Weekly Southern African Report
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 21st 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 & GruesomeCongo-Kinshasa: 2009 Human Rights Report: DRC
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a nominally centralized republic with a population of approximately 68 million. The president and the lower house of parliament (National Assembly) are po (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Child Sexual Abuse - the Raging Storm
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Tunbosun OgundareLagos - JUST last Friday, 35-year old man, David Orji, appeared before an Asaba Magistrate Court, Delta Stata, for allegedly raping a six-year old girl. Police prosecutor, Emmanuel (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bomb Blasts Rock Warri Amnesty Talks
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Emma Amaize, Dayo Benson, Okey Ndiribe, Simon Ebegbulem, Emma Arubi, Jimitota Onoyume and Festus AhonGOVERNORS, elders, leaders and stakeholders of the Niger-Delta, yesterday, angrily scolded the M (By News Poster)...The presidency of General Ian Khama- Militarisation of the Botswana 'Miracle'
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Kenneth GoodSince the succession of Lieutenant-General Ian Khama to the presidency in April 2008, an escalation in the militarisation and personalisation of power in Botswana has taken place.Repres (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police- FG Plays the Ostrich Game, Condemns Own Agency
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Bisiriyu OlaoyePENULTIMATE Thursday, the Federal Government returned a damning verdict on the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), describing it as a failure. This verdict would not be a surprise to most pe (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banks' Bailout Fund Repayment Deadline Not Feasible--Ubani
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Stan OkenwaLagos - Critical reactions have continued to trail the recent May 2010 deadline for the repayment of the bailout funds made available by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to the nine tro (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How We Were Butchered, Survivor of Jos Crisis
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Achilleus-Chud UchegbuLagos - Nigerians woke last Sunday, to the news that more than 400 people of Dogo Nahawa community in Jos south area of Plateau state had been sent to their early graves by ra (By News Poster)...Africa: Country's Land Reforms is Inspiring to Africa's New Land Reform Agenda - Visiting Expert
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Fred Oluoch-OjiwahKigali - Dr Michael Taylor is the Programme Manager for land policy at the International Land Coalition(ILC) an international NGO hosted at The International Fund for Agricultural (By News Poster)...Attention: American and South African Readers... I believe you're getting VERY ANGRY...
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: Hi Folks, I got some notes from one of our volunteers who monitors comments saying that people seem to be getting more outspoken and angry in their comments. I'm going to browse through some of t (By Jan)...Rhodesia: Some funny and strange memories from my childhood - I find an old diary... The coming defeat of Liberals
Monday 15-Mar-2010: I have been doing some renovating in my house after discovering that I have a dust mite allergy and my carpets are killing me. In the process of moving furniture around I cleaned out some old trunks t (By Jan)...South Africa: SANDF to Spend R30 Million on Upgrading R4/R5
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Hopewell RadebeSphiwe Nyanda - The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is not about to let go of the services of its almost 30 year old assault rifles R4 and R5 following the force's decis (By News Poster)...Somalia: Naval Forces Destroy Suspected Pirate Boats
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: On 12th March, after receiving a report from MV E.R. Lubeck (Liberian Flag, German owner), that pirates in 2 skiffs had tried to hijack her, Comeunavfor initiated a surge operation to intercept and di (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Thirteen Killed in Fresh Jos Violence - Cult Clash Claims Six in Sagamu
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Wisdom Patrick, Onoja Audu And Segun AdeleyeAbeokuta/Lagos/Jos - Fulani herdsmen have again broken loose on the Plateau, this time with greater vengeance and impunity, killing 13 people in Byei vi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Farmers Furious at 'National Asset' Threat to Land Rights
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Stephan HofstatterJohannesburg - FARMERS' union AgriSA held an emergency meeting with Department of Rural Development and Land Reform director-general Thozi Gwanya yesterday to discuss his departme (By News Poster)...Kenya: CIA Documents Expose Politics During Cold War
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Murithi MutigaNairobi - The 2012 General Election is shaping up as a contest between Raila Odinga and a loose coalition with one objective: stopping Mr Odinga from becoming president.Declassified C (By News Poster)...Africa: Continent Needs Proactive Action on Climate Change, Expert Says
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Cindy ShinerA three-day climate change conference being held in Accra, Ghana, ends on Thursday. It was organized by the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance and representatives from more than 30 co (By News Poster)...West Africa: Hunger Knows No Borders
Friday 19-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - West Africa can meet its food needs through regional trade, most agricultural experts say, if countries keep their borders open for the free flow of staple grains, especially in times o (By News Poster)...Politics in Court - Judges Should not be Resolving Political Disputes
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - IT HAS become a defining feature of the African National Congress (ANC) in government over the past few years that the courts have increasingly been obliged to settle disputes that shou (By News Poster)...Obama Snug in Bush's Shoes
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Itai MuchenaHarare - THE hopes held by the international community, Zimbabwe included, that Barack Obama would transform the hyper-aggressive, combative and confrontational United States foreign po (By News Poster)...Madagascar: Timeline - a Turbulent Political History
Friday 19-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - Madagascar's history is marked by a struggle for political control. By 1700, France and England had attempted to establish settlements, while the rulers of the island's many kingdoms fo (By News Poster)...Africa: IMF Sees Continent Shunning Dependence for Trade and Prosperity
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Johnstone Ole TuranaDominique Strauss-Kahn, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director, recently visited Kenya as part of his African tour.While in the country, Mr Strauss-Kahn took pa (By News Poster)...USA: Excellent Analysis: Why I Reject: Lies My Teacher Told Me - The Lies about American History
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: [This is a book analysis, but read the arguments. Here is something very well thought-out. Jan] Why I Reject "Lies My Teacher Told Me." Coleman J. Goin says: In "Lies My Teacher Told Me" (199 (By Jan)...Madagascar: Timeline - A Turbulent Political History
Friday 19-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - Madagascar's history is marked by a struggle for political control. By 1700, France and England had attempted to establish settlements, while the rulers of the island's many kingdoms fo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos Killings - Politics, Buck Passing Continue
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Raymond GukasJos - There has never been a time in the history of Nigeria that the Nigerian Army would be put on the stake by defenseless civilians. This no doubt, is indicative of the maturity the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: SA Mining Firm Builds Gold Plant in Zimbabwe
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: Harare - SOUTH Africa-based mine project firm TWP and African Consolidated Resources are building a gold plant in Zimbabwe on a build, own and operate basis as part of a toll treating agreement.TWP ch (By News Poster)...Analysis: USA: 21st Century Super-Depression: Government Intervention caused the Great Depression - Obama is doing the same & so much more...
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: [Take a look at this lovely review I stumbled upon written by a scholar who points out what is really known about the Great Depression and who sums up the arguments from the 3 different schools of eco (By Jan)...Zim: Diamond companies make a killing
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: Mhlanga, involved in the DRC war, testified against Tsvangirai in his treason trial By Dumisani MuleyaCompanies involved in shady mining deals at Chiadzwa in Marange, Manicaland province, are (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai, Mugabe 'Happy With Zuma Talks'
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaJohannesburg - ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said they were satisfied with talks mediated by President Jacob Zuma yesterday aimed at salvagi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Time to Scrap Unity Deal And Have a Supervised Election
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Allister SparksWhatever President Zuma may have gained for our country during his state visit to Britain, the sad thing is he failed to seize the one opportunity he had to transform his internation (By News Poster)...Bomb threats, Nchindo and the Kalafatis effect
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Tshireletso MotlogelwaGovernment 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)...Zim: Time to scrap unity deal and have a supervised election
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: An inveterate hawk who eats softies for breakfast CommentAllister SparksWhatever President Zuma may have gained for our country during his state visit to Britain, the sad thing is he failed to (By News Poster)...[13 Pics] S.Africa: 2010: Nasty Zimbabwe truck accident on the N1 highway...
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: [I received this story from a friend. Apparently this accident took place on the N1 highways. It looks pretty nasty… I wonder how many people were killed? Check out the fire… Apparently it was a Zimba (By Jan)...Diamond Companies Make a Killing
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaCOMPANIES involved in shady mining deals at Chiadzwa in Marange, Manicaland province, are making a fortune on a staggering scale from the hotly contested diamond fields. In a matter (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 14 Killed in Fresh Jos Violence
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Taye Obateru, Sam Eyoboka and Kingsley OmonobiFOURTEEN people were again brutally murdered in Plateau State, yesterday; this time, at Byei village in Riyom Local Government Area by suspected Fulani (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Seize Truck Load of Ammunition
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Lukkey Abawuru nd Steve OkoUmuahia - DETECTIVES from Federal Anti Robbery Squad (FARS), Adeniji Adele, Lagos have intercepted truck load of arms and ammunition worth over N12 million.Also four pers (By News Poster)...Dissident Blogger Dies Under Mysterious Circumstances
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: A South African lawyer and dissident blogger critical of the ANC-led government has been found dead in the men's bathroom of a local police station, allegedly from a self-inflicted gun shot. Read M (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Madagascar: A Year of Crisis
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Antananarivo - Madagascar's political deadlock masks an increasingly fragile humanitarian situation that will keep deteriorating if no solution to the ongoing crisis is found.A year after former Presi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Good Morning, General Gusau
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Chidi AmutaLagos - In his later years in active service, Gen. Aliyu Mohammed Gusau never looked great in army uniform. When in the dying days of the Ibrahim Babangida regime, he was appointed Chief (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma's Zim Talks Going 'Very Well'
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday said talks with South African President Jacob Zuma had gone "very well" but did not say whether they were (By News Poster)...South Africa: Songs and Other Ways to Kill Hope on Farms
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - FARMERS feel like an endangered species right now. First a song calling for their extermination appears to be gaining popularity in some African National Congress (ANC) circles. Then th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Crumbling Sewerage Infrastructure Threatens Water Quality
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: By Yugendree NaidooThe dunes at Monwabisi beach, used by tens of thousands of Cape Flats residents, are covered in large patches of sewage.Normally treated upstream at the Zandvliet Waste Water Treatm (By News Poster)...USA: President Obama Orders Army NOT To Fly U.S. Flag in Haiti
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: Obama is an absolute embarrassment to the United States. What kind of America hating freak would give an order such as this? By: Todd Warner Huston It’s bad enough that Secretary of State Hillar (By Jan)...North Africa: Sahel Leaders Meet On Al Qaeda Threat
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Charles FrommWashington - Representatives from seven North African and Sahelian states convened in Algiers on Tuesday to discuss the growing threat of al Qaeda's North African affiliate in the regi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Hunger Looms!
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Ebun Babalola And Olasunkanmi AkoniA call from the Deputy Editor, Saturday Vanguard, Chioma Gabriel, changed my entire Thursday routine. Ordinarily, as a journalist, I would resume duty as early as (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Renamo Guards Detain Woman for Six Days
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Maputo - Armed men loyal to Mozambique's former rebel movement Renamo illegally detained for six days a woman who visited their base in the central district of Maringue in a vain attempt to persuade t (By News Poster)...[Pic] [Humour] S.Africa: A Free Gift from SARS (Receiver of Revenue) to all Tax payers...
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: [Yeah, this is about it… Jan] FREE GIFT FROM SARS TO ALL TAXPAYERS The Income Tax Department has announced that they will give a free pencil sharpener to all taxpayers. It can be placed on your (By Jan)...South Africa: Economy Farm attacks: costs mount
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Submitted by K. Nel Mar 16 2010 12:23 Johannesburg - The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) said on Tuesday it is becoming increasingly concerned at the cost to the economy of (By JoAn)...Nigeria: Bomb Explosions Rock Post-Amnesty Summit in Warri - Four Feared Dead
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Nigerian Blasts Kill One, Injure Many BOMB blasts on Monday sent guests packing at the post-amnesty dialogue organised in Warri by The Vanguard to chart a hopeful course for the Deep South.The Movemen (By News Poster)...South Africa: Investment Agency Warns SA on Spending
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - SA's recovery should be robust enough next year for authorities to raise interest rates and stick to plans to curb spending and borrowing without pushing the economy back i (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How FG Tried to Undermine Niger Delta Confab in Holland
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Emma AmaizeLast month, a Non-Governmental Organization, (NGO), Hope for Niger-Delta Campaign (HNDC), in a two-day confab, dubbed, aHH"Niger-Delta Peace Consolidation Conference" chose The Hague, Ne (By News Poster)...Ghana: Interest Rate in Nation is Highest in Africa
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Irene Janice Mensah and Gifty MensahAccra - In 2004 the Bank of Ghana (BoG) directed all commercial banks in the country, to abolish and in some instances reduce, what it described as unfair bank c (By News Poster)...USA: U.S. Army Africa commander visits South Africa
Friday 19-Mar-2010: U.S. Army Africa commander meets South African military leaders By Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Africa VICENZA, Italy – Shortly after Maj. Gen. William B. Garrett III’s aircraft touched down at Joha (By JanOlifant)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (18-03-2010)
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: Howzit On Saturday there will be no posting as I am involved in a project which will take up most of that morning - I will endeavour to catch up with any missed stories on Sunday. Thanks for you (By The BeardedMan)...Zimbabwe central bank governor attacks planned company seizure
Friday 19-Mar-2010: "We must not disturb the momentum by being reckless, inconsistent and self-contradictory" By Cris ChinakaHarare - Zimbabwe's central bank governor on Thursday attacked as "reckless" a drive by (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fulani Equation - Woman + Child = Cattle
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Achilleus UchebguLagos - Nigeria is indeed a funny country. Its residents are funnier. I recently put up a question on facebook. I had asked: "if you were to enter just three words that best descri (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Traffickers Exploit World Cup Fever
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Addis Ababa - Human traffickers and smugglers in Ethiopia have taken advantage of the upcoming World Cup, duping victims into believing that South Africa has created huge employment opportunities, say (By News Poster)...Fascinating STRATFOR Analysis of Germany's increasing influence & power...
