From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 7th February 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 & GruesomeCompletely Brilliant: Botswana - Black Journalist on the Haiti earthquake - What a disappointment Black Leaders are...
Monday 01-Feb-2010: [The author of this is a black journalist in Botswana, the only truly pro-Western, pro-Capitalist country in southern Africa. He writes under the psuedonym of "Loose Canon" and he's know for speaking (By Jan)...Africa: Danish forces free ship captured by pirates (Page 1 of 2)
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Nairobi - Danish special forces stormed a ship captured by armed Somali pirates on Friday and freed the 25 crew on board, marking the first time a warship has intervened during a hijacking.Cmdr John H (By News Poster)...President Jacob Zuma is a financial risk to taxpayers - My Comments: Jacob Zuma could destroy South Africa with his Sexual activities
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: [Let me be frank. I don't give a damn about Jacob Zuma or the ANC. If while they live their lives they manage to kill themselves or those around them, I'll be more than happy to celebrate this fact. (By Jan)...South Africa: Five alleged robbers shot dead for a bed
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: Five robbers were shot dead by police in Ohlange in Inanda, Durban police said on Saturday."On Friday at 10:30pm police received a report that a house in the Ohlange area was attacked by five men," Su (By News Poster)...USA: Totally BRILLIANT - Conservative Publisher tells Liberal Mass Media: YOU SUCK!
Sunday 07-Feb-2010: [Yes! Yes! A successful conservative tells it like it is. He tells the media they suck and THEY HAVE CONTEMPT FOR THE PEOPLE!!! Yes... the Mass Media has spent the last 50 years LYING TO PEOPLE, and c (By Jan)...South Africa: Our spy boss knows nothing? (Page 1 of 3)
Sunday 07-Feb-2010: By Fred KockottState Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele owes the country answers to questions the public are rightly asking, security analysts say.Dubbed "the spy who knew nothing" in the media this we (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Robbers Are Back in Lagos
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Albert AkporFOR more than one year now, the Lagos state police command has remained the cynosure of all eyes especially in the area of crime fighting. It has successfully maintained a low crime rat (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Sanctions - the Silent Atomic Bombs
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Tafataona MahosoHarare - By far the worst sanctions story, which is not widely seen as a sanctions story at all, is the hushed news about the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Grade Seven national examination re (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Land - Zanu PF Tool in Suppressing Dissent
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Phil MatibeZANU PF is a creature of habit and Robert Mugabe has sharpened the one tool in his vast arsenal, effectively destroying persons who challenge his authority or support any opposition to h (By News Poster)...IMPORTANT: The fight for nationalisation of the South African Mining Industry
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: [A friend sent me this with his sarcastic comments. The ANCYL are driving away investors. People forget that from the ANC/Far Left perspective, they might very well want this because... capitalists (By Jan)...Nigeria: Opec's Unguided Optimism
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Last year, Abdalla S. El Badri, Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) dismissed fears about the imminent replacement of petroleum with bio-fuels and other alter (By News Poster)...S. Africa: TAU SA International Bulletin: Priorities and Policing
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Submitted by Kobie Nel: February 1, 2010 The Bulletin attached hereto is provided as a means to inform stakeholders of agricultural developments in South Africa. These Bulletins are distributed (By JoAn)...Congo-Kinshasa: Magic Dust - Who Benefits?
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Khadija SharifeIf the gorillas inhabiting the Kahuzi Biega National Park located in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a World Heritage site and ecological sanctuary, could read, the bible may (By News Poster)...Mugabe allies block Zimbabwe land audit
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Many farms have gone low-tech in recent years By Brian HungweMashonaland Central - A two-year land audit was due to begin in Zimbabwe in February - but an angry reaction from President Robert (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (02-02-2010)
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Howzit As I feared, events in Zimbabwe continue without restraint and without consequence. It is truly a sad day in Africa when Mugabe - who does not hold the popular mandate - is allowed to contin (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (06-02-2010)
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: Howzit Please be aware that there will be no posting tomorrow as I have the monthly Royal British Legion meeting in the morning. (It is also my birthday tomorrow - and I feel like a day off!) I' (By The BeardedMan)...Zim: Farmer accused of contempt over shock land ruling
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: Likened Patel's actions to those of “judges in Nazi Germany or Stalinist Soviet Union" By Alex BellA commercial farmer, who has been campaigning for the implementation of a regional land rul (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Sectarian Crisis - As Jos Explodes Again
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Seriki AdinoyiLagos - As the tribunals and a commission of inquiry set up by both the state and federal government are yet to submit their reports following the 2008, crisis, Jos the capital of Pla (By News Poster)...South Africa: ANCYL slams whisky deal claims
Monday 01-Feb-2010: The ANC Youth League has reacted angrily to claims that it has struck a deal with international whisky brand Chivas Regal.It was reported at the weekend that Chivas Regal was on the verge of becoming (By News Poster)...Zim: Rusape family under siege by violent land invaders
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Three hours to pack By Alex BellYet another farming family in Rusape has come under siege by farm invaders this week as the offensive against the remaining commercial farmers in Zimbabwe conti (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG Not Doing Enough On Security - Ogbede
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Maxwell OdittaCLIFF OGBEDE is the African Representative and Vice President of an American aviation firm, Cita Triax. He is also a politician in the fold of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Top Genocide Suspect Finds Sanctuary in Zimbabwe
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - Protais Mpiranya, one of the most wanted genocide suspects is being hidden by the Zimbabwean Government, new reports from the Southern African country indicate.Mpiranya, the f (By News Poster)...Secret airstrip built at Zimbabwe diamond field
Monday 01-Feb-2010: click here to enlarge imageBy Peta Thornycroft in Harare and Sebastien BergerA secret airstrip is being built in a diamond field illegally seized by the Zimbabwean army 14 months ago which wo (By News Poster)...Liberia: No Justice for the Poor - Murdered Man's Mother Cries Out
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By D.K. SengbehThe mother of a man torturously murdered in New Georgia Estate late last year has cried out the there is "no justice for the poor in Liberia", because court and justice ministry officia (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Only have one partner ... at a time'
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: This article was originally published on a satirical news website, www.hayibo.comNKANDLA. Reacting to allegations that he has fathered a child out of wedlock, President Jacob Zuma has urged South Afri (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Land - a Key Objective of the Liberation Struggle
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: THE right to own land and the right to education were the two key objectives of the liberation struggle. Landless peasants, whose sons and daughters formed half of the freedom fighters, were fighting (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Reparations for Land Key to Reconciliation in Country
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Dambudzo MapurangaHarare - THE jostling by political parties over points to be considered and included in the new constitution is based on political ambitions and power struggles by political elite (By News Poster)...Lukhona Mnguni requests RSA President "Jacob Zuma" to Step down
Sunday 07-Feb-2010: Dear Mr President Jacob Zuma Lukhona Mnguni COPE and COPESM member, in his personal capacity After having read the front page story of the Sunday Times (31/01/2010), I feel compelled to wri (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Farmer Accused of Contempt Over Shock Land Ruling
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: By Alex BellA commercial farmer, who has been campaigning for the implementation of a regional land ruling that declared the land 'reform' programme unlawful, has now been accused of contempt of court (By News Poster)...South Africa: Dad 'kills' armed attacker
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Bronwynne Jooste and Clayton BarnesA Mitchells Plain man has been arrested for shooting and killing a 28-year-old man after eight men, armed with spades and weapons, attacked his home during a fami (By News Poster)...Ghana: Is 'Oil Fund' All Country Needs to Defeat the Resource Curse?
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Even with the estimated 1.8 billion barrels of crude oil (compared with Nigeria's 36 billion barrels of crude oil) making 50,000 barrels a day within months of the start-up this year, Ghana cannot sid (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Army Involvement Feared in Land Grab
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Alex BellYet another South African farming family whose property has been targeted for forced takeover is seeking the help of its own government, with the Zimbabwean army reportedly being enlisted (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Muckraker - Food Security is the Greater Good
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Under the heading "ZDF to safeguard land reform", the Herald last week carried a story in which Defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, addressing students at the army Staff College, said the ZDF "as a m (By News Poster)...Ghana: The Four Policemen and the Alleged Extortion
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: INSPECTOR JOSEPH Karikari, Sgt. Anthony Nyarko, L/Cpl. David Yemoh and L/Cpl. George Rockson are four police officers who currently stand suspected of extorting various sums of money from drivers alon (By News Poster)...Police Accused of Assault in Heist Trial
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Werner MengesSEVERE assaults were perpetrated on three of the suspects charged in connection with a N$5,7 million cash-in-transit heist near Windhoek at the end of 2004 when they were interrogated (By News Poster)...Zim: Union wants SADC court protection
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Farm workers have suffered the worst from Mugabe's chaotic and bloody land reforms By Clara SmithHarare - Zimbabwe's farm workers' union will this month ask the SADC Tribunal to order Harare t (By News Poster)...Malawi: Condemnation of Country's Discriminatory Laws
Monday 01-Feb-2010: Civil society organisations have expressed strong opposition to the imprisonment of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, a gay couple, in Malawi. More than 40 African civil society organisations ha (By News Poster)...Uganda: Uganda Oil - a Legacy of Searches and No Conflict So Far
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Prof. A.B.K. KasoziKampala - IN a bid to stimulate the debate on Uganda's newly discovered oil and the sharing of the oil wealth, Business Vision runs a series of articles by Professor Kasozi, the (By News Poster)...EXCELLENT: What the Japanese really think about America's Immigration trends...
Monday 01-Feb-2010: [I have a lot of respect for Jason Kelly. He wrote a best-selling book on stock market investment. He is an American who moved to Japan and has lived there for quite a time. So living in Japan and spe (By Jan)...Nigeria: There is No Policy of Government That Gives Hope -Bishop Ojo
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Innocent OkonkwoLagos - Bishop Joseph Ojo, the immediate past National Secretary of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) is also the Presiding Bishop of Calvary Kingdom Church international. In (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos, Jang And Genocide
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Hajiya Bilkisu (mni)'Conscience is an open wound; only the truth can heal it'The cardinal principles of journalism require that accuracy, fairness and objectivity prevail when reporting the news. H (By News Poster)...Suspects Admit Panga Killing of Russians
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Werner MengesTHE two young men accused of murdering a Russian couple at a poultry farm near Okahandja in May 2008 each admitted one count of murder at the start of their trial in the High Court in (By News Poster)...Tanzania: January Proves Eventful as Crime Shocks Residents
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Happy LazaroArusha - For the residents of Njiro-Lemara and its environs Tuesday, January 26 was indeed a devastating night. At 9 pm 27-year old Jackline Deogratius Minja was shot in the head point (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Solution to Jos Crisis Lies in Prosecution of Leaders - Shehu Sani
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Isa LimanMalam Shehu Sani is the President of Civil Rights Congress, a human rights organization. In this interview with Daily Trust, he says the solution to the protracted Plateau crisis lies in p (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (03-02-2010)
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- As many of you are aware, I am busy penning my second book. I am hoping to have it complete and ready for release by the end of next month, b (By The BeardedMan)...South Africa: Zille on Zuma's sexual conduct
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Siyabonga Mkhwanazi Political BureauDA leader Helen Zille has renewed her attack on President Jacob Zuma's sexual conduct, saying he is setting back the fight against HIV and Aids.Zille's comment f (By News Poster)...Botswana: Mogae Speaks on Corruption in Nigeria
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Festus G. MogaeThe following is the text of the speech delivered by former Botswanan President Festus G. Mogae in Nigeria on corruption.It is indeed an honour and privilege for me to be given this (By News Poster)...Foreign Tour Guide Ban Shocks Industry
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Adam HartmanA SURPRISE decision by a sub-committee of the Ministry of Home Affairs last week to stop all foreign tour guides and bus drivers entering Namibia, has been described as a "cataclysm" fo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fish Out Dina's Killers
Monday 01-Feb-2010: The public outrage and widespread condemnation trailing the recent gruesome assassination of Otunba Dipo Dina, the Action Congress gubernatorial candidate in the April 2007 election in Ogun State, no (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Rusape Family Under Siege by Violent Land Invaders
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Alex BellYet another farming family in Rusape has come under siege by farm invaders this week as the offensive against the remaining commercial farmers in Zimbabwe continues.The wife of farmer Robi (By News Poster)...Somalia: Nato Forces Recover Ship from Pirates
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Danish specialist troops seized a merchant ship in the Gulf of Aden Friday, soon after Somali pirates had boarded it and tried to hijack it, the European Union's naval force for the area said.At the s (By News Poster)...Zim: Armed robbers disrupt diamonds transportation
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: "ACR security staff were beaten, and their offices were raided by thieves in town" By Own CorrespondentHarare - Zimbabwe's minerals marketing authority on Tuesday shelved plans to transport 30 (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (05-02-2010)
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- The land grab in Zimbabwe, which has been going on for ten years now, is a sore point - not only for the white commercial farmers directly (By The BeardedMan)...Tanzania: Albino Killings - Obama Asked to Put Pressure On Kikwete
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Ray NaluyagaCongressman files a members statement to compel the US government to actAn American Congressman wants President Barack Obama to put diplomatic pressure on the Kikwete Government to end (By News Poster)...Country's Uranium Spooks the U.S.
