From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 27th December 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 & GruesomeS.African Institute of Race Relations hits back at Mail & Guardian's suppression of People's War
Monday 21-Dec-2009: [We will be discussing the blockbuster book, "People's War" more. But two of my close friends who have bought it are full of nothing but praise for it. It ROCKS! These facts are HORRIBLE for the ANC a (By Gairk)...S.Africa: Top Secret: communism shocker: The real reason the Govt wants to hunt down & destroy Labour Brokers...
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: A friend told me the following story. He has a friend who is now leaving the country to go to Australia. His friend is a Labour Lawyer by profession. This labour lawyer runs a big labour broking firm (By Jan)...Security Council Extends Mandate of United Nations Organization Mission Until 31 May 2010
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: The Security Council decided today to extend until 31 May 2010 the deployment of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), expressing the intention to ex (By News Poster)...Security Council Imposes Sanctions on Eritrea over Its Role in Somalia, Refusal to Withdraw Troops Following Conflict with Djibouti
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Gravely concerned about findings that Eritrea had provided support to armed groups undermining peace and reconciliation in Somalia and that it had not withdrawn its forces following clashes with Djibo (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Stopping Minerals From Financing War
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: Washington, DC - "The illicit exploitation of natural resources is not a new phenomenon in eastern DRC. It has characterised the conflict since it first erupted in 1996 and has been well documented by (By News Poster)...South Africa: Crime war backfires on police
Monday 21-Dec-2009: The police's war on crime in the capital took an ominous turn with the gunning down of Olga Kekana who was shot dead after she, along with a group of friends, were mistaken for hijackers.The October m (By News Poster)...Somalia: Setting the Record Straight - No Justification for Piracy off the Coast of Somalia
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Pirates who prey on international shipping along the Horn of Africa and even more distant waters have claimed that their actions are motivated by illegal fishing in Somali waters. This is a spurious j (By News Poster)...Africa: China's Entry Into the Scramble for Oil Could Benefit Continent
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: By Prof A.B.K. KasoziKampala - IN a bid to stimulate the debate on the newly discovered oil and the sharing of the oil wealth, Business Vision runs a series of articles by Professor Kasozi, the direct (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Causes, Dangers of Extra-Judicial Killings
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Sam Nze and Henry DuruIT was the great English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), who posited that prior to the emergence of state, humans lived in "the state of nature' where life was "short, (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Congo (kinshasa) - Conflict Fueled From Many Sources
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: Washington, DC - "Minerals and arms smuggling worth millions of dollars persists in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) despite international sanctions, fuelling rebel strength despite nati (By News Poster)...South Africa: Shaik: Why is Zuma free?
Monday 21-Dec-2009: President Jacob Zuma was considering convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik's application for a pardon, a spokesman said on Monday.Presidential spokesman Vincent Magwenya said Shaik had applied for pardon (By News Poster)...Uganda: Where 'Kitu Kidogo' is Cheaper Than Facing the Law
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Evelyn Matsamura KiapiKampala - You are driving through the streets of the Ugandan capital and suddenly a traffic police officer waves you down. He immediately notices that the side-mirror on the p (By News Poster)...S.Africa: In 2010: Driving White people out - The ANC's Racial Quotas, and Affirmative Action will be scarier than ever...
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: I always argued with my Liberal friend over Affirmative Action saying to him that the ANC will never let us whites be, and they will hammer us incessantly. He, forever has his head in the clouds in th (By Jan)...South Africa: Wake-Up Call for Criminal Justice
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Wyndham HartleyJohannesburg - WITH the review of a "dysfunctional" criminal justice system apparently stalled, civil society has moved to restart the process with a study by some of the country's t (By News Poster)...Ghana: Corrupting the Incorruptible - Is it Mother Ghana or Attitudinal Dishonesty?
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Stephen YeboahThe issue of corruption would continue to be the sword of Damocles hanging on the neck of the country if pragmatic measures are not put in place to change the status quo.It goes witho (By News Poster)...Uganda: Rebels Murder, Rape, Displace Thousands, Says UN
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: In a 10-month rampage of killings, rape and mutilation in neighbouring countries that may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, the rebel Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), has killed (By News Poster)...S.Africa: The Afrikaner dream of a country of their own lives on... The Myth of Afrikaner disunity...
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: I've been in a bit of a study mode of late, inbetween many things, just looking at how people respond to articles we've written on AfricanCrisis over the years. In our archive of over 66,000 articl (By Jan)...Liberia: UN Lifts Arms Embargo on Country
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: When the world was unanimous in the early 1990s that the then divided Liberia was the exporter of violence to the ECOWAS subregion, the UN slammed an arms embargo on rebels in the so-called "Greater L (By News Poster)...South Africa: Death on the roads
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Poloko TauHoliday road deaths show a steadily rising graph, with a significant increase in lives lost since the beginning of December when compared with the same period last year.According to a Tra (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bankers Son Charged With Attempted Aircraft Bombing in U.S.
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: Lagos - Twenty-three year old Abdulfarouk Umar Abdulmutallab, son of former Chairman of First Bank Plc, Alhaji Umar Mutallab, was yesterday in Michigan, United States charged with trying to blow up No (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Campus Girls, Big-Time Prostitutes
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Ebenezer EdohasimIT is a thing of joy to see parents feeling happy that their daughters are in various institutions of higher learning scattered all over our country, acquiring knowledge that will (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: 1,200 Killed and 1,400 Abducted in 10-Month LRA Rampage in DRC
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Kinshasa - A new report released Monday by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and MONUC (the UN Mission in DR Congo) outlines a rolling series of attacks carried out over a ten-mo (By News Poster)...Sudan: LRA Attacks in Nation 'May Amount To Crimes Against Humanity'
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Khartoum - A series of brutal attacks on civilians by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Southern Sudan "may amount to crimes against humanity," according to a new report released Monday by the Offic (By News Poster)...South Africa: Threat of Turmoil Follows Land Claim U-Turn
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Stephan HofstatterJohannesburg - A MAJOR land claim on dozens of farms in the Waterberg wilderness area in Limpopo province - several of them with mineral rights held by companies - has been degaze (By News Poster)...South Africa: World Cup to blame for airport fees hike
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Craig McKuneThe Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) has blamed massive overspending on its airport upgrades - at the root of a proposed 133 percent increase in airport fees - on the country's scra (By News Poster)...S.Africa: The Liberal Afrikaners didn't fool anyone... What a Left Wing Indian told me...
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: I was sitting one day chatting with an Indian I know. He came out and told me how he supported the ANC and how quite well connected he was. He then told me about some of the rising stars in the ANC, o (By Jan)...Attention: Readers - The Demographics of AfricanCrisis is changing...
Monday 21-Dec-2009: I thought I'd share something with all of you that I am very excited about. In the 8+ years that AfricanCrisis has been running, we've had a very fixed type of demographics. We had certain people s (By Jan)...Zim: Farming family forced to flee after threats by land invaders
Saturday 26-Dec-2009: A top Reserve Bank employee, Winnie Mushipe, has been trying to seize the farm since 2007 By Alex BellA farming family in Manicaland has been forced to flee their home on Christmas Eve, after (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Grip On Defence Forces Main Problem in Power Talks
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's refusal to let go the Joint Operations Command (JOC), a state security organisation that is only accountable to the veteran ruler, has (By News Poster)...World: Iraqi mayor's brothers among 6 people killed
Friday 25-Dec-2009: Six people, including three teachers and the brothers of a town mayor, were killed on Friday in three separate attacks in Iraq, police said.The teachers, who were working with Iraq's census authoritie (By News Poster)...Hopes wane in Zimbabwe
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: 80% of former prime land lies uncultivated Chegutu - Rainbow's End got its name from its bumper crops of grain, fruit and vegetables. But now the pot of gold is empty. Most of the land is dere (By News Poster)...Sudan: Mbeki Reports to Security Council on Darfur
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: Remarks of the Chairperson of the African Union High Level Implementation Panel for Sudan (AUHIP), H.E. Mr Thabo Mbeki: United Nations Security Council, New York: December 21, 2009.Your Excellency, Pr (By News Poster)...South Africa: Two shot in arrmed robbery raid at mall
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Jason WarnerTwo robbers struck the Kenilworth Shopping Centre at about 2.50pm yesterday, shooting a Shoprite Checkers cashier controller, 44, as she collected money from the tills. A Metro Police o (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Letter to Select Major Diamond Retailers Regarding Country Blood Diamonds
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Dear Sir:I am writing to urge your company to publicly commit to not purchase or sell diamonds from Zimbabwe.Throughout 2009, Human Rights Watch conducted field-based research in the diamond fields of (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Serves the little bastard right... now he's fighting for his life in hospital....
