From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 17th January 2010From 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 & GruesomeThe Article no newspaper dares to publish about Crime in South Africa & its racial links - Highest murder rate in the world
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: [I received this from a good friend. It came with this title: "Dan Roodt - During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act". This article is said to have been written b (By Jan)...East Africa: Region Moves Closer to Common Army
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Joshua KatoKampala - AS different sectors coalesce into the regional co-operation under the ambit of the East African Co-operation, considerations to include defence are on the table.During his add (By News Poster)...Uganda: Human Rights Impact Assessment of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Sylvia TamaleThe following text is from a speech delivered before an audience on the 18 November 2009 at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.I would like to thank the Human Rights and Peace Centre (By News Poster)...Italy: Its race war - Illegal Black African immigrants clash with Police...
Monday 11-Jan-2010: * Worst episode of Italian racial unrest in years * Opposition accuses govt of fuelling xenophobia * Southern town still tense, more immigrants wounded Friday By Ilario Filippone ROSARNO, Ital (By Jan)...Nigeria: Land Reforms - the Lingering Debate (i)
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Martin DadaLand remains a gift of nature to man. It remains the most important factor of production. Land in its physical form is immoveable. Its products however can be moved from one part of the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Is Country a Terrorist Nation?
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Emma MaduabuchiLagos - Since the terrorist attempt on the Detroit-bound United States of America (U.S.A.)'s Delta Airliner, by a young Nigerian, Farouk Umar AbdulMutallab, on Christmas day, attenti (By News Poster)...USA: McCain vs. Obama's Left-wing crusade to bankrupt America - The Real Reason Obama brought Healthcare...
Monday 11-Jan-2010: [I've been saying for a long time that Obama is Far Left... and he believes in truly crazy things. An American woman I've known for many years remarked to me that America did not need health care beca (By Jan)...South Africa: Other Problems on the Horizon for President Zuma as the 2010 World Cup Nears
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: In his New Year address, President Jacob Zuma likened 2010 to 1994, when South Africa became a democracy. To the outside world, the only big event happening in South Africa this year is the FIFA World (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC Takes Tough Stance on Ongoing Land Attacks
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Alex BellThe MDC led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has this week taken a tough stance on the ongoing land attacks, slamming ZANU PF for allowing the 'anarchy' to continue.Party spokesperson N (By News Poster)...South Africa: Woman killed, house set alight
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Graeme HoskenCrime ReporterThe murder of an elderly Centurion, Pretoria woman who was tied up, gagged and strangled and left in her burning house has left a community reeling.The gang who invaded h (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nation / U.S. Diplomatic Row - Much Ado About Terrorism
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Paul OgbuokiriBilateral relations between Nigeria and the United States could be at risk if Washington keeps its requirement for tighter security Nigerian travellers, minister of Information, Prof (By News Poster)...South Africa: Shark attack in water two-metres deep
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Caryn Dolley, Jo-Anne Smetherham and Michelle JonesA Fish Hoek resident has described how the jaws of a "giant" shark clamped down on a swimmer just metres from other beach-goers."Holy sh*t. We jus (By News Poster)...South Africa: The naked truth about rape
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: Jeannie D doesn't know anyone who has been raped or who has been affected by rape. She belongs to a very lucky minority. The South African statistics are grim: one in two women will be raped, one woma (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Constitutional Reform Resumes
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Vusumuzi SifileHarare - Months of delays may prove to have strengthened the process of producing a new constitution for Zimbabwe. When a 65-day public consultation finally begins, citizens will be (By News Poster)...South Africa: Would-be cable thief burnt
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Alex Eliseev and louise flanaganA failed attempt to steal a power cable cost a thief an arm and a leg - literally. The man, believed to be in his mid- to late 20s, was rushed to hospital after a ma (By News Poster)...Africa: Attack Exposes Western Press Bias
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By George OgolaAs dramatic as the opening match in the African Cup of Nations between Angola and Mali was, the shooting of the Togolese team in Cabinda last week remains the talk of the sporting world (By News Poster)...STUNNING: BRILLIANT: EXCELLENT: Google - The First Western Company to stand up to Communist China on principle
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: [Take a look at this excerpt from Jason Kelly's weekly newsletter. In it, he describes how the Communist Chinese tried to get Human Rights activists details from their search engines. And at the cost (By Jan)...Science: Bird-plane collisions may pass 10 000
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Reports of air planes hitting birds and other wildlife have soared since a stricken US Airways jet ditched last year in New York's Hudson River, and the government's tally for the year could reach or (By News Poster)...Botswana: Power to BPC
Monday 11-Jan-2010: It is gratifying to learn that authorities in Botswana are doing everything possible to address the power shortage in the country.Reports from Zimbabwe indicate that the power utility, Botswana Power (By News Poster)...UN Calls Country a 'Global Crisis' That Can No Longer Be Ignored
Friday 15-Jan-2010: The crisis in Somalia was no longer local or even regional, but a global one that could no longer be ignored, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the Secretary-General’s top representative in that country, s (By News Poster)...South Africa: Africa not a country - US
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Americans realise that Africa is not one country, however, crime and security are major concerns for the 2010 World Cup, the US embassy in South Africa said on Thursday."... security situations need t (By News Poster)...Zambia: Police Breaking the Law to Prevent Crime
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Zarina GelooLusaka - Juniper Mwale was attending a funeral in another town when her husband jumped bail and fled the country. Despite not being aware of her husband's escape, police tracked her dow (By News Poster)...Africa: Algeria upset by new US air security rules
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Algiers - Algeria's foreign minister summoned the US ambassador on Monday to protest at Algeria's inclusion on a list of countries whose flights bound for the United States will be subject to extra se (By News Poster)...South Africa: Matric success... and days later he's dead
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Caryn DolleyJermaine Vermeulen, 18, had been lying snug under the blankets, but roused himself to walk to his aunt's home nearby to get milk as his father wanted to make tea.Minutes later, he ran b (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police deny claims by British actress
Monday 11-Jan-2010: Cape Town police on Monday denied allegations that a British actress was "injured in a gang-related" attack in Cape Town on New Year's Eve.Victoria Smurfit, who starred in the BBC drama Ballykissange (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe, Tsvangirai Under Pressure - SADC Abandons 'Quiet Diplomacy'
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Brian MangwendeHarare - REGIONAL leaders are ratcheting up pressure on partners in the inclusive government to finalise a string of unresolved matters plaguing the 11-month-old coalition ahead of t (By News Poster)...Kenya: Experts Query State's Skewed Policy On Maize
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Mwaniki WahomeNairobi - As the country grapples with food security issues, questions have been raised about the government's maize policy that has ensured high prices locally even as international (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Country Must Not Abandon Abdulmutallab Now -Mbadinuju
Friday 15-Jan-2010: CHINWOKE MBADINUJU, Doctor of Philosophy and veteran journalist, is former Governor of Anambra State. He was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He re-contested the seat in (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Only Court Can Determine Whether Farouk Abdul Mutallab is a Terrorist (I)
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Aliyu UmaruAs far as US President Barack Obama is concerned, Farouk Abdul Mutallab is without doubt a terrorist. He has already found him guilty before his trial commences. The possibility of Farou (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (15-01-2010)
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- This morning it is raining, which means that the residual snow that has been lying on the ground for a week or more is finally being melted (By The BeardedMan)...Nigeria: America's Middle East Policy Responsible for Terrorism - Aminu
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Njoku PaschalJIBRIL AMINU, the Senate Committee Chairman on Foreign Affairs and one-0time Nigeria's Ambassador to the United States of America as well as former Minister of Education, hosted some r (By News Poster)...Angola: A Nation's Time With Destiny - Country's Chance to Modify It's Gory Past
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Obed BoafoAngola is well remembered in recent past as the South-Central African country that was war-ravaged for close to 27 years and lost some 600,000 lives.CIVIL WARAn apparent display of strugg (By News Poster)...Niger: French Nuclear Power Fed by Uranium From Country
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Khadija SharifeIt is known as the 'uranium highway,' a network of major roads connecting the Niger's primary urban mining centres such as Arlit, Agadez and Niamey. Developed in the 1970s and 1980s, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lawyer Kidnapped, Murdered
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Anayo Okoli and Enyim EnyimTHURSDAY, December 17, 2009, was a normal day for the Iheaku family. Mr. Chijioke Nnaemeka Iheaku, a lawyer and industrialist had started the day without any inkling or f (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'I didn't shoot my IMF boss'
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Graeme Hosken Crime ReporterWarrants of arrest have been issued for a South African economist allegedly behind the shooting of his International Monetary Fund (IMF) boss.They were issued as US law (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: New Invasions Shake South Africa, Threaten Investment
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaHarare - A RECENT spate of farm invasions targeting properties protected by bilateral investment protection ag-reements has vindicated critics of the Zimbabwe government and thrown t (By News Poster)...Africa: Somali pirates feud over hjijacked oil tanker
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: By Mohamed Ahmed and Abdi GuledMogadishu - Rival Somali pirate gangs fired shots at each other on Sunday in a dispute over how to split any ransom for a hijacked Greek-flagged oil tanker with two mill (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt to Be Sued Over Ongoing Seizures of Sout Africa Farms
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Alex BellSouth African civil rights initiative AfriForum has won a High Court bid allowing them to sue the Zimbabwean government over land invasions on South African owned farms in Zimbabwe.Legal p (By News Poster)...South Africa: Dismay over 'Kill a Tourist' reports
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Murray WilliamsCape Town tourism leaders have expressed dismay at international media reports of what has been dubbed "Kill a Tourist Day", in which tourists are supposedly being deliberately targe (By News Poster)...South Africa: Muti killings is a way of life in rural areas
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: One in five people in South Africa's rural areas has had first-hand experience of a human body part being trafficked after a muti killing. And, of the body parts mentioned in their accounts, male gen (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: More Farmers in Rusape Handed Eviction Notices
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Alex BellAt least five more farmers in Rusape have been handed notices to leave their properties, as the drive to remove the country's remaining white commercial farmers continues to intensify.Sout (By News Poster)...Africa: Bank Offers Lessons On Overcoming Global Crisis
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Vinod Thomas And Marvin Taylor-DormondThe current economic crisis could push an additional 90 million people around the world into extreme poverty by end of 2010. If it persists, two million childr (By News Poster)...Haiti Demands Aid - 100 000 Believed Dead
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Rescue workers struggled to clear rubble and bodies Wednesday from the streets of Haiti's "flattened" capital, where government officials said the death toll from Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake ma (By JanOlifant)...Nigeria: Popular, Simplistic Solutions Can't Curb Corruption and Other Crimes
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Sanusi AbubakarWhy is life imprisonment, and even death sentences, suddenly very popular? First it was EFCC boss, then NAFDAC DG. Why this interest in stiffer sentences for offenders? More importan (By News Poster)...Africa: Continent's Food Woes Blamed on Europe's Hypocrisy
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Paul JumaEurope's resistance to genetically modified crop production in Africa is a major challenge to tackling Africa's food insecurity, according to experts.Dr Sylvester Oikeh, manager of a droug (By News Poster)...SA urges Zim to act on crisis
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: Concerned that tensions don't undermine 2011 elections Johannesburg - Regional powerhouse South Africa is urging Zimbabwean leaders to resolve political tensions in time for elections expected (By News Poster)...Democracy nonsense: All the WRONG PEOPLE are in Politics... here's why...
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: I was sitting and thinking to myself about what a load of rubbish most politics is in most parts of the world. The one leader is more worthless than the next. In Africa of course they take the cake - (By Jan)...Nigeria: Fresh Fight Against HIV/Aids Scourge
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By George OkohLagos - Nasarawa State has the second highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in the country. New statistics on the scourge are really scary. But as This Day writes, the state government and ot (By News Poster)...Africa: Zim talks - SA growing impatient
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Donna BrysonRegional powerhouse South Africa is urging Zimbabwean leaders to resolve political tensions in time for elections expected next year in the troubled country, a spokesman for President J (By News Poster)...Kenya: Where Guns Now Sell for Five Cows Down From 14
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Paul LetiwaNairobi - Any mention of northern Kenya immediately brings to mind images of constant fighting, cattle raids and starvation. Bordering lawless Somalia and former war-torn Sudan, the regi (By News Poster)...Zambia: Human Trafficking Rises in Zambia
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Doreen NawaA BY-GONE era of slavery appears again as cases of human trafficking increase worldwide with Zambia recording the highest cases in its history of human trafficking this year.Though slave (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Terrorism And a Failing State
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Sam AmadiLagos - It never rains but it pours is a famous English legend, running from the days of English physician, John Arbuthnot and the writer, Jonathan Swift. For Nigeria, misfortune has been (By News Poster)...World: Haiti: 500 000 feared dead
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Turning pickup trucks into ambulances and doors into stretchers, Haitians were frantically struggling to save those injured in this week's earthquake as desperately needed aid (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: South African Farmers Sue for Land Rights
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Stephan HofstatterJohannesburg - CIVIL rights group AfriForum launched an urgent application in the North Gauteng High Court yesterday to protect the property rights of South African farmers facing (By News Poster)...Africa: Money for pirates dropped on oil tanker
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: By Mohamed Ahmed and Abdi GuledMogadishu - The largest ransom ever paid to Somali pirates was dropped on Sunday onto a Greek-flagged oil tanker with two million barrels of oil on board, pirates and ma (By News Poster)...South Africa: Two more arrested for Masego's murder
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Graeme Hosken and Mogamotsi MagomeAnother two men have been arrested outside Pretoria in connection with the murder of 10-year-old Masego Kgomo.The men, who were arrested in Soshanguve at lunchtime (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fuel Scarcity - Gradually Queues Sneaks in Permanently
Monday 11-Jan-2010: Udo Onyeka - Nigerians may have to wait longer than they had imagined, before the supply of petroleum products would be normalized, as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC), Department o (By News Poster)...Africa: Darfuris attacked by rebels from Chad
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Opheera McDoomKhartoum - Chadian rebels are raping, beating and looting villagers in western Sudan's North Darfur region, residents said on Monday.Rights activists said the attacks might be war cri (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Will Mutallab Saga Affect Economy?
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Nigeria has been classified by the United States among one of the 14 "countries of interest."Since the alleged attempt on Christmas Day by a 23-year old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to blow up (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Central Bank in Trouble
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Constantine ChimakureHarare - THE house that central bank governor Gideon Gono built over the past six years is tottering on the brink of collapse, weighed down by under-funding, a protracted labou (By News Poster)...Kenya: War and Commerce Link Revealed
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Albert MuriukiJust what would happen if Kenya was to discover large quantities of a rare and precious natural resource that the developing world critically needs?What would happen if the West decid (By News Poster)...Workers' World Party Shills For Murderer Of The CIA Agents In Afghanistan
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: [Isn't this outright treason right here? I can't believe the Feds are doing nothing to stop these "peace-goers" from preventing them using universities as recruitment ground for obvious subversive ac (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Cops implicated in murder, rape still working
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Graeme HoskenAn alleged police rapist and a group of suspected killer Pretoria policemen are continuing to come to work every day despite being implicated in two separate serious crimes.The Pretori (By News Poster)...South Africa: Beach shock for shark victim's partner
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: Debra Paine, partner of Lloyd Skinner, the man taken by a great white shark at Fish Hoek earlier this week, had just arrived at the beach to fetch him when she saw the commotion.Lifeguard Fred Wagenvo (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (16-01-2010)
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: Howzit It is still raining - and deathly cold. But at least the snow has all gone - for the meantime, at least! -o00o- When someone is a mediator, then surely their function is to mediate bet (By The BeardedMan)...2010 World Cup: SA passes 2010 test
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Sameer Naik and Candice BaileySouth Africa won a vital battle this week in its seemingly unending war to prove to the world that the Fifa World Cup is in safe hands.Eight days ago, gunmen attacked (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nation to Adopt Israeli Policing, Safecity Model
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Yemi AkinsuyiAbuja - As part of efforts to deliver on its promise to improve internal security, Nigeria will consider embracing some community policing and safe-city models of the Israeli Police in (By News Poster)...South Africa: Angolan attack has no bearing on SA - Jordaan
Monday 11-Jan-2010: Soccer bosses and politicians on Monday spoke out against any linking of the attack on the Togolese team in Angola with the upcoming Soccer World Cup tournament in South Africa.Head of the 2010 local (By News Poster)...South Africa: PICS: Little Masego found dead
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Graeme HoskenCrime ReporterThe killers of 11-year-old Masego Kgomo, whose badly decomposed and apparently mutilated body was found hidden in a dense clump of bushes near her Soshanguve home, are be (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Cage-diving turning sharks into maneaters'
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Andrew MaloneFiddling with his swimming goggles as he strolled across one of Cape Town's most popular beaches, Lloyd Skinner did not notice anything amiss.With high temperatures, the sand was packe (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 40 Years After the Civil War
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Editorial - Today, January 15, marks the 40th anniversary of the end of the fratricidal 30-months civil war, the Nigeria-Biafra war.The war, which began in 1967 as a 'Police Action' by the Col. Yakubu (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Killed in His Prime - Sad End of Kidnap Victim
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Okey MaduforoAwka - The Palasions building is among the outstanding houses in the Government Reservation Areas (GRA), Onitsha, commercial town of Anambra State. A first time visitor to the sprawlin (By News Poster)...Ghana: Is Oil Really Our Last Hope?
