From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 7th March 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 & GruesomeSHOCKER: BBC: South Africa: 2010: 90% of White Farms handed over to Blacks have FAILED!
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: [Well, we have been saying this and predicting this for the last 10 years, and here it is. Years ago I posted an article saying that 80% of black self-help projects in South Africa have failed. The li (By Jan)...S.Africa: 2010: Hear ye... hear ye: President Jacob Zuma loves the Racism & Communism of Robert Mugabe...
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: The other day President Jacob Zuma went to Britain and met the Queen. The Queen of course will meet with any scumbag these days. There are no standards in Britain anymore anyway. I wonder if Zuma or a (By Jan)...S.Africa: 2010: Brilliant - A Black man writes about Black, White, Indian & Coloured children...
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: [Check this amazing piece which a cousin of mine sent me. This apparently comes from Sandile Memela. I have no further references. If this is true, then its one of the nicest pieces a black man has wr (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Congolese Groups Demand the Removal of Abusive Army Commander
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: Fifty Congolese human rights and civil society organizations, along with Human Rights Watch, lodged a formal complaint today against Colonel Innocent Zimurinda, a senior army officer based in North Ki (By News Poster)...S.Africa: The Stupid White woman who abandoned COPE to join the ANC - My Comments
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: I must say, I'm developing every greater respect for Patrick Lekota as time goes by. When he started COPE he had all these people flocking to join his party, among them a blonde white woman who then g (By Jan)...Zimbabwe's Unity Govt Staggers From Pillar to Post
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Mary NdlovuFebruary 2010 marked one year of Zimbabwe's Government of National Unity. It also marked ten years since the 'no' vote in Zimbabwe's constitutional referendum. Both seemed hopeful events (By News Poster)...Zim: For Mugabe's children, life gets tougher and tougher
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: Zimbabwe's leader lavishly celebrated his birthday last night. But four in five of his country's young cannot afford to go to school Zimbabwe's leader lavishly celebrated his birthday last nig (By News Poster)...South Africa & the USA: Thoughts on Secession - getting rid of the Socialist yolk and assorted parasites & fools in our midst...
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: [One of our volunteer team members on AmericanCrisis sent me this exasperated note. This was my reply to her. Jan] We need to yank this world by its ankles and get back on the right track. You'r (By Jan)...South Africa: Keynote Address by His Excellency Jacob Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, to British Parliamentarians, Palace of Westminster, London
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: The following is full text of the speech by South Africa President Jacob Zuma to British Members of Parliament on his trip to the United Kingdom.Lord Speaker,Honourable members,Esteemed guests;Ladies (By News Poster)...Note from Jan Lamprecht - your webmaster is back... expect some comments - killing whites
Monday 01-Mar-2010: Hi All, I've been super busy. I have so many irons in the fire and so many things on my plate at work and home... and things going on in the background. One of our regulars, Lars took me to task f (By Jan)...South Africa: TAU Bulletin - The Haiti Hiatus and the Problem of Food
Friday 05-Mar-2010: Submitted by Kobie Nel Interesting one. Not what you see in the press. Subject: INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN TAU SA, MARCH 4, 2010 THE HAITI HIATUS AND THE PROBLEM OF FOOD The most important featu (By JoAn)...West Africa: American Clean Energy and Security Act and Its Impact on Region
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Kofi AmoabinIn June 2009, Congress passed the Waxman-Markey Act, also known as the American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act. This act sets limits on greenhouse gases (GHG), and could have a ve (By News Poster)...USA: 21 Black Folks We'd Like To Remove From Black History - Including Robert Mugabe (Part 1/2)
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: [Click on the link below to view the 21 photos and the associated commentaries. Agreed... these black people are a flipping embarrassment to the black race. I'm delighted to see Robert Mugabe on the l (By JanOlifant)...South Africa: Crime Drives Business People to Emigrate
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Sanchia TemkinJohannesburg - THE number of businesses affected by crime fell last year, but the high crime rate remained the main reason business people wanted to emigrate, according to a study rel (By News Poster)...USA: Abuse of the 'Racist' slur, Devalues its Effectiveness
Monday 01-Mar-2010: ‘Racist!’, the political epithet, has rapidly lost credibility and political sting recently thanks to clumsy overuse by grievance-mongering thugs. The slur is a tactical viewpoint discrimination launc (By JanOlifant)...Face of a Humanitarian Crisis Here
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Caiphas ChimheteOLD Filda Muchuchu struggles to prepare food in the huge black pot for her 14 orphaned grandchildren. Thick varicose-like veins protrude from her emaciated arms, as two grandchildre (By News Poster)...Uganda: Fugitive Rwandan General Fled Through Malaba, Says Minister
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Angela Izama and Tabu ButagiraKampala - The Rwandan government has thrown the net to catch Lt. Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa wider after a reliable source said the renegade former military chief, initially (By News Poster)...Sudan: Letter to EU Election Observation Mission Urging Thorough Review of Rights Climate
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: The following letter issued by Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental organization based in Washington, DC, addresses the European Union Election Observers Mission working in Sudan during the April el (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Stigma - Stubborn Stain On HIV/Aids Patients
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Tunbosun OgundareLagos - Despite improved information and education on HIV/AIDS in the country, stigma and discrimination have remained the greatest challenges facing patients. TUNBOSUN OGUNDARE in (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG, Operators Disagree Over Petroleum Industry Bill
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Sopuruchi OnwukaLagos - Ministry of Petroleum Resources and key operators in the petroleum industry last week clashed over the controversial Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), dashing hopes that consen (By News Poster)...What do We Need to Learn About the Morality of the Economy?
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: By Saliem FakirCape Town - A few weeks ago a Sunday Times exposé on highly regarded and respected former CEO of Vodacom, Alan Knott-Craig Sr. raised some interesting questions about the relatio (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (05-03-2010)
Friday 05-Mar-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- I see on the news wires this morning that Mugabe has decided that he might have some more freedom and understanding if the Conservative par (By The BeardedMan)...Zim: Union leader flees to South Africa
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: Yesterday's raid by the police was the third in seven days By Caroline MvunduraHarare - Top Zimbabwean union leader Gertrude Hambira has fled to neighbouring South Africa, as police raided her (By News Poster)...Ghana: Oil and War - Using Security to Manage Country's Oil Find
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Stephen YeboahIt is striking to know that Ghana's potential oil wealth is not all about who benefits and what infrastructure should be developed and harnessed. It completely goes beyond that. The c (By News Poster)...Indigenisation - Who is Spoiling Party?
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Tichaona ZindogaHarare - THE recent gazetting by Government of the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment (General) Regulations which seek to entrench black ownership of local industry, has led to (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe's white farmers plan to seize government property
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: At least 11 properties owned by the government By Peta Thornycroft in Harare and Sebastien Berger In JohannesburgWhite Zimbabwean farmers whose land was grabbed by Robert Mugabe plan to turn t (By News Poster)...Uganda: Bududa Death Toll Rises to 81
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Tabu Butagira and David MafabiNametsi, Bududa - Volunteers yesterday retrieved six bodies, mainly of children, in Nametsi parish, and rescued a 12-year-old girl but hopes for finding more survivors (By News Poster)...Zim: Israel leading campaign against blood diamonds?
Monday 01-Mar-2010: “We are in the midst of intensive negotiations with the Zimbabwean government to try to bring about compliance " By Ron FriedmanHuman Rights Watch associate director Caroll Bogert was in Isr (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe business grab sparks outrage
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: "To what extent will the empowerment agenda militate against the progress of the country?" By Dumisani MuleyaZimbabwean businessmen based in South Africa have expressed outrage at their countr (By News Poster)...USA: [Video] Totally Brilliant: Pastor Manning - White people are sick of being kicked around & will rise up - I will join them!
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: [This is such a brilliant and lovely speech by a black man. He talks about Obama being an illegal immigrant and news organisations sucking up to Obama while Obama goes around wasting white people's ta (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe - President at 90?
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Faith ZabaHarare - PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has said he has no plans to retire and will stand in the next presidential election if his party endorses his candidacy -- a move which will heighten fear (By News Poster)...'It has never been so bad': Zimbabwean human rights lawyers under attack
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: The AG's office is embarked on an onslaught of malicious harassment of opponents of Zanu PF Jan Raath HarareLawyers for Morgan Tsvangirai's office have a list of 184 people, including a boy of (By News Poster)...[Humour] The Irish man, Malema and the Boer
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: [Eish...! Haha! Janolifant] 3 men, an Irish farmer, Julius Malema and a Boertjie are all granted a wish by a Genie. Irish farmer wishes that all the land in Ireland will be the most fertil (By JanOlifant)...Africa: Tracking the Male Circumcision Rollout
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Medical male circumcision is now widely recognized as an important HIV prevention tool, and several African countries have included it in their national HIV strategies.IRIN/PlusNews lists th (By News Poster)...Africa: Tear Down the Stone Wall of Secrecy
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Alemayehu G. MariamIt has been said that Africa's natural resources - oil, diamonds, minerals - have often proven to be sources of woe, suffering and misery rather than wealth, prosperity and progr (By News Poster)...Somalia: Central Govt Prepares Major Assault on Rebels
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: By Murithi MutigaNairobi - Several thousand troops -- some said to have been trained in Kenya -- have been assembled in preparation for a major assault on Somalia's al Shabaab militia which could star (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamond Monitor Arrives in Country
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Alex BellAn independent monitor ordered by the international diamond trade watchdog the Kimberley Process, has arrived in Zimbabwe, to determine if human rights standards are being met at the contr (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Aids in Africa - Two Steps in the Right Direction
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Michael FleshmanKigali - Reducing infection rates among women, who make up 60 percent of Africans living with HIV, will be key to Africa's long-term successAfrica's battle against HIV/AIDS is not w (By News Poster)...Why It Pays to Look East
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Garikai ChenguHarare - AS the global economic balance of power shifts from West to East, it is becoming increasingly evident that we are living through the end of 500 years of Western ascendancy. C (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Onovo Debunks Story Behind Ore Robbery 'Picture'
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Yemi AkinsuyiAbuja - The state of insecurity in the country yesterday pitched the Inspector General of Police (IG), Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, and the Minister of Police Affairs, Dr. Yakubu Ibrahim Lame, i (By News Poster)...Kenya: Banks Fight to Secure Customer Deposits from Cyber Criminals
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Kui KinyanjuiKenyan banks are racing to secure their systems against a new wave of cyber crime that has seen them lose hundreds of millions of shillings to fraudsters and eroded consumer confidence (By News Poster)...Slow reforms will prolong Zimbabwe unity govt
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: "The MDC is a hostage of Zanu PF politics" CommentBy Cris ChinakaHarare - Zimbabwe's power-sharing government looks unlikely to step down in 2011 as planned because it has failed to draw up th (By News Poster)...Africa: Preparing for the Worst
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - When a crisis strikes, access to antiretroviral (ARV) drugs can be among the first casualties, particularly in countries where many people are on treatment.But experience in Southern Af (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Dealers Try to Thwart Conflict Diamond Trade, but Loopholes Persist
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Kevin James MooreThe World Diamond Council (WDC) has recently urged that action be taken to end human rights abuses being committed in the Marange diamond fields of Zimbabwe. Allegations against th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN Wants FG to Implement Deregulation
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Kunle AderinokunAbuja - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday called on the Federal Government to implement the planned deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry and put (By News Poster)...Joint Declaration by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Jacob Zuma
Friday 05-Mar-2010: As part of his State Visit to the UK, President Zuma and Prime Minister Brown discussed a wide range of bilateral issues and shared international priorities. Talks between UK Ministers and their (By News Poster)...Kenya: Organization Lists 200 Linked to Post-Election Violence
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Peter LeftieNairobi - A report by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights lists more than 200 individuals it accuses of facilitating the post-election violence. Among those listed as having e (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police Blame 'Illegal Immigrants' for Crime
Friday 05-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - The "absurd" claim by Gauteng's police chief that South Africa's richest province was home to as many as three million "illegal" immigrants was part of a pattern by government departmen (By News Poster)...[Pics] Totally Brilliant: Church signs in Britain
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: [This truly is priceless. Jan] Subject: CHURCH SIGNS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM - PRICELESS UK Churches have always had a way with words . . . (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Pho (By Jan)...Zim: New Warnings from ICG - You deal with the Devil - suffer the consequences
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: [I say the Govt of National Unity was a big criminal act to bypass the March 2008 election victory of the MDC. The MDC were completely stupid enough to go along with this criminal act. In essence, Mug (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Fuelling Development Through Biofuels
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Sifelani TsikoHarare - "JATROPHA mutsvairo wekutsvaira nhamo," sings Mrs Nyasha Gunyanja with a high pitched voice undeterred by the scorching heat in the Nyamanyora area of Mudzi district, some 24 (By News Poster)...Zim: Police destroy home on orders from spirit medium
Friday 05-Mar-2010: Although the diesel fiasco is now an embarrassing story the incident exposed government's blind faith in mysticism Wongai ZhangazhaWhen mystic Rotina Mavhunga, alias Sekuru Muboni, announced s (By News Poster)...USA: The Economic Meltdown: Economists warn: Another, even WORSE Financial Crisis on the Way
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: Even as many Americans still struggle to recover from the country's worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, another crisis – one that will be even worse than the current one – is looming, (By Jan)...Rwanda: Kayumba / Karegeya Stand No Chance