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: [A friend of mine sent me this story. Its brilliant. I suspect the kid is black because hardly any whites at all dare climb on trains these days. Anyway, the little scoundrel threw a bottle at a car.. (By Jan)...South Africa: Murder at police station
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Lebogang SealeMduduzi Floyd Gumede was planning to take his wife on a holiday to Durban in the new year to show gratitude for her love and devotion. It would have been a dream holiday for his wife (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Under David Cameron, UK will strike a deal with Mugabe
Monday 21-Dec-2009: [If the Conservatives strike a deal with Robert Mugabe I will spit blood. But the Conservatives are completely spineless and worthless. It was they who betrayed Rhodesia to Robert Mugabe to begin with (By Gairk)...Uganda: After the War, It's Still Tough for Wives
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Evelyn LirriIt's close to three years now since relative peace returned to northern Uganda following a two-decade conflict. Sunday Monitor's Evelyn Lirri was in Pader, one of the districts worst af (By News Poster)...World: US warns Iran to meet nuclear deadline
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: The United States warned Iran on Tuesday that December is "a very real deadline" after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed an international ultimatum over its nuclear program.The United St (By News Poster)...South Africa: Shaik's final bid for freedom
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: Schabir Shaik's final bid for freedom, his application for presidential pardon, rests on the same argument that eventually stymied the prosecutorial challenge against his friend, President Jacob Zuma. (By News Poster)...South Africa: A friendly greeting, then a brutal attack
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: By Craig McKune and Jason WarnerThe latest victims in a spate of violent attacks in the Hermanus mountains have told how they were stabbed, stoned, bound and robbed while hiking this week.Martin, 59, (By News Poster)...Africa: Mugabe, Tsvangirai share a joke
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: President Robert Mugabe and his rival-turned-premier held a collegial end-of-year press conference yesterday, but announced no resolution of issues that have undermined Zimbabwe's unity government.Ear (By News Poster)...Africa: Eight killed in Mogadishu violence
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Mogadishu - At least eight Somalis were killed in two separate incidents in Mogadishu on Monday, as hardline insurgents upped their offensive against a government pleading for more international suppo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Stopping Violence Against Women, 10 Years After (2)
Friday 25-Dec-2009: By Itoro Eze-AnabaEfforts to carry out law reforms in the area of domestic violence and violence against women generally have been fruitless, especially at the national level. It is on record that the (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (23-12-2009)
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... As expected, the number of news stories coming out of Zimbabwe is slowing down as we now head towards Christmas and New Year. -o00o- -o00o- (By The BeardedMan)...Uganda: Have You Seen These People? Dial 999
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: By Ben OkirorKampala - THE Police are looking for 17 suspected con-artists, who disappeared after they were released on bail. The Police spokesperson, Judith Nabakooba, said many of them had been arre (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banks to Sack 21,000 Workers
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Kelvin EgerueThere is a fresh tsunami sweeping through the banking industry. It is called retrenchment of workers. Already, over 20,000 jobs are being threatened with Oceanic Bank Plc sacking 1,500 (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: South African Opposition Says Mugabe Will Never Implement the GPA
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Alex BellA top South African parliamentarian has accused Robert Mugabe and ZANU PF of deliberately stalling the progress of the unity government, saying the ageing dictator has no intention of full (By News Poster)...World: We don't care - Ahmadinejad
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Nasser KarimiTehran, Iran - Iran's president on Tuesday dismissed a year-end deadline set by the Obama administration and the West for Tehran to accept a UN-drafted deal to swap enriched uranium fo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Man shot dead in robbery in Kameeldrift
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: A 43-year-old man has been shot dead in a robbery in Kameeldrift outside Pretoria.Constable Portia Maleka, a police spokeswoman, said two robbers had broken into a house at around 5am on Tuesday."The (By News Poster)...Zim: Grace Mugabe linked to farm evictions
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Confused farmers said they were given less than a week to vacate Arnold Farm a few days after Mrs Mugabe toured the area By Jennifer DubeThe First Lady Grace Mugabe has been linked to moves to (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Flawed Democracy' Slips in Governance Rankings
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Yarik Turianskyi and Steven GruzdWhich way is governance going on the African continent and particularly in South Africa? According to the newly released 2009 African Governance Report (AGR-II), pu (By News Poster)...Africa: Somali pirates receive ransom for coal ship
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: By Abdi GuledMogadishu - A helicopter dropped a $4-million ransom payment on Sunday on to the deck of a Chinese coal ship hijacked by Somali pirates in mid-October, a pirate source on board the vessel (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bomb Latest - More Recovered From Suspect's Home
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: By Albert Akpor, Evelyn Usman and Monsur OlowoopejoLagos - THE Police in Lagos, yesterday, said the explosive that rocked 'Logemo House' in the Onipanu area of the metropolis, was Improvised Explosive (By News Poster)...Africa: Zim rivals getting along
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: Harare, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe and his rival-turned-premier held a collegial end-of-year press conference on Wednesday, but announced no resolution of issues that have undermined their par (By News Poster)...Liberia: New Army Faces Greatest Challenge
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: By Rebecca MurrayMonrovia - More than a year ago several hundred newly trained Liberian soldiers staged a one-day strike at the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) headquarters.The strike, just 15 kilometre (By News Poster)...There'll be nowhere to run from the new world government
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: There is scope for debate – and innumerable newspaper quizzes – about who was the most influential public figure of the year, or which the most significant event. But there can be little doubt which w (By JanOlifant)...Africa: 'I saw around six dead bodies'
Friday 25-Dec-2009: Mogadishu - Heavy fighting erupted on Thursday in Somalia's capital Mogadishu between African peacekeepers and hardline Islamists killing at least 11 and injuring 25, officials and witnesses said.The (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Grace Mugabe Linked to Farm Evictions
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Jennifer DubeTHE First Lady Grace Mugabe has been linked to moves to evict 1 200 newly resettled farmers from a Mazowe Farm to make way for a new game park. Confused farmers said they were given le (By News Poster)...Somalia: Peace Misson Losing Out
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Halima AbdallahNairobi - The insecurity in Somalia is fast turning into a global issue as Al Qaeda support transforms the once disorganised Al Shabaab insurgents into a "super terrorist group," the (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: 'Protect Civilians,' UN Security Council Tells Peacekeepers
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Faced with widespread reports of massacres and other serious human rights abuses by Government soldiers and rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Security Council today again calle (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chiyangwa, Harare in Land Row
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Harare - HARARE businessman Mr Phillip Chiyangwa has accused Harare City Council of being a "bad debtor", saying it still owes him nine hectares of land he gave them in a swap deal in 2007.Mr Chiyangw (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Counter Claims Over Militants Attack On Shell Facility
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Ahamefula OgbuPort Harcourt - Controversy raged yesterday over the claim by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), one of the militant groups operating in the nation's oil pro (By News Poster)...South Africa: Christmas ambush leaves six dead
Saturday 26-Dec-2009: Six people were killed and three others injured on Friday night when three men armed with R5 and AK47 rifles entered a Ngwane house and opened fire, Kwa-Zulu Natal police said on Saturday. According (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Thirty Die As Farmers, Cattle Rearers Clash
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Hir JosephLafia - AT LEAST 30 people died in an attack that lasted several hours at Udeni Gida village in Nasarawa local government of Nasarawa State at the weekend. Nasarawa State police commissio (By News Poster)...South Africa: Recovery Depends on Managing Capital Flows
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: By Neva MakgetlaJohannesburg - SA HAS seen some recovery from the recession that followed the international financial crisis, with growth in gross domestic product (GDP) of 0,2% in the third quarter o (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (27-12-2009)
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: Howzit I'm not sure how many people will be visiting this page today, but I do hope that you all had an enjoyable, but restful, Christmas holiday. We spent the two days with family and friends and (By The BeardedMan)...South Africa: Cops linked to suspect's death still on job
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: By Lebogang SealeNo action has yet been taken against the police officers who allegedly severely tortured two Soweto men, killing one of them. This is despite post-mortem results showing that Mduduzi (By News Poster)...World: 'I saw human organs littered on the ground'
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Peshawar, Pakistan - A suicide bomber on Tuesday attacked a Pakistan journalists' club, killing three people in the first assault on media offices blamed on Islamist militants in the troubled country. (By News Poster)...South Africa: Rights Group Calls for Probe Into Violence
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Franny RabkinJohannesburg - HUMAN rights organisation Amnesty International has thrown its weight behind the call for an independent commission of inquiry into September's violence in KwaZulu-Natal (By News Poster)...Windhoek Carjacking Suspects Ask for Bail
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Werner MengesTWO young Windhoek residents charged with carrying out a car hijacking in the city near the end of 2008 are set to hear on Thursday if they will be released on bail after close to a ye (By News Poster)...USA: Questions Americans ask of their Govt’s bizarre immigration policy…
Monday 21-Dec-2009: [The piece below was written by a friend of mine in the USA. She was pondering and very angry over, the way illegal aliens are stealing their jobs. Illegals pose a bigger threat than Al Qaeda probably (By Gairk)...Congo-Kinshasa: UN Peacekeepers to Use 'All Necessary Means' to Protect Civilians
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: Faced with widespread reports of massacres and other serious human rights abuses by Government soldiers and rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Security Council today again calle (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Blacks kill Blacks - Farmer-Pastoralists' Clash Leaves 32 Dead, houses burned, farms destroyed
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: [Look at the strife among black people in Nigeria. Jan] Kano - A tense calm has been restored following clashes between pastoralists and farmers in central Nigeria's Nasarawa State which left 32 pe (By News Poster)...Eritrea: Press Release in Response to UN Security Council Resolution
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Asmara - The following is a statement by the Eritrea Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to the UN Security Council's recent announcement of sanctions.The UN Security Council has today passed a sh (By News Poster)...South Africa: Former Health Minister a 'Hero' - Zuma
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Sibongakonke ShobaJohannesburg - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma yesterday came out in defence of former health minister Manto Tshabalala- Msimang, saying her critics had ignored her achievements.Speaking at (By News Poster)...World: 50 arrested as cops, mourners clash
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: Tehran - Iran police clashed with mourners at a memorial service in Isfahan Wednesday for dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, arresting more than 50 and beating women and children, (By News Poster)...Sudan: Elections Face Tribal Violence Threat
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Kizito Oketa Modest and Blake Evans-PritchardHuman rights groups say that recent flare-ups of violence in parts of South Sudan could still disrupt national elections due to take place on April 11 n (By News Poster)...Uganda: Bright 2010 Awaits Country's Agriculture
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Charles KazoobaNairobi - Uganda's economy is likely to pick up again in 2010, having been sheltered from the credit crunch by a robust intervention in the agriculture sector.A stimulus package thro (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: New Tools to Fight HIV/Aids Pandemic
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: WHAT relevance would the Zimbabwe Media Commission have to HIV/Aids prevalence rate in the country, one might ask? Quite a lot, it seems. The establishment of the pending Zimbabwe Media Commission, ac (By News Poster)...Zim: Expats oppose tax in exchange for voting
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: "Voting rights are inalienable - we don't have to pay government to be allowed to vote. It's just outrageous" Washington — Zimbabweans living abroad may have to pay tax in exchange for votin (By News Poster)...South Africa: Dog killed for being 'very aggressive' - cops
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: Buster, the dog which was allegedly killed by a police handler, died during a "life-threatening tussle".In a statement issued yesterday, police claimed that the two-year-old Rottweiler cross became "v (By News Poster)...World: Probe finds secret CIA jails
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Vilnius - The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ran a secret prison in Lithuania and al-Qaeda suspects may have been held there, a parliamentary probe in the Baltic state found on Tuesday.Talk of s (By News Poster)...South Africa: KZN police raid Tin Town
