From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 2nd May 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 & GruesomeS.Africa: Julius Malema's: Kill the Boer & murder of Eugene Terreblanche has REALLY galvanised whites & Afrikaners LIKE NEVER BEFORE...
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: I sure wish I had more time to read certain books. There is so much to read and learn if only one can make the time. I am not one who likes to claim I've seen a trend just for the sake of pretendin (By Jan)...S.Africa: 2010 - Total SHOCKER: 42% of Black youths want to flee SA - only 33% of Whites & Indians want to...
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: [Check out this stunning article from THE SUNDAY TIMES of South Africa. As I pointed out with Zimbabwe, Liberal Western theory there failed. Liberal Western theory of society goes like this: "The M (By Jan)...S.Africa: President Jacob Zuma wipes his bum on the Farmers who want to meet him...
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: I hear that so far the President has not responded in any way at all to the Transvaal Agricultural Union's request to meet him. We have mentioned that little if anything may happen to Julius Malema (By Jan)...S.Africa: 2010: Afrikaners & Other whites need to reach out to other European countries...
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Just a quick one. I currently have a hush hush project on the go. Details can't be given. But... I think Whites should give serious thought to establishing links - AT GRASS ROOTS LEVELS ... to (By Jan)...South Africa: Gunning for White Farmers - President Zuma tries to lie about his Mugabe-like moves on the Land: He says: Constitution Not Under Threat
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: [Hidden inside this article is something really important. The DA and the ID say that the ANC is intending violating the constitution. But hidden away in all this is Zuma's statement that the (By News Poster)...Africa & America: VIOLENCE & ANGER DOES WORK! Black Leftists know it... WHITES HAVE TO RE-LEARN IT...
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: White people have forgotten lessons and have become so "intellectual" that the think violence no longer works. Violence is subtle. People who are ignorant think that violence and its use is gross/ (By Jan)...What American President Richard Nixon knew about the ANC's plans for Whites in South Africa...
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: I want to show you that the West does know a lot more about the ANC than they're letting on. The last book Richard Nixon wrote before he died was "The Real War". I quoted him in Government by Dece (By Jan)...S.Africa & Zimbabwe: Born to Surrender: The Sissified, wussified Black Middle Class Cowards the West hoped would fight Communism... ALL RUN AWAY...
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: I want to refer to an article I posted earlier today: S.Africa: 2010 - Total SHOCKER: 42% of Black youths want to flee SA - only 33% of Whites & Indians want to... When the Western world was busy u (By Jan)...My Technical Indicator: Jim Willie: The Devaluation of the U.S. Dollar, Gold's Springboard
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: The need is urgent. The recognition is broad. Supply & Demand of American debt paper demand price adjustment. The USGovt avoids the topic like the plague. The billboard fact of the matter, as USCongre (By Jan)...Scottish Newspaper in 2010 says: Is South Africa turning into Zimbabwe? Black man says: 10 years & we'll be Zimbabwe...
Monday 26-Apr-2010: [The short answer is: Yes! I predicted it in my book, Government by Deception (2001), but so too did many whites long before that. Its here, its now, its happening. A whole cesspool of a mess is comin (By Jan)...Sudan: No Easy Ways Ahead
Monday 26-Apr-2010: Washington, DC - "A vote for secession [in the 2011 referendum] is a foregone conclusion - given overwhelming Southern popular sentiment - but the time remaining to ensure that the process is orderly, (By News Poster)...USA: White people must die... the Left LOVE IT. A White Supremacist is murdered & deserved it, like Eugene Terreblanche did...
Monday 26-Apr-2010: [This is a fascinating article from the PoliticalCessPool radio show. I got it from David whom I have known in the USA since 1992. He was chatting to someone who seems to have a radio show. I'll get (By Jan)...New Mandela Letters Show Waste, Corruption
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: A cache of newly-found letters, reports, and confidential journals from former South African president Nelson Mandela highlight the pandemic waste and corruption surrounding his ruling ANC-party. T (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...[Pic] S.Africa: 2010 FIFA World cup - preparing for it... by striking & trashing the streets of Johannesburg...
Monday 26-Apr-2010: [This photo is doing the rounds among South Africans with the caption below. Take note that for the last 2+ weeks, and I don't know if it will be for 3 weeks now... all rubbish dumps in South Africa a (By Jan)...S.Africa: NEW BOOK: Boerejode - Jews in the Boer Armed Forces 1899-1902 - To be launched: 6th May
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: [Here is a new book that has just come out. A friend of mine actually invited me to the synagogue where this will be launched, but I'm too busy to attend. I asked him to buy me a copy of the book and (By Jan)...Holland: HELP! White South African family has petitioned popular local right-wing politician Geert Wilders
Monday 26-Apr-2010: [Geert Wilders is the brave Dutch guy who stood up and exposed the evil of Islam. This is a very nice development. I hope this brave Dutch man can help and can also speak out about our situation. Jan] (By Jan)...Sudan: Flawed Elections Underscore Need for Justice - Country's President Should Be in the Hague Facing Charges Against Him
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Political repression and human rights abuses across Sudan - in addition to widespread logistical failures and technical irregularities - marred Sudan's first multi-party elections in more than 20 year (By News Poster)...South Africa: Eskom
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Paul HoffmanJohannesburg - THERE was a considerable flurry in the dovecote of Parliament when Democratic Alliance MP Pieter van Dalen arrived at an energy select committee hearing concerning Eskom (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Media bias against Whites - Letter to Editor of Rapport re: Right Wing Revenge attack for Eugene Terreblanche
Monday 26-Apr-2010: [An afrikaans friend of mine wrote this letter to the Editor of Rapport. She sent me a copy of it, translated in english because she doubts Rapport will print it. Julie socked it to them! See belo (By Jan)...[14 Pics] Hillarious: The visit of South African President to England to meet Queen Elizabeth...
Monday 26-Apr-2010: [This is totally hillarious. I don't know who did it but it alludes to President Jacob Zuma's sexual excesses. The black woman with Zuma is one of his several wives. The comment about "I've had a s (By Jan)...S.Africa: News for later: ANC is extremely cross with me - ANC Super-corruption is VERY TRUE... Jacob Zuma... Assassination of Eugene Terreblanche - New ANC strategy to go after Farms - Die Beeld's editor agrees with me... - COPE falling apart
Sunday 02-May-2010: I have been a bit out of action the last 2 days, just attending to other issues and to my life. This is the last day of my leave. I'm still tweaking and debugging and improving a most sophisticate (By Jan)...South Africa: Sewage Treatment 'Unacceptable'
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Jocelyn NewmarchJohannesburg - INADEQUATE sewage treatment is putting ecosystems at risk, causing headaches for farmers, and may be damaging the health of poor rural communities, a government repor (By News Poster)...S.Africa: People forget the role Whites played in bringing success to Blacks in Africa - Can I make black computer programmers super-successful? How Jani Allan & I nearly kicked the ANC's ass...
Sunday 02-May-2010: In these modern politically correct, garbage-knowledge times, the role of whites in Africa has always been regarded as one of murder and theft from blacks. The reality is completely different. Blac (By Jan)...Nigeria: Season of Uncertainty
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Richard Joseph And Alexandra Gillies"Nothing," wrote Reuben Abati, the editor of Nigeria's The Guardian, "can be more tragic than the present season of uncertainty in which Nigeria has found itself (By News Poster)...Namibia: Lubowski Killers Go Scot-Free in SA
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Werner MengesTHE last hopes that the killers of assassinated Swapo member Anton Lubowski might be made to face justice in South Africa have been dashed.South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (By News Poster)...South Africa: Apartheid Laws Still Felt Today, Says Zuma
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Luphert ChilwaneJohannesburg - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma yesterday attacked apartheid laws, saying that 20 years after being repealed, those laws were still isolating people from economic opportunities. (By News Poster)...South Africa: Why Tourists Are Not Coming to the World Cup
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Daryl IlburyThe real reason that people aren't coming to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in their droves can be found in a box, and, yes, it is flat.There have been so many reasons thrown around as to why (By News Poster)...S.Africa: ANC Racism & Genocide against Whites: Nothing will happen to Malema - Malema is more powerful than President Zuma... Govt says: KILL THE BOER...
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: The ANC is dragging its feet endlessly over the Malema issue. Now they will have meetings about meetings. Meetings to decide if and how they will discpline him. And so on. As a friend of mine said, th (By Jan)...White South African Family Wants "Repatriation" To Holland
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: A White South African family has asked far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders for help in getting citizenship in Holland, noting their ancestral lineage there as a way to escape growing racial viole (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Nigeria: Political Economy of Natural Resource Struggles in Niger Delta
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Lagos - This lecture problematises the natural resource struggles and the attendant bloody conflicts in the oil-rich Niger Delta of Nigeria as a crisis of the Nigerian state. Within this framework, it (By News Poster)...[4 Pics] Rhodesian paradise - All the Flame Lillies in my garden in Johannesburg...
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: Flame Lillies, the national flower of Rhodesia, and I am sure Zimbabwe too, don't normally grow in South Africa. It is too cold for them. I think its possibly too dry. My Mother persisted for years tr (By Jan)...Nigeria: Incest - How Fathers Raped Daughters
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Ebenezer EdohasimWhat on earth will make someone to be sexually attracted to a close blood relation like a sister, brother, cousin, mother or father? In most cultures of the world, incest, which is (By News Poster)...USA: Utah killer to be executed by firing squad June 18 - I wish we could do this to Mugabe
Monday 26-Apr-2010: [Wow... the guy asked to be executed by firing squad. Its too nice for Mugabe... way too nice... but it would be some justice. I sure wish this was how he could end. But it won't be. He will die quiet (By Jan)...Nigeria: Growing Insecurity As a Threat to 2011 Poll
Friday 30-Apr-2010: Lagos - As Nigerians analyze the security implication of tragic-comedy that played out at Oghara, Delta State, last week where armed youths not only stood against the arrest of the former governor of (By News Poster)...Calls on All States to Criminalize Piracy under National Laws (DOCUMENT)
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Affirming that the failure to prosecute persons responsible for acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea off the coast of Somalia undermined international anti-piracy efforts, the Security Council call (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Police Now Want to Join Diamond Rush
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Dumisani Muleya and Chris MuronziHarare - POLICE have joined in the intensifying scramble for the controversial Chiadzwa diamonds where companies linked to Zanu PF and state security elements are m (By News Poster)...What Are South Africans Celebrating on 27 April?
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Motsoko PhekoWhat are we celebrating this April 27? Some say we are celebrating democracy, the birth of a rainbow nation, the miracle of a negotiated settlement, the best constitution in the world (By News Poster)...South Africa: A Quack Cure - Nationalisation Far From a Panacea in Venezuela
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: Johannesburg - WE TRUST African National Congress Youth League president Julius Malema took a careful look at the Venezuelan economy when he visited recently on his nationalisation study tour.Venezuel (By News Poster)...EXCELLENT: Zimbabwe: THE HEROIC BLACK TEENAGER: Tension Rises in Mwenezi After Schoolboy Kills Zanu PF Thug - Young Black Teenager kills Mugabe's thug who murdered his dad...
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: [I love this. This black kid is a flipping hero. I wish there were 100,000 more like him. Look at how this Mugabe thug was doing anything he pleased - murdering people (with impunity because the Govt (By News Poster)...ANOTHER YOUNG BLACK HERO! Zimbabwe: MDC Youth Chair for Mashonaland Central in Trouble over Anti-Mugabe Slur - REMOVE THIEVES, REMOVE MUGABE, REMOVE ZANU PF
Saturday 01-May-2010: [Here is another young black hero. We really must do everything we can to support young black people who show real courage like this. The man's slogan: "Remove thieves, Remove Mugabe, Remove ZANU PF". (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Is Zenawi Running a Repressive Regime in Ethiopia? (1)
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Helen EpsteinLagos - Parts of southern Ethiopia resemble the scenery in a Tarzan movie. When I was there last fall, the green forested hills were blanketed in white mist and rain poured down on the (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World cup... EXPECT MASSIVE CHAOS... make some preparations...