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyTHE White House force to prevent nuclear and radiological materials from falling into the wrong hands, the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI), has told Rio Tinto Rössing Ur (By News Poster)...Sluggish Progress in Cash Heist Trial
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Werner MengesLITTLE progress has been made in the trial of the six men being prosecuted in connection with a N$5,73 million cash-in-transit robbery near Windhoek at the end of 2004 since its start (By News Poster)...Kenya: Drop in Food Prices Pulls Back the Pace of Inflation
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Michael OmondiA drop in food prices with increased supplies in the wake of heavy December rains has slowed down the rate inflation to below five per cent for the first time in 25 months.Official da (By News Poster)...Africa: Big Oil in Full Retreat From Downstream Retail Markets
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By George WachiraNairobi - There have been rumours of yet another international oil company withdrawing from African downstream business. Big Oil withdrawals from Africa have always been expected, the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Youth stabbed, bashed to death
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Esther Lewis Staff ReporterTwo men have been arrested after the badly beaten body of an 18-year-old youth was found in a residential street in Lentegeur in the early hours of yesterday morning.Poli (By News Poster)...Somalia: Shipping Firms Pass on Piracy Charges to Local Importers
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By George OmondiTraders are rallying international support for the war against pirates off the coast of Somalia to stop the loss of billions of shillings through surging shipping costs.Traders maintai (By News Poster)...Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe pays security goons $5,000 a day
Sunday 07-Feb-2010: Over 10 days in Switzerland, each accumulated a total of $50,000 in cash. The money was theirs to keep, a perk of the job, and they did not have to account for it Jon Swain in HarareWhen Presi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: I See Amazing Future For Anambra - Soludo - Soludo
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: By Daniel KanuGovernorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State, Chukwuma Soludo held the grand finale of his campaign rally, last Saturday. The former Central Bank of Nige (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Arrest 10 Over Affa, Umuoka Communal Clash
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Emmanuel NzomiwuEnugu - Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi and World Bank Vice President (Africa), Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, after she delivered the Anambra State Civil Service lecture at Women Developmen (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos, Jang and Genocide (ii)
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Adamu AdamuEveryone has become frozen in a sea of fear. If you are Muslim, you fear what Christians will say; and if you are Christian, you fear what Muslims will say. And even worse, both fear tha (By News Poster)...Kenya: Police Seize a Second Arms Cache in Narok
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Nairobi - Police on Monday found thousands of bullets in a garage in Narok.The 31,211 rounds of ammunition were in the same compound as an earlier 100,000 bullets recovered last December.Local busines (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Renamo Crisis Deepens
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Maputo - The 16 Renamo parliamentary deputies who took their seats at the first session of the new Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on 12 January, in defiance of orders from Renamo (By News Poster)...Fresh power struggle rocks Zim coalition
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: With all his powers intact, but no-one to supervise and no means to execute decisions By Special CorrespondentHarare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Rejects Mugabe Directive
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Constantine ChimakurePRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has rejected a circular emanating from President Robert Mugabe's office directing ministers to report to his two vice-presidents -- Joice Mujur (By News Poster)...Zim: Tsvangirai rejects Mugabe directive
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Counter circular sent to ministers and heads of ministries Constantine ChimakurePrime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has rejected a circular emanating from President Robert Mugabe's office directi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Election Whistleblower Living in Fear After Death Threats
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Tichaona SibandaShepherd Yuda, the 38 year-old former prison officer, famed for exposing how Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF party rigged the ballot in the 2008 Presidential run-off, revealed on Wednesday (By News Poster)...Zim: Election whistleblower living in fear after death threats
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Incontrovertible proof By Tichaona SibandaShepherd Yuda, the 38 year-old former prison officer, famed for exposing how Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF party rigged the ballot in the 2008 Presidential (By News Poster)...Ghana: The wholesale lies that have become an integral part of the fledgling oil industry
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Philip Kobina BaidooAlmost all Ghanaians, including this writer, drank a toast to the wellbeing of the nation when the news broke that oil had been found in commercial quantities at the Jubilee Oil (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos Crisis - Challenges of Good Neighbourliness
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Yochuku YobolisaAbuja - Following the harrowing experiences of the recent sectarian violence in Jos, the Plateau State Capital government recently vowed to put in place effective democratic practic (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ebok Field Charts the Course for New Oil in 2010
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Sopuruchi OnwukaLagos - Following the recent successful appraisal and upside in its estimated reserves holding, the Ebok oilfield offshore Niger Delta has earned itself a global focus as part of th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Robbery suspects found murdered
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Crime WriterTwo robbery suspects have been killed execution-style in Langa, presumably by other members of a robbery gang.The men, whose names have not been disclosed, were found lying in Zone 17 o (By News Poster)...South Africa: Country Declares War on Muthi Killings
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Gabi KhumaloPretoria - Government and traditional healers have formed an alliance declaring war on muthi killings, following the death of 10-year-old Kgomo Masego early this year.Together, they hop (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Niger Delta - Searching for New Road Map
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Anya O. AnyaLagos - In a lecture to the Nigerian Army in Enugu in 1997 I had suggested that until what I labelled Nigeria's "circle of development" was accorded priority in development, then Nigeri (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Putting Lipstick on a Pig, Ethiopian Style
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Alemayehu G. MariamLast week, there was a great deal of teeth-gnashing, knuckle-cracking and gut-wrenching by Ethiopia's dictators over Human Rights Watch's (HRW) 2010 report. The dictators belched (By News Poster)...Practical Realities and Options for Barataphati
Wednesday 03-Feb-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)...Nigeria: How to Achieve Non-Oil Export Economy, By Adelugba
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Christopher AdedejiThe issue of product development has become a major challenge facing the nation's quest to diversify its economy and a hindrance to many Nigerians' move to penetrate the internat (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Counting the Cost of Diesel Depot Fire in Lagos Estate
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Stella Odueme And Kunle AjayiLagos - Fear and panic momentarily took over the serenity of Adekoya Estate on College Road in Ifako Ijaiye, Lagos suburb on Tuesday when a fire raged from a hidden Die (By News Poster)...Uganda: Uganda's Landmarks Sitting on Time Bomb
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Vivian E. AsedriKampala - WITH terror Al Qaeda's offshoot, Al Shabaab of Somalia, openly threatening to attack Uganda, many of our landmarks are so poorly secured that they are sitting on time bomb (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Smash Robbery Syndicates in Kano
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Augustine Madu-WestKano - Kano State Police Command has made a major breakthrough in their war against criminals, smashing three major robbery syndicates, which have been terrorising the residents (By News Poster)...Africa: Early Diagnosis of HIV Still Elusive
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Evelyn Matsamura KiapiKampala - HIV-positive Justine Kirumira* is a mother torn between doing what is right for her daughters and her own fear of HIV/AIDS. She suspects that her eight- and 12-year- (By News Poster)...Madagascar: In Dire Economic Times, Country Exports Illegal Deforrested Hardwoods
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: Antananarivo - Madagascar's transitional government is allowing the export of illegally harvested precious hardwoods as a source of revenue to keep itself afloat. Conservationists say the cost is inca (By News Poster)...Zim: Woza and MDC activists arrested over constitution discussions
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: "Making irreconcilable differences amongst the parties" By Violet Gonda22 members of the pressure group Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) were arrested while holding a structural meeting on the c (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Man Rapes, Kills Four
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Felex ShareHarare - A 19-YEAR-OLD Chiredzi man on Monday afternoon allegedly ran amok and raped and killed four children, including his sister and cousin, before chopping off his mother's three fin (By News Poster)...Nigeria: MEND Declares Fresh War
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By From James UmePort Harcourt - The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) says it has ended the ceasefire it declared on Sunday, October 25, 2009, to allow the federal government to (By News Poster)...Sudan: Arms Channelled to South Through Kenya - Report
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Kevin J. KelleyNairobi - Kenya has been named in a report by a Swiss research institute as the conduit for many of the weapons transferred to Southern Sudan government forces in violation of a peac (By News Poster)...Kenya: Now Pattni Plans Seven-Star Hotel
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: By David OkwembahNairobi - After losing out in the battle for the ownership of the Grand Regency Hotel, Nairobi businessman Kamlesh Pattni has now come up with an even grander project; a seven star Sh (By News Poster)...Prosecutors Question Taylor's Motives for Releasing UN Hostages
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Alpha SesayWhen former Liberian president Charles Taylor helped secure the release of United Nations peacekeepers held hostage by Sierra Leonean rebels ten years ago, he was really trying to help t (By News Poster)...Zim farmers warn of huge grain deficit
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: "All indications are that this season will be a total disaster. We will be very lucky if we get more than 500 000 tonnes" Nelson BanyaHarare - Zimbabwe may have to import more than half the ma (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Tourism for Economic Development
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Nicola WinterMost of the world's least developed countries (LDCs) are avoided or overlooked by tourists. However, tourism can make valuable contributions to the economic growth of a country, and ma (By News Poster)...Suspects in N$20 Million Cocaine Trial Plead Not Guilty
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Werner MengesTWO Angolan nationals charged in Namibia's largest case of alleged cocaine trafficking to date pleaded not guilty to all charges against them at the start of their trial in the High Co (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Suspected Highway Robbers Arrested
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Harare - Four suspected armed robbers who were targeting travellers along the Masvingo-Beitbridge Highway have been arrested.The gang is believed to have been behind a spate of robberies targeting uns (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Zuma needs sex addiction therapy '
Monday 01-Feb-2010: South Africa's ruling party on Monday dismissed a storm over President Jacob Zuma's lovechild, as political opponents told him to stop behaving like a "gigolo" and get sex addiction therapy."Our view (By News Poster)...Liberia: Prosecutors Say Taylor Killed Politicians, Rebels and Activists
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor executed Liberian politicians whom he perceived as threats to his political ambitions, killed rebels who failed to carry out his orders, and persecuted human rights activi (By News Poster)...Kenya: Landmark Ruling on Indigenous Land Rights
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: A ruling by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights condemning the expulsion of the Endorois people from their land in Kenya is a major victory for indigenous peoples across Africa, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How Police Nabbed Fake Soldier in Hotel
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Andrew UtuluLagos - The mission of Emmanuel Defo, an Idoma from Benue State to Lagos with a military kit has become a subject of police investigation. However, preliminary investigation by the poli (By News Poster)...Africa: African Leaders Dissolve Nepad as Addis Meeting Closes
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Argaw AshineAddis Ababa - African leaders today wrapped up their annual summit less divided and looking at brighter economic prospects but still facing a raft of conflicts, including Sudan's predic (By News Poster)...Kenya: Arms Seizure Shows Govt's Grip on Economy Weak
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: It may be passing off as an ordinary security problem in which the police are taking a whacking for sleeping on the job.But the repeat discovery of a large stock of arms in a private residence in Naro (By News Poster)...South Africa: Councillor held over RDP fraud
Monday 01-Feb-2010: Mogale City councillor John Mokotla has been arrested and charged with fraud following allegations of having enriched himself through the sale of low-cost RDP houses. Mokotla was arrested around 3am o (By News Poster)...Africa: Gunmen strike again in Gulf of Aden
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Daniel WallisNairobi - Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden have hijacked a Libyan-owned cargo ship thought to be carrying 17 seafarers from Romania and Libya, a European Union anti-piracy force and (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bail for man who shot attackers
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Jade Witten Court ReporterThe Mitchell's Plain man who is alleged to have shot and killed a 28-year-old man after a mob of eight men allegedly attacked his home, has been released on a warning.Mitc (By News Poster)...South Africa: Woman dies in skydiving accident
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Yusuf MoollaA woman died in a skydiving accident at the Durban Skydive Centre at Eston, near Cato Ridge, on Sunday afternoon.The Parachute Association of SA's national safety and training officer, (By News Poster)...Botswana: Is the Shining Star That is Country Fading?
