From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 22nd November 2009From 1994-Present over 3,000 Farmers have been murdered in S.Africa.
Many thousands of their farm workers have also been murdered too.
Click here for Photos & Updates - WARNING: Very Graphic & GruesomeSomalia: Piracy Off Coast Not Only Criminal, But Very Successful, Security Council Hears
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Piracy off the coast of Somalia was not only a criminal activity, but it was, first of all, a very successful business, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the (By News Poster)...Proud to be white by Michael Richards...a.k.a. "Kramer"
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Admittedly, this may be considered to be a bit "crude" to some, but it also makes a very good point. (I did not write this, in case anybody was wondering...Kramer did!) I have been wondering abo (By Gairk)...TAU International Bulletin: S A Exporting Farmers- From The Frying Pan Into the Fire
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Submitted by Kobie Nel: November 18, 2009 TAU SA is the oldest agricultural union in South Africa and has been in existence since 1897. The mission of the union is to ensure a productive and safe (By JoAn)...Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally (By Gairk)...S.Africa: Exporting White Farmer – from the Frying pan into the fire
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: The fact that South Africa has farmers to export is somewhat bizarre – the country’s population is 48 million and rising, while a small coterie of 37 000 farmers provides food not only for this number (By JanOlifant)...South Africa: Where is the non-racial society we were promised in 1994, asks David Bullard
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: Remember when cellphones first came out in the early nineties? If you had one you were the dog's bollocks. I had a brick-like Motorola with a mouthpiece that you could snap shut in a determined, macho (By Gairk)...Eritrea: Perilous Journeys
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Washington, DC - "On 20 August 2009, off the Italian island of Lampedusa, the Italian coastguard rescued five of the remaining 78 Eritrean passengers aboard a rickety boat set sail from the Libyan cap (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bloody end to trail of terror
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Gallery: Botched robbery in Pretoria By Graeme HoskenCrime ReporterA six-hour Pretoria robbery rampage in which several homeowners were attacked and two security guards seriously injured was brought (By News Poster)...Nigeria: World Leaders Tackle Hunger As Mass Poverty Peaks
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Chioma UmehaLess than 24 hours, heads of state and government will reach a consensus on how to stamp out the ugly world monster-hunger-when they converge for the World Summit on Food Security under (By News Poster)...South Africa: David Bullard tells us why toy guitars and footballs should also be banned
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: The anti-gun brigade have been in the news of late because they have managed to persuade Pick ‘n Pay to take toy guns off their shelves ahead of Christmas. The thinking is that if you give a kid a toy (By Gairk)...Zimbabwean Holocaust
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Whenever I look at the charred ruin of what a few weeks ago was our home, and see on my bed when I close my eyes the flames that engulfed everything we owned, I can not help thinking of the flames tha (By JanOlifant)...Africa: Pope's Statement On Food Security During the World Food Summit
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Rome - Here is Pope Benedict XVI's address on Food Security during the opening of the World Food Summit that begun November 16 to 18 in Rome.Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen!1. I was very pleased to (By News Poster)...Rhodesia - A Poem
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Jacarandas, blue tinged trees, Laughing children, all say please. Smiling nannies loud and chatting, Queens Club cricket, Rhodies batting. Braais and picnics, Maleme Dam, Tanganda tea and Colcom (By Gairk)...South Africa: Survey reveals leading causes of death
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Although HIV and Aids is gaining acceptance as a cause of death in South Africa, the leading causes are tuberculosis, influenza and pneumonia, according to a report released by the South African Insti (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Land Policy Framework Vital
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Allen ChorumaHarare - The land issue is the very cornerstone of our political, socio-economic system in Zimbabwe. The primary objective of the liberation struggle was to address the historical imba (By News Poster)...USA: Are you angry yet?
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Tomorrow is Veterans Day, commemorating our men and women who fought (and died) to keep this country free under the Constitution and Bill of Rights established by our Founding Fathers. On November (By Gairk)...Nigeria: Deregulation - The Right Thing At the Wrong Time?
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Ese AwhotuIt is no longer news that the federal government has advanced its plan to fully deregulate the country's downstream oil sector.Consultations have been in top gear with major oil companies (By News Poster)...Africa: Mugabe: West wants Zimbabwe's farmers to fail
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Silvia AloisiRome - President Robert Mugabe called on Tuesday for the West to lift sanctions against Zimbabwe, saying "neo-colonialist enemies" were trying to make his land reform fail and his coun (By News Poster)...South Africa: Malema exposed to near-fatal IQ test
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: This article was originally published on a satirical news website, www.hayibo.comJohannesburg - The ANC has confirmed that Youth League president Julius Malema needs police "blue light" protection as (By News Poster)...USA: Economic Meltdown: The Professor who predicted it say: The Worst is yet to come...
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: [Yep, listen to Roubini. He was ahead of everyone else. I read another article where Roubini says that a situation could develop where we will see the biggest asset bust in history, and it will happen (By Jan)...Africa: SAPS officer 'training Guinea mercenaries'
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Peter Fabricius Foreign EditorSeveral South Africans, led by a former SA Police Service officer, are working for a Dubai-based security company in Guinea, providing protection and training to the m (By News Poster)...South Africa: SA creates special World Cup Courts
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Alexandra LesieurSouth Africa plans to create special courts dedicated to handling crimes committed during the World Cup, aiming to speed up the judicial process, especially for cases involving for (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Food Security - Collective Race Against Crises
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Abimbola AkosileLagos - The United Nations hosted a World Food Summit between November 16 and 18 in Rome, Italy, with the fact that more than one billion people are hungry echoing in the minds of c (By News Poster)...Africa: No Welcome in Italy
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Washington, DC - "We were fortunate to spend two days in a small coastal town of Agrigento where in the central part of the city stands a Catholic church with the figure of a black priest carved in st (By News Poster)...Three Die in City Plane Crash - Plummets to Earth South of Eros Airport
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Werner MengesTHREE people were killed when a South African-registered aircraft which had taken off from Windhoek's Eros Airport on a flight to southern Angola crashed in the city early yesterday.Th (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Justice had prevailed swiftly'
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Carvin Goldstone and Fiona GoundenThree courageous Durban women miraculously cheated death at the hands of hijackers this week after two of them had been shot and a third thrown 60m off a bridge.In (By News Poster)...Global: Gold production in terminal decline
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Barrick shuts hedge book as world gold supply runs out Global gold production is in terminal decline despite record prices and Herculean efforts by mining companies to discover fresh sources of ore in (By Gairk)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (16-11-2009)
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- Perhaps I spoke to early. The email I sent to the BunduBlog webmaster bounced - so I have performed the sad task of removing the link from th (By The BeardedMan)...South Africa: Suspect freed in cop bungle
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Graeme HoskenCrime ReporterShoddy police work has allowed a robber - shot and wounded in a struggle with a Pretoria homeowner - to go free. The suspect, who is believed to have disappeared after ch (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Marginalising the Igbo May Break Up The Country
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Raph UwechueEvery human being on God's good earth today is simultaneously endowed with three inter-locking nationalities. The first is the Ethnic Nationality into which one is born and, in most cas (By News Poster)...Zimbabweans Fear New Xenophobic Attacks in South Africa
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - Fearing a resurgence of xenophobic attacks, around 2,500 Zimbabwean migrants have taken refuge in government buildings in De Doorns, a farming town about 140km from Cape Town, South Afr (By News Poster)...South Africa: Farm Workers Tear Down Zimbabweans' Homes
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Scores of De Doorns residents, most of them farmworkers, ripped down shacks belonging to Zimbabweans this morning, accusing them of "stealing our jobs".The Zimbabwean families were forced to pack up t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: South Africa Farming Union Insists Land Grab Victims Be Protected
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Alex BellSouth Africa's main agriculture and farming union has expressed concern about the bilateral investment treaty agreed with Zimbabwe, which is set to exclude South African owned farms that w (By News Poster)...Of Ghost Voters
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Loading, please wait... Be a Newsmaker. Get Published. Share interesting stories online Manage your Account settings Top Members Track activity of your favorites. Stay connected See all newly su (By The BeardedMan)...Africa: Britons warn: Somali captors losing patience
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: London - A British couple held hostage by Somali pirates said in a video broadcast Friday their captors were "losing patience" and could kill them within a week if no ransom was paid.The video of Paul (By News Poster)...South Africa: Country Slips One Place on Corruption Index
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - SA's international standing took a knock after the country slipped a notch down on Transparency International's 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index, released this week.T (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: No Rest for Fortune
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Wellington Zimbowa and Jonathan MbiriyamvekaHarare - DEAD men tell no tales, but not so for Fortune Muparutsa whose family wants him to "tell" them how he died.Some of the artiste's family members (By News Poster)...Power Shortages Cripple African Growth
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Jo-Mare DuddyJohannesburg - INADEQUATE access to power is the single largest stumbling block in Africa's economic development, with the cost of blackouts easily rising between one to two per cent o (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Local NGO Runs Pitiless Scam, Fleecing Orphans of Their Scarce Money
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Steve TerrillKigali - Law enforcement agencies seat idly as CÅ"ur Joyeux steals money from hundreds of helpless orphansHundreds of orphans have been duped out of between 25 and 50 million fra (By News Poster)...USA: Victim of a "Nigerian 419" scam
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: [An elderly USA victim of a "Nigerian 419" scam sent us this heart-rending account of how she was defrauded] My story, I would like you to read and please print. It is much needed and I would appre (By Gairk)...Zimbabwe: Weapons Theft Stokes Fears of Instability
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Harare - The recent "suicide" of a senior army officer in the wake of a break-in at a military armoury in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, is sowing fears that the missing guns may be used to fuel instabil (By News Poster)...The unprecedented savage destruction Zimbabwe's wildlife resources
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: Our front page story this week about the unprecedented savage destruction of our wildlife resources is yet another symptom of the breakdown of law and order in our country. This wanton destruction has (By Gairk)...Zimbabwe: Muckraker - Food Summit Trip's Irony Totally Lost On Mugabe
Friday 20-Nov-2009: IT WAS reported this week that President Mugabe took an entourage of 66 with him on his trip to Rome for the FAO food security summit. Many of those making up the presidential party, we are informed, (By News Poster)...World: 'I started running to save my life'
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: A suicide bomber struck a court in Peshawar Thursday killing 19 people - the sixth attack on the northwestern city in 11 days as Pakistani troops press a major anti-Taliban offensive.The bomber hit at (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (17-11-2009)
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Howzit Yesterday the news wires were buzzing with news about Roy Bennett's trial. I wrote an Instablogs editorial (Justice, Honesty & Integrity - The Three Missing Elements In Roy Bennett's Trial (By The BeardedMan)...Zimbabwe: James - Sanctions No Kidding Matter
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Themba SibindiHarare - THE denial by one James Maridadi, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's chief communications officer, that there are economic sanctions on Zimbabwe is a cause for concern partic (By News Poster)...Uganda: State of UPDF Barracks
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Independent TeamKampala - Shs 500bn spent on army per year but soldiers live in huts, lack toilets, dead bodies kept in patients wardsPresident and commander-in-chief of the Uganda People's Defence (By News Poster)...Africa: U.S. Assistant Secretary on Africa Johnnie Carson's Opening Remarks for Hearing on Counterterrorism in the Sahel Region
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: The following was delivered by the U.S. Assistant Secretary on Africa Johnnie Carson before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Africa. His remarks address U.S. Counterterrorism (By News Poster)...Sympathy For The Mohammedan Terrorist
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: Frank argues that those making excuses for the Mohammadean terrorist who attacked Fort Hood should also make the same excuses for Adolf Hitler. Then Frank goes after the Democrats attempt to pass n (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Africa: Lawyers accuse Harare police of court stunt
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By MacDonald DzirutweHarare - Lawyers for senior MDC official Roy Bennett on Thursday accused Zimbabwe's police of parading in court weapons not related to his terrorism trial in a bid to whip up publ (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Calls for LRA to Face Charges
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Melanie Gouby and Gabriel ShabaniHuman rights activists are calling on the International Criminal Court, ICC, to charge the Lord's Resistance Army leaders with a series of brutal crimes they are ac (By News Poster)...Africa: Opening Remarks at Food Security Summit
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: The following are the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon's opening remarks as delivered before an audience at the World Food Summit hosted in Italy by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'We were all against apartheid'
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Fiona FordeDaniel Ammann had been knocking on Marc Rich's door for more than seven years, but the notorious billionaire fugitive financier refused to budge. "I used to write. Then send faxes and e (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Deadline for Resolving Govt Disunity Looms
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - Zimbabwe's feuding political parties look set to miss a monthend deadline set by the Southern African Development Committee (SADC) to conclude outstanding issues of their p (By News Poster)...South Africa: Motorists run gauntlet on highway
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Graeme HoskenCrime ReporterGangs of armed robbers are attacking motorists on the R21 Highway - the main road linking OR Tambo International Airport to Pretoria.The gangs, which are also attacking c (By News Poster)...Uganda: Anti-Gay Bill Opens a Pandora's Box
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Ariel RubinKampala - While section 140 of the colonial-era Penal Code Act already criminalises "carnal knowledge against the order of nature", this new legislation will attempt to give teeth to tha (By News Poster)...Stigma Hinders the Fight Against TB
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Siaya - When Dorothy*, a single mother of five, told her neighbours in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, she had tuberculosis (TB), she expected sympathy and maybe even offers of help. Instead, she found h (By News Poster)...South Africa: Family killings rock Cape
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Four brutal deaths rocked Cape Town this weekend - and the accused in all cases were closely related to their victims. In Mitchells Plain, the body of Moegamat Yunus Desai, 8, was found beneath a tree (By News Poster)...Kenya: Erratic Short Rains Fuel Power Bills to Record High Levels
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Michael OmondiElectricity consumers will next month pay a record Sh7.90 for a unit of power to finance the running of diesel powered plants across the country despite the ongoing rains in catchment (By News Poster)...South Africa's gold industry is on final deathwatch
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: The apparent bottom line in a paper published in the South African Journal of Science is that South Africa's gold industry is on final deathwatch, despite claims of massive existing below-ground reser (By Gairk)...South Africa: Shoot-to-kill causing a drop in cash heists?
