From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 4th October 2009From 1994-Present over 3,000 Farmers have been murdered in S.Africa.
Many thousands of their farm workers have also been murdered too.
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Saturday 03-Oct-2009: [I have said all along that Obama is a clown and I will enjoy his presidency. He is such fun. Remember, from day I have been saying that Obama has a loud mouth and I doubt there is any substance behin (By Gairk)...South Africa: An open letter to Melissa Steyn and her liberal friends in response to their open letter to the Canadian Government
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Ms. Steyn, As a White South African victim of black racist crime and consequently an expat, I am outraged by the absolute tripe that you and your friends/colleagues have put forward by way of an op (By Gairk)...South Africa: You are not safe!
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: No one is safe. Not even in your home, let alone on the street or in a shopping centre. No matter how much money is spent on securing homes, malls and neighbourhoods, criminals will continue to kill a (By Jan)...South Africa: Typical Racist ANC Dirty tricks against oppostion - blame the Whites FOREVER
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: [The ANC always plays the stupid race card for what it is worth. It tries to pretend that the black people are under attack and are being discriminated against. In this case, it is with respect to the (By Jan)...Nigeria: How Ghanaian Ecomog Commander Betrayed SGT. Doe
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Benjamin NjokuLagos - The story of the Liberian civil war cannot be complete without references to Nigeria's Major Gen. C.C. Iweze(rtd). Currently, a director with Multimesh Group, (a digital cable (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: An Uneasy Alliance in Eastern Region
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Colin Thomas-Jensen, Noel Atama, and Olivia CaeymaexWashington, DC - The human cost of Operation Kimia II the ongoing joint offensive by the Congolese army and United Nations peacekeepers against R (By Jan)...Somalia: Kismayo - the Vortex of Country's Wars
Friday 02-Oct-2009: The Somali civil war erupted in 1991 following the overthrow of the Horn of Africa country's 21-year military dictatorship under Gen. Barre by clan warlords, who quickly turned on each other and plung (By Jan)...South Africa: Shoot-to-kill idea re-emerges in Zuma speech
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: President Jacob Zuma threatened criminals with a shoot-to-kill policy on Tuesday, re-igniting the debate on the rights of criminals in a country where 50 people are murdered every day."Criminals don't (By Jan)...Nigeria: Security, 49 Years After
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Joe Omokaro and Anthony OkoroLagos - Forty-nine years after Nigeria attained her Independence from the British colonial masters, one major problem which successive governments have failed to tackle (By Jan)...Africa: Africa is Dynamic Continent, Not Charity Case, Says Clinton
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: The following remarks were delivered by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at U.S.-Africa Business Summit hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa at the Convention Center in Washington, DC.Than (By Jan)...South Africa: Effects of crime on kids underestimated
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: By Thabiso ThakaliA new study on youth lifestyle has revealed that government statistics have significantly underestimated the level of crime experienced by most young people. Almost half of South Afr (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Refugees Hit Harare Liberty Trail
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Roselyne SachitiHarare - A HUGE umbrella shaped tree stands imposingly high next to the administration block at Nyamapanda Police Station near Zimbabwe's border with Mozambique in Mashonaland East (By Jan)...S.Africa: From Jan: Should Afrikaners & Minorities continue with the goal of their own state?
Friday 02-Oct-2009: [In a recent article a reader posed a question about a state "for minorities". I really like the term and the concept. I have spoken in the past about Afrikaners, Whites in general and even Coloureds (By Jan)...South Africa: Tale of a courageous commissar
Friday 02-Oct-2009: He was a revolutionary, a soldier's soldier. Anointed by OR Tambo as a future leader of South Africa, Chris Hani's legend is as powerful as ever. This is an extract from the first biography of the ANC (By Jan)...After five decades away, going home to Zimbabwe
Monday 28-Sep-2009: There is bush where I remember hundreds of orange, nectarine and banana trees By Michelle FaulThe imposing cross atop the brick church looms out of the bush like a beacon. The bells sing out w (By Jan)...Liberia: Taylor Denies Knowing of Sierra Leone Attack Plans
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor did not have any prior knowledge of rebel plans to invade Sierra Leone in 1991, and contrary to prosecution allegations against him, he did not order Sierra Leonean rebel (By Jan)...Local Children Face Murder, Rape and Abuse On a Daily Basis
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyAT least 200 children, from newborns to teenagers of 16 years, have been murdered, raped or assaulted in Namibia so far this year, or have died under suspicious circumstances.Horror st (By Jan)...South Africa: Gold robbery plotters stung
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Three suspected armed robbers, two of them army reservists, were arrested in an undercover police operation which saw law enforcers recovering paramilitary equipment, military uniforms, firearms and n (By Jan)...Guinea: Stop Violent Attacks On Demonstrators - Security Forces Unlawfully Kill Dozens of Protesters
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: New York - Guinean security forces should immediately cease violent attacks on demonstrators protesting against the military government, Human Rights Watch said today.Human Rights Watch called upon th (By Jan)...World: How the Obamas nearly split up
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: Geoffrey WansellWhen the newly elected President Barack Obama, his wife, Michelle, and their two daughters, Malia and Sasha, waved to the 200 000 people roaring their approval at the first African-Ame (By Jan)...South Africa: Fallout expected as Selebi trial starts
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) prosecutors last week took drug dealer Glenn Agliotti on a trial test run, firing questions at him to see if he was ready to face off with the lawyers of his old m (By Jan)...Sudan: Youth Wars Cause Turmoil in South
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Skye WheelerAkobo, Sudan - There was no moon the night the armed men from the Murle tribe attacked the fishing village: it took place in complete darkness. Nyakong Both grabbed her two youngest boy (By Jan)...South Africa: Bombers demolish supermarket
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: ATM bombers left a wave of destruction when they blew up two city cash machines and destroyed a supermarket during the early hours of yesterday morning. The attacks, which police believe were carried (By Jan)...Africa: Russia Should Rethink Policy on Africa, Say Experts
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Kester Kenn KlomegahMoscow - Russia should reconsider its trade policy towards African states if it wants to keep up with the likes of China, the European Union (EU) and the U.S., say experts.Autho (By Jan)...Africa: UN Partners With Initiative to Slash Numbers of Starving on the Continent
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: With over three million children dying from hunger around the world every year and child mortality rates rising in Africa, the United Nations food agency today announced a new partnership to expand ef (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Nestlé Defies Calls to Pull Out of Country
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: By Farirai Machivenyika and Mabasa SasaHarare - NESTLé, an international food and beverages giant, has become the first foreign company to openly hit out at the West's illegal economic sanction (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Robert and Grace Mugabe Own 12 Farms Between Them
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Violet GondaRobert Mugabe and his ZANU PF party have always insisted that the government's land reform programme is meant to correct 'historical imbalances' and give land to landless black Zimbabwe (By Jan)...Uganda: Uganda's Oil to Bring in $2 Billion Per Year
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Ibrahim Kasita and Els De TemmermanKampala - SO far 800 million barrels of oil have been confirmed in Uganda, with an estimated total value of $50b. Ibrahim Kasita and Els De Temmerman interviewed (By Jan)...South Africa: Spy chief: We will reprimand them
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: South Africa's new intelligence boss has vowed to shake up the agency and rid it of politically partisan spooks who found themselves in the middle of ANC succession battles. He has also promised to cr (By Jan)...Nigeria: No Mercy for Militants After October 4 - FG
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Adeola Yusuf ,Harris-Okon Emmanuel and Felix IgbekoyiLagos/Warri/Asaba - Seven days to the deadline for militants to drop their arms and accept amnesty, Abuja at the weekend warned that none would (By Jan)...Africa: Obama Supports Africa in Global Financial Crisis - U.S. Official
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Charles W. CoreyWashington - The Obama administration recognizes the effect the global financial crisis has had on sub-Saharan Africa and has "responded with vigorous support," says Deputy U.S. Tre (By Jan)...Guinea: Stop Violent Attacks on Demonstrators
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: New York - Guinean security forces should immediately cease violent attacks on demonstrators protesting against the military government, Human Rights Watch said today.Human Rights Watch called upon th (By Jan)...Zim: Rautenbach free to live south of Limpopo
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Some say that he would like to get out of the clutches of Zanu PF, and, now that he can, move to South Africa By Peta ThornycroftThe past few days have been good for Zimbabwe's rich and contro (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Shabanie Shooting Signals Weak Labour Laws
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: By Shame MakoshoriHarare - Police's shooting of three workers during an industrial action at the troubled Shabanie Mine last week highlights the need to refresh labour laws to make them impervious to (By Jan)...Africa: 'Women raped in stadium bloodbath'
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Conakry - Guinea junta troops shot and killed at least 128 people and raped women when they broke up a huge demonstration, opposition leaders said on Tuesday amid deadly new unrest.Soldiers shot dead (By Jan)...Uganda: Police Arrest 23 Armed Robbers, Recover Guns
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Zura NakabugoKampala - Police have arrested 23 suspected armed robbers who have been terrorising residents in different parts of the country. According to police, the arrests also led to the recove (By Jan)...Uganda: Osama Bin Laden Takes Over Al Qaeda
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Kampala - IN the last excerpt from his memoir, In The Line Of Fire, former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf recalls the disappearance of Mullah Omar in the wake of the US' bombing of Afghanistan an (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Builds Farming Empire
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Peta ThornycroftHarare - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has built a secret, personal farming empire from at least five farms where the white owners were forced out during the evictions of 4000 (By Jan)...Somalia: Obama Investing in Govt Survival
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Kevin J. KelleyNairobi - The recent killing in Somalia of a top US target shows that the Obama administration is fully committed to taking military action in support of the shaky Transitional Feder (By Jan)...Africa: South-African leaders blast West
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Ian JamesPorlamar, Venezuela - Hugo Chavez made diplomatic inroads in Africa on Sunday at a summit of South American and African leaders where he offered Venezuela's help in oil projects, mining an (By Jan)...South Africa: Chris Hani's secret lover
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: By Janet Smith and Beauregard TrompDuring the speeches, Hani had laid out the hard truth about the violent political stasis unfolding in South Africa, despite the peace talk of the ANC. Anne Duthie re (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops hail 'fighting fire with fire' talk
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Police officers on the streets have overwhelmingly supported President Jacob Zuma and his warning to criminals that police will stand no nonsense.Zuma told nearly 2 000 police station commissioners in (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma supports more power for cops
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday expressed his support for an amendment to the law to strengthen the hand of policemen in dealing with violent criminals."If you take a gun out to me that intent is mor (By Jan)...Nigeria: Three More Bank Chiefs Fired
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: By Yemi Adebowale and Kunle Aderinokun in AbujaLagos - The Central Bank of Nigeria yesterday drew the curtain on its special audit of banks with the release of the result of the last 14 banks examined (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Sanctions to Torpedo GNU?
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Njabulo NcubeHarare - AS DEBATE on whether the restrictive measures slapped on President Robert Mugabe and more than 200 members of his inner circle are the only outstanding issues in the resolutio (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: U.S. $5.7 Billion Debt Splits Cabinet
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: Harare - CABINET is deeply divided over the debt and arrears clearance strategy proposal currently under government consideration, as Zimbabwe battles to extricate itself from a huge debt trap.The div (By Jan)...Uganda: Fear Level Rises As LRA Rebels Return
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Reports - A familiar foe has ramped up its activities in central Africa. Raids by the notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) are becoming more frequent and, as the BBC's Peter Martell reports, a sense (By Jan)...Somalia: President Calls for More Aid in U.S. Visit
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Zach Rosenberg and Jim LobeWashington - Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the leader of Somalia's beleaguered Transitional Federal Government (TFG), appealed here this week for increased U.S. and interna (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: 'Fight for Economic Uhuru'
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Caesar ZvayiMargarita Island - President Mugabe has urged the developing world to complete the fight for holistic independence by taking ownership of their resources, saying political freedom witho (By Jan)...South Africa: No to 'wild west' criminal justice system
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: DA leader Helen Zille has warned President Jacob Zuma against using "unconstitutional means" to deal with criminals.Zille was responding to Zuma's speech at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria on Tue (By Jan)...Liberia: Taylor Denies Ordering Rebel Attack on Freetown
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor did nor order Sierra Leonean rebel forces to attack the nation’s capital Freetown and to free the group’s leader from jail in 1999, he said during his trial in (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Murder Victim's Body Stolen, Mutilated
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Felex ShareHarare - A corpse was stolen from a funeral wake at Hopley Farm while mourners were asleep only to be recovered, heavily mutilated, the following day about 3km away from the homestead.Gi (By Jan)...Sudan: Organized Violence Escalating in the South
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: Juba - A month before the recent attack in Jonglei State that left scores dead, Daniel Dau had moved his family from Duk to Twich East County, about 100km away, believing they would be safer there.But (By Jan)...Frelimo and Renamo Clash in Sussundenga
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Sussundenga - Three people have been arrested following clashes over the past few days between supporters of the ruling Frelimo Party and of the main opposition party, Renamo, in Sussundenga district, (By Jan)...South Africa: Kids 'socialised to find violence acceptable'
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: South Africa's history of violence and its ongoing social ills have left many people emotionally scarred and some of them - now emotionally blunted - have turned to crime.Many are socially skewed and (By Jan)...South Africa: SA firm regrets doing business with Mugabe
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Noelene BarbeauThe Pinetown-based company that sold state-of-the-art dairy equipment to Grace Mugabe for her farm, did not know they were doing business with the wife of Zimbabwean President Robert (By Jan)...Zim: Soldiers threaten to shoot farmer
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: The soldiers camped at Lock's farm are acting on behalf of army Brigadier General Justin Mujaji By Charles TemboHarare - Zimbabwe soldiers at the weekend threatened to shoot the white owner of (By Jan)...Africa: African Development Bank's Role in Efforts to Develop and Invest in Africa's Agriculture
Monday 28-Sep-2009: To: 30/09/2009Location: Nairobi, KenyaTunis, Tunisia, 23 September 2009 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group will participate in the 4th Annual Humanitarian Development Summit scheduled to take (By Jan)...Somalia: Rift Between Militia Groups Deepens
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: By Abdulkadir KhalifSomalia's two main insurgent groups clashed today near the southern port of Kismayu and residents said Al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam were squaring up for battles elsewhere in the Hor (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma Lectures Police Chiefs
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Proffesor NdawondePretoria - President Jacob Zuma has urged police bosses to execute their duties accordingly and be stringent at their respective police stations.Addressing more than 1 000 police (By Jan)...Breaking News: Youth league warns Nedbank
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: Nedbank must retain sponsorship of Athletics SA or face the wrath of patriotic South Africans, the ANC Youth League said on Saturday."[The] ANCYL calls on Nedbank to retain its sponsorship of Athletic (By Jan)...Zim: Bennett says MDC have no power in government
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: "It's ‘rule by the gun'" By Violet GondaRoy Bennett, the MDC-T Deputy Minister of Agriculture nominee, has said the security situation in the country is now one of concern, eight months afte (By Jan)...South Africa: Survivors talks about hiking ordeal
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: Hiker Leon Hans is haunted by memories of the hike he and five friends began a week ago today. In less than 24 hours three of them were dead."People are blaming us because we are alive. Some people wo (By Jan)...Africa: Nestle defends buying milk from Mugabe dairy
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Peta Thornycroft HarareZimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace have helped themselves to five or six of the most valuable of the hundreds of white farms his government has taken over. (By Jan)...Jan Lamprecht: Our Rotten Hospitals - The Secret Suffering of my Men friends...