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Ngango RukaraKigali - Sixteen years after the Genocide against the Tutsi in this country, these is a whole generation that does not have a clue as to what price has been paid for Rwanda to be the m (By News Poster)...Africa: Canadian Firms Dominate Mining Activities in Africa - And Have a Bad Human Rights Record
Monday 01-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Few issues have generated as much heat in recent African affairs as China's foray onto the continent.Much has been made of the dragon's insatiable hunger for the continent's mineral wealth.T (By News Poster)...Zim: 45 days to draft share disposal plans
Monday 01-Mar-2010: "If anyone doubts Zanu PF's resolve, they only need to look at the land invasions. This is not empowerment, they want to give these companies to their cronies" By Edith KasekeHarare - Zimbabwe (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Obama Extends Sanctions Against Mugabe
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Merle David Kellerhals Jr.Washington - The United States extended sanctions on Robert Mugabe's regime for another year, saying that Zimbabwe's political crisis is unresolved, President Obama announ (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Notorious Arm's Dealer in Police Net
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Ifeanyi OkolieThe Police at the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Adeniji-Adele, Lagos recorded a breakthrough last Monday when it intercepted a truck loaded with large cache of ammunition.Three (By News Poster)...Obama Extends Sanctions Against Zimbabwe's Mugabe
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Merle David Kellerhals Jr.The United States extended sanctions on Robert Mugabe's regime for another year, saying that Zimbabwe's political crisis is unresolved, President Obama announced.The Unite (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (04-03-2010)
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: Howzit "Robert Mugabe was elected as the first leader of independent Zimbabwe on 4 March 1980. Thirty years on, he is still there - what are your thoughts on his three decades in power? He came (By The BeardedMan)...South Africa: UK Labour Group Urges Zuma to Remain Firm on Zimbabwe Sanctions
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Alex BellA British labour group has urged South African President Jacob Zuma not to call for targeted sanctions against Robert Mugabe's inner circle to be lifted, saying that a relaxation of the me (By News Poster)...World Cup - Time for Country to Rebrand
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Bright MaderaHarare - OVER the next decade, Zimbabwe could become a global tourism mecca and trade hub, but re-engagement is needed to chart the way forward on how sustainable economic growth can t (By News Poster)...Africa: Criminalising Homosexuality - a Threat to Human Rights
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: By Sokari EkineUrgency is required at this very moment as the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 is pending before the Ugandan parliament.Same-sex relationships are already illegal in the country un (By News Poster)...Burundi: Tensions High in Run-Up to Elections
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: Bujumbura - As Burundi approaches elections designed to cap the country's democratic transition after years of civil conflict, there is growing concern about worsening security and limits to political (By News Poster)...South Africa: Prescription Drug Abuse on the Increase
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: By Zukiswa ZimelaJohannesburg - Twenty-two-year-old Sara Allen* uses prescription medication to get high."Prescriptions are great," she said. "I recommend Codeine." Codeine is a mild narcotic used to (By News Poster)...Kenya: Ocampo Accuses Both Parties in Post-Election Violence Trial
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Oliver MathengeNairobi - International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has accused leaders from across Kenya's political divide and businessmen over their role in the post-election vio (By News Poster)...Uganda: Govt Should Stop Illegal Petrol Dealings
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Dennis OjweeKampala - The Government does not seem to take firm action against the sale of petrol by illegal dealers within the public, outside the licensed petrol stations.The situation is worse i (By News Poster)...newspaper interview marking the occasion, Prime Minister Raila Odinga
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Murithi MutigaNairobi - Raila Odinga became Kenya's second Prime Minister following the signing of the National Accord two years ago today. He spoke to the Sunday Nation about his decision to agree (By News Poster)...It's Not OK Mr Zuma
Friday 05-Mar-2010: FOLLOWING the promulgation of the regulations around the Indigenisation Act, there can be no illusions about how the international community will respond. This is another own goal of far-reaching sign (By News Poster)...Women and Shebeen Business
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Joyce Jenje MakwendaHarare - Women who ran shebeens were given all sorts of names, and the most popular one was "Shabeen Queen".Whatever one decides to call them, the shebeen business was just like (By News Poster)...Kenya: Country Diversifies Energy Sources With Lake Turkana Wind Power Contract
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Allan OdhiamboThe country is today set for a major leap towards tackling its crippling energy deficit when the Kenya Power and Lighting Company seals a purchase agreement with a consortium of priva (By News Poster)...Food Rebellions - Crisis and Hunger for Justice Amid Plenty
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Philip NgunjiriNairobi - Recent reports that despite a bumper harvest in the last season East Africans face hunger in the next few months is baffling to many.But not when you read Eric Holt-Gimenez (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Boot-licking Galore in Mugabe Birthday Messages
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: By Chris Muronzi and Kudzai KuwazaZANU PF youth leader Absolom Sikhosana is a man with a few surprises up his sleeve. And President Robert Mugabe must be loving all the surprises he got over the weeke (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: International Labour Organisation Urged to Intervene in Union's Harassment
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Alex BellThe International Labour Organisation (ILO) has been urged to intervene on the behalf of Zimbabwe's General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union (GAPWUZ), as the union's leadership rem (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Law on 'Indigenisation' of Foreign-Owned Companies Takes Effect
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe controversial indigenisation law that forces foreign-owned companies to sell a majority stake in their businesses to indigenous people comes into effect on Monday.The Indigenisa (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Western Media And Cultural Imperialism
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Dan AmorThe media blitz in the Western and American press against Nigeria which is an age - long practice assumed a frightening dimension recently following the unfortunate December 25, 2009 incide (By News Poster)...Sanctions - Move From Denial Mode
Friday 05-Mar-2010: Harare - PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai made a pronouncement that many Zimbabweans have been urging him to make even before the formation of the inclusive Government.That pronouncement, albeit long (By News Poster)...Uganda: Pressure Mounts to Make Public Oil Agreements
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Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Les LebaDeregulation was touted as a process that would encourage oil marketers to import fuel on their own account for sale rather than their almost total dependence on NNPC funded imports.The res (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN Unveils Four Pillars of Banking Reforms
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Emele Onu and Kunle AderinokunLagos/Abuja - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has unveiled its blueprint for the reform of the banking sector, which is built on four pillars.The CBN Governor, Malla (By News Poster)...Right Objective, Wrong Methodology
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Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Tom MosobaUnited States Ambassador Alfonso Lenhardt yesterday called on the Kikwete Government to step up the war against corruption, saying the citizens wished to see corrupt senior officials conv (By News Poster)...Polygamy, Promiscuity and Progressive Leadership
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Colleen Lowe MornaIf nothing else, President Jacob Zuma's belated apology about his out-of-wedlock child with Sonono Khoza, following unprecedented outrage at the way he has demeaned the highest of (By News Poster)...Kenya: Mobile Money Now the 'Bank of the Poor'
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Michael OumaNairobi - Mobile phone-based money transfer and banking solutions have been recognised as the avenue to take banking services to people outside the formal financial industry.The service (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Unity Govt Cracks Widen
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Caiphas ChimheteThe Mdc - THE MDC-T is demanding is demanding drastic action against Zanu PF youths who last week threatened Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai with unspecified repercussions for not (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Open Impartial Inquiry into Candidate's Killing - Both Sides Should Back Investigation to Strengthen Election Credibility
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: New York - The Ethiopian government should urgently initiate an independent investigation into the murder of an opposition candidate for parliament and bring those responsible to justice, Human Rights (By News Poster)...South Africa: Unjust Land Law Must Go the Way of Apartheid
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Stephan HofstatterJohannesburg - THERE was something surreal about the Constitutional Court hearing on Tuesday about whether 21-million South Africans should be consigned to a form of subservience (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Sanusi Asks FG to Deregulate Oil Sector, Okays N500 Billion for Electricity
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Thursday 04-Mar-2010: Khartoum - Weeks of fighting in parts of Darfur have raised concern over the plight of civilians, as insecurity has prompted humanitarian agencies to suspend activities in some areas.The clashes have (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Coup in Niger
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: Lagos - The inevitability of force where peaceful change is outlawed was demonstrated recently in the Republic of Niger. Soldiers stormed the presidential lodge in Niamey the capital of Niger Republic (By News Poster)...South Africa: How Will the Construction Sector Fare after the World Cup?
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By JP van der MerweSouth Africa's construction sector has experienced a decade of considerable growth and success, particularly as a result of the buoyant property market and the government's consider (By News Poster)...Batswana WW II Veterans Indeed Operated Arms
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Gasebalwe SeretseLast week, Mmegi carried a feature about Modisa Thebe's involvement in World War II (WWII) (1939-1945).In the story, Thebe, who is from the village of Kumakwane asserted that Batsw (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Liquidity is the Blood of Micro-Finance Banks
Monday 01-Mar-2010: The increasing rate at which microfinance banks (MFBs) are becoming distressed, coupled with the Central Bank of Nigeria's insistence of not bailing out any MFB have compelled the Lagos State chapter (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Senate Probes Benin-Lagos Robbery
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Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: Khartoum - Weeks of fighting in parts of Darfur have raised concern over the plight of civilians, as insecurity has prompted humanitarian agencies to suspend activities in some areas.The clashes have (By News Poster)...Africa: Gender Equality Stressed at Conference on Eliminating Food Insecurity
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Rebekah MintzerFood insecurity in Africa is a massive and multifaceted problem that experts have been trying to solve for years. One common theme that has emerged in the dialogue about African hung (By News Poster)...Niger: Embracing A 'Fair' Junta in Niger Republic
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Tony OkeraforLagos - LESS than a week after storming to power, the new military authorities in West Africa's Niger Republic announced on Tuesday the appointment of a civilian prime minister to lead (By News Poster)...World Economy Recovering - Governor Alweendo
Monday 01-Mar-2010: Windhoek - The Governor of the Bank of Namibia, Tom Alweendo released a statement earlier Wednesday in which he discussed the growth of the Global Economy, the Domestic Economy and Monetary Policy Sta (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Over 100 Feared Dead in Lingering Hostilities in Katsina-Ala LGA
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: By Peter DuruMakurdi - No fewer than 100 persons ware feared dead in the lingering hostilities amongst the people of Yooyo and Mbayongo council wards in Katsina-Ala local government area of Benue stat (By News Poster)...Why We Need a Competitive ARV Tender
Friday 05-Mar-2010: The Budget and Expenditure Monitoring Forum recently held its second meeting and focused on the upcoming antiretroviral tender and the need to ensure that it is structured and run in a manner that ena (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: UK Resists Zuma's Pressure on Sanctions
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Alex BellBritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown has insisted that Zimbabwe's unity government needs to make more progress before targeted sanctions against the Mugabe regime are lifted, resisting pres (By News Poster)...Botswana: CIC Energy Shifts Focus to 300 Mw Station
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Mbongeni MguniCanadian developer, CIC Energy is fast-tracking the construction of a 300 megawatt (MW) power station on its Mmamabula licence area, as its flagship, the 1 200 MW Mmamabula Energy Pro (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Police Attack Union Leaders, Say Students
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: By Peter KennyGeneva - The World Student Christian Federation and its Zimbabwe Advocacy Office say they are shocked at recent attacks on trade union leaders by police and security forces in Zimbabwe d (By News Poster)...Sudan: U.S. Criticizes UN Over Darfur Arms Embargo
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Susan E. RiceRemarks by Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, issued by the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, on March 4;Ambassador Rice: Good afternoon, everybo (By News Poster)...Rwanda: 24 FDLR Die in Clashes With DRC Army
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By James KaruhangaKigali - Fresh clashes that took place over the weekend between the Congolese armed forces and militias of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), left at least 24 (By News Poster)...Fugitive Murder Suspect's Place in Dock Stays Empty
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesTHE key suspect in the double murder case over the slaying of an elderly farming couple in the Omaruru district in March last year was a notable absentee as his two co-accused made a f (By News Poster)...Somalia: 17 Killed in Mogadishu Clashes
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: At least 17 people have been killed and over 45 others injured in heavy fighting that pitted Somali rebel fighters against government troops backed by African Union forces in the restive capital Mogad (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Policeman Sells Pistol to Robbers
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: Harare - THE Officer-in-Charge at Mamina Police Station, Mhondoro, lost a service pistol to his subordinate who sold it to suspected armed robbers who were recently arrested in connection with a spate (By News Poster)...Namibia: Love Street Murder Ends in Suspended Sentence for Fraud
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesTHE man who admitted that he committed fraud with a bank card that disappeared from a house next to Namibia's Parliament where a hitherto unsolved robbery and murder were committed in (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zuma Urged to Arrange Early Elections
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Alex BellSouth African President Jacob Zuma has been urged to organise early elections in Zimbabwe, because of the failure of the unity government to implement critical reforms in the country.Zuma (By News Poster)...Nigeria: With Sanusi at CBN, Attempts to Derail Banking Reforms Will Fail
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Abu NajakkuMalam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi's honeymoon with some section of the Nigerian media was very brief, indeed. Even when he was nominated as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, some in the (By News Poster)...Niger: Who Really Ousted Tandja, And Why?
