Southern Africa in Crisis
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Sunday, 28th 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 & GruesomeCoal-Fired Denialism
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Washington, DC - With a request for a $3.75 billion World Bank loan for a new coalfired power plant, South African political leaders seem determined to entrench a policy on climate change that disrega (By News Poster)...Africa: U.S. Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: The following is full text of an address by Ambassador Johnnie Carson, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa and Global (By News Poster)...Africa: Statement by Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson at 'An Overview of U.S. Policy in Africa' Hearing
Sunday 28-Mar-2010: The following remarks were issued by Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson at a hearing of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health titled 'An Overview of U.S. Policy in (By News Poster)...Africa: An Overview of U.S. Policy in Africa - Testimony by Princeton Lyman
Sunday 28-Mar-2010: By Princeton LymanWashington, DC - Testimony of Princeton N. Lyman, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Hearing of the Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on Africa and G (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Country's Unlawful Killings - a Challenge for Our Justice System
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Emeka UmeagbalasiIt is no longer news that Nigeria, a country with an estimated population of 150 million people, is one of the world's leading violators of human rights. If care is not taken, the (By News Poster)...Ghana: Continent's Economic Transformation - Reply to IMF Boss
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Kwame OseiI find it very disingenuous for the IMF boss Mr. Strauss-Kahn to say that Climate Change will affect Afrika's chances of economic growth in the future because under this so-called climate (By News Poster)...Uganda: U.S. Legislation Authorises Military Action Against the LRA
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Samar Al-BulushiDespite harsh condemnation from US legislators in response to Uganda's draft bill criminalising homosexuality, the Senate passed a bill in mid-March that will prop up Uganda's gover (By News Poster)...IMPORTANT: ASSASSINATION! Did Mugabe try to murder MDC Finance Minister Tendai Biti?
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: [Take a look at this. This is almost exactly the way that Tsvangirai's wife was killed and Tsvangirai nearly died 15 months ago. Biti is driving in his car and a big truck "swide-swipes" him... This i (By News Poster)...Time to Scrap Unity Deal and Have a Supervised Election
Tuesday 23-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)...Zimbabwe: MDC Begins Campaign to Name and Shame Perpetrators of Violence
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe MDC-T has said it is supporting the fight for justice for victims of the 2008 election violence and demanding prosecution of people who committed acts of rape, murder and tortur (By News Poster)...USA: ABSOLUTELY EXCELLENT: Millions of White men are abandoning the Democrats...
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: [Now we're talking!! This is the kind of news I like to hear. The word "Liberal" seems to me to be abused and distorted in America. Often it is a synonym for socialism or outright Marxism. A communist (By Jan)...Central Africa: Lord's Resistance Army Rampage Kills 321 in DR Congo, Says HRW
Sunday 28-Mar-2010: Kampala - The rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) killed at least 321 civilians and abducted 250 others, including at least 80 children, during a previously unreported four-day rampage in the Makombo a (By News Poster)...America: Born July 4, 1776 - Died November 4, 2008: Did America Die Without A Shot Being Fired?
Monday 22-Mar-2010: [This is a moving tribute by an American patriot who visited memorials in Washington. One person who commented on this post wrote: Yes ,in my opinion, it did. I believe that the fatal wound was ad (By Jan)...Africa: An Initial Assessment of U.S. Africa Policy - Testimony by Dr. Witney Schneidman
Sunday 28-Mar-2010: By Witney SchneidmanWashington, DC - Testimony Of Dr. Witney W. Schneidman, president of Schneidman & Associates International before the House Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Afriforum Rolls Out Campaign to Seize Assets
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Alex BellSouth African civil rights initiative, AfriForum, has rolled out what it calls a 'Civil Sanction Campaign' in support of Zimbabwe's farmers and farm workers, the first step of which is to (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Let Us Unite Against Crime
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Harare - WE salute the Zimbabwe Republic Police for continuing to score success in the fight against crime despite limited resources.We also join the police in mourning one of their brave officers, De (By News Poster)...Uganda: Election Violence - is It Bursting Its Banks?
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Isaac MufumbaKampala - On the night of February 28, 2010 Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kuteesa appeared on NTV to defend his credentials as "a good and highly disciplined cadre" of the NRM.The follo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Authorities to Probe Extra-Judicial Killings in Enugu
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: By Tony EdikeEnugu - Disturbed by the increasing cases of extra- judicial killings by policemen across the country, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo has ordered discreet investigatio (By News Poster)...Zim: Fear that deadlines will be ignored
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: In the absence of South African mediators to crack the whip, deadlock With growing numbers of Movement for Democratic Change supporters being arrested and the International Monetary Fund warni (By News Poster)...South Africa: Healthworkers Pay Heavy Price for TB Service
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Kerry Cullinan and Sasha Wales SmithTB has permanently altered the lives of a number of health workers, who are six times more likely to get drug-resistant TB than the general public.In 2002, Dr Ne (By News Poster)...Burundi: Prevent And Punish 'Mob Justice'
Friday 26-Mar-2010: Bujumbura - Mob attacks on suspected criminals in Burundi, often with official complicity, led to at least 75 killings in 2009, Human Rights Watch and the Association for the Protection of Human Right (By News Poster)...South Africa: Quackery Taken to Task
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Lesley OdendalNathan Geffen's book Debunking Delusions reminds us what can go wrong when AIDS denialists are given the time of day. The book also documents clearly how we can fight denialism in a m (By News Poster)...Liberia: Indictment Sparks Fear Amongst the Like-Minded
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: The pending trial of Charles Taylor for his alleged crimes against humanity and others is sending fear and paranoia amongst many tyrants of his type, particularly fellow Africans. It is a signal that (By News Poster)...Africa: Oil, Minerals And the Militarisation of Globalisation - My Comments
Monday 22-Mar-2010: [This is really a Leftist interpretation of what's happening in the world. The West, due to its fight with Islam is now being regarded as "Imperialistic" and "hell bent on world conquest". The reality (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Revealed!How Banks Fleece Customers
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Stan OkenwaLagos - Thousands of bank account holders may have been unwitting victims of dubious bank charges carried out by both troubled and safe banks, in clear breach of the Central Bank of Nige (By News Poster)...South Africa Reaches Its Damascus Moment
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Nevanji MadanhireIT was all too much of a fairytale: a country emerges from the grip of one of the most debilitating crises the world has ever seen and almost overnight becomes a Rainbow nation. Th (By News Poster)...Uganda: Oil to Drive Economy
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Ibrahim KasitaKampala - Oil and gas could be the engine for poverty reduction and sustainable development in Uganda.THE exploration of oil is expected to generate huge revenues that are needed to a (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Network of Human Traffickers Exposed
Friday 26-Mar-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican police have arrested members of a gang that specialized in trafficking women from Mozambique to South Africa, reports Friday's issue of the independent weekly "Savana".The firs (By News Poster)...South Africa: Central Bank Cuts Interest Rates
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: Pretoria - The Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has cut the repo rate by 50 basis points to 6.5 percent to the delight of many South Africans."The improved inflation environment has prov (By News Poster)...Kenya: Top Terror Suspect Vanishes From Police Station
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Nairobi - A high-level terror suspect arrested by police in Kenya has mysteriously disappeared from custody at a border police station.The man, who was arrested on March 13, was reported missing at 9 (By News Poster)...Namibia: South Korea Here to Talk Uranium
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyA HIGH-POWERED state and private sector delegation of South Korea will arrive in Namibia on Saturday for a short visit to talk uranium and nuclear power business.Leading the delegation (By News Poster)...I Didn't Think I'd Have TB
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Lungi LangaMy name is Lungi Langa. I am a 24-year-old HIV-negative health journalist. I am living with TB. It sounds odd when I say that. But it's real.Since the beginning of last year, I have been (By News Poster)...Of ZSE Paradox, RBZ Deadline
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Takunda MugagaHarare - VICTORIA Ruzvidzo in her last Thursday's column entitled "Whither Zim firms" bemoans the lack of Zimbabwean firms in the Africa Report Top 500 survey. In this column I will j (By News Poster)...Zim: White farmers seek to grab Mugabe land in SA
Sunday 28-Mar-2010: On March 11 the sheriff attached movable property at the four properties in Zonnebloem, Kenilworth and Wynberg By Peta ThornycroftWhite Zimbabwean farmers dispossessed by President Robert Muga (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Lessons from my work: Black man says: Jan Lamprecht invented a Computer Language (2 actually!)
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Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Fidelis Mac-LevaNigeria turns to Nuclear Energy for electricity, but leaves a few questions unanswered.Nigeria's ambition of becoming one of the world's leading 20 economies by 2020 appears heavy o (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (24-03-2010)
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- It isn't every day that we hear about Augustine Chihuri, but he does know how to make a noise when we do hear from him. For someone who is (By The BeardedMan)...Zim: Zanu PF baying for Gono's blood
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: “Gono has gone too far this time" Harare - Top Zanu PF officials, including government ministers are reportedly plotting the ouster of Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono for (By News Poster)...The Black Racists in Haiti, who murdered the French, said: Go home Yankee to the Americans... until...
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Recently, President Obama said that Americans must stand by Haiti. I then posted this article which I received from an American: IMPORTANT: USA: A Brief & Shocking History of Haiti - What schools don' (By Jan)...Nigeria: Beyond 24 Banks
Monday 22-Mar-2010: In 18 months time, Nigeria will witness a surge in banks' number as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced that it is embarking on categorisation of banks, while also reforming the concept of (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Secret Killings Persist in Jos
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Ahmed Mohammed & Andrew AgbeseJos - The spate of secret killings in the restive city of Jos, Plateau State continued yesterday with the discovery of the corpse of city resident Adamu Haruna Abubaka (By News Poster)...South Africa: No Rate Cut Expected, But it Could be Close
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - A BARRAGE of crucial economic data this week will culminate in the Reserve Bank's interest rate decision on Thursday - the first since the Treasury clarified its mandate in (By News Poster)...Barata-Phathi and its Options
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Staff WritersIt is increasingly looking murkier in the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP). The politics of polarity have worsened as the party leadership is tightening the screws on key members (By News Poster)...USA: Academic Paper in China Details how to Compromise American Power Grid
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: It came as a surprise this month to Wang Jianwei, a graduate engineering student in Liaoning, China, that he had been described as a potential cyberwarrior before the United States Congress. Larry (By JanOlifant)...HIPC - Wrong Prescription for Zim Debt Management
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Ambassador Christopher H. MutsvangwaHarare - HIGHLY Indebted Poor Country status is not the answer to the Zimbabwe debt problem.Zimbabwe is not Haiti.The country does not suffer from inherent incap (By News Poster)...Witness Testified That ULIMO Rebels Supplied Arms and Ammunition To The RUF
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Alpha SesayA Sierra Leonean witness, who yesterday commenced his testimony in defense of Charles Taylor, has today told the Special Court for Sierra Leone judges that Sierra Leonean rebels received (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Renamo Calls for Ad-Hoc Commission on Electoral Law
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has called for a parliamentary ad-hoc commission to rewrite the country's electoral legislation.Speaking at the opening session of (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe split over $5.7 billion debt plan
Monday 22-Mar-2010: "Focus on debt forgiveness will result in the country becoming donor dependent, weak and poor†Thulani Mpofu, Foreign CorrespondentHarare - When the finance minister, Tendai Biti, assumed of (By News Poster)...Zim: Did Zuma find a more muscular way than Mbeki of squeezing Mugabe?
