From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 16th 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 & GruesomeScience: INCREDIBLE: White Europeans from France colonised North America 12,000 years ago...
Monday 10-May-2010: Currently on one of the channels, and forgive me, I cannot remember if it is the History Channel or National Geographic or what... But the documentary is called: "Journey to 10,000 BC". It describ (By Jan)...[Pics] IMPORTANT: New Evidence Indicates Eugene Terre'Blanche' Murder was Planned in Detail - Instructions for when to kill ET
Monday 10-May-2010: 2010-05-08 Johannesburg – It was revealed by the Independent Complaints Directorate on Saturday that seven police officers were arrested for torturing suspects – and that one of the arrested men was (By JanOlifant)...IMPORTANT: The Killing Fields of Post-Apartheid South Africa - A Black African Journalist Praises Apartheid with Incredible Evidence
Tuesday 11-May-2010: [Take a look at this stunning article written by a black journalist. Its filled to the brim with facts. I have been pointing out on AfricanCrisis for years the absolute lies told about South Africa. L (By JanOlifant)...S.Africa: 2010: Super-Corruption: The ANC-only Economy makes Julius Malema black racist communist super-rich... Here's the reason why...
Sunday 16-May-2010: Here in South Africa they've invented a new word: "Tenderpreneur". This is one of these politically connected blacks who gets massive Govt contracts from the ANC. The ANC, as I have mentioned has crea (By Jan)...S.Africa: A message I sent to a Government by Deception reader: The ANC is like Attila the Hun... The ANC needs racial hatred...
Saturday 15-May-2010: I sent this message to someone who recently purchased my book, "Government by Deception": As you can see by the behavour of the ANC to Malema - deep down they agree that race hatred is crucial to (By Jan)...[Pic][Humor] A brilliant Tea Party sign regarding Tiger Woods and President Obama...
Friday 14-May-2010: [I am totally loving these Tea Party posts. Americans are in rebellion and I like the style with which they're doing it. I want to post all Tea Party photos I can lay my hands on. They are fabulous. J (By Jan)...[Pic] This is an actual newspaper article from Texas
Wednesday 12-May-2010: [A friend of mine in southern California sent me this. It seems people are waking up. This is an email doing the rounds among Americans. Jan] Victoria, Texas... This is the actual newspaper arti (By Jan)...Africa: Moeletsi Mbeki addresses AFRICOM - Speaking Truth to Power or Self-Effacing Obsequiousness?
Friday 14-May-2010: By Riaz TayobAt the invitation of AFRICOM, the US Africa Command, Moeletsi Mbeki, brother of the former president of South Africa, addressed a meeting of 150 'staff' on 20 January 2010. He spoke about (By News Poster)...South Africa: Country's Dirty Secret - Eskom and the Medupi Power Plant
Saturday 15-May-2010: By Khadija SharifeThe Beijing drago breathes, and as it does - given that China has since become the world's major emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2), overtaking even the gaseous US economy that has hist (By News Poster)...[Pic] The Best Sign yet: Illegal Immigration is destroying America... look at what it did...
Wednesday 12-May-2010: [This is the best poster I've ever seen coming out of America - and frankly, I *LOVE* the posters people are coming up with. I must say, I am utterly enjoying the posters American Tea Partiers are (By Jan)...Africa: 'Land Rush' as Threats to Food Security Intensify
Friday 14-May-2010: By Mae-Wan HoIn the past three years, foreign governments and investment companies have been buying or leasing vast tracts of farmland in Africa and elsewhere for producing biofuels or food for their (By News Poster)...Somalia: President Farole - the Pride of Puntland
Thursday 13-May-2010: The international community has failed to heed President Farole's strategic vision to save Somalia from the ruins of war, pirates, and Al Qaeda.He did not use a gun or violent street protests to come (By News Poster)...Afrikaner Who Promoted Contact With Exiled ANC Dies
Friday 14-May-2010: By Moira LevyCape Town - One of South Africa's most visionary political leaders, political analyst Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, died on Friday 14 May. He had been admitted to Johannesburg's Milpark Hosp (By News Poster)...Africa: Drilling and Killing - From the Gulf of Guinea to the Gulf of Mexico
Saturday 15-May-2010: By Horace CampbellIt was simply a matter of time before the systematic destruction being carried out by petroleum companies around the world would reach the living rooms of the citizens of North Ameri (By News Poster)...Zanu PF Out of Sync With Public Mood
Friday 14-May-2010: ZANU PF clearly doesn't have its finger on the popular pulse. Roy Bennett faced "very serious charges", President Mugabe kept telling us ad nauseam as grounds for the MDC treasurer's exclusion from go (By News Poster)...Lack of Money Not Cause of Poverty
Thursday 13-May-2010: Harare - ONE of the major factors often cited as a cause of poverty in Africa and other underdeveloped countries is the absence of money, or working capital.This writer will argue that poverty is the (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Responsible Mining Companies?
Wednesday 12-May-2010: "It is clear that South African companies are not behaving any differently than western and Asian companies ...South African mining companies are taking advantage of regional governments' weak legisla (By News Poster)...Lessons from my work: I tried to hide it, but I'm an autocrat - Just shut the f*ck up and listen to Jan - do anything he tells you and don't argue with him...
Saturday 15-May-2010: I ended my week on a really pleasant note. It often happens that a week end comes and something irks me all weekend from work. I hate that. So its really lovely when I can start a weekend and actually (By Jan)...Request for Crime Scene photos of the murder of Eugene Terreblanche
Wednesday 12-May-2010: [I recently received a request from a website owner in America who wanted to support us and wanted to publish some of the photos of the horrible things done to Eugene Terreblanche. I sent his reque (By Jan)...Nigeria: Robbery Attack On Bullion Vans - Police to Clamp Down On Erring Banks Soon
Monday 10-May-2010: By Emma NnadozieEarly this year, Imo State Commissioner of Police, Aloysius Okorie took the bull by the horn by instructing all the banks in the state to bring their armoured bullion vans to the state (By News Poster)...Silent UK Protest Against Boer Genocide
Monday 10-May-2010: Twenty South African ex-pats held a silent protest in London's Parliament Square against the ongoing plaasmorde, or farm murders, taking place back home. Calling themselves Boer, protesters carried (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...From Jan: Am back... and in the mood for writing on many things...
Friday 14-May-2010: I can finally surface after a long week with many observations - from personal issues to politics and other things. And I need to catch up on things I promised to write. Keep watching from later today (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Violent Farm Robberies on the Rise
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Alex BellAn alarming spate of violent farm robberies in recent weeks has heightened tensions in the remaining commercial farming community, with at least nine attacks reported since March.Most rece (By News Poster)...SA Hotels in Limbo As Fifa's Hospitality Franchise Cancels Bookings
Friday 14-May-2010: By Costa ManoMATCH Hospitality, Fifa's worldwide exclusive rights holder of the Official Hospitality Programme for the 2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa, has left hotels reeling after pulling out at th (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Lessons from my Work: A Black co-worker compliments me: You opened my mind... My Revolutionary activities continue... My Madness is contagious...
Wednesday 12-May-2010: This week has been quite fascinating at my work. I've worked a bit late the last 2 evenings - just to get some final things off my back. But its been a fascinating week. I was really quite stunned (By Jan)...South Africa: Dog Guards Dead Master
Friday 14-May-2010: Virginia Keppler, Beeld Pretoria - A toy pom dog belonging to Robert Botha, 57, who was murdered on his smallholding at Kameeldrift West near Pretoria on Monday, sat on his master's chest and guard (By JoAn)...[Video] S. Africa: World Cup 2010: Thinking of Visiting South Africa...Think Again
Thursday 13-May-2010: [Risking YOUR life and the life's of YOUR family just to watch some people kick around a ball...not worth it! Janolifant] (By JanOlifant)...Cape Teens 'Are Tearaways'
Monday 10-May-2010: By Lynnette JohnsWestern Cape teenagers have more sex, use more drugs, drink more alcohol and are more violent than their counterparts in the rest of the country.And the province's youth, especially c (By News Poster)...South Africa: Transport Strike Intensifies
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Julius Baumann and Alistair AndersonJohannesburg - The United Transport and Allied Trade Union (Utatu) members have voted to join the Transnet strike from tomorrow morning, threatening to bring Tra (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nigerians to Watch World Cup On Their Mobile Phones
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Prince Osuagwu and Emmanuel ElebekeWith a few developments in recent times, Nigeria is still setting the pace in technological developments in Africa and indeed the Middle East and African emerging (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Lessons from my Work: A Black co-worker compliments me: You opened my mind... My Revolutionary activities continue... My Madness is contagious...