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: I mentioned my own struggles with the passing away of my mother. In fact, I complained so bitterly, that tomorrow, friday, the management of the hospital wish to meet with me after they have conducted (By Jan)...Liberia: Country Demands Urgent International Action on Guinea
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: It is becoming clearer by the day that militarism and democracy can't mix. And those who think the military can provide democratic or even an adaptable civil leadership are living in a fool's paradise (By Jan)...Nigeria: Militants Want Soyinka to Mediate
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Paul Arhewe, Sunday Osanyintuyi and Chesa ChesaLagos/Abuja - Wole Soyinka was on Tuesday named by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) among those to negotiate with Abuja on (By Jan)...South Africa: Police Launch Manhunt for Armed Robbers
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Edwin TshivhidzoJohannesburg - Gauteng police have launched a manhunt for 17 suspects in connection with an armed robbery that occurred last night at the Brakpan shopping complex in the East Rand.A (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Veld Fires Stoke Food Production Fears
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Harare - The increasing incidence of wild fires is eroding food production in Zimbabwe, which remains a food insecure country despite a turnaround in agricultural production.The Environment Management (By Jan)...South Africa: 'You've exceeded the bounds of self-defence'
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: The Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) is investigating the death of a man during protests in Mpumalanga earlier this year, police said on Wednesday.Provincial spokesperson Captain Leonard Hlath (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Crisis Group Warns That Zanu PF Violence is on the Rise
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Violet GondaZANU PF militia have begun a fresh wave of violence, especially in the rural areas, according to a statement issued by the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition. On Wednesday the pressure group (By Jan)...Africa: Four Presidents Address Regional Integration at U.S. Business Summit
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: As part of the U.S.-Africa Business Summit being hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa this week, four African heads of state, participated in a Presidential Roundtable on regional integration. Th (By Jan)...South Africa: Polokwane wounds run deep
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: By Moshoeshoe Monare, Caiphus Kgosana, Carien Du Plessis, Xolani Mbanjwa and Siyabonga MkhwanaziThe ANC is yet to heal from its bruising, divisive 2007 national conference, with its provincial structu (By Jan)...Kenya: Post-Violence Election Witnesses Quietly Leave Country
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: By Murithi MutigaNairobi - International Criminal Court prosecutors have compiled a damaging report on at least four top Kenyan officials, including Cabinet ministers, who could face charges of crimes (By Jan)...Nigeria: Federal Govt's Amnesty for Militants
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Chike OrjiakoLagos - This little joke graphically illustrates the metaphor of the Niger-Delta crises.A black guy and a white man were sitting in a park. The white man had a pet monkey and the black (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (30-09-2009)
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- The bad luck that I have been experiencing with my left arm is obviously set to stalk me for the rest of my days. When I last saw the speci (By The BeardedMan)...Africa: Index of African Governance - World Peace Foundation Version
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: This introduction to the 2009 Index of African Governance was published by the World Peace Foundation. The full index published by the foundation can be found on AllAfrica's resource pages.The top per (By Jan)...Ethiopia/USA: Oldest "Human" Skeleton Found--Disproves "Missing Link
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Submitted by Grazy: National Geographic News, Reporting Your World DailyFriday, October 2, 2009MAINANIMAL NEWSANCIENT WORLDENVIRONMENT NEWSCULTURES NEWSSPACE/TECH NEWSWEIRDPHOTOSVIDEO Oldest "Human (By JoAn)...Zimbabwe: Swedish Company Violated Targeted Sanctions on Mugabe
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Lance GumaA dairy equipment firm based in Sweden may have violated European Union targeted sanctions by doing business with Grace Mugabe. The South African subsidiary of the Swedish Delaval company (By Jan)...Africa: Successful HIV Vaccine Study Will Lead to Further Research
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Merle David Kellerhals Jr.Medical researchers in Thailand have developed an approach to prevent HIV the same way it has been treated, by using a combination vaccine to successfully halt the spread (By Jan)...Uganda: Kabale Farmers Face Land Scarcity, Cross Border to Cultivate in Rwanda
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Robert MuherezaAs land wrangles sweep across the country, residents of Kabale District are faced with a dilemma on how to find land to cultivate and feed the growing population in the area. Saturda (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma to Get First-Hand Crime Data At Police Meeting
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Wilson JohwaJohannesburg - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma plans to get first-hand information on the fight against crime -- one of his administration's top five priorities this year -- when he meets about 10 (By Jan)...South Africa: Shack murder, rape shocks neighbours
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: By Vuvo Mabandla and Bianca CapazorioThe naked body of a domestic worker was found on Sunday in a backyard shack in Harare, Khayelitsha, where it is believed she had been raped.Buyezwa Nyamani's body (By Jan)...South Africa: Typical Racist ANC Dirty tricks against oppostion - 'ANC told people to lie'
Friday 02-Oct-2009: [The ANC always plays the stupid race card for what it is worth. It tries to pretend that the black people are under attack and are being discriminated against. In this case, it is with respect to the (By Jan)...Zambia: Armed Lusaka Bandits Slay Taxi Driver
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: SUSPECTED armed bandits on Sunday night shot dead a pirate taxi driver in Lusaka's John Laing Township before abandoning his vehicle in unexplained circumstances.Police spokesperson, Bonny Kapeso said (By Jan)...South Africa: Echoes of 2001 in Zuma Threat to 'Name And Shame'
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Jabulani SikhakhaneJohannesburg - THE threat by President Jacob Zuma to name and shame the African National Congress (ANC) members whom he accused of promoting a premature and mischievous debate ab (By Jan)...Zim: Govt probes militant farm invasions
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Mugabe and his wife Grace have helped themselves to at least 12 farms Kitsepile NyathiNairobi - Zimbabwe's unity government has launched a fresh probe into the fresh wave of farm invasions by (By Jan)...Somalia: Islamist Rebels Declare War on Each Other
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Kismayo - Somalia's most powerful rebel groups, Al Shabaab and Hizbul Islam, have declared war on each other after weeks of political wrangling, Radio Garowe reports.Two spokesmen speaking for Al Shab (By Jan)...Liberia: Zig Zag Marzah is a Liar
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Charles Taylor neither did nor order Sierra Leonean rebel forces to attack the nation's capital Freetown and to free the group's leader from jail in 1999, he said during his trial in The Hague today. (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: More Farm Violence and Looting as Soldiers Ignore Court Orders
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: The Swiss government have cleared Nestle of any wrong doing over the fact that the company trades with Grace Mugabe. The disingenuous argument being used is that the Swiss regulations that bar trade w (By Jan)...Lesotho: Journey of a Working River - Orange-Senqu
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Patrick BurnettKatse, Lesotho - In the steep valleys of Lesotho's Maluti mountains, women carry yellow plastic buckets of water across fields of dark-brown earth; a group of men form a human chain (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Country Probes Militant Farm Invasion
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Kitsepile NyathiNairobi - Zimbabwe's unity government has launched a fresh probe into the fresh wave of farm invasions by President Robert Mugabe's militant supporters.Top security commanders and s (By Jan)...World: 'Suddenly a water tanker came toward us ...'
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: A series of bomb attacks across Iraq killed at least 13 people on Monday, police said, ending a period of relative quiet after the Muslim holy month.In western Anbar province, a suicide bomber driving (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: China Calls On West to Lift Sanctions
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By William ChikotoBeijing - CHINA is pleased that Zimbabwe has achieved national reconciliation and set up an inclusive Government and now wants the West to lift its ruinous economic embargo, a senior (By Jan)...Liberia: Taylor Calls Prosecution Allegations Against Him Racist
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor today called prosecution allegations that he was involved in ritual sacrifice and cannibalism "racist". The accused former Liberian president also dismissed his trial as a (By Jan)...Uganda: Suppressing 'Enemies' of the State
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Evelyn Matsamura KiapiKampala - In the wee hours of one Saturday morning, Mary Serumaga was woken up by a disturbing phone call. Her younger brother Robert Kalundi Serumaga had just been abducted b (By Jan)...Opposition in Tambara Accuses Police of Bias
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Maputo - Opposition parties in Tambara district, in the central province of Manica, have accused the police of bias in favour of the ruling Frelimo Party during the current election campaign.Cited in (By Jan)...Former Renamo Deputy Defects to Frelimo
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Nampula - A former parliamentary deputy for Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, on Thursday publicly defected to the ruling Frelimo Party at a ceremony in front of the Frelimo offices in the n (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: No to MDC Pull Out
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: Harare - In a move that marks yet another sad chapter in Zimbabwe's troubled history, the MDC-T is reportedly mulling plans to withdraw from the inclusive government -- a cluster of different politica (By Jan)...Ghana: Corruption in Govt
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Arthur Kobina KennedyLast week, from far-away London, the pretentions of the NDC to accountability were exposed for all to see. A Southwark Crown court ruled that during the 1990's, the British Con (By Jan)...Africa: South America Joins Africa for Talks on Energy, Mining
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Humberto MárquezPorlamar - A declaration that puts an accent on the positions of the developing South and expresses a renewed commitment to cooperation in the fight against poverty and for developm (By Jan)...Nigeria: Agency Losing War Against Fake Drug, Pharmacists Say
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Abdulaziz A. AbdulazizKano - The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) Kano branch and the north-west branch, of the Nigerian Association of Industrial Pharmacists (NAIP), have expressed disgust (By Jan)...Zambia: Donor Funds' Withdrawal Hurts Mpulungu HIV/Aids Patients
Friday 02-Oct-2009: IN May 2009, a number of donors froze their foreign aid to Zambia's Health ministry following allegations of corruption. Barely four months down the line, the impact of the donor funds' suspension is (By Jan)...South Africa: Man with four wives accused of mismanagement
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Sibusiso MbotoIndaka municipal manager Milton Mbhele made news last weekend when he threw a lavish wedding in which he married four women and slaughtered eight cattle as part of the festivities. Wh (By Jan)...World: Raped woman: I just wanted to protect my baby
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: A heavily pregnant woman was raped at gunpoint in her bedroom by a gang of armed burglars who broke into her home.The 33-year-old victim, who was seven months' pregnant, was watching TV with her boyfr (By Jan)...South Africa: Increase in armed robberies at post office
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Caiphus Kgosana Political BureauArmed robberies at post office branches have increased by 29 percent.The Post Office said in its annual report there had been a marked increase in armed robberies on (By Jan)...South Africa: Bail denied in cop robbers case
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Police Constable Nkosinathi Buthelezi and two co-accused charged with armed robbery were refused bail on Tuesday in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate's Court.Magistrate Divesh Mootheram said this was am (By Jan)...World: Teen rescued 40 hrs after quake
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Irwan FirdausPadang, Indonesia - Rescuers pulled a teenager alive from her collapsed college 40 hours after a powerful earthquake devastated western Indonesia, while cries for help on Friday from b (By Jan)...South Africa: Gung-ho, shoot-to-kill talk is bad: experts
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Bronwynne Staff ReporterPoliticians who urge police to follow a shoot-to-kill policy are sending a mixed message which could have dangerous consequences, researchers have warned.This week, Presiden (By Jan)...Nigeria: Bank Reforms Will Ensure Stability, Says Yar'Adua
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By George OjiAbuja - As the country celebrates its 49th independence anniversary today, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has said the ongoing banking reform is part of a holistic measure to achieve macro (By Jan)...Editorial: Put Zimbabwe's People First
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Recent developments in Zimbabwe portend grave danger for that country's Government of National Unity. Under the Global Political Agreement (GPA), a power - sharing deal brokered by then - South Africa (By Jan)...South Africa: Moe appointment angers opposition parties
Friday 02-Oct-2009: The appointment of Moe Shaik as Secret Service head on Friday raised the ire of several political parties with some saying the president's close ally got the position as a reward for being loyal to t (By Jan)...U.S. Is Natural Business Partner
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Charles W. CoreyWashington - Investors, entrepreneurs and business executives from the United States and Angola are "finding each other" and finding out that they are "natural partners in business, (By Jan)...South Africa: Global Leaders Recommit to Achieving Food Security
Monday 28-Sep-2009: New York - Representatives from over 100 countries gathered at the United Nations (UN) on Saturday to voice their support for a newly unveiled plan to fight famine in the world.For more than one year, (By Jan)...World: 'Identify the children you molested'
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Parents who fear their children were sexually abused by nursery worker Vanessa George may never know the truth, it emerged on Thursday.George, along with her Facebook accomplices Angela Allen and Coli (By Jan)...Africa: Zim farm violence worsening - farmers union
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Muchena ZigomoViolence on Zimbabwe's farms, which were once the country's economic mainstay, is worsening and farmers are taking "an even bigger hiding" than before, the country's Commercial Farmer (By Jan)...Africa: Chavez, Gaddafi strengthen relationship
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Porlamar, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi signed a declaration on Monday night decrying what they call attempts by powerful Western countries to equate s (By Jan)...World: Obama demands action
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Washington - President Barack Obama Thursday demanded swift and "constructive" action from Iran following crucial nuclear talks, and warned that his patience for dialogue with the arch-US foe was limi (By Jan)...Africa: Nigeria's Banks Not in Africa's Top 10
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Jibrin AbubakarAbuja - Nigerian banks are not in the top 10 of the new 2009 ranking of Africa's banks, a Paris based magazine, The Africa Reports, says in its latest October-November edition.Accord (By Jan)...South Africa: You must not fear, Zuma urges police
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday urged police station commanders to speak up about the problems they face in the war against South Africa's rocketing crime rate."You must not fear,"" Zuma said at an un (By Jan)...South Africa: Off-duty cop shot seven times: Details emerge
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Alex EliseevCarl Lynch joined the Joburg metro police to patrol the streets on which his sister died - but now he fights for his life after being shot seven times in a hijacking.In the early hours (By Jan)...Rwanda: Witness to Genocide - the Children of Rwanda
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Paul WahrhaftigKigali - It is unconscionable that we still have not seen the circle of human dignity expanded to include all the children of our world. It is up to all adults to take on this challe (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Ordeal of Human Rights Activist
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Harare - Jestina Mukoko's abduction, detention and torture in 2008, and the subsequent dropping of all charges by a full bench of Zimbabwe's Supreme Court on 28 September 2009, is serving as a timelin (By Jan)...Romanian Handler For Carlos The Jackal Dies
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: [Now isn't this interesting. The handler for the notorious Soviet-trained terrorist Carlos the Jackal, whom went by the name of Nicolae Plestia has recently died. But here's the odd thing, even afte (By Lone Wolf)...Zim: Mass trial of victims of Zanu PF looting in Nyanga
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Charged with extortion after they attempted to retrieve property and livestock seized by Zanu PF thugs By Lance GumaAround 88 villagers will be in court at the Nyanga Magistrates court on Wedn (By Jan)...Malawi: President 'Determined' to Lead Country Out of Poverty
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Bingu wa Mutharika, who was elected to a second term as president of Malawi in May, is an international economist with a PhD from Pacific Western University in Los Angeles in the United States. Since (By Jan)...South Africa: Taxi owner gunned down
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: A Pretoria taxi owner was shot dead and a man, believed to be one of his drivers, critically injured in an apparent drive-by shooting which has sparked fears of turf war.Last night's attack occurred a (By Jan)...Africa: Guinean troops open fire, kill 87