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: I was stunned this morning when the power here in the West of Johannesburg just went out at 10am sharp. A friend of mine said: 10am - that sounds like someone flipped a switch. In fact the same fri (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: RIP Peter Lovemore
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: It was with great sadness on Tuesday that I opened an email which told me that Peter Lovemore had died the night before.Many Zimbabweans will remember Peter as a crazy auctioneer and horse racing enth (By News Poster)...Creating a New South African Identity
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By William GumedeThe raging debate over what makes one South African, which currently focuses on whether a person is African enough, is simply the wrong debate.Can we ever cobble together a common Sou (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Chasing Growth Just to Be the Largest, Problem of Banks, Stanchart CEO
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Babajide Komolafe and Michael EbohIn a time of great turmoil for the global financial system, when banks-big and small, declared huge losses and laid off staff en-mass, Standard Charted Bank Group (By News Poster)...Africa: Obama Expands Military Involvement in Continent
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Daniel VolmanWhen Barack Obama took office as president of the United States in January 2009, it was widely expected that he would dramatically change, or even reverse, the militarised and unilater (By News Poster)...Calling on Mission to Take Lead in Preparations for Next Year's Referendums (DOCUMENT)
Friday 30-Apr-2010: The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan for one year, until 30 April 2011, with the intention to renew it for further periods if required.Unanimously (By News Poster)...Rogue Helicopter Damages Mercury Island
Friday 30-Apr-2010: A BLUE, foreign-registered helicopter bearing the identification 5YBXE tried to land on Mercury Island along the southern coast of Namibia last Thursday, and in the process destroyed hundreds of endan (By News Poster)...Africa: Promoting Global Food Security - Next Steps for Congress and the Administration
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: The following is full text of a testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee issued by Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources Jacob J. Lew on U.S. government's initiatives on global (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Stanbic Taken to Court Over Failed Transfer
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: Harare - TWO local companies have taken Stanbic Bank to the High Court for allegedly failing to report in time a failed R133 000 transfer to Standard Bank South Africa for payment to a South African c (By News Poster)...Sudan: 'Too Big to Fail?'
Monday 26-Apr-2010: Washington, DC - "In the minds of its sponsors, the CPA [Comprehensive Peace Agreement] is "too big to fail." ... The bailout is simple: support the SPLM/NCP to muddle through no matter how flawed or (By News Poster)...[YouTube] USA: President Obama is linked to Communist Odinga & supports radical Islam, black-on-black genocide, destruction of churches...
Monday 26-Apr-2010: [This apparently led to a book by Dr Corsi called: Obamanation. Here is an audio excerpt where Dr Corsi spoke about this. Jan] A friend sent me this summary:- This is not new. Dr. Jerome Corsi in (By Jan)...South Africa: Gold Mines Need a Shake-Up, And Fast
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Tim CohenJohannesburg - CAN the South African gold mining industry merge and split its way out of its problems?The answer to this question is so complex, it's almost impossible to answer definitive (By News Poster)...Former Top Cop Now Accused of Money Laundering
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Ernest MabuzaJohannesburg - FORMER police commissioner Jackie Selebi yesterday struggled to explain to the South Gauteng High Court why he added more rands to the daily allowance he was given for o (By News Poster)...South Africa: Teenager Tells of Abduction Ordeal
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: A Cape Town teenager says she was abducted in broad daylight near Newlands Rugby Stadium by four adults who drugged her, kept her for two days, and forced her to pose naked for photographs.Police are (By News Poster)...Zambia: Prison Conditions Endanger Inmates - Criminal Justice Failures, Overcrowding, and Poor Care Exacerbate Spread of TB, HIV
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Prisoners in Zambia suffer malnutrition, overcrowding, grossly inadequate medical care, and the risk of rape or torture, the Prisons Care and Counselling Association (PRISCCA), AIDS and Rights Allianc (By News Poster)...South Africa: 2010 FIFA World cup - Joburg Power Cut Raises Fears for World Cup - Huh? Electricity substation EXPLODES? My power cut from yesterday...
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: [How flipping bizarre is this? My power did not go off at 9am. It went off at 10am. So did they have to switch some of the power off then? The suburbs mentioned below are exactly the ones that wer (By News Poster)...South Africa: Land Reform Would be Conducted 'Within the Law', Says Zuma
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma said yesterday that SA would not emulate Zimbabwe's land grab.Addressing a symposium on constitutionalism hosted by the Black Management Forum in Joh (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010 FIFA World cup - Crumbling Infrastructure - Electricity no power for 21 hours...
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: [I sent this quick note to some friends of mine. I'll put up the photos later. Jan] Eskom's people were walking around our suburb giving out energy saving lightbulbs... swopping them. My garden (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (26-04-2010)
Monday 26-Apr-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- Late yesterday afternoon I finally caught up with the news of the tragic death of three of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's senior MDC of (By The BeardedMan)...[5 Pics] S.Africa: 2010 - FIFA World Cup - My Photos: Electricity crisis - giving away power-saving light bulbs for free...
Sunday 02-May-2010: [I took these photos last week. My gate bell rang. I went out expecting vagrants and instead saw these people from Eskom running around with boxes of energy-saving bulbs. They were swopping any old bu (By Jan)...Africa: Raw Exports Hurt Africa Cotton Producers, Meeting Told
Saturday 01-May-2010: Nairobi - Poor performance of the textile industry in Africa can be traced to its reliance on exports, a meeting has been told.The ups and downs that come with it mean that the continent will always b (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: Race War: Revenge for Eugene Terreblanche - Far Right Plot uncovered to attack a South African Army base?
Monday 26-Apr-2010: [Here is an interesting story. The story goes these whites wanted to attack a South African army base (wow, that is pretty gutsy of them - I'm impressed). What I don't know, is how real this is. They (By Jan)...Am I surviving Affirmative Action? News will be late today: I'm off to an award ceremy at my work in recognition of my work...
Friday 30-Apr-2010: Hi All, I'll post news later this evening. I have some urgent things to take care of - a most important automated backup that I need for all my websites to feed data to my PC at home online, real-tim (By Jan)...Mozambique: Government Denies Political Discrimination
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Mozambique's Minister for the Public Service, Vitoria Diogo, speaking on Wednesday in the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, categorically denied charges by the main opposition party, (By News Poster)...Zambia: Prison Conditions Endanger Inmates
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Lusaka - Prisoners in Zambia suffer malnutrition, overcrowding, grossly inadequate medical care, and the risk of rape or torture, the Prisons Care and Counselling Association (PRISCCA), AIDS and Right (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'CBN Reforms Have a Multiplier-Effect'
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Omoh Gabriel, Peter Egwuatu, Oscarline Chimaobi and Michael EbohLagos - NOT a few Nigerians have reacted to comments by the National Security Adviser, Lieutenant-General Aliyu Gusau (rtd), that the (By News Poster)...Debate Continues On "Party Takeover" of the State
Friday 30-Apr-2010: Maputo - Speaking in the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Thursday, the second day of a parliamentary debate on the alleged "party takeover" of the Mozambican state by the rulin (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Senior Judiciary Correspondent Gunned Down
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Godwin Haruna and Akinwale AkintundeLagos - She cried endlessly, hysterically until tears could no longer flow. With her hands spread towards heaven, she screamed: "Take me to a collapsing house an (By News Poster)...Hello, Africa! archive: Repatriation for Afrikaners?
Saturday 01-May-2010: White South African Lara Johnstone talks about her efforts to get Dutch politician Gert Wilders to help her and her brothers repatriate to Holland, in an effort to escape racial persecution back hom (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Nigeria: Two Cops Get Death Sentence for Killing Student
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By George Onah and Demola AkinyemiPort Harcourt - TWO trigger-happy policemen, Corporals Wafal Aminu and Victor Fabiyi have been condemned to death after being found guilty by a Port Harcourt High Cou (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma Launches Scaled-Up HIV/Aids Plan
Monday 26-Apr-2010: Today is an important day in our fight against HIV and AIDS, as we gather to launch our new upscaled HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment plan.We are pleased to be able to provide an update on the ro (By News Poster)...Nigerian Court Gives Go-Ahead for Arrest of Party Boss
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Kingsley Omonobi, Ise-Oluwa Ige and Ikechukwu NnochiriAbuja - An Abuja High Court, sitting in Maitama, yesterday, gave the Federal Government, suo motu, the green light to apply for a warrant to ar (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SADC Ministers to Review Regional Energy Situation
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Kizito SikukaSouthern African Energy Ministers are meeting this week to review the power situation in the region in an effort to ensure that supply and demand are evenly matched.The annual minister (By News Poster)...From Mugabe's Racist Communist Propaganda mouthpiece: THE HERALD - Completion of Africa's Liberation
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: [I take anything THE HERALD says with a pinch of salt. They are masters at the art of twisting real facts. This is Mugabe's lot... with their anti-Western, anti-White, anti-capitalist tirades. Jan] (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bitter Mugabe, Ahmadinejad Stick It to the West
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Chris MuronziON the eve of Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the country last week to officially open the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair, his hosts a camp belonging to the former rul (By News Poster)...Somalia: U.S. Charges 11 Somalis With Maritime Piracy
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Merle David Kellerhals Jr."Since the earliest days of this country, piracy has been a serious crime," U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride said at an April 23 press conference in Norfolk, Virginia, where 11 (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Remains Stumbling Block in Efforts to Implement Gpa
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Tichaona SibandaSouth African President Jacob Zuma's facilitation team jetted into Harare Thursday in another attempt to diffuse rising tension between Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai.South Afr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Nation's Economy And U.S. Oil Drilling Moves
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Adeola YusufLagos - CORRESPONDENT, Adeola Yusuf reports that Over 1million Barrels out of the 2.3 million barrels daily Oil production from Nigeria might be dumped eventually with the new efforts b (By News Poster)...Africa: Will Emerging Economies Leave Poor Countries Behind?
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Saliem FakirThey go by different names: IBSA (India, Brazil and South Africa), BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) and BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India and China). These formations all amount (By News Poster)...Africa: AU's Ping Calls For Peacebuilding
Saturday 01-May-2010: I wish at the outset to reiterate my heartfelt appreciation and sincerest gratitude to the South African Government for all the facilities extended to the AU Commission delegation.Then, I would like t (By News Poster)...USA: 2008: Financial meltdown: Professor says: Alan Greenspan is the criminal who broke the economy - NOT THE BANKS!
