Weekly Southern African Report
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Saturday, 13th 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 & GruesomeThanks to the Western world's Liberal molly-coddling there's a generation of: Over-confident, incapable, intellectually dysfunctional, fragile blacks - much like Obama...
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: I used to work in a more secluded way over the years, until the last 2 years where I've been shoved more and more into the open. A coloured manager whom I know well and get along with marvellously, (By Jan)...S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World cup: Julius Malema, Winnie Mandela & Jacob Zuma want a RACE WAR against the whites...
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Hehehe. I am a spiteful bastard aren't I? Perhaps some of you have spotted my quiet joke ... Yes, I am a bastard, but you know, there are some people with whom talk is a waste of time, and the bes (By Jan)...Shocking: S.Africa: Nelson Mandela's former wife, Winnie Mandela rips him to SHREDS...
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: I was very surprised to hear, almost amazed in fact, that Winnie Mandela, Nelson Mandela's former wife, let rip on him and tore him to shreds and it was printed in our newspapers. This is the same (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Land Reform is Common Sense
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Grasian MkodzongiZimbabwe's land issue has generated unprecedented debates both within and outside the country. The debates, which followed the dramatic occupations of white farms by rural peasants (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Black journalist, Justice Malala says: Jacob Zuma sold his soul to protect Robert Mugabe
Friday 12-Mar-2010: [The issue of emotion mentioned at the end is true. I suppose it is true for everyone - all races. Jan] Zuma sells his soul for Mugabe In defending the Zimbabwe kleptocracy he reveals his quality (By Jan)...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)...Somalia: U.S. Policy in Somalia
Friday 12-Mar-2010: The following is a briefing on U.S. policy in Somalia held by Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of African Affairs, Johnnie Carson, and Ambassador to the UN Mission in Rome Ertharin Cousin in Washi (By News Poster)...[3 Pics] S.Africa: 2010: Only in South Africa... car tyres... South African style...FW: Only on a FORD: OR Tambo parking lot this morning.
Friday 12-Mar-2010: [A friend sent me this. Apparently these photos were taken the other day at Johannesburg's international airport: O.R. Tambo. I've never seen anything like this. Jan] (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Deadly TB Hits Epworth Amid Worsening Health Crises
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Alex BellA deadly strain of tuberculosis has reportedly hit Epworth, amid a rapidly worsening health crisis and critical shortages of food across the country.One case of the deadly multi-drug resis (By News Poster)...Africa: Civil Society Must Hold Govt Accountable, Says IMF Chief
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), this week made his third trip to Africa in a year, visiting Kenya, South Africa and Zambia between March 8 and 11. I (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Malaysia Expresses Anger over Seizure of Farm
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Alex BellThe Malaysian government has officially protested the seizure of a Malaysian-owned banana plantation in eastern Manicaland, in a move which threatens diplomatic ties between the two countr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: More Mass Graves Dug in Jos
Monday 08-Mar-2010: Abuja - Hundreds of people in the city of Jos, 350km northeast of Nigeria's capital, Abuja, have been buried in mass graves after machete-wielding intruders attacked residents at 3 a.m. (local time) o (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (12-03-2010)
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- "The Zimbabwe government has accused diamond giant De Beers of looting from the controversial Chiadzwa mining fields over a period of 15 year (By The BeardedMan)...Zimbabwe: No Peacekeeping Forces for Zim Elections, U.S.
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Hebert ZharareHarare - NO peacekeeping forces will be deployed in Zimbabwe to monitor elections and MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai was wrong in suggesting such action as the Africa Union and Sad (By News Poster)...Ghana: Unitization - an Indispensable Practice in the Oil And Gas Industry
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By K.N. AtuaheneThe Creation Account as per the Holy Bible(Genesis chpt.1),makes it manifestly clear that Man was created in God's image with instructions to be fruitful, populate and dominate the wor (By News Poster)...Africa: New Oil to Flow From Continent's Hotspots
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: The power balance in Africa's crude oil production landscape is set to shift in the near future as a number of new oilfields come online.Crude oil has in recent years been discovered in many countries (By News Poster)...COMPLETELY DISGUSTING: Zimbabwe: President Zuma Lobbies IMF On Zim - Parallels to Vietnam Vietcong
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: [President Zuma's actions with respect to Zimbabwe disgust me. He and Tsvangirai are now keeping Mugabe in power. Just yesterday I was watching a documentary about "Vietnam, the debate". In it, Ngu (By News Poster)...SHOCKING: Africa: After 50 years of Black rule 200 million Africans Need U.S. $620 billion in food aid!
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: [Isn't it amazing. When Whites ruled Africa, Africa was a net exporter of food and agricultural products. Africa produced everything from maize and wheat to exporting tea, cotton, meat, tobacco and ot (By News Poster)...East Africa: What Lessons From Development Bank's Legal Drama in Dar?
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Kibe MungaiNairobi - On the last day of August 2005, a Tanzanian arbitrator awarded a Tanzanian transport company known as Blueline Enterprises Ltd damages in the sum of $61,386,853 against the Eas (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Human Rights Under Scrutiny Ahead of Polls
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Rwanda's upcoming presidential elections has cast a spotlight on its democratic credentials, with observers warning that allegations of intimidation of opposition leaders could mar the proce (By News Poster)...South Africa: 2010: FIFA world cup: Black discontent & war: Police On High Alert As Protests Break Out
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: [Black people are burning tyres in the streets and protesting against the black ANC Govt. The Govt tries to hide this, but its almost like a war out there. Townships are battlegrounds just as they wer (By News Poster)...Zim: Political violence victim narrates ordeal to PM
Friday 12-Mar-2010: One of her adductors, she claimed, was late Zanu PF minister without portfolio Elliot Manyika Bernard MpofuThe anguish on Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's face said it all as Rutendo Munenga (By News Poster)...U..S Declares War Against Country
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Tichaona ZindogaHarare - It is a war. Last week United States president Barack Obama announced he was extending US sanctions on Zimbabwe for another year as his country continued with the "national (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)...Nigeria: Jonathan Fires Top Security Adviser Over Jos Mayhem
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Taye Obateru and Emmanuel AzikenTHE Jos crisis which led to the death of about 400 people on Sunday, has led to the sacking of the National Security Adviser, Sarki Mukhtar, by the Acting President, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: State Governor Blames Army for Massacre
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By George Oji and Seriki Adinoyi in JosAbuja - Plateau State Governor Jonah John Jang has blamed the army for last Sunday's killings in the Jos South Local Government Area of the state.He said if the (By News Poster)...South Africa World Cup 2010 - 100 Days to What?
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Azad EssaI don't like press conferences.Organised to propagate nothing more than a particular message, they are spaces where real questions are rarely asked because there is no place for real answe (By News Poster)...From THE HERALD, from Mugabe's Propaganda mouthpiece: Rhodesians Should Be Isolated
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: [I laughed. Robert Mugabe is on record as saying, "Rhodesia is dead" and "we conquered Rhodesia" and there is no Rhodesia any more. Yet... who FEARS RHODESIA more than anyone else? Mugabe! Who raises (By News Poster)...Bomb Threats, Nchindo and the Kalafatis Effect
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Tshireletso Motlogelwa - Government squandered public trust a while back in the killing of John Kalafatis and others. Now no-one is prepared to believe the state on certain matters touching on securit (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 49 to be Charged With Murder After Jos Crisis, Police
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Taye Obateru, Kingsley Omonobi, Luka Binniyat and Tordue SalemTHE police said, yesterday, that 49 people are to be charged with murder after communal violence left scores of villagers dead. Most of (By News Poster)...Guinea: Ensure Redress for Stadium Massacre Victims
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Guinea's new transitional government should take concrete steps to ensure redress for victims of the September 2009 massacre of more than 150 opposition supporters in a stadium in the capital, Conakry (By News Poster)...A Long Walk from Soweto to Sandown
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Mphutlane Wa BofeloIn the wake of media exposure of his lavish and opulent lifestyle as well as business interest mostly sustained by government tenders, South Africa's ANC Youth League president, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos, Claims of Extra-Judicial Killings Rise
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Taye ObateruTHERE was pandemonium at the Police Staff College, yesterday, as members of the joint task force maintaining security in the state capital shot two persons who were trying to arrest som (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)...Uganda: Attitude About Land Must Change Or We Are Doomed
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Peter MuliraKampala - The term "land reform" is unpopular in Uganda because it connotes to many people the idea of land-grabbing. Unless we get rid of this xenophobia against change we shall perman (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jonathan Places Troops on Alert After 200 Killed in Jos
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By George Oji and Seriki Adinoyi in JosAbuja - Over 200 people, mostly women and children, were murdered in the early hours of yesterday following attacks on Dogo-Na-Hawa, Ratsat and Jeji villages in (By News Poster)...[Jokes] [Humour] Landrover jokes...
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Best 4x4 by far ON TAR. I always wondered why landrover called their models, a Series 90, Defender 110 etc. But this weekend I found out.............. those numbers in the model name are the top (By Jan)...South Africa:TLU/TAU Media Release:Zuma needs to say about Malema at talks with Afrikaners
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: Submitted by K. Nel: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 TAU SA has noticed with absolute aversion of the ANC Youth League Leader, Julius Malema’s adjustment of his predecessor Peter Mokaba’s song, “Kill t (By JoAn)...Nigeria: 500 Feared Killed in Fresh Jos Mayhem - Jonathan Orders Immediate Arrest of Killers
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Paul Arhewe Chesa Chesa And Onoja Audu With Agency ReportsLagos/Abuja - About 500 Berom natives in Dogon-Hauwa village, five kilometres south of Jos, were massacred on Sunday morning by Fulani herd (By News Poster)...South Africa: South Africa Police Use Rubber Bullets on Zimbabweans in Johannesburg
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaScores of Zimbabweans were injured on Thursday, some seriously, when South African police indiscriminately opened fire with rubber bullets on travelers boarding buses to return to Z (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos Massacre - 387 Bodies Given Mass Burial
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Funso Muraina and Seriki AdinoyiAbuja/Jos - It was all wailing and weeping yesterday in Dogo-Na-Hawa village in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State as bodies of over 387 people killed (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Investigate Massacre, Step Up Patrols - Hundreds Killed by Mobs in Villages in Central Region
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Nigeria’s acting president should make sure that the massacre of at least 200 Christian villagers in central Nigeria on March 7, 2010 is thoroughly and promptly investigated and that those respo (By News Poster)...Uganda: An interesting fact about how Idi Amin executed black people...
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: A friend of mine was a Commandant (Lt. Col) in Military Intelligence in the South African army many years back. He told me that he read lots of newspapers from across Africa as part of his daily work. (By Jan)...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)...Sanctions against Zimbabwe may be helping Mugabe
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: The trade embargo only applies to arms The sanctions against Zimbabwe are supposed to hurt the clique surrounding president Mugabe. They may be having the opposite effect.By Peter Vermaas in H (By News Poster)...South Africa: Was Natives Land Act the Original Political Sin?
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Jacob DlaminiJohannesburg - THE 1913 Natives Land Act is considered by many people to be SA's original political sin. The act, which became law on 19 June 1913, limited African land ownership to 7% (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)...Ethiopia: Licensed to Steal
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Alemayehu G. MariamIf democracy is a government of the people, kleptocracy is a government of thieves.Last week the secret world of Meles Zenawi's kleptocracy, famine aid-sharking and money launder (By News Poster)...[Cartoons] Some brilliant ZAPIRO cartoons about President Jacob Zuma & Julius Malema...
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: These are a laugh! (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Country's 'Vilest Scramble' for Diamonds
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaTHERE is something paradoxical about diamonds. Ideally they should be a source of wealth and prosperity -- even a symbol of love ("a girl's best friend", Marilyn Monroe told us) -- b (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Reforming Shell?