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: United Nations - UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday slammed the "excessive use of force" by Guinean troops who killed at least 87 people as they opened fire on opposition demonstrators."The Secretary Gene (By Jan)...South Africa: 'The worst day of our lives'
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Jacques Breytenbach"They killed my sister for a cellphone, and also nearly killed my brother-in-law. It was the worst day of our lives."These were the words of a distraught Hane Rumsey, whose siste (By Jan)...South Africa: Teach Nedbank 'a lesson', says Malema
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Bronwyn Gerretsen and Xolani MbanjwaANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has called on society to "teach Nedbank a lesson" for withdrawing its sponsorship of Athletics South Africa. Malema said th (By Jan)...Nigeria: Kidnapping - Monarch, 7 Others Arrested in Abia
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Steve OkoUmuahia - Anti-kidnapping squad has arrested a village monarch and seven others at Onicha Ngwa village in Nenu community of Obingwa Local Government Area, Abia state, for allegedly operati (By Jan)...Frelimo Can Win in Beira, Claim Veterans
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: Maputo - Veterans of Mozambique's war for independence are confident that in this month's general elections the ruling Frelimo Party will win in the central city of Beira, because "the opposition is d (By Jan)...Africa: "Patent Pool" Could Ease HIV Drug Prices
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Andrea BordéNew York - Pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline hold the future welfare of poor people living with HIV/AIDS in their hands, argues the humanitarian group Doctors Withou (By Jan)...Nigeria: Bio-Safety Law And Country's Food Security
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Akor SylvesterThat Nigeria expends the lump sum of about three billion United States dollars annually on importation of food is no longer news.However, what has become worrisome is that despite the (By Jan)...Cameroon: As Bakassi Freedom Fighters Accept Amnesty
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Ernest ChinwoCalabar - With the deadline for the amnesty granted militants by the federal government drawing near, the Bakassi Freedom Fighters (BFF) have surrendered their arms to officials of the (By Jan)...World: Dozens killed in Yemen clashes
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: At least 28 Shi'a rebels, four Yemeni soldiers and two tribesmen were killed in the latest fighting in northern Yemen on the seventh week of an army offensive, local and military sources said on Satur (By Jan)...War, Tradition Feeds Sexual Violence Against Women
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Heritier MailaLubumbashi - Simone Maganga still feels deep shame when she recalls how, after her husband died, she was obliged to have sex with his younger brother in order to lay the spirit of the (By Jan)...World: 'Our prediction is that thousands have died'
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Earthquake wreaks havoc in IndonesiaPadang, Indonesia - Indonesia said on Thursday it feared thousands had died in a major earthquake as exhausted rescue workers clawed through mountains of rubble wit (By Jan)...Nigeria Considers New Bank Rescue Package
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Ayodele AminuLagos - An additional N200 billion may soon be injected into the banking sector by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), which is also set to intervene in five more banks in a bid to safe (By Jan)...Somalia: Dozens Die as Islamists Battle for Control of Port
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Kismayo - Dozens of people have been killed in Somalia's port town of Kismayo after heavy fighting erupted among Islamist factions, Radio Garowe reports.The fighting erupted Thursday morning around 7a (By Jan)...World: US speeds up withdrawal of soldiers
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Washington - The United States military has accelerated the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and freed up equipment for the Nato-led mission in Afghanistan, the US commander in Iraq told Congress on Wed (By Jan)...Tanzania: Africa Must Create Right Climate for Business - Kikwete
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Charles W. CoreyWashington,DC - African leaders "have a duty to create the right climate for business" in Africa, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete said September 2 in Washington.Kikwete described (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Boost Court Officials' Security
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Takunda MaodzaHarare - SILENCE in court. A man is ordered to pay maintenance for the upkeep of his children. Incensed by the order, he gets up, trudges to the magistrate and beats her up. The court (By Jan)...Nigeria: Tribute to Mahmoud, Ohu
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Kunle AkogunLagos - Journalism in Nigeria suffered double tragedy penultimate Sunday when two prominent members of the distinguished profession died suddenly, one following a brief illness and the (By Jan)...Malawi: Surplus Crop, But We Are Starving - Farmers
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Charles MpakaBlantyre - In a country where maize crop surplus fills the national storehouses to capacity, farmers Ida and Montfort Salijeni and their four children have turned to wild tubers for fo (By Jan)...Ghana: Rawlings in a State of Panic as Mills Calls for Court Findings
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: The revelation in a London court that Mabey & Johnson, a construction firm based in the United Kingdom, paid bribes to a number of Ministers in the Rawlings government, appears to have sent shivers do (By Jan)...Court ends terrorism case against Zimbabwe activist
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: "We are still daily getting cases of violations" By Barry BearakJohannesburg - Zimbabwe's Supreme Court tossed out terrorism charges against the prominent human rights activist Jestina Mukoko (By Jan)...Africa: Rebels face-off in Somalia
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Abdi GuledMogadishu - Somali government troops routed Islamist insurgents from a strategic central town after launching a pre-dawn assault on Monday, witnesses said.Baladwayne resident Mohamed Sala (By Jan)...South Africa: Police inspector shot by four security guards
Friday 02-Oct-2009: A police Inspector was allegedly shot by four security guards in Mkhindini near Mbonambi, KwaZulu Natal police said on Friday."The policeman was cultivating in a piece of land yesterday [Thursday], he (By Jan)...Nigeria: NNPC's Shortcomings as a Fuel Supplier
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Ijeoma NwogwugwuLagos - The statement by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) during the weekend, in which the corporation dismissed reports over the possibility of fuel scarcity due (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Govt Loses Battle Over Diamonds
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Jennifer DubeHarare - THE government last week lost its three year old battle to wrestle control of the Marange diamond fields from the British registered African Consolidated Resources (ACR) Plc i (By Jan)...Nigeria: Libya Deports 734 Nationals
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Paul Ohia and Chinedu EzeLagos - As Nigerians on death row in Libya continue to mull over their fate, the country has deported yet another batch of 734 people.THISDAY learnt that some of those retu (By Jan)...Libya: More Than 200 Detained Somali Immigrants in Libya Start Drinking Poison
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Hassan Osman AbdiSomalia - More than 200 detained Somali immigrants in Liyan jails have started drinking poison, just after they missed their right of livelihood and health in the prisons, witnesse (By Jan)...Nigeria: Preventive Measures Need to Be Strengthened - Naca DG
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Ruby RabiuAbuja - Do we at present, have enough drugs for the treatment of \HIV/AIDS victims?Cases of HIV are on the rise everyday, not only in Nigeria but all over the world. Every year there are (By Jan)...Southern Africa: Effort Afoot to Save Rickety Customs Union
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: By Servaas Van Den BoschWindhoek - Southern African countries have buried the hatchet in an effort to preserve the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), one of the few building blocks of regional int (By Jan)...Nigeria: Only a Revolution Will Save Nigeria - Balarabe Musa
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By John ShiklamKaduna - Former governor of old Kaduna State, and National Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has declared that revolution remains the only panacea to (By Jan)...South Africa: New tough cop unit has it in for criminals
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Police across the country have been given a major boost in their fight against violent crime with the launch of new elite crime-combating teams, tasked with waging the government's new war on crime.Du (By Jan)...Nigeria: Police Arrest 21 Suspected Thugs in Bauchi
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Selya YarnapBauchi - The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested in 21 suspected members of the group during the last Sallah festivities.Addressing pressmen at the Police Command Headquarters, the (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma Backs More Police Firepower
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Proffesor NdawondePretoria - President Jacob Zuma has expressed his support for an amendment to the law to strengthen the hand of police in dealing with violent criminals."We intend to finalise ame (By Jan)...Uganda: Kayanja Survives Sodomy Charges
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Chris Kiwawulo and Roderick AhimbazweKampala - THE first half of this year left its mark in the history of Uganda's Born-again church. Renowned pastor, Robert Kayanja, was accused of sodomy.A group (By Jan)...Nigeria: Helsinki - Talking to Terrorists (i)
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Hajiya Bilkisu (mni)The debate on the role of journalists in the war against terrorism is an interesting one and it featured at the session on Tuesday June 9 at the International Press Institute IP (By Jan)...Africa: Govts Must be Worthy of People, Says Clinton
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: By Charles W. CoreyThe United States stands ready to help Africa expand the U.S.-Africa business relationship, but "let's make sure the governments of Africa are worthy of their people," Secretary of (By Jan)...SWATF Con Man Arrested
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Christof MaletskyTHE hopes of thousands of former South West Africa Territory Force members of laying their hands on huge payouts were dashed yesterday, when the leader of the group who had promise (By Jan)...Nigeria: As Obama Scraps Missile Shield Plan in East Europe
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Lagos - This newspaper welcomes the decision by the United States' President, Mr. Barack Obama, to scrap the Bush-era plan for a large missile defence shield in Eastern Europe as a triumph of common s (By Jan)...South Africa: Jogger stabbing accused denied bail
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Jade WittenCourt ReporterThe man accused of stabbing to death Kenilworth jogger Ian Cowburn has been denied bail, with the Wynberg Magistrate's Court finding there were no exceptional circumstances (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Foetus Vanishes From Dead Woman's Womb
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Sydney KawadzaHarare - IN a suspected case of witchcraft, a foetus was found missing from the womb of a 22-year-old Mutorashanga woman who died under mysterious circumstances while seven months pre (By Jan)...South Africa: Green light for Selebi trial
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: Former national police chief Jackie Selebi's corruption trial is set to start in the Johannesburg High Court on Monday.Judge Meyer Joffe warned the state during Selebi's last appearance in May that he (By Jan)...World: Probe into into Internet beating clip
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: Pakistan's military has ordered an inquiry into a video clip apparently showing members of the security forces viciously beating suspected militants, the army spokesman said on Saturday.The 10-minute (By Jan)...Liberia: RUF Did Not Have Any Radio Stations and Operators, Taylor Says
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor today refuted testimony of a prosecution witness who said that the Sierra Leonean rebels had three radio stations and operators in Liberia, including one at the country's (By Jan)...South Africa: The Right to Know and Justice in Africa
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Richard CallandIronically, International Right to Know Day, which is celebrated today, has been one of the world’s best-kept secrets.The day was the brainchild of a group of freedom of inform (By Jan)...South Africa: 'We have an abnormal criminal problem'
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: A gun-free South Africa would do away with the need for police shooting-to-kill, the Azanian People's Organisation (Azapo) said on Sunday.Allowing the police to shoot-to-kill as a strategy to combat c (By Jan)...Frelimo and Renamo Cross Paths in Tete
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Tete - Tempers are rising in the western Mozambican city of Tete, as election campaign groups from the main opposition party, Renamo, and from the ruling Frelimo Party converge on the same places at t (By Jan)...South Africa: Mom, son succeed in their bid to sue police
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Taxpayers once again have to dig deep into their pockets to fork out damages to a mother and son who were unlawfully arrested, assaulted and held overnight in police cells following an altercation wit (By Jan)...Nigeria: Top Militant Surrenders
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By George Oji and Ahamefula OgbuThe Federal Government's amnesty programme for militants in the Niger Delta has got a big catch: Ateke Tom, the leader of the Niger Delta Vigilante Movement (NDVM).Atek (By Jan)...Africa: Nestle will not be doing business with Mugabe
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Nestle said on Thursday that it will stop buying milk from a farm owned by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's family, who seized it from white farmers under his controversial land reforms.The world's (By Jan)...Somalia: Insurgent Militia Seizes Control of Port City
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Kismayo - The Somali insurgent faction Al Shabaab has seized control of the southern port of Kismayo, after hours of fighting with Hizbul Islam rebels, Radio Garowe reports.Heavy fighting erupted in K (By Jan)...Guinea: Guinea Crackdown Toll Nears 160
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Saliou SambConakry - The African Union (AU), European Union and United Nations (UN) yesterday strongly rebuked the Guinean army's use of violence at a protest in the capital, Conakry, in which 157 (By Jan)...Zim: Dairy firm may have breached Robert Mugabe sanctions
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Sold equipment worth £300,000 By Sebastien Berger, Southern Africa CorrespondentA dairy company linked to the Tetra Pak packaging empire has admitted it may have breached Zimbabwe sanctions b (By Jan)...Nigeria: Kaduna SSG - Pay Up Or Forget Him, Say Kidnappers
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By From Samuel Aruwan and Abdulrahman TongaKaduna - The kidnappers holding Mr.Waje Yayok, secretary to the Kaduna State Government hostage, yesterday stated that they would not release the SSG unless (By Jan)...South Africa: Briton's widow 'happy with sentence'
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: A life for a life, said widow Ursula Picton-Turbervill as the men who shot dead her husband in front of their children were sentenced to life behind bars on Wednesday.Petro Markel, 29, and Christovao (By Jan)...South Africa: Property fraud scam exposed
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Beauregard Tromp and Baldwin NdabaArmed with a computer and an Internet connection, two ambitious men tried to use the name of Gauteng's top prosecutor to swindle an estate agent out of properties (By Jan)...World: They slashed me maybe 10 or 11 times - victim
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Daily Mail ReporterA baby was left covered in blood after his father was violently attacked by robbers who broke into their family home.Ricki Hall, 39, had been feeding baby son Milan with a bottle (By Jan)...Zim: How Grace's empire has fallen into ruin
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: At least Robert Mugabe has ensured that the farms he took as part of his "land reform programme" are productive, if not profitable Peta ThornycroftHarare - While many of her countrymen remain (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Virgins Forced Into Marriage to 'Appease' Evil Spirits
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Nyarai KachereThree years after being seized from their families and forced to marry and have sex with adult men in a Shona ritual to appease an avenging spirit, five teenagers are facing a dismal (By Jan)...Uganda: Police Named Most Brutal Institution
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Al- Mahdi Ssenkabirwa and isaac KhisaKampala - Uganda Police Force have been listed as the most oppressors and torturers of journalists in the recent riots in Kampala, the Human Rights Network for (By Jan)...Africa: HIV - Hope of Finding Vaccine Rises
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Victor MulangisiAs sub-Saharan Africa is critically affected by HIV hope has been rejuvenated in pursuit of finding an HIV vaccine.The discovery of two robust antibodies that can disjoint the virul (By Jan)...South Africa: Coal of Africa Seeks Rail Partnership
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - COAL mining group Coal of Africa confirmed on Friday that its talks for a public-private partnership with Transnet Freight Rail to boost future export capacity were still (By Jan)...Central African Republic: The LRA - Not Finished Yet
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: Obo - As three truck-loads of newly arrived soldiers from the Central African Armed Forces (FACA) drove through Obo, local residents talked with bitterness and resignation about the continuing securit (By Jan)...World: Samoa's tsunami devastation revealed
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Apia - Rescuers reached scenes of stunning devastation on Wednesday after a killer tsunami obliterated Samoan island villages, killing at least 148 people and leaving scores more missing.As distraught (By Jan)...South Africa: 'A four-year-old girl was kicked in the face'
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Alex Eliseev and Solly MaphumuloThe robbery at VC Shopping Centre, a small complex in Dalview, Brakpan, has left many people shaken. This morning a manager explained how he had been confronted in h (By Jan)...Zim: Shabanie mine shooting victims charged with public violence
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Appeared in court in wheelchairs By Tichaona SibandaThree Shabanie mine workers who were shot and seriously injured by police in Zvishavane on Friday, were dragged to court on Monday and charg (By Jan)...South Africa: Attack captured on CCTV - cops off the hook?