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: [What this professor says is absolutely true. I'm reading MELTDOWN, the foreword of it is by Ron Paul. It describes the thinking of the Austrian School of economics (which I must tell you is the most (By Jan)...USA: Governments Will 'Bankrupt Us': Marc Faber - Cash will be a disaster: ACCUMULATE GOLD - Perhaps even: Civil war in America
Monday 26-Apr-2010: [I am currently reading the book: Meltdown, with the forward by Ron Paul. It describes Austrian economic theory. This stuff is so brilliant and clear, and supports what Marc Faber is saying. I will di (By Jan)...USA: There is no Gold bubble - adjusted for inflation Gold could easily rise to $2,200
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: [Gold has a long way to go, and given what I'm reading of the Austrian school of economics - Gold is going to go higher than you can believe over the next 10-20 years. I think Gold is going to glitter (By Jan)...Africa: Agoa's Architects Unveil New Economic Policy for Obama Administration
Saturday 01-May-2010: Ten years after the enactment of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), a coalition of its original architects and supporters on Monday unveiled a comprehensive new trade and economic policy t (By News Poster)...Angola: The Death of One Man Does Not End a War
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Luanda - The final chapter in the long-running separatist war in Angola's Cabinda Province may not be decided by a military showdown in dense jungle terrain, but by the imminent death of a "sick old m (By News Poster)...Malema Shadow Hangs Over Allies' Bilateral
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Wilson JohwaJohannesburg - THE African National Congress's (ANC's) two allies are meeting today for a bilateral that allows them to take stock of President Jacob Zuma 's first year in office.Congre (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Killing of Journalists
Friday 30-Apr-2010: Lagos - THE recent gruesome murder of three Nigerian journalists, in two different attacks, have, again, exposed the increasing state of insecurity in the country and suggests that journalists may hav (By News Poster)...Train Rock Attack - 9 Hurt
Saturday 01-May-2010: By Natasha Prince And Murray WilliamsEnraged commuters pelted a full passenger carriage with rocks and stones after their own train broke down, leaving them stranded near Ysterplaat station this morni (By News Poster)...Angola: Speratist Leader's Death will not Solve Cabinda Conflict
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Luanda - The final chapter in the long-running separatist war in Angola's Cabinda Province will not be decided by a military showdown in dense jungle terrain, but by the imminent death of a "sick old (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Zimbabwe and Iran Strike Secret Nuclear Mining Deal
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Lance GumaWhile the rest of the world was focused on the controversy of the MDC-T objecting to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visiting Zimbabwe to open the Trade Fair in Bulawayo, behind clo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: IPPS, PHCN to Pay More for Gas
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Ijeoma Nwogwugwu and Ayodele AminuLagos - In a move aimed at improving the supply of electricity nationwide, the Federal Government is set to liberalise the gas-to-power pricing regime for liquefie (By News Poster)...USA: Black racist attacks in Chicago: Black man savagely beats two white women with baseball bat
Monday 26-Apr-2010: [Check this out. I found an American website, thanks to my friend Dave, where they aren't afraid to post details of Black racial attacks on whites. Check out this savage story from the city where Obam (By Jan)...Nigeria: Poverty Alleviation, Antidote to Crime
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Ifeatu AgbuLagos - It was Mahatma Gandhi, the great Indian philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of non-violent protest, who said that "poverty is the worst form of violence." Othe (By News Poster)...Witness Says, Taylor Did Not Give Arms TO RUF To Attack The Diamond Town (NEWS)
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor did not provide arms and ammunition to Sierra Leonean rebels to attack Sierra Leone’s diamond rich town of Kono - and diamonds mined by the rebels were not taken to (By News Poster)...Niger: Agencies Mobilize on Food Crisis
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: Dakar - Most NGOs and UN agencies in Niger agree that in 2010 humanitarian actors are better geared to respond to the food security crisis than they were in 2005, but some say there is a risk of repea (By News Poster)...Violent Streak Must Be Nipped in the Bud
Saturday 01-May-2010: By Constantine ChimakureTHE failure by the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC to curb growing violence in the party is disturbing and gives credence to reports that its leaders are fanning the brutality negati (By News Poster)...Somalia: 45 Killed in Mogadishu Mosque Bombing
Saturday 01-May-2010: More than 45 people including Al Shabaab insurgents were killed and 100 others wounded in an Iraq-style twin bombing inside a mosque in Somalia's restive capital Mogadishu, witnesses and security offi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zanu PF MP Accused of Fuelling Political Violence in Muzarabani
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe MDC-T in Mashonaland central province claimed on Tuesday that it has indisputable evidence that the ZANU PF MP for Muzarabani South, Edward Raradza, was fuelling a surge of viol (By News Poster)...Africa: Economic Growth Pinned on Infrastructure
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Charles W. CoreyAlthough the infrastructure problems facing Africa look "daunting," they are "not insurmountable," U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson said April 28 (By News Poster)...DPM to Lead Delegation to World Economic Forum
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Walter MuchinguriHarare - DEPUTY Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara will next week lead a Zimbabwe delegation of ministers, business executives and civic society leaders to the World Economic Forum on (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: The Prophecy That Foresaw Second Chimurenga
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Harare - ON April 27, 1898, the district surgeon of Salisbury wrote: "I certify that I have examined the body of Nianda, upon whom sentence of death has been executed, and that life is extinct.""Niand (By News Poster)...Somalia: 21 People Killed in Mogadishu Violence
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: Fighting between African Union troops, Somali government forces, pro-government militiamen on one side and Al-Shabaab and its allies on the other end killed at least 21 people Wednesday and injured ov (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Our Sudan Hostage Hell'
Saturday 01-May-2010: By Graeme HoskenFor two weeks, disorientated and mentally and emotionally tortured, four South African police peacekeepers were driven hundreds of kilometres through the desert by heavily armed Sudane (By News Poster)...Somalia: Attacks in Mogadishu Claim 16 Lives
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: Explosions and heavy bombardment rocked Somalia's restive capital Mogadishu Tuesday, killing at least 16 people and wounding more than 60 others, witnesses and medic said.A suicide car bombing targete (By News Poster)...Somalia: AU Denies Illegal Fighting in Country
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: The African Union and its backers in the Somalia conflict on Wednesday rejected accusations they flouted the laws of war while trying to quell a 3-year insurgency that has brought the nation to its kn (By News Poster)...Report Documents Rising Threats to Minorities, Ethnic Groups (NEWS)
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Thalif DeenThe growing threats against minorities and ethnic groups - who are vulnerable to mass killings and genocides - have significantly increased in three countries: Sudan, Russia and the Phil (By News Poster)...Nigeria: As Jonathan Signs Local Content Bill Into Law
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Mohammed ShosanyaLagos - Following last Thursday's signing of the much-awaited Local content bill into law by the Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, a new vista of prospect in the nation's oil and (By News Poster)...Africa: Economies Show Resilience Despite Crisis
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Charles W. CoreyAfrican economies have shown resilience in the face of global financial adversities, have passed the stress test and can be expected to achieve economic growth this year, says Donal (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Remove Bail for Serious Offences
Monday 26-Apr-2010: Harare - ARMED robberies have been on the increase since the introduction of the multiple currency regime in the country last year. But police have been swift in hunting down and arresting suspects ma (By News Poster)...Madagascar: Country's Hidden Crisis - Women's Rights and Human Rights Abuses
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Zo RandriamaroThe political situation in Madagascar is far from improving, after several unsuccessful attempts from national, regional and international mediators to resolve the political crisis du (By News Poster)...Death Penalty Inhuman
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: The Senate Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights was recently told that 49 inmates at Harare Central Prison were on death row out of 1 221 incarcerated at this penal institution.Of the 49 condemned (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC-T Violence Probe Report Out Today
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Leonard MakombeAn MDC-T probe team into internal violence blamed on power struggles between party president Morgan Tsvangirai and secretary-general Tendai Biti ahead of the party's congress next ye (By News Poster)...Ghana: Police Crackdown On Migrant Fulani Herdsmen
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: Accra - Security officials in Ghana are cracking down on migrant Fulani herdsmen, accusing them of rape, vandalism, destruction of farms and armed robbery, but conflict resolution specialists say the (By News Poster)...Uganda: Army Denies Killing Nine Karimojong Warriors
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By David Mafabi & Risdel KasasiraThe army yesterday denied reports that it had killed nine Jie warriors in two separate clashes in Kotido District. The Jie are one of the Karimojong sub-tribes.UPDF of (By News Poster)...Madagascar: Fears of Military Takeover in Country
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Lova Rabary-RakotondravonyAntananarivo - The deadline the Malagasy Armed Forces gave transitional authorities to find a solution to the political crisis that has paralysed Madagascar for over a yea (By News Poster)...[3 Graphs] USA: Stock Markets - My Technical Indicator - A day of slaughter on the markets - Gold & some ETFs shine - But did markets really collapse over Greece?
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: I posted an article part of the way through the day when I spotted that the stock markets were collapsing. This was the article I posted: [Graph] WILD! My Technical Indicator - Stock Market reaches P& (By Jan)...Somalia: Security Council Suggests Possible Tribunals to Deal with Somali Piracy Problem
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: The Security Council put forward today the possibility of establishing international tribunals to try pirates, as its members called for tougher legislation aimed at prosecuting and jailing suspects c (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Otedola - Jonathan Threatens to Sack Bank PHB MD - Zenon Oil Account Frozen in 10 Banks
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Anthony Okoro And Tunde OpeseitanLagos - THE LAWSUIT involving Zenon Oil President, Femi Otedola, and Bank PHB turned messier on Friday as counsel for Bank PHB, Ajibola Aribisala, told the Lagos Hi (By News Poster)...Central Africa: LRA - A Regional Strategy beyond Killing Kony
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: To make an end of the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) once and for all, national armies, the UN and civilians need to pool intelligence and coordinate their efforts in new and creative ways. (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Grilled Over Iran Snub - Kicking Prime Minister Tsvangirai into line...
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: [Tsvangirai did the right thing. But he's involved with some devils who want him to be more like the scum that they are. Assholes. Jan] Harare - PRIME Minister and MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai wa (By News Poster)...Ghana: Lending Rates Still at 33 Percent
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Charles Nixon YeboahLending rates of banks continue to remain high despite the Bank of Ghana (BoG) adjusting its policy rate-the prime rate from 18 percent to 16 percent in February this year, acco (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Pengassan Petitions Jonathan Over Insecurity
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Victor Ahiuma-YoungPETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, has petitioned Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, deploring the worsening insecurity in the countr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: New Law to Promote Locals in Oil Industry
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Sam OlukoyaLagos - "This bill seeks to address the compelling need for us as a nation to have indigenous participation in the industry." With these words, Nigeria's acting President, Goodluck Jonat (By News Poster)...South Africa: Reserve Bank Deputy Warns on Stalled Growth
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - THE main risk to SA and other African countries' financial systems was that global economic growth would stall, said Reserve Bank deputy governor Xolile Guma.South African (By News Poster)...Nigeria: World Cup And Al Qaeda's Threat
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Lagos - SPORTS events unify diverse peoples and love is shared by athletes, officials and the world audience, especially nationals of the countries participating in the events, but the bitter pill of (By News Poster)...East Africa: East Africa Steps Up Effort to Mop Up Light Arms In Civilian Hands
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Fred OluochNairobi - Countries in the East African region have increased their effort to mop up light weapons in the wrong hands to tame conflicts seen as a major impediment to regional integration (By News Poster)...Sudan: Dangerous Divisions Open Up in South
Monday 26-Apr-2010: This month's chaotic elections have widened divisions within the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM), according to analysts, who warn of risks to a referendum on southern secession, to future re (By News Poster)...Somalia: Ten Killed in Militia Clashes
Friday 30-Apr-2010: At least 10 combatants were killed and over 20 others injured in heavy clashes that pitted insurgent group Al-Shabaab against pro-government Sufi militia group Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama in central Somali v (By News Poster)...Zambia: Poor Conditions Mean Double Jeopardy for Inmates
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: Johannesburg - Doing time in Zambia's prisons may be a death sentence, regardless of the crime or conviction, as conditions behind bars drive high rates of HIV and tuberculosis (TB) says a new report. (By News Poster)...Uganda: LRA Missiles Target UPDF Gunships
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: Kampala - TO: Ag. DGISO.INFO: AC. FM: D/IT. DT: 3/10/04.1. Otti, Abudema, Odyambo, Ocan Bunia, Angola, Dominic, Lapanyikwara, Lamola, Kapere, Labongo, Okuti and Okulu were all on air.2. Otti; Revealed (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Noose Tightens
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Etaghene EdirinLagos - Former Delta state governor, James Onanefe Ibori is not new to controversy. Maybe this is why he seems unshaken by the ongoing imbroglio with the anti graft agency, Economic (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Police Nab Robbery Suspect
Monday 26-Apr-2010: POLICE recently arrested a man suspected to have been involved in a spate of armed robberies in several areas in Mashonaland West.Three other suspected members of the gang are still at large.Elliott C (By News Poster)...Africa: AU Calls for Peace in Africa in 2010 Year of Peace
Friday 30-Apr-2010: Durban - Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Jean Ping, has called for all nations in Africa to support the objectives of the 2010 Year of Peace and Security in Africa, through engaging in ac (By News Poster)...South Africa: Nation Becomes 'Surprise Winner' in Greek Crisis
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - SA's credit ratings would not be tarnished by contagion from Europe's deepening debt crisis, and the outlook may even improve as growth picks up and the budget deficit shri (By News Poster)...Niger: Beyond the Crisis
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Dakar - Most NGOs and UN agencies in Niger agree that in 2010 humanitarian actors are better geared to respond to the food security crisis than they were in 2005, but some say there is a risk of repea (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Dependency Kills Farmers' Innovation
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Obert ChifambaHarare - WHILE it is true that the child that cries first is usually the first to get the mother's attention, the stark reality is that the child that cries with every chance that com (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Four Nafdac Officials Abducted, One Killed
Saturday 01-May-2010: By Dennis NakuPort Harcourt - Four officials of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), including a pregnant woman who travelled to Imo State to commiserate with the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Industry Debt Threatens Economic Recovery
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Hector IgbikiowuboLagos - NON-performing oil and gas industry loans in excess of one trillion naira incurred by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and petroleum products importers a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma Promises a Better Govt
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Chris BathembuPretoria - President Jacob Zuma says government will continue to work hard to improve the lives of the people of South Africa as the country marks 16 years into freedom and democracy (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: SA Mining Company to Start Gold Exploration
Monday 26-Apr-2010: Harare - JOHANESBURG Stock Exchange-listed gold firm, DRDGOLD Limited said it would soon start exploring for gold in Zimbabwe through a joint venture with a local company.DRDGOLD is one of the first f (By News Poster)...Uganda: We Need a World Free of Nuclear Danger
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By John F. HooverKampala - Together we will strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as a basis for co-operation. The basic bargain is sound: Countries with nuclear weapons will move towards di (By News Poster)...South Africa: New Bank Policy Aims to Reduce Risk
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - THE Reserve Bank is developing a new policy framework to reduce the risks in the financial system and help smooth the effect of economic cycles, one of the Bank's deputy g (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bank Begins Project to Help Emerging Farmers
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Sue BlaineJohannesburg - STANDARD Bank yesterday launched a R500m fund and a Stellenbosch University-based mentorship programme to help establish emerging black farmers in commercial agriculture.Th (By News Poster)...Boeremag Accused Want To Be Tried As Prisoners Of War
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: As the Boeremag trial enters its 7th year next month, some of the accused are calling on the Geneva Convention to be tried as prisoners of war in The Hague instead of terrorists. A total of 21 men (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Zimbabwe: China to Finance Kariba South Expansion
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Harare - ZIMBABWE has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Sino Hydro of China to focus on the expansion of the Kariba South Bank extension through funding from Chinese financial institutions.The (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bank Charges Way Above Region
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Paul NyakazeyaINDIVIDUALS and corporates are forking out between US$25 and US$50 monthly in bank transactions, far above regional averages. Figures obtained by businessdigest from commercial banks (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Murder of Bauchi Pastor, Wife
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Lagos - THE gruesome murder, recently, in Bauchi State, of Rev. Ishaya G. Kadah of the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) and his wife, Selina, must be thoroughly investigated and the culprits brough (By News Poster)...Namibia: Keetmanshoop Police Evade Jail Sentence
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Werner MengesSIGHS of relief from a packed public gallery on Friday greeted the senten-cing of seven Police officers from Keetmanshoop in the High Court in Windhoek.The seven officers had been conv (By News Poster)...South Africa: High Mine Fatalities Not Necessarily Due to Lack of Will
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Alistair AndersonJohannesburg - FOLLOWING three deaths at AngloGold Ashanti 's mines last week, the total number of reported fatalities from accidents on SA's gold, coal, diamond and other mines ha (By News Poster)...Uganda: Five Soldiers Injured in Somalia
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Henry MukasaKampala - FIVE UPDF soldiers serving in the peace-keeping mission in Somalia were yesterday injured during a battle with militants who attempted to enter their camp in Mogadishu.Army sp (By News Poster)...Ibori vs EFCC - Drama, Intrigues in Delta (ANALYSIS)
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Emma AmaizeNiger Delta - It is the stuff a good drama is made of: The latest round of confrontation between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the immediate past governor of De (By News Poster)...Somalia: Three Soldiers Killed in Roadside in Mogadishu Blast
Monday 26-Apr-2010: At least 3 Somali government soldiers were killed in a road bomb blast Saturday targeted to a vehicle carrying a government commander near a strategic checkpoint, in the outskirts of the Somalia capit (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Is Kenneth Roth in Love With Genocidaires?