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Sanusi AbubakarAs I leave Niamey today (Tuesday March 2) ready to face some eight hours of driving back to Abuja via Katsina, it is clear to my mind that although I gained a better, more nuanced, u (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zuma Urged to Take 'Decisive Stand'
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Alex BellSouth African President Jacob Zuma is being urged to take a decisive stand on Zimbabwe, as he heads to the UK for a visit during which the Zimbabwe crisis is set to be high on the agenda.Z (By News Poster)...Entire Union Leadership in Hiding over Police Threats
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Alex BellThe entire leadership of the General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union (GAPWUZ) has gone underground after a series of police raids, arrests and threats against them.According to la (By News Poster)...Ghana: E-Zwich Becoming a Colossal Waste of Resources?
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: This month, GhIPPS, the operators of the national electronics payments switch, finally begun allowing their customers access to their traditional bank accounts via e-zwich cards. 7 Ghanaian banks cons (By News Poster)...Botswana: Chinese Giant Takes Over 300 Mw Project
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Mbongeni MguniIn response to delays in the Mmamabula Energy Project (MEP), Chinese energy and mining titan Golden Concord Holdings Limited has snapped up a 70-percent equity in the 300-megawatt pow (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Morgan Tsvangirai - Mugabe's stupid puppet - I spit on the MDC - sellouts and worthless sods...
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: [I spit on the MDC. I used to support the MDC and think they presented some hope for Zimbabwe. Now I spit on them. I have lost whatever bit of respect I once had for the MDC and for Morgan Tsvangirai. (By Jan)...Mugabe forces handover of white-owned companies to black Zimbabweans
Monday 01-Mar-2010: “It is the stupidest law ever introduced by this government. There's a lot of competition for that" Jan RaathA law to force white-owned companies to surrender 51 per cent of their shareholdi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Standard Profit Falls as Borrowers Battle
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - STANDARD Bank Group said yesterday its profit for the year to December fell 20% in line with market expectations as customers struggled to repay loans in the economic slum (By News Poster)...International Crisis Group warns of potential for new turmoil in Zimbabwe
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: Hardline generals click here to download ICG reportBlessing ZuluWashington - The International Crisis Group has warned in a new report that Zimbabwe could slide back into turmoil if President (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Bankers Speak Out On Non-Performing Loans
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Fred Oluoch-OjiwahKigali - While the overall banking sector performance has continued registering positive growth, results from the last 5 years show that bad debts has stood out like a sore thumb (By News Poster)...Guinea Bissau: Security Sector Reform Vital to Stability, Says UN Report
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: Security sector reform remains the most crucial element to ensuring stability in Guinea-Bissau, according to a new United Nations report released today, which calls on the international community to s (By News Poster)...Spain Sinks Big Investment Into Wind Power Project
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Jaindi KiseroNairobi - Lake Turkana Wind Power Ltd -- the largest wind power project in Africa and Kenya's most ambitious green energy venture yet -- has just achieved a major breakthrough with the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Monetary/Trade Policy - Banks to Declare Executives' Compensation
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Omoh GabrielThe Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has introduced additional disclosure which banks must make in their reports to monetary authorities, shareholders, customers and the general public.Ban (By News Poster)...Uganda: Feingold Presses Senate to Act on LRA Legislation
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Senator Russell FeingoldWashington, DC - Mr. President, I rise today to speak about a bill that I introduced a year ago with Senator Sam Brownback to confront Africa’s longest running rebel (By News Poster)...Togo: Tip-Toeing Towards Reconciliation
Friday 05-Mar-2010: Lomé - As up to 3.2 million Togolese cast their ballots in the presidential election on 4 March, IRIN asked voters and experts what it would take to reach true reconciliation after decades of politica (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: EU Urged to Ban 'Conflict Minerals'
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Ida KarlssonStockholm - After the United States senate's move to stem the flow of money from mineral mines fuelling the brutal civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the watchdog grou (By News Poster)...Zambia: Mine Ban Treaty - Country Scores Another First
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Robert MtongaELEVEN Years into the Anti-personnel Landmine Ban Treaty, and Zambia, a country affected moderately by landmines as a relic of the political liberation movements hosted on her soil, ha (By News Poster)...Zim: Journo released from police custody
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: "They settled for the disorderly charge but in a nutshell there was no offence committed. We ended up paying the fine for the sake of his freedom" By Tendai MarongaHarare - Freelance photojour (By News Poster)...Diamond Saga Reeks of Sleaze
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: ZIMBABWE has scored consistently poorly in surveys that determine the business environment in the country.Last year the country ranked lowly in the highly acclaimed 2010 Index of Economic Freedom.The (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Bar Association Criticise Violations of Lawyers' Rights
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: Maputo - The chairperson of the Mozambican Bar Association (OAM), Gilberto Correia, on Monday attacked the disrespect, humiliation and "abuses of authority" imposed on lawyers by other actors in the l (By News Poster)...South Africa: Country Under Pressure to Sign Economic Agreement
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Hopewell RadebeMaputo - SA, Angola and Namibia could soon be left in the cold if they continue resisting signing the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) with the European Union (EU) which is incr (By News Poster)...Kenya: Three Oil Firms Picked to Build Strategic Reserve
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Johnstone Ole TuranaThree firms have won the contract to establish a strategic petroleum reserve as Kenya seeks to minimise shocks from erratic crude oil prices and ensure stability in supply.The t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Time to Demonstrate Leadership
Monday 01-Mar-2010: HOW does Zanu PF reconcile its commitment to the National Healing process against threats by its youths during last Wednesday's demonstration in Harare to "go back to June 2008"? Not one of the leader (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Grace Mugabe Orders Destruction of Homes
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: By Caiphas ChimheteFIRST Lady Grace Mugabe has ordered the destruction of 100 households in a Mazowe suburb to make way for the expansion of the orphanage she is building in the area.Although the affe (By News Poster)...Somalia: Death Toll Rises to 12, 40 Injuries of Yesterday's Clash in Mogadishu
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: The death toll of yesterday's clash rose to 12 and the injuries of 40 others who were all affected clashes and mortar shells that continued in parts of the Somal6i capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Sh (By News Poster)...USA: 21 Black Folks We'd Like To Remove From Black History - Including Robert Mugabe (Part 2/2)
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: As happy as we are for the nation to get its yearly reminder that black people do exist in the context of American history, there’s a growing list of characters that has us harking back to Zora Neale (By JanOlifant)...Africa: Quest for Profit Drives Oil Majors from Africa
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - RECENT withdrawals by oil majors from certain southern African countries leave little doubt that, as oil multinationals assess their operations globally, they will not (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Stakeholders at Odds over Petroleum Deregulation
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: International oil companies operating in Nigeria, notably Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and Chevron Nigeria Limited last week seized the platform provided by the annual Nigeria Oil and Ga (By News Poster)...Botswana: BOB Adopts Neutral Monetary Policy
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Brian BenzaThe Bank of Botswana (BoB) will adopt a neutral monetary policy in the medium term as it seeks to balance a low interest regime to support economic recovery while keeping a close eye on (By News Poster)...Zim: We will pull out of KP: Mpofu
Monday 01-Mar-2010: "The KP does not own the diamond trade markets. Zimbabwe will pull out of the KP and sell its diamonds to those markets" By Lizwe SebathaBulawayo - Zimbabwe will sell diamonds outside the Kimb (By News Poster)...Namibia: Rehoboth Shocked By Three Brutal Murders
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Denver KistingTHREE brutal murders that took place at Rehoboth this past weekend have shocked the community of the small southern town.Two brothers, Petrus and Phillipus Kinda, were killed by a gan (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Experts Disagree Over CBN's Appointment of Auditors for Banks
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Michael EbohExperts in the Nigerian financial system have disagreed over calls for appointment of banks' auditors by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).The experts, who spoke with Vanguard differed (By News Poster)...Zim: China buys up African rhinos ‘to farm for horn'
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: Aggregated into herds and farmed for their horns Jonathan Leake, Environment EditorRhions, among the world's most endangered and iconic animals, are being farmed on Chinese wildlife reserves i (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: President Defends Controversial Diamond Deals
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaHarare - PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has further immersed himself in the ongoing diamonds row by defending controversial mining companies Mbada Diamonds and Canadile Miners which have be (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Standard Chartered Profitability Rises by 13 Percent to U.S.$5.15 Billion
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Babajide KomolafeStandard Chartered Bank PLC has recorded 13 per cent increase in profitability which rose to $5.15bn for the operating year ended December 31st 2009.Commenting on the results, Grou (By News Poster)...Treason 'Confessions' Thrown Out
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesA LONG battle to have alleged confessions and written admissions by 26 of the men being prosecuted in the main Caprivi high treason trial admitted as evidence in the trial has ended in (By News Poster)...How 'Free and Fair' Are 'Regular' Elections?