Monday 22-Mar-2010: He put a lot of effort into it, devoting more than two days to wide consultations CommentPeter FabriciusWhat are we to make of the apparent "breakthrough" deal which President Zuma pulled off (By News Poster)...Uganda: Zuma Hails Nation for Support to ANC
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Cyprian Musoke And Catherine BekundaKampala - SOUTH AFRICAN President Jacob Zuma has lauded Uganda for hosting the African National Congress (ANC) during apartheid when other countries feared harbo (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Court Orders Police to Release Confiscated Torture Photographs
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Violet GondaHigh Court judge Justice Samuel Kudya on Wednesday ordered the police to release the 65 photographs of victims of the 2008 political violence that had been confiscated from Gallery Delt (By News Poster)...South Africa: Global Crisis Sets Scene for Mother of Trade Wars
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Tim CohenJohannesburg - PERHAPS the largest trade battle to take place in global history is about to begin - and the consequences and fallout could well be a defining moment in world history.The ba (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Tackling Corruption By Non-Financial Sector
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Tunbosun OgundareLagos - IN Lagos last week for two days, stakeholders in the private sector brainstormed on the way non-designated financial services operators in the country would help check the (By News Poster)...Russia: 2010: Things are not so great for Czar Putin - Life under a KGB Communist SUCKS.... Falling standards of Living
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: [I have been saying for a long time that the monetary bubble which was being produced on Wall Street fuelled an imagined boom here in South Africa and around the world. Now that the bubble has collaps (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Police Declare War Against Armed Criminals
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Harare - Police have declared war against armed criminals, saying they will shoot at anyone who resists arrest.This comes after police detective sergeant Joseph Maximus was killed on Saturday morning (By News Poster)...South Africa: Undoing Apartheid's Land Legacy?
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Stephan HofstatterJohannesburg - RURAL Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti has promised to implement unprecedented reforms to land ownership rules which the government hopes will re (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: What Fresh Elections Mean for the Country's Political Stalemate
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: President Jacob Zuma's suggestion that fresh elections might offer a way out of the current impasse has sparked off a complex game of 'call my bluff' amongst the parties to the power-sharing governmen (By News Poster)...Somalia: Experts Call for Holistic War Against Piracy
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Bernard SangaNairobi - International maritime experts are rooting for a multi-pronged approach to eradicate piracy off the Somali coast.They are calling for a land-based strategy, a pointer to the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Perennial Massacre in Nigeria
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Emmanuel OgbunwezehIn the early hours of Sunday, March 7th 2010, a band of Muslim-Fulani herdsmen, believed to have come from the neighbouring Bauchi State, crept upon the villages of Dogon Nahawa, (By News Poster)...Why Coal is the Best Way to Power SA's Growth
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Pravin GordhanCape Town - Today, the South African economy is two-thirds larger than it was in 1994, when Nelson Mandela took office as the country's first democratically elected president.With thi (By News Poster)...USA: Spend-thrift Socialist Obama spending keeps exploding: CBO report: Debt will rise to 90% of GDP
Friday 26-Mar-2010: [These numbers are just unbelievable. When Obama is finished with America, America will be finished and up to its eyeballs in Debt. It appears to me, Americans have foresaken all logic by choosing thi (By Jan)...Sierra Leone: No Easy Road to Reconciliation
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Lansana FofanaFreetown - Former child soldier Komba Gbondo maimed and killed many people from his hometown, and the 25-year-old is still too terrified to return.Gbondo was 13 when Revolutionary Uni (By News Poster)...Zim: Marondera rocked by fresh crackdown on MDC activists
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: Crackdown on MDC officials and activists by the police By Tichaona SibandaThere has been a new wave of political arrests in the volatile Mashonaland East province. The Mayor of Marondera, Fara (By News Poster)...Nigeria: U.S.$50 Billion Investment - China Plans For The Nation's Oil, Electricity
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Adeola YusufChina, world second biggest oil consumer, has advanced discussions with Nigeria about China's increasing investment in the West African country's oil and power industries.Chinese Foreig (By News Poster)...Namibia: BoN Raps Banks Over the Knuckles
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyTHE Bank of Namibia (BoN) has lashed out against the public reaction to the proposed amendments on the Banking Institutions Act and Payments Systems Management Act tabled in Parliament (By News Poster)...Africa: Zuma's Economic Dream for Africa
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Emmanuel GyezahoAfrica's future lies in erasing the colonial borderlines that divide the continent and replacing them with railway lines and other transport links to facilitate trade, South Africa' (By News Poster)...South Africa: 2010 FIFA World Cup may bring CRIME: World Cup Sparks Fears of Human Trafficking
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Jabulani SikhakhaneJohannesburg - The expected arrival of 350,000 football fans in South Africa for the World Cup in June has provoked fears of increased levels of human trafficking. A new study su (By News Poster)...South Africa: Explaining TB-HIV Integration
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Khopotso BodibeFrom the 1st of April, HIV and TB patients will experience a major shift in policy when they go for their next appointment at a public health facility. The two will be treated by the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN Mismanaged Its Intervention in the Banking Sector - Sunny Nwosu
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Several months after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) sacked the Boards of eight banks in the country, as part of effort to reform the banking sector, the action has continued to generate controversy (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Knives Out as Zanu PF Turn on Gideon Gono
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaReserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono's enemies in ZANU PF have moved swiftly to denounce him for his scathing attack against the controversial indigenization bill and want him removed (By News Poster)...Sudan: No Time for "Business as Usual"
Friday 26-Mar-2010: The next two years will be critical in determining Sudan's future. The country faces national elections in April, the first multi-party elections in 24 years, and a referendum on southern independence (By News Poster)...South Africa: Key Lending Rate Lowest in Three Decades
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - THE Reserve Bank unexpectedly cut interest rates by half a percentage point yesterday, taking its key lending rate to 6,5%, its lowest for nearly three decades.Lower inflat (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Switzerland Urged to Stop Global Trade in Zim Blood Diamonds
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Alex BellHuman rights campaigners have turned to Switzerland to end the ongoing global trade in Zimbabwe's blood diamonds, as the European country prepares for the worlds largest jewelry show in Ba (By News Poster)...Medicine: How my Wall-to-Wall carpets nearly destroyed my health... and other Medical Misadventures of mine...
Sunday 28-Mar-2010: I live in a house that is at least 45 years old. I must say, even if I have the money to buy something new, I never will. New properties cost a lot more per square metre, and so you get less value for (By Jan)...Zimbabwe President Mugabe said to repudiate South African-mediated agreements
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: Blessing ZuluWashington - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF party and South African President Jacob Zuma look to be on a collision course if the negotiations between the partners i (By News Poster)...Zim: Govt neglected schools to focus on politics: PM
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: Political leaders diverted resources to consolidating power By Ndodana SixholoHarare - Zimbabwe drastically reduced funding for education from about US$6 per child in the first two decades of (By News Poster)...Nigeria: We Insist, Military is Biased Against Christians in Jos-Northern CAN Scribe
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By John ShiklamLagos - Elder Saidu Dogo is secretary general of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 Northern states, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). In this interview w (By News Poster)...ZimRights forced to abandon photo exhibition after launch
Friday 26-Mar-2010: That same evening the police returned to try and confiscate the pictures again By Violet GondaA photo exhibition organized by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association went ahead in Harare on Wedn (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Biti Attends Negotiations Despite Tuesday Car Crash
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaMDC-T chief negotiator Tendai Biti is attending talks that are hoped will bring finality to the remaining issues in the Global Political Agreement.Biti's presence at the talks was i (By News Poster)...South Africa: Orthodox Economics Failing - Patel
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Cape Town - South Africa needs to break away from orthodox economic models and start focusing on policies that will respond to the country's development needs, says Economic Development Minister Ebrah (By News Poster)...Zim: Minister says diamond officials not clean
Monday 22-Mar-2010: "People in the diamond business globally are drug traffickers, smugglers or plain crooks. This is the trend worldwide" By Clara SmithHarare - Mines Minister Obert Mpofu has admitted that some (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gaddafi - a Gadfly's Gift of the Gaffe (1)
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Adamu AdamuWhen Libyan leader Mu'ammar Abu Mineyar al-Qadhdhafi [Gaddafi] last week proposed the balkanization of Nigeria into Christian and Muslim cantons as a solution to the incessant ethno-reli (By News Poster)...Africa: The Green Revolution's New Avatar
Friday 26-Mar-2010: The Green Revolution has a new avatar: transformed Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D), and food experts hope it will provide the panacea for hunger.In the 1970s, when half the world's popula (By News Poster)...Nigeria: For Ogoni Oil Thieves, It's Goodbye Yesterday
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Jimitota OnoyumeCrusade against illegal bunkering operations in Rivers State, particularly the Ogoni axis of the state assumed an interesting dimension recently when about 813 illegal bunkers gave (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma Condemns Feuding Within Ruling Party
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Jacob ZumaA letter from the President of the ANC to the party's members:Comrades, The meeting of the National Executive Committee took place less than a month after we presented the state of the n (By News Poster)...Zim police crack down on photo exhibition
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: 20 officers, including riot police, removed the pictures from the walls and dumped them in a police pick-up truck Harare - Zimbabwe police on Tuesday seized all the photographs from an exhibit (By News Poster)...Ghana: Trial of Alleged Murderers of Issa Mobila
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: By Ivy BensonThe two soldiers standing trial at the Accra Fast Track High Court (FTC) for the murder of the former Northern Regional Chairman of the Convention People's Party (CPP), Alhaji Issa Mohamm (By News Poster)...Mozambique: U.S. Lectures Rest of World On Human Rights Again
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Paul FauvetMaputo - It's time for the annual charade in which the US State Department pontificates about the human rights situation everywhere in the world - except in the United States.We turn to (By News Poster)...Spyl - the Maestro of Politics
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: By Job Shipululo AmupandaI have come to realise that the characterisation of youth cannot exclusively be left to the confinement of age. We ought to go deeper than that.Youth should be defined as idea (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (26-03-2010)
Friday 26-Mar-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- These days I spend a lot of time reading stories that don't make this page, and also some of the readers' comments on the various websites. (By The BeardedMan)...Southern Africa: SADC Court Snubs Farmers' Urgent Bid
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Alex BellThe human rights court of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has snubbed an urgent bid by Zimbabwe's commercial farmers, who have been trying to force the government to hono (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos - Triumph of Impunity
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Emeka NwosuLagos - The most recent in the serial tragedies that had befallen the city of Jos, Plateau State boggles the mind. It is unimaginable that a group of Nigerians under any guise or justifi (By News Poster)...Uganda: Policeman Killed in Hostage Drama
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Daniel Edyegu And Paul WatalaKampala - A UPDF officer took a family hostage at a residential house in Mbale Municipality on Kumi Road and shot dead a senior Police officer on a rescue mission.Anoth (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nation Ready to Meet Conditions for Nuclear Power Plant
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Onyebuchi EzigboAbuja - The Federal Government yesterday gave a firm commitment on the country's intention to comply with all international requirements necessary for a safe implementation of a nuc (By News Poster)...Zim: Probe orders arrest of Phillip Chiyangwa
Sunday 28-Mar-2010: Combo influenced officials to apply for change of land use, then sat over the same applications By Feluna Nleya and Jennifer DubeA special committee investigating the illegal and irregular sal (By News Poster)...Kenya: Pastoralists Spend Large Sums on Arms
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Kenya's pastoralists have spent Sh1.1 billion to arm themselves over the years, it was revealed on Wednesday.The figure is tallied from the number of firearms confiscated from them during th (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Billy Rautenbach Fingered in Escalation of Violence in Manicaland
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaBilly Rautenbach, the 51 year old multimillionaire businessman with close links to ZANU PF, has been accused by the MDC of hounding and intimidating its activists in Manicaland as p (By News Poster)...West Africa: Illegal Fishing in Waters 'Worst in the World'
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Julio GodoyBerlin - Rampant illegal fishing is hitting some of the poorest West African countries the hardest as this practice is globally most rife in the east central Atlantic Ocean area, which c (By News Poster)...USA: Obama's Leftist Revolution: Obama is a reckless socialist - KUHNER: Impeach president Obama?