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Lawrence OokeditseIn a private conversation, a diplomat from another African country once told me the region is largely baffled by Botswana's seemingly puritan attitudes towards issues involving Af (By News Poster)...Zim: Blood diamonds may have found its way into India
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: "India cuts 10 out of 11 diamonds" Mumbai - An Indian diamond merchant and the head of a premier trade body have ruled out the possibility of blood diamonds from Zimbabwe's Marange fields bein (By News Poster)...Sudan: AU Quandary Over Sudan 'Genocide'
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - A LANDMARK ruling yesterday paving the way for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to indict Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for genocide has left the African Uni (By News Poster)...Cameroon: Communication Minister Mobilises Against Corruption
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Emmanuel KendemehIssa Tchiroma Bakary says the fight against corruption is permanent.Cameroon's Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakary has said the ongoing fight against corruption will co (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kayihura Regrets Bebe Cool Shooting
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Herbert Ssempogo and Eddie SsejjobaKampala - THE Inspector General of Police has regretted the shooting of local musician Bebe Cool and members of his entourage at the weekend."I am really sorry. I (By News Poster)...South Africa: Chappies probe after fatal fall
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Murray Williams Staff WriterThe provincial department of Transport and Public Works is to investigate whether railings along the top of Chapman's Peak viewsites are adequate, following the death of (By News Poster)...Uganda: Corruption Makes the Oil Curse Imminent
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Hassan HigenyiKampala - That Uganda is abundantly gifted by nature is an undisputed fact. This compelled the eminent British Prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill, to declare the country the "Pearl (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Latest Food Price Hikes Absurd
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Harare - The cost of food for a family rose an incredible 10 percent last month, the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe found when it did its rounds last week checking prices of the common items that make u (By News Poster)...USA: Laughing Out Loud at Obama's Financial 'Genius'
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: Last week’s winner of the Mogambo Most Stupid Quote Of The Week (MMSQOTW) goes to that arch-idiot, Barack Obama – after the contest judge (me) was found (my wife tracked me down) in a local tavern (lo (By JanOlifant)...Nigeria: Yar'Adua's Absence Responsible For Amnesty Setback - Ewa-Henshaw
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Michael JegedeBassey Ewa-Henshaw, an entrepreneur of high standing, is the chairman of Senate Committee on Water Resources. He was first elected into the Senate in 2003 to represent Cross River Sou (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamond Rush Grips Chipinge
Monday 01-Feb-2010: Harare - A new diamond rush has hit Chipinge, Chimanimani and unsecured parts of Chiadzwa with illegal panners and foreign dealers once again descending on Manicaland Province.Most of the diamonds are (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: White Farmers Attack Judge
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Fidelis MunyoroHarare - High Court judge Justice Bharat Patel has come under attack from white commercial farmers for rejecting their application to register the Sadc Tribunal ruling that sought to (By News Poster)...South Africa: Illegal fires leave burning question
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Liam MosesStaff ReporterTable Mountain National Park (TMNP) officials suspect that religious groups are responsible for the illegal fireplaces that have been found in Newlands Forest and other part (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Reduces Tsvangirai's Powers
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Violet GondaRobert Mugabe is reported to be making moves to reduce the powers of Morgan Tsvangirai, his partner in the inclusive government, in gross violation of the Global Political Agreement.The (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Militia Groups Threaten Fresh Violence Over Yar'Adua's Absence
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Daniel Idonor and Samuel OyadonghaYenagoa - ANGERED by the continued absence of President Umaru Yar'Adua and his refusal to transfer power to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, about 50 militant gro (By News Poster)...Namibia: Angolan Charged Over Cocaine Find
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Werner MengesA BELLY allegedly full of cocaine landed an Angolan national in the dock in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court on charges of dealing in or possessing drugs last week.Having become the lat (By News Poster)...Nigeria: For This to Be the Last Jos Communal Crisis
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Timawus MathiasSome peace returned to Jos during the week and has so far held. The cost is being counted. Over 300 persons were reported dead and wealth in billions of Naira gone up in flames. Thou (By News Poster)...Namibia: Govt Denies Secret Arms Purchases
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichINFORMATION and Communication Technology Mister Joel Kaapanda has denied alleged rumours that former President Sam Nujoma had made a "secret trip to Saudi Arabia to buy weapons and (By News Poster)...Kenya: 'Witch Doctors' Out to Defraud Public Seized
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Nairobi - Three people claiming to be witch doctors have been arrested after allegedly drugging two young men they had "identified as murder suspects".The youths were suspected of killing a clerk at N (By News Poster)...Uganda: Campaign Group Says Uganda, UK Complicit in Dodgy Oil Deals
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Paul RedfernNairobi - A leading UK environmental campaign group says that both the British and Ugandan governments are complicit in allowing oil exploration deals in Uganda which are likely to lead (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe in bid to woo investors
Sunday 07-Feb-2010: Kept a straight face when he said foreign investors in mining are "guaranteed security of tenure" CommentBy Jim JonesZimbabwe's minister of mines Obert Mpofu kept a straight face at the Mining (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe police snatch consignment of diamonds from central bank
Sunday 07-Feb-2010: "The police robbed the central bank. We don't know where they are" Harare - A 29 kilogram consignment of diamonds from Zimbabwe's controversial Chiadzwa diamond field has disappeared after bei (By News Poster)...Zim: Shabanie Mine shooting: fire destroys case record
Sunday 07-Feb-2010: "Nothing was stolen but one big file was burnt right inside the office" By Jennifer DubeShabanie Mine's wage dispute, which last year saw police shooting two workers during a peaceful demonstr (By News Poster)...Uganda: Bankers to Discuss Mobile Money Boom
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: By Dorothy NakaweesiKampala - Bankers from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) are converging in Nairobi this month to discuss the mobile banking boom.Banks are under siege by m (By News Poster)...South Africa: Wanted man allegedly killed police officer
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: One of the three wanted men arrested in Hillbrow on Thursday for several robberies allegedly killed a Mpumalanga police officer, Johannesburg police said.The 21-year-old man was nabbed in Hillbrow aft (By News Poster)...South Africa: Three held for E Cape witchcraft murder
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Three men were arrested on Thursday for allegedly beating a woman to death they accused of practising witchcraft, Eastern Cape police said.The trio, aged between 21 and 28, also faced a charge of arso (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Inaction Paves Way for More Bloodshed, Observers Say
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Kano - If the Nigerian authorities fail to punish those responsible for the latest intercommunal violence, they are only paving the way for further bloodshed, say human rights advocates, historians, p (By News Poster)...Africa: Rebels attack presidential palace
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Abdi Sheikh and Abdi GuledMogadishu - Islamist insurgents fired mortar bombs at the presidential palace in the Somali capital overnight, prompting return fire by troops that killed at least six peo (By News Poster)...Africa: Rebel leader is dead, says Bozize
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Paul-Marin NgoupanaBangui - Central African Republic President Francois Bozize has confirmed the death of a rebel leader but dismissed criticism from rights and opposition groups who are demanding (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Fights Against 'Blood Diamonds' Tag
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Valentine MapongaGovernment is fighting the "blood diamonds" tag associated with the gems mined from the controversial Chiadzwa fields over the past three years, a government official told a parlia (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Police Arrests 15 Over Illegal Money Trading
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - Rwanda National Police (RNP) yesterday arrested 15 people suspected to have been involved in illegal money trading, commonly known as Banque Lambert.Fourteen men and one woman (By News Poster)...Uganda: Terror Threat - How Alert Are We?
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Richard OlwenyiKampala - It is common knowledge - terrorists target public places, killing and maiming defenceless ordinary people. And with tension rising following threats by the al-Shabaab and t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Importance of Being Obasanjo And Myth of Nations Invulnerability
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Chiemeka IwuohaLagos - For quite a while since our mild-mannered President, Umaru Yar Adua took ill and was evacuated to Saudi Arabia in November 2009 and the consequent pussy-footing of the tradit (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Shell Cuts Output Over Attack in Niger Delta
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Port-Harcourt/Lagos/Yanagoa - SHELL announced on Monday that it has shut in some oil production in Niger Delta after a key supply pipeline was sabotaged."We have shut in some output as a result of the (By News Poster)...Madagascar: Tourism for Economic Development
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Nicola WinterMost of the world's least developed countries (LDCs) are avoided or overlooked by tourists. However, tourism can make valuable contributions to the economic growth of a country, and ma (By News Poster)...South Africa: Woman held for lying about rape
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Nondumiso MbuyaziAn 18-year-old Hillcrest woman who claimed she had been raped by her father has been arrested and charged with perjury after police found she had fabricated the story.Police spokes (By News Poster)...South Africa: Plea about-turn in Chelsea rape, murder trial
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Karen Breytenbach Justice WriterThe man accused of raping and murdering five-year-old Chelsea Jacobs of Delft made an about-turn on his first appearance in the Cape High Court on Tuesday and pleade (By News Poster)...Botswana: Human Trafficking Not a Crime in Country?
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Greg KelebonyePolice in Botswana cannot charge any person for "human trafficking" and the courts cannot adjudicate over such cases. This is because Botswana does not have legislation that acknowled (By News Poster)...Kenya: Jatropha Farmers Walk on Slippery Ground
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By George Omondi and Jacob Ng'etichBiofuel has been touted as the panacea to the world's perennial energy crisis, a silver bullet that would quench the growing global demand for oil with limited negat (By News Poster)...Hunger threatens Zimbabwe
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: He and others are left dependent on donors - and at the mercy of wealthy politicians looking to buy loyalty Jason MoyoIn a small farming community in central Zimbabwe recently, a decade of Pre (By News Poster)...South Africa: VIDEO: What shame, asks the ANC
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Gaye Davis and Carien Du PlessisPolitical BureauThe ANC has broken its silence on reports that President Jacob Zuma had fathered a love child, defending his right to privacy and insisting the affai (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Under Fire for Skirting Sanctions
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Harare - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has come under fire for failing to take advantage of the World Economic Forum underway in Davos, Switzerland, to speak out against the West's illegal economic (By News Poster)...Zim: CITES boss' planned conservancy visit angers Harare
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Fearful he will end up learning too much about wanton poaching By Own CorrespondentHarare - Zimbabwean officials are unhappy that CITES chief Willem Wijnstekers will tour a top private game c (By News Poster)...Nigeria: MEND Calls Off Truce, Threatens All-Out War
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Rafiu Ajakaye and Harris-Okon EmmanuelMovement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on Saturday called off the unilateral ceasefire it ordered on Sunday, October 25, 2009.In calling off i (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Land Form Irreversible - MDC-T
Monday 01-Feb-2010: Harare - The MDC-T has admitted that the land reform programme is a serious national matter, which is irreversible.Party spokesperson Mr Nelson Chamisa made the remarks at the Quill Speak in Harare on (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Malaysia Arrests Suspected Accomplices of Alleged Plane Bomber
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Paul Ohia With Agency ReportLagos - Ten terror suspects including two Nigerians said to be accomplices of Christmas Day United States jetliner failed bomber, Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, have been ar (By News Poster)...Africa: Dozens injured during violence in Guinea
Sunday 07-Feb-2010: Conakry - At least one person died in two days of clashes between Christians and Muslims in eastern Guinea and dozens more were injured, but the violence had mostly subsided by Sunday, witnesses and o (By News Poster)...Uganda: Mobile Commerce Attracts More Players
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: By Faridah KulabakoKampala - As the number, power and flexibility of mobile devices increases and barely three years after national commercial platforms for mobile commerce were launched in the countr (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: UN Sounds Alarm over Armed Attacks against Camps for Displaced
Friday 05-Feb-2010: The emergency relief wing of the United Nations voiced deep concern today over the dire humanitarian situation and safety of more than 1 million people forced to flee their homes in eastern Democratic (By News Poster)...Men raid offices of diamond firm in Zimbabwe
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Made off with computers and a new pick-up truck. The vehicle was discovered shortly afterwards Harare - Eight men armed with AK-47 rifles stormed the Zimbabwe offices of a British-based diamon (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Firm Shuts Facilities After Pipeline Attack
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku With Agency ReportLagos - Oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) has announced that it has halted some flow stations in southern Niger Delta (By News Poster)...Sudan: AU Anxious Over Peace Ahead of Polls
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Amelia LawrenceAddis Ababa - Peace in Sudan remains an uncertainty ahead of the country's first general elections in 24 years, according to the African Union Commission chief.With two months to go (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Let's Clear Chiadzwa Mess
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Harare - THE diamonds issue has to be struck again, while it's still hot.There is no let-up in sight for the Chiadzwa imbroglio. A scandal is unfolding right before our eyes. It's getting dirtier and (By News Poster)...Zim: Harare, KP clash over monitor
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: "Mpofu feels that the monitor has to come from an African country" By Own CorrespondentHarare - Zimbabwe is embroiled in a dispute with the diamond regulator Kimberly Process (KP) over the app (By News Poster)...Zim: Magistrate's conflict of interest exposed in land case
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: The magistrate was given an ‘Offer Letter' to take over Mike Jahme's farm click here to enlarge imageBy Violet GondaSamuel Zuze, the Chipinge magistrate, who found four farmers guilty of ref (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fuel Subsidy - How FG Burnt N2 Trillion in Four Years
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Shaka MomoduLagos - The Federal Government has so far spent over N2 trillion in the payment of subsidy to maintain the regulated price regime on petrol in the last four years, a report has said.And (By News Poster)...Somalia: Ugandan Peacekeepers Killed
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Jude KafuumaKampala - TWO Ugandan African Union (AU) peacekeepers have been killed in a militant attack in Somali capital Mogadishu.According to reports from Somalia, heavy mortar rounds killed the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Make Prison Last Resort
Monday 01-Feb-2010: Harare - THE drop in Zimbabwe's prison population from 22 500 three years ago to 13 187 last week, coupled with a decline in the number of ex-convicts returning to prison, is most commendable.For the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma must now repair the damage: Zille
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: President Jacob Zuma must repair the damage he has done to the fight against HIV and Aids, DA leader Helen Zille said on Saturday. She was responding to Zuma's midday apology over his love-child with (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Why the AU Should Humbly Reject Gaddafi's Plans