Wednesday 12-May-2010: This week has been quite fascinating at my work. I've worked a bit late the last 2 evenings - just to get some final things off my back. But its been a fascinating week. I was really quite stunned (By Jan)...Africa: African AIDS Activists - Obama's Lies Are Costing Our Lives
Wednesday 12-May-2010: African activist organizations are speaking out in support of a planned protest outside President Obama’s fundraiser, 5:30pm on Thursday, May 13th at 5th Ave and 55th St outside the St. Regis Ho (By News Poster)...Uganda: 200 Tonnes of Illicit Arms Destroyed
Friday 14-May-2010: By Barbara AmongKampala - A total of 200 tonnes of small arms, bombs and ammunition were on Tuesday destroyed as part of the activities to mark the global week of action on gun violence.The destructio (By News Poster)...Zambia: Church Body Calls for Awareness On Human Trafficking
Wednesday 12-May-2010: The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) in Lusaka, Zambia has called on its citizens and beyond to raise awareness about human trafficking before the World Cup in South Africa begins on Ju (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Outrage As Refugee Camp in South Africa Faces Closure
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Alex BellThere has been an angry response to plans by South African officials to shut a refugee camp in the Western Camp, which is still home to many hundreds of displaced Zimbabwean nationals.More (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Security Vote - for Whose Security?
Monday 10-May-2010: By Davidson IriekpenLagos - Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State recovered from the hangover of the Dogo Nahawa massacre recently, to speak on his inability to prevent the bloodshed. He accused top se (By News Poster)...Niger: What is a Famine?
Friday 14-May-2010: Johannesburg - Aid agencies and donors have warned of the possibility of a famine in Niger, evoking images of the last food crisis in the Sahelian country in 2005. Some media organizations have alread (By News Poster)...Egypt: Death Sentences Rising
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-OmraniCairo - Egyptian courts have handed down unprecedented numbers of death sentences in recent months, most of them for violent crime. "Two hundred and thirty de (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (12-05-2010)
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- With the Bennett acquittal many people expect Mugabe to swear him into cabinet - but as with most things in politics in Zimbabwe, it is not (By The BeardedMan)...Namibia: Tri-Vium - Vote 31 for Veterans is Social Justice
Monday 10-May-2010: By Paul ShipaleMotivating vote 31, for a total amount of N$274,538,000 in the National Assembly on Friday the 30th April, the Minister of Veteran Affairs Dr Nickey Iyambo outlined a number of ongoing (By News Poster)...Uganda: How the Global Aids Mafia Ruined Success Story
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Curtis AbrahamNairobi - A forthcoming book by a former Harvard researcher says Western interference with Africa's most successful Aids prevention programme drove up HIV-infection rates and ended a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: How Mugabe Gatecrashed Economic Forum
Friday 14-May-2010: DEPUTY Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara last week managed to manoeuvre President Robert Mugabe, blamed for ruining Zimbabwe's thriving economy, to gatecrash the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Dar es Sal (By News Poster)...Liberia: Anti-Corruption Commission Proposes New Measures to Fight Corruption
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Many obsessed with eradicating corruption from the Liberia society believe all it takes to fight corruption is sound fiscal policy, systematic audit of strategic public agencies, and the political wil (By News Poster)...Africa: Multinational Oil, the U.S. And Nigeria - a Crude Contrast
Friday 14-May-2010: By Alex FreeThe 20 April explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig has given rise to a terrible ecological disaster, proving devastating for wildlife, ecosystems and people's livelihoods across much (By News Poster)...South Africa: Stories of resilience in the face of HIV and AIDS
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Mwanja Ng?anjo and Mary ChivasaBarbara MnyeleBorn in 1963 in Alexandra Township Barbara Mnyele is a mother of three children aged 21, 19, and 16. Her mother has died and she has a brother with a di (By News Poster)...Somalia: Rebels Who Seized Pirate Lair Oppose UN Patrols
Tuesday 11-May-2010: A Somali insurgent group has lambasted a UN-backed anti-piracy mission off Somalia's long coast, saying that foreign fleets patrolling the waters were part of the piracy menace because they protected (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sarb - Repo Rate Remains at 6.5 Percent
Thursday 13-May-2010: The South African Reserve Bank says its keeping the repo rate banks pay to borrow cash at 6,5% after coming under pressure by Cosatu and unions who believe dropping interest rates will stimulate the e (By News Poster)...South Africa: Government is First to Join Major Patent Pool
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Johannesburg - A South African government agency has become the first to join the world's leading patent pool for neglected diseases, a move that could bolster home-grown innovations in the fight agai (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bomb Blast Hits Oil City
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Emma Amaize, Emma Arubi & Akpokona OmafuaireWarri - AN explosion occurred, yesterday, at the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC's office in Warri, Delta State, causing fresh panic in the oil (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Ministers Boycott Tsvangirai
Friday 14-May-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaHarare - A CABINET reshuffle in the unstable inclusive government is now odds-on as the political principals prepare to shake-up their team which is struggling to deliver economic re (By News Poster)...Children in China School Attack Were As Young As 3
Friday 14-May-2010: HANZHONG - Children as young as three years old were among the victims in an attack at a kindergarten in northwestern China that killed nine people, a doctor said yesterday.The assault, which left 11 (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Leo Mugabe Eyeing 20 Percent Telecel Stake
Friday 14-May-2010: By Chris Muronzi and Leonard MakombePRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's nephew, Leo, is positioning himself to snap up a 20% stake in Telecel Zimbabwe amid reports of an escalating fight to control the country' (By News Poster)...South Africa: A Loud and Clear No to Violence Against Women
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Paula FrayKempton Park - Poet activist Myesha Jenkins' voice reverberated through the hall: "Women are out in the night; we are cleaning the streets, some are walking the streets..."Jenkins's verse (By News Poster)...Role of Art in Outflanking Subversion
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Obi EgbunaWHEN the great freedom fighter and artist, Paul Robeson was asked about making our cultural and political expression synonymous, he responded by saying "the artist must elect to fight for (By News Poster)...Sudan: A Critical Moment for the CPA, Darfur and the Region
Wednesday 12-May-2010: The following testimony on Sudan was issued by U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, DC.Chairman Kerry, Members of the Senate Foreign R (By News Poster)...[Video] AMERICA WILL COLLAPSE SAYS Harvard Prof - But so will other countries...
Tuesday 11-May-2010: [Let me point out that as bad as America's debt situation is, there are lots of other first world countries, even in Europe who will collapse BEFORE AMERICA COLLAPSES! And guess what... EVERYONE is he (By Jan)...As I have warned for years: Russia creates new crises for America - now: Russia says may build nuclear power plant in Syria
Tuesday 11-May-2010: [People just keep on ignoring it as if it is not happening but Russia is going from one country to another assisting in spreading nuclear energy - FOR MILITARY USE! It is covered by a smoke-screen of (By Jan)...Uganda: World Bank Vice President's Take On Oil Exploration
Monday 10-May-2010: By Fredrick MasigaOn her way to Dar es Salaam early this week for the 20th World Economic Forum on Africa, the World Bank Vice President for Africa, Ms Obiageli Ezekwesili, paid a courtesy visit to Ug (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Country Risk - Politicians Must Play Part
Friday 14-May-2010: By Paul NyakazeyaTHE Bankers Association of Zimbabwe (BAZ) recently elected a new president First Bank managing director John Mushayavanhu who has an ambition to transform the country's financial serv (By News Poster)...Africa: Export Zones to Boost Manufacturing Industry
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Nelly NyagahExport processing zones (EPZs) have mushroomed across Africa. Their logic is to attract export-oriented manufacturing investment to boost economies. EPZs, although they create controver (By News Poster)...Kenya: Court to Protect Post-Polls Violence Witnesses
Sunday 16-May-2010: By Patrick MayoyoNairobi - Key post-election violence witnesses are set to be moved to foreign countries under the witness protection programme, the Nation learnt on Sunday.Those close to the recent v (By News Poster)...South Africa: Could Miss Out on Boom for Gold Mines
Friday 14-May-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - GOLD prices hit a new peak above 1245/oz yesterday as investors sought a safe haven from volatile equity and currency markets with concern spreading about contagion from t (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (13-10-2010)
Thursday 13-May-2010: Howzit Well, the forming of a coalition government in England is approaching completion - less than a week after the results were known. Similarities between this hung Parliament and the power-shar (By The BeardedMan)...Nigeria: Anxiety Grips Banks Over Proposed Niche Banking, Begin Sale of Subsidiaries
Monday 10-May-2010: By Babajide KomolafeIn apparent reflection of increasing apathy to the Holding Company arrangement under the proposed new niche banking model, a number of banks have begun moves to sell off their subs (By News Poster)...Liberation Movements Trapped in Time Warp
Monday 10-May-2010: The concurrent gatherings of so-called former liberation movements and the World Economic Forum on Africa in Dar es Salaam last week must have raised eyebrows among Africa watchers.The former liberati (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Under Party Pressure Over Mugabe
Sunday 16-May-2010: By Caiphas ChimheteHarare - PRESSURE is piling on Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to act decisively on President Robert Mugabe's unwillingness to fulfill their power-sharing agreement after Attorney- (By News Poster)...South Africa:Grisly detais emerge of Terre' Blanche killing
Tuesday 11-May-2010: 2010-05-10 22:16 Fienie Grobler and Schalk Mouton, Sapa Johannesburg - A grisly picture of the killing of right-wing leader Eugene Terre'Blanche was painted in court at a bail hearing on Monday. (By JoAn)...From Jan: Writing posts for Monday inbetween other stuff...