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: [In South Africa many Afrikaners have indeed been hoping for to see the rise of Germany again. The reason is because we are convinced that the Anglo-American axis has dumped us and prefers to side wit (By Jan)...War Veterans' Squabbles Escalate
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Caiphas ChimheteGETRUDE Hambira, an activist for farm workers, has gone into hiding after she was threatened by members of the Joint Operations Command (JOC) over her role in exposing the widesprea (By News Poster)...Court Dismisses Treason Suspects' Assault Claims
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesGOVERNMENT lawyers have successfully defended a third batch of civil claims by high treason suspects who claim they were assaulted and tortured after being arrested about ten years ago (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ruling Party, Acting President Part Ways
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By By Rotimi AkinwumiAbuja - To the discerning mind, the leadership of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Acting President Goodluck Jonathan are barely tolerating each other given the series of events (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Death Now Resides in Jos Plateau
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Hakeem JamiuGradually but systematically, Nigeria, through Jos, is back to the Hobbessian State of nature where life is nasty, brutish and short. The once peaceful city of Jos and its surrounding v (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (16-03-2010)
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Howzit I am currently having major problems with Blogger. When I went to publish yesterday morning, it told me the this page does not exist, and I am finding more and more postings are just disappe (By The BeardedMan)...Zim: SA firms dig for Mugabe
Sunday 21-Mar-2010: "Old Mutual can't afford to stay invested if there are irregularities, from a reputational point of view" Blood Diamonds: Companies with no credentials handed rights in controversial Eastern f (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe - Time to Go
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Lagos - THE recent hint by octogenarian President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, that he will, again, contest the country's presidential election billed for next year deserves the condemnation it is curr (By News Poster)...Kenya: Four More Raila Ministers Targeted
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Political parties are turning the war against corruption into a bargaining chip in the power games ahead of the 2012 General Election.Both sides have set up secretariats that are actively mi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Federal Govt Orders Onovo to Personally Investigate Warri Bomb Blast
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Kingsley OmonobiThe federal government Tuesday said it was worried by the bomb explosions that rocked Warri, Delta state, during the beginning of the Post Amnesty Dialogue organized by Vanguard Med (By News Poster)...Mass action as a precondition to viable democratic change
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: By Gabriel KanjabangaBy the Time the People Take Part in Elections They Must Have Been Extremely Politicised And Galvanised Into Action Such That the Electoral Process Becomes a Mere Formality Through (By News Poster)...Africa: Removing Incentives For Coups in Africa
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Tony OkeraforLagos - See! The act of condemning a coup wholesale is one thing; but, taking practical, proactive action against any unconstitutional takeover of political power, including coup-makin (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zuma Holds Critical Talks in Harare
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaHarare - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma held brief talks last night with his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe soon after his arrival in Harare on an official visit during which he will hol (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Witness Says, RUF Rebels Did Not Commit Crimes
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Alpha SesaySierra Leonean rebel forces did not commit crimes of rape, nor did they recruit and use children for combat purposes as alleged by prosecutors, Charles Taylor’s defense witness tol (By News Poster)...South Africa: Just How Damaging Are Service Delivery Protests for 2010?
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Dr Nikolaus EberlWhen Jeremy Maggs interviewed International Marketing Council (IMC) chair Anitha Soni earlier this week as to just how much damage the recent service delivery protests have caused (By News Poster)...Africa: Corruption is Undermining Development in Africa - World Bank
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By ReportsLagos - World Bank has revealed that the failure of the public servants in Africa to deliver goods and services paid by the governments is becoming pervasive in the continent just as it is h (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How Odimegwu's Wife Was Kidnapped - Police
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Emma OguOwerri - As security agencies beam their search light on Imo and Anambra States in an effort to rescue Lolo Stella Odimegwu, kidnapped wife of former managing director of Nigerian Breweries (By News Poster)...Witness Says Sierra Leonean Rebel Forces Were Trained in Country
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Alpha SesayA 300-strong force of Liberians and Sierra Leoneans were based in Liberia and trained under a top Sierra Leonean rebel leader before attacking Sierra Leone in 1991, a protected Liberian (By News Poster)...Zim: Security forces blocking unionist from Tribunal
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: Fear that Hambira could strengthen and legitimise the case of hundreds of white farmers By Caroline MvunduraHarare - Zimbabwe's security forces, who have hounded trade unionist Gertrude Hambir (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Reforms - Experts Task CBN On Trust And Confidence
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Comfort EkelemeLagos - As the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) continues to unveil strategies, to drive the on-going banking sector reforms, indications are rift that the issue of trust needs to be pr (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Woman Accuses Army of Rape
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Caiphas ChimheteHarare - RUTENDO Munengani, wife of MDC-T legislator for Glen View North Fani Munengami, says she will never forgive President Robert Mugabe after she was raped by a soldier while h (By News Poster)...Zim: Diamond saga: ‘sleaze, corruption and perversion of course of justice'
Monday 15-Mar-2010: "The minister alleges links between ACR and De Beers. This is an invention" Following President Robert Mugabe's claims last week that De Beers looted diamonds from the controversial Chiadzwa (By News Poster)...Zim: Has Zuma finally managed to persuade Mugabe to implement GPA?
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: Zimbabwe is back to square one CommentBy Violet GondaZimbabwe is back to square one. The Global Political Agreement was signed in 2008. On Thursday South African President Jacob Zuma announced (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Senate to Split CBN
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Emmanuel AzikenAbuja - THE Senate Committee on Banking, yesterday expressed support for plans to abolish the Universal Banking scheme and was preparing plans to split the Central Bank into two dist (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Has Zuma Persuaded Mugabe to Implement Deal?
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: By Violet GondaZimbabwe is back to square one. The Global Political Agreement was signed in 2008. On Thursday South African President Jacob Zuma announced that the main political parties in Zimbabwe h (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fresh Sectarian Attack Leaves 13 Dead in Jos
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Another fresh spate of killings in Jos on Wednesday leaves 13 dead, when Muslim herdsmen disguised as soldiers butchered and then burned around a dozen Christians, close to the site of a recent sectar (By News Poster)...Zuma unlikely to push for early Zim vote
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: "There is no guarantee that elections next year will not trigger the same violence we saw in 2008" By Own CorrespondentHarare - South African President Jacob Zuma was set to hold talks with Pr (By News Poster)...South Africa: But South Africa Will Win
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Less than a hundred days to go, and the world looks on, often more with scepticism than anticipation.For five weeks from Jun. 11 to Jul. 11 threats of war will be relegated beyond the global touchline (By News Poster)...Algeria: Chinese Companies Named in Anti-Corruption Probe
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: State prosecutors have ordered more arrests this month, as investigations intensify into the Chinese companies and European middlemen dealing with Algeria's US$12 billion East-West Highway project. Th (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SADC Council Discusses Climate Change, Food Security
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: The southern African region shows a food surplus for this marketing year although food insecurity and malnutrition remain high. Some 3.26 million people remain vulnerable in spite of a general improve (By News Poster)...Bailout, suicide, all out of one bag
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Rampholo MolefeWithout seeking to exaggerate the social significance of the much anticipated corruption case involving former managers of Debswana, it must be conceded that it marks a signpost with (By News Poster)...Africa: Corruption Carries High Cost, World Bank Says
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Mohammed A. SalihWashington - Poverty is on the rise in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and various forms of corruption threaten to undermine the impact of investments made to meet the Millennium Developm (By News Poster)...Civil Society Warns of Worsening Rights Abuse
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Alex BellCivil society organisations have warned of worsening human rights abuse at the hands of state security agents, explaining that in the last three months there has been an escalation in the (By News Poster)...Citizens Should Fight for Money Rights
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Michael GawesebCONSUMERS have a right to stable, secure and fair financial services.Since 2006 the Namibia Consumer Trust (NCT) has been advocating for something to be done about bank charges based (By News Poster)...Bailout, Suicide, All Out of One Bag
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Rampholo MolefeWithout seeking to exaggerate the social significance of the much anticipated corruption case involving former managers of Debswana, it must be conceded that it marks a signpost with (By News Poster)...Masire-De Beers, the Civil Coup of 1987
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Lediretse MolakeOur people are interested in answers to two simple questions; how does democracy obtain in a situation where the ruling party is financed by the government? and why the President sh (By News Poster)...Bombs Disrupt Post-Amnesty Conference
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Omon-Julius Onabu and Ahamefula OgbuWarri/Port Harcourt - The fragile peace in the Niger Delta was further threatened yesterday following two explosions outside the perimeter fence of the Delta Sta (By News Poster)...South Africa: Koeberg to Shut Down
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Helen Bamford and Xolani MbanjwaKoeberg Nuclear Power Station has to undergo shut-downs to repair leaks in both generation units, raising the spectre of power shortages and blackouts. The first shu (By News Poster)...Zim: Forget the Reds, meet the bona fide capitalists
Friday 19-Mar-2010: He “meandered†into business matters CommentChris MuronziAt a rare meeting with journalists a fortnight ago, President Robert Mugabe disclosed that he owned Highfield Farm in Norton, a far (By News Poster)...S.Africa: ANC Defends “Kill The Boer” Song - It is ok for Blacks to sing about killing Afrikaners...