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Fred Oluoch-OjiwahKigali - A close follow up of Kenneth Roth's paper trail on Rwanda for the last 8 years reveals a rather curious observation. As Executive Director at Human Rights Watch (HRW), on (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Conflicting Statements Over Sizzla Land Offer
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By John MokwetsiFRESH controversy surrounds government's dealings with Jamaican reggae artist Sizzla Kalonji following reports that he has been given a farm in exchange for singing President Robert Mu (By News Poster)...Nothing Much to Smile About for the Worker
Saturday 01-May-2010: By Leonard MakombeTHE formation of the inclusive government and dollarisation last year gave hope to workers who had wallowed for close to a decade in abject poverty as the country's political crisis (By News Poster)...Uganda: Police Boss On the Run After Robbery Incident
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Andrew BagalaKampala - A manhunt is on for a senior police officer over his alleged involvement in aggravated robbery.Cadet Assistant Superintendant of Police Dennis Kamugisha, who is the commander (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Gasela's Tragic Accident Shows Breakdown of Rule of Law on Roads
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Violet GondaZimbabwe's roads claimed four senior politicians from both ZANU PF and the MDC-M, this weekend alone, raising more questions about the state of the roads, but more importantly, the way (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: UN Relief Chief Condemns LRA Killers
Sunday 02-May-2010: The top United Nations humanitarian official today condemned the "horrific" atrocities committed by a notorious Uganda rebel group in the volatile northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR (By News Poster)...Uganda: URA Campaigns Against Sexual Abuse
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Chris KiwawuloKampala - Cases of child sexual abuse, mainly defilement and rape, have over the years continued to take place in Uganda. Some are reported to authorities while others go unreported.B (By News Poster)...Kenya: Draft - Land Experts Allay Fears
Friday 30-Apr-2010: Nairobi - Kenya land experts have said the controversy over the land chapter in the proposed draft law is unwarranted.Addressing a news conference at its Nairobi office Friday, the Institute of Survey (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Police in Scramble for Chiadzwa Diamonds in Marange
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Tichaona SibandaPolice Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri is dragging his police force into a scramble for the Chiadzwa diamonds, in a move likely to raise eyebrows.The scramble for the diamond (By News Poster)...Witness Says, NPFL Commanders Formed a Renegade Group To Fight Against Taylor (NEWS)
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Alpha SesaySome commanders in Charles Taylor’s Liberian rebel movement formed a renegade group to undermine the revolution and overthrow Mr. Taylor, a defense witness told the Special Court f (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Fresh Disputes Threaten Unity Govt
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - South African President Jacob Zuma has once again dispatched to Zimbabwe his team after fresh disputes threatening the fragile unity government emerged.The arrival of the t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma Should Pledge New Sexual Habits
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Wilson JohwaJohannesburg - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma 's disclosure of his HIV status on Sunday was meant to encourage others to be tested for the virus, but may actually serve to muddy the waters in the (By News Poster)...South Africa: World Cup Security Plan On Track
Friday 30-Apr-2010: Pretoria - More than 40 000 South African Police Service (SAPS) members will be deployed to all nine host cities during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, said Police Commissioner, General Bheki Cele, on Thursd (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Halliburton - Litmus Test for Jonathan -Umar, Yakassai, Keita, Others
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Isioma Madike, Francis Iwuchukwu And Augustine MaduKano/Lagos - Prominent Nigerians are making a case for the prosecution of all those implicated in the Halliburton bribe scandal, as a demonstratio (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Illegal Settlers Threaten Chipinge Magistrate
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Caiphas ChimheteA Chipinge magistrate had to flee for dear life recently after a group of illegal settlers led by Zanu PF officials besieged the court building threatening to assault him for orderi (By News Poster)...Kenya: U.S. Anti-Abortion Group Intervenes in Constitution Debate
Sunday 02-May-2010: By Kevin J. KellyNew York - An American-based group opposed to abortion has said it is donating "tens of thousands of dollars" to help defeat Kenya's proposed constitution.The American Centre for Law (By News Poster)...Africa: Planting the Seeds of Africa's Growth
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By William A. MastersAfter decades of bad news, at least three major trends are turning Africa's way: agricultural policies, rural demography, and farm productivity all promise improved opportunities (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC-T Must Think for Itself
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: Harare - WHEN MDC-T released a statement insulting Islamic Republic of Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and announcing that they would have nothing to do with his visit, the question that came to th (By News Poster)...Mozambique: More Than 1,000 Workers Lose Jobs
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Maputo - Mozambican Labour Minister Helena Taipo said in Maputo on Monday that more than 1,000 workers have lost their jobs in Mozambique due to factors related to the current international financial (By News Poster)...South Africa: Govt Launches Massive HIV Prevention and Treatment Campaign
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Johannesburg - President Zuma today launched an ambitious campaign that could alter the face of the AIDS epidemic, in South Africa and globally. The campaign aims to test 15 million people for HIV by (By News Poster)...Africa: New Treaty to Combat Illicit Arms Trafficking Crucial, Says Ban
Friday 30-Apr-2010: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today exhorted ministers from Central African nations to work towards adopting a legal instrument to combat illicit arms trafficking, a move that will help reduce violenc (By News Poster)...Africa: Fair Trade Farmers' Exports Hit By Volcanic Ash
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Miriam MannakCape Town - African farmers are assessing the financial impact of the Icelandic volcanic ash clouds that led to a lockdown of Europe's airspace, forcing fair trade flower growers from (By News Poster)...Africa: Industrial Plan - Mandela Joins World Leaders to Celebrate Africa Day
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Sylvester EnoghaseLagos - The Nelson Mandela Foundation will join world leaders on May 25, 2010 to celebrate Africa Day, scripted to bail out Africa industrial development from the pangs of the glo (By News Poster)...Africa: State of HIV Prevention Vaccines
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: An HIV vaccine is possible if the world works together as a global community with the objective of finding one, but it will take some years to develop.This is according to Dr Alan Bernstein of the Glo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Moves Towards Clean Energy Future
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - THE Lebrija solar plant in Andalucia, 60km south of Seville in Spain, stands out in the remote countryside. The solar field, which consists of 400000 square metres of m (By News Poster)...South Africa: Govt Launches Ambitious HIV Counseling And Testing Campaign
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Allyn GaestelThe South African government launched an intensive campaign this week to expand national access to HIV testing and counseling.South Africa has the largest number of people living with (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Sharing the Inkomati River
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Mantoe PhakathiMbabane - At Ekuvinjelweni village, in South Africa's Mpumalanga Province, the Komati River flows clear and fast through the mountains.Along its banks here are commercial farms with (By News Poster)...Uganda: Lawyers Blame Police on Kajubi Case
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Milton Olupot and Hillary NsambuKampala - MANY senior Kampala advocates yesterday blamed Police investigators and the prosecution for the botched up case against Kato Kajubi who was on Friday acqui (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 5 Journalists Summoned to Testify in Chiyangwa Land Case
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Tichaona SibandaHarare Mayor Muchadeyi Masunda and eight councillors are being sued by Phillip Chiyangwa for criminal defamation over their exposure of his 'illegal' land deals. Now Five Harare bas (By News Poster)...MDC Mere Junior Partners in GNU
Friday 30-Apr-2010: IT has always been a source of concern to us that the losers of the elections two years ago continue to hold sway in the way this country is governed.There is now every reason for those championing th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ugbagwu - Exit of a Newsroom Activist
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Tunde OpeseitanLagos - At exactly 6.45pm on Saturday, April 24, 2010, news filtered in that Edo Sule Ugbagwu, a correspondent with The Nation newspapers had been killed by gun men who fired shots o (By News Poster)...South Africa: Operation Murambatsvina-Style Eviction of Zimbabweans
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Violet GondaDestitute Zimbabweans living in shacks in urban areas in South Africa are becoming victims of a 'clean up' exercise, as the government prepares for the World Cup which starts in June.Th (By News Poster)...NBA, NUJ, Atiku Others Task FG On Ugbagwu (NEWS)
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Adam Adedimeji, Francis Famoroti And Tunde OpeseitanLagos - The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Monday condemned the killing on Saturday in Lagos of The Nation's reporter, Edo Sule Ugbagwu.NBA As (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Canada Acknowledges Failings Over Genocide
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Edmund Kagire and AgenciesKigali - Retired Canadian Lieutenant General, Romeo Dallaire, the former United Nations Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR) force commander who was in the country as the 1994 genoc (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sense Prevails - Cautious Approach to Bank Reform is Welcome
Friday 30-Apr-2010: Johannesburg - AS DEMOCRATS and Republicans continue to battle it out in the US Senate over legislation to regulate the financial sector, our own regulators continue their measured approach to the reg (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Senate Decries Lack of Law to Fight Terrorism
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Ben Agande and Shaibu InalegwuSenators yesterday expressed worry over the lack of existing laws to strengthen the fight against terrorism in the country and called for the passage of laws that woul (By News Poster)...West Africa: Fake Drugs Back in W. African Markets
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Tamba Jean MatthewDakar - A massive wave of trafficking fake drugs has resumed in West Africa in defiance to a concerted international effort to dismantle the network.Guinea Bissau and Senegal repo (By News Poster)...Swaziland: Benefit of U.S. Trade Law Questioned
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Mbabane - A decade after the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA), a preferential US trade agreement, became law on 18 May 2000, there are questions over the benefits, if any, derived from the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Hoodlums, Pro-Ibori Protesters Clash in Warri
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Omon-Julius OnabuWarri - Social and economic activities in the commercial oil city of Warri and adjoining Effurun were grounded to a halt for several hours yesterday as hundreds of youths protestin (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG's Mining Proposal Will Buoy Ebira People If Implemented - Salami
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Olufemi YahayaLagos - Mixed reactions have continued to trail the White paper released by Kogi State government recently on the report of violence pervading the Central Senatorial district of the s (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Challenges Before Ladan At NNPC
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Adeola YusufLagos - The 2010 Oloibiri Annual Lectures and Energy Forum Series was the first official outing for Shehu Ladan as the managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation ( (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil and Gas Local Content Law - Beyond Passing the Bill
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Okechukwu OnwukaThe Nigerian Oil & Gas Industry Content Bill (2010) has just been signed into law by the Acting president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. The Bill directs that henceforth, priority should b (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Moyana Bounces Back At RBZ
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Ndamu SanduSEVENTEEN years after leaving the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) as governor, Kombo Moyana returns as a board member in a move widely seen as an attempt to reinvent the central bank and (By News Poster)...Namibia: Power Supply From Zim Remains - Katali