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Philip Kobina BaidooThe cliché that oil is what turns the wheels of the global economy is not a comic strip. Oil is the lifeblood of, arguably, the single largest industry of the global econ (By News Poster)...South Africa: Killings make it a grim weekend for Lentegeur
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Bronwynne JoosteStaff ReporterThree people have been brutally murdered in separate incidents within hours of each other in Lentegeur in Mitchells Plain - one of whom is suspected drug dealer Colin (By News Poster)...South Africa: Killings Make It a Grim Weekend for Cape Town Suburb
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Bronwynne JoosteThree people have been brutally murdered in separate incidents within hours of each other in Lentegeur in Mitchells Plain - one of whom is suspected drug dealer Colin Davids.The Mit (By News Poster)...Is BPC Falling Into a P48 Million Trap in Zimbabwe?
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Bame PietBotswana Power Corporation (BPC) could be falling into a trap in Zimbabwe if it goes ahead with the signing of a power deal with Zimbabwe Power Company ZESA Holdings.BPC recently entered i (By News Poster)...South Africa: Recovery 'Will Lift Mines Out of Slump'
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - AFTER a year of declining output, mining giant Rio Tinto said yesterday there were signs the sector would continue to improve this year as the global economic recovery was (By News Poster)...Dead South African Communist Praised By Workers' World Party
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: [It's always interesting to see the obvious hipocrisy in Communists. The late Dennis Brutus was no different. While he campaigned against the apartheid system in South Africa, he happily ignored his (By Lone Wolf)...Hizbullah and the International Drug Trade
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: A report in the German magazine Der Spiegel over the weekend says that one way Hizbullah has been earning money for its terror activities is by selling drugs in Europe. The report says that German pol (By JanOlifant)...Africa: Gunmen attack police station
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Hussein Ali NoorHargeisa - Unidentified attackers hurled hand grenades and opened fire at a police station in Somalia's northern breakaway enclave of Somaliland, wounding three officers, police sou (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe PM Tsvangirai's party threatens to take land invasions to regional group
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Blessing ZuluWashington - The Movement for Democratic Change formation of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Tuesday that it may ask the Southern African Development Community t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: What Power Minister Has for Citizens in 2010
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Power Minister, Lanre Babalola, has, among other things, the task of meeting 10, 000 Mega Watt (MW) in 2010. CORRESPONDENT, Adeola Yusuf examines the reasons that make a change of strategy necessary f (By News Poster)...Africa: AfriForum fights for Zimbabwe farmers
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Johannesburg - The civil rights movement AfriForum will launch an urgent bid at the North Gauteng Supreme Court to cite the Zimbabwean government as a party to a court application against the country. (By News Poster)...Terror Attack - Do Nigerians Deserve to Be Demonised?
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Paul ArheweThe Christmas botched terror attack attempted by Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, is not only a condemnable act but one that requires the maximum punishment that goes w (By News Poster)...South Africa: A tough week for Dirk in Belarus court
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: Dirk Prinsloo spent hours watching porn on his computer - but never child porn, according to a former girlfriend and mother of his baby daughter. It was this habit that led to his arrest on June 12.Th (By News Poster)...Ghana: The Illusion of Progress and the Imperative for Equitable Growth
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Helena SelbyaBuried in the belly of Arthur Kennedy's controversial book, Chasing the Elephant into the Bush, is an anecdote that highlights the pitfalls of confusing hype with reality in the world (By News Poster)...Kenya: Defending Women's Rights Under New Land Policy
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Joyce MulamaJoyce Mulama interviews Evelyne Opondo, senior programme officer, Federation of Women Lawyers - Kenya.After years of delays, Kenya's cabinet has finally adopted a draft National Land Po (By News Poster)...World: 'The whole city is in darkness'
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Gallery: Massive earthquake strikes HaitiBy Joseph Guyler DelvaA major earthquake rocked Haiti, killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike (By News Poster)...World: Hundreds of Yemeni rebels slain
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Souhail Karam and Mohammed GhobariRiyadh/Sanaa - Hundreds of Yemeni Shi'a infiltrators have been slain in border clashes, a top Saudi defence official said on Tuesday, after state media said four S (By News Poster)...AfriForum fights for Zimbabwe farmers
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Intends to get the SADC Tribunal's ruling registered and enforced in South Africa Johannesburg - The civil rights movement AfriForum will launch an urgent bid at the North Gauteng Supreme Cour (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sexwale blames Mantashe for tension
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: By Moshoeshoe MonareZuma torn between youth league and SACP Left's succession list excludes MantasheHuman Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale has called on President Jacob Zuma to unite the alliance b (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: With So Many Expatriated, Country Faces 'Skills Crisis'
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaHarare - ZIMBABWE is still battling a skills crisis, with several companies struggling to recruit from the domestic market.So intense is the competition for skills that local firms a (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (13-01-2010)
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rate updated. -o00o- An early start this morning as I have loads to do. not least to buy a new master fan for this PC - it sounds quite sick right now... The st (By The BeardedMan)...Country, Zimbabwe Transport Operators Clash
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Edward BuleIn the 1960s to early 1970s, when Zimbabwe enjoyed what some would call false political stability and economic prosperity, Batswana used to cross the border to buy basic needs.People fro (By News Poster)...Africa: Violence in Nigeria prompts curfew
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: Kano - Sectarian violence that killed at least nine people led authorities in central Nigeria on Sunday to impose a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the city of Jos, officials and residents said."The government (By News Poster)...Zim: Mugabe pushing proposal to overthrow Andry Rajoelina militarily?
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: "Will he accept a military intervention in Zimbabwe?" By Alice ChimoraZimbabwe leader, President Mugabe, is reportedly pushing for his military intervention in Madagascar to topple its preside (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gunmen Abduct Four Expatriates, Kill Nigerian
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku and Ahamefula Ogbu with agency reportLagos - Three British nationals and a Colombian were yesterday morning kidnapped at Owaza Junction in Abia State along Aba-Port Harcourt E (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Can Anything Good Come Out of Abdulmutallab's Misadventure?
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Ikechukwu AmaechiAfter blowing hot air last week by issuing a preposterous ultimatum to Americans, Senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria led by General David Mark made a u-turn on Sunday by w (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Top Security Aide Accepts Fault for Bomb Attack
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Abiodun OluwarotimiNew York - For the first time, the White House's top counter-terrorism official has accepted that he too was partly responsible for the intelligence lapses preceding the Flight 2 (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe coalition talks need flexibility, Zuma says
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Tsvangirai must be flexible in demanding the removal of some officials Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai must be flexible in demanding the removal of some officials to help talks aim (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (11-01-2010)
Monday 11-Jan-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- The bad weather has claimed another victim. Early last week, my wife and I discovered that her bank card was not reading in the machines. She (By The BeardedMan)...Zimbabwe: Spotlight On Farm Invasions
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By John MokwetsiTHERE is power in picture and word just as the much acclaimed documentary Mugabe and the White African is showing. The documentary, that has already won the Sterling World Awards at th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'Kidnappers of Britons, Columbian Yet to Make Contact'
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Ahamefula OgbuPort Harcourt - The Nigeria Police have said it is yet to receive fresh information about three Britons and a Colombian who were kidnapped in an ambush in Abia State last Tuesday.The (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Funding Smuggling and Money Laundering From BDCS
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Les LebaIn the wake of the recent Central Bank's pseudo liberalization of dollar supply to the foreign exchange market, naira rate tumbled from over N140=$1 to today's rate of about N130=$1 in the (By News Poster)...The Abdulmutallab Effect
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Chinedu EzeLagos - The attempt to blow up an American airline by Nigerian-terror suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Christmas day has not only caused considerable embarrassment to the country, i (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG to Strike Oil Supply Deal With China
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Sopuruchi OnwukaNigeria and China are working to close a deal on long term crude oil supply and purchase agreement just days after diplomatic row ensued between Nigerian and American governments.Ni (By News Poster)...South Africa: Fears of xenophobic violence
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Graeme Hosken Staff ReporterFears of xenophobic violence are on the rise after Somali businesses outside Pretoria were attacked within hours of the mass eviction of hundreds of land invaders. The f (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Mutallab - US, Govt Officials Meet in Abuja
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Kenneth Ehigiator With Agency ReportLagos - Officials of American Homeland Security would meet the Presidency and aviation officials in Abuja tomorrow over the attempt by a Nigerian, Umar Farouk Ab (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Humanitarian Crisis Continues as Aid Agencies Struggle to Help
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Henoch DerbewSince its independence in 1960, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has survived turbulent decades of political conflict. More recently, the former Belgian colony continues to recov (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Niger Delta Unrest - Shell Looks Outside Nation for Oil Output Growth
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Chika Amanze-NwachukuLagos - Royal Dutch Shell,whose Nigerian operations have been hampered due to years of unrest in the Niger Delta region, said it no longer looks to its Nigerian operations to d (By News Poster)...Uganda: Should Corrupt People Be Sent to the Gallows and Firing Squad?
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Frederick WomakuyuKampala - In the run-up to the 2007 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Kampala, a group of notorious boys in Bugi village in Sironko district, 'made a name' by st (By News Poster)...Africa: Rwanda grenade attacks show need to disarm
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Hereward HollandA string of unrelated grenade attacks that killed four people and wounded several others across Rwanda showed the need to reduce the vast number of arms in society available for use (By News Poster)...Africa: Blood Oranges From Italy
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Annar CassamAll over western Europe, in supermarkets and street-markets, the Christmas/New Year period is marked by the arrival of masses of oranges, tangerines, clementines and mandarins sold at c (By News Poster)...Africa: Regional leaders to meet on Zim, Madagascar
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Key southern African leaders gathered in the Mozambican capital Maputo on Thursday for a special summit on the political crises in Zimbabwe and Madagascar.The security organ of the 15-nation Southern (By News Poster)...Zim: ZESA ordered to stop energy exports to Namibia
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: "We can't import power to export to Namibia" By Sebastian NyamhangambiriHarare - Energy Minister Elias Mudzuri on Monday said he ordered the country's power utility – Zimbabwe Electricity Su (By News Poster)...South Africa: Defiant Prinsloo in the dock
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Hanti OttoBaranovichi, Belarus - Dirk Prinsloo, a South African fugitive and wanted Interpol suspect, yesterday refused to plead to charges in the Baranovichi High Court in Belarus.Standing in a ca (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: U.S. Think-Tank Foresees 'Cold War' Between SA And Angola
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - THE political and economic rivalry between SA and Angola is expected to graduate into a battle for dominance in the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) , say (By News Poster)...Africa: 2010 Fifa World Cup Boosts Continent's Human Trafficking
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Issa Sikiti Da Silva"This is an African World Cup and every African must somehow benefit from it," a human trafficker told Bizcommunity.com this week, requesting 'absolute' anonymity.Since 2004, th (By News Poster)...Namibian Commercial Bank Charges Are Highest Worldwide
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Micheal GawasebWe have stated in the past that there is an urgent need in Namibia to protect Consumers. Consumer protection legislation has been enacted worldwide to protect the interest of a consu (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bank Robbery - Three Policemen, Three Robbers Killed
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Lawal Sa'iduKatsina - Bakori town in Katsina State was yesterday thrown into confusion as a gang of armed robbers stormed a bank premises and killed three policemen and one civilian security man on (By News Poster)...South Africa: COPE slams tariff hike
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Public sentiment is against Eskom's proposed tariff hike and the parastatal needs to find other funding options, the Congress of the People said on Thursday."Government can now surely not ignore the o (By News Poster)...Africa: Four grabbed by gunmen in Nigeria
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Lagos - Gunmen on Tuesday seized three Britons and a Colombian, shooting dead their police escort in the first major kidnapping for six months in southern Nigeria's Niger Delta.The four - contract wor (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Shock As Police Kill Villager, 75
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Shija FelicianPolice in Kahama District have shot and killed a 75-year-old villager.The Shinyanga regional police boss, Mr Daudi Siasi, said Mr Kubeja Balebi had resisted arrest, prompting police t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe's MDC to stick to demands in talks with Mugabe party
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: "We are still seeking sincerity on the part of the Zanu PF people" Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party said today that it will stick to its demands during talks with President (By News Poster)...USA: The Economic Recovery Myth Continues
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: December was the worst month yet for unemployment. But you wouldn’t know that from looking at headlines or at Wall Street. It is as if investors can’t read the writing on the wall. On January 8, t (By JanOlifant)...Victim: I Saw My Friends Die Like Flies
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Wairagala WakabiA former child soldier on Thursday recalled how he was abducted by militiamen belonging to the group which Thomas Lubanga allegedly led, got tortured at a training camp, and watched (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: South African Farmers to Sue Govt
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Stephan HofstatterJohannesburg - THE Gauteng High Court has given civil rights group AfriForum the go-ahead to take legal action in SA against the Zimbabwean government over its controversial land (By News Poster)...South Africa: Tumbling Output Leaves Country Third in Global Gold Ranks
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - SA's gold production bucked the trend and fell 5% last year as SA slipped into third spot in the world rankings of gold producers, behind China and Australia, according to (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Renamo Accused of Kidnapping Deputy
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Maputo - The Maputo daily paper "Noticias" claimed, in its Wednesday edition, that bodyguards of Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the former rebel movement Renamo, on Monday night kidnapped a Renamo parliam (By News Poster)...Another five white Zim farmers' farms to be seized in the next few days
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Themba Mliswa is a driving force behind the land invasions (translated)Sarel van der WaltThe farms of at least a further five white framers in the east of Zimbabwe are likely to be seized in t (By News Poster)...Madagascar: Political Intimidation in Madagascar May Prompt Sanctions
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Charles W. CoreyInterview with State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary WycoffWashington -- The United States is concerned about a rush to parliamentary elections in Madagascar, now scheduled fo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Book Review - Black Diamond
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Sheridan GriswoldBlack Diamond: A Novel by Zakes Mda is a wonderful, racy satire on life in one cross-section of the new South Africa, Roodepoort, west of the conglomerate of communities that make (By News Poster)...Habyarimana Killed By His Own Forces
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Gashegu Muramira and Nasra BishumbaKigali - A probe report on the downing of former President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane has concluded that the ex-President was killed by his own henchmen who were (By News Poster)...Africa: 13 die in clashes in Somalia
Monday 11-Jan-2010: Mogadishu - Fighting between Somalia's rebel Hizbul Islam group and a pro-government militia resumed on Monday, a day after clashes in the strategic central Somali town of Baladwayne killed at least 1 (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Strong Oil Prices to Boost Opec's 2010 Revenue
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Sopuruchi OnwukaDespite the grim oil market outlook that trailed the global economic recession, recovering oil prices is giving hope to the prediction that revenue receipts from export of crude oil (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Boko Haram, Abdulmutallab and Nation
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Austin NwangwuNEW realities are beginning to dawn on Nigeria's legion of international travelers. There is good justification for them to be petrified about the new image the nation has now acquire (By News Poster)...Deregulation - Why FG is Shifting Take-Off Date - NNPC Calls Stakeholders Meeting Over Fuel Scarcity
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Emma Chukwuanukwu And Sylvester EnoghaseLagos - Negative security reports, effects of the global economic downturn on the Nigerian economy and lately the long absence of president Umaru Yar'Adua fr (By News Poster)...Column: Democracy is Our Security
Monday 11-Jan-2010: Johannesburg - THERE is little need to take seriously the warnings in some European newspapers that the attack on the national football team of Togo in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda last week may be (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Three Nabbed Over Assassination Attempt
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Yinka KolaowleOsogbo - About three persons have been arrested by the Osun State police command over their alleged plan to kill a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Mr.Oje (By News Poster)...Africa: Muslim protesters hurt as Kenyan ops close in
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: Kenyan police fired shots and tear gas as they fought running battles in downtown Nairobi on Friday with Muslim demonstrators demanding the release of a radical Jamaican cleric.At least one police off (By News Poster)...Africa: Supermodel received blood diamond: court told
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: The Hague - Liberia's ex-president Charles Taylor gave a so-called blood diamond to supermodel Naomi Campbell after a 1997 dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela, the prosecution in his war crimes trial char (By News Poster)...World: VIDEO: 'Haiti needs to pray'
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Jonathan M KatzPort-Au-Prince, Haiti - Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital on Wednesday after a powerful earthquake crushed thousands of structures, from schools and (By News Poster)...Health: Forget 'fad' diets and eat less, say experts
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Paul CasciatoLondon - Now that you're discovering all the extra flab from the Christmas and New Year food and booze binge, you're casting around for the latest diet to lose it all in time for summe (By News Poster)...Kenya: Agency Orders Probe Into Edible Oils Cartel
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Consumers of sugar and edible oils are buying them above the market price as manufacturers and distributors rake in huge profits from price fixing.The Monopolies and Price Commission, charged with pro (By News Poster)...South Africa/Togo: Togo Attack No Risk to 2010 - Cele
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Proffesor NdawondePretoria - The attack on the Togo national soccer team in Angola will not risk South Africa's security measures during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, says National Police Commissioner B (By News Poster)...Human sacrifices 'on the rise in Uganda' as witch doctors admit to rituals
Monday 11-Jan-2010: [Witchcraft in Africa won't go away any time soon - if ever. Jan] One man said he had clients who had captured children and taken their blood and body parts to his shrine, while another confessed t (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Region Meets Meets to Discuss Unity Govt
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe SADC Troika on Politics, Defence and Security held a summit in Maputo on Thursday to consider, among other issues, reports on developments in Zimbabwe's inclusive government.The (By News Poster)...South Africa: Brothers on trial for killing brothers
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Details of how a pair of brothers allegedly killed two Cape Flats fathers have finally been revealed.Ashley, 26, and Keenan van Wyk, 24, appeared in the Wynberg Magistrates' Court on Tuesday where the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Yar'Adua Must Show Up Now Or Step Down
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Ise-Oluwa Ige, Henry Umoru, Luka Binniyat, Emma Ovoakporie, Tordue Salem and Chris OchayiAbuja - FOR three hours and three minutes yesterday, thousands of aggrieved Nigerians led by the Nobel Laure (By News Poster)...10 Percent GDP Growth Expected in 2010 - Analysts
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Brian BenzaEconomic performance will be improved in 2010 with Gross Domestic Project (GDP) showing positive growth of approximately 10 percent, analysts reckon.Renowned economist and E-consult mana (By News Poster)...Gambia: Jammeh Praises Nigeria's Effort in Africa's Development
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Hatab FaderaThe Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh has heaped praises on the people and government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for what he called their re (By News Poster)...South Africa: Task team probes airport robberies
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Bronwyn GerretsenA special police team has been called in to investigate two robberies at Durban International Airport last week, amid widespread security concerns at the national key point.Employe (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (12-01-2010)
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Howzit Another late start by myself. At midnight last evening we were sitting have coffee with an old friend who had quietly knocked on our door about an hour before. Both B and I were in bed, but (By The BeardedMan)...Malawi: Green Belt Initiative Taking Shape
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Charles MpakaBlantyre - Let the rains fail, even for several successive seasons, and Malawi should still be able to produce enough to feed itself.¨This is the motivation for the country's green (By News Poster)...South Africa: Fewer Guns, Less Crime - Mthethwa
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Proffesor NdawondePretoria - The dispossession of illegal and unwanted legal firearms during the new firearms amnesty period will significantly help in the fight against crime, says Police Minister (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nigeria on U.S Terror Watch List
Monday 11-Jan-2010: The unfortunate consequence of the botched attempt by 23-year-old Nigerian, Farouk Abdul Mutallab, to bomb an American airliner traveling from Holland to Detroit in the United States of America on Chr (By News Poster)...Rautenbach gets Zim farm
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: "It's an absolute disgrace, when we're being driven off our farms like dogs - farms which produce food for Zimbabwe" André le RouxJohannesburg - While the campaign to drive white farmers from (By News Poster)...Zim: NamPower, ZESA power deal off?