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Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Michael SimireMixed feelings have welcomed Africa's fledgling carbon market, which observers believe is stuttering in the face of a massive potential. According to the United Nations Environment Pr (By News Poster)...Uganda: 'Normalisation' of Domestic Violence Must Be Questioned
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Alyssa BoularesOxfam recognises gender violence as a violation of women's basic rights and one of the significant mechanisms by which individuals and society retain power over women's lives and cho (By News Poster)...South Africa: CPI Falls to 5.7 Percent in February
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Pretoria - The Consumer Price Index for February fell to 5.7 percent, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) announced on Wednesday."It is a surprise seeing that inflation is falling more rapidly than ant (By News Poster)...Jeff Rense Show: We discussed Obama the Radical Commie... Hillary Clinton the Communist admirer
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Hi All, A quick note. We had a good hour's discussion on Jeff Rense's show which included Captain Joseph Smith who was a Green Beret officer in Vietnam and who also fought in Rhodesia. We discuss (By Jan)...Rwanda: An Opposition Politician Challenges Nation's Image
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Saratu AbiolaAs Rwanda heads for presidential elections in November, human rights groups are focusing increasing attention on the record of President Paul Kagame, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Together We Can Kick TB Out of Khayelitsha'
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Full TB/HIV integration must become a national reality now. On April 1st, the South African Department of Health will begin implementing the new anti-retroviral (ARV) guidelines as outlined in Preside (By News Poster)...Worker Admits He Murdered Employer
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Werner MengesA FORMER farm labourer who is accused of robbing and murdering his elderly employer in her house in the Otjinene area four years ago pleaded guilty to all six charges he is facing in t (By News Poster)...East Africa: Rein in Region's Trigger-Happy 'Security'
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Over the past three weeks, security personnel have shot and killed innocent civilians and injured others in Uganda and Kenya, raising questions on whether their training these days still focuses on th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Fired SARS Agent 'Moonlighted for Mbalula'
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - SACKED South African Revenue Service (SARS) customs border agent Michael Peega - whose intelligence "dossier" is the basis of claims by African National Congress Youth Le (By News Poster)...Kenya: Farmers Insured Through Mobile Phones
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Kevin James MooreKenyan farmers fear that droughts or excess rains will wreck havoc with their crops and rob them of their savings. These farmers can now protect their harvest from extreme weather (By News Poster)...Sudan: Monitoring Peace in the Border Badlands
Friday 26-Mar-2010: Mayom - Thick dust clouds obscure the horizon as the convoy of UN military observers sets off to patrol the oil-rich, yet desperately underdeveloped Unity State in Southern Sudan.In these borderlands, (By News Poster)...South Africa: Inflation Drops Down Into Target Range
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - INFLATION slowed bang in line with expectations last month, falling back inside its official 3%-6% target range for the first time in three months, official data showed yes (By News Poster)...South Africa: State Plans Strict New Curbs On Land Rights
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Wyndham HartleyJohannesburg - Rural Development and Land Affairs Minister Gugile Nkwinti yesterday failed to put out the fires raging over suggestions that productive farmland could be nationalised (By News Poster)...[Pic] S.Africa: 2010: Racial war: Julius Malema racist communist attack dog's Matric Certificate
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: [I’ve received this from multiple sources and they claim this is true. In school, Julius Malema was a moron. So, frankly, I hope they make him the leader of the ANC and the President of South Africa (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Farmers File Contempt of Court Charges Against Govt
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: By Loughty DubeA GROUP of white commercial farmers who were dispossessed of their land during the chaotic land reform programme have filed an urgent application with the Sadc Tribunal against the gove (By News Poster)...South Africa: Human Trafficking Plagues Country
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Nthambeleni GabaraPretoria - South Africa continues to be a hub and destination for human trafficking and serious intervention is needed to curb this practice, says a study by the Human Sciences Re (By News Poster)...South Africa: Experts Warn On Rise in TB Cases
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Sipokazi MaposaThe high incidence of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the country is increasing at an alarming rate, and if case detection and adherence to treatment are not heightened urgently, the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe, Tsvangirai Condemn 'Gay Rights' in New Constitution
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Takunda MaodzaHarare - PRESIDENT Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have strongly condemned efforts to include "gay rights" in the new constitution, saying Zimbabwe will never succumb to s (By News Poster)...South Africa: Testing Views On HIV Testing - Living With Aids # 424
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Khopotso BodibeAt a media briefing later this morning (25/03/2010), Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi will outline how ready the country's health facilities are to test up to 15 million people fo (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Biti's Lucky Escape After Horror Car Crash Near Chegutu
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaFinance Minister Tendai Biti had a lucky escape after being involved in a car crash on Tuesday night near Chegutu in Mashonaland West province, which left him 'badly shaken.'The 44 (By News Poster)...Zim: 15 MDC supporters, including pregnant woman, under arrest
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Disturbances in his constituency in Manicaland Province are getting worse By Violet GondaDavid Chimhini, the MDC-T MP for Mutasa North, has said politically motivated violence and partisan pol (By News Poster)...Uganda: Independent Commission of Inquiry to Probe Kasubi Fire
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Henry Mukasa And Brian MayanjaKampala - THE BUGANDA kingdom has repeated its demand for an independent commission of inquiry into the fire that gutted the royal tombs at Kasubi a week ago.In resolu (By News Poster)...[2 Graphs] Why My Technical Indicator is issuing a Gold SELL signal so shortly after a BUY... The most profitable Gold tactics
Monday 22-Mar-2010: I thought I would explain the rationale behind my Gold buy and sell signals and what exactly has been happening which is causing it to give so many conflicting BUY and SELL signals on such short notic (By Jan)...Kenya: New Hopes for Oil Discovery
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Jaindi KiseroNairobi - Expectations were once again high in Nairobi last week as news trickled in that CNOOC -- the Chinese state-owned company currently exploring oil in Northern Kenya -- had hit (By News Poster)...SADC Tribunal forgot Zimbabwe farmers' case
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: "The staff at the SADC Tribunal appear to be overwhelmed" Brigitte WeidlichA group of commercial farmers from Zimbabwe and two lawyers who had travelled from South Africa for a hearing before (By News Poster)...SADC Tribunal Forgot Zimbabwe Farmers' Case
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichA GROUP of commercial farmers from Zimbabwe and two lawyers who had travelled from South Africa for a hearing before the SADC Tribunal yesterday were surprised to find the case had (By News Poster)...SA Meat Imports Banned Rift Valley Fever Alarm
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE Ministry of Agriculture has banned with immediate effect imports of live animals that are ruminants from South Africa, as well as meat and meat products of domestic and wild ru (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ghaddafi is Not the Enemy
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Owei LakemfaThis is another season of Ghaddafi-bashing in Nigeria. There is righteous indignation in the land. The Libyan leader, Muammar Ghaddafi has given an opportunity to diverse groups to spea (By News Poster)...Zim: We're incurring losses stockpiling diamonds: firm
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Astonishingly claimed that the diamond auction was just a hoax designed to test the market. By Own CorrespondentsHarare - One of two firms licensed to mine diamonds at Zimbabwe's Marange diamo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Effects of Drug on Unborn Babies Worse than Alcohol
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Yugendree NaidooA new study on the effects of methamphetamine (tik) on unborn babies conducted at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has found that the drug is even more damaging to a (By News Poster)...Gambia: The Land Question No Land Commission for 13 Years
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: On March 2010 the Permanent Secretary, Ministry for Local Government and Lands issued a press release indicating that those who bought land assets from the Ministry for Local Government and Lands from (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Now in Charge
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Kholwani NyathiPRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has crafted an ambitious government work plan that will see him closely monitor the performance of cabinet ministers and effectively thwart moves to (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Clergy Blames Bank Robberies On Poor Information Management
Friday 26-Mar-2010: Lagos - Chief Executive Officer of a Lagos -based security outfit, Great Faith Security Services, Pastor Anie Essien, has decried the rate of bank robberies in the country, saying poor information man (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zuma Continues to Sit on Army General's Report on Violence
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Lance GumaIn 2008 former South African President Thabo Mbeki commissioned a fact finding mission into state sponsored violence that took place in the run up to Zimbabwe's one man presidential run-o (By News Poster)...Somalia: Kenya Security Forces Arrest Suspected Pirates
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: Kenyan police at the coastal island of Lamu reports that eleven suspected Somali pirates have been arrested in Kenyan waters for the first time on Sunday after a failed hijacking attempt on a fishing (By News Poster)...Uganda: Uncertainty Persists as Fuel Prices Rise
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Joan AkelloKampala - Fuel pump prices again edged up slightly last week at most stations in Kampala sparking fears of price volatility. The price of petrol rose by Shs 80 per litre over last week f (By News Poster)...Zim: Mnangagwa named in extortion scam
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Demanding as much as US$5 000 from each farmer so that Mnangagwa can “protect†them from eviction BY Vusumuzi SifileDefence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa is fighting off embarrassing allegat (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Warri Bombing - Police Hunt For Bomb Maker
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Emma AmaizeWarri - MEN of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in Delta state have launched a manhunt for a bomb producer said to have configured the explosives that were used to disrupt the post-amnesty (By News Poster)...Zim: Mugabe's men grab prime Harare land
Sunday 28-Mar-2010: 2007 New Year's resolution: "To get stinking rich" Minister, nephew pay peanuts for land worth millions - or just swap for itBy Stanley Gama and Own CorrespondentLocal government minister Igna (By News Poster)...[Graph] My Technical Indicator for Wall St: Is 11,000 where the Bulls get slaughtered & Obama's Bailout rally dies a horrible death?
