: A security guard was killed and another injured in a five-hour hostage ordeal during a robbery at Dinale power station near Brits on Wednesday, North West police said."The robbers broke into the stati (By Jan)...West Africa: Peacekeepers to Stay in Liberia, Sierra Leone
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: The Security Council today extended the mandates for one year of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Liberia and the world body's peacebuilding office in neighbouring Sierra Leone.In its unanim (By Jan)...Nigeria: FG - Illegal Oil Bunkerers to be treated as Enemies of State
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Juliana Taiwo And Comfort OgbonnayaAbuja - The Federal Government has warned those behind illegal oil bunkering in Nigeria that henceforth, those caught will be treated as enemies of the state.It h (By Jan)...South Africa: Crackdown on Weapons at Schools
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Ilse FredericksCape Town - Hand-held metal detectors went into service at Western Cape schools for the first time today, in an attempt to stop pupils bringing weapons to school.The detectors will b (By Jan)...Ghana: Women Want a Stake in Oil Economy
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Ama Achiaa AmankwahAccra - Preliminary findings about the gendered impacts of oil and gas exploration, development and land use in areas like Akwidae, Achoawa, Miamia, Egyambra, Dixcove, Princess T (By Jan)...South Africa: School weapon crackdown
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Ilse FredericksHand-held metal detectors went into service at Western Cape schools for the first time today, in an attempt to stop pupils bringing weapons to school.The detectors will be issued to (By Jan)...South Africa: Butterworth woman found dead
Monday 14-Sep-2009: Eastern Cape police appealed for help on Monday in tracking down the killer of a woman in Butterworth.Spokesperson Jackson Manatha said that 62-year-old Nonceba Ngwanya was found by a friend who had p (By Jan)...Zimbabwe diamond output could be higher – Rio
Friday 18-Sep-2009: "Country's economic climate not conducive for investment" Harare - The head of global miner Rio Tinto's diamond unit in Zimbabwe said on Thursday the operation could produce six times its curr (By Jan)...Africa: Bullets used to break up Freetown rally
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Freetown - Three people died and 11 more were injured on Thursday when police in Sierra Leone's capital used live ammunition to break up a demonstration about crime levels.The crowds were demonstratin (By Jan)...World: Putin mum on his future plans
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Stuart WilliamsMoscow - A confident Vladimir Putin is calling the shots ahead of Russia's 2012 presidential elections but still keeping the world in suspense over whether he is plotting a return t (By Jan)...World: Obama 'treads carefully on Dalai Lama'
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Washington - US President Barack Obama has pledged support for the Dalai Lama but will not meet him during his upcoming visit to Washington, taking his own "Middle Way" and outraging some Tibet activi (By Jan)...Zambia: Murder Suspect Mohan Recaptured
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Syvia Mweetwa and Delphine ZuluPOLICE in Lusaka yesterday apprehended murder suspect Matthew Mohan who recently escaped from custody.Mohan, who was arrested in connection with the murder of Lusaka (By Jan)...Uganda: Govt Clamps Down on Media
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Bill OketchLira - A recent spate of media arrests has provoked widespread condemnation, and raised fears that President Yoweri Museveni might be planning a clamp-down on press freedom ahead of next (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Rid Inputs Scheme of Grey Areas
Monday 14-Sep-2009: Harare - We want to commend the Government for once again showing full commitment to agriculture by putting together a crop inputs package for farmers.When the massive US$210 million Input Support Sch (By Jan)...South Africa: Salary top-up ban bad news for schools: Zille
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Political Bureau and Staff ReporterDA leader Helen Zille says all MPs should have to declare where they send their children to school.In a statement attacking proposed regulations by Basic Educatio (By Jan)...Nigeria: Land Reform Will Not Suppress States' Control of Land -Mabogunje
Monday 14-Sep-2009: Prof. Akin Mabogunje, Chairman, Presidential Technical Committee on Land Reform, has said that the new land reform policy will not suppress states' control of their land resources.Mabogunje made the s (By Jan)...[Graph] USA: The Long Term decline of the US Dollar... Inflation, inflation - How America lies about printing money
Monday 14-Sep-2009: I never realised just how much the US Dollar has declined over the years. I'm so used to our currencies in Africa collapsing that I never realised that even the mighty US Dollar is not so mighty any m (By Jan)...Nigeria: U.S. Rejects Govt Choice of Ambassador
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By Rafiu AjakayeLagos - Washington has rejected the appointment of Tunde Adeniran as Nigeria's Ambassador to the United States, nearly five weeks after his son, Adedamola, was arrested in Baltimore fo (By Jan)...GNU lowers Zim risk: mining firm
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Saunders has promised to restore Turk mine to full production By Andrew MoyoHarare - Political risk for investors in Zimbabwe is no longer as high as it was before formation of a power-sharing (By Jan)...South Africa: "Penis killers" dismissed from force
Friday 18-Sep-2009: The two men accused of killing four people in an argument over the size of penises were dismissed from the police force in June, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Friday."The dismissal of Brian Steven and (By Jan)...South Africa: Robbers steal empty cash containers
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Six people were arrested after they stopped a Teba Bank vehicle and made off with its money containers, which were empty, Gauteng police said on Friday.Director Govindsamy Mariemuthoo said the vehicle (By Jan)...South Africa: 27s suspected in Westridge murder case
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Aziz HartlMitchells Plain police say they have valuable information from interrogation of about 100 suspected gangster and drug dealer detainees the 27s gang is behind last Friday's fatal attack on (By Jan)...Nigeria: Subsidy - What Marketers, Stakeholders Say
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Mohammed ShosanyaLagos - As the Federal Government set to begin deregulation of the oil sector in November this year, oil marketers have voiced out a mixed reaction to the removal of subsidy.The go (By Jan)...Africa: Major Zim business seized
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Peta Thornycroft Independent Foreign ServiceZimbabwe's government has effectively expropriated the country's largest public company, Kingdom Meikles Africa Ltd, under a much criticised so-called an (By Jan)...Federal govt to ease ministerial bans against Zimbabwe
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: "Australia will consider opportunities for ministerial engagement on a selective case-by-case basis" Canberra - Australia will resume some ministerial contact with Zimbabwe, which is marking t (By Jan)...South Africa: Sex industry ready to get busy in 2010
