Southern Africa in Crisis
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Sunday, 31st 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 & Gruesome
Attention: Readers - Your Webmaster - My current secret anti-Microsoft plans - Jan Lamprecht will be back on the weekend...
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Hi Everyone, Just a note to say the last 2 weeks have been seriously hectic at my work. I'm busy on a small project which I was very keen on because I wanted to prove something to the management of t (By Jan)...Rwanda: Genocide Report Indirectly Implicates France in Coverup
Monday 25-Jan-2010: Washington, DC - "The April 6, 1994 assassination of Rwandan President Habyarimana was the work of Hutu extremists who calculated that killing their own leader would torpedo a power-sharing agreement (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mixing Politics and Profit
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By William GumedeWhat is happening to South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) and its leadership? There can be no doubt that for a ruling party to be a shareholder in a private company that ten (By News Poster)...Africa: U.S. Military Policies on Continent Essentially Unchanged Under Obama
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Daniel VolmanWhen Barack Obama took office as president of the United States in January 2009, it was widely expected that he would dramatically change, or even reverse, the militarised and unilater (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Again, Crisis Tasks Governance in Plateau
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Raymond GukasJos - It is unfortunate that the latest violent crisis that again rocked part of Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State; a week ago could the same council area which witnesse (By News Poster)...Sudan: Abuses Undermine Impending Elections
Monday 25-Jan-2010: New York - Violations of civil and political rights by Sudanese security forces throughout the country are seriously undermining prospects for free, fair, and credible elections in April 2010, Human R (By News Poster)...South Africa: Does the Public Want Its Watchdogs?
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Prof. Jane Duncan.The recent controversy about an e.tv story featuring two criminals who threatened robbery and violence during the 2010 World Cup, has raised once again the controversial issue of (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: One Million Casualties of Land Reform
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Ann HellmanThe seizure of large commercial farms - almost all white-owned - has continued despite the formation of a unity government in Zimbabwe. The country's farm workers say they are the bigges (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Terrorism - Will U.S. Blacklist Every Nation?
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Tunji AjibadeLagos - US State Department officials say they have not released any list consisting nations that are specially monitored over terror issue. They say talk of such a list is merely spec (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (29-01-2010)
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- Well - the weather held off just long enough for B and I to spend a few hours in town and buy the few things that she wanted/needed. And (By The BeardedMan)...South Africa: Country Can No Longer Ignore the Costs of Coal
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Saliem FakirJohannesburg - THOSE who believe the climate change movement is based on false science may be happy that last month's Copenhagen climate summit did not deliver an ambitious and binding (By News Poster)...Zim: Miliband hands Zanu PF sanctions ‘smoking gun'
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: “This could not have come at a more opportune time for Zanu PF in so far as their propaganda is concerned" CommentBy Edith KasekeHarare - Zanu PF has been emboldened by Britain's claim that (By News Poster)...South Africa: Shocking act of abuse
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: In a bizarre act which has shocked animal lovers, a small dog had part of its leg severed after being tied to a railway line in Wellington.The pregnant fox terrier cross was cut loose but not before s (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banking Sector - the Turmoil , the Crisis
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: By Paul OgbuokiriIt is not the best of time for the Nigerian banking industry as all the banks in the country are currently perceived by the ordinary man on the street as distressed. The short term ef (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (26-02-2010)
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Howzit On Saturday, I ran a karaoke for some of the older folks in the area at the local social club. Nothing special - but good fun, nonetheless. My brother-in-law managed to film some of it on (By The BeardedMan)...South Africa: Rasool sought delay - ANC panel
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: It was the ANC's provincial task team, not the party's provincial disciplinary committee, that sought to postpone the hearings of leaders Max Ozinsky and Ebrahim Rasool, already delayed by two months, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Abdulmutallab's Act And Nigeria-U.S. Business Relations
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: The listing of Nigeria as a "country of interest" by the United States of America (U.S.) may have set in a tremor in the U.S.-Nigeria trade relationship. Reporter, EMEKA UMEJEI, takes an overview of t (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (31-01-2010)
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: Howzit There can be no doubt in our minds that Mugabe is here to stay and will fight, tooth and nail, to remain at the top of the pile - no matter how many laws are broken, no matter how many bones (By The BeardedMan)...South Africa: DA: Green Drop delay due to shocking findings
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: The government's delay in issuing its so-called "Green Drop" report on the state of South Africa's wastewater treatment plants might be due to its "shocking content", the DA said on Tuesday."It appear (By News Poster)...Liberia: Conduct National Plebiscite On TRC Report
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By B. Ignatius George IAfter a halting TR process that lasted well over the original timeframe, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released an unedited final report complete with recommenda (By News Poster)...Uganda: U.S.$50 Billion at stake in Country's Oil Sector
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Kampala - CONFUSION, mistrust, dishonesty and backstabbing is putting at risk Uganda's attempt to exploit her low sulphur crude oil discovered in the Lake Albert rift valued at $50b. Over the past six (By News Poster)...Bafana Bafana: 'World Cup pessimists are insane'
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Staff WritersPresident Jacob Zuma should ask his German and British counterparts to rein in naysayers in their ranks as the countries are the two biggest detractors of the World Cup, says Fifa."It' (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Outrage As High Court Dismisses SADC Land Ruling
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Alex BellThe shock decision this week by the High Court to dismiss a 2008 regional ruling on the unlawful land 'reform' programme has sparked an angry outcry, with some observers calling it a 'trav (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (28-01-2010)
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: Howzit Today is B's birthday and I will be taking her to lunch in town. I really hope that the weather holds out as yesterday it was cold and rainy - not very nice at all... -o00o- I have t (By The BeardedMan)...S.Africa: 2010 FIFA World Cup - Fat cats pocket R347 million of Tax Payer money for FAILING!!!
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: [They failed. They were not capable of doing their jobs. Even the ANC had to fire the rubbish... but that did not stop them from walking away with mega-monies. It makes me want to scream and rip someo (By Jan)...Science: Space junk poses real danger, warns general
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Dan WilliamsHerzliya, Israel - World powers must find ways to reduce the amount of debris in orbit, as the collision risk it poses to spacecraft is increasing, the head of the US Strategic Command (By News Poster)...Zim: MDC-T shielding Zanu PF
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: In the name of trying to save Zimbabwe's shaky coalition regime By Own CorrespondentHarare - An international human rights group has slammed Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T party of s (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Terrorists Within
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Tony Ita EtimP/Harcourt - IN the wake of America listing of Nigeria among countries on the terrorist watch list, following the failed attempt of our own Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to bomb an America (By News Poster)...Uganda: Exporting Power, Importing Terror
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Yusuf SerunkumaKampala - Once again the world is said to be at war; not between the allied and axis powers, but with a fierce network of veritable killers. There is a boom in what seemed to have be (By News Poster)...South Africa: Grade 11 pupil stabbed to death
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Thandanani MhlangaA Grade 11 pupil has died after being stabbed several times by two men who chased him on to the grounds of his school.The pupil, whose name has not been released, died at Inkwekwe (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Position of Islam on Terrorism - Lateef Adegbite
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Bashir AdekayaDr. Lateef Adegbite, OFR, is Secretary-General, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA). He was once Commissioner for Local Governments and Chieftaincy Matters in the old (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Alleged killer tried to kill cop'
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Baldwin Ndaba and Lerato MaileA businessman charged with the murder of his six-year-old niece tried to hire a police officer to kill the officer who had charged him with murder.This was the incrimi (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (25-01-2010)
Monday 25-Jan-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. This morning I received the raw video footage from the karaoke on Saturday - and with a little editing it may be worth putting up... -o00o- Wha (By The BeardedMan)...Zim: Eviction for 'trespassing' farmers
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: If the war vets, don't get you, the magistrates will Peta ThornycroftHarare - If the war vets, don't get you, the magistrates will. And if they fail, the army will. And when all human agents f (By News Poster)...Somalia: Senior UN Official Urges Broad-Based Approach to Fight Piracy Off Somali Coast
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: A top United Nations official today urged a comprehensive, cohesive and broad-based strategy to fight piracy off the coast of Somalia, noting that the continued spread of the scourge points to the lim (By News Poster)...Nigeria: So What Really Happened in Jos?
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Tony Ita EtimPort Harcourt - What really happened in Jos, the Plateau State capital on Sunday, January 17 and the days that followed? Was it a religious crisis? Was it an ethnic crisis? Was it a co (By News Poster)...Africa: Bill Gates: Africa is Innovating in Financial Services, Food Sciences, Health
Monday 25-Jan-2010: In the second annual letter he has issued to the public to discuss his and his wife's philanthropic work through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft founder Bill Gates issued an upbeat as (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010 FIFA World Cup - Young Communist League backs Nationalisation of South African Reserve Bank
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: [The communists are talking seriously about nationalisation these days. They are constantly talking about nationalising the mines. The ANC Youth League is always busy with that. This is the FUTURE GEN (By Jan)...Nigeria: Dina's Death - Jonathan Asks Police to Find Killers
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Lagos - Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the Nigerian Police Force to collaborate with relevant intelligence agencies to find the killers of the 2007 governorship candidate of the Action (By News Poster)...Somalia: Explosions Raise Fears Over Somaliland Stability
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Hairgeisa - The latest bomb explosion in Somalia's self-declared independent republic of Somaliland raises concerns over the lack of government presence in the Las-anod area, says an analyst.Among tho (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Unity Govt Hangs By a Thread
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaTHE shaky inclusive government is facing renewed danger of collapse after ongoing inter-party negotiations yielded a stalemate over contentious issues confronting the three rival par (By News Poster)...Another 70 MW Pumped Into National Grid
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: A recently built 70 megawatt (MW) power station, fired by diesel generators, has come on line, bringing to 160 MW, the total amount of additional power Botswana has secured this year for her precariou (By News Poster)...Zim: Two farmers arrested over Chipinge land fight
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Arrests are ‘pure intimidation,' and the charges are ‘totally trumped up' By Alex BellTwo farmers were arrested on Thursday over an ongoing land battle in Chipinge, where four other farmer (By News Poster)...2010 World Cup: Zuma promises security at World Cup
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Dominic EvansDavos, Switzerland - President Jacob Zuma dismissed on Wednesday fears of any attack at the World Cup later in 2010, promising South Africa would host a safe competition which would le (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Arrest Bayo Ohu's Killers
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Kingsley OmonobiAbuja - Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo today announced a major breakthrough in Police investigation into murder cases in the country with the arrest of three suspect (By News Poster)...Liberia: Prosecutors Question Taylor About Crimes Committed By His Rebels
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Alpha SesayProsecutors today questioned former Liberian president Charles Taylor about crimes committed by his rebel forces during his country's civil conflict.This formed part of a broader effort (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Two Farmers Arrested Over Chipinge Land Fight
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Alex BellTwo farmers were arrested on Thursday over an ongoing land battle in Chipinge, where four other farmers have been convicted of refusing to vacate 'state' land.Algernon Taffs, Mr Z.F Jouber (By News Poster)...Zim court gives white farmers 24hrs to vacate land
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: "Under the Constitution of Zimbabwe everyone has the right to appeal but the magistrate denied them this" By Own CorrespondentHarare - A Zimbabwean magistrate court on Tuesday gave four white (By News Poster)...Namibia: Treason Accused Loses Assault Claim Case
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Werner MengesONE of the suspects facing charges in the main Caprivi high treason trial has lost the case in which he was suing the Ministers of Home Affairs and of Defence for N$550 000 for alleged (By News Poster)...Kenya: Documenting Sexual Violence
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Susan Anyangu-AmuNairobi - The testimonies of women who survived sexual violence during post-election conflict in 2008 should be heard, say advocates. The magnitude of the crimes committed against (By News Poster)...South Africa: High heels drive traffic instructor to ditch
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Mercury ReporterA Port Elizabeth minibus with trainee traffic officers landed in a ditch when the driver, a provincial traffic instructor, got her high heel stuck under the vehicle's pedals.This ca (By News Poster)...Readers: Your burnt-out, but still alive and kicking Webmaster is back... The Microsoft Product we could dump...
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: Hi All, I'm back, after working for 2 weeks... almost day and night... until 1am or 2am each morning... and last weekend too. I was truly tired and worn out. But on friday, I did a presentation t (By Jan)...Uganda: Land Prices On the Decline
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Haggae MatsikoLand prices, which have come to define Uganda's modest version of an asset bubble, are not increasing as much as they did two years ago, raising the argument that they are on the decl (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gang who robbed shop may have killed Somali
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Luvuyo MjekulaA Somali national says a gang who admitted robbing his shop but were not arrested might be the same people who burnt it down, killing his brother and seriously injuring his cousin.Is (By News Poster)...South Africa: Prinsloo not free from South African charges
Monday 25-Jan-2010: Belarus extradites an average of 24 people a year, who are wanted for crimes in other countries.The head of the Belarusian Interpol and head of the Ministry of Interior's International Co-operation de (By News Poster)...South Africa: Student dies as man mugs 5 people
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: By Vuyo MabandlaA student from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology was shot in the neck and killed while trying to fend off a robber who wanted his cellphone.Police have appealed for help in a (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Evidence against killer solid'
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Jade Witten Court Reporter"Absolutely no doubt" was cast on the integrity and expert ability of the ballistics expert, nor his testimony which implicated Yusuf Abader, son of Pagad leader Salie Aba (By News Poster)...South Africa: Ill inmates get raw deal - report
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Carien Du Plessis Political BureauAn expert report says prisoners have complained about poor health care in jails and uncaring medical staff, with some inmates washing their fellow ailing detainees (By News Poster)...South Africa: Abalone suspects held after chase
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Kowthar Solomons Staff ReporterTwo Gansbaai men led police on a high-speed chase before they were eventually caught in Strand allegedly with abalone worth R800 000.The suspects, aged 24 and 42, wer (By News Poster)...South Africa: What Does 2010 hold for the Mining Sector?