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: “It is business as usual†By Desie HeitaWindhoek - Namibia is in the dark about a reported decision by Zimbabwe to stop the export of electricity to Namibia, maintaining “it is business (By News Poster)...Zambia: Fuel Prices Go Up
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: THE Energy Regulation Board(ERB) has increased the pump price of fuel and other petroleum products by 15 per cent with immediate effect.Acting ERB executive director Joshua Malupenga said the excise d (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gun amnesty: Mthethwa warns of 'big stick'
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: There will be big trouble for South Africans who fail to voluntarily hand over their unregistered or illegal firearms during a four-month amnesty, Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa said on Monday."If (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Terror Trial - U.S. Senate Rejects Mutallab's Plea
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Abiodun OluwarotimiNew York - LEADERSHIP SUNDAY can authoritatively report that some senators in the United States of America are not happy with President Barack Obama over what looks like an unser (By News Poster)...Liberia: UN Chief Fears for Salone, Liberia
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Moses a KargboFreetown - United Nations secretary-general has repeated warnings that the deteriorating security situation in neighbouring Guinea could have destabilizing effects on Sierra Leone and (By News Poster)...Africa: Italy extends helping hand to Somalia
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Frank Nyakairu and Sahra AbdiNairobi - Italy offered on Thursday to help form an anti-terrorist police force for Somalia and urged other international donors to fulfil pledges of support for the be (By News Poster)...South Africa: Body parts spotted after shark attack
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Caryn DolleyCondolences have started pouring in for the family of a tourist killed by a shark on Tuesday and at the same time a review detailing his attack has been compiled.The review is expected (By News Poster)...Africa: Regional leaders weigh Madagascar crisis
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Joshua Howat BergerMaputo - Key southern African leaders will hold a special summit on Thursday in Mozambique's capital Maputo to discuss the crisis in Madagascar and the power-sharing government i (By News Poster)...Uganda: Seven Days - Battle of the Bulls in FDC, Museveni Signs Land Law
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By John TugumeForum for Democratic Change big bulls Kizza Besigye and Mugisha Muntu are set to lock horns after picking nomination forms for the party’s presidency.The two vied for the same post (By News Poster)...South Africa: Itireleng crisis due to ANC failures - DA
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Theo Nkonki and Hlengiwe NhlabathiThe eviction of about 500 families from the Itireleng informal settlement west of Pretoria on Monday was the result of the ruling party's inaction, the DA said."Th (By News Poster)...Govt, Namibia Power Deal in Limbo
Friday 15-Jan-2010: CONFUSION surrounds the Zimbabwe and Namibia power deal following a reported directive this week by Energy minister Elias Mudzuri that Zesa should stop exporting electricity to NamPower. Namibia advan (By News Poster)...South Africa: Constable suspected in gangster's death
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Lavern de VriesCrime WriterA Mitchells Plain constable has appeared in court on a charge relating to the murder of a feared gang member.Suspected drug dealer Colin Davids was shot dead in Foxglove (By News Poster)...South Africa: Rape victim's faith in police wanes
Friday 15-Jan-2010: A 15-year-old gang rape victim and her mother have lost hope in the police's ability to arrest three remaining suspects despite knowing their whereabouts.The girl was raped by eight men in an ordeal w (By News Poster)...South Africa: Casings 'match ex-DJ's gun'
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Jade Witten Court ReporterSix bullet casings found at the murder scene of a 21-year-old man, shot outside a Heideveld nightclub, came from the gun owned by a former resident DJ, the Wynberg Magistr (By News Poster)...Africa: Zuma: Togo attack was opportunistic
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: The African heads of state who visited Angola to attend the African Cup of Nations view the terrorist attack on the Togolese team as opportunistic, the presidency has said.Vincent Magwenya, a spokesma (By News Poster)...Africa: Cartoonist's death: Terror charge for Somali
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Jan M OlsenProsecutors filed a preliminary charge of terrorism on Monday against a Somali man accused of trying to kill a Danish cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad.The man had faced a (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Oil - Reforms 'Needed Now'
Monday 11-Jan-2010: The government should first implement sustainable third-generation reforms if the imminent boom in the petroleum sub-sector is to benefit all Tanzanians, stakeholders have advised.They have also calle (By News Poster)...South Africa: Pardon for Schabir Shaik 'not on cards'
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Carien du PlessisPresident Jacob Zuma has denied that a presidential pardon to his former financial adviser and convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik was on the cards, but has admitted to meeting apart (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Warthogs on Runways, Congested Ports Haunt Country as 2010 Beckons
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: By Shame MakoshoriHarare - WHEN South Africa won the bid to host the World Cup, the excitement was so contagious that one would have been forgiven for thinking that Zimbabwe was an extension of Africa (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SADC Reiterates Suspension of Madagascar
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: Maputo - Heads of state of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) decided in Maputo on Thursday night that Madagascar will remain suspended from all SADC bodies and activities until the res (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Dealer Claims Sale of Arms to Country
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Violet GondaArms dealer Peter Michael Hitschmann, who is the State's key witness in the terrorism trial of MDC official Roy Bennett, revealed in court on Thursday that his biggest client was the Re (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SADC Calls for Madagascar Crisis Talks
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Pretoria - Southern African Development Community leaders have called for the return to dialogue in the ongoing political crisis in Madagascar.In their joint communique, after a special summit which w (By News Poster)...Zim: South African High Court approves legal action against Harare in land case
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Application for the registration and enforcement of the SADC Tribunal's ruling in South Africa Ntungamili NkomoWashington - A South African High Court judge on Wednesday granted permission to (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Terror Blacklist - Nonsense And Commonsense
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Tiko Emmanuel OkoyeThe decision of the Barack Obama administration to blacklist Nigeria as a sponsor of terrorism, on the heels of an unsuccessful attempt by a 23-year old Nigerian, Farouk Umar Abd (By News Poster)...Africa: Police arrest priest in Cabinda - lawyer
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: Cabinda, Angola - Angolan police arrested a priest in Cabinda on Saturday, a lawyer and human rights activist said, adding that authorities were using an attack on the Togo soccer team last week as an (By News Poster)...Botswana: Fraud Litters Banking Landscape in 2009
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Of the 140 complaints attended to by the banking industry's ombudsman last year, between 10 and 15 percent were related to fraud, with experts cautioning that this trend indicates the growth of illega (By News Poster)...Zim: SADC urges world to shun Madagascar leader
Friday 15-Jan-2010: "The summit rejects any attempt to use democratic means, institutions and processes to legitimise governments that came to power through unconstitutional means" Muchena ZigomoJohannesburg - So (By News Poster)...Africa: Two killed in attempted Cameroon jailbreak
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Yaounde - Prison warders in Cameroon have shot dead two men who tried to escape from the central prison in the country's main port and economic capital Douala, the prison governor said on Thursday.On (By News Poster)...South Africa: Court evicts unruly Dirk
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: With only one day left before he was supposed to take the stand, Dirk Prinsloo was yesterday removed from the Baranovichi High Court for violating the court order.This means the South African fugitive (By News Poster)...South Africa: Another pensioner meets brutal death at home
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: A second Pretoria pensioner in less than a week has met a violent death at the hands of thugs.Katrina Hendrika van den Berg, 65, was found murdered in her Daspoort home, apparently killed by a man who (By News Poster)...South Africa: DA proposes law to guide president on pardons
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: The Democratic Alliance on Wednesday called for a new law to guide the president on granting pardons that would make it easier to challenge his decisions in court.Admitting the move had been precipita (By News Poster)...Stop Power Exports, Zesa Ordered
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Harare - Energy and Power Development Minister Elias Mudzuri has ordered Zesa Holdings to stop electricity exports to Namibia until normal power generation at Hwange Power Station is restored.Minister (By News Poster)...Kenya: State Ban on Exports Hurts Cashew Nut Prices
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Githua Kihara and Galgalo BochaA government ban on cashew nut exports has left farmers burdened with low prices following reduced interest in the crop by processors.The growers have petitioned Agri (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Mutallab - U.S., Country Oil Deals Threatened
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: The oil deals between Nigeria and the United States (U.S) are on under threat following the ongoing diplomatic tussle between the two countries over U.S. listing of Nigeria as a terror nation, Daily I (By News Poster)...2010 The muslim war against Christians
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Egyptian Muslims gunned down six members of the Coptic Christian community last week, setting off riots that resulted in the bloodiest religious clashes in ten years. Muslim-Coptic clashes have wor (By JanOlifant)...Science: Viagra rival promises a hard day's night
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Viagra gives you an erection when you need one; Cialis gives you one when you want one.Cialis, the new impotence drug, will be available through prescriptions at local pharmacies from Thursday.On Wedn (By News Poster)...Africa: Meet our demands, or Frenchman dies: al-Qaeda
Monday 11-Jan-2010: Al-Qaeda said it will kill a French hostage held since November unless Mali frees four of its militants from jail within 20 days, two US monitoring groups said on Monday.The groups which monitor Islam (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Farouk Mutallab Will Not Die
Monday 11-Jan-2010: This article could have been titled Obama and Media Executioners Vs Farouk and Nigeria and it will still be appropriate. But, the selection of the title was based on the need to come quickly to the co (By News Poster)...Zim: Police confiscate smuggled cigarettes
Monday 11-Jan-2010: Six Zimbabwean nationals, five of whom managed to evade arrest Serowe - Police in Maunatlala in collaboration with the Department of Immigration and Customs Unit have confiscated 1 470 undecla (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mixed feelings over illegal firearm amnesty
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Sharika RegchandPietermaritzburg BureauWith thousands of illegal firearms in circulation around the country, contributing to the high rate of serious and violent crimes, most political parties have (By News Poster)...South Africa: Training Teachers to Cope With HIV-Positive Students
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Vusumuzi SifileHarare - Eleven-year-old Memory's grandmother wanted her to drop out of school because she is not going to live long enough to complete her studies.And the ridicule and stigma Memory (By News Poster)...World: 'eBay for fraudsters' scam smashed
Friday 15-Jan-2010: To the outside world, there was nothing remarkable about Renukanth Subramaniam. The 33-year-old loner kept a low profile as a Pizza Hut chef and sometime courier, spending his days in internet cafes a (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Guebuza Sworn in
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Farai DzirutweMaputo - MOZAMBICAN President Armando Emilio Guebuza was yesterday sworn-in for his second and final five-year term at a colourful ceremony attended by seven Sadc Heads of State and G (By News Poster)...Africa: Leveraging the Impact of Remittances to Africa
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Increasingly Africans living and working abroad are being called upon to take a more active role in the development of the continent. Some African countries have established Diaspora forums to engage (By News Poster)...Uganda: Public Supports War Crimes Trials
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Rukia MakumaKampala - A report on the Transitional Justice Bill that seeks protection for victims and witnesses and prosecution for war crimes perpetrators in Uganda has distributed responsibility (By News Poster)...Ghana: 508 Prisoners to Begin Distance Learning
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Samuel AgbewodeThe Acting Director General of Prisons, Mr. Michael Kofi Bansah, says the welfare of inmates is not the responsibility of government alone, and has called on corporate bodies, non-go (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gunmen Kidnap Three Britons, Kill Policeman in Port Harcourt
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Ofonime UmanahPort Harcourt - GUNMEN killed one policeman in Port Harcourt on Tuesday and kidnapped three Britons and a Colombian, incidents which caused panic and made travellers on the Port-Harco (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Police Net Wanted Car Racketeer
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Bosco R. AsiimweKigali - Police have in their custody a female Burundian national said to be among the most wanted car thieves in the region.Joseline Niyonzima believed to be in her early 40s was a (By News Poster)...Botswana: Mines to Shine as Coal, Base Metals Prices Soar
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: A steady rise in the price of coal and copper has come as a godsend to local miners, who have just emerged from a crippling year characterised by some of the worst economic conditions on record.BCL Mi (By News Poster)...Africa: Protestant temple burned in Algeria
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Aomar OualiAlgiers, Algeria - Islamists looted and burned a Protestant temple in Algeria, the congregation's leader said Monday, suggesting they were inspired by a recent wave of religious intoler (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Another Poor Farming Season Looms
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Caiphas ChimheteFROM the edge of her sorghum field, a dejected Beatrice Munazvo surveys the wilting crop, her eyes welling with tears. The 52-year-old communal farmer from Gudyanga area in Chimanim (By News Poster)...Somalia: Somalia - Explosions Rock Galkayo, Somaliland Officer Killed in Las Anod
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: At least two explosions happened in Galkayo town of Puntland State of Somalia on Friday night after unknown assailants attacked two radio stations.The attackers targeted Radio Galkayo in the Puntland- (By News Poster)...Rwanda: ICTR - National Tribunal Creates Rich Legal Precedent
Friday 15-Jan-2010: New York - The important judicial decisions of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) have enriched the law on genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said (By News Poster)...Africa: Couple and child killed in grenade attack
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Bujumbura - An attacker in northern Burundi hurled a grenade into a home, killing a man, his wife and one of their children in the explosion on Thursday."Last night in Busiga village, on Ruvumu hill, (By News Poster)...Zim: Mbada's shady dealings dim Chiadzwa's sparkle
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Could Mhlanga have been spinning a yarn to the media? Chris MuronziWhen Mbada Diamonds published an advert in a local newspaper in December showing off the installation of a mechanised plant i (By News Poster)...Zim: South African High Court approves legal action against Harare in land case.