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Rampholo MolefheBlack History month offers an opportunity for some introspection about the manner in which Botswana has acquitted itself with regard to the practice of democracy.USAID, in recent ye (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Downturn Forces Eight Million to Skip Meals
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: Some 8.4 million people skip meals daily to cope with the biting economic hardships in the country, according to findings of a new survey.The Social, Political and Economic Barometer (SPEC) indicates (By News Poster)...Zimbabwean deminers clear deadly legacy of Falklands war
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: They wear the danger lightly Martin Fletcher, Port StanleyThe first explosion shook the land and sent a plume of black smoke 30 metres into the air. Seven others followed in close succession u (By News Poster)...Zambia: Land Crucial for Country's Development
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Patrick JabaniLAND is such an extremely important resource that many people have lost their lives claiming its ownership.Since time immemorial, wars have been fought throughout the world over posse (By News Poster)...DRC Pulls Plug On Inga
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyNAMIBIA'S dream to be part of a power project which would have been the stepping stone for the biggest hydro-electric plant in Africa has been shattered after the Democratic Republic o (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Snubs Mugabe's Lavish Birthday Feast
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Nkululeko SibandaBulawayo - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his two deputies yesterday stayed away from President Robert Mugabe's lavish 86th birthday party where the organisers splashed thous (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Gives Go Ahead to Media Reforms
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: By Kholwani NyathiHarare - IN an open rebuke to Media, Information and Publicity secretary George Charamba who has been frustrating the licensing of new players in the newspaper publishing sector, Pre (By News Poster)...Kenya: New Income Bands Spark Wage Rate War
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Geoffrey IrunguAt least 72 per cent of Kenyans belong to the bottom band of the income bracket, official data that the government released on Wednesday shows, sparking anxiety over its implications (By News Poster)...Kenya: Technology Savvy Fraudsters Prey on Online Banker's Runaway Success
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Kui KinyanjuiTechnology savvy fraudsters have stolen an estimated Sh21 million from Kenya's revolutionary mobile phone-based money transfer system, M-pesa.Michael Joseph, the chief executive of Saf (By News Poster)...South Africa: Delayed Drug Registrations Hard to Swallow
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - Delays in registering antiretroviral (ARV) medication may keep cheaper, more patient-friendly drugs out of reach as South Africa prepares to launch the world's largest tender for medici (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma Seeks New UK Ties as Anti-Apartheid Era Fades
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Tom CargillSouth African President Jacob Zuma's state visit to Britain comes at a time when both countries are grappling with global challenges and are struggling to balance high expectations of th (By News Poster)...US extends Zim sanctions for another year
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: "Certain members of the Government of Zimbabwe and other persons" President Barack Obama announced Monday he was extending US sanctions on Robert Mugabe's regime for another year, saying Zimba (By News Poster)...Zim: Harare spring fizzles out
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: The only voice heard across the land remains that of the incumbent who has no plans to extract the country from the hole he has dug for it. CommentBy Zimbabwe Correspondent (author cannot be i (By News Poster)...Liberia: Insults Result to One Burnt Alive, One Shot in the Head
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Boima J.v. BoimaAn angry mob Saturday burnt to death a uniformed police officer believed to be a member of the Police Support Unit (PSU), after the officer shot one Preston Davis dead on the Capito (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Potential Tensions Amid Returns in Kivus
Monday 01-Mar-2010: Goma - For the many thousands of people displaced by conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Kivu regions who have returned to their villages, home has its many hardships."Return has not al (By News Poster)...Discontent Brews Over Small-Scale Chinese Traders
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Allan OdhiamboNamibia has announced it will ban foreign investment in medium-sized public transport business and hair beauty salons.Citing growing Chinese involvement in the businesses, Namibia's T (By News Poster)...Africa: Report Says Attacks on Journalists on the Rise
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: By Innocent AnabaA new global survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists, CPJ, has said that attacks on journalists are getting worse, with more attempts by repressive governments to censor the me (By News Poster)...PM to Take Sanctions Lobby to Europe, U.S.
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: By Mkhululi SibandaHarare - PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday said he would like Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to establish a team that goes to Europe and the United States to lobby for the removal of the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Summit - a Gathering of Disagreement
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: The Nigerian Oil and Gas Conference has now become the largest and strategic industry summit for Nigeria's oil industry which reveals government plans and updates from the major industry players. The (By News Poster)...Zim: Diamond dealer slapped with 5-year jail term
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: He led the KP delegation to what he claimed was a mass grave By Own CorrespondentMutare - A Zimbabwean magistrate on Wednesday slapped diamond dealer Newman Chiadzwa with a five-year jail term (By News Poster)...Uganda: Residents Buried Alive in Landslide
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: Kampala - A MASSIVE landslide swept the slopes of Mt. Elgon in eastern Uganda on Monday night, killing at least 80 people, with 350 missing and feared dead.The landslide erased three villages in Budud (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Terror List - Tales of Humiliation At Foreign Airports
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Bayo OlupohundaLagos - SOMETIME in mid January 2010, a group of Nigerian international travelers emerged from the tunnel of the KLM flight that had just landed at the Amsterdam Schipol from Lagos. (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Empowerment Law Threatens South African Investment
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Nkululeko SibandaHarare - PLANS by South Africa's diversified mining group African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) to invest in Zimbabwe's mining sector are facing resistance from shareholders worried about (By News Poster)...Zim: South Africa president Jacob Zuma faces angry protest
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: "The government of national unity isn't going to work, Mugabe isn't serious about making it work - he never has been" South African President Jacob Zuma has been met by protesters in London ch (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Escapades of a Fake Group Captain in Lagos
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: By Evelyn UsmanThere is no distinctivefeature that would pass 47- year- old Oluwaseun Hassan for a fake Air Force personnel. From his calm disposition to his neatly- ironed uniform, coupled with the r (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: New Constitution - Where Zanu PF, MDC-T and NCA Diverge
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: By Faith ZabaWHILE Zanu PF, MDC-T and the National Constitutional Assembly agree on many aspects of what should be in the new constitution, the three disagree on fundamental areas to do with the execu (By News Poster)...Zuma Polygamy Drama - Anti-Feminist Myths Addressed
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Pumla GqolaMuch has been said in the media and private conversations on the latest revelations of the South African president's paternity of a child 'out of wedlock'. Pumla Gqola counters some of t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: KPCS Must Give Complete Checklist
Friday 05-Mar-2010: Harare - ZIMBABWE wishes and needs to market its diamonds in conformity with the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme to obtain the best prices and to avoid other trade problems that arise from deal (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: President Zuma is roasted by the British media and toasted by the stupid Queen & Govt...
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: [President Zuma is turning out, as I predicted, to be a loyal supporter of Robert Mugabe. My Liberal friend's fuzzy mind at the time caused him to argue with me over this, but Zuma is a piece of trash (By Jan)...Witness Says, Taylor Wanted Power To Empower Citizens
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor wanted power to empower the Liberian people to develop their country, a defense witness told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today.“Charles Taylor wanted power (By News Poster)...South Africa: Preparation for World Cup Disenfranchises Country's Poor
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Allyn GaestelSouth Africa is eagerly preparing to host the World Cup in June 2010, but the government's preparatory development projects are negatively impacting the country's poorest citizens.Depu (By News Poster)...Uganda: U.S. Legislator Proposes Crackdown on Rebels
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Halima AbdallahNairobi - American legislators are pushing for a law that will see another phase of military action to apprehend Lord's Resistance Army rebels.The new move seems to go against media (By News Poster)...South Africa: Tax Collectors Begin 'Lifestyle Audits'
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Sanchia TemkinJohannesburg - THE South African Revenue Service (SARS) is becoming increasingly vigorous in its dealings with delinquent taxpayers.If SARS is not satisfied that there has been comple (By News Poster)...Cattle Rustlers Ambush Local Cops in Zambia
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesA GANG of armed suspected cattle rustlers have wounded two members of the Namibian Police's Special Reserve Force in a gunfight after leading them into an ambush across the Zambian bor (By News Poster)...Kenya: Wind Farm Deal to Trim Cost of Electricity
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Kaburu MugambiNairobi - Power prices could come down in the near future with the signing of an agreement between Kenya Power and Lighting Company and Lake Turkana Wind Power, where the power distri (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Obama Administration Extends Sanctions by Another Year
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaUnited States President Barack Obama announced on Monday he was extending US sanctions on Robert Mugabe's regime by another year.The US President said the reason for extending the t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Sanctions Must Go - Tsvangirai
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: Harare - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has, for the first time, called for the immediate lifting of illegal sanctions against Zimbabwe to pave way for full implementation of the Global Political Ag (By News Poster)...Botswana: Technology to Catch Undocumented Migrants
Monday 01-Mar-2010: Gaborone - Botswana is adopting a two-pronged approach to tackle abuse of its immigration system by increasing the sophistication of travel documents, visas and work permits, and putting more boots on (By News Poster)...Somalia: African Union Urges Country-Wide No-Fly Zone
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Cyprian MusokeTHE Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU) has asked the UN to impose a no-fly zone on Somalia and block sea ports through which foreign groups supply logistics to the i (By News Poster)...Sanctions an Indictment of Unity Government
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: By Constantine ChimakureTHE US president, Barack Obama, this week extended sanctions on Zimbabwe for another year saying the political crisis in the country remained unresolved because certain members (By News Poster)...Kenya: ICC Prosecutor Names 20 People Most Responsible for Post-Election Clashes
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: Following a request for additional information from the International Criminal Court (ICC) earlier this month, its Prosecutor today named the 20 people he says are most responsible for the deadly post (By News Poster)...Namibia: Fake Gem Probe After Tourists Sold 'Glass' At Spitzkoppe Market
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Adam HartmanAFTER accusations that coloured glass stones were being sold to unsuspecting tourists as 'gemstones' the stone-sellers unanimously vowed that they would "never sell cut and polished sto (By News Poster)...Uganda: Leaked Secret Oil Contracts Show Country Did Not Get a 'Great Deal'
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Bamuturaki MusinguziNairobi - It appears that Uganda has already started losing oil money to mismanagement, given that the government cannot account for monies received in signature bonuses from oi (By News Poster)...USA: Michael Moore sicko, loving Cuban Communist healthcare... Its all based on LIES!
Monday 01-Mar-2010: [Michael Moore is basically an asshole. Everything I've ever seen that he produces is a backward, twisted lie that could have been scripted by the KGB itself. We in South Africa have direct experience (By JanOlifant)...Zim: Mugabe's Super-Racism: Indigenisation rules to affect local whites, Asians - Mugabe hates Asian people too
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: [Indigenisation is just Robert Mugabe's code word for RACISM. Robert Mugabe, as I have said for many years now is a: RACIST COMMUNIST. And here we see it over and over. He hates white people the most, (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe President Mugabe rearranges ministerial portfolios to MDC disadvantage - That Fool Tsvangirai
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: [Again, again, AGAIN I keep asking this question: Where on earth did COMPROMISE get the MDC? Where did dealing with the Devil get them? Where did it get their party? Where did it get their followers? (By News Poster)...Swaziland: Property Rights at Last for Women
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Mantoe PhakathiMbabane - A recent court ruling has finally given Swazi women the right to own and administer property in their own names.Many Swazi women married in community of property have been (By News Poster)...Cattle Rustling Threatens Beef Sector
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithNAMIBIA'S entire meat industry, worth an estimated N$3 billion, is in jeopardy because of rapidly increasing stock theft.Farmers and industry insiders say that the illegal movement o (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Dams, Rivers, and Stolen Millions
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Peter BosshardThe Democratic Republic of Congo's bad luck is to be rich in resources. Foreign investors are pouring billions of dollars into large extractive projects such as mines and hydropower d (By News Poster)...Nigeria: N200 Billion Agric Loans - All Banks to Participate in Disbursement
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Idris Ahmed & Tina a HassanThe Central Bank of Nigeria has extended the disbursement of the N200 billion agricultural loans to all the commercial banks in the country.When the agricultural loan was (By News Poster)...Economic Development Minister to Put State Protection into Action
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - ECONOMIC Development Minister Ebrahim Patel is to present his much-awaited "strategic plan" to Parliament today, with strong protectionist elements central to a governmen (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: West Must Listen to Country's Voices
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: Harare - WE hope the condescending Westerners were listening on Monday afternoon when Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai finally added his voice to the anti-sanctions lobby by calling on the West to rem (By News Poster)...In Zimbabwe, courthouse filming lands journalist in jail
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: “This is the third time in five weeks he has been detained on insubstantial accusations" New York - A Zimbabwean freelance journalist was arrested today for the third time this year - this t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Safeguard Children's Right to Health
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: Harare - EVERYONE has rights and these rights are enforced in most of the modern world, even when they can lead to the death of the person standing on his rights.People do have the right to refuse med (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Informal Sector Lures University Graduates
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Ignatius BandaBulawayo - From the rickety old buses that miraculously make long cross-border journeys to the frustrating red tape at the border post, from fending off sexual advances from bus crews (By News Poster)...Namibia: Law Change Tightens BoN Control Over Banks
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichCHANGES to the Banking Institutions Act of 1998 tabled in Parliament will give the Bank of Namibia (BoN) more power in its oversight of commercial banks, their restructuring plans, (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: David Coetzee, Progressive Journalist and Publisher, 1943-2010
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: By Adrian R CreweDavid Coetzee, the founder of the alternative information bulletin SouthScan, for a number of years the most significant source of independent, uncensored information about what was g (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Govt Eyes BP Takeover
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Mkinga MkingaThe Government has expressed its interest in acquiring BP Tanzania Limited shares from its partner, BP Africa which has announced its decision to pull out of the deal.The minister for (By News Poster)...Kenya: United Bank Bets on SMEs for Expansion
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Johnstone Ole TuranaUnited Bank of Africa (UBA Bank) is the second bank from West Africa to enter the local market following the entry of Ecobank in mid 2008.UBA , which has started a green field o (By News Poster)...Deferring Al-Bashir Trial Will Not Help Sudan
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Nicole FritzJohannesburg - IN THE debate over the International Criminal Court's (ICC's) indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, the respective sides - the justice purists and the peace pr (By News Poster)...Africa: When the Most Powerful President is the Dead One
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Charles Onyango-ObboLet's pause for a moment and reflect on the saga of Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua. For the last three months, he was very ill in a Saudi hospital.Most accounts suggested he (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Crisis Group Say Mugabe Loyalists Still Blocking Reforms
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Lance GumaThe International Crisis Group (ICG) has warned that Zimbabwe could slide back into turmoil if the military leadership and others loyal to Mugabe are allowed to continue blocking reforms (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Two Soldiers, Five Others Killed as Cultists Ambush JTF Troops
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Samuel OyadonghaYenagoa - Seven persons among them two soldiers were reportedly killed today (Tuesday) at Okolobiri in the outskirts of Yenagoa the Bayelsa State following a violent clash between m (By News Poster)...Zim: British Conservatives endorsed by... Robert Mugabe!