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: By John Pa Baimba SesayFreetown - The creation of the Organization of African Unity, which was recently transformed to African Union was done out of the intention of African leaders to see how the con (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Pastor Bakare On the Nzeogwu Coup
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: In a recent exclusive interview with a national daily, Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly was quoted as lamenting the present state of the nation in the following words: "How I wish the N (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops fire rubber bullets at 'drunk' students
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: Police fired rubber bullets at protesting students at the Mangosuthu University of Technology on Wednesday, KwaZulu-Natal police said."Students started throwing stones at police. Police responded by f (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'NDLEA Arrested 201 Suspects, Convicted 83 in 2009'
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Joshua UmaAbuja - The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Lagos State command last year aided crime control efforts in the state with the arrest of 201 suspected drug dealers and a seizur (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Magistrate's Conflict of Interest Exposed in Land Case
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Violet GondaSamuel Zuze, the Chipinge magistrate, who found four farmers guilty of refusing to leave their properties last Tuesday, has presided over a case in which he has a vested interest. He is (By News Poster)...Burundi: Female Ex-Combatants Picking Up the Pieces
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Bujumbura - By age 15, Annonciata Nduwimana was an accomplished fighter for Burundi's opposition Forces nationales de liberation (FNL) and knew how to kill in battle."My father was killed, accused of (By News Poster)...South Africa: World Cup will be safe, vows police chief (Page 1 of 2)
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Kamini Padayachee and Yusuf MoollaThe Togolese national soccer team was attacked before the African Cup of Nations (Afcon) to discredit Angola, says a senior Angolan policeman.Chief Commissioner Pa (By News Poster)...South Africa: CPUT dean fired
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Bronwynne Jooste Staff ReporterThe Dean of the business faculty at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), who has been fired after being found guilty of fraud, mark alterations and fas (By News Poster)...Uganda: Judicial Commission to Probe Ritual Murders
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Henry Mukasa and Catherine BekundaKampala - THE Government has set up a judicial commission of inquiry to investigate the increasing number of suspected ritual murder cases.The Minister of Internal (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Police - AG to Decide Muro's Fate
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Devotha John and Bernard LugongoAttorney General Frederick Werema will determine the fate of prominent investigative journalist Jerry Muro, who is facing allegations of demanding a Sh10 million bri (By News Poster)...Sudan: Time Running Out for 'Powder Keg' - Former Diplomats
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Nairobi - The peace agreement which ended years of war between north and south Sudan could unravel unless immediate steps are taken to salvage it, two key former diplomats say."Today, five years after (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe is clamouring for international attention; Botswana should not be blackmailed
Monday 01-Feb-2010: CommentThe case of three Game Scouts who lost their way into Zimbabwe while on patrol along the Lesoma Border will in the next few days stretch and prove a serious test case for Botswana's di (By News Poster)...Somalia: Pirates Hold Couple for Nearly 100 Days
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Cindy ShinerNearly 100 days after being seized by Somali pirates, a British couple appeared in separate videos, speaking of “cruel” treatment by their captors and a longing to see one a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Two held for hacking four to death
Monday 01-Feb-2010: Two people are in police custody after they allegedly hacked four people to death in separate incidents in Mayflower, Mpumalanga police said on Monday.Captain Leonard Hlathi said in the first incident (By News Poster)...Africa: World Bank Wants Revision of Ties With Africa
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: By Damas KanyabwoyaThe World Bank has reiterated its desire for a shift in its relations with Africa and other clients in order to make its services more effective, its president Robert Zoellick (pict (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Airport Body Scanners, Not the Silver Bullet
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Capt. Theo OnuNow 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 (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gold Fields Gains From Not Hedging
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Simon MundyJohannesburg - GOLD Fields capitalised on high gold prices to post a net profit of R1,41bn for the quarter to December - a 40% rise from the previous three months.The strong results came (By News Poster)...Somalia: New Hijacking as Shipping Industry Voices Frustration
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Andre van WykA Libyan cargo ship carrying a crew of 17, the MV Rim, has been hijacked by Somali pirates operating south of Yemen, as shipping industry groups express frustration at the failure of t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sexwale's niece apologises for Zuma comments
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: Tokyo Sexwale's niece has apologised to President Jacob Zuma for condemning his behaviour on Facebook, after it was reported he fathered a child out of wedlock."I wish to apologise unequivocally for a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Terrorism - Need to De-List Nigeria
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By L.Chinedu Arizona-OgwuIt is certainly futile for the United States of America (U.S.) to escalate tensions with Nigeria. However, the Barack Obama regime has continued to raise hostility towards ove (By News Poster)...Somalia: Refugee Influx Strains Yemen Economy
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Allyn GaestelAs Yemen faces increasing movement of refugees and Internally Displaced People (IDPs), local host communities are struggling to maintain their already fragile economic stability.Refuge (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Nation Needs Special Courts On Corruption
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Fidelia RobertLagos - There are many unresolved problems in Nigeria, but the issue of corruption is not only troubling but herculean. The damage it has done is so terrible.The menace of corruption (By News Poster)...Bocongo Urge Government to Give Effect to Cedaw
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Chandapiwa BaputakiBotswana Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (BOCONGO) has urged government to facilitate progress in giving effect to the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination o (By News Poster)...South Africa: Withcraft: Witch Doctors (Sangomas) plan to slaughter bull in centre of Cape Town
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: [I find it quite interesting that animal anti-cruelty groups and various other Green freaks don't scream and jump up and down about this? Jan] By Fouzia van der Fort Staff ReporterA group of sangom (By News Poster)...Africa: Continent Ripe for Citizen-Led Development Plan
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By John Githongo and Jamie DrummondThere have been real improvements in Africa over the past decade. Economic growth has been averaging about five per cent a year, 34 million more children are in scho (By News Poster)...Sudan: Bashir May Face Genocide Charges
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Zukiswa ZimelaJohannesburg - The International Criminal Court is to review its earlier decision not to add genocide to the charges against Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir."It was a legal error to (By News Poster)...Sudan: Court to Reconsider Bashir Genocide Charge
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: An Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court has again opened the prospect of charging Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir with genocide over killings in Darfur.In a ruling issued on Wednesday, (By News Poster)...South Africa: Third man arrested for killing kids, granny
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: A third man, aged 22, was arrested on Wednesday for murdering an elderly woman and her three grandchildren in Ntsingizi village in Kwaaiman, Eastern Cape police said."The third suspect was arrested wh (By News Poster)...World: Food convoy attacked in Haiti
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Paisley DoddsPort-au-Prince - Twenty armed men blocked a road and tried to hijack a convoy of food for earthquake victims, but were driven off by police gunfire, United Nations officials said on Tu (By News Poster)...Zim soldiers are going to throw us out
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Trevor Gifford was arrested after they tried to deliver an attorney's letter to the magistrate Sarel van der WaltA South African farmer's wife in the Nyazura district of Zimbabwe yesterday war (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cwele's wife denies drug trafficking charges
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Sheryl Cwele, wife of State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele has denied being involved in drug trafficking.In bail application papers filed in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Tuesday, Cwele, 50, d (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NDLEA Arrests 201 Suspected Drug Dealers
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Kenneth EhigiatorLAGOS State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, arrested no fewer than 201 suspected drug dealers in 2009, comprising 181 males and 20 females.The command a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Pupils vow not to have a drink in February
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Nikita SylvesterStaff ReporterA group of KwaZulu-Natal pupils have pledged not to drink during February. Now their rector and teachers have joined them and are challenging other schools and individ (By News Poster)...Parental Child Abuse a Silent Crime
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Recently, there was a media report of a 27-year-old man of Block Four location in Francistown who was arrested by the police for the alleged physical abuse of his daughter.The man had, on several occa (By News Poster)...South Africa: Boy imitates mom's murder
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Luvuyo MjekulaA toddler who witnessed his police VIP Protection Unit father shoot and kill his mother, before wounding two men and hijacking three cars, is so traumatised he imitates the attack.Eve (By News Poster)...Africa: Zambia cops activists rape threat
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Lusaka - Zambian police said on Tuesday they have opened an investigation into a ruling party activist who threatened to "gang rape" an opposition leader for criticising President Rupiah Banda.Police (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Shell Thrives On Colonialism - Ex-Staff
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Napoleon EhiremenLagos - May we meet you briefly, Sir?My name is Aoiri Obaigbo. I am the Creative Director of Babylove Nigeria Limited. Before now, I was working in the Media Department of the Shel (By News Poster)...South Africa: Two killed in police shoot-out
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Two gang members were killed and another was injured in a shoot-out with police on Thursday, KwaZulu-Natal police said. Superintendent Jay Naicker said police were responding to information about a ga (By News Poster)...Africa: Zuma Returns From African Union Summit
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma is heading back to South Africa after the 14th African Union Summit concluded in Addis Ababa on Tuesday.Zuma and International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite (By News Poster)...World: Gaza war: Senior Israeli officers disciplined
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: The Israeli military has disciplined two senior officers for the firing of white phosphorous shells toward a UN compound during the Gaza war, Israeli media said on Monday.In the official response to a (By News Poster)...Uganda: Girl's Body Found Inside Septic Tank
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Steven Candia and Eddie SsejjobaKampala - THE Police at the weekend recovered the body of a young woman dumped in a septic tank of a house in a Kampala suburb and arrested a businessman, suspected (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 2010 - Phaseout of Single-Hull Ships Will Not Disrupt Oil Lifting - Experts
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Paul OgbuokiriLagos - The decommissioning of single-hull tankers this year is unlikely to impact either oil tanker rates or the movement of oil from the Gulf to other parts of the world, industry p (By News Poster)...South Africa: Richter murder accused changes his tune
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Baldwin NdabaOne of the alleged killers of Heia Safari Ranch owner Franz Richter first blamed dagga when he implicated himself in the murder. He claimed that he was highly under the influence of da (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 80 Yr-Old Found Dead on Disputed Land
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Leye AdewumiAn 80 year old man, Pa Moses Ijashina, was at the weekend found dead in his farm which is part of a piece of land that has generated a protracted dispute between the Oyinmo Community in (By News Poster)...World: Slain Hamas leader 'was a arms dealer'
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Josef FedermanJerusalem - Days after Hamas accused Israel of electrocuting and poisoning one of its commanders in his Dubai hotel room, Israel on Sunday claimed the man played a critical role in sm (By News Poster)...Africa: Zimbabwe in Top AU Organ
Monday 01-Feb-2010: Harare - Zimbabwe has been elected to the most powerful African Union organ, the Peace and Security Council for the next three years at the ongoing AU Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.The election was (By News Poster)...Somalia: Rebel Forces Ready for War Against Rebels
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: Somalia's embattled government is reportedly preparing its troops in a latest offensive against the powerful insurgents in the restive capital Mogadishu, sources told Garowe Online.Somali government o (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Nation Faces Maize Deficit Again, Despite Govt Claims
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Chris MuronziFarmers' organisations must be feeling vindicated after Agriculture ministry permanent secretary Ngoni Masoka last year turned a deaf ear to their warnings of a maize deficit.Commercia (By News Poster)...South Africa: EXCLUSIVE: Station Strangler case re-opened (Page 1 of 3)
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Warda Meyer and Lavern de VriesA team of investigators has arrived in Cape Town to probe the unsolved murders of at least 21 boys believed to have been killed by the Station Strangler.The developme (By News Poster)...South Africa: Khoza murder suspects due in the dock
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Five people arrested for the murder of Lethabong businesswoman Miriam Khoza and her four relatives were expected to appear in the Rustenburg Magistrate's Court on Friday.Sibongile Mabaso, 27, and his (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cosatu demands answers on Phakoe murder
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: The North West branch of the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) has threatened a sit-in at Rustenburg police station over the police's failure to arrest anyone for the murder of councillor Moss Phak (By News Poster)...South Africa: Coal Miners 'Have Golden Opportunity' to Increase Production
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - THE looming coal crisis facing Eskom, and growing global demand for the fuel, presents a golden opportunity for local coal miners to increase production or develop new m (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How Intellectuals Underdervelop Nation
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Tope FashuaLagos - To illustrate the abysmal failure of the Nigerian intellectual, let us look at his approaches to the major problems facing Nigeria. Corruption. Many intellectuals have capitulate (By News Poster)...Africa: Countries Intend Having Common Currency
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: African countries intend to have a common currency, Dr Maxwell Mkwezalamba, the Commissioner for Economic Affairs of the African Union Commission (AUC) has said.Mkwezalamba made the statement at a new (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma should behave better, says Zille
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: President Jacob Zuma must apologise for fathering an illegitimate child and strive to set a better example, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said on Tuesday.Zille said Zuma's behaviour was at od (By News Poster)...No fights in Zimbabwe's Quill Club
Monday 01-Feb-2010: The more intense the debate, the more the contestants smile at each other CommentBy Zimbabwe Correspondent (author cannot be identified because of Zimbabwe's press restrictions)Harare - Zimbab (By News Poster)...South Africa: End president's right to pardon - De Lille
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Henri Du Plessis Staff WriterThe President of the country should not have the power to pardon criminals found guilty in court and the concept should be scrapped from the constitution, says Independ (By News Poster)...South Africa: Busting drug dens (Page 1 of 2)
Sunday 07-Feb-2010: An ex-street kid and an ex-con have joined forces to tackle drug abuse in Cape Town townships where many children, barely into their teens, are hooked on heroin and tik.Sifiso Jezile, 28, who spent 1 (By News Poster)...Khama Using DIS to Purge BDP Operatives?