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Daseb ThathiahPolice reacted today to last week's shooting of three officers in Gamalakhe, near Margate, with an early morning operation aimed at rooting out crime in Tin Town.For years, parts of t (By News Poster)...Need for power coal threatens Zimbabwe national park
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: Only enough coal for three more years Godfrey MarawanyikaHwange - Zimbabwe's already dim electricity supply faces a new threat, as the country's main power plant says it needs to dig for new c (By News Poster)...Somalia: Mogadishu Clashes Kill 15
Friday 25-Dec-2009: At least 15, mostly civilians have been killed and over 30 others injured in heavy clashes that erupted between Somali militants and government forces backed by African Union troops in the restive cap (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fuel Scarcity - The Untold Story
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and marketers are pointing accusing fingers at each other over the lingering fuel crisis; but who is responsible for this?Why fuel crisis again? This (By News Poster)...World: 'Police stopped him and he blew himself up'
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: A suicide bomber targeted a security checkpoint in Pakistan's Peshawar on Thursday, killing four people in the second such attack in as many days in the flashpoint northwestern city.Attacks are escala (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Be Patient, Principals Urge Nation
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: By Farirai MachivenyikaHarare - THE principals in the inclusive Government yesterday urged the nation to be patient while negotiations on the outstanding issues impeding the full implementation of the (By News Poster)...World: Security for media after attack
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Alamgir BitaniPeshawar, Pakistan - Pakistani authorities ordered "foolproof" security on Wednesday for journalists across the country a day after a suicide bomber attacked a press club in the north (By News Poster)...Somalia: Yet Another Bloodshed Day in Mogadishu
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: At least four people are killed and over a dozen others injured in heavy clashes between pro-government forces and rebel fighters in Somalia's restive capital of Mogadishu.The fierce clashes erupted i (By News Poster)...Mozambique: It's All a Giant Conspiracy, Claims Dhlakama
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Maputo - Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has claimed that he lost the 28 October presidential election because the ruling Frelimo Party (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Strike Aggravates Fuel Scarcity
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Sopuruchi Onwuka - Travelers this yuletide season must brace up for difficulties as the current fuel scarcity in the country is set to worsen, following a strike by the Petroleum Tanker Drivers unit o (By News Poster)...World: Man charged with trying to bomb airliner
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: Detroit, Michigan - US investigators on Sunday tried to piece together terrorism connections of a Nigerian man who has been charged with attempting to blow up a US jetliner after reportedly confessing (By News Poster)...Zim: Christian human rights activists documents Mugabe's tyranny
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: "How could so serious an error of judgement have been made by so many people?" A Catholic human rights activist who denounced the atrocities of white minority rule in the country then called R (By News Poster)...World: 34 suspected al-Qaeda members killed in Yemen
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Yemeni forces killed 34 suspected al-Qaeda members, including senior leaders, in a dawn raid Thursday in a remote mountainous region of Yemen's Shabwa province, a security source said."The raid was ca (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Children Born of Rape Face Dismal Future
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Nsimire SaraGoma - Mwinja has known little but rejection in her seven years of life.Her mother Julienne became pregnant after being raped by soldiers who held her captive in the bush for 14 days. S (By News Poster)...Amy Goodman, A Marxist Shill For Hugo Chavez
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: [I find it quite amazing how stupid U.S. law enforcement officials are. Why are they allowing people like Noam Chomsky to pal around with dictators like Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro? It's quite the (By Lone Wolf)...Congo-Kinshasa: LRA Christmas Plans Cause Panic in Northeast
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Kinshasa - Some residents in the Niangara region of Haut-Uélé District, in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), have started to flee their homes after recent Ugandan rebel Lo (By News Poster)...Africa: Oil chiefs gather in war-scarred Angola
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Luanda - Opec oil producers who are gathered in poverty-stricken Angola said on Monday that they would hold output firm amid comfortably high prices.Convening against the backdrop of an oil boom in a (By News Poster)...Zim needs $45bn for economy
Saturday 26-Dec-2009: "The uncertainty of the GPA is affecting the economy" Harare - Zimbabwe needed $45 billion (R343bn) to return its economy to peak levels seen more than a decade ago, Finance Minister Tendai Bi (By News Poster)...Zim rivals announce breakthrough
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Commissions to oversee human rights, the media and elections Chengetai ZvauyaHarare - Zimbabwe's rival leaders met on Monday and announced they had reached two agreements, offering rare reason (By News Poster)...Kenya: Study Shows Young Women Would Rather Get Aids Than Fall Pregnant
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Caroline Njung'eNairobi - When it comes to choosing emergency contraception, young Kenyan women trust their schoolmates. They also trust the chemist, the Internet and their boyfriends.The only peop (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police blunt usefulness of CCTV cameras
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Questions have been asked about the effectiveness of the CCTV surveillance cameras as crime fighting tools in Pretoria's inner city.Although the cameras are identifying crimes in progress, they depend (By News Poster)...Uganda: New Land Law Angers Bugandans
Friday 25-Dec-2009: By Bill OketchPader - Traditional leaders of the largest ethnic group in Uganda - the Buganda - are angry with Kampala for adopting new land legislation that they had vehemently opposed.The government (By News Poster)...World: US beefs up airline security
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: By Larry Margasak and Corey WilliamsDetroit - The United States government tightened airline security as it searches for answers to how a 23-year-old Nigerian man eluded extensive systems intended to (By News Poster)...Africa: Grenade kills shoppers in Burundi market
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: Bujumbura - A grenade exploded in Bujumbura's central market on Sunday, killing two people and injuring dozens more, official sources said.Early indications suggest someone hid the grenade in a packag (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Marketers Call for Deregulation to End Lingering Scarcity
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: By Sopuruchi OnwukaDevelopments in the domestic fuel market have confirmed that the country is in acute supply crisis despite the comforting official statements consistently churned out by the Nigeria (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Workers Storm Nestle Headquarters in Harare
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Lance GumaSix workers employed by Grace Mugabe's Gushungo Dairy Estates, stormed the headquarters of dairy giant Nestle in Harare, demanding that the company resume accepting milk from the farm. In (By News Poster)...South Africa: Shaik a lonely, broken man
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: Schabir Shaik cuts a lonely figure sitting in the gazebo of his Morningside mansion. The man who once strode through boardrooms connecting with the moneyed elite of politics has been cut loose by most (By News Poster)...World: Iran: Turkey option for nuke exchange
Friday 25-Dec-2009: Tehran - Iran has said that Turkey could be a venue for Tehran to exchange nuclear material with the west, the latest in several counteroffers by the Persian nation that have frustrated US demands tha (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Mayhem in Ijebu-Ife
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: The recent killings in Ijebu-Ife in Ogun state are unwarranted and must be properly investigated and the culprits brought to book to arrest such impunity in the future.Reports had it that a vigilance (By News Poster)...Nigeria: A Looters' Paradise
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Chris AnyokwuLagos - On December 9, 2009 the world as is the custom marked the 'Anti-Corruption Day'. One interesting thing about Planet Earth is her frenetic dream to match planet Fantasia in ever (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Expat Tax Proposal Sparks Anger in Diaspora
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Alex BellThere has been an outburst of anger by some Zimbabweans living in the Diaspora in response to a new proposal that Zimbabwean expatriates pay a tax in exchange for voting rights.The proposa (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cop wounded during shootout dies
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Noelene BarbeauCaptain Michele Pitout, the Gamalakhe SAPS station commissioner who was shot in the head, died this morning.Pitout, Inspector Trevor Moodley and Detective Constable Grant Phelukhwayo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Taxi men killed in a hail of bullets
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Sinegugu NdlovuThe opening of a major shopping centre in Amanzimtoti has led to a deadly battle between taxi associations over control of the route to the centre. Yesterday the conflict claimed the (By News Poster)...Africa: Somali pirates paid ransom ransom
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: Mogadishu - A helicopter dropped a $4 million ransom payment on Sunday on to the deck of a Chinese coal ship hijacked by Somali pirates in mid-October, a pirate source on board the vessel said.The De (By News Poster)...Kenya: Maize Import Window Closes for Country
Saturday 26-Dec-2009: By George OmondiKenya's main sources of maize imports are tightening their grips on the sale of agricultural commodities to secure own needs, an indication that the looming food shortage in the new ye (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Refugee Return Heightens North Kivu Tensions
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Jacques KahorhaNorth Kivu - Fears are growing that thousands of refugees, currently living in Rwanda, are being encouraged to return to their former homes in the eastern Democratic Republic of Cong (By News Poster)...South Africa: Two robbers shot dead
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Two robbers were shot dead in an armed robbery at a Somalian-owned spaza shop in Wilsonia, Cambridge, Eastern Cape police said on Monday."The owner of the shop with his two brothers was in the shop wh (By News Poster)...World: Suicide bomber strikes Muslim hall
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: By Augustine AnthonyIslamabad, Pakistan - A suicide bomber blew himself up on Sunday outside a Shi'a Muslim meeting hall in the main city in the Pakistani part of the disputed Kashmir region, killing (By News Poster)...South Africa: Another taxi boss murdered
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Sinegugu NdlovuAnother KwaZulu-Natal taxi boss was gunned down early on Tuesday, barely a day after four people, including two taxi owners and a taxi driver, were killed at a taxi rank in KwaMakhut (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Another Parcel Bomb Explosion Rocks Lagos
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Albert Akpor, Evelyn Usman, Monsur Olowoopejo Ifeanyi Okolie and Bunmi AzeezTWENTY-THREE years after the death of Mr. Dele Giwa, founding editor of Newswatch Magazine, via a parcel bomb, commercial (By News Poster)...South Africa: Third arrest after Cape mall robbery
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: A third man has been arrested as an accomplice in an armed robbery at Kenilworth Shopping Centre in Cape Town, police said on Wednesday.Inspector November Filander said Hawks investigators arrested th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Injured suspect 'just kept on coming'
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Lavern De Vries Crime WriterA suspected armed robber fleeing from the crime scene at Kenilworth Centre "just wouldn't fall down" despite being hit by two bullets, said a metro police officer."He ke (By News Poster)...Will somebody please help fix Johannesburg's sucking traffic lights? Can Cuba help? Or Somalia? Anyone?
Monday 21-Dec-2009: I am getting seriously sick and tired of Johannesburg's non-functioning traffic lights. Every now and then I'm driving down a road and suddenly there is this long queue of cars and the cars are edging (By Jan)...Suspected Nigerian Sabateur Is from Prominent Family
Saturday 26-Dec-2009: By Yusuph OlaniyonuLagos - [NOTE: The plane from Amsterdam to Detroit was Northwest Airlines Flight 253, operated by Delta Airlines.]The young man, who yesterday night attempted to ignite an explosive (By News Poster)...Chad: Fighting Banditry in the East
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Goz Beida - Days after a UN convoy was attacked in eastern Chad, humanitarians and security officials are debating how to prevent kidnappings and carjackings that persist despite the presence of a mul (By News Poster)...Blast From the Past: Chavez In Iraq Meeting With Its Then Tyrant Saddam Hussein
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: [Why would Chavez suggest that the USA under Bush and even Obama are "run" by the devil? How quite odd that the far left's favorite democratic tyrant Hugo Chavez openly met with the late Iraqi tyrant (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Injured Suspect 'Just Kept On Coming'
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Lavern De VriesA suspected armed robber fleeing from the crime scene at Kenilworth Centre "just wouldn't fall down" despite being hit by two bullets, said a metro police officer."He kept coming at (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Relations With Rwanda Remain Good - Justice Minister
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Maputo - Mozambican Justice Minister Bemvinda Levy has told reporters that relations between Mozambique and Rwanda are good, despite claims published in the Rwandan press that several Rwandan citizens (By News Poster)...Africa: Mortar fire strikes radio station, three dead
Monday 21-Dec-2009: At least three civilians were killed Monday when Somali government forces fired mortar and artillery shells in response to an insurgent attack on a parliament session in Mogadishu, witnesses said.Isla (By News Poster)...Gambia: The Fragility of Political Power Where is Dadis Camara?