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: Cape Town's sex industry is gearing up for a bumper season in 2010, but an industry experthas warned escorts not to get too excited.Escort agencies and adult boutiques across the city are preparing to (By Jan)...Kenya: Highway Robbers Steal Arms from UN Convoy
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By George SayagieNairobi - A major security scare has been triggered after highway robbers in Kenya stole AK-47 magazines meant for UN peace-keeping forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo.The robb (By Jan)...Africa: Court throws out case against MDC lawmaker
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Harare - A Zimbabwean court on Monday threw out a fraud case against a lawmaker from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC which the party said was the third "trumped-up" charge to be dropped in a mo (By Jan)...Africa: US linked to attack on militant in Somalia
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Washington - Helicopter-borne US special forces attacked a car in southern Somalia on Monday and killed one of the region's most wanted militants, US sources familiar with the operation said.Kenya-bor (By Jan)...South Africa: Money is tight, Sexwale tells residents
Monday 14-Sep-2009: Minister of Human Settlements Tokyo Sexwale has told disgruntled South Africans demanding basic services that government finance "is getting thin".Sexwale spent much of his time in Thokoza, Ekurhuleni (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai's Party Considers Pull Out
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change party began high level talks at the weekend on proposals from its members to disengage from the u (By Jan)...South Africa: Two nabbed for Golden Highway robbery
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: Two men were arrested after they allegedly robbed a couple of valuables on the N12, south of Johannesburg on Sunday morning, metro police said.The couple's car had broken down when two men, one of the (By Jan)...Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor Denies Later Contacts With Sankoh
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By Alpha SesayDespite allegations that Charles Taylor backed and controlled Sierra Leone's rebel group during the country's 11-year conflict, the former Liberian president today said this allegation c (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Parolees can be sent back to jail'
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By Carien Du PlessisPrisoners on medical parole can be called back to jail any time if their parole conditions are properly enforced, an expert said.Lukas Muntingh, of the Civil Society Prisons Reform (By Jan)...World: Teenager throws Molotov cocktails at school
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Ansbach - An 18-year-old went on the rampage at his school in Germany on Thursday, lobbing Molotov cocktails and injuring 10 people, one of whom is fighting for her life, before being shot and arreste (By Jan)...World: Obama moves on missile plan
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Steve HollandWashington - President Barack Obama essentially handed Russia a gift on Thursday with his decision to roll back a planned United States missile defence in eastern Europe.The Russian go (By Jan)...South Africa: Another drug suspect held by police
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Police have arrested a sixth suspect in connection with an international drug syndicate after drugs worth R600-million were seized in Durban early this week, the Hawks said on Thursday.Spokesperson Mu (By Jan)...World: Bangladesh official killed by bomb
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Dhaka - An official from Bangladesh's ruling Awami League was killed in a bomb attack on a party office on Wednesday night and seven other people were wounded, police said.Two bombs were thrown from a (By Jan)...World: Ten killed at Mexican rehab centre
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Ciudad Juarez, Mexico- Suspected drug hitmen have killed 10 patients in a Mexican rehabilitation clinic, the second such attack this month in the city of Ciudad Juarez on the US border, authorities sa (By Jan)...Central Africa: Another Rebel Commander Killed
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Barbara AmongKampala - THE army said on Monday it had killed a notorious senior rebel commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).Lt. Col. Santos Alit and five others were killed 15km north-east (By Jan)...Africa: Migrants death toll rises
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: El-Arish, Egypt - Egyptian border guards shot dead two sub-Saharan migrants on Wednesday, a security official said, bringing to at least 14 the number killed this year as they tried to cross illegally (By Jan)...Chinese Fake Soap Factory Case in Court
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Nangula ShejavaliThe two Chinese nationals arrested on Friday in connection with the production and sale of counterfeit MAQ washing powder will not be allowed to leave the district of Windhoek with (By Jan)...Zim: Court throws out case against MDC lawmaker
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: The third "trumped-up" charge to be dropped in a month Harare - A Zimbabwean court on Monday threw out a fraud case against a lawmaker from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC which the par (By Jan)...South Africa: Alleged sugarcane killer takes witness stand
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: The alleged sugarcane serial killer on Tuesday took to the witness stand for the first time since the beginning of the trial in the Scottburgh High Court.Thozamile Taki told the court he had been seve (By Jan)...Nigeria: Citizens On Death Row - Serap Asks AU to Stop Libya
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Innocent AnabaSocio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Acting Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Commissioner, Bahame Nyanduga, to r (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Racism exists in schools'
Monday 14-Sep-2009: A warning that any teacher who shows even a hint of racism can "kiss the profession goodbye" has been issued by a spokesman for the Ministry of Basic Education, Panyaza Lesufi.Lesufi said teachers wer (By Jan)...Lüderitz Council Gets Order Against Strikers
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Werner MengesTACTICS used by more than a hundred striking employees of the Lüderitz Town Council were declared unlawful by the Labour Court in Windhoek yesterday.In an order issued by Acting J (By Jan)...Central Africa: African Leaders Call for Peace in Great Lakes Region
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Patson PhiriAfrican leaders attending a regional conference in Lusaka, Zambia have called for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the rest of the Great Lakes region.The 3rd Ordinary Inter (By Jan)...Tanzania: Police Seize 15 Grenades 'From Zanzibar'
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Devotha JohnThe police in Dar es Salaam have seized 15 rocket-propelled grenades, which they say were smuggled into the country via the Dar es Salaam Port.The grenades, which were hidden in scrap m (By Jan)...South Africa: Dad sought for allegedly setting home alight
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: A manhunt has begun for a Free State father who allegedly set his family's home alight killing his one-year-old son, police said on Saturday.Spokesman Sergeant Mmako Mophiring said the boy's mother an (By Jan)...South Africa: Shady cops' taxi links