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Ryder GabathuseFrancistown - President Ian Khama is accused of using Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) sleuths to probe alleged acts of impropriety by some ruling Botswana Democratic P (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Crisis Deepening, ICG Warns
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: The political and security situations in Nigeria could deteriorate rapidly in the near future, unless the country speedily returns to a clear constitutional track, the International Crisis Group, ICG, (By News Poster)...Namibia: First Micro-Finance Bank Gets Licence to Operate
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyNAMIBIA's first micro-finance bank is a reality after the Bank of Namibia (BoN) yesterday granted Fides Bank Namibia a permanent banking licence."Fides Bank is now permitted to engage (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hollow Victory for Communications Supremo
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: Johannesburg - COMMUNICATIONS Minister and former defence chief Siphiwe Nyanda clearly relished the role of conquering hero in November in announcing mobile interconnection rates would fall from March (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mining Indaba Expects World Metal Prices to Rise
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Bheki MpofuCape Town - China's insatiable demand for resources is expected to continue to lead the recovery of the global commodities sector in the medium term, experts said at the 16th annual Mini (By News Poster)...Somalia: Mortar Shelling Death Toll Rises to 10, 55 Injuries in Mogadishu
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: The death toll of yesterdays' mortar shelling attacks rose to 10, and 55 others, just as most of those people were rushed hospitals in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses and officials told Shabel (By News Poster)...South Africa: Botched house robbery leaves one dead
Monday 01-Feb-2010: An alleged house robber was shot dead with his own gun in Meyerspark, Pretoria police said on Monday.Two men allegedly attacked the 38-year-old home owner on Saturday and tied him up while they search (By News Poster)...Africa: Men raid offices of diamond firm in Zimbabwe
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: Harare - Eight men armed with AK-47 rifles stormed the Zimbabwe offices of a British-based diamond company after midnight on Tuesday, in an incident police have described as a robbery.A police spokesp (By News Poster)...World: Soldiers and children killed in bombing
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Hazrat Ali BachaTimergara, Pakistan - Pakistan's Taliban claimed responsibility for a bomb on Wednesday that killed three US Special Operations soldiers near a school for girls in north-west Pakist (By News Poster)...USA: Obama Dumps Moon Program
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: [I think its more a case of the US Government is bankrupt, and the only way to ensure a space program in the US, is to switch to privatisation. Janolifant] On the seventh anniversary of the Columbi (By JanOlifant)...Arrested Zimbabwe farmers granted bail
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Some farm invasions that are being conducted in a manner that is casting doubt as regards the full legitimacy Two white farmers arrested in Zimbabwe last week for being in contempt of court ar (By News Poster)...South Africa: Toad-lovers to the rescue as builders move in
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Liam MosesStaff ReporterA new development in Bergvliet has sent conservationists scrambling to save an endangered species of toad.Members of the Western Leopard Toad Conservation Committee were ou (By News Poster)...Somalia: Hizbul Islam Official Escapes Bomb Explosion in Mogadishu
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Hizbul Islam official has escaped a bomb explosion targeted to his house overnight in the Somali capital Mogadishu, the official told Shabelle radio on Friday.Reports say that Barre Ali Barre, one of (By News Poster)...World: Pilgrims defy bombers in holy city (Page 1 of 2)
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Muhanad MohammedKarbala - Chanting and flailing themselves in mourning for Imam Hussein, hundreds of thousands of Shi'a Muslims defied suicide bombs and bone-crushing crowds to gather in Iraq's hol (By News Poster)...Africa: Man held in tourists killings
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Bamako - Security forces in Mali have arrested a suspect in the killing of four Saudi tourists and an American in neighbouring Niger, a security source told AFP on Thursday."We arrested on Wednesday i (By News Poster)...South Africa: Robber dies in hold-up
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: A would-be robber died when he and two accomplices held up a shop in Philippi, on the Cape Flats, on Thursday morning, a police spokesman said.Three men, two of them armed, entered a shop and demanded (By News Poster)...Record Coke Traffickingtrial in Starting Blocks
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Werner MengesTWO Angolan citizens who are accused of dealing in a Namibian record quantity of more than 39 kilograms of cocaine near the end of 2007 are set to go on trial in the High Court in Wind (By News Poster)...South Africa: Pilot killed in plane crash
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Mercury ReportersA Durban businessman and a flight instructor were killed in a fiery blaze when their light aircraft ploughed into the Magliesberg outside Pretoria yesterday.The crash occurred in t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banks Behind Oil Marketers Demand For Promissory Notes From FG
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Adeola YusufLagos - Strong indications emerged at the weekend that the new demand by oil marketers for issuance of promisory notes before they could access banks loans was actually sponsored by ban (By News Poster)...South Africa: Joburg families under siege
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: Two simultaneous robberies - one ending in rape - have left communities in Soweto living in fear of a ruthless gang.A family, including a nine-year-old girl, were tied up by a group of men in their 2 (By News Poster)...South Africa: Drugs drove her to steal and ... kill
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Caryn Dollie, Michelle Jones and Jason WarnerYears of drug abuse and failed attempts at rehabilitation drove Angelique Cilliers to steal and led to her standing trial for murder before she finally (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Attacks - PFN Tells MEND to Wait for Yar'Adua
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Ernest ChinwoCalabar - As the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has threatened to call off its three-month ceasefire, the President of the Cross River State chapter of the Pen (By News Poster)...South Africa: Trio nabbed in bid to blackmail ex-judge
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: Three people have been arrested for trying to blackmail a retired senior judge.The judge, from one of South Africa's best-known legal families, is aged 90 and lives in Somerset West - but cannot be na (By News Poster)...South Africa: Three hurt during campus chaos (Page 1 of 2)
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Three people were injured during a confrontation between students and police at Tshwane University of Technology's Soshanguve campus on Friday, a university spokesman said.Chaos broke at around 8am on (By News Poster)...[Graph] USA: The Economic Meltdown - Its a slaughter on the markets today...
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: [You will recall we have been discussing the markets for quite some time and how the markets are probably getting ready for a harsh drop. I thought I'd show you what Wall Street is looking like right (By Jan)...World: Dripping blood leads cops to murder scene
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: British police have launched a murder hunt after blood dripping through an office ceiling led officers to discover the body of a man in the flat above.The corpse, believed to be that of a 27-year-old (By News Poster)...Somalia: Islamist Rivals Ambush Al Shabaab Rulers, Five Killed
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: At least five people were killed and several others injured when Hizbul Islam and pro-government Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama'a fighters engaged Al-Shabaab fighters in the Somali border towns of Dhobley and B (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SADC Optimistic about Solution to Madagascar Crisis
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Addis Ababa - The Executive Secretary of SADC (Southern African Development Community), Tomas Salomao, believes that the political factions in Madagascar will return to the negotiating table very soon (By News Poster)...South Africa: 13 years for Dirk
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Hanti Otto and Zelda Venter'This is f***ing crazy," an angry Dirk Prinsloo reacted yesterday when the Baranovichi High Court in Belarus sentenced him to an effective 13 years in a maximum security (By News Poster)...Nigeria: '2.1 Million People Killed By Contaminated Food Annually'
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Tina A. HassanContaminated foods have been proven to be the cause of death of at least 2.1 million people globally and according to the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibad (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Riot at UNN
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Lagos - CONDEMNABLE as the recent riot by students of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) is, one of the major lessons of the action, which left devastation in its wake is that communication breakd (By News Poster)...South Africa: Car and van full of pupils collide
Friday 05-Feb-2010: The driver of a passenger van transporting nine children was arrested for alleged drunk driving on Thursday after he crashed into another vehicle, which then burst into flames.City traffic spokesman K (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 1.500 Citizens Remain in SA Refugee Camp
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Alex BellMore than a thousand Zimbabwean nationals trying to scrape together a living in South Africa are still living in squalid conditions in a refugee camp near Cape Town, three months after the (By News Poster)...Zim: Mugabe move shrinks Tsvangirai's powers
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: Ordered the ministers he appointed to report to the two Zanu PF vice-presidents Independent Foreign ServiceHarare - President Robert Mugabe has reduced Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's power (By News Poster)...Kenya: Country Urgently Needs a Strategic Milk Reserve
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Milk processor New KCC's announcement that it's cutting its retail and producer milk prices on surge in production underlines the need to set up a strategic milk reserve.The onset of rains in November (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Fish Wars and Displacement
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Kinshasa - Rival ethnic communities in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo have clashed many times over the years, but most recently over fish, observers say.More than 200 people have died and a (By News Poster)...Kenya: Cabinet Bid to Protect Poll Chaos Witnesses
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Bernard NamunaneNairobi - A Cabinet committee meets on Tuesday to discuss better protection for post-election violence witnesses.The team will consider changes to the Witness Protection Act aimed a (By News Poster)...Africa: Cargo ship held even after ransom payment
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Mohamed AhmedMogadishu - A ransom for the release of the cargo ship MV Filitsa has been delivered to pirates on board the vessel off the Somali coast, a regional maritime official and pirate source (By News Poster)...Tanzania: The Big Ivory Debate - to Sell Or Not Sell
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Tom MosobaInvestors are raising the red flag as some foreign government and conservations and animal rights groups intensify a campaign to tighten the noose on trophy smugglingA seemingly innocent (By News Poster)...Africa: Ethiopian troops enter Somali towns
Sunday 07-Feb-2010: By Mohamed Ahmed and Abdi SheikhMogadishu - Ethiopian troops in armoured vehicles crossed into two border towns in south central Somalia and seized the family of a man with links to al Shabaab insurge (By News Poster)...World: We have kidnapped US contractor - Iraqi group (Page 1 of 2)
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: By Suadad al-SalhyAn Iraqi militant group said on Saturday it kidnapped a US civilian contractor in January and was negotiating the release of the body of another.A senior leader of Shi'a militia Asai (By News Poster)...Botswana: Kgotla Floggings and Class among Batswana
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Gasebalwe SeretseKgotla floggings have always been part of Setswana culture but as modernity continues to creep upon the lives of the Batswana, many have begun to question this age-old practice.Bak (By News Poster)...Development Bank CEO On Prospects for 2010
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Windhoek - The Development Bank will open its first branch outside Windhoek within the course of this year to cater for increased demand for its services in the northern part of the country."We believ (By News Poster)...South Africa: Security Ministry mum on Cwele's arrest
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: The state security department declined to comment on Thursday on the drug charges against Sheryl Cwele, who is the wife of State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele."We wish to advise that the matter is (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Genocide Suspect Denied Asylum in Canada Again
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - A Canadian Court on Tuesday denied asylum for the sixth time to Henri Jean Claude Seyoboka due to existing evidence pinning him for participating in the 1994 Genocide against (By News Poster)...Africa: Pirates seize Libya cargo
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Nairobi - Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden have hijacked a Libyan-owned cargo ship thought to be carrying 17 seafarers from Romania and Libya, a Kenya-based maritime group said on Thursday.Ecoterra, (By News Poster)...Africa: Zim court allows Bennett email evidence
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Nelson BanyaZimbabwe's High Court on Wednesday admitted disputed email evidence implicating opposition politician Roy Bennett in a plot against President Robert Mugabe's government.Bennett, a white (By News Poster)...Zim: Civil service strike looms as wage talks collapse
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: “The government should brace for industrial action now†By Patricia MpofuHarare - A crippling general strike by Zimbabwe's public workers inched closer on Tuesday after wage negotiations b (By News Poster)...Kenya: Seizure of Arms Cache Stirs Up Sleepy Town
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Julius SigeiNairobi - Despite its proximity to the capital and being the gateway to the world famous Maasai Mara game reserve, Narok has remained a quiet, dusty and sleepy town.Not even the ongoing (By News Poster)...South Africa: One killed, another injured in highway smash
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Yusuf MoollaOne person was killed and another critically injured when the car they were travelling in, which is believed to have been stolen from Berea Road, veered off the road and crashed on the (By News Poster)...Somalia: Somali Violence Uproots 80,000 Civilians in January Alone, Reports UN Agency
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: The United Nations refugee agency today reported that a sharp rise in violence in Somalia in January left nearly 260 civilians dead, in addition to uprooting over 80,000 and causing widespread destruc (By News Poster)...Police Form Unit to Combat Cattle Rustling
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Ephraim KeorengStock-theft in Botswana has become so serious that the police have formed a stock theft unit in a bid to arrest the situation.Although the crime has affected many areas including Bob (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chiadzwa Diamonds in Fresh Controversy
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Harare - THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy has raised concern over the "careless manner" in which Government has handled the mining and marketing of the Chiadzwa diamonds.This (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cash was mine - accused
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: One of the men accused of murdering Heia Safari Ranch owner Franz Richter said the cash he was accused of stealing during the murder was his own.Johnson Tshepo Chirwa, 34, made the claim in the Johann (By News Poster)...Ghana: Wild Expectations Remain a Big Challenge for Country's Oil
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Accra - Ghana's oil find has brought in its wake, growing expectations among the old and the young, politicians and even the clergy. For many of the youth who are currently being encouraged under vari (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Man Secretly Cremates Employee
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Daniel NemukuyuHarare - IN a bizarre incident, a Milton Park employer allegedly ordered the cremation of the body of his late gardener of 25 years without the knowledge or consent of his relatives. (By News Poster)...South Africa: Child sex slaves 'easy to find'
Monday 01-Feb-2010: It is "terrifyingly easy" to find children trapped in prostitution in South Africa, says an American author, Benjamin Skinner, who has researched the problem in this country. He said it was also easy (By News Poster)...Somalia: Mogadishu Residents Flee Planned Govt Offensive
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: Hundreds of residents have started fleeing the embattled Somali capital of Mogadishu as government forces and hard-line militant fighters prepare for an all out war.The massive exodus was witnessed in (By News Poster)...Botswana: I Survived Cancer - Mbalambi
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Fyder GabathuseFour years ago, Mbalambi was diagnosed with cancer, which is a global health problem and a leading cause of death around the worldHer troubles started sometime in 2005 whilst she was (By News Poster)...South Africa: State fights against bail for Cwele (Page 1 of 3)
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Summary of the evidence against Sheryl CweleBy Sharika RegchandSheryl Cwele has four identity documents, three valid passports and is in substantial debt. She poses a serious flight risk if released o (By News Poster)...Egypt: Govt Investigates Growing Food in Uganda
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Rachel PollockThe Egyptian government announced Monday that it would be sending a committee to assess farmland in Uganda to grow wheat to then import back into Egypt. Egypt is the leader in wheat c (By News Poster)...Mozambique: National Unity Key to Today's Battles - Guebuza
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Maputo - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Wednesday declared that national unity remains a key requirement in the battle the country continues to wage to improve the living conditions of its ci (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cosatu mum on Zuma love-child
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) has opted to keep mum on reports that President Jacob Zuma fathered a child with the daughter of soccer boss, Irvin Khoza.The trade union federation and ANC al (By News Poster)...South Africa: Wanted man wounded in shootout
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: A man wanted for a series of attempted murders was wounded in a shoot-out with police in Silverton, east of Pretoria, police said on Wednesday.Captain Shawane Sepato said the man was on the wanted lis (By News Poster)...Tanzania: How CCTV Cameras Exposed Alleged Accomplices
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Bernard Lugongo and Devotha JohnMr Jerry Muro's saga took a new twist yesterday, when the police paraded two people, who it said were part of the conspiracy to solicit Sh10 million bribery from a f (By News Poster)...Kenya: FAO Raises the Red Flag over Food Situation
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Allan OdhiamboAn estimated 3.8 million Kenyans will require emergency food aid this month amid a relentless rally in prices of key cereals.The latest outlook report by the Food and Agriculture Orga (By News Poster)...World: US drone blamed for strike in Pakistan
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Islamabad - Multiple missile strikes carried out by suspected US drone aircraft killed 29 people in Pakistan's restive tribal region on Tuesday, a Pakistani intelligence official said.Several more peo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police and students clash at Umlazi campus
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Nompumelelo MagwazaDozens of students were injured in clashes with police at the Mangosuthu University of Technology in Umlazi, Durban, on Tuesday.Chaos broke out when students gathered outside the (By News Poster)...Somalia: Hisbul Islam, Hawiye Elders Condemn Deadly Shelling in Mogadishu
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Mogadishu - The Islamic organization of Hizbul Islam and Hawiye traditional elders have Monday unanimously condemned yesterday's deadly shelling targeted to civilians in parts of Heliwa district in Mo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Niger-Delta - President's Absence Strains Uneasy Peace
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Sam OlukoyaYenagoa - Three flow stations in the oil-rich Niger Delta have had to be closed after a pipeline was sabotaged, according to Royal Dutch Shell.The company said the Jan. 30 leak on the Tr (By News Poster)...South Africa: Ex teacher gets six life sentences for rape
Monday 01-Feb-2010: A former KwaZulu-Natal teacher who masqueraded as a religious counsellor to rape children in Newcastle was given six life sentences by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday.Judge Leona Theron said (By News Poster)...Science: Heart disease to 'kill 400 000' in US in 2010
Monday 01-Feb-2010: Decades of progress in the United States on cutting cholesterol, blood pressure and smoking are being stalled by rising obesity rates, and heart disease will kill around 400 000 Americans this year, e (By News Poster)...Somalia: AU Starts Paying UPDF Wages
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Raymond BagumaKampala - THE African Union (AU) has begun paying the outstanding allowances of the UPDF troops currently on a peacekeeping mission in Somalia. The troops had remained unpaid since Ma (By News Poster)...Ghana: Will Oil Build or Break Country's Democracy?