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: The president, his ministers and the police have all been condemned recently for their "shoot-to-kill" directive in the battle against crime, but one sector which has very few complaints in the run-up (By News Poster)...Liberia: 'The New War is Rape'
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Monrovia - In Liberia rape survivors are increasingly speaking up and seeking help as awareness of rights increases, but social taboos persist and seeking justice does not always mean that justice is (By News Poster)...South Africa: Malema's comments 'racist' - YCLSA
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: The Young Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA) wants to talk to the ANC Youth League about its president Julius Malema's insults against South African Communist Party general secretary Jeremy Cron (By News Poster)...Africa: SA to intervene as Zim leaders fail to meet
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: By Stanley GamaPresident Jacob Zuma is preparing to intervene urgently in Zimbabwe as his advisers express impatience with Zimbabwean leaders for failing to meet to resolve their differences. Regional (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Corruption Fights Back - The Gruesome Murder of Abubakar Abba Umar
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Abuja - The Nigerian police has not had much success at following up murder cases and other crimes. Often the police in our land have dismissed cases of gruesome murder and assassination as the handiw (By News Poster)...South Africa: Pondering the Lack of Shine On Country's Gold
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - THIS week in SA produced one of the most profound but yet unacknowledged ironies: the gold price reached (yet another) record, settling above 1122 for the first time, and Stats SA annou (By News Poster)...World: Robber dubbed Shrek by cops
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: A raider nicknamed Shrek was behind bars yesterday after being warned he is too ugly for armed robbery.Bumbling David Holyoak, 33, is a such a dead ringer for the cartoon ogre - thanks to his giant ea (By News Poster)...World: Guantanamo prisoner says he was tortured
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Washington - A Saudi prisoner at the US "war on terror" camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said he had confessed under torture, according to a report released on Friday by the defence department.Abdel Rahi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma must distance himself from Malema
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Patrick LaurenceA warning uttered recently by Zwelinzima Vavi, Cosatu general secretary, should ring alarm bells for President Jacob Zuma, even though Vavi, an ideologue par excellence, might have (By News Poster)...Africa: Food Security Now at Center of Global Development Agenda
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Charles W. CoreyThe issue of food security can now be found at the center of the global community's development agenda in the wake of recent food and fuel crises caused by spiking prices. According (By News Poster)...South Africa: Drug search horrifies police
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Caryn DolleyTwo toddlers sit on an unmade bed staring wide-eyed at the armed police officers rifling through their home.Barely a metre from them, two grubby tik lollies that belong to their parents (By News Poster)...World: Thirteen gunned down in Baghdad
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Ryan LucasBaghdad - Gunmen in Iraqi army uniforms abducted and killed 13 people whose bodies were found on Monday with gunshot wounds to the head, including a local leader of Iraq's largest Sunni p (By News Poster)...Kenya: Digitisation of Land Records to Attack Rot At Head Office
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Murithi MutigaNairobi - Lawyer Patrick Kahonge never gives his clients an estimated time for completion of transactions at the Lands ministry. "It can take two days or up to six months to get a res (By News Poster)...South Africa: ANC lose poll after fielding 'a drunkard'
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: The ANC deserved to lose a recent by-election after fielding "a drunkard", according to Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe. And ruling party secretary-general Gwede Mantashe has accused alliance partn (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Deregulation As a National Albatross
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Joseph OmowaIju - From what we presently have on ground, it is evident that this nation's problems do not come in trickles but in torrents; and the Federal Government, under the leadership of Presi (By News Poster)...World: Mumbai attacks: Two suspects held in Italy
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: Italian police on Saturday arrested a Pakistani father and son who allegedly spent just over $200 (R1 512.69) to set up a reliable and untraceable phone network that was used by the militants who carr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ndigbo - Country's Nation Builders
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Ralph UwechueThe military intervention of January 1966, which was to a considerable degree a consequence of the persisting political turmoil in Western Nigeria, put an abrupt end to the political a (By News Poster)...Malawi: Trying to Give Sex Workers Safer Alternatives
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - A plan by Malawi to offer prostitutes low-interest loans to start small businesses in return for abandoning sex work is generating controversy in a country where women are disproportion (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Country Faces 'Worst' Farming Season
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Caiphas ChimheteZIMBABWE is set to experience the "worst ever agriculture season" since the beginning of the chaotic land reform programme nearly a decade ago, farmers warned last week. The Commerc (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Sixteen Years After Oslo - Middle East Peace Process Still a Long Way
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Tony OkeraforIt's already well over a decade-and-a-half since two great men on opposite sides of the conflict in the troubled Middle East region signed an historic agreement in the Norwegian capita (By News Poster)...Africa: Zim farmers a boost for Nigeria
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Hannington OsodoShonga, Nigeria - When white Zimbabwean farmer Irvin Reid arrived in Nigeria almost five years ago, he was given a set of grid references in the remote bush and told to find water a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Address by His Excellency Mr. Kgalema Motlanthe, Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa to World Summit on Food Security
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: The following is the text of an address delivered before an audience by the Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa at the World Summit on Food Security hosted by the Food and Agriculture Org (By News Poster)...Liberia: Taylor Denies Supporting Plans to Attack Sierra Leone
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor did not support plans to attack Sierra Leone while he was in Libya, the accused former Liberian president told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today while being cros (By News Poster)...South Africa: Farmers Responsible for Attacks?
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Xolani Mbanjwa And Bronwynne JoosteFarmers in De Doorns have rejected allegations that they are paying Zimbabwean immigrants lower than the minimum wage and are therefore responsible for the xenoph (By News Poster)...South Africa: Farmers responsible for attacks?
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Xolani Mbanjwa and Bronwynne JoosteStaff ReportersFarmers in De Doorns have rejected allegations that they are paying Zimbabwean immigrants lower than the minimum wage and are therefore responsible (By News Poster)...South Africa: Woman jailed for stealing from estate
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: A legal secretary, whose "devious manner" shocked the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court, was on Monday effectively jailed for six months for theft.Magistrate Amrith Chabillal told Sally Bri (By News Poster)...Africa: Zim land deal - farmers threaten Davies
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Peta Thornycroft Independent Foreign ServiceMore than 200 South African farmers whose land was seized in Zimbabwe are threatening legal action against the South African government for apparently ex (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Amnesty - Upstream Activity Upbeat for 2010 Targets
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Sopuruchi OnwukaNigeria has recorded significant progress in meeting specified policy aspirations in the upstream petroleum sector with total proven crude oil reserves jumping from 35 billion barre (By News Poster)...'Discipline - And Now Delivery - Will Do the Rest'
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Bame PietPresident Ian Khama is delivering his first State of The Nation Address as the head of a government elected under his leadership this morning, BAME PIET looks at some of the issues Khama i (By News Poster)...Sudan: Save Darfur Coalition, Members of Congress and Activists Urge President Obama to Make Sudan a Priority During China Visit
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: The Save Darfur Coalition, 44 Members of Congress, and 40,401 U.S. activists urge President Obama to make Sudan a priority and work to build a multilateral coalition when he meets with President Hu Ji (By News Poster)...South Africa: Watch out for fake plastic surgeons
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Botho MolosankweSouth African women desperate to enhance their looks are paying a hefty price for their makeover, with botched operations by GPs who have done weekend certificate courses.According (By News Poster)...Africa: China's Chequebook Draws Nations
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: China sees vast opportunity in Africa. Since 2001 total trade has grown tenfold - last year it stood at $107 Billion (63.7bn pounds).Add to that the significant sums of financial aid and direct invest (By News Poster)...One Killed as Chopper Goes Down
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Tileni Mongudhi and Werner MengesA HELICOPTER training flight ended in a deadly crash between Windhoek and Okahandja yesterday afternoon.In the second fatal aircraft accident in the Windhoek area i (By News Poster)...Africa: Mobilise Own Resources, Continent Urged
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Sifelani TsikoAFRICA must explore ways and means of increasing development financing from its own domestic resources to reduce over-reliance on external aid and enhance the continent's resilience t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Selebi trial - Pikoli tops witness list
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Alex EliseevVusi Pikoli, the man who took the ultimate decision to charge South Africa's then top policeman, is one of three new witnesses due to begin testifying this week in Jackie Selebi's corru (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops outpower robbers during shootout
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Gunshots ripped across the Westonaria Shopping Centre parking lot yesterday as armed robbers fled into nearby homes, only for eight to be rounded up and arrested by the police.With mall and shopping c (By News Poster)...Uganda: Mengo Loses Battle On Land Bill
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Edris KiggunduAs debate on the controversial Land Amendment Bill 2007 takes centre stage in Parliament, Buganda Kingdom is resigned to the fact that its protracted opposition to this Bill will not (By News Poster)...North Africa: Al-Qaida Group Menaces Maghreb, Sahel, Says U.S.
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Washington, DC - The North Africa-based terrorist group al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) continues to be a menace to parts of the Maghreb and the Sahel, but the Muslim populations there generall (By News Poster)...Africa: Ransom - the hole in Somali pirates' net
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Nairobi - From parachuted bundles of dollar bills to suitcases of cash transiting through east African capitals, there are many ways to deliver ransoms to Somalia's modern-day buccaneers.The ransom ha (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Deregulation - Tears For The Country
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Peter EseleLagos - We have proved over and over again that we are a nation that does not plan for tomorrow. Since 1990, the Nigeria economy has expanded and the population has grown, but it is now (By News Poster)...Diamond Beneficiation in 'Cautious' Recovery
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Nangula ShejavaliNAMIBIA'S diamond manufacturing industry took quite a hit from the global financial crisis, with the country's beneficiation strategy being set back a few notches as a result.But a (By News Poster)...South Africa: An emotional Pikoli snaps
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Karyn Maughan and Alex EliseevAxed prosecuting boss Vusi Pikoli endured a day of justifying why his organisation bargained with hardened criminals in a bid to convict Jackie Selebi. But it was the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: No Nationalisation - President
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Hebert ZharareRome - President Mugabe yesterday said the Government will not nationalise foreign-owned companies, but will insist on the 51 percent local ownership on all companies according to the (By News Poster)...US states advocate secession
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: (Well well well could this be the beginning of things to come? Maybe the Russians were right after all? Reader who submitted this article) Tired of high taxes and wars in far-away countries? Angry (By Gairk)...South Africa: 'Culture does not justify cruelty'
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By David BenatarIt is not surprising that there are conflicting views about the Zulu rite of slaughtering a bull as part of the Ukweshwama, or First Fruits festival. However, although people might hav (By News Poster)...Uganda: Fuel Price Discrepancies Explained
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Rebecca HarshabrgerKampala - MEMBERS of Parliament, a short while ago, queried the issue of different fuel prices at different pump stations. Sseguya Lubyayi, the vice-chairman of the tourism, trad (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police on high alert in De Doorns
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Luvuyo Mjekula and Craig McKuneHeavily armed police remained on high alert in DeDoorns last night after about 1 000 locals, entirely dependent on seasonal farm work, drove out 3 000 Zimbabweans the (By News Poster)...Somalia: Greater Efforts Needed on Land to Fight Piracy Off Somali Coast, Says Ban
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: The Somali Government and the African Union force in the country need more help on land to fight piracy in the waters, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report released today."One of the way (By News Poster)...Africa: Start of ICC trial for two Congolese men
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: The Hague - Two Congolese militiamen accused of seeking to wipe out a village blocking a strategic route in an ethnic war, enter the dock in The Hague Tuesday for the International Criminal Court's se (By News Poster)...World: Russia tops global fraud survey
Friday 20-Nov-2009: PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a survey on Friday that Russia had the world's most fraudulent economy, and attempts to stamp out white-collar crime had done little to stop its spread during the global (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Top Rebel Leaders Arrested
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By James KaruhangaKigali - Following yesterday's arrest of FDLR leader Ignace Murwanashyaka and his deputy, Straton Musoni , in Germany, government has welcomed the move, saying the two are part of a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Selebi quized Pikoli over Rauntenbach charges
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Ex-police chief Jackie Selebi asked former prosecutions head Vusi Pikoli why charges against then tax fugitive Billy Rautenbach were not being dismissed, the High Court in Johannesburg heard on Tuesda (By News Poster)...South Africa: 2010 jobs bonanza ends
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Bronwyn GerretsenTens of thousands of people face a bleak Christmas as 2010 projects and upgrades near completion.In KwaZulu-Natal, many people have already lost their jobs as work on the Moses Mab (By News Poster)...Africa: Continent Can Achieve Food Security Through Improved Agriculture
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Prof. Richard MkandawireAfrican farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call "Marie Nerica" who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell (By News Poster)...South Africa: Baghdad Four - wives attack SSS
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Emotions ran high as the wives of the four South African men known as the Baghdad Four blasted their husbands' former employers and accused them of lying and abandoning them and their partners.The sca (By News Poster)...Africa: Nepad/Agra - Partnering For Action On Africa's Farms
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Richard Mkandawire and Akinwumi AdesinaLagos - African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call 'Marie Nerica' who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (19-11-2009)
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Howzit Among the list of obstacles that face the unity government, there is the appointment of the Attorney-General (who spent most of this week in court prosecuting Roy Bennett - and who was havin (By The BeardedMan)...Uganda: Domestic Violence Worries Activists
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Gloria Aciro LakerGulu - With northern Uganda at relative peace following years of war wreaked by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, activists are now worried about rising outbreaks of dome (By News Poster)...Africa: Soldier jailed for arms theft
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: Harare - A Zimbabwean soldier has been sent to jail for an effective 12 years for breaking into a military armoury and stealing 20 automatic rifles, the state-controlled Sunday Mail said.It quoted pol (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Make Farm Leases Bankable
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Harare - THE 99-year leases for farms allocated under the Land Reform Programme have been attacked for being non-transferable by sale, voluntary or forced, and thus rendered useless as collateral for (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ex-US Congressman Bags 13 Years Jail Term
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Emma Aziken with agency reportA FORMER US Congressman slammed with corruption charges over business deals in Nigeria has been jailed for 13 years. William Jefferson, a Democrat from Louisiana was s (By News Poster)...Kenya: City Hall Scandals Cripple Fire-Fighting Unit
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Nairobi - Kenya's major towns are sitting on a fire time bomb. Investigations by the Nation reveal that Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret, Nyeri and other towns are ill-prepared to respond to major fi (By News Poster)...Communist Party USA Recyles Reports From Left-wing Groups Use It To Attack Glenn Beck
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: [Why is it that the Communist Party USA is in promoting left-wing watchdog groups that are supposedly looking out against radical anti-government activities? Personally, I think most of these anti-go (By Lone Wolf)...White House Senior Adviser Gavin Discusses Relations
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Charles W. CoreyWashington - Washington -- There are new opportunities ahead in U.S.-Angolan relations. A spirit of partnership exists that is focused on the future rather than the past, and the Un (By News Poster)...Africa: Climate Change and the Population 'Bomb': A Debate Not to Shy Away From
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Saliem FakirThe United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its "State of the World Population 2009" report on the 18th of November. It chose to take up a politically delicate topic, the relati (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Corruption - Waziri Canvasses Death Penalty
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Samuel Aruwan and Lilian AgihKaduna/Abuja - Chairperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes commission, Mrs. Farida Waziri, has stated that only the Chinese style of capital punishment for corrupt (By News Poster)...Liberia: Press Under Attack