Friday 25-Dec-2009: By PublisherSince the 3rd of December 2009, President Moussa Dadis Camara has been out of Guinea after an assassination attempt. He has not been heard from since that day. Where lies his power as Pres (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Fresh Violence Erupts in Nyanga
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Tichaona SibandaOver 30 villagers at Ruwangwe in Nyanga, Manicaland province, were injured on Tuesday after they were attacked by a ZANU PF militia group.MDC MP for Nyanga North, Douglas Mwonzora, (By News Poster)...Africa: Smallholder Agriculture Transforms Lives of Poor
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Manyewu Mutamba and Leslie NyagahAfrica's failure to transform its agriculture sector as rapidly as the rest of the developing world has left an abiding legacy of poverty and hunger. A huge increas (By News Poster)...Uganda: Don't Hang HIV Carriers; Educate Them
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Ariel RubinKampala - Hardly a day goes by in Uganda without a case of defilement making the rounds in newspapers and media outlets. From the lurid tales spewed out daily by the Red Pepper tabloid t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops finally track down 'pirate kingpin'
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Jauhara KhanA two-year search for a counterfeit CD and DVD kingpin ended successfully yesterday when he and 11 other foreign nationals were arrested in a Durban city centre raid.The police dog unit (By News Poster)...Somalia: Eight Killed as Battle Rages in Mogadishu
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Abdulkadir KhalifNairobi - At least eight people were killed in a day of violence in Somalia as the Somali Transitional Federal Parliament restarted its sessions following a break since August this (By News Poster)...Somalia: Land Mine Blast Kills 5 and Wounds 8 Others in Mogadishu
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Mogadishu - At least 5 people including soldiers have been killed and 8 others have been wounded in Mogadishu after land mine blast targeted to the government soldiers' vehicle in El-gab neighbourhood (By News Poster)...Somalia: A Government Soldier Kills Himself as He Killed Another in Mogadishu
Saturday 26-Dec-2009: Mogadishu - A TFG soldier has killed himself as he shot and killed another government soldier at around the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses said on Wednesday.Reports say (By News Poster)...South Africa: Brother kills teen to prevent sister's rape
Saturday 26-Dec-2009: A brother apparently murdered the man who was about to rape his sister with a gang of others in Willowvale, Eastern Cape police said on Sautrday.Police spokesman Captain Jackson Manatha said that at a (By News Poster)...East Africa: Foreign 'Land Grabs' Create Tensions
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Allyn GaestelOnce able to sustain its population of 30 million with local agriculture, Saudi Arabia now anticipates importing all of its wheat by 2016, according to Reuters. Saudi Arabia's aquifers (By News Poster)...South Africa: 419 scam takes advantage of World Cup
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: The police and the Nelson Mandela Foundation have warned people to be on the alert for a 419 Nigerian scam - a "Fifa 2010 World Cup Lottery draw" - hoping to fleece unwitting South Africans of thousan (By News Poster)...South Africa: Raped girl hailed by mourners
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Mpume MadlalaNolwazi Phohlwane, the 12-year-girl who managed to give a detailed statement that identified her rapist minutes before she died from her horrific injuries, was described as a brave lit (By News Poster)...Inflation Rate Breaks Through Barrier
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyNAMIBIA'S overall annual inflation rate dropped below seven per cent for the first time in two years in November, following a significant cooling-down in food inflation.The Consumer Pr (By News Poster)...South Africa: Dodgy Land Transfers Point to Deeds Office 'Tampering'
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Stephan HofstatterJohannesburg - A TOP-level investigation is under way into irregular property transfers that point to fraudulent tampering with records in the title deeds registry, Business Day h (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NYSC - An Idea Which Has Seen Its Day?
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Funke AboyadeLagos - I was quite pained in more ways than one over the grisly death of Youth Corper, Grace Ushang, three months ago. Ushang was killed in Maiduguri a bare six weeks into her partici (By News Poster)...Somalia: Mobs Target Displaced People
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Nairobi - Hundreds of internally displaced people (IDPs) in north Galkayo, in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, are on the run again after attacks by mobs targeting their businesses, ho (By News Poster)...World: 'Our joy and parties turned to hell'
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: Iraq's dwindling Christian population has little to celebrate this Christmas after attacks against their community in recent weeks left several dead and put the security forces on alert.In the main no (By News Poster)...USA: Zim: Hypocrit Obama. suspends Trade Rights for Guinea, Niger and Madagascar but ignore Zimbabwe!!!
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: [Hold on! What about Zimbabwe? Zimbabwe IS NOT EVEN A DEMOCRACY because Zimbabwe's GNU is not even the logical outcome of an election! And in that GNU Mugabe breaks the rules to this day. Of cours (By News Poster)...Bob Slashes Bank Rate Again
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Brian BenzaThe Bank of Botswana (BoB) on Friday slashed the bank rate by another one percent, bringing the cumulative interest rate cut to 500 basis points in 2009.This follows last week's announce (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Intrigues of 2009...President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's Health -
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Lagos - Not a lot of people can forget the drama on television in May 2007, when the then President Olusegun Obasanjo screamed into a mobile phone; "Umoru, is it true that you are dead?" Even after he (By News Poster)...South Africa: Awaking a sleeping colussus
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Et tu, Brutus? This must have been how Julius Malema felt when he sought the intervention and protection of his boss, the ANC's secretary-general, Gwede Mantashe, only to be told, and I paraphrase: "T (By News Poster)...Kenya: Feeding the Hungry is Lucrative
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Shoshana PerreyFrom the expanses of Iowa's green cornfields to the Horn of Africa, subsidised US corn flows into the bellies of some of the hungriest people on the planet.In war-torn Southern Sudan (By News Poster)...Nestle shuts down Zim plant
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: "No longer possible to guarantee normal operations and the safety of employees†By Own CorrespondentHarare - Swiss multinational firm Nestle has temporarily shut down its Harare factory, an (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chaos at Beitbridge
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: Harare - Beitbridge Border Post was yesterday heavily congested with a huge volume of southward-bound commercial traffic blocking the free movement of travellers.In Harare, there was little activity a (By News Poster)...Kenya: Arms Cache Suspects Get Bail
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Richard MungutiNairobi - Five people who have been charged over the illegal arms cache were freed on bond on Tuesday.Chief magistrate Mr Gilbert Mutembei freed Mr Munir Ismail, his wife Nahid Tabas (By News Poster)...[Pic] S.Africa: Proof that the ANC's MK Spear of the Nation Defeated the Boers...
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: [One of our volunteers found this flag with this story on photobucket. We don't know who did it. But there is a lot of Afrikaans text there. I would appreciate it if one of our readers can, in the com (By Jan)...World: Ex-Khmer Rouge woman minister charged
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court Monday charged the Khmer Rouge former social affairs minister with genocide over the regime's slaughter of Vietnamese people and ethnic Cham Muslims.Ieng Thirith (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Council Probes Chiyangwa Land Deals
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Jennifer DubeTHE Harare City Council has stopped businessman Phillip Chiyangwa from developing a stretch of land in Borrowdale pending investigations into how he acquired it. Minutes tabled by Coun (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Majors Shun New Projects, Target Ghana
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku And Ejiofor AlikeLagos - Uncertainty over the soon-to-be-passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) has prompted International Oil Companies (IOCs) to suspend new investments, espec (By News Poster)...A Step Beyond: Barefoot Bandit keeps police on their toes
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: By Morris MalakoffSeattle, Washington - Eighteen-year-old Colton Harris-Moore is achieving folk hero status as the "Barefoot Bandit" in the United States and Canada after a string of burglaries and da (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Half Tanzanians Are Claimed Underfed
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Bernard LugongoAbout half of Tanzania's population of nearly 40 million cannot perform their responsibilities well because they are undernourished, a new study says.According to research carried ou (By News Poster)...Kenya: Letter to Kenyan Minister of Public Health And Sanitation Concerning Home-Based HIV Testing And Counselling
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Minister Beth MugoMinistry of Public Health and SanitationNairobiKenyaDear Minister,Following the Joint HIV and AIDS Programme Review (JAPR) on December 4, 2009, we are writing to provide input into t (By News Poster)...Western Oil Firms May Not Renew Nigerian Licences--Shell to Sell Oil Fields
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Jibrin Abubakar and Mohammed ShosanyaLagos - Western oil companies may not renew their operational licences in Nigeria, as Royal Dutch Shell launched a shake-up of its operations in Nigeria by offe (By News Poster)...Burundi: Ostracized Albinos Want State Protection
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: By Bamuturaki MusinguziNairobi - Long used to discrimination, Burundi albinos now want state protection and recognition.This comes even as there are cases in court over albino killings."We want the go (By News Poster)...Central African Republic: Aid Workers Evacuated From North
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Bangui - The US-based NGO International Medical Corps (IMC) has evacuated 13 of its staff from the northeast of the Central African Republic following two incidents in which the organization lost thre (By News Poster)...Africa: Why is Continent Still Poor?