Friday 29-Jan-2010: The economic tide appears to be turning and just over a month ago TradeInvestSA looked at how the South African economy was beginning to mend. One industry that is crucial to monitor during this perio (By News Poster)...South Africa: Complex Dirk loves attention
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: He does not suffer any mental illness, nor is he feeble minded, but South African fugitive Dirk Prinsloo always wants to be the centre of attention.According to a forensic psychiatric report on the fo (By News Poster)...Zim: Zanu PF official boasts he has authority to kill MDC activists
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: "He moves around with guns and is notorious for eliminating opponents but remains untouchable," said Muchauraya By Tichaona SibandaAn aspiring Zanu PF MP shocked party activists on Friday last (By News Poster)...Ghana: Why 'Militarization' in the Mining Sector Must Stop
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Stephen YeboahThe increasing trend of "militarization" in the mining sector when abusive security agencies act to protect industry operations in the country leaves much to be desired.As it's always (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Politics of Trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Idowu OyebanjoLagos - The trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline Project aims to carry gas from Nigeria through Niger and Algeria to Europe. While it is commendable to earn foreign exchange from the hitherto wa (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: EU - Keep Sanctions On Mugabe's Inner Circle
Friday 29-Jan-2010: New York - The European Union should maintain its travel restrictions and asset freezes on President Robert Mugabe and his inner circle until Zimbabwe carries out the concrete human rights reforms set (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gang murder suspect arrested
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Fouzia van de Fort Staff ReporterAthlone police have in three separate incidents arrested a murder suspect and two men for the illegal possession of ammunition.A 17-year-old was arrested at his hom (By News Poster)...South Africa: Death by curry - 'poisoned, then suffocated'
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Tasnim LangryShocking details of how a Chatsworth family allegedly killed a pensioner in an effort to inherit his house, were revealed in the Durban High Court this week.Pauline Pearl Govender, 38, (By News Poster)...South Africa: E.tv subpoena saga heats up for journalists
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Michelle JonesAs two e.tv journalists and a self-confessed criminal are scheduled to appear in court on Monday, a number of organisations have come out in support of the media house.Police have ord (By News Poster)...Narco-Terrorism can be Stopped...
Monday 25-Jan-2010: Despite the controversy over the term, the phrase “narco-terrorism” is increasingly used to refer to known (and unknown) terrorist organisations that use the illicit drug trade to fund their operation (By JanOlifant)...Ghana: Gbawe Armed Robbers Jailed 20 Years Each
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Ivy BensonFour armed robbers, who killed a 26-year-old pastor during a robbery operation recently at Gbawe, have been sentenced to twenty years imprisonment each, after they confessed before an Acc (By News Poster)...Africa: Nigeria, Angola Brace to Contest Lead Producer for 2010
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Sopuruchi OnwukaLagos - Nigeria and Angola had contrasting fortunes in 2009 as they vied for the number one producer spot in the region. Yet the two top African petroleum producers appear set to en (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fighting Poverty Through Agriculture
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Mary EkahLagos - Writing on "Poverty, Growth and Inequality in Nigeria-A Case Study" Ben E. Aigbokhan said poverty can be defined as the inability to achieve a certain minimal standard of living. W (By News Poster)...South Africa: Separate graves for killer cop, wife
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Kowthar SolomonsStaff ReporterThe families of a police sergeant and the wife he murdered have agreed that the couple be buried separately.Zola Nombewu's family initially wanted the couple to be bur (By News Poster)...Uganda: Irrigation - the Missing Link to Hunger Solution
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Joshua KatoKampala - Ssebatta Musisi nods in satisfaction as he watches his coffee seedlings being watered. Located 160km from Kampala in Kyoko village, Masaka district, Musisi's farm is the pride (By News Poster)...Liberia: Sirleaf Admits Failure
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: Voters gave President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf the edge in the tightly contested presidential election in 2005 for three basic reasons. She had been a longtime socio-economic and political activist with (By News Poster)...Support the Gutsy Independents, Go the Socialist Route
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Rampholo MolefheThe smart move would have been to select Nehemiah Modubule to be leader of the opposition. He, being an independent MP, would have been best able to listen and mediate between the f (By News Poster)...Nigeria: National Mobile Payment Scheme to Take-Off This Year - CBN
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Babajide KomolafeCentral Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that mobile payment system will take off in the country by middle of the year.Acting Director, Banking Operations, Mr. Abayomi Atoloye, said (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Hitman hired to kill principal'
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Jade Witten Court ReporterA Joe Slovo Park teacher who allegedly plotted to have her principal murdered because he didn't promote her has been released on R2 000 bail by the Cape Town Magistrate's (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Party Declares Deadlock in Talks
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Caiphas Chimhete and Vusumuzi SifileTHE Movement for Democratic Change led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has declared a "political logjam" in the inter-party talks and will refer the matter t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Masego's alleged killers 'attacked' in jail
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: By Mogomotsi MagomeThe suspects accused of killing 10-year-old Masego Kgomo fear for their lives after they were allegedly beaten by Pretoria Central Prison inmates.The threats to their lives came les (By News Poster)...South Africa: Two admit they murdered girl and mom
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Tania Broughton and Yusuf MoollaTwo men have pleaded guilty to the murders of a Newcastle mother and 10-year-old daughter in 2008, saying the two could have identified them.In their written pleas, (By News Poster)...South Africa: Man in shot in face, CCTV footage may help
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Jason WarnerPolice are scouring CCTV footage in the hopes of identifying the men who robbed a liquor store in Malmesbury and tried to kill an employee. Police spokesman Henry du Rand said police re (By News Poster)...Uganda: Fugitives in Their Own Country
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: By Evelyn Matsamura KiapiKampala - Every morning Pepe Julian Onziema wakes up not knowing if she will live to see another rising sun. Onziema is transgender and she lives in fear for her life because (By News Poster)...South Africa: Explosion in Wentworth firm
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Mpume Madlala"The smoke was so thick that you could not even see the person next to you," says an employee of Phumelela Drums in Wentworth where one of the plants exploded yesterday, setting parts (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Divided They Stand On Deregulation
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Senior Reporter Obas Esiedesa examines the ongoing controversies over the planned deregulation of the downstream sector of Nigeria's multi-billion dollars oil industry and the shades of opinion on the (By News Poster)...South Africa: DA still gunning for Simelane
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: The DA says a tacit admission by President Jacob Zuma, that the only document he considered before appointing Menzi Simelane as National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) boss was a CV, supported its argume (By News Poster)...Zim: Talks deadlocked
Monday 25-Jan-2010: MDC-T's appeal to Zuma might be dented by Tsvangirai's comments By Caiphas Chimhete and Vusumuzi SifileThe Movement for Democratic Change led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has declared a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: We've Shown the World We're Banana Republic - Lai Muhammed
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: By Kenneth EhigiatorAlhaji Lai Muhammed is Action Congress (AC) National Publicity Secretary. In this interview, he speaks on the killing of his party's gubernatorial candidate in the 2007 elections i (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hijacked tanker arrives in Durban
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Dasen ThathiahA Supertanker that was hijacked off the Somali coast last year has arrived in Durban.But yesterday's arrival was shrouded in mystery, with few details of the crew's condition or their (By News Poster)...South Africa: Has Cape Town mayor joined blue-light gang?
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Jason WarnerHas Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato joined the notorious blue-light gang so reviled by his party, the Democratic Alliance?He's not too sure.Cape Town motorist Nolan Moss says he saw the mayor (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police deny torture in serial killer trial
Friday 29-Jan-2010: A police officer on Friday denied in the Ramsgate High Court that alleged "sugar cane" serial killer Thozamile Taki had been tortured and forced to point out the scenes of his crimes.Superintendent Bh (By News Poster)...Somalia: Ugandan Peace Troops Cling to Mogadishu's K4 Crossroads
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Herve BarMogadishu - Hiding from the sweltering sun and Islamist snipers behind sandbags, Ugandan troops obstinately defend a small but strategically crucial piece of tarmac: Mogadishu's K4 junctio (By News Poster)...Liberia: Fight Corruption with Dexterity
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: Your Excellency:If there is any single phenomenon that stands between international goodwill towards Liberia's reconstruction and economic recovery it is the supposed prevalence of corruption and the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Terror Watchlist - Nations Response
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Kola AlapinniLagos - In the last few days, Nigeria's Minister for Foreign Affairs Ojo Maduekwe had addressed the world through two poignant fora. One was the BBC Hardtalk programme and the second a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Pressure Mounts On Zuma to Act On Zimbabwe
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Violet GondaSouth African President Jacob Zuma is coming under increasing pressure to help break the political deadlock in Zimbabwe.Despite claims by the partners in the power sharing government th (By News Poster)...Zim: Paul Verryn: What went wrong?
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: Lifted the lid on the thuggish impunity with which the Mandela United Football Club - under the baton of Madikizela-Mandela - operated CommentFaranaaz ParkerJohannesburg - A power struggle in (By News Poster)...Tanzania: China Has a Strategy for Africa, Says Chinese Conservationist
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: By Samuel KamndayaResearchers have to prove claims that Chinese investments in Africa are driven by the Asian country's hunger for raw materials and energy, a senior Chinese conservationist said yeste (By News Poster)...South Africa: The Star staffer shot dead on M2
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Botho MolosankweWhen Edward Thukutha heard a gunshot ring out in the dark while running away from gunmen who wanted to kill him, his brother and two other men, he thought it was a warning shot.Sca (By News Poster)...Kenya: House Team Criticised Over Land Commission
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Lucas BarasaNairobi - The team of MPs debating the revised draft constitution came under heavy criticism Tuesday for removing the National Land Commission from the document.Key stakeholders urged K (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Defence Chiefs Warn Against Coup
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Adetutu Folasade-Koyi, Rotimi Akinwumi in Abuja And Chinwendu NnadozieMinna - On Monday, both the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Paul Dike, and the Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Abdura (By News Poster)...One Percent Diamond Business in 40 Years
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Monkagedi GaotlhobogweThey may have transformed Botswana from one of the poorest countries in the world at independence to a middle income economy, but many would be shocked at the revelations that (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Renamo Boycott Now in Ruins
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Maputo - The boycott of elected institutions by Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, is continuing to collapse, as Renamo members trickle into the provincial assemblie (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops bust violent robbery gang
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Barry BatemanLyttelton police believe they have bust a gang responsible for a range of violent armed robberies in the wake of a raid on the prime suspect's Centurion townhouse. On Wednesday stunned (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Four Farmers Evicted by Courts as Land Takeover Continues
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Alex BellFour Chipinge commercial farmers have all been ordered to immediately vacate their properties or face a possible jail term, as the state's takeover of farms under so-called land 'reform' c (By News Poster)...World: Bombs kill soldiers, destroy girls' school
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: Peshawar, Pakistan - A roadside bomb killed two Pakistani soldiers on Sunday and wounded two others in a north-west tribal region hit by a fresh wave of Islamist unrest.The device exploded in the town (By News Poster)...South Africa: Young man drowns in pool accident
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Dasen ThathiahA young man drowned in a pool at a college in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands yesterday.It was one of two drowning incidents reported in the province yesterday.It is believed 19-year-old S (By News Poster)...Liberia: Country Needs National Conference
Friday 29-Jan-2010: When the Liberia Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released its report in June 2009, the Liberian people and Liberia’s international partners expected the government to work out modaliti (By News Poster)...Liberia: Prosecutors Question Taylor About Foreign Bank Accounts
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Alpha SesayFormer Liberian president Charles Taylor was grilled by prosecutors about bank transfers which they say allowed Mr. Taylor to secretly buy weapons while his country was under a United Na (By News Poster)...South Africa: Witness in fraud case fled bank, court told
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Jade WittenCourt ReporterA bank teller has testified how he unwittingly assisted a woman allegedly involved in a syndicate accused of defrauding small town businesses of at least R300 000, minutes (By News Poster)...Sudan: African Leaders Solving Own Problems
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Wangari MaathaiFor years, we have been hearing African leaders calling for "African solutions to African problems." And for many more years, we have been waiting to see our leaders rise to the occa (By News Poster)...Ghana: Wild Expectations for Country's Oil Wealth - Demystifying the Facts
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Stephen YeboahGhana's oil find has brought in its wake, growing expectations where the youth in farming, fishing and diverse fields are strongly awaiting their share of the impending wealth-generat (By News Poster)...South Africa: Auschwitz 'hell on earth'
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Tatenda Goredema Staff ReporterSixty-five years on, two Cape Town women are still haunted by their memories of the Nazis' Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.But, says one survivor of the notorio (By News Poster)...South Africa: SA 'using fewer condoms'
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Liam Moses Staff ReporterA national survey has found that condom use among South Africans has dropped by more than 4 percent since 2006, despite an increase in understanding about the causes of HIV (By News Poster)...South Africa: Siblings brave sharks to swim to Hout Bay
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Melanie Peters Staff ReporterA recent shark attack in False Bay waters did little to deter two city swimmers from tackling the difficult swim from Kommetjie to Hout Bay on Saturday.The McKechnie si (By News Poster)...Africa: Cellphone messages stoked Nigeria slaughter
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Lagos - Police and rights activists said on Tuesday that cellphone text messages that urged people to murder and then burn their victims' bodies had helped stoke inter-religious violence that killed h (By News Poster)...South Africa: Plato lays down the law
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Ella SmookMetro WriterNo one, no matter how "important" they are, will be exempt from the rigorous security screening at the Cape Town Stadium.Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato laid down the law yesterday, (By News Poster)...South Africa: Suitcase murder accused in court
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Lyndon KhanAcquaintances of well-known Strand pianist Elfriede Weich gasped as a petite murder accused Angelique Cilliers, 25, entered the dock in the Strand Magistrate's Court.The 65-year-old pian (By News Poster)...South Africa: Tracker man pounces on wrong guys
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Thandi Skade and Lerato MaileThat is what Makbul Mitha endured for being in the right place at the wrong time after a Tracker recovery team officer mistook him and his nephew, Patel Mohsin, for hij (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hawks bust Cape's 'most wanted' criminal
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Murray WilliamsThe elite Hawks crime-fighting unit has swooped on six of the country's most dangerous alleged cash-in-transit robbers, with the latest arrest in Cape Town on Wednesday.On Wednesday, (By News Poster)...South Africa: Shootout in hijack car chase