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By Thabiso Thakali and Kashiefa AjamGauteng taxi associations are threatening to name senior metro and SAPS officers running taxi fleets in the province.The corrupt officers, many of whom are pocketin (By Jan)...Somalia: Suicide Attack Hits Peacekeepers
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Hassan Osman AbdiMogadishu - A suicide bomb attack has been targeted to the main base of the African Union AMISOM troops in the Somali capital Mogadishu, officials and witnesses told Shabelle radio (By Jan)...Science: Russia delays launch of Mars probe
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Moscow - Russia will push back its flagship satellite mission to Mars' moon until 2011 in a move which will delay the joint launch of China's first Mars probe, space sources were cited as saying on We (By Jan)...Nigeria: Catholic Bishops Indict Government for Islamist Killings
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Peter DadaKafanchan - The Catholic Church in Nigeria says government inaction was responsible for the untimely and violent death of over 2,000 innocent people during the Islamist uprising in the no (By Jan)...South Africa: Mthethwa moves to quell Cup fears
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa on Tuesday sought to allay fears that the 2010 World Cup would be marred by crime."South Africa has hosted over a hundred international events since democracy... each (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Land Sale Probed
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: Harare - Police in Masvingo are investigating the alleged sale of State land to desperate villagers in Mwenezi by unscrupulous Government officials, it has been learnt.This comes in the wake of report (By Jan)...Teko Order Under Attack
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Werner MengesA RENEWED attack on the court order that froze millions of dollars worth of assets allegedly tainted by corruption with the provision of Chinese-made X-ray scanning equipment to the Mi (By Jan)...South Africa: Officer held after robbery
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: A Soweto policeman and two other men who allegedly posed as police officers and robbed a charity vehicle that was carrying R450 000 in Lenasia on Monday have been arrested, Johannesburg metro police s (By Jan)...Africa: Foreign troops kill two in helicopter raid
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Mogadishu - Foreign troops believed to be French commandos in helicopters killed two people in an attack on a car in southern Somalia on Monday, local witnesses said.Residents said the incident took p (By Jan)...East Africa: Single Media Law Coming for Region
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Francis AyiekoNairobi - One people, one media law. That might sound like a farfetched idea in a region where information flows are still confined to national boundaries while member countries still (By Jan)...Local Leadership On Environmental Sustainability
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Jessie BoylanNiassa Province - Tucked away in the remote northwest corner of Mozambique is some of the most rugged and least developed terrain in the country. It was in this area that some of the m (By Jan)...Africa: Kenya steps up controls at border
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: Nairobi - Kenya has stepped up surveillance of its border with Somalia after the killing of a top regional Al-Qaeda leader during a lightning US military operation, military officials said Sunday."We (By Jan)...Nigeria: Alaba Traders Kick Against Piracy
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: Alaba International Market has responded to the 3-day rally held through Tuesday, August 24 to August 26 by the coalition of major associations in the Nigerian music industry in protest of the continu (By Jan)...Kenya: Church Leader Says Violence Instigators Must Confess
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By Fredrick NzwiliNairobi - The head of Kenya's largest Protestant church grouping, the Rev. Peter Karanja, says people who instigated violence after the disputed 2007 elections in the east African co (By Jan)...World: Insane killer escapes on field trip to fair
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By Nicholas K GeranoisSpokane, Washington - A criminally insane killer who escaped during a mental hospital field trip to a county fair remained on the run, and furious residents and officials wondere (By Jan)...Nigeria: SSS Seizes Atuche, Bank PHB MD's Passport
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By Rotimi Durojaiye and Tunde OpeseitanLagos - State Security Services (SSS) officials on Thursday seized the passport of Bank PHB Managing Director (MD), Francis Atuche, perhaps in connection with th (By Jan)...Science: US battles for leverage on climate
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By Steven R HurstWashington - With Congress moving slowly on a measure to curb industrial greenhouse gas emissions, the United States may find itself with little sway at the coming international confe (By Jan)...World: Dozens killed during air raid in Yemen
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Sanaa - More than 80 civilians were killed when an air raid blasted a makeshift camp of displaced people in northern Yemen, witnesses said on Thursday, as the army pursued its offensive on Shi'a rebel (By Jan)...Zim: Analysis: ENRC's Camec bid could pique Chinese interest
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Analysts expect a Chinese group to come in with a bid London - Kazakh miner ENRC's announcement that it is in advanced offer talks with junior miner Central African Mining and Exploration Co ( (By Jan)...Science: World's big polluters tackle climate
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Washington - Representatives of the world's 17 biggest carbon polluters were due on Thursday to kick off a week of high-level and high-stakes talks on climate change at a meeting in Washington.The aim (By Jan)...World: Gaza 'committed war crimes'
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: Gaza City - The Hamas rulers of Gaza on Wednesday called for Israeli leaders to be put on trial after a UN report accused both the Jewish state and Palestinian militant groups of war crimes."The UN r (By Jan)...Uganda: Shake Up UAC to Stop More HIV Infections
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Dr. Martin Ssempa'sKampala - If we want to avert more HIV/AIDS infections in Uganda, I have no doubt in my mind that the immediate step is for the President to immediately shake-up the Uganda AIDS (By Jan)...Kenya: Parliament Enters Anti-Graft Body Controversy
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Peter Leftie, Dave Opiyo And Alphonce ShiunduNairobi - Parliament will on Tuesday debate the re-appointment of Justice Aaron Ringera to head the anti-graft body in a week that will influence the wa (By Jan)...Tanzania: Ewura - 70 Per Cent of Petrol Stations Unsafe
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Citizen ReporterMore than 70 per cent of all the 900 petrol stations countrywide are engaging in illicit operations that endanger the safety of their customers, Ewura director-general Haruna Masebu (By Jan)...Africa: AU envoy seeks greater mandate for Somalia
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: Bujumbura - The African Union mission in Somalia needs a beefed-up mandate, the AU's special representative for the country said on Sunday at the funeral of 12 Burundian troops killed in a suicide att (By Jan)...South Africa: Couple probed after third child dies at home