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: By Ayo AdebusoyeLagos - Africa was poor, Africa is poor and Africa will continue to be poor, if we the Africans are not ready to change Africa. Africa will remain poor if Africans are not ready to mak (By News Poster)...Somalia: Hundreds Flee Puntland After Violence
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: Nairobi - Hundreds of internally displaced people (IDPs) who have fled violence in north Galkayo in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland have begun arriving in southern Somalia.The IDPs lef (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hiking tourists found stabbed on trail
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Jason WarnerTwo South African expatriates living in Canada were stabbed several times while hiking in Fernkloof Nature Reserve near Hermanus yesterday, and airlifted to safety."About 9.40am, police (By News Poster)...Kenya: Raila Takes on Uhuru Over Mau Payout
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Bernard NamunaneNairobi - Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Tuesday traded accusations over Mau payouts with his deputy and Finance minister, Mr Uhuru Kenyatta, in an embarrassing public spat.Mr Oding (By News Poster)...Somalia: WFP Security Official Killed in Beledweyb Town
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Beledweyn - Unidentified gunmen have shot and killed a former ICU member and head of the security of WFP security in Beledweyn town in central Somalia, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Tuesday.Sources (By News Poster)...South Africa: A Hundred Copenhagens Could Not Bring the Changes We Need
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Reinier De GraafJohannesburg - ON FRIDAY the world watched as the United Nations climate change conference came to a close. With all the talk of looming temperature increase and irreparable damage, (By News Poster)...South Africa: Lack of Rural Doctors Hits Aids Pledge
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Tamar KahnCape Town - Too few community service doctors have been assigned to rural hospitals next year, casting doubt on President Jacob Zuma 's promise that HIV/AIDS patients will be able to get (By News Poster)...South Africa: Victims robbed after drawing money at banks
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Siphilile ShelembeThe police have warned people to be extra vigilant following a number of incidents in which victims of armed robberies have lost large amounts of money after being followed to or (By News Poster)...Africa: Bomb suspect was a teenage preacher
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: KANO, NigeriaUmar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a US passenger jet, was a brilliant student, but even at school he was likened to an imam because of his Islamic fervo (By News Poster)...Africa: Nigerian's condemn failed attack
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: Lagos - Nigerians on Sunday condemned a countryman's alleged attempt to blow up a US airliner, with some fearing it has harmed the image of the west African nation."We are embarrased by this incident (By News Poster)...Medvedev: Russia Will Develop New Nuclear Missiles
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: [Uh oh. It seems Russia is preparing to develop new nuclear missiles, yet why does it seem like THEY would be the ones to benefit from the treaty that'll disarm the USA? How is Obama going to explai (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Family weeps at Christmas
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: By Arthi SanpathThe Christmas presents have been bought but the family of slain Gamalakhe station commissioner Captain Michele Pitout is preparing for a bleak festive season.Yesterday, National Commis (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'By the grace of God you will have the money'
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: The bank account used as part of the "Fifa 2010 World Cup Lottery draw" scam had been closed to protect potential victims, Nedbank said on Wednesday.The move followed a Cape Times expose of what polic (By News Poster)...Africa: Double Diseases Kill Off Bananas
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Alison WalkleyBananas, the primary food and economic source for 30 million Africans, are dying by the droves as a result of Banana Bunchy Top Disease (BBTD) and Banana Bacterial Wilt, also known as (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Phyllis JohnsonThirty years ago, on 21 December 1979, an agreement was signed in London that set in motion a series of events that put Zimbabwe on the course to where it is today.The signatures app (By News Poster)...BDP Pays Lip-Service to Citizen Empowerment
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Moeti MohwasaWe are writing this article at a time when the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has been boasting of having overseen a number of big infrastructural projects since independence in 1966. (By News Poster)...South Africa: Woman takes daughter, 9, hostage
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Jauhara KhanThe calm and collected reasoning of a hostage negotiator helped avert tragedy yesterday after a woman brandishing a gun barricaded herself and her daughter in her home in an hour-long o (By News Poster)...Bon Hopeful About 2010 Economy
Monday 21-Dec-2009: The Bank of Namibia (BoN) remains cautiously optimistic that the country's economy will recover significantly from the effects of the global economic recession by next year.BoN Assistant Governor Ipum (By News Poster)...World: Thousands mourn Bhutto, two years on
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, Pakistan - Thousands flocked to the tomb of Pakistan's late premier Benazir Bhutto on Sunday, mourning the second anniversary of her killing and demanding her assassins be brought (By News Poster)...South Africa: Killer family 'too ill to go to jail'
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: By Juggie NaranA North Coast couple and their son who were to hand themselves over to prison authorities to start serving lengthy jail sentences on Monday after being convicted of the killing of a rel (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: UN - Ensure Peacekeepers in Congo Focus on Protecting Civilians
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon should ensure that the UN peacekeeping force in Congo focuses on protecting civilians and avoids supporting Congolese army operations that implicate peacekeepers in vi (By News Poster)...Uganda: It is Not Practical to Tax Idle Land in Uganda's Circumstances
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: By Moses ByaruhangaKampala - The draft land use policy is finally out. Last Wednesday, The New Vision carried a story that under the said draft policy, it is proposed that idle land will be taxed.I do (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops slammed over inaction on prostitutes
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: By Ella Smook Metro WriterProstitution has effectively been decriminalised as a result of a lack of police enforcement, says mayco member for safety and security JP Smith - a charge denied by the poli (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: UN Calls for Stronger Stronger Steps Against Rebels
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: On the eve of the anniversary of last year's Christmas Day massacre of at least 477 civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by the rebel Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), the top U (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jingle Bell, All the Way
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Sonnie EkwowusiLagos - It's another Christmas (or Christ's Mass) ! You can hear the angels, the Magi, the Shepherds, men and women of our time inhabiting the four corners of the earth singing: "jin (By News Poster)...Somalia: Shelling Rock Mogadishu, Parliament Comes Under Attack
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Heavy shelling and artillery attacks rocked Somalia's restive capital Mogadishu on Monday as the country's embattled parliament comes under attack.Insurgents fired mortar shells into a compound housin (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cash-in-transit robbers nabbed
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Three men who allegedly robbed cash-in-transit guards were arrested in Grabouw, Western Cape police said on Tuesday.Inspector November Filander said three men robbed two guards who had just made a ca (By News Poster)...World: Suspected rebels kidnap governor
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Luis Jaime AcostaBogota - A Colombian state governor was kidnapped on Monday after gunmen dressed in military uniforms attacked his home in an assault authorities said was carried out by left-wing (By News Poster)...Kenya: How Top Managers And Farmers Joined Hands to Loot Parastatal
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By George OmondiYears of cronyism, official blind eye to looting of farmers' assets and a veil of monopoly that sneered at every rule in the book are responsible for plunging the State-owned Pyrethrum (By News Poster)...Kenya: New Health Rules Throw Aids Budget Into Distress
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Beatrice GachengeKenya must double its spending on the life-saving anti-retroviral drugs for Aids patients in the next 12 months, health agencies said, citing the World Health Organisation's new gu (By News Poster)...South Africa: Dissent Rattles Mining Boards
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Charlotte MathewsJohannesburg - BOARDROOM battles erupted in several smaller mining companies this year, especially in the diamond and platinum sectors, where depressed commodity prices caused shar (By News Poster)...Chad: Climate Change Threatens Lake Chad
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: By Paul VirgoRome - Lake Chad was bigger than Israel less than 50 years ago. Today its surface area is less than a tenth of its earlier size, amid forecasts the lake could disappear altogether within (By News Poster)...Police Chopper Gives Crime War New Sting
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Calistus KolantshoSelebi-Phikwe - Botswana police arrested 160 people during Operation Matlhagolatsela held on December 14-15.Selebi-Phikwe Police Station Commander, Superintendent Victor Nlebesi t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Tributes for dead officer
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Kamini PadayacheeTributes began pouring in yesterday for Gamalakhe police station commander Captain Michele Pitout, who died at a Durban hospital yesterday after being shot while on duty last week. (By News Poster)...Sudan: Darfur Peace Process Has Reached 'Critical' Juncture, Ban Says
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: The peace process in the war-wracked Darfur region of Sudan has reached a "critical point," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, calling on both the Government and rebel groups to accelerate effo (By News Poster)...South Africa: DA calls for action on Shaik
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Nondumiso MbuyaziHow much more proof does the Minister of Correctional Services, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, need before deciding to act against convicted fraudster, Schabir Shaik, the DA has asked. T (By News Poster)...South Africa: Furore over images of Shaik
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Gugu MbonambiThe Department of Correctional Services has asked for a full report to be made into further allegations that convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik is in violation of his parole.This comes (By News Poster)...World: Pope's attacker will be forgiven - Vatican
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: Vatican CityA serene Pope Benedict XVI gave a Christmas Day message of tolerance on Friday just hours after being bundled to the ground by a woman who surged past guards to assault him.The Vatican sai (By News Poster)...South Africa: Six Tonnes of Fireworks Confiscated
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Pretoria - Over six tonnes of fireworks were confiscated during two separate raids by the Tshwane Metro Police this week.Four tonnes of fireworks with an estimated street value of around R500 000 were (By News Poster)...Zim: MDC campaigning for targeted sanctions removal
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Just a pawn in the Zanu PF game By Alex BellThe MDC has admitted that it is actively campaigning for the removal of some of the targeted sanctions placed against Robert Mugabe's regime, just w (By News Poster)...South Africa: Three nabbed after two initiates found dead
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: Three initiation school teachers have been arrested after two bodies of initiates were found in a school in Dewetsdorp, Free State police said on Sunday.Senior Superintendent Motantsi Makhele said pol (By News Poster)...South Africa: Man killed during Christmas robbery
Saturday 26-Dec-2009: A man was killed and another left critically injured during a Christmas Day armed robbery in Phoenix, KwaZulu Natal Netcare 911 said on Friday.Spokesman Jeff Wicks said three armed men allegedly went (By News Poster)...South Africa: South Africa rates tops among expats - survey
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: South Africa is the sixth-best country to live in, outranking Thailand and Canada, a global survey Expat Experience revealed.Expatriates, people from other nationalities who moved here, rated South Af (By News Poster)...Africa: 'It has become like the drug trade'
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Three months from a major international conference on endangered species, African countries are divided over whether a fresh round of ivory sales should be allowed.With black market sales on the rise (By News Poster)...Kenya: Fraud Puts State's Finance Handling Under Scrutiny
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Mwaura KimaniCaught in the grip of weak financial management systems and official greed, the Education ministry is facing a storm that threatens to spell doom for thousands of children come January (By News Poster)...Zim: Police stop Anglicans attending Christmas services in Harare
Saturday 26-Dec-2009: Arrested by police loyal to ousted bishop Kunonga By Lance GumaHardly before the ink had dried on last weeks court ruling ordering police not to interfere with Anglican Church services, than t (By News Poster)...Boxing: Blood feud kills megafight
Friday 25-Dec-2009: Las Vegas, Nevada - Manny Pacquiao will not fight Floyd Mayweather next March because a blood testing stalemate wiped out what could have been the richest fight in boxing history, promoter Bob Arum sa (By News Poster)...South Africa: Engen Warns Fuel Hikes Looming for SA Motorists
Friday 25-Dec-2009: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - SOUTH Africans should brace themselves for more fuel price increases, with fuel retailer Engen saying this month's hike is just the beginning .The likely increases will (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe unity government crisis resolutions on back burner until new year
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: The political party negotiating teams were said to have cited fatigue Blessing ZuluWashington – Though Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai agreed this wee (By News Poster)...Africa: Eritrea 'undermining peace'
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Patrick WorsnipUnited Nations - The UN Security Council was set to impose sanctions on the Horn of Africa state of Eritrea on Wednesday because of aid council members say it has given to Islamist i (By News Poster)...Babynet Front Page: Confessions of a middle-class shoplifter
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Diana AppleyardMost women will be familiar with the feelings that Melissa Marshall is expressing so eloquently. Like most of us, she loves to shop. She admits she gets a physical high from the ritu (By News Poster)...South Africa: Six in court in Mpumalanga
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Six people will appear in various courts in Mpumalanga on Monday to face charges ranging from murder to rape, police said.Superintendent Abie Khoabane said a 24-year-old man was arrested on Sunday for (By News Poster)...World: Four Iranian protestors killed in clashes
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: Tehran - Four protesters were killed in clashes with security forces in central Tehran Sunday as the opposition used a Shiite mourning event to stage anti-government protests, an opposition website sa (By News Poster)...PFLP-GC Terrorists Instigate Clashes With Israeli Forces In Gaza
Saturday 26-Dec-2009: [Now here's an interesting Islamo-Marxist terrorist group known as the Popular front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. It's a spin off of PLO coalition member Popular Front for the Lib (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Moodley's final 'circus'
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: An act of contempt and a complete circus are how killer Donovan Moodley's latest bid to dodge life behind bars is viewed.The man who killed student Leigh Matthews has made his last desperate attempt t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Moodley in new bid to dodge life behind bars
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: Killer Donovan Moodley has made his last desperate bid to have his life term behind bars for killing Leigh Matthews dismissed by lodging a challenge at the Supreme Court of Appeal.Yesterday, he asked (By News Poster)...Kenya: Ensure Safeguards in HIV Testing Campaign - HIV-Positive Children And Women At Risk of Stigma And Violence
Monday 21-Dec-2009: New York - The Kenyan government should ensure that strong human rights protections are included in plans for expanded home-based HIV counseling and testing, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter (By News Poster)...South Africa: SA could lose R3.6bn in tourism revenue
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Foreign airlines may have to reduce their flights to South Africa because of the mounting cost of building the new international airport in Durban and massive airport tariff hikes by Airports Company (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cash-Strapped Governments 'Targeting Gold Miners'