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Dasen ThathiahAmanzimtoti was the setting for a Wild West-style shootout yesterday when a good Samaritan chased three suspects after a woman was hijacked.George Snodey, a member of the Community Cr (By News Poster)...Uganda: Dead Bodies Exhumed
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Olandason WanyamaKampala - THE Police in Karamoja on Wednesday and Thursday exhumed bodies of three relatives who were shot dead under mysterious circumstances and buried without a post mortem exam (By News Poster)...Africa: Ban Hits at AU Over Coups
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: By Argaw Ashine Nation CorrespondentNairobi - UN chief Ban Ki-Moon on Sunday criticised power-grabs in Africa in a speech to the continent's leaders as Libya's Muammar Gaddafi reluctantly handed over (By News Poster)...South Africa: R100m electricity project launched
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Slindile MalulekaEnergy Minister Dipuo Peters has challenged other municipalities in the country to emulate eThekwini's project that converts deadly landfill methane gas to electricity, and has the (By News Poster)...Uganda: Police Arrest 35 Suspects over Robberies
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Steven CandiaKampala - THE Rapid Response Unit (RRU) of the Police has arrested 35 suspected thugs, among them three juveniles, in a countrywide clamp-down.They also recovered seven guns and 153 bu (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police seek link in ATM bombings
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Nompumelelo MagwazaPolice in KwaZulu-Natal suspect that a gang of men who bombed an ATM in Winterton at the weekend might also be responsible for the bombing of another ATM in Newcastle on Monday.P (By News Poster)...Africa: Bloodshed mars president's first anniversary
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Mogadishu - Al-Qaeda-linked Somali insurgents on Friday rained mortar rounds on a ceremony feting the first year of President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed's shaky rule in a day of violence that killed at least (By News Poster)...Africa: Heads of State to Debate Madagascar, Guinea Bissau, Niger
Friday 29-Jan-2010: The African Union Summit in Ethiopia will assess the impact of information communication technology on the continent as well as other socio-economic and security developments. The theme of the Summit (By News Poster)...South Africa: Harmony an Outsider in the Value Stakes
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Ben TemkinJohannesburg - THE stock market is distinctly bearish. Even had the Reserve Bank decided to reduce the repo rate, I doubt an interest rate fall would have helped to change bearish sentime (By News Poster)...Uganda: UPDF Soldier Killed in Somalia Attack
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Risdel KasasiraKampala - One Ugandan soldier was among several Somalis killed in the attack by insurgents on the Amisom camp on Monday in Mogadishu. Amisom spokesperson Maj. Barigye Ba-Hoku told Da (By News Poster)...World: Two Koreas exchange fire
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Seoul, South Korea - North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire along their disputed western sea border on Wednesday, an official said, escalating tensions on the divided peninsula.North Korea fir (By News Poster)...Somalia: Heavy Clashes, Shelling Kill More Than Ten, Injuries 30 Others in Mogadishu
Friday 29-Jan-2010: More than 10 people have been killed and 30 others wounded after heavy clashes between the Islamist fighters and the transitional government soldiers backing by AMSIOM troops broke out in different ar (By News Poster)...Uganda: Terrorist Threats Force Armed Personnel on Regional Planes
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Andrew BagalaTerror threats that may involve hijacking of planes by suspected terrorists have forced Ugandan security to provide armed personnel on regional planes.Security sources, who declined to (By News Poster)...Liberia: Vice Principal Allegedly Raped Girl, Five -Goes Into Hiding
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: A five-year old child in the Bardnerville Estate Community is currently experiencing the worse of trauma after she was allegedly tempered with sexually by one Lewis A.A. Leeco. The alleged rapist is s (By News Poster)...Kenya: Country Angry With CITES Over Sale of Ivory, 'Partisan' Secretariat
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Cosmas ButunyNairobi - The secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has come under fire over its handling of the row over ivory trade in the East African r (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 326 Killed in Jos Crisis, Say Police
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Onoja Audu in Jos And Godwin EgbaraBauchi - CHRISTIAN schools have been closed in Bauchi State in fear of the spill over of the riot in Plateau State, where the government on Monday accused the pol (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 13 Men Arrested With Guns in Kaduna
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Ali AlkaliKaduna - Men of the Nigeria Air Force attached to Kaduna State special security outfit Operation Yaki have apprehended 13 men carrying guns and other dangerous weapons in Kubarachi settle (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zuma Takes Unity Govt Dispute to Summit
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma will this week take the disputes threatening Zimbabwe's year-old unity government to the African Union -- the guarantors of the power-sharing agreement.Senior South (By News Poster)...South Africa: Killers sentenced to life
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Two young men have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the "barbaric and inhumane" murders of Ranjini Narainsamy and her 10-year-old daughter, Hegendrie, in Newcastle in September, 2008.Judge Them (By News Poster)...South Africa: Car owners will have to step up to the plate
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Jesse AdamsGauteng's GP number plates are set to change - and it's going to cost motorists more.The province's current alpha-numerical order issuing system will run out of letters and digits in Oct (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Armed Forces Getting to Understand the Civilians
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Adeolu AkandeLagos - Experts, members of the Armed Forces as well as civilians who were all part of a recent seminar agreed that lack of communication has been at the root of the misunderstanding b (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops lose 3 000 guns - DA
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: The police are "unwittingly fuelling the illegal arms trade" by ordering thousands of new pistols to replace those that have been lost or stolen, a Democratic Alliance said on Wednesday.Dianne Kohler (By News Poster)...South Africa: Anguish of a heartbroken man
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Logan GovenderUp until September 9, 2008, when he was in Taiwan on a business trip, Selvan Narainsamy had everything going for him. He was a highly successful businessman, at age 44. The former hig (By News Poster)...South Africa: Department aims to cut carnage
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Mogomotsi MagomeTransport Minister Sbu Ndebele is hoping that the introduction of the new traffic law enforcement system will reduce road deaths on South African roads.Ndebele announced yesterday t (By News Poster)...Kenya: Al-Faisal Crisis Reveals Serious Gaps in Anti-Terror Efforts
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Salim LoneThe four conflicting government statements issued on whether controversial preacher al-Faisal had been deported last Thursday were a fitting climax to an episode in which ineptitude escal (By News Poster)...South Africa: Power Hikes 'The Final Blow' for Ailing Firms
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Johannesburg - ELECTRICITY that is too expensive is just as bad for growth as no new electricity, says SA's mining industry. There is a strong possibility that this is a commonly shared sentiment.In t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Student killed by train
Monday 25-Jan-2010: An 18-year-old college student was killed this morning when he was struck by a train as he crossed the tracks at Ysterplaat station.Police spokesman Inspector Siyabulela Vukubi said the student was re (By News Poster)...Zim: Mugabe factors haunts drive for new laws
Monday 25-Jan-2010: State media was ordered to address Mugabe as the Head of State and Government and Commander in Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces By Kitsepile NyathiAny initiative that seeks to weaken Zimba (By News Poster)...South Africa: Teen raped, tortured to death - police
Monday 25-Jan-2010: A Free State teenager was raped, tortured and left for dead in a small stream in W-section in Botshabelo, allegedly by her friends, police said on Monday.The 19-year-old girl lived long enough to tell (By News Poster)...South Africa: Reprieve could see Verryn back in the pulpit
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: By Thabiso ThakaliA week after the storm over his suspension by the Methodist Church, controversial cleric Paul Verryn has won a reprieve which could see him back in the pulpit soon.Verryn's lawyers, (By News Poster)...South Africa: Jailbirds get a chance to spread their wings
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Being sentenced to jail for five years for the theft of a vehicle was a blessing in disguise, Sizwe Baloyi, an inmate at Leeuwkop Prison, believes.He was one of 14 convicted prisoners who yesterday re (By News Poster)...Côte d'Ivoire: Beyond the Law on Land Disputes
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Man - In Côte d'Ivoire land disputes - fuelled by the 2002 rebellion and subsequent fighting - have yet to be resolved legislatively, leaving communities to seek their own solutions.Conflict for (By News Poster)...Zim: MDC denies suspending Eddie Cross
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: "We mustn't think we are angels. We have people in our midst who have not behaved themselves" By Violet GondaThe MDC has denied a story that appeared in the Herald newspaper on Tuesday which s (By News Poster)...Botswana: Ten-Year Sentence for Bank Robber
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Frederick KebadiretseForty year-old Nomsa Magalela has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after she was found guilty of armed robbery and illegal possession of firearms.The sentence was handed do (By News Poster)...South Africa: Military Gets New HIV Policy
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Johannesburg - The announcement in late 2009 that the government had approved a new HIV/AIDS policy in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) was widely welcomed by AIDS and human rights lob (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cape faces rights probe over toilets
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Fouzia van der FortStaff ReporterThe SA Human Rights Commission is investigating allegations of human rights violations levelled against the City of Cape Town by the ANC Youth League, after it was (By News Poster)...Namibia/South Africa: Is There a Possiblity of Food Shortage During 2010 Fifa World Cup?
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Windhoek - Namibia imports about 80% of its food and other products needed for daily use from South Africa. With South Africa hosting the FIFA World Cup this year, Namibians are unsure whether they wi (By News Poster)...Africa: 'Worst fighting in months' in Mogadishu
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Mohamed Ahmed and Ibrahim MohamedMogadishu - Fighting between Islamist insurgents and African Union peacekeepers that started late on Thursday and continued into Friday killed at least 12 people in (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Holds Talks With Zuma on Deadlock
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Tichaona SibandaPrime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is ready to 'talk tough' and make a firm decision over the fate of his party's involvement in the inclusive government.It follows the statement by Z (By News Poster)...IMF Paints Gloomy Picture for Namibia
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Jo-Mare DuddyONLY six of the 43 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa suffered a contraction in economic growth due to the global financial crisis last year. Namibia was one of them, the International Mo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bomb Threat Robber Arrested
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Pretoria - A man who held up a bank at a Midrand mall threatening to detonate a bomb has been arrested, police said.Superintendent Eugene Opperman said the man entered the Sandridge Mall on Tuesday af (By News Poster)...South Africa: Delivering babies all in a day's work for cop
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Michelle JonesA metro police constable has delivered his fourth baby while on duty, this time at Metro Police's community service centre in Philippi.For Dawood Miller, it was "just part of a normal (By News Poster)...South Africa: Huge Cuts in Aid Ahead for HIV/Aids Treatment
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Kerry CullinanSouth Africa faces potentially huge cuts in donor support for its HIV/AIDS programme over the next five years, yet it needs an extra R2-billion a year to reach all those who need anti (By News Poster)...South Africa: Pothole lawsuits 'ripping off state'
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Bronwyn GerretsenPeople should stop "ripping off the government" by suing the Transport Department for injuries and damage caused by potholes - instead, they should be grateful they have roads on w (By News Poster)...South Africa: Harmony Gold Fears a R3 Billion Eskom Power Bill
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - HARMONY Gold's electricity bill could swell to more than R3bn in three years if utility Eskom had its way on the tariff hikes of 35% a year for three years it has requeste (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Yar'Adua - Army Restricts Movement of Soldiers
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Paul Obi With Agency ReportAbuja - The Nigerian Army has restricted the movement of soldiers because of "rising tension" as President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua remains in Saudi Arabia receiving medical t (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Neglect of school repairs is a disgrace'
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Thandiwe MthethwaThe DA has lashed out at the provincial Department of Education for its failure to improve the conditions at KwaDinabakubo Combined School in Molweni.The school was damaged after a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cele deals with cop gripes to media
Friday 29-Jan-2010: National police commissioner Bheki Cele has set up a committee to deal with complaints about the South African Police Service that are made via the letters pages of newspapers.Police spokesman Directo (By News Poster)...Somalia: Fighting in Mogadishu Claims Five
Friday 29-Jan-2010: At least five people, mostly civilians have died and 12 others injured in heavy clashes between Somali rebel forces and African Union peacekeeping troops in the restive capital of Somalia, witnesses s (By News Poster)...South Africa: Amputee's mom wants answers
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Dear Prof Peter BealeMy name is Celina Kometsi, mother of Thembisa Nikelo, and I am writing to reply to your letter that was published in The Star on Tuesday, December 8, 2009.I have written this let (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bin Laden Calls Abdulmutallab a 'Hero'
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Paul Ohia With Agency ReportLagos - Osama bin Laden has claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas day attack on a United States airliner last year by Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, a Nigerian, de (By News Poster)...Somalia: Raids and Rancour
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Nairobi - In the year since Mehmoud Hassan arrived in Nairobi from Baidoa in southern Somalia, he says he has been arrested more than 10 times by the Kenyan police and paid more than US$300 in fines t (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Murdered Man's Family Speaks Out
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Frank KimboyThe family of Mr Swetu Fundikira, 47, reportedly beaten to death by soldiers in Dar es Salaam is mourning the loss of a relative described as a "family pillar."Mr Ramadhani Fundikira, t (By News Poster)...Somalia: Heavy Fighting Erupts in Central Region, 16 Killed
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: At least 16 people, mostly fighters have been killed and more than 21 others injured in heavy clashes between pro-government Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jamaa and Al-Shabaab insurgent group in a central Somali vi (By News Poster)...World: Explosions rock Baghdad hotels, 24 dead
Monday 25-Jan-2010: Baghdad - At least 24 people were killed in a series of car bombings in central Baghdad on Monday, police said, ending a 6-week lull in coordinated assaults on the Iraqi capital as the country heads f (By News Poster)...South Africa: Horses taken by SPCA were in pigsties
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: Four horses, two believed to be ex-racehorses, have been seized from a Philippi farm after being found living in filthy pigsties this week.The sties had concrete floors and were so small the horses co (By News Poster)...Zim: Zanu PF confidential document leak scorns unity government
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces By Alice ChimoraA newly crafted Zanu PF strategic document has disclosed the party's distaste for the country (By News Poster)...South Africa: Speeding car holds surprise for cop
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Jason WarnerThe elite Ghost Squad, feared by those breaking traffic laws in Cape Town, has shown a softer side - by delivering a baby on the front seat of a spruced up squad car. Ghost Squad member (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Two Soldiers in Court Over Civilian's Killing
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Rosina JohnTwo soldiers were yesterday arraigned for last weekend's murder in the wee hours of a Dar es Salaam clearing and forwarding agent, following an alternation sparked by a motor vehicle mis (By News Poster)...South Africa: Theft and graft 'costing city millions'
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Arthi SanpathMillions of rands lost on water and electricity, irregular expenditure and problems in public transport - these were the red crosses marring an otherwise unqualified annual city report (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nation Not a Terrorist Nation?