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: [Yes, recently the ANC defended this as "struggle culture". What nobody points out is that Whites never, in their history, sang about killing blacks. If a white person said even 1/10th of what these b (By Jan)...Mozambique: Alleged Killers of Policemen Arrested
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican police claims that it has arrested five people involved in last Thursday's murders of three policemen on the streets of Maputo.According to the national police spokesperson, Pe (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Unexpected Low Custom Revenue Causes Budget Shortfalls
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Servaas Van Den BoschWindhoek - Plummeting revenues from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) could cause severe financial difficulties in the region, economic experts warn. To make matters wo (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Making Up for Wasted Time after the 'Lost Decade'
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Dianna GamesJohannesburg - EMMANUEL Munyukwi, CE of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE), has had a stressful time during Zimbabwe's lost decade - keeping interest alive in a stock market increasingly (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Critical Time for Nigeria's Future
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Jean HerskovitsNew York - The new round of violence in Jos, tragically similar to unrest there in the past and once again misinterpreted as primarily a Muslim-Christian dispute, was exacerbated by (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gruesome Murder of Efenji Efenjiâ
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: Lagos - Gradually but steadily, journalists are turning out to be really endangered species. For many Nigerians only the recent arrests of the suspected killers, by the Police, give them courage to ev (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chinamasa Defends Arrest of MDC Supporters
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Wongai ZhangazhaJUSTICE and Legal Affairs minister Patrick Chinamasa has defended the arrests of MDC supporters and lawyers saying there is nothing wrong in apprehending them if there is a prima fa (By News Poster)...Strangler On the Loose With Trial Postponed
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesKOËS strangler Berendt Both remains free on bail after his trial on charges of murder and rape was postponed for close to three months in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday.Both (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: No Election Possible Without Major Reform
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Violet GondaThere are growing concerns over the holding of elections next year, as announced recently by both the leaders of ZANU PF and the MDC-T. Robert Mugabe even went further saying 'elections (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gas Cuts - FG May Power Plants With Condensate
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Sopuruchi OnwukaLagos - Ministry of Power is to explore the possibility of using natural gas liquids to fire power plants in the country as it presses on with diversification of sources of fuel for (By News Poster)...Strangler Describes Killing in Confession to Magistrate
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesKOËS strangler Berendt Both may have tried to perform an act of necrophilia on his victim, according to a confession by Both that has become part of the evidence in his trial in t (By News Poster)...Botswana: Mhalapitsa Villagers Assault Murder Suspect
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Baboki KayaweNine people from Mhalapitsa village are expected to appear in court soon for kidnapping and assaulting one of two suspects in a murder case in which the victim is a member of the same (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hogan - Eskom Loan Crucial for Economic Development
Monday 15-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)...S.Africa: Got ADSL problems? Unstable ADSL? Here's an ADSL trick I learned by accident
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: I have had serious ADSL problems. My ADSL was down for days and I had to hound Telkom 3 times in 6 days. They "fixed" it and then it was down and out the very next day again. I was so sick of phoning (By Jan)...Thou shall not insult the president
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Greg Kelebonye"I Call On All Ministers And Assistant Ministers And Every Other Person to Sing Like Parrots. During Mzee Kenyatta's Period, I Persistently Sang the Kenyatta Tune.[When] people said ' (By News Poster)...Nigeria: An Appeal to Militants
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Tony Ita EtimLagos - Last Monday there was panic in Warri and other parts of the Niger Delta as explosives, which the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta MEND claimed it planted, explo (By News Poster)...Making up for wasted time after Zimbabwe's lost decade
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: The industrial index has shed a cumulative 20% since the move. The “big bang†approach to indigenisation has revived fears of asset seizure Dianna GamesEmmanuel Munyukwi, CE of the Zimbabw (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 20 Killed As Jos Burns Again
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Raymond GukasJos - Fulani insurgents engaged in another round of killings yesterday, when they hacked down 20 women and children after an early morning invading a village in Riyom local government (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Government Principals Meet with Zuma
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Alex BellSouth African President Jacob Zuma kick-started his three day visit to Zimbabwe on Wednesday by holding talks with the coalition government's feuding leaders.Zuma, the regional mediator ta (By News Poster)...Zim: Zuma breaks talks deadlock
Friday 19-Mar-2010: "The negotiators are to report back to the facilitator by 31st of March" Faith Zaba, Dumisani MuleyaSouth African President Jacob Zuma yesterday managed to squeeze a raft of concessions from Z (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Activists Call Swiss to Act on Blood Diamonds
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Loubna Freih Georges And Walter StresemannLoubna Freih Georges and Walter Stresemann, members of Human Rights Watch's Geneva Committee, urge Switzerland to help put an end to the sale of blood diam (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zuma Breaks Talks Deadlock
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Faith Zaba and Dumisani MuleyaHarare - SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma yesterday managed to squeeze a raft of concessions from Zimbabwe's rival political parties and their leaders in a bid to re (By News Poster)...Uganda: Rwandan Refugees Face Hunger as Farming Ban Bites
Friday 19-Mar-2010: Nakivale - A farming ban imposed on Rwandan refugees in southwestern Uganda is raising concerns for their food security, while proposed cash transfers could boost both food prices and theft, warn aid (By News Poster)...Witness Says, Sierra Leonean Rebels Captured Weapons From Guinea Soldiers
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Alpha SesaySierra Leonean rebel forces captured arms and ammunition from enemy forces and also purchased some from Guinean soldiers, a defense witness for Charles Taylor told Special Court for Sier (By News Poster)...Somalia: Navy Officers Seek End to Piracy
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Nairobi - With piracy along the coast of Somalia spiralling out of control, a group of navy commanders say the solution lies in restoring law and order in the war-torn country. Lawlessness in the coun (By News Poster)...Kenya: Aga Khan Announces New Graduate Media School
Sunday 21-Mar-2010: A speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the conference marking the 50th anniversary of the Nation Media Group: "Media and the African Promise," delivered on 18 March 2010:I am genuinely pleased to jo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Country Intensifies Aids Case Findings - Living With Aids
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Khopotso BodibeWithin a few days, Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, will launch a massive campaign aimed at encouraging millions of South Africans to test for HIV. The campaign will precede the (By News Poster)...Turf Wars Persist Among Mobile Giants
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Mbongeni MguniThe cut-throat competition and one-upmanship sparked by the introduction of mobile phone services in Botswana 12 years ago, continues unabated with the only victors being the consumer (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN to Phase Out Universal Banking Next Year
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Kunle AderinokunAbuja - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said yesterday that it would issue fresh licences to categories of banks and phase out universal banking within 18 months.By universal bank (By News Poster)...Zim: Billy Rautenbach fingered in escalation of violence in Manicaland
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: "He has teamed up with Enock Porusingazi to displace, intimidate and beat up our supporters" By Tichaona SibandaBilly Rautenbach, the 51 year old multimillionaire businessman with close links (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos Crisis - FG Orders Probe of Army Complicity
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Chioma Gabriel, Taye Obateru, Uduma Kalu And Kingsley OmonobiAbuja - THE Federal Government has ordered probe into allegations of Army complicity in the recent Jos killings. Also, the Inspector Gen (By News Poster)...South Africa: Rand Rally Raises Hope for Interest Rate Cut
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - THE rand's rally to a 2½ -month peak against the dollar has raised the odds of an interest rate cut at the Reserve Bank's policy meeting next week, although most ana (By News Poster)...Zuma has little chance of fixing Zim's problems
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Most ominously, Patrick Chinamasa was given power over elections CommentParties resigned to fresh electionsPeta ThornycroftPresident Jacob Zuma's mission to Harare today is inspiring little ho (By News Poster)...Botswana: Mhalapitsa Villagers Assault Murder Suspect
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Baboki KayaweReports indicate that close to 100 people were involved in the fracas as villagers reacted with anger to what they believed was a miscarriage of justice in the murder of 40 year-old Ke (By News Poster)...South Africa: Slips Down Gold Production Rankings
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - THE continued decline in SA's gold production last year saw the country slip further down the global rankings, according to figures released on Friday by the Chamber of Mi (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Diamonds Worth U.S. $3 Million Go Missing
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Mike Mande And Abduel ElinazaMystery surrounds the disappearance of a consignment of 14,931 carats of diamonds worth nearly $3 million, belonging to Williamson Diamonds Ltd of Tanzania.The consignm (By News Poster)...USA: Obama's Leftist Revolution: Obama is a reckless socialist - KUHNER: Impeach president Obama?
Friday 19-Mar-2010: [Obama is determined to do the crazy socialist thing... no matter the cost to America. Jan] The 'Slaughter Solution' would violate the Constitution The Democrats are assaulting the very pillars (By Jan)...South Africa: More Money, Less Education
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - Ethembeni Enrichment Centre, a school in a run-down part of Port Elizabeth, the largest city in Eastern Cape, South Africa's poorest province, has achieved a remarkable 100 percent pass (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: It's Time ZMC Became More Visible
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Kholwani NyathiSPENDING three hours with President Robert Mugabe will always be an eye-opener because very few people have had an opportunity to get inside the mind of a man considered to be one of (By News Poster)...Africa: Quiet Corruption Harmful to Long-Term Development
Friday 19-Mar-2010: "Quiet corruption" can be just as detrimental to a country's overall economic growth and development as large corruption and bribery scandals that receive much sensational press play and media attenti (By News Poster)...Rwanda: "Quiet Corruption" Derailing African Economies - WB Report
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - The World Bank on Monday released the 2010 Africa Development Indicators (ADI) Report, revealing a new phenomenon of "Quiet corruption" that is pervasive and widespread especi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Female Cop Killed, as Robbers Raid Police Station
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Gabriel EnogholaseBenin - Dare-devil armed robbers yesterday raided a police station at Agenebode, headquarters of Estako East Local Government Area of Edo State, killing a female police constable (By News Poster)...Uganda: Are We Safe With Mobile Phone Banking
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Osman DragaKampala - As the use of mobile phone banking continues to grow, there are also increasing dangers of criminal and fraudulent processes taking place.Many people are attempting to acquire (By News Poster)...Zim: Zuma's facilitation team expected today
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Zuma may try to convince the Zimbabwean parties to agree new electoral laws By Own CorrespondentHarare - South African President Jacob Zuma's mediation team is expected to arrive in Zimbabwe t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gusau - Return of Another Tactician
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Maxwell OdittaIn what Presidency sources called a coup against the cabal keeping ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua from the public view, Acting President Goodluck Jonathan fired Abdullahi Sarki Mukta (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Wife of Ex-NBL MD Kidnapped in Imo
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Uche NwosuOwerri - Out-going Primate of All Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Peter Akinola ; and former Head of Federal Civil Service, Ama Pepple; at the dedication of the Cathedral Church of The Adven (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bank Mergers the Way to Go
Friday 19-Mar-2010: Harare - THE imminent merger of CFX and Interfin shows the route that more banks in Zimbabwe's financial sector need to follow.While the opening up of the banking sector benefited the customer at firs (By News Poster)...Africa: 'Quiet Corruption' Undermining Development in Continent
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: “Quiet corruption” – the failure of public servants to deliver goods or services paid for by governments – is pervasive and widespread across Africa and is having a disproporti (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: We Do Not Need Peacekeepers
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Harare - IT is high time MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai realised that the game has changed.Gone are the days when he could shoot his mouth off as a mere opposition leader when all his statements co (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe power-sharing parties upbeat on Zuma mediation - but mistrust lingers
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: Blessing ZuluWashington - All three of the parties in Zimbabwe's often-fractious national unity government have voiced satisfaction with the mediation concluded on Thursday by South African P (By News Poster)...Woman Detained By Renamo Says She Will Not Give Up
Friday 19-Mar-2010: Maputo - Sandra da Conceicao Jose, the woman who was detained by members of Mozambique's former rebel movement Renamo for six days last week, has said that she fully intends to continue her work of pe (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: GMB Announces New Maize Price
Friday 19-Mar-2010: Harare - THE Grain Marketing Board has announced the 2009/10 maize floor price of US$325 per tonne, a price described by farmers as viable.With effect from April 1, there will be an increase of US$60 (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe talks enter second day amid reports of breakthrough
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: Tomana to step down, Gono to remain, Bennett to be sworn in? Harare - A second round of talks between Zimbabwean rivals President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was due to (By News Poster)...Police Block Demo by Violence Victims
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: By Lance GumaA demonstration by victims of political violence, which was meant to take place on Thursday in Zaka, was blocked by police who claimed that the participants had not followed proper proced (By News Poster)...Liberia: Guilty or Not Guilty - Fate of Han Williams Et Al Hangs In the Balance
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: Today Friday, March 19, 2010, all ears, all eyes of interested parties, ordinary Liberians and foreigners alike look to the Criminal Court B at the Temple of Justice where the final verdict is expecte (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zanu PF Faces New Accusations of Re-Oiling Its Violence Machinery
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaSouth African President Jacob Zuma has come under fire for his failure to denounce the resurgent political violence in the rural areas, spearheaded by ZANU PF supporters.Zuma ended (By News Poster)...Somalia: UN Experts Push for Independent Review of Somali Food Programme
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: The Security Council should urge Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to initiate an independent investigation into the food distribution programme in Somalia, a United Nations group of experts recommends in (By News Poster)...North Africa: African Al Qaeda Should Stop Targeting Civilians
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has in recent months stepped up targeting tourists and aid workers for murder and kidnapping in Mali, Niger, and Mauritania, Human Rights Watch said today. AQIM (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zuma Expected in Harare Tuesday
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaSouth African President Jacob Zuma is due to fly into Harare on Tuesday at the start of a three day visit aimed at ending the political gridlock between Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsv (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zuma Encouraged By 'Concessions'
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaHarare - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma yesterday managed to squeeze a raft of concessions from Zimbabwe's rival political parties and their leaders in a bid to resolve the country's decade-lo (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Unity Govt Agree on Peace Deadline
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Takunda Maodza and Farirai MachivenyikaHarare - Principals to the Global Political Agreement have given party negotiators up to the end of this month to conclude all discussions as it emerged yeste (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Concern over Upsurge of Political Violence in Rural Areas
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaA leading Zimbabwe Human Rights lawyer on Wednesday called for urgent regional action to save the country from sliding back into chaos, amid growing fears of a major upsurge in viol (By News Poster)...Zim: Assist diamond probe or face jail: Minister told
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Members of the two firms are known to have close links to Zimbabwe's military establishment By Clara SmithHarare - Attorney General (AG) Johannes Tomana has told Mines Minister Obert Mpofu and (By News Poster)...Walvis Bay Murder Trial Postponed to August
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesTHE young man accused of murdering and robbing Walvis Bay restaurant owner Awie Brand in June 2008 is due to return to the High Court in Windhoek in late August for the continuation of (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zuma Expected in Harare Tomorrow
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Harare - South African President Jacob Zuma is expected in Zimbabwe tomorrow to help the three political parties in the Global Political Agreement resolve outstanding issues, South African Deputy Amba (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World Cup Soccer - How safe is your money in a bank? Criminals wipe Bank A/cs clean... DAILY...