Sunday 16-May-2010: Just a note that I'm going to write a couple of articles for monday ... Hope you enjoy them. Someone sent me a Biblical quote which concurs with what I said about War and Politics... (By Jan)...[Pic] [Humor] Nature... er...
Tuesday 11-May-2010: This is naughty but hillarious. The commentary is too good... (Photo) (By Jan)...Africa: What is a Famine?
Thursday 13-May-2010: Johannesburg - Aid agencies and donors have warned of the possibility of a famine in Niger, evoking images of the last food crisis in the Sahelian country in 2005. Some media organizations have alread (By News Poster)...South Africa: Transnet Warns Against Intimidation During Strike
Monday 10-May-2010: Pretoria - Transnet has urged union leaders to ensure discipline among striking workers and refrain from engaging in acts of violence and intimidation against those colleagues who choose to work.This (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Smuggling Bid Backfires
Thursday 13-May-2010: Harare - POLICE detectives from the Border Control Unit intercepted two trucks with 56 tonnes of antimony ore worth US$500 000 that were allegedly being smuggled to South Africa through Beitbridge.Six (By News Poster)...Witness Questioned About the Death of A Prisoner Of War (NEWS)
Monday 10-May-2010: By Alpha SesayWhen a defense witness said that Liberian rebel forces killed a wounded Prisoner of War (POW) because he was still considered an enemy soldier, judges in the trial of former Liberian Pre (By News Poster)...Swaziland: Environmentalist Seeks to Balance Interests of People, Wildlife
Friday 14-May-2010: Award-winnning Swaziland Environmentalist and Public Attorney Thuli Makama has built a reputation of standing up for the rights of civil society and local communities.In this conclusion of a two-part (By News Poster)...South Africa: Peg the Rand to Give Country a Fighting Chance
Friday 14-May-2010: By Shawn HagedornJohannesburg - THE Greek malaise highlights two intertwined issues that have stymied SA's policy makers: competitiveness and the exchange rate. Bold policy shifts are required as Gree (By News Poster)...Africa: Massive Investment in DR Congo Draws Ire from China Critics
Monday 10-May-2010: By Antonaeta BeckerLondon - A massive barter deal with the Democratic Republic of Congo trumpeted by China as a showcase of its "win-win" strategy in Africa has been hit by charges of corruption, a co (By News Poster)...Double-Digit Pay Claims Test State's Inflation Pledges
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - DEMANDS for 15%-20% pay hikes from state- owned entities will put strain on the economy, fan inflation and make a mockery of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's aim of reinin (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Violence Fears As War Vets Mobilise Against Constitution
Saturday 15-May-2010: By Wongai ZhangazhaWAR veterans leader Jabulani Sibanda is allegedly forcing villagers, traditional leaders and government workers to attend campaign meetings in Manicaland ahead of the constitutional (By News Poster)...Is ETB Accused Zimbabwean?
Tuesday 11-May-2010: Evidence introduced at a bail hearing for one of the Black farm workers charged with murdering AWB leader Eugene Terreblanche indicates he may be a Zimbabwean national. Investigating officer Tsiets (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Ghana: Ampofo is Victim of Political Power Play
Monday 10-May-2010: By Steve ManteawAccra - Though the letter terminating the appointment of the Tema Oil Refinery boss, Dr. Ampofo did not assign reasons for the decision, Public Agenda can confirm that, the dismissal o (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Which Way Nigerian Airlines?
Saturday 15-May-2010: By Abel OrukpeLagos - That the aviation industry in Nigeria is sick is no longer news .What is new and news is the rate at which the domestic airlines are fast dying to the extent that stakeholders ar (By News Poster)...Nigeria: My Arrest Story - Ibori
Friday 14-May-2010: By Emma Amaize and Emma OvuakporieFormer Governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, who was arrested in Dubai, United Arab Emirates Wednesday, was according to reports, arraigned in a Dubai c (By News Poster)...Uganda: U.S. Congress Clears Anti-LRA Bill
Friday 14-May-2010: By Jim LobeThe U.S. Congress has cleared legislation requiring President Barack Obama to devise a strategy over the next six months to help capture the leadership of the Lord's Revolutionary Army (LRA (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Illegal Military Uniforms
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Lagos - THE recent seizure of military uniforms, caps and allied items illegally imported into the country at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos must be fully investigated to ens (By News Poster)...Greek Crisis No Threat to Namibia - Yet
Wednesday 12-May-2010: NAMIBIA'S limited trade and investment ties with Greece will probably protect the country against the Greek crisis, but Namibia will have to remain on its guard, Bank Windhoek economist John Steytler (By News Poster)...South Africa: Euro Debt Cloud Hangs Over Jittery Markets
Monday 10-May-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - GLOBAL markets are certain to face another week of volatility after unrelenting fear of contagion from the Greek and euro-zone debt crisis sent share prices plummeting on (By News Poster)...Somalia: Prices Drop After Pirates Forced Out of Stronghold
Thursday 13-May-2010: Nairobi - Merchants in Somalia's central town of Haradhere, formerly a pirate stronghold, are counting their losses after the pirates, whose presence had inflated the price of basic goods, were forced (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Regional Leaders Can't Deal With Zanu PF - Analysts
Friday 14-May-2010: By Leonard MakombeTHE Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Africa recently sent two separate envoys to Harare within a week of each other, in what commentators said signalled growing irritatio (By News Poster)...South Africa: Reserve Bank Keeps Rates Unchanged
Thursday 13-May-2010: Pretoria - The Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has decided to keep the repo rate steady at 6.5 percent much to market expectation."The MPC deems it appropriate to maintain the current s (By News Poster)...South Africa: Ruling Party Puts Its Youth Leader on Notice
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - THE embattled president of the African National Congress Youth League, Julius Malema, has been put on notice by his party. This much is clear from the outcome of his much (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Freddie Matonhodze, 'We Fear There Could Be a Blood Bath'
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Harare - Freddie Matonhodze, an official of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in Muzarabani district, in Mashonaland Central Province, a rural stronghold of the ruling ZANU-PF party, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: State Governors Resolve to Resume Executions
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Toluwa OlusegunLagos - It has been nearly twenty years since an official execution has taken place in Nigeria. State governors have been unwilling to sign the execution warrants of persons on death (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banks' Losses Welcome, Says Sanusi
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Babajide Komolafe, Oscaline Onwuemenyi & Amaka AgwuegboCentral Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, yesterday, said that losses being declared by banks in the country were a welcome development.He (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 75 Percent of Books Published Companies Are Printed Abroad
Monday 10-May-2010: By James EzemaSir Dayo Alabi is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, The Books Company Limited. His organisation has interest in publishing, book selling and distribution, library set up (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Whither is Lamido Sanusi Leading The Country? (2)
Friday 14-May-2010: Lagos - What Or Who Exactly is Lamido Sanusi, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria? Peter P. Ekeh, Professor At the State University of New York At Buffalo, is Obviously Not Enamoured of the CBN Bo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sabotage Suspected in Rail Strike
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Alistair AndersonJohannesburg - A TRAIN transporting petrol and diesel from Durban to Johannesburg was derailed yesterday in an apparent act of sabotage by striking Transnet workers, raising the st (By News Poster)...Somalia: UN Member States Debate Ways to Fight Piracy
Friday 14-May-2010: The United Nations General Assembly today held a day-long informal meeting on piracy, with Assembly President Ali Treki calling for broader international efforts and resources to combat the ever-expan (By News Poster)...Africa: Small-Scale Farmers Welcome Investment, Urge Careful Targeting
Sunday 16-May-2010: By Louise RedversLuanda - Think small to overcome big problems - that was the message to African governments being urged to do more to increase food security and reduce hunger and malnutrition on the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Former Governor Arrested in Dubai
Friday 14-May-2010: By Paul Ibe, Yemi Akinsuyi and Victor Efeizomor in AsabaAbuja - Former Governor of Delta State Chief James Ibori who was arrested in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday was yesterday grante (By News Poster)...Burundi Can Show the Way to Democracy, Says UN
Tuesday 11-May-2010: After decades of ethnic war in which hundreds of thousands of people died, Burundi has the chance to set a new standard with its upcoming elections for peace and democracy in the broader region despit (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Build On Yar'Adua's Legacies - Revive the Land Reform Bill
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Sanusi AbubakarWith the death of Umaru Musa Yar'adua, our late President (and, to many of us a fondly remembered friend), we have lost a decent, courageous and civilised gentleman. Never a convert (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zanu PF Terror Campaign in Mudzi and Muzarabani
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Lance GumaLast Thursday Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said the country no longer posed a risk to investors and that the political crisis that destroyed the economy "no longer exists". Villagers (By News Poster)...Somalia: 10 Killed in Mogadishu, Ex-Mayor Survives Bombing
Thursday 13-May-2010: At least 10 people have been killed and more than 25 others wounded in a fierce clashes between Somali government forces and rebel fighters in the Somali capital Mogadishu, paramedics and witnesses sa (By News Poster)...Taylor Executed NPFL Commanders For Selling Arms To RUF Rebels (NEWS)
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor ordered the execution of commanders in his Liberian rebel group because they sold arms to Sierra Leonean rebel forces, and he ensured that rebel fighters who committed cri (By News Poster)...Swaziland: Mobile Clinics in Cash Crunch
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Mbabane - Mobile clinics for HIV patients have been benefiting entire communities in rural Swaziland, but tight budgets have scuppered plans to expand the project, or even sustain a fleet of just two (By News Poster)...Doing Away With Bantu Education - a Personal Journey