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: A FEW weeks ago it was Zango, Bauchi, now it is NassarawaGwom on the Plateau: Where would the periodic terrorist attack, misnamed religious/ethnic uprising, next erupt? Just a couple of days before 20 (By News Poster)...Uganda: Ritual Sacrifice Victim Drugged - Relatives
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Maria Wamala and Raymond BagumaKampala - A relative of the victim of a suspected ritual murder attempt believes that the attackers used a sedative before they cut off his genitals and plucked out h (By News Poster)...South Africa: Teen 'could kill' teacher for alleged rape
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Ufrieda HoA family never gave up their search for justice for their 16-year-old son, who was allegedly raped by his schoolteacher in 2008.The teacher has since been barred, but the family will not (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police - 362 Died in Plateau Crisis
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Ahmed MohammedThe Acting Commissioner of Police in Plateau State Mr Ikechukwu Aduba said yesterday that 326 people were killed in the recent crisis in Jos, Bukuru and environs. Aduba told newsmen i (By News Poster)...South Africa: New Board for Brand SA
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: The International Marketing Council (IMC) of South Africa (Brand South Africa) has announced its new board of trustees, which promises to ensure that South Africans buy into and live the brand promise (By News Poster)...Uganda: Continent's Govts Watch Anti-Gay Bill Debate
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: By Msia Kibona ClarkFor years, Uganda’s population has endured human rights violations at the hands of both government agents and rebel groups. Ugandans have been subjected to harassment, unjust (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Airport Body Scanners, Not the Silver Bullet
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Now that Nigeria is a fully registered and performing member of the Association of Terrorist Nations, she is under a lot of pressure to come clean as to where her allegiance lies; to al-Qaeda or to Un (By News Poster)...South Africa: Robben Island boss set to quit
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Bronwynne JoosteStaff ReporterRobben Island Museum's acting chief executive, Professor Jatti Bredekamp, is expected to announce his resignation soon, leaving the World Heritage Site without a leade (By News Poster)...South Africa: New owners for bird park
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Arthi SanpathThe sale of Umgeni River Bird Park is on track, and the park is expected to be opened by the start of the Easter holidays.Deputy Mayor Logie Naidoo said yesterday that the city had met (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Greyhound bus drivers hit me'
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Lesego MasemolaMother-to-be Kgaogelo Phahlane is furious after spending nine hours in a Greyhound bus to nowhere. The Mamelodi woman has accused the bus service of mistreating her and putting her u (By News Poster)...Somalia: Seven Killed in Mogadishu Blast
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: At least seven people have been killed and 11 others injured in a bomb blast that targeted a clinic operated with African Union base in Somalia's restive capital Mogadishu.The blast occurred on Monday (By News Poster)...World: Bombs rock Baghdad on day of hanging
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Haider KadhimBaghdad - Suicide bombers attacked three hotels used by foreigners in the heart of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 36 people and raising questions about government pledges to keep (By News Poster)...Namibia: Neumann Murder - Second Man Arrested in Walvis Bay
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Adam HartmanA SECOND suspect has been arrested in connection with the murder of Thilo Neumann at his home at the Swakop River Smallholdings last Tuesday.Sem Shamha (30) was arrested in Walvis Bay o (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Who are we to call him a threat?'
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Donna BrysonSouth African police released the Tunisian owner of Britain's Islam Channel after holding him for two days on an international terror warrant issued by his homeland, saying Wednesday th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Protesting nurses injured
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: Three student nurses were injured when police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets at protesting Western Cape College of Nursing students on Wednesday, Cape Town police said.Police were called in to (By News Poster)...South Africa: Aids ignorance in SA is down, survey says
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Mercury ReporterA new survey suggests that more South Africans are discussing HIV testing with their partners and, as a result, those couples are more likely to submit themselves for tests.Furtherm (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: ZDF to Safeguard Land Reform - Mnangagwa
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Harare - THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces will as a matter of priority -- ensure that the land reform programme is not reversed because it is the country's heritage and source of pride, Defence Minister Em (By News Poster)...Businesses Optimistic Despite Recession
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Brian BenzaAs the economic climate begins to warm up, a survey has revealed businesses in Botswana as among the most optimistic in the world despite having been bruised by a harsh 2009.According to (By News Poster)...South Africa: Eshowe cemetery vandalised
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Dasen ThathiahEshowe residents are angered by the recent desecration of 15 graves at a historic cemetery.The graveyard - which has 30 graves - was built for Norwegian missionaries who came to Zulul (By News Poster)...Uganda: HIV Researchers Target an African-Focused Agenda
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Gladys KalibbalaKampala - THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has proposed to change the time when people living with HIV start on ARVs. Dr. Kihumuro Apuuli, the director of Uganda Aids Commission, (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Curse of the Chiadzwa Diamonds
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By John MakuraMutare - To the people of Chiadzwa about 100 km south west of Mutare in Manicaland, diamonds have become yet another curse. Having for years struggled to eke out a living under very diff (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Coal Fired Power Station Approved
Monday 25-Jan-2010: Maputo - The Australian company Riversdale Mining has announced that the Mozambican Environment Ministry has approved the environmental impact study for the construction of a coal fired power station (By News Poster)...Kenya: Security Agenices on Alert Over Somali Militia Threat
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Fred OluochNairobi - Kenyan security agencies are concerned about reports that increasing numbers of Al-Shabaab militants are entering the country.Last week, police arrested over 2,000 people in a (By News Poster)...South Africa: DA slams president amid reports of love child
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: President Jacob Zuma had undermined the struggle against HIV and Aids by having unprotected sex again, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Sunday.This after the Sunday Times reported that Zuma had al (By News Poster)...East Africa: Pirates Looted Sh45 Billion Last Year - Report
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Nairobi - Ship owners paid Somali pirates over Sh45 billion ($60 million) in ransom money last year, a report from a regional anti-piracy watchdog has revealed.The Seafarers' Assistance Programme repo (By News Poster)...Sudan: Battling HIV in a Post-Conflict Army
Friday 29-Jan-2010: The evidence of five years of peace is everywhere in Juba, regional capital of Southern Sudan - in the brisk trade in the city's markets, its packed bars and nightclubs, and in the relaxed gait of the (By News Poster)...World: Teen rescued 15 days after quake is stable
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: Port-au-Prince, Haiti - A 17-year-old girl pulled from the rubble in a stunning rescue 15 days after the earthquake was in stable condition Thursday, able to eat yogurt and mashed vegetables to the su (By News Poster)...Somalia: Contact Group on Piracy Off the Coast of Somalia Marks First Anniversary
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: The United States will join partners from more than 50 countries and international organizations at the United Nations in New York January 28 for a plenary meeting of the Contact Group on Piracy off t (By News Poster)...Guinea Bissau: UN Anti-Crime Agency to Help Set Up Police Academy
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: The United Nations anti-crime agency is supporting efforts to rebuild a safe and stable Guinea-Bissau by facilitating the construction of a training centre for the West African nation's security force (By News Poster)...Kenya: MPs Reject Land Clause in Draft Constitution
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Oliver MathengeNairobi - The Parliamentary Select Committee was ob Monday reported to have deleted a section in the revised draft establishing a National Lands Commission.The MPs are said to have t (By News Poster)...Uganda: Attackers Cut Off Man's Genitals
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Maria WamalaKampala - Charles Mufumbya helped by his brother at Mulago where he is admitted following the assault which also cost him an eyeA 36-year-old man from Mpigi district is admitted in Mula (By News Poster)...South Africa: Kebble murder trial to start
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: The Brett Kebble murder trial is scheduled to start in the High Court in Johannesburg on Monday, but may face more delays.Judge Meyer Joffe, who has been assigned to preside over the case, has already (By News Poster)...South Africa: An Emerging Farmer Who is Not Afraid to Think Pig
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Johannesburg - WHILE the H1N1 virus provided ample fodder for bad press for swine last year, farmer Ivan Cloete believes that 2010 will be the year of the pig.And, as Western Cape winner of the agricu (By News Poster)...Ghana: Gushegu DCE Warns Fulanis
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Edmond GyebiTamale - The activities of Fulani herdsmen are gradually threatening the security of residents in the Gushegu District of the Northern Region.These foreigners are alleged to be the brai (By News Poster)...South Africa: Warning as Vaal Dam overflows
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: Shopkeepers along Burger Street in Standerton, Mpumalanga, scrambled to evacuate their shops as water began to rise in the nearby spruit on Wednesday.Amod Ayob said: "We had three hours to clear out m (By News Poster)...Zim: ZDF to safeguard land reform – Mnangagwa
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: "Land is the country's heritage and needs no question from foreigners on how we manage it" Harare - The Zimbabwe Defence Forces will as a matter of priority ensure that the land reform program (By News Poster)...Somalia: Two Sentenced to Death for Lawmaker and Court Judge Murder
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: A court in Bossasso, the commercial city of Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland state has sentenced to death two men accused of killing a lawmaker and a high court judge.After receiving testimonies and (By News Poster)...South Africa: Alleged heist kingpin arrested in Cape Town
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: The Hawks arrested an alleged cash-in-transit crime leader in Cape Town on Wednesday.A spokesman for the crime fighting unit said in a statement that the man's arrest was part of an operation to catch (By News Poster)...World: Kids killed while opening bomb
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Riaz KhanPeshawar, Pakistan - A bomb planted near a house in northwestern Pakistan exploded on Wednesday after children playing nearby tried to open it, killing three of them, said police.The blast (By News Poster)...South Africa: Firearm Recovered Following E.TV Saga
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Pretoria - A firearm shown in footage involving two criminals threatening to commit crimes during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in an e.tv broadcast, has been found.The Police Ministry said the Hawks, the D (By News Poster)...South Africa: PowerBall offering a whopping R50m
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Sibusiso SgwaneWhat to do with R50 million? It's not a question that keeps most South Africans awake at night, but if you strike it rich tonight in the PowerBall, you might want to give it some tho (By News Poster)...South Africa: Credit ombud gets more power
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Maureen Marud Consumer EditorThe powers of the credit information ombudsman have been expanded to include helping consumers to resolve complaints relating to credit transactions.Manie van Schalkwyk (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Potassium Bromate - Deadly in Bread Baking
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: Olayinka Olawale - WITH increasing cases of kidney damage in Nigeria, researchers discovered that potassium bromate - a flour improver used in baking bread and other confectionaries - could be a contr (By News Poster)...Somalia: 5 Killed, 15 Wounded Violence in Mogadishu Once Again
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Mogadishu - At least 5 people have been killed and 15 others wounded after violence with shelling between the transitional government soldiers backing by AMISOM troops and Islamist forces, witnesses t (By News Poster)...South Africa: COPE Youth dissent a 'gift' - Lekota
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: The dissent in the Congress of the People youth movement (COPEYM) is a "gift" to the party, COPE president Terror Lekota said on Thursday.COPE's birth was a "baptism of fire" with all the attendant eu (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: IDPs Hiding in North Kivu Forests
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: Nairobi - Insecurity in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has displaced thousands of civilians, forcing many to hide in forests or seek shelter with other families, according to the UN Refuge (By News Poster)...South Africa: RSR to inspect safety of railway lines
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Liam Moses Staff ReporterThe Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) will carry out a second series of inspections in the city next month to investigate safety around railway lines in Philippi and Nyanga.Th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Lift horror for teen at Wild Coast
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Jolene MarriahA weekend on the South Coast for a Malvern family turned into a nightmare, when a teenager was injured in a lift that allegedly plunged two floors on Saturday morning at the Wild Coas (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: High Court Rejects Land Ruling
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Fidelis MunyoroHarare - THE High Court has said it will not register the Sadc Tribunal ruling seeking to bar the State from acquiring land for resettlement purposes, saying the judgment contravenes (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Hope and Crops Scorched Again
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Harare - Garai Hokonya, 53, a smallholder farmer in Chivhu district, about 120km southwest of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, has resigned himself to the unpalatable truth that the 12 hectares of maize he (By News Poster)...South Africa: Historically disadvantaged matrics hailed
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Ilse Fredericks Education WriterThe Western Cape Education Department will, "in the next few weeks", announce major initiatives to turn around under-performing schools, says MEC Donald Grant.He was (By News Poster)...South Africa: Youngest ex-MP takes over communications
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Murray WilliamsStaff WriterOne of South Africa's youngest MPs has been appointed head of communications for the Western Cape provincial government. Nick Clelland-Stokes was elected to the Durban Me (By News Poster)...Somalia: 2 Traditional Somali Elders Killed in Harardere Town
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: Somalia - Unidentified gunmen have shot and killed two traditional elders in Harardere town in Mudug region overnight, just as tense situation between the Somali pirates rose in Hobyo, a strong hold o (By News Poster)...NCA urges donors to stop funding Zim reforms
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: “You have lots and lots of money to throw at nothing" By Sebastian NyamhangambiriHarare - Zimbabwe's largest political pressure group, the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), on Thursday (By News Poster)...South Africa: COPE pays tribute to cops
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: Congress of the People leader Mvume Dandala on Saturday paid tribute to police and called for communities to form a partnership with them."We need more collaboration with the police to find and arrest (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 40 Years After Biafra, So What? (ii)
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Tony OkeraforLagos - AS I sit back writing this piece, the horrors I heard my father talk about that were meted out to the Igbos, from before July, 1967, to January, 1970, come racing back into my (By News Poster)...South Africa: Limpopo man hijacked, left for dead
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: A 52-year-old Polokwane business owner was severely beaten and left for dead in a hijacking, his friends said on Wednesday.Thys Diedericks, the owner of Limpopo Tractors, was accosted by four men, one (By News Poster)...Kenya: Police Probe Sudden Rise in Recovery of Deadly Arms
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Nairobi - Anti-terrorism detectives are investigating a worrying trend in which deadly explosives have been recovered across the country.The officers have been noting the serial numbers and inscriptio (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Government Still to Respond On Farm Invasion Subpoena
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Alex BellThe government has until Thursday to notify a South African civil rights group if it intends on opposing its application to sue over the ongoing invasions of South African owned land in Zi (By News Poster)...Yet Another Term for Uganda's Museveni
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Edmond KizitoNairobi - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni marks 24 years in power on January 26 with his eyes set on elections next year, that could give him the chance to become one of Africa's lo (By News Poster)...Africa: Is Tsvangirai being hobbled by Mugabe?