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Monrovia - There was once upon a time in Liberia's dark past when it was fashionable to silence the press by rounding up reporters and editors and incarcerating them for months without charge. There w (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma tackles corruption head-on
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Gaye Davis and Bronwyn GerretsenWith corruption and fraud eating away at the South African public and private sectors, President Jacob Zuma has ordered his cabinet to come up with a plan that will (By News Poster)...Africa: Women Assess Continent's Progress Since Beijing
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: By Madi CeesayBanjul - The Beijing Platform for Action in 1995 set out an agenda to address gender equality in priority areas, including poverty, education, and health care. It also committed governme (By News Poster)...Senator Lugar Hails New Chapter in U.S.-Angolan Relations
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Charles W. CoreySenator Richard G. Lugar, the ranking Republican on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, expressed his strong support for a "robust relationship" between the United States a (By News Poster)...Babynet Front Page: How to fight your fears
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: As anyone who habitually worries will testify, it's the wee hours that exploit your weakness - when every little unresolved thing takes on gargantuan proportions, and threatens to swallow you up whole (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: President Blasts West's Subsidies
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Hebert ZharareRome - RICH countries' agricultural subsidies and denial of market access to produce from developing countries were partly to blame for low crop production in developing nations, Pres (By News Poster)...Uganda: Wife Spills Beans Over the Shs 900 Million
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: Kampala - The Independent talked to Mrs Juliet Akankwasa and below are excerpts.Did you take your husband's Shs 900 million from your bedroom?I am still in shock over this allegation because I left hi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Xenophobic Attacks Draw Condemnation From UN Agency
Friday 20-Nov-2009: The United Nations refugee agency today condemned the latest xenophobic attacks that have driven some 3,000 foreigners, including refugees and asylum-seekers from Zimbabwe, from a community in South A (By News Poster)...World: Bomber kills dozen in Afghan
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Herat, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck an Afghan town on Friday, killing 12 people in the deadliest attack since President Hamid Karzai got down to the business of a second term. (By News Poster)...South Africa: Alleged robber killed during shooting
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: A suspected robber was shot dead and another was wounded in a shootout with police in Centurion, Pretoria police said on Thursday.Inspector Aveline Hardaker said police received a complaint of a house (By News Poster)...Africa: Spain pays ransom for fishing vessel
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Abdi GuledMogadishu - Somali pirates on Tuesday freed a Spanish tuna fishing boat hijacked last month and one of the gang said a $3.5-million ransom had been paid for the vessel and its crew.The re (By News Poster)...Woman in Car Was Hacked to Death - Police
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Ndingililo GaoswediweFrancistown - Police have cleared the mist surrounding the death of a 47-year-old woman of Matshelagabedi who was found dead in her car along Matshelagabedi-Francistown road la (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Deregulation? It's Unavoidable
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Timawus MathiasWhen I was a child, my father spoke his mind about my out of line actions oftentimes with a whip. The lashes were painful all right, and did drive home his message very well.However, (By News Poster)...South Africa: State Short of R10 Billion to Honour Land Deals
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Stephan HofstatterJohannesburg - THE Land Claims Commission cannot afford to honour at least R10bn in outstanding commitments to land owners and claimants, Business Day has established.This could r (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FAO Organizes Summit On Food Security
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Stan OkenwaAmid global concern over food insecurity situation, which continues to impose serious threat for humanity, the world leaders have designed a summit to stem the tide of the insecurity. Wi (By News Poster)...Africa: 245 rebels killed - Ethiopia
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Barry MaloneAddis Ababa - Ethiopia on Monday denied that rebels fighting for independence for a region with potentially lucrative oil and gas reserves had seized seven towns near the border with ne (By News Poster)...Africa: Bad Roads Slow Continent's Growth to a Crawl - Report
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Paul RedfernNairobi - The poor quality of Africa's infrastructure is costing the continent's economies around two per cent of their potential economic growth each year.The state of infrastructure i (By News Poster)...Africa: Freed cargo ship escapes pirates
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Nairobi/London - A container ship captured by Somali pirates earlier this year and at the centre of a hostage drama narrowly escaped being captured by pirates for a second time on Wednesday, the Europ (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Govt Unhappy as Tribunal Acquits Top Genocide Suspect
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Edmund KagireKigali - The Government of Rwanda has reacted to the decision by the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda (ICTR) to overturn a 20-year sentence and acquit Protais Zigiranyirazo, d (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Kazini - Story of a Fallen Ugandan Strongman
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Tony OkeraforWhen James Kazini commanded Ugandan troops, during that country's second successive military expedition in neighbouring Congo Democratic Republic, back in 1999, his rank was that of br (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'He forced my legs open, then raped me'
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Sherlissa PetersOne of the young victims of the alleged Midlands serial rapist, relived her terrifying ordeal as she testified in the Pietermaritzburg High Court yesterday.The 16-year-old girl, who (By News Poster)...Illegal Immigrants Battle
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Gale NgakaneBorolong - In real war, it would be referred to as a mopping up operation - as security forces appear to be winning their intermittent battles against illegal immigrants in Borolong.Mos (By News Poster)...Nigeria: On Ojukwu And War
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Obi NwakanmaWhen Odumegwu Ojukwu sneezes, the nation catches cold. That is to be expected. General Ojukwu showed his paces in war. He led one of the most famous wars of the late 20th century. Gener (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Making Peace in Madagascar
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Tony Okerafor"Today is great day for the African Union [AU] and for me personally, I'm really happy, because what we achieved here is peace, stability, security to Madagascar".(Mr. Wadraougou, the (By News Poster)...Somalia: Mogadishu Violence Claims Seven
Monday 16-Nov-2009: At least seven people have been killed and 11 others injured in heavy clashes between African Union peacekeeping forces and Somali insurgent fighters in the restive capital Mogadishu, witnesses said o (By News Poster)...Africa: Calls for justice in Moz cop killings
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Human rights group Amnesty International criticised Mozambique on Monday for failing to investigate and prosecute police officers suspected of unlawful killings.Amnesty released a report criticising w (By News Poster)...World: Toll rises as Chinese miners mourn
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: By Maxim DuncanHegang, China - The death toll from China's latest coal mine disaster reached 92 on Sunday, state television said, and hopes dimmed that more survivors would emerge after a gas blast at (By News Poster)...Uganda: Rwanda Rising - the Conditions of Success
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Kayvan FarzanehKampala - The story of Rwanda is now well known. Fifteen years ago, genocide devastated the country, emptied the banks and decimated human capital. By the time the RPF captured Kigal (By News Poster)...Liberia: Prosecution Reads Statements By Other Leaders on Taylor
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Alpha SesayProsecutors spent much of today's cross-examination of former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, reading out statements by other West African leaders condemning Mr. Taylor Liberian rebe (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mafia arrest gives mob leadership problems
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Philip PullellaRome - Italian police have caught the Sicilian Mafia's number two, the latest in a string of top-level arrests that has given the crime group that once terrified Italy problems with (By News Poster)...Sudan: South Sudan Awaits Oil Bonanza
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By James CopnallKigali - In a village perched a difficult climb half-way up a steep mountain slope in South Sudan, a woman is grinding up leaves plucked from a tree.The drab green powder - added to so (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma Cracks Down on Corruption
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Linda EnsorJohannesburg - President Jacob Zuma and his Cabinet have vowed to deal with the "scourge" of corruption in the government in a determined and co-ordinated way to prevent it infesting eve (By News Poster)...South Africa: Armed mob threatens mayor
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Luvuyo MjekulaCape Town Mayor Dan Plato was confronted by stick-wielding shack dwellers, who threatened him over the city's failure to install electricity in their homes, when he visited Overcome H (By News Poster)...World: Gunman kills four in island rampage
Friday 20-Nov-2009: A gunman went on the rampage on the Pacific resort island of Saipan on Friday, killing at least four people and wounding six, including five Korean tourists.The police said an Asian gunman had killed (By News Poster)...Angolan Fined for Buying Stolen Computer Screens
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Werner MengesAN Angolan national, who was one of a group of suspects arrested a month ago when the Police swooped on a house in Windhoek North where a hoard of stolen computer equipment was found, (By News Poster)...Africa: Investment in Agriculture Africa's Path to Prosperity
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Prof. Richard MkandawireAFRICAN farmers are seeding prosperity. Marie Nerica who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone is one example. She now produces enough rice to sell the surplu (By News Poster)...South Africa: YCL gunning for Mbeki
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Carien Du PlessisThe Young Communist League plans to lobby the SACP to support its call to charge former president Thabo Mbeki over his HIV and Aids policies.The YCL said it would pursue Mbeki even (By News Poster)...South Africa: How to avoid being shot by the police
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Now that Deputy Police Minister Fikile Mbalula says innocent people will unavoidably be shot dead by the police, there are a few simple precautions we can all take if we and our families wish to stay (By News Poster)...South Africa: Corruption - SA ranked 55
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: South Africa has been ranked 55th out of 180 countries in a corruption perceptions index released on Tuesday by Transparency International.South Africa scored 4,7 out of ten on the index. The highest (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe & 60 Officials in Rome for UN Food Summit
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Lance GumaRobert Mugabe arrived in the Italian capital Rome on Saturday, for a United Nations food summit. Despite European Union targeted sanctions that restrict his travel Mugabe is allowed to tr (By News Poster)...USA: Dollar-Oil Link Soon to Be Broken?
Monday 16-Nov-2009: New York may be about to lose its status as the world’s biggest oil-trading center. Saudi Arabia is leading the exodus. How will this shift impact America, and what are the implications for the dollar (By Gairk)...We Need United Action Against Violence
Monday 16-Nov-2009: VIOLENCE has to be condemned, wherever it happens and whoever the perpetrators are. We would therefore roundly condemn individuals responsible, or the organisations they belong to, who may be inciting (By News Poster)...Guinea coup: the South African and Israeli connection?
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: "contrary to the efforts of the international to reach a peaceful resolution to the current crisis". So what exactly is the 'international' doing? I think the 'international[s]' are upset that their p (By JanOlifant)...Renamo Discusses Its Post-Election Future
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Maputo - The Political Commission of Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, began an extraordinary session in the northern city of Nampula on Thursday to define the part (By News Poster)...Koch's Widow Scores Victory
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Werner MengesWindhoek - A BITTER dispute between the widow and the former lawyer of the late German extradition target Hans Jurgen Koch made a return to the High Court this week, with Koch's widow (By News Poster)...Africa's Biggest Wind Farm Runs Into Stormy Weather
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Jaindi KiseroNairobi - Long term lenders behind the massive Lake Turkana Wind Power Project - Kenya's largest green-field wind power scheme - are now asking for a government guarantee to cover the (By News Poster)...World: Karzai seeks unity, vows to fight corruption
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Lynne O'DonnellAfghan President Hamid Karzai vowed to combat corruption and invited his chief rival to join the government after he was sworn in for a second term on Thursday, facing Western pressu (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Inyathi Residents Rally Behind Invaded Farm Owner
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Alex Bell and Lionel SaungwemeResidents of Inyathi have rallied behind a local farmer whose land has been forcibly seized by a Bulawayo High Court Judge, signing a petition for the farm to be left (By News Poster)...South Africa: Electrical sub-station explodes
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Nondumiso Mbuyazi and Rizwana Sheik UmarAn electrical substation in Sea Cow Lake exploded last night as the city urged people living in informal settlements to report illegal electricity connection (By News Poster)...South Africa: Third-Quarter Gold Output Lags in Boom
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Edward WestJohannesburg - SA's gold output was 4,8% higher in the third quarter than in the second, but 2,9% down on the previous third quarter's, the Chamber of Mines said yesterday.Some in the in (By News Poster)...Ghana: Country as an Oil Nation
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Ghana, in the next four years, will be among the petroleum exporting countries in Africa.This is regardless of whether petroleum will be exported, or will solely be for local consumption only. However (By News Poster)...South Africa: So how many people are dead, exactly?
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: There is major confusion over the country's mortality rates, as the departments of home affairs and health insisted on Monday that their figure of 756 000 deaths recorded in 2008 was correct, while Ai (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Polish Firm to Build Coal Plant in Country
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Oscarline OnwuemenyiAbuja - A Polish developer, Polnord SA, is leading a coalition of various coal and power companies from the European country to invest in Nigeria "s moribund coal industry, towa (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Imo State And the Amnesty Package
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Peter Claver OparahI had no intention of mentioning this fact but circumstances are forcing me to do so. When Imo and Abia States were mischievously left out of the benefits that naturally should c (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'I was flying'
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: "When they threw me over the bridge, daddy, I was flying. But then I hit the ground and I knew I had survived." That was the emotional recount hijack survivor Kavisha Seevnarain, 26, gave her father a (By News Poster)...Africa: Violence in Sudan mars poll preparations
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Juba, Sudan - Twelve people were killed and a government minister was wounded in clashes in south Sudan, which is preparing for a referendum on whether to split off as an independent state.A surge of (By News Poster)...Five Arrested for Karibib Farm Attack
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Adam HartmanTHE Police in Erongo on Saturday arrested five men suspected of being involved in an attack on the farm Riksburg near Karibib two weeks ago in which Dottie Jooste (89) was fatally injur (By News Poster)...South Africa: Siblings relive horror of parents' murder
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: All Jan Bijkersma and his sister Hiltje wanted to do was hug and kiss their parents when they returned from holiday. An excited Hiltje rushed to the front door, and a broken window was the first sign (By News Poster)...World: Arrest leads to charges of racism
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Betsy TaylorSt Louis - Nearly three years after Heather Ellis switched checkout lines at a south-east Missouri store and touched off what she calls a racially charged dispute with white customers a (By News Poster)...South Africa: China mine blast: Death toll rises
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: The death toll following a gas explosion at a coal mine in north-eastern China that killed 42 workers and left 66 miners trapped underground on Saturday was expected to rise, local media reported.The (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'The commissioner slapped me on my breasts'
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Barry Bateman, Mogomotsi Magome and Graeme HoskenA moot man spent several hours behind bars after being charged with assaulting a policeman who had allegedly just beaten his seven-month pregnant fi (By News Poster)...Uganda: Baha'i Faith is On Trial in Iran
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Devapriyo DasLast October, seven prisoners in Iran escaped a near-certain death sentence.Convicted of a string of offences, including "spreading corruption on earth", "espionage for Israel" and "in (By News Poster)...Africa: Winners and Losers In Corruption Stakes
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By John Allen and Adiel IsmailCape Town - Botswana continues to be seen as Africa’s least corrupt, and Somalia as the continent’s – and the world’s – most corrupt country (By News Poster)...Somalia: Fighting in Mogadishu Kills 4, Injures 5
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: At least 4 people are reportedly killed and 5 others including a journalist are injured in heavy clashes between insurgents and Somali government forces backed by African Union troops in the Somali ca (By News Poster)...South Africa: Woman jailed for rape lie
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: A woman was sentenced to six months in prison by the Empangeni District Court on Wednesday for lying to the police about being raped and forced to cook human heads.Sindisiwe Buthelezi, 36, pleaded gui (By News Poster)...South Africa: What's next for De Doorns migrants?
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Cape Town - Up to 2 700 Zimbabwean asylum seekers have set up a temporary "safety camp" in a rural South African town following attacks on their shacks in a dispute about jobs, a human rights group sa (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bail for suspected murderer
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Jade Witten Court ReporterA 27-year-old woman, alleged to have murdered her husband in their Green Point home in front of their eight-year-old daughter, has been granted R1 000 bail.The State has c (By News Poster)...Seychelles: We Won't Arm Drones in East African Waters - U.S.