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: I have something important I want to show you. The other day I was watching a small head-and-shoulders building for Gold and it just crashed down through it. I've been following Jason Kelly's (By Jan)...South Africa: Govt Plans to Overhaul Land Reform
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Cape Town - The Department of Rural Development and Land reform has proposed a major overhaul of the country's land restitution and redistribution policy to speed up land reform.The move will require (By News Poster)...Witness Says, Taylor Supported the RUF Only in 1991
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Alpha SesayToday, a Sierra Leonean witness commenced his testimony in defense of Charles Taylor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The witness told the judges that the former Liberian preside (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe to Back Down on Tsvangirai Ministers
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Vusumuzi SifileHarare - THE Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday said it was encouraged by South African President Jacob Zuma's intervention, which (By News Poster)...Mauritius: The Country will soon be Importing cleaner Diesel
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Nicholas RainerPort Louis - The country will soon be importing cleaner diesel. That's good news, but there's more to cleaner air than the quality of petroleum products.It's one of the biggest banes (By News Poster)...Angola: Cuito Cuanavale Battle a Twist in Southern Africa Affairs
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Luanda - The South African deputy minister of Defence for Military Veterans, Thabang Makwetla, said Tuesday in Luanda, that the Cuito Cuito Cuanavale battle, Angola's south-eastern Kuando Kubango prov (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sir Elton John Signs £1 Million Grant to Protect African Babies
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Cape Town - Sir Elton John today (23 March) announced from Cape Town, South Africa, the granting of a £984,000 award to mothers2mothers (m2m) to be used to help prevent hundreds of thousands of (By News Poster)...Kenya: Refugee News Reporting Project Under Threat
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Bethany OjalehtoIn 2008 refugee journalists in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, set up KANERE, a news reporting project 'to counter the monopoly on information enjoyed by humanitarian organisations that (By News Poster)...Senegal: Individual Land Control Linked to Women's Empowerment
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Allyn GaestelWomen in Senegal face immense obstacles to individual land acquisition and control. Land inaccessibility is a problem that leads to limitations on women's economic productivity and foo (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: No Forgiveness Without Justice - Tsvangirai
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Valentine MapongaPRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday officially opened a photo exhibition showcasing gory pictures of the 2008 victims of violence and condemned police attempts to ban the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwean police return pictures of human rights violations to gallery
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: Shortly after he spoke, police returned to the gallery Art gallery exhibition goes ahead after court rules that images showing injured protesters can be shownDavid Smith in HarareZimbabwean po (By News Poster)...Mozambique: 'Situation in Zimbabwe Will Normalise' - Guebuza
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Windhoek - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza told reporters on Sunday he is confident that the political situation in Zimbabwe will soon normalize.Speaking in Windhoek to the Mozambican reporters w (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Youths Hail Country's Land Reform
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Harare - The World Federation of Democratic Youths has hailed the land reform programme for economically empowering indigenous Zimbabweans.After touring Lagnha and Raty farms in Mashonaland Central th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Response Mixed After Reserve Bank Repo Cut
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - The response to the drop of 50bp in the interest rate by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has led to mixed reaction in economic circles with some economists welcoming the decision (By News Poster)...15 MDC Supporters, Including Pregnant Woman, Under Arrest
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Violet GondaDavid Chimhini, the MDC-T MP for Mutasa North, has said politically motivated violence and partisan policing are getting worse in his constituency. 15 MDC supporters, including a heavil (By News Poster)...Uganda's Split Opposition Boosts Museveni
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Edmond KizitoNairobi - As opposition parties line up candidates for next year's planned polls, analysts say the announcement of each new entrant increases incumbent President Yoweri Museveni's chan (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Talks Heading for Deadlock as Zanu PF Vow No Concessions
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Lance GumaTalks aimed at resolving the political deadlock in Zimbabwe appeared heading for another collapse after ZANU PF's politburo on Wednesday resolved it would not make any concessions until s (By News Poster)...Liberia: Govt Officials Arrested for Ritualistic Killings
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By A. Abbas DullehSeveral persons, amongst them a top government official, have been arrested in Harper, Maryland County, amidst reports that a 7-month old pregnant woman was killed, the child extract (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Malaria Remains the Main Cause of Death
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Maputo - Malaria remains the main cause of death in Mozambique, but HIV/AIDS is catching up.According to the National Survey on the Causes of Mortality in Mozambique (INCAM), published on Wednesday in (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Representatives Reject Yar'Adua's Land Reform Bill
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Otei OhamAbuja - Lower House lawmakers on Tuesday rejected President Umaru Yar'Adua's Bill to establish a National Land Reform Commission (NLRC) for the restructuring of land matters across the cou (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'Muslim North' and 'Christian South'
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Ghaddafi, has an interesting antidote to the frequent religious riots in Nigeria: break the country into two - something like the Islamic Republic of Northern Nigeria and C (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'Gas Shortage Not the Problem' - Barkindo
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku and Kunle AderinokunGroup Managing Dire-ctor (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Moha-mmed Barkindo has said that some 400 million standard cubic feet (By News Poster)...Iranians train Taliban to use roadside bombs
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: [For years I have been pointing out the role of the Iranians in the Middle East. I have said they are the source of a lot of terrorism in Iraq. They also meddle with other anti-Israeli terrorist group (By JanOlifant)...Zuma's Speculative Silent Diplomacy
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: By Takura ZhangazhaPRESIDENT Jacob Zuma is a man of few words. This would perhaps explain the brevity of his press statement at the end of his two-day visit to Zimbabwe, a visit that was intended to e (By News Poster)...S. African unit of German firm said to equip Mugabe-held Zimbabwe dairy plant
Friday 26-Mar-2010: US$13.5 million facility near Mr. Mugabe's Zvimba rural estate Gibbs DubeWashington - News reports and sources in Zimbabwe's dairy industry said Thursday that Guth South Africa, a subsidiary o (By News Poster)...Nation and South Africa Exchange Experience On War Vets Assistance
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Luanda - The south african deputy minister of defense and war veterans, Thabang Makwetla, arrived in Luanda today on a three day visit for experience exchange with angolan officials on the assistance (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Aid Delivery under Threat in Kivus
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Nairobi - A recent upsurge in threats against aid agencies in the Kivu provinces of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has raised concerns that the humanitarian space in the region could shrin (By News Poster)...Zim: Mugabe: no deal unless all sanctions scrapped
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: "The sanctions must go, must go. If they don't, there will be no concession that we will make, none whatsoever" Harare - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said yesterday he would only impleme (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Biti in Horrific Crash
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: Harare - FINANCE minister Tendai Biti was yesterday injured and hospitalised when the Toyota Hilux twin-cab he was driving was involved in an accident with a haulage truck along the Harare-Bulawayo Ro (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Rights Group Warns on Repression Ahead of Polls
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Emeka-Mayaka GekaraAn international human rights watchdog has warned that Sudan and Ethiopia are unlikely to hold free and fair elections planned for April and May respectively due to political rep (By News Poster)...Kenya: NSSF Bosses Quizzed on Murder
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Several senior National Social Security Fund officials have recorded statements with the police in connection with the rape and murder of a cleaner.The incident, police say, happened at the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Flexible Mandate? But the Political Effect Should Not Be Overstated
Friday 26-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - RESERVE Bank governor Gill Marcus has successfully flat-footed almost every economist in the country with a surprise 50-basis-point cut in interest rates. The key aspect of the decision (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Stakeholders Task Government on Investment in Cocoa
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Jimoh BabatundeAfter a brainstorming two day convention of coca producing states in Akure, Ondo State recently, stakeholders called on the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to wake up from its slumbe (By News Poster)...Kenya: TB Clinics Boost HIV Testing for Couples
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Nairobi - The Kenyan government is using national tuberculosis screening programmes to persuade married couples - at high risk of HIV, according to research - to get tested for the virus.About half of (By News Poster)...IMPORTANT: Namibia: Blacks stealing land again - Land Grab in the capital of Windhoek
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: [Here we go again... this is Mugabe/Chavez style... the people just seize land at will. This is the spectre of communism hanging over Namibia too. Same problem. Jan] By Denver Kisting and Brigitte (By News Poster)...Taking Consumer Rights Into Consideration
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Windhoek - On Monday, 15 March, Namibia celebrated Consumer Rights Day. The country, finally, seems to be moving towards consumer legislation which will consider international instruments and examples (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ebonyi Communal Clash Claims More Lives
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Chinedu EzeLagos - The communal clash between the people of Ezillo clan who are the aborigines and the Ezza settlers over struggle for land has claimed four prominent people from Cross Rive State. (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hold It Steady - It is Not the Moment for MPC to Risk a Rate Cut
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - FORMER Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni always said there was no such thing as an easy interest rate decision, that every time the Bank's monetary policy committee (MPC) met, it had t (By News Poster)...Zim: Parly summonses diamond miners' directors
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Summons hand delivered by the police to the chairmen and directors of Mbada and Canadile By Own CorrespondentHarare - a special parliamentary committee investigating operations at Zimbabwe's c (By News Poster)...East Africa: EAC Discuss Harmonizing of Policies to Fight HIV/Aids
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Gashegu MuramiraKigali - Harmonization of policies in the fight against HIV/AIDS will lead to reduced infections in East Africa, activists have observed.The remarks were made yesterday at the openi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Transnet Shrugs Off Negative Ratings Outlook
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Artwell DlaminiJohannesburg - STANDARD & Poor's Ratings Services has revised the outlook on its Transnet rating to "negative", indicating that it may downgrade the parastatal.This could increase th (By News Poster)...East Africa: Herders Battle Poverty After Ugandan Forces Seize Cattle
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Mzee Lodou Chokaa, 72, is glued to his traditional seat, akaideke, at Napitiro relief camp in North Pokot District.Clad in an old brightly coloured shuka and a torn pair of shorts, he stares (By News Poster)...Africa: Mombasa Meeting to Discuss Banking Reforms
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Mark KapchangaNairobi - Africa's leading economists and policymakers converge in Mombasa on Monday to deliberate on how best the continent's commercial banks should be reformed amid concerns that t (By News Poster)...Kasukuwere Blasts Gono
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Chris MuronziINDIGENISATION and Empowerment minister Saviour Kasukuwere has slammed Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono for criticising government regulations compelling foreign sharehold (By News Poster)...South Africa: EU Trade Deal Talks Resume
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - Discussions on economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with the European Union (EU) were scheduled to resume next month in a bid to resolve outstanding issues that stal (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Warri Bomb Blast
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Lagos - At a time the nation is enjoying the relative peace in the Niger Delta, enthroned by the amnesty programme offered by the Federal Government last year, last week's bomb blasts in Warri were en (By News Poster)...Central African Republic: LRA Kill 10 in Fresh Attacks in CAR
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Charles Mwanguhya MpagiKampala - The Lord's Resistance Army now based in the Central African Republic are reported to have killed at least 10 people, injured more than 30 and abducted another estim (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Workers - Pengassan Gives 14-Day Ultimatum
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Linda ErokeLagos - Oil workers under the aegis of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), has issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government and its security (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Radicalisation of a Population
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Donu KogbaraLast week, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) planted a couple of car bombs in Warri on a day when a Vanguard Post-Amnesty Dialogue was due to take place.In a s (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Foodstuffs Dealers' Strike
Friday 26-Mar-2010: Lagos - THE recent warning strike by unions of food and cattle marketers in the northern part of the country, which affected Lagos and other parts of the South West region was so effective that it und (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Time for Mend to Mend Its Ways
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Godwin AdinduFor an individual, and even groups, there is always a time for critical self-examination. A time for thoughtful reflection and retrospection. This is a mandate that Socrates left for m (By News Poster)...South Africa: Inflation Rate Drops Within Target Range Ahead of Interest Rate Decision Tomorrow
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - The inflation rate has moved back within the Reserve Bank's target range of 3% to 6%.Inflation slowed to 5.7% year-on-year in February, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said this morn (By News Poster)...Namibia: Expensive 2010 World Cup Tickets - Tips to Cash in
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Francis XoagubWHEN assigned to pen down "something for Eewa!" for our Friday edition, I couldn't help but think about the World Cup in South Africa.I have been following the build-up to the soccer (By News Poster)...Zim relaunches food-for-work programmes
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Efforts to avert starvation due to massive crop failure By Lizwe SebathaBulawayo - Government has partnered Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to re-launch food-for-work programmes, days af (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe plans to relax security and media laws
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: At least 17 amendments to laws including the Public Order and Security Act By MacDonald DzirutweHarare - Zimbabwe's strict security and media laws criticised by opponents as undemocratic will (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gaddafi And Mark, Who's Mad?