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: By Tim WitcherDavos, Switzerland - Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is pressing the world to end sanctions against his country as it climbs out of a political and economic abyss, but wherever (By News Poster)...Africa: Egypt arrests 'jihadis', confiscates weapons
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: Cairo - Egyptian police have arrested 23 men suspected of plotting attacks against Israeli visitors to Egypt and US ships in the Suez Canal, and of trying to join "the jihad in Darfur".Speaking on con (By News Poster)...Africa: Al-Qaeda members remain behind bars - Gaddafi
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Lamine GhanmiRabat - Libya will hold up to 300 al-Qaeda members in jail indefinitely after they have completed their prison terms to stop them staging fresh attacks, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi s (By News Poster)...South Africa: Epileptic woman 'steals' toddler
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Caryn DolleyA Mitchell's Plain mother is receiving trauma counselling after her cousin, who has health problems, disappeared with her one-year-old daughter two days ago.Chante Langeveldt, wearing a (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Criminalising Prostitution Could Derail Fight Against HIV/Aids - Official
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Bosco R. AsiimweKigali - An official from the National Commission for the Fight against AIDS (CNLS) has said that criminalizing and denying the existence of sex workers is a threat to curbing the s (By News Poster)...Prosecutors Accuse Taylor of Recruiting Child Soldiers
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor recruited and used children for military purposes in Liberia and it was therefore no surprise to him to learn that Sierra Leonean rebel forces were also using child soldie (By News Poster)...Uganda: Bushenyi Police Probe Killing of Suspected Thug
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Chris AhimbisibweKampala - The Police in Bushenyi district are investigating the death of an alleged thug.A 40-year-old woman is said to have hit and killed the man, who was allegedly part of a gan (By News Poster)...Africa: Nigerian opposition politician shot dead
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Lagos - Gunmen have shot dead a prominent opposition politician in the south-eastern Nigerian state of Ogun, amid rising tensions ahead of general elections next year."Chief Dipo Dina was killed Monda (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 40,000 Displaced By Jos Riots
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Onyebuchi Ezigbo and Seriki AdinoyiAbuja/Jos - The human catastrophe arising from the eruption of sectarian crisis in Jos, Plateau State, two weeks ago has left at least 40,000 displaced.Also, form (By News Poster)...Africa: Energy Quest Leads Investors to Continent
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Charlotte MathewsJohannesburg - COAL and uranium projects in sub-Saharan Africa continue to present investment opportunities as SA, China and India seek to meet their future energy needs, according (By News Poster)...South Africa: Matrics apply to rewrite exams
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Education WriterMore than 1 400 of last year's matriculants have applied to the Western Cape Education Department to have their exam scripts re-marked, while 7 997 candidates qualified to write sup (By News Poster)...South Africa: Parties pan Reserve Bank proposal
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Christelle TerreblancheThe ANC's call for a discussion on whether to "nationalise" the Reserve Bank has put the cat among the pigeons in opposition party echelons. The DA and Cope came out against (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Hijacking thug' shot dead
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: A hijacker who terrorised the community of Claremont, near Pinetown, has been shot dead by police, a spokesperson said on Sunday.Police were about to arrest Ntankiso Nene when he pulled a gun out from (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gunmen shoot at IFP Women's Brigade leader
Friday 29-Jan-2010: The IFP said on Friday that gunmen had opened fire on IFP Women's Brigade chairwoman Thembi Nzuza's uMlazi home on Thursday night.Nzuza, who is also an executive committee member in the eThekwini muni (By News Poster)...Kenya: Arms Cache Suspects Freed on Sh3 Million Bail
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Richard MungutiNairobi - The internal security department is being run poorly jeopardising the security of the country, a judge stated on Thursday.Delivering a cash bail ruling to the five arms cac (By News Poster)...World: Bloody drama unfolds at sea
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Warda Meyer Staff ReporterA murderous rampage on the high seas has left the captain of a Taiwanese fishing vessel and the ship's cook dead, while another crewman, one of two alleged killers, was lo (By News Poster)...World: Police on alert amid 'Allah' row
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Razak AhmadKuala Lumpur - Pig heads were found at two mosques on Wednesday near a neighbourhood hit by an ethnic clash nine years ago, Malaysian police said, following a series of recent arson and (By News Poster)...Africa: Ban slams power-grabs as Gaddafi steps aside
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: Addis Ababa - UN chief Ban Ki-Moon on Sunday criticised power-grabs in Africa in a speech to the continent's leaders as Libya's Muammar Gaddafi reluctantly handed over the presidency of the African Un (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: We Can't Delay EPAs Forever
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Daninel SteinmannSomewhere during this year, the unsigned and outstanding EPAs between Namibia and South Africa on this side, and the European Union on the opposite, must be resolved. In earlier EP (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: 20 Percent Drop in Diamond Exports
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Christo JohnsonFreetown - The value of diamond exports from Sierra Leone fell by 20 percent year-on-year in 2009, a senior official at the ministry of mines and mineral resources said on Tuesday.Sh (By News Poster)...South Africa: WC blues for guest house owners
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Jason Warner and Michelle JonesOwners of local guest houses and backpacker hostels have said the expected rush for 2010 World Cup accommodation had not materialised and some fear rooms will stand e (By News Poster)...World: Students killed in huge Venezuelan protests
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Caracas - Two students have been shot dead in huge demonstrations in Venezuela after President Hugo Chavez pulled the plug on a television station critical of his government.The authorities said that (By News Poster)...South Africa: Girl, 10, raped and hanged
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: A ten-year-old girl was raped then hanged during a robbery at her home, the High Court in Madadeni (Newcastle) heard on Tuesday.Hegendhri Narainsamy, 10, was forced to stand on a chair with a rope rou (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Suspended Head of Country's Refugee Mission Fights Back
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Alex BellThe head of the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg, Paul Verryn, is fighting back against his suspension, as support for the controversial cleric continues to grow.Verryn was suspend (By News Poster)...Somalia: Gunmen Kill a Businessman, Injure Another in Galka'o Town
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Unidentified gunmen have shot and killed a businessman and injured another at Garsorka neighborhood in the north of Galka'o town in Mudug region, witnesses said on Tuesday.Reports say that unknown arm (By News Poster)...Uganda: 13 Abducted over Amuru Land Dispute
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Chris OcowunKampala - THE Police and other security organs in Amuru district will this week deploy in the disputed areas of Lakang and Apar return villages, where 13 people were on Thursday night a (By News Poster)...Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to Seek Second Term in 2011
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Boakai FofanaMonrovia - President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman to be elected head-of-state in Africa, announced Monday during her annual message to the national legislature that she will (By News Poster)...South Africa: Joburg police ready for 2010 crime
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: After 235 arrests were made during an anti-crime operation over the weekend, Johannesburg police are confident they can tackle crime during the Fifa World Cup."The weekend operation proves that police (By News Poster)...Africa: Mugabe factor hits Zim's sanctions hopes
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: Davos, Switzerland - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is pressing the world to end sanctions on his country as it climbs out of a political and economic abyss, but wherever he goes the shad (By News Poster)...Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe defaults on bond repayment
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: Outstanding amounts due to Blanket and other gold producers were converted into bonds Caledonia Mining reports that its wholly owned subsidiary, Blanket Mine will not receive payment in respec (By News Poster)...South Africa: Overberg municipal manager suspended
Friday 29-Jan-2010: The acting municipal manager of the Overberg district municipality has been suspended for allegedly submitting fake academic qualifications.Executive mayor of the Overberg district municipality Mauren (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Kidnapping - Abia Community Sends SOS to FG
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Steve OkoUmuahia - THE people of Asa in Ukwa West LGA of Abia State have sent a distress call to both the state and federal governments to as a matter of urgency deliver them from the pawl of kidna (By News Poster)...South Africa: Probe after 2010 plane ticket cost shock
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Barry Bateman and SapaThe Competition Commission has called on air travellers to assist it in its investigation into major airlines for allegedly colluding on airfare prices for the World Cup.The c (By News Poster)...Liberia: Hilary Clinton Endorses Sirleaf's 2nd Term Bid
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: If there is any historical reason Liberians today regard poll politics as tele-guided and controlled by invisible hands, it is the consistency with which incumbent presidents won "landslide" or "volca (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mayhem at Lindela deportation centre
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: Police were forced to intervene at the Lindela Repatriation Centre near Krugersdorp on Thursday after an altercation broke out between foreign nationals and security guards, the department of home aff (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Prisoners Escape From Nampula Jail
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: Maputo - 51 prisoners, some of whom are described as dangerous criminals, escaped from the Nampula-Rapale district prison in the northern Mozambican province of Nampula on Tuesday night.Cited in Thurs (By News Poster)...South Africa: CEO's Record Bodes Ill for Change at the SABC
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Rhoda KadalieJohannesburg - WHILE senior leaders in the African National Congress (ANC) are fighting among themselves over the spoils of the national democratic revolution, things are falling apart (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Move Fast On Chiadzwa
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: Harare - ZIMBABWE needs to quickly sort out the legal tangles of the Chiadzwa diamond fields, work out a fair and efficient way of mining these diamonds and then fulfil all the requirements of the Kim (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Let's burn him, he is a police officer'
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: A number of vehicles - including one of The Star's - had their windows shattered, and a bus and a car were torched when service delivery protests in Soweto turned violent. Residents of the Motsoaledi (By News Poster)...Kenya: Gung-Ho Grannies Learn Self-Defence
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Nairobi - In a community hall in Korogocho, a slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, an instructor takes his students through their paces, but unlike the usual fitness fanatics, today's class is a group (By News Poster)...Shocker: Zim: Eddie Cross suspended
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: The party is investigating three senior officials By Takunda MaodzaMDC-T has suspended Bulawayo South legislator Mr Eddie Cross over allegations of indiscipline as internecine strife deepens i (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Robber Blasts State
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Harare - CONVICTED armed robber, Luckmore Matambanadzo, has accused the State of cooking up more charges against him.Appearing before Mr Archie Wochiunga, Matambanadzo said new charges the State had b (By News Poster)...South Africa: By-elections on Wednesday
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Municipal by-elections will take place in 12 wards in four provinces, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said on Wednesday.One by-election each would be held in the Eastern Cape and North West (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 326 Persons Died in Jos Riot - Police
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: The Plateau State Police Command has put the number of those who lost their lives in the recent Jos crisis at 326, while 313 people were arrested.The state's new Acting Police Commissioner, Mr Ikehukw (By News Poster)...Botswana: Property Fundamentals Strong for 2010