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Kevin KelleyNairobi - The United States has "no plans" to arm the pilotless aircraft that are carrying out reconnaissance missions from a base in the Seychelles, a spokesman of the US Africa Comman (By News Poster)...World: 'Night Stalker' is married with kids: police
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Stephen Wright and Rebecca CamberA married man suspected of being Britain's most prolific sex attacker was being held by police on Sunday.Father-of-seven Delroy Grant, the alleged "Night Stalker", (By News Poster)...Boccim Explains Why Food Prices Remain High
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Gaborone - The Botswana Confederation of Commerce, Industry and Manpower (BOCCIM) last week presented a report on why the price of food and other goods continue to rise despite the fact that fuel pric (By News Poster)...Africa: Annul poll result, says Renamo
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's main opposition party Renamo said on Tuesday that it rejects the southern African country's recent general elections and called on officials to annul the results of the vote.Rena (By News Poster)...USA: Frightened America: Gun sales shoot up 30%-71% amid America’s fear of rising crime and terrorism
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Smith & Wesson, the famed American gunmaker once owned by Tomkins, the British conglomerate, expects to nearly double its annual sales in the next three to five years as demand for its firearms soars (By Jan)...The Economic Meltdown - When the DOW Falls & Gold falls with it... but wait for the Gold Super-Boom
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: I have been following Jason Kelly's analyses with tremendous interest. Jason says that there are 3 countries which could default on their debt, in this order:- (1) Japan (2) Britain (3) USA As b (By Jan)...South Africa: Student's rape and murder trial set for May
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Former Stellenbosch student Jacobus Eksteen, accused of raping and killing fellow-student Erin Van Rensburg, is to go on trial in the Cape High Court next year.Eksteen made his final appearance in the (By News Poster)...Africa: Mercenaries complicate peace bid
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Mark JohnDakar - Sightings of mercenaries at work for Guinea's junta are a potential blow to international efforts to stave off new violence in the West African country and press its military leade (By News Poster)...South Africa: Govt Will Not Tolerate Attacks on Foreign Nationals - Gigaba
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Nthambeleni GabaraPretoria - Home Affairs Deputy Minister, Malusi Gigaba, has reiterated that government will not tolerate any form of violent attack on people from other countries.He said South Af (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Song Sparks Governance Debate
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Mohamed FofanahFreetown - Nothing has ever sparked a debate on the state of governance in the country like the song released by one of Sierra Leone's most popular artists, Emerson Bockarie.The song (By News Poster)...World: Israel slammed over building plans
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Jeffrey HellerJerusalem - United States President Barack Obama warned Israel on Wednesday its approval of new construction in a Jewish settlement could prove "very dangerous" by fuelling Palestinia (By News Poster)...Ghana: Is the Country a Lawless State?
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Yesterday's shooting incident at Avenor, near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra, leading to the death of one person perceived to be a landguard, has raised the debate as to whether Ghana is gradually (By News Poster)...Africa: AfDB: Fourth AEC-Researchers Track Missing Links in Africa's Development
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Addis Ababa - Several issues emerged from the theme of the conference, "Fostering Development in an Era of Economic Crisis". The most dominant among these was the consensus that would be possible for (By News Poster)...Renamo Appeals Against Election Results
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's main opposition party, Renamo, on Monday appealed against the results of the 28 October general elections, won by the ruling Frelimo Party with about three quarters of the votes. (By News Poster)...East Africa: Region to Get New Law on Cross-Border Trade to End Hunger
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Charles KazoobaNairobi - Hunger will be a thing of the past in the region should plans by the East African Community to start formal cross border trade in food yield positive results.Consultations (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Party in Turmoil Over Internal Struggle
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Dumisani MuleyaZANU PF's main wing led by retired army commander Solomon Mujuru has crushed a rival faction headed by Emmerson Mnangagwa, leaving the party in turmoil.This followed a dramatic battl (By News Poster)...South Africa: SACP sees red over Malema
Friday 20-Nov-2009: The SA Communist Party on Friday defended its general secretary, Jeremy Cronin, after ANC Youth League president Julius Malema lambasted the former's stance on nationalising the mines."We find it very (By News Poster)...Kenya: Draft Law to Set Pace for Land Reforms
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Lucas BarasaNairobi - The draft constitution and a policy tabled in Parliament this week give a clear path on management of land, property and natural resources.The documents provide for the right (By News Poster)...South Africa: Should Mbeki be Prosecuted Over Aids Deaths?
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Wilson JohwaJohannesburg - THE Young Communist League (YCL) yesterday repeated its call that former president Thabo Mbeki be prosecuted for AIDS-related deaths, saying it sided with victims rather (By News Poster)...Eat Your Capital Or Go Back to Work
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Daniel SteinmannWindhoek - As much as the current debate concerns inflation or deflation, a similar debate is slowly emerging around interest rates.As you know, in the USA interest rates are effect (By News Poster)...Uganda: Why Oil Revenues Will Harm Us
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Andrew M. MwendaKampala - On October 16, 2009, Oxford's Prof. Paul Collier gave a talk at Serena Hotel in Kampala on the prospects of an oil windfall in Uganda. Unlike in most of his work, this tim (By News Poster)...Kenya: Piracy Attacks on Grain Vessels Hit Flour Production
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Githua Kihara and Gitonga MareteA wheat flour shortage looms as Somali pirates hit closer home -- our dinner tables.Fears over shortage of the commodity follows rising attacks by the hijackers who (By News Poster)...Africa: Children killed by old Mozambican bomb
Friday 20-Nov-2009: A Mozambican newspaper reported on Friday that three children had been killed and two seriously injured in northern Mozambique after accidentally exploding a mortar bomb left over from the country's w (By News Poster)...Shotgun Murder Trial 'Confession' Ruled Out
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Werner MengesAN ALLEGED confession made by a Windhoek resident who is accused of murdering his older brother with a shotgun last year, cannot be used as evidence in his trial, it was ruled in the H (By News Poster)...Somalia: Improve Governance to Stop Piracy, Says UN Envoy
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Piracy off Somalia's coast is a symptom of wider problems ashore, and any strategy to tackle it must also deal with its root causes and strengthen regional capacity, the United Nations envoy to the co (By News Poster)...East Africa: Rwanda Least Corrupt in the Region - Report
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Edmund KagireKigali - Rwanda emerged the least corrupt nation in East Africa and the Great Lakes Region according to a Corruption Perception Index 2009 released by Transparency International (TI).T (By News Poster)...Africa: Tsvangirai's ally pleads in terrorism trial
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: A key ally of Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai pleaded not guilty Monday to terrorism charges of trying to topple veteran President Robert Mugabe.Asked by high court judge Chinembiri Bhunu ho (By News Poster)...Africa: Investors Expanding Oil Interests Throughout Continent
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: UNTIL relatively recently, big oil gave little thought to sub-Saharan Africa beyond the coast of Nigeria and Angola. That's changing rapidly after a significant find off the Atlantic coast of Sierra L (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police hunt for murder suspect
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Staff ReportersThe police are searching for a Cape Town security guard accused of murdering a colleague late on Sunday night.Norman Benjamin, 42, of Mitchell's Plain, was driving a company security va (By News Poster)...Liberia: Prosecution Says Taylor Was 'Not Honest' With UN Panel
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor was "not honest" with the United Nations Panel of Experts set up to investigate his alleged dealings with Sierra Leonean rebels, prosecutors told the Special Court for Sie (By News Poster)...World: Bilateral tensions sparked in Latin America
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: With Venezuelan troops mobilised on the border with Colombia, and Peru accusing Chile of military espionage, bilateral tensions are once again flaring across Latin America.As has often been the case i (By News Poster)...South Africa: Moodley 'self-confessed liar'
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: On the fourth anniversary of the day killer Donovan Moodley aborted his appeal application, he returned smugly to the dock.But metres away, the parents of the girl he murdered stared icily, anxiously (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Germany Protests Attack of Priest by Soldiers
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Alex BellThe German government has sent a written protest to Zimbabwe over the attack on a German priest by soldiers over the weekend.Father Wolfgang Thamm, who is a priest in Banket, was on a merc (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Blocks - Any Leg for the Chinese to Stand On?
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Tolulope AderemiA nation enjoys unfettered rights over the oil and gas deposits situated within its borders or located beneath its Continental Shelf to the outer limit of its Exclusive Economic Zon (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Uses Food Summit to Lash Out at 'Shopping' Sanctions
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Alex BellRobert Mugabe once again used an international meeting of high profile delegates to lash out at the West for the targeted 'shopping' sanctions still in place on his regime.Speaking at the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Three nabbed after armed robbery
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Three armed robbers were arrested after a gang of twelve robbed three stores at a Boksburg shopping centre on Tuesday afternoon, police said.The 12 men divided themselves into three groups which simul (By News Poster)...South Africa: Escort for drive-by slaying accused
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Irene KuppanArmed with R-4 and R-5 rifles, members of the Correctional Service's Emergency Support Team and the Directorate of Priority Crimes Investigating Unit (DPCI) scanned the courtroom lookin (By News Poster)...Science: New Greenpeace boss hails from Africa
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Donna BrysonJohannesburg, South Africa - An African took over as director of Greenpeace on Monday, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of pow (By News Poster)...Africa: UN Chief Presents Plan to Save Billions From Hunger
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: A three-day United Nations summit on world food security opened in Rome today, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warning that on this day alone more than 17,000 children will die of hunger - one ever (By News Poster)...Botswana: Cross-Generational Sex Must Be Nipped in Bud
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Jerry Kai-LewisIf you are an adult male that's having sexual relations with any adolescent girl 10 or more years your junior, you are involved in cross-generational sex! And studies suggest that it (By News Poster)...Africa: Bennett trial - judge to stay
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Harare - The High Court judge in Zimbabwean politician Roy Bennett's terrorism trial refused to step aside on Monday after the defence said it feared he might be biased against the deputy agriculture (By News Poster)...South Africa: Ruling Alliance Reviews Reserve Bank's Role
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - THE African National Congress (ANC) and its alliance partners yesterday signalled possible far-reaching changes to monetary policy under President Jacob Zuma.They said af (By News Poster)...Science: Jellyfish swarm northward in warming world
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Michael CaseyA blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net. Within minutes, hundreds more were being hauled up, (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF, MDC in Fresh Attempt to Mend Ties
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Njabulo NcubeHarare - Fresh negotiations to deal with the so-called outstanding issues in the unity government are expected to begin in earnest this weekend nearly two weeks after the Southern Afri (By News Poster)...Liberia: Rebel, President, CIA Spy
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: Following his claims that the US plotted against him for regime change, Mr. Charles Taylor Monday admitted that he maintained links with the US Central Intelligence Agency that he established during t (By News Poster)...Africa: Egyptians clash with police
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Cairo - Protesters hurled stones and firebombs at police near the Algerian embassy in Cairo on Friday, wounding 11 officers as anger mounted over attacks on Egyptians after the countries' World Cup qu (By News Poster)...Africa: Crime wave overshadows amnesty deal
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Austin EkeindePort Harcourt, Nigeria - A crime wave in Nigeria's main oil city of Port Harcourt blamed on former militants has shut the university and forced residents to flee, raising questions ab (By News Poster)...South Africa: Locals Jeer, Swear at Zimbabweans
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Natasha PrinceLocal farmworkers in De Doorns jeered and shouted obscenities this morning as they drove past a rugby field that has become the temporary home of nearly 2 500 Zimbabweans chased from (By News Poster)...Liberia: Taylor Trial Adjourns
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: The cross examination of the former Liberian President, Charles Taylor has been put up until Monday. The trial chamber made the decision Wednesday following a motion by lawyer pressing charges against (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SA Losing Out to Neighbours in Zimbabwe
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Charlotte MathewsJohannesburg - SA's neighbours, particularly Botswana, are gaining substantial market share in Zimbabwe at SA's expense, South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO Neren Ra (By News Poster)...World: 31 dead, 82 trapped after China mine blast
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: Beijing - An explosion at a coal mine in northeast China early Saturday killed 31 workers and left 82 trapped, state-run China Central Television (CCTV) said, the latest deadly incident to hit the ind (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Considerable blow to drug market'
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Caryn DolleyIn a "considerable blow to the drug market", the Hawks have bust a suspected drug outlet and seized more than R2-million worth of illegal substances.And, in two months, police have retr (By News Poster)...Africa: Botswana is Least Corrupt Country in Africa
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By DR Jeff RamseyGaborone - Transparency International (TI) has just released its annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI) at a ceremony in Berlin. This Office is pleased to announce that, for the 14t (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Better Land Policies for Protection of Human Rights
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Abraham RumanziNational land policies should ensure respect of human rights through fair resolution of land conflicts and activities that improve livelihoods.That was the conclusion of a 2-day meet (By News Poster)...Africa: AfDB At the World Summit On Food Security
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: The World Summit on Food Security, which is being held in Rome between 16 and 18 November 2009, is being fully supported by the African Development Bank (AfDB).The Director-General of the Food and Agr (By News Poster)...South Africa: Platinum Price Rebound Expected
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - PLATINUM prices are expected to hit highs of 1550/oz in the next six months as the global demand for the precious metal recovers, according to the latest Platinum Review r (By News Poster)...World: 'I killed someone down the road'
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: A 14-year-old boy confessed to killing an elderly man after being caught burgling a house yards away from the murder scene, the Old Bailey heard on Wednesday.The teenager kicked and stamped 60-year-ol (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Donor Fatigue Threatens HIV/Aids Gains - MSF
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Bertha ShokoAN aid agency has warned that donor fatigue is threatening to reverse HIV/Aids programmes in developing countries including Zimbabwe. Medicines San Frontiers (MSF) in a recently release (By News Poster)...Africa: Governance Reviews Gather Pace But Face Challenges
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Steven GruzdSeven years after it was established at the inaugural African Union (AU) Summit in Durban in July 2002, how has the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) – the continent’s v (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Country to Set Up a New Company to Import Oil
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Wilfred EdwinNairobi - A new state-owned firm is set to enter the lucrative Tanzanian oil marketing business which, since its liberalisation in 1999, has been in the hands of the private sector.The (By News Poster)...South Africa: Special courts for World Cup
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: By Tribune ReporterSouth Africa plans to create special courts dedicated to handling crimes committed during the World Cup, aiming to speed up the judicial process, especially for cases involving fore (By News Poster)...World: Gunmen ambush Northern Irish police
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: Belfast - Gunmen ambushed and shot at police in Northern Ireland overnight and officers returned fire in a further incident of increasing violence in the province.The ambush took place in the village (By News Poster)...South Africa: Explosion hits during mine sit-in
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: Police arrested 32 mine employees at a Rustenburg mine after an explosion during a sit-in which injured three police officers, a spokesperson said on Saturday.On Thursday evening, three former employe (By News Poster)...Africa: Industrialization Will Help Africa Fully Join World Economy, Says Ban
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: Armed conflict, inadequate infrastructure, weak governance, limited financing and technological abilities, and policies that stifle entrepreneurship, limit competition and raise the cost of doing busi (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Fate of FDLR Chiefs to Be Known in Three Months
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By James Karuhanga and AgenciesKigali - The case of the two top leaders of FDLR who were arrested in Germany on Tuesday will be re-examined in three months.According to information gathered from the G (By News Poster)...South Africa: The Shameless Rian Malan
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: One of South Africa's foremost AIDS activists Nathan Geffen points out the many errors in Rian Malan's denialist writings.In 2001, Rian Malan wrote an article in Rolling Stone questioning the accuracy (By News Poster)...Africa: Consequences of Less Funding for Aids - Living With Aids # 413
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Khopotso BodibeThanks to the international recession, donors are either decreasing or opting not to increase their funding of AIDS treatment. This will have devastating effects on poorer countries (By News Poster)...World: Queen sheds light on new agenda
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Jill LawlessLondon - Royal pageantry met hard-nosed electioneering on Wednesday, as Queen Elizabeth II donned the diamond-encrusted Imperial State Crown to announce the government's plans for the n (By News Poster)...Zambia: Three More Angolans Nabbed for Drug Trafficking
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: THREE more Angolans have been arrested at the Ndola International Airport for trafficking in 249 pellets of pure grade cocaine weighing over 2.87 kilograms, bringing the number of nationals from that (By News Poster)...Somalia: Fresh Fighting Breaks Out in Lower Jubba Region
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Fresh fighting between forces loyal to the Islamist representatives of Jubba regions and Sheik Ahmed Madobe has broken out in Hagar village in Lower Jubba region in southern Somalia, officials said on (By News Poster)...Former East German Successor Ruling Party The Left Responsible For Violent Anti-Israel Protests
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: [Now isn't this quite an exposure? It seems that many "former" Soviet Communists, particularly from the successor to the former Soviet-controlled East German Communist party, known as the Left were r (By Lone Wolf)...World: Secret torture material to be publicised
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Meera SelvaLondon - More secret information relating to the alleged torture of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee should be disclosed, Britain's High Court ruled on Thursday.Ethiopian-born Binyam Moh (By News Poster)...Kenya: Food Subsidy Scheme for Poor Homes a Blessing for Small-Scale Farmers
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Steve MbogoThe food subsidy scheme announced on Tuesday could help create demand for farm produce and offer a lifeline to smallholder farmers who form a large pool of food suppliers to the poor.The (By News Poster)...Africa: Tsvangirai and Gaddafi set for talks
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Cris ChinakaHarare - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai left on Thursday for North Africa, where analysts said he would meet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to maintain political pressure on (By News Poster)...Central Africa: UN Condemns LRA on Civilian Attacks
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Hellen MukiibiKampala - THE UN Security Council has condemned the increasing attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and the Sudan. (By News Poster)...Africa: Hijacked tanker captain dies of wounds
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Mogadishu - The captain of a chemical tanker captured by Somali pirates this week off the Seychelles with 28 North Koreans on board has died of his wounds after being shot, a pirate said on Wednesday. (By News Poster)...A Step Beyond: Heard of tattoos that give magical powers?