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Ntungamili NkomoWashington - A South African High Court judge on Wednesday granted permission to three Zimbabwean farmers backed by the AfriForum rights group to launch a legal action against (By News Poster)...South Africa: Ruling Alliance Tests Zuma's Leadership
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - TENSIONS in the tripartite alliance are expected to loom large over the African National Congress (ANC) executive committee lekgotla this weekend.It is understood that yo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: I'm Alive - Yar'Adua
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Cosmas Ekpunobi and John ShiklamKaduna - President Umaru Yar'Adua yesterday broke his silence, 50 days after he left Nigeria to Saudi Arabia where he has been undergoing medical treatment, saying h (By News Poster)...Africa: Alleged Somali pirate faces more charges
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: New York - A Somali teenager extradited to New York last year on charges he attempted to hijack a US ship in the Indian Ocean was indicted on Tuesday for his alleged involvement in two additional atta (By News Poster)...World: 'Threats will not frighten' Iran's Karoubi
Monday 11-Jan-2010: Senior Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karoubi said on Monday threats would not stop his pro-reform path, three days after an opposition website said shots had been fired at a car he was in.In a defia (By News Poster)...Farms belonging to South Africans invaded in Zimbabwe
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: South Africa has officially complained to Zimbabwe's government Thulasizwe SimelaneZimbabwe - South Africa has officially complained to Zimbabwe's government over apparent violations of the re (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Ministers Named in Graft Probe
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Faith ZabaENERGY and Power Development minister Elias Mudzuri, co-Home Affairs minister Giles Mutsekwa, and Mines deputy minister Murisi Zwizwai are the three ministers being probed by the MDC-T fo (By News Poster)...Double Troika Summit Communique
Friday 15-Jan-2010: The Double Troika Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was held in Maputo, Republic of Mozambique, on 14 January 2010.The Summit was officially (By News Poster)...East Africa: Piracy Hit All-Time High in 2009, Says Report
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Nairobi - Pirate attacks globally rose to an all-time high last year, with suspected Somali pirates accounting for more than half of the 406 reported incidents.A new report by the International Mariti (By News Poster)...Africa: Court hears of gem for supermodel
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: The Hague - Former Liberian president Charles Taylor gave a so-called blood diamond to supermodel Naomi Campbell after a 1997 dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela, the prosecution in his war crimes trial c (By News Poster)...Egypt: Gunmen Planned to Assassinate Coptic Bishop
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Gunmen who killed 7 Egyptian Christians on January 6 were apparently aiming to assassinate the Coptic Bishop Anba Kirollos.The shooting of worshippers at a Coptic church in Nag Hammadi, where Coptic C (By News Poster)...South Africa: PICS: Prinsloo had 'god and slave' complex
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Hanti OttoBaranovichi, Belarus - Dirk Prinsloo's attitude to a former Belarusian girlfriend was that he was a god and she his slave.This witness, identified only as Anastasia, also told the Baranov (By News Poster)...World: Obama hailed for 'steady diplomacy'
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Washington - The White House on Tuesday argued that President Barack Obama's "steady diplomacy" had made America stronger and renewed its moral authority despite "unprecedented challenges" in his firs (By News Poster)...South Africa: 61 arrests in cop blitz - and just one murder
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Kowthar SolomonsStaff ReporterA blitz conducted by seven police stations in and around Nyanga resulted in 61 arrests for crimes ranging from rape to possession of an unlicensed firearm.The arrests (By News Poster)...World: Three US soldiers killed in Afghanistan: Nato
Monday 11-Jan-2010: Three US service members were killed Monday in fighting in southern Afghanistan, underscoring the unrelenting violence in the Taliban heartland as the Obama administration steps up efforts to rout the (By News Poster)...Science: A proper, pratical way for Black Holes to power spaceships of the future to nearly the speed of light...
Monday 11-Jan-2010: [I was chatting to a friend who has a strong science background about the building of really fast spacecraft when he pointed me to this truly fascinating article. A lot of discussion about propelling (By Jan)...Zim: Ministers named in graft probe
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: Zwizwai is being accused of seeking bribes for tender awards Faith ZabaEnergy and power development minister Elias Mudzuri, co-Home Affairs minister Giles Mutsekwa, and Mines deputy minister M (By News Poster)...Africa: Terrorism - AU Expert Urges Caution
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Abimbola AkosileLagos - An African Union (AU) official has called on all stakeholders to tread with caution on the application of the word 'terrorism' to any situation; as the term may be relative (By News Poster)...Africa: Zimbabwe stops electricity exports to Namibia
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Zimbabwe's power utility has been ordered to stop electricity exports to Namibia until it can meet its own country's needs, a state daily reported on Wednesday.The Herald newspaper reported that Energ (By News Poster)...World: Mexico captures leader of drug gang
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Lizbeth DiazTijuana - Mexican police on Tuesday captured a drug kingpin known for having the corpses of tortured rivals dissolved in acid and blamed for much of a surge in violence in the northern (By News Poster)...Mozambique: 16 Renamo Deputies Defy Dhlakama
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Maputo - Despite the demand by Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party Renamo, for a boycott of the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, 16 of the 51 Renamo deputi (By News Poster)...South Africa/Angola: Angola 'Irresponsible' for Not Providing Security Escort for Team
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Luphert ChilwaneJohannesburg - IT WAS irresponsible for the organisers of the African Nations Cup tournament in Angola not to have arranged security escort services for teams travelling by road, a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Militants Attack Chevron Pipeline
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku With Agency ReportLagos - Following Federal Government's amnesty programme for repentant Niger Delta militants, which had culminated in a ceasefire and significant increase in (By News Poster)...USA: China's influence on US Congress growing steadily
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: [This is shocking. I do not believe china is evolving away from communism. How stupid can those american politicians be to believe such rubbish.Jan] Washington, Jan. 11 -- Ten years ago, US lawmake (By JanOlifant)...Nigeria: 2010 - Uduaghan's Promise of Development in Delta
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Oma DjebahIt is a time-tested management practice to take stock of the year just gone by. In this way, one is able to put in perspective what needs to be pursued with vigour in the new year. This c (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Gov't Welcomes French Move to Create Genocide Court
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - The decision by France to create a special investigative unit as part of the Tribunal de Grande Instance (TGI) in Paris to expedite the prosecution of Genocide crimes has been (By News Poster)...World: Suicide bomber kills 7
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Falluja, Iraq - A suicide bomber blew up a truck near a police station in Iraq's western Anbar province on Wednesday, killing seven people and wounding six, police said.The bomber struck in the centre (By News Poster)...Africa: Twist in state's case against Bennett
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Harare - The trial of Zimbabwe's deputy agriculture minister-designate Roy Bennett for terrorism and insurgency took a new twist Tuesday when the prosecution called its star witness, an arms dealer, t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Driver of cash van killed during robbery
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: The driver of a cash van was shot dead and his colleague was wounded when armed men opened fire on them at a supermarket in Senaoane, Soweto, on Tuesday, Johannesburg police said.Two shoppers were als (By News Poster)...Sudan: Drought, Insecurity Hurting Food Production in South
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Juba - "The yield of the [sorghum] crop was generally poorer in some locations in 2009 than in 2008," John Chuol, a member of a government team that conducted an assessment of the food situation in fi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Renew Certificates Or Risk Losing Guns, Police Warn
Monday 11-Jan-2010: Harare - ALL firearm owners who fail to renew their certificates on time risk having their guns forfeited, police have warned.Criminal Investigations Department spokesperson Detective Inspector August (By News Poster)...Africa: 'We will never stop the fighting'
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Abdi SheikhAt least 18 people were killed in fighting on Monday in two central Somali towns where rebels battled pro-government militia and each other, according to witnesses.The Ahlu Sunna Waljama (By News Poster)...South Africa: 148 dead on roads already this year
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Kamini PadayacheeA woman was killed and three others were injured when a bakkie crashed into a car at the corner of Goble and Umgeni roads yesterday morning as newly released figures showed that ju (By News Poster)...Liberia: Urgent Need for Fresh Water Hits West Africa - ECOWAS Calls for Actions
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: Experts in West Africa say that despite an incredible demand for fresh waters by millions of people, most of the region's major river basins are already shrinking or drying up, with prediction that th (By News Poster)...World: Dozens hurt in Najaf bombings
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Najaf - Three bombs killed at least two people in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf and injured dozens on Thursday, shattering a period of relative calm in one of Shi'a Islam's holiest centres, officia (By News Poster)...Africa: Seven children killed in Somalia shelling
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Mogadishu - Seven children were among ten people killed in shelling by Somali government forces in Mogadishu on Wednesday as the troops backed by African Union peacekeepers fired mortars into district (By News Poster)...Star witness in Zimbabwe terror trial threatened with impeachment
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Hitschmann said he first saw Bennett on television punching the justice minister in parliament Harare - The trial of controversial Zimbabwean politician Roy Bennett took a new twist Tuesday wh (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Blood in the water was all I could see'
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Caryn Dolley, Jo-Anna Smetherham and Michelle JonesA Fish Hoek resident has described how the jaws of a giant shark clamped down on a swimmer just metres from other beach-goers."Holy sh*t. We just (By News Poster)...World: Eleven suspected mafiosi arrested in Italy
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Italian police Tuesday arrested 11 suspected members of the southern 'Ndrangheta mafia in Rosarno, the town where racial unrest last week was thought to be linked to organised crime, police said.Actin (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Kadoma Police Seize Midsec Firearms
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Harare - Police in Kadoma have seized 19 rifles, pistols and shotguns belonging to Midsec Security Company after the company failed to renew firearm certificates on time.Investigations carried out so (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Moves Afoot to Boost Aids Levy
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Fortious NhamburaHarare - THE National Aids Council has urged Government to consider collecting the Aids levy through the Value Added Tax system following recommendations by a team of consultants w (By News Poster)...World: Misery, chaos descend on Haiti
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: Port-au-Prince - Desperate Haiti quake survivors pleaded on Saturday for vital supplies amid anger over the chaotic aid effort, while the true extent of the disaster beyond the capital began to emerge (By News Poster)...[Pic] S.Africa: Police shoot drunken woman's car full of holes... for talking on her cell phone!!!!