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Washington, DC - At last month's Oil & Gas Conference in Nigeria, outgoing Regional Executive Vice President, Shell Exploration and Production, Africa, Ann Pickard, forecast declining willingness to i (By News Poster)...Nigeria: New Human Development Report
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Washington, DC - "Between 1985 and 2004, inequality in Nigeria worsened from 0.43 to 0.49, placing the country among those with the highest inequality levels in the world. Many studies have shown that (By News Poster)...ANC Defends “Kill The Boer†Song
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is defending its Youth Party leader Julius Malema for singing “shoot the Boer, they are racist,†saying the words were taken out of context. Re (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...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)...Zimbabwe: How New Empowerment Laws Will Affect Business
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Luke ZungaZimbabwe's new empowerment law that compels foreign-owned companies to give-up a 51% stake in their businesses to black Zimbabweans was greeted with shock by investors when first announce (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Blooding Gems Part of Sanctions War
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Garikai ChenguHarare - ZIMBABWE'S diamond field in Chiadzwa is home to the largest known concentration of diamonds in the world, which are capable of transforming Zimbabwe's economic fortunes.Conse (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Pope Condemns Jos Mayhem, as Police Set to Charge 49
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Paul ArheweCatholic papal Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday condemned the "atrocious" mayhem in Jos where over 500 people were massacred at the wee hours of last Sunday, also police said 49 people res (By News Poster)...Kenya: Hungry And HIV-Positive in Nairobi's Slums
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Violet Tinah, 40, a resident of Korogocho slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, is living with HIV and was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis, but her biggest problem today is not disease - (By News Poster)...Zim: Farm seizure riles Mugabe's Malaysian friends
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Retired major general Edzai Chimonyo last January seized the banana farm in Burma Valley By Own CorrespondentHarare - The Malaysian government on Tuesday protested to Harare over the seizure b (By News Poster)...Zim: Trail of debt all the way to China
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: Chinese investors are more indigenous than their Western rivals Jason MoyoHarare - As Xin Shunkang, Beijing's man in Harare, loudly sang the last notes of Zimbabwe's national anthem, Simudzai (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Calls for Peacekeeping Force to Monitor Elections
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said he will call on the African Union and SADC to deploy a peacekeeping force to protect voters in elections that are expected to be held in Zimbabwe next year.Ts (By News Poster)...Somalia: U.S. Should Accept Islamist Authority, Report Says
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: Washington, DC - The United States should accept an "Islamist authority" in Somalia as part of a "constructive disengagement" strategy for the war-torn country, according to a new report released here (By News Poster)...Dembare's Tough Fixtures
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Robson SharukoHarare - HARARE giants Dynamos have been handed the toughest possible way to start their campaign to win the 2010 Premiership crown with dates against defending champions Gunners, bit (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banks - Stemming Northern Marginalisation
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Shehu AbubakarLagos - There is no sphere in Nigeria that clearly evidences the growing loss of relevance of Northern Nigeria, as much as the banking sector. And it is a rude shock that many Nigeria (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Here is What Country Needs
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: By Andrew M. MwendaIn The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama says he has always been troubled by the gap between the magnitude of America's challenges and the smallness of its politics. This makes even mo (By News Poster)...Namibia: Koës Strangler Admits to Killing
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesA RESIDENT of Koës admitted in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday that he killed a woman at his home village near the end of 2006 by strangling her with his bare hands - all whi (By News Poster)...Zim: Now Zuma seems to have fallen under Mugabe's spell as surely as Mbeki did
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: CommentZimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is widely credited with great political cunning. And certainly it would seem that you have to be pretty smart to survive for the three decades as pre (By News Poster)...Nigeria: "Interbank Rate At 2 Percent From 6 Percent Shows Recovery"
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Paul OgbuokiriLagos - Last week's plunge in the interbank rate to 2.8 percent from 6.0 percent a year ago shows that banks are recovering from the crisis in which 10 of the biggest 24 banks failed, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: When Niger Delta Stakeholders Stormed the Hague
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Okey OnwuchekwaTHE Hague, Netherlands has another baptismal name. It is an abode of international law, diplomacy and peace.This charming city, where the Dutch government has its political seat prov (By News Poster)...N. Korea Says It Is Ready to 'Blow Up' U.S. - My Comments - My warnings from 2003
Monday 08-Mar-2010: [The communist trash, and their terrorist buddies worldwide are posturing and manoevering. As always, being aggressors, they keep stoking fires. I think there is a general plan to keep the US Govt/mil (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Police Destroy Home On Orders From Spirit Medium
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Wongai ZhangazhaWhen mystic Rotina Mavhunga, alias Sekuru Muboni, announced she had discovered pure diesel flowing from rocks in the sacred Chinhoyi caves, she became Zanu PF's new best friend. In (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 200 Killed in Jos Villages Raid
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Andrew Agbese, Ahmed Mohammed and Misbahu BashirJos/Abuja - At least 200 people were killed yesterday when suspected pastoralists attacked three villages near Jos, where sectarian violence left hun (By News Poster)...Namibia Aims to Go Nuclear in 20 Years
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyGOVERNMENT has decided to build a nuclear power plant in Namibia within the next 15 to 20 years, Mines and Energy Minister Erkki Nghimtina has confirmed.Nghimtina on Tuesday told Engin (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SADC Takes Investment Drive to Europe for Energy Sector
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: By Kizito SikukaSouthern Africa could get a major boost towards implementation of some of its key energy generation and transmissions projects as it takes its investment promotion to the Energy Infras (By News Poster)...Nigeria: End This Tit for Tat Madness
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: The heinous, cowardly and genocidal attacks by armed men on three villages near Jos, Plateau State in the early hours of last Sunday was an outrage, a calculated attack on efforts to consolidate a fra (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Fighting Poverty During the Crisis - Africa's Challenge
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Vinod Thomas and Marvin Taylor-DormondKigali - The current economic crisis could push 90 million people more into extreme poverty worldwide by end of 2010.Some 2 million children could die in the n (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)...Congo-Kinshasa: UN, U.S. Accuse Govt Forces of War Crimes
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Government troops - the FARDC - in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are to blame for much of the epidemic of sexual violence in the east of the country, according to US and UN reports (By News Poster)...South Africa: Nelson Mandela Bitterly Attacked by Ex-Wife
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Murray Williams and Caiphus KgosanaWinnie Madikizela-Mandela has launched an astonishing attack on Nelson Mandela, accusing the former president of failing black people.In an interview published in (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: HIV Infection - Positive Benefits of Male Circumcision
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By DR StampsHarare - I must confess, at the outset, my initial reservations about the enthusiastic, and sometimes irrational, adoption of adult male circumcision as a strategy against the worldwide th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Plateau Women Protest Peaceful over Jos Killings
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Taye Obateru and Luka BinniyatHUNDREDS of Plateau women, yesterday, staged peaceful demonstrations in Jos and Abuja against Sunday's mayhem at Dogon Nahawa where hundreds, mostly women and children (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zuma Plans Mediation Trip to Harare Next Week
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaSouth African President Jacob Zuma is reportedly planning a trip to Harare next week, for the first time in his capacity as the mediator in the Zimbabwe crisis since he took over fr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Protesters Demand to See Yar'Adua
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: Lagos - Protesting Save Nigeria Group (SNG) has said it is unacceptable that ailing President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has been incommunicado since he left the country for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chegutu Gold Rush Sparks Running Battles
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Freeman RazembaHarare - Police and panners in Chegutu are engaged in running battles following the discovery of gold near Hintonville suburb in this farming district of Mashonaland West Province.Hu (By News Poster)...Nigeria: South African ATM Expert Hails Directive of Off-Site ATM's
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Babajide KomolafeManaging Director of Spark ATM System, the second largest off-site ATM management company in South Africa, Mr. Mark Sternberg has said that the CBN's directive on Off-site ATMs wil (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nigeria Moves to Check Illegal Trafficking of Artifacts
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: By Odogwu Emeka OdogwuAwka - An artifact is any object made or modified by a human. It is part of the evolution of man in all its ramifications. It tells the greatness of a civilization and its age. H (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos Crisis - Police Arrest 351 Suspects - Pope Condemns Killings
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Paul Arhewe, Ajibola Abayomi And Onoja Audu With Agency ReportsLagos/Jos - POLICE in Jos have confirmed the arrest of 351 persons over the killings in Dogon-Hauwa villages on Sunday. Plateau State (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Genocide On the Plateau - the Way Out
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Mohammed Haruna NdajikaPredictably virtually all the major newspapers in the country gave last Sunday's horrible massacre of Beroms in a village on the outskirts of Jos, allegedly by some pastoral (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cele Blames High Crime Rate On Bail, Parole
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - Controversial national police commissioner Bheki Cele yesterday sharply criticised other elements of the criminal justice system -- notably those granting bail and parole (By News Poster)...Nigeria: HIV/Aids - Worries Over Rising Infection Rate
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Sam Nzeh And Leonard OkachieLagos - PROLOGUE Since HIV/AIDS broke out in Nigeria over two decades ago, the pandemic appear not be in a hurry to nosedive. Every year, the number of people contractin (By News Poster)...'Runyoka' Death Throws Woman Into Despair
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Obert ChifambaHarare - DADIRAI Kurima (49) of Redmile Farm, Trelawney, will forever regret consenting to the February 11, 2010 tryst with her lover Moses Billiard, which unlike most dates that end (By News Poster)...Africa: From Crisis to Opportunity Through Clean Technology
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Cindy ShinerCalestous Juma is professor of the Practice of International Development and director of the Science, Technology and Globalization Project at the Harvard Kennedy School. He also direc (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamond Saga - 'Sleaze, Corruption and Perversion of Course of Justice'
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Chris MuronziFOLLOWING President Robert Mugabe's claims last week that De Beers looted diamonds from the controversial Chiadzwa fields for 15 years and that African Consolidated Resources plc (ACR) (By News Poster)...South Africa: Serious About Fighting HIV And Aids
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Gabi KhumaloIncreased measures aimed at reducing HIV transmission from mother to child by 2015 have been put in place throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and with bold and life changing policies set to c (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Forum Condemns Violence Against Young Girls
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Following an alarming spate of rapes in Sierra Leone in the first 3 months of 2010, a Civil Society Organizations (CSO)-UNDP forum has called for a vigorous response to stop human rights violations an (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos Killings a Reprisal - Police
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: The Plateau State police command yesterday said the early morning attack on three villages in Jos South Local Government on Sunday was a reprisal by some Fulani people who lost their tribesmen and cat (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bloody Agendas Hidden Hands
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: Violent conflict in the city of Jos - and in much of Nigeria - is about rights, access to resources and access to power. In the latest attacks, more than 200 people have been killed at the hands of mo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Eskom Loan Crucial for Economic Development - Hogan Speaks Out on Eskom Loan Proposal
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Cape Town - If the World Bank chose not to approve the $3.75-billion loan to help build two new power stations, we can "essentially say goodbye to our country", said Minister of Public Enterprises Bar (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Money Laundering Offences Attract 10-Year Jail Term
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Sufuyan OjeifoAbuja - Any person who commits an offence under Section 15 (1) of the Bill for an Act to repeal the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2004 and enact the Money Laundering (Prohibition (By News Poster)...Zim: Saviour Kasukuwere ‘empowered' himself
Monday 08-Mar-2010: "His wealth is very difficult to explain, It's all cloudy and nothing is clear about how he acquired it" By Caiphas ChimheteTo many in Zanu PF, Saviour Kasukuwere, the Minister of Youth Develo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Plateau Women At National Assembly, Protest Killings
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Adetutu Folasade-Koyi, Joe Nwankwo, Wisdom Patrick And Onoja AuduJos/Abuja/Lagos - Thousands of women from Plateau State on Thursday marched on the National Assembly (NASS) in Abuja, with placards (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: The Forgotten Plight of Zimbabwe's Xenophobia Victims in South Africa
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaAt least 1,500 Zimbabweans who fled their homes in the De Doorns farming area in the Western Cape, after they were attacked by South African mobs, believe they have been overlooked (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Biti Calls for New Diamond Laws
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Alex BellFinance Minister Tendai Biti has called for a complete overhaul of the laws governing the country's diamond trade, saying all the mining leases that the government has awarded to firms in (By News Poster)...Zim: Politically motivated violence erupts in Mudzi
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: “They are very much afraid of this constitution and they are trying to put fear into people"†By Violet Gonda12 March 2010The MDC has accused Zanu PF of unleashing violence against its sup (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Bunkering in Ogoni
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Godwin EgbaPort Harcourt - The Ogoni people of Rivers State are known for fighting against destruction of their land mass, agriculture, water and aquatic lives; a fallout of oil spillage from compa (By News Poster)...Cleric Defends Mandela from Winnie Attack
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Nairobi - A visiting South African archbishop on Friday defended the leadership record of former President Nelson Mandela against accusations of betrayal by his estranged wife Winnie Mandela.The Most (By News Poster)...Africa: Global Health Advocates and UN Officials Meeting at Westminster Say U.K. and World Leaders Must Keep Their Promise to More Than 10 Million People with AIDS Who Need Treatment
Friday 12-Mar-2010: With Britain leading the way, G8 leaders pledged at the U.K.-led Gleneagles G8 Summit in 2005 to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care by 2010. Significant progress has been m (By News Poster)...Africa: North Korea Arms to Africa - Unusual Only Because Illegal
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Kevin J KelleyNairobi - The recently reported seizure of a North Korean arms shipment supposedly intended for Congo-Brazzaville highlights the continuing flow of weapons into African conflict zones (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SADC Statement on Energy Investment Conference
Monday 08-Mar-2010: A two-day SADC Energy Investment Conference takes place in Frankfurt, Germany on March 04 and 05 in an effort to address the prevailing power shortfalls in the SADC Region and the adverse impact it ha (By News Poster)...Zim: Zuma expected in Harare next week
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: "It's now more than a year, yet there are still outstanding issues which have to be addressed" By Own CorrespondentHarare - South African President Jacob Zuma is expected in Harare next week t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Shonekan - Recurring Crisis More Economic Than Ethno-Religious