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Sanchia TemkinJohannesburg - GOLD mining and metals companies are prime targets for increased taxes and levies as governments worldwide face significant budget pressures to fund the deficits create (By News Poster)...World: Three Palestinians killed in Israeli raid
Saturday 26-Dec-2009: Nabulus, West Bank - Israeli forces stormed into the West Bank town of Nablus on Saturday, killing three Palestinians from the Western-backed president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party, a Palestinian securi (By News Poster)...World: Vatican marks 25 years since Pope's shooting
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Robin PomeroyRome - The Vatican marked the 25th anniversary of the near-fatal assassination attempt on Pope John Paul on Saturday, holding a mass to commemorate one of the most notorious and myster (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Former Rebel Leader Opposes Resumed Attacks
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Ahamefula OgbuPort Harcourt - One of the former militant leaders in the Niger Delta and ex-commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Sobomabo Jackreece aka Egberipap (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma 'considering Shaik's pardon request'
Monday 21-Dec-2009: President Jacob Zuma was considering convicted fraudster Shabir Shaik's application for a pardon, a spokesman said on Monday.Presidential spokesman Vincent Magwenya said Shaik had applied for pardon a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe assures Nestlé on safety after shutdown
Saturday 26-Dec-2009: Tsvangirai said Nestlé had over-reacted Harare - Zimbabwe has reassured food giant Nestlé on the safety of its staff after a dispute on buying milk from President Robert Mugabe's farm prompt (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Parcel Bomb Rocks Lagos Media House
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Eugene AghaLagos - But for providence yesterday, some staff of Superscreen Television, in Lagos, were almost given the dastardly "Dele Giwa Treatment". Unknown persons sent bombs carefully wrapped (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nigeria to Sustain Crude Oil Exports to India
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Sopuruchi OnwukaFederal government would continue its oil export to India as the Asian country struggles behind United States and China in the scramble for future energy supply guarantees from reso (By News Poster)...South Africa: Man held for Kenilworth robbery
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: A 36-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an armed robbery at the Kenilworth shopping centre, Western Cape police said on Tuesday.Inspector November Filander said the man was held for que (By News Poster)...Ghana: Gov't Changes Plans for Oil
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Steve Manteaw and Alberta DudomeAccra - The policy objective for Ghana's oil and gas sector has changed from what the New Patriotic Party defined in its draft petroleum policy of October 2008, Publ (By News Poster)...Kenya: Anti-Counterfeit Law 'Violates Right to Life And Health'
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Susan Anyangu-AmuNairobi - Kenya's new Anti-Counterfeit Act will be challenged on Mar 8 next year in the country's Constitutional Court on the basis that it violates the right to health. The petiti (By News Poster)...East Africa: AU On Mission to Develop a Regional Military Force
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Kevin KelleyNairobi - Ten nations in eastern Africa will jointly develop a military force capable of intervening in crises anywhere in the region.The United States' Africa Command (Africom) and the (By News Poster)...East Africa: Region Wary As Somalia Threatens to Degenerate
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Fred OluochNairobi - The insecurity in Somalia is fast threatening regional peace, with calls for international intervention to avert a continental crisis.Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti are at most r (By News Poster)...South Africa: Morgue investigated for negligence
Saturday 26-Dec-2009: An investigation will be launched into the management of a mortuary in Butterworth where bodies were left to decompose, the Eastern Cape Health Department said on Saturday.Departmental spokesman Sizwe (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cele at a loss for words
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: By Kamini PadayacheeNational Police Commissioner Bheki Cele was at a loss for words when the mother of the Gamalakhe station commander in KwaZulu-Natal, who was shot while on duty, asked him how crimi (By News Poster)...Mozambique: ADM Case - Prosecution and Defence Sum Up
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: Maputo - Prosecuting attorney Miguel Candido on Tuesday urged the Maputo City Court to find all five defendants in a major corruption trial guilty.He was summing up the prosecution case against former (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Have you noticed how utterly DUMB....... MTN are? MTN lost 750,000 customers?
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: We've all known that customer service sucks in South Africa, but I recently wrote about how dumb a lot of the shop sales staff are in most businesses. See: [2 Pics] Have you noticed how utterly DUMB S (By Jan)...Zim: An economy running on chickens
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: A chicken can exchange hands several times Mutoko - Every fortnight Makaitei Musakwa, 45, catches one of her chickens, picks up some of the maize she has grown, and sets off for the village mi (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Stimulus Saves Cotton Sector From Collapse
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Samuel KamndayaThe demise of the cotton industry, which was imminent as the "second wave" of the global economic crisis hit Tanzania early this year, has been averted, according to the sector's reg (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: An Economy Running On Chickens
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Mutoko - Every fortnight Makaitei Musakwa, 45, catches one of her chickens, picks up some of the maize she has grown, and sets off for the village mill to have the maize ground into mealie-meal, Zimba (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Viva Manto, viva'
Monday 21-Dec-2009: The former minister of health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was praised as a hero for her work in the health sector and as a political activist at her memorial service at the Durban City Hall on Monday .Af (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: GPA Talks - Principals Meet Today
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Zvamaida MurwiraHarare - THE three principals, the leaders of the Parliamentary parties to the Global Political Agreement, are expected to meet in Harare today to review progress made so far despit (By News Poster)...Tanzania: UN Council Set to Punish Eritrea
Friday 25-Dec-2009: New York - The UN Security Council was set to impose sanctions on the Horn of Africa state of Eritrea today because of aid council members say it has given to Islamist insurgents in Somalia.The United (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Mining Bill Queried
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: By Lansana FofanaFreetown - Sierra Leone's parliament has come under serious scrutiny by opposition legislators, civil society and members of the public for 'breaching procedures' and 'undermining the (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Have you noticed how utterly DUMB....... MTN are? MTN lost 750,000 customers?
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: We've all known that customer service sucks in South Africa, but I recently wrote about how dumb a lot of the shop sales staff are in most businesses. See: [2 Pics] Have you noticed how utterly DUMB S (By Jan)...Nigeria: The Gas Flaring Confession
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Lagos - After many postponements, the cessation of gas flaring in the country was fixed for December 2010. The National Assembly was resolute about it and there was high hope that at last the hot, smo (By News Poster)...World: Rapist beheaded in Saudi Arabia
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: Riyadh - Saudi Arabia beheaded a Yemeni by the sword in the western Jeddah region on Sunday after convicting him of rape, the interior ministry said.Suleiman bin Ali was found guilty of beating and ra (By News Poster)...More Sports: Thai boxing world champion shot dead
Friday 25-Dec-2009: Moscow - A former world champion in Thai boxing was shot dead in Moscow in an apparent contract killing, officials said Friday, the latest high-profile murder to hit the Russian capital.The corpse of (By News Poster)...World: US killer dies on death row
Friday 25-Dec-2009: Portland, Oregon - A death row inmate who killed four Oregon women in the early 1990s has died of natural causes.A Department of Corrections spokeswoman says 49-year-old Cesar Barone died on Thursday (By News Poster)...World: Woman held after threat to first lady
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Washington - US authorities arrested and charged a woman in Hawaii last week for allegedly threatening to kill President Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, days before the Obamas were due to arrive in the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police arrest 28 in pre-Christmas crackdown
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Twenty-eight people from Katlehong will enjoy a silent night in the police cells after they were arrested on Wednesday.Captain Mega Ndobe, a police spokesman, said the suspects had been arrested durin (By News Poster)...South Africa: No pardon for Shaik- most readers
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Ainsley DanielsConvicted fraudster Shabir Shaik has applied to the presidency for a presidential pardon. Shaik has however admitted to violating his parole conditions.IOL asked its readers: Should (By News Poster)...South Africa: Shaik and Sham - Parole Scandal Not Limited to Well-Connected Fraud
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: Johannesburg - THERE he was in a loud floral beach shirt and sandals, clearly in plump good health as he popped into the grocery store and visited friends on a sunny Durban morning.Convicted fraudster (By News Poster)...Chinese Offer to Build Police Station to Combat Crime
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Frederick KebadiretseThe Chinese community in Gaborone has volunteered to build a police post in the Block Three industrial areas as their effort to help the police combat crime in that area.The ar (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Gov't Dismisses Mozambique Media Reports On Fugitives
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Gashegu MuramiraKigali - The Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga has dismissed media reports that appeared in a Mozambican tabloid (Escorpiao) recently insinuating that government wants the Rwandan com (By News Poster)...Chad: NGOs Scale Back as Security Deteriorates
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: N'djamena - As the security situation continues to deteriorate in eastern Chad, some NGOs are scaling back and cutting services due to the risk of kidnapping.Since the end of November, Médecins (By News Poster)...World: 'Soviet Union behind John Paul shooting'
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Philip PullellaRome - The late Pope John Paul's closest aide is convinced the former Soviet Union was behind the assassination attempt on the pontiff in 1981 because he was a threat to its power, a (By News Poster)...No Bail in Car Hijacking Case
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Werner MengesTHE two suspects accused of using a Police uniform to carry out a car hijacking in Klein Windhoek a year ago heard yesterday that they will not be released on bail after almost a year (By News Poster)...South Africa: Chaos after storm hits Pretoria
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Muhammed Noormahomed and Mogomotsi MagomePretoria was mopping up yesterday after a devastating storm ripped through the city, uprooting trees, tearing down walls and causing widespread power failur (By News Poster)...South Africa: Olga's death - 'cops must pay'
Monday 21-Dec-2009: The family of Olga Kekana, gunned down by police who mistook her and two friends for hijackers, plan civil action against the state.Kekana was shot dead 10 days ago when police opened fire on the thre (By News Poster)...Kenya: Govt Wins Reprieve From U.S. Despite Slow Reforms
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: By Allan OdhiamboUS President Barack Obama has handed local exporters a New Year gift by extending trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa), allowing them a chance to continu (By News Poster)...Science: Group vows to fight for poor
Friday 25-Dec-2009: By Donna BrysonGreenpeace will keep up the pressure on leaders it believes let the world down on global warming, the head of the international environmental group said on Thursday.Kumi Naidoo, Greenpe (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Jaws of life used to retrieve bodies'
Friday 25-Dec-2009: Three people were killed and nine others seriously injured in an accident involving seven vehicles in Soshanguve on Thursday night, said the Tshwane community safety department.Spokesman Console Tlean (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mdc-T Fires Chitungwiza Executive, Corruption Cited
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Harare - MDC-T has fired its Chitungwiza provincial executive and suspended the UK external assembly on charges of corruption.After the national council meeting held last Sunday, the party resolved to (By News Poster)...Africa: Copenhagen Accord Politically Significant But Not Legally Binding
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Cheryl PellerinWashington - After 12 days of tense negotiations that were plagued by walkouts and accompanied by protests outside in the wintry streets of Copenhagen, delegates from nearly 200 nati (By News Poster)...Zim: Mixed reaction to new independent commissions appointments
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: It has taken four months for the principals to agree on the names for the independent commissions By Tichaona SibandaThere has been a mixed reaction to the appointment of Godfrey Majonga as th (By News Poster)...Africa: 'People killed, thrown into river'
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Abuja - More than 30 people were killed and scores of homes set alight in clashes in the past week between nomadic herdsmen and farmers in the central Nigerian state of Nasarawa, police said on Tuesda (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Shell Can't Sell Oil Fields, Govt Declares
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Ejiofor Alike With Agency ReportLagos - The Federal Government has said Royal Dutch Shell Plc has no powers to sell the assets it owns jointly with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC (By News Poster)...Somalia: Fighting Erupts in Southern Town
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Somalia's hardline insurgent Al-Shabaab group claims that they have fought with an Ethiopian rebel group in Somali southern border town of Dhobley.According to a senior Al-Shabaab official, the fighti (By News Poster)...Kenya: Right Pricing of Staple Foods Will Spur Growth
Monday 21-Dec-2009: In yet another show of how wrongly headed our economic policies are, the World Bank has just published a report indicating how the government is using the National Cereals and Produce Board to tilt th (By News Poster)...Africa: Malawi seeks food aid for quake victims
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Malawi on Monday launched an emergency appeal for food and tents for victims of a strong weekend earthquake that left three dead and about 300 injured in the northern part of the country."We immediate (By News Poster)...South Africa: Three held after murder of businesswoman
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: Three men have been arrested in connection with the death of the businesswoman Miriam Khoza in Lethabong near Rustenburg on Sunday, North West police said."The three have been arrested after community (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG Insists On Electronic Payment System
Saturday 26-Dec-2009: By Onwuka NzeshiAbuja - The Federal Government yesterday laid to rest speculations that it may reverse its policy on electronic payment and return to the old system where cheques and cash were used in (By News Poster)...South Africa: Local Gold Producers Likely to Improve On Dismal 2009 - Analyst
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Johannesburg - As the dollar strengthens reports say gold is going to drop back to pre-recession levels. But most analysts believe the opposite is true.Levenstein says the last few weeks have seen the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Robbery trauma 'can leave scars'
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: By Health WriterA Cape Town clinical psychologist has warned that the traumatic experience of being exposed to violent robberies in shopping malls may leave many people angry and jumpy.This follows th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Girlfriend was abused before lover killed her
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: By Sharika RegchandA woman who was killed by her boyfriend at KwaPata, Pietermaritzburg, on Tuesday night had allegedly been kidnapped and abused by him for several months before the murder.Ntombenhle (By News Poster)...World: Taiwan and China sign deals
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Taichung, Taiwan - Top envoys from Taiwan and China signed joint agreements on Tuesday as they met behind rings of barbed wire shielding them from anti-Beijing protesters who set ablaze a Chinese flag (By News Poster)...[2 Pics] Have you noticed how utterly DUMB South African retail store staff are? Clicks, Game, MTN, Vodacom, etc?