Friday 15-Jan-2010: [A friend sent me this pic which he said he found on the internet. The Police are now trigger-happy. But it seems they don't shoot: Murderers, armed robbers or rapists. Instead they shoot at... this.. (By Jan)...Rwanda: Genocide Suspect Held After Hiding in France
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - They say you can run but you cannot hide from the long arm of the law as Jean Rwabahizi, a genocide suspect who has been hiding in France for 3 years, discovered. He was arres (By News Poster)...South Africa: British detectives in SA to solve murder
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Two detectives from Sussex police's Major Crime Branch in England are in South Africa to try and find the prime suspect in a murder enquiry, the British High Commission said on Tuesday.They arrived in (By News Poster)...Botswana: Calls Made for ARVs for Foreign Inmates
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Lekopanye MooketsiA leading HIV/AIDS activist has said the government policy of denying Anti- Retrovirals (ARVs) to foreign inmates in local prisons is tantamount to condemning them to death."You a (By News Poster)...Africa: Al-Qaeda threatens to execute French hostage
Monday 11-Jan-2010: The north African branch of al-Qaeda threatened to execute a French hostage unless four of its militants were freed from jail in Mali in 20 days, two US monitoring groups said on Monday.Al-Qaeda in th (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Five Arrested in City Crime Crackdown
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Bosco R. AsiimweKigali - Police has arrested five suspects and confiscated ammunition during an operation to crackdown on armed criminals in Kigali city and also operating invarious parts of the co (By News Poster)...South Africa: Wasteman faces possible shutdown
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: The deadline looms for a waste company to appeal against an order to shut down its Krugersdorp, Johannesburg operations after it allegedly illegally dumped medical waste.The Wasteman company had until (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bulawayo Evicts Farm Invaders
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Nqobile BhebheBULAWAYO City Council is on a collision course with war veterans following Monday's eviction of more than 100 families who occupied a municipal farm. Controversial Zanu PF member Lill (By News Poster)...South Africa: Shaik medical reports: details revealed
Friday 15-Jan-2010: The Mail and Guardian on Friday released details of the medical reports which led to Schabir Shaik's controversial parole.According to the report, a psychiatrist Dr Abubaker Gangat said Shaik's persis (By News Poster)...Zim: Harare gives Namibia power pledge
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: "When Hwange has power, Namibia will get it...like today. Hwange has enough power, 370MW. So Namibia gets its share" Windhoek - Zimbabwean Energy Minister Elias Mudzuri said this week Harare w (By News Poster)...Museveni Warns Minister on Anti-Gay Bill
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Milton Olupot and Cyprian MusokeKampala - PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has cautioned those advocating for the Anti-Homosexuality Bill to "go slow", saying the matter was a sensitive foreign policy iss (By News Poster)...South Africa: PIC: Hunt for shark after attack
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Bronwynne Jooste, Murray Williams and Kowthar SolomonsStaff ReportersThe shark alarm was sounded along the False Bay coast soon after 9am today and authorities closed beaches from Strandfontein to (By News Poster)...South Africa: PICS: Explosion rips through restaurant
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Graeme Hosken Crime ReporterTwo people, including a gas technician, were seriously injured and five others slightly hurt when an explosion ripped through a city centre fast food outlet yesterday af (By News Poster)...Somalia: Three Killed in Mogadishu Clashes
Monday 11-Jan-2010: At least 3 people have been killed and 8 others injured after fighting between Al-Shabaab militants and Somali government forces rocked a district in the restive capital at Abdulaziz district in north (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Policemen Arrested for Involvement in Robbery
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Maputo - Two policemen were arrested in the northern Mozambican province of Nampula on Wednesday, accused of involvement in the robbery of 684,000 meticais (about 25,330 US dollars), and have been thr (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'These guys are using heavy force'
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Arthi SanpathPower surges in parts of Durban are frying costly appliances and electronics, fraying tempers and causing havoc with homeowners' budgets.This week alone thieves broke into five susbsta (By News Poster)...South Africa: Malema salutes Mahlangu
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Mogomotsi MagomeANC Youth League president Julius Malema has praised struggle stalwart Solomon Mahlangu for his contribution to the liberation struggle.Malema was speaking at Solomon Mahlangu Squar (By News Poster)...Threats to Kill Continue to Irk Police
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Isaac PinieloCrimes of threatening to kill, continue to be worrisome, Botswana Police northern divisional commander senior assistant commissioner, Oreeditse Mautle, has said.Speaking to Mmegi in an (By News Poster)...Rwanda: A Law On Genocide Denial is Timely
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Kigali - The recent announcement that a law to punish Genocide denial is in the making qualifies to be one of Rwanda's legislative highlights for 2010.Scholars worldwide refer to denial as the final s (By News Poster)...Haitian Gangs Roam Around Haitian Cities After Earthquake Afterhmath
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: [I remember there being similar reports happening after Katrina. Those who supported the criminals were really avowed Communists from the Workers' World Party whom endorsed them typically as the "opp (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Foreigners Fare Better on HIV Treatment Than Citizens
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Johannesburg - A study finding that foreigners are about half as likely to fail antiretroviral (ARV) treatment as South African citizens attending the same Johannesburg clinic has challenged widely he (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Terrorist Attack - Homeland Secretary to Discuss Aviation Security With Spain, Switzerland
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Abiodun OluwarotimiNew York - Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano will travel to Toledo, Spain, on Jan. 21, at the invitation of her Spanish colleague, Interior Ministe (By News Poster)...Science: 'Lethal cocktail' deadly - study
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Kate KellandLondon - More than three percent of sudden deaths in Europe are related to cocaine use and many of them are brought on by a "lethal cocktail" of the drug, alcohol and cigarettes, scient (By News Poster)...Zim: Roy Bennett trial due to resume
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Prosecution failed to explain how arms increased from 6 to 50 The trial of Zimbabwe's deputy Agriculture Minister-designate Roy Bennett, who is facing charges of illegal possession of weapons (By News Poster)...South Africa: Man arrested for Soweto shebeen murder
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: A man was arrested early Sunday morning for allegedly killing another in a shebeen in Soweto, Johannesburg police said."It happened at Moroka, White City whereby the man was in the shebeen and he had (By News Poster)...World: Haiti still lives in fear
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Stephane JourdainPort-Au-Prince - The crippled port of the Haitian capital has received its first supply ship since Tuesday's killer earthquake - a boat carrying bananas and coal that was greeted w (By News Poster)...World: Prinsloo says sorry
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: "I want to apologise to my country, as I have shamed it. Also to Belarus, as this is a good country. And to the victims and the bank," a modest Dirk Prinsloo on Friday said in the Baranovichi High Cou (By News Poster)...South Africa: Pay an agency to set up a clandestine affair
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: As the debate around President Jacob Zuma's polygamy rages, some of his supporters claim it is a more honest practice than men who have affairs.One Joburg woman disagrees. Cherie Green runs About Love (By News Poster)...South Africa: Name change dishonest: Afrikanerbond
Friday 15-Jan-2010: The ongoing process of name changing is dishonest, the Afrikanerbond said on Friday.Afrikanerbond managing director Jan Bosman said a letter to President Jacob Zuma on the Afrikanerbond's official obj (By News Poster)...Zim: Hitschmann recounts torture
Friday 15-Jan-2010: "Conveniently, they do not show my face and hence you fail to see the blood" Harare - A witness in the trial of a Zimbabwean official accused of terrorism and insurgency recounted Thursday how (By News Poster)...Zim: Harare 'ready for lawsuit'
Friday 15-Jan-2010: "Remains to be seen how executable the ruling was in Zimbabwe" By Lucky BiyaseThe Zimbabwean government is unfazed by a high court ruling that granted AfriForum an order for leave to sue it fo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Militia Leader Arrested
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Emma OguOwerri - Leader of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has been arrested. He was picked up by the Imo State police command in O (By News Poster)...Liberia: Charles Taylor Back on the Stand
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Tracey GurdThe first day back of Charles Taylor's trial, after a month-long break, was marked by feisty exchanges between Mr. Taylor and lead prosecution counsel, Brenda Hollis, on Monday as she tr (By News Poster)...Africa: Afriforum wins first round in Zimbabwe case
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Pretoria - The civil rights group Afriforum on Wednesday won a court bid to sue Zimbabwe's government over its "cruel" and "revengeful" expropriation of South African owned farms.Speaking outside the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sangoma in court for Masego murder
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Mogomotsi Magome and Graeme HoskenA sangoma arrested in connection with the murder of 10-year-old Masego Kgomo appeared in the Soshanguve Magistrate's Court briefly on Tuesday along with a 14-year- (By News Poster)...Science: US eyes new nuclear plants in green battle
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Jeff MasonWashington - The Obama administration wants to help the nuclear industry build a power plant for the first time in years to help diversify US energy supplies and fight climate change, the (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'I have lost two sons to the gun'
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: A young man watched his twin brother being shot through the head seconds before a bullet ripped through his own shoulder.Vuyo Damane, 23, and his twin brother were sitting with friends when a man open (By News Poster)...Nigeria/Angola: Can This Eagles Fly in Angola?
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Peter EdemaAfrica's most prestigious football tournament, Africa Cup of Nations, in its 27th edition kicks off on Sunday in Angola.Expectedly, Nigeria's Super Eagles, two-time winner of the tournam (By News Poster)...The Sun Always Shines and in Lüderitz the Wind (Almost) Always Blows
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Daniel SteinmannWindhoek - We stand accused of gross negligence and the inability to plan our future responsibly. Nearing twenty years of independence, we are as dependent on South Africa for our e (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops baffled by actress' account of shooting
Monday 11-Jan-2010: Police and the Cape Town City Improvement District's (CCID) security expert say they find it strange that a shooting involving an Irish actress in a crowded city street on New Year's Eve was not repor (By News Poster)...Liberia: Man, 43, Indicted for Raping Nine Yr-Old Child
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Marcus ZolehThe Liberia National Police (LNP) has charged and sent to court a 43-year-old man for raping a 9-year-old girl in the Airfield community in Sinkor.Ansu Donzo was indicted January 9, 201 (By News Poster)...Botswana: Fly Has Only Himself to Blame - Judges
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Bame PietDeathrow inmate Mokwadi Fly has only himself to blame for ending up on the hangman's list, said a panel of three judges of the Court of Appeal yesterday.Justice Nick McNally, Justice Seth (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Magufulu Lands Sh200 Billion Deepen Fishing Contract
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Frank KimboyThe government yesterday signed a major fishing contract with Japan that is expected to earn the country over Sh200 billion in licence fees and tax revenues annually.The contract is the (By News Poster)...Africa: Life of French hostage is on the line
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Dubai - Al-Qaeda's North African wing has threatened to execute a French hostage if four al-Qaeda prisoners being held in Mali are not released within 20 days.Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 4 Robbery Suspects Arrested
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Vincent UjumaduAwka - FOUR armed robbery suspects, who allegedly snatched a Prado Jeep from the owner at the Lekki area of Lagos, were yesterday handed over to the Anambra State Police Command by t (By News Poster)...East Africa: Evicted From Forests, the Batwa Are Destitute
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Bamuturaki MusinguziNairobi - Hagumimana Kanyabichingi epitomises the once proud and independent Batwa Pygmies (also known as the Twa or forest people) who following evictions from the Lake Region (By News Poster)...Somalia: Violence against Journalists Continues in Somalia
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is concerned over the continuing violence being directed towards the journalists in Somalia following the injury of Radio Journalist in Beletweyne town (By News Poster)...Somalia: Rights Group Reports 138 Dead in Recent Fighting
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: A Mogadishu-based right group says the death toll from the recent fighting between Somali armed groups in central Somalia has reached 138 with more than 344 others, mostly fighters from both sides inj (By News Poster)...Somalia: 4 Journalists Wounded in Explosion Attacks Targeted to 3 FM Radios in Galka'o Town
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Galka'o - At least four journalists have been wounded in north Galka'o town in Mudug region after unidentified gunmen attacked three local FM radio stations in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Legislators Probe U.S. 'Terror' Listing
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Onwuka NzeshiAbuja - Following United States' classification of Nigeria among the 14 "countries of interest" in the aftermath of the botched attempt to blow up a Detroit, Michigan-bound Delta Airli (By News Poster)...Regional summit this week on Zimbabwe, Madagascar
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: "The prime minister is currently on leave, and he is not going to the summit. We are not aware of it" By Joshua Howat BergerMaputo - Key Southern African leaders will hold a special summit Thu (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Politicians Turn to Farming
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Tina A. HassanThe term political farmers has been used frequently in agricultural circle to such an extent that it has become difficult to ignore completely. Politicians are enviously jostling for (By News Poster)...Africa: More power for Angola president
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Henrique AlmeidaLuanda - Angola will next week approve a new constitution set to further strengthen the president's three-decade hold, state radio said on Wednesday within days of a deadly rebel am (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Bomb' cop to lose R60 000 in assets
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: A high-ranking police officer accused of selling a bomb was set to lose his bakkie worth R60,000 following an order by the High Court in Pretoria, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Tue (By News Poster)...South Africa: Elderly woman raped and assaulted
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: A 67-year-old woman was raped and severely assaulted after two men broke into her home in Nemato, Port Alfred, Eastern Cape police said on Tuesday.Captain Mali Govender said the woman was asleep at h (By News Poster)...South Africa: No mercy for crooks, vows police boss
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: There was a significant decline in various crimes over the festive season, Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa said on Monday.Cash-in-transit heists, armed robberies, house robberies and break-ins as we (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: AFRC Spokesman Defends January 6 Invasion
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Mohamed MassaquoiFreetown - Former spokesman of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, AFRC, Wednesday recalled that the infamous January 6, 1999 invasion of Freetown by a combined group of AFRC a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops find R600 000 stolen from ticket office
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Lavern de VriesCrime WriterPolice have recovered more than half of the R1-million stolen from Table Mountain National Park by two gunmen at Cape Point entrance gate last week.Police spokesperson Su (By News Poster)...Africa: Guinea peace deal gets regional backing
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - African diplomats descended on Burkina Faso to ensure a deal is sealed, calling for Guinea's injured leader to step down and for his country to hold democratic elections wi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Man 'beats' girlfriend to death
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: Police are looking for a Zimbabwean citizen who allegedly beat his girlfriend to death after finding out she was using birth control medication.Rooiberg police spokesman Inspector Enock Mudzili said t (By News Poster)...Oil Curse Haunting Country
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Henry OwuorTragedy seems to stalk Angola, one of the most unfortunate nations on the African continent.Until the current football event being hosted by the country and the tragic events that licked (By News Poster)...Africa: Guinea acting ruler threatens to quit
Friday 15-Jan-2010: The interim head of Guinea's ruling junta has threatened to resign over the proposed return to the country of junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara, recovering from an assassination attempt in Burkina Faso (By News Poster)...South Africa: Taxi driver, conductor shot as gunman escapes
Friday 15-Jan-2010: A taxi driver and his conductor, shot as they were picking up passengers in Vrygrond on Thursday, were in a stable condition in hospital.Police said the 33-year-old taxi driver had been shot twice, in (By News Poster)...South Africa: Tearful ex tells of Prinsloo's heist plan
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Hanti Otto Baranovichi - Yesterday was a very difficult day for Tatiana Leshko, former girlfriend of Dirk Prinsloo and the mother of his baby daughter.It was her "obligation" to testify against him (By News Poster)...Hwange deal still on – Zimbabwe
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Reports are “fabrications by journalists†and contain no shred of truth By Desie HeitaWindhoek - The supply agreement between Namibia and Zimbabwe remains intact, and the news reports to t (By News Poster)...World: 'Allah' row: Catholics' lawyers offices hit
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Romen BoseKuala Lumpur - Malaysia's Catholic Church said on Thursday its lawyers' offices had been burgled and ransacked in the latest of a spate of attacks triggered by a row over the use of the w (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Need to Improve Isles' Clove Farming
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Deogratias MushiDar Es Salaam - In an effort to revive the islands' once famed clove industry, the Zanzibar government decided to privatize clove trade in 2007, which was until then the monopoly of (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Abdulmutallab - Nigeria, UK, US, Yemen, Ghana, Holland Failed Woefully
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Paul OhiaLagos - Because Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was able to beat several security checks and enter the United States to attempt bombing an aircraft, countries are trading blames. It reminds me o (By News Poster)...World: Haitians receive little help despite promises
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: By Andrew Cawthorne and Catherine BremerPort-au-Prince - United States troops will help keep order on Haiti's increasingly lawless streets, the country's president said on Sunday as desperate earthqua (By News Poster)...Africa: Zim defies diamond treaty
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: By Peta ThornycroftZimbabwe has rejected a European monitor to oversee the exports of diamonds from its controversial Marange fields to ensure they are not "blood diamonds". It has unilaterally "appoi (By News Poster)...Angola/Nigeria: Arsene Wenger, Togo and Angola 2010
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Paul BasseyBefore now I did not believe that I will have any cause to eat on the same table with any Arsenal fan not to talk about their coach, Arsene Wenger, until I read that masterpiece of his o (By News Poster)...South Africa: Lawyer critical after stabbing
Friday 15-Jan-2010: A 58-year-old lawyer is in a critical condition in hospital after he was stabbed several times by robbers at his home in Mthatha, Eastern Cape police said on Friday."A group of about five men broke do (By News Poster)...Man to Rot in Jail At the President's Pleasure
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Bame PietA 26 year-old man of Mahalapye Liberty Mhlanga may never get his liberty if President Ian Khama feels he is still a threat to the nation.Mhlanga has been in prison for the past 10 years fo (By News Poster)...World: 'There will be no witch hunt'
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: President Alvaro Colom Wednesday said there will be "no witch hunt" for those who wrongly accused him of murdering a lawyer who, investigators found, planned his own death to blame Colom and his wife (By News Poster)...World: 'This is the end of the world'
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Gallery: Massive earthquake strikes HaitiSao Paulo/Port-Au-Prince - Haiti collapsed into chaos at 4:53 pm (2153 GMT) Tuesday. The worst Haitian earthquake in at least a century devastated Port-au-Pri (By News Poster)...Africa: Coping With the Events
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Our editorial on Sunday gave a lot of kudos to the leadership and people of Angola for the resilience of that nation's institutions, which has led to the end of the decades long civil war in the count (By News Poster)...World: Parents hid Maddie's body, court told
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Portuguese police convinced themselves Madeleine McCann's parents faked her abduction, despite having no evidence against them, a court was told on Wednesday.Officers leading the investigation into th (By News Poster)...Guinea: Ban 'Encouraged' By Recent Developments in Country Politics
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that he is "encouraged" by recent political developments in Guinea, especially the interim head of State's commitment for a return to constitutional order, calli (By News Poster)...Africa: Prosecutor seeks to impeach Bennett witness
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By MacDonald DzirutweZimbabwe's attorney general said on Tuesday the state would move to have its key witness in the terrorism trial of an ally of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai impeached for giving (By News Poster)...Angola: Togolese journalist killed in attack in Angola
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: The Committee to Protect Journalists called today on Angolan authorities to ensure the safety of sports journalists covering the African Nations Cup following the death of a Togolese sports journalist (By News Poster)...Africa: Nations Cup - Cabinda Rebels Threaten More Attacks
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Paul ArheweLagos - More attacks are likely to come up, as a pro-independence leader in northern Angola made known the rationale behind the attack on Togo's soccer team on its way to the African Cup (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG Says 50 Percent Crude Refining Not Yet Enforceable
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Sopuruchi OnwukaMinistry of Petroleum Resources weekend blamed the inability of the agencies under his ministry to implement the presidential directive on local refining of 50 percent oil productio (By News Poster)...IOL Sport: The show MUST go on
Monday 11-Jan-2010: A friend of mine should have died in Angola. Wait, I'm wrong, make that two friends who should have died there.Both worked on mines in remote areas, their compounds protected by private security armie (By News Poster)...World: UN chief confirmed dead in Haiti quake
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: By Patrick WorsnipUnited Nations - The UN mission chief in Haiti, Hedi Annabi, died in Tuesday's earthquake that devastated the country's capital, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on Saturda (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe central bank ‘under-funded' by treasury, official says
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: Lacks the funds to be Zimbabwe's lender of last resort The future of Zimbabwe's central bank is in doubt because of a lack of funds from the Treasury, an official said. The “Treasury is seri (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police search for shooters in gang attack