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Kunle AderinokunAbuja - Former Head of Interim National Government (ING), Chief Ernest Shonekan has said that the recurring violence in Jos in Plateau State was more economic in nature than the eth (By News Poster)...South Africa: Stoke Competition, Says IMF Chief
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - LACK of competition was a much bigger challenge for SA's economy than the level of the rand, the MD of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said y (By News Poster)...Uganda: Oil Exploration Renews Locals' Hope
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Ibrahim KasitaKampala - Tullow Oil which bought Heritage Oil's shares to explore Uganda's oil has offered tenders for service providers. The Albertine region is coming alive with hopes of employmen (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 400 Killed in Fresh Jos Crisis
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Raymond GukasJos - The government has since called for the arrest of Alhaji Saleh Bayeri, former executive secretary, Muslim Welfare Board and State Secretary of Miyetti Allah Cattle Rearers Associ (By News Poster)...Nigeria/South Africa: I Was in South Africa
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Paul BasseySo what? Yes, so what?A friend in Jo'burg saw me battling with this column and said " So what is special about being in South Africa?", aware that I have passed this way a couple of time (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Politically-Motivated Violence Erupts in Mudzi
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: By Violet GondaThe MDC has accused ZANU PF of unleashing violence against its supporters in the Mudzi area in Mashonaland East, despite the fact that there is now an inclusive government which should (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ahead Vanguard's Post-Amnesty Dialogue - Highlights of the Niger Delta Technical Committee Report
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Okey NdiribeThe Federal Government inaugurated the Niger Delta Technical Committee, NDTC, 8 September 2008 with the following terms of reference:*To collate, review and distil the various reports, (By News Poster)...South Africa: Reversal of Bad Debt Lifts FirstRand Profit
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - FIRSTRAND lifted normalised profit 1% to R4,61bn in the six months to December after its retail banking businesses started to benefit from a decline in credit impairments. (By News Poster)...DA pressures Zuma to take a stand on Zimbabwe crisis before it is too late
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: In his continuing fight to protect the human rights of Zimbabweans as well as the stability of the SADEC region, DA Parliamentary Leader Athol Trollip urged President Jacob Zuma to rethink his fundame (By JanOlifant)...South Africa: ANC Youth League Refuses Proof of White Farmer Murderers
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - The ANC youth league has refused to accept a list detailing 1600 farm murders from a delegation representing Afriforum on Thursday afternoon.Afriforum youth leader Ernst Roets and sever (By News Poster)...Kenya: New Bill to Improve State Witness Protection, If Passed
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Mary KiioNairobi - Kenyans affected by the violence that erupted after the country's disputed presidential elections in 2007 may soon be able to speak out without fear. A new bill will offer better (By News Poster)...Swaziland: Tackling One Crisis at a Time Does Not Solve All
Monday 08-Mar-2010: Mbabane - The myriad crises afflicting Swaziland can only be solved with a holistic approach, not a piecemeal one, the World Food Programme (WFP) deputy executive director, Sheila Sisulu, said during (By News Poster)...East Africa: Defence Chiefs May Send Military to Countries in Crisis
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Charles KazoobaNairobi - Venturing into previously sensitive territory, defence chiefs from the East African Community member states have signed off on a radical policy proposal that creates the fr (By News Poster)...The Mugabe Factor in Next Presidential Election
Friday 12-Mar-2010: LAST week's proclamation by President Robert Mugabe of his intention to stand for another term should his party confirm him stands out as one very pivotal political pronouncement that has pungent effe (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Golden Leaf - Empowering New Farmers
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Kuda BwititiHarare - TOBACCO auction floors opened last month and proved beyond any shadow of doubt why this crop deserves to be termed the golden leaf!Many farmers who thronged the tobacco sales f (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chiefs in Land Scam
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Kuda BwititiHarare - SEVERAL chiefs and new farmers in Mashonaland Central have been placed under investigation for allegedly leasing their Government-allocated farms to white former commercial far (By News Poster)...South Africa: Motsoaledi Shares His Vision
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Anso ThomTen months into what many will agree is one of the toughest cabinet portfolios, health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi shares his vision for healthcare in South Africa. In his first wide-rang (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)...Forensic Science Labs staff crisis means criminals may walk free
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: Debbie Schafer, DA Shadow Deputy Minister of Police, said that in response to a parliamentary question, Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa, had revealed that specialised staff retention in forensic sc (By JanOlifant)...Red Cross: Zimbabwe back to brink of food crisis
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: "The food situation is as bad as our staff have ever seen it" By Angus ShawHarare - An estimated 2.17 million Zimbabweans - perhaps a fourth of the country's population - are in need of food a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Barclays Sitting On U.S.$100 Million
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Darlington MusarurwaHarare - BARCLAYS Bank of Zimbabwe Limited is presently sitting on US$100 million in customer deposits after having extended US$20,3 million in loans and advances of the US$121 (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Pains, Lamentation over ATM Cards
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Bose AdebayoMuyiwa Oni was a petty trader in Lagos who operated a savings account with a new generation bank in Lagos. He was just a stone's throw from the bank one day when he received an alert on (By News Poster)...Africa: More Funds Needed for HIV Prevention and Treatment
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Kristin PalitzaCape Town - Decreasing or levelling HIV funding will destabilise developing countries' health systems, a group of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) warned. They demand that gover (By News Poster)...Uganda: Rwanda Refuses to Respond to Nyamwasa
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Richard Wanambwa & Gerald BareebeKampala - Rwanda has refused to be drawn into a war of words with renegade Lt. Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa.Reacting to the General's comments in an interview he gave to V (By News Poster)...Zim: Mugabe reassigns powers away from MDC
Monday 08-Mar-2010: "I have been stripped naked. We cannot have a situation where Minister Goche administers 20 acts and I have none" By Tony Hawkins in HarareRobert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president, has reassigned s (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai and Mugabe Deadlocked on Ministerial Functions
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe Principals to the Global Political Agreement on Monday failed to come to an agreement concerning the unilateral re-assignment of ministerial functions that were gazetted by gove (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Kono Women Denounce Rape
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Mohamed MassaquoiKono - Over seven hundred women and school girls in the eastern district town of Kono Thursday took to the streets to denounce what they considered as an increase in sexual and gen (By News Poster)...More than 200 dead in Nigeria violence
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: Nigeria – More than 200 bodies — many of them women and children — lay in the streets of a central Nigerian town after a renewed spate of Christian-Muslim violence, witnesses said Sunday, just months (By JanOlifant)...Kenya: Fury as Police Shoot Dead 7 Taxi Drivers
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Questions were being asked on Thursday under what circumstances Administration Police officers shot dead seven unarmed taxi drivers in Nairobi's Dagoretti area.The officers from the nearby A (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Damning Report on Torture to Be Launched Thursday
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Lance GumaA damning report outlining how Mugabe's regime has used torture and imprisonment to manipulate elections and other political processes will be launched at the Book Café in Harare o (By News Poster)...South Africa: Malema Pours Scorn On Vavi's ANC Ambitions, Tilts At Mantashe
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Sue Blaine And Karima BrownJohannesburg - AFRICAN National Congress (ANC) Youth League president Julius Malema said yesterday Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zweli (By News Poster)...Swaziland: Tackling One Crisis at a Time Does Not Solve All
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Mbabane - The myriad crises afflicting Swaziland can only be solved with a holistic approach, not a piecemeal one, the World Food Programme (WFP) deputy executive director, Sheila Sisulu, said during (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Rugare Gumbo Slams Mugabe
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaZANU PF's new secretary for information and publicity, Rugare Gumbo, has reportedly sharply criticised President Robert Mugabe over who the most senior party official in the Midlands (By News Poster)...Sudan: Lord's Resistance Army Finds Safe Haven in Darfur
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: The Enough Project confirms that a contingent of the deadly Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, has taken refuge in areas of south Darfur, Sudan, controlled by the Government of Sudan. The possibility of (By News Poster)...South Africa: IMF Warns Against Weakening Nation's Currency
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Staff ReporterJohannesburg - FORCING the rand to weaken would be a "very shortsighted" move for SA to make, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, MD of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said yesterday.His c (By News Poster)...South Africa: Farmers Hail 'Political Will' in Crime Plan
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Stephan HofstatterJohannesburg - POLICE Minister Nathi Mthethwa yesterday announced a new crime-fighting plan for farming districts that would combine army border patrols, a beefed-up reservist for (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)...Intelligence Directorate a Success - Minister
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: By Bame PietJustice and Security Minister, Ramadeluka Seretse on Tuesday said that since its establishment two years ago, the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) has successfully delivered (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Three Policemen Murdered in Maputo
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Maputo - Three Mozambican policemen were murdered and two were seriously injured in two separate ambushes by unidentified gunmen on Thursday night.According to Pedro Cossa, spokesperson for the Genera (By News Poster)...Kenya: IMF Pushes for Insurance on Bank Deposits
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Geoffrey IrunguBank depositors may sleep more soundly if the Kenya government adopts IMF proposals to speed up the introduction of deposit insurance as part of reforms to strengthen the financial s (By News Poster)...Africa: This Time It's Different
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Dominique Strauss-KahnMy final destination in this week's visit to Africa was Zambia, where I sought the views not just of the government but also of the people-in a town hall with civil society, s (By News Poster)...Botswana: Mugabe Accuses De Beers of Looting Zim Diamonds
Friday 12-Mar-2010: The Zimbabwe government has accused diamond giant De Beers of looting gems from the controversial Chiadzwa mining fields over a period of 15 years without declaring the proceeds to the state.President (By News Poster)...Another call for South African intervention as Zimbabwe unity gov't woes mount
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Zanu PF already preparing for elections Blessing ZuluWashington - Both formations of Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change will ask South African President Jacob Zuma to intervene in the l (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SADC Energy Ministers Seek Investment in Germany
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: ENERGY ministers of the 15 member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are attending an energy investment conference in Germany to address the prevailing power shortfalls in the (By News Poster)...Somalia: 2nd Day of Fighting in Mogadishu Leaves 60 Dead
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: Fierce clashes between Somali rebels and government forces resumed early Thursday in different parts of restive Mogadishu as death toll from previous fighting rises to 30.Witnesses said rebel fighters (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Typhoid Kills Five People
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: Harare - Typhoid fever has killed five people in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, and 30 others were being treated for the bacterial disease, the city's health director, Stanley Mungofa, told a media brief (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Task Force on Niger-Delta Destroys Illegal Refineries, Arrests 6 Suspected Oil Thieves
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Emma Amaize and Akpokona OmafuaireThe Joint Task Force (JTF) on the Niger-Delta have destroyed fresh 500 illegal crude oil refineries and arrested six suspected oil thieves at Egbekebor and Gbeleku (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Kayumba Nyamwasa - a Victim of His Own Making
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Jill RutaremaraKigali - The former High Commissioner to India, Lt Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa fled the country to Uganda through what is popularly known in East Africa as a "panya" [mouse] route on 26 Feb (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Shrinks MDC Ministers' Powers - Again
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Violet GondaThe MDC-T has sharply criticised the latest 'provocative' moves by Robert Mugabe to reassign fundamental roles from ministries belonging to the MDC. A government gazette published on Fr (By News Poster)...Kenya: Super-Size Banks Rake in Huge Profits by Widening Rate Spreads
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Emmanuel WereNairobi - At KenCom House in downtown Nairobi, the race is on to build East Africa's largest bank.It was only in 2002 that former KCB boss Terry Davidson divided it into a "good bank a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Statement by IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the Conclusion of His Visit to South Africa
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement today in Johannesburg at the conclusion of his visit to South Africa:“I (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: Professor Jansen warns SA is 'on the precipice'
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Jansen warns SA is 'on the precipice' TARRYN HARBOUR | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Feb 25 2010 12:06 President Jacob Zuma initiating a national dialogue on morals is like the AWB calling for (By Jan)...IMF chief says it's too soon to lend to Zimbabwe
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: "Indigenisation will not, definitely, solve the problem of the Zimbabwe economy" By Donna BrysonJohannesburg - The International Monetary Fund chief said Wednesday it's too soon to extend loan (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fighting Poverty On All Fronts
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Lagos - Despite several efforts, strategies and plans by various actors, the issue of poverty is yet to decline in Nigeria. More than 70 million citizens are said to be affected by the scourge, which (By News Poster)...Botswana: Patrilineal Inheritance Prevents Women's Access to Land
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Claire NgozoLilongwe - Mercy Gondwe, 51, from Rumphi in northern Malawi, was married for 34 years. When her husband died in 2008, she assumed she would inherit the land they had been cultivating to (By News Poster)...Zim: Grace Mugabe orders destruction of homes
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: "I had already finished building my house but she is forcing me out" By Caiphas ChimheteFirst Lady Grace Mugabe has ordered the destruction of 100 households in a Mazowe suburb to make way fo (By News Poster)...Kenya: Energy Costs Pose Biggest Threat to Manufacturers
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Jim OnyangoMost company executives single out the increasing cost of energy as the biggest threat to businesses this year, a survey by consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers shows.The cost of elec (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gender Loses Out in Basic Education Crisis
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Ann HellmanCape Town - With the 15th-year review of the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women taking place at the ongoing Commission on the Status of Women in New York, South African teachers and (By News Poster)...Patel’s apartheid-era pension plan and interventionist policy will hurt SA
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: DA Shadow Minster of Finance Dion George, MP and DA Shadow Minister of Economic Development Dr Pierre Rabie, MP, both came out in strong opposition to the Strategic Plan announced by Minster of Econom (By JanOlifant)...South Africa: U.S. Won't Vote Against Eskom Loan - Hogan
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - According to Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan the $3,75 billion loan sought by ESKOM from the World Bank would not have any macroeconomic conditions attachedThe World Bank loan (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Why Not a Two-Point Agenda?