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Thandi SkadeThey were caught on film beating up a pub manager. In a disciplinary hearing, they pleaded guilty. But the criminal case against three policemen has ground to a halt.Yesterday The Star (By Jan)...South Africa: Massacre was 'committed without conscience'
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Karen BreytenbachTwo men have been sentenced to five life terms each and a third man to five 20-year terms for the killing of four people and an attempt to murder a pregnant 15-year-old in a Bishop (By Jan)...World: Bodies rotting in heat after quake
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Padang, Indonesia - Quake-hit Indonesia appealed for foreign aid on Friday as the stench of decomposing bodies hung over wrecked buildings where overwhelmed rescuers scrabbled for survivors.In the cit (By Jan)...Nigeria: Country Has Retrogressed Falae, Ezeife, Sule, Mbu
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Maxwell Oditta and Chesa ChesaLagos/Abuja - Nigeria marks its 49th independence today, but it is like there is little to celebrate, compared with what it ought to have achieved for the half a centu (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: World Food Firm Under Fire Over Mugabe Links
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Violet GondaThe Swiss national food giant Nestle has been criticised heavily for buying milk from Grace Mugabe, who controversially has 'acquired' six farms, most of them taken from white commercia (By Jan)...South Africa: Meeting With Police Was Productive - Presidency
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Proffesor NdawondePretoria - The Presidency has described the meeting between President Jacob Zuma and police station commanders as productive and frank."The representatives of the police were able (By Jan)...Africa: Dozens killed during Guinea blitz
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Saliou SambConakry - Guinean security forces killed at least 58 people when they fired live rounds to disperse thousands of protesters on Monday, a rights body said, worsening a political crisis in (By Jan)...USA: The Economic Meltdown - The Failed Mega-Bailout, laying the seeds for Bigger Crashes soon?
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: [Jason Kelly is never negative, and definitely not one of these who predicts the "end of the world" in financial terms so it is sobering to see how cautious he is on the current market. Take note of t (By Jan)...Renamo Assaults Frelimo Deputy
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party has accuse supporters of the main opposition force, the former rebel movement Renamo, of assaulting a Frelimo parliamentary deputy on Mozambique Island, in t (By Jan)...Tanzania: Good Governance - Kikwete On His Own
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Mboneko Munyaga and Hawra ShamteDar es Salaam - Two former prime ministers yesterday accused President Jakaya Kikwete's aides of not assisting him enough in the war on corruption and also in the ha (By Jan)...South Africa: Twenty gunmen storm shopping complex
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Twenty armed robbers struck at a shopping complex in Brakpan on Tuesday night, robbing five stores, injuring a customer and shooting dead a passing motorist, police said.Constable Tsietsi Lamola said (By Jan)...World: 'We are waiting for burials'
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: By Eric Talmadge and Irwan FirdausJumanak, Indonesia - With no outside help in sight, villagers used their bare hands on Sunday to dig out rotting corpses, four days after landslides triggered by a hu (By Jan)...South Africa: Mo Shaik appointment an 'ANC reward': parties
Friday 02-Oct-2009: The appointment of Mo Shaik, the brother of convicted fraudster, Shabir, who is also a close ally of President Jacob Zuma, to head Secret Service was an "ANC reward", political parties said on Friday. (By Jan)...Africa: Junta leader calls for UN-backed probe
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Conakry - Guinea's military ruler asked for a UN-backed probe after junta forces massacred more than 150 people and called for the setting up of an interim government until elections due in January.Bo (By Jan)...South Africa: ANC says sorry for 'greed'
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana yesterday made an unprecedented apology to the people of the Western Cape on behalf of the regional ANC "for allowing itself to be torn apart by factionalism, abus (By Jan)...Dozens Killed in Guinean Protests
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Conakry - Scores of people in the Guinean capital Conakry were killed and injured on 28 September when security forces cracked down on demonstrators protesting the presidential candidature of junta le (By Jan)...Uganda: LRA Rebels Kill Two Aid Workers
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Barbara Among And AgenciesKampala - REBELS of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have killed two aid workers in the Central African Republic, according to military sources. The French press agency AF (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: SA Firm Eyes Mining Investments
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Harare - DIVERSIFIED South African miner African Rainbow Minerals plans to invest in coal and platinum group metal projects in Zimbabwe.Chief executive Mr Dan Simelane told the media the investment cl (By Jan)...South Africa: Shaik appointment draws mixed response
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: The "tainted" record of newly appointed secret service head Mo Shaik leaves much to be desired, the Azanian People's organisation (Azapo) charged on Sunday."The intelligence wing of our country has be (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Campaign Begins to Stop Nestlé Buying 'Blood' Milk
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Violet GondaAfriForum, a South African civil rights initiative, on Wednesday launched an international campaign calling on people to boycott all Nestlé products, until the company stops buyi (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Black Racism: As I said years ago: Country Only Paid 203 Farms Compensation Out of 6500
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: [I have been saying this for years, and now finally you can see how utterly horrific the situation is. Mugabe can steal all the farms from the whites without paying for them. Mugabe engaged in a progr (By Jan)...World: Young girl killed by RAF leaflet drop
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: A young Afghan girl was killed when a box of public information leaflets dropped by an RAF aircraft landed on top of her, the Ministry of Defence confirmed on Wednesday.The box failed to break apart i (By Jan)...Nigeria: The Voice of Jacob, The Hand of Esau (3)
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Douglas AneleLagos - THE repeated failures of economic predictions and uncertainties about the specific details of what the global economic situation will be in a few years time is a reminder that (By Jan)...Kenya: Circumcision Not Enough to Stop HIV, Experts Warn Experts
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Arthur OkwembaNairobi - As thousands of young men in Nyanza Province troop to health centres to be circumcised in hopes of fending off HIV, new studies show it might be too early to claim victory. (By Jan)...South Africa: Challenge to Policies On HIV-Infected
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Wilson JohwaJohannesburg - THE deportation of illegal migrants could be challenged in South African courts to prevent what human rights activists described as "the expulsion of HIV-positive foreign (By Jan)...If Jan Lamprecht travels to Europe and the USA....? What do you think?
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Hi All, For years now I've been threatening to travel to the USA. I have wanted to meet people there. I just want a show of hands, if anyone is interested in this idea? I'm just toying with the idea (By Jan)...Ugandan Talk Radio in Hot Water After Unrest
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Kampala - Criminal charges and the closure of several radio stations over alleged incitement to violence in Kampala have sparked a debate about the limits of free speech in Uganda.The Uganda Broadcast (By Jan)...World: No lifting of emergency decree for Honduras
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Patrick Markey and Esteban IsraelTegucigalpa - De facto Honduran President Roberto Micheletti on Thursday resisted demands he lift a decree that suspended civil liberties as part of a crisis trigge (By Jan)...Africa: Zim activists sue state for $500m
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Harare, Zimbabwe - A prominent Zimbabwean human rights activist and eight others are suing the government for $500 million after terror charges against them were dropped because they had been beaten a (By Jan)...'We Must Reclaim the Dream'
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: THE Rally of Democracy and Progress (RDP) would revive the African values of Umbutu and build a value-centred society once in power, the secretary general of the party said on Thursday night at a publ (By Jan)...South Africa: Gunmen on the run after mall robbery
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: The gunmen who stormed into a shopping complex in Brakpan, robbing five shops and injuring a customer, were still on the run, police said on Wednesday.The suspects held staff and customers at gunpoint (By Jan)...World: Terrorism suspect Zazi pleads not guilty
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Tom HaysNew York - An Afghan immigrant pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to plotting a terrorist attack on New York City using chemicals bought in beauty supply stores and was ordered held without bail (By Jan)...World: Fresh doubts about Hitler's death
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Mail Foreign ServiceAdolf Hitler may not have shot himself dead and perhaps did not even die in his bunker, it emerged yesterday.A skull fragment believed for decades to be the Nazi leader's has tu (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Let's Aim for HIV-Free Generation
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe is seeing a significant fall in the percentage of its HIV positive population.Part of this fall is, unfortunately, due to the death of some of those who were infected several years a (By Jan)...South Africa: 'I will never be that influential'
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Thandiwe Mthethwa and Xolani MbanjwaANC Youth League leader Julius Malema told thousands of Mangosuthu University of Technology students on Thursday he was glad to address them at such a beautiful (By Jan)...Africa: National Team Go Past South Africa
Friday 02-Oct-2009: NAMIBIA'S national Under-17 soccer team staged a great comeback to beat their South African counterparts 3-2 in a friendly international match at the Sam Nujoma Stadium on Sunday.South Africa took the (By Jan)...Guinea: U.S. Calls Military Crackdown 'Brazen And Inappropriate'
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Stephen KaufmanWashington - The Guinean military used "brazen and inappropriate" force against unarmed and peaceful demonstrators September 28, the U.S. State Department said in a statement issued (By Jan)...Zim: Ministers sanctioned SADC Tribunal pull-out – Chinamasa
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: "Council of Ministers, chaired by Tsvangirai, endorsed pull out" Harare - Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa claims a Council of Ministers, chaired by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, endorse (By Jan)...Liberia: Grand Gedeans Plead for Julu
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By J. Nathaniel DaygborIf there is any one concept in Liberia's two-decade long civil inferno that defies definition, it is heroism. Who are the heroes of the war? Mutual suspicion, mutual banditry, e (By Jan)...World: Coup crisis puts Honduras under pressure
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Patrick MarkeyTegucigalpa - Honduras's de facto government came under mounting pressure on Tuesday to restore civil liberties and negotiate an end to a three-month crisis triggered when President M (By Jan)...'It's Normal Here That Children Die Young'
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Louise RedversLuanda - Angelina Silva doesn't remember the exact dates when her sons died. She just remembers their ages."One was one year old, the other was one year and nine months," she said. "T (By Jan)...Nigeria: How I Was Kidnapped, Beaten - Hon. Suur
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Kanayo JubalMoses John and Tina Sawok - He was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Makurdi, only to find himself in Nasarawa. In this chat with ONUKOGU KANAYO JUBAL, MOSES JOHN and TINA SAWOK, Hon. Suur (By Jan)...Tanzania: Radar Prosecution Looms As UK Finalises BAE Probe
Monday 28-Sep-2009: British prosecutors are due to conclude the high profile corruption case involving the sale of arms by a UK firm to Tanzania and three other countries, which could lead to the hauling to court in Dar (By Jan)...Somalia: Beletwein Traders Fight Govt Troops, Accusations of 'Looting'
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Beletwein - The fighting erupted Monday morning after government forces entered Beletwein from two directions and clashed with Hizbul Islam rebels.Most of the fighting was concentrated at the center o (By Jan)...South Africa: Three held for KZN farm murder
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Three people were arrested for the murder of a farm worker in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, police said on Monday.Inspector Joey Jeevan said the men were arrested on Saturday and Sunday after intensive (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema: Every cent I have, I share it
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Xolani MbanjwaPolitical BureauANC Youth League president Julius Malema said he would not be ashamed to go into business, but would declare such interests to the ruling party.Malema was responding t (By Jan)...South Africa: Ex-mayor of Dundee arrested
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Siphamandla MbewaFormer Endumeni (Dundee) mayor Thandi Nukani and her driver Peter Khumalo have been arrested for conspiracy to commit murder. According to KwaZulu- Natal police spokesperson Phindi (By Jan)...World: World leaders push Iran on nucear activities
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Geneva - World powers on Wednesday piled pressure on Iran to come clean about its disputed nuclear activities ahead of crucial talks in Geneva as Tehran signalled it could discuss uranium enrichment.I (By Jan)...Africa: Peacekeepers kill seven rebels in Congo
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Kinshasa - United Nations helicopters killed seven people in a rocket attack on rebels trying to seize an army camp in Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, a United Nations military spo (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Uneven Progress on Peace in East, Says UN
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Progress critical to stabilization in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been uneven, with some rebels being reintegrated into the national army while others continued to attack civili (By Jan)...South Africa: Hotline set up after medical student's murder
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Lyndon KhanSo palpable were the shock and fear that have struck UCT and Observatory over the drive-by shooting there of a medical student at 8pm on Monday night, that a dedicated hotline for worrie (By Jan)...South Africa: Three arrested for armed robbery
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Three men were arrested for armed robbery after they allegedly held an 18-year-old woman up at gun point, Soweto police said on Wednesday.Inspector Kay Makhubele said the three men robbed the young la (By Jan)...Chavez Promotes Official Brownshirts Known As The 'Farmers' Militia' Would Work With Venezuelan Military
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: [I wonder how long before it seems someone like Noam Chomsky can continue to defend someone like Hugo Chavez. Chavez has officially created his official Brownshirts known as the "Farmers' militia" wh (By Lone Wolf)...Dhlakama Campaigns in Nacala
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Nacala - Afonso Dhlakama, the leader and presidential candidate of Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, on Saturday threatened that the day he replies to "the children's games" of the ruling Fr (By Jan)...Rwanda: Cyangugu Prison Situation Back to Normal, Authorities
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Edwin Musoni and Stevenson MugishaKigali - Authorities yesterday told The New Times, that the situation at Cyangugu prison, was back to normal after days of protests over bad food."The situation is (By Jan)...South Africa: ID welcomes Zuma comments on Aids
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille has welcomed President Jacob Zuma's comments about Aids made during a CNN TV interview.Zuma reportedly said his predecessor Thabo Mbeki had contradicted (By Jan)...Somalia: 4 Killed in Mogadishu Battle Among Govt Troops
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Mogadishu - The fighting erupted near the Villa Somalia presidential compound after members of the presidential guard clashed with government soldiers on patrol, witnesses said.Sheikh Abdirisak Qeylow (By Jan)...Africa: Sudan clashes leaves 16 dead
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: Juba, Sudan - Sixteen people were killed and several wounded in clashes in south Sudan between forces loyal to an ex-warlord and an oil-rich state governor's guards, military sources said on Saturday. (By Jan)...South Africa: Moe Shaik heads up SA Secret Service
Friday 02-Oct-2009: South Africa's intelligence services have been restructured, with major changes in the top leadership, including the appointment of Moe Shaik as head of the SA Secret Service, the agency focusing on (By Jan)...South Africa: Audacious hijackers lead cops on merry chase
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Jacques BreytenbachThere was drama and chaos over a stretch of about 30km of road east of Pretoria yesterday when two gun-wielding men went on the rampage and hijacked two vehicles, after crashing (By Jan)...Sudan: Ban Strongly Condemns Latest Deadly Attack in Southern Sudan
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned the weekend attack in southern Sudan in which more than 100 people were reportedly killed, the latest in a string of ethnically-based incidents in (By Jan)...Africa: Eight killed as foes clash near Kismayo
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: Mogadishu - Eight people were killed and 14 wounded in southern Somalia on Sunday during clashes between formerly allied rival Somali Islamist groups, witnesses said.Fighting began with an attack by t (By Jan)...South Africa: Urban myths fuel 2010 fears
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: Fiona GoundenE-mails containing urban myths originating from overseas websites are giving South Africa a negative image and causing "unnecessary panic" before the World Cup, police have warned. Recent (By Jan)...World: Tremors rock the Pacific
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Apia - Dozens of aftershocks rocked the South Pacific on Wednesday, 24 hours after a huge earthquake churned up tsunamis that killed at least 113 people when they wiped out villages and flattened tour (By Jan)...South Africa: R40 000 cash 'turns into paper'
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By KowtharStaff ReporterMitchells Plain police are asking for the help in solving a case of fraud involving R40 000. On the morning of September 21, the complainant drew the large sum of money at a b (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma to advise cops on crime fight
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: President Jacob Zuma will meet more than 1 000 police station commanders from across the country in Pretoria on Tuesday, a week after the annual release of crime statistics painted a grim picture."In (By Jan)...Somalia: Mortar Shell Kills About Five, Wounds Others in Mogadishu
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Mogadishu - About 5 civilians have been killed and several others have been wounded in Bakara, the biggest market in Mogadishu after a mortar shell landed there, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Monda (By Jan)...South Africa: Scandal rocks top school
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: By Niyanta SinghSome parents of girls at Hilton's elite St Anne's Diocesan College do not want their daughters to share classes with fellow pupil Brittany Leigh Mitchell, who faces charges of hiring a (By Jan)...Africa: Rebels kill six Senegalese soldiers
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: Six Senegalese soldiers have been killed in an attack apparently carried out by rebels from the Casamance Movement of Democratic Forces (MFDC), a former independence group, military sources said on Sa (By Jan)...South Africa: 'What is hermaphrodite in Pedi?'