Friday 05-Mar-2010: For Zimbabwe, it doesn't quite matter who's prime minister in London By Elizabeth DickinsonEver eager to criticize the sitting British government, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe piped in t (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Grenade Attacks Leave 16 Injured
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Edwin MusoniKigali - At least 16 people were yesterday evening wounded in two simultaneous grenade attacks in the city.One of the attacks took place in Kimironko close to the taxi park, while the o (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Senate Condemns Robbery On Lagos-Benin Highway
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Emmanuel AzikenThe Senate yesterday condemned last week's maiming of passengers of a luxury bus plying the Lagos-Benin highway by armed robbers.In a vote of no confidence in both the Nigeria Police (By News Poster)...Africa: Continent Underachieving in Development of 'Green' Energy Economy - UN Report
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: Africa is lagging behind the rest of the world in developing renewable energy projects with initiatives aimed at producing clean and 'green' energy remaining largely under-exploited, warned a new repo (By News Poster)...Zim: State agriculture utility to let farms
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: Made, Mugabe's personal farm manager and adviser, has taken machinery from ARDA for use at some of Mugabe's farms By Tafadzwa MutasaHarare - Zimbabwe's state-owned Agriculture and Rural Develo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Foreigners' Land Buying 'A Recipe for Chaos'
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - FOREIGNERS were buying land in SA at three times the rate of the government, a situation that was a "recipe for chaos", Rural Development and Land Affairs Minister Gugile (By News Poster)...Tanzania: ActionAid Accuses EU of Fuelling Hunger With Biofuels
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: Dar Es Salaam - AS Tanzanian villagers regret to allocate huge tracts of land to multinational corporations for the production of biofuels, British charity ActionAid has released a report calling on E (By News Poster)...Kenya: Tension High At Ethiopia Border
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Barnabas BiiNairobi - Security personnel were on Sunday deployed to the Kenya-Ethiopia border following the death of a senior policeman. Merille bandits are said to have shot the General Service Un (By News Poster)...Africa: Facing Extreme Weather Head On, Ibrahim Forum Urges Action
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: By Cindy ShinerAlthough Africa has contributed little to global warming, the continent and other parts of the developing world are bearing the brunt of the resultant climate change, according to scien (By News Poster)...Sudan: UN Fails to Enforce Sanctions
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Stephen KaufmanThere have been "major and frequent" violations of the U.N. Security Council arms embargo imposed against Sudan in 2005, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice condemne (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Pipeline Vandals Cause Big Losses
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Adeola YusufLagos - Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil exporter, has lost over N174 billion in over 16,083 pipeline breaks within the last 10 years.Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum C (By News Poster)...Somalia: Fighting, Shelling Kills Two, Injuries Eight Others in Mogadishu
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: At least 2 people have been killed and 8 others wounded in Mogadishu after fighting and shelling between the transitional government troops and the Islamist fighters broke out in parts of the Somali c (By News Poster)...Zim: Recovery rattled
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: The electronic board at the stock exchange was all red Jason MoyoHarare - On Monday, as Zimbabwe's tough new indigenisation measures came into effect, the electronic board at the country's sto (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gunmen Slay PDP Chieftain
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Dele OgunyemiIbadan - A chieftain of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State, Alhaji Azeez Adegbile has been assassinated in Oyo town by a three-man gang of yet-to-be-identified gunm (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Businessman Admits to Stealing 48 Cattle
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: Harare - A PROMINENT farmer and businessman here has admitted to stealing and selling 48 cattle to fugitive businessman James Makamba's wife.However, Collins Boka's three co-accused, who include a pol (By News Poster)...Kenya: Using Waste Water to Grow Rose Flowers
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Sammy CheboiNairobi - A new technology of growing flowers could be the solution to pollution that is threatening to wipe out Lake Naivasha.Rogue flower farms, an alarming rate of encroachment into (By News Poster)...Namibia/South Africa: Warriors to Shine Against SA
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Sheefeni NikodemusTHE Brave Warriors match against World Cup hosts South Africa is more than a stadium inauguration friendly it's made out to be.Today marks 99 days until Africa's first World Cup k (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MPs' Urge Tsvangirai to Condemn Western Sanctions
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Farirai MachivenyikaHarare - THE House of Assembly yesterday overwhelmingly adopted Mwenezi East representative Cde Kudakwashe Bhasikiti's motion urging Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his dep (By News Poster)...South Africa: Business Backs World Bank Loan to Eskom
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: BUSA supports the urgent need for a World Bank loan to Eskom as a part of a larger borrowing programme by Eskom.In shaping its views on the appropriate funding of Eskom in the recent past, BUSA has (By News Poster)...Cattle Syndicate Exposé Starts
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithSEVEN men have been arrested in the Otjozondjupa Region during February, for alleged participation in a stock theft syndicate that may have been operating for some time.According to (By News Poster)...Walvis Bay Murder Trial Postponed
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesTHE trial of the young man who is accused of murdering veteran coastal newspaperman Awie Brand in his restaurant at Walvis Bay in June 2008 is scheduled to continue only at the end of (By News Poster)...Africa: Development Bank Plans to Boost Farming
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: By Mark KapchangaNairobi - The African Development Bank has approved its 2010-2014 agricultural sector strategy. The strategy seeks to position the bank to contribute more effectively to agriculture.I (By News Poster)...Nigeria: A Contrarian Confronts Jonathan
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: By Taju TijaniLagos - Acting President, Goodluck Ebere Jonathan is not my action hero. His soft, gentle almost deceitful mien does not inspire confidence. His wry, tired smile; his effeminate gait and (By News Poster)...Don't Press Panic Button for Nothing
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Mulife MuchaliNAMIBIA'S foreign policy is seemingly in shambles looking at all the xenophobic sentiments streaming from different spectrum of the population.After the South African diplomatic row t (By News Poster)...Chiweshe Breaks Down
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Robson SharukoHarare - Elvis Chiweshe broke down at Raylton yesterday overwhelmed by the growing list of problems wreaking havoc on his team's pre-season programme after an explosion of a fresh wav (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Sidibe Highlights Country's Role in Combating HIV in Africa
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Chinyere AmaluNIGERIA and other African countries have been called upon to adopt the Universal Access approach in implementing strategies to manage the HIV & AIDS challenge.Making the call during a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banks - CBN to Boost Domestic Credit
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Emele OnuLagos - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is to boost domestic credit by facilitating funds to banks through Development Financial Institutions (DFIs).The Deputy Governor, Banking Operatio (By News Poster)...Nigeria: New Oil Field Worth U.S.$963 Million Opens in Oyo
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Hector IgbikiowuboTHE Oyo filed promoted by the Nigeria Agip Exploration Company and Allied Energy Plc, an indigenous oil company has finally come alive after gulping a whooping $963 million (about (By News Poster)...Zuma's Call On UK to Lift Mugabe Sanctions 'a Symbolic Gesture'
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - WHEN President Jacob Zuma put the Southern African Development Community's opinion to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown - that the travel ban on Zimbabwean President Robe (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: MDC Requests SADC to Mediate in Deadlocked Negotiations
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe national executive council of the MDC has resolved that SADC should be called in to mediate in the long running stalemate between parties in the Global Political Agreement.Party (By News Poster)...Sanctions Detrimental to Inclusive Govt - Zuma
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: Harare - PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA of South Africa has called for an immediate end to the illegal Western economic embargo on Zimbabwe, saying the sanctions only serve to fragment the inclusive Government. (By News Poster)...Zim: Release of rhino poachers exposes widespread enforcement failures
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: Charges included illegal possession of firearms and illegal possession of a rhino horn Gland, Switzerland - The release of six alleged rhino poachers from custody two weeks before a meeting of (By News Poster)...South Africa: Lack of Skills Hinders Mining Sector Growth
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - THE growth of SA's mining sector could be hampered further by a serious lack of professional skills, according to a survey by executive recruitment firm Landelahni Busines (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kampala Lab to Monitor HIV Drug Resistance
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Esther NakkaziNairobi - In 1991, Naomi Mbabazi was an upper senior secondary student when the blood donating van called at her school in western Uganda.She and her peers casually decided to donate (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Airports Case - Long Prison Terms Imposed
Monday 01-Mar-2010: Maputo - The Maputo City Court on Saturday sentenced the former chairperson of the publicly owned Mozambique Airports Company (ADM), Diodino Cambaza, to 22 years imprisonment for his role in draining (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Reprieve for Energy Sector Underway
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Reuben MadzivoHarare - ZESA Holdings will get US$132 million in loans and grants from the Development Bank of Southern Africa and African Development Bank for infrastructure rehabilitation once rep (By News Poster)...Zim: Kasukuwere threatens foreign banks over loans
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: Concerns that locals do not have capital to participate in the indigenisation programme By Ndamu SanduYouth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere on Friday or (By News Poster)...Africa: Tourism Minister Urges Africans to Take Advantage of South Africa 2010
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: Tourism Minister, Mrs. Zita Okaikoi, has called on Africans to take advantage of the upcoming South Africa 2010 to harness the tourism potentials on the continent.According to her, the Africa is endow (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Super-Racism: Good news: Stock Exchange Suffers Big Losses over Indigenization Law
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: [Excellent. May Zimbabwe rot in hell because they hate Whites and they hate Asians. The only black people they tolerate are Mugabe's cronies. I am delighted to see things collapse even more, because t (By News Poster)...Zim: 20 diamond miners short-listed for Chiadzwa
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: Of the 20, four or five are seriously under consideration By Own CorrespondentHarare - Zimbabwe has short-listed about 20 companies to extract diamonds at the troubled Chaidzwa field in the co (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Extradition - I Can't Be Intimidated, Says Ibori
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Wole OlujobiLagos - Former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, affirmed on Thursday that he cannot be intimidated despite the latest scheme by political adversaries to manipulate the media to settle (By News Poster)...Africa: Global U.S. Assistance is Strategically Focused
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Merle David Kellerhals Jr.Washington - The role of U.S. foreign assistance in improving global health, feeding the hungry, responding to climate change and providing humanitarian aid is to save liv (By News Poster)...Burkina Faso: New Energy Infrastructure Will Boost Economic and Social Development
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Ryan DicovitskyBy 2011, the small land-locked African country of Burkina Faso will begin to benefit from the results of a new and improved energy infrastructure, expected to dramatically improve th (By News Poster)...Kenya: Pyrethrum Losing Its Charm to Humble Potato
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Simon Siele and George SayagieNairobi - A tractor is busy cultivating an arable land in Molo just next to the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya research station. It is during this planting season that farme (By News Poster)...Uganda: Museveni's Son Takes Over Presidential Security
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Risdel KasasiraAn expanded and more robust elite military unit to be led by first son, Lt. Col Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has been created, according to an army radio message released on Friday.In the ne (By News Poster)...Africa: Zoellick Reaffirms Commitment to Work with Continent
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Finnigan Wa SimbeyeDar Es Salaam - WORLD Bank President Robert Zoellick has reaffirmed the bank's readiness to listen to Africa's needs to ensure that it serves its clients in the best way possible (By News Poster)...South Africa: Borrowing Points to a Gradual Recovery
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Miriam IsaJohannesburg - PRIVATE-sector borrowing fell in January for the fourth month running, supporting the view that the economy would not enjoy a rapid recovery from its first recession in 17 (By News Poster)...Somalia: Militia Orders UN Agency to Leave
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Abdulkadir Khalif and AgenciesNairobi - Somalia's hardline Islamist rebel group al Shabaab has ordered the UN food agency to halt all operations and leave the country, a statement from the rebels s (By News Poster)...Sudan: Fighters Attack Darfur Peacekeepers
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: El Fasher - Following reports of armed clashes in the Jebel Marra region of South Darfur which indicated the possibility of casualties and displacement of civilian population, on 5 March UNAMID launch (By News Poster)...Uganda: Misery for Bududa School Kids After Landslide
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: By Frederick Womakuyu and Daniel EdyeguKampala - ELEVEN-year-old Aggrey Musene is perhaps one pupil who demonstrates the misery pupils and students in Namashet parish are going through, after a devast (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Army's Conflicting Signals
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: Lagos - It is good that the Nigerian Army has once again pledged absolute loyalty to the Constitution and all legitimately constituted authorities in the land. The latest pledge was made in reaction t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Shabanie Deeper Into Abyss
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Martin KadzereHarare - SHABANIE and Mashava Mines have essentially collapsed amid concerns that the two underground asbestos mines are no longer safe to work in.The mines are under SMM Holdings, pr (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Winter Wheat Funds Cut By 50 Percent
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: Harare - Government has released US$10 million for the 2010 winter wheat season, exactly half the original figure, due to financial constraints.Announcing the cash injection yesterday, Agriculture, Me (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma Tackles 2010 Scepticism