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Have you noticed how utterly pathetic the sales staff in South African retail stores are? You can ask them a question and many times they'll know less about their own subject than you do? In fact, (By Jan)...Africa: Moz will extradite Rwanda genocide suspects
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Mozambique's justice minister says the government will try to track down nine people suspected of being involved in Rwanda's genocide.Bemvinda Levy said Monday that Mozambique is preparing an extradit (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Shareholders Welcome Demise of Ethanol Firm
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Maputo - Mozambican shareholders in the company Procana have welcomed the government's decision to cancel the investment contract with Procana under which the company would have produced ethanol from (By News Poster)...World: Bin Laden daughter hides in Iran
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Salah NasrawiCairo - A daughter of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has taken refuge in the Saudi Embassy in Tehran after eluding guards who have held her and five brothers under house arrest for ei (By News Poster)...South Africa: Fireworks confiscated in Tshwane
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: Four tons of fireworks worth R500 000 have been confiscated from a wholesale store in Atteridgeville on Wednesday, the Tshwane community safety department said.Spokesman Console Tleane said the firewo (By News Poster)...Zambia: Chinese Envoy Slams Investment Critics
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: CHINESE Ambassador to Zambia Li Qiangmin has described as denial, ill-motivated, loss of sight and vision for some politicians to attack Chinese investment.Mr Li commended President Banda for his cons (By News Poster)...World: Paediatrician 'recorded sexual attacks'
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Brian WitteA Delaware paediatrician is accused of molesting at least 16 patients, including some who appear to be no more than 6 months old, and police said the doctor used video cameras to record (By News Poster)...South Africa: Shaik on thin ice
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Shaun SmillieA surprise visit by his parole officer could send Schabir Shaik back to jail - after Correctional Services Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula downgraded his parole status. The convicted (By News Poster)...Somalia: Clash, Shelling Kill 3 People and Wound More in Mogadishu
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Mogadishu - At least 3 people have killed and more others wounded after heavy fighting and shelling that separately happened at Ma'ma'anka and Kahda neighborhoods in Derkenley district in Mogadishu, w (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Small-Scale Farmers Say They Just Need Land
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Emmanuel ChacoKinshasa - The more than 800 small-scale farmers belonging to co-operatives around the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) capital, Kinshasa, could produce enough rice and vegetables f (By News Poster)...Africa: Madagascar: political tensions escalate
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Antananarivo - Madagascar's security forces fired teargas at opposition leaders and hundreds of their supporters outside parliament on Tuesday as political tensions escalated on the Indian Ocean islan (By News Poster)...South Africa: ANC brand being dented - Mantashe
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Kamini PadayacheeANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe has appealed for an end to public spats and fights among comrades, saying they would weaken the party.Speaking at a memorial service for former (By News Poster)...Central African Republic: UN Urges Security Reforms Before Polls
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: The Security Council today called on the Government of the Central African Republic (CAR) to ensure a speedy and inclusive political dialogue and swift security sector reform as the conflict-plagued c (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Former Rwandatel CEO Wanted Over Missing Funds
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Ignatius Ssuuna and Eugene MutaraKigali - Former Chief Executive Officer of Rwandatel, Patrick Kariningufu is being investigated for embezzlement of millions of francs from the company, The NewTime (By News Poster)...Kenya: Maize Scams Cost Country Sh23 Billion
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Robert ShawTe fact that the World Bank's first biannual economic update on Kenya should highlight the corruption and scams that befell Kenya's staple food product maize last year will be of little (By News Poster)...South Africa: Suspects apprehended after escape
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: Five awaiting-trial prisoners from Limpopo who escaped from their police cells on Christmas Day have been re-arrested, police said on Sunday.Police in Haenerstburg rearrested four men awaiting trial w (By News Poster)...Useful Idiots: Christians From Kansas Come To Be Useful Idiots For Hamas In Gaza Protest
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: [Isn't this oh so darn typical here? Why does it seem like there are so many gullible Christians that are out to support Hamas? Even though Hamas happily persecutes Christians? One of the main grou (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Christmas with President Zuma
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: By MDU NCALANEHunting for birds with a new sling, going around the Zuma homestead, greeting the family, eating meat with family, drinking umqombothi (traditional beer) and telling jokes. That is how P (By News Poster)...Science: Huge US storm curtails Christmas celebrations
Friday 25-Dec-2009: A massive winter storm forced scores of US churches to cancel Christmas services on Friday as blizzards and freezing rain brought treacherous holiday travel conditions for millions of Americans.At lea (By News Poster)...Africa: Seven bodies seen on the street
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Mogadishu, Somalia - Witnesses in Somalia say fighting spurred by a land dispute has killed eight people.Witnesses say they saw the bodies of seven people in the street in the central town of Galkayo (By News Poster)...Uganda: President Museveni Hails Land Amendment Act
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: By Yoweri MuseveniKampala - The NRM has struggled single-handedly and passed the Land Amendment Bill. It will be criminal for anybody to illegally evict tenants (lawful, bonafide or settled by the Gov (By News Poster)...World: 'If you are there, you die there'
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Manila - The Philippines' most active volcano on Thursday ejected more ash and lava as police and soldiers fanned out into danger zones to ensure that all homes have been evacuated.Mayon Volcano in Al (By News Poster)...South Africa: Xhosa Monarch Puts High Price on His Independence
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: By Sibongakonke ShobaJohannesburg - IN WHAT sounds like an April Fool's joke, a Xhosa king desperate to avoid serving a prison sentence is threatening to form an independent state, taking 60% of SA's (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cop on murder charge dismissed
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: The 29-year-old policewoman arrested in connection with the murder of a Port Alfred prosecutor in September has been dismissed by the SA Police Service, Eastern Cape police said on Tuesday.Captain Mal (By News Poster)...Chad: UN Staff Escape Injury After Attack in Southeast Chad
Monday 21-Dec-2009: United Nations peacekeepers have helped secure an area of south-eastern Chad where a UN civilian logistics convoy came under attack from unidentified armed men earlier Sunday morning.The convoy was tr (By News Poster)...South Africa: Man murdered after scuffle at party
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: A man, aged 35, was murdered while attending his neighbour's party in Tamboville in the Kwazulu-Natal Midlands, police said on Sunday.Senior Superintendent Henry Burdhram said that the body of a man, (By News Poster)...World: Christians, Muslims clash outside Iraq church
Saturday 26-Dec-2009: Members of Iraq's Christian and Shiite Muslim Shabak minorities on Friday clashed near a church in the northern Iraqi town of Bartala, 40 kilometres north of Mosul, witnesses said.Witnesses told the G (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Anenih, Oshiomhole, Idahosa and Others
Friday 25-Dec-2009: By Oyameda AtanakpaBenin City - To properly situate, once and for all, some of the nauseating and unfortunate political developments between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the vitriolic and in (By News Poster)...South Africa: Two men killed during Christmas celebrations
Friday 25-Dec-2009: Two Eastern Cape men in their twenties were murdered during Christmas celebrations in two separate incidents, Buttherworth police said on Friday.Police Spokesman Captain Jackson Manatha said both the (By News Poster)...World: Taliban bomb schools
Friday 25-Dec-2009: Peshawar, Pakistan - The Taliban blew up on Friday three schools in north-west Pakistan where troops are fighting against militants in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan, officials said.Buildings (By News Poster)...Ghana: Rawings Cadres Return Fire
Friday 25-Dec-2009: By Sebastian FreikuKumasi - "In Ghana a bastard is somebody who was born out of wedlock and therefore has no father, and in some cases, his mother could not remember his real father because she slept (By News Poster)...South Africa: Union tackles 'racial' bursaries
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Trade union Solidarity has launched a campaign to pressure First National Banking into scrapping what it says is a "racial" allocation of education bursaries for employees' children.The union said on (By News Poster)...South Africa: Alleged dealers nabbed
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: Three people were arrested on Wednesday in the Cape Town suburb of Observatory with R100 000 worth of dagga, Western Cape police said."We executed a search warrant, and confiscated 45 dagga plants, ei (By News Poster)...Science: Mayon shoots huge ash column
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: Legaspi, Philippines - Mount Mayon shot a huge column of ash high into the sky on Wednesday as Philippine officials warned that the volcano was increasingly active and told villagers still in the dang (By News Poster)...South Africa: KZN failing to curb illegal child labour
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Bheki MbanjwaHigh poverty levels and the scourge of HIV and Aids continue to expose many young children in KwaZulu-Natal to illegal child labour practices, Childline has said.KZN director for Child (By News Poster)...South Africa: Man nabbed for alleged rape of elderly woman
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: A man was arrested in Krugersdorp North for allegedly repeatedly raping a 77-year-old woman over the last three years, police said on Tuesday.Captain Jacob Raboroka said police received a tip-off that (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Aids Major Threat Despite Fall in Infection Rate
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Arusha - Although the HIV infection rate in Arusha region is reported to have dropped to 1.6 per cent from 5.4 per cent in 2003/2004, the cumulative number of people with full blown Aids and or those (By News Poster)...South Africa: Fynbos fire threatens seaside resort
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Jason WarnerFirefighters battled through the night to contain a blaze at Brenton-on-Sea, near Knysna."The fire started about 12.45pm yesterday. It's a vegetation fire, all the old fynbos between th (By News Poster)...Uganda: Do Children Get the Attention They Deserve?