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Beauregard Tromp, Nontobeko Mtshali, Bronwyn Gerretsen, Xolani Mbanjwa and SapaJulius Malema may be too young to know there is a word for hermaphrodite in sePedi, his home language.At a press confe (By Jan)...Nigeria: Kidnapped SSG Reappears, Denies Paying Ransom
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Reuben BuhariKaduna - At exactly 12:55 pm, the Secretary to the Kaduna State Government, Mr. Waje Yayok, who had been in the custody of kidnappers for the past nine days made a quiet entry into Sir (By Jan)...Nigeria: Bayo Ohu - Another Riddle Yet to Be Solved
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Stella OduemeLagos - Uneasy calm pervaded the air at Bayo Ohu's house. The wife of Guardian's slain Assistant Political Editor, Blessing Ohu, sat on the sofa in the sitting room, perhaps ruminating (By Jan)...Africa: Guinea to probe rally killings
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Conakry - Guinea's military ruler Captain Moussa Dadis Camara has promised an inquiry into a crackdown by security forces on opposition protesters which local rights groups said claimed at least 157 l (By Jan)...South Africa: Robbers pose as police for cash strike
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Robbers impersonating policemen and driving a white VW Golf have robbed a man of R40 000 in Mitchells Plain using a new modus operandi, police said on Tuesday.The man who was robbed had just withdrawn (By Jan)...Nujoma Breaks the Rules
Monday 28-Sep-2009: IT is a great pity that former President Sam Nujoma put aside the speech he had intended to deliver at the Swapo rally at Ongwediva on September 19, and instead chose to launch a vitriolic and incitef (By Jan)...World: Quake toll expected to soar
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: By Razak Ahmad and Sunanda CreaghPadang, Indonesia - Rescuers and aid workers were fanning out on Monday into the hills of Indonesia's Sumatra island, where hundreds of people were buried in landslide (By Jan)...Armed Robbery At Mokuti Lodge
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Tileni MongudhiYET another armed robbery caused shock waves yesterday when robbers struck at the luxury Mokuti Lodge near the Etosha National Park.Four men allegedly overpowered the security guard (By Jan)...World: Iran's nuke negotiator feeling positive
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Tehran - Iran's chief nuclear negotiator said on Wednesday he was heading for potentially make-or-break talks with world powers on Tehran's controversial nuclear programme with a "positive approach"." (By Jan)...South Africa: Mpshe showing contempt for law: Zille
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Democratic Allliance leader Helen Zille has accused acting prosecutions chief Mokotedi Mpshe of a lack of respect for the law after he missed a second court deadline in the party's challenge to the wi (By Jan)...South Africa: Teen paid man to kill ex-boyfriend's mom
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Alex EliseevWhile her mother and grandmother browsed through Sandton City, 18-year-old Brittany Mitchell sneaked off to meet an assassin at the Mugg and Bean coffee shop.She sent him an SMS to conf (By Jan)...Africa: France leads international pressure on Guinea
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Saliou SambConakry - France led international pressure on Guinea's military rulers by cutting military co-operation on Tuesday after a crackdown by the security forces on its opponents killed 157, (By Jan)...Mobile Crowned NDB Chess Champions
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Monkagedi GaotlhobogweNewly formed club, Mobile was crowned champions of the 2009 National Development Bank (NDB) chess tournament after a drama-filled end to the event on Sunday.The big duel on Su (By Jan)...Uganda: Who Has Ultimate Ownership of Land?
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Zakia TebetyoKampala - Who owns land in Uganda? Is it the Government or individuals? After the 1900 Agreement, ultimate ownership is vested in the position of the president; the 1995 constitution g (By Jan)...Zim makes recovery - US dollar brings stability to ailing market
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: “Last year, the ZSE in terms of business was actually smaller to that of Botswana, Malawi and Zambia" Harare - Zimbabwe's moribund economy is slowly stirring, with signs of life in once-shut (By Jan)...Libya: Is Gaddafi a Liability? Ask the Gracious But Tired UN Delegates
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Gitau WarigiNairobi - Going by the strange, rambling speech he gave to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, it is no longer an idle question whether Libya's Muammar Gaddafi could be a source of sc (By Jan)...Africa: Al-Qaeda suspects held in Mauritania
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Nouakchott - Seven suspected members of al-Qaeda's North African wing have been arrested in the Mauritanian desert, a senior official in the security services told reporters on Monday.Soldiers apprehe (By Jan)...PLO, Hamas Terrorists To Form Unity Government Like ZANU-PF?
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: [It seems my prediction is indeed true. PLO and Hamas terrorists are prepared to form a unity government quite similar to Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF coalition. Like the Zimbabwean Communists whom too (By Lone Wolf)...Zimbabwe: Granny Raped, Murdered
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Harare - A 79-YEAR-OLD Magunje woman who claimed to have heard voices calling her to come out of her house at night was found dead after reportedly obeying the mysterious orders.Cecilia Tarugarira of (By Jan)...Zambia: 'Clear Lack of Commitment to HIV'
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Kristin PalitzaLusaka - Kristin Palitza interviews HENRY MALUMA, Oxfam Zambia essential services coordinatorA United Nations mid-point review of Zambia's efforts towards reaching the Millennium Dev (By Jan)...South Africa: ANC accused of lying about water cut-offs
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Dear Minister Shiceka,Re: Your Recent Visit to Freedom Park (Tafelsig) and Site C (Khayelitsha)I am writing you an open letter following a visit I undertook today to Freedom Park in Tafelsig, Mitchell (By Jan)...South Africa: Police inspector shot by 4 security guards
Friday 02-Oct-2009: A police Inspector was allegedly shot by four security guards in Mkhindini near Mbonambi, KwaZulu Natal police said on Friday."The policeman was cultivating in a piece of land yesterday [Thursday], he (By Jan)...Nigeria: PZ Staff Escape Assassination
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Albert AkporFOUR days after the factory manager of PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc, Mr. Lucky Egba, was shot dead along the Lagos/Abeokuta expressway, another senior staff of the company whose identity coul (By Jan)...South Africa: COPE youth rebel against leader's suspension
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Some COPE youth structures are rebelling against the decision by the party's national leadership to suspend the party's controversial youth leader, Anele Mda.Several provinces, including Limpopo, Nort (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma meets police
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Hundreds of policemen and women rose to salute President Jacob Zuma as he arrived at the Monument Conference room in Pretoria on Tuesday.Clad in navy and pale blue, those tasked with upholding law and (By Jan)...Kenya: ICT Experts Gear Up for War Against e-Crime
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Okuttah MarkRegional experts are calling for harmonisation of information and technology policies, saying this is the best move against the looming threat of e-crime.With the roll out of fibre opti (By Jan)...World: Little hope for India-Pakistan dialogue
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Robert BirselIslamabad - Ties between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan will not improve while the cloud of last November's militant assault on Mumbai hangs over their interactions, Pakistani (By Jan)...Somalia: Special Radar Will Detect Pirates
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Paul RedfernNairobi - A British company has designed a special surface radar that can detect even the smallest skiffs on the water's surface.This could turn the tide against Somali pirates off the (By Jan)...Somalia: Baidoa Protestors Burn Uganda President's Picture
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Baidoa - Protestors in Somalia's southwestern town of Baidoa burned images of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni during a Sunday demonstration, Radio Garowe reports.The protestors gathered at Dr. Ayoub (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Politburo Members Defy Mugabe
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: Harare - ZANU-PF politburo members in Mashonaland West have plunged the province into political turmoil after defying a directive by President Robert Mugabe that his ailing sister, Sabina Mugabe, shou (By Jan)...Renamo Accused of Bankrupting Nacala
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Maputo - The new mayor of the northern Mozambican city of Nacala, elected in February, Chale Ossufo, has accused the previous municipal government of leaving a ruinous series of debts which he must no (By Jan)...South Africa: Communism: As I stated years ago: 'Union members beat up my workers'
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: [I have said for many years, and I have described it in my book Government by Deception, how the communists who dominate South Africa's trade unions beat up blacks who don't go along with them; intimi (By Jan)...South Africa: Policing forum set to go mobile
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Thandiwe MthethwaThe community Policing Forum (CPF) at Durban's South Beach is going mobile to fight crime in the area this festive season.The forum has been privately sponsored with a van that the (By Jan)...Africa: Guinea 'blood bath' condemned
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Geneva - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay condemned on Wednesday what she called Monday's "blood bath" in Guinea and called for an independent investigation into the affair.A statemen (By Jan)...Angolan President Honored by Charles Drew University and The Africa Society
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science and the Washington, D.C.-based Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa will honor Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos at "Embrace Africa & (By Jan)...Constitutional Council Vindicates CNE by Paul Fauvet
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's Constitutional Council, the body that decides on electoral disputes, has supported, in great detail, the decision by the National Elections Commission (CNE) to exclude 27 politic (By Jan)...Africa: Suspected pirates in the dock
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Sanaa - The trial of 12 suspected Somali pirates accused of hijacking a Yemeni oil tanker opened on Tuesday with the public prosecution calling for the death penalty.The defendants are accused of forc (By Jan)...Somalia: Al Shabaab Executes 2 'CIA Spies'
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Mogadishu - The ruling was issued in the Somali capital Mogadishu by a court with Al Shabaab judges, which sentenced the two men to death and a third man to whipping."The court found Hassan Abdullahi (By Jan)...Somalia: Bodies of Two Teenagers Found in Galka'o Town
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Galaka'o - The bodies of two young teenagers who were shot and killed overnight have been found outside Galka'o town in Mudug region, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Sunday.Reports say that dead bodi (By Jan)...South Africa: Campaign to boycott Israeli goods slammed
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Michelle JonesLocal organisations at the forefront of an international campaign to boycott Israeli goods, in much the same way as apartheid SA was isolated, have welcomed the 6.5-million-strong Tra (By Jan)...South Africa: Toddler raped, strangled to death - cops
Monday 28-Sep-2009: A two-year-old girl was raped and strangled to death by a man at the KwaMashu hostel outside Durban, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Monday.He was arrested on Saturday, said Constable Mumsy Mfeka.She sai (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Bindura Man Murders Wife, Commits Suicide
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Harare - A BINDURA man last week strangled his wife to death before using the same rope to commit suicide following a domestic dispute over infidelity.The two bodies have since been taken to Bindura P (By Jan)...Africa: Grace creams off Zim dairy farm
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace have each helped themselves to five or six of the most valuable of the hundreds of white farms his government has taken over.Grace has taken at le (By Jan)...Islamic Jihad Terrorists Threaten To Agitate Further Terrorism Against Israel
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: [This coming with Palestinian unity government forming between the two terrorist groups. It seems their semi-allies in Islamic Jihad may likely push to provoke the Third Intifada. Lone Wolf.] Isl (By Lone Wolf)...Guinea: Free or Charge Detainees, Says Rights Group
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: Dakar - Guinean authorities should immediately free all those detained without charge following the bloody crackdown on an opposition rally on September 28, 2009, or charge them with a specific crimin (By Jan)...Africa: Somalia's war displaced hard hit by drought
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: Galkayo, Somalia - Living in twig and cloth shelters after fleeing raging violence in Mogadishu, a severe drought has worsened the misery of thousands of Somalis settled outside the central town of Ga (By Jan)...South Africa: Miserable Christmas in store for SA
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: There's bad news in store - Santa Claus may not be able to afford to spread his customary Christmas cheer this December.Despite the strong showing of the rand, South Africans are facing a bleak festiv (By Jan)...Cameroon: Intensive Fight Against Wildlife Criminality in Dja Reserve
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: By Vincent Gudmia MfonfuA wildlife trafficker has been arrested in Bissombo, Bengbis in the South Region. He was arrested in possession of a live chimpanzee, elephant parts and chimpanzee skulls, some (By Jan)...Nigeria: Amnesty - Top Militant Surrenders
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Daniel IdonorAbuja - Three days to the deadline for militants in the Niger-Delta to lay down their arms and embrace the Presidential Amnesty granted by the Federal Government, President Umaru Yar'A (By Jan)...South Africa: No help for raped child, says mom
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Siphamandla Mbewa'I've been having sleepless nights ever since my six-year-old daughter told me she had been raped by a man she considered a friend of the family," said Nkosikhona Gama.Her daughter (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: DRC Calls for Full African Representation in Security Council
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: The Security Council must be fully reformed and enlarged to include a proper African representation, particularly since two thirds of the issues it addresses concern the continent, the Democratic Repu (By Jan)...Somalia: Information Minister 'Regrets' Shelling That Killed Civilians
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Mogadishu - Somali Information Minister Dahir Mohamud Ghelle told a Thursday press conference in the capital Mogadishu that the government opposes the shelling of civilian areas."The Government has sp (By Jan)...World: 'The shaking was the worst I had ever felt'
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Aubrey BelfordJakarta - At least 75 people were killed and thousands more trapped underneath rubble after a major earthquake hit Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday, officials said, with fears (By Jan)...Nigeria: The Spreading Incidence of Kidnapping
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Early last week it was reported that the Secretary to the Kaduna State Government, Mr Waje Yayock had been abducted in Kaduna. Security officials believe that it was a case of kidnapping. A few days l (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Help in Gold Production, Miners Urged
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Edward MukaroHarare - SMALL-scale gold miners have been called upon to adopt more cost-effective mining methods to yield maximum benefits from their operations so as to stop relying on Government h (By Jan)...Shootings, Robberies Mar Weekend
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: TWO men died violent deaths in Windhoek over the weekend - one shot and one stabbed - and three armed robberies were reported.Peter Thomas, age unknown, was stabbed in the neck in Greenwell Matongo, K (By Jan)...Nigeria: Deregulation - LPFO, Diesel Prices Jumped in September
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Yemie AdeoyeIN an apparent move to deregulate the oil sector by allowing prices of petroleum products to be controlled by prevailing market realities, the Product and Pipeline Marketing Company (PP (By Jan)...Africa: Nestle confirms milk deal with Grace Mugabe
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Johannesburg - Nestle Zimbabwe on Monday defended its decision to buy milk from Gushungo Dairy Estate, a formerly white-owned farm taken over by Grace Mugabe, the wife of President Robert Mugabe."In e (By Jan)...Nigeria: Country As Destination for Stolen Vehicles
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Nigeria has become such a notorious destination for vehicles stolen from other parts of the world, especially Europe, that it has caught the attention of the International Police Organisation (INTERPO (By Jan)...East Africa: Hope as Aids Vaccine Trials Succeed