Monday 15-Mar-2010: I just spoke to the old Afrikaans lady who looked after my Mom during the last days of her life. She is having so many problems. Her old husband's cancer is back, all through his body, so he can't hav (By Jan)...AllAfrica Guest Column: Africa is a Vast Laboratory for Media Innovation
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Trevor Ncube and Charlayne Hunter-GaultFor too long, news about and for Africans has come predominately from outsiders. International media portrayals of Africans have often been unrecognizable to (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lame's Lame Outburst
Friday 19-Mar-2010: Lagos - Ex-Minister of Police Affairs, Dr. Ibrahim Lame's recent bashing of the Nigeria Police Force, under the leadership of Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, is a hypocritical and mischievous presentation of facts (By News Poster)...Uganda: Who Owns Country's Oil - the Government or the Citizens?
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By A.B.K. KasoziIN a bid to stimulate the debate on Uganda's newly discovered oil and the sharing of the oil wealth, Business Vision runs a series of articles by Professor Kasozi, the director of the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Experts React to CBN's New Policy for Banks
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Kayode Ekundayo and Idris AhmedThe Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday said a new banks with regional, specialised and non interest banks would emerge with different categories of capital base. (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 'White Farmers Abuse Justice'
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Harare - Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa has accused white former farmers of abusing the justice delivery system by seeking the reversal of the land reform programme through the c (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Police Emergency - a Success Story
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Ivan R MugishaKigali - It was just a few minutes to midnight and Emmanuel Nkundimana was asleep in his bedroom in Nyamirambo when he suddenly heard the sound of a window breaking followed by strang (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kayihura Arrests Six Policemen
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Daniel EdyeguKampala - THE Inspector General of Police, Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, on Saturday ordered the arrest of six Police constables and a Umeme engineer over breaking into houses of illegal po (By News Poster)...UK firm will never mine Zim diamonds: Minister
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: “Cranswick has caused all the chaos. We are under sanctions because of that one man" By Clara SmithHarare - Mines Minister Obert Mpofu has declared that London-based mining firm African Cons (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Four Governors Escape Death
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Okey Onwuchekwa and Napoleon EhiremenWarri - There was pandemonium yesterday in the oil city of Warri, Delta State, as four governors escaped death when two bombs planted by the Movement for the Em (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Odimegwu's Wife's Kidnap - Police Admit Superior Fire Power
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Chidi NkwoparaOwerri - Imo State Police Command has admitted that the fire power of the armed hoodlums that kidnapped Mrs. Stella Odimegwu, the wife of the erstwhile Managing Director of Nigerian B (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Delta Blames 'External Forces' for Blasts
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Omon-Julius OnabuLagos - Amid frenzied efforts by the authorities of the various security agencies in the state to put their fingers on the real reason for the Warri bomb explosions on Monday, the (By News Poster)...The Darker Side of 2010 World Cup
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Azad Essa And Oliver MethThe World Cup might be just around the corner, and excitement for the first event of its kind on African soil is rapidly gaining momentum, but ordinary South Africans are f (By News Poster)...USA: Army drops bayonets, busts abs in training revamp
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: FORT JACKSON, S.C. (AP) - New soldiers are grunting through the kind of stretches and twists found in "ab blaster" classes at suburban gyms as the Army revamps its basic training regimen for the first (By Jan)...Zim: Mugabe's party now wants presidential term limits
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: But with full executive powers retained By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF party is now calling for limited presidential terms in the new Constitution in (By News Poster)...Zim: Mugabe buckles under pressure from Zuma
Friday 19-Mar-2010: Robust tactics? By Stanley GamaHarare - President Jacob Zuma has persuaded Zimbabwe's squabbling coalition partners to settle their differences and to fully implement their commitments under t (By News Poster)...Pornography and Freedom of Speech
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Robin TysonCURRENTLY a debate is raging, both in Namibia and South Africa, regarding the plans of DStv to implement a channel showing pornographic movies. Indeed, reports had it that the debate wit (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bank PHB Staff Arrested Over Robbery Loot
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Gbenga FaturotiOsogbo - Osun State Police Command has arrested two top officials of Bank PHB, Ilesa branch in connection with armed robbery, which took place in the town couples of weeks ago.The of (By News Poster)...South Africa: Human Rights Commission Lambasts Delay of Xenophobia Report
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Wilson JohwaJohannesburg - THE South African Human Rights Commission has subpoenaed the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) after failing to get information for the development of an early warning s (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bloodbath in Msasa Park
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Freeman RazembaHarare - FORMER principal immigration officer Lovemore Chigariro on Monday night shot his wife dead in Msasa Park before turning the gun on himself while his two children cowered in (By News Poster)...How 'free and fair' are 'regular' elections in Botswana?
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Rampholo MolefheBlack History month offers an opportunity for some introspection about the manner in which Botswana has acquitted itself with regard to the practice of democracyUSAID, in recent yea (By News Poster)...Magistrate Dismisses Mbok Bail Bid
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesA BAIL application by Cameroonian-born businessman Antoine Mbok, who was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Commission two weeks ago, ended in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court on Wednesday (By News Poster)...Kenya: Crop Insurance for Farmers Likely to Boost Food Security
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Steve MbogoThousands of farmers in Moiben, Eldoret have always known that drought comes after every 10 years.But every once in a while the pattern is broken and they are caught off-guard as was the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bomb Blasts Stop Niger Delta Confab
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Monday OsayandeAsaba - Eight persons who were travelling in a Mercedes Benz car were burnt to death while six others were seriously injured when two bombs suspected to have been planted by militant (By News Poster)...Uganda: 'Oil Money for Roads, Science'
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Sylvia JuukoKampala - OIL revenues will not be spent on consumption, but will be used to finance construction of infrastructure to spur economic growth, President Yoweri Museveni has re-affirmed."W (By News Poster)...South Africa: Court Convicts Ruling Party Youth Leader of Hate Speech
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Franny RabkinJohannesburg - JULIUS Malema's lawyers yesterday said the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) president would appeal against the Equality Court judgment that a comment he ma (By News Poster)...Four Digital Milestones for Your Business in 2010
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Andy HadfieldI do get tired of the frantic “trending” that occurs at the beginning and end of every year. Hence, I tend to sit back, take it all in and try give a summarised, more consi (By News Poster)...Sudan: Ahead of Crucial Elections
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Tony OkeraforFOR over 20 years, the people of northern and southern Sudan fought a brutal conflict, losing some two million lives to the bloodshed, famine, drought and disease in the process. Exact (By News Poster)...Somalia: Without Food and Unable to Bury the Dead in Mogadishu
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Five days of fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, have left residents without food, cut off from their homes and unable to bury their dead, civil society leaders in the city said."We c (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Govt Asks South Africa to Arrest Runaway General
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Alfred Nyongesa WanderaKampala - The Rwandan government has asked South Africa to arrest renegade Lt Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa, a diplomat has said. Mr Frank Mugambage, the Rwandan envoy to Uganda, told (By News Poster)...Uganda: Country's Kony May Have Moved to Darfur
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: The notorious leader of the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) Joseph Kony may have relocated to Sudan's Western of Darfur, the Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni said at a press conference in Kampala."Central (By News Poster)...S.Africa: White Anti-Govt Blogger dies under mysterious circumstances in Police custody
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: [This is quite bizarre. This is the first time I've heard of this. One wonders what went on... I wonder what UG and others have to say about this since they were there. I assume he was shot with his o (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Club Brings Relationship Hope to the HIV-Positive
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Wellington MutyozaHarare - Murambiwa (not her real name) sits quietly in her single room hardly concentrating as years of loneliness and alienation have forced her to withdraw from social activitie (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (21-03-2010)
Sunday 21-Mar-2010: Howzit Each day that goes by leaves me a little more concerned about this page. I am in the process of implementing a solution, but, as with most things, it takes time - so when I started this morn (By The BeardedMan)...Zimbabwe: Increased Confidence As Bank Deposits Rise 35 Percent
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Paul NyakazeyaBANK deposits increased by 35% during the last quarter of 2009 from US$1 billion to US$1,35 billion due to growth in business activity, increased confidence in the financial sector an (By News Poster)...Uganda: Parliament Condemns Kasubi Fire and Shooting of Civilians
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Milton Olupot and Catherine BekundaKampala - MPs yesterday condemned the Kasubi fire. Gender Minister Gabriel Opio regretted the incident and conveyed sympathy to the people of Buganda.Opio told th (By News Poster)...How We Escaped Death in Warri Explosion - Survivor
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Bose Adebayo and Fredrick OkopieBeing the first working day of the week, a trader Mrs. Rebecca Okafor was full of expectations. She was to follow her husband to the market to sell some farm produce (By News Poster)...Zambia: Another Citizen Nabbed for Drug Trafficking
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: A ZAMBIAN woman has been arrested in Swaziland for possessing heroin and becomes the sixth female drug trafficker to be cornered in the last three weeks.Authorities in the southern African country arr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Tragedy As Powerline Cut, Kill 40 in Port Harcourt
Sunday 21-Mar-2010: By Ahamefula OgbuPort Harcourt - There were conflicting reports over the casualty figures of the Port Harcourt residents, who were electrocuted during a heavy downpour in the city yesterday.Eyewitness (By News Poster)...Zim: Corruption rampant in mines ministry
Sunday 21-Mar-2010: Bungling of claims allocations, corruption and general incompetence Chris MuronziMines secretary Welcome Musukutwa has proposed restructuring the ministry citing bungling of claims allocations (By News Poster)...Zim: FO blows £27 million on Harare embassy
Sunday 21-Mar-2010: Cost almost £10m more than originally projected Isabel OakeshottThe Foreign Office, which is so cash-strapped that it struggled to pay its bills this month, has lavished £27m on a new embass (By News Poster)...Zim: FO blows £27m on Harare embassy
Sunday 21-Mar-2010: Cost £10m more than projected: more than 50% over budget Isabel OakeshottThe Foreign Office, which is so cash-strapped that it struggled to pay its bills this month, has lavished £27m on a n (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ex-Police Officer Reports Bank to EFCC Over Alleged ATM Fraud
Sunday 21-Mar-2010: By Enyim EnyimOnitsha - A retired senior police officer, Mr Elaigwu Agbogo, has dragged First Bank Plc to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over an alleged ATM fraud in his account w (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Acting President Consolidates Power Amid Unrest
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: By Charles FrommWashington - This week, acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved his cabinet, further securing his tenuous hold on the country's top post amidst rising unrest in the Niger (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police - Arms Not Missing
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Jaiyeola AndrewsAbeokuta - Ogun state police command has declared that no arm is missing in its armoury. A national daily had reported the stealing of arms in the armoury of the command by some per (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Senate Urges FG to Fish Out Perpetrators of Warri Bomb Blast
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Adetutu Folasade-KoyiAbuja - Senators on Wednesday condemned the two bomb blasts which rocked the venue of a post-amnesty conference in Warri, Delta State, and urged the Federal Government to fish (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zuma Arrives for Talks
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Sydney Kawadza and Takunda MaodzaHarare - South African President Jacob Zuma arrived in Harare yesterday late afternoon amid indications that all negotiations on implementation of the Global Politi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe parliament hears public objections to indigenization laws
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: "Whether black or white, no-one would want to cede control of his company. Why don't we talk about creating wealth and not about re-distribution?" Harare - Zimbabweans from across the social a (By News Poster)...Côte d'Ivoire: Assessment Letter for the International Financial Community
Sunday 21-Mar-2010: By Dominique Strauss-KahnTo Members of the International Financial Community:At the request of the Government of Côte d’Ivoire, I would like to inform you of recent economic developments i (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Power Failure Stalls Reopening of PH Refinery
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Chika Amanze-NwachukuLagos - Inadequate power supply has continued to take its toll on the nation's economy as operations at the Port Harcourt Refinery have been completely crippled owing to electr (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 'Corruption Rampant in Mines Ministry'
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Chris MuronziMINES secretary Welcome Musukutwa has proposed restructuring the ministry citing bungling of claims allocations, corruption and general incompetence on the part of mining commissioners (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Seminar on Governance in Petroleum Sector
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Maputo - Mozambique enjoys all the necessary conditions to develop the petroleum sector in a healthy manner, avoiding conflicts, and ensuring that any oil discoveries really do contribute to economic (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Detained Asylum Seeker Starts Hunger Strike in UK
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Alex BellA detained Zimbabwean asylum seeker in the UK has embarked on a hunger strike, to protest alleged racism and mistreatment at the hands of detention centre employees.The 43 year old woman h (By News Poster)...South Africa TLU/TAU Media Release: That farm problem
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Submitted by K. Nel Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Land occupations will follow after nationalisation After several day's conjecture to declare productive agricultural land as a national asset which s (By JoAn)...South Africa: Golden Days Are Passing - But Mines Still a Big Employer in Twilight Years
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - THOSE were the days. At peak in the early 1970s, SA accounted for nearly 80% of the world's gold production.Then, SA produced 1-million kilograms of fine gold a year. Now it produces le (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Participants Decry Bombing at Post-Amnesty Programme