Monday 25-Jan-2010: A slowly recovering economy, higher price of construction materials and supply demand imbalance are among the slew of factors aiding the rise in property purchase and rental prices, analysts have said (By News Poster)...Africa: Bomb may been trap set for police
Monday 25-Jan-2010: Hargeysa, Somalia - At least three police officers were killed and two wounded on Monday when an explosive device they were trying to defuse went off in northern Somalia.The incident occurred near a m (By News Poster)...South Africa: Slain girl's friends protest against bail bid
Monday 25-Jan-2010: Carrying posters and wearing slogan T-shirts, Thabitha Mahlangu's nursery school friends gathered outside the Benoni Regional Court to protest the bail application of her alleged killer.Thabitha, who (By News Poster)...South Africa: Profiteering slammed
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: By Sameer Naik and Kashiefa AjamSA Tourism has lashed out at the local hospitality industry for hiking their prices to profiteer from the upcoming World Cup and embarrassing the country internationall (By News Poster)...South Africa: Airlines Face Investigation Into World Cup Fare-Fixing
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Julius BaumannJohannesburg - SA's domestic airlines yesterday disputed claims of collusion after the Competition Commission announced it had started a probe into collusion on prices during the 2010 (By News Poster)...Sudan: Vulnerable Girls Risk Sexual Exploitation On Juba's Streets
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: Juba - In a large market in Juba, the regional capital of Southern Sudan, young women spend long afternoons lounging on beds in sweltering iron sheet rooms, waiting for men.One girl, no more than 17, (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Police Probe Mysterious Death in City
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Al-Amani MutarubukwaPolice are investigating the sudden death of the country manager for Yana Tyres-Tanzania Limited who was found dead in his house in Dar es Salaam on Monday.His colleagues who fo (By News Poster)...Africa: Bennett not involved in terrorism - witness
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By MacDonald DzirutweHarare - The chief witness for the prosecution told a Zimbabwean court on Wednesday that opposition politician Roy Bennett was not involved in a terrorism plot against President R (By News Poster)...Uganda: Policeman Arrested over Defiling Detainee
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Luke KagiriKampala - TWO Police officers have been arrested in two different incidents in Mityana and Mubende districts. The officer in charge of Namutamba Police post in Bulera sub-county, Mityana (By News Poster)...World: Envoy's wife on crashed plane
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Peter Fabricius and ReutersMarla Pietton, wife of the previous French ambassador to South Africa, Denis Pietton, was a passenger on the Ethiopian Airlines aircraft that crashed into the Mediterrane (By News Poster)...Zambia: Higher Fuel Costs Will Drive Up Food Prices
Monday 25-Jan-2010: Lusaka - A raft of fuel price hikes that will affect agricultural production costs as well as consumer pockets is expected to drive food price inflation in Zambia, where about two-thirds of the popula (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Winnie Mandela Thanks Nation for South Africa's Liberation
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Austine OdoLegendary South African freedom fighter, Winnie Madikizela Mandela, has acknowledged Nigeria's role in her country's struggle for liberation from white dominance, saying her countrymen w (By News Poster)...Zim: Police drive out kids from creche
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: Because their parents do not support Kunonga By Chenai MarambaKaroi - Baton-wielding police officers this week drove out 60 children from a nursery school at Karoi Anglican church because thei (By News Poster)...World: China: US arms sales to Taiwan hurt security
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: Beijing/Washington - China's foreign minister deepened diplomatic rifts between his country and the United States by saying at the weekend that US arms sales to Taiwan had hurt China's national securi (By News Poster)...Zim: Farm workers bear the brunt of disruptions
Friday 29-Jan-2010: More than 1 500 farm workers lost their jobs this month alone Kudzai KuwazaThe continued disruptions on farms have resulted in more than 1 500 farm workers losing their jobs this month alone, (By News Poster)...Somalia: Roadside Bomb Kills Guard, Injures Governor in Las Anod
Friday 29-Jan-2010: A roadside bomb explosion has killed at least one person and injured four others including the governor of Sool region, the disputed northwestern Somali region which is under the control of break-away (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mother and child murderer sentenced
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: A 22-year-old Newcastle man who murdered a woman, raped her 10-year-old daughter, and then hanged her in their home, was handed two life sentences in the Madadeni High Court on Thursday.The man, Sipha (By News Poster)...Zim: Bennett trial: Court to rule on emails
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: "The emails should be accepted as exhibit number 13. The state seeks to rely on those emails to prove that an offence was committed by the accused" By Own CorrespondentsHarare - High Court Jud (By News Poster)...South Africa: SA poll confirms joke about sex and marriage
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Bronwyn GerretsenThe 2009 National Communication Survey on HIV/Aids in South Africa has not confirmed what has long been joked about - that married couples have less sex.Yes, survey results show th (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'They just shot him in cold blood'
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: P4 "Dead ringer"A man has been shot four times through the head just minutes after stepping out of his car in front of his Cape Flats home.The 27-year-old Blackheath man had just dropped his mother of (By News Poster)...South African Business Warns on Climate Promises
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Jocelyn NewmarchJohannesburg - BUSINESS is concerned that SA's pledge to reduce emissions growth by 34% by 2020 and 42% by 2025 has been made without proper consultation with industry, which will b (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Hire a private eye'
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Mogomotsi MagomeAn irate city man who was nearly killed during a robbery last year is considering taking legal action against a station commissioner who apparently told him to hire a private invest (By News Poster)...South Africa: Learner driver held for drunk driving
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: The City of Cape Town's Ghost Squad has arrested a learner driver, more than twice over the legal alcohol limit, after he tried to escape a roadblock on Tygerberg Valley Road in Durbanville."When offi (By News Poster)...Somalia: Clashes in Mogadishu Claims 10
Friday 29-Jan-2010: At least 10 people, most of them civilian have been killed and over 21 others injured in heavy clashes that pitted Somali rebels against the African Union peacekeeping troops across the restive Somali (By News Poster)...Sudan: The Obama Administration Expresses Concern About Arms Flow in Sudan
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: The Enough Project today released statements concerning the Obama administration’s apparent concern about the flow of illegal arms to South Sudan:John Norris, Executive Director of the Enough Pr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: '100 Million Locals Are Hungry'
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: About hundred million Nigerians are hungry, researches have shown. The Federal Government has continued to claim that it is according high priority to agriculture especially food production. It is one (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC-T Senator's Son Jailed Over Gun
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: Harare - Nichodemus Ncube (24) the son of MDC-T Senator for Magwegwe-Pumula Anna Chitsa and two colleagues have been sentenced to three years in prison after they were found in unlawful possession o (By News Poster)...South Africa: Man burned at new airport site
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Dasen ThathiahAn electrical fault at King Shaka International Airport construction site has left a man severely burnt.Randhir Krishna, 36, of Newlands West, who was working in an electrical room ye (By News Poster)...South Africa: CoAL of Africa Diversifies Project Portfolio
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - COAL of Africa (CoAL) confirmed yesterday that it had finalised the R467m acquisition of junior miner NuCoal Mining, after fulfilling the suspensive conditions to the shar (By News Poster)...South Africa: Lawyer's request delays poison curry trial
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Mercury ReporterThe poison curry murder trial, in which three members of a family stand accused of murdering their landlord, was delayed on Tuesday when a defence attorney claimed he needed more ti (By News Poster)...South Africa: Men in shot-boy case abandon bail
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Kamini PadayacheeThe three men accused of shooting a 12-year-old boy in Chatsworth during a botched hijacking two weeks ago have abandoned their application for bail.Altaf Ally was shot and critica (By News Poster)...Africa: Why Bother with Continent?
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: By Julie H. SullivanI have the privilege of leading a not for profit organization based in Arizona that, for more than twenty five years, has had the mission of supporting African nations in their eff (By News Poster)...Africa: Djibouti says to commit 450 troops to Somalia
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Duncan MiririAddis Ababa - Djibouti said on Thursday it planned to send 450 soldiers to Somalia possibly next month to boost the African Union (AU) peace mission that is protecting the fragile West (By News Poster)...South Africa: ANC to 'blame for Maroga's action'
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: The Congress of the People warned on Thursday that the ANC's unscrupulous governance will continue to produce the "greedy Marogas of this world".COPE had noted former Eskom CEO Jacob Maroga's outrageo (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Six Prisoners Break Out from Pemba Jail
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Maputo - Six prisoners escaped on Friday night from the top security jail in the northern Mozambican city of Pemba, according to a report in Wednesday's issue of the independent daily "O Pais".The pol (By News Poster)...Kenya: Red Cross Official Killed on Duty
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By John NgirachuNairobi - Police shot and killed a Red Cross volunteer at the scene of an accident involving a fuel tanker and a matatu on Tuesday night, according to an eyewitness.A volunteer said hi (By News Poster)...Africa: Slain president - family slams probe
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Nairobi - The family of former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana on Wednesday charged that Kigali's investigation into his 1994 assassination had been manipulated."We feel it is our duty to warn p (By News Poster)...Africa: Zim rejects land ruling - report
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Harare - A Zimbabwe high court has rejected a southern African court's ruling that blocked the government's move to resettle blacks on more than 70 white-owned farms, state media said on Wednesday."Th (By News Poster)...Kenya: Kibaki Party Deletes Key Constitutional Proposals
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Nairobi - For the second time in Naivasha, President Kibaki's PNU party members bulldozed Prime Minister Raila Odinga's ODM in the Parliamentary Select Committee when they deleted key proposals made b (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sewage charges for Durban
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Arthi SanpathFrequent trips to the toilet may end up costing you more money, if Durban city officials have their way.Residents may soon find their utility bills reflecting a separate amount for sew (By News Poster)...South Africa: Court hears of death by curry plot
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: A bizarre murder plot involving a Chatsworth family who allegedly killed their landlord by poisoning his curry - so they could inherit his house - is unfolding in the Durban High Court.In the dock are (By News Poster)...Africa: Nations Join World Community to Help Haiti
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Charles W. CoreyDespite their own financial difficulties and development challenges, many African nations are joining with the international community to donate money and lifesaving or emergency su (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SADC Seminar on Bush Fires
Monday 25-Jan-2010: Maputo - Specialists from member countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) met in Maputo on Monday to discuss means of combating uncontrolled bush fires, which are often deliberat (By News Poster)...South Africa: Prosecuting E.tv Suspects 'Won't Be Easy'
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Warda MeyerIt might be difficult to prosecute two men who threatened to rob and kill World Cup tourists and shoot it out with the police in a controversial programme about crime aired on e.tv last (By News Poster)...Africa: UN Chief Launches Campaign to End Violence Against Women
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the support of African leaders to give new impetus to his campaign to end the violence suffered by women on the continent, which he called the "unsung her (By News Poster)...Where is the Power?