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE five-year power supply agreement Namibia had concluded with Zimbabwe in 2007 in order to receive 150 megawatt of electricity from the neighbouring country would be honoured and (By News Poster)...Rautenbach Flops in SA
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Collin MatizaHarare - YOUNG Zimbabwean motor racing ace Conrad Rautenbach's dreams of winning the Sasol Rally in Nelspruit, South Africa, ended prematurely after his car developed an engine problem (By News Poster)...Somalia: Kenya, African Union Abet Terror, Says Group
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Kevin KellyThe Kenyan government and African Union forces have engaged in or facilitated "unlawful" actions related to the conflict in Somalia, Human Rights Watch charges in a new report.Kenyan off (By News Poster)...South Africa: Kidnapped Peacekeepers Say They'll Go Back
Saturday 01-May-2010: Pretoria - The four South African peacekeepers, who were kidnapped in the war-ravaged Sudanese region of Darfur say despite their ordeal, they are ready to go back to the war-torn country to continue (By News Poster)...South Africa Facilitators Leave Empty-Handed After Brief 'Talks' Visit
Saturday 01-May-2010: By Lance GumaSouth African facilitators tasked with breaking the political deadlock in Zimbabwe came away empty handed on Thursday, after meeting party leaders Morgan Tsvangirai, Robert Mugabe and Art (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC-T Dismisses Reports of in-Fighting and Factionalism
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Violet GondaThe MDC-T issued a statement on Friday dismissing as 'malicious' the reports of factionalism in the party. Speculation is rife that the recent violent incident that took place at the pa (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jonathan Fires Elections Chief
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Daniel IdonorACTING President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, yesterday, ordered the immediate sack of the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Maurice Iwu.The Presidency (By News Poster)...Global Witness warns Zimbabwe against exporting blood diamonds (PRESS RELEASE)
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Zimbabwe must not resume diamond exports from its troubled Marange diamond fields without prior permission from the Kimberley Process certification scheme, warned Global Witness today following a ruli (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Man Stoned to Death in Jos
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Ahmed MohammedJos - Twenty nine year old Ezekiel Joel has been stoned to death in a bush behind the Wild Life Park in Jos, Plateau State.Police Public Relations Officer ASP Mohammed Lerama disclose (By News Poster)...Why Is it Difficult for African Presidents to Leave Power?
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Andrew M. MwendaLiberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf had promised not to run for a second term. However, she recently changed her mind. In 2002, Mwai Kibaki of Kenya had made a similar promise (By News Poster)...Somalia: Heavy Shelling Kills Ten, Injuries 40 Others in Mogadishu
Monday 26-Apr-2010: At least 10 people have been killed and more than 40 others wounded after bitter shelling between the two rival sides in Mogadishu, witnesses, official told Shabelle radio on Sunday.Reports say the he (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Cabinet Rejects Plan to Evade Controls on Diamond Sales
Sunday 02-May-2010: By Kholwani NyathiHarare - CABINET on Tuesday rejected Zanu PF sponsored proposals to auction diamonds from the controversial Chiadzwa fields without approval from trade regulator, the Kimberley Proce (By News Poster)...Uganda: Historic LRA/Uganda Legislation Takes Crucial Step Forward in US House of Representatives
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Resolve UgandaWashington, DC - Yesterday, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs voted unanimously to approve the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act, making the legislation eligible t (By News Poster)...Africa: Small Independent Oil Companies Must Expand
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Joan AkelloKampala - They are small operators, without depots. Some are a single, stand alone service station while others belong to a group. They are called "small independents" because unlike the (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kony Rebels Returning to Garamba, Says UN Report
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Tabu Butagira and Betty KyakuwaKampala - Monuc, the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in its April 11-17 weekly security update, reports that no one knows Joseph Kony's whereabouts bu (By News Poster)...Sudan: Hague Court Stands by Dismissal of Charges Against Darfur Rebel
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: The pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has rejected an appeal by prosecutors to overturn an earlier decision declining to confirm charges against a rebel leader accused of dir (By News Poster)...Somalia: 10 Killed and 50 Wounded in Somalia Fighting
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Mogadishu - At least 10 people died and nearly 50 were wounded when Islamists attacked government positions at the weekend in Mogadishu.The fighting started when rebel insurgents targeted pro-governme (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Aganga Emerges World Bank Chairman
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Daniel IdonorMINISTER of Finance, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, in Washington D.C. has emerged as the new Chairman of the Board of World Bank and International Monetary Fund, BWIs, after a keenly contested (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone's Graft War Comes Alive
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Tony OkeraforLagos - It seems to me that the anti-corruption commission is playing games with our client, Hajia Assatu Kabbah. This is an existing indictment which was supposed to have come up toda (By News Poster)...South Africa's Jacob Zuma Reveals HIV Status - President Zuma the Scientific & Medical genius - Living proof that HIV can be STOPPED - ZAPIRO was WRONG!!!
Monday 26-Apr-2010: [(NB: Take note: Later today I've got some serious Zuma humour coming up on the site. A LOT of news articles are already gueued for later today - so ENJOY!) They always liked to say what an "intell (By News Poster)...Kenya: HIV-Positive People Who Can Hide Aids Virus Baffle Researchers
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Arthur OkwebaNairobi - She is HIV positive, pregnant and has lived without drugs for nine years. And scientists are watching her with keen interest because the virus in her body is undetectable.The (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ekwueme Bemoans Nigeria-Biafra War
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Leo Aligwo And Kalu OkwaraLagos - Former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme has lamented the resort to war in resolving conflicts while describing the Nigeria-Biafra War as an exercise in futility.He (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Keeping Country's Reform Alive
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Andrew J. YoungSince its independence in 1960, Nigeria has been an economic and political leader in Africa. Its peacekeepers have been among the world's most effective. Nigerian entrepreneurs consi (By News Poster)...Uganda: Integrating Fish Rearing With Crop And Animal Farming
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Michael J. SsaliAccording to the Washington based Population Reference Bureau 2009 Data Sheet, Uganda has a total fertility rate of 6.7, a natural increase rate of 3.4, and a population of 30.7 mil (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Alleged Fraud - Ogbulafor to Be Arraigned May 3
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Paul Ibe And Damilola OyedeleAbuja - After weeks of suspense, the embattled Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman Prince Vincent Ogbulafor and four others are to be arraigned at an Abuja (By News Poster)...Africa: Country's Judiciary - a Messy State
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Sabella Ogbobode AbiddeAs flawed as successive Nigerian constitutions have been, they have always, in theory at least, provided for an independent judiciary. In practice, however, this has not alwa (By News Poster)...Kenya: Local Firms Rank Third in World Crimes List
Monday 26-Apr-2010: Nairobi - Pressure to meet financial targets and the desire to earn personal performance bonuses are driving many Kenyan employees into economic crimes.According to a survey by audit firm Pricewaterho (By News Poster)...East Africa: Obama to Host East African Muslims at Summit
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Kevin KellyAs part of his effort to improve US relations with Muslims in East Africa and throughout the world, President Barack Obama is hosting an entrepreneurship summit this week designed to enc (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Senate Considers Bill On Combating Terrorism
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Sufuyan OjeifoAbuja - The Senate yesterday debated the general principles (second reading) of a Bill seeking to provide for comprehensive measures at combating domestic and international terrorism. (By News Poster)...Ex-Namdeb Man's Diamond Theft Appeal Fails
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Werner MengesTHE conviction and six-year jail term of a former Namdeb employee who has been convicted of stealing diamonds worth some N$438 000 from his employer are remaining unchanged after his a (By News Poster)...South Africa: New Opposition Party Faces Leadership Crisis
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - The fight for the leadership of the Congress of the People (COPE) turned ugly last night when embattled leader Mosiuoa Lekota criticised deputy Mbhazima Shilowa for alleg (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Violence - Ogun Imposes Curfew in Ado-Odo
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Sheriff BalogunAbeokuta - Office of the Secretary to the Ogun State government yesterday declared a dawn to dusk curfew 6pm and 6am in Ado-Odo town, Ado-Odo/Ota local government area of Ogun State (By News Poster)...Kenya: Private Equity Taps Health Sector Growth
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Steve MbogoPrivate equity funds are lining up for entry into Kenya's health sector in a move that could add a profit segment to the cost of treatment and spark a fresh rally of medical costs in the (By News Poster)...Sudan: Sudan Now Campaign Calls on Secretary Clinton and Ambassador Rice to Make Sudan a Priority and Personally Lead U.S. Policy for Africa?s Largest Country
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Following this month’s flawed national elections in Sudan, a group of anti-genocide and human rights organizations is calling on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and United Nations Ambassador (By News Poster)...'Tighten Those Food Belts'
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyCONSUMERS should brace themselves for higher groceries bills in the coming months as expensive fuel and electricity will drive most food prices up, First Capital has cautioned.The situ (By News Poster)...Somalia: 10 Killed in Fresh Mogadishu Shelling
Monday 26-Apr-2010: At least 10 people, mostly civilians are killed and 20 others injured in heavy shelling that rocked Somalia's restive capital Mogadishu on Sunday, eyewitnesses and medics said.The shelling erupted aft (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Confusion over Alleged Attack on Shell Oil Facility
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Jimitota OnoyumePort Harcourt - SHELL says it is not true that its facility was attacked in Buguma on Thursday night as alleged by a group, Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC) in an online mail to me (By News Poster)...Ghana: Govt Reduces Mining Royalty Rate
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Steve ManteawThe Atta Mills government has back down on its earlier proposal to vary the mineral royalty rate payable by mining companies in Ghana, from a range of 3% to 6% to a fixed rate of 6% , (By News Poster)...Why Majority Say 'Yes' to Kenya Draft Constitution
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Murithi MutigaNairobi - The nation's decades-long search for a new constitution could be approaching a successful conclusion after the first poll since the draft was approved by Parliament showed a (By News Poster)...Liberia: Shannon Dismisses Missing Diamonds Report
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Lands, Mines and Energy Minister Eugene Shannon has dismissed reports quoting the General Auditing Commission (GAC) of missing diamonds at his ministry.Reacting to this paper's story based on GAC repo (By News Poster)...Tanzania: A Word of Advice to Our Happy-Go-Lucky Leaders - Keep That Uranium Underground
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Jenerali UlimwenguNairobi - It was recently reported in this newspaper -- and I was slightly shocked to hear it-- that Tanzania had significant deposits of uranium, and that government plans are un (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Field Days - the Resettled Farmer's Public Sphere
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Obert ChifambaHarare - BESIDES breaking the day-to-day field toil monotony, field days give farmers the refreshing opportunity of meeting extension agents on a one-on-one basis, mingle and exchange (By News Poster)...Angola: Ramping up Malaria Prevention
Sunday 02-May-2010: By Louise RedversLouanda - Crouched on an upturned plastic box, Eva Angelino bounces 11-month old Odelina on her knee, trying to stop her crying. Mother and daughter are waiting in line outside a publ (By News Poster)...Nigeria: At Last, the Local Content Act!