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Prime Minister Nahas AngulaThis article was a presentation by Nahas Angula at the awards ceremony of the President's Medal of Excellence, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA, April (By News Poster)...South Africa:Violence in Prisons Out of Control AdmitsGovernment
Saturday 15-May-2010: Submtted by OF: TEENAGE YOUTHS ARE KEPT IN THIS ENVIRONMENT. Unemployment at 35% yet Prisons are..... UNDERSTAFFED ? ? ? ? ? Correctional Services' acting national commissioner, Jenny Schreine (By JoAn)...Africa: Supporting a True Agricultural Revolution
Friday 14-May-2010: By Hans HerrenThe world's growing population is putting ever more strain on food production, which inevitably exacerbates the situation of the world's poor and hungry, writes Hans Herren. However, Her (By News Poster)...Uganda: Land Disputes Disrupt Bududa Resettlement
Monday 10-May-2010: By Frederick WomakuyuKampala - A piece of land where the Government intends to resettle people displaced by the Bududa landslide is at the centre of a dispute between Sironko and Kapchorwa districts.T (By News Poster)...UK Protests South African Crime
Sunday 16-May-2010: More than 400 protesters marched in downtown London Saturday afternoon to bring attention to the out-of-control crime situation in South Africa. The march started in Piccadilly Circus in downtown L (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Somalia: Bomb Kills Senior Police Officer
Wednesday 12-May-2010: A roadside bomb targeted on Somali government forces has killed 2 people and injured 8 others as Deputy Police commander of Mogadishu's Dharkenley District was killed by former Al-Shabaab fighter, Rad (By News Poster)...Stock Markets: My Technical Indicator - Gold rises a stunning 3% in one day... Gold notches closing record above $1,220 an ounce
Tuesday 11-May-2010: [They were no doubt doing all they can to prop up all the markets... The markets were so tame after BLACK THURSDAY last week... that I can't help wondering what processes and procedures they put in pl (By Jan)...Lessons From UK Poll
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Peter GanyaWHAT goes around comes around save for the speed with which it has happened in the UK, after the elections last week where all parties were rejected and redirected by the people.Mr Gordo (By News Poster)...Kenya: Courts Set for Major Boost in War on Piracy
Monday 10-May-2010: By Patrick MayoyoNairobi - Kenya is among countries that have been identified to help step up the war on piracy, which is threatening international trade along the Somalia coast.The international comm (By News Poster)...Uganda: Ghosts of Atiak Massacre Haunt Acholi 15 Years Later
Monday 10-May-2010: By Paul Amoru and Sam LawinoOn April 20 every year, hundreds gather in Atiak to mourn and pray for the souls of their loved ones, who were killed by the Lord's Resistance Army rebels in 2005.As is the (By News Poster)...Africa: Military Manoeuvres in the Sahel
Friday 14-May-2010: Ouagadougou - Military exercises are under way in the Sahel region as part of the United States-led Trans-Saharan Counter Terrorism Partnership. Participating militaries are enthusiastic, but civil so (By News Poster)...'Negative Energy' Saddens Mushore
Friday 14-May-2010: By Paul NyakazeyaFORMER NMBZ deputy managing director James Mushore bounced back at the financial institution last month as group chief executive officer after his recent de-specification by governmen (By News Poster)...South Africa: Unions Strike a Well-Timed Blow
Thursday 13-May-2010: Batten down the hatches the South African economy is in for a rough ride during the build-up to the long-awaited 2010 Fifa World Cup.Apart from renewed global economic uncertainty and general market v (By News Poster)...Uganda: Oil Money Will Be Stolen; But That's Good Too
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Charles Onyango-ObboAfter quieting down for a few weeks, once again the talk about Uganda's rich oil finds and whether they might only serve to fuel corruption, is high again. The other day, I hear (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: South African Stand on Sanctions Angers Tsvangirai Party
Monday 10-May-2010: Bulawayo - The MDC-T has reacted angrily to calls by South African National Congress (ANC) chairperson Baleka Mbete for its leader Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to actively call for the lifting of (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Convenes Crisis Meeting
Saturday 15-May-2010: By Lance GumaPrime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T party is expected to convene a crisis meeting of its National Council over the weekend, to deliberate on the continued persecution of Treasurer Ge (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN Extends Inter-Bank Guarantee, Foreign Credit Lines Till 2011
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Ayodele Aminu and Kunle AderinokunAbuja - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday extended guarantees for all inter-bank transactions, foreign credit lines and pension funds placements with ban (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Fugitive SA-Based Suspect Nabbed
Monday 10-May-2010: Harare - A 22-year-old Mberengwa man based in South Africa who has been evasive for the past three weeks after allegedly opening fire at eight police detectives at Beitbridge Police Station who had ar (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Swoop On Visa Racketeers, Arrest Suspect With 120 Passports
Saturday 15-May-2010: By Ifeanyi OkolieSometime in August 2005, a combined team of both policemen and operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), launched an onslaught on the notorious Oluwole Marke (By News Poster)...Madagascar: Telma Joins the League of Mobile Operators Offering Mobile Transfer Services
Friday 14-May-2010: By Isabelle GrossLondon - Two weeks ago, Telecom Malagasy (Telma) in partnership with the bank BFV-SG (part of the Société Générale banking group) launched "MVola", the fir (By News Poster)...Uganda: Fake Fuel Tests UNBS Inspectors
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Joan AkelloIf you are unlucky, one of these days you might experience what mechanics call a "hard start" with your vehicle. That means your vehicle will require several failed attempts before it st (By News Poster)...Africa: At Last, Africa Leaders Are Uniting to Fight Malaria
Sunday 16-May-2010: By Ray Chambers, Mark Green and John BridgelandNairobi - For decades, malaria was the disease of sad contradiction. With a sense of fatalism, Africans accepted it as the leading single killer of pregn (By News Poster)...State Being Punished for Helping DRC - Ambassador
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Harare - Zimbabwe is being punished by Western countries for helping the Democratic Republic of Congo overpower Western-backed imperialistic efforts to destabilise that country in 1999, DRC ambassador (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Dar Angers Aids Activists By Detaining, Deporting Officials
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Mike MandeNairobi - The Aids and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (Arasa), a regional partnership of non-governmental organisations in Africa has sent a protest note to the Tanzania government o (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bennett Acquittal & Appeal to Dominate Principals' Meeting On Monday
Sunday 16-May-2010: By Tichaona SibandaPrime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai wants Robert Mugabe to swear-in Roy Bennett to his deputy ministerial portfolio, as per his promise, that he would do so if the non constituency MDC (By News Poster)...Somalia: Puntland Forces 'Kill Two Militants' - Sources
Sunday 16-May-2010: Security forces in Somalia's northern federal state of Puntland on Thursday carried out well-coordinated attempt to arrest one of the region's most wanted extremist leaders, Garowe Online has learnt.A (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mining Production Shoots Up 11 Percent
Friday 14-May-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - SA's total mining production rose for a third successive month in March, the highest growth since 2004, as manufacturers globally continued restocking inventories.Mining p (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Hope Rises for Oil Industry, As Obama Rethinks Drilling Plan
Monday 10-May-2010: By Adeola Yusuf Correspondent With Agency ReportsLagos - President Barack Obama has been forced to rethink plans to open more of the United States (US) waters to oil drilling, promoting the assurance (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: AG's Conduct Criminal - Bennett
Friday 14-May-2010: By Wongai ZhangazhaMDC-T treasurer Roy Bennett has said the Attorney-General (AG) should be investigated for using fabricated information to press ahead with charges of terrorism that he was cleared o (By News Poster)...Tsvangirai-Biti Rift Widens
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Takunda MaodzaHarare - MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai has come under fire for allegedly backing a Cabinet minister who publicly attacked the party's secretary-general Mr Tendai Biti.Senior party (By News Poster)...Uganda: Police Receives Frequent Taxi Theft Cases
Monday 10-May-2010: By Agnes KyotalengerireKampala - THREE men who were masquerading as town service taxi operators are being detained at Kiira road Police station. They were suspected of robbing a lady passenger. The in (By News Poster)...Mpanda Nkua Dependent on South African Contract
Friday 14-May-2010: Maputo - Construction of a new dam at Mpanda Nkua, on the Zambezi, in the western Mozambican province of Tete, depends on a commitment from the South African electricity company, Eskom, to buy the pow (By News Poster)...Africa: Children's Healthcare Missing the Mark
Friday 14-May-2010: Johannesburg - South Africa has achieved near universal access to health services for pregnant women and their children, but maternal and infant mortality rates have continued to rise making the chanc (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Battle of Tigre Echoes in Ethiopia's Election
Monday 10-May-2010: By Tony OkeraforLagos - "We have to learn from our experience. This is not a short period, and I don't think Revolutionary Democracy will bring basic change in our country. It has proved a failure. Do (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Brews Another Shocker
Monday 10-May-2010: By Vusumuzi SifileTHE inclusive government is headed for another clash over an impending reshuffle in the judiciary and the re-assigning of ambassadors by President Robert Mugabe (pictured).MDC-T, whi (By News Poster)...Bank to Play It Steady Amid Euro Turmoil
Monday 10-May-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - A NEW wave of turmoil that rocked global markets last week has dispelled any doubts that the Reserve Bank will keep interest rates on hold when its policy meeting ends this (By News Poster)...Somalia: Rebels Attack Parliament
Sunday 16-May-2010: Mogadishu - Heavy shelling rocked Somalia's capital today, killing 15 people and wounding dozens, as rebels fired mortars at the country's lawmakers meeting for the first time this year, medics said a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Financial Product Innovation the Future
Friday 14-May-2010: By Precious MhlandhlaThe Zimbabwean banking sector underwent a period of impeded development in the last 10 years due to the hyperinflationary environment which prevailed in the economy.This is usuall (By News Poster)...Namibia: Uranium 'Rush' Or 'Crush' for Erongo?