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: Police are investigating a Gauteng couple whose baby died after the child was returned to them from foster care. This is the couple's third child to have died after authorities ordered that the childr (By Jan)...South Africa: Troops called in to support Joburg cops
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: Troops were called in to help police the streets of downtown Johannesburg on Friday, SABC news reported.This came after metro police received threats from a taxi operator as they planned to raid an il (By Jan)...Donors Criticise Fuel Subsidy
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Maputo - The group of donors who provide direct support to the Mozambican budget on Friday criticized the government's fuel subsidy policy, but the Minister of Planning and Development, Aiuba Cuerenei (By Jan)...South Africa: Top Health Official Axed
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By Anso ThomHealth department Director General Thami Mseleku, a destructive leftover from former health minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's reign, has been fired and will be leaving at the end of t (By Jan)...Gambia: Sovereign National Wealth And Oil Discovery in Sierra Leone Lesson for the Country
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By PublisherAnadarko Petroleum Corporation, a US based oil company is reported to have announced the discovery of an "active petroleum system" in the Sierra Leone-Liberian basin. The same drillers dis (By Jan)...South Africa: Driver jailed for killing girl on scooter
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Pretoria taxi driver Percyval Matji was sentenced to 12 years in prison by the Pretoria Regional Court on Thursday for killing a schoolgirl on a scooter.Passing sentence, Magistrate Edmund Patterson s (By Jan)...Africa: Zenawi denounces ethnic violence claim
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Barry MaloneAddis Ababa - Ethiopia's prime minister has denounced a think-tank report that warned his country could descend into ethnic violence ahead of its first national election since a 2005 po (By Jan)...Africa: Liberia unveils tougher drug laws
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Monrovia - Liberia's parliament on Wednesday approved a new law to crack down on narco-trafficking amid concerns that drug lords want to turn the West African nation into a transit point.The new law d (By Jan)...South Africa: Major banks challenge ruling on charges
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Maureen MarudConsumer EditorTwo of the four major banks are challenging a Pretoria High Court judgment that was hailed as a "victory for consumers" when it was delivered last month.Standard Bank an (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Relief Workers in Eastern Region Face Increased Attacks, UN Reports
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: The number of incidents against humanitarian workers operating in the volatile North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has surged by 26 per cent in the first six months this (By Jan)...Africa: Al-Qaeda confirms commander's death
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: Washington - Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab extremist group has acknowledged that one of its commanders was killed in a US military raid, SITE Intelligence Group said on Tuesday.The Shebab group "ac (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops dealing with corruption - Cele
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Police were dealing with corruption and criminals found within their own ranks, National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele said on Tuesday."Right now the list that I have is that we have arrested 556 of (By Jan)...Africa: Gaddafi to visit US under tense conditions
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Colonel Moamer Gaddafi recently proposed a motion to the UN General Assembly calling for Switzerland's dissolution. Now the eccentric Libyan leader will visit the New York-based body, his maiden trip (By Jan)...This Bill Should Never Pass Into Law
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: THE Namibian this week urged the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence and Security to scrap Chapter 6 containing the interception clause from what has already become known as the 'Spy Bill', na (By Jan)...Africa: Gorilla King Titus dies in Rwanda
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: The world's most famous mountain gorilla Titus, aka the Gorilla King, has died at the age of 35, the Rwandan national parks office said on Tuesday."He was born on August 24, 1974 and has been observed (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Media women struggle to get to the top'
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Women are well represented in newsrooms but struggle to find a place in senior management or on boards, said Business Day on Tuesday in a report on a study by Gender Links.Women also still earn less t (By Jan)...South Africa: 'No-one cares' about xenophobia victims
Monday 14-Sep-2009: The department of home affairs must take immediate action to help victims of xenophobia in the Alberton area, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday."At least four foreign nationals have been living o (By Jan)...Tanzania: Parastatals Fleeced of U.S. $77 Million
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Joseph MwamunyangeNairobi - Tanzania's large state-owned entities have been fleeced of up to Tsh100 billion ($77 million) in what could be the second biggest corporate fraud in the country's histor (By Jan)...South Africa: Tshwane staff bust for fraud
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Barry BatemanSix Tshwane metro council revenue management staff from the finance department have been arrested for allegedly fraudulently writing off consumers' bad debt for a fee.The Tshwane Metro (By Jan)...South Africa: Union has failed workers - Madisha
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: Former Congress of South African Trade Unions president Willie Madisha on Sunday accused the federation of putting personality clashes above workers' concerns and said he would push ahead with plans t (By Jan)...Zim: Govt admits Meikles seizure ‘ill-advised'
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: On the same day Mutsekwa made the pronouncements investigators stormed the offices of lawyer Nyambirai demanding computer hard drives By Ndamu SanduThe government has admitted that its move to (By Jan)...Liberia: Drug Lords Face Ten Year. Jail, No Bail
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: Time has run out for the country's lenient drug laws, with the Legislature scrapping them Wednesday, granting no bail to suspects and a 10-year jail sentence for those convicted.Past laws made the cou (By Jan)...Nigeria: Country's Inflation Drops to 11 Percent As Food Costs Ease
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By By Paul ArheweNigeria's inflation rate slowed for the sixth month in a row in August as increases in food costs eased and banks crimped lending.The inflation rate dropped to 11 per cent from 11.1 p (By Jan)...Africa: Man 'severely wounded their private parts '
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Blantyre - A Malawi court Friday jailed a 79-year-old man to eight years with hard labour for witchcraft and assault of four children who refused to be taught sorcery, including one of whom died from (By Jan)...Tanzania: Tanzania's President to Participate in U.S - Africa Business Summit