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: It's much harder to get a magic tattoo in Cambodia than it used to be, laments Chey Cham."I do have one tattoo of a python on my right upper-arm but it's for beauty, not magic," says the 30-year-old f (By News Poster)...Africa: Africa Action Applauds U.S. Decision to Lift HIV Travel Ban, Calls for Sustained U.S. leadership on Global Health Ahead of Global Fund Board Meeting
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Africa Action congratulates President Obama and the administration’s leadership in lifting the 22-year-old HIV travel and immigration ban in the U.S. Reducing stigma and discrimination associate (By News Poster)...South Africa: A risk worth taking - Pikoli
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Granting possible indemnity to people implicated in crime in exchange for testimony against corruption-accused Jackie Selebi was a gamble, former prosecutions head Vusi Pikoli said in court on Tuesday (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kazini Murder Suspect Charged in Court
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Edward AnyoliKampala - LYDIA DRARU, alias Atim, the woman suspected to have killed Maj. Gen. James Kazini, was yesterday charged with murder and remanded in Luzira prison.Draru, 28, was charged at (By News Poster)...Botswana: Non-Mining Sector Beat Recession - Khama
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Monkagedi GaotlhobogwePresident Ian Khama says that Botswana's non-mining sector recorded remarkable growth despite the global financial downturn.He was officially opening the 27th High Level Consu (By News Poster)...Ghana: Upper East, Burkina Faso to Fight Smuggling, Highway Robbery
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Upper East Region and the Central South Region of Burkina Faso will collaborate to fight smuggling, movement of small arms, drug trafficking and highway robbery.They said small arms posed security thr (By News Poster)...Uganda: Captured Thrice in Battle?
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Rodney Muhumuza, Risdel Kasasira and Moses BalagaddeThe military record of Maj. Gen. James Kazini, the former army commander who died on Tuesday, was as perfect as it was flawed. The fitting epithe (By News Poster)...Kenya: Fake Solar Goods Burn Holes in Customers Purses
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Jevans NyabiageNairobi - As dealers in solar products position themselves to exploit opportunities presented by rising energy costs in Kenya, unscrupulous traders are also cashing in on the boom. T (By News Poster)...Kenya: 11 Killed As Raiders Attack Village
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Hassan HukaNairobi - Eleven people were on Sunday killed and five others seriously injured when Samburu raiders attacked a village near Isiolo Town.Four injured Kenyan police reservists are admitte (By News Poster)...Equatorial Guinea: Secret Documents Reveal Multi-million Dollar Shopping Spree by Dictator's Son
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: Confidential U.S. government documents uncovered by campaign group Global Witness and reported on in today's New York Times, strongly suggest that Teodorin Obiang, son of the dictator of oil-rich Equa (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: President Hails FAO
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Hebert ZharareRome - President Mugabe has thanked the Food and Agriculture Organisation for assisting Zimbabwe boost household food security through a US$70 million input facility targeting smallho (By News Poster)...Kenya: Money Made From Piracy Distorting Property Prices
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Kaburu MugambiNairobi - Colossal amounts of money received by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean are being used to buy houses and land in Nairobi, thus distorting the property market.With the dwind (By News Poster)...Africa: Renewed Commitment to End Hunger
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: World leaders convened at FAO Headquarters for the World Summit on Food Security today unanimously adopted a declaration pledging renewed commitment to eradicate hunger from the face of the earth sust (By News Poster)...South Africa: Pikoli grilled in Selebi trial
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Alex Eliseev and Karyn MaughanUnder fire for striking deals with criminals in a bid to convict Jackie Selebi, axed prosecuting boss Vusi Pikoli cut to the heart of the Scorpions' investigation against (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Deregulation - FG Should Go Back to the Drawing Board, Ajagu
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Akoma ChinweokeSince the Federal Government declared its intention to deregulate the downstream sector of the petroleum industry confusion has dogged the plan. No matter how hard the government tri (By News Poster)...World: 'Night Stalker' charged for sex attacks
Monday 16-Nov-2009: British police charged Monday a 52-year-old man with a string of rapes and sexual assaults over the last 17 years, Scotland Yard said, after a lengthy investigation into attacks against the elderly.De (By News Poster)...South Africa: Be careful where you stop to have a smoke...
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: [A mother sent us this story about how her son was arrested after being falsely accused. Gairk] Saturday 27th June at approximately 13h00 my son Angelo was on his way to visit me. He stopped his bi (By Gairk)...Gambia: New Charges Against 'Terror' Suspects
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Fabakary B. CeesaySerrekunda - The state counsel prosecuting the sixteen men on terrorism related matters, Mr. S.H. Bakum, on Monday 16 November, told trial judge Justice Moses Richards of the spec (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Don't Politicise Food Aid - WFP
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Hebert ZharareRome - THE World Food Programme has warned agents distributing its food in Zimbabwe to desist from interfering in the country's politics, ordering them to carry out their operations t (By News Poster)...Kenya: FBI, CIA Visit Rift Valley in Arms Hunt
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Mathews NdanyiNairobi - FBI and CIA investigators are now in Rift Valley probing reports that communities are arming themselves in readiness for the 2012 elections.Five investigators led by a Mrs M (By News Poster)...South Africa: Clergy pray for Kennedy Road murder accused
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Kamini PadayacheeClergy from the Diakonia Council of Churches gathered outside the Durban Magistrate's Court on Wednesday to pray for 13 people charged with killing two men at the Kennedy Road info (By News Poster)...Uganda: Cane Farmers Cry Foul Over Raw Deal From Sugar Factories
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Joshua KatoKampala - From a distance, the sugar fields in Budongo, Masindi district, look as beautiful, but a close encounter tells a different story.One of these shambas (14 acres) belongs to Patr (By News Poster)...World: Folk hero puzzles police
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Jerome DaquinLyon - Attack of conscience or calculated move? French police questioning an armoured car driver who made off with 2.5-million euros were on Tuesday trying to find out why he gave hims (By News Poster)...Wage Gap is Growing, Warns Larri
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Jo-Maré DuddyMINIMUM-WAGE earners belonging to trade unions on average had to make do with an increase of N$188 last year, but because of high inflation, the buying power of their monthly N$2 190 d (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Report Condemns Trial in Military Court Over Killing of UN Journalist
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Serge MahesheA United Nations report released today criticizes the judicial process in a Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) military court in connection with the trial of a murdered Congolese j (By News Poster)...Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General" with power to appoint militias
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: A source close to the British Labour Government has just given me reliable information about the most radical copyright proposal I've ever seen. Secretary of State Peter Mandelson is planning to intro (By Gairk)...Political Parties Talk Poverty And Inequality
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Nangula ShejavaliWindhoek - IN one of the few political debates to have taken place in the run-up to elections next week, 11 of Namibia's 13 political parties on Monday discussed poverty and inequa (By News Poster)...World: Transsexual in political scandal 'murdered'
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Antonella Cinelli Rome - A Brazilian transsexual caught up in a scandal which prompted the resignation of a senior Italian politician - the centre-left governor of Lazio region, which includes Rome (By News Poster)...Africa: Cattle raid kills 47 in Sudan - official
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Juba, Sudan - A tribal cattle raid this week left 47 dead in south Sudan, an army spokesman said, the latest in a cycle of fatal clashes between pastoralists.Armed men from the Mundari ethnic group on (By News Poster)...Africa: Nigerian child beggars a 'social time bomb'
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Plastic bowls in hand, often chanting religious texts, growing numbers of child beggars are roaming Nigeria's second city Kano in a trend that is worrying authorities and residents.The number of child (By News Poster)...South Africa: Foreigners flee Boland xenophobia
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: About 1 000 foreign nationals have evacuated informal settlements at De Doorns in the Western Cape following a flare-up of xenophobia, police said on Tuesday.Gallery: XenophobiaDe Doorns station commi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mercenary reveals prison hell
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: A gun was placed to his head and he was threatened with death by an adviser to Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, mercenary Niek du Toit has told an Afrikaans weekend newspaper.In a th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Heroine's words of hope
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: Her eyes filled with tears, Kavisha Seevnarain, the miracle survivor of last week's horror hijacking offered a message of hope to other victims of violent crime yesterday."Just try to keep positive," (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma shocked by settlement grime
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: President Jacob Zuma on Thursday described the conditions at the Madelakufa informal settlement in Tembisa as "very bad"."The situation here is very bad. As we've seen, the place is dirty," Zuma said (By News Poster)...Uganda: Heated Debate in Parliament As Discussion On Land Bill Continue
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Milton Olupot and Mary KarugabaKampala - HEATED debate on the Land Amendment Bill continued in the House yesterday with MPs of the ruling NRM arguing that the law was long overdue, while opposition (By News Poster)...South Africa: Lawyer chases Selebi witness for second case
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: A lawyer briefly interrupted former police chief Jackie Selebi's corruption trial on Thursday when he said he wanted to serve papers on a witness.State officials in the High Court in Johannesburg resp (By News Poster)...Gambia: The President Calls for Help
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: At the end of the rains the President of the Republic declared that he has produced 25,000 tons of rice for the 2009 farming season. He indicated that if others followed his footsteps Gambia will head (By News Poster)...USA: President Obama thinks like Robert Mugabe - His task force for financial crimes
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: [Obama is just like Robert Mugabe or the ANC in South Africa. I do not disagree with going after criminals, but one must get one's priorities right. Is financial crime the most important problem in Am (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mbare Clashes - Municipal Cop Faces Murder Charges
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Harare - A municipal police officer who allegedly killed a vendor at Chishawasha Grounds in Mbare last week on Monday has appeared in court facing murder charges.Anos Zharare (25) was not asked to ple (By News Poster)...Nigeria: One Killed, Eight Injured in Lasu Crisis
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Lukkey AbawuruLagos - One person was feared killed while 8 others sustained serious injuries yesterday when some suspected students of Lagos State University, (LASU) staged a protest in their Ojo c (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Kagame Meets U.S. Envoy on War Crime
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Kigali - President Paul Kagame yesterday received the United States Ambassador for War Crimes with whom he discussed a wide range of issues, mostly to do with peace in the Great Lakes region.Steven Ra (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Opec Comfortable With Country Industry Reforms - El-Badri
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Sopuruchi OnwukaOrganization of Petrroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has endorsed the controversial Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) currently undergoing review in the National Assembly, saying the p (By News Poster)...Frelimo Sweeps Board in Provincial Elections
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Maputo - In Mozambique's first elections for provincial assemblies, held simultaneously with the general elections on 28 October, the detailed results show that the ruling Frelimo Party won in 137 of (By News Poster)...Morocco: Sahrawi People Must Have Right to Choose Future, Urges Activist
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Aminatou Haidar, one of the most prominent human rights activists in the liberation of the Sahrawi people in Western Sahara, was detained, then deported, by the Moroccan authorities on her arrival in (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Inputs Subsidy Welcome
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe's decision to start subsidising limited sales of seed and fertilizer for communal and small-scale grain farmers is a good route to follow, if the success of similar schemes in Malawi (By News Poster)...East Africa: Ugandans, Kenyans Work as 'Mercenaries' in Iraq
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: Nairobi - Thousands of Ugandans and Kenyans are working in Iraq and Afghanistan as contractors for US-based security companies.They are paid wages far greater than they could earn at home -- but far l (By News Poster)...World: 'World's biggest animal sacrifice'
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: Kathmandu - Thousands of Hindu devotees have flocked to a village in Nepal ahead of the planned sacrifice of more than 300,000 animals in a ceremony condemned by animal rights activists, including Fre (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: New Wave of Refugees Flees Fresh Fighting
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Brazzaville - Renewed clashes in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have led to a further wave of refugees, leaving corpse-littered villages in the affected area deserted, say humanitaria (By News Poster)...Africa: Curse of Sudanese village: From blood to oil
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Visitors to Rier, in southern Sudan, are welcomed by a large rectangular tank and a freshly-painted sign trumpeting the White Nile Petroleum Operating Company's initiative to supply drinking water.But (By News Poster)...South Africa: Polygamist convicted for killing wife
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: A polygamist businessman was convicted by the Vereeniging Circuit Court for the murder of his pregnant wife and attempted murder of his second wife, the Sowetan reported on Thursday.Jabulani Ndlovu sh (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sanac to Raise Awareness of HIV, Aids During 2010
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Pretoria - The South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) symposium currently taking place in Johannesburg is trying to find ways to use the 2010 FIFA World Cup as a platform to advance awareness abo (By News Poster)...Somalia: Woman Stoned to Death for Adultery
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Abdulkadir KhalifMogadishu - An unnamed woman was stoned to death at Eel-boon in Wajid district, 330 kilometres southwest of Mogadishu, on Wednesday. She was sentenced by an Islamic court after she (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (18-11-2009)
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- It isn't very often that household names stand up and are counted - especially when the person that they are standing up against is Rober (By The BeardedMan)...Africa: The High Level Forum On Public Procurement Reform - Sustaining Economic Development And Poverty Reduction
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: On 16-17 November 2009, the African Development Bank (AfDB) is hosting in Tunis the high-level forum on public procurement reforms in Africa. The forum is an opportunity for African governments (and t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Shocked MPs hear of prison kickbacks
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Carien du PlessisPolitical BureauFour contracts worth at least R1,7 billion for prisons security and catering went to a company that paid millions of rands in alleged kickbacks to two former high- (By News Poster)...Khama is Right On Land But...