Friday 15-Jan-2010: The police are looking for two gang gunmen involved in a shooting in Wesbank, outside Cape Town.A police spokeswoman, Captain Nomathemba Muavha, said on Friday that the men had opened fire on two othe (By News Poster)...South Africa: Staff still reeling after deadly heist
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Sibusiso SgwaneWorkers and customers feel as though they are under siege after a robbery which claimed a life at the Pick n Pay supermarket in Senaoane, Soweto. One of the customers, Mantombi Gongx (By News Poster)...South Africa: Boy shot in failed hijacking
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Yusuf MoollaA 12-year-old boy was shot in the head during a botched hijacking in Chatsworth last night.Police Superintendent Vincent Mdunge said four armed men had attempted to hijack an off-duty p (By News Poster)...Africa: Civilians held in Angola after AFCON violence
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Julien PretotCabinda - Angolan authorities have detained several civilians in Cabinda in recent days, following a deadly attack on Togo's national soccer team by separatists in the oil-producing pr (By News Poster)...World: Man pulled from ruins in Haiti
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Port-Au-Prince - Sniffer dogs eagerly clambered over the ruins of the Haitian capital on Thursday as in a rare moment of hope a man was miraculously pulled alive and unscathed from the rubble of the U (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: President in Maputo for Guebuza's Inauguration
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Farai DzirutweMaputo - PRESIDENT Mugabe arrived here yesterday to join other regional leaders for the inauguration of Cde Armando Guebuza, who is scheduled to be sworn-in for his second and final t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Shark attacks: It's a risk every time you get in the water - Sharks in USA munch people too
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: [Jeff Nyquist was telling me that contrary to what we South Africans believe, they have a LOT of Great White sharks on the beaches of northern California. He told me a friend once took a photo of a Gr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Adbulmutallab - Why Working Class Alternative is Imperative
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Ayo AdemiluyiMuch furore has been raised over the alleged terrorist attempt of 23-year old Nigerian, Abdulmutallab Farouk, son to millionaire banker and pupil to Al-Qaeda fundamentalist sect. Clear (By News Poster)...World: Israel tries to defuse tiff with Turkey
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Amy TeibelIsrael's deputy foreign minister has said he regrets humiliating Turkey's ambassador, in an effort to defuse a diplomatic flap that has further strained ties between the once-close allies (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Victim Tells Court His Village Wants Reparations
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Wairagala WakabiThe first participating victim to take the witness stand in the trial of former Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga told the court on Tuesday that the reason he was testifying w (By News Poster)...World: VIDEO: Thousands possibly buried in quake
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Gallery: Massive earthquake strikes HaitiBy Joseph Guyler DelvaPort-au-Prince - A major earthquake struck the capital of impoverished Haiti on Tuesday, toppling many buildings and burying hundreds, p (By News Poster)...World: Campbell denies 'sexing up' Iraq dossier
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: London - Tony Blair's former chief spin doctor Alastair Campbell fiercely denied on Tuesday "sexing up" a dossier which claimed Iraq could launch chemical or biological weapons within 45 minutes ahead (By News Poster)...Kenya: Trial HIV Vaccine Leaves 46 Infected
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Elias MbaoLusaka - A failed clinical trial HIV vaccine that left 46 Zambian women infected with the virus has sparked controversy.The Microbicides Development Programme (MDP) 301 trial, which was t (By News Poster)...IOL Sport: Angola knew Cabinda matches risky - Jordaan
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Tabelo TimseAngola knew for years that staging Africa's premier football tournament in the restive enclave of Cabinda posed a security risk, South Africa's World Cup organising chief said on Tuesda (By News Poster)...Africa: Gunmen kidnap four in Nigeria
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Lagos - Gunmen kidnapped three Britons and a Colombian working for Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell early on Tuesday, shooting dead their police escort, police and security sources said.The four were seize (By News Poster)...South Africa: Somalis' shops looted in Western Cape
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Western Cape police fired rubber bullets to disperse about 400 Riviersonderend residents who went on a rampage, attacking and looting shops owned by Somali nationals."It was not a xenophobic attack. R (By News Poster)...World: Toyboy faked cancer to escape Mrs Robinson
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: The toyboy lover of the wife of Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson was forced to feign disease to end their relationship, it was claimed today.Iris Robinson had an affair with young busi (By News Poster)...Africa: Genocide survivors 'punished'
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Kigali - Four survivors of the 1994 genocide against Rwanda's Tutsi community who have testified in court were killed in grenade attacks in recent days, the main survivors' organisation said on Tuesda (By News Poster)...World: Robinson slams 'mischievous allegation'
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Belfast - Northern Ireland's leader Peter Robinson has stepped down temporarily amid a scandal over his wife's affair with a teenager, heaping fresh pressure on the province's strained political insti (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'We are going to help save souls'
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Graeme Hosken Staff ReporterFor Tshwane Fire Brigade's five advance urban search-and-rescue operators, their mission to earthquake-ravaged Haiti is exactly the kind of work they have been training (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Parly Summons Diamond Chiefs
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Brian MangwendeHarare - OFFICIALS from Mbada Diamonds are likely to be summoned before Parli-ament soon to explain their inept handling of last week's auction of precious gems mined from the contro (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Shaik had no political motivation'
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: There is no reason to consider a pardon for convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik, the Congress of the People said on Thursday."Unless all criminals are given the same opportunity of a pardon, there is no (By News Poster)...Kenya: No End to Triton Saga One Year On
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Nairobi - A year after Triton Petroleum shocked Kenya through disappearance of fuel worth nearly Sh8 billion, the Yagnesh Devani empire in Kenya seems headed for the annals of history.The would-be pri (By News Poster)...South Africa: Couple Bust for Illegal Abortion Clinic
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Pretoria - A Johannesburg couple has been arrested for allegedly running an underground abortion clinic in Bruma.The couple, who were also believed to have been in possession of ivory and abalone, was (By News Poster)...South Africa: Illegal abortion clinic raided in suburb
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Shaun SmillieSA Revenue Service Customs and SAPS officials have raided what they believe was an illegal abortion clinic in New Chinatown in Cyrildene, eastern Joburg. The officials on Wednesday fou (By News Poster)...Zim: Farming family attacked in Rusape
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: The two Smit sons were apparently tied to trees and severely beaten by the land thugs By Alex BellA farming family in Rusape was physically attacked by land invaders on Tuesday, as tensions co (By News Poster)...World: GALLERY AND VIDEOS: Scenes of quake horror
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Gallery: Massive earthquake strikes HaitiPort-au-Prince - In just one terrifying minute the earth convulsed on Tuesday in Haiti, flattening buildings and casually tossing chunks of twisted metal and (By News Poster)...South Africa: City Power officials accused of theft
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Eight people, including three senior City Power officials, were arrested on charges of theft and corruption in two Johannesburg suburbs on Tuesday, police said.The three officials were arrested at the (By News Poster)...World: Cyprus media mogul gunned down outside home
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Cypriot President Demetris Christofias ordered police to pull out all the stops on Tuesday to find the culprits in the murder of a media mogul just 100 metres (yards) from the heavily guarded US embas (By News Poster)...Zim: Listen to citizens: reforms body told
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: “We can only facilitate the process towards the crafting of the constitution. We cannot dictate" By Own CorrespondentHarare - Constitutional Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga on Monday appeale (By News Poster)...Nestle denies indirectly buying milk from Zimbabwe president's farm
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: “Nestle reiterates its commitment to source milk exclusively from its contracted farmers†Harare - Multinational Swiss food giant Nestle on Tuesday sought to allay fears that it had resume (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma abandons Shaik?
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik does not think President Jacob Zuma has abandoned him and his request for a pardon.In an interview with e.tv on Sunday, Zuma was asked whether he would pardon Shaik. (By News Poster)...Nigeria: U.S. May Shun Nation's Oil - Diplomats
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Emmanuel BelloAbuja - Top ranking diplomats have described as pedestrian some politicians' reaction to Nigeria's blacklisting by the United States government. They also warned that the nation's oil (By News Poster)...The Voices of the Jobseekers
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Calistus KolantshoThe beginning of a new year does not bring any hope to the unemployed who spend the whole day seated in front of the Selebi-Phikwe District Labour office hoping that some company (By News Poster)...Zim: This year, Christmas in Bulawayo was a time of joy
Monday 11-Jan-2010: Even if it was for just a day CommentPhathisani MoyoJohannesburg - Of all the things said about Christmas in Zimbabwe this year it was a statement from my friend's mum that summed up the festi (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Ibuka Condemns Killing of Survivors
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Eugene MutaraKigali - Ibuka, the umbrella organisation for the survivors of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi has condemned the continued killing of genocide survivors and called upon security organs (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zuma Pushes for 2011 Elections
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: By Vusumuzi SifileHarare - SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma is now pushing Zanu PF and the two MDC formations to expedite the resolution of outstanding issues in time for the 2011 elections, amid gr (By News Poster)...Botswana: Secrecy Surrounds Mohohlo's Re-Appointment
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Brian BenzaSecrecy shrouds the re-appointment of the central bank governor Linah Mohohlo with both the bank and the office of the president refusing to shed any light on the matter.Mohohlo's second (By News Poster)...South Africa: Armed men help prisoner escape in Edenvale
Friday 15-Jan-2010: A Leeuwkop Prison inmate escaped from the Edenvale Hospital on Friday with the help of armed men who overpowered prison officials, Ekurhuleni police said."Elias James Williams was brought to the hosp (By News Poster)...Science: Composting centre eyes food waste for profit
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Jon HurdleWilmington - On a windswept industrial site near the Port of Wilmington, a front-end loader tips a fetid mass of half-rotted food and plastic bags onto a 20-foot heap inside a large blue (By News Poster)...Somalia: Fourth Day Fighting Continues, Death Tall Rises in Beledweyn Town
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: The fourth day fighting between the Islamist forces of Hizbul Islam and Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a is continuing in Beledweyn town in Hiran region, just as the casualties rose, witnesses and officials told (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Scientist Develops Anti-Cancer Derivative of Vitamin E
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Sola OgundipeA BREAKTHROUGH discovery about the potential of nutrients in cancer prevention and treatment has provided renewed hope for cancer patients across the world, following the development o (By News Poster)...World: Embassy helps couple held for sex in Dubai
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Raissa KasolowskyDubai - Dubai police said on Tuesday they had found no evidence to support a British woman's report that she was raped by a waiter in the Gulf Arab emirate, but have arrested her a (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Gunmen Attack NRA Office
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Ibrahim TarawallieFreetown - Unidentified gunmen last night attacked the non-tax revenue department of the national revenue authority, NRA at Wellington Street in Freetown, destroying computers and (By News Poster)...South Africa: Kgomo's murder: 'suspect was a sangoma'
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Five suspects, including a 14-year-old boy, will appear in the Soshanguve Magistrate's Court near Pretoria on Tuesday in connection with the murder of 10-year-old Masego Kgomo, police said.Captain Jul (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'I have nowhere to go tonight'
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Disappointed by their mayor and councillors and shot at by the police, residents of the Itireleng informal settlement in Pretoria were facing the prospect of a night on the streets on Monday afternoon (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Remembrance Day - FG to Reposition Armed Forces
Monday 11-Jan-2010: Vice President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday reiterated the need to reposition the Nigerian Armed Forces to be abreast with modern challenges of warfare if Nigeria must maintain its status as a major pl (By News Poster)...Zim defies diamond treaty
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: The EU proposed a well-known British diamond expert, who is also a former senior De Beers executive, as the first monitor By Peta ThornycroftZimbabwe has rejected a European monitor to oversee (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mthethwa orders probe to find 'scounderels'
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: Two men who threatened to commit crimes during the 2010 Soccer World Cup during footage flighted on a news program must be arrested, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said on Saturday."...These scoundrel (By News Poster)...South Africa: Alleged copper thief electrocuted
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: A suspected copper thief received burn wounds over almost his entire body when he attempted to cut a high voltage power line in Fordsburg, Johannesburg Emergency Management (EMS) services said.Spokesm (By News Poster)...Kenya: Bribes Demanded by Police Blamed for the High Cost of Transport and Goods
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Billy Muiruri and John NgirachuNairobi - Commuters in Nairobi could be paying between 25 and 33 per cent less in fare if police officers never asked for bribes from matatu crews, Saturday Nation ca (By News Poster)...Kenya: Police Break Up Protest Over Controversial Muslim Cleric
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Nairobi - A demonstration called to protest the arrest of controversial Jamaican Muslim cleric Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal has been broken up by police.One person died in the confrontation between the p (By News Poster)...USA: Obama the Socialist wants to tax the Biggest Banks...
Friday 15-Jan-2010: [Yep... Obama showing his socialist colours. All they know is: Tax and spend. Jan] WASHINGTON (AP) - Mindful of soaring deficits and an anti-Wall Street mood, President Barack Obama wants a new 10- (By Jan)...Kenya: Mombasa Port Joins U.S. War on Terrorism
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Githua KiharaMombasa has become the first regional port to be included in the Megaports programme initiated by the US government in 2003 to secure ports in the world from threats by terrorism.The p (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Assailants Kill Bank Manager in Port Harcourt
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Ahamefula OgbuPort Harcourt - A manager with a leading new generation bank was yesterday evening shot dead by unknown assailants who allegedly trailed him to the busy Garrison junction where they s (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Ode to a Misunderstood Friend
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Alexander KanengoniHarare - BECAUSE I was out on the farms, I missed Olley Maruma's burial at Granville Cemetery last Sunday afternoon.I missed the graveside testimonies that people gave about him. (By News Poster)...South Africa: Pardons - Zuma in hot seat
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Carien Du PlessisThe DA was expected to unveil a private member's bill in Parliament today, with which it wants to force President Jacob Zuma to adhere to a prescribed set of requirements in presid (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Kadoma Bank Manager Arrested
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Harare - ZABG bank manager at Kadoma branch has been arrested on allegations of defrauding clients of more than US$3 000.Joshua Tonderai Musarurwa (35) of West View in Kadoma was arrested over the wee (By News Poster)...Abdulmutallab - U.S. Senate Intelligence Panel to Begin Hearing January 21
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Abiodun OluwarotimiNew York - US Senate Intelligence Committee Chairperson, Dianne Feinstein, has said the Senate Intelligence Panel is in the midst of a review of intelligence failures that allowe (By News Poster)...World: Couple held in Dubai for extra-marital sex
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Raissa KasolowskyDubai - Dubai police said on Tuesday they had found no evidence to support a British woman's claim that she was raped by a waiter in the Gulf Arab emirate, but have arrested her an (By News Poster)...South Africa: No public holiday for ANC birthday - readers
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Ainsley DanielsSome ANC members have called for the ruling party's birthday to be declared a public holiday.IOL asked its readers: Should the ANC's birthday be declared a public holiday?Of the 1 75 (By News Poster)...Botswana: Surtee Gets Bail, Her Co-Accused Locked Up
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Bame PietElizabeth Surtee will continue enjoying her freedom after she and others were charged with breaking into Home Corp furniture shop in Gaborone last December escaping with furniture and elec (By News Poster)...South Africa: Weekend lekgotla planned for ANC top brass
Monday 11-Jan-2010: The ANC's national executive committee (NEC) is set to meet to thrash out how to implement President Jacob Zuma's vision for 2010.Party spokesman Brian Sokutu said an NEC lekgotla, planned for the com (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: War Veterans Faction Plans Chinhoyi Congress
Monday 11-Jan-2010: Harare - A faction of war veterans, which unsuccessfully tried to hold a national congress, is pressing ahead to hold the meeting this weekend in Chinhoyi but the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Vete (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Civil War - 40 Years After
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: FORTY years today the Nigerian Civil War that set Biafra, against the rest of Nigeria, ended when Col Philip Effiong surrendered to then Col Olusegun Obasanjo. It ended a 30-month hostility that claim (By News Poster)...Rights violations, illegal diamond exports said to continue in Zimbabwe field
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Soldiers and youth militia in the pay of Mbada Diamonds and Canadiles Investments have been beating and torturing people indiscriminately Patience RusereWashington - Human rights violations an (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NDLEA Arrests India-Bound Passenger over Cannabis
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Anthony Omoh - National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja Lagos has arrested a 32-year-old woman traveling to Delhi, India with alleged 3.7 (By News Poster)...South Africa: Three hurt in drug house shootout
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Three people were shot and injured by police executing a search warrant in Eersterivier, Western Cape police said on Friday."A red Toyota Corolla with four occupants was busy reversing out of the yard (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chiadzwa Sucks in Mpofu
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Harare - DIAMOND mining concern, Africa Consolidated Resources (ACR) has linked Mines Minister Obert Mpofu to The New Reclamation Group (Reclam) the South African company that established a diamond mi (By News Poster)...Africa: Ex-IAEA chief energises Egypt's politics
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Hamza HendawiThe UN's former nuclear chief has yet to return home to his native Egypt after almost a quarter century monitoring the world's atomic programs, but the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner ha (By News Poster)...Africa: Guinea leader viewed as 'dangerous'
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Brahima Ouedraogo and Rukmini CallimachiOuagadougou, Burkina Faso - The rogue leader of Guinea turned up overnight in Burkina Faso after Moroccan authorities ejected him, putting the injured army c (By News Poster)...Uganda: Police Impound 1,500 Litres of Fuel
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Stephen WanderaKampala - Police on Tuesday raided Kamwanyi zone in Nsambya, a Kampala suburb, impounding over a thousand litres of fuel on the black market and arrested one suspect.The operation th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nigerian Insurers and Banks Spur Others' Economies
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Patience SaghanaThe emergence of Nigerian insurance companies and banks in other countries like Ghana, Rwanda, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Tunis, Kenya and Cameroon have helped to boost the economies of (By News Poster)...South Africa: Top lawyer to defend cop on R1m drug charge
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Murray WilliamsA policewoman accused of stealing more than R1 million worth of drugs from her own police station has hired one of Cape Town's top lawyers to defend her - heavyweight William Booth.T (By News Poster)...South Africa: Wife beater appeals sentence
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: The man whose beating left his wife in a coma has been sentenced to an effective seven years in prison but remains a free man - at least for now.Moments after he had been jailed, Alexis "Lemmy" Mokgor (By News Poster)...South Africa: W Cape's Carlisle vows taxi crackdown
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: The Western Cape transport department on Sunday vowed to crack down on violence from minibus taxi associations in the province."This cycle of violence and concession has become the standard method for (By News Poster)...Science: Farm reduces bases' reliance on diesel
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: Wellington - The world's southernmost wind farm has been opened in Antarctica, the first in what could be a number of renewable energy projects aimed to lower the frozen continent's reliance on diesel (By News Poster)...Africa: US flags arrest of Copts in Egypt
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: Washington - The United States said it was "deeply concerned" at the arrests on Saturday of Coptic Christians heading to show support for fellow Copts killed and injured in Egypt earlier this month."T (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'At least I know that he is alive'
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Graeme HoskenA Pretoria wife's nightmare has only just begun as her husband, along with a fellow South African, race against time to free the dead and dying from the rubble of devastated Haiti.With (By News Poster)...Nangof Report On Elections is Misleading
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Dr Rukee TjingaeteThe report under the headline: "Civil Society sceptical about elections ..." under the ownership of the Joint Observer Mission (JOM) of the Namibia Non-Governmental Organization F (By News Poster)...Africa: Nigerian gunmen put price on hostages' lives
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Nigerian gunmen have demanded a ransom of 300-million naira (about R14.8-million) for the release of three Britons and a Colombian abducted this week, the police said on Friday."The kidnappers have as (By News Poster)...South Africa: Guards clash over taxi rank, 23 arrested
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Twenty-three security guards, the employees of rival security companies, were arrested on Friday after clashing in Sundumbili, KwaZulu-Natal."A clash between two security companies at Sundumbili resul (By News Poster)...World: Who is running Haiti?