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Washington, DC - The Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) announces that President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of the United Republic of Tanzania will attend the 7th Biennial U.S.–Africa Business Summit: (By Jan)...South Africa: Gunmen on the run after ATM bombing
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Ten heavily armed men held up a service station before bombing an ATM in Lebowakgomo on Thursday, said Limpopo police."The men held petrol attendants hostage and they proceeded to the ATM inside the g (By Jan)...Namibia: NamPol's Hands Tied in Soldier Scam Case
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Christof MaletskyTHE Namibian Police cannot act against a group who have registered over 5 000 former South West Africa Territory Force members and taken N$182 from each of them unless someone lays (By Jan)...Education, Land among Nudo's Focus Areas
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By John EkongoWindhoek - National Unity Democratic Organisation (NUDO) was among the first parties to launch its manifesto last month with a serious undertone to good corporate governance and social u (By Jan)...South Africa: Conflicting statements on sex scandal
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: The lawyer representing four Makhumbuza High School teachers accused of sexually abusing pupils on Wednesday claimed his clients had been cleared of all the charges.Addressing the media in Durban on W (By Jan)...Africa: Sassou-Nguesso names new government
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Brazzaville - Congo Republic's re-elected President Denis Sassou-Nguesso named his new government late on Tuesday, abolishing the controversial post of prime minister and replacing the nation's oil mi (By Jan)...Ethiopia: Ethnic Federalism and Its Discontents
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: The Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), led by its chairman and prime minister, Meles Zenawi, has radically reformed Ethiopia's political system. The regime transformed the hith (By Jan)...Zimbabwe deal leads to few changes for pupils
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: "If we don't get adequate resources we will have lost a whole generation" By Angus ShawHighfield - Stinking waste flows into the yard from the classroom toilets of B Block. Teachers hold lesso (By Jan)...Major Zim business seized
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: On September 24, an emergency meeting of shareholders will be asked to confirm Chanakira's removal Government issues 'specification' order on UK-listed companyPeta ThornycroftZimbabwe's govern (By Jan)...Zim: Be wary of subversive information
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: "Zimbabwe's detractors are using NGOs and pirate radio stations to spread false messages" Harare - The nation has been urged to be wary of subversive information that is being circulated by so (By Jan)...Rwanda: Oldest Silverback Dies At 35
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Edmund KagireKigali - Rwanda yesterday lost one of its treasured and oldest Mountain Gorillas-a Silverback named Titus, which succumbed to old age at 35.According to Rwanda Development Board/Touris (By Jan)...Kenya: Gay Body Decries Harsh Laws in HIV Infections
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Carol RwenjiNairobi - "The government has not been including us in previous strategic plans and we hope for inclusion in the next one," Mr Benjamin Ndung'u, an official said on Tuesday.He expressed (By Jan)...Africa: Ivorian poll lists delayed
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Loucoumane CoulibalyAbidjan - Ivory Coast's election commission confirmed on Tuesday that it had missed a deadline to publish provisional voter lists and political parties warned that the top cocoa (By Jan)...Africa: Continents Requires 75 Million Mt of Petroleum Products Annually-OTL
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Yemie AdeoyeTHE total annual demand for clean products in Africa has been put at about 75 million metric tonnes with Nigeria accounting for almost a third, even as significant infrastructure requir (By Jan)...Africa: Obame sees assassination risk
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: Libreville - Gabon's defeated presidential candidate Andre Mba Obame insisted on Tuesday that he won last month's disputed election and was at risk of assassination bids.Mba Obame insisted in an inter (By Jan)...Somalia: U.S. Conducted Raid on Militants, Say Reports
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Monday's raid on Al Shabaab militants in Somalia was carried out by United States Special Forces troops and killed a top al-Qaeda suspect, American newspapers reported Tuesday.A Radio Garowe report on (By Jan)...World: Obama to meet with Netanyahu, Abbas
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: Washington - President Barack Obama will host a meeting Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in an effort to lay the groundwork for (By Jan)...South Africa: Inmates and warders injured in crash
Friday 18-Sep-2009: More than 30 prisoners and some warders were injured in a bus accident on the M3 in Balgowan near Pietermaritzburg on Friday morning, KwaZulu-Natal police said."The prisoners and staff members were in (By Jan)...Africa: Genocide suspect pleads guilty
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Arusha, Tanzania - A close associate of former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, whose murder triggered the country's 1994 genocide, pleaded guilty on Thursday to complicity in the slaughter.Mich (By Jan)...Nigeria: Militants Extend Ceasefire By 30 Days
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Ahamefula OgbuPort Harcourt - Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) announced yesterday that attacks on oil installations would not resume after its 60-day ceasefire ended Tuesday (By Jan)...Somalia: Ubah Abdi Adood, 'I Am Sure If We Return We Will Be Killed'
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Nairobi - In the eyes of her family and relatives, Ubah Abdi Adood committed a serious crime by marrying a man from the "wrong" clan.Adood, 29, fled her home at the end of 2008 not because of fighting (By Jan)...South Africa: Crooked financial planner to cough up cash
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: A former financial planner in the employ of First National Bank, who stole R747 000 from an elderly bank client, has to repay the bank R400 000 by the end of November or face jail.Handing down senten (By Jan)...Nigeria: Farewell to 'Hope'
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Muhammad Al-Ghazali"At the time the request was made, EFCC had cleared the former governors. I didn't ask the EFCC to clear the former governors after I got the request from Britain. All they have (By Jan)...Uganda: AG Blasts Atubo Over Land Give-Away
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Barbara AmongKampala - THE Attorney General has advised the Government to cancel the title deeds granted to five private developers for the Nakawa-Naguru estates land.In a legal opinion to Presiden (By Jan)...South Africa: Double murder suicide suspected at hotel
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Gill GiffordThe bodies of a 41-year-old father and his daughter, 2, and son, 3, were found in a room at the OR Tambo International Garden Court hotel yesterday.Provincial police spokesperson Senior (By Jan)...World: Bin Laden appeals to Americans