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Jimitota OnoyumeShock, surprise, madness were some of the adjectives used to describe the action of those that detonated dynamites to disrupt the opening of Vanguard's Post amnesty dialogue at the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Minister Confident of UK Vote for Eskom Plant Loan
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - THE government was confident that the UK would next month vote in favour of Eskom's application for a 3,75bn World Bank loan, while the US had said it would abstain fro (By News Poster)...Warriors in Flying Start
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Petros KausiyoHarare - HITMAN Cuthbert Malajila rose from the bench to fire home the winner as the Warriors got their 2011 African Nations Championships campaign off to a flying start with a deserv (By News Poster)...Central Africa: UN Calls for End to Arms Trafficking
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: The efforts of Central African nations to consolidate peace and further development are being thwarted by weapons trafficking, top United Nations officials warned today, calling on Member States to do (By News Poster)...Conflict Between Birds and Power Lines Receives More Attention
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Adam HartmanTHE problem with birds flying into, roosting or nesting on power lines and pylons around Namibia has led to the creation of the NamPower/Namibia Nature Foundation Strategic Partnership (By News Poster)...Zambia: Woman Jailed for Drug Trafficking
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: A 40-YEAR-OLD Zambian woman was yesterday sentenced to five years imprisonment with hard labour by the Lusaka magistrates' court after it found her guilty on two counts of drug trafficking and importa (By News Poster)...East Africa: EADB - Twists, Turns and Suits
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Patrick GatharaNairobi - The East African Development Bank's search for justice and self preservation in the courtrooms of Tanzania has been as trivialised as it has been convoluted.Throughout the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chiadzwa Mining - a Tale of Shady Deals And Characters
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaTHE Chiadzwa diamond mining saga has complex plots and sub-plots. It involves a chain of companies and individuals with a shady past and whose records are difficult to trace in some (By News Poster)...South Africa: Massive HIV Testing Campaign Launches
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Kerry Cullinan and Khopotso BodibeFrom April 15, everyone attending a clinic or hospital will be offered an HIV test, regardless of whether they have symptoms of the disease or not.Dubbed the HIV C (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Second Joint Report of Seven United Nations Experts on the Situation in the DRC
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: This report is submitted by seven United Nations experts pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 10/33. The experts find that the human rights situation has not improved since their initial report (By News Poster)...Western Sahara: Controversial Film Exposes Slavery in Refugee Camps
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Msia Kibona ClarkOne of the most controversial films shown at the recent Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) was “Stolen,” which had its U.S. premier at the festival. The fil (By News Poster)...Kenya: Top IMF Mission in Quiet Dialogue With Govt
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Jaindi Kisero And Mark KapchangaNairobi - The status of privatisation of the National Bank of Kenya and the fate of the troubled CharterHouse Bank figure among the top agenda items for discussions (By News Poster)...Zim: Tsvangirai supporters protest against political violence perpetrators
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: Thulasizwe SimelaneHarare - Supporters of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have taken to the streets in the capital Harare, demanding prosecution of the perpetrators of political v (By News Poster)...South Africa: Street Knowledge is Power for a Hands-On Marketer
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Doug GordonJohannesburg - KGAUGELO Maphai is a young Johannesburg entrepreneur who believes his township roots are a business asset far more useful than any black economic empowerment deal. His mar (By News Poster)...Uganda: Three Killed As Museveni Visits Royal Tombs
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Tabu Butagira & Katherine HaywoodKampala - At least three people were on Wednesday shot dead at the burial grounds of Buganda kings in Kasubi, a Kampala suburb, as the military used force to usher (By News Poster)...Fire at World Heritage Site Puzzles Security
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Henry Mukasa, Eddie Ssejjoba and Brian MayanjaKampala - GUNFIRE rocked Kasubi royal burial grounds as security fired to clear the way for President Yoweri Museveni to inspect the place yesterday.Tw (By News Poster)...Uganda: Police Account of the Kasubi Tombs Fire
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Steven CandiaKampala - 8:50pm Tuesday: The Fire Brigade receives a call about the fire.8:52pm: The Fire Brigade dispatches the first fire truck.9:03pm: The commander of the truck radios the headqua (By News Poster)...West Africa: Failed Rains Put Ten Million People At Risk of a Food Crisis Across West Africa
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: Oxfam calls for urgent response to warning signs, citing delays that cost lives last time the region faced a severe food shortfallAlmost 10 million people across the Sahel region of West Africa are th (By News Poster)...Swaziland: Budget Cuts Ahead But More Money for Education And Health
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Mantoe PhakathiMbabane - Her swollen feet are a constant reminder to Sanele Matsebula that she needs to take her medication.The 26-year-old HIV-positive mother of two says the swelling of her feet (By News Poster)...Uganda: Minister Attacked At Rukiga MP Rally
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Darious Magara and Bwogi BuyeraKampala - PEREZ Ahabwe, the Minister of State for Local Government, was on Sunday attacked by angry supporters of Jack Sabiiti, the FDC flag-bearer in the hotly conte (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banks - National Assembly Backs Sanusi
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Cosmas EkpunobiTrouble is not yet over for crisis-ridden commercial banks as the National Assembly have backed the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Lamido Sanusi, in his renewed bid to fur (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Post Amnesty Resolution Talks Kick Off Today
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Emma Amaize, Hugo Odiogor, Emma Aziken, Sam Oyadongha, Emma Arubi, Jimitota Onoyume and Festus AhonGOVERNORS of the nine Niger Delta states and other stakeholders, including South-South elder, Edwi (By News Poster)...Somalia: Somalia - 3 Killed in Mogadishu Fighting
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: At least three people are killed and 10 others injured on Tuesday in fresh shelling that rocked parts of Somalia's restive capital Mogadishu, medics and witnesses said.Witnesses said clashes erupted i (By News Poster)...South Africa: Coal of Africa Stock Falls on Dismal Interims
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - COAL of Africa 's (CoAL's) losses widened significantly in the six months to December largely due to impairments, knocking the coal mining developer's share price down mor (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mining Firms Snub Parliament for 3rd Time, on Ministry Orders
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Alex BellTwo diamond mining firms, given government's approval to mine the controversial Chiadzwa diamond fields, have snubbed a parliamentary probe into their operations for a third time, apparent (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Denounces Violence
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By George MapongaHarare - MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai has urged party supporters to build the kind of relationship with their Zanu-PF counterparts that he has with President Mugabe rather than e (By News Poster)...Africa: Kenolkobil Snaps Up BP's Assets in Five African States
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Allan OdhiamboKenolKobil plans to acquire assets of BP in five African countries, setting the stage for the oil firm to further grow its muscle in the highly competitive regional market.Early this (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Trafficking Convictions Up but Progress Slow
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Awka - Interceptions and convictions of human traffickers and smugglers have risen year-on-year in Nigeria since the government passed legislation to ban the trade in 2005, but the volume of trafficki (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Anambra - Kidnappers' Regrouping Worry Residents
Sunday 21-Mar-2010: By Alphonsus Nweze And Rosemary OfoegbunamOnitsha - The Anambra Leaders of Thought have raised alarm over alleged regrouping of kidnappers and armed robbers in Anambra State which hitherto held sway i (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Parly, Cabinet Head for Clash Over Diamond Probe
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaTHE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy is pressing ahead with its investigations into the controversial diamond mining activities by Mbada Diamonds and Canadile Mi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Govt Recalls Ambassador From Libya in Protest
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Onwuka NzeshiAbuja - In a move that could lead to a major diplomatic row, Nigeria has recalled its ambassador to Libya, Alhaji M. K. Ibrahim.The recall is in relation to the North African country's (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sweden to Help Country Develop Clean Energy
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: Cape Town - The Swedish government has promised to help South Africa develop more renewable energy sources as the two countries vow to fight the devastating effects of climate change.Briefing the medi (By News Poster)...More Rot Exposed At AirNam
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithIRREGULAR practices related to the employment and licensing of pilots at Air Namibia have been confirmed by a high-ranking Directorate of Civil Aviation (DCA) official.The representa (By News Poster)...Nigeria: We Stopped Third Bomb to Save Lives - MEND
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Lagos - WARRI was still in jitters on Tuesday, 24 hours after two bombs exploded around the venue of a post-amnesty talk shop, scattered the guests, and led to the death of four people not connected w (By News Poster)...Cape's Booze Tycoon in 'Giant Scam'
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Lynnette Johns and Bianca CapazorioThe Hawks have cracked a slick Cape Town-based crime syndicate that allegedly scammed the taxman and banks out of hundreds of millions of rands in a complex kite- (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Biafra War - FG Destroys 122 Explosives in Imo
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Emma OguOwerri - About 122 landmines and other wartime explosive devices recovered from Imo State were yesterday destroyed by the Federal Ministry of Defence under its humanitarian de-mining progra (By News Poster)...Nigeria: State-Owned Oil Corporation Running at U.S. $1.3 Billion, says Govt
Tuesday 16-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)...South Africa: Zuma Seeks New Blood to Fix State Enterprises
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma said yesterday a team drawn from outside the Cabinet would help to determine the future of SA's state-owned enterprises.In an interview with Business (By News Poster)...Somalia: Islamists and Gunmen Fight in Beled-Weyn Town
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Clashes between the Islamist forces of Hisbul Islam and armed militias exchanged gunfire in out of Beled-weyn town of Hiran region, official told Shabelle on Sunday.Mo'alim Mohamed Sheikh Abdi, head o (By News Poster)...Nigeria: India - Police Nab Two Nigerians, Three Indians Scammers
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Uchenna Ajah With Agency ReportLagos - Two Nigerians and three Calcuttans have been arrested over a million-dollar credit card fraud using easy-to-use technology to copy encrypted data from cards i (By News Poster)...Kenya: African Journalists Feted At Media Conference
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Nation Media Group on Thursday evening feted some of the continent's courageous and dedicated journalists over the years.The African journalism awards for lifetime achievement and inspiratio (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Women's Participation Enriches the Economy
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Arthur ChogaHarare - The head of Zimbabwe's biggest industry body believes that the economy will be poorer if women do not participate to their full potential.Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries P (By News Poster)...South Africa: Country's Borders 'Vulnerable' for World Cup
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Wilson JohwaJohannesburg - SA WILL have to rely on intelligence to detect any security threats during the Fifa World Cup because it has no capacity to monitor all movement across its borders, defen (By News Poster)...From Jan Lamprecht: In praise of the Volunteers who work on my websites...
Sunday 21-Mar-2010: I must say, I am deriving a lot of pleasure from sitting back and watching the people who have volunteered their free time and dedicated so much time to doing hard work on my websites. Some are hid (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mpofu Blames UK Mining Firm for Diamond Crisis
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Alex BellMines Minister Obert Mpofu has gone on the offensive in the midst of a probe into the country's diamond crisis, saying the UK firm with the legal title to mine the controversial Chiadzwa c (By News Poster)...Senate Condemns Explosions at Warri Confab
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Emmanuel AzikenThe Senate, Wednesday, unanimously rose in condemnation against Monday's bombings in Warri, Delta State, that aborted Vanguard Newspapers-organized post-amnesty dialogue.At the end o (By News Poster)...South Africa: Delegation to Push MDC to Ignore Latest Mugabe Outrage
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - FAILURE to implement the Global Political Agreement (GPA) by all parties in Zimbabwe could scupper progress and endanger future elections there, says President Jacob Zuma (By News Poster)...Kenya: Country Acts to Stem Cross-Border HIV Spread
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Kenya's fight against the spread of HIV/Aids among people crossing into its borders is on course, a new report by a regional body says.With the prevalence rate of HIV infection among migrant (By News Poster)...Ghana: Massive Jatropha Farming Threatens Food Security
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Daniel NonorA study conducted by Action Aid Ghana (AAG) and FoodSPAN in four regions in Ghana has revealed that the production of biofuel is fast affecting food crop farmers in the regions.The stud (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Wanted Genocide Suspect Not in Kenya, Says Country
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Genocide fugitive Felicien Kabuga is unlikely to be hiding in Kenya, Rwanda's Foreign minister has said.Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said on Wednesday her country believed Kenya's word that K (By News Poster)...Zim: SA to push MDC to ignore latest Mugabe outrage
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Progress on the GPA crucial Karima BrownFailure to implement the Global Political Agreement (GPA) by all parties in Zimbabwe could scupper progress and endanger future elections there, says Pr (By News Poster)...Mozambique: The Low Expectations of 'Domingo'
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Paul FauvetThe Maputo Sunday paper "Domingo" has joined the hyena chorus of those who want to end the new regime of compulsory inspections for road vehicles.The editorial in the latest issue of "Do (By News Poster)...Kenya: Petrol Prices Up Over Testing Levy Dispute
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Oil companies have increased pump prices and are withholding fuel from the market to protest at a controversial decision to increase import inspection fees by 28,000 per cent. On Friday, the (By News Poster)...Elections Won't Change Much Anyway
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By T. Itembu and K. BassonTHE ruling by Namibia's High Court judges confirms that the legal system cannot bring about qualitative change. The court failed to address the basic issue of the secretive a (By News Poster)...South Africa: ANCYL Refuses to Accept Afriforum Memo - Again
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - The ANC Youth League refused to accept a memorandum listing farm murders at Luthuli House today.The ANC Youth League once again refused to accept an Afriforum memorandum detailing recen (By News Poster)...Madagascar: Will African Union Sanctions Work?