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Adam HartmanIT'S not hard to identify the positive spin-offs of a uranium 'rush' for Namibia's Uranium 'province' (Erongo), but there are also elements that could turn this positive outlook into a (By News Poster)...East Africa: Focus Turns to East Africa As an Oil Source
Monday 10-May-2010: By Kennedy SenelwaNairobi - Delegates are converging in Nairobi from Tuesday for a regional conference meant to showcase East Africa as a new oil exploration frontier.The two day Eastern Africa Energy (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Salaries Discord Tests Tsvangirai's Credentials
Monday 10-May-2010: By Kholwani NyathiTHE public disagreement between Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Finance Minister Tendai Biti over civil servants salaries has brought to the fore the growing discord in both the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Dinosaur Fossils Breathe Life Into Tourism
Friday 14-May-2010: By Thupeyo MuleyaIN Zimbabwe's entire southern part lies two great Transfrontier Conservation Parks (Greater Limpopo and the Greater Mapungubwe Trans Frontier Conservation Areas), which the country sh (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Former Minister Arraigned over Corruption
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Ise-Oluwa IgeFORMER Minister in Charge of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and two key officials of the Abuja Geographic Information System, AGIS, were arraigned, yesterday, bef (By News Poster)...Kenya: Banks Urge State to Spend Cash If It Wants to Cut Rates
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Geoffrey IrunguTreasury has accumulated billions of shillings in the past few weeks, causing jitters among banks and forcing the Central Bank to intervene frequently with injection of liquidity int (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Another Explosion Rocks Warri
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Omon-Julius OnabuWarri - Another explosion Monday night shook the two-storey office building of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in Warri, Delta State and spread panic among residents (By News Poster)...Uganda: Army Destroys 250 Tonnes of Weapons in Nakasongola
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Dan Wandera and Tabu ButagiraLuweero/Kampala - The Army yesterday began destroying 250 tonnes of weapons in a one-week exercise that officials say will help rid the country of "unwanted war materia (By News Poster)...Kenya: Surge in Lending Sees Banks Return to Profits
Monday 10-May-2010: By James MakauKenyan commercial banks are back to double digit growth figures as stellar first quarter earnings announcements stoke hopes of a revival in the economy.Considered a bellwether industry t (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Govt Detains Activists At World Economic Forum
Monday 10-May-2010: By Mike MandeThe Aids and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (Arasa), a regional partnership of non-governmental organisations in Africa has sent a protest note to the Tanzania government over the ar (By News Poster)...Africa: African Grandmothers Call for Financial Security and Increased Resources
Tuesday 11-May-2010: African Grandmothers call for financial security, respect for rights,and increased resources to raise grandchildren orphaned by AIDSAt the close of the historic first African Grandmothers' Gathering, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN Plans N25 Billion Capital for Non-Interest Banks
Monday 10-May-2010: By Emele OnuLagos - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is proposing a minimum core capital of N25 billion for establishing a non-interest bank in the country.The proposal was contained in the draft fra (By News Poster)...Namibia: 300 Gam Farmers Squatting in Nyae-Nyae Conservancy
Monday 10-May-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithTHE number of Herero farmers from Gam illegally settled in the Nyae-Nyae Conservancy has increased from 38 to at least 300 since last year.Despite a criminal case that was instituted (By News Poster)...South Africa: Monetary Policy Commitee Appears Set to Enter Holding Pattern
Friday 14-May-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - MANY analysts appear to be convinced that the window of opportunity for the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates has closed.Yesterday's decision by the Bank's monetary policy (By News Poster)...Namibia: Bulk Power Up 18 Percent
Friday 14-May-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyTHE Electricity Control Board (ECB) has painted a dark picture of expensive electricity and power shortages when it announced its decision to allow NamPower to hike its tariffs by 'onl (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: State Plans to Appeal Bennett Acquittal and Has Confiscated His Passport
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Violet GondaThe Roy Bennett saga took a new twist on Wednesday when the prosecution team announced it was appealing his acquittal, two days after the High Court cleared the MDC-T official of terror (By News Poster)...Former Soldier Says, Taylor Liberated Nimba County From Samuel Doe (NEWS)
Monday 10-May-2010: By Alpha SesayIn an effort to bolster Charles Taylor’s defense argument that he was a peacemaker who wanted the best for the Liberia people, today’s witness said Mr. Taylor strove to liber (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Protest in Eket Over Oil Spill From Mobil
Monday 10-May-2010: By Okon BasseyUyo - Fresh oil spill has sparked off a protest in Ibeno, Akwa Ibom State as hundreds of residents staged a peaceful demonstration against incessant oil spills from the operations of Mob (By News Poster)...Namibia: Indigenous Group Fights Land Grab
Sunday 16-May-2010: By Servaas van den BoschBoricha - Pensioner Makena Makanga slowly savours a piece of manketti fruit unaware that the tree it came from will soon be chopped down and mulched along with the rest of her (By News Poster)...South Africa: Straight Talk With Health Minister
Friday 14-May-2010: Johannesburg - Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, appointed South Africa's Health Minister about a year ago, is in charge of the world's largest antiretroviral (ARV) treatment programme. Many AIDS activists credit (By News Poster)...Central Africa: Ugandan Rebel Group Stepping Up Attacks, UN Refugee Agency Reports
Friday 14-May-2010: The United Nations refugee agency today sounded the alarm at the dramatic rise in both the frequency and brutality of attacks against civilians by a notorious Ugandan rebel group operating in the Demo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Expatriate Rapes 12 Year Old Girl
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Tony NyongUyo - An expatriate working for one of the multinational companies in Akwa Ibom State is currently being detained for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl.This comes as another expatriate (By News Poster)...Africa: Grannies Gather for Aids Summit
Tuesday 11-May-2010: Manzini - Grandmothers from all over Africa have joined hands with grandmothers in Canada to call for greater support and recognition of their role in caring for grandchildren orphaned by AIDS."We are (By News Poster)...White International Aid Worker Acquited of Sexual Offences - The Conspiracy Against Him
Monday 10-May-2010: PINETOWN KZN. May 6 2010 - Belgian welfare-worker Gunter Gys, 41, who was today found not guilty of a trumped-up sex-charge lodged by a nine-year-old boy and his mother in a jealousy-inspired conspira (By JanOlifant)...South Africa: Claims for Land 'Not a Barrier' to Finance for Farmers
Friday 14-May-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - FARMERS whose land is marked for restitution or reform will be able to access loans from some of the country's financial institutions despite facing land claims.The ba (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Standard Chartered to Bid for South Africa's Nedbank
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Kingsley Ighomwenghian With Agency ReportThere were indications on Wednesday that Britain's Standard Chartered Bank Plc is at the early stage of discussions to acquire majority stake in South Afric (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bomb Explosion Rocks NDDC Office in Warri
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Napoleon EhiremenWarri - Explosion, suspected to be from a bomb, yesterday rocked the office of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in Warri, Delta State.An eyewitness told Daily Champion (By News Poster)...South Africa: Raise Finger Against Corruption - Cosatu General Secretary
Monday 10-May-2010: By Franny RabkinJohannesburg - CONGRESS of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Friday that progressive movements and individuals needed to "raise their finger (By News Poster)...South Africa: Snag to Rumoured Nedbank Bid
Friday 14-May-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - SPECULATION of a buyout of Old Mutual 's bank subsidiary, Nedbank, by Standard Chartered may face hurdles on the structure of the deal due to SA's foreign exchange control (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Tales of Tears And Blood As Violence Rocks Mushin
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Bose AdebayoHe had spent a lot of money planning for the naming ceremony of his son, while his relations in Akure had assured him of their readiness to grace the occasion. But the ceremony later tu (By News Poster)...Namibia: Klein Aub Cop Accused of Eating the Evidence
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Denver KistingA JUNIOR Police officer at Klein Aub is allegedly waging a reign of terror at the village by showing no respect for the rule of law - and seemingly getting away with it.Four criminal (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nigerian Insurance Industry Does Below 45 Percent Local Content,Fin Insurance Boss
Monday 10-May-2010: By Patience SaghanaMallam Sallau Hamman, Managing Director /Chief Executive Office of Fin Insurance in this interview with Patience Saghana articulates insurance industry's oil and gas business, the c (By News Poster)...Libya: Only Two SA Victims Identified
Sunday 16-May-2010: By Angelique SerraoTripoli - Thirteen South African families have begun the harrowing task of identifying the bodies of their loved ones who died on the Afriqiyah Airways plane that crashed in Tripoli (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Economic Progress Depends on Peace and Stability
Friday 14-May-2010: Maputo - Mozambican Defence Minister Filipe Nyussi on Friday reiterated that the economic progress of SADC (Southern African Development Community) and the free circulation of people and goods in the (By News Poster)...Liberia: Old Alliances, Enmities Emerge As Sirleaf Runs for Second Term
Thursday 13-May-2010: Burnishing a stellar international reputation, Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is steeling herself for a tough campaign for a second presidential term in elections next year.Since winning po (By News Poster)...Africa: Changing Technologies to Keep Up with Climate Change
Tuesday 11-May-2010: Technological innovation is key to helping African farmers cope with the increasing challenges posed by climate change, say specialists."Temperatures have increased and the danger is that agriculture (By News Poster)...Somalia: Insurgents Deny Planning Suicide Attacks
Tuesday 11-May-2010: Somalia's hardline insurgents Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Raghe (Ali Dhere) has refuted claims that his group is planning wave of suicide attacks in civilian areas in the capital Mogadishu (By News Poster)...Africa's Grannies Demand Support
Friday 14-May-2010: By Mantoe PhakathiManzini - "Africa cannot survive without us," is the message from grandmothers representing all corners of the continent.More than 3,000 grandmothers marched in the streets of Swazil (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Return to Equateur Requires Peace and Prospects
Thursday 13-May-2010: Security is improving in Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Equateur province, where an insurgency rooted in a resource conflict pushed some 200,000 people in the marginalized region to flee their h (By News Poster)...Finance Minister Cautions On Second Wave of Recession
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Linda EnsorJohannesburg - The fiscal debt problems of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries could spill over into another financial crisis and lead to a second wave of tr (By News Poster)...Should West Pay Climate Reparations?