Friday 30-Apr-2010: IN 1989, the then Minister of Petroleum Resources, Professor Jibril Aminu, displeased at the virtual lack of Nigerian presence in the upstream sector of the oil industry, invited a number of wealthy N (By News Poster)...Namibia: Land Reform Well Defined - Naruseb
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE land-reform process is making progress despite public perceptions to the contrary, Lands Minister Alfeus Naruseb has told Parliament."The process of land reform, to some, may s (By News Poster)...Nigeria: IBB - The Insult And the Challenge (2)
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Ayo Oyoze BajeThe Inside Story of The World's Most Corrupt Financial Empire was the 500-page book written by two award-winning American journalists, Peter Truell and Larry Gurwin. It chronicled som (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NAFDAC Intercepts Fake Drugs Worth N600 Million
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Peter DuruMakurdi - Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii, has disclosed that the agency has intercepted 7 truck-loads of fake drugs (By News Poster)...Kenya: Equity's Plan for HF Starts to Take Shape
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By James MakauEquity Bank has set its sights on using Housing Finance to execute a mortgage revolution in Kenya and rev up earnings as the economy recovers from a two-year slump.HF is among the lynchp (By News Poster)...Somalia: UN Envoy Condemns Mosque Attack
Sunday 02-May-2010: The top United Nations envoy to Somalia today strongly condemned yesterday's deadly attack on a mosque in the troubled country's capital, Mogadishu, calling for an end to indiscriminate killings.Accor (By News Poster)...Kenya: Bank Joins Rate Cut Queue in Scramble for Loan Seekers
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By James MakauKCB has lowered its base lending level, joining the rate cut race among Kenyan commercial banks that are now setting the pace for lower borrowing costs in the country.East Africa's large (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Elected to Chair SADC Tourism Body
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Isdore GuvamombeHarare - ZIMBABWE has been elected to chair Sadc's tourism organ, the Regional Tourism Organisation of Southern Africa, in recognition of the country's recent efforts in reviving th (By News Poster)...Cranswick Denies High Court Has Approved Sale of Diamonds (NEWS)
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Lance GumaAfrican Consolidated Resources (ACR) CEO Andrew Cranswick has denied state media reports that the High Court has approved the sale of diamonds at the centre of an ownership dispute betwee (By News Poster)...Uganda: Prostitutes Lodge War Against Aids
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Rodney MuhumuzaKampala - Uganda's community of prostitutes has long been considered a weak link in the fight against Aids. Popular opinion holds that most of them are infected with HIV- that they r (By News Poster)...Kenya: Another Reshuffle is Coming
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Isaac Ongiri and Francis MureithiNairobi - MYSTERY has deepened over the whereabouts of Triton boss Yagnesh Devani who swindled Sh7.6 billion from the oil industry and fled Kenya at Christmas 2008. (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Revamp Tobacco Industry
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Harare - ZIMBABWE'S tobacco industry was developed over several decades to cater for no more than a couple of thousand large scale growers, each able to perform on farm the full production cycle from (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Anger Boils Over Garikai Houses
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Vusumuzi SifileSHARON Mapako would be a proud owner of a decent house today had the government lived up to its promises. For the past five years, Mapako, a victim of the government's 2005 Operation (By News Poster)...Kenya: Govt Returns Point to Banks' New Role As Economic Growth Drivers
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Nairobi - Kenya's banking sector could be the next chief driver of the country's economic growth after it recorded a massive 29.6 per cent growth in profits from Ksh7.1 billion ($94.7 million) registe (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ogbulafor's Trial - ICPC's Fresh Burden
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Austin ObohLagos. - Speculations that National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Vincent Ogbulafor, may be shown the way out by the government in power grew stronger early last week when (By News Poster)...Properties, Rentals More Expensive
Saturday 01-May-2010: By Paul NyakazeyaZIMBABWE has experienced a significant rise in the price of residential properties and rentals during the first quarter of the year as a result of property shortages, limited mortgage (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Opposition Leader Co-Accused Arraigned in Court
Saturday 01-May-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - TWO suspects accused alongside Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, for planning activities aimed at causing state insecurity, were yesterday arraigned before a judge at Gasabo Intermed (By News Poster)...Witness Says, RUF Fighters Were Not Recruited From NPFL Cells (NEWS)
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Alpha SesayStories of Sierra Leone's rebel leader recruiting his fighters from jail cells under the control of Mr. Taylor's rebel forces in Liberia are false, a defense witness told the Special Cou (By News Poster)...Africa: IFAD President Urges African Leaders To Invest in Agriculture
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: African governments, donors and the private sector need to act now to turn the world’s 500 million small farms into profitable businesses, said Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of the International F (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Govt Defends Charges Against Opposition Leader
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - State Prosecution is ready to produce irrefutable evidence linking Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza to a terrorist group with plans to cause state insecurity as well as evidence pinn (By News Poster)...South Africa: Govt Launches Massive HIV Prevention Drive
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: South Africa - home to the one-sixth of the world's population living with HIV - today unveiled an ambitious campaign to prevent and treat the virus, a move hailed by the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AID (By News Poster)...South Africa: Country Launches Massive UN-Backed HIV Prevention Drive
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: South Africa - home to the one-sixth of the world's population living with HIV - today unveiled an ambitious campaign to prevent and treat the virus, a move hailed by the Joint United Nations Programm (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NIA Bungles Viser, Hides Under ICT
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Patience SaghanaThe dream of the Nigerian insurance industry to hit N1trilion income by 2012 may just be far-fetched if frantic efforts are not stirred by insurance companies to re_activate the Veh (By News Poster)...Sudan: South Seeks Ways to Diversify Oil Reliant Economy
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Michael WakabiNairobi - With the autonomous Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) depending on as much as 98 per cent on oil revenues from the North to finance its budget, officials are now looking t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Burning Issue for Eskom and Municipalities - As I said: Rolling Blackouts are BACK... ESKOM can destroy the entire economy...
Saturday 01-May-2010: [Yeah, the rolling blackouts are back. This, mind you, after former President Mbeki arranged some R60 billion (a huge chunk of South Africa's GDP) for these worthless bastards. Electricity prices are (By News Poster)...Nigeria: North's Stranglehold to Power Over, Says Aliyu
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Emeka MamahAgainst the backdrop of perceived lost of power by the North occasioned by the ill-heath of President Umaru Yar'Adua and the possibility of Acting President Goodluck Jonathan contesting (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Harangue of the Taciturn
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Adamu AdamuAt a security retreat last week, National Security Adviser, General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, was reported to have criticized ongoing reforms by M. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi at the Central Bank o (By News Poster)...Uganda: Government Should Ensure Price Stability in Produce Market
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Settimba S. NduggaIn a recent address to the people of Kyankwanzi, President Museveni promised to give the masses a maize mill through a co-operative society. This comes after several public outcri (By News Poster)...Somalia: Govt Troops Desert to Insurgents
Friday 30-Apr-2010: Hundreds of Somali soldiers trained in a US-funded programme deserted the fragile government to join the Al-Qaida-inspired militants they are supposed to be fighting because of non payment.Somalia's s (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Increased Violation of Rights - Report
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Bernard LugongoDar es Salaam - The human rights situation in the country is worsening in many areas even as the government recorded improvements in a few.This is according to a report on the state (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC-T in Pay Shocker
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Farirai Machivenyika and Mabasa SasaHarare - LAST week's assault on MDC-T director-general Mr Toendepi Shonhe at Harvest House could have been partly caused by alleged massive salary discrepancies (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How to Manage The Country's Sovereign Wealth Funds
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Barbara JamesLagos - A couple of weeks ago, there was an enquiry from ADIA about the status of the African Private Equity Fund of Funds - Henshaw Capital Partners, the first independent pan-African (By News Poster)...Areva Hints at Energy Partnership
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Lorato KhobetsiWindhoek - "AREVA is ready to become Namibia's partner to develop carbon-free solutions to supplement the country's current power production means. AREVA's unique integrated offer in (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Court Stops Norwegian Oil Firm From Repatriating Profits
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Davidson IriekpenLagos - A Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday ordered a Norwegian oil firm, Statoil Nigeria Limited to ensure that proceeds accruing to it from the 18.5 per cent interest in the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gunmen Kill Journalist
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Evelyn Usman and Wahab AbdulahLagos - SEVEN months after The Guardian newspapers' Assistant News Editor was killed by gunmen, another newspaper journalist, Edo Sule Ugbagwu, was shot dead, weekend, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: No Sacred Cows in Anti-Graft War - Jonathan
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Chesa ChesaAbuja - ACTING PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan at the weekend told the United States that he is strengthening the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG Worries Over CBN Reforms...laments Effect On Economy
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Charles KumoluThe Federal Government appears to be worried over the reforms introduced by Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as Presidency sources said the reforms (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tongaat Contributes U.S.$73,3 Million to Group Profits
Friday 30-Apr-2010: Harare - SOUTH Africa-based sugar producer Tongaat Hullet's Zimbabwean sugar operations contributed R548 million (US$73,3 million) to the group's profits for the financial period ended December 2009 a (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Nation to Join SADC Energy Project
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Luanda - Angola will integrate the Southern African Development Community (SADC)'s energy project, together with Congo, South Africa, Namibia and Botswana, the Angolan State secretary for Energy, Jo&a (By News Poster)...Uganda: Assets Control Goes Digital
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By David SsempijjaKampala - Physical assets are important in constituting the worth of any organisation, but keeping them secure is a difficult task.That is why firms must put in place security contro (By News Poster)...Sudan, Somalia Top Peoples under Threat Global Ranking (PRESS RELEASE)
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Close international scrutiny on events in Sudan and Somalia is vital in the next year as both countries lead a global ranking of 'Peoples under Threat', Minority Rights Group International says.Somali (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Expatriates Dominance in Oil and Gas Industry is Over - Sen. Maeba
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Abuja - The chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream), Senator Lee Maeba has lauded the signing into law of the Nigeria Content Bill by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan saying that it (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Land Speculators, Fraudsters Threaten Lagos Megacity Project
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Olasunkanmi Akoni and Monsur OlowoopejoThe Lagos State government has issued stern warning to some groups identified as land speculators and fraudsters who engage in the illegal sale and developmen (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Land Dispute - Murerwa Subpoenaed
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Wongai ZhangazhaA HARARE magistrate has subpoenaed Lands and Rural Resettlement minister Herbert Murerwa after he failed to appear in court three times to testify in a land dispute involving a Beat (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Wheat Farmers Start Applying for Loans
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Elita ChikwatiHarare - Farmers have started applying for bank loans for their winter wheat farming.This comes as Government is yet to release US$10 million it said had been set aside for winter cro (By News Poster)...Liberia: Furors Hover Over Ellen?s Audit Repudiation Edict, Selective Justice
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: Side by side with the Threshold Bill, the recent HIPC audit reports released by the General Auditing Commission (GAC), have kept the public space exceedingly charged with lamentations, denials and def (By News Poster)...Ageing in a Changing Environment
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Catherine SasmanWindhoek - Senior citizens in Namibia want to take action to improve their living standards and conditions in an increasingly harsh environment.A small group of senior citizens met (By News Poster)...Kenya: Cheaper Loans to Boost Kenyan Economy
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Nairobi - Loans just got cheaper, thanks to a race by commercial banks to cut their lending rates.From Monday, individuals and businesses will be able to get credit at a fairly cheaper cost, when the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Teachers Leader Urges Civil Servants to Go on Hunger Strike over Wages
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Violet GondaThe militant Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has called for drastic measures, including going on hunger strike, to get the government's attention over the plight of civil (By News Poster)...Zambia: Police Hunt Suspected Gun-Toting Pact Cadres
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: POLICE are pursuing suspected Patriotic Front (PF)/United Party for National Development (UPND) pact cadres for allegedly brandishing unknown types of firearms and firing in the air during the on-goin (By News Poster)...NUJ Decries Killing of Two Journalists in Jos (NEWS)
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Taye ObateruJos - The Plateau State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has expressed concern over the killing, last weekend, of two journalists by angry mob during the fresh outbreak (By News Poster)...Kenya: High Tomato Prices Herald Rise in Cost of Food
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Rawlings OtiniThe cost of tomatoes has risen by 40 per cent over the past month on reduced supply, reversing the fall in food prices that kicked off in January.Kenya Agriculture Research Institute (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: New Forum Seeks to Prune Law on Modified Food
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Wudineh ZenebeConsultative Forum established on Wednesday, April 14, 2010, at the Desalegn Hotel, Cape Verde Street, has a plan to sway the federal government into reconsidering the overlooked bio (By News Poster)...South Africa: Madagascar Crisis Talks to Break Deadlock
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Pretoria - Madagascar's rivals are set to tackle the core of the country's political deadlock on Wednesday as crisis talks resume with interim leader Andry Rajoelina and ousted president Marc Ravaloma (By News Poster)...Africa: UNDP Administrator Visits Continent
Sunday 02-May-2010: New York - UNDP Chief Helen Clark begins a four-country tour of Africa tomorrow to highlight progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the run up to the MDGs Summit in September 2010 (By News Poster)...South Africa: Metro Police Fight Human Trafficking
Saturday 01-May-2010: Pretoria - The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) will be embarking on a human trafficking campaign to raise awareness about the crime.The week long campaign, which will run from 1-8 May (By News Poster)...Drought Forces Ugandan Women to Turn to Quarrying >>
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Frederick WomakuyuKampala - AT Kimbinze village on the periphery of Lomungang Mountain in Moroto district, north-eastern Uganda, Mary Ratha braves the cold morning breeze to harvest stones in a rou (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Beira Assembly Rejects Beira Council Accounts
Friday 30-Apr-2010: Maputo - The elected Municipal Assembly in the central Mozambican city of Beira has rejected the report and accounts for 2009 presented by the Municipal Council, reports the Beira daily paper "Diario (By News Poster)...'PM Snubbed Ahmadinejad for Date With Ian Khama'
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: Harare - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai boycotted Islamic Republic of Iran President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's visit because he had a date with Botswana's Seretse Khama Ian Khama, it has emerged.Preside (By News Poster)...East Africa: Naturalisation of Burundian Refugees in Tanzania - A New Home?