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Ross HarveyWill commercial oil production (due to begin later this year) build or break the back of Ghana’s democracy?This may seem an unnecessarily inflammatory question, but history demonst (By News Poster)...Africa: Why Kenya Hasn't Given a Cent to Earthquake-Devastated Haiti
Sunday 07-Feb-2010: By Peter MwauraGovernments all over the world have pledged more than $1 billion (Sh75 billion) in emergency aid to Haiti.The givers include some of the poorest African countries, such as Liberia, Sier (By News Poster)...Zim: Kunonga thugs attempt to evict priest and his pregnant wife
Sunday 07-Feb-2010: Recently ordained 32 priests and assigned them churches while telling them to use whatever means to sustain them By Lance GumaThugs loyal to the excommunicated Bishop Nolbert Kunonga on Wednes (By News Poster)...South Africa: Reverend's wife stabbed to death
Sunday 07-Feb-2010: The wife of a Methodist minister was found stabbed to death in her Bothasig home on Friday night on her 54th birthday. Police have named as a suspect an 18-year-old relative, who has since disappeared (By News Poster)...Africa: President Mutharika Got It Right
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: After what seemed to be uncertainty over the new leadership of the African Union (AU), the organisation has shown maturity.African leaders have at an AU summit elected a new chairman without any incid (By News Poster)...Guinea: Guinean Junta Reject UN Report on Massacre
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Tamba Jean-Matthew IIIDakar - Officials of the military junta regime in Guinea have issue a unilateral report in which they exonerate their leader from crimes against humanity in last year's Septem (By News Poster)...Rwanda: 2009 Investments to Create 11,000 Jobs
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Edwin MusoniKigali - The investments registered during 2009 will create at least 11,000 jobs within the country, according to statistics from Rwanda Development Board (RDB).The information is conta (By News Poster)...Africa: Rwandan opposition figure assaulted
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Kigali - A Rwandan opposition leader who returned to the country last month was assaulted by a mob at a government building in the capital Kigali, officials said Thursday.Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, wh (By News Poster)...World: Victim did not know about knife in her back
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Mail Foreign ServiceIt's the picture that's gone round the world: A knife plunged deep in a woman's back, blood gushing from the wound.Apart from the gore, what makes the image so remarkable is tha (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Energy - Petrol Dealers Not the Problem - Akinbami
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Yaqoub PopoolaAlhaji Suleiman Akinbami, a philanthropist and leading petrol dealer in Ado-Ekiti, is the secretary of Petrol Dealers Association in Ekiti State. Born in 1950 in Osogbo, the religious (By News Poster)...South Africa: State-Led Task Team 'Saves Mining Jobs'
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Bheki MpofuCape Town - The establishment of a government-led task team in response to the global economic downturn had resulted in tens of thousands of jobs in the mining sector being saved, Minera (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Tales From the Federal Capital Territory
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Ikechukwu AmaechiI was in Abuja over the weekend to feel the pulse of the country's seat of power. It turned out an interesting voyage. I went to see and talk to men and women of power, those who a (By News Poster)...World: ETA suspects held by police
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Madrid - Police in Spain's northern Basque region said they arrested two more people on Tuesday in an operation against the armed separatist group ETA launched last week, bringing the total detentions (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Uranium Reserves Need Proper Handling
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Gasirigwa SengiyumvaDar Es Salaam - EVER since the government confirmed that there are uranium reserves in the country, it has become a subject of interest for many.Some sections of the public, env (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Group Wants Top Security Officials Fired Over Jos Crisis
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Innocent OwehAbuja - Following the recent crisis that erupted in Jos, where security personnel were alleged to have mismanaged the situation, an affiliate group of the Transparency International ha (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cops nabbed 19 for public violence
Monday 01-Feb-2010: Police arrested 19 people for public violence and malicious damage to property during a service delivery protest march in Tonga Village, near Komatipoort, Mpumalanga, on Monday.Superintendent Malcolm (By News Poster)...Africa: Gadaffi Blocked From Second AU Term
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Cyprian MusokeAddis Ababa - Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi yesterday failed in his bid to stay on as chairman of the African Union (AU) for another year.He also stunned the AU summit by parading kin (By News Poster)...Nigeria: IOCs Sell Oil Fields to Nigerian-Led Consortium
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Ijeoma Nwogwugwu And Chika Amanze-Nwachuku With Agency ReportsLagos - The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited, Total Explor-ation and Production Limited and Nigeria Agip Oil Comp (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Caution Needed Over GMO Foods
Monday 01-Feb-2010: Harare - It is not the first time that the Grain Millers Association has urged the Government to allow them to import genetically-modified grain.The Government has responded that it cannot allow unpro (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Arms Theft - Soldier Jailed 35 Years
Monday 01-Feb-2010: Harare - A soldier and two deserters who broke into an armoury at Pomona Barracks last year and stole 21 AK-47 rifles have been court-martialled, with the former being sentenced to 30 years' imprisonm (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'I never intended to flee SA'
Monday 01-Feb-2010: He never planned to flee South Africa. "I promise," Dirk Prinsloo told the Pretoria News in one of several short conversations during the past two weeks of his trial in Belarus.It was a spur of the mo (By News Poster)...Africa: Bipartisan Resolution Urges All Countries to Reject and Repeal Laws Criminalizing Homosexuality
Sunday 07-Feb-2010: U.S. Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Susan Collins (R-ME) have introduced a resolution calling on members of the Ugandan Parliament to reject the so-called &ldq (By News Poster)...Zim's public servants down tools
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: Pressing for a five-fold wage hike By Nelson BanyaHarare - Zimbabwe state workers went on strike yesterday to press for a five-fold wage hike, a move that could cripple public services and ham (By News Poster)...Ghana: Slow Progress on Oil Policy
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Accra - Ghana needs to do more to ensure that revenue from oil production, due to start later in the year, successfully reduces poverty and avoids a "resource curse", according to civil society leader (By News Poster)...Namibia: Namcor Fueling Nation
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By David AdetonaWindhoek - The National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (NAMCOR), is gearing itself to become Namibia's leading player in the petroleum and gas sector. The company has been an importa (By News Poster)...Somalia: President Comes Under Attack
Friday 05-Feb-2010: At least 2 people are reportedly killed and few others injured after insurgents carried out attack on Somalia's President's plane that landed in Mogadishu's Aden Adde International airport.President S (By News Poster)...South Africa: Interpol to set up camp in SA
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Interpol will have an office in South Africa during the World Cup, police commissioner Bheki Cele said in Durban on Thursday."An Interpol office will be established in South Africa for the period lead (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Civil Servants Arrested for Theft in Chokwe
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican police have arrested three civil servants in the southern district of Chokwe on charges of stealing money from the Local Initiative Investment Budget (OIIL), by resorting to fa (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lawyer, Maidservant, Guard Murdered in Abuja
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Misbahu BashirA woman lawyer was Monday evening murdered in her home in Abuja alongside her maidservant and security guard.A source said the yet-to-be-identified assailants arrived at Mrs. Ekene Eb (By News Poster)...South Africa: Council slams Zuma's response
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Warda MeyerChairman of the Press Council Raymond Louw says he is deeply disturbed by President Jacob Zuma's attack on the media for having run stories reflecting the public's disquiet about his con (By News Poster)...Africa: Nigerian oil rebels warned
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: Abuja - The Nigerian government warnedNiger Delta militants on Wednesday against issuing threats of violence, saying that they did not have a "monopoly" of violence.The militant Movement for the Emanc (By News Poster)...South Africa: Teen driver kills pupil
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Tasnim LangryAn unlicensed KwaDuguza teenager has been charged with culpable homicide, reckless and negligent driving and failing to stop at an accident scene, after he ploughed into a group of pup (By News Poster)...Africa: Rebels pledge fresh attacks on pipeline
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Lagos - Nigerian militants said on Tuesday a Shell oil pipeline damaged on Saturday was blown up with explosives, not damaged by oil thieves, and warned it would attack the line and other oil faciliti (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe detainees going hungry
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Biti is raising about $90 million a month to run Zimbabwe Peta ThornycroftHarare - Police in Zimbabwe are warning they do not have enough money to feed people in holding cells around the count (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Country Headed for New Crisis
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - On the eve of the first anniversary of the historic inauguration of Zimbabwe's unity government already credited with halting record inflation and economic decline, the tro (By News Poster)...Tullow Oil to Begin Production
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Mikaili SseppuyaKampala - With the announcement last week that oil production, albeit on a small scale, will commence before the end of this year, Tullow Oil seems to have beaten off competition fr (By News Poster)...South Africa: Thefts hit ratepayers hard
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Slindile MalulekaElectricity theft and illegal connections cost the eThekwini Municipality more than a R135 million a year - losses for which ratepayers will have to fork out.With authorities alrea (By News Poster)...Sudan: Little Time Left to Avert a Terrible Disaster As War Clouds Gather Once Again
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Lazarus Sumbeiwyo and John C DanforthNairobi - The world's attention was rightly seized by the terrible conflict in Sudan's western region of Darfur in which hundreds of thousands of civilian lives (By News Poster)...Africa: Migrant killed in Sinai
Monday 01-Feb-2010: Cairo - Egyptian border police shot dead an African migrant and injured another on Monday as they tried to slip across the border into Israel, security sources said.The pair attempted to sneak into Is (By News Poster)...South Africa: Education specialist murdered
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Wendy Jasson da CostaA top KwaZulu-Natal Education Department official has been murdered in her Westville home, and her 10-year-old grandchild is in trauma counselling after witnessing the attack.N (By News Poster)...South Africa: From Zim, with love - another paternity poser
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: By Nondumiso MbuyaziA 30-year-old Zimbabwean man claims to be the love child of President Jacob Zuma.Dudzai Nyamuramba, of Wedza, Zimbabwe, alleges that Zuma met his mother, Maggie Sandimunyonga, whil (By News Poster)...South Africa: Draft bill recognises Muslim marriages (Page 1 of 3)
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Fatima SchroederTen years after the government first set up a project committee to address the inequities suffered at the hands of the law by millions of South Africans married according to Muslim (By News Poster)...South Africa: US puts locals in charge of Aids spending (Page 1 of 2)
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: US and South African Aids workers say putting more decision-making in local hands can help stretch donor money, amid concerns that international giving will be limited because of the global recession. (By News Poster)...Kenya: KPC Plan to Extend Oil Pipeline to Uganda Stalls
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Zeddy SambuThe plan to extend the oil pipeline to Uganda is in doubt, three years after the project was awarded to Libyan state company Tamoil East Africa.The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) --which i (By News Poster)...South Africa: Apartheid: 'we wasted years'
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Murray Williams Staff WriterApartheid could have ended sooner, sparing South Africa half a decade of death, destruction and economic disaster, the former National Party's lead negotiator has admitt (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Terror Threat - Police Deploy 5,000 Personnel to Abuja
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Malachy UzenduAbuja - Police, yesterday, deployed over 5,000 of its personnel to forestall rumoured plots by some Islamic fundamentalists to storm parts of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), in a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'Corruption, Threat to Democracy'
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Vincent EkhoragbonGombe - Former president of Botswana, Mr. Festus Mogae, has described corruption as a threat to democracy in Nigeria even as he challenged the masses of the nation to rise up agai (By News Poster)...South Africa: Durban mortuary too full
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Durban's Gale Street Mortuary is overcrowded and workers there have threatened to go on strike if something is not done, KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo said on Tuesday."The mortuary is (By News Poster)...South Africa: Woman hijacked, raped in Soweto
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: A woman was hijacked and raped in Soweto, allegedly by three men, Johannesburg metro police said on Tuesday."Metro police recovered a black BMW after it was hijacked in Naledi at around 4.30pm," Chief (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Why Senate Dumped Yar'Adua
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Cosmas EkpunobiLagos - The ongoing protest and debate on the prolonged absence of President Umaru Yar'Adua from office took a new direction last thursday as the senate, albeit reluctantly, ordered (By News Poster)...USA: Wall St: Preparing for the next Market fall... Oil and Gold...? My Gold calculations...