Friday 14-May-2010: By Stanley KwendaJohannesburg - The North should pay reparations to the South for the effects of climate change.This is the position of Professor Patrick Bond arguing the case for ecological compensat (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Caledonia Mining Resorts to Generators
Friday 14-May-2010: By Leonard MakombeCALEDONIA Mining has resorted to using generators owing to persistent power cuts, a move that could further raise gold production costs. The company says it has acquired a generator (By News Poster)...Namibia: BoN Targets 'Pyramid Scheme'
Friday 14-May-2010: By Werner MengesA TSUMEB resident is finding himself under the threat of sequestration, with the Bank of Namibia accusing him of running a multimillion-dollar pyramid investment scheme that could end (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bennett Says Zanu PF Still Out to Get Him
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Violet GondaRoy Bennett, the MDC-T Deputy Minister of Agriculture designate, says that ZANU PF is still out to get him, despite his acquittal on Monday on charges of plotting to overthrow the Mugab (By News Poster)...South Africa: Interest Rates to Remain Unchanged - Economists
Tuesday 11-May-2010: Pretoria - The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) begins its two day meeting tomorrow to decide on whether to change interest rates or keep them as is, with experts predicting that the central bank will (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Donates Wildlife to North Korea
Sunday 16-May-2010: By Sandra MandizvidzaHarare - IT'S official. Zimbabwe is preparing to ship elephants, giraffes, zebras and warthogs as presents to North Korean communist leader Kim Jong II.The move which is likely to (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Freelance Journalist Wins Top U.S. Award
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Melody ChirondaA U.S.-based global media network is to award a Tanzanian freelance journalist, Vicky Ntetema, for her courage in exposing the brutal killings of albinos and their families.The Int (By News Poster)...Youth Leader Says He is Sorry (PRESS RELEASE)
Wednesday 12-May-2010: On the 3 and 11 May 2010 the National Disciplinary Committee (NDC) of the ANC convened to consider charges against comrade Julius Malema (the Respondent).The charges had been brought by the National O (By News Poster)...Business Sets Ambitious Goal to Cut Power Consumption
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - BUSINESS Unity SA (Busa) said yesterday that its members might cut their power consumption by about 5000MW as part of a plan to assist in conserving energy.The ambitiou (By News Poster)...Workers Kidnap Boss' Girlfriend
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Harare - A Bulawayo-based policeman allegedly helped his two friends kidnap their boss' girlfriend after he instituted a workplace investigation that led to their suspension from duty.Reginald Mapika (By News Poster)...Uganda: President Pulled Off a Diplomatic Coup On Nuclear Policy
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Samuel H. BaligiddePresident Museveni pulled off a diplomatic coup when explaining his policy on nuclear proliferation. His speech during the visit of the Iranian leader Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was (By News Poster)...Uganda: Poisonous Waragi Kills 6 in Ssembabule
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Dismus BuregyeyaKampala - The killer waragi which claimed about 80 lives in Kabale district last month has spread to Sembabule, killing six more people.Another 10 people yesterday remained admitted (By News Poster)...Namibia: Windhoek's Biodiversity Listed
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Catherine SasmanWindhoek - 2010 is biodiversity year. The City of Windhoek has commissioned a study to ascertain how developments are threatening its biodiversity.A principal conclusion to an inven (By News Poster)...Africa: Go Beyond Rhetoric to Fight Hunger
Tuesday 11-May-2010: Nairobi - The year 2009 was particularly hard for Africa. Virtually the entire continent experienced acute food shortages. But if deliberations at the just concluded World Economic Forum for Africa in (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Linking Markets is Critical - Kagame
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - President Paul Kagame, yesterday said that the linking of markets will not only help unlock the investment and trade potential that Africa and the region have, but will greatl (By News Poster)...Sudan: Safety of Darfur Peacekeepers Tops Talks Between UN, African Union and Sudan
Monday 10-May-2010: The protection of blue helmets serving in Darfur has topped the agenda of the latest talks between the United Nations, the African Union and the Sudanese Government, which are taking place just days a (By News Poster)...Dual Citizenship Would Boost Forex Inflows
Saturday 15-May-2010: By Bernard MpofuZIMBABWE, facing dwindling foreign direct investment, should allow dual citizenship and postal voting to incentivise foreign currency remittances from Zimbabweans living outside the co (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Kidney Diseases Deadly
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Florence UdohLagos - Medical experts have revealed that more people die every day from kidney related diseases than malaria and HIV/AIDS in Nigeria.Speaking at the international symposium on chroni (By News Poster)...Wi-Fi -- Man's New Best Friend?
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Tichaona ZindogaTHE dog has long been regarded as man's best friend for its perceived fidelity to the master, the human being.This might have led someone to craft the phrase, "as faithful as a dog. (By News Poster)...Ruling Party Youth Leader Pleads Guilty to 'Sowing Disunity'
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - AFRICAN National Congress (ANC) Youth League leader Julius Malema has pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of sowing disunity in the party, was fined R10000, forced to ma (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Rwamagana 'Family Killer' Arrested
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Stephen RwembehoRwamagana - The Rwamagana woman who is alleged to have killed her husband and four children last Sunday, has been arrested, Police said yesterday.She was captured in a swamp in Mush (By News Poster)...South Africa/Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe to Export Electricity to SA for World Cup
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Lance GumaZimbabweans have reacted with outrage to press reports that the country is planning to export 300 megawatts of electricity to South Africa for the duration of the World Cup.According to a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Niger-Delta Militants Set Off Bomb in Warri
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Emma Amaize, Emma Arubi and Akpokona OmafuaireWarri - A militant kingpin and bomb specialist who identified himself as the "Udumegun of Niger-Delta" today detonated a bomb at the Niger-Delta Develo (By News Poster)...Africa: Changing Technologies to Keep Up with Climate Change
Tuesday 11-May-2010: Technological innovation is key to helping African farmers cope with the increasing challenges posed by climate change, say specialists.“Temperatures have increased and the danger is that agricu (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Anti-Corruption Body Has Right to Arrest Ex-Gov. Ibori - Federal Govt
Monday 10-May-2010: By Austin OgwudaAsaba - THE Federal Government, through its Attorney-General, Monday clarified that the nation's anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has the constitution (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Farmers Blame Contractors
Monday 10-May-2010: By Elita ChikwatiHarare - Cotton contractors this season generally failed to give growers adequate fertilizers and chemicals, it is has been alleged.Farmers say this was in breach of Statutory Instrum (By News Poster)...Sudan: Has China's U.S.$20 Billion Investment in Country's Oil Industry Paid Off?