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Lucy HovilIt is rare for host countries to offer refugees citizenship, especially in a context such as the Great Lakes region where millions have been displaced. Instead, most governments wait for (By News Poster)...Somalia: Explosion Kills Two Soldiers in Mogadishu
Monday 26-Apr-2010: Land mine blast targeted to the government soldiers traveling around Ex-control Afgoi checkpoint in out of Mogadishu has killed two soldiers, wounding another, official told Shabelle radio on Saturday (By News Poster)...South Africa: Rally Behind HIV Campaign
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Gabi KhumaloEkurhuleni - Gauteng's chilly weather could not deter hundreds of South Africans from being a part of the country's HIV, Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign launch at Natalspruit Hos (By News Poster)...South Africa: Major Testing Drive Kicks Off
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Khopotso BodibeThe country's top political leadership will lead the nation in an historic massive HIV testing drive this morning (Sunday, 25 April).President Zuma, his deputy Kgalema Motlanthe and (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Court Accuses French Lawyer of Racism
Friday 30-Apr-2010: Arusha - Trial Chamber III of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Monday accused a French lawyer, Vincent Courcelle-Labrousse, of using abusive language with racial connotations agai (By News Poster)...Africa: Agriculture Will Propel Growth in Recovering Economies
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Tradeinvest Africa StaffThe Agriculture sector will provide the anchor for recovering economies in East Africa, reports the Africa Review ahead of the World Economic Forum on Africa next week.Bette (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Revenue From Minerals Rises
Friday 30-Apr-2010: Harare - ZIMBABWE'S revenue from minerals rose 43,6 percent in the first quarter, spurred by platinum sales from Zimbabwe Platinum Mines, which contributed the bulk of the earnings.Statistics from the (By News Poster)...East Africa: Maize Grade Worst in East Africa
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By John KasoziKampala - Busoga region produces the poorest maize grade in the East African region. Every season, farmers in the region replant local maize varieties from the previous harvest season, l (By News Poster)...Nigeria: PIB - Petroleum Ministry Begins Negotiations With IOCS
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Chika Amanze-NwachukuLagos - Amidst serious concerns expressed by International Oil Companies (IOCs) and other stakeholders on some provisions in the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), the Ministry of (By News Poster)...Drug Dealer Gets Heavy Fines
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Werner MengesA WINDHOEK resident paid fines of N$35 000 yesterday after being sentenced in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court on three drug-dealing charges.In a plea given before Magistrate Helvi Shil (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ghanaian Scholar Fears Deportation Over Face Veil Book
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Taiwo OlawaleLagos - Malam Issah Hassan Tikumah, a former Social Studies lecturer at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria has alleged that he is being hounded by security men and some "reactionary fo (By News Poster)...VP Mujuru Hails China's Support
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Harare - Vice President Joice Mujuru has commended the Chinese government for its continued support for Zimbabwe and has called for strengthening of bilateral ties.VP Mujuru said this at a luncheon sh (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Okonjo-Iweala Urges Federal Govt to Focus on 5 Key Infrastructure
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Peter EgwuatuThe Managing Director of World Bank, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has advised the federal government to concentrate on five key infrastructure that would spur growth and development of the (By News Poster)...Kenya: Brewers Turn to Sorghum as Imports Costs Skyrocket
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Nairobi - Sorghum farmers in Kenya's drought-ravaged districts are set for big fortunes as demand for the grain grows. Regional brewing giant East African Breweries Ltd is buying the crop for making b (By News Poster)...Uganda: DFCU Set for Tough Challenge
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Juma KisaameKampala - DFCU Bank 2009 results indicated above average industry growth. Juma Kisaame , the managing director, tells David Ssempijja about the bank and the industry2009 was billed a di (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Kasukuwere Firm Dragged to Court
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Jennifer DubeUTC, a transport company linked to Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has been taken to court for failing to pay its workers since last year. (By News Poster)...Somalia: Amisom Troops 'Advance to Rebel Area' in Mogadishu
Monday 26-Apr-2010: The contingent of African Union troops (AMISOM) have made new military bases at the former Somali business bank in Mogadishu's northern Shangani district, witnesses and officials told Garowe Online.Re (By News Poster)...Africa: Security Council Faulted for Gender Hypocrisy
Sunday 02-May-2010: By Armin RosenUnited Nations - Ten years after a United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at re-evaluating women's roles in U.N.-brokered peacekeeping efforts, women are still underrepresented (By News Poster)...Namibia: Swapo Women's Deal Sours
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Tileni MongudhiA LEGAL battle is brewing between the Swapo Party Women's Council (SPWC) and a South African company after a business deal went sour.The SPWC started the process after it allegedly d (By News Poster)...Namibia: Playing It Safe Eats Into SBN Profits
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: THE global credit crunch suppressed Standard Bank Namibia's appetite for risk last year, which spilt over as constraint growth in loans and advances and resulted in the bank's performance taking a dip (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Is The Country Really Broke?
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Lagos - The Chairman of the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mr. Hamman Tukur, set many tongues wagging and many hearts racing when he was quoted recently as saying that (By News Poster)...Liberia: Diamond, Gold Smugglers Get Stern Warning - Union Boss Warns
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: The President of the Gold and Diamond Workers Union of Liberia, Mrs. Morgana M. May-Cole, is warning brokers and dealers throughout the country to immediately halt the act of smuggling minerals from t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Minister Bemoans 'Marked' Increase African Coups
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - INTERNATIONAL Relations and Co-operation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane has bemoaned the resurgence of coups and other unconstitutional changes of government in Afric (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG Reaffirms Support For Military
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Yochuku Ofoka YobolisaAbuja - MINISTER of Defence, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode recently paid a familiarisation visit to the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) and the Services and restated federal government' (By News Poster)...Putting the Spark back into African Economies
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Catherine RiunguNairobi - In what could be a sign that Africa is shedding its long-standing "basket case" label, the continent is now among the fastest growing regions in the world behind Asia and (By News Poster)...Schneider Cements Empowerment Deal With CIH
Sunday 02-May-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - ENERGY group Schneider Electric SA has sold a 20,1% interest to empowerment company Community Investment Holdings (CIH) for about R300m, the companies announced yesterd (By News Poster)...Taylor Refused to Attend His Trial in Protest Against Treatment By Dutch Security Personnel (NEWS)
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor today refused to attend his trial in protest of security measures by Dutch security personnel responsible for taking him from his detention facility to the courtroom in Th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police AIG Tours Scene of Journalists' Death
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Raymond GukasJos - ASSISTANT INSPECTOR-GENERAL of police in charge of Zone 4 Donald Iroham who was recently drafted to Plateau State in the wake of civil violence in there has visited the areas whe (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Nation Commemorates World Malaria Day
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Harare - Malaria accounts for nearly 30 percent of outpatient attendance and 12 percent of hospital admissions in Zimbabwe.Although it is seasonal, it is the third most common cause of morbidity and m (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Gets Nod to Start Selling Diamonds
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - A High Court judge has given the cash strapped Zimbabwe government the nod to start selling diamonds from a controversial diamond field whose exploitation has been met with (By News Poster)...Madagascar: Leaders to Meet in New Bid to Resolve Political Deadlock
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By John AllenCape Town - Four months after Madagascar's de facto leader Andry Rajoelina repudiated internationally-brokered mechanisms aimed at restoring constitutional rule, African leaders will make (By News Poster)...The Day the Vapositori Were Outclassed
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Vusumuzi SifileMEMBERS of the Apostolic sect, popularly known as Vapostori , were on Thursday left in the cold as they were apparently snubbed at the welcome party for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahm (By News Poster)...Ghana: State on Course to Pump First Oil Last Quarter of This Year
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: A Deputy Minister of Energy, Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, on Friday announced that the country was on course to pump its first oil from the Jubilee Field come the last quarter of this year.Production (By News Poster)...Kenya: Eveready Seeks Safe Haven in Solar Products as Fake Batteries Flood the Market
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Jim OnyangoBattery maker, Eveready East Africa, is banking on new product lines including solar energy panels to survive the cutthroat competition from substandard and cheap Chinese imports.The com (By News Poster)...2010: FIFA World cup - Some people would starve themselves, give up their houses or jobs to see their soccer team win
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: [Here's a strange survey. Jan] SINGAPORE (Reuters) – What would you sacrifice to see your country win soccer's World Cup? Food for a week, according to a survey that also found fans willing to lose (By Jan)...Kenya: Fugitive Oil Tycoon Arrested?
Monday 26-Apr-2010: Nairobi - Fugitive oil businessman Yagnesh Devani, who has been on the run since December 2008, is in Nairobi, a senior Immigration official revealed on Friday night.But there were conflicting reports (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hundreds Tested for HIV
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Gabi KhumaloPretoria - Responding to President Jacob Zuma's call for everyone to know their HIV status, South Africans came out in their numbers to get tested for the disease at the launch of the H (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma Discloses HIV Status
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Gabi KhumaloEkurhuleni - President Jacob Zuma is HIV negative.He announced his results during the launch of the HIV, Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign at the Natalspruit Hospital on Sunday. Zu (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Affirmative Action: Black people run from one job to another for a quick buck - Whites are stayers & problem solvers...