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Nnedi OgaziechiWith the type of news that is always coming out of Nigeria these days, no country can better be qualified to be described as a moving horror film produced and directed by its own cit (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: SA Firm Explores Coal Mining Opportunities in Country
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: Harare - INDUSTRIAL Development Corporation South Africa is reportedly exploring for coal mining opportunities in Zimbabwe as offshore firms jostle for space ahead of the announcement of fresh mining (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe isn't ready for elections, says Mulafulafu
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Nothing has changed in their character By George ChellahZimbabwe is not ready for elections, Caritas Zambia executive director Sam Mulafulafu has said. Commenting on the current situation in Z (By News Poster)...Somalia: Mastermind of U.S. Embassy Attacks Takes over Somali Militia Group - Reports
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Nairobi - The man who masterminded the 1998 terrorist attacks on US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam is believed to have taken over the leadership of al-Shabaab in war-torn Somalia, Kenyan count (By News Poster)...Africa: Create Jobs in Continent, and All Else Will Follow
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Rosa WhitakerBill Gates' commitment at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to give $10 billion over the next decade to develop and distribute vaccines to children in the world's poorest (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zvimba Expects Bumper Harvest
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Fatima BullaHarare - FARMERS in the Zvimba Communal Lands near Harare are enjoying a new lease of life after applying new methods of farming that are giving them better yields.A few seasons ago, th (By News Poster)...Africa: A New Shield for Central Banks
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Mark KapchangaNairobi - Radical reforms will be undertaken this year in banks across Africa, following wide-ranging proposals by central bank governors from the continent.The reforms - details of w (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)...Court Will Delve Into the Drag Racers' Minds
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Fanny RabkinJohannesburg - THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is sending a strong statement in its unusual decision to charge hip-hop star Molemo "Jub-Jub" Maarohanye and his friend Themba Ts (By News Poster)...Kenya: Kenyans Starve as Food Worth Millions of Shillings Rots
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Food worth millions of shillings is rotting on farms across the country due to lack of markets and impassable roads.From Marakwet in the North Rift to Mathira in Central and Hola at the Coas (By News Poster)...South Africa: 2010: Sex and the President: Zuma's Lawyer to Explain Delay On Financial Interests
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: [Dear Dear President Jacob Zuma... It seems he needs to hide the financial mess that is his life. It seems back in the past he needed little Muslim scumbag, criminal twerps like Schabir Shaik to "lend (By News Poster)...Africa: Pressure Forces IMF to Review Lending Terms
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Johnstone Ole TuranaThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) is ditching its prescriptive fund disbursement method for a quicker, country-specific process.The new programme dubbed the Rapid Credit Lin (By News Poster)...South Africa: World Bank Defends Loan to Eskom
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - THE World Bank has defended its proposed 3,75bn (R29bn) loan to Eskom amid growing criticism from environmental groups and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs).The loan (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)...Winnie Draws Anger Over Mandela Comments
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Nairobi - A South African Archbishop on Friday defended the leadership record of former President Nelson Mandela against accusations of betrayal by his former wife Winnie Mandela.The Most Reverend Njo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Rural Security - Reinstating Some Discarded Strategies is Sensible
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - THE most interesting aspect of the new rural security strategy announced by Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa - which includes border patrols by the army, a beefed-up reservist force and a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Donor HIV/Aids Funding Declines
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Paidamoyo ChipunzaHarare - HIV AND Aids funding from the donor community has decreased by more than 50 percent since 2006, the National Aids Council has said.Though the council refused to give poss (By News Poster)...Uganda: Experts Warn of More Landslides
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Joshua KyalimpaKampala - Fourteen-year-old Isaac Wadyegere of Bundesi village in Bududa district woke up to a rainy and chilly Monday morning and went to school as usual.But Mar. 1 was not a usual (By News Poster)...Botswana: It was a Grenade - Police Chief
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Monkagedi GaotlhobogweThere was no bomb 'planted' at the parking lot of the Office of the President Ian Khama on Wednesday, the police have said. Deputy police commissioner, Kenny Kapinga told Mmeg (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)...Taylor Never Gave His Rebels Orders to Kill, Said Witness
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Alpha SesayA witness defending Charles Taylor today said he never heard of the former Liberian president giving orders to his own rebel forces to kill, rape, loot or burn people's houses, as allege (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Standard Chartered Launches SME China-Africa Network
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Peter EgwuatuStandard Chartered Nigeria has launched a Premium Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) China Africa network, just as it celebrated the Chinese Year of the Tiger.The bank in a statement ma (By News Poster)...Bomb Scare - was it a Hoax?
Monday 08-Mar-2010: There was a bomb scare at Government Enclave on Wednesday. The police tell us that a suspicious object that looked more like a bomb or some explosive device was left unattended at a parking lot behind (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Commission to Probe Corruption in MDC-T
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Faith ZabaTHE MDC formation led by Morgan Tsvangirai has resolved to set up an independent commission to probe corruption among its ministers, legislators and top leaders.The party's national execu (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: IMF Chief Says Aid for Country Not Possible Yet
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Alex BellThe head of the global financial lending body, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has said it is still not prepared to offer Zimbabwe any new loans, citing the ongoing political crisis (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Angloplat Backs Indigenisation Policies
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Harare - ANGLO Platinum, the world's largest platinum producer says it will go ahead with its planned commissioning of the R3,4 billion Unki Mine later this year despite reservations among some invest (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Day Kidnappers Struck, Dent Governor. Ohakim's Claims
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Chidi NkwoparaJanuary 4, 2010, Governor Ikedi Ohakim addressed a stakeholders' forum in Owerri where he outlined the measures the state government is taking to combat criminal activities in Imo Sta (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Mozambican Economy Set to Keep Growing
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Maputo - The Chief Executive Officer of Standard Bank, the third largest commercial bank in Mozambique, Antonio Coutinho, said in Maputo on Thursday that the Mozambican economy will keep growing gradu (By News Poster)...Zim: Judge reserves ruling on acquittal in Bennett case
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: "Unknown" deposits by "unknown" persons By Violet GondaHigh Court Judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu reserved his decision to 31st March, on whether or not Roy Bennett should be acquitted. This wa (By News Poster)...Rwanda: The Missing Link in Fighting HIV/Aids
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Victor MugaruraKigali - All people need to feel free, open up and talk about HIV/Aids as the best option of reducing its stigma and prevalence.A few months before we marked last year's World Aids D (By News Poster)...Africa: Continent's Success Stories in Gender Empowerment
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Thalif DeenWhenever gender empowerment is a vibrant topic of discussion internationally, some of the countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America are invariably singled out for their success stories (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Fematro Denies Any Link with Proposed Demonstrations
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Maputo - The chairperson of the Mozambican Federation of Road Transport Associations (FEMATRO), Rogerio Manuel, has denied that his members have anything to do with demonstrations supposedly being pla (By News Poster)...South Africa: Rift Valley Fever Reported in Two Provinces
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - An outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in two South African provinces has killed one person, while five others have tested positive for the disease, which has also caused "extensive liv (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Blaming the Police
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: DR. Ibrahim Yakubu Lame, Minister of Police Affairs, became more famous last week when he spent a lot of time blaming the police for the country's poor security. He provided no statistics, other than (By News Poster)...South Africa: We Must Not Falter in Aids Battle
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Michel KazatchkineJohannesburg - TEN years ago I was in Durban to attend the International AIDS Conference. Many things about that conference I will never forget, but three moments in particular I (By News Poster)...Uganda: Bankers in Fraud Awareness Drive
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Faridah KulabakoKampala - Bankers in Uganda are in a campaign to fight electronic banking fraud, whose rate is increasingly alarming.The campaign, which started on Thursday last week, seeks to sens (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Grace Mugabe Orders Destruction of 100 Homes in Mazowe
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Lance GumaFirst Lady Grace Mugabe is launching her own version of Operation Murambatsvina (drive out the filth), this time targeting 100 homes for destruction in a Mazowe suburb. Her aides claim sh (By News Poster)...Tanzania: After a Slump, Economy to Grow in 2010
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Wilfred EdwinNairobi - Economic experts predict a real GDP growth of 5.7 per cent in Tanzania this year, compared with 5.0 per cent last year.The Treasury also seeks to drive down the annual inflat (By News Poster)...Uganda: Bududa Rescue Efforts Near End
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By David Mafabi & Rodney MuhumuzaBududa/Kampala - Officials in Bududa are considering ending the search for victims from last week's landslide that left at least 89 people dead and thousands displaced (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Negotiating on New Business Law, Says Tsvangirai
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Tendai MugabeHarare - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has defended the indigenisation laws and regulations saying they promote Zimbabwean interests and must not scare away foreign investors.At a s (By News Poster)...South Africa: Nuclear Plan Falters as PBMR Chief Quits
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - PEBBLE Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) company CEO Jaco Kriek said yesterday he was quitting the state-funded entity, fuelling uncertainty over the project's future and the (By News Poster)...Zim: Reserve Bank reform bill approved by Senate
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: Gono and other officials granted immunity for crimes committed during their tenure By Lance GumaA reform bill, meant to trim the excessive powers of the Reserve Bank governor, sailed through t (By News Poster)...Kenya: Farmers to Access Crop Insurance Via Mobile Phones
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Steve MbogoAn insurance product that caters for farmers' inputs like fertilizers and certified seeds is being delivered through the use of mobile phone.In a bid to entice more farmers to invest in (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Minister Castigates Foreign Banks
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Harare - YOUTH Development, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has castigated some foreign financial institutions for failing to financially support local businesses, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Country Extradites Al-Qaeda Suspect
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Abuja - A TERRORIST suspected to belong to the Al-Qaeda network, Ibrahim Haman Ahmed, who was extradited to the United States of America by Nigerian government officials had been on the wanted list of (By News Poster)...Kenya: G4S Staff Deny Sh300 Million Theft
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Two G4S employees were on Monday charged with stealing more than Sh300 million. A police station commander and his brother were also charged with stealing Sh256.5 million in different curren (By News Poster)...Kenya: Statement by IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the End of His Visit to Kenya
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement today in Nairobi at the conclusion of his visit to Kenya:“I wish to thank P (By News Poster)...Jos - Jonathan Meets Mark, Onovo, Security Chiefs
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Paul Ibe and Senator IroegbuAbuja - Acting President Goodluck Jonathan was yesterday briefed by the Inspector General of Police (IG), Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, on the situation in Dogo-Na-Hawa in Foron di (By News Poster)...Uganda: U.S Troops Join Landslide Rescue Mission
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Henry Mukasa and Daniel EdyeguKampala - A team of American troops has arrived in Bududa to assess the situation and co-ordinate support in the aftermath of a disastrous landslide that has killed m (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos Crisis - When a Mining City Becomes an Eternal Killing Field
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Charles KumoluIF many can turn back the hands of time, the political equation in Jos would have remained in its pre-1991 status. For it is largely believed that efforts at taking governance to the (By News Poster)...Namibia: Banks Throw Down the Gauntlet
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Jo-Maré DuddyFNB Namibia yesterday claimed that the underlying policy of the Payment Systems Management Bill and the Banking Institutions Amendment Bill is flawed.Vekuii Rukoro, Chief Executive Off (By News Poster)...Tony Mbok Acquitted On Rape Charge
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesTHE legal woes of Cameroonian-born would-be property developer Antoine 'Tony' Mbok are continuing, despite his acquittal on a charge of rape in the Windhoek Regional Court on Monday.Th (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mamvura Ousted From Premier
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Fanuel Kangondo and Bright MaderaHarare - PREMIER Bank chief executive Mr Douglas Mamvura has been ousted in a restructuring at the bank that followed the acquisition of a 54 percent stake by two f (By News Poster)...Somalia: Hizbul Islam Official Killed in Bakara Market
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: A Hizbul Islam official called Bare Ali Bare was on Tuesday gunned down by unknown assailants in Mogadishu 's Bakara Market, a stronghold for Somali rebel fighters.According to witnesses who spoke to (By News Poster)...Somalia: Senior Islamist Guerrilla Assassinated in Mogadishu
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: A Hizbul Islam official called Bare Ali Bare was on Tuesday gunned down by unknown assailants in Mogadishu's Bakara Market, a stronghold for Somali rebel fighters.According to witnesses who spoke to G (By News Poster)...Banks Don't Give a Damn - Tweya
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE local branches of three foreign banks are milking their Namibian bank customers when it comes to bank fees and as soon as one deposits money in a bank, charges are deducted imm (By News Poster)...Rwanda: FINA Bank Posts a 35 Percent Profit Increase in 2009
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: By Saul ButeraKigali - Despite all the financial difficulties in the country attributed to the lack of liquidity, FINA BANK Rwanda (FBR) managed to register an increase in profits after tax, from Rwf5 (By News Poster)...The Challenge of Economic Success - a Critical Perspective
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Wilfred RupieperI have been working in Namibia for the last 21 years; first as HR Director at Namibia Breweries and since 1991 as consultant within the Organisation Development and HR fields. My ex (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Property in SA Untouchable, Says Minister
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Sydney KawadzaHarare - White former commercial farmers cannot attach Government properties in South Africa for compensation as all of them are protected by diplomatic protocols, a Cabinet minister (By News Poster)...Nimble Zimbabwe judge does delicate egg dance, to the government's tune
Friday 12-Mar-2010: How do they stay agile enough? CommentCarmel RickardHow do Zimbabwe's judges stay agile enough for the incredible footwork of their decisions? Whenever I read their judgments I imagine a judic (By News Poster)...Zim: We are on our own: Biti
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Not expecting any external financial support to flow into government coffers this year By Own CorrespondentsHarare - Finance Minister Tendai Biti on Thursday said Zimbabwe will have to rely on (By News Poster)...Somalia: Offering Migrants an Alternative to Death By Water
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Bosasso - In an attempt to deal with a growing influx of migrants, authorities in Somalia's autonomous region of Puntland are adopting new measures to stop people from undertaking the hazardous journe (By News Poster)...[Pic] S.Africa: Shocking Education results - Black man writes: The Government has lied to you...