Friday 14-May-2010: By Khadija SharifeFor many of Africa's rent-seeking regimes, China's entrance as a resource-hungry global creditor is manna from the ancestors. Beijing has several unique advantages for Africa, from i (By News Poster)...Family Murder Results in 14-Year Jail Term
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Werner MengesTHE shooting incident that claimed the life of Windhoek resident Pius Mannetti in his family's home in April 2008 landed Mannetti's youngest brother with an effective prison term of 14 (By News Poster)...Uganda: Congolese to Miss Out On Relief Aid After Kony Strikes Again
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Tabu ButagiraKampala - Relief agencies have suspended aid delivery to 5, 000 Congolese refugees following heavy incursion of Lord's Resistance Army rebels, the Washington-based Enough Project repor (By News Poster)...CZI Hits Out At Zesa Over Power
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Tawanda MusarurwaHarare - THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries has launched a strong attack on Zesa Holdings for the power shortages being currently experienced, and dismissed measures by the p (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hope Lies with Strong Citizenship, Not Political Parties
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Saliem FakirAn impoverished conception of democracy has prevailed in our country. One, which Amartya Sen lucidly describes in his book, The Idea of Justice, as taking a narrow view of democracy by (By News Poster)...South Africa: Businesses, Unions Want State to Weaken Currency
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Loyiso LangeniJohannesburg - ELEVEN major manufacturers and SA's three main labour federations called yesterday for the weakening of the rand to make SA more competitive and save manufacturing sect (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Rubies Seized and Illegal Prospectors Arrested
Monday 10-May-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican police in the northern province of Cabo Delgado have announced the seizure of 50 kilos of rubies and the arrest of 63 illegal miners, reports Monday's issue of the Maputo daily (By News Poster)...Goldsmith Murder Verdict Put On Hold
Monday 10-May-2010: By Werner MengesTHE two men accused of carrying out a deadly housebreaking and robbery at Okahandja more than seven and a half years ago face a further wait in custody before they will be hearing the (By News Poster)...Somalia: Clashes in Mogadishu Kill Dozens
Friday 14-May-2010: At least 25 people have reportedly been killed and dozens others wounded in fresh violence that rocked Somalia's capital in the last two days, Radio Garowe reports.Somali forces getting backings from (By News Poster)...Angola: Putting a Dent in the Maternal Death Rate
Friday 14-May-2010: Matala - After more than a decade of volunteer work in Angola's rural Matala district in the southern province of Huila, a Finnish doctor is seeing maternal mortality rates gradually come down in a co (By News Poster)...Côte d'Ivoire: More Peacekeepers Needed, Say Analysts
Thursday 13-May-2010: Abidjan - An additional police unit and more troops should be added to the UN Office in Côte d'Ivoire's peacekeeping presence of 8,500 troops, to keep the peace in the west, say the Internationa (By News Poster)...State to Appeal Opposition Treasurer-General's Case (NEWS)
Thursday 13-May-2010: Harare - Attorney-General Mr Johannes Tomana has sought leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against the High Court's decision to discharge and acquit MDC-T treasurer-general Mr Roy Bennett on charges (By News Poster)...Body Found With Missing Genitals
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Police in Mashonaland West have arrested two people in connection with the suspected ritual murder of a six-year-old Kenzamba girl whose body was last week found with the private parts missing.Mashona (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamond Saga Rages On
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Cletus MushanawaniAfrican Consolidated Resources finance officer Ian Harold Harris who allegedly made misrepresentations to Mines and Mining Development Ministry officials here to acquire 214 Maran (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Moyana Relents, Takes Up RBZ Appointment
Monday 10-May-2010: By Ndamu SanduFORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Kombo Moyana has agreed to join the central bank's board after resolving conflict of interest issues that forced authorities not to announc (By News Poster)...From Jason Kelly: What's wrong with America? - My Views America is in terminal decline...
Friday 14-May-2010: [Here is an interesting letter from Jason Kelly (an American investment advisor who lives in Japan). Look at his thoughts on the state of America. Look at the similarities between America and Afric (By Jan)...Does G20 Exclude Africa's Poor?
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Isolda AgazziGeneva - The global economic crisis highlighted the necessity of transforming global economic governance. But least developed countries (LDCs) have little voice in this process. It is (By News Poster)...South Africa: EU, Govt Welcome Zim Developments
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Pretoria - While welcoming the political developments in Zimbabwe's power sharing government, the European Union and South Africa have raised concerns on the slow pace of fully implementing the agreem (By News Poster)...Sudan: Peacekeepers to Take 'Robust' Defensive Action
Wednesday 12-May-2010: The head of the joint African Union-United Nations mission in Darfur said today that peacekeepers there will be more robust when defending themselves from attacks, while recognizing that the primary r (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Ministerial Candidate and Mugabe Critic Roy Bennett Acquitted after Lengthy Court Case
Monday 10-May-2010: By Kitsepile NyathiA Zimbabwean High Court judge has acquitted a top ally of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of all charges in the terrorism case that had threatened the survival of the coalition gov (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Serial Murders Haunt Tarime Village
Sunday 16-May-2010: By Anthony MayungaFear has gripped Nyangoto villagers in Tarime district, Mara region, as a result of a series of murders of prominent entrepreneurs at the village, it has been learnt.Chacha Mbeche, 4 (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kibaki's Spending Habits Not Any Better
Saturday 15-May-2010: By Bosire MosiThat Kenya spends 'four times less' daily on President Kibaki than Uganda does on President Museveni left the false impression that Nairobi's spending priorities are way better than Kamp (By News Poster)...Zuma Sends Condolences to Families of Plane Crash
Friday 14-May-2010: Cape Town - South African President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday offered his condolences to the families of the victims on the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus crash in Libya in which more than 100 people died.Spe (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chieftainship Row Shakes Svosve
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Wenceslaus MurapeHarare - TRADITIONAL Chiefs are no ordinary beings as they preside over communal courts and have the power to arbitrate over disputes, and are charged with trying, censuring, and c (By News Poster)...Somalia: Thousands Displaced by Floods, Fear of Renewed Clashes
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Flooding and fear of renewed clashes in Somalia's south-central region of Hiiraan have displaced thousands of families in and around Beletweyne, the regional capital, sources told IRIN.Hamud Ali Jilio (By News Poster)...Somalia: Puntland Forces Arrest Al-Shabaab Gun Men
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Security forces in Somalia's Puntland state have nabbed men carrying guns in the administrative capital of Garowe, police commander said.Abdirihman Haji Abshir, Nugal Police Commander said security of (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Court Acquits Top Opposition Leader
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Zvamaida MurwiraHarare - THE High Court yesterday acquitted MDC-T treasurer-general Roy Bennett on charges of terrorism, banditry, insurgency and trying to depose a constitutionally-elected Governm (By News Poster)...South Africa: Multichoice Accused of Missing Icasa Deadline
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Chantelle BenjaminJohannesburg - A DISPUTE has arisen over whether MultiChoice met an Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) deadline for the hotly contested digital mobile TV service l (By News Poster)...America: They tried to poison President George Bush & his wife in 2007...