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Ochereome NnannaTHE continued murder of innocent villagers by alleged band of roving Fulani janjaweed in Plateau State attracted the candid opinion of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi over the pas (By News Poster)...Rwanda: MININFRA - Geothermal and Wind Energy
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Kigali - Geothermal energy is the natural heat stored within the earth and visible on our earth's surface in the forms of fumaroles, hot springs, steaming grounds and altered grounds.To extract this e (By News Poster)...Uganda: South African Leader Opens Oil Chamber
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Francis Kagolo and Brenda AsiimweKampala - South African president Jacob Zuma has called on the business community to explore investment opportunities in the energy and mining sectors in Uganda thr (By News Poster)...Somalia: Mogadishu Braces for Govt's Military Offensive
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: The besieged Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia is planning to launch full scale its much-awaited offensive against the powerful insurgence in the coming week, sources told Radio Garowe. (By News Poster)...Ghana: Police Seize Arms Cache in North
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By William N-lanjerbor JalulahTHE NORTHERN Regional Police Command has refused to succumb to public pressure to name top politicians it claims were behind the recent cache of ammunitions seized from a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Senator Escapes Gun Attack in Oyo
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Ola AjayiBarely a month ago when two politicians were hacked down by yet to be identified assassins, another chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State, Senator Lekan Balogun, Tuesday n (By News Poster)...Finance Minister Warns on World Cup Price Spiral
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Wydham HartleyCape Town - Greedy service providers who were "unduly" inflating their prices in anticipation of a World Cup bonanza were sending a signal of exploitation to the wider world and doing (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 2011 - EFCC Boss Vows to Stop Fraudsters in Politics
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Yemi AkinsuyiAbuja - Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri, has vowed to expose fraudsters, thereby stopping them from contesting in the 2011 general e (By News Poster)...Africa: Ministers Promise Decade for African Science
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Linda Nordling and Maha AhmedCairo/Cape Town - African science ministers concluded a high-level meeting in Egypt last week by declaring 2011-2020 the "decade for science in Africa".The decision, ta (By News Poster)...Somalia: Landmine Blast Kills TFG Official in Mogadishu
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: Somalia - The district commissioner of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia for Hamar Jajab district in Mogadishu has been killed another officials injured after land mine blast targeted to (By News Poster)...Democratic Alliance Pursues Online Calls to Genocide by Blacks on White Africans
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: [These calls to EXTERMINATE Whites in Africa were made on Julius Malema's fan page, all while Malema himself continues to call for the genocide of Whites. Janolifant] The Democratic Alliance (DA) i (By JanOlifant)...The Land Grab is Not On
Friday 26-Mar-2010: NAMIBIA had hardly finished celebrating the anniversary of 20 years of independence when a land-grab happened on the outskirts of Katutura and in other areas. Land grabbing is simply not on, but the a (By News Poster)...Editorial: Ending the Pain in Zimbabwe
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - THE unity agreement brokered between Zimbabwe's main political rivals by former president Thabo Mbeki shortly before he was ousted can be considered to have succeeded in two important r (By News Poster)...Uganda: Zuma in Unity Rallying Call
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: Kampala - Visiting South African leader Jacob Zuma has challenged African leaders to work towards unifying the continent as key ingredient for development. Addressing a special sitting of Parliament, (By News Poster)...South Africa: Internet Users Warned to Watch Out for Scams During World Cup
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Thabiso MochikoJohannesburg - LOCAL online users have been warned to be aware of the possibility of increased cyber crime during this year's S occer World Cup.Between 2008 and last year, an estimat (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Seminar Opens on Future Economic Policies
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Namaacha - The deputy director of the Africa Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Johannes Mueller, on Monday criticized reliance on mega-projects, and called on the Mozambican authori (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Country Takes Steps to Combat Drug Trafficking and Corruption - UN Official
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Sierra Leone has made considerable progress in its efforts to combat the problems of illicit drug trafficking and corruption, but little has been done to implement programmes to create employment for (By News Poster)...Remember Our Friends
Monday 22-Mar-2010: WHEN someone recently bemoaned Namibia for being a democracy without democrats, I couldn't help thinking of an Africa without Africans. Not literally, of course. But while the 'African' drum is someth (By News Poster)...Africa: South Africa Eyes Uganda's Oilfields
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Emmanuel Gyezaho & Gerald BareebeKampala - President Jacob Zuma said yesterday that Uganda's recent discoveries of commercial oil reserves present new investment opportunities for South African com (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Circumcision Can Cut HIV Prevalence
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Hebert ZharareHarare - Zimbabwe can reduce HIV prevalence by between 35 and 50 percent if half of the three million sexually active male adults are circumcised.This was revealed recently in Kadoma (By News Poster)...Angola: South Africa Exchange Experience in War Veterans Matters
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Luanda - The South African deputy minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Thabang Makwetla, is since Tuesday in Luanda, for a three-day visit to Angola, to exchange experience with local authoritie (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Union in Bid to Boycott Air Zimbabwe Flights
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Takunda MaodzaHarare - THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions is plotting to institute an International Transport Workers' Federation boycott of Air Zimbabwe flights, a strategy the national carrier (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Biti Faces Prosecution Over Horror Crash
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Tangai ChipanguraFINANCE minister Tendai Biti who survived a horrific accident on Tuesday evening could be charged with negligent driving amid reports that preliminary police investigations show th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banks Battle With New Wave of Non-Performing Loans
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Babajide KomolafeBanks Are Battling With a New Wave of Non-performing loans occasioned by the ongoing credit freeze and slowdown in economic activities."Accounts that were performing before had bec (By News Poster)...Liberia: Bribes Deal Backfires On Fake Medical School
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: An American operator of a so-called St. Luke Medical School here has taken the government and several officials to court in the US, claiming they demanded bribes from to keep his medical school, found (By News Poster)...South Africa: Taxi Strike Strands Commuters, Chaos Ensues
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Cape Town - Roads into the city were gridlocked and thousands of commuters were left stranded on Tuesday morning as the National Taxi Alliance's (NTA) one-day strike kicked off.Golden Arrow buses were (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Nedbank Increases Stake in MBCA
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Harare - SOUTH Africa's Nedbank has raised its shareholding in MBCA Bank Limited from just under 50 percent last year to a controlling 74 percent.Senior Nedbank Capital Investment Banking official Tap (By News Poster)...West Africa: Project Teaches Farmers Organic Practices, Boosts Business
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Rebekah MintzerThe ever-growing popularity of organic foods has created a demand that smallholder farmers in developing nations can help satisfy. A recently concluded organic farming project by the (By News Poster)...The African Child Slave Trade: Run by Black Africans
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: This Easter, Britons will eat their way through 80m chocolate eggs without the slightest taste of how the essential ingredient in our favourite treat is harvested. The truth, as BBC Panorama report (By JanOlifant)...South Africa: Prospects for Growth Look Good for FNB
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - FIRSTRAND 's retail banking division, FNB, is positive about growth prospects over the next six months and said that impairments had stabilised.FNB Smart Solutions CEO Lin (By News Poster)...Africa: Infrastructure Consortium Virtual Working Group Negotiating African Power Projects
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: The African Development Bank (AfDB) Mozambique Office hosted Mozambican participants who took part in the first Virtual Power Working Group Meeting on infrastructure, whose theme was on negotiating ag (By News Poster)...Angola: Rebuilding by Demolishing - The Politics of National Reconstruction
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Sylvia Croese8 March marked the start of 'Operation Combat and Demolition of Shacks and Anarchic Constructions in the Municipality of Lubango', in the capital of the South Western province of Hui&s (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Distressed Economy Overburdened By Taxation
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Lagos - To Say that Nigeria's economy is presently distressed will amount to restating the obvious. Of course, the signs are everywhere. Infrastructure decay, lack of critical skills for business deve (By News Poster)...Zambia: The Great Shame of the Catholic Church
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Davis MatakaAS I fiddled with the remote control last week, surfing from one news channel to the other, my favourite pastime when I find the rare opportunity to be home with my family, I couldn't h (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Researchers Tout Large Scale Commercial Farming
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Finnigan Wa SimbeyeDar es Salaam - LOCAL and foreign researchers convened in Dar es Salaam last week to deliberate on Kilimo Kwanza initiative and, by the end of the two-day conference, they were c (By News Poster)...Ghana: Oil Revenue Consultations Lack Openness
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Civil society groups in the oil and gas industry have faulted the on-going consultations on the Draft Ghana Petroleum Revenue Management Bill, describing it as "speculative without any strong foundati (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Two Kidnapped NNPC Staff Found Dead
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Hamisu MuhammadThe bodies of the two kidnapped workers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Abubakar A. Malabu and Bashir Danjuma were recovered in the bush in Delta State on Satur (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Youth March Against Political Violence
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Lance GumaOver 500 MDC-T youths marched through the streets of Harare on Friday, demanding the arrest and prosecution of ZANU PF thugs who perpetrated acts of violence, murder, rape and arson in th (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Regional Armed Forces to Meet in Kigali Today
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Esther KiraboKigali - Armed forces from the five member states of the East African Community (EAC) are set to hold a three-day meeting, beginning today in Kigali.The conference aims at mainstreamin (By News Poster)...South Africa: Visible Government Curbs Violent Protests - Zuma
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Chris BathembuKempton Park - President Jacob Zuma says unless government officials are visible in communities where service delivery challenges are reported, violent protests will continue to plagu (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gov Obi - Homage to Soludo