Friday 12-Mar-2010: [This is from the Sowetan. Its good to see blacks seeing some of the many lies their leaders tell. Jan] Matric mess: look out, the government has lied to you 12 January 2010 Andile Mngxitana (By Jan)...South Africa: Minister Warns on Lending Bodies' Demands
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Jocelyn NewmarchJohannesburg - COUNTRIES risked losing part of their sovereignty in exchange for international development funding, Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel warned in an interview y (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Outsourcing War at Oceanic Bank as Drivers Embark on Strike
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Babajide KomolafeActivities at the Lagos corporate office of Oceanic Bank were, on Monday, paralyzed as drivers shut down operations to protest management's attempt at handing them over to an out s (By News Poster)...Kenya: Mudavadi Probed in Graves Plot Scandal
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi is under investigation by the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission over the Sh283 million cemetery land fraud.KACC on Tuesday said it wants to establish wh (By News Poster)...Cameroon: Illegal Elephant Dealer Arrested
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Vincent Gudmia Mfonfu (camnews)On February 19, 2010, an ivory dealer was ordered to serve a prison term of 8 months and to pay as damages and court charges the sum of about FCFA 1.2 Million by the (By News Poster)...Zim: Diamond firms dodge Parly – again!
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: “We have asked for advice from the deputy clerk because we want to nail them" By Ndodana SixholoHarare - The directors of two firms licensed to mine diamonds at the Chiadzwa diamond field co (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: ICC Postpones Trial of Former Congolese Leader Charged with War Crimes
Monday 08-Mar-2010: The International Criminal Court (ICC) today announced it is pushing back the start date of the trial of a former senior official of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) who has been charged wit (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jonathan Meets National Assembly On PIB, Electoral Reform
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Adetutu Folasade-Koyi, Joe Nwankwo And Wisdom PatrickLagos/Abuja - Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has pleaded with the Constitution Review Committees (CRCs) in the Senate and the House of Repre (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Asks How You Confront a Dictator Using Democratic Means
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: By Lance GumaPrime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has stated for the first time what many Zimbabweans quietly acknowledge - how do you confront a dictator using democratic means?Speaking at the launch of (By News Poster)...Orania Beweging - Europese skakeltoer (Afrikaans)
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: Dit is vir die Orania Beweging van groot belang om sy buitelandse ondersteuningsbasis deurlopend uit te brei. Dit is om hierdie rede dat die Buitelandse Vriende van Orania reeds etlike jare gelede tot (By JanOlifant)...e-Life Phenomenon Hits Country
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Harare - The information revolution has seen people becoming connected in ways that were unimaginable even half a century ago.The world is now in a very real sense a global village, but a village with (By News Poster)...Africa: Website Provides Farmers With Fertilizer News
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Rebekah MintzerFood insecurity on the African continent is severely aggravated by a depletion of nutrients in the soil that leads to a decrease in soil productivity.A remedy to this problem is the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Firms Owe Banks N1.6 Trillion, Says Senate
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Emmanuel AzikenNigerian banks are being owed an estimated N1.6 trillion by local oil and gas companies it was disclosed yesterday. Senator Nkechi Nwaogu, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banks, (By News Poster)...Uganda: One Doctor for 16,200 Refugees
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: Inadequate healthcare is just one of many challenges facing the 16,200 refugees in this sprawling camp in western Uganda, which is served by a single doctor.Among those waiting in one of the camp's tw (By News Poster)...South Africa: New-Drug Fund Can Fix Thorny Pricing Problem
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Thomas Pogge and Aidan HollisJohannesburg - IN THE early 2000s, SA was the epicentre of an important battle over the pricing of antiretroviral drugs. After suffering a major public relations defeat (By News Poster)...Gabon: Gabon's President Meets Clinton, Calls Corruption Africa's Cancer
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Jim Fisher-ThompsonGabon's president, Ali Bongo, intends to use his country's two-year seat on the United Nations Security Council to highlight democratic reforms and his fight against corruption, (By News Poster)...Africa: Something New Out of Africa: A Global Player
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Dominique Strauss-KahnJohannesburg - The sense of African energy and dynamism that I described during my visit to Kenya is reinforced strongly here in South Africa. And it’s not just World (By News Poster)...Chad: Hungry Season Sets in Early
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Dakar - The poorest households in Chad will find themselves with no food reserves in the coming weeks, according to the US famine early warning systems network, FEWSNET.FEWSNET's prediction of the cou (By News Poster)...Nigeria: GOC - Jang Did Not Report Attack
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Andrew Agbese, Mahmud Lalo & Ahmed MohammedJos - The General Officer Commanding (GOC) the 3 Armored Division, Jos Major General Saleh Maina yesterday dismissed claims by Plateau State Governor Jona (By News Poster)...South Africa: Transnet, Regulator Singing Different Tunes
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - ESKOM's controversial tariff applications have overshadowed a skirmish between Transnet and the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) over how to determine pipeline t (By News Poster)...Stop Fighting, War Vets Ordered
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Harare - PRESIDENT Mugabe has told the feuding Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association leadership to stop abrogating constitutional procedures and organise a congress to settle their di (By News Poster)...Africa: Decisive Moment for Global Transparency Effort - Most Countries Miss Deadline to Demonstrate Openness on Petroleum, Mining Revenues
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: An international initiative that seeks to promote more openness about how countries profit from their oil, gas, and mining resources should not weaken its modest membership standards because governmen (By News Poster)...East Africa: Kenya, Uganda to Host TB Clinical Trials
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Cosmas ButunyiNairobi - Kenya and Uganda will host a series of clinical trials geared toward the search for a new vaccine against Tuberculosis.The trials will be conducted by Aeras Global TB Vaccin (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: The Day the Press Met the President
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Harare - IT had been 10 years since the President played host to such a large number of local journalists. The date was March 4 2010 and the setting was his official Zimbabwe House residence.The long (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Deregulation - Solution to Constant Petroleum Supply Shortages
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Yemie AdeoyeThe dependence on imports, inadequate supply and distribution infrastructure and poor state of the refineries, as well as the huge subsidy being incurred by the government cannot be sep (By News Poster)...Zim: Chiadzwa mining leases must be cancelled: Biti
Monday 08-Mar-2010: "There is nothing coming to the fiscus from Chiadzwa" By Own CorrespondentChitungwiza - Finance Minister Tendai Biti said all the contracts and mining leases that government has awarded to min (By News Poster)...Nigeria: UN Expert Group Urges Country to Address Core Issues Behind Repeated Violence
Friday 12-Mar-2010: The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is calling on Nigerian authorities to tackle the underlying causes of repeated outbreaks of deadly ethnic and religious violenc (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Ownership Wrangle Breaks Out Over Telecel Stake
Friday 12-Mar-2010: AN ownership tussle has split Telecel Zimbabwe after Telecel International announced plans to sell a disputed 11% stake in the country's second largest mobile phone operator, the Zimbabwe Independent (By News Poster)...South Africa: UK Wants Trade Lift From Zuma Trip
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Linda EnsorCape Town - SA and the UK wanted to double the value of their two-way trade over the next five years from the recession-hit low of R40bn last year, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lukman - Deregulate Or Face Worse Fuel Crisis
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Onwuka NzeshiAbuja - Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr Rilwan Lukman yesterday said the lingering shortage of petroleum products and the embarrassing queues at fuel stations across the country ma (By News Poster)...South Africa: Rift Valley Fever Outbreak under Control
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: An outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in the Free State has resulted in the death of one person and six others hospitalised.Deputy health minister Dr Molefi Sefularo has confirmed that a 45 year old (By News Poster)...South Africa: Carbon Ironies - Rich Countries Should Welcome World Bank Loan
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - HOW ironic. For years, the World Bank wants to lend SA money for development but SA keeps saying no. When it finally turns around and says yes, a couple of rich countries jump in to try (By News Poster)...Nigeria: N500 Billion Power Fund - Babalola to Raise Technical Team
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Onyebuchi EzigboAbuja - A technical team is under way in a bid to ensure an effective application of the N500 billion set aside by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to boost the power sector.Minist (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Slams Corruption
Monday 08-Mar-2010: Harare - MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has publicly admitted that his party is riddled with corruption that is threatening its integrity and vowed to fire all members found guilty.Addressing party su (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)...Malawi: Country Not Safe for Homosexuals
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: By Claire NgozoLilongwe - Malawi is quickly becoming unsafe for homosexuals as the country's police service recently launched a campaign to hunt down and arrest prominent people who are suspected of b (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Imports Killing Food Sector - Natfoods
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Bernard MpofuNATIONAL Foods Holdings (Natfoods) has partly blamed government's waiver allowing duty free imports of basic commodities for its US$1,4 million loss before tax. Natfoods chairman Todd (By News Poster)...Violent Clashes Escalate Between Student Factions
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Lance GumaViolent clashes between the two factions of the Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) are threatening to spiral out of control, after students loyal to a faction beaten up over the we (By News Poster)...Air Namibia 'Bypasses' Pilot Licensing Rules
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithPRESSURE by a senior manager of Air Namibia to falsify information for a South African to get a local flying licence led to the sudden resignation of a flight instructor at the natio (By News Poster)...USA: The Stock Markets, Gold & Oil: My Technical Indicators Experiment: A Firm Sell NOW...