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has dispelled misconceptions about South Africa not being in a position to host a successful 2010 FIFA World Cup and assured Britons that South Africa has stringent saf (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Former First Lady Arrested for Genocide
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By James KaruhangaThe former First Lady, and one of the most prominent Genocide fugitives living in France, was arrested by French authorities yesterday, but later released and put under judicial cont (By News Poster)...South Africa: Tongaat Profit Up 37 Percent As Sugar Prices Bounce Back
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Kgomotso MatheJohannesburg - SUGAR producer Tongaat Hulett yesterday posted a strong set of results, increasing profit 37%, to R1,55bn from R1,13bn, and lifting earnings 44% to R839m for the year e (By News Poster)...South Africa: Media Wowed By 2010 Stadium Tour
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Bongani Nkosi"In Brazil we're concerned about the stadiums we will have," Raposo said during a recent interview at Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg. "I think it will be difficult to compete with (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamond Fact-Finding Mission Kicks Off
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: Harare - THE Kimberley Process monitor for Zimbabwe, Mr Abbey Chikane, arrived in Harare yesterday on a three-day fact-finding mission and immediately held meetings with officials from the Ministry of (By News Poster)...Botswana: Talking Musika
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Rampholo MolefheThirty years ago, Jonas Gwangwa warned Eberhart Froese for overplaying at the rehearsals that we held at Charles Taylor's residence, the son of the director of the Peace Corps in Bo (By News Poster)...Sudan: Fighters Ambush Darfur Peacekeepers
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: A search is underway for two peacekeepers missing after an ambush on a joint African Union-United Nations patrol in an area of Darfur that has been the scene of recent clashes.The patrol, which includ (By News Poster)...South Africa: No Plans to Nationalize Mines, Zuma Tells UK
Friday 05-Mar-2010: Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma is today wrapping up his state visit to Britain where he clarified government's position on the nationalisation of mines and allayed fears about security during the 201 (By News Poster)...Zim: CIO probes Tsvangirai incident
Friday 05-Mar-2010: Tsvangirai survived a horrible car crash last March in which his wife was killed By Patricia MpofuHarare - Zimbabwe intelligence chief Happiton Bonyongwe has ordered a probe into allegations t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Larger Grain Borer Attacks Zimbabwe
Friday 05-Mar-2010: Harare - Zimbabwe is under attack from the larger grain borer, a pest that destroys maize in silos and or granaries.The pest can destroy 30 percent of stored grain within a period of three to six mont (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 3 Suspected Kidnappers, Police in Gun Battle
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Austin OgwudaAsaba - THREE suspected kidnappers were, Wednesday, wounded during a fierce gun battle with the police during an attempted kidnap bid along Delta Broadcasting Service, DBS, road in Asa (By News Poster)...Niger: The Fall of Tandja
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: Lagos - THE military takeover, February 18, of neighbouring Republic of Niger at a time when coup d'états were thought to be no longer fashionable, is, indeed, West Africa's latest democracy de (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN to Fund Power Projects With N500 Billion Loan
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Idris AhmedThe Central Bank of Nigeria said yesterday it would provide N500 billion for investment in emergency power projects dedicated to industrial clusters in the country.The funds is a debentu (By News Poster)...Africa: Food Security Tests Continent's Unity Agenda
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Julia Dolly JoinerThere are challenges and paradoxes that necessitate more effective action and cooperation in agriculture and food security in Africa.An immediate paradox is the reality that we co (By News Poster)...Togo: Disputed Vote Spawns Fears
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: Lomé - Victory claims by two presidential candidates and continued threats of violence from the opposition are keeping many Togolese indoors two days after the election as they fearfully await officia (By News Poster)...Zim to shut down Hwange
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: "Do we really need to spend more money on them or decommission them?†By Jo-Mare DuddyZimbabwe is considering closing down the Hwange thermal power station because of constant breakdowns, th (By News Poster)...Kenya: Food Pressures Spread North
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: Agadez - The unusually large-scale migration of southern Nigerien farmers and pastoralists, heading north to look for work, has prompted concerns about food shortages in the northern Agadez region, ac (By News Poster)...Sudan: Group Calls on Polls Observers to Stress Human Rights
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: The European Union Election Observation Mission to Sudan should consider the impact of ongoing human rights abuses and insecurity on the elections process, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the m (By News Poster)...Kenya: Energy PS Named as Key Witness in Kulei Graft Case
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Benson WambuguPatrick Nyoike, Energy permanent secretary, and his predecessor, Chrispus Mutitu, have been named as key prosecution witnesses in the corruption case facing Joshua Kulei and four othe (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Reverse Badger Couple Jailed
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: Harare - The mastermind of a reverse badger game, setting her husband up with adulterous affairs with other women and then extorting money for damages at gunpoint, has been jailed for an effective thr (By News Poster)...Uganda: 300 Feared Dead As Landslides Bury Villages
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: Kampala - At least 300 people, including 100 children, are believed to have been killed when landslides buried three villages in eastern Uganda late on 1 March after heavy rains. Some 2,000 people hav (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mining Survey Warns of Skills Shortage
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - According to the third biannual Mining Survey by Landelahni Business Leaders, when the world begins to climb out of recession South African mining production could be left behind.Accord (By News Poster)...Uganda: 450,000 Sign to Kill Anti-Gay Bill
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Yasiin MugerwaParliament - Almost half a million people have petitioned Parliament to drop debate on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill.Religious leaders and HIV/Aids activists handed a copy of the petiti (By News Poster)...Uganda: Rwandan Envoy Flees to South Africa
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Barbara AmongKampala - Sources said yesterday that Lt. Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa fled Rwanda through Uganda before escaping to Kenya from where he flew to South Africa. The sources added that Nyamwasa (By News Poster)...Why Pigs' Mess is Our Concern
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - GREEK bond markets were hit hard last week as rating agencies Moody's and Standard & Poor's threatened to downgrade Greece's debt to subinvestment grade levels. And Greece's woes saw th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fashola Gives Recipe for Eradication of Film Piracy
Monday 01-Mar-2010: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Tuesday gave a recipe for the possible eradication of film piracy in Nigeria, saying a new deal that offers those behind the illicit act an opportuni (By News Poster)...'Renewable Energy Achievable in Ten Years'
Monday 01-Mar-2010: The Managing Director of Nigerian Export Import Bank (NEXIM Bank), Mr. Roberts Orya, has stressed the need for Nigeria to focus on the green economy and renewable energy in its bid to join global forc (By News Poster)...Somalia: Fighting Kills Four in South of Galka'a Town
Monday 01-Mar-2010: At least 4 people have been killed and more than others have been wounded in south of Galka'o town in Mudug region after two clan militias' dispute for the ownership of land in south of the town, witn (By News Poster)...Malawi: Climate Change is Changing Farming Methods
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: By Claire NgozoLilongwe - As they slept soundly on the night of Feb. 28, a family of four was killed when their house collapsed over their heads in Malawi's southern district of Chikhwawa.Christopher (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Says Elections Next Year With or Without New Constitution
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaRobert Mugabe has said that fresh elections to replace the troubled inclusive government will be held next year 'with or without a new constitution.'Briefing journalists at a news c (By News Poster)...Angola: Inter-Clan Fighting Kills 14 in Central Somalia
Friday 05-Mar-2010: Mogadishu - More than a dozen people were killed and many more were hurt when two clans clashed in central Somalia, residents and community elders said on Friday.The Qubeys clan and the Suleyman sub-c (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Central Bank Plans Major Reforms
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Comfort EkelemeLagos - THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has unveiled a ten-year reform blue print anchored on four cardinal reform programmes for the stabilis (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lawmakers And the Anti-Graft Bill
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: Lagos - With each passing day, concrete evidence crops up about the lack of resolution in prosecuting with vigour the national war against corruption. This is totally unacceptable. To repeat for the u (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Kayumba, Karegyeya Behind Terror Attacks - Prosecution
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Gashegu MuramiraKigali - The former High Commissioner to India, Lt. Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa and Patrick Karegyeya, are accused of having been the brains behind the recent grenade attacks in the city (By News Poster)...ZIA Restructuring Set for Completion By June
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: Harare - RESTRUCTURING of the Zimbabwe Investment Authority will be complete by June this year, creating a one-stop investment shop in anticipation of increased foreign direct investment.Economic Plan (By News Poster)...South Africa: Motsoaledi Makes Personal HIV Testing Appeal to Health Workers
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Anso ThomAll patients entering a state health care facility will routinely be offered HIV counseling and testing while moves are afoot to enable community health workers to conduct these tests in a (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Banks' Profits Fall 66 Percent in 2009
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Alex NgarambeKigali - The consolidated net profits after tax for commercial banks registered a sharp drop from Rwf12 billion in 2008, down to Rwf4.2 billion in 2009, according to the Central Bank.T (By News Poster)...Nigeria/South Africa: 100 Days of World Cup
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Paul BasseyThe count down is on. I believe It is a Coincidence that the last friendly matches preparatory to the World Cup should be in the frame of what is now the 100 days count down to the World (By News Poster)...Kenya: Taking the Risk Out of Farming
Friday 05-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Just as purchasers of electronic goods can buy extended warranties in case their TV goes wrong, farmers in parts of Kenya can now mitigate the risk of weather shocks by insuring their inputs (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Interbank Rate Recovers at 2 Percent
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Amaka AgwuegboRenaissance Capitalhas said the plunge in Nigeria's interbank rate to 2.2 per cent from 26 per cent a year ago shows lenders are recovering from the crisis in which 10 of the biggest (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jonathan, Roll Up Your Sleeves
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Simon KolawoleLagos - President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua is back. How did I know? On Wednesday, the Yar'Adua Gang (hereinafter referred to as the "Gang") issued a statement calling Dr. Goodluck Jonathan (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Locals Can Buy Barrick Shares - BoT
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Peter NyanjeTanzanians will be allowed to buy African Barrick Gold (ABG) shares in the mining giant's Sh1.3 trillion initial public offer (IPO) in London, The Citizen can authoritatively report tod (By News Poster)...Uganda: Don't Put Profit Before People, Warns Report
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Bamuturaki MusinguziNairobi - There is currently no transparency in Uganda's oil contracts, on the part of the government or the foreign oil companies, the Platform/CSCO report entitled "Cursed con (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Sanctions Not Hurting Economy, Says U.S. Envoy
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Bertha ShokoA senior United States diplomat, James Garry says the sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe have no significant effect on the country's macro-economic policies. Garry, the US embassy economic a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Save Shabanie From Collapse
Monday 01-Mar-2010: Harare - THE state of near collapse at Shabanie Mine in Zvishavane as we reported last week, needs urgent attention before it degenerates into a human and natural resources disaster.The livelihoods of (By News Poster)...Kenya: Fear of Knowing HIV Status Hurts Blood Donation
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Sammy CheboiNairobi - Kenya is unable to meet its annual blood requirements due to fears among potential donors that their HIV status would be known.The trend has made it difficult and expensive fo (By News Poster)...Botswana: Sycophancy as Khama and Kgafela's Stars Rise
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Gasebalwe Seretse"My Lord, if you say die, I perish," says a character in one of South African drama to the amusement of viewers. While many might choose to laugh off a line like this, sycophancy i (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gas Ultimatum And Electricity
Friday 05-Mar-2010: Lagos - THE recent ultimatum given to all those involved in the production of the gas required to generate the promised 6000 megawatts of power must be backed up with serious sanctions for non-complia (By News Poster)...Zim: Top official says KP monitor a spy
Friday 05-Mar-2010: "All they are bent on is to bring in more sanctions on us. We are giving them room to get into our system" A senior government official says Harare does not trust the Kimberley process (KP) di (By News Poster)...Nigeria: ERHC to Expand Operation in Country's Onshore
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Yemie AdeoyeRHC is a Sub-Saharan energy investment company with a strong Nigerian background.The American oil company with a single largest Nigerian interest of 43 per cent has also decided to expa (By News Poster)...Newman Chiadzwa Jailed Five Years
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Cletus MushanawaniHarare - Self-styled "Chief" Newman Chiadzwa was yesterday sentenced to an effective five-year jail term and a US$132 764 fine for possessing 43 028 carats of diamonds.He appeared (By News Poster)...South Africa: Dispute Threatens Nation's Biggest Steel Producer
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - TALKS had failed by yesterday to resolve the dispute between ArcelorMittal SA (Amsa) and Kumba Iron Ore.The disagreement looks set to continue, and threatens to cripple th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Merafe Quits Coal Venture with Sentula
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - FERROCHROME producer Merafe Resources said yesterday it had terminated its coal joint venture with Sentula, but insisted that it has not given up on its ambitions to explo (By News Poster)...Uganda: No International Pressure Will Choose Country's President
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Michael MadillIt doesn't really matter who is watching the 2011 elections. Their fairness and the durability of their results is a Ugandan problem, and no amount of attention by the US Secretary of (By News Poster)...Nigeria: PHCN - Power Generation Rises to 3,362 MW
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Onyebuchi Ezigbo and Omon-Julius OnabuAbuja/Warri - As Nigerians grapple with inadequate power supply, the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has said that electricity generation has risen to (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Unions Seek to Bring HIV Matters to Boardrooms