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Paul SchemmCairo - Osama bin Laden said in a new audiotape that President Barack Obama's strategy in Afghanistan is "hopeless" and called on Americans to resolve the conflict with al-Qaeda by endin (By Jan)...South Africa: Six nabbed in country's 'biggest drug bust'
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Nompumelelo MagwazaSix people have been arrested and about R600-million worth of hashish and heroin was seized at two locations in Durban on Monday in what is said to be the country's biggest drug (By Jan)...World: Mother and five children found dead
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: Miami - A mother and her five young children have been found murdered at their home in Florida, police said on Sunday, as authorities searched for the woman's husband who they believe has fled to Hait (By Jan)...South Africa: Sangoma accused of rape
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: A 31-year-old male sangoma was arrested for the rape of a 16-year-old girl he was training to be a traditional healer at Lawley, near Ennerdale, on Sunday, Gauteng police said.Constable Edwin Ntsheo s (By Jan)...Africa: Calls for more suicide attacks
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: Mogadishu - A top radical Islamist leader in Somalia, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, on Sunday called for more suicide attacks against African Union peacekeepers in the country, after a deadly strike this (By Jan)...South Africa: Woman shot in the head
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: A woman was shot in the head and neck during a suspected house robbery in her home in Springs early on Sunday, Gauteng police said.Senior Superintendent Noxolo Kweza said gunmen entered the woman's ho (By Jan)...Feathers Fly Over Sale of 'Family Silver'
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyTRADE and Industry Minister Hage Geingob yesterday said the "excesses of capitalism have played havoc on the global economy" and that Government would need good reasons before placing (By Jan)...South Africa: Neighbours rally in support of Blade Runner
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By Sameer NaikResidents and management of Silverlakes Country Estate, an upmarket housing development east of Pretoria, closed ranks in support of Paralympic hero Oscar Pistorius this week. Pistorius (By Jan)...South Africa: Friend beats then hangs dog after quarrel
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: A Pretoria North man allegedly killed his friend's dog after he had beaten and then hung the animal from a gatepost.The attack occurred this week moments after the two men, who rent rooms in Suider St (By Jan)...South Africa: 'Penis killer' court case postponed
Friday 18-Sep-2009: The case against two police inspectors accused of murdering four men after an argument over the size of penises was postponed by the Durban High Court on Friday.The accused, Brian Steven, was not in c (By Jan)...Zim: Platinum spat turns ugly
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Battle for Bougai It's London-listed Camec vs. Kameni in a battle for Bougai, one of the world's choicest platinum concessionsBarry SergeantJohannesburg - An international incident is quietly (By Jan)...South Africa: Father of toddler in dock after his murder
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: The couple accused of murdering three-year-old Adilson Khasamba made a brief appearance in the Athlone Magistrate's Court in Cape Town on Monday where the case was postponed for a formal bail applicat (By Jan)...Nigeria: FG Declares Illegal Oil Bunkerers Enemies of State
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Emmanuel IriogbeAbuja - Henceforth, those caught in illegal oil bunkering in the country will be treated as enemies of the state, while foreign collaborators have been urged to stay off in their ow (By Jan)...Nigeria: Review of FCT Land Charges - Matters Arising
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Niyi FadojuAbuja - The furor generated by the recent increment in the land charges by the Honorable Minister of the Federal Capital Territory is yet to abate. The morality and legality of the incre (By Jan)...Africa: Zim inflation slows down
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: Harare - Zimbabwean inflation slowed to 0,4 percent month-on-month in August from 1,0 percent in July, figures released by the Central Statistical Office showed on Wednesday.The southern African count (By Jan)...South Africa: Country to Miss Aids Treatment Goal
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Peroshni GovenderJohannesburg - THE government will not meet its target of providing life-prolonging treatment to 80% of people with HIV by 2011 due to logistical problems, a lack of personnel and (By Jan)...Kenya: Local Oil Firm Eyes Zim Market
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Joseph BonyoNairobi - Oil marketer KenolKobil has signed a joint sale and purchase agreement to acquire Shell and BP Limited companies in Zimbabwe.The listed firm together with Engen Petroleum of S (By Jan)...Nigeria: Militants Give Fresh Conditions Over Amnesty
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Ejiofor Alike With Agency ReportLagos - Barely three weeks to the expiration of the October 4 deadline, two militant leaders, Government Ekpemukpolo, aka Tompolo and Ateke Tom, have given fresh con (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma handles calls as hotline opens
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: President Jacob Zuma launched a telephone hotline on Monday that would allow people to lodge complaints directly to his office, a month after violent protests erupted over poor services and jobs.Zuma, (By Jan)...Africa: Hearing of Darfur rebel chief delayed
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: The Hague - The International Criminal Court on Monday postponed by a week a hearing to determine whether there are sufficient grounds to try Darfur rebel chief Bahar Idriss Abu Garda for alleged war (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: MDC-T Admits World Bank Paying PM's Staff
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Harare - THE World Bank has been secretly paying salaries to staff in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Office, a top aide has admitted, fuelling speculation that MDC-T is trying to run a parallel Go (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: UN Food Agency Gives a Helping Hand to Farmers
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: In a bid to tackle hunger in Zimbabwe, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will give farmers a boost in the African nation boost by distributing seeds and fertilizers, it was an (By Jan)...Somalia: Group Reports 32 Dead in Recent Fighting
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Mogadishu - Mogadishu-based Elman Human Rights group issued a report Thursday, with the group's deputy chairman telling reporters that the civilian casualties included women and children."Four days of (By Jan)...East Africa: Regional Forces Conduct Military Exercise
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Wilfred EdwinNairobi - East African Community armed forces are conducting another joint field training exercise in Monduli, Arusha.The exercise, codenamed "Ex Mlima Kilimanjaro, 2009" is fully fund (By Jan)...Gabon: Nation Joins Africa's List of Dynasties, Disputed Polls