Friday 19-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - True to its word, the African Union (AU) has announced the imposition of sanctions against Madagascar's "de facto authorities" - exactly a year after Andry Rajoelina, backed by the mili (By News Poster)...Liberia: Female Peacekeepers Inspire Local Women
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Allyn GaestelAn all-female United Nations police force in Liberia is inspiring Liberian women to engage with the national security sector. Women continue to excel as UN police officers, and through (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Land Tenure Programme a Success-Dfid Official
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - The visiting Director General for Country Programmes in the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Mark Lawcock, has described that Land Tenure Regularisation pro (By News Poster)...Uganda: Angry Response to Fire At Kasubi
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Rodney MuhumuzaGunfire rocked Kasubi on Wednesday when protesters attempted to block President Museveni's entry. But there was no clear winner.Thousands of people climbed Kasubi hill to view what r (By News Poster)...South Africa: Opposition Party Brings No-Confidence Motion Against Zuma
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - The African National Congress (ANC) in Parliament will today allow the Congress of the People (COPE) to bring a motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma to the flo (By News Poster)...Fuel Price Breather for Consumers
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyGOVERNMENT has decided to subsidise consumers in March by keeping the fuel price unchanged even though it under-recovered on the commodity last month.The good news was confirmed by Min (By News Poster)...South Africa: European Investment Bank Signs Infrastructure Deal in Country
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: "We look forward to seeing the true benefit of the record number of projects approved last year in improving the quality of life of South Africans across the country".The National Treasury and Europea (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN Scraps Universal Banking
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Clement NwojiAbuja - Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday said universal banking will be phased out within the next 24 months saying the unbundling of the banking sector to enhance specialisatio (By News Poster)...Uganda: Strike, Death At Makerere University
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Tabu Butagira, Andrew Pacutho and Flavia NalubegaMakerere - Makerere University students have taken to the streets after a trigger-happy guard, Richard Akasia, allegedly shot dead two and criticall (By News Poster)...Namibia: Attorney's Link to Dirty Land Deal Under Investigation
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithTHE Law Society of Namibia has launched a disciplinary investigation by into the professional conduct of a Gobabis attorney.Bennie Venter was accused by the High Court in November la (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos - Solution Looking for Problem
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Adamu AdamuIn retrospect, one should have seen the latest clash in Jos coming. In November 2008 and January 2010, Hausa-Fulani were killed in operations in which they found the Plateau State govern (By News Poster)...Uganda: U.S. Senate Passes Bill Against LRA Rebels
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Jim Fisher-ThompsonWashington, DC - The U.S. Senate has passed a bill with wide bipartisan support aimed at curbing atrocities in Uganda and Sudan committed by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a v (By News Poster)...Zim: Pay hike ends lecturer strike
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Top-paid academics will now earn US$800 a month - up from $290 From a special correspondentLecturers in Zimbabwe have been awarded salary hikes, prompting them to return to work more than a mo (By News Poster)...North Africa: Sahara Desert Solar Project Becoming a Reality
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: By Rachel PollockDesertec Industrial Initiative (DII), the largest solar energy project, has recently gained the support of the US company First Solar and both the Tunisian and Algerian governments.Th (By News Poster)...Somalia: Hizbul Islam Vows Attacks Against Ethiopian Troops in Central Somalia
Friday 19-Mar-2010: Somalia - The Islamist fighters of Hizbul Islam in Hiran region in central Somalia have vowed that they would attack Ethiopian troops who reportedly reached at parts of the region recently, officials (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zuma Holds Talks With GPA Principals
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Takunda Maodza and Sydney KawadzaHarare - South African President Jacob Zuma yesterday held separate discussions with principals to the Global Political Agreement ahead of a group meeting today.Ins (By News Poster)...Namibia: HIV/Aids, 'If You Kiss for Five Minutes You Get It'
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Servaas Van Den BoschWindhoek - "At home we have a bar," says grade seven learner David Bravo* (14). "When my mother puts on the music I cannot concentrate on (my) schoolwork anymore. Sometimes, in (By News Poster)...South Africa: Rift Valley Fever Update - a Total of 21 Cases Have Been Confirmed
Monday 15-Mar-2010: The following is a statement by Deputy Minister of Health Dr Molefi Sefularo, MP, pertaining to the recent deaths from Rift Valley Fever in South Africa.As of 15 March 2010, a total of 21 human labora (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Reforms - NNPC Opens Talks With Foreign Banks
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Ejiofor Alike With Agency ReportLagos - The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has begun talks with foreign investment banks on funding options, bearing in mind its proposed new role as (By News Poster)...IMPORTANT: USA: A Brief & Shocking History of Haiti - What schools don't teach...
Monday 15-Mar-2010: [In the light of the earthquake in Haiti recently, it is worth reminding oneself about this nation and how they got to where they are now. Haiti is really a microcosm of what Africa will be like in (By Jan)...HORRIBLE PREDICTIONS: CNBC host Jim Cramer predicts: ObamaCare will crash the Stock Market...
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: [Here are some very logical, very careful, very SHOCKING things this man is saying. Take note that he thinks an Obama victory will leader to even bolder things like amnesty for illegal immigrants!!! J (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Premier Bank Loses U.S.$50K in Loan Scandal
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: By Paul NyakazeyaPREMIER Banking Corporation (PBC) lost US$50 000 after a loan was granted using unprocedural means. An internal audit at the financial institution revealed the funds were paid out aga (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Typhoid On the Rise in Harare
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Alex BellThe number of cases of typhoid fever in Harare is increasing, raising fears of another serious health crisis in the country.More than 140 cases of typhoid have been reported in the Mabvuku (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt to Rationalise Farm Sizes
Friday 19-Mar-2010: Harare - Government has said it will re-demarcate land allocated to farmers who are failing to attain optimum production owing to resource constraints.In an interview on Tuesday, Mashonaland Central P (By News Poster)...Kenya: ICT the Next Battle Frontier for Banks
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Technology is the next front on which banks will lay focus to win over a vast majority of Kenyans who still don't have accounts.The introduction of mobile banking and convergence of the inst (By News Poster)...South Africa: HIV Testing and Mental Illness
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - As more HIV-positive people access treatment and live longer, the number of people suffering from HIV-related mental disorders is growing, but mental health remains an ethical, legal an (By News Poster)...South Africa: Business Fears Ambiguity in Policy
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - BUSINESS Unity SA (Busa) has urged the government to give local companies preferential treatment over foreign rivals, saying this was essential to boost economic growth and (By News Poster)...South Africa: Violent Taxi Strike Fails to Halt Rea Vaya
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Artwell Dlamini and Luphert ChilwaneJohannesburg - THE City of Johannesburg said yesterday it was pressing ahead with the implementation of the next phase of the Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) sy (By News Poster)...Ghana: Isodec Tracks Government HIV/Aids Resources
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Alberta DudomeAccra - The Integrated Social Development Center (ISODEC) in collaboration with IDASA Governance and AIDS Programme (GAP) of South Africa is undertaking two researches. The studies ar (By News Poster)...Kenya: Farmers Lose in Shift in Milk Prices Following Glut
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Zeddy SambuThe milk crisis has deepened with the reduction of producer prices by Sh7 per litre -- a move that will hurt the earnings of thousands of farmers whose output got a lift from the Decembe (By News Poster)...Political Blackmail - Personal Attacks Will Not Silence the Media
Friday 19-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - ONE of the cornerstones of any healthy democracy is a press that is free, robust and independent. This does not only mean rights to media freedom should be legally codified. It also mea (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Attached RBZ Property Set to Be Auctioned Tomorrow
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Chris MuronziRESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) property has been attached by the Deputy Sheriff after the central bank failed to pay US$2 million to Farmtec Spares and Implements will be auctioned tom (By News Poster)...Nigeria: N200 Billion Agric Loan - Bank Yet to Disburse to Small Farmers
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Idris AhmedSmall holder farmers will still have to wait much longer to be able to access the N40 billion earmarked for them from the federal government's N200 billion agriculture loan facility.Dail (By News Poster)...Namibia: World Cup 2010 - Let the Games Begin!
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: TO many football fans the days seem longer as we approach kick-off day on June 11 2010. Three weeks ago I visited Gauteng and the Pretoria, Midrand and Johannesburg areas were sealed in one hive of co (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nuclear Power, Solution to Country's Electricity Problem - Iranian Envoy
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Raliat AhmedAbuja - The Ambassador of the Islamic Republic Of Iran to Nigeria, Khosrow Rezazadeh, has said that a nuclear power plant was needed so as to enable Nigeria put an end to its epileptic (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Whither N200 Billion Commercial Agriculture Loan?
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Lagos - Sometime last year the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources (FMA&WR) came out with a N200 billion credit facility, which (By News Poster)...South Africa: Farmers Warned as River Valley Fever Claims Two Lives
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Luphert ChilwaneJohannesburg - THE National Institute for Communicable Diseases yesterday confirmed the deaths of two people in the Free State who had contracted river valley fever, an airborne dis (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Minister Demands Action On Food Security in Africa
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Gashegu MuramiraKigali - Agriculture Minister, Agnes Kalibata, has called for concrete action in making food security a reality on the continent.Addressing a four-day intergovernmental committee of (By News Poster)...Africa: Niger - Against Renaissance of Military Rule in Africa
Friday 19-Mar-2010: Lagos - This newspaper sheds no tears for Mamadou Tandja, the erstwhile dictator of the Republic of Niger. We award no garlands to his captors either. Rather our heartfelt sympathy goes to the poverty (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cosatu Threat Over Metrorail Increases
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Liam MosesCosatu has threatened to "bring the economy to a standstill", if Metrorail carries out plans to increase train fares on April 1.The fare increase, the first since 2003, will see customers (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: UN Issues Warning on Political Clashes
Friday 19-Mar-2010: Welcoming the recognition by Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma that corruption poses a serious threat to the West African country, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says that while he is encourag (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Impeachment - Intrigues That Swayed Senate in Favour of Yar'Adua
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Cosmas EkpunobiLagos - Save Nigeria Group (SNG) and other similar groups asking the senate and indeed the National Assembly to impeach ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua as the only way to end the pre (By News Poster)...South Africa: Dreams, and Reality, of a World Cup Windfall
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Simon MundyJohannesburg - FROM foreign exchange services to hotel soap suppliers, companies across SA are gearing up for a windfall during the Soccer World Cup. But some are looking dangerously ove (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Split Nation to Avoid Conflict, Says Gaddafi
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Lagos - Libyan President Muammar Ghadaffi has voiced his opinion on ways the conflict between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria could be solved: the division of the country into two nations.But a cont (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Why We Struck, By MEND
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, yesterday, claimed responsibility for the explosion that rocked the venue of Vanguard's Post-Amnesty conference, saying it was to let the wo (By News Poster)...Who will succeed Ian Khama as president?
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Lekopanye MooketsiBotswana are in the dark about who will be their next president after President Ian Khama, and can only speculate.It is an open secret that Vice President Mompati Merafhe will not (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Is Peace Elusive in Jos?