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Gaborone - This country has possibly some of the most expensive land in the region. For the type of population we have and the land size, one would think that the price of land will not be as steep. O (By News Poster)...South Africa: Two women killed in home
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Bronwynne Jooste Staff ReporterTwo domestic workers have been stabbed to death at the home where they worked in Pelican Heights, with their attacker stealing only their cellphones.The bloodied bodi (By News Poster)...World: Thai police arrest African Ivory traffickers
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Police have arrested two Thai nationals for trafficking in African ivory, a crime that carries a maximum four-year jail sentence, police said on Tuesday.Samat Chokechoima and Kanok Wongsarot were arre (By News Poster)...Peru's Coming Self-Suicide: Elect 'Former' Hardliners Of The Shining Path?
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: [What's the matter how is it possible the far left can lie to suggest they favor democracy when they have groups like the Shining Path now prepared to copy what Hugo Chavez is doing in Venezuela, but (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: 22 arrested for xenophobic attacks
Friday 20-Nov-2009: The police in the Western Cape said on Friday that 22 people had been arrested on Thursday night at De Doorns in connection with attacks on foreigners earlier in the week.Superintendent Desmond van de (By News Poster)...Uganda: Historic LRA/Uganda Legislation Takes Crucial Step Forward in U.S. Senate
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted unanimously to approve the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009, bringing the legislation a step closer to reaching President Ob (By News Poster)...Opinion: The Negative Effects of Foreign Aid
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By James ShikwatiHarare - I COME from Africa, a resource-rich continent which is depicted as poor by conventional development statistics -- so as to justify foreign aid. Aid has driven Africans to los (By News Poster)...Gambia: Codex Trains Inspectors On Food Safety Health
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Annia GayeA two-day information and training seminar for food safety, animal and plant health inspectors, organized by the National Codex/Sanitary and Phytosanitary Committee (NCSPSC) with funding (By News Poster)...Africa: Corruption Perception - Nigeria's Rating Worsens
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Abimbola AkosileLagos - Nigeria dropped nine places to 130th position out of the 180 countries ranked on the global Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2009 by Transparency International (TI), a glo (By News Poster)...Uganda: Parties Clash Over Land Bill
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Milton Olupot and Mary KarugabaKampala - PARLIAMENT yesterday embarked on the long-awaited debate of the Land Amendment Bill with the House divided along party lines.While the ruling NRM MPs suppor (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gunmen make off with fully stocked fridge
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Graeme HoskenCrime ReporterIt was a case of everything except the kitchen sink when a gang of robbers held up a Bela-Bela family and robbed them of all their household possessions, including their (By News Poster)...Liberia: Taylor Admits Sharing Information With Spy Agency
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Alpha SesayAfter his cross-examination got off to a stumble last week over the use of "new evidence," Charles Taylor today admitted to prosecutors that he shared information with the spy agency of (By News Poster)...Former Minister Goes on Trial
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Maputo - The trail began in Maputo on Monday of former Transport Minister Antonio Munguambe, the former chairperson of the Mozambican Airport Company (ADM), Diodino Cambaza, and three others, who are (By News Poster)...Somalia: Clashes Kill 5 in Mogadishu
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: At least 5 civilians have been killed and 11 others injured in fighting between Somali government forces and insurgents in restive capital Mogadishu.The fighting which continued for an hour erupted in (By News Poster)...South Africa: Tragedy strikes matrics after exam
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Staff writersTwo matric students, Darren Hoffman and Roqeeb Isaacs, on their way back from a chemistry exam were killed in an accident on Monday.The two, from Oude Molen Technical High School in Pi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Leave Mbeki alone, says Malema
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: The African National Congress Youth League would not allow former president Thabo Mbeki to be charged with genocide, ANCYL chief Julius Malema said on Monday.This comes after Young Communist League na (By News Poster)...South Africa: Guards thwart hijacking
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Dasen ThathiahThe plans of an alleged car thief and three accomplices were foiled by vigilant car guards at the Knowles SuperSpar in Pinetown yesterday.Lindani Mdluli, 24, of KwaNdengezi, was shot (By News Poster)...Rwanda: African Ministers Express Shock Over '94 Genocide
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Kigali - African Ministers of Education and experts, who are in the country to attend the 38th ordinary session of the administrative council of the Dakar-based Inter-State University of Science and V (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Boardroom Wrangle Erupts at Aico
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Shame MakoshoriHarare - HAPPYMORE Mapara, the group chief executive officer (CEO) of AICO Africa Limited was this week sent on suspension pending investigations into the operations of the company a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zimbabweans 'Not Chess Pawns'
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Breede Municipality mayor Charles Ntsomi wants displaced Zimbabweans to be reintegrated into the volatile De Doorns community within the next week.But an organisation fighting for refugee rights says (By News Poster)...Africa: Leaders Tackle Plight of Their Victims
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Agnes AsiimweKampala - Five heads of state, ministers and delegates from across the African continent met in Kampala last week for a special summit to deal with forced displacement in Africa.The me (By News Poster)...World: Mob attacks office of TV news network
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Mumbai, India - Suspected Hindu hard-liners on Friday ransacked the offices of an Indian television news channel in the western Indian city of Mumbai, using iron rods and baseball bats to beat employe (By News Poster)...Improvement of Food Security Welcomed
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Windhoek - Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, John Mutorwa said Namibia is encouraged that the World Food Summit that was held in Rome this week considered the improvement of food security g (By News Poster)...World: Problems await on Obama's return
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Washington- After an Asia tour lacking the fanfare of past trips, US President Barack Obama returned home to a gloomy set of problems that refuse to go away: Afghanistan, soaring unemployment, trundli (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zimbabweans 'not chess pawns'
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Breede Municipality mayor Charles Ntsomi wants displaced Zimbabweans to be reintegrated into the volatile De Doorns community within the next week.But an organisation fighting for refugee rights says (By News Poster)...South Africa: Kidnap hoax: UCT student in court
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Warda Meyer Staff ReporterA UCT student who claimed she had been kidnapped and held for ransom last month, has been arrested and charged.Sharon Kaufmann, 23, was arrested on Monday for making a fal (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'There is no war between us'
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa has defended the purchase of the controversial police jet, while his deputy, Fikile Mbalula, reiterated that it was inevitable that civilians would die in the crossfire (By News Poster)...Elections - EU Observers Saw 'Numerous Irregularities'
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Maputo - European Union election observers noted "numerous irregularities" during the count at polling stations during Mozambique's general and provincial elections of 28 October - but the EU mission (By News Poster)...South Africa: De Doorns refugees need our help - Red Cross
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: The Red Cross has launched a R2-million appeal for emergency support for xenophobia refugees at De Doorns in the Western Cape."The South African Red Cross Society calls on South Africans to stand toge (By News Poster)...Kenya: Balala Joins Ruto in Raila Attack
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Caroline MangoNairobi - Prime Minister Raila Odinga yesterday came under fire from two Pentagon members and MPs from Rift Valley who are unhappy with his handling of the Mau Forest and the ODM part (By News Poster)...Uganda: Terrorism Suspects Go Through Uganda,Arrested in Rwanda
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Risdel KasasiraKampala - Rwanda is investigating whether four Somalis arrested last week trying to illegally cross into the country from Uganda have suspected links with Somali insurgents, Al Shaba (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Tribunal Clears Two of Genocide, War Crimes
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: The United Nations-backed tribunal tasked with trying atrocities committed during the 1994 Rwandan massacre of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus today acquitted a priest who had been charged with genoc (By News Poster)...Africa: Ransom paid for Spanish trawler in Somalia
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Somali pirates holding a Spanish trawler said Tuesday they had received a four million dollar ransom and that the vessel and its 36 crew would be released immediately."Four million dollars have been p (By News Poster)...Somalia: IFJ deplores upsurge of attacks against journalists and media houses in Somalia
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the upsurge of attacks against journalists and news media organisations in Somalia.The IFJ condemns the grave press freedom violations t (By News Poster)...Uganda: AIDS Commission Takes New Direction in Prevention
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Kampala - The Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) is revamping its national HIV information campaign after HIV prevention messages were less successful than hoped."We shall use basic facts in the messages to (By News Poster)...Africa: Bennett pleads not guilty
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Harare - A senior official in Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party pleaded not guilty on Monday to terrorism charges in a trial that has raised tensions in the unity government formed ear (By News Poster)...Africa: Media Forum Calls for Action On Murders of Journalists
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Abiodun OluwarotimiNew York - Journalists attending the United Nations-backed fourth World Electronic Media Forum (WEMF 4) have called for sustained and concrete global action to address the murder (By News Poster)...East Africa: Presidents Sign Common Market Pact
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Ray NaluyagaHeads of State of the five East African Community partners yesterday signed the protocol on the establishment of the East African Common Market.The act guarantees residents from Tanzani (By News Poster)...South Africa: Selebi trial: Rautenbach served
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Billy Rautenbach was served with papers related to the affairs of the Hyundai group during his appearance at the trial of former national police commissioner Jackie Selebi on Thursday."Mr Rautenbach h (By News Poster)...Africa: Zim withdraws troops from diamond fields
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Zimbabwe has started withdrawing soldiers from diamond fields in the east of the country after recommendations by the Kimberly Process and criticism over rights abuses, state media reported on Thursda (By News Poster)...USA: President Obama could not fix the economy - as I predicted all along - Double Dip Recession???
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: [Oh my! "We can!" is turning into "We can't". Mr Big Mouth who was telling everyone last year he's Mr Fix-it is now saying... the debt could cause a double-dip recession!! Oh goodness! Mr Fix-it, can' (By Jan)...South Africa: No claims for Vaal burnt body
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: The police were on Wednesday still searching for relatives of a woman whose burnt body was found next to a road in the Vaal, a spokesman said."The post mortem report will only be finalised by tomorrow (By News Poster)...South Africa: Shortage of judges slows murder trial
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Fatima Schroeder High Court WriterA shortage of judges at the Cape High Court has led to the postponement of the trial of three men charged with the murder of a Stanford businesswoman.Thamsanqua Ma (By News Poster)...Africa: Chemical tanker hijacked near Seychelles
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Somali pirates have seized a chemical tanker near the Seychelles, the latest in a spate of attacks spanning an ever-widening area between Tanzania and the Maldives, maritime sources told AFP on Tuesda (By News Poster)...South Africa: Manuel 1: Cosatu 0
Monday 16-Nov-2009: The ANC has won the battle over the National Planning Commission, convincing its stubborn alliance partners to accept Trevor Manuel as its head.ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe told reporters yest (By News Poster)...South Africa: Missing boy, 8, found murdered
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Lyndon KhanA Mitchells Plain mother's nursed the hope that her missing eight-year-old son would be found alive, even as the days turned into a week and two weeks passed.But Moegamat Yunis Desai has (By News Poster)...South Africa: Four die in Joburg accidents
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: Four people died and eight were injured in road accidents in Johannesburg over the weekend, emergency services said.Johannesburg Fire and Emergency Management Services spokesman Percy Morokane said a (By News Poster)...I Lost the Election, But I Am a Winner
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Vusumuzi SifileGaborone - When Kgomotso Mogami threw her name into the hat to contest the Gaborone Central parliamentary seat it was easy for many people to write her off.It seemed so obvious she w (By News Poster)...Biofuels Targeted by Oil Companies
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Maputo - The claim that biofuels are a threat to food security comes from multinational oil companies, who fear that biofuels are a threat to their business, alleged Jose Bellini, coordinator for agro (By News Poster)...South Africa: Field is temporary home for De Doorns folk
Friday 20-Nov-2009: The De Doorns xenophobia victims would remain camped out on a sports field in the town for the weekend, the South African Human Rights Commission's Western Cape manager said on Thursday.Talks were con (By News Poster)...South Africa: Tutu lashes out at some in the ANC
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Quinton MtyalaDecrying the public discourse as abysmal and putrid, Nobel Peace laureate and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu lashed out at some within the ANC."It's nostril-pinching stuff," said Tu (By News Poster)...South Africa: Man arrested for killing ex-wife
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: A 62-year-old man has been arrested for the murder of his 56-year-old ex-wife in Kameeldrif, Mamelodi police said on Thursday.Captain Johannes Maheso said the man was arrested on Wednesday after a gar (By News Poster)...South Africa: Shifting Blame Won't Help
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - HERE we go again. Just weeks after the last Western Cape refugee camp was closed and the few remaining victims of last year's xenophobic attacks were either repatriated or reintegrated (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Gold 'Still Funding' FDLR Rebels - UN Expert
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By James Karuhanga and AgenciesKigali - Dinesh Mahtani, the coordinator of the UN Eminent Group of Experts report on militia groups' activities in DRC has told the BBC that almost 40 tonnes of gold is (By News Poster)...South Africa: Davyton protest turns violent
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: A housing delivery protest turned violent when about 400 Daveyton residents torched seven shacks at the Gabone informal settlement on Wednesday morning, Gauteng police said.Angry that RDP houses were (By News Poster)...Africa: Harare bank reform bill passed
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Harare - Zimbabwe's lower house of parliament on Wednesday passed a bill to reform central bank operations that will reduce the powers of its governor, blamed by critics for the country's economic cri (By News Poster)...South Africa: Artillery shells found on beach
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Three ageing artillery shells have been discovered on a beach in Durban during construction work ahead of the 2010 football World Cup, police said on Wednesday."We are still busy investigating their p (By News Poster)...World: Headscarf attack: Muslim student beaten up
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Goettingen, Germany - A Muslim medical student wearing a headscarf has been beaten up in what appeared to be a racist attack, the police chief of the German university town of Goettingen said Wednesda (By News Poster)...[2 Pics] USA: The real reason America's Affirmative Action President Obama got the Nobel Peace prize - his Greatest Achievements
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: [I mentioned the other day gave my take on President Obama's Nobel Peace prize. See: USA: President Obama's ridiculous Nobel Peace prize - An African perspective Captain Joseph Smith, the American Jou (By Jan)...Africa: Ugandan general's lover charge with murder
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Kampala - The girlfriend of a former Ugandan army chief, accused by the UN of plundering resources during Uganda's invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been charged with his murder in Kam (By News Poster)...Hard Times Ahead for Criminals
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Bame PietGaborone - President Ian Khama has said that security and stability of a country plays a pivotal role in the peace of every country and its ability to attract foreign direct investment for (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Four Kids Kidnapped From School Murdered
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Chika Otuchikere and Michael OcheAbuja - Four children who were allegedly kidnapped from their school premises were reportedly found dead the day after they were abducted. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY learnt (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Mobile Unit to Fight Aids in Niassa
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Maputo - A multimedia mobile unit is now on the road in the northern Mozambican province of Niassa with the task of making communities aware of AIDS and how to prevent the disease,According to a press (By News Poster)...South Africa: Small firm tackles Goliath
Monday 16-Nov-2009: A frustrated debt counsellor openly challenged a major bank's perceived failure to play by the rules, and had quite an impact...A few weeks ago, a relatively small debt counselling company based in a (By News Poster)...Africa: Sudan punished children for rebel raid - UN
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: Khartoum - Sudan sentenced six children to death for taking part in a Darfur rebel attack on Khartoum but has since promised not to execute them, a top United Nations official said on Sunday.A Sudanes (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Rwandan Priest Cleared of Genocide Charges
Friday 20-Nov-2009: A UN court, the ICTR has acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) ordered th (By News Poster)...Kenya: Weapons Seized From Pirates Displayed in Court
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Philip MuyangaNairobi - Weapons handed over to Kenyan authorities when 17 suspected Somali pirates were brought into the country were identified in court on Tuesday.A US special agent with naval cr (By News Poster)...Budget Support From World Bank
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Maputo - The World Bank has provided a 110 million US dollar credit to Mozambique as direct budget support, under an agreement signed in Maputo on Friday by Planning and Cooperation Minister Aiuba Cue (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gales, storms leave 7 dead
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Gallery: KwaZulu-Natal battered by heavy rains By Bronwyn Gerretsen and Kamini PadayacheeSeven people died in strong winds and heavy rain that lashed KwaZulu-Natal yesterday. Roads and rivers were fl (By News Poster)...Africa: Coup soldiers could face death penalty
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Barry MaloneAddis Ababa - An Ethiopian court convicted 27 serving and former soldiers on Thursday of planning a coup and found them guilty on other charges which also carry the death penalty."The m (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Govt Blames Private Sector for Corruption Rating
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Daniel IdonorAbuja - STILL recovering from the shock of Nigeria's downward spiral in the ranking of Transparency International, TI, the Federal Government yesterday blamed the low rating on the Org (By News Poster)...South Africa: Motsoaledi warns managers, CEOs
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi told hospital chief executives and managers on Thursday to shape up or they will be removed."We need to shape up. We need to do things better for South Africans. We ne (By News Poster)...Africa: Dozens killed as Congo violence flares
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Kinshasa - At least 100 people have been killed in inter-ethnic clashes in north-western Democratic Republic of Congo that caused 25 000 civilians to flee, the United Nations said on Wednesday."We thi (By News Poster)...Tell It Like It Is: Make sure they're your golden years
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Did you know that only five in 100 of us will have enough money on which to retire?According to personal finance consultant Iona Minton, most South Africans will run out of funds long before death and (By News Poster)...South Africa: Drug syndicate has global links - documents
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: An international drug-smuggling syndicate uncovered in Durban and the United Kingdom in September has links to China, the Middle East, Europe and South America.This is contained in the state's affidav (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Genocide Suspect Hiding in Kenya, Says U.S.