Monday 01-Feb-2010: I just quickly glanced at Jason Kelly's latest newsletter. He is confirming his views that readers must prepare for a market fall. He clearly does not expect the market to crash immediately, but he is (By Jan)...Uganda: Proposed 'Anti-Homosexuality Bill' a Setback for Human Rights And HIV Prevention
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Nicola WinterHuman rights activists and the majority of the international community were appalled when Uganda introduced a bill last October that among other things, seeks a minimum life sentence f (By News Poster)...South Africa: Salvation Army, Be Heard to Eradicate 2010 Human Trafficking
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Issa Sikiti Da SilvaSome observers wonder how the Salvation Army and its partner Be Heard, which have stepped up their anti-human trafficking campaign and recently launched a 24-hour toll free hotl (By News Poster)...Africa: Thwarted bomber points to radical cleric
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Washington - A Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a passenger jet on Christmas Day has told investigators that a radical US-born Yemeni cleric directed him to explode the bomb over US soil.Seni (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'Institutionalise Workplace Policies, Must for Good Health'
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Comfort EkelemeLagos - CHIEF Executive Officer of Friends of the Global Fund Africa (Friend Africa)- an advocacy and fund raising organization, Akudo Anyanwu Ikemba has canvassed the need for insti (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NNPC Barters Crude Oil for Imported Products
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Sopuruchi OnwukaLagos - Government may have adopted a novel measure in tackling the acute fuel shortages in the market as Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) now trades crude oil for ref (By News Poster)...Ghana: Anti-Suicide Body Advocates Reform of Criminal Code
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: Accra - The Network for Anti-Suicide and Crisis Intervention (NACI) has called for the repeal of Clause 2 of Section 57 of the 1960 Criminal Code which criminalizes suicide.The clause states that "Who (By News Poster)...World: Quake toll reaches 200 000 as anger grows
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: Port-au-Prince - The death toll in the Haiti earthquake has topped 200 000, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said on Wednesday as angry protests over the slow arrival of aid flared on the rubble-stre (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe says needs maize urgently after dry spell
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: "The Ministry of Finance cannot wait any longer. It should start working now" Harare - Zimbabwe needs to urgently import 500,000 tonnes of maize to avert shortages after the staple crop was hi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: High Prices - Nupeng Says Fuel Market is Already Deregulated
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Sopuruchi OnwukaLagos - National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers (NUPENG) has called on government to regard the internal fuel market as deregulated, pointing at continuing high prices a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma on telescope
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: If South Africa wins its bid to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope, the question of whether there is alien life could be answered, says President Jacob Zuma."Because this high-tech (By News Poster)...World: 'Tribesmen kill, hang militants'
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Habib KhanKhar, Pakistan - A government official says Pakistani tribesmen shot two militants to death and hung their bodies from an electricity pole in a region bordering Afghanistan where insurgen (By News Poster)...USA: The Economic Meltdown: Rogers: Markets Will Tank Any Day Now
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Global equities are "vulnerable to correction" after rallying from their March lows and as governments around the world withdraw stimulus measures, says investor Jim Rogers. "We're overdue for a co (By Jan)...World: Suicide attack: 16 Iraqi pilgrims killed
Monday 01-Feb-2010: Sixteen Shiite pilgrims on their way by foot to a shrine city in central Iraq were killed on Monday when a female suicide bomber blew herself up at a rest station in Baghdad, security officials said.A (By News Poster)...Sudan: Wars At Home, Trouble Abroad Have Marked Islamists' Rule
Monday 01-Feb-2010: Nairobi - Sudan, the largest country in Africa in area, is strategically located on the Red Sea, immediately south of Egypt and borders seven other African countries. Relations with its neighbours are (By News Poster)...Africa: Jk Advices On How to Reduce Africa Poverty
Monday 01-Feb-2010: Davos - President Jakaya Kikwete has outlined major issues that could redeem Africa from poverty.He named one of the issues as innovation of better and sustainable ways on utilisation of resources and (By News Poster)...South Africa: Man held for killing son's attacker
Monday 01-Feb-2010: A Mitchells Plain man has been arrested for shooting and killing a 28-year-old man after eight men, armed with spades and weapons, attacked his home during a family gathering over the weekend.Police s (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe mines minister removes diamonds from court-ordered RBZ custody
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: A clear case of interference with the judiciary Sandra NyairaWashington - In apparent defiance of a Supreme Court order, Zimbabwean Minister of Mines Obert Mpofu, backed by police, late Thursd (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Kidnap - Akwa Ibom Govt Foils Protest
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: By Dennis UdomaUyo - Akwa Ibom State government has allegedly stopped the planned protest by Nsit Atai Patroits, a socio-political organistion in Nsit Atai Local Government Area (LGA) Tuesday, followi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Alleged drug mule granted R20 000 bail
Friday 05-Feb-2010: A mother of two who is accused of possessing R1.6 million worth of the drug known as tik was granted R20 000 bail by the Bellville Magistrate's Court on Friday.Princess Ambali, 26, of Table View was a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Britons' drug-dealing sentences cut (Page 1 of 2)
Friday 05-Feb-2010: The Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday cut the jail sentences for drug dealing of John Tutton and Tommy Mackinnon, two members of a British drug export syndicate.Mackinnon, 40, had his 30-year sent (By News Poster)...Africa: Hundreds flee rebels in Senegal
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Bissau - Rebels in Senegal's restive Casamance region have forced nearly 600 people to leave their villages and flee to neighbouring Guinea-Bissau, a local official said on Wednesday.According to flee (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mkhize sets deadline for clearing of mortuary
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Sinegugu NdlovuKwaZulu-Natal Premier Zweli Mkhize said the overcrowding situation at Durban's Magwaza Maphalala (Gale) Street state mortuary was "unacceptable".He called for all the bodies at the f (By News Poster)...Rio says Zimbabwe local mine ownership a threat
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: "The only threat to our operations is the indigenisation programmes" By Shapi ShacindaCape Town - Zimbabwe's plans to impose local ownership rules on foreign firms threaten the diamond operati (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'I had him killed because of money'
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Lebogang SealeOne mother cried for her dead son. Another sat stony-faced, fighting back tears for her daughter as details about how she plotted her husband's murder were revealed.Dzudzanani Netshis (By News Poster)...South Africa: Kebble murder trial resumes
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: The Brett Kebble murder trial is expected to continue in the High Court in Johannesburg on Wednesday.Convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti is accused of the murder of the mining magnate in Septembe (By News Poster)...Kenya: Victory for Anti-Abortion Lobby
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Susan Anyangu-AmuNairobi - The threat by influential Christian leaders to mobilise a vote against Kenya's draft constitution if it does not explicitly prevent any expansion of abortion rights appea (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos Crisis - Geneva Group Seeks Compensation for Victims
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Valentine AmanzeGeneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) has said that those displaced as a result of the recent violence in Jos, Plateau State, must be provided with adequate em (By News Poster)...Nigeria: A Different Kind of March Over Yar'Adua
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Adetutu Folasade-KoyiAbuja - Penultimate week, eminent Nigerians comprising former presiding officers in the National Assembly and former chief executive officers of states congregated in Senate He (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Botswana Battles to Have Detained Nationals Freed
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Vusumuzi SifileTHREE officers from Botswana's Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP), arrested close to two weeks ago, will appear in court tomorrow after repeated attempts by the Botswan (By News Poster)...South Africa: COPE to hold national congress amid tension (Page 1 of 2)
Sunday 07-Feb-2010: COPE has decided to hold its long-awaited national congress in May amid concerns about the state of the party's structures, while the party is threatening to take action against its youth leaders for (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Botswana Recalls Diplomats
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: By Tichaona SibandaBotswana is to recall two diplomats from Harare in protest against what it considers a 'rebuff' by Zimbabwe to engage them and find a 'diplomatic' solution to the continued detentio (By News Poster)...Important: Zim: Valuation Consortium - Newsletter January 2010
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: THE VALUATION CONSORTIUM SUITE 4, LINDSAY HOUSE, EASTLEA SHOPPING CENTRE, SAMORA MACHEL AVENUE EAST, HARARE, ZIMBABWE TELEPHONE +263 4 746648/54/55 EMAIL : valuationconsorti (By Jan)...Somalia: Humanitarian Crisis Persists in Somalia with Malnutrition Rampant in Young, UN Warns
Friday 05-Feb-2010: A widespread humanitarian crisis persists in war-torn Somalia, with an estimated 3.2 million people, or 42 per cent of the population, in need of emergency aid or livelihood support, and one in six ch (By News Poster)...Swapo Playing Russian Roulette With Peace And Stability - CoD
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: THE Congress of Democrats (CoD) has called on Information Minister Joel Kaapanda to stop using State media for unfounded allegations and "poisoning the political climate" in the country.This CoD said (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mining Nationalisation Row Turns Nasty
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Wilson Johwa and Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - THE row over an African National Congress (ANC) Youth League proposal to nationalise SA's mines escalated yesterday with the league accusing Mining Minist (By News Poster)...Africa: Telecoms Investors 'Still Keen On African Market'
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - THE collapse last year of merger talks between MTN and Bharti Airtel had not sapped investors' interest in Africa, where both cellular and fixed-line telephone penetrati (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'The witches want to use me as a zombie'
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Mpumi KivaDaily Voice ReporterSibongile Mthiyo believes a dirty panty and a bloody sanitary towel is keeping him alive.He wears the panty and pad around his neck after a sangoma swore it would keep (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mist may have led to deadly crash
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Russel MolefePools of blood, pieces of human flesh and strewn debris bore testimony to the horrific accident in which 11 people were killed and 18 were seriously injured outside Polokwane, Limpopo, (By News Poster)...USA: How Russia and China Concocted the Economic Recession
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Russia urged China to dump its Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonds in 2008 in a bid to force a bailout of the largest U.S. mortgage-finance companies, former Treasury Secretary Hen (By JanOlifant)...South Africa: 'I think they wanted to kill him'
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Bianca WilliamsDaily Voice ReporterA matriculant is fighting for his life in hospital after a fellow pupil and another attacker stabbed him 12 times.Toufeeq Paulus, 17, underwent emergency surgery (By News Poster)...Africa: Ship freed after ransom
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Athens - Somali pirates released the Greek-owned cargo ship MV Filitsa and its 22 member crew after a ransom was paid and delivered, officials said on Tuesday.Greek radio reports said the pirates rele (By News Poster)...Namibia: Sheep Farmers Want to March On State House
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Luqman CloeteSHEEP farmers in the South have vowed protest action to press Government to scrap its restrictions on exports of live animals to South Africa.In terms of the restrictions, farmers are (By News Poster)...South Africa: Baby dies in shack fire
Sunday 07-Feb-2010: An 18-month-old baby girl burnt to death in a shack and her two siblings were seriously injured in Cullinan, east of Pretoria on Sunday morning, Gauteng police said. Cullinan police spokesman Johann (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Dam Critics Won't Go Away
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: By IPS CorrespondentAddis Ababa - Ethiopia is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country's electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: FBC Hit By U.S.$1 Million Fraud
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Golden SibandaHarare - INVESTIGATIONS at FBC Bank have unearthed a massive US$1 million fraud at its Mutare branch.The bank said it had so far established that it lost US$500 000, but well placed s (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Arms Build-Up, Violence Worry ASUU
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Ibrahim UmarSokoro - Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has disclosed its position on current national issues at its National Executive Council meeting at Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mandela to commemorate release from prison
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Former president Nelson Mandela will attend an event at Groot Drakenstein jail outside Paarl next Thursday to commemorate his release from prison 20 years ago, Deputy Police Minister Fikile Mbalula sa (By News Poster)...Somalia: Up to 240,000 Under Fives Malnourished - Report
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Nairobi - Somalia has one of the highest levels of malnutrition in the world, with up to 240,000 children under five affected, according to an early warning report published on 1 February by the Food (By Jan)...Somalia: Up to 240,000 Under Fives Malnourished - Report
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Nairobi - Somalia has one of the highest levels of malnutrition in the world, with up to 240,000 children under five affected, according to an early warning report published on 1 February by the Food (By Jan)...South Africa: No culture justifies cheating - Zille
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille on Thursday dismissed President Jacob Zuma's attempts to place his love child in the context of Zulu culture, saying it was no excuse for infidelity."No culture, (By News Poster)...South Africa: Retired cardiologist's alleged murderers held
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Two men have been arrested for the murder of retired cardiologist Francois Steenkamp, Pretoria police said on Thursday.Captain Colette Weilbach said the two men were arrested on Wednesday following a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Workers Picket Mobil Over Anti-Labour Practices
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Sylvester EnoghaseLagos - Senior workers in the oil and gas industry on Wednesday sealed off entrance to the operational offices of Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited to protest anti-labor practices (By News Poster)...Sudan: Reaction to International Criminal Court Decision on Genocide and Bashir
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: The Enough Project and the Genocide Intervention Network today released a statement concerning the decision by the International Criminal Court, or ICC, which re-opens the possibility of Genocide char (By News Poster)...South Africa: Two cops nabbed for alleged cigarette theft
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: Two police officers were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly stealing cigarettes from Somali tuck shop owners in Milnerton, Cape Town, Western Cape police said.The constables were arrested following a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Price of Petrol Increases Today
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: Pretoria - Motorists will from today be paying 18 cents more for a litre of petrol, after the retail price of all grades of petrol increased last night.A litre of 95 ULP petrol will now cost R8.04 in (By News Poster)...South Africa: Dog seized from owners after attacking puppy
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Nikita SylvesterStaff ReporterA Cape Town woman watched in horror as her three-month-old puppy was attacked by a pit bull terrier in the waiting room of the Animal Welfare Society (AWS) clinic in P (By News Poster)...South Africa: Taxi driver arrested after 20 hurt in crash
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: A woman taxi driver has been arrested on a drunk-driving charge following a crash in which 20 children were injured.The woman had collected 20 pupils, ranging in age from six to 13, in the Tembisa are (By News Poster)...South Africa: Seven alleged robbers grabbed during raid
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Seven men believed to be responsible for several house robberies committed in the Upper Highway area in January were arrested and household goods worth R300 000 were recovered during a police operatio (By News Poster)...Libya: Gaddafi Turns to Arab World After Failing to Win New Term
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Argaw AshineAddis Ababa - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi who failed to win a second term as African Union chairman now eyes a similar post at the League of Arab states.At a press conference Gaddafi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Is 2010 mascot factory making Zuma doll?