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Lagos - History, it is said, repeats itself first as a tragedy and then as a farce. In the sober aftermath of the violence that rocked Jos, the rather picturesque capital of Plateau State, in January, (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kenyan Students Shot Dead in Makerere Riots
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Two Kenyan students studying at Makerere University, Kampala, were shot dead by a security guard on Monday night in a bizarre incident that resulted in wild demonstrations at Uganda's leadin (By News Poster)...Uganda: Sudan Denies LRA Rebel Chief Is In Darfur
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Kampala - THE Sudanese army has denied reports that the feared leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebel group has found refuge in the western region of Darfur."Joseph Kony is not in Darfur," Su (By News Poster)...Farm Identified in Stock-Theft Probe
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithKRANSFONTEIN, a farm near Grootfontein belonging to Seef Oosthuizen, has become one of the focal points of an investigation by the Otjozondjupa stock theft unit.The Police suspect th (By News Poster)...Editorial: Togo Must 'Embrace Dialogue'
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Lagos - THE controversy and protests trailing the March 4, 2010 elections in Togo, which saw incumbent President Faure Gnassingbe being declared winner, must quickly be resolved in favour of the peopl (By News Poster)...Uganda: Over 360 Illegal Guns Recovered in Teso Region
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Felix OsujoKampala - Over 360 illegal guns have been recovered in Teso sub-region since July 2008.This was disclosed by the UPDF commander of 'Restore Hope in Teso', Capt. Jeff Okwii.He said some o (By News Poster)...South Africa: Eskom to Spend More on Power Net Revamp
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - ESKOM is set to increase its expenditure on the refurbishment of transmission and distribution infrastructure from R1,5bn to R2,3bn a year, a senior Eskom official said (By News Poster)...Uganda: Ssemujju Nganda - Museveni Should Answer for 2009 Massacre
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Ssemujju Ibrahim NgandaOn Saturday, March 13, President Museveni inaugurated the new NRM Communication Bureau at Kamwokya. The bureau chief is Ofwono Opondo, who is NRM's deputy publicity secretary (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Mend - We Stopped Third Explosion to Save Lives
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Ahamefula OgbuPort Harcourt - Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) which claimed responsibility for the bomb explosions that rocked the Post Amnesty Conference venue in Warri, De (By News Poster)...Eskom Shuns Renewable Energy - Claim
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - POWER utility Eskom does not want renewable energy to succeed in SA, Irish energy company Mainstream Renewable Power said yesterday.Mainstream vented its frustration ov (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Attorney General Warns of Possible Rise in Crime
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Maputo - Mozambican Attorney-General Augusto Paulino has warned that criminals from South Africa may shift their operations to Mozambique, because of the current crackdown against crime by the South A (By News Poster)...Somalia: Somaliland Detains 'Wounded Suspects from Mogadishu'
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Security forces in Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland raided a house in Hargeisa and arrested seven people, including inured ones that are suspected to be involved in the recent fightings (By News Poster)...GPA - South African Facilitators Arrive
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Harare - THE South African team facilitating dialogue between Zanu-PF and the MDC formations arrived in Harare yesterday ahead of President Jacob Zuma's arrival today.The team led by Mr Charles Nqaku (By News Poster)...Zim: Ministry behind diamond miners' Parly snub
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: When a Canadile official turned up he handed the committee two letters confirming that directors were not coming By Clara SmithHarare - Zimbabwe's mines ministry has apparently advised the two (By News Poster)...Minister defends Zimbabwe's controversial Attorney General
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: "I give him 100 percent" Harare - Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa on Monday backed the appointment and performance of Attorney General (AG) Johannes Tomana whose appointme (By News Poster)...Nigeria: N27 Billion Scam - EFCC Files Amended Charges Against Bank Staff
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: By Ebele AkpehLagos - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday filed an amended charge against some senior staff of Intercontinental Bank before Justice Ramat Muhammed of a Fed (By News Poster)...Zuma Says Leaders Agree to a 'Package of Measures'
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Violet GondaSouth African President Jacob Zuma concluded his two day visit to Zimbabwe on Thursday. He held a press briefing in Harare in which he said the rival political parties had agreed to a p (By News Poster)...South Africa: TLU/TAU Media Release: Statement on nationalisation of Game Farms
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: 18 March 2010 02:52 PM Submitted by K. Nel: Subject: Media Statement on nationalisation of Game Farms TLU SA / TAU SA President: TLU SA Mnr. Chris van Zyl Nationalisation of Game Farms also (By JoAn)...Zimbabwe: Oil Firm Blocks Assets Sale
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Martin KadzereHarare - A BID by local investors to buy Total Zimbabwe's assets is at a standstill as it has emerged that the French-registered oil firm inflated values of its assets to discourage t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe Parliament Clerk Zvoma endorses Marange diamond probe
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Parliament can demand Mpofu, Musukutwa, and the directors answer questions Sandra NyairaWashington - The influential Zimbabwean Clerk of Parliament Austin Zvoma has thrown his weight behind an (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Kigali Meeting to Tackle African Food Insecurity
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Kigali - Finding ways to solve chronic food insecurity in Eastern Africa is one of the subjects to be tackled during a meeting in Kigali, next week.The Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) mee (By News Poster)...South Africa: Nation Slips in Gold Production Rankings
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - A 5,8% drop in production last year saw SA slip further down the global rankings to be the fourth-largest gold producer in the world, according to figures released on Frid (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Babalola Orders PHCN to End Power Supply Crisis
Sunday 21-Mar-2010: By Onyebuchi EzigboAbuja - As the power situation in the country takes a turn for the worse, the Federal government has asked the management of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to speedily (By News Poster)...Zim: MDC forces U-turn in indigenisation rules
Sunday 21-Mar-2010: "To cater for people currently disadvantaged, rather than those already empowered, like Kasukuwere himself†By Vusumuzi SifileYouth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Minister, Savi (By News Poster)...Senegal: Smaller Business Struggles to Access Bank Credit
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Koffigan E. AdigbliDakar - Despite the financial sector boom in Senegal, small and medium sized businesses (SMBs), which represent over 90 percent of the industrial fabric of the country, struggle (By News Poster)...Uganda: Mao wants Museveni probed over northern war killings
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Robert MwanjeKampala - Democratic Party president Norbert Mao has asked the International Criminal Court [ICC] to investigate President Museveni over the northern Uganda war killings.The developmen (By News Poster)...Niger: Experts Explain Why Malnutrition is Recurrent
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Dakar - IRIN has asked a range of experts over the past year why malnutrition is recurrent in Niger even after decades of donor support and government programmes. Two of the hardest-hit regions were f (By News Poster)...Ghana: The Police Must Stop This Goro Street Menace
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Gifty MensahAccra - One of the fastest growing jobs in some cities in Ghana like Accra, Kumasi and Takoradi is the Goro boy business.This refers to the practice of persons who assist drivers' mates (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Legality of Vehicle Inspections Queried
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Maputo - Mozambique's foremost anti-corruption NGO, the Centre for Public Integrity (CIP) has challenged the legality of the current inspections of vehicles, on the grounds that the government had neg (By News Poster)...Kenya: Dream City at Stake in Land Deal
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Plans to build a technology city and create 40,000 jobs have run into allegations of corruption and unfair dealings. The technopolis is to be built on a 5,000-acre piece of land near Salama (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CIBN, Lotus Capital Unveil Benefits of Islamic Banking
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: Great reprieve is coming on the way of investors, potential investors, banks and other financial operators and analysts as the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria and Lotus Capital Limited colla (By News Poster)...Kenya: Nation Stuck With Somali 'Mercenaries'
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Abdilatif MaalimNairobi - An estimated 2,500 Somali youths trained by Kenya to fight in Somalia are stranded at Archer's Post in Isiolo, The Star has established.A report by the UN Monitoring Group (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bomb Blasts in Warri
Friday 19-Mar-2010: Lagos - A new dimension has been added to the political firmament in Nigeria with the bomb blasts which on Monday sent guests packing at the post-amnesty dialogue organized in Warri by The Vanguard ne (By News Poster)...South Africa: Westinghouse Mulls Fresh Investment in Pebble-Bed Project
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - US-BASED nuclear technology group Westinghouse might make further investments in the pebble-bed modular reactor (PBMR) project, the company said yesterday.The possibili (By News Poster)...[3 Graphs] The Stock Markets: The DOW is flying upwards - Gold to $1250 by July? - My Technical Indicators: A Market correction imminent?
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: Thank goodness my ADSL is up again. So now I just want to catch up on the markets and give a few thoughts. My Technical Indicator is saying nothing about selling, and it hasn't, even when others sa (By Jan)...Kenya: Agri-Revolution in the Offing with the Introduction of Cover for Small-Holders
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Macharia KihuroThe risk environment for agribusiness is constantly changing, especially in Kenya where the agricultural sector has remained a key driver of the economy.The need to secure the sector (By News Poster)...Botswana: Ngamiland Jumbos Afraid Of Chillies
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Khayalethu MpofuMany Farmers in the Northern District of Botswana Live in Constant Fear of Their Crops Being Destroyed By Marauding Elephants.To tackle the problem, the government of Botswana has l (By News Poster)...Zanu PF Councillor Victimises Crisis Coalition Team
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Alex BellThe Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition has accused a ZANU PF councillor of victimisation after an outreach meeting conducted by the pressure group was disrupted by ZANU PF youths last week.Crisi (By News Poster)...Africa: Maps Point Truckers to HIV/Aids Help
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Nairobi/Dar es Salaam - New maps pin-pointing the exact location of "wellness centres" in sub-Saharan Africa are improving truck drivers' access to treatment and care for HIV and other sexually transm (By News Poster)...Meeting Discusses Roots of Stock Theft
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Christof MaletskyRAMPANT stock theft, high unemployment and landlessness among the /Khomanin clan of the Damara tribe drew together a group of people at a smallholding west of Windhoek on Saturday. (By News Poster)...Country Poised for Tourism Boom - Report
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Ndamu SanduBerlin - Zimbabwe will become the third fastest growing country on its travel and tourism economy's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) buoyed by a stable political environment and the spin-off (By News Poster)...Kenya: Donors Beginning to Show Kenya Respect
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Nairobi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Khan received a fairly warm welcome to Kenya last week, including meetings with the President and the Prime Minister.And in a statem (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Why Single-Sex Schools Excel
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Catherine MurombedziHarare - Mission schools produce the best results at both "O" Level and "A" Level nationwide.A microscopic look would even show that single sex schools have pass rates above 90 (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Presbyterian Moderator Warns Against Full Scale War in Jos
Monday 15-Mar-2010: THE Moderator of the General Assembly of The Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, The Rt. Rev. Ubon Bassey Usung, has warned that the recurring ethno-religious crisis in Jos, Plateau State, if not checked (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Power Sector Gulped N78.969 Billion - Federal Govt
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: By Yemie AdeoyeTHE Federal Government has disclosed that the ailing power sector gulped a whooping N78.969 billion in 2009 in an effort to realise the failed 6000 Megawatts of power targeted at the en (By News Poster)...South Africa: Teen Hangs Herself 'After Row At TB Clinic'
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: By Sipokazi MaposaProvincial health authorities say they are investigating allegations that a nursing sister in Mbekweni, Paarl, refused treatment to a teenager with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis b (By News Poster)...Ghana: Surveyor Dadson Advises Gov't
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: The Vice President (Africa Region) of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE), Surveyor James Ebenezer Kobina Dadson, has said that "the greatest challenge facing Ghana is t (By News Poster)...Somalia: U.S.-Backed Transitional Govt, Militia Group Sign Deal on Rebels
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Somalia's embattled government has signed a power-sharing agreement with an Islamist militia, Ahlu-Sunnah Wal-Jamaa that is backing its much-awaited military offensives against powerful Islamist insur (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Music Star Sam Mtukudzi Dies
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Harare - Samson Mtukudzi (21), son of music superstar Oliver Mtukudzi, died early yesterday morning after he was involved in a road accident near Kuwadzana Extension along the Harare-Bulawayo Road.Sam (By News Poster)...Somalia: UN Envoy Welcomes Peace Pact Between Somali Government and Rebel Group
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: The top United Nations envoy to Somalia today welcomed the signing of a peace agreement between the Government and a rebel group, reiterating that the war-ravaged Horn of Africa nation is transitionin (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Floods Could Aggravate Seasonal Cholera
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - Cholera has claimed the lives of over 40 people in Mozambique and ongoing flooding throughout the central and northern parts of the country could "aggravate" the problem, aid agencies s (By News Poster)...Peru Coffee Farms in Tax Trouble in Cocaine Zone
Sunday 21-Mar-2010: LIMA - Coffee and cocoa farmers from a turbulent cocaine-producing region of Peru say the country's tax agency is unfairly fining their cooperative, and putting at risk their exports of high-quality o (By News Poster)...Kenya: Time is Ripe to Tap Into Growing Chinese Coffee Market
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Richard GitongaAnyone with a pulse can tell you that our country is slowly being overrun by Chinese entrepreneurs and corporations.From road construction to hair pins and Chinese herbs to restauran (By News Poster)...Kenya: Bank Services Out of Reach for Many Kenyans, Says Central Bank
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Johnstone Ole TuranaMajority of Kenyans remain unbanked due to the existence of access barriers to financial services.According to the Central Bank of Kenya Governor, Prof Njuguna Ndung'u, the low (By News Poster)...Uganda: Otunnu Stoned At Kasubi Tombs
Friday 19-Mar-2010: By Brian Mayanja and Henry MukasaKampala - ANGRY Buganda loyalists yesterday pelted Uganda People's Congress (UPC) president Olara Otunnu with stones before chasing him away from the burnt Kasubi tomb (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Mend Threat - FG Beefs Up Security On Facilities
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Harris-Okon EmmanuelWarri - Federal Government has beefed up security around government establishments and oil facilities in response to threats by Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Food Scarcity Hits Imo Over Jos Crisis
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Emma OguOwerri - Prices of food stuff have skyrocketed in Imo state following the crisis in Jos Plateau state. The commoditities include meat, beans, yam, tomatoes, onions and even garri.Our corres (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: War Veterans Dispute Hots Up
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: Harare - The battle for control of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association escalated yesterday with one group saying the executive had been dissolved and another declaring that a co (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Country, Others Meet On Oil Quota
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Adeola YusufLagos - Nigeria will be meeting with 11 other oil exporting nations in Vienna on Wednesday to examine the current production quota level, other trading catalysts and fluctuations in oil (By News Poster)...Uganda: Bududa Tragedy
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Fredrick WomakuyuKampala - The pain of the landslide tragedy that hit Bududa district will stay on for long. The education sector was severely affected. About 100 pupils perished.As seventy-eight-y (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mimosa Mulls Expansion Plan
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Golden SibandaZIMBABWE'S second biggest platinum miner, Mimosa Mining Company, is mulling phase six of its expansion programme to ramp up output and shore up its revenue generation capacity.This is (By News Poster)...House Prices to Rise As Economy Shows Recovery
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - THE residential property market is expected to pick up momentum with house prices forecast to grow by 6% this year compared to last year as the economy recovers.Rising employment will s (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Fuel Subsidy Should End This Month
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican government has told the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that the current system of fuel subsidies will be abolished by the end of March.That promise comes in a Letter of Inte (By News Poster)...Kenya: Bumper Harvest Now a Nightmare for Farmers
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Food crops worth millions of shillings are rotting on farms in the country's grain basket of North Rift, as farmers cannot access market for the produce.Heavy rains have been pounding the ar (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Interpol Recovers Stolen Vehicles in Country
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Maputo - In cooperation with Interpol, the Mozambican police have recovered 72 vehicles stolen in other southern African countries.According to a report in Tuesday's issue of the Beira daily paper "Di (By News Poster)...Nigeria: MEND Faction Claims It Bombed Warri
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Muhammad Bello, AbdulFattah Olajide and Mohammed S. ShehuPort Harcourt/Abuja - A faction of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta [MEND] said yesterday that it carried out the attack (By News Poster)...Uganda: Transparency Will Avert Oil Curse
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Elijah OmagorAs excitement mounts over Uganda's impending oil production, the focus should be on avoiding the mineral resource curse that has afflicted several mineral-rich countries like Angola, D (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Probe On Utility Bills Welcome
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Harare - IT is good to see that the Competition and Tariffs Commission is now baring its teeth and investigating service charges that consumers think are unreasonably high.The Commission has just comp (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG, Gas Producers Meet Over Power Generation Slump
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: By Onyebuchi EzigboAbuja - In a bid to arrest the slump in the country's power generation, the federal government yesterday met with chief executives of oil and gas companies in Abuja to see how to re (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Ismael Mussa Secretary-General of MDM
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Maputo - The president of the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), the country's second largest opposition party, Daviz Simango, on Sunday appointed Ismael Mussa as the party's secretary-general.Muss (By News Poster)...Kenya: Kind Words From the IMF, No Less!