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: I have explained the history of my Technical Indicators and the basis on which they work, so I won't repeat it. I have noticed that these articles of mine about my technical indicators has drawn a lot (By Jan)...Kenya: You Can't Wish Away African Gays
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: An article by Fr Dominic Waweru (Nation, March 8) says of the ongoing crisis in Mtwapa -- where the youth are beating up people on suspicion of being gay -- that this is "only too comprehensible".He f (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Prostitute Kills Client Over Infidelity
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Femi OgbonnikanLagos - "He ignored me and wanted to have sex with a colleague. He pretended as if he did not know me when he walked into the hotel. He neither uttered a word nor complimented me. An (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cost of Transnet's Petroleum Pipeline Increases By R2,75 Billion
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - THE cost of Transnet's multiproduct petroleum pipeline has risen by R2,75bn to R15,42bn, following "significant engineering", the company said yesterday.The R2,75bn inc (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Trailers Crush 104 to Death At Lokoja, Benin Market
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Francis Onoiribholo, Chukwujekwu Ilozue And Olufemi YahayaLokoja/Bennin - Death took 106 lives in different forms in three states on Monday and Tuesday, 104 of them through road accidents in Lokoja (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Yobe Police And Crime Prevention Drive
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Mohammed AbubakarDamaturu - The police is that agency of government that is responsible for maintaining public order as well as preventing and detecting crime. Its basic mission, which is preservin (By News Poster)...Bag of Dagga Gets Drug Dealer Four Years in Jail
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesA WALVIS Bay resident who was caught in Windhoek seven months ago with a big bag of dagga in his possession has been sentenced to four years behind bars."The society should be protecte (By News Poster)...Botswana: Let's All Fight Crime
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Lately, the Botswana Police Service has been stepping up efforts to combat crime. Among the new interventions, the Police Service has introduced community policing.This is a collaborative effort betwe (By News Poster)...Uganda: UBA to Start Mobile Money Banking Services
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Walter WafulaKampala - In a bid to increase the penetration of banking services in Uganda, United Bank for Africa (UBA) is set to introduce a banking service that can facilitate transactions via mo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Losing Battle in Green Crimes
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Jocelyn NewmarchJohannesburg - ENVIRONMENTAL management inspectors say they are battling to prevent a large number of environmental crimes, many committed by well-organised syndicates serving marke (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Minister to Testify in Land Case
Monday 08-Mar-2010: Harare - A BEATRICE white farmer is refusing to vacate State land claiming that Lands and Rural Resettlement Minister Herbert Murerwa and Mashonaland East Governor Aneas Chigwedere assured him he woul (By News Poster)...South Africa: Communists Apologise for Booing Youth Leader
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Carien Du PlessisA high-level bilateral meeting about the booing of senior ANC leaders - including Julius Malema - ended amicably with an apology from the communists and President Jacob Zuma admitt (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN to Release Guideline On Universal Banking
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Lagos - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said it will soon unveil guideline for the operation of universal banking in the country. CBN governor Mallam Lamido Sanusi who made this known in Lagos Wedne (By News Poster)...Zim: NamPower, Zesa to meet over Hwange Station
Friday 12-Mar-2010: NamPower learnt through media reports of plans to decommission the power plant Nqobile BhebheNamibia's power utility company, NamPower, will next week send a delegation to Zimbabwe for discuss (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos Crisis - Police, Plateau Govt Disgree On Death Toll
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Raymond GukasJos - How many people were killed in the latest Jos, Plateau crisis? This is the question the Plateau State government and the police have failed to agree on.While the state government (By News Poster)...Zim: Simon Mann's wife reveals his life of luxury at hands of 'lovely' dictator
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: The couple have sent the "lovely" dictator a book about the New Forest as a thank-you By Anita SinghSimon Mann, the British mercenary jailed for plotting to overthrow the government of Equator (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Stampede in Jos Again, One Feared Dead
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Andrew Agbese, & Ahmed MohammedJos - There was another stampede in Jos yesterday as people took to their heels on hearing reports of a clash between military men and some villagers around the Polic (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamond Mining Firms Face Stern Parliament Rebuke
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Alex BellTwo state authorised diamond mining firms, who have been mining the controversial Chiadzwa alluvial fields, could face a stern parliamentary rebuke for avoiding two consecutive parliamenta (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Telecel Boss Arrested for Fraud
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Daniel NemukuyuHarare - BUSINESSWOMAN and Telecel Zimbabwe board member Jane Mutasa has been arrested on allegations of defrauding the mobile phone service provider of US$750 000 in an airtime scam (By News Poster)...Chunga Versus Chiweshe
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Robson SharukoHarare - MOSES CHUNGA has declared that he has no intention of an immediate reunion with Dynamos and has challenged Elvis Chiweshe to stop being a crybaby and, instead, concentrate on (By News Poster)...Uganda: Museveni Orders Army to Assist in Landslide Rescue
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Henry Mukasa and Daniel EdyeguKampala - PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has directed the army not to leave Namashate parish in Bududa district until all bodies buried by a landslide one week ago have bee (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)...Botswana: Struggle Extraditing Murder Suspect Highlight Strained Relations
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Patricia MaganuFrancistown - Botswana Police are struggling to get extradition for a murder accused, Bright Ndlovu said to be arrested in Zimbabwe.Station Commander for Gerald Police Station Superi (By News Poster)...Zambia: Worker Killer Farmer Nabbed
Friday 12-Mar-2010: POLICE in Livingstone have arrested a former Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) employee for shooting dead a worker at his farm when he was trying to chase baboons from his maize field.Southern Province p (By News Poster)...South Africa: Debunking Denialism
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Anso ThomIt is fitting that one of the sharpest minds and committed leaders of South Africa's illustrious AIDS activist movement has documented not only the atrocities perpetuated by the Mbeki-Mant (By News Poster)...South Africa: Concerns That Winelands Mining Application an Expropriation Plot
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Fadela SlamdienA documented scarcity of mineral deposits in the pristine Cape Winelands area has led some residents and landowners to believe that a state-owned mining company's application to pros (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NNPC Running at over U.S.$1.3 Billion Loss - Federal Govt
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Hector Igbikiowubo and Oscarline OnwuemenyiAbuja - The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr. Rilwanu Lukman, has disclosed that the nation's oil and gas behemoth, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corp (By News Poster)...Sudan: Fighters Attack Darfur Peacekeepers
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: El Fasher - Following reports of armed clashes in the Jebel Marra region of South Darfur which indicated the possibility of casualties and displacement of civilian population, on 5 March UNAMID launch (By News Poster)...Uganda: Misery for Bududa School Kids After Landslide
Sunday 07-Mar-2010: By Frederick Womakuyu and Daniel EdyeguKampala - ELEVEN-year-old Aggrey Musene is perhaps one pupil who demonstrates the misery pupils and students in Namashet parish are going through, after a devast (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Eight Die As Cult War Rages in Benin
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: By Simon EbegbulemBenin - EIGHT persons have been killed in the past four days in different parts of Benin City in a renewed war among rival cult groups in the state.Two Benin-based local actors, Mr E (By News Poster)...South Africa: Aid Shipment Destined for Haiti
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: Cape Town - A shipment of aid is expected to leave South Africa on Freedom Day, April 27, for Haiti in solidarity with the world's first black republic, the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, (By News Poster)...Zambia: Chinese Visit Pays Off for Country
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Obert SimwanzaZAMBIA has secured a concessional loan of US$ 1 billion from the government of China for investment in development projects in hydro power, housing, road infrastructure and other sect (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Suspected Militants Attack Delta Police Station
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Emma AmaizeWarri - SUSPECTED militants attacked the Bomadi Police Station in Delta State in the early hours of yesterday and seized two rifles.They also injured one of the policemen on duty, who is (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: ACR Directors Face Arrest
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Martin KadzereHarare - African Consolidated Resources plc directors may be arrested as it has emerged that the London Stock Exchange listed mining firm fraudulently acquired Chiadzwa diamond claims (By News Poster)...PM Tells Opposition to Drop Election Case
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichPRIME Minister Nahas Angula has used the platform of the National Assembly to tell the nine opposition parties that challenged the outcome of the 2009 elections in the High Court t (By News Poster)...Uganda: Experts Issue New Landslide Warning
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Tabu ButagiraKampala - The warning came hours before Mr Musa Ecweru, the junior minister for disaster preparedness, told this newspaper last evening that the government is looking for Shs200 billio (By News Poster)...Uganda: Malaria Control Experts Held
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Charles Ariko, Edward Anyoli and Justus AkampaKampala - THREE top officials in the Ministry of Health who were in charge of the malaria control programme were yesterday remanded to Luzira Prison af (By News Poster)...Kenya: African Women Economic Summit: ?Investing Differently in Women? - Graca Machel and AfDB President to Co-host the event
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: The African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Donald Kaberuka, and Founder of New Faces, New Voices network (NFNV) Graca Machel, will co-host “The African Women Economic Summit” scheduled (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sack Zuma's Staff, Say Unions
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) central committee has said the "centre" in the Presidency is not holding and blamed this on the inept coterie of peopl (By News Poster)...South Africa: Confidence May Get a New Output Booster
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - A LEADING survey today will clarify the extent to which business confidence has picked up this year, while data on Thursday may deliver more good news on factory output.The (By News Poster)...Africa: Expert Panel Releases Comprehensive New Research Agenda to Improve HIV Responses for Women and Children
Monday 08-Mar-2010: On International Women's Day, IAS-Convened Panel Seeks Significant New Focus on Women and Children,Who Make up the Majority of People Living with HIV WorldwideAs the HIV pandemic continues to exact an (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)...Nigeria: Five Killed As Soldiers, Mopol Clash in Benin
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: By Simon EbegbulemBenin - FIVE persons including two soldiers and three mobile policemen, were feared dead yesterday, while over 10 others, including civilians, sustained serious gun shot wounds durin (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Another Jos Massacre
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Lagos - The body count from the perennial killing fields of Jos, Plateau State, does not matter anymore.The number this time has been put at around 400. These were victims of the latest in the mindles (By News Poster)...Mozambican Customs Seize Smuggled Abalone
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Maputo - Mozambican customs officers on Monday seized over two tonnes of Abalone, smuggled into the country from South Africa.Abalone are highly prized mollusks. In 2008, the price for South African a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Cotton Farmers Breach Contracts
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Bernard MpofuBusi Matutu is fed up with cotton farming. The past year has not been as rewarding as she expected.With no adequate funding to grow the cash crop in Gokwe, she has now switched to maiz (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lawmakers Want IG to Probe Use of Arms in Edo Assembly
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Benin City - THE leadership of Edo State House of Assembly has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Mr Ogbonna Onovo, to investigate and prosecute those who brought in dangerous weapons into th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Trade Conditions Continue to Improve
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Pretoria - The Trade Conditions Survey for February continued on its improved trait rising to 54 points.The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI) on Wednesday said the Trade Activity (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Real Estate Company Pushes for Land Economics Courses
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Alex NgarambeKigali - Rwanda Gimco, a recently incorporated Kigali based company dealing in real estate and property management is in talks with Rwandan institutes of higher learning to introduce l (By News Poster)...Community Fears World Cup Will Cause Homelessness
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Ann HellmanCape Town - While South African parliamentarians attended a swanky pre-International Women's Day celebration at Cape Town's International Convention Centre, a group of destitute women in (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG to Set Up Technical Team for N500 Billion Power Fund
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Adeola YusufLagos - A technical team will soon be set up between the Ministry of Power and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to manage the N500 billion set aside to boost development in the power s (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 500 Billion Real Sector Intervention Fund - Another White Elephant Initiative?
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Babajide KomolafeThere are concerns that the N500 billion real sector intervention fund announced last week the by the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) might become a (By News Poster)...Africa: Piracy Costs Shipping Firms Over U.S.$100 Million Annually - Report
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Paul RedfernNairobi - Piracy off the coast of Somalia is costing the international shipping industry at least $100 million a year, a new report states.Aside from payments in ransom - estimated at a (By News Poster)...Uganda: Land Disputes Loom Large in Kibaale
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Joseph MitiEmmanuel Muhire, 30, a resident of Buhumuriro in Kibaale District, set off from Nakulabye Trading Centre, where he had spent the evening partying with friends, with no idea that he would (By News Poster)...Africa: Embrace Modernized Farming Techniques -UN
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Adekunle AdesujiAbuja - In order for Africa to be liberated from hunger and unemployment among its youths, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) yesterday advised the conti (By News Poster)...Kenya: Relatives Demand Full Probe into Night Killings
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Relatives of seven taxi drivers allegedly shot dead by Administration Police officers in Nairobi's Dagoretti area on Wednesday night have called for thorough investigations into the matter.T (By News Poster)...Victory eludes a key US-led operation in Afghanistan...