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Gitau WarigiNairobi - It is becoming a worrying tradition in Africa to see election results get violently contested, with often bloody results. It happened in Kenya in 2007. It happened in Zimbabwe (By Jan)...World: Lagging employment sector concerns Obama
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: By James ViciniWashington - President Barack Obama in an interview aired on Sunday said all signs point to the US economy starting to grow again but there may not be enough new jobs created until next (By Jan)...Kenya: Country at Crossroads in Fight Against Poverty
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: By Joy WanjaNairobi - Kenya is at the crossroads between tackling climate change and reducing poverty levels. Debate is rife that conserving the environment will end drought, famine and disease and le (By Jan)...Explaining Globalism: The West’s extreme fear of small backward nations…
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: [These are comments Jan emailed to a friend. Gairk] [I really need to write about why the Western world and the Globalists are so petrified of small backward countries. Despite their sophisticated (By Gairk)...Ghana: We Can Kick Out HIV From Marriage
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By From the EditorAvailable statistics indicate that a little over two percent of all Ghanaians are infected with the HIV virus, which causes AIDS. Infections are higher among women than men.It has be (By Jan)...Africa: Somali attack victims rescued
Friday 18-Sep-2009: Paris - France has evacuated 17 people wounded in an attack on an African Union peacekeeping base in Somalia's capital.The French Foreign Ministry says a French military plane flew the 17 to Nairobi, (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma Showed Malema How to Celebrate Victory
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Johannesburg - THE small crowd that welcomed back the Springboks at OR Tambo International on Monday may have dampened what should have been a fantastic occasion to celebrate their Tri-Nations victory (By Jan)...Africa: Peacekeepers attacked in Somalia
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Mogadishu - A blast rocked a barracks used by Ugandan peacekeepers in Somalia's restive capital Mogadishu on Thursday, killing at least two people, witnesses said."I have seen the bodies of two people (By Jan)...South Africa: Cosatu attack on Manuel unfortunate: ANC
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Cosatu's statement that Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel could become a de facto "imperial" prime minister, was unfortunate, the African National Congress said on Thursday."Attacks on the per (By Jan)...South Africa: ATM bombed in Vosloorus
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: An ATM situated at a BP garage in Vosloorus was bombed during the early hours of Thursday morning, Gauteng police said.Senior Superintendent Noxolo Kweza said about 12 men in three separate cars drove (By Jan)...South Africa: Defence official linked to dodgy R108m tender
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Louise FlanaganA top defence force official is linked to a company that received a R108-million contract for specialised work it doesn't appear to be qualified to do.Two months before the contract (By Jan)...South Africa: Wits students on edge
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: University of the Witwatersrand student negotiators and university management had not yet agreed on a resolution to their fee hike dispute by Wednesday afternoon.Gallery: Wits Students ProtestProvinci (By Jan)...USA: So far, Obama's failing miserably
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Jeremy Lott is editor of Capital Research Center’s Labor Watch newsletter and author of “The Warm Bucket Brigade: The Story of the American Vice Presidency.” When he ran for president, George W. Bu (By Gairk)...I Am No Dictator - Khama
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Chippa LegodimoKanye - President Ian Khama says he is not a dictator but he will always be firm with people marching in the wrong direction to the detriment of the nation.Khama told a Botswana Demo (By Jan)...South Africa: Three held for Marble Hall robbery
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: Three men have been arrested in Marble Hall for robbery, Limpopo police said on Wednesday.The men robbed a cash loan business of an undisclosed amount of money and fled in a BMW, Superintendent Mohal (By Jan)...Gold Refinery to Be Installed in Manica
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: Maputo - An industrial unit to refine gold is to be installed in the central Mozambican central province of Manica before the end of this year, reports the Beira daily paper "Diario de Mocambique".Thi (By Jan)...South Africa: Minister Moves to Scrap Unions for Soldiers
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has the trade unions in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in her sights and will change the law to replace them with non po (By Jan)...Africa: Technology Transfer So Slow 'We'll Have to Copy Like China'
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Isolda AgazziBamako - Cars and motorcycles are stuck because of the heavy rains that have drenched Mali's capital for the past few days. It is late afternoon and the water, mud and damaged fruit fr (By Jan)...South Africa: Crash victims 'inspired all', says family
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: By Michelle PietersenStaff ReporterA heartbroken family is trying to come to terms with the fact that two young children will have to grow up without "Ouma and Oupa" after their grandparents both died (By Jan)...Africa: 'Zim on the path to recovery'
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Canberra - Australia will consider easing a ban on high level contacts with Zimbabwe, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said on Tuesday, adding it was too soon to end targeted sanctions against President (By Jan)...Pravda Promtoes Disinformation Regarding 'Concentration Camps' Under Obama
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: [I'm hearing a lot from some of those whom claim to be on the Right that suggest Obama is going to "establish" FEMA concentration camps, and also subvert public schools too. But the Pravda is the pub (By Lone Wolf)...Nigeria: 53 Suspected Boko Haram Members Docked
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Bauchi - Fifty-three of the 161 suspected Boko Haram sect members Monday appeared before a Bauchi Magistrate's Court on treason charges. They were also charged with eight other capital offences.Accord (By Jan)...South Africa: Alleged fraudsters acquitted
Monday 14-Sep-2009: By Jade WittenA father and his two sons accused of payslip, ID and driving licence fraud to help secure loans totalling nearly R1-million have been acquitted of almost all the charges levelled against (By Jan)...South Africa: Budlender faces tough questions
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: Lawyer and acting Cape High Court Judge Geoff Budlender found himself embroiled in questions from the JSC on whether he had been sidelined previously as a judge because of cases he had handled in the (By Jan)...South Africa: Transnet's R200m consultants
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: Transnet Freight Rail, whose suspended head Siyabonga Gama is at the centre of the succession storm at the transport parastatal, spent over R200 million on consultants this year alone.In total, the di (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops wait 8 hours to look for kids