Monday 26-Apr-2010: [A friend of mine had some comments about an article I wrote some time back. The title was: "S.Africa: Affirmative Action: Lessons from my Work - How black people completely miss the point - another (By Jan)...Kenya: Intrigue and Blame Game Over Oil Inspection Tender
Saturday 01-May-2010: By Jevans NyabiageNairobi - On August 27, 2009, Industrialisation minister Henry Kosgey and his Permanent Secretary John Lonyangapuo were in Mombasa to officiate at the launch of the oil-testing labor (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Sorrow, Tears at Da Grin's Interment
Saturday 01-May-2010: By Lolade SowooluStrings of impromptu activities have pervaded this outgoing week, all organised to celebrate the brief but impacting life of late 26 year old rapper Olaonipekun Olaitan a.k.a Dagrin, (By News Poster)...Rift Valley Fever - First Human Death in Western Cape
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) confirmed today that a 49-year old male from the Karoo has been the first human to die from Rift Valley Fever in the Western Cape. He died in Ou (By News Poster)...South Africa: Controversial Mining Project to be Completed in Third Quarter
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - CONSTRUCTION of Coal of Africa 's (CoAL's) controversial Vele project in Limpopo is expected to be completed in the third quarter, with sales of coking coal expected there (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ibori Loses Bid to Stop Arrest
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Austin OgwudaAsaba - JUSTICE Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court, Asaba, yesterday, turned down an application from the former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, seeking to prevent the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Eskom Seeks Medupi Carbon Credits
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Jocelyn NewmarchJohannesburg - ESKOM wants to apply for carbon credits for Medupi, its planned coal-fired power station in Limpopo, under the United Nations (UN) Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) p (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Burundi and DRC to Step Up Security Cooperation
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By James KaruhangaKigali - The national coordinator of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), has emphasized that Rwanda, Burundi and the DRC have a large potential for cooper (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Rise in Fuel Prices
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Maputo - Mozambique's Deputy Minister of Energy, Jaime Himede, on Tuesday night announced rises in the price of liquid fuels of up to 17 per cent, taking effect as from Wednesday.The sharpest increase (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Union Bank Pays N12 Billion Gratuity, Pensions to 1,742 Ex-Staff
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Kingsley IghomwenghianMore facts emerged at the weekend on the face-off between the management of Union Bank and some members of local wing of the Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance an (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Another Round of Violence Rocks Jos
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Taye ObateruIt was another day of violence in Jos yesterday prompting deployment of soldiers to check sectarian bloodshed. Three persons were confirmed dead in the clash on a day Acting President J (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Not Enough Funds to Invest in Cashew Production
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: To recover the levels of production of the 1970s, when Mozambique was producing 200,000 tonnes of cashew nuts a year, would require massive investment that is beyond the country's current financial ca (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Another Oil Facility Damaged, Says Military
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Joseph UshigialeLagos - Pressure on oil prices may increase if a report that an oil facility in the Niger Delta has been damaged in an attack is true.According to a ABC News report, a military spok (By News Poster)...Somalia: ONLF Warns Companies and Foreign Agencies in the Somali Region
Monday 26-Apr-2010: Hussein Ali Nor, the information secretary of ONLF guerillas has warned the companies and foreign agencies operating in the Somali region under the control of Ethiopian government to be away from the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Man Chops Off Suspected Thief's Hands
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By George MapongaA Chiredzi man has been arrested for allegedly striking his friend with an iron bar before cutting off his hands with a machete after accusing him of stealing his gumboots.Misheck Mad (By News Poster)...South Africa: Opposition Party President Has Set Up a Lose-Lose Situation - Is Patrick Lekota a bad guy?
Saturday 01-May-2010: [This seems a pretty good reasoned article from Business Day. I quite enjoy Lekota's personality. Perhaps he is playing dirty as they say. What I do enjoy in this article below is some pretty direct t (By News Poster)...Govt to Stimulate Export and Trade
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichGOVERNMENT will set up an agency to promote and increase trade and exports of Namibian goods to stimulate the local economy, President Hifikepunye Pohamba announced on Tuesday duri (By News Poster)...Namibia: Load Caused Fatal Crash
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Werner MengesAN official investigation into the plane crash in which three people were killed in Windhoek in mid-November last year has been concluded with a finding that the crash was caused by ov (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 1,800 Farmers Set to Benefit
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Harare - BARCLAYS Bank Zimbabwe, in partnership with KAITE International, a German non-governmental organisation based in Harare, last week launched a project for the economic empowerment of disadvant (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Alice Nkomo Declared Provincial Hero
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Harare - Zanu-PF Central Committee member and Commissioner in the Anti-Corruption Commission Cde Alice Nkomo who died in a car accident on Saturday has been declared a liberation heroine.She will be b (By News Poster)...Niger: UN Food Agency Steps Up Response Amid Growing Food Crisis
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: As the food crisis in Niger worsens, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today it will more than double the number of hungry people it feeds despite its own funding gap."Niger has been (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Amnesty Programme Has Killed N-Delta Economy - Biukeme
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: By Emma Amaize, WarriChairman of the Izon-Ebe Community Task Force in Delta State, Alaowei Afro Biukeme, lamented, yesterday, that the amnesty programme of the Federal Government for militants has fur (By News Poster)...Nigeria: IMF Cautions On Use of Excess Crude Account
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Ayodele AminuWashington DC - The International Monetary Fund yesterday urged Nigeria to have a clear policy on the use of savings from its Excess Crude Account (ECA).Director of IMF's African Depar (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nupeng Suspends Planned Strike
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Ufomba Uzuegbu With Agency ReportThe National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), yesterday, suspended its planned strike over some unresolved issues with Shell Petroleum Developme (By News Poster)...Uganda: President Museveni Supports Eradication of Nuclear Weapons
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Tabu ButagiraPresident Museveni last night told visiting Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Uganda does not support acquisition of nuclear weapons by new countries.In a speech delivered o (By News Poster)...South Africa: DRDGold to Start Exploration in Zimbabwe
Monday 26-Apr-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - DRDGOLD said on Friday it was preparing to start exploration in Zimbabwe, three months after it announced it was seriously considering the troubled country as an opportuni (By News Poster)...UK May Send Un-PC Jokers to Jail For 7 Years
Friday 30-Apr-2010: Author Hal G. P. Colebatch notes in an article for The Australian that the proposed law is only the latest in a simmering development in Britain that is turning the country in a "soft" totalitarian st (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...South Africa: Areva Ready to Build Solar Energy Plant
Friday 30-Apr-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - SOLAR boiler maker Areva Solar is ready to build a 100MW concentrated solar plant in SA from next year, said Tom Bartolomei, the firm's senior vice-president for busine (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Court Ruling Tests Patience of Blood Diamond Activists
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: Johannesburg - Global Witness, a leading light in establishing the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), a global system to prevent "blood diamonds" being sold into the market, is facing a "d (By News Poster)...Namibia: Leyenaar Takes Over As BAN Chief
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: IAN Leyenaar, Chief Executive Officer of FNB Namibia will take the reins at the Bankers' Association of Namibia (BAN) for the next year, one which he anticipates as "challenging".Leyenaar said that "c (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gijimaast Soldiers On Despite Tender Spat
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: By Thabiso MochikoJohannesburg - DESPITE the R4bn contract between GijimaAst and the Department of Home Affairs being deemed invalid, the director of the information technology firm says it is busines (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Why I Fought Obasanjo - Atiku
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: FORMER Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, said,Tuesday, that he was very loyal and supportive to his former boss, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, during the first half of their first term, but disagreed (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG Reverses Freeze of Export Gas Projects
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Sopuruchi OnwukaLagos - Federal government may have reversed the controversial gas policy which stalled all gas export projects until domestic gas demand is fully satiated.Last week, the new boss o (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Steady Fuel Supply, Transformation My Major Challenges - NNPC Boss
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Stan OkenwaLagos - The new Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Shehu Ladan was guest speaker at the 2010 Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Annual Le (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banks' Shares Not Banned as Collateral for Lending - CBN, NSE
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: By Babajide Komolafe & Michael EbohThe Central Bank of Nigeria yesterday said it did not ban the use of banks' shares as collateral for lending.Similarly, the Nigeria Stock Exchange assured investors (By News Poster)...FW: USA: Is The X-37 Space Plane a Precursor to War in Orbit?
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: [The opening rounds of the next World War will be fought in space. A book on this subject has already been written. But I must say, in some ways, I'm surprised this is only coming up now. The techn (By Jan)...The New Rhodesian forum - Photographs of Rhodesia's war on terror
Monday 26-Apr-2010: Here is a link to the New Rhodesian where you will find photos of the Rhodesian war on terror. Too bad the rest of the West were too busy striking deals with the blacks to support us in our endeavo (By Jan)...USA: Sickening: Obama bans Christian prayer at the Pentagon - US Military - Christians not welcome - Spineless Bill Graham meets with Obama...
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: [This is truly a sickening commentary if ever there was. I agree with the author of this. Billy Graham's spinelessness on this issue is sickening. It truly seems as if Obama can kick any Christian aro (By Jan)...America: Deadly strain of airborne fungus is spreading across the USA...
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: [A regular reader sent me this news story which was in the South African media. I wonder if the American media is mentioning it? Jan] Airborne fungus is spreading in US Posted: April 26 2010 Wa (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: FBC Rights Issue Gets Nod
Friday 30-Apr-2010: Harare - FBC Holdings Ltd directors have been given the nod to raise US$8 million through a rights issue offer to recapitalise two of the group's subsidiaries, FBC Building Society and FBC Reinsurance (By News Poster)...AfricanCrisis brought to you by Generator power... Massive Johannesburg blackout
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Hi All, Just to say our power has been out. I suspect it will be back on in an hour... we'll see. I think we're back to massive rolling blackouts. When I was driving in the Cresta area today. (By Jan)...[Pics] AWESOME New website: New Rhodesian!! Lots of pics of Rhodesia...
Monday 26-Apr-2010: I discovered a new website which was kindly linking to articles on AfricanCrisis. I often track back to websites when they link to articles we post here. I look to see who is sending us traffic and I (By Jan)...[Graph] WILD! My Technical Indicator - Stock Market reaches P&F Target... then drops like a rock...
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: I had something of a giggle today. The day has not ended, but I thought I'd share this with you. Just over a month ago, I posted this article, complete with graphs: [Graph] My Technical Indicator for (By Jan)...Dumbocracy: The British have an IQ problem: Britons believe the hills are alive with haggis
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: [Haggis is a dish, not an animal. How daft can you be. You would have thought people in Britain would know this. It shows how Britain is going down the tubes intellectually. Jan] LONDON (Reuters) – (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (01-05-2010)
Saturday 01-May-2010: Howzit There will be no posting tomorrow as I have our local regular monthly Royal British Legion meeting. Thanks for understanding. -o00o- Since when do government civil servants - ostens (By The BeardedMan)...USA: Check out this cool radio show - they tell it like it is about Racial issues - Ethnopolitics...
Monday 26-Apr-2010: Check out this young guy and his radio show. He's coined the phrase, "Ethnopolitics". As I've been saying, Obama is going to bring racism BACK... and MAKE IT WORSE!!! Here are the details of thi (By Jan)...[Cartoon][Humor] The Lighter Side of Icelandic Volcanic Eruptions
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: [Take a look at these ones. I suspect this is from a South African website since it refers to Mugabe and Julius Malema. Jan] (Photo) (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (29-04-2010)
Thursday 29-Apr-2010: Howzit One thing that happens with frightening regularity is politicians and people of Zimbabwe dying on the roads. And, if nothing else, it does show the inability that the coalition government ha (By The BeardedMan)...[Graph] USA: My Technical Indicator: Stock Markets: Ooops! Are the markets about to go a bit HIGHER? What the heck now?
Monday 26-Apr-2010: I was reading my weekly Jason Kelly newsletter. You will recall Jason made a call several weeks ago, cautiously telling readers to start preparing for a market fall. I noticed he is now cutting bac (By Jan)...[Pics] Now this is what I call a train set...
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: [Here is a very cool story from Germany. Jan] For all the lovers of train sets and everyone else that is interested in accomplishments. Two German Brothers have put this together! AMAZING! T (By Jan)...[Cartoons][Humor] Some sick humour to brighten up your day from Cyanide & Happiness...
Monday 26-Apr-2010: [This is the sickest cartoon strip I've ever seen, but sometimes their humour just breaks me up. Jan] (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (28-04-2010)
Wednesday 28-Apr-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- A rather late start today, and I have to fulfil a previous engagement in just a couple of hours, so this won't be the longest posting ever. (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (30-04-2010)
Friday 30-Apr-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- You will, no doubt, recall that I had an interview in town on Wednesday last week - and that I said as soon as I knew more, I would tell al (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (27-04-2010)
Tuesday 27-Apr-2010: Howzit Sorry that this posting is so late. I went into town first thing this morning to do some private business before it got too full of people. I dunno how it happens, but even if I am wearing a (By The BeardedMan)...
Monday, 3 May 2010
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