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Andrew Cawthorne and Tom BrownPort-au-Prince - Desperate Haitians turned rubble-strewn streets and parks into makeshift hospitals and refugee camps on Thursday in the absence of any noticeable resp (By News Poster)...Africa: UK pressures Sudan on border row
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Juba - Major donor Britain is pressing Sudan's former north-south foes urgently to resolve differences over borders and sharing oil revenues, with a southern referendum on independence less than a yea (By News Poster)...Botswana: A-Cap Searches for More Uranium in Makgadikgadi
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) listed uranium explorer A-Cap Resources Limited says it has recently completed a new airborne radiometric and magnetic survey over the Company's Makgadikgadi tenements.Th (By News Poster)...World: Let's end death penalty: Mongolian president
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Jargal ByambasurenMongolia's president called for an end to the death penalty and pledged a moratorium on executions on Thursday, an unusual step in Asia where the death penalty is an integral part (By News Poster)...World: Mom who killed daughter, 5: Probe ends
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Jaya NarainDaily Mail ReporterA mother stabbed her five-year-old daughter to death hours after she was deemed fit to care for her by police and social workers.Paranoid schizophrenic Aisling Murray (By News Poster)...World: Mexico sends extra police to border city
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Mexico City - Mexico is sending 2 000 police to boost security in violence-ridden Ciudad Juarez after human rights groups strongly criticised an army-led clampdown against drug gangs in the border cit (By News Poster)...Uganda: Oil Deal Could Delay
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Kampala - Plans to start refining Uganda's oil may be delayed because of wrangling over new partners by the exploration companies, Heritage Oil and Tullow Oil.President Museveni in his New Year addres (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'No such thing as Kill A Tourist Day'
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Thandanani MhlangaCape Town Routes Unlimited is adamant there is no evidence to substantiate claims that British tourists were attacked as part of a gang initiation dubbed "Kill A Tourist Day".This (By News Poster)...Africa: 'It's a political manoeuvre to get rid of me'
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Alain IloniainaA senior opposition politician in Madagascar said on Tuesday that a warrant for his arrest in connection with a string of foiled bomb attacks last year was politically motivated.Tens (By News Poster)...Witnesses at Kenya's Post-Polls Violence Trials 'At Risk'
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Dennis OdungaNairobi - There might be no witnesses when the International Criminal Court (ICC) settles down to try suspected perpetrators of the post election violence, a human rights lobby has sai (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gang of boys held for raping woman
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Caryn DolleyWhile a severely injured Malmesbury woman is in hospital after being gang-raped, apparently by a group of youngsters, a 10-year-old from Nyanga is receiving trauma counselling after her (By News Poster)...South Africa: Most surveyed are against polygamy in SA
Monday 11-Jan-2010: The majority of South Africans do not believe a man should have more than one wife, a TNS survey has found.The poll was conducted to ascertain what South Africans expected of their leaders regarding m (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Dead lock' system may put lives in danger
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: By Murray WilliamsStaff WriterCar owners have been urged to urgently check their cars' alarms after a primary school boy was trapped and nearly suffocated in a car in the blistering Cape heat this wee (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe inflation at -7.7 pct y/y in December
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: The month-on-month inflation rate for December 2009 was 0.5 percent Harare - Zimbabwe's year-on-year inflation stood at -7.7 percent in December, official figures showed on Friday, as the adop (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tobacco Industry Recovery in Doubt
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Shame MakoshoriHarare - THE Zimbabwe Tobacco Association (ZTA) has cast doubts on the recovery of the industry this year, warning that threats by the government of the ejection of one third of its (By News Poster)...South Africa: New Zapiro cartoon causes fury
Friday 15-Jan-2010: The latest Zapiro cartoon in the Mail & Guardian has incensed the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), who blasted it as "distasteful" and "deplorable".The cartoon depicts President Jacob Zu (By News Poster)...World: 'My poor baby was going through hell'
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Daily Mail ReporterA mother sobbed as she told a jury yesterday how she acted "with love in my heart" when she killed her brain-damaged son.Frances Inglis, 57, said she could not bear the thought o (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Police Bust Car Smuggling Syndicate
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Harare - Police in Beitbridge have smashed a car smuggling syndicate at the border that successfully imported 16 vehicles into Zimbabwe on the pretext that they were in transit to Zambia and Malawi ye (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Terror List - Senate Tells FG to Explore Diplomatic Option
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Sufuyan Ojeifo And Onwuka NzeshiAbuja - The Senate yesterday urged the Federal Government to take urgent diplomatic steps to have Nigeria removed from the list of 'countries of interest' by the Uni (By News Poster)...South Africa: SA man faces death penalty
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Luvuyo MjekulaThe South African government has been accused of not doing enough to protect a Cape Town man facing the death penalty in Afghanistan for the murder of a security guard. Friends of Phi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Insurers Fear Price Hike Over Terror Listing
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Ifeanyi UgwuaduFollowing Nigeria's inclusion in United States 'Terror List', insurers fear that 2011 renewals may see reinsurers increasing prices on risks generated in Nigeria if the rating is not (By News Poster)...Kenya: New Strategy Targets Most At-Risk Populations
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Nairobi - Kenya has launched an ambitious strategy to fight HIV/AIDS that aims to reduce new infections by at least 50 percent over the next four years and focus more on most at-risk populations (MARP (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nants Faults N148 Billion Budget for Agriculture in 2010
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Christopher AdedejiAbuja - The National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANTS) has called on the Nigerian government to critically rethink the 2010 budget appropriation bill sent to the National A (By News Poster)...New Book: A Little War that Changed the world - The War with Russia in Georgia...
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: [I was searching for books when I spotted this fascinating book. My own contacts had told me some of the story behind the story regarding this war. Let me tell you some of what I heard. It was not (By Jan)...Three Collapse After Suspected Cocaine Binge
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Monkagedi GaotlhobogweThree night clubbers at a Phakalane nightclub collapsed after a suspected cocaine binge Friday night, in what could be an indication of the extent of drug abuse in Botswana.Ho (By News Poster)...Africa: Eight killed as mine collapses in Congo
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Kinshasa - An abandoned mine in south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has collapsed, killing eight members of one family including five children, a local government official said on Monday.The co (By News Poster)...Africa: UN Seeks to Virtually Eliminate Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/Aids
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: The United Nations is seeking to virtually eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, where 390,000 infants became infected with the virus that causes AIDS in 2008, through t (By News Poster)...Science: California dodges major damage in 6.5 quake
Monday 11-Jan-2010: A Northern California county escaped with what appears to be just minor damage from a powerful weekend earthquake, and residents and officials say their quake readiness played a role.Damage from Satur (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Abdulmutallab - El-Rufai Pleads With Obama
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Olaolu OlusinaLagos - Former Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has expressed sympathy with the American people over the botched bombing of an American Airline by Faro (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: CAG Considers Selling Operations
Monday 11-Jan-2010: Harare - CENTRAL African Gold is considering selling some of its Zimbabwean operations to provide adequate funding to restore mining operations.Group chairman Mr Roy Pitchford said the group is also c (By News Poster)...Nigeria/Angola: Cabinda Rebels Warn of More Attacks
Monday 11-Jan-2010: The Forces for the Liberation of the State of Cabinda-Military Position (FLEC-PM) has warned that more terror attacks could be expected during the African Nations Cup.This follows Friday's attack on t (By News Poster)...Africa: Dozens of Oromo rebels lay down their guns
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: Addis Ababa - Ethiopia has taken more than 100 Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) rebels into custody after they surrendered and handed over a cache of arms, the government said through state media on Sunda (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma bodyguard cleared
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: By Tania BroughtonOne of Jacob Zuma's bodyguards, who is charged with attempted murder relating to an alleged "blue light bullying" incident in Durban, has been cleared of a contempt of court charge f (By News Poster)...Zim: Small-scale miners demand stake in Marange diamonds
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: Not happy that government gave foreign companies the claims By Nqobani NdlovuBulawayo - Small-scale miners now want to be allocated claims on the controversial Marange diamond fields, in the n (By News Poster)...World: Iraqi's 'Chemical Ali' sentenced to death
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: Baghdad - An Iraqi court sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majeed, the Saddam Hussein-era official widely known as "Chemical Ali", on Sunday to death by hanging for a 1988 gas attack that killed about 5,000 Kur (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Soyinka Calls for Civil Disobedience Over Yar'Adua
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Yemi AdebowaleLagos - As President Umaru Yar'Ardua's prolonged absence from the country for health reasons stretches into a second month, Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka yesterday in Lagos u (By News Poster)...Africa: Opposition wants president to stay
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Fumbuka Ng'wanakilalaDar Es Salaam - The opposition in Zanzibar has asked the president of the semi-autonomous islands to stay on when his mandate expires in October, an unexpected shift that fuell (By News Poster)...Africa: CAR rebel chief 'tortured to death'
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: Libreville - The head of the only rebel group in the Central African Republic still fighting the government has died after being tortured, the former government minister's wife and his party said on S (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Crime in clubs a nightmare'
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: By Zara NicholsonParty-goers in Camps Bay have been warned to guard their possessions as skilled pickpocketing syndicates are believed to be operating in the area. Police said frequent incidents of pi (By News Poster)...Consumer Watchdog - 'Our First Scammer of 2010'
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Here we are, barely into the new year and the scammers are back. They certainly don't hang around, do they?Last week there were advertisements in various newspapers from a company calling itself "Dalb (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'I heard the TV pop, then saw huge flames'
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Slindile MalulekaFive-year-old Jane Baillie had been excited that school had opened because she had been so eager to start wearing her new school uniform.But today her uniform, along with all of he (By News Poster)...Uganda: Expectant Mothers to Take Forced HIV Tests
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Moses TalemwaHIV tests will soon become compulsory for all expectant mothers as the Health Ministry carries out a Shs 2.3 billion merger of Sexual Reproductive Health (RH) and HIV programmes this f (By News Poster)...World: Cries grow faint under Haiti rubble
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Dave ClarkPort-au-Prince - Almost 48 hours after the shattered concrete ceiling of her cousin's dress store crashed down upon her, Maryse's faltering cries galvanised a crowd of rescuers digging th (By News Poster)...Kenya: Clash Over Abortion Rights in New Constitution
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Susan Anyangu-AmuNairobi - A harmonised draft constitution has now been handed over to Kenya's Parliamentary Select Committee. Influential Christian leaders are warning that the question of abortio (By News Poster)...Science: Battle of the bulge is global - survey
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Patricia ReaneyNew York - Brazilians feel the most pressure to be thin, the Finns are acutely aware of the dangers of obesity and Americans have the toughest struggle to lose weight, according to a (By News Poster)...Science: 'Global warming more of a threat than war'
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: New York - Scientists pushed back the hands on the symbolic Doomsday Clock by one minute, citing hopeful developments in nuclear weapons and climate change.The symbolic clock that shows how close mank (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Court - VP Can Wield Yar'Adua's Powers
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Atika Balal, Muideen Olaniyi and Abdulmutallib A. AbubakarVice President Goodluck Jonathan can exercise all the executive powers vested in the President of the Federal Republic in the absence of Pr (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bank warns against hoax email
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: A major bank on Thursday warned its customers of a scam email asking them to divulge their Internet banking details.An email claiming to come from the bank asks Absa's customers to divulge their log-o (By News Poster)...South Africa: School robbed on first day back
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Port Elizabeth police were searching for armed men who robbed the Morewag Primary School in Kensington on the first day of school, a spokesman said on Thursday.Captain Johann Rheeder said school fees (By News Poster)...South Africa: Driver 'goes berserk' on freeway
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Woman busted for drunk drivingBy Bonile NgqiyazaNine Joburg metro police cars, bullets sprayed on the M1 South and a car chase - that's what it took to subdue a middle-aged woman who police say had g (By News Poster)...Science: Blood pressure drugs may reduce dementia risk
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Kate KellandLondon - Medicines commonly used to treat high blood pressure and heart disease may cut the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and dementia, United States scientists said on Wednesd (By News Poster)...World: Thousands feared dead in Haiti
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Joseph Guyler Delva and Tom BrownPort-au-Prince - Thousands were feared dead in a major earthquake that destroyed the presidential palace, schools, hospitals and hillside shanties in Haiti, its lea (By News Poster)...South Africa: Moroccans in court for R15m robbery
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Two Moroccan brothers, arrested six months after they allegedly robbed a V and A Waterfront jewellery store of goods worth R15-million, appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.Zakari (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe mining recovery on edge – official
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Authorities must quickly clarify hazy investment policies Burgeoning recovery in Zimbabwe's mining sector might easily fizzle out if the authorities do not quickly clarify hazy investment poli (By News Poster)...Nigeria: JTF Faults Mend's Claim On Chevron Pipeline Attack
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Osa OkhominaYenagoa - The authorities of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta region, code-named "Operation Restore Hope, yesterday faulted the claims of the Movement of the Emanc (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Massive Refugee Influx From Country Straining Neighbours' Resources, UN Warns
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: A massive influx of 125,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) into neighbouring Republic of Congo (ROC) and Central African Republic (CAR) after deadly ethnic clashes is severel (By News Poster)...Defence Attorney Launches Scathing Attack on Prosecution
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: By Gale NgakaneFrancistown - A defence attorney was scathing in his attack last Wednesday against the prosecution for vacillating in a burglary case that has been dragging on since 2006.Tshekiso Tshek (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Mommy, I've been stabbed'
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Just days after celebrating her son's matric pass, a grieving Flats mom is planning his funeral.Jermaine Vermeulen was supposed to enrol at a computer college yesterday but instead his family were ide (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jigawa to Set Up Mobile Court for Fulani/Farmers Conflicts
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Tina AkannamDutse - Jigawa state government has proposed to set up a special mobile court in the state that will attend to all Fulani and farmers clashes to ensure speedy judgments into such cases. (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Militants Accuse FG of Favouring Mutallab
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Tony Ita EtimMovement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has accused the federal government of double standard in relating with its citizens.Spokesman for MEND, Jomo Gbomo, made the all (By News Poster)...South Africa: Three held after shooting
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: By Jauhara KhanThree men have been arrested for the shooting of 12-year-old Altaf Ally, who will undergo surgery on Tuesday.Altaf was shot in the head and critically injured by four men who had tried (By News Poster)...Zim: MDC dismisses probe