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Edmund Kagire and AgenciesKigali - The United States has piled more pressure on Kenya to hunt down and handover Felicien Kabuga, the most wanted genocide fugitive believed to be hiding in Kenya.Acc (By News Poster)...2010 World Cup: Buy 2010 tickets, Jordaan urges
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Clayton Barnes - 2010 WriterSouth Africa's local organising committee (LOC) has admitted that ticket sales for the 2010 World Cup are unexpectedly slow and says it will intensify its marketing camp (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Fires at court caused by arson'
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Hanto Otto Court ReporterThe National Intelligence Agency and the police's crime intelligence division will investigate the three fires that disrupted the Pretoria Magistrate's Court in October, af (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops blunder frees robber
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Pretoria police have launched an internal investigation into a bungle which saw an armed robber walking free.The robber was shot in the groin during a struggle with a city home owner for a gun, but po (By News Poster)...Gambia: GAF Warns Against Unlawful Use of Military Equipment
Monday 16-Nov-2009: The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) have issued a warning to the general public to stop using or selling military equipment and items that can be used for impersonation or any other illegal act. Below we re (By News Poster)...Zambia: Police Round Up 14, Gun Down Suspect
Monday 16-Nov-2009: POLICE have picked up 14 people, among them, those who recently shot and wounded a Lebanese businessman in Lusaka while in Kalulushi a suspected notorious criminal was shot dead.Lusaka Province Comman (By News Poster)...Africa: Wreckage of alleged drug plane found in Mali
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: Bamako - Authorities in Mali arrested three people for dismantling the wreck of a plane thought to have been used to smuggle cocaine from Venezuela, a Malian source close to the inquiry said on Sunday (By News Poster)...South Africa: Shady types grab Selebi's spotlight
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: Jackie Selebi's corruption trial has become the stage on which high-profile figures convicted or accused of crime and shrouded in controversy are making a play for public redemption.The latest to atte (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Tribunal Orders Arrest of Anti-Corruption Leader
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By George AgbaAbuja - The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) yesterday ordered the police to arrest former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, and detain h (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (20-11-2009)
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: Howzit On Thursday, I spent some time on an editorial that looked at the inaccuracies of the voters' roll... This was following a shock revelation in parliament by an MDC MP. "Home Affairs Minis (By The BeardedMan)...Uganda: Ssemujju Nganda - Land Bill Riding On Back of CBS Closure
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Ssemujju Ibrahim NgandaOn Sunday, November 15, I went to Katwe to address Makindye West MP Hajji Hussein Kyanjo's consultative rally.The other guests included Justice Forum President, Muhammad Maya (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Charcoal a Dirty Trade-Off
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Jessie BoylanDar Es Salaam - The sun is setting slowly over Dar es Salaam's Tabata Changombe neighbourhood. Ameenah and Skukulu Juma lean against the corrugated iron walls of their makeshift charco (By News Poster)...World: Suspect in Naples video killing nabbed
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Naples, Italy - Italian police arrested on Thursday the suspected gunman whose shooting of an alleged mobster in Naples was controversially distributed on video last month, news reports said.The 27 y (By News Poster)...Uganda: 'Corruption Worse in Country'
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Tabu ButagiraCourts have trouble convicting corrupt bureaucrats because colleagues help destroy incriminating evidence in a "scratch my back, I will scratch yours" syndicate, a minister has said.Et (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zero Tillage Salvation for Rural Farmers
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Guruve - For most communal farmers, having no cattle for draught power makes all the difference between timeous land preparation and a good harvest.But not so for many smallholder farmers in Guruve di (By News Poster)...South Africa: Passenger sought for killing driver
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: A minibus taxi driver was shot dead, allegedly by a passenger in KwaMbonambi near Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Tuesday."The passenger allegedly shot dead the taxi driver after all the passe (By News Poster)...The Intricacies of the Match-Fixing Case
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Mqondisi DubeSo much was said but little was revealed about match-fixing allegations that surrounded the Zebras' recent 4-1 loss to China during a press conference addressed by the Botswana Footbal (By News Poster)...Africa: Kenyan prisoners die of cholera
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: Nairobi - A cholera outbreak has killed eight inmates in Kenya's largest prison outside the capital Nairobi and hospitalised 25 others, the commissioner of prisons said Sunday."One died on Saturday ni (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG Blames Corruption Rating On Bank Fraud
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Abdulfattah OlajideAbuja - The Federal Government has blamed the nation's current poor rating by Transparency International on the recent fraud discovered in the banking sector. Transparency Intern (By News Poster)...South Africa: Taking the gap in the Cape Flats
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Fran BlandyThe laughing young man has a perfect set of teeth, his golden incisors glinting in the sunlight. Suddenly he pops out a pair of dentures, revealing a gap-toothed smile, the four upper fr (By News Poster)...City Plane Crash Victims Named
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Werner MengesWindhoek - THE names of the three people who were killed when a plane crashed after take-off from Windhoek's Eros Airport on Sunday were released by the Namibian Police yesterday.The p (By News Poster)...South Africa: Robbers target Joburg houses
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Robbers targeted two houses in Northcliff, Johannesburg in incidents police suspect are related, a spokesman said on Friday.The two houses were robbed between 6pm and 8pm on Thursday, Superintendent R (By News Poster)...Africa: Frelimo implicated in corruption case
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Maputo - Testimony in the highest-level corruption trial in Mozambique's history has implicated ruling party Frelimo as a beneficiary of embezzled funds, independent media reported on Thursday.Former (By News Poster)...South Africa: Wives of Baghdad four appeal to JZ
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: The wives of four South African men abducted on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, nearly three years ago have made an emotional plea for help to President Jacob Zuma.Speaking to the media in Pretoria on (By News Poster)...Botswana Gets P1.2 Billion World Bank Loan
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Wanetsha MosinyiGaborone - The World Bank has loaned Government of Botswana US$186 million (P1.2 billion) for its Integrated Transport Project, which is meant to ease traffic congestion, enhance re (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lawma - Land Use Charge Apathy Delays Use of Customized Waste Bin
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Stan OkenwaBarely one month after the display of the new customized waste bin introduced by Lagos Waste Management Agency (LAWMA) at the 2009 Medical Waste Summit, delay in the payment of land use (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sex abuse victim back in court
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Karen Breytenbach Justice WriterA woman who settled for R100 000 in damages from a man who made her pregnant at 14 almost 45 years ago, has asked the Western Cape High Court for a sequestration ord (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Army, Police Leave Chiadzwa
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Sydney KawadzaChiadzwa - Government has started withdrawing State security agents deployed to secure the Chiadzwa diamond fields as part of measures to comply with the Kimberley Process Certificati (By News Poster)...Tanzania: 'From Russia With Love'
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Faraja MgwabatiDar es Salaam - 'FROM Russia with Love' is one of the best films in the James Bond's series based on the 1957 novel by Ian Fleming. In the film, James Bond is sent to assist in the d (By News Poster)...South Africa: Banks not obliged to charge initiation fees
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Believe it or not, the banks are not compelled by the National Credit Act to charge consumers a set R1 140 initiation fee on every car finance deal, plus a monthly service fee of R57.The act says the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Moodley's lawyer: life sentence harsh
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Judgment was reserved on Wednesday in a plea for leniency by convicted killer Donovan Moodley in the High Court in Johannesburg.Judge Joop Labuschagne, who returned from retirement to preside over the (By News Poster)...World: Students attack Nicaraguan legislature
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Hundreds of students lobbed homemade bombs at Congress on Tuesday to protest government plans to cut university funding, as pro-and anti-government demonstrators prepared to square off at the weekend (By News Poster)...South Africa: Too much sex on TV - Zuma
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday cautioned artists and musicians to be responsible when developing local television and radio content."Whatever we present is part of societal education, " Zuma told a g (By News Poster)...Science: Poachers kill 65 elephants, 30 rhinos in Zim
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: An international crime syndicate is behind an escalation in poaching in Zimbabwe which has slaughtered 65 elephants and 30 rhinos this year, a wildlife official said Monday."From January to October th (By News Poster)...South Africa: They hate us, says Zimbabwean woman
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: View the galleryNatasha PrinceStaff ReporterScores of De Doorns residents, most of them farmworkers, ripped down shacks belonging to Zimbabweans this morning, accusing them of "stealing our jobs".The (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Elderly Widow Jailed for Not Vacating Farm
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Sandra MandizvidzaHESTER Theron, the elderly mother of the Commercial Farmers' Union (CFU) president, Deon Theron, was on Friday given a wholly suspended three-month jail term for refusing to vacat (By News Poster)...South Africa: Croc terror at farm
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: By Annie DorasamyA Reservoir Hills man harvesting vegetables on the banks of Durban's Mgeni River got the fright of his life when a crocodile snapped its jaws centimetres from his hand. Farmer Nivash (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Petroleum Bill Critical to Banking Reform - Sanusi
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Ese AwhotuAbuja - Central Bank Governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has urged the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to continue with the reforms in the petroleum sector irrespective of the p (By News Poster)...Somalia: Two Government Soldiers Killed, More Wounded in Fire Exchange in Mogadishu
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Mogadishu - At least two government soldiers have been killed and more than five others have been wounded in a fire exchange between the transitional government troops in the Somali capital Mogadishu, (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Spain, France Probed on Links to Rwandan Militia
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By James KaruhangaKigali - The UN's Eminent Group of Expert report on rebel militias in the DRC is expected to reveal Spanish and French connections to the FDLR militia, The New Times has been informe (By News Poster)...Somalia: Ethiopia Denies Involvement in Capture of Oil-Rich Region
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: The Ethiopian government has dismissed claims by Ogaden rebels to have captured seven towns in the oil rich Somali region located in south eastern of Ethiopia.The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONL (By News Poster)...World: Police say 'geezer' is armed and dangerous
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: San Diego - An elderly bank robber, dubbed the "Geezer Bandit" by the US press, has robbed his fifth bank since August, prompting frustrated authorities to offer three rewards for his capture, the Sa (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: How Country Can Tackle Famine
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Julian Morris and Karol BoudreauxA familiar story of looming famine is filtering out of East Africa.Again, a World Summit on Food Security this week is addressing the symptoms but not the causes.Pa (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kony's Mother Died a Troubled Woman
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Linda NabusayiIt was fast getting dark and there was an eerie mood surrounding Nyenje Village, Goma Sub-county in Mukono District.Death had just harvested one of their own, a resident who evoked em (By News Poster)...Science: Fighting yellow fever in Africa
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Geneva - Nearly 12 million Africans deemed at highest risk from yellow fever will be vaccinated next week against the virus, which can cause explosive epidemics in cities, the World Health Organisatio (By News Poster)...Science: Fearless robotic rescuer developed at UKZN
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Noelene BarbeauWith the goal of saving lives and assisting rescuers, Caesar was born. Caesar, short for Contractible Arms Elevating Search and Rescue robot, was developed by the Mechatronics and Ro (By News Poster)...South Africa: Five arrested for licence fraud
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Five people, including three traffic officers, were arrested in Stellenbosch on charges of dealing in and issuing fraudulent licences, the transport department said on Tuesday."The other two that were (By News Poster)...Sudan: Increasing Hunger Could Fuel Conflict in South
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Pochalla - An increasing number of people in Southern Sudan cannot find enough to eat or adequate pasture and water for their livestock, raising fears of conflict between communities over grazing land (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Battle for Zanu-PF Top Posts Hots Up
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Harare - Battle lines have been drawn in Zanu-PF over nominations for the party national chairmanship at next month's congress with four candidates now vying for the post.The four were at the weekend (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mining in Full Swing At Chiadzwa
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Takunda MaodzaHarare - Canadile Miners and Mbada Mining (Pvt) Ltd, the two firms recently licensed by the Government to mine in the Chiadzwa diamond fields, have started work.State-of-the-art plant (By News Poster)...Africa: Egypt Muslims burn Christian shops: police
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: Cairo - Hundreds of Muslim protesters on Saturday burnt Christian-owned shops in southern Egypt and attacked a police station where they believed a Christian accused of raping a Muslim girl was being (By News Poster)...Rwanda: UN Calls for Action Against Militia
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Edmund KagireKigali - The United Nations has welcomed the recent arrest in Germany of top leaders of the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), and urged other nations t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Christians Are More Than Moslems - Bishop Okonkwo
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Sam EyobokaAs part of preparations for this year's Kingdom Life World Conference, the presiding bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission, TREM and former CAN National Vice President, Dr. Mike Oko (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Country's Corruption Wanes
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Paul NyakazeyaZIMBABWE recorded the biggest jump of the 180 countries surveyed by Transparency International (IT) this year being ranked as the 34th most corrupt nation from the number 14 it was po (By News Poster)...Kenya: Youth Warned Against Joining Somalia War
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Nairobi - In response to reports that Kenya is recruiting youth to go and fight Somalia war, a Muslim clergy has cautioned Muslim youth not to allow themselves to be drawn by financial incentives and (By News Poster)...Africa: Opacity Blamed for Bad Oil Deals in Africa
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Steve ManteawMontreal - Campaigners from fifty countries from around the world meeting in Montreal, Canada to strategise on pushing further the frontiers of transparency in oil, gas, and mining ind (By News Poster)...Kenya: How President and PM Will Share Power
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Oliver MathengeNairobi - Power in Kenya will be divided between a president and a prime minister under the new constitution. The draft, unlike the current law, is clear on the authority of the Pres (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SADC Aids Fiesta Set for Malawi
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Jonathan MbiriyamvekaHarare - The second edition of Sadc Artists Aids Festival is scheduled for Lilongwe in Malawi starting on November 30 until December 6, 2009.The festival is a regional initiati (By News Poster)...Africa: Eleven killed in Darfur
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Khartoum, Sudan - The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur says 11 people died following an attack by unidentified gunmen on two villages in the southern part of the western Sudanese region.U (By News Poster)...South Africa: Teenager jailed for raping siblings
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Tania BroughtonAn Umzinto teenager who raped his brother and two sisters because he was angry that his father had been jailed - also for raping the two girls - has been sent to prison for 10 years. (By News Poster)...Africa: World Cup to Help Create HIV Awareness