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: By Monkagedi GaotlhobogweWhere is the over 250mw of electricity secured during January to relieve the nation of continuous blackouts? That is the question as power outages continue in many parts of th (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Farm Workers Bear the Brunt of Disruptions
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Kudzai KuwazaTHE continued disruptions on farms have resulted in more than 1 500 farm workers losing their jobs this month alone, the General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe (G (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Ten Huts Burnt in Buhera Political Violence
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Takunda Maodza and Zvamaida MurwiraHarare - POLITICAL violence has resurfaced in the restive Buhera District with seven homesteads belonging to Zanu-PF supporters coming under attack and at least 1 (By News Poster)...Zim: AG fails to extract confession from witness
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: Maintained his previous testimony distancing himself from email messages By Own CorrespondentsHarare - The prosecution on Tuesday tried without success to cajole and lure its chief witness Mic (By News Poster)...Uganda: Oil Exploration Blamed for Increased Poaching in Parks
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Jocelyn EdwardsKampala - When rangers discovered the remains of the only male reedbuck in Kabwoya Park in the sack of a Tullow Oil contractor, they found what are perhaps the first signs of the imp (By News Poster)...Electoral Reform in Nigeria 'Key to Fighting Extremism'
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Nasir el RufaiThe disappearance of President Umaru Yar'Adua to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment for the past nine weeks – without thought to orderly constitutional succession – has de (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: BNC Set to Resume Operations
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Harare - PAN-AFRICAN resource group Mwana Africa is considering resuming operations at its Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed Bindura Nickel Corporation on the back of firming global metal prices.However, (By News Poster)...South Africa: 2nd chance for matric failures
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Angelique SerraoFor those matrics who are writing supplementary exams in mathematics and physical science help is at hand. The Gauteng Department of Education is offering free lessons in these two (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: RBZ Gets Custody of Chiadzwa Diamonds
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Daniel NemukuyuHarare - THE Supreme Court has ordered that all diamonds extracted from African Consolidated Resources claims in Chiadzwa since 2007 be surrendered to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe fo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Soweto protests turn violent
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Solly MaphumuloService delivery protests in Soweto, where residents demanded free electricity, turned violent on Wednesday morning.Residents of Motswaledi informal settlement turned Chris Hani Road (By News Poster)...South Africa: Alleged KZN heist mastermind nabbed
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: A man believed to be the mastermind behind KwaZulu-Natal cash-in-transit heists was arrested on Tuesday, the Hawks said on Tuesday."His arrest in Richards Bay earlier today now brings to five the numb (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: City Agrees to Limited Land Leasing By Negotiation
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Wudineh ZenebeThe Addis Abeba City Administration has finally decided to lease land through negotiation, an approach that had been stalled for months, pending the ratification by the cabinet of the (By News Poster)...Botswana: Murder Most Foul in Mochudi
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Lekopanye MooketsiAn unemployed Mochudi man, Thabang Moilwe allegedly killed his girlfriend, slit her torso and cut out her heart and placed it beside her body before committing suicide.The inciden (By News Poster)...South Africa: Meer slams Asmal
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Christelle Terreblanche Political BureauRespected veteran activist Professor Fatima Meer has described former ANC minister Kader Asmal's public opposition to apartheid reparations claims against mu (By News Poster)...World: China threatens US with sanctions
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: By Ben Blanchard and Chris BuckleyBeijing - China threatened to impose sanctions on US arms firms and cut co-operation with Washington unless it cancels a $6,4-billion arms sale to Taiwan, in an unpre (By News Poster)...Zim: Ex-farmers union chief detained
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: Gifford was arrested when he went to deliver a High Court order By Own CorrespondentHarare - Zimbabwean police are still holding in detention former Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) president Tr (By News Poster)...Zim: HRW: EU must maintain sanctions on Mugabe
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: "Some believe that making concessions will get Zanu PF to moderate its behaviour" Johannebsurg - The European Union should maintain its travel ban and asset freeze on Zimbabwe President Robert (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Arrested Farmers Remain Behind Bars
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Alex BellTwo farmers, who were arrested over an ongoing land battle in Chipinge, are set to remain behind bars until Saturday, when they will appear in court in Mutare.The pair was transferred to M (By News Poster)...Cash Prize Probe Seeks Witnesses
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Werner MengesTHE Namibian Police are asking vendors of Scratch-a-Million cash prize competition cards to contact them in connection with a fraud investigation that is being carried out into Scratch (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jigawa Donates N10 Million to Jos Crisis Victims
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Abubakar SharadaDutse - Former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (second left) with the Corps Marshal, Federal Road SafetyCommission(FRSC), OsiChidoka, when the marshal paid a condolence v (By News Poster)...Namibia: Karas Police Happy With December Campaign
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Luqman CloeteA SIGNIFICANT number of suspects were arrested in the Karas Region over the past festive season, the regional Police chief said yesterday.Deputy Commissioner Josephat Abel said the Pol (By News Poster)...Zim: RBZ gets custody of Chiadzwa diamonds
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: To remain at the central bank until the ownership wrangle is resolved Daniel NemukuyuHarare – The Supreme Court has ordered that all diamonds extracted from African Consolidated Resources cl (By News Poster)...Somalia: Somali Groups Fight Over Central Villages
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: At least 20 people have been killed and over 30 others injured in heavy clashes between Somali armed groups fighting for the control of villages in central Somali region of Galgadud, officials and wit (By News Poster)...2010 World Cup: SA Confidence in good World Cup still high
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Zurich, Switzerland - South Africans are confident and feel immense pride in staging the football World Cup later in 2010, the ruling body Fifa said on Wednesday, citing a survey.The Sport and Markt c (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hotline for Farm Dwellers On the Way
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Pretoria - The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries is working on setting up a Hotline which will iron out problems faced by farm dwellers."We will set up a national Hotline for the farm (By News Poster)...Somalia: Govt Plans to Integrate Ex-Militias
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Nairobi - Mogadishu residents have welcomed plans by the interim government to step up the integration of an earlier, ousted, regime's security forces into its own army."People are fed up and are tire (By News Poster)...Zim: Judge allows state to cross-examine witness
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: "The witness told the court that his tormentors were drunk and disorderly" By Own CorrespondentsHarare - Zimbabwean High Court judge Chinembiri Bhunu on Monday upheld an application by the sta (By News Poster)...Zim: Anglican Church invites Mugabe to pray out ex Bishop's unholy mess
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Alice ChimoraAnglicans in Zimbabwe have resolved to hold a street prayer protest in central Harare to press the police to allow the church access to its buildings across the capital. The p (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Crude Oil Export to India Hits $10 Billion
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Onyebuchi EzigboAbuja - The Indian Minister of Petroleum, Mr. Murli Deora yesterday said the country's total annual import of crude oil from Nigeria reached 400,000 barrels last year, amounting to (By News Poster)...South Africa: Striking student nurses' night duty nightmare
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Striking nursing students have vowed to continue their protest at the Western Cape College of Nursing until they are no longer compelled to do night duty.On Monday morning around 100 striking students (By News Poster)...Liberia: 'King David' Mobbed to Death for allegedly Slashing His Brother's Throat
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By A. Abbas DullehA man identified as "King David" was over the weekend mobbed to death at the Bardnersville Junction on the Somalia Drive by an angry crowd after it was discovered that he ( King Davi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'Fulanis Massacred in Front of Jang's House'
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Muideen OlaniyiMany Fulani herdsmen were killed by Berom youths in the vicinity of Governor Jonah Jang's house in Du District of Jos South Local Government during last week's communal crisis in Pla (By News Poster)...Somalia: Rights Agency - Control Military Assistance
Monday 25-Jan-2010: Djibouti - Amnesty International has called for arms transfers to the Somali government to be suspended until there are adequate safeguards to prevent weapons from being used to commit war crimes and (By News Poster)...South Africa: Councillor shot in head four times
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Sharika RegchandA Newcastle councillor was killed at her home in Madadeni yesterday, just two days before her vote could have been the deciding factor in transferring control of the Amajuba Distric (By News Poster)...[Cartoon] 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup South Africa: Super-Censorship, lies, lies and more lies... FIA & the ANC collude together...
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: Here is a brilliant ZAPIRO cartoon which raises an issue I've been meaning to comment on. Ever since the ANC came to power, whenever this country gets international exposure... a huge censorship plan (By Jan)...South Africa: Dagga plantation found at TUT
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: A dagga plantation was found on the Tshwane University of Technology's Shoshanguve campus during the eviction of students who were in contravention of a court order, the university said on Saturday."W (By News Poster)...South Africa: No bail for Sheryl Cwele
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: By Fiona GoundenSheryl Cwele, the wife of the Minister of State Security, Siyabonga Cwele, has been implicated in yet another case of employing a young woman as a drug mule from Brazil.Appearing in th (By News Poster)...Practical Realities and Options for Barataphati
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By John Makgala and Banyatsi MmekwaWe take it that by now the psychological trauma suffered by the Young Turks in the Barataphati faction of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) towards the end (By News Poster)...South Africa: Landfill Gas-to-Electricity Project Launched
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: Pretoria - A landmark project that converts gas from household waste into electricity has been officially launched in Durban.A first for Africa, the project will produce enough electricity for thousan (By News Poster)...South Africa: Man to sue after allegedly beating by cops
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Zelda Venter High Court ReporterA Centurion man who claimed that he was assaulted by the police and sprayed with pepper spray in his face for no reason, yesterday got the go-ahead from the Pretoria (By News Poster)...South Africa: Massive bribe: Top advocate probed
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Louise FlanaganDid one of South Africa's top advocates try to get a multimillion-rand bribe to help his opponents in an international case?Seth Nthai SC is accused of soliciting a massive bribe to (By News Poster)...South Africa: Two cops killed in Rustenberg crash
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Three people including two police officers were killed in a crash involving a police car near Rustenburg on Wednesday morning, North West police said."There was a head-on collision between a police ve (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mthethwa moves to allay World Cup crime fears
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa on Tuesday sought to allay fears about crime in South Africa during the football World Cup, with the kickoff less than five months away."There is nothing friendly betwee (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Locals Should Pay Appropriate Prices for Fuel, Power - Asiodu
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Chief Philip Asiodu, the Chairman of the Central Working Committee of the Vision 20:2020, said in Abuja that "appropriate pricing" would create stability in the supply of electricity and petroleum pro (By News Poster)...World: Israel will not probe Gaza war - minister
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Tel Aviv - Israel will not establish a commission of inquiry into allegations of war crimes committed during last winter's Gaza war, a minister said on Tuesday.The decision would mean a rejection of a (By News Poster)...South Africa: ANC's soul leaves ANC, enters Winnie's wig
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: This article was originally published on a satirical news website, www.hayibo.comPRETORIA. Just days after complaining that the ANC had "lost its soul", reformed pyromaniac Winnie Madikizela-Mandela h (By News Poster)...Africa: Judge: treason trial witness was 'tortured'
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Harare - Zimbabwe's high court on Monday struck out evidence from the main witness in the treason trial of a top aide to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, after a judge accepted he had been tortured i (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Miners Seek Capital
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Leonard MakombeCENTRAL African Gold (CAG) plans to raise US$10 million as well as combine two of its subsidiaries to have a single listed entity on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE).CAG chief execu (By News Poster)...Kenya: Challenges of a Changing Landscape
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Ibrahim MwathaneKaren, Muthaiga, Lavington and Runda are home to the high and mighty. But unlike the others, the face of Karen is rapidly changing. The tree cover is slowly reducing as the quality (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How Ibru Looted Oceanic Bank - Sanusi
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Abdulaziz AbdulazizKano - The Central Bank Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has opened up on how the sacked managing director of Oceanic Bank Plc, Mrs Cecilia Ibru duped t (By News Poster)...Africa: Blast at Somali hospital kills at least one
Monday 25-Jan-2010: Mogadishu - An explosion at the African Union (AU) outpatients' clinic near Mogadishu's airport on Monday has killed at least one person."I have confirmed one dead," said Barigye Ba-hoku, a spokesman (By News Poster)...Africa: MEND threatens 'all-out' attacks
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: Lagos - Nigeria's main rebel group on Saturday called off a truce in the oil-rich Niger Delta, threatening an "all-out onslaught" and adding to the political and economic woes of Africa's oil and gas (By News Poster)...Zim: A brave bishop defies Mugabe
Friday 29-Jan-2010: "We have made the security departments aware. What they do with the knowledge is their business" Andrew BrownWe're fairly often rude about the cowardice of Anglican bishops here, but one man i (By News Poster)...Swapo in Food Tender Dispute
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithTHE Swapo Party Women's Council (SPWC) is accused of inappropriately influencing the State hostels food tender in a High Court challenge alleging irregularities and calling for the s (By News Poster)...World: Hamas blames Israel for death
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Gaza City - - The Islamist Hamas movement blamed Israel on Friday for the death in Dubai earlier this month of one of the founders of its military wing, Mahmud Abdel Rauf al-Mabhuh."Mabhuh died a mart (By News Poster)...World: 33 dogs slaughtered after neighbour dispute
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Wellington - Police on Friday seized weapons used by two New Zealand men to slaughter more than 30 dogs owned by a neighbour in what animal welfare authorities said could be the country's worst animal (By News Poster)...South Africa: Is there a Doctor in the house?