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: The ANC is investigating the possibility that the controversial Chinese factory, which is manufacturing the Soccer World Cup mascot, is also making a Zuma doll, Sake24 reported on Tuesday.The Chinese (By News Poster)...South Africa: Suitcase murder accused kills herself
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Murray WilliamsStaff WriterThe woman accused of murdering well-known Strand pianist Elfriede Weich before stuffing her body into a suitcase has killed herself.Angelique Cilliers, 25, was being kept (By News Poster)...Angola/Nigeria: The Football Madness in Angola
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Michael JohnWhatever could go wrong went wrong in Angola. I woke up several mornings wishing that it was all a bad dream and that I should pray about it. But then the news from Angola would wake me (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma spy tapes not on agenda yet
Monday 01-Feb-2010: The much-awaited report on the leaking of spy tapes to President Jacob Zuma's lawyer will not be seen by Parliament's oversight intelligence committee for weeks to come, the Democratic Alliance said o (By News Poster)...Angola: Police to Stop Bank Heists
Monday 01-Feb-2010: Luanda - The Provincial Command of Police in Luanda assured Thursday, that the corporation will use all means at their disposal to stop the wave of bank heists, hitting lately the capital city of Ango (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sorry... but is he fit to rule? (Page 1 of 4)
Sunday 07-Feb-2010: By Tribune ReportersPresident Jacob Zuma has apologised to the nation for his sexual adventures (again), but critics have questioned his sincerity and asked whether he is fit to lead the country.In a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cosatu welcomes Zuma apology
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: The ANC and the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Saturday welcomed an apology by President Jacob Zuma over his love-child with Sonono Khoza."This is the President's own initiative, and it demon (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma apology: 'I understand your reaction'
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: South Africa's polygamous President Jacob Zuma on Saturday said he regretted the "pain" over a love-child, the latest sex scandal to haunt him.Zuma, who has three current wives, said the matter had pu (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chidyausiku Clears Air On Diamond Wrangle
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: Harare - The Supreme Court yesterday said all diamonds extracted from African Consolidated Resources' claims should not be surrendered to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe for safekeeping.Chief Justice God (By News Poster)...Africa: Ivory Coast voters' list fraudulent - probe (Page 1 of 2)
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Abidjan - Ivory Coast investigators have found evidence of "fraud" in a voters' roll being compiled for long delayed polls, a judicial source said on Friday, as the opposition called for the post-conf (By News Poster)...Namibia: Confidence Grows Over Rössing South
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By David AdetonaWindhoek - Namibia is poised to become a top 5 global uranium producer in the next 5 years if Extract Resources manages to obtain its goals in the development of the Rossing South uran (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cwele granted R100 000 bail (Page 1 of 2)
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Sheryl Cwele, the wife of State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele, was granted bail of R100 000 by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday.After hearing arguments from Cwele's lawyer and the state p (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sun City Casino robbed
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Sun City casino in Rustenburg was robbed of an undisclosed amount of money by ten heavily armed men on Thursday night, North-West police said on Friday."They entered the casino at 11:50pm and ordered (By News Poster)...South Africa: Five plead not guilty for Khoza murder
Friday 05-Feb-2010: Five people arrested for the Christmas Day murder of a Lethabong businesswoman and four of her relatives pleaded not guilty at the Rustenburg Magistrate's Court on Friday.Sibongile Mabaso, Goodboy Mab (By News Poster)...Sudan: Positive Networks Fight HIV in the South
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Juba - Networks of people living with HIV in southern Sudan are trying to overcome deficiencies in the limping health system and broken infrastructure by spreading information about the pandemic and r (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Surges Above U.S. $77
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Adeola YusufLagos - Oil prices continued to rise on Wednesday as economic reports suggested that demand could improve.The price surge was also supported by the news of a weakening dollar, making cr (By News Poster)...South Africa: Skweyiya's son hijacked: Hunt on for suspects
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Graeme HoskenCrime ReporterThe son of South Africa's High Commissioner to Britain and former social development Minister, Zola Skweyiya, was hijacked at gunpoint in Pretoria while talking to friend (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fuel Queues - Whence Comes the End?
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Hamisu MuhammadThree months down the line, the agonising fuel queues in Nigeria have refused to go.The lines started building up in February last year when government decided to stop subsidy paymen (By News Poster)...Sudan: Universal Access Still a Long Way Off in the South
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: Juba - Southern Sudan's poor infrastructure, largely illiterate population and dearth of health facilities and workers mean that despite five years of peace, HIV programmes are still in their infancy. (By News Poster)...World: Brown also to blame for Iraq invasion - poll
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: London - The majority of the British public believes Prime Minister Gordon Brown shares the blame for the Iraq war with his predecessor Tony Blair, according to a survey released on Tuesday.The poll a (By News Poster)...On anniversary of power-sharing, Britain firm on Zimbabwe sanctions
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: "Stop using sanctions as an excuse" Harare - A senior British politician visiting Zimbabwe Monday made clear Britain would not buckle to pressure to lift sanctions on the cash-strapped country (By News Poster)...South Africa: Twin girls survive deadly crash
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Six-year-old twin girls survived an accident in which their mother was killed, along with three others including a woman and her three-year-old son and six-year-old daughter, according to Netcare 911. (By News Poster)...Prosecutors Say Taylor Suppressed Press Freedom
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Alpha SesayFormer Liberian president Charles Taylor did not tolerate press freedom in Liberia while he served as the West African country's president from 1997 to 2003, prosecutors said today at hi (By News Poster)...Economics: Africa/USA: Shocking Worldwide Brand survey...
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: [The following extract is from an internal memo sent by the CEO of the banking group I work for. Take note of how much values dropped last year, and note how America's position in the world is being e (By Jan)...Nigeria: 'Nigeria May Run Out of Oil Soon'
Monday 01-Feb-2010: There are fears that Nigeria may run out of oil and may be delisted from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), although Petroleum geologists assured that the country's 30 billion b (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cape Town woman's international sex ring (Page 1 of 3)
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: Bizarre rituals involving menstrual blood, killing chickens and being pushed into a coffin were forced on young women trafficked into prostitution in Britain by a Cape Town woman, her Irish husband an (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hammer attack accused granted bail
Friday 05-Feb-2010: By Shellee GeduldA man has appeared in court for allegedly beating his lover with a hammer.Isaac James, 42, applied for bail in the Wynberg Magistrates' Court on Thursday where he faces charges of kid (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: HIV-Positive People Want Constitutional Rights
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Harare - AIDS activists in Zimbabwe have launched a major drive to ensure that the rights of people living with HIV are enshrined in the new constitution.The Global Political Agreement signed in Septe (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe's Roy Bennett in e-mail evidence blow
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Mr Tomana then made unspecified threats against Ms Mtetwa Lawyers for politician Roy Bennett have failed to stop e-mail evidence they say is bogus from being used against him at his terror tri (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos - Oxfam Canvasses Food, Security for Poor
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Senator IroegbuAbuja - A leading Non Governmental Organisation in Nigeria, Oxfam GB, has advised Nigerian security authorities to restore normalcy to Jos, and pay urgent attention to the food and s (By News Poster)...South Africa: Students continue with violent protests (Page 1 of 2)
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Noelene BarbeauMangosuthu University of Technology students ignored their administrator's call to return to classes on Wednesday and continued with their violent protests. The university is closed (By News Poster)...South Africa: Kitten shooting charges dropped
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Criminal charges have been withdrawn against Durban attorney Bob Wynn, who was accused of shooting his neighbour's kitten in December.This follows a settlement agreement that was reached with his neig (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Girl, 7, wanted to be raped'
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Mpumi KivaA Cape Flats aunt claims her seven-year-old niece has been repeatedly raped by three boys on school premises.It's alleged the Grade 1 girl was raped over and over during the first two wee (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kenyans Flee After Crackdown on Illegal Guns
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: Nairobi - A crackdown on illegal arms in Uganda has forced more than 3,000 Pokot pastoralists, who moved to the western neighbour due to drought, to return home.The Ugandan Army has intensified the di (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lady Kills Friend With Razor Blade
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: By Seun JosephA 22 year old woman in Lagos, Ijeoma Ibezim, used a razor blade to kill her friend, a 25-year old salesgirl, by cutting her in the face following a quarrel over a bucket of water, the po (By News Poster)...Uganda: To Keep the Baby or Not - the HIV-Positive Woman's Dilemma
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Irene NabusobaKampala - IT was really painful for Anita to come to terms with the fact that she was HIV-positive. "At 23, fresh from university, my life was just beginning," she says regrettably. " (By News Poster)...Uganda: Brenda Karamuzi - Murder Most Foul
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Robert Kalumba and Emmanuel GyezahoKampala - A cloud of despair hang over mourners who gathered at All Saints Church Nakasero to pay their respects to Brenda Karamuzi, the young woman whose body wa (By News Poster)...Gambia: Woman Gets 12 Years Jail Term for Killing Lover's Girlfriend
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Sidiq AsemotaJustice Moses Richards of the Special Criminal Court in Banjul yesterday convicted and sentenced one Kadijatou Jallow to serve 12 years imprisonment with hard labour, after she was fou (By News Poster)...Mount Cameroon Park to Create Jobs, Protect Wildlife
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: By Ryan DicovitskyOn the shores of the Gulf of Guinea, the actively volcanic Mount Cameroon towers over the landscape, functioning not only as the tallest mountain in the region but also as the epicen (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Manica Governor Promises Fight against Corruption
Tuesday 02-Feb-2010: Maputo - The new governor of the central Mozambican province of Manica, Ana Comoana, has promised to end corruption in the distribution of the local initiative development fund, reports the latest edi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Take us seriously or else, says Malema
Monday 01-Feb-2010: The ANC Youth League warned ANC leaders on Monday not to defy the league's policy positions."Anybody who has taken a posture and has defined himself as against the ANC Youth League... such an individu (By News Poster)...South Africa: Court awaits Cwele bail papers in drugs case
Monday 01-Feb-2010: Bail application papers for Sheryl Cwele, 50, wife of State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele, are expected to be filed on Tuesday in the Pietermaritzburg High Court."We will file bail application pap (By News Poster)...World: Yemen opposition politician gunned down
Monday 01-Feb-2010: A Yemeni provincial opposition politician thought to be active in a southern separatist movement was gunned down in south Yemen, his party and local residents said on Monday.The Yemeni Socialist Party (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Kagame Pushes for More Investment in ICTs
Monday 01-Feb-2010: By Nasra BishumbaKigali - President Paul Kagame has appealed to African governments and business leaders to work harder to harness the potential of broadband technologies that are essential in today's (By News Poster)...South Africa: Nationalisation Debate Divisive, Says Communist Party
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: By Wilson JohwaJohannesburg - THE South African Communist Party (SACP) has played down the African National Congress Youth League's mines nationalisation document, warning that the manner in which the (By Jan)...Libya and Russia agree €1.3bn arms deal
Monday 01-Feb-2010: MOSCOW, Jan 30 - Libya has signed an arms deal with Russia worth €1.3bn, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying on Saturday. “Only yesterday we signed a contract worth €1.3bn,” (By Jan)...USA: Conquest of the North Pole
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: U.S. Navy plans a carrot and stick approach for resource rivals, while trying to internally do its part to combat climate change (By JanOlifant)...South Africa: Man attacked for witchcraft
Monday 01-Feb-2010: A man is in hospital after community members attacked him and burnt down his shack in Umlazi E section as they accused him of practising witchcraft, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Monday."The man was al (By News Poster)...Lukhona Mnguni requests RSA President "Jacob Zuma" to Step down
Sunday 07-Feb-2010: Dear Mr President Jacob Zuma Lukhona Mnguni COPE and COPESM member, in his personal capacity After having read the front page story of the Sunday Times (31/01/2010), I feel compelled to wri (By Jan)...South Africa: ANC applauds 'integrity, honesty' of apology
Saturday 06-Feb-2010: President Jacob Zuma on Saturday said he "deeply regretted" the pain he caused his family, the ANC and South Africans after revelations that he fathered a child out of wedlock."I deeply regret the pai (By News Poster)...USA: Russia Introduces PAK-FA - Rival to the American F-22
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: [The Russians still remain behind American air superiority, as the F-22 is really a rather aging aircraft, when one considers the new F-35! Now if the Russians are only now catching up to the F-22 wit (By JanOlifant)...USA: Replacing the good ol' Humvee
Wednesday 03-Feb-2010: The U.S. military for years has used the Humvee as its “go to” vehicle for numerous tasks from general transportation to combat operations. The problem with using the Humvee in some situations is that (By JanOlifant)...Science: Climate Change Appears to Be Driving Accelerated Growth of Forests
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Speed is not a word typically associated with trees; they can take centuries to grow. However, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found evidence that forests in the (By JanOlifant)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (01-02-2010)
Monday 01-Feb-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- This is ridiculous! What could Robert Gabriel Mugabe possibly offer the AU Peace & Security Council? He knows nothing about peace or secur (By The BeardedMan)...Video: Tribute to European Women
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: [This was beautifully done! Also, the message by the heroic Dr David Duke is of extreme importance! We commemorate our beautiful white women, your children and husbands (and to be), appreciate you, an (By JanOlifant)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (04-02-2010)
Thursday 04-Feb-2010: Howzit "Zimbabwe's High Court Wednesday admitted disputed email evidence implicating opposition politician Roy Bennett in a plot against President Robert Mugabe's government. Bennett, a white fa (By The BeardedMan)...
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