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Paul RedfernNairobi - The possibility of a new vaccine which will prevent the spread of Aids moved a step closer with the announcement of a successful trial in Thailand last week.Following a trial (By Jan)...Somalia: Fresh Clashes Kill Two, Injures Eight Others in Mogadishu
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Mogadishu - At least two people have been killed and 8 others have been injured after fresh clashes between the transitional government soldiers broke out in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses to (By Jan)...South Africa: Ndebele: Roads will kill more people than HIV
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: South Africa's roads could claim more lives than HIV and Aids and malaria combined by 2020, if accidents are not prevented, Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele said on Sunday.He was speaking at the funeral (By Jan)...Uganda: Address Diversity to Prevent Ethnicity - APRM Report
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Cyprian MusokeKampala - THE recent sporadic riots that broke out in Kampala when the Kabaka was advised not to visit Kayunga did not occur out of a vacuum.They are consequent upon historical factor (By Jan)...World: Fresh quake hits Tonga
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Tim WimborneLalomanu, Samoa - Grieving Samoans buried their dead in unmarked beachside graves on Thursday as the gruesome task of recovering bodies from villages destroyed by four tsunamis continue (By Jan)...Somalia: Civilians Flee Fighting in Kismayo
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Nairobi - Heavy fighting between two Islamic groups in Somalia's port city of Kismayo erupted on 1 October, with dozens killed and hundreds of families displaced, local sources told IRIN."The fighting (By Jan)...Liberia: War Crimes Group Pounces Legislature
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: The Forum for the Establishment of a War Crimes Court in Liberia has pounced on the National Legislature for placing a "Stay Order" on Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) Final Report, which was submitted (By Jan)...Guinea: Soldiers 'Sow Terror' in Conakry - Report
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Dakar - Guinean soldiers have been looting shops, breaking into homes and firing indiscriminately at people who ventured onto the streets of the capital Conakry, residents say, one day after scores we (By Jan)...South Africa: Man nabbed with illegal firearm - police
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: A 29-year-old man was arrested after he was found in possession of an unlicensed firearm in the Johannesburg CBD on Wednesday, police said.The gun, with its serial numbers filed off, was discovered b (By Jan)...World: Hundreds injured as tsunamis hit Samoa
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Michael PerrySydney - A series of tsunamis smashed into the Pacific island nations of American and Western Samoa killing possibly more than 100 people, destroying villages and injuring hundreds, of (By Jan)...Tanzania: Businessman Dies After Attack
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: A Katesh trader who was severely injured in a mysterious shooting near his residence early this month succumbed to gunshot wounds early yesterday.Family members said he died at the Kilimanjaro Christi (By Jan)...Science: Nero: a nice guy who just wanted to have fun
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Robert Mendick and Jonathan ThompsonIt is almost 2 000 years overdue, but the world, it seems, owes an apology to the Roman emperor Nero.Far from being a sadistic killer who fiddled while Rome burn (By Jan)...Science: Aids researchers go back to square one
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Maggie FoxWashington - More than 25 years into the Aids pandemic, scientists finally have a vaccine that protects some people - but instead of celebrating, they are going back to the drawing board. (By Jan)...World: Killer escapes death penalty
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Tokyo - A Japanese court on Tuesday commuted a death sentence to life in prison for a gangster who shot dead the mayor of the city of Nagasaki two years ago, a court official said.Tetsuya Shiroo, 62, (By Jan)...Africa: Somali troops seize control of border town
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Mogadishu - Somali government forces recaptured a key western town on the border with Ethiopia during a brief battle on Monday with Islamist insurgents that left one dead, officials and witnesses said (By Jan)...Africa: Continents pledge new era
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Beatriz LecumberriPorlamar, Venezuela - Leaders representing more than 60 African and South American countries signed agreements at a summit aimed at creating a new regional financial system for th (By Jan)...South Africa: Policeman gunned down on the job
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: Pretoria police have arrested a man believed to have shot and killed an officer responding to a robbery in Lynnwood Manor, a spokesperson said on Sunday.Sergeant Lynnette Erasmus said the man was arre (By Jan)...Cervical Cancer Strikes Poor Women Hardest
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Miriam MannakCape Town - Of the 490,000 women worldwide who are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year, 80 percent live in the developing world. Every year, 55,000 women in sub-Saharan Africa alo (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Food Company Stops Buying Grace Mugabe's Milk
Friday 02-Oct-2009: The international food company, Nestlé, has announced that it is to stop buying milk from a dairy farm owned by Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe.The decision follows threats to boycott Nestl& (By Jan)...Guinea: African Union to Increase Pressure On Junta
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Reed KramerWashington, DC - Jean Ping, who as chairman of the African Union Commission is the continent's top diplomat, was in Washington, DC, for the United States-Africa Business Summit this week (By Jan)...Rival Somali Militias Battle for Control of Port
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Kismayu - Bitter fighting between forces loyal to Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen and Hizbul Islam is continuing in the port town of Kismayu in southern Somalia, witnesses and officials told Shabelle rad (By Jan)...Uganda: Why Buganda Must Not Waste This Crisis
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Daniel KalinakiIn her brilliant book, The Shock Doctrine, the eloquently leftist author Naomi Klein shows how right-of-centre policy wonks used - and often created - crises in order to roll out exp (By Jan)...East Africa: Obstacles to Trading in East Africa
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By David MugabeKampala - CORRUPTION and access to finance are the two biggest challenges to doing business in East Africa, the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness report 2009-2010 indicates.Be (By Jan)...South Africa: Talks on U.S. $24 Billion Indian Cellphone Deal Collapse
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Edward WestJohannesburg - TALKS to create the world's third- biggest cellphone group through a $24bn tie-up between MTN and India's Bharti Airtel collapsed yesterday after the Indian telecoms group (By Jan)...Science: Why do women cry more than men?
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Rita CarterA book, written by Rita Carter, a leading science and medical writer, provides extraordinary insights into the way our brains work - and why we behave and act in the ways we do...ARE WOM (By Jan)...Nigeria: NAF's Operation Yaki Kills Man in Kaduna
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Abdulrahman TongaKaduna - A serious crisis was yesterday averted in Tudun Nupawa in Kaduna metropolis, Kaduna South local government area, when the residents of the area turned out in hundreds to p (By Jan)...Africa: U.S. Global Aids Program at Risk of Dwindling Under New Leadership
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: As President Obama headed from the UN General Assembly meetings in NY to the G-20 in Pittsburgh last week, AIDS and health advocates today voiced their concern that, despite remarkable PEPFAR program (By Jan)...Nigeria: Citizens Spend Billions on Fuel Generators Yearly
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Patrick UgehAbuja - N796.4 billionWhat Nigerians spend on fuelling generators as alternative power supply every year.N796.7 billionWhat the Federal Government budgeted for capital expenditure for 2 (By Jan)...Africa: Guinea cops roughly disperse anti-Junta demo
Monday 28-Sep-2009: At least 11 people were injured in Guinea on Monday when security forces baton-charged about 300 protestors who do not want junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara to run for election.Demonstrators had gathe (By Jan)...South Africa: Rubber bullets fly during fiery protests
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Police fired rubber bullets when Sakhile township residents used stones, burning tyres and trash to barricade the R23 to Standerton on Monday, Mpumalanga police said.Captain Leonard Hlathi said 23 pe (By Jan)...Nigeria: Ibori Fights Back!
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Lagos - Former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, who has been in the eye of the storm over corrupt allegations levelled against him, his aide and some members of his family, both here and ab (By Jan)...Africa: Annan pushes Kenyan leaders on responsibility
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: By David ClarkeNairobi - Kenyans want their coalition government to take concrete action on impunity and political reforms to avoid a repeat of last year's post-election violence, former United Nation (By Jan)...South Africa: Mkhonza secretly probed SABC executives
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: Former SABC board chairwoman Khanyi Mkhonza instituted clandestine investigations against the broadcaster's top executives, with her investigative consultants recommending charging the managers and en (By Jan)...World: I was raped daily, says Elizabeth Smart
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Jennifer Dobner At knifepoint, Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her girlhood bedroom, she said, then led to a secluded mountain campsite, where a self-proclaimed prophet made her his 14-year-old p (By Jan)...Rwanda: After the Genocide
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Martyn DrakardAnother book on Rwanda? As Gerard Prunier, author of The Rwanda Crisis: History of a genocide (1995) says: this one is "for the mature individual only. It shows the many facets of hav (By Jan)...Africa: Neighbours must pressure Zimbabwe - envoy
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Washington - A senior United States official called on Wednesday for African nations to keep pressure on Zimbabwe to ensure it moves towards democracy and hailed the role of South African President Ja (By Jan)...South Africa: Dozens held for public violence
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Police have arrested 125 protesters who have been accused of public violence and arson, a police captain said on Wednesday.This is the latest protest to hit South Africa. People living in the township (By Jan)...Somalia: Fresh Clash Breaks Out Between Bay and Lower Shabelle Regions
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Somalia - Fresh clash between the Islamist fighters of Hizbul Islam and armed group has broken out between Bay and Lower Shabelle region in south of Somalia, official told Shabelle radio on Wednesday. (By Jan)...Nigeria: Govt Reads Riot Act to Delta Militants
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By George OjiAbuja - Five days to the expiration of the amnesty offer to militants in the Niger Delta region to lay down their arms and embrace peace, the Federal Government yesterday read the riot ac (By Jan)...Sierra Leone: Anti Graft Now in the Hands of Civil Society
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Mohamed FofanahFreetown - The fight against corruption in Sierra Leone has taken on a new face. Government and civil society are now working together to stamp out rampant fraud.The national anti-co (By Jan)...Nigeria: Freedom Fighters in Bakassi Surrender Arms
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Edem EdemCalabar - Cross River State took its turn in the arms surrender gale in the Niger Delta when, weekend, the Bakassi Freedom Fighters (BFF) turned in their weapons at Ekpri-Ikang, a coastal (By Jan)...South Africa: One pilot: two bad crashes
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Karyn Maughan and Louise FlanaganAirlink captain Alistair Freeman was held responsible for a serious plane crash when he nose-dived into a house four years ago.But his SA Airlink boss said this is (By Jan)...Africa: Violence in Niger Delta will erupt - rebels
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Lagos - Unrest in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta is far from ending despite a ceasefire and ongoing amnesty, the presumed leader of the main militant group in the region said on Monday."It will not ne (By Jan)...Turkey Prepares To Extend Bombing Mandate On Northern Iraq
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: [Now indeed, inspite of my own cynicalism against the Turkish government for not being truly pro-Western as much as they claim to be. It seems here they are prepared to extend the bombing mandate on (By Lone Wolf)...Sudan: Country Speaks Out During UN Debate About Renewed Tribal Clashes in South
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: The upsurge in tribal fighting in southern Sudan this year threatens the stability not just of the country but the entire region, a senior Sudanese official told the General Assembly today, calling fo (By Jan)...Science: Scientists 'predict' sea level rise
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Alister Doyle, Environment CorrespondentOslo - Dismayed by ice and storms, British explorer Captain James Cook had no regrets when he abandoned a voyage searching for a fabled southern continent in (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Govt to Release More 99-Year Leases
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Harare - Government will soon release more 99-year leases ahead of the forthcoming summer agricultural season to ensure security of tenure for resettled farmers.Speaking to journalists in Harare recen (By Jan)...Africa: Camara denies blame for killings
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: Dakar - Guinea's military leader on Sunday said he was blameless in last week's lethal crackdown on protesters that a local human rights group said killed 157 people and injured hundreds."What happene (By Jan)...World: 'I'd go nuts if I don't get sex often enough'
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: By David WilkesA failed entrepreneur, who was negotiating the import of Durban-style curry into Britain, faces a lifetime in jail after attempting to mow down his wife in cold blood in order to collec (By Jan)...South Africa: ANC hero saved from an unmarked grave
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: By Louise FlanaganA small blackboard and a pointed archaeologist's trowel lay on top of pauper's grave number 5 910 in Mamelodi West cemetery where Looksmart Ngudle's family hoped to find his remains. (By Jan)...SWATF Scam Dust Won't Die Down
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Christof MaletskyNAMIBIANS and Angolans were among several groups of people turned away from army bases in South Africa on Wednesday after they turned up to receive money and be integrated into tha (By Jan)...Kenya: Experts Map Out Way to 'Clean' Energy as Deadline Looms
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Zeddy SambuKenya is expected to make major strides in the pursuit of clean fuels. Industry players will meet later this month in Nairobi to deliberate on the production and importation of low sulph (By Jan)...A Step Beyond: Zim cracks a prize at IgNobel awards
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Washington - Engineers who invented a brassiere that converts quickly into a gas mask, pathologists who determined that beer bottles can crack your skull even when empty and Irish police officers who (By Jan)...Nigeria: How I Was Dumped in Warri - Kaduna SSG
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Ali Alkali and Samuel AruwanKaduna - Govt says no ramson was paid || After eight days in captivity, the Secretary to the Government, Kaduna State, Mr. Waje Yayok, regained his freedom yesterday and (By Jan)...Guinea: Probe 'Bloodbath' - Rights Chief
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Days after security forces opened fire on an opposition rally in Guinea, killing over 130 people, the top United Nations human rights official today called for an independent inquiry into what she des (By Jan)...South Africa: Lesbian murder: Accused's confession 'a lie'
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Jade WittenCourt ReporterOne of the nine men accused of murdering Zoliswa Nkonyana because she was a lesbian has denied the contents of a confession he made to police, saying he was forced to lie u (By Jan)...Science: Samoa quake exposes tsunami warning flaws
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Rob TaylorSuccessive tsunamis which pounded South Pacific islands, killing more than 100 people, have exposed the limitations of early alert systems set up since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, an e (By Jan)...South Africa: Wanted man arrested in Cape Town
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: A man wanted for housebreaking and theft in the Synbrand Park area of Cape Town, was arrested, Western Cape police said on Thursday."Police in Mowbray were conducting routine patrols in the vicinity o (By Jan)...World: Quake victims buried under rubble
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Telly NathaliaJakarta - A powerful earthquake, which struck near the city of Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday, has killed between 100 and 200 people, a disaster agency official sai (By Jan)...Guinea: Dozens Killed in Protests
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has deplored the "excessive use of force" after dozens of protesters in Guinea were killed today when security forces opened fire on an opposition rally in the capital, C (By Jan)...Zim: Switzerland clears Nestlé over Grace Mugabe's milk