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Baldwin Ndaba and Anna CoxFormer Kaizer Chiefs midfielder Doctor Khumalo seems to have made a remarkable recovery from an illness that kept him away from court earlier this week.Snappily dressed in (By News Poster)...Uganda - Museveni Aims for 30 Years in Power
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: On Wednesday Uganda celebrated two-and-a half decades of the National Resistance Movement rule under which the country has prospered. However, it has not escaped the fate of democratising republics in (By News Poster)...South Africa: Dirk 'never used violence'
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Hanti OttoBaranovichI, Belarus - A White blouse, stained with blood, was one of the pieces of evidence brought before the Baranovichi High Court yesterday as proof that the attempted bank robbery, (By News Poster)...Sudan: Letter from U.S. Senators to U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: The following is a letter from United States Senators U.S. Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI), Sam Brownback (R-KS), John Kerry (D-MA) and others to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice regardi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police arrest 'suicide' bank robber
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Shaun SmillieThe police have arrested a man at the Sandridge Mall in Midrand who claimed to have a bomb strapped to his body.This followed a stand-off with law enforcement agents lasting more than (By News Poster)...World: China suspends US military exchanges
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: By Ben Blanchard and Jim WolfBeijing/Washington - China moved swiftly on Saturday to suspend military exchanges with the United States after Washington's announcement of arms sales to Taiwan, widening (By News Poster)...World: Abortion doc's murder lands activist in jail
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: Wichita, Kansas - An activist who confessed to gunning down one of the only U.S. doctors to offer late-term abortions faces a sentence of life in prison after a jury found him guilty of first-degree m (By News Poster)...South Africa: Price probe: SAA mercy plea
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Staff Reporters and SapaSAA has has appealed for leniency as the Competition Commission investigates allegations flight-price fixing."The Competition Commission has initiated an investigation again (By News Poster)...World: Murderer hanged in public
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Tehran - Iran publicly hanged on Wednesday a man convicted of murdering a top judiciary official in the central city of Isfahan, Fars news agency reported.The man identified as Jamshid Hadian, 59, was (By News Poster)...Cricket: The succession to Arthur's throne
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: Mickey Arthur's resignation as national coach leaves vacant one of the most high-profile jobs in world cricket and Cricket South Africa will be flooded with applicants should they advertise the positi (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'State has funds for students'
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: The concerns of students waiting to be registered at the University of Zululand would be addressed, said Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande during a visit to the institution yesterday.Nzimande s (By News Poster)...Africa: Hundreds die in religious clashes - police
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Kano, Nigeria - Nigerian police said Tuesday at least 326 people died in Muslim-Christian clashes last week in the central Plateau State."From the figures available to the police ... 326 people were k (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Trafficking - Ndlea Uncovers New Technique
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Joshua UmaAbuja - The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has uncovered new techniques by drug traffickers to smuggle cocaine from South America.This was made known following the revelat (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Sultan - Jos Crisis Was Genocide
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: By Ismail MudashirKaduna - The Northern Traditional Rulers' Council began an emergency meeting in Kaduna yesterday to deliberate on the recent crisis in Jos, with the Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Muhammad (By News Poster)...Africa: AU picks Zim for Peace and Security Council
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: Addis Ababa - The African Union (AU) has selected Zimbabwe for a place on its Peace and Security Council, one of the bloc's most powerful organs.The southern African country is emerging from a period (By News Poster)...World: Police link millionaire's murder to sex sites
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: Sydney - News reports said on Sunday that Australian multimillionaire Herman Rockefeller had met his alleged killers through an internet sex site.Melbourne's Herald Sun said the police would allege th (By News Poster)...South Africa: No bad blood between Mbeki, JZ
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: Former president Thabo Mbeki on Saturday said that he was still in contact with President Jacob Zuma, engaging in the country's political activities.Speaking in an interview on SABC News said that his (By News Poster)...Zim: Violence hits Tsvangirai's district
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: Up to 10 families have been left homeless after their huts were burned down By Moses MudzwitiPolitical violence has resurfaced in Zimbabwe, where up to 10 families have been left homeless afte (By News Poster)...Africa: Nigerian rebels end truce
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: By Randy FabiAbuja - Nigeria's main militant group called off a three-month-old ceasefire in the Niger Delta on Saturday and threatened to unleash "an all-out assault" on Africa's biggest oil and gas (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Five Houses Burnt
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: By Mohamed L. BanguraFreetown - Police have arrested ten suspects with regards the fire disaster that engulfed five houses in the township of Kukuna, Kambia district on Sunday.Local unit commander of (By News Poster)...Deutsche Expects Interest Rate Cut
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: Windhoek - Earlier this week the Monetary Policy Committee of the South African Reserve Bank decided to keep its main interest rate, the repo rate, unchanged at 7% but analysts at Deutsche Bank feel c (By News Poster)...Botswana: Fly to Hang
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Bame PietLobatse - The Court of Appeal has upheld the death sentence of Mokwadi Fly saying that there are no extenuating circumstances in his case.The judges said they went through the 800-page Hig (By News Poster)...South Africa: Community Torch Accused Houses
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Pretoria - Two houses in Block F West, Soshanguve, belonging to the suspects accused for the murder of Masego Kgomo, were torched by angry residents on Thursday evening.The angry community members are (By News Poster)...Zim: Power shortages set to continue
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Only one unit is operating at Hwange. The other five are tripped Chris MuronziZimbabwe will continue to experience power shortages. A Zimbabwe Power Company generation report dated January 24 (By News Poster)...Zim-Botswana diplomatic row looms over arrested officers
Friday 29-Jan-2010: The minister never bothered to return calls, said a frustrated Skelemani Bame Piet, Staff WriterThe arrest of three Botswana wildlife officers in Zimbabwe last week is threatening to trigger a (By News Poster)...Beef Prices Dip
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichMEAT prices have dropped by 45 cents per kilogramme since the beginning of this year and might take another dip over the next few weeks.The Namibia Meat Corporation (Meatco) says t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: UNESCO on Poverty in Nigeria
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: Lagos - The 2010 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which revealed that about 92 per cent of the Nigerian population survive (By News Poster)...World: Obama seeks backing for retooled agenda
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Ross ColvinTampa, Florida - President Barack Obama vowed on Thursday he would not rest until US businesses were hiring again, as he took his retooled agenda on the road and sought to dig out of his (By News Poster)...Africa: Boy seriously wounded in Somalia dies
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: Nairobi, Kenya - A doctor says the Somali boy whose bullet-shattered face drew offers of aid from around the world has died following surgery.Dr Peter Nthumba says Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud died late Wed (By News Poster)...Zim: Eddie Cross suspended
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: This development comes as the party is investigating three senior officials By Takunda MaodzaMDC-T has suspended Bulawayo South legislator Mr Eddie Cross over allegations of indiscipline as in (By News Poster)...Ghana: Bloody Clash At Akokoa in Brong -Ahafo
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Michael BoatengSunyani - Three persons have been confirmed dead, after a bloody clash between Fulani herdsmen and local farmers at Akokoa, a farming community in the Atebubu/Amantin District of the (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'The dog deserved to die'
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: A Cape Flats man says he watched in horror as a neighbour battered his beloved pet dog to death.Velile Bhudaza, 33, says he saw the man banging his dog's head against a concrete wall until the animal (By News Poster)...World: 'I want to kiss the hangman's rope'
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Baghdad - Even in Saddam Hussein's ruthless regime "Chemical Ali" stood apart, notable for his role in gassing 5 000 people in a Kurdish village - the deadliest chemical weapons attack ever against ci (By News Poster)...Court bid to release Zim report
Monday 25-Jan-2010: The exercise had at the time cost taxpayers more than R600 000 - yet no report had been forthcoming Zelda VenterThe South African History Archive and the Southern African Centre for the Surviv (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bank probes credit card riddle
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: By Mercury ReporterJournalist Colleen Dardagan has never set foot in America - yet early on Friday her credit card was used three times in Houston, Texas.While card cloning is rife in South Africa, th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Eskom Coal Stockpile Now Stands At 36 Days
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Linda EnsorCape Town - Eskom had built up its coal stockpile to an average of 36 days and planned to achieve its 42-day target before the Soccer World Cup and the onset of winter, the utility's hea (By News Poster)...South Africa: Schoolboys attack guard, another boy
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Three school boys allegedly stabbed another boy and shot at a security guard in a train at the Mandalay railway station in Mitchells Plain on Friday, Cape Town police said.Captain Wayne Muller said th (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: British Embassy Clarifies UK Position On Sanctions
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Lance GumaThe British Embassy in Zimbabwe has moved to clarify comments made by Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who had suggested targeted sanctions on companies and members of Mugabe's inner cir (By News Poster)...Namibia: Okahandja a Test for Political Consensus
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By John EkongoWindhoek - The Okahandja by-election scheduled for next month stands at the threshold of history on the Namibian political landscape at constituency level.The voting public have always o (By News Poster)...Kenya: Traffickers Hide Drugs in Clothes
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Fred MukindaNairobi - Police are turning their attention to trade in imported clothes as it is now evident that dealers are using the business to traffic drugs across the country.This comes after t (By News Poster)...Uganda: Corruption Needs a Bloodless Revolution By Role Model Leaders
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Dr Izael Pereira Da SilvaKampala - The youth have very little concern for abstract concepts such as honesty, justice, sincerity, chastity... Unless they see these qualities incarnated in a person t (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Nyatanyi in Land Dispute
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: By Eugene MutaraKigali - The State Minister in charge of Community Development and Social Affairs, Christine Nyatanyi is embroiled in land wrangles with Ndera residents and has now called for their ev (By News Poster)...Africa: SA, Oz team up to help Zim
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: South Africa and Australia have agreed on projects to help rebuild Zimbabwe, Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said in Pretoria on Tuesday."We have agreed on projects to help Zimbabwe with tax (By News Poster)...South Africa: Marriage of minors 'invalid'
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Esther Lewis Staff ReporterThe marriage that took place between two 16-year-olds without the consent of the girl's family should never have happened, says the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC).The Cape (By News Poster)...Uganda: Eni Ready to Take Oil Sector to Next Level
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: Kampala - THERE has been a lot of controversy surrounding the desire by Heritage Oil to sell its stake in an oil concession in western Uganda. Italian firm, Eni, has declared an interest in the conces (By News Poster)...South Africa: Opposition to Shaik, De Kock pardons grow
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: The furore over possible presidential pardons for both convicted murderer Eugene de Kock and fraudster Schabir Shaik is likely to rage on, as the chances of President Jacob Zuma announcing any decisio (By News Poster)...Botswana: Ten More Years to Total Food Security
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Brian BenzaBotswana agriculture sector has generally been seen as a weak link for a country that is aiming to achieve economic prosperity and independence, with fingers pointed at the unfavourable (By News Poster)...Africa: Ghana Battle Angola for Semi-Final Ticket
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Asuelimen OsasuyiAbuja - Host country of the 27th edition of the African cup of nations, Angola will today take on tournament favourites, the Black Stars of Ghana in the first quarter-final battle (By News Poster)...South Africa: Talk of pardon for De Kock angers Winnie
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Fiona FordeWinnie Madikizela-Mandela will fiercely resist any attempt to release Eugene de Kock. "I cannot imagine anyone talking release of people like that," the 73-year-old senior ANC member and (By News Poster)...World: Chinese migrant workers have sex problems
Saturday 30-Jan-2010: Beijing - Sexual frustration amongst migrant workers in China's booming southern province of Guangdong is leading to a host of social problems and must be tackled, state media on Saturday cited a loca (By News Poster)...South Africa: DA gives Cwele an ultimatum
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Sheryl Cwele, 50, wife of State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele, appeared on charges of drug dealing in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday.Hawks spokesman Musa Zondi said Cwele and Frank Nabo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Terrorism - Two Students Arrested in Malaysia
Friday 29-Jan-2010: By Abdulmutallib A. AbubakarTwo Nigerians who are pursuing their Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees at the Islamic University of Malaysia were arrested by the Malaysian government yesterday on suspici (By News Poster)...World: Belgian flat collapse: 2 more bodies found
Friday 29-Jan-2010: Brussels - The death toll in the collapse of an apartment block following a domestic gas explosion in the eastern Belgian town of Liege rose to 11 as two more bodies were found Friday.The six-storey (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG Awards U.S.$100 Million Oil Importation Contract to Foreign Firm
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Adeola YusufThe Federal Government has awarded an oil importation contract worth $100 million to a foreign firm, Daewoo Ship Building and Marine Engineering Company.The contract was given to the co (By News Poster)...World: Berlusconi vows to beat Mafia pathology
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: Reggion Calabria, Italy - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday announced a new drive to rid Italy of the "terrible pathology" of organised crime."The mafia - the 'Ndrangheta and the other orga (By News Poster)...South Africa: De Doorns Camps Face Closure
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Kowthar SolomonsThe camps in De Doorns housing hundreds of Zimbabweans displaced by xenophobic violence may have to close as its capacity has been stretched by other job-seeking Zimbabweans from ac (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'I helplessly watched her die'
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: By Luvuyo MjekulaA toddler of 13 months has died at the camp sheltering displaced Zimbabwean migrants in De Doorns.Devastated parents of Aisher Zvipore said the absence of a clinic and an ambulance co (By News Poster)...Somalia: Al-Shabab Claims Overnight's Explosion Attack Targeted to AU's Base in Mogadishu
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: Somalia - Harakat Al-shabab Mujhideen officials have Tuesday claimed the responsibility of overnight's explosion targeted to the main military base of the African Union troops (AMISOM) in the Somali c (By News Poster)...South Africa: UN Agency Hails Mining Giant for Committing to Generate Jobs
Thursday 28-Jan-2010: Anglo American, one of the world's largest mining companies, today unveiled a new project to create more jobs, support entrepreneurship and boost local economies in South Africa, a move welcomed by th (By News Poster)...Parenting: It's time for urgent talks about sex
Wednesday 27-Jan-2010: In the latest study on parent-child talks about sex and sexuality, researchers found that more than 40 percent of adolescents had had intercourse before talking to their parents about safe sex, birth (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: China to Push for Peace in Eastern Region
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By James KaruhangaKigali - China is willing to use its super power clout to enhance peace and security in the region, especially the eastern DRC where negative forces have found sanctuary, a top Chine (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'e.tv criminal' accuses cops of assault
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: By Solly Maphumulo and Beauregard TrompA man who allegedly featured in the e.tv news piece threatening violence at the World Cup has told a court he was assaulted by police.Evans Mdebuka (Tsietsi Rade (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: HIV Activists Demand Positive Clauses
Monday 25-Jan-2010: By Bertha ShokoZIMBABWEANS living with HIV and Aids want the new constitution to guarantee their right to treatment and are demanding adequate representation during the outreach programme. The calls c (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Genocide Fugitives in DRC Living On Borrowed Time
Monday 25-Jan-2010: Kigali - Over the weekend, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) disclosed that the Arusha based court was hunting down close to 11 Genocide crime fugitives tha (By News Poster)...Science: The Moon May Have Been Created By a Massive Nuclear Blast Inside the Earth
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: By Clay Dillow Posted 01.27.2010 The Moon Still a mystery. The standard explanation for the formation of our moon holds that during the formation of our solar system, a giant object smashed in (By Jan)...The Economic Meltdown: Professor Roubini Calls U.S. Growth ‘Dismal and Poor,’ Predicts Slowing
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini, who anticipated the financial crisis, called the fourth quarter surge in U.S. economic growth “very dismal and poor” because it re (By Jan)...America: Haitians face a decade to rebuild lives
Tuesday 26-Jan-2010: PORT-AU-PRINCE - Quake-hit Haiti will need at least a decade of painstaking reconstruction, aid chiefs and donor nations warned, as homeless, scarred survivors struggle on Tuesday to rebuild their li (By Jan)...British Newspaper say: PM Gordon Brown is a nasty piece of work...
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: [When Tony Blair came to power in Britain, I felt that he was as bad for Britain as I now believe Obama is for the USA. Tony Blair has left Britain in ruins... and now his partner in crime, Gordon Bro (By Jan)...British Horror: Unemployment is 3 times higher than the lying British Prime Minister claims...
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: [While doing some investigation, I came upon this fascinating website that really exposes the British Prime Minister for the lies he tells. Jan] Unemployment Three Times Higher Than Official Figure (By Jan)...USA: Get ready, the Next Big Stock Market crash could be upon us... 2nd leg down has begun...
Monday 25-Jan-2010: I was going through Jason Kelly's newsletter to which I am a subscriber. He puts out his newsletters every Sunday in preparation for monday's trading. Already, yesterday, as I was browsing the wee (By Jan)...Junk Science: UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: The United Nations' expert panel on climate change based claims about ice disappearing from the world's mountain tops on a student's dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine. The r (By Jan)...Science: At Cambridge Alien Conference, Scientists Warn Of An Invisible Earth and Hostile ETs
Sunday 31-Jan-2010: This week, scientists from around the globe converge on Cambridge University in England to discuss mankind's relationship with intelligent life from beyond the stars. So far, the news is not promising (By Jan)...
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