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: A mother launched her own desperate search for two missing children on Friday evening after the Khayelitsha police allegedly failed to help her.The two children - Inga Fuma, 4, and her cousin Temihle (By Jan)...South Africa: Man dies in tavern brawl
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: A 21-year-old man died and another was injured in a tavern brawl in Mthatha, Eastern Cape police said on Saturday." It is believed that a fight broke out between the deceased and another man in the ea (By Jan)...South Africa: Media blasted for humiliating the innocent
Friday 18-Sep-2009: By Dario Milo and Greg PalmerCaster Semenya, the newly crowned 800m world champion, entered the international spotlight when an Australian newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, sensationally claimed that te (By Jan)...Africa: Ethiopia to Build Africa International Trade Centre
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: By Dorcas IlungaConstruction of a modern multi-million Africa International Trade Centre is under way in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.The trade centre to be called Addis Africa International Trade (By Jan)...Africa: Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 39th Annual Legislative Conference Foreign Affairs Brain Trust Discusses Africa in the Age of Obama
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Washington, DC - As part of activities marking the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 39th Annual Legislative Conference, Congressman Donald M. Payne will be joined by a panel of experts to discu (By Jan)...South Africa: Ship trouble costs SA a ton
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: By Henri du PlessisStaff WriterConcerns are growing about a perceived lack of response from the insurers of the stranded bulk carrier Seli 1 and maritime authorities fear the costs of fuel removal and (By Jan)...Southern Africa: Regional 'Standby' Troops Hold Military Exercises
Monday 14-Sep-2009: Loahtla - Soldiers of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) known as Stand-by Brigade entered early Saturday the "real test" of the Dolphin Phase III Military Exercises.The "real test" con (By Jan)...South Africa: DA requests further arms committee meeting
Monday 14-Sep-2009: The DA has asked for another meeting with the National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC), saying Justice Minister Jeff Radebe had been "stonewalling" and "covering up" details about suspect (By Jan)...USA: Frank's scathing comments on Jimmy Carter's support for Communist Dictators
Friday 18-Sep-2009: [This is a response from Frank of Queens of The Right Perspective, to what Jan sent out about Jimmy Carter's support for Communist Dictators. Gairk] [Frank, I never knew that Carter also supported (By Gairk)...[Pic] South Africa's ridiculous World War III threat over... black hermaphrodite athelete...
Monday 14-Sep-2009: [The ANC Govt continues to make idiots out of the rest of us. As utterly stupid as this sounds, and yes, it is truly incredibly stupid, even for the ANC; they actually threatened "World War III" over (By Jan)...USA: Heartbreaking story of American workers drawing straws with illegals for jobs in Oregon
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: Since it opened a year ago in a small parking lot, a day labor center on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard has provided a clearinghouse for workers who once lined the street. Now, as unemp (By Gairk)...Egyptian Government Turns Ramadan Into A Jew-Hating Festival
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: [Quite disgusting. The USA is still sending its tax dollars to Egypt, yet the government is allowing typical Jew-hatred to go on on the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. With Egypt being the same govern (By Lone Wolf)...Osama Bin Laden Banks On The Far Left Led 'Peace' Movement For Victory
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: [A day late or so for the 9/11 anniversary, but Osama bin Laden repeats the same rhetoric coming from the "peace" movement that the USA should leave Afghanistan. Lone Wolf.] Bin Laden reportedly c (By Lone Wolf)...Israel: Cass Sunstein wants to spread America's wealth
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: © 2009 WorldNetDaily September 16, 2009 Cass Sunstein wants to spread America's wealth Echoes Van Jones on using 'environmental justice' to redistribute money By Aaron Klein Cass Sunstein (By JoAn)...Jimmy Carter States 'Racist' Tone Against Obama
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: [Oh, this is a good one. The man whom endorsed the rise of Robert Mugabe when he was President, a pseudo-black liberator, seems to enjoy now excusing Obama. I guess he seemed to enjoy promoting a an (By Lone Wolf)...[Pic] New Jewish Memorial to Jews who fought & died on the Boer side in the Anglo-Boer War
Monday 14-Sep-2009: The most prominent Jewish newspaper in Johannesburg, "The Jewish Report", ran this story below about Jews who died fighting on the boer side during the Anglo-Boer war. One Jewish friend of mine fro (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (14-09-2009)
Monday 14-Sep-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- It is all very well Tsvangirai having a go at Mugabe while the EU delegation is visiting, but the delegation won't be there forever. Having (By The BeardedMan)...Will Medvedev Meet With American Communists, Leftists And 'Right-wing' Conspiracy Theorists?
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: [It seems Dmitry Medvedev is prepared to meet with U.S. dissidents next week during his trip. Could that include open American Communist shills? Rabid Leftists like Cindy Sheehan? Or "right-wing" f (By Lone Wolf)...YouTube Video: Will The Kremlin Make Excuses To Invade The Ukraine Next?
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: [I think this report here from although I consider Russia Today to be somewhat of a propaganda outlet. It seems here they are suggesting the Kremlin is ready for another open war this time with the U (By Lone Wolf)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (16-09-2009)
Wednesday 16-Sep-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- I received an email yesterday, which I repeat hereunder: "The United Nations has chosen the first Monday in October to be World Habitat D (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (17-09-2009)
Thursday 17-Sep-2009: Howzit For a limited time only, my book, "Without Honour", will be online for anyone to read. It will only be there until the end of next week. You can find the book for free reading here. As (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (19-09-2009)
Saturday 19-Sep-2009: Howzit "President Robert Mugabe has told his ZANU PF party to prepare for elections in 2011. President Mugabe told the fifth congress of the ZANU PF Women's League on Thursday afternoon that the in (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (15-09-2009)
Tuesday 15-Sep-2009: Howzit This morning I am unsure of this page's status. A notice on the administration page from Google, tells me that this page has been reported as a "spam blog" and needs to be reviewed before it (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (20-09-2009)
Sunday 20-Sep-2009: Howzit I do note that this page is fast turning into a who's who of criminal enterprise in Zimbabwe. More and more people are being caught throughout the globe having been up to no good - and many (By The BeardedMan)...
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