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Switzerland has its own sanctions which target Mrs Mugabe, and which prohibit providing funds to her By Sebastien Berger, Southern Africa CorrespondentThe Swiss government has cleared the mult (By Jan)...World: Iran flexes military muscle before key talks
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Fredrik Dahl and Hossein JasebTehran - Iran test-fired missiles on Monday which a commander said could reach any regional target, flexing its military muscle before crucial talks this week with maj (By Jan)...South Africa: Hiker deaths: Survivors receive counselling
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Caryn Dolley and Liesel Le RouxEven fully prepared and equipped rescuers struggled to get through the thick snow, heavy rain and winds in the Swartberg mountains where three experienced hikers from (By Jan)...South Africa: Motorist claims VIP guard shot at him
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Sherlissa PetersPolice are investigating the actions of a Msunduzi traffic officer, who is also reportedly one of city mayor Zanele Hlatshwayo's bodyguards, after allegations that he shot at a vehi (By Jan)...Science: 'India's tiger protection plan failing'
Monday 28-Sep-2009: New Delhi - India's efforts to stop poaching of its endangered tigers are failing despite millions of dollars of funding, a new protection force and experiments with animal transfers, experts say.The (By Jan)...Govt, SA, Angolan Military Work Together
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Adam HartmanTHERE is an excellent degree of comradeship and co-operation between the 735 army officers of Namibia, South Africa and Angola defence forces, participating in the Walvis Bay phase of t (By Jan)...South Africa: Shipping industry faces crisis
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Craig McKune and Mercury ReporterSouth Africa's maritime industry is "slipping through our hands", leading the country toward an economic crisis, the head of the SA Maritime Safety Authority (Samsa (By Jan)...Ex-NBC Boss's Fraud Trial Postponed to July 2010
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Werner MengesTHE end of the testimony of the first witness in the fraud trial of former Namibian Broadcasting Corporation Director General Gerry Munyama and a co-accused, Engelbrecht Theodor, in th (By Jan)...World: Iraq captures dozens of insurgents
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: Mosul, Iraq - Iraqi security forces have arrested more than 150 people, including Al-Qaeda leaders and Arab fighters, in a massive crackdown on insurgents in northern Nineveh province, the defence min (By Jan)...Lekaukau's Sacking Condemned
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Lekopanye MooketsiOpposition officials have slammed the treatment of Moses Lekauakau by security agents when he was sacked as Government Implementation Coordination Office (GICO) boss last week. It (By Jan)...The Dangers of Elections in Sudan
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Juba/Nairobi - A new boycott threat by several political parties in Sudan illustrates how next year's elections, billed as a milestone in democratic transformation, in fact present considerable challe (By Jan)...South Africa: Samwu supports Standerton protesters
Friday 02-Oct-2009: The SA Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) came out in support of service delivery protests in the Mpumalanga town of Standerton on Friday."Samwu is extremely troubled by the actions of the South African (By Jan)...North Koreans Send Delegration To Celebrate Communist China's Founding
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: [Ever wonder why no progress has been made with the entire North Korean situation? It's likely because of obvious interference that the Red Chinese and even the Russian leadership are HELPING the Nor (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Shoot-to-kill means anarchy - Nicro
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Allowing police to shoot to kill would lead to anarchy, Nicro said on Thursday.It was reacting to President Jacob Zuma's endorsement this week of the shoot-to-kill approach, and his comments on the ri (By Jan)...Splits Appear Among Minor Parties
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Maputo - Splits are already beginning to appear in the group of minor Mozambican political parties who issued a statement on Tuesday calling on the international community to impose sanctions on Mozam (By Jan)...South Africa: UCT to beef up security after shooting
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: UCT is looking at ways to improve security on campus following the shooting of a first year medical student off campus.While UCT students and staff come to terms with the death of Benny Pakiso Moqoban (By Jan)...South Africa: Shacks burn as protesters voice their anger
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Renewed protests erupted in Standerton's Sakhile township on Tuesday night, with residents barricading all roads in the township, Mpumalanga police said."The protesters have started from scratch... th (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: UK Firm Wins Court Claim to Marange Diamond Fields
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Lance GumaLast Thursday the High Court ruled that a UK based firm, African Consolidated Resources (ARC), is the legal owner of the Marange diamond fields, controversially taken over by the army. Th (By Jan)...South Africa: Dlamini Zuma Praises UN's Refugee Commission
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Geneva - South Africa's Home Affairs Minster Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has paid tribute to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) for its wok in protecting displaced people worldwide.Dla (By Jan)...Africa: Peacekeeper killed in Darfur
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Khartoum - A peacekeeper with the joint United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) was killed in an ambush in the western Sudanese region, a senior UNAMID official told AFP on Tuesday."A (By Jan)...South Africa: Industry should pay for tariff hikes - Peters
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: South Africa's electricity tariffs should not rise too rapidly and industrial consumers should bear the burden of future tariff increases, the minister of energy said on Tuesday.South African power ut (By Jan)...World: Bullied mother kills herself
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: London - British police apologised on Monday for failing to help a mother who killed herself and her disabled daughter by setting fire to their car after years of abuse from a gang of youths.Fiona Pil (By Jan)...Somalia: Militia Pull Out of Southern Port
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Kismayo - Fighters loyal to Somalia's Islamist faction Al Shabaab have withdrawn from the important southern port of Kismayo, Radio Garowe reports.Fighters loyal to Ras Kamboni Brigade and Anole have (By Jan)...World: British navy nets record drug haul
Monday 28-Sep-2009: London - Britain's Royal Navy seized its largest ever cocaine haul in a drugs bust off the coast of South America, the Ministry of Defence announced on Monday.The frigate HMS Iron Duke found a five an (By Jan)...East Africa: Power Firms Team Up to Stop Vandals
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Mathias RingaNairobi - Energy companies in East Africa have come together to fight off vandalism of power system equipment and materials.According to Kenya Power and Lighting Company managing direc (By Jan)...Uganda: Tour a Farm This Weekend
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Andrew Ndawula Kalema and Harriet BirungiKampala - IT is the dream of many Ugandans to live on a farm, where they can produce their own food in harmony with nature. They recall with nostalgia, happ (By Jan)...World: Will anti-Koran film be banned?
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: Amsterdam - The Dutch government is looking into whether it can stop a politician from releasing an anti-Koran film, fearing attacks on its citizens and businesses, a newspaper reported on Monday.Gove (By Jan)...World: Kidnapped infant found safe in Alabama
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: Nashville, Tennessee - A Latina mother endured a parent's worst nightmare after her newborn son was snatched by a knife-wielding kidnapper posing as an immigration agent - until police found the baby (By Jan)...South Africa: Long wait may be over for MK cadre's family
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: By Shaun SmillieFor the Ngudles, the discovery of skeletal remains in an unmarked grave in the Mamelodi cemetery near Pretoria could be the beginning of the end of a wait that has lasted 43 years. On (By Jan)...Africa: Addis Ababa to Host 2009 African Economic Conference
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Register now!TSome 500 policy-makers, academics, key private sector players and representatives of non-governmental organizations are expected to attend the 4th African Economic Conference that is joi (By Jan)...Heated Debate About the City's Cooking Councillor
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyTEMPERS flared up at the monthly meeting of the Windhoek City Council on Wednesday night when Swapo Councillor and Management Committee (MC) Chairperson Elaine Trepper accused UDF Coun (By Jan)...World: 'I keep praying to God my daughter is alive'
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Padang, Indonesia - As darkness fell on the devastated Indonesian city of Padang, thousands faced a night sleeping rough in rubble-strewn streets with many waiting for news of lost loved ones. The gri (By Jan)...South Africa: Malema wants more kwaito music
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: ANCYL leader Julius Malema wants to hear more kwaito music on the radio, partly to teach 2010 tourists "one or two things" about local artists.The SABC board had agreed to increase the public broadcas (By Jan)...World: Buildings destroyed after 7.9-magnitude quake
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Jakarta - A powerful 7.9-magnitude quake struck off Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday, destroying large buildings and starting fires in the major city of Padang, geologists and reports said."A n (By Jan)...Nigeria: Chinese Firm Mum Over Oil Deal
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Ejiofor AlikeLagos - China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has refused to comment on reports that it was negotiating lucrative oil blocks with the Federal Government.This came shortly aft (By Jan)...South Africa: Hutchins death: 'Recklessness a possibility'
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Michelle PietersenStaff ReporterAfter 11 days in an overcrowded prison cell in Cambodia, the South African man charged with manslaughter will have to wait a few more days before he is freed.Thirtee (By Jan)...South Africa: Teacher shot dead in Butterworth
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: A 37-year-old school teacher has been shot dead at his home in Butterworth, Eastern Cape police said on Tuesday.Vuyani Mnqika, who was a schoolteacher in Centane, was shot and killed at the Vulley Vel (By Jan)...South Africa: No Dividend for the State From PetroSA
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Linda EnsorCape Town - The government's deteriorating fiscal situation has not been helped by the continued dividend moratorium enjoyed by state- owned fuel-from-gas giant PetroSA and its parent th (By Jan)...South Africa: How my mom died in snow
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Murray WilliamsStaff WriterThe desperate last hours of three Cape Town women who died during a hike in the Swartberg mountains above the Cape Garden Route have been revealed, including how one surv (By Jan)...South Africa: Standerton calm following protest
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Roads in Standerton were open on Tuesday after disgruntled residents barricaded them with rocks, burning tyres and trash during a service delivery protest on Monday, Mpumalanga police said.Captain Leo (By Jan)...World: Sex offenders 'living like animals'
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Greg BluesteinMarieta Ga - Some homeless sex offenders have set up camp in the woods behind a suburban Atlanta office park, directed there by probation officers who say it's a place of last resort (By Jan)...South Africa: Zim man held for fatal fight
Monday 28-Sep-2009: A 22-year-old Zimbabwean man has been arrested in Hillbrow for punching another Zimbabwean to death, Johannesburg police said on Monday.The two men knew each other well. They were "homeboys", said Cap (By Jan)...Somalia: Harakat Al-Shabab Mujahideen Executes Two Men Accused of Spying for CIA and Amisom Troops in Mogadishu
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Somalia - The Islamist fighters of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen have Monday executed two men accusing of spying for CIA and the AMISOM troops in the Somali capital Mogadishu.Sheik Ali Mohamed Hussein, (By Jan)...Kenya: UN Warns of Crisis in Pastoral Areas Over Drought
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: By Walter MenyaNairobi - Drought and related resource scarcity are turning northern Kenya into low intensity conflict zones, with dire implications for livelihoods.A report by the United Nations Offic (By Jan)...World: EU warned of film backlash
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: By Ingrid Melander and Elaine CodognoBrussels - Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said on Friday he had warned European leaders of a possible backlash against European interests over a Dutch v (By Jan)...World: Eight trapped in Indonesian hotel
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: Sunanda CreaghEight people were believed to be still alive in the ruins of a hotel on Saturday, nearly three days after a strong quake hit Indonesia's port city of Padang.In most places only bodies we (By Jan)...Nigeria: FG May Sell Oil Joint Venture Stakes to China
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By TundeAbuja - China has made a proposal to buy 6 billion barrels of Nigeria's crude oil reserves and Nigeria said on Wednesday it could sell stakes in its joint ventures with Western oil firms to he (By Jan)...Uganda: Kabale Farmer Makes a Fortune From Tree Seedlings
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Ronald KalyangoKampala - THE life of Gershom Ndyabahika of Kabale district has been full of ups and downs. The only constant was that he never gave up. Throughout his school life for instance, he u (By Jan)...South Africa: Notorious barricaded road cleared
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Council workers were greeted with angry stares yesterday as they cleared a notorious section of Lansdowne Road, previously barricaded by an angry community and forcibly shut for almost a month.Just af (By Jan)...South Africa: Afriforum calls for boycott on Nestlé
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Afriforum is calling on consumers to boycott Nestlé products if it does not stop buying milk from a dairy farm belonging to Grace Mugabe, wife of President Robert Mugabe, the civil rights organis (By Jan)...South Africa: ANC's caucus stands by fraudster
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Political BureauThe ANC's parliamentary caucus has defended Travelgate fraudster Nyami Booi, and rejected the DA's call for the resignation of the ruling party's senior MP and former chief whip.The (By Jan)...Nigeria: Anti -Corruption Body Wants Psychiatric Tests For Politicians
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has advocated psychiatric tests for public office aspirants, ahead of the 2011 general elections.Chairman of the EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, made the (By Jan)...South Africa: DA wants Booi to resign
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: The Democratic Alliance on Tuesday called on former ANC chief whip Nyami Booi to resign as an MP and parliamentary committee chairperson following his conviction for theft.However, at the same time, t (By Jan)...Guinea: African Union Strongly Condemns Killings
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: The Commission of the African Union (AU) expresses grave concern over the situation in Guinea, in particular the repression by the security and armed forces of a peaceful rally organized yesterday b (By Jan)...World: Twenty hurt as bees attack crash victims
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Ankara - More than 20 people were admitted to hospital in Turkey on Monday after a van carrying bee hives hit a truck, angering the bees who attacked crash victims and rescuers, the Anatolia news agen (By Jan)...South Africa: Standerton house bombed
Monday 28-Sep-2009: A Standerton municipal official's house was petrol bombed by angry residents during a service delivery protest, Mpumalanga police said on Monday."Part of the municipal speaker's house in the Sakhile t (By Jan)...Guinea: 'The Barbarity We Saw Cannot Be Described'
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Dakar - Guineans strain to find the words to describe the violence they saw on 28 September when soldiers opened fire on demonstrators, stabbing people with bayonets and gang-raping women and girls. H (By Jan)...Kenya: Govt to Hand Over Ministers to Hague
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Oliver MathengeNairobi - The government will hand over election violence suspects, thought to include six sitting Cabinet ministers, to The Hague.The six are part of a list of suspected perpetrator (By Jan)...Nigeria: The Economy, Vision 20 - 2020 And Beyond
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Obi IwuagwuLagos - I have not seen the complete Vision 20:2020 document, though I participated in one of the 29 Thematic Groups of the National Technical Working Groups (NTWG) that put it together. (By Jan)...South Africa: Zille blasts 'blatant' delays in Zuma case
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: DA leader Helen Zille has accused acting prosecutions chief Mokotedi Mpshe of a lack of respect for the law after he missed a second court deadline in the party's challenge to the withdrawal of charge (By Jan)...Nigeria: Maduekwe Urges UN to Intensify Fight Against Illicit Arms Trade