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - In less than seven months South Africa will host the world's biggest single sporting event - the FIFA World Cup. The chance to reach millions of local and visiting football fans present (By News Poster)...Gambia: Military Warns Public
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: The Gambia Armed Forces have warned non military personnel against the unlawful purchase and use of military equipment and items.In a press release The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) noted that they have o (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cabinet Condemns Attacks on Zimbabweans
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Pretoria - Cabinet has expressed its deep concern about the spate of attacks on foreign nationals at De Doorns in the Boland.Hundreds of foreigners were forced to flee their homes in informal settleme (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cruise ship bonanza for SA
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Suren NaidooSouth Africa is set for a money-spinning cruise tourism bonanza heading into next year with Durban at the heart of the action. The highly-anticipated MSC Sinfonia - touted to be the lar (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bennett's Trial Opens
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Harare - THE High Court has ordered the State not to lead hearsay evidence in MDC-T treasurer Roy Bennett's trial on allegations of possessing dangerous weapons and inciting acts of terrorism and insu (By News Poster)...Africa: Genocide suspect cleared by tribunal
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Arusha, Tanzania - The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on Monday cleared an alleged organiser of the country's 1994 genocide and overturned a 20-year sentence against him. The Tanzania-base (By News Poster)...South Africa: Burnt body found in Orange Farm
Monday 16-Nov-2009: A body of a woman burnt beyond recognition was found in Orange Farm early on Monday morning, police said.Captain Johannes Motsiri said the woman, aged between 20 and 25, was identified as a white pers (By News Poster)...Uganda: Asking About CHOGM Theft is Only One Part of the Graft Question
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Richard SsewakiryangaOn October 29 - 30, the Office of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Finance and the World Bank had a workshop discussing the new Joint Budget Support that is being given to t (By News Poster)...World: Nepal peace process on hold as Maoist's march
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Claire CozensHe is famous for his fiery speeches, but Nepal's Maoist leader Prachanda projected a dramatically different image last week when he danced in the streets with one of the country's top (By News Poster)...South Africa: DA calls for probe of military deals
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu must investigate all South African National Defence Force (SANDF) procurement deals, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday."The minister should give us a clear and pub (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Genocide Survivors Threaten to Cut Ties With Tribunal
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: By Eugene MutaraKigali - The president of Ibuka, an umbrella body of Genocide survivors' associations, has threatened to cease cooperation with the Arusha-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwa (By News Poster)...Equatorial Guinea: Not for the Sons of African Rulers
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Bryan RostronJohannesburg - IF SIR Mark Thatcher was the son of an African ruler his conduct would confirm the worst prejudices of the west. Instead, as the son of former British prime minister Mar (By News Poster)...The Warrior Kings
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Jerry Kai-LewisTo say that it was destiny that set Botswana apart to be the shining star for Africa on the world's political and economic stages would be a gross understatement.Rather, it was hard (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'He brought her naked to me'
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Jade Witten Court ReporterThe grandfather of two-year-old Randoline Fortune, who was raped and murdered, allegedly by a neighbour, has testified to the bruises on her naked body in the last moments (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Niger Delta - 'Illegal Oil Bunkering Won't End'
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Victor EfeizomorAsaba - Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ishaya Ibrahim, has warned that the problem of illegal oil bunkering in the country will not end, unless the people and government of the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hijacked woman's flashback
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Arthi SanpathWith flashbacks of what happened to Kavisha Seevnarain on Friday night, Yvonne Reddy was determined she would not become a hijack victim again.Reddy's husband, Allan, said when his wif (By News Poster)...South Africa: ANC wins four wards in KZN
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: The African National Congress won four wards in the by-elections held in KwaZulu-Natal, the Independent Electoral Commission said on Thursday.The elections were held in KwaMbonambi, Mandeni, and wards (By News Poster)...East Africa: Happy Birthday - EAC Marches On Under a New Flag
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Catherine RiunguNairobi - A new song and a new flag. This is what awaits East Africans who will dance to the tune of a regional anthem as the new banner is unfurled on Friday to mark the passing of (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'It's not like we're cold-blooded people'
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: It is unfortunate that civilians and police die during armed conflict with criminals, but it is a reality, Deputy Minister of Police Fikile Mbabula said on Wednesday."We do care. It's not like we're c (By News Poster)...Africa: Rwanda Hutu rebels denounce leaders' arrest
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Rwandan Hutu rebels on Wednesday denounced the arrest in Germany of two of their leaders on suspicion of crimes against humanity committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Ignace Murwanashyaka, the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Trial of Lord Lugard
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Samuel Stephen-WakdokTHE trial of Lord Lugard is a substantive suit brought before the sovereign people's court of Nigeria by the sovereign people of Nigeria against the colonial agent. Sir Fredric (By News Poster)...South Africa: Leigh Matthews' killer in court
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Student Leigh Matthews' convicted killer Donovan Moodley is expected to begin his bid to have his conviction overturned on a technicality in the High Court in Johannesburg on Wednesday.Superintendent (By News Poster)...Swaziland: On ART Since Birth
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Mantoe PhakathiNhlangano - Seven-year-old Ntombi* frowns after swallowing the tablets her grandmother has given her. The HIV-positive child has contracted multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) (By News Poster)...FNB Localises Operations
Monday 16-Nov-2009: IT took N$120 million, just more than a year and a trip with Government's Lear jet to get the data on more than 400 000 local accounts to Namibia, but FNB Namibia manage to complete the project to upl (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fresh Hopes for Economy as Oil Hits $79 PBL
Monday 16-Nov-2009: The Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Remi Babalola, has raised fresh hopes for the nation's economic performance as he said the raising crude oil price and higher output would ensure a strong budget (By News Poster)...Africa: 'Stop Acquisition of Farmland in Continent' - Gaddafi
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Libyan President Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has called for an end to the buying and selling of African farmland by rich nations during UN hunger summit the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Org (By News Poster)...South Africa: Public hospitals under scrutiny
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Friday that a group of senior government officials would be created to assess the state of South Africa's 354 public hospitals."The team will look at each and (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops probe guesthouse murder
Friday 20-Nov-2009: The case of seven people who allegedly killed two Mpumalanga guesthouse owners in October was postponed in the Sabie Magistrate's Court on Friday, police said.Cindy Sambo, 33, Dorah Sono, 36, Nicolas (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops seize 50 000 pirated DVDs
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Six people were arrested after about 50 000 pirated DVDs were found in a warehouse in Linmeyer, south of Johannesburg, police said on Friday.The find was made during a police raid on a house on Thursd (By News Poster)...Honiball Excels in SA Cup
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: NAMIBIA'S top male gymnast Robert Honiball excelled at the SA Cup international gymnastics competition in Centurion, South Africa, by winning five medals and finishing second overall.Honiball was Nami (By News Poster)...Africa: Poor Women Will Bear 'Climate Burden,' Says UN
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Nastasya TayPort Elizabeth - Poor women will bear the greatest 'climate burden', says the United Nations Population Fund in its 2009 State of the World Population report, released today.The report (By News Poster)...Uganda: UN Blames Famine on Sale of Food
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Henry MukasaKampala - THE unchecked sale of food is one of the factors that caused the recent shortage. Prolonged dry spells and erratic rainfall patterns, which directly affected agricultural and (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police in Klipriver shootout
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Police recovered a stolen vehicle after a shootout with five suspected car thieves in Klipriver in the Midvaal area on Wednesday morning."Klipriver police spotted a Toyota Conquest stolen yesterday (T (By News Poster)...South Africa: From suicide to murder - daughter faces rap
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Logan GovenderThe death on October 15 (this year) of a 32-year-old Shallcross father, initially reported as a suicide, has taken a bizarre and sensational turn.POST can disclose that the suicide ca (By News Poster)...Africa: Genocide tribunal orders release of cleric
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Dar es Salaam - A priest accused of genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1994 Rwandan genocide has been acquitted, the second release in as many days, the International Criminal Tribunal fo (By News Poster)...Kenya: Dozens Homeless in Slum Dispute
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By John NgirachuNairobi - A fight over a stolen television set in a Nairobi slum escalated into a full-scale confrontation on Monday night, which left about 50 families homeless after their houses wer (By News Poster)...South Africa: Parliament job cuts - union up in arms
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: A union affiliated to Cosatu is holding emergency talks with the ANC's parliamentary leadership in an attempt to stave off the retrenchment of half of the ruling party's caucus staff.Dozens of ANC emp (By News Poster)...South Africa: Convicted looter gets jail
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Jade Witten Court ReporterA court shocked by the "devious" behaviour of Selly Brink, has sentenced the paralegal assistant to three years in jail for stealing nearly R300 000 from an Atlantis woman (By News Poster)...South Africa: SAPS court action over AA continues
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: A case involving an SAPS captain who says she was twice overlooked for a position because she was white continues in the labour court in Johannesburg on Tuesday.Renate Barnard, represented by trade un (By News Poster)...Africa: Gang blamed for poaching in Zimbabwe
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Harare - An international crime syndicate is behind an escalation in poaching in Zimbabwe which has seen the slaughter of 65 elephants and 30 rhinos this year, a wildlife official said on Monday."From (By News Poster)...South Africa: Wet roads blamed for series of crashes
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By Bronwyn Gerretsen and Siphilile ShelembeWet and misty weather combined with negligent driving caused havoc on KwaZulu-Natal's roads on Monday, with two people killed and 20 injured in more than 20 (By News Poster)...'Mozambicans Will Pay Real Price of Fuel'
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Figueira da Foz - Mozambican motorists will pay the real market price of the fuel they consume, when the current fuel subsidy terminates, Prime Minister Luisa Diogo has warned.Speaking to AIM in the P (By News Poster)...South Africa: Three shot at ANC meeting
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Three people were shot and wounded and five others were injured when violence erupted during an ANC meeting in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape police said on Monday.The meeting took place at the Lusikisiki C (By News Poster)...Science: SA man's wave-energy invention grabs interest
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Slindile MalulekaThe Isipingo man who invented a sea-wave-energy innovation could not contain his emotions when he learnt of an individual who displayed a keen interest in his work that could help (By News Poster)...Roy Bennett v.s. Zimbabwe's Kangaroo 'Court'
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: A senior official in Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party pleaded not guilty on Monday to terrorism charges in a trial that has raised tensions in the unity government formed early th (By JanOlifant)...Yemen: Iran's 'Little Satan' No. 2?
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: [Sounds like it. Even while the Iranian government denies its involvement with the Yemeni government's war with Shiite rebels, it's quite obvious Iranian state run media, and Iranian government offic (By Lone Wolf)...Hugo Chavez Praises Uganda's Late Idi Amin
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: [Now isn't this of no major surprise? Seems like Hugo Chavez certainly wishes to be like the late Ugandan tyrant Idi Amin whom was supported by Soviet Russia. Lone Wolf.] Ugandans upset over Chav (By Lone Wolf)...South African "Road Pirates" Terrorize Drivers
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Bands of roving “road pirates†have been stalking drivers along South Africa’s main highway linking OT Airport to Pretoria for the last three months, raising concerns for the safety of tourists (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Air Zimbabwe flight crashes into bush pig
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: A statement from the Transport Ministry said last week that one of Air Zimbabwe's Chinese-made MA60 60-seaters had sustained damage to its nose, wingtip and propeller after hitting the animal. Howe (By JanOlifant)...|imbabwe: Price Of Rhino Horn Upstages Gold
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: The cost of rhino horn has left gold prices behind for the first time in ten years further more threatening the endangered animal in countries like Zimbabwe, with poachers travelling as far across the (By The BeardedMan)...USA: The Economic Meltdown - horrid - Mortgage delinquencies hit another record in 3Q
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: [This Economic Meltdown is just going left folks. This baby... is bad, bad, bad. This is payback for decades of fiscal lunacy. The common American is going belly-up. But, stick around, if you think Am (By Jan)...No Better Time To Be A Commie In The USA?
Friday 20-Nov-2009: [It certainly sounds like Barack Obama's first year in office has certainly embolden members of the Communist Party USA to step up its actions. Here they are openly displaying how well connected that (By Lone Wolf)...[Joke] [Humor] USA: Al Gore, Bill Clinton & Barrack Obama die... and go to heaven...
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: [A friend overseas sent me this. I've heard a similar South African version with Winnie Mandela used instead of Obama. Jan] Al Gore, Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama go to heaven... God addresse (By Jan)...Hello, Africa! Dr. Lets Pretorius
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Boervolk leader Dr. Lets Pretorious talks about his 2-month-long testimony and cross-examination in the Boeremag trial, and his thoughts on a number of the individuals in the case. Dr. Lets also ta (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Workers' World Party Embraces ACORN Group
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: [Isn't this so typical? ACORN is happily receiving support from the Workers' World Party. Lone Wolf.] Lawsuit fights Congressional attack on ACORN By Greg Butterfield Published Nov 20, 2009 11: (By Lone Wolf)...YouTube Video: Oba Mao T-Shirts For Sale In Communist China?
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: [During Obama's visit to Communist China, the Red Chinese government was concern about these t-shirts that were selling. However, if one were to hear what the seller has to say, he'd say (likely as a (By Lone Wolf)...[humour] Blacks and NASCAR - the impossible mix
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: David Letterman may not get any flak from NASCAR, but I'll bet he does get some 'flak' from the NAACP, and others such as Al Sharpton and the Rev. Jackson will absolutely go nuts !!! David Lette (By JanOlifant)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (20-11-2009)
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- PACHEDU (Roy Bennett) Racist taunts from Chinamasa Made Roy Bennett cross the line Minor scuffle led to trauma Jail was worse than (By The BeardedMan)...US Got Israel To Not Honor Kahane
Monday 16-Nov-2009: The Jerusalem Post has uncovered e-mail correspondence from the American Embassy in Israel that many believe was the reason Knesset members stopped a memorial honoring assassinated far-right leader R (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (22-11-2009)
Sunday 22-Nov-2009: Howzit Just so you know, tomorrow's posting will be later than usual as I have an appointment with the ivory mechanic* early in the morning. I need to get the ball rolling to get my missing front t (By The BeardedMan)...Charles Taylor, Paling Around With Gaddafi?
Friday 20-Nov-2009: [I just can't believe how stupid the leaders in the West really are to believe that Gaddafi would ever change. It's quite apparent here, even Charles Taylor himself, Liberia's former tyrant admits (By Lone Wolf)...YouTube Video: Alan Grayson A Shill For Government Control And Nanny State
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: [Is this what my country has come down to? A bunch of babies to whine for a nanny state, stating that if you do not agree with what the government will give you, you're selfish and evil? Maybe next (By Lone Wolf)...
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