Monday 10-May-2010: [I've written many times before about the dangers of poisoning as a method of trying to assassinate leaders. Look at how even George Bush nearly became a victim. In his book, "New Lies For Old", ex (By Jan)...Sudan: Carter Center Reports Widespread Irregularities in Country's Vote Tabulation and Strongly Urges Steps to Increase Transparency
Monday 10-May-2010: In a statement released today, The Carter Center reported that based on its direct observations, Sudan's vote tabulation process was highly chaotic, non-transparent, and vulnerable to electoral manipu (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Namb to Revamp MFB Sector
Monday 10-May-2010: By Amaka AgwuegboThe National Executive Council (NEC) of the National Association of Microfinance Banks (NAMB) has set in motion plans to revamp the microfinance sectorSpeaking at its Strategic Planni (By News Poster)...U.S. Split Threatens Sudan Peace
Monday 10-May-2010: By Kevin KellyNew York - Sharp differences inside the Obama administration over Sudan are producing a weak US response to the intensifying threat of renewed north-south warfare, a coalition of advocac (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Hunger Stalks Buhera Villagers
Monday 10-May-2010: By Caiphas ChimheteBuhera - Along a narrow dusty road from Muzokomba to Zangama village in Buhera district are patches of lifeless and sun-burnt crops in the small fields.Even in the morning breeze, t (By News Poster)...Africa: South Africa Set to Reap from Kenya's Bad Maize Crisis
Thursday 13-May-2010: The expected loss of at least four million bags of maize harvested in Kenya because of contamination with deadly aflatoxin will offer a lifeline for South Africa which had been hit by low demand for i (By News Poster)...South Africa: Strike Sabotage Suspected in Derailing of Train
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Johannesburg - About 10,000 litres of diesel spilled when a freight train derailed in a suspected sabotage by striking Transnet workers today, the Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) said."Two locomotives (By News Poster)...Opinion: Ethiopia's Rulers & Democracy
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Ayenew HaileselassieIt seems politics will continue being practised by people that continue behaving like rookies. They all continue making the same old mistakes. Even EPRDF, the much experienced a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cadre Deployment is Now Backfiring
Tuesday 11-May-2010: Johannesburg - THE African National Congress's (ANC's) policy of cadre deployment, intended to ensure that Luthuli House has a hand on every meaningful lever of power in SA, is instead threatening to (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Agribank Mulls Listing On ZSE
Monday 10-May-2010: Harare - AGRIBANK is mulling an initial public offering on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange as part of options it is considering to raise funds for recapitalisation of the bank in line with Reserve Bank re (By News Poster)...Danger Ashipala Dies
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Tileni MongudhiDANGER Ashipala, a senior advisor to Police Inspector General Sebastian Ndeitunga, died in his sleep Sunday night at the age of 62.Namibian Police spokesperson Deputy Commissioner Ho (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Police Intimidate Masvingo Journalist to Reveal Sources
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Tichaona SibandaPolice interrogators on Monday spent six hours trying to force the Editor of the Masvingo Mirror, Golden Maunganidze to reveal his sources on a story he wrote linking the Tourism Mi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Public Sector Struggling with Shortages of 80 Drugs
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Stephanie NieuwoudtCape Town - South Africa is experiencing a shortage of over 80 different drugs in its public health sector, including flu vaccinations and medication for tuberculosis and high bl (By News Poster)...Nigeria: N84 Billion Fraud - Representatives Order EFCC to Probe NNPC, Shell, Total, Others
Monday 10-May-2010: By Alexandra Mede And Rotimi AkinwumiAbuja - Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Total Upstream, Shell, and 25 other firms are to be probed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (By News Poster)...South Africa: Reserve Bank Probably Will Drop Rates
Monday 10-May-2010: By Mariam Isa"It's quite simple at the moment, even before the shenanigans of this week it seemed a done deal that the MPC would leave rates unchanged," said Cadiz African Harvest economist Adenaan Ha (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Can Jonathan's Goodluck Fix the Power Sector?
Monday 10-May-2010: ALL 'Power' now belongs to Goodluck Jonathan: he holds sway as Nigeria's President while retaining the portfolio of the Power Ministry as Minister. What this implies is that apart from piloting the af (By News Poster)...Wildlife: East Africa Counts Gorillas
Monday 10-May-2010: By Dr. Jean Felix KinaniKigali - How many gorillas live in the Virunga Massif? This is a question that has not been answered since the last census of the habitat in 2003. The Virunga Volcanoes is one (By News Poster)...South Africa: Humble Pie 101 for Wilful Youth Leader
Friday 14-May-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - IT IS back to school for SA's enfant terrible of politics, Julius Malema.While he will have to learn about his party and politics as part of his punishment after pleading (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Halt Irri Crisis in Isoko Land
Thursday 13-May-2010: Lagos - The Isoko people are one of the peaceful ethnic groups in Nigeria, despite that the federal and state governments have failed abysmally to provide infrastructural development in the area. Isok (By News Poster)...Kenya: Banks Stake Bets On SMEs Ahead of Revolution
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Kevin MwanzaKenyan banks and micro-finance institutions are scrambling to attract small and mid-sized enterprises by tailoring products to meet the needs of this niche.Barclays Bank last week joine (By News Poster)...Remand Court to Rule On Matambanadzo
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Harare - The suspected mastermind of several armed robberies in and around Harare, Luckymore Matambanadzo, has had his matter referred back to the remand court for the second time after his lawyer aga (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Foreign Lenders Shun Independent Power Projects
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Ejiofor AlikeLagos - Inability of some private entities granted licences for Independent Power Plants (IPPs) to obtain loans from international lending institutions has stalled the take-off of the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC-T Acts On Widening Fissures
Monday 10-May-2010: By Vusumuzi SifileTHE Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) leadership has embarked on a national fire-fighting crusade following confusion caused by recent public disagreements by the party's most s (By News Poster)...South Africa: Firms Raise Voices Against Australian Tax
Monday 10-May-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - GOLD Fields and AngloGold Ashanti, two of SA's big gold houses, on Friday added their voices to growing opposition to the Australian government's proposal for a "super tax (By News Poster)...Uganda: Land Disputes Disrupt Bududa Resettlement
Monday 10-May-2010: Kampala - THE border clashes between the Sabiny and the Bagisu is as old as Uganda. Until 1962, Kapchorwa was part of Bugisu. By then it was called Sebei county.As a minority dominated by the Bagisu, (By News Poster)...South Africa: World Cup Will Change the World's Perception of SA - Zuma
Monday 10-May-2010: Pretoria - The FIFA 2010 World Cup will forever change the world's perception of South Africa says President Jacob Zuma.Addressing the Tourism Indaba opening ceremony in Durban on Saturday Zuma said i (By News Poster)...Sudan: Discovering the South - the Dilemma of Sudanese Democrats
Friday 14-May-2010: By Khalid Al NurTwenty years ago Dr Abdel Wahab el-Affendi wrote an article, 'Discovering the South', which described how Sudanese Islamists were trying to come to terms with the distinct cultural and (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: PPC Zim Cement Sales Treble
Friday 14-May-2010: Harare - JOHANESBURG Stock Exchange-listed cement producer Pretoria Portland Cement's Zimbabwean division trebled sales to 35 000 tonnes per month from 10 000 tonnes.This resulted in the local divisio (By News Poster)...Libya: Aircraft Crash Victims Not Yet Identified
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Julius BaumannJohannesburg - THE South African government has yet to identify how many South Africans were on board an Afriqiyah Airways flight from Johannesburg to Libya that crashed about 1km fro (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: New Travel Document Gets You Nowhere
Thursday 13-May-2010: Harare - A new Zimbabwean temporary travel document (TTD) is not being recognized by neighbouring South Africa's immigration authorities, preventing cross-border traders from sourcing goods for resale (By News Poster)...Liberia: Moving On from 14 Years of Conflict
Wednesday 12-May-2010: "Vested interests" are hampering Liberia's recovery from civil war by failing to address key recommendations of the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), according to a new report.The I (By News Poster)...Transnet Strike to Start
Monday 10-May-2010: By Alistair AndersonJohannesburg - THE South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) said yesterday it would begin a nationwide strike at parastatal Transnet today.The union last went on s (By News Poster)...Namibia: Teko Goes to High Court
Monday 10-May-2010: By Werner MengesTHE case in which Public Service Commission member Teckla Lameck and two co-accused are facing criminal charges in connection with an allegedly corrupt deal in which the Ministry of Fi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Firms to Sue FG Over PIB
Monday 10-May-2010: By Hector IgbikiowuboINDICATIONS are that Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, and other international oil companies, IOCs, have concluded arrangements to sue the Federal Government if it goes a (By News Poster)...IT Can Help Africa Improve Governance, End Poverty
Sunday 16-May-2010: Dar-es-Salaam - Investment in information technology can help Africa to improve governance, overcome poverty and deal with critical infrastructure gaps, taking India as an example, the co-chair of the (By News Poster)...People Have the Right to Know
Saturday 15-May-2010: THIS week The Namibian carried at least two stories which showed how ignorant some people are about access to information and their blatant disrespect to other people's right to information.This happe (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cele Gives Police 2010 Pep Talk
Thursday 13-May-2010: Pretoria - National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele has encouraged and prepared police members ahead of the upcoming football spectacle."I call on every one of you to display a humanly attitude of welc (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Law For IOC's to Build Refineries Underway
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Tordue SalemA Bill seeking to make it mandatory for all international oil companies (IOC's) operating in Nigeria to invest in crude refineries, awaits public hearing in the House of Representatives (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Volcano Under Dull Crust of Pre-Election Period
Monday 10-May-2010: By Ayenew HaileselassieMaybe post election times will prove many people wrong. The 2010 National Elections are indeed a step forward compared to the ones held in 2005, even though they appear much poo (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Deputy Ambassador attacked diplomat in Zim
Saturday 15-May-2010: Deputy Ambassador attacked diplomat in Zim - PSA Manie de Clercq 14 May 2010 Submitted by OF: Manie de Clercq says strongest possible action must be taken against Mlulami Singapi PSA deman (By JoAn)...Zimbabwe: Rhetoric Will Not Fool Investors
Friday 14-May-2010: By Edwin DubeDEPUTY Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara's suggestion that sanctions are scaring away investors and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's dismissal of investors' concerns smack of hypocrisy, e (By News Poster)...Most GPA Issues Agreed On - Zuma
Friday 14-May-2010: Harare - Parties in the inclusive Government have agreed on most issues being discussed on the implementation of the Global Political Agreement, Sadc facilitator and South Africa President Jacob Zuma (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: NatFoods to Close Down Aspindale Edible Oil Plant
Friday 14-May-2010: Harare - NATIONAL Foods Limited will next month close down its Aspindale edible oil plant for