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Abiodun OluwarotimiNew York - Foreign Affairs Minister and head of the nation's delegation to the 64th UN General Assembly, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, has pointed out the urgent need for a rejuvenated fig (By Jan)...Nigeria: The Country - Still a Sad Story At 49
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Hakeem JamiuLagos - I always feel sad each year that I have to write about the parlous state of Nigeria when she adds another year. Nigeria is 49 this October but her condition is worse than it was (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops launch manhunt for 17 gunmen
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Alex Eliseev and Solly MaphumuloA gang of 20 heavily armed men embarked on a brazen robbery rampage last night, hitting five shops simultaneously and leaving a wake of destruction as they fled from (By Jan)...Ghana: Farmers Vow to Defy Orders From Military
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Alfred AdamsTakoradi - Peasant farmers at Apremdo in the Sekondi Takoradi metropolis, and cocoa farmers at Juabeso in the Juabeso District of the Western Region, have collided with the military aut (By Jan)...The Good, Bad and Ugly of Public Transparency
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Catherine SasmanWindhoek - Yesterday was International Right to Know Day that is aimed at promoting citizens' access to Government and publicly held information necessary for participation in gover (By Jan)...Kenya: Deaths an Indictment of Government's Failed Policies
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Anyone who thought the current drought ravaging the country was mere talk received a rude awakening after images of hundreds of dying cattle lying among carcasses at the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) ho (By Jan)...Sudan: South Presses for Independence Referendum
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Fred OluochNairobi - Southern Sudan is calling upon East African governments to intervene and help save the peace agreement between itself and Khartoum before the country relapses into civil war.Th (By Jan)...South Africa: Crash pilot unable to speak
Monday 28-Sep-2009: The pilot of the SA Airlink plane which crash-landed in a Merebank school last week, has now regained consciousness, but is unable to talk because of his facial injuries.An airline spokesperson, Karin (By Jan)...South Africa: Zuma calls for stronger alliance
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: The tripartite alliance had to strengthen its bond beyond politics to become a family, President Jacob Zuma said on Sunday.He was attending the funeral of David Thwani, the brother of Congress of Sout (By Jan)...Nigeria: Governor Promises Hard Times for Unrepentant Militants
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: By Samuel OyadonghaYenagoa - Hard times await any armed group in Bayelsa State which refuse to comply with Federal Government amnesty window after the October 4 deadline as the state government yester (By Jan)...Somalia: 5 Killed in Mogadishu Market Shelling
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Mogadishu - Witnesses at Mogadishu's Bakara Market said 3 people were killed inside the market when shells hit a section of the market where vegetables are sold. One of the victims was a female, the w (By Jan)...Kenya: Arms Mop Up Plans in Top Gear
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Fred MukindaNairobi - A massive operation to rid Kenya's pastoral communities of illegal arms is on the way.Senior military, police, intelligence and Provincial Administration officers met in Nairo (By Jan)...South Africa: City clamps down on trouble in Lansdowne Road
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Natasha PrinceStaff ReporterA Satellite police caravan, 24-hour visible patrols, armoured police vehicles and CCTV surveillance cameras are among the tools authorities aim to use to protect Khayeli (By Jan)...South Africa: 40 000 stewards training for 2010
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Clayton Barnes2010 WriterSome 40 000 safety stewards are to be trained and deployed for the World Cup to ensure incidents such as the 2001 Ellis Park disaster are not repeated.A total of 2 260 stew (By Jan)...Rwanda: Hutu Rebels Maintain Grip on DR Congo Minerals
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By James KaruhangaKigali - Fresh reports indicate that the rag-tag rebel outfit, Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) continues to illegally exploit minerals in Eastern DR Congo.Accor (By Jan)...South Africa: Woman discovers strangled body of daughter
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Shaun Smillie and Louise FlanaganA frantic mother's search for her 23-year-old daughter ended when she opened the boot to her BMW and found her strangled body inside. The gruesome discovery yesterd (By Jan)...South Africa: Slap in the face angers police reservists
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Kamini PadayacheeRadical changes to the working conditions of police reservists - including different uniforms and rank symbols from the police, and being barred from doing day-to-day policing - ha (By Jan)...South Africa: Shoot-to-kill comments concern IFP, CDA
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: The IFP and the Christian Democratic Alliance expressed concern on Wednesday over President Jacob Zuma's shoot-to-kill comments to police officers."If officers act on the president's direction, they w (By Jan)...South Africa: IFP to sue Zuma for delay in pardons
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: The IFP instructed its lawyers on Wednesday to start legal action against President Jacob Zuma for a six-year delay in the application of 384 presidential pardons."The IFP's struggle for justice and h (By Jan)...South Africa: Resident does his bit to keep an eye on crime
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: By Esther LewisStaff ReporterA Kuils River businessman has taken a proactive stance against crime in his neighbourhood, by installing security cameras in two high-risk areas.One was placed in Kalkfont (By Jan)...South Africa: Body of murder victim found in lake
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: The body of a 38-year-old murder victim was found in the North End lake in Port Elizabeth on Tuesday, police said.Inspector Alwin Labans said the body was found in the afternoon by two fisherman.The b (By Jan)...Africa: UN to Boost African Union Peacekeeping
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has outlined steps to boost the African Union's capacity to successfully carry out United Nations-authorized peacekeeping operations, including helping the regional body (By Jan)...World: Allen faces jail for depot robbery
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: London - A cage fighter is facing jail after admitting involvement in Britain's biggest-ever cash robbery, a 53-million-pound raid at a security depot.Paul Allen, 31, who fled to Morocco and lived a l (By Jan)...Tanzania Emerges as Star Player on International Stage
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: By Kevin J. KelleyNew York - With the Obama administration having sent off Kenya for corruption and impunity, Tanzania has emerged as East Africa's star player on the US pitch.It was Tanzania's Presid (By Jan)...South Africa: 'What happens if another crashes?'
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Mpume Madlala and Melissa MungrooIt's been four days since SA Airlink flight 8911 crash-landed at the Merebank Secondary School grounds, but residents of the area are still anxiously scanning the s (By Jan)...South Africa: Cops die in crash
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: Two police officers died when they swerved to avoid a kudu on the road between Cradock and Middelburg, Eastern Cape police said on Sunday.Inspector Cynthia Nkamba said the accident happened on Friday (By Jan)...South Africa: Richtersveld tensions wind up in court
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Temperatures in the Richtersveld community, which won a multi-million rand land claim in 2007, are rising - and not just because summer is on its way.Some disgruntled residents claim that community le (By Jan)...South Africa: Toilet visit allegedly gets man shot
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Mpume MadlalaA visit to the bathroom turned bloody for a Durban man after he learnt that the toilet he had used was only meant for the "boss".Rajabu Hasani, a worker at a general dealer's store in (By Jan)...Rwanda: Gasabo Orders Housing Bank Off Kinyinya Land
Friday 02-Oct-2009: By Bosco R. AsiimweKigali - Gasabo district has instructed the Housing Bank of Rwanda (HBR) to halt the expropriation exercise in Kinyinya sector.This follows complaints by Kinyinya residents, who cal (By Jan)...World: Beijing locked down ahead of parade
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: By Ben BlanchardBeijing - The Chinese capital Beijing is under lockdown on the eve of a massive military parade to mark six decades of Communist Party rule, with gun-toting police manning street corne (By Jan)...South Africa: Standerton residents barricade roads
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Protests erupted once again on Thursday when Standerton's Sakhile township residents barricaded roads with rocks and other materials, Mpumalanga police said."Hundreds of residents blockaded the R23 wi (By Jan)...South Africa: Police need counselling, warns anxiety group
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: The SA Depression Anxiety Group (Saga) warned on Wednesday that policemen under severe stress needed counselling to prevent them from becoming "trigger-happy"."What we need to be looking at, [is] trai (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Trio Up for Smuggling
Wednesday 30-Sep-2009: Harare - Police have arrested a 28-year-old Harare man, his wife (25) and father-in-law (45) for allegedly conniving to smuggle 15 cars into Zimbabwe.Irvin Khulekani Dube, Melody Masuku and Newman Mas (By Jan)...South Africa: UCT med student shot dead
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: A first-year UCT medical student has been shot dead on Main Road in Observatory, close to his house.Police said Benny Pakiso Moqobane, 19, had been on his way home with a friend at about 8pm on Monday (By Jan)...Guebuza's Greatest Achievement
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Lichinga - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza told AIM on Sunday that he regards his greatest achievement over the past five years "the fact that I was able to begin to persuade Mozambicans that it (By Jan)...South Africa: Three die in Centane fire
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Three people, including a child and baby, have died in a house fire in Cebe Village in Centane, Eastern Cape police said on Tuesday."It is alleged that a young boy went from the dining room to the ki (By Jan)...World: Obama poster sparks protest
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Richmond, Virginia - Activists gathered outside a downtown strip club on Monday to denounce as racist a banner depicting President Barack Obama as The Joker from the Batman movie The Dark Knight."Not (By Jan)...Guebuza's Gretest Achievement - to Make People Believe in Themselves
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Lichinga - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza told AIM on Sunday that he regards his greatest achievement over the past five years "the fact that I was able to begin to persuade Mozambicans that it (By Jan)...World: Daring helicopter heist: six arrested
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Police Monday remained tight-lipped about their ongoing search for suspects linked to last week's daring heist when thieves used a helicopter to raid a security firm in Stockholm.Six people have been (By Jan)...South Africa: 300 questioned for Westridge shooting
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Aziz HartleyIt has been 19 days since two gunmen opened fire on a Mitchells Plain street committee killing one member, and while in a police crackdown on suspected drug dealers and gangsters about (By Jan)...South Africa: Patient looks fine - 4 hours later she's dead
Monday 28-Sep-2009: By Thandi SkadeThabile Mlotshwe was vomiting blood, but a nurse in the casualty ward at Helen Joseph Hospital classified her "non-critical" - because she looked fine.Four hours later, while waiting fo (By Jan)...World: Palestinians issue warning after clashes
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Jerusalem - Palestinian leaders warned Israel on Sunday not to stoke tension in Jerusalem in the hope of thwarting peace talks, after clashes at a sacred site in which Palestinians and Israeli police (By Jan)...[Humor] The Economy is So Bad That ........
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: The economy is so bad that I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail. The economy is so bad, I ordered a burger at McDonalds and the kid behind the counter asked, "Can you afford fries with that (By Gairk)...Science: HIV: a mental connection
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: By Glynis HorningWhen "Baby", a 42-year-old Chatsworth orderly and mother of two, tested HIV positive at a routine check-up eight years ago, she knew she was at risk for thrush, TB and losing weight. (By Jan)...“Choose your chocolate products very carefully, they might be nestled with Zimbabwean blood”
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: [Dear Friends, Perhaps the readers of your websites may like to write to Nestlé and voice their opinions and relay the facts to them about what the cost in lives has been to support and maintain these (By Gairk)...YouTube Video: Stop Snitching Culture Played A Role In Chicago Teen's Death
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: [Jan or anyone on AfricanCrisis, I'm curious what are your thoughts on this Chicago teen's death. I heard the Stop Snitching movement played a role in radicalizing his three brutal killers. The Chic (By Lone Wolf)...Jan Lamprecht: My tribute to my late Mother... Our Hypocritical Churches: Stuff they neighbour...
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: [The Minister who conducted the service for my mother asked me for some notes about my mother since he did not know her. I must explain more. My parents went to the Dutch Reformed Church as most g (By Jan)...UK Screening of "Mugabe and the White African"...
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: [We received the following e-mail on 26 September. Gairk] The movie will be screened in LONDON. Today the film was announced as part of the prestigious London Film Festival programme. "MUGABE (By Gairk)...Iranian Government Desires To Back Palestinian Unity
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: [Now isn't this quite a dangerous move here. It seems that Iranian leaders are preparing to back a unity Palestinian government between Hamas and the PLO. Really, what's going on here is that the Ir (By Lone Wolf)...Political scientists report drop in US standing
Friday 02-Oct-2009: The United States' standing in the world declined in the past decade to below Cold War levels, according to a leading group of political scientists. Favorable attitudes have risen sharply under Pre (By Gairk)...France Invites Hezbollah To Paris
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: [Isn't this quite disgusting? Sarkozy lied to Israel that he was its friend, when something like this obviously happens. Lone Wolf.] France invites Hezbollah to visit Paris French Foreign (By Lone Wolf)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (02-10-2009)
Friday 02-Oct-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- Victory can be a bittersweet pill - only because sometimes the fight doesn't match the gains. But in this case, victory is hard won and defin (By The BeardedMan)...Is The City Of Cleveland About To Elect A 'Former' Communist To Its City Council?
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: [Now isn't this interesting. It seems the former chair of the Ohio branch of the Communist Party USA whom goes by the name of Rick Nagin might be an inch closer of winning a seat on the City Council (By Lone Wolf)...[video]Commedy: Gun Safety...
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Well, I think the only thing this guy is a 'professional' in, is how to get shot! Note how the students protest when he tries to demonstrate safety on a machine gun. (By JanOlifant)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (29-09-2009)
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: Howzit Well - the story about Grace Mugabe supplying milk to Nestlé has caused quite a storm. And it is about time too. It is pointless having sanctions - albeit targeted sanctions - if no one b (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (01-10-2009)
Thursday 01-Oct-2009: Howzit Three percent in nine years? Do the math - at this rate, the 'compensation' payments will be complete in about 333 years! And, what this article doesn't say is that those farmers who have be (By The BeardedMan)...Wonderful Copenhagen: The Right Perspective
Sunday 04-Oct-2009: As Barack Hussein Obama has an Olympic-sized failure in his bid to secure the sporting event for his adopted home town of Chicago, Frank reminds us that it is 5 minutes to 3am and Obama is far from pr (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Pravda Runs Disinformation Hoping The USA Would Tear Itself Apart
Tuesday 29-Sep-2009: [It's too long to cut and paste, but it seems the Pravda is dissing out some old style KGB pyschological warfare disinformation in hoping that Barack Obama would certainly be its last President. Even (By Lone Wolf)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (28-09-2009)
Monday 28-Sep-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- We returned from Bridlington last evening. What an amazing weekend - plus the two days were nothing but glorious sunshine! It is such a neat, (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (03-10-2009)
Saturday 03-Oct-2009: Howzit Please be advised that there will be no posting tomorrow as I have an RBL meeting in the morning. Sorry! -o00o- The master of deception seems to have pulled off his biggest comeback (By The BeardedMan)...
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