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: The mentioned officials: Mudzuri, Mutsekwa, and Zwizwai are not being investigated The MDC wishes to clarify the report in The Zimbabwe Independent today about three of our ministers being pro (By News Poster)...South Africa: Manuel's wings clipped
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: Cosatu and the leftists scored a major victory after Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel toned down the green paper on the contentious National Planning Commission.The revised green paper strips (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Govt's Attention to Oil Affects Cocoa Production
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Moses NosikeAjinde Jonathan, President, Ondo State Council of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (OSCCCIMA), in this interview explains the challenges facing cocoa production in (By News Poster)...Namibia/Togo: President Condemns Attack on Togo's Afcon 2010 National Team
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Windhoek - President Pohamba has condemned and expressed concern over the attack on the Togo national team bus.In a statement issued this week, the President was deeply moved by the shooting incidents (By News Poster)...Rwanda: 42 Discharged From Police
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - A Cabinet meeting on Wednesday approved the decision by the Rwanda National Police to discharge 42 police officers from the force. 22 of them were dismissed for gross miscondu (By News Poster)...Sudan: World Must Move Quickly and Stop Country From Sliding Back Into Abyss
Friday 15-Jan-2010: By Lakhdar Brahimi and Desmond TutuThe future of Sudan hangs in the balance. National elections are due in April. A referendum on the future status of the south of the country is supposed to follow in (By News Poster)...Africa: HIV/Aids - UN Wants MTC Transmission Eliminated in Africa
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Abimbola AkosileLagos - The United Nations (UN) is seeking to virtually eliminate mother-to-child (MTC) transmission of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, where 390,000 infants became infected with the vir (By News Poster)...South Africa: Batswana Drugged On Durban Buses
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Lekopanye MooketsiTravelling by buses to go and buy Asian imported cars in Durban, can be a risky business as some locals have realised. Some people prefer to go and buy cars in Durban because it i (By News Poster)...South Africa: Man 'burns wife to death'
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Three Cape Flats children watched helplessly as their father allegedly strangled their mother and burnt their home down.Yesterday Nomalibongwe Fobo, 37, died in her Masiphumelele home after her husban (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Cost of Living Further Decreases
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Harare - THE Consumer Council of Zimbabwe has said the monthly cost of living in December for a family of six decreased 1 percent to US$488,11 from November's amount of US$492,10 as retailers cut pric (By News Poster)...Nigeria: AFC Invests US$20 Million in Oil & Gas Firm Seven Energy
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Funds to develop gas portfolio for domestic use in NigeriaThe Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) has made an equity investment of $20 million in Seven Energy, an indigenous oil and gas exploration and p (By News Poster)...South Africa: DRC tourist succumbs to a fatal shark attack
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Witness Tweets shark-attack as it happens. By Caryn DolleyA tourist from the Democratic Republic of Congo succumbed to a fatal shark attack at Fish Hoek on Cape Town's False Bay coast this afternoon.T (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lone Voice for the Mutallabs
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Edikan UmorenLagos - It is about time somebody speaks up for the young man and the good number of his type that may lurk in our society. Since Nigeria broke the news through Information Minister of (By News Poster)...Nigeria: I'm Not Guilty - Abdulmutallab
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Abiodun OluwarotimiNew York - The Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a passenger plane over Detroit on Christmas Day has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.The suspect, who has been l (By News Poster)...South Africa: Teen killed on the way to visit his sister
Monday 11-Jan-2010: Athlone police are investigating the brutal murder of an 18-year-old Athlone resident, whose throat was slit while he was on his way to visit his sister.On Monday morning, police spokesperson Inspect (By News Poster)...South Africa: ANC wants its birthday as public holiday
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Carien du PlessisPolitical BureauThe ANC's official birthday on January 8 could be declared a public holiday if some within the ruling party have their way.The Cape Times has learnt that ANC member (By News Poster)...Science: Quake near Padang is possible, warn experts
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: By Richard InghamParis - A huge wave-generating earthquake capable of killing as many people as in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami could strike off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, and the city of Pad (By News Poster)...South Africa: SA rescue team begins work in Haiti
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: A South African rescue team has begun its work in quake-devastated Haiti, the international relations department said on Sunday."The team arrived safely at 3am South African time. They started working (By News Poster)...South Africa: Prisons head to get golden handshake
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: By Eleanor MombergPrisons head Xoliswa Sibeko is set to receive a golden handshake from the Department of Correctional Services (DCS). Indications are that officials are negotiating the quiet departur (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chiyangwa Probe - Chombo Intervenes
Saturday 16-Jan-2010: Harare - LOCAL Government Mini-ster, Ignatius Chombo, has queried the wisdom of the Harare City Council to investigate flamboyant businessman Phillip Chiyangwa over the land swaps in and around the ca (By News Poster)...Botswana: Sefalana Holdings Completes Turnaround
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Having shaken the dust off from its legal problems a few years ago, local holding group, Sefalana, its rejuvenated subsidiaries and new retail chain, are fast cornering the market across a diversified (By News Poster)...World: Cops warn against protest calls on SMS, email
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Iran's police chief has warned opposition supporters against using text and email messages to organise rallies, ISNA news agency said Friday, amid reports new demonstrations are being planned."These p (By News Poster)...Kenya: Farmers Reap Sweet Harvest
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Farmers have emerged as the big winners under the government's sale plan for divesting from five sugar mills in a bid to enhance competitiveness in the sector and meet free trade requirements stipulat (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cope youth want leadership to step down
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Political BureauThe COPE Youth Movement has called for the immediate dissolution of Cope's national leadership, which, it says, is to blame for the poor state the party is in.In a potentially explo (By News Poster)...Uganda: Uganda Not Shaken By Terror Threats, says Army
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Francis Mugerwa & AgenciesHoima - The Uganda government has said it is not threatened by regional extremists said to be planning attacks on Sudan-Uganda flights.The United States recently said regi (By News Poster)...South Africa: SA has forked out R100m to host meetings
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Caiphus KgosanaPolitical BureauThe Department of International Relations and Co-operation paid an R11-million cancellation fee in October, 2008, after an African Diaspora Summit it was hosting was (By News Poster)...World: Explosives seized during Baghdad blitz
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Baghdad - Iraqi security forces foiled a series of car bombings in Baghdad on Tuesday after a massive security operation led to dozens of arrests and a large quantity of explosives being seized, offic (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Mutallab Saga
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Clarius UgwuohaA DENT once more registered on the already besmirched and battered image of our dear country, on Christmas day, December 25, 2009, when 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempte (By News Poster)...Somalia: Surge in Fighting Uproots More Somalis, Reports UN Refugee Agency
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: The United Nations refugee agency warned today that many parts of central Somalia are witnessing a surge in fighting, sparking growing displacement and worsening the plight of an already beleaguered p (By News Poster)...Ethiopia Aligns Itself With Communist China
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: [Indeed, here's something quite interesting about Ethiopia, although it's no longer controlled by the Derg, the new ruling party known as the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front is an ov (By Lone Wolf)...South Africa: Rape accused cries in court
Monday 11-Jan-2010: A Pretoria North man on Monday tearfully denied being a party to the rape and indecent assault of his ex-girlfriend's six-year-old daughter."I did not do it. I know I did not. I would never in my life (By News Poster)...Science: Fertiliser has polluted Chinese land - study
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: Beijing - China, the world's largest grain producer and top consumer of fertilisers, should reduce its reliance on chemical fertilisers by as much as 50 percent because excessive use has resulted in s (By News Poster)...Kenya: Kenyans Pulling Out All the Stops to Learn Chinese
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: By Wangechi WahomeNairobi - "Learn as though you would never be able to master it; Hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it."This is what Confucius, the Chinese philosopher says, and it mig (By News Poster)...World: Toddler killed, 4 000 homeless in Manila fire
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: Manila, Philippines - Fire raced through a slum near the main port in the Philippine capital, killing a 5-year-old girl, gutting hundreds of shacks and leaving 4,000 people homeless, an official said (By News Poster)...Namibia: Bank Awarded by International Magazine
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Windhoek - Bank Windhoek was honoured with the award "Best Bank in Namibia" from emeafinance, an economics magazine covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa."This is a great achievement for Bank Wi (By News Poster)...World: Spain receives proof Mali hostages are alive
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Madrid - The Spanish government has viewed a video which proves that three aid workers held hostage in Mali since November by the north African branch of al-Qaeda are alive, a Spanish newspaper report (By News Poster)...Somalia: Hawiye Elders Call to Halt Fighting in Beledweyn Town
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Hawiye traditional elders have Friday called for both the rival sides fighting in Beledweyn town in Hiran region to halt the clashes, after days of heavy clashes that killed, wounded and displaced mos (By News Poster)...South Africa: Discipline Free State chief of police: ICD
Friday 15-Jan-2010: The Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) has recommended that Free State's police chief and some deputies be disciplined for irregularities in the province's police service, Volksblad reported on (By News Poster)...South Africa: Black Man killed over R10 (US$1)
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: [In this country, people kill each other for nothing... And the law doesn't care either. Nobody gives a damn. Jan] A 27-year-old Katlehong man was stabbed to death after an argument over R10, Gaute (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Abdulmutallab - Senate Orders Investigation of Security Agencies
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: By Uchenna Awom and Adesuwa TsanAbuja - The Senate yesterday ordered investigation of the security lapses arising from the seeming failure of the relevant security agencies in Nigeria to act on the re (By News Poster)...Africa: Ivorian cops beat, tear gas opposition youths
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: Abidjan - Ivory Coast police used batons and tear gas on Wednesday to disperse youths demonstrating against the powerful state media, with the protesters responding by pelting them with stones, a Reut (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Delist Country From Terror List, Jonathan Tells U.S. Security Chief
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Chesa ChesaAbuja - Vice President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa met with United States Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security, Jane Holl Lute, and pointedly told her to get (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bridge convict on traffic offenders list
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Nondumiso MbuyaziIt never rains, but pours for one of Durban's criminals. Having been jailed for throwing Pietermaritzburg school teacher, Kavisha Seevnarain, off a 60m bridge in November, it emerg (By News Poster)...South Africa: Shark attack: search for victim continues
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: The search for a man believed to have been attacked by a shark at Fish Hoek beach in Cape Town resumed on Wednesday morning, Western Cape police said.Witness Tweets shark-attack as it happens."The Nat (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How Safe Are Our Airports?
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: The question how safe are Nigerian airports has been asked several times. Each time it is asked, the same slant of vituperations from official quarters will becloud the real issue. At the end of the d (By News Poster)...Africa: Nigerians vocal as leader breaks his silence
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: By Ola AwoniyiAbuja - Nigerian lawmakers voted on Tuesday to send a delegation to Saudi Arabia to discuss "issues of national importance" with ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua as protests mounted for h (By News Poster)...Africa: Nigerians protest as leader breaks silence
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: Nigeria's ailing president has broken a seven-week silence to insist he is getting better and plans to return to work but thousands marched regardless through Abuja on Tuesday to demand he step down.A (By News Poster)...Africa: Togo team tragedy: Second group claims attack
Tuesday 12-Jan-2010: A second separatist group on Tuesday claimed it was behind last week's deadly shooting on the Togolese football team in Angola's oil-rich enclave of Cabinda.The attack has already been claimed by Rodr (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Fire Devours Military Warehouse
Monday 11-Jan-2010: Maputo - A large amount of military equipment was destroyed when a fire broke out on Monday morning in the National Logistics Directorate of the General Staff of the Mozambican Armed Forces (FADM) in (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Need for Robust Military
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By M. L. AgwaiI cannot appreciate the Federal Government of Nigeria enough for the numerous opportunities given to me to serve in various capacities. The exposure, education, knowledge and the many fr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Country to Modernise Armed Forces, Says Jonathan
Monday 11-Jan-2010: By Chesa ChesaAbuja - Federal Government is set to reposition and modernise the country's armed forces to make them up to date and comparable with modern armies anywhere in the world, Vice President G (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (17-01-2010)
Sunday 17-Jan-2010: Howzit The internet has many stories about Zimbabwe today and many of them discuss the impasse between the MDC and ZANU PF and how this is causing untold suffering for the people of Zimbabwe as the (By The BeardedMan)...Jean-Bertrand Aristide Exploiting Haiti's Situation?
Friday 15-Jan-2010: [It seems like Jean-Bertrand Aristide is indeed trying to exploit Haiti's tragedy to return to power. Aristide is an ally of leaders like Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. His own supporters even see th (By Lone Wolf)...USA: 2010 will be a record year for foreclosures as unemployment rises
Friday 15-Jan-2010: [The numbers are shocking, and growing worse. And... this will be impacting the rest of the world, including us in South Africa. Jan] MIAMI (AP) - A record 2.8 million households were threatened wi (By Jan)...Capitalist Paradise Signapore Caves To Help Out Communist Vietnam?
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: [It seems that a country like Singapore received second place when it comes to economic freedom. But that hasn't stopped Communist Vietnam from trying to acquire more cash in order to redistribute Si (By Lone Wolf)...USA: Europe Is Radical Islam the new 'Black'?
Friday 15-Jan-2010: [One of our regulars, Lone Wolf sent me these thoughts, and I think he is definitely on to something. From the 1950's-1990's the West cavorted with black radicals. Their names are so well-known now - (By Jan)...Venezuela Promoting Price Controls Over Merchants
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: [This is quite stupid. I just love it how Communists, socialists and Leftists suggest how a government promoted economy would do best for society. They harp and whine about how "evil" consumerism is (By Lone Wolf)...Did a popular South African writer die in Sydney, Australia in 2004?
Wednesday 13-Jan-2010: [I received a question from a friend. I drew a total blank on this one. Do any of you know the answer to this? Jan] My friend asked:- Jan, was there a South African writer living in Sydney, Austra (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (14-01-2010)
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: Howzit As expected, events in Zimbabwe are gathering pace - but, if you were watching Mugabe closely, you wouldn't really think that the situation was as urgent as perhaps suggested. Mugabe has (By The BeardedMan)...USA: Radicalization is alive and well in the U.S.
Friday 15-Jan-2010: As initially reported by this investigator on Canada Free Press and the Northeast Intelligence Network, authorities have been investigating U.S. links to Muslim terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. As (By JanOlifant)...Important: A new Privacy Feature of Firefox...
Monday 11-Jan-2010: I happened to run Fire Fox and saw it went and did some updates as it does from time to time. But I normally do not bother looking at the new features. It has some really good new features but the (By Jan)...[video] Haiti's 'Pact with the Devil'
Thursday 14-Jan-2010: (By JanOlifant)...Attention: Aubrey - Aubrey - Please take note
Friday 15-Jan-2010: Hi Aubrey, Sometimes you send various messages which actually require a response but you NEVER put an email address in so that JoAn or I can contact you. Please drop us a note via the Contact us (By Jan)...
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Posts