Friday 12-Mar-2010: [This is from the DEBKA file which is run by ex-MOSSAD guys. I take their assessments seriously. I can't believe the US Govt pays people for their damaged property. I must say, I don't think a poli (By Jan)...South Africa: State Tender Prices Row Threatens 'Buy SA' Bid
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Linda EnsorJohannesburg - A tussle between the Treasury and the Department of Trade and Industry about local companies getting preferential treatment over foreign rivals in state procurement could (By News Poster)...Uganda: Aid Workers Battle to Help "Forgotten" Refugees
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Nakivale - With at least 67,000 refugees in southwest Uganda, the government and aid workers are still battling inadequate resources in what a UN official described as a "silent emergency"."We can har (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Military Begins Surveillance On Oil Pipelines
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Adeola YusufLagos - The military has taken up the surveillance of oil pipelines in Nigeria, Chief of Defense Staff, Air Marshall Paul Dike, has said.Nigeria, Africa 's biggest oil exporter, has los (By News Poster)...Namibia: Mining Survived Trying Times
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE mining sector experienced difficult times in 2008 as a result of the global economic crisis, the latest annual report of the Mines and Energy Ministry (MME) states."The 2008-09 (By News Poster)...Angola: Nation Hosts Workshop for SADC's Female Police Officers
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Luanda - Angola will host from March 9-16 the first course for women police officers from the member State of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).Angop learnt the information from a sour (By News Poster)...South Africa: Angloplat Takes Mine Plunge
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Thabang MokopaneleJohannesburg - DESPITE expert warnings about Zimbabwe's indigenisation policy, Anglo Platinum (Angloplat) says it will go ahead with its scheduled commissioning of the R3,4bn Unki (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos Crisis And the Imperative of an Emergency Rule
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Nnamdi AlozieBy the time you read this article, hopefully, a fresh "Panel of Enquiry" would have been set up to look into the "remote and immediate cause(s)" of the March 7 crisis in the Christian (By News Poster)...Witness Says, Foday Sankoh Wanted To Free Sierra Leoneans From Politicians
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Alpha SesaySierra Leone’s top rebel leader waged a war on the West African country in 1991 to free the people from the misery of the country’s politicians, a Sierra Leonean witness test (By News Poster)...Attorney's Link to Dirty Land Deal is Under Investigation
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithTHE Law Society of Namibia has launched a disciplinary investigation into the professional conduct of a Gobabis attorney.Bennie Venter was accused by the High Court in November last (By News Poster)...Foreign Countries Prevented Taylor From Liberating Country
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Alpha SesayForeign countries interfered in Charles Taylor's revolution in Liberia and prevented the former president from liberating his people, a witness in Mr. Taylor's defense told Special Court (By News Poster)...Tullow Oil Loses Control Over Kudu
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyRUSSIAN gas giant Gazprom and Namcor have partnered up to muscle out Tullow Oil as the main shareholder in the Kudu gas field, securing 54 per cent of the interest in the multibillion- (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Don't Tag All Muslims as Terrorists - Sultan
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Zakariyya AdaramolaLagos - The Sultan of Sokoto and President, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) Alhaji Saad Abubakar has said it is not right to generalise the entire Muslims as (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Yar'Adua And the Web of Intrigues
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Emeka NwosuLagos - The political milieu had suddenly come alive following the historic February 9, 2010 resolution of the National Assembly empowering Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as the Acting President (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Coffee Board to Set Minimum Price for Buyers
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Dar Es Salaam - TANZANIA Coffee Board (TCB) will this year introduce an indicative price system to enable farmers fetch competitive prices and curb illegal smuggling of the cash crop to the neighbouri (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Foreign Minister Admits Friction with Donors
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Maputo - Mozambican Foreign Minister Oldemiro Baloi on Tuesday recognised that there is currently "a certain friction" between the government and the group of 19 donors and funding agencies who provid (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Exploit Methane Gas Energy in Lake Kivu
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Investment Opportunity : EnergyRwanda has substantial hydroelectric resources and natural gas deposits which could make the country a net exporter of energy when developed.Rwanda faces substantial pro (By News Poster)...Kenya: SMEs Blamed for Counterfeits Surge
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Jim OnyangoLast week, counterfeited cigarettes worth Sh10 million were destroyed in Eldoret.Regulators -- the Kenya Bureau of Standards and the Kenya Revenue Authority -- have also in the recent pa (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Deo Mushayidi's Arrest Major Blow to Terrorists' Alliances
Monday 08-Mar-2010: Kigali - The arrest and transfer to Rwanda of terror suspect Deo Mushayidi, has dealt a heavy blow to a host of terrorist groups operating in the region.Though Mushayidi was arrested in Burundi and ex (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma Under Pressure On Interests
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Ernest MabuzaJohannesburg - OPPOSITION parties yesterday pressed President Jacob Zuma to declare his financial interests to promote transparency in government - particularly in light of calls by th (By News Poster)...Sudan: Missing Peacekeepers Found After Darfur Attack
Monday 08-Mar-2010: Two peacekeepers who were missing after an attack on an African Union-United Nations patrol in Darfur have made a safe return with the assistance of the local population, the joint mission reported to (By News Poster)...Kenya: APS Arrested over Taxi Drivers' Killings
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Seven Administration police officers allegedly involved in the killing of seven taxi drivers in Kawangware on Thursday morning have been interdicted and arrested as investigations into the c (By News Poster)...NamPower, Zesa to Meet Over Hwange Station
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Nqobile BhebheNAMIBIA'S power utility company, NamPower, will next week send a delegation to Zimbabwe for discussions with the Energy ministry and Zesa officials, amid a proposal that Hwange Therma (By News Poster)...Liberia: Fake Documents Surface At Fibank
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Strange developments are said to be evolving at the First International Bank (FiBANK), management has said, in the form of a calculated counterfeiting of the bank's logo, vouchers and others by those (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (11-03-2010)
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: Howzit I expect this posting to be late as I do have a dentist appointment mid-morning... I will be receiving the plate with my replacement front tooth. -o00o- The trial of Roy Bennett on ter (By The BeardedMan)...Sheep Farmers Threaten Demo Against Export Quota
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE introduction of a local value-addition scheme six years ago to slaughter more sheep in Namibia and to reduce live exports to South Africa not only decreased local sheep product (By News Poster)...Zuma Now a Lame Duck, Unable to Lead - Opposition
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - President Jacob Zuma was a lame duck and had lost the moral authority to lead the fight against corruption, Congress of the People (COPE) parliamentary leader Mvume Danda (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Violence Delays Polio Vaccinations
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Dakar - A polio vaccination campaign in the violence-wracked central Nigerian city of Jos has been delayed until 13 March due to the violence and an on-going health worker strike, aid workers said."We (By News Poster)...South Africa: Starting ART During TB Therapy More Than Halves Deaths - Durban Study
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: An article in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that starting patients on antiretroviral (ARV) therapy while they are taking TB treatment could dramatically improve their chances of survival (By News Poster)...Nigeria: War Against Kinapping, a Huge Success - Gov Orji
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Innocent OkonkwoLagos - Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has said his government's war against kidnapping in the state has yielded positive results as the state now ranked among the safest in c (By News Poster)...Africa: HIV/Aids, TB, Malaria Mortality Rates Down
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Gabi KhumaloPretoria - African countries have seen a decline in HIV and AIDS, Tuberculosis and malaria mortality rates, says the 2010 Result Report released by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and (By News Poster)...South Africa: Fund Gets Results, but Will It Get Funding?
Monday 08-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - Achieving targets to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and halve tuberculosis rates hang in the balance as donor commitments to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Plane Overshoots Runway
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: By Ahamefula OgbuPort Harcourt - Forty seven passengers and five crew members narrowly escaped death yesterday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, when a Nigerian Air Force plane veered out of control aft (By News Poster)...Israel Partnering in Africa Against Terror
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: (Israelnationalnews.com) Israel is increasing its partnership in Africa, united with factions which are battling fundamentalist Islam. Following February talks between Israel and the Kenyan governm (By JanOlifant)...Nigeria: Secrecy on Yar'Adua Can Happen Only in Nigeria - Obasanjo
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Habeeb I. PindigaThe secrecy with which President Umaru Yar'adua's illness and his return from medical trip are being handled could happen only in Nigeria, former President Olusegun Obasanjo told A (By News Poster)...Kenya: Swelling Number of Pregnant HIV Positive Women Baffles Experts
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Nairobi - A sharp rise in pregnancies among women on anti-retroviral treatment in Kenya and several other African countries has medical researchers baffled. The women have been found to be twice as li (By News Poster)...Uganda: KIU Student Murders Her Lover
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Francis KagoloKampala - A Kenyan student of Kampala International University (KIU) is held at Kabalagala Police station for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend to death. Jane Nyiha, a second-year stud (By News Poster)...Kenya: Mudavadi Quizzed by KACC over Plot Fraud
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi was on Wednesday questioned for close to three hours by detectives from the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission investigating the graves scandal.The KACC (By News Poster)...Poverty in Somalia Forces Children onto Streets
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: A long civil war, frequent droughts, unemployment and high food prices have led to an increase in the number of street children in Bosasso, the commercial capital of Somalia's self-declared autonomous (By News Poster)...South Africa: More Funds Needed for HIV/Aids, Activists Say
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Tamar KahnCape Town - AIDS activists in Cape Town yesterday called on global leaders to step up funding for HIV treatment, saying failure to do so would cost lives and devastate economies in countr (By News Poster)...Nation Must Move to a Health System Focused On Prevention - Minister
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Anso ThomSouth Africa's health system has to make a 180 degree turn, away from the dominant curative health system, which is unsustainable and unaffordable, to a health system where prevention is t (By News Poster)...Kenya: Lands Registry Ripe for Radical Surgery
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Carol MusyokaLast week I watched the evening news with bated breath as the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Lands Dorothy Angote took the extremely plucky step of shutting down the Lands Regi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Rift Valley Fever Not a Crisis - Sefularo
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Pretoria - The outbreak of the Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in the Free State and Northern Cape provinces does not constitute a crisis, says Health Deputy Minister, Dr Molefi Sefularo.RVF is a fever-causin (By News Poster)...South Africa: BP Warns on Tariff Hike's Threat to Competition
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - AN INCREASE of 51,3% in Transnet's petroleum pipeline tariffs is "unwarranted" and would damage inland competition, according to BP.BP's objection to the requested incr (By News Poster)...Uganda: Traditional Leaders Join HIV Fight
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Raymond Baguma and Pascal KwesigaKampala - Traditional leaders have resolved to contribute towards the prevention of HIV/AIDS. They also promised to promote maternal health by promoting positive as (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)...Africa: Straight Talk with Global Fund Director Michel Kazatchkine
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - The executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Michel Kazatchkine, sat down with IRIN/PlusNews at the launch of the organization's 2010 report, where (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Strange Twist to Telecel Fraud Scandal
Friday 12-Mar-2010: TELECEL'S US$1.7 million fraud claims last week took a new twist with police saying the mobile operator had not made any report despite a glut of public statements on the matter.The fraud was reported (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Power Outage to Worsen As Generation Drops to 2,700MW
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Oscaline OnwuemenyiThe current power outages being experienced in parts of the country may get worse due to inadequate gas supply to fire the turbine power stations. Consequently, power generation (By News Poster)...South Africa's Storm In a Teacup
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - IT MUST be little surprise to anyone that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has been out of touch, as they say. Apparently she's in the US, and not in the National Assembly in Cape Town, where (By News Poster)...Telecel On Expansion Drive
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Harare - Telecel Zimbabwe has launched a major expansion drive, as it seeks to take advantage of the country's stable economic environment to provide its subscribers with the most modern mobile commun (By News Poster)...Africa: African Leaders Support Agribusiness Development Plan at UN-Backed Conference
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: High-level representatives from 44 African countries wrapped up a United Nations-backed conference in Nigeria today with the approval of an ambitious plan to generate employment, income and food secur (By News Poster)...South African House Prices Rise Year-on-Year
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - "However, the electricity price hike of 24.8% for 2010/11, announced in February, remains the major threat to the inflation outlook for 2010," Senior senior property analyst Jacques du (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Yar'Adua - Police Want SNG, Others to Stop Rally
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Chuks Okocha And Yemi AkinsuyiAbuja - Ahead of today's million-man march being organised by the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) in Abuja to compel the National Assembly and the Executive Council of the Fe (By News Poster)...Kenya: Burial Land 'Owner' Goes into Hiding
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Nairobi - A widow who claims the cemetery land was grabbed from her has gone into hiding following what she says are threats to her life.The Daily Nation Tuesday traced Ms Agnes Nenkau to her hideout, (By News Poster)...Africa: Funding Shortfalls Foil New Treatment Guidelines
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Global funding shortfalls for fighting AIDS could make it impossible for developing countries to implement new World Health Organization treatment guidelines, activists have said.WHO release (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Senate - Jos Crisis an Act of Terrorism
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Abdul-Rahman Abubakar And Turaki A. HassanThe Senate yesterday described Sunday's killing of over 200 people in parts of Jos South, Plateau State, as an act of terrorism and lawlessness which Niger (By News Poster)...South Africa: Focus 'Must Be On HIV Prevention'
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Luphert ChilwaneJohannesburg - THE government needed to intensify its campaign to reduce new HIV infection rates as it could not sustain big increases in its budget for HIV/AIDS treatment, Health M (By News Poster)...Uganda: 300,000 Homeless After Landslides