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: By Michael IfeachoThe inaugural speech by Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State on March 17, 2010, marking his second term in office may be far from inspiring in terms of eloquence and visioning, but tw (By News Poster)...Senegal: Statement at the Conclusion of an IMF Mission to Senegal
Friday 26-Mar-2010: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, led by Norbert Funke, held discussions with the Senegalese authorities during March 11–25, 2010 for the 2010 Article IV consultation and to review S (By News Poster)...Central Africa: Gorillas Could Disappear in 15 Years, UN Agency Warns
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: Gorillas could disappear from large parts of the Greater Congo Basin in central Africa by the mid-2020s unless urgent action is taken to safeguard their habitats and counter poaching, a new report by (By News Poster)...Costs of Climate Change and Benefits of Fighting It
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Dr Rigmar OsterkampAn economist's point of viewThe following article is the third part of a series of four. The fourth and last article assesses the meager results of the recent Copenhagen Conferen (By News Poster)...Directors of mining firms finally testify in Zimbabwe parliament diamond probe
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Government's failure to receive more than token revenues from diamonds mined in the area Sandra Nyaira & Irwin ChiferaWashington - Directors of mining companies in partnership with the Zimbabw (By News Poster)...Zambia: Sata Was Jailed for Criminal Offence - Dingi
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: FORMER freedom fighter and retired veteran politician Dingswayo Banda has said Patriotic Front (PF) leader Michael Sata was allegedly jailed for a criminal offence and not political activities in 1960 (By News Poster)...Madagascar: Ending the Crisis
Monday 22-Mar-2010: To end Madagascar's crisis – which deepened with expiration of an Africa Union deadline on 16 March – the mediation should cease trying to implement a transitional power-sharing deal and i (By News Poster)...South Africa: Stop Harassing the Media - Zuma
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Nthambeleni GabaraPretoria - President Jacob Zuma has condemned the intimidation, harassment and suppression of the media in the country.Without mentioning names of structures or organisations usin (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: No Agreement Yet - President
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: By Sydney KawadzaHarare - Zanu-PF has not reached any agreement with the two MDC formations over "outstanding" Global Political Agreement issues and will not do so until the issue of sanctions is full (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Escapes From Top Security Prison
Friday 26-Mar-2010: Maputo - Three men awaiting trial on charges of armed robbery escaped from the Maputo top security prison in the early hours of Tuesday morning, reports Friday's issue of the independent daily "O Pais (By News Poster)...Africa: Local Sci-Fi Movie Spotlights African Film Industry
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Rachel PollockThe first Kenyan sci-fi film PUMZI screened at the Sundance film festival from 22 to 30 January. The film was part of the New Africa Cinema Program funded by Focus Features' Africa Fi (By News Poster)...Somalia: Al Shabaab Terrorist Not in Uganda - Army
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Steven CandiaKampala - SECURITY agencies yesterday dismissed reports that Hashi Hussein Farah, a terror suspect who disappeared from police custody in the Kenyan border town of Busia, is in Uganda. (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Catholics Launch Commercial Bank
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Swaum MustapherDar es Salaam - IN what looks like an attempt by religions to venture into businesses, the Roman Catholic Church in Tanzania officially launched its first ever commercial bank - Mkom (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: New Directors for RBZ Soon, Says Biti
Monday 22-Mar-2010: THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) will have a new board in the coming few weeks to formulate policy as part of reforms at the bank, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said on Friday. The RBZ has been opera (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Capacitate GMB to Pay Farmers On Time
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Harare - The new maize floor price of US$325 per tonne is a huge step towards making maize production attractive and subsequently ensuring food security.But the announcement is not enough because the (By News Poster)...South Africa Bans "Shoot The Boer" Song
Friday 26-Mar-2010: A South African High Court has ruled the song "Shoot The Boer," popularized by the ANC during its battle against National Party rule, is now illegal because it incites hate and violence against a part (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Nigeria: Electricity - the Long Walk to Darkness
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Abba Gana ShettimaOne of the greatest tragedies of Nigeria in its 50 years of independence is the monumental failure of leadership. As a matter of fact, the country's leadership has not only failed (By News Poster)...Liberia: Region Warned of Organized Crime, Youth Unemployment
Friday 26-Mar-2010: Organized transnational crime, youth unemployment, and bad governance over natural resources are some of the dangers now confronting West Africa in the absence of wars, ECOWAS' new head Victor Gbeho s (By News Poster)...Zim: Backstabbers
Friday 26-Mar-2010: It is the betrayals of the many by the few that irk us all the most CommentIn our series of viewpoints from African journalists, Zimbabwean filmmaker and columnist Farai Sevenzo warns Africa's (By News Poster)...Africa: Experts Consider Options in Rice Production
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: Dakar - The organizers of a week-long African Rice Congress in Bamako, capital of Mali, say African countries can decrease hunger and save millions of dollars if they wean themselves off rice imports (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The New Cabinet Nigerians Expect
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Omololu OgunmadeAlmost a week after Acting President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved the Executive Council of the Federation, some powerful elements have been reportedly mounting pressure on him to con (By News Poster)...Gunners' Bombshell
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Robson SharukoHarare - GIANT-KILLERS Gunners basking in the glory of their historic win over Al-Ahly on Saturday yesterday saluted the outpouring of nationalism, by thousands of local fans who back (By News Poster)...South Africa: Baby Among Dead After Fiery Crash
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Liam MosesSeven people, one of them a baby, were killed when a car travelling on the N1 towards Cape Town slammed into a barrier wall and caught alight.The crash occurred about 30km outside of Cape (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (27-03-2010)
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: Howzit "A group of armed officers from the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on Friday briefly detained Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) treasurer and deputy agriculture minister designate, Roy Be (By The BeardedMan)...Rebels Were Trained in the Country Without Taylor's Assistance
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Alpha SesaySierra Leonean rebel fighters were trained in Liberia but not with assistance from Charles Taylor, a defense witness for the former Liberian president told the Special Court for Sierra L (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nation's Silent Energy Crisis - the Way Forward
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Adeola Ijeoma EleriNigeria is experiencing a silent energy crisis. About 95 million Nigerians depend on wood for their daily cooking.Wood energy constitutes 90% of household energy use and today th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ghana to Ensure Oil Revenue Benefits the Masses
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Ejiofor AlikeLagos - As Ghana prepares to start crude oil production from its Jubilee deepwater oil field in the last quarter of 2010, the government has said it is determined to put measures in th (By News Poster)...Natives and the Vanished Dignity
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Job Shipululo AmupandaI am of a thinking that the African child of the 21st century is highly engulfed by 'Globalization' activities and cannot really hear the dogs barking as they see the EuroAsia (By News Poster)...Opulent casino opens as Zimbabwe faces massive hunger
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Most would bet that the cash injection is linked to the Chiadzwa diamond fields By Alex BellAs the country faces the bleak prospect of more food shortages, an opulent casino, bankrolled by Min (By News Poster)...Africa: Cotton Producers Boosted by Brazilian Challenge to U.S.
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Isolda AgazziGeneva - African cotton-producing countries hope that Brazil's intended retaliation after its success at the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) dispute settlement body will have a positi (By News Poster)...Council Vehicles Impounded
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Harare - THE 4x4 twin-cab bought by the Harare City Council for Mayoress Mrs Fikile Masunda has been impounded on allegations that its importers evaded tax and that it could be a stolen vehicle.The Zi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Media Commission Finally Begins Work
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe chairman of the Zimbabwe Media Commission, Godfrey Majonga, on Friday pledged that his new board will move with speed to license new independent newspapers, television and radio (By News Poster)...Sudan: Terror Train Turns the Corner
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Wau - During wartime, trains heading south to this former garrison town used to deliver violence and terror; now they are bringing lower prices.The first two trains in about a decade arrived in the so (By News Poster)...No Room for Racism at World Cup, Says UN Chief
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Marking the 50th anniversary of the massacre of protesters taking a peaceful stand against apartheid in South Africa, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that there is "no room for racist and xen (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kasubi Rumours Anger Museveni
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Cyprian MusokeKampala - PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has vehemently denied rumours that the Government is responsible for burning down the Kasubi tombs.Addressing a press conference at State House Ent (By News Poster)...Somalia: Relatives' Agony Over Seamen Held By Pirates
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Gitonga MareteNairobi - When Eugene Onalo bid his wife Millicent Nelima goodbye last November, she was in high spirits and had a lot of expectations. Mr Onalo was leaving for a fishing expedition a (By News Poster)...Somalia: Gunmen Kill Al-Shabaab Commander in Kismayo
Monday 22-Mar-2010: An Al-Shabaab sebior commander was reportedly killed in the port city of Kismayo in Somalia's southern lower Jubba region, officials said on Saturday.The commander named Sheikh Daud Ali Hassan was sho (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Two More MDC Arrests
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: By Violet GondaThe human rights group Restoration for Human Rights (ROHR) has criticized Bindura police for going on a witch-hunt for MDC supporters.The pressure group said two MDC members were arrest (By News Poster)...Rwanda: BNR Slashes Policy Rate By 0.5 Percent
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Gertrude MajyambereKigali - The Central Bank has lowered its key repo rate- the rate at which it lends to commercial banks by 0.5 percentage points from 7.5 percent to 7 percent to help local lende (By News Poster)...South Africa: Researchers Design New Model for HIV Data
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Lesley OdendalResearchers are designing a new model for determining the demographic impact of HIV and AIDS in South Africa.Modelers Leigh Johnson of the Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology a (By News Poster)...Uganda: Local Oil Deals - Where is the Truth?