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Vusumuzi SifileEMPLOYERS and workers' representatives in the energy and textile sectors have come up with new policies in an attempt to foster debate around HIV/Aids at the workplace. The unions wa (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Rivers - Electricity Workers Threaten Power Cut
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Ufomba UzuegbuLagos - Elecricity workers under the aegis of the National Union of the Electricity Employees (NUEE), have threatened to cut off power supply from the whole of Rivers State, to protes (By News Poster)...Kenya: Three More Dead in Kenya Floods
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: By Casper Waithaka, Elisha Otieno and John NgirachuNairobi - Three more people have died as a result of floods in parts of Kenya, according to the latest statistics from the Kenya Red Cross and govern (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NNPC Loses N17 Billion Due to Pipeline Vandalisation
Friday 05-Mar-2010: Lagos - The Nigeria national Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it lost more than N174 billion to pipeline vandalism and the resultant petroleum products' losses within the last 10 years.The Group Mana (By News Poster)...Anti- Gay Bill Hurts Ugandan Farmers in the U.S Market
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Karoli SsemogerereDavid Bahati probably does not have any ulterior motives for his stringent Anti-homosexuality Bill. So do many other Ugandans for various reasons. I sat through a Christmas Day se (By News Poster)...Broadlands to Invest U.S.$100 Million in Infrastructure
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: Harare - BROADLANDS Networks, a new telecommunications operator, is planning to invest US$100 million to complete installation of infrastructure for its fourth generation (4G) telecommunication techno (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Central Bank Cuts Lending Rate
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Gbenga OgunbufunmiLagos - Lending rate has been reduced from two per cent to one per cent, and exchange rate kept at eight per cent by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).These are part of the decisi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Controversy Tails Zuma to London
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma 's recent controversies have followed him to the UK with scene-setters on his state visit revisiting his polygamy and his courtroom travails."His country's first op (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Intercontinental Bank Sacks 1,182 Support Staff
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Kingsley IghomwenghianLagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola , signing year 2010 budget and appropriation bill into law at the Lagos House, Ikeja on Monday, while the Special Adviser to the Govern (By News Poster)...South Africa: New Stores Help Retailers Weather Recession
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Michael BlebyJohannesburg - RETAILERS have emerged relatively unscathed from the recession that seems to be leaving SA behind. The results SA's shopkeepers-in-chief have announced in recent weeks h (By News Poster)...Africa: Standard Chartered Launches the China-Africa Network
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Daniel NonorStandard Chartered has launched the China Africa Network (CAN) - a bundle of services and products that will enable its customers take advantage of the Bank's unmatched strengths and ca (By News Poster)...Defense Witness Says Taylor Never Used Child Soldiers
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor's first defense witness said that prosecution witnesses lied when they testified that the former Liberian president recruited and used children for combat purposes in Libe (By News Poster)...Construction of 600 MW Morupule B Power Station Begins
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Brian BenzaPalapye - Construction of the 600 mw Morupule B phase 1 power station has begun with the first output expected in January 2012.Speaking at the official ground breaking ceremony of the po (By News Poster)...USA: Totally shocking: Pastor James David Manning Visited By Secret Service
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: [This is shocking. Pastor Manning expects to be arrested. He was also visited by the CIA. People should support this man and spread the word to stand by this honest black man. Jan] Pastor James Dav (By Jan)...Opposition Urges President to Resign
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichCORRUPTION has flourished in the past five years despite President Hifikepunye Pohamba's promises to fight corruption tooth and nail when he took office in 2005, an opposition part (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zuma to Present New Proposal on Sanctions
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: Pretoria - The Zimbabwean political stalemate is expected to top the agenda of President Jacob Zuma's meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street, London today.Zuma is expect (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Will Poultry Project Live Up to Expectations?
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Emmanuel ChacoKinshasa - For some seven million Congolese living in Kinshasa the only meat and poultry they could buy to eat since the 1980s was frozen imports from Western countries, distributed l (By News Poster)...Uganda: Fresh Tribal Tensions in Kibaale District Worry Security Agents
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Francis MugerwaHoima - Police in Kibaale District are concerned about the increasing tensions between the Bakiga and the Banyoro.The Midwestern Regional Police Commander, Mr Marcelino Wanitho, said (By News Poster)...Good Company Results Fail to Excite Investors
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Brian BenzaThe Botswana Stock Exchange(BSE), as measured by the mainstream Domestic Companies Index(DCI) softened last week despite a flurry of good company results pouring in the past few weeks.La (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police Chief's Legal Team Applies for Discharge
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Ernest MabuzaJohannesburg - FORMER police commissioner Jackie Selebi's legal team is preparing an extensive application for a discharge as the prosecution finalises its case today, the South Gauten (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bomb Threat Discovered in Edo Assembly
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Adibe EmenyonuBenin City - The leadership crisis rocking the Edo State House of Assembly took another dimension yesterday as an object suspected to be an explosive device was found in the premises (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Country Gets Aid to Curb Piracy On Lake Victoria
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By James MwakisyalaDar Es Salaam - Lake Victoria waters could become a safer body to work on following the financial assistance of $4m to build a marine police training facility and provision of patro (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Nation Bleeds While Battle for Chiadzwa Intensifies
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Wellington ChibebeTHE mystery surrounding the Chiadzwa diamonds continues to deepen with the alleged blockage of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines' visit to the fields for investigatio (By News Poster)...Bomb Scare at OP
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Isaiah MorewagaeIf security agents are to be believed an explosive device was discovered yesterday at the car park behind the Office of the President (OP).The device, which some suspect to be a bom (By News Poster)...South Africa: Confident Investors Fund Borrowing Needs
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - SA has covered its foreign borrowing needs for the coming year, scooping up 2bn without any fanfare on global markets this week on terms that show investors have confidence (By News Poster)...Unions Say Job Creation Must Come Before Empowerment
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Linda EnsorCape Town - Broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) should be subordinated to the imperatives of a job-creating industrial policy, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosa (By News Poster)...Zim: Harare confirms diamond haul in Marange field
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: So far this year produced two million carats Harare - Zimbabwe has so far this year produced two million carats of diamonds from its controversial Marange fields, a government official said on (By News Poster)...Botswana: Govt Makes U-Turn on Zimbabwe
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Ephraim KeorengBotswana has rescinded her decision to recall her defence and intelligence attaches from Zimbabwe.A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that in a bilateral meeting (By News Poster)...Namibia: Racism Still Alive At Workplace
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: By Brigitte WedlichRACISM was still prevalent in many companies and proof of this was that more white people still enjoyed preference in top jobs and at management level, according to the Employment E (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Appeal Courts a Top Priority
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: Maputo - A top priority for the Mozambican legal system is to set up the intermediate appeals courts envisaged in the 2007 law on court organisation, declared the President of the Supreme Court, Ozias (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Intercontinental Bank Sacks 1,182 Staff
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: Abuja - Intercontinental Bank yesterday announced the sack of 1,182 support staff cadre workers as part of a repositioning exercise. The sack which took place yesterday marked the conclusion of the ri (By News Poster)...Poll Battle Kicks Off
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesA PACKED courtroom in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday witnessed the start of a hearing that will determine the immediate future of Namibia's democracy and government.The public ga (By News Poster)...Boerboel Attacks On Kids 'On Rise'
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Murray WilliamsA surgeon has issued a plea for parents to take extreme care with a breed of dog - the boerboel.Dr Jonathan Toogood, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, said this after an increasi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Yar'Adua - We'll Never Contemplate Coup Or Carry Out Security Breach - Army
Monday 01-Mar-2010: Lagops - Chief of Army staff, Lt. General Abdurahman Bello Dambazau said, yesterday, that the Nigerian Army under his leadership would never contemplate any coup plot or security breach in the country (By News Poster)...Kenya: Payment Portal Promises Major E-Commerce Shift
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Kui KinyanjuiWhen Quentin Faulkner launched an online store for parents looking for good quality clothing for their children two years ago, his peers told him he would close shop in weeks.But the b (By News Poster)...South Africa: Petrochemical Giant's Plea Opens Can of Worms
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - A SASOL application to the Competition Commission for leniency has opened a can of worms in the oil industry. The commission said yesterday it had found that major oil (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: President Speaks On Polls
Friday 05-Mar-2010: Harare - ZIMBABWE could hold elections next year when the two-year subsistence period accorded the inclusive Government by the Global Politi-cal Agreement ends, whether or not a new constitution is in (By News Poster)...Liberia: Calm Returns to Lofa As Monrovia Based Lofa Citizens Constitute Committee
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: Latest report reaching the Informer Newspaper indicates that calm has returned to Lofa County following violence clashes last Friday which according to information resulted in the killing of five pers (By News Poster)...Angola: Russia Signs Border Officer Training Deal
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: Luanda - The Angolan Home Affairs Ministry and the Security Services of the Russian Federation signed Monday in Luanda an accord of cooperation and training protocol of national border police staff.Th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Mediacon Seeks Better Reporting of Sexual Abuse
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Olayinka LatonaAlthough child abuse occurs in Nigeria, it has received little attention. This is probably due to the general assumption that in every African society the extended family system alwa (By News Poster)...Witness says, "Nobody Is Lying"
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Alpha SesayA defense witness for Charles Taylor has dismissed prosecution assertions that his testimony is contradicting that of the former Liberian president, telling the court that neither him, n (By News Poster)...Culture Spears Find Gold in Piracy
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Monkagedi GaotlhobogwePiracy seems to be working wonders for Culture Spears in Zimbabwe. The Botswana super group found out during their recent trip to Harare that not only are Harare streets flood (By News Poster)...Kenya: Free Cereals Board of Politics, Urges Expert
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Mwaniki WahomeNairobi - The National Cereals and Produce Board, which has been in the spotlight over malpractices, is set for an overhaul in an attempt to streamline its operations.Last week, the b (By News Poster)...Kenya: Proposed Law Comes to the Aid of People Living With HIV
Monday 01-Mar-2010: Nairobi - The rights of people living with Aids could get a boost once a Bill that seeks to secure them becomes law.The East Africa HIV Prevention and Management Bill seeks to correct errors in curren (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Back At Work
Monday 01-Mar-2010: PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will return to work tomorrow to address issues threatening the fragile unity government after successfully undergoing surgery in South Africa, his office confirmed yes (By News Poster)...Rwanda: "eSoko" to Ease Farmers' Access to Market Information
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: By Gertrude MajyambereKigali - Rwandan farmers will benefit from government's e-soko project that seeks to help them access latest market information for particular commodities.The project helps farme (By News Poster)...Africa: Energy Shortages Threaten Africa Growth-UK Minister
Friday 05-Mar-2010: London - Africa's economic growth could be held back for another generation unless global investors help the world's poorest continent to improve its unreliable energy networks, a British minister sai (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Warlord Trial, Prosecutors Cross-Examine Former UPC Fighter
Friday 05-Mar-2010: By Wairagala WakabiProsecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) today cross-examined a defense witness in the Thomas Lubanga trial about three photographs which showed alleged former leaders (By News Poster)...Bank of Baroda Case Adjourned
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Isaiah MorewagaeThe Bank of Baroda robbery case could not be heard yesterday because regional magistrate (South) Lot Moroka was unavailable.According to the Regional Magistrate's Office, Moroka was (By News Poster)...Witness Says Taylor Did Not Join 1999 Rebel Attack on Freetown
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Alpha SesayNeither Charles Taylor nor his security forces supported or participated in the Sierra Leonean rebel attack on the country's capital Freetown in 1999, the Special Court for Sierra Leone (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Prepayment Offers Convenience
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: Harare - LONG queues are now the order of the day at most Zesa Holdings' offices.This follows massive power disconnections by the power utility to recover over US$200 million owed by consumers in unpa (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: VP Nkomo Applauds Govt-Russia Ties
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: By Ray BandeThe cordial relations between Zimbabwe and Russia must be cherished and sustained by all well-meaning citizens of the two countries, Vice President John Nkomo said yesterday.Addressing del (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (03-03-2010)
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- If this posting is late, please accept my apologies. We had an early meeting with some support workers here in our bungalow and this became (By The BeardedMan)...Nigeria: Unfair Employment Policies Now Pervade Nation's Oil Industry - Nupeng
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: In a union/management meeting we held with SHELL management in Port Harcourt on November 12, 2008, the head of employees' relations made us to understand that they operate across 11 states that make u (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Country Competitiveness - Reform Or Stagnate!