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Taddeo Bwambale and Cecilia OkothOVER 300,000 people in the Mount Elgon region and the neighbouring lowlands of Butaleja, Budaka and Tororo districts have been displaced following the landslide tha (By News Poster)...Uganda: 300,000 Homeless After Landslides
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Kampala - Over 300,000 people in the Mount Elgon region and the neighbouring lowlands of Butaleja, Budaka and Tororo districts have been displaced following the landslide that devastated Bududa in eas (By News Poster)...Botswana: AG Silent on Dockets of Extra-Judicial Killings
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Isaiah MorewagaeThe Attorney General's Chambers is still mum on the dockets of people who died during their contact with law enforcement officers.For the past two years, there has been a huge publi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Boko Haram - Fear in Borno Over Arrest of 14 Security Agents
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Abdulkareem HarunaMaiduguri - Weeks after Aljazeera cable news channel aired footage of policemen from the Borno State Command of the Nigeria Police Force carrying out extrajudicial killings of arr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fuel Scarcity - No Hope in Sight -- Lukman
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Abiodun Adelaja And Adekunle AdesujiAbuja - Minister of Petroleum, Alhaji Rilwan Lukman has said the persistent fuel scarcity in the country has no immediate solution. Federal lawmakers had last we (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma, Ministers Face HIV Tests in State's New Prevention Drive
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Tamar KhanCape Town - President Jacob Zuma is to spearhead a new HIV-testing drive that aims to get 15-million people - about a third of SA - tested by June next year.Zuma and some of his Cabinet m (By News Poster)...Nigeria: HIV/Aids Test - Lawmakers Say It's Necessary for Long Life
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Ebun BabalolaTheir response seem to imply that their lives and survival depended on it. But unlike what obtains presently in Nigeria, members of the Lagos State House of Assembly surprisingly demon (By News Poster)...Kenya: Probe City Killings
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: The police department was quick to exonerate itself from blame over the killing of seven people in Nairobi's Dagoretti area on Wednesday night.Their contention was that the dead were members of a terr (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe Sheriff's Office attaches more RBZ property to settle US$2.1m debt
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: Farmtech obtained an order from the High Court to seize RBZ property after the central bank failed complete payment Gibbs DubeWashington - The Zimbabwean Sheriff's Office has attached more pro (By News Poster)...Uganda: WHO Approves Luzira HIV Drug Factory
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Irene NabusobaKampala - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has finally approved the antiretroviral drugs manufactured in Kampala by Quality Chemicals Industries, a local pharmaceutical giant.This (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Reverses Two-Day Rally, Falls Near U.S. $80
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Adeola Yusuf With Agency ReportsLagos - Oil prices on Tuesday reversed a two-day rally and fell sharply to $81 a barrel before the end of the day's transactions. The price dip was driven by a stron (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma Finally Declares Financial Interests
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Wilson JohwaJohannesburg - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma yesterday finally declared his financial interests but it is still unclear what the interests are.South Africans would only have access to part of wh (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Reverses Two-Day Rally, Falls Near U.S.$80
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Adeola Yusuf With Agency ReportsLagos - Oil prices on Tuesday reversed a two-day rally and fell sharply to $81 a barrel before the end of the day's transactions. The price dip was driven by a stron (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Yar'Adua - Police to Stop Protesters Getting to Aso Rock
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Kingsley Omonobi24 hours to the planned protest of the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, against continued absence of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua from national limelight due to illness and refusal of the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt to Review Tax Laws
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Harare - Zimbabwe's mining sector has failed to contribute meaningfully to the country's economy in the recent years with Government now working towards reviewing tax laws to ensure maximum benefits f (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN Leaves Benchmark Rate Unchanged
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Paul OgbuokiriLagos - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) left its benchmark interest rate unchanged; concerned that inflation may accelerate as the government prepares to remove fuel subsidies.The m (By News Poster)...West Africa: Farmers Receive Boost from UN Organic Food Exporting Initiative
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Some 5,000 West African farmers are reaping the rewards from a United Nations scheme aimed at helping them export produce to the growing organic food market in the industrialized world.The $2.4 millio (By News Poster)...Africa: Five Years to Children Born Free of HIV
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Marshall PatsanzaJohannesburg - A world where all children are born free of HIV infection is possible in only five years if donors continue to fund global efforts to combat the virus.The Global Fun (By News Poster)...South Africa: Country Could be Left Without a Steel Industry
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Tim CohenJohannesburg - AT THE heart of the almost unprecedented row between ArcelorMittal SA (Amsa) and Kumba is what might be described as "the moral issue".The issue is this: are the selfish des (By News Poster)...South Africa: Price of Peace in Uneasy Marriage
Monday 08-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - IT IS unusual for a government minister to jump into a contractual dispute between two private companies as quickly as Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies did recently in the dispute (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Using the Army for Political Ends
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Major Ishaya Danladi And Comrade Isah BashorunLike most Nigerian citizens, we are shocked at the news that officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army were deployed to Nnamdi Azikiwe International A (By News Poster)...South Africa: Optimum Coal Aims to Raise R1,6 Billion in Listing
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - COAL mining and exploration company Optimum Coal yesterday announced plans to list on the JSE at the end of the month. It expects to raise about R1,6bn in the initial publ (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Cholera Death Toll Rises to 41
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: Maputo - The cholera outbreaks in northern and central Mozambique have now killed 41 people out of the 2,601 cases notified, according to the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Leonardo Chavane. (By News Poster)...Africa: Continent Still Hungry Despite Annual U.S.$3 Billion of Aid and U.S.$33 Billion of Food Imports - UN
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: One in three Africans is chronically hungry, despite $3 billion spent on food aid for the continent annually and $33 billion in food imports, the director of the food security at the United Nations Ec (By News Poster)...Josea's Bankruptcy Battle Lands in Supreme Court
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesA BID to recover some of the money that the Social Security Commission lost when it tried to invest N$30 million through an inexperienced asset management company, Avid Investment Corp (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banking Reform Bill Scales Second Reading in National Assembly
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Kingsley Ighomwenghian And Adetutu Folasade-KoyiAbuja - A draft legislation to back Nigeria's banking reforms initiated by Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Lamido Sanusi, scaled the S (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Post-Coup Niger (1) - the Slain Ram Has Risen Again!
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Sanusi AbubakarTwo words best describe Niger Republic in the immediate aftermath of the February 18th coup d'état: relief and uncertainty. Relief that, with President Tandja's controversial (By News Poster)...Government's Weak Heart Will Stymie Minister's Plan
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Jabulani SikhakhaneJohannesburg - THE medium-term strategic plan launched last week by the Department of Economic Development makes clear why Minister Ebrahim Patel's department may, at best, fail (By News Poster)...Botswana: Polygamy and HIV/Aids
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Isaac Pinielo and Pini BotlhokoFrancistown - The practice of polygamy by members of the Johane Apostle Church of God, a religious sect whose members are commonly known as Bazezuru, is often lambast (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Sells Above U.S. $81
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Adeola Yusuf With Agency ReportsLagos - Crude oil soared above $81 before the end of transactions at the weekend. The price surge was spurred by increased risk appetite for both global equities and (By News Poster)...NUNW's Kaaronda Stokes Racial Fire
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Denver KistingWHITE Namibians should remember that "essentially, Namibia is a black country".This statement by Evilastus Kaaronda, Secretary General of the NUNW, during a radio interview yesterday (By News Poster)...Botswana: Minister Wants Action on Illegal Immigrants
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Bame PietAssistant Minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration Mokgweetsi Masisi has called on the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs to beef up security at entry points of the coun (By News Poster)...Police Still Investigating Death of Former Mine Boss
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Isaiah MorewagaeClose to a month after businessman and former Debswana managing director, Louis Goodwill Nchindo was found dead in Pandamatenga farming area, the police are yet to conclude their in (By News Poster)...Zambia: Banks' Failure to Slash Interest Rates Disappoints Fundanga
Monday 08-Mar-2010: BANK of Zambia (BoZ) Governor Caleb Fundanga has said he is disappointed with the failure by commercial banks to reduce interest rates and bank charges despite the favourable macroeconomic indicators. (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: DRC Army Accuses Advocacy Groups of 'Cooking Up Reports'
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: By James KaruhangaKigali - The Congolese army (FARDC) has accused advocacy groups of intentionally being fed with false and dangerous information by FDLR rebel elements, to 'cook up treacherous report (By News Poster)...Zambia: Govt Reinforces Monopoly as Country Heads for Competition
Friday 12-Mar-2010: By Russell SouthwoodLondon - In the run-up to the privatisation of Zamtel, the Zambian Government is proposing to add a significant proportion of the fibre assets from the state-owned power utility Ze (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Group Flays CBN's Plan to Classify Banks
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Omoh GabrielThe plan by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to categorise banks into infrastructure banks, non-interest banks, agricultural banks, banks that cater for Small and Medium Enterprises, S (By News Poster)...Gambia: Lawyer Martin Bemoans Plight of Inmate Detained for 13 Years
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: By Fabakary B. CeesayMr. Assan Martin, a human rights lawyer has informed Foroyaa that he has come across a prisoner at Mile 2 Prison, who has been in custody for 13 years without any charges preferre (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cabinet Backs Testing and Treatment Targets
Thursday 11-Mar-2010: Cabinet has approved the implementation plan to scale up the HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment programme which will include ministers and other leaders taking HIV tests.Health minister Dr Aaron Mo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Reappearance of the President Has Worsened the Political Paralysis - and the Splits in the PDP Government
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: On 3 March, the state governors decided to block a vote that could have set in motion President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s enforced resignation on medical grounds. This has won his supporters i (By News Poster)...Sudan: South Dispels Fears of Fresh Chaos after Poll
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: By Allan OdhiamboThe leadership of South Sudan has downplayed fears of fresh conflict over oil reserves within its territory after the planned 2011 referendum to decide whether southerners will formal (By News Poster)...Niger: Southern Villages Emptying as Drought Bites
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Tanout - "Empty" increasingly describes the southern Niger town of Tanout in Zinder Region: Water wells and pastures, fields and food banks - and slowly - entire villages, are emptying.Of the 42 famil (By News Poster)...Somalia: Government Soldiers Fight, Kill Three People in Mogadishu
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: At least three people have been killed and 4 others were wounded after government soldiers exchanged fun fire at Mekka Al-mukarama street in Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Tuesday.Reports (By News Poster)...Rwanda: SIMTEL Starts Local Production of ATM Cards
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Daudi K. MusokeKigali - Acquisition of ATM cards to be reduced to 5 working daysIn order to diversify the electronic payment landscape in Rwanda, SIMTEL has started the production of a proprietary (By News Poster)...South Africa: Miners may get Reprieve from Zimbabwean Laws
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - SA-BASED miners Anglo Platinum, African Rainbow Minerals and Impala Platinum could face a reprieve from tough empowerment laws proposed by the Zimbabwean government foll (By News Poster)...Cameroon: Fight Against Sexual Abuse Continues
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Effa TambenkonghoAn NGO organised a press conference to sensitise the public on the evil of child sexual abuse.Barristers, Psychologists, gynaecologists have condemned sexual abuse in children and (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Darkness, Fear, Despair and 'Zhambi' At Mine
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Vusumuzi SifileTHE faces of three old women sitting hopelessly around a small fire say it all. Life in the once bustling asbestos mining town of Zvishavane has changed -- for the worst after govern (By News Poster)...Kenya: Zap, M-Pesa Lined Up for Global Awards
Monday 08-Mar-2010: By Kui KinyanjuiKenya's status as an innovator in the budding mobile money industry has been boosted with the shortlisting of two of the country's money transfer solutions for global awards.Zain's m-c (By News Poster)...[Pic] [Humour] S.Africa: 2010: President Jacob Zuma's trip to Britain was, er... successful....
Friday 12-Mar-2010: [This little story is quite importan actually. I received this from a regular supporter, however, at my work, I was doing the rounds among the call centre staff when I saw black women forwarding this (By Jan)...USA: The Stockmarkets & Gold - My Experiment with my Technical Indicators continues... Sell Gold now? Sell DOW?
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: I'm going to be brief. I've said I will post a series of pieces on my own technical indicators versus the market indicators. I am watching existing indicators versus a custom creation of my own. N (By Jan)...USA: Obama Couldn’t ‘Sell Watermelons’
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: Of course, Dan Rather’s comments about Obama selling watermelons surely wouldn’t be labeled as racist will it? I’m sure just like Donny Deustch’s comment calling Marco Rubio a coconut, Dan Rather mean (By JanOlifant)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (13-03-2010)
Saturday 13-Mar-2010: Howzit Morgan Tsvangirai does ask us an interesting question. The Movement for Democratic Change is committed to remove Mugabe from power, but using democratic means. Given that Mugabe has a violen (By The BeardedMan)...Starving Zimbabweans Strip Elephant Carcas Bare (PIC)
Friday 12-Mar-2010: Starving Zimbabweans descend upon and strip an elephant carcass bare 24 hours after they found it. If you can't see the image above, check it out at: (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (10-03-2010)
Wednesday 10-Mar-2010: Howzit Last evening I spent a little time getting an idea as to the scope of what I can only describe as 'damage' to this page and I am staggered at just how much of it is missing. The postings rem (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (09-03-2010)
Tuesday 09-Mar-2010: Howzit "Music by Prudence," made partly with the financial and creative support of the Maryland Institute College of Art, overcame several other strong candidates, including the American labor trag (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (08-03-2010)
Monday 08-Mar-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- Zimbabweans are first and foremost a peaceful people and they loved Mugabe's late wife, Sally. The national outpouring of grief when Sally d (By The BeardedMan)...
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