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Morris Ogenga LatigoSince it emerged in late 2009 that Tullow Oil was selling its interests in Uganda, statements have been made on oil to reassure, entice and even confuse ordinary Ugandans. The o (By News Poster)...Zim: RBZ properties go under the hammer
Monday 22-Mar-2010: An embarrassing end to Gono's quasi-fiscal operations By Caroline MvunduraHarare - Auctioneers on Friday flogged off property including beds, DSTV decoders, bedroom suits, vehicles and refrige (By News Poster)...Whyte Heads for Kenya
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Collin MatizaHarare - JAMIE WHYTE, the reigning African motor rallying champion, will continue with his defence of the African Rally Championship when he competes in the tough Safari Rally of Kenya (By News Poster)...Land Grab Could Cause Anarchy - Windhoek Mayor
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Denver Kisting and Jo-MarÉ DuddyFREEDOM and independence should not be reduced to anarchy through unlawful acts such as illegal land occupation, Windhoek Mayor Matheus Shikongo has said, warning il (By News Poster)...Two Rapes, Murders in Maltahöhe District
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Luqman CloetePOLICE in the Hardap Region have launched a manhunt after a 20-year-old woman was raped and stabbed to death in her farmhouse.The incident happened at the farm Dassiefontein in the Mal (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Fuel Prices Rise
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican government on Tuesday announced the first rise in the prices of liquid fuels for over a year.After the weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers (cabinet), Energy Minister Sal (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ministerial Nominees Get Assets Declaration Forms
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Adetutu Folasade-KoyiAbuja - MINISTERIAL nominees, old and new, were on Monday sent assets declaration forms by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), preparatory to their names being forwarded to the S (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Man Loses U.S.$15,000 Vehicle to Robbers
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Harare - A Harare man lost a vehicle worth over US$15 000 to two armed robbers he had offered a lift to the city from Chegutu last week.The man was on his way from Gokwe driving an Isuzu ELF on Thursd (By News Poster)...Malawi: Gay Couple to Go on Trial
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Claire NgozoBlantyre - Two men who married each other in a traditional engagement ceremony will have to undergo trial and face years of imprisonment if found guilty of having a homosexual relations (By News Poster)...Zim: Gallery manager and artist arrested over Gukurahundi exhibition
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: Difficult to confiscate some of the images By Violet GondaA well known artist Owen Maseko and Voti Thebe, the person in charge of the Bulawayo National Arts Gallery, were arrested on Friday, a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Seizure of Malaysian-Owned Land Stands, says High Court
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Alex BellThe High Court has ruled against investors from Malaysia in a dispute over an invaded property, in a move that will further sour diplomatic relations between the two countries.Malaysian au (By News Poster)...Nigeria/South Africa: Kidjo, Mahlasela, Others to Perform At Pre-World Cup Concert in SA
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Victor NzeLagos - Control Room, the world's leading producer of global music events, and FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), the international governing body of (By News Poster)...Kenya: Imperial Profits Increase by 19 Percent
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: Small-tier commercial banks continued to outshine larger peers as Imperial Bank recorded a 19 per cent rise in pre-tax profits last year.Imperial Bank announced a pre-tax profit of Sh802 million for t (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: New Dam 'Catastrophic' for Kenyan Environment
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Susan Anyangu-AmuNairobi - Gideon Lepalo describes growing up in Loiyangalani, 20 kilometres from Lake Turkana, as magical. However, he fears the building of Gilgel Gibe III dam in Ethiopia, upstre (By News Poster)...Uganda: Government Didn't Torch Tombs - Museveni
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Tabu ButagiraEntebbe - President Museveni yesterday said his government never torched Kasubi tombs as is being "whispered" and warned those propagating such "wicked and slanderous lies" of dire con (By News Poster)...Joina City - Commercial Hub of Harare
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Harare - JOINA City aims to provide a complete shopping experience and -- with planned development of neighbouring properties -- become the nucleus of the new commercial hub for central Harare.And it (By News Poster)...Central Africa: BEAC Predicts 4.4 % Growth Rate in 2010
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Godlove BainkongMembers of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee held their first ordinary session for the year last Friday.The Bank of Central African States (BEAC) has said that there are visible, (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Woman (59) Buries Foetuses in Maize Field
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Freeman RazembaHarare - A 59-YEAR-OLD Chitungwiza woman has been arrested after she was found burying two male foetuses in a maize field.The mother or mothers are yet to be identified.Since her arr (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Gallery Manager and Artist Arrested over Politically-Charged Exhibit
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Violet GondaA well known artist Owen Maseko and Voti Thebe, the person in charge of the Bulawayo National Arts Gallery, were arrested on Friday, a day after they launched an exhibition of provocati (By News Poster)...Zambia: Minister Orders Arms Probe
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: HOME Affairs Minister Lameck Mangani has ordered the police to investigate the proliferation of firearms in Sinazongwe District in Southern Province.The firearms are reported to have been buried in th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Longe - First Bank Weighs Options, May Pay N1.5 Billion
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Lagos - Official disquiet may continue to hang around the recent landmark judgement delivered by the Supreme Court nullifying the dismissal Mr. Bernard Longe, former managing director of First Bank of (By News Poster)...Nigeria: New Questions Over Electoral Reform
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Onwuka NzeshiAbuja - As the tenure of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Prof. Maurice Iwu, expires in June, fresh posers are being raised over the key pillar of elector (By News Poster)...Uganda: 300 Manafwa Families Flee Imminent Landslides
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Daniel EdyeguKampala - Over 300 families residing on the mountainous parts of Manafwa district have fled their homes due to the emergence of cracks in the ground, signaling an imminent recurrence o (By News Poster)...Madagascar: African Union Imposes Sanctions
Monday 22-Mar-2010: The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU), at its 221st meeting held on 17 March 2010, received a briefing from the Commission, as well as from the Representatives of the Southern (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Party Forces Indigenisation Rules Change
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Vusumuzi SifileHarare - YOUTH Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Minister, Saviour Kasukuwere has been forced to revise close to a dozen provisions of his controversial empowerment regulat (By News Poster)...Africa: Organizations Work Towards Solving Global Water Crisis While Celebrating World Water Day 2010
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: By MediaglobalWorld Water Day 2010 was celebrated around the world on 22 March, and still holds significance since its inception in 1992. An estimated 4,000 children still die every single day from pr (By News Poster)...African Economies Should Unite - Zuma
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has called on the developing world, to work together to find innovative ways to advance an alternative economic order that supports development.Addressing the Ugandan p (By News Poster)...South Africa: Businessmen Saves Freedom Charter At London Auction
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Julius BaumannJohannesburg - A GROUP of South African businessmen has stepped in at the last minute to assist the government to save some of the country's national treasures, including the African (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Many Faces of Ribadu
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Austin ObohLagos - The United States Government gave a damning report of Nigeria's anti-corruption crusade on Thursday last week in a general report on human rights in the country.The report declar (By News Poster)...Sam Mtukudzi - the Last Word
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Alexander KanengoniHarare - The outpouring of grief by the public over the tragic death of Sam Mtukudzi in a car crash last week might have subsided but his family, especially the father, Oliver, i (By News Poster)...South Africa: Investec Fund Buys OK Zimbabwe Stake
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - INVESTEC Asset Management's Africa Frontier Private Equity Fund is finalising a private equity investment for a 10%-20% stake in OK Zimbabwe, the second-largest supermarke (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Solar Electricity is a Revolution , Owelle
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Ebele OrakpoIt is often said and rightly too, that little drops of water make a mighty ocean and it has been proved time and time again that economies of nations are made great through the efforts (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: PM Keen to See Emerging Bond Market
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Tamar K. GiorgisDissatisfied with an apparent absence of competition in the banking industry to the disadvantage of depositors, the Federal Government is planning to introduce what experts say coul (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Frelimo Backs MDM Parliamentary Group
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Maputo - The Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), the country's second largest opposition force, is now certain to form an officially recognised parliamentary group, after the ruling Frelimo Party on (By News Poster)...West Africa: Ministers Adopt Plan for Implementation of the Ecowas Convention On Small Arms Nigeria, Call for Ratification By All Member States
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Abuja - ECOWAS ministers responsible for Defence and Security on Wednesday, 17th March 2010 adopted a five-year Plan of Action for the Implementation of the ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light W (By News Poster)...Kenya: Militia Faction Disowns Somalia Peace Pact
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Doubts surround a recent pact with a militia faction aimed at consolidating the power of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia after a section of the militia leadership disowned the (By News Poster)...UZ Law Faculty Slams Chinamasa
Sunday 28-Mar-2010: By Moses MatengaTHE Law faculty at the University of Zimbabwe yesterday attacked Justice minister Patrick Chinamasa for making ridiculous claims that they are producing half-baked lawyers.Chinamasa la (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: U.S. Lawmakers Concerned Over Political Conditions in Ethiopia
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: By Jim Fisher-ThompsonKey U.S. lawmakers, both Democratic and Republican, have expressed concern for political conditions in Ethiopia, citing authoritarian tendencies by its government as well as huma (By News Poster)...South Africa: Local Car Makers Worried about Electricity and Steel Prices
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: By Artwell DlaminiJohannesburg - CAR makers warned yesterday that high costs threatened SA's position as an automotive manufacturing base, with electricity hikes kicking in next week and the dispute i (By News Poster)...Uganda: Famine Threatens Nearly One Million in North
Friday 26-Mar-2010: Nairobi - At least 900,000 people in Karamoja, northeastern Uganda, are facing severe food insecurity due to four consecutive years of failed rains and poor harvests, says the Famine Early Warning Sys (By News Poster)...South Africa: Minister Launches Major Testing Campaign
Friday 26-Mar-2010: We are ready to tackle HIV and AIDS! That was the gist of Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi's address today (25 March) when he announced plans for a massive national HIV counseling and testing campa (By News Poster)...Water And Food Security Inextricably Linked
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Joaquim ChissanoMONDAY marked World Water Day, and I am personally endorsing a report by African scientists that examines our continent's water resources and calls for our political leaders to work (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zimbabwe Says No to Engen Buying Assets
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - THE Zimbabwean government has scuppered Engen Petroleum's plans to acquire petroleum assets in the country.The deal is the first to be barred under controversial new le (By News Poster)...Uganda: West Nile Battles Power Thefts
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Frank MugabiKampala - The West Nile Rural Electrification Company (WENRECO) has launched an operation to curb illegal power connections in Arua. Fabian Ahaisibwe, the regional manager, said a numbe (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Controversy Trails List of Ministers
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Malachy Uzendu, Abiodun Adelaja and Alphonsus NwezeAbuja/Onitsha - Mixed reactions yesterday trailed the list of ministerial nominees submitted to the Senate by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan. (By News Poster)...Uganda: Pastor Killed in Kabarole
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Hope MafarangaKampala - A self-proclaimed prophet in Kabarole district was on Monday morning found dead. Eric Eyahura's body was dumped in Wamigani swamp near his farm in Mirongo village, Kichwamba (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Foodstuff Dealers' Strike
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: For about a fortnight now, patrons of Lagos foodstuff markets have been going through harrowing experiences occasioned by the strike embarked upon by suppliers of foodstuff from the northern part of t (By News Poster)...East Africa: Tullow Oil Says Keen to Expand in East Africa
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Nairobi - Encouraged by an oil find in western Uganda, London-based petroleum explorer Tullow Oil is keen to expand exploration in other parts of east Africa, a senior company official said.The firm w (By News Poster)...Africa: India to Boost Agricultural Technology Cooperation
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Papri Sri RamanChennai - Africa and India will boost cooperation in agricultural technologies for smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a view to achieving food security by 2015.The Hyder (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Meeting Discusses SADC ICT Development
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Harare - Information communication technology experts from across the Sadc region yesterday began a five-day meeting in Victoria Falls to discuss issues related to the development of information and c (By News Poster)...IMF: Zim central bank needs reform
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Downsize its operations Harare - Governance at Zimbabwe's central bank must be strengthened and its role refocused after the country abandoned its local currency, the International Monetary Fu (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Harare's CBD Needs Major Facelift
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Harare - Unlike central Johannesburg, crime is not the big problem. In fact, the city centre has very little crime and many work or visit the city centre daily for years without seeing any crime, let (By News Poster)...IMPORTANT: SECESSION: Nigeria: Gaddafi's Call for Christian-Muslim Split Denounced - REMEMBER BIAFRA
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: [I have been saying for a long time that many countries in Africa need to be split because of tribal problems. Tribalism is NOT UNNATURAL. Tribalism IS NATURAL and black people have every right to wan (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe's power utility debts surge to $100m
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Recovering between 65% and 70% of billing Harare - Zimbabwe's state-run power utility firm owes other regional electricity suppliers $100-million as it struggles to recover debts from local cu (By News Poster)...Uganda: Six Suspects Who Could Have Burned Down Kasubi
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By O. Kalinge-NnyagoThe past three weeks have been particularly stressful for everybody, not least to Uganda's President. The burning of Buganda's royal tombs, his visit to the desecrated compound ful (By News Poster)...Uganda: Terrorism Suspect Needs to Be Found
Friday 26-Mar-2010: Kampala - Had it not been for the arrest and trial of two Kenyan businessmen in the border town Busia, Uganda would never have known about the presence of a wanted international terrorist in the regio (By News Poster)...South Africa: Education for Prisoners?