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Susan MuyiyiKampala - Robert's face has dark spots. He is a typical teenager walking with a swagger, except that he is weary of answering questions about his skin condition. Robert is one of the se (By News Poster)...South Africa: Screams, then a shot
Monday 21-Dec-2009: By Zara NicholsonThe sight of his gun barely registered when I saw him lift it and shoot. A few seconds earlier, his target, a Checkers employee carrying what looked like a bag of cash, had shouted: " (By News Poster)...South Africa: Three robbers held for hijacking
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Three men were arrested following a hijacking in Norkem Park, north east of Johannesburg on Monday, police said.The three were part of a gang of seven men who allegedly hijacked a Nissan X-trail bakki (By News Poster)...Join the Discussion: Is there to be a mass return of white South Africans to South Africa?
Monday 21-Dec-2009: One point I always note when reading contributors answers is that an overwhelming majority of white South Africans using Yahoo Answers who have emigrated to Europe, Australia and other foreign lands a (By Jan)...Somalia: Fighting Erupts in Mogadishu
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Somalia - Heavy fighting between the transitional federal government troops backing by AMSIOM and the Islamist fighters of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen has started in the outskirts pf Mogadishu, just (By News Poster)...Science: 'Swine flu kills in distinct ways"'
Friday 25-Dec-2009: Washington - People who die of swine flu contract a "rapidly fatal" form of the disease and tend to die of lung injury, although it strikes different people in different ways, an autopsy study showed (By News Poster)...Nigeria: OPEC Maintains Output, Seeks Better Compliance With Quotas
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: By Chika Amanze-NwachukuLagos - For the fourth time this year, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) agreed yesterday at its ministerial meeting in Launda, Angola to keep its produc (By News Poster)...Sudan: Darfur Peace Process Has Reached 'Critical' Juncture, Ban Tells Security Council
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: The peace process in the war-wracked Darfur region of Sudan has reached a "critical point," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, calling on both the Government and rebel groups to accelerate effo (By News Poster)...Uganda: What Does the Law Says About Property?
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Harriet K. NalukengeTHE new Marriage and Divorce Bill provides for fairness with regard to marital property in a polygamous setting. The provisions state that the first wife acquires an equal share (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gang leader murdered
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: A 33-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for the murder of a Rasta gang group leader in Atlantis, Western Cape police said.Captain Cyril Dicks said Andrew Lloyd, 31, was killed around 8am. "The murde (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gunmen Kill Ex-Diplomat
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Muhammad BelloNigeria's former Ambassador to Gabon and Ukraine, Mr Ignatius Hekaire Ajuru, who is also the Chairman of the Governing Council of the Rivers State College of Education was on Sunday s (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: GPA Principals Name Commissioners
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Takunda MaodzaHarare - THE three principals to the Global Political Agreement met in Harare yesterday and agreed to the appointment of members of Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, Zimbabwe Human Right (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Scarcity of Bank Funds Leads to Fuel Scarcity in Country
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Yemie AdeoyeLagos - As millions of Nigerians continue to suffer untold hardship over the unavailability of petrol just four days to Christmas, some controversy over the volume of products in stock (By News Poster)...Ghana: Before Oil Extraction Begins
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: By Zambaga Rufai SaminuTakoradi - The President of the Western Nzema Traditional Council, Awulae Annor Adjaye, has reminded the government and other stakeholders in the oil sector, to factor in the in (By News Poster)...World: Pope's would-be assassin 'to be released'
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk who attempted to kill pope John Paul II, is to be freed next month, after nearly three decades behind bars, his lawyer said Monday."The prison prosecutor has confirmed to us (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Renamo Finds Dhlakama Votes in Moma
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Maputo - Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, claims that votes cast for its leader and presidential candidate, Afonso Dhlakama, in the northern coastal district of Mo (By News Poster)...South Africa: No Shaik review yet
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Correctional Services Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula won't ask the parole board to review Schabir Shaik's parole yet, a spokesperson said on Monday.The minister was still waiting for a report from t (By News Poster)...Africa: Continent's Businesses Expect Significant Growth in 2010
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Business leaders maintain a positive outlook for 2010, with 95% of those surveyed expecting to expand their business over the coming year.Results of africapractice's annual business survey support the (By News Poster)...World: Iraq suicide blast: Five killed
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Five people were killed and seven injured in a suicide bombing in a northern Iraqi town on Monday, police said.The head of the municipal council in the town of Tel Afar, Hussein Mohammed Al al-Kris, w (By News Poster)...Join the discussion: Is South Africa socially and economically better, worse, or the same after Apartheid?
Monday 21-Dec-2009: After the end of Apartheid in South Africa, and since blacks have ruled the government; is South Africa better, worse, or the same? Explain. Click on the source URL below to see the answers & to (By Jan)...Yemeni Socialist Party Openly Opposing Strikes On Al-Qaeda
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: [Isn't this quite curious here? It seems that members of this "former" Communist-Soviet trained group known as the Yemeni Socialist Party are openly against any airstrikes against al-Qaeda terrorists (By Lone Wolf)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (21-12-2009)
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... It is still deathly cold in Derby and we have had more snow fall. Hopefully it will melt soon as I need to go to the shops for a few bit and pieces. (By The BeardedMan)...Bolivia's Evo Morales Applies Mugabe-Style Thuggery
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: [Well, isn't this no big surprise to find Bolivia's Evo Morales applying Mugabe-style thuggery in Bolivia. Lone Wolf.] Bolivia seizes land from TV network owner LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia's left (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Zuma a Constitutional Danger, Says Opposition
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: [Thanks for this one Spiculum. Jan] December 14, 2009 While the South African president’s perceived charm and charisma has many singing his praises, Jacob Zuma is a danger to the constitution, t (By Jan)...Vietnam Still Promoting Socialism, Why Is the USA Helping Them?
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: [I find it quite amazing. Communists can suggest how the USA is such an "imperialistic" country, but it seems the Vietnamese Communists oddly enough WANT to be subsidized by the USA. Lone Wolf.] (By Lone Wolf)...Science & Engineering: Super Conductors allow Electric Jet Engines
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Sustainability in the aviation industry calls for aircraft that are significantly quieter and more fuel efficient than today’s fleet. Achieving this will require revolutionary new concepts, in particu (By JanOlifant)...The Economic Meltdown: USA: Utterly Bizarre: so who bought up all the US Govt debt in 2009?
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: [Check out this fascinating study of who the heck bought up the incredible amounts of US Govt debt. Its a flipping mystery... and the questions posed make a lot of sense. If you inflate away... and in (By Jan)...Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's Grinch Who Stole Christmas
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: [Oh, and also he's promoting a government promoted "sit-in" into brainwashing the young on how Simon Bolivar was so great. But here's the odd part, Chavez's hero was a Capitalist, the opposite of wha (By Lone Wolf)...Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's Grinch Who Stole Christmas
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: [Oh, and also he's promoting a government promoted "sit-in" into brainwashing the young on how Simon Bolivar was so great. But here's the odd part, Chavez's hero was a Capitalist, the opposite of wha (By Lone Wolf)...S.Africa: eTV - My Name is Earl, just gets better and better... I even watch it twice...
Monday 21-Dec-2009: I managed to convince a friend of mine who NEVER watches TV EXCEPT for the news, to watch "My Name is Earl" and he's fallen in love with it. I think that program just gets better. Of course, we in (By Jan)...Join the Discussion: What should the international community do about Zimbabwe?
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Everyone knows about the sham election in Zimbabwe, the 2.2M% inflation rate there, and the beating and expelling white landowners. What should be done to help the Zimbabwean people? Should Mugab (By Jan)...Manny Villar, The Philippines 'Red Capitalist' Candidate?
Friday 25-Dec-2009: [Isn't this a bit odd here? It seems that members of the Communist Party of the Philippines are backing a certain Capitalistic candidate Manny Villar to be President of the Philippines for 2010. Got (By Lone Wolf)...FARC Terrorists Providing Abortion Camps For Women Members?
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: [It seems from accounts of some former FARC members whom were women members of the terrorist group, there are allege to be abortion camps run by these terrorists. I'm no fanatic being either way pro- (By Lone Wolf)...[Video] [Humor] USA: Too Funny - A Black Man's Logic: Did Tiger Woods' wife beat his ASS??
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: [Check out what this crazy black man has to say. In and among his craziness lies some sound logic. I have no doubt he is right. Well said. Tiger Woods' wife whipped his ass!! Hehehe. Jan] (By Jan)...Geloftedag 2009
Monday 21-Dec-2009: Hello, Africa! welcomes back Dr. Lets Pretorious to celebrate Geloftedag, or The Day of The Vow, the Boer-Afrikaaner Holy Day in South Africa which marks the victory of the Boer against overwhelming o (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Return Of The USSR In 2017?
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: The state secretary of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, Pavel Borodin, argued Friday that a common trade union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will result in a reformed Soviet Union by 20 (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...[Video][YouTube] Toooo cute! Hippo singing "The lion sleeps tonight"
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: This is brilliant. Apparently, this song was written in South Africa. (By Jan)...EU - Coming A Leaner and Meaner EU
Wednesday 23-Dec-2009: December 21, 2009 ... One solution to simplifying the governance of the 27-nation combine is to divide them ethnically. A recent report indicates that right-wing movements across Europe are provid (By Jan)...[Video] [Music] USA: Ray Stevens - We the people... are sick of your Govt tricks...
Sunday 27-Dec-2009: [An American lady sent me this. It seems people are getting more tired of the Govt in the USA. See this message from country and western singer, Ray Stevens. Jan] (By Jan)...[Video] USA: Too Funny: Will Ferrell as Tiger Woods - I am the Greatest, even I have to admit that!
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: [This is very good. Jan] (By Jan)...[Videos] USA: More on: Tiger Woods' wife beat him up with a Golf Club for cheating...
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: [Tiger Woods must have been beaten really badly by that white Swedish wife of his. On one photo he has bruises from his "accident". But one has to wonder what a beating he got. As if I care. Jan] H (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (22-12-2009)
Tuesday 22-Dec-2009: Howzit For those who are as date conscious as I am, it is a year ago today that I had the operation on my left forearm that initially reduced it to a 'one bone forearm' and which subsequently went (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (24-12-2009)
Thursday 24-Dec-2009: Howzit -o00o- I am not surprised at Nestle's reaction to the pressure being applied by Mugabe's ministers for them to accept delivery of Gushungo milk. And, quite frankly, I am a little surp (By The BeardedMan)...
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