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Afolabi ElebijuLagos - Two recent events gave rise to this week's title. One, the approval of the National Tax Policy (NTP) by the Federal Executive Council - a news items that could easily have pa (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (02-03-2010)
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: Howzit According to an email received overnight, I have won seven hundred and fifty thousand Euros. I am rich! I do, however, object to the detail that the organisers want. I don't even remember (By The BeardedMan)...Gambia: Armed Forces Gets New PRO
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Abubacarr SaidykhanLt. Pierre Beyai is the newly appointed Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Armed Forces. This was revealed at a press conference convened by the outgoing PRO of the Gambia Arm (By News Poster)...Botswana: Masalila Takes Up Fight against Stigma
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: By Isaac PinieloFrancistown - If there is anything that will make Francinah Masalila more content, it would be to see HIV-positive people in this country living self-assured lives free from stigma.The (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'We've Touched Lives in Tangale Community'
Monday 01-Mar-2010: Mr. Malachi Kongude, a veteran banker, has served as staff of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for many years before he became the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Tangale Microfinance Nigeri (By News Poster)...Kenya: Farmers Unable to Pay Loans As Milk Goes to Waste
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Joint ReportNairobi - Agatha Buuri feels cheated.During the prolonged drought last year, the Nyeri dairy farmer borrowed Ksh200,000 (about $2,667) from a financial institution to finance her dairy (By News Poster)...Econet Leads ZSE Best Picks
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Golden SibandaHarare - FINANCIAL analysts have picked rapidly expanding mobile phone operator Econet Wireless Zimbabwe as the most likely Zimbabwe Stock Exchange best performer in the first quarter (By News Poster)...Kenya: Individually, Locals Must Play a Role to Fight Graft
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Matunda NyanchamaNairobi - Corruption in Kenya has become endemic; it permeates society to such a degree that it has become the norm. We are not likely to make much progress in the current circumst (By News Poster)...Petrotek Introduces Mobile Petrol Stations
Monday 01-Mar-2010: By Absalom ShigwedhaPETROTEK, a Namibian company aiming to make fuel more accessible to rural communities by means of containerised petrol stations, was inaugurated in Windhoek yesterday.Petrotek chai (By News Poster)...Film: Mugabe and the White African - Box Village Hall - Wednesday 24th March
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: [Here is an interesting exchange between some people I know on this subject. Jan] Subject: RE: Film: Mugabe and the White African - Box Village Hall - Wednesday 24th March Bob, Must confess t (By Jan)...IMPORTANT: PROPOSED CLASS ACTION TO OBTAIN FAIR PAYMENT OF ZIMBABWE PENSIONS AND ARREARS
Monday 01-Mar-2010: [A friend of mine sent me this. I wish these poor people good luck. Mugabe has completely wiped out pensions and for the last 10 years most pensioners have virtually ZERO income thanks to Mugabe’s in (By Jan)...USA: Dr. James David Manning Claims Homeland Security Plans To Arrest Him For Alleged Threats Against Barack Hussein Obama
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: [I honestly hope this does not happen. Pastor Manning is an incredible black man. Jan] Pastor James David Manning claims his arrest for allegedly threatening the life of Barack Hussein Obama, aka t (By Jan)...[Pics] Shocking Neglect of Patient in State Hospital
Friday 05-Mar-2010: [Please, if it is within your ability, PLEASE help this organization, PLEASE help Jaco. May GOD bless Jaco and heal him and fill him with Your love. Please pray for Jaco. You can join the Facebook gro (By JanOlifant)...2010/03/03 - What my Technical indicators say for the market... Buy? Or Sell?
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: I'm going to have some fun exercises and I thought I'd share it with my readers. I am at sixes and sevens myself as to how reliable my technical indicators are in various situations, but I thought I'd (By Jan)...[Cartoon] S.Africa: 2010: Brilliant - President Jacob Zuma's state visit to the UK... Eek! The Queen...
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: [A friend sent me this brilliant ZAPIRO cartoon. Hillarious. All about Jacob Zuma's sexual exploits... Our polygamist President... is an embarrassment to the country. I don't care about his sexual e (By Jan)...Policing the Police: Offensive Against Rogue Cops
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: FREE to all registered eblockwatch members - please ensure that your 4 support member details are correct in the system (especially their email addresses!). Please note that normal cell phone rates ap (By JanOlifant)...[Jokes] [Humor] A Muslim terrorist dies and goes to heaven...
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: [I received this joke from a lady in Texas. Very cool. Jan] Can't remember whether I told you the joke about the Muslim who died in a terrorist attack and approached the gates of heaven. George Wa (By Jan)...Rhodesia lives on: ORAFs - Old Rhodesian Air Force Sods
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: [Cool. Rhodesia still rocks. Jan] ORAFs - Old Rhodesian Air Force Sods (By Jan)...USA: [Video] Pastor Manning says there is a CIA coverup of Obama because Obama was a CIA agent
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: [Check these shocking things Pastor Manning has to say. What a great man. If only there were more like him. Jan] Honorable James David Manning: Obama was a CIA liaison to the Taliban in the 80s (By Jan)...USA: Republicans Prevents an Ambush by Democrats on the CIA
Monday 01-Mar-2010: The Hill reports a major win for Republicans and the CIA on a Democrat ambush on the agency and its agents. The Democrat sneak-attack unfolded as the healthcare summit took the national stage, but the (By JanOlifant)...USA: Was President Obama a CIA agent? I ask someone with a Covert Ops background....
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: [I have been really curious since Pastor Manning began saying that President Obama was a former CIA operative with Pakistani and Taliban links. I also don't quite know what to make of these allegation (By Jan)...[Jokes] [Humour] S.Africa: Even Black people are laughing and mocking President Jacob Zuma's sexual behaviour...
Monday 01-Mar-2010: [I’ve said before that non-whites are mocking President Jacob Zuma, but I see it now even includes black people. A young black guy at my work sent me this joke below – and… these non-whites who are mo (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (01-03-2010)
Monday 01-Mar-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- Yesterday I had cause to really appreciate efficiency. My mother, by virtue of her age, qualifies for a free British passport. She filled i (By The BeardedMan)...Zuma Returns After Fruitful UK Visit
Friday 05-Mar-2010: Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma is heading back to South Africa after his three-day state visit to the United Kingdom where he managed to reach agreement on several bilateral issues and shared interna (By News Poster)...USA: Did You Hear? Obama Was a CIA Operative in Pakistan linked to Muslim terrorists...
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: [Check this out from Pastor Manning. Jan] Click on the link below to view the video:- (By Jan)...South Africa: UK Attacks on Zuma Hypocritical
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - MANY thousands of South Africans gave their lives for the freedom of Britain in the two great wars of the last century. Britain is one of this country's main trading partners and the si (By News Poster)...[humor] [Joke] President Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown consult a Time Machine...
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: [This is funny. Mind you I don't believe the outcome for the USA... Jan] Britain in decline President Obama and Gordon Brown are shown a time machine which can see 100 years into the future. (By Jan)...USA: BRILLIANT NEW BOOK: Liberals - America's termites - Its a shame that Liberals don't eat their young..
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: [This is hillarious... to put it mildly. This guy actually worked in Hollywood... and takes no prisoners. Jan] As a columnist and blogger, I get sent a lot of books from authors who hope that I’ll (By JanOlifant)...[2 Pics] S.Africa: 2010: Collapsing infrastructure - Randburg water pipe burst...
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: [I took these photos about a week ago in Bond St in Randburg. A water pipe burst and was busy gouging out a hole at the entrance to a business. They later had to dig a big hole and it took a few days (By Jan)...[Cartoon] Solving President Jacob Zuma's zipper problem... for once and for all...
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: [A regular reader sent me this cool cartoon of Zuma. Jan] (Photo) (By Jan)...[Video] USA: Totally Brilliant: A Black American artist explains why he is a Judeo-Christian Conservative....
Monday 01-Mar-2010: [This totally amazed me. This black guy looks and acts "black"... but listen to the man speak. Listen to the man argue his points. This is so WOW!!!! I am so impressed. For years I've been saying that (By JanOlifant)...Old RSA Flag Banned At World Cup
Tuesday 02-Mar-2010: The mayor of Cape Town has banned public displays of the old Republic of South Africa flag during the 2012 World Cup Games, due to associations the banner has with Apartheid. Read more at: (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...USA: [Video] Totally Brilliant: Pastor Manning - White people are sick of being kicked around & will rise up - I will join them!
Friday 05-Mar-2010: [This is such a brilliant and lovely speech by a black man. He talks about Obama being an illegal immigrant and news organisations sucking up to Obama while Obama goes around wasting white people's ta (By JanOlifant)...[Pic] [Humor] 2010: Four Weddings and a Funeral, er... South African, President Jacob Zuma style...
Wednesday 03-Mar-2010: [This hillarious news item has been doing the rounds among my friends. They are referring to South African President Jacob Zuma's polygamy and other sexual activities... too numerous to mention all p (By Jan)...Brilliant Humour: I never thought I'd see an American being this Politically Incorrect...
Thursday 04-Mar-2010: I laughed so much at this post by one of our AmericanCrisis volunteers. This is seriously good. Check it out at the link below. I think Political Correctness is dying pretty fast... (EXCELLENT!) Ch (By Jan)...USA: My Prediction about Obama back in September 2008, before he was elected, came true...
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: In September 2008, on AfricanCrisis, I mentioned a couple of things about Obama which I think some people are only now waking up to. BEFORE he was elected, I mentioned a few things about Obama. (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (06-03-2010)
Saturday 06-Mar-2010: Howzit With tomorrow being the first Sunday of the month, there will be no posting as I will be attending the monthly meeting of the local RBL. -o00o- "In an interesting and surprising twist (By The BeardedMan)...
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