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: Cape Town - Correctional Services Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has hinted at the possible introduction of an exclusive educational facility for prisoners.She said this in parliament on Thursday af (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cabinet Reads Riot Act on Violent Protests
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: Pretoria - Cabinet has condemned violent service delivery protests and called on communities to behave responsibly as the latest wave hit Mamelodi in Pretoria this week.This year has seen renewed prot (By News Poster)...South Africa: Activists Alarmed at Ugandan Moves
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) says it is concerned about "inhuman and homophobic legislation" being debated in Uganda, which could see homosexuality criminalised and punished with death.The orga (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Canadile Wants More Land At Chiadzwa
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Harare - One of the companies mining diamonds in Chiadzwa requires more land for it to inject the US$100 million investment it agreed with Government.Canadile Miners chairperson Mr Cougan Matanhire sa (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SADC Sets Up Technical Team to Assist Govt
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Harare - SADC Troika chairperson President Armando Emilio Guebuza of Mozambique has announced the establishment of a "technical team" to assist the inclusive Government.Speaking to Mozambican journali (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Arrest Warrants Issued for Kayumba and Karegyeya
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Our ReporterKigali - A highly placed source in the Prosecutor General's office has revealed to The New Times that the government has issued international arrest warrants against Lt. Gen. Kayumba Ny (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zimrights Director Arrested
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Violet GondaZimrights National Director and board member of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, Okay Machisa, was arrested and later released by Harare police on Tuesday as reports of arrests of r (By News Poster)...Africa: Weak Laws Put Continent at Risk of Bioterrorism, Say Experts
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Nairobi - As more African countries adopt biotechnology in a bid to increase agricultural production, weak biosafety laws threaten to erode the gains made in the sector.Concerns are emerging that unsc (By News Poster)...Kenya: Terror Suspect Might Have Fled to Uganda
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Nairobi - A terror suspect who escaped from police custody in Busia is believed to have fled to Uganda, while three police officers suspected to have let him escape have been suspended.Mr Hashi Hussei (By News Poster)...NNFU Wants Solution to Sheep Exports
Monday 22-Mar-2010: THE Namibian National Farmers' Union (NNFU) has called on Government to find a solution to live sheep exports, which have been limited for the last six years.The NNFU, through the Livestock Producers' (By News Poster)...Kenya: Sh27 Billion Arms Purchase Queried
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Dominic WabalaNairobi - The government was on Sunday on the spot over its massive expenditure on military hardware. A whopping Sh27 billion ($348 million) was used to buy combat aircraft, helicopte (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Niger Delta - Youth Leader Raises Alarm Over Militants' Threat
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Emma ArubiWarri - THE National Coordinator of Niger Delta Re-orientation Project, Mr. Sheriff Mulade, has raised alarm over threat to his life and those of his family members by some former militan (By News Poster)...Uganda: Boda Boda Cyclists; Riding Over Politics And Death
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Andrew BagalaKampala - A few minutes after midnight recently, Simon Mutagubya, a boda boda cyclist operating at Nakivubo Blue in the city centre, was approached by a passenger giving him a good bus (By News Poster)...South Africa: Acting President Warns on Violent Protests
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Johannesburg - South Africa should strive to improve the lives of its citizens as part of the freedom it is now enjoying, acting President Kgalema Motlanthe told hundreds gathered for the main Human R (By News Poster)...South Africa: Country United Behind HIV/Aids Campaign
Friday 26-Mar-2010: By Gabi KhumaloJohannesburg - The healthcare sector and South Africans from all walks of life have rallied behind the country's biggest ever HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign to be launched o (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banking Reforms - CBN Would Face Odds, Says Economist
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: The planned reversal of the universal banking structure by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to give rise to many banks would lead to disappointments, a professor of economics at the University of Mai (By News Poster)...Rudd Digs in On Nuclear Power
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Ben SharplesJohannesburg - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said in Canberra yesterday that Australia, which holds the world's biggest known uranium resources, had ruled out reversing government policy op (By News Poster)...Niger: Health Centres Bracing for Malnutrition Surge
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Niamey/Zinder - Most government health centres in Niger are ill-equipped to absorb the expected influx of malnourished children, according to the Ministry of Health.The government estimates at least 2 (By News Poster)...Opulent Casino Opens as Country Faces Massive Hunger
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Alex BellAs the country faces the bleak prospect of more food shortages, an opulent casino, bankrolled by Mines Minister Obert Mpofu, has opened to satisfy the needs of the wealthy minority.The cas (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ex-Militants Protest in Edo
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Vincent EgunyangaBenin - Ex-militants in Edo State yesterday staged a protest, disrupting economic activities in Benin for over seven hours. The militants blocked major streets in the state capital (By News Poster)...Africa: Chissano Calls On Politicians, Scientists to Co-operate Over Water
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Joaquim ChissanoThis week marks World Water Day, and I am personally endorsing a report by African scientists that examines our continent’s water resources and calls for our political leaders (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC-T Councillors Seize Two Glen Norah Houses
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Felex ShareHarare - TWO MDC-T councillors in Glen Norah have evicted two families from the houses they have been living in since 1972.It is believed the councillors clandestinely changed ownership (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Corrupt Sacked Ministers to Face EFCC
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Cosmas Ekpunobi And Tony AilemenLagos - Ministers sacked Wednesday who were engrossed in corrupt practices may soon be made to account for their actions as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commis (By News Poster)...Kenya: Gaps in HIV Prevention for Pregnant Women
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Kisumu/Nairobi - Adhiambo*, 24, conscientiously followed her health worker's advice when she was pregnant with her third child. She attended antenatal visits, was tested for HIV and found negative, an (By News Poster)...Nigeria: N4.5 Billion Scam - EFCC Declares Bayelsa Finance Commissioner Wanted
Friday 26-Mar-2010: Lagos - Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday declared the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Finance, Dr. Sylva Opuala-Charles, wanted over alleged graft involving N4.5billion.He has (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ekiti Targets 2,000 Hectares for Crops, Empowers 250
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: By Yaqoub PopoolaAdo-Ekiti - Ekiti State government is targeting about 2,000 hectares of farm land across the state for massive production of cash crops within four years.Governor Segun Oni disclosed (By News Poster)...Zim: GPA talks resume today – Gumbo
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: "No agreements were reached during President Zuma's visit" Herald ReporterThe Zanu PF Politburo met in Harare yesterday and received a briefing from one of the party's negotiators and Justice (By News Poster)...[Graph] My Technical Indicator: Gold comes crashing down through the Head & Shoulders formation I warned about...
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: I mentioned 3 days ago that Gold is forming a head-and-shoulders and it looks like a short sharp fall is in progress now. See the graph below:- (Photo) If you look at today's Gold chart you'll (By Jan)...Kenya: Eyes on Avocado as Coffee Cash Crop Fortunes Tumble
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Nairobi - In the highly rated agricultural region of Central Kenya, coffee and tea have for long been the main cash crops and high income earners. But the upheavals that have afflicted these crops, an (By News Poster)...S.Africa: My Software Invention goes in at my work... 100% jump in productivity above Microsoft Outlook...
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: Hi All, I thought I'd tell you about a bit of what I've done. Actually, in the last 6 months I have worked harder than any time in my entire life, and the amount of work I did (sadly not related t (By Jan)...South Africa: Government Strategic Input 'Vital for Pebble Bed Reactor'
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Linda EnsorJohannesburg - The strategic support of the government would be vital for the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) to secure funding for its business model and benefit from the R9bn already (By News Poster)...Govt to Speed Up Land Reform
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE Ministry of Lands and Resettlement is concerned about the seemingly slow pace at which land is acquired for resettlement, especially in the past year."The Ministry has experien (By News Poster)...Kenya: Kenyan Farmers Get Micro-Insurance
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: By Ochieng' OgodoNairobi - Kenyan smallholders are 'micro-insuring' themselves against crop losses under a scheme launched this month (5 March) that combines mobile phone payment with the use of autom (By News Poster)...Capital, power woes threaten Zimbabwe mining recovery
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Uncertainty over empowerment laws keeping investors away Harare - Electricity shortages and lack of access to capital is threatening the recovery of Zimbabwe's key mining sector, while uncerta (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Statement at the Conclusion of an IMF Staff Visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Mr. Brian Ames visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo between March 2-20, 2010, to conduct the first review of the Extended Credit Facility (E (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Okonkwo, Aighalua Decry Jos Massacre
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Sam EyobokaPRESIDING bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission, TREM, Dr. Mike Okonkwo and the president of God's Kingdom Society, GKS, Brother Emmanuel Aighalua are the latest Christian clerics t (By News Poster)...Kenya: Flower Farms Put Govt on the Spot over Law on Pollution
Monday 22-Mar-2010: By Catherine RiunguNairobi - Although flower farms have exonerated themselves from blame for poisoning Lake Naivasha, the law governing environmental principles for the lake basin remains largely igno (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Botswana Ready to Unlock U.S.$70 Million Credit Line
Friday 26-Mar-2010: Harare - THE government of Botswana is ready to release a US$70 million line of credit it promised Zimbabwe as part of Sadc support to the inclusive Government.The money will be used to finance econom (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (25-03-2010)
Thursday 25-Mar-2010: Howzit Anyone who has lived in Zimbabwe will know all about OK Bazaar - it is part of the furniture in that country. "Investec Asset Management's Africa Frontier Private Equity Fund is finalisin (By The BeardedMan)...Communism is a simple and dangerous idea that is easily taught to the stupid....
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: [I was browsing some books I want to buy when I came across this fascinating book review. Some people write such beautiful book reviews on Amazon, that are based on deep thought and knowledge. Com (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (28-03-2010)
Sunday 28-Mar-2010: Howzit Today is the first day of British Summer Time and the clocks have moved forward an hour, which means that we are now two hours ahead of Zimbabwe. And would you believe that this morning w (By The BeardedMan)...Stop the Murder of Farmers
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: [This is from a Dutch website, which is excellent seeing that the Dutch are becoming more and more aware of the real agenda, and fed-up with the situation they find themselves in, and that of their fe (By JanOlifant)...Nigeria: Don't Arm the Civil Defence Corps
Friday 26-Mar-2010: If recent media reports are anything to go by, the federal government may soon provide arms to personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).We believe that this will be a mistake, (By News Poster)...[Humour] [Joke] S.Africa: 2010 - The Political Joke of the day...
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: [Yep, true! Jan] Jacob Zuma, Shabir Shaik and Julius Malema are flying in the Presidential jet to a gathering in Cape Town when Shaik turns to Zuma and says, chuckling, "You know, I could throw a (By Jan)...Humor: Race Card: a Race to Your Defence
Saturday 27-Mar-2010: [Funny, yet bordering on the line of reality and humor...Janolifant] (By JanOlifant)...Science: NASA: The Bizarre Multiplying Mystery of Moonwater
Wednesday 24-Mar-2010: [Take a look at the surprises scientists are getting on the moon! Jan] NASA Science News for March 18, 2010 Researchers who once confidently stated that the Moon was bone-dry are now thinking th (By Jan)...[Graph] Ouch! My Technical Indicators: Is Gold building a Head-and-Shoulders formation for a sharp fall?
Monday 22-Mar-2010: I forgot to mention when I wrote the previous piece that if you look carefully at Gold now, it is forming a pretty perfect looking Head-and-Shoulders formation which normally precedes a sharp fall. Fo (By Jan)...Take Note: I will be appearing on the Jeff Rense show on Tuesday with a Marine Officer to discuss Obama...
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Just a quick note everyone:- NB: Please take note, I've just spoken to Jeff Rense. I will be appearing on Jeff Rense's show with a former Marine officer, Joseph Smith, who served in Vietnam and lat (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (23-03-2010)
Tuesday 23-Mar-2010: Howzit Normally, I would allow this sort of story to accrue with others of its ilk and report on them at the weekend, but as today is relatively quiet and the story is repugnant, I thought it best (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (22-03-2010)
Monday 22-Mar-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- "The UK foreign office has come under fire after shelling out £27 million on a swanky new embassy in Zimbabwe at a time when relations with (By The BeardedMan)...
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