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Kenya last week received a rare accolade from visiting International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn on the steps the country had taken to bring its economy back on th (By News Poster)...Uganda: Bududa Landslides - Survivors' Tales
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Kiyai C. OnapitoOur final ascent on the winding, narrow and slippery road brought chills. The truck leading our mini convoy of three belched smoke. Any slight loss of control by the driver would ha (By News Poster)...South Africa: We Respect Media - Zuma
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: President Jacob Zuma has been urged to rein in the ANC's Youth League and bring his bodyguards to book.Presenting Zuma with the national newsmaker of the year award in Pretoria last night, Primedia's (By News Poster)...Kenya: Cholera Risk Spreading
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: Nairobi - As of 15 March, 15 districts nationwide were affected with cholera, with 663 cases confirmed since January, according to a Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation update. At least 15 deaths (By News Poster)...South Africa: Two Rift Valley Fever Deaths Confirmed
Friday 19-Mar-2010: Pretoria - The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) has confirmed 32 human laboratory cases of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) and two deaths.A total of 31 human cases and two deaths were confir (By News Poster)...South Africa: Simmers CE to Take Helm of First Uranium
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - FIRST Uranium has announced the departure of CE Gordon Miller, who will be replaced by Simmer & Jack CE Deon van der Mescht as part of steps being taken by Simmers to resc (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Burutu's 400 Refineries
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: BURUTU, a local government area in Delta State, should hold the world record for refineries. According to the Joint Task Force (on security), 10 hamlets in this local government area have 400 refineri (By News Poster)...Angola: 2009 Economic Indicators Remained Stable
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: Luanda - The Angolan economic indicators remained stabled in 2009, with a real growth rate of 2,7 percent, as a result of the expansion of the non-oil sector.The information is contained in a report o (By News Poster)...Kenya: New Graft Watchdog Report Exposes Rot in Parliament
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Kenya's MPs have been accused of widespread abuse of powers and privileges in a new anti-graft watchdog report. The Transparency International report obtained exclusively by the Nation expos (By News Poster)...South Africa: Factories Lead Way in Job Cuts, Says Survey
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Sanchia TemkinJohannesburg - MOST South African businesses imposed a hiring freeze and in some cases reduced staff last year, says a report issued by Grant Thornton yesterday.Grant Thornton's Inter (By News Poster)...Bio-Energy Project to Transform Masvingo
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By George MapongaPLUMES of smoke, easily visible from a distance coupled with the wafting clouds of dust from bellicose caterpillars and front-end loaders give a clue to some serious work being carrie (By News Poster)...Zambia, Lesotho Keen to Join Accountancy Training System
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: By Sue BlaineJohannesburg - SA's chartered accountant (CA) brand is growing in sub-Saharan Africa and the country's professional body is working with Zambia and Lesotho to bring these countries into t (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Judges Censuring Rusesabagina Are Fighting Fraud
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Kigali - In the last one year, Paul Rusesabagina, who has been portraying himself as a hero who purportedly saved thousands of Tutsi during the Genocide, has been censured by two courts of law across (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Why Licence Beneficiaries Can't Build Refineries, Mojekwu
Monday 15-Mar-2010: By Udeme ClementAs controversy continues to trail the recent approval of new licences to private firms to build 18 refineries in the country, stakeholders are divided over the development.While some s (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Jinya Bounces Back Into Financial Sector
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Harare - FORMER Barclays Zimbabwe managing director Mrs Charity Jinya, who was based in Uganda as head of Barclays Bank in that country, has bounced back in the local financial sector as the new MBCA (By News Poster)...USA: SHOCKING NEW BOOK: The Return of the Great Depression
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: [Yep folks, this is what it looks like to me. Check out this new book. Jan] (By Jan)...Kenya: WB Approves Sh2 Billion Grant for Kenya Farmers
Tuesday 16-Mar-2010: Nairobi - The World Bank has approved a new emergency grant of Sh2 billion (€19.3 million) to improve access to vital agricultural inputs and appropriate technologies among 150,000 Kenyan farmers (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: Is my ADSL hell finally over? Linden telephone exchange went down this week...
Sunday 21-Mar-2010: I got a call from Telkom at 11am this morning saying to me that my ADSL and my telephone line check out fine, all is well. I tested my ADSL speed while the guy was on the phone. It was about 312 kbits (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (15-03-2010)
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- I am not surprised that Mugabe and his loyal cohorts have chosen to keep this quiet. Their land grab has destroyed the agricultural sector an (By The BeardedMan)...S.Africa: 2010: TELKOM: My ADSL Hell... my ADSL connection totally down now...
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Hi All, A note, my ADSL connection has been quietly deteriorating for weeks... but I hardly noticed it. Since friday it got worse and worse. I managed, with some trickery and initiative to keep it go (By Jan)...[2 Pics] S.Africa: 2010: ADSL HELL: Collapsing Infrastructure or Telkom upgrades? Why is my ADSL going to pot?
Monday 15-Mar-2010: I am so flipping annoyed at this stage. I've been using Telkom's ADSL for a couple of years now and I've always thought it was the one thing Telkom got right and did better than anyone else... until n (By Jan)...Stunning 21st Century German weapons: The stunning Pzh2000.... & much more...
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: [Check out this incredible German self-propelled gun. You never could have imagined artillery could work like this... Simply... STUNNING! Jan] Future Weapons : PzH 2000 English long version (By Jan)...[YouTube] USA: Obama invents a huge lie & is caught out: A HUGE Obama Gaffe - He is Caugh LYING About his Uncle!
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: Obama tells a lie about an uncle who never existed and events that never took place. He did not even spend a few minutes trying to get the basic facts before inventing this lie. He's caught out... com (By Jan)...S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World cup soccer - What a rotten ADSL & Telephone situation... NOTHING WORKS!!
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: I am so annoyed. I experienced hard core ADSL problems last friday. In weeks prior to that I had noticed something weird from time to time when downloading emails but it never occurred to me the ADSL (By Jan)...[Pic] USA: Indonesian protestors kick a picture of President Obama
Monday 15-Mar-2010: A Muslim student kicks a banner of President Barack Obama during a protest against his planned visit in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, March 12, 2010. Obama is scheduled to travel later this (By Jan)...[Pic] Indonesia protests: Even the Indonesians don't like Obama...
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Muslim students step on a banner of President Barack Obama during a protest against his planned visit in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, March 12, 2010. Obama is scheduled to travel later thi (By Jan)...Military History: America's most amazing soldier from World War I... Corporal Alvin C. York...
Monday 15-Mar-2010: I am still going through the 30 or so documentaries on Vietnam that JoAn sent me. And one of them touches on the history behind the Medal of Honour, America's highest award. At the time this documenta (By Jan)...Military History: Some bizarre & ingenious American ideas from the Vietnam war....
Monday 15-Mar-2010: I am busy watching the dozens of Vietnam war documentaries that JoAn sent me. I really did not realise the varied things Americans did in Vietnam, and I must say a lot of it reminds me of what happene (By Jan)...[YouTube] USA: Over 1 million people viewed this: Obama tells 7 lies in under 2 minutes
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: I thought Mugabe was the best liar... but it seems there's a little competition going on here.. (By Jan)...Stock Markets: My Technical Indicator Experiment: Signal: Buy Gold TODAY...
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Hi All, Due to my ADSL line problems here in Johannesburg since last friday, I have really struggled to get access to the web to monitor things. As I have said, when a stock is "indecisive" my te (By Jan)...[YouTube][Video] USA: UNBELIEVABLE OBAMA GAFFES, Mistakes, Lies, and Confusion
Saturday 20-Mar-2010: Take a look at this. Obama doesn't even know which city he is in... and his "facts"... are questionable. The Liberals and Left had a lot of fun with Bush, but check out a real fool. If Bush had done a (By Jan)...Orania Movement – European link tour
Monday 15-Mar-2010: It is of great importance for the Orania Movement to continually expand its foreign support base. It is for this reason that the Foreign Friends of Orania was launched some years ago to make it possi (By JanOlifant)...Science: FutureWeapons: Rafael Simon Door-Breaching System
Monday 15-Mar-2010: Check out this amazing new weapon... (By Jan)...S Africa: Message from Jan
Thursday 18-Mar-2010: Greetings, Friends, Jan asked that I post something to let you know his adsl is down for the third time in 6 days. Others I am in touch with have had problems as well. Please bear with us! We will do (By JoAn)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (19-03-2010)
Friday 19-Mar-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- This morning, my good lady and I feel vindicated. About 8 years ago our bathroom was converted into a walk-in-shower-wet-room. As the years r (By The BeardedMan)...My Favourite Movie line of all time, from Lord of the Rings...
Monday 15-Mar-2010: I happened to spot the Lord of the Rings on TV, and I watched it for a few minutes. It was right at the place which has my favourite movie quote of all time. I think I must set it up as my signature. (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (17-03-2010)
Wednesday 17-Mar-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- "Oliver Mtukudzi has blamed himself for the death of his son, Sam (22 years old) which occurred on the early hours of the 15th of March 2010 (By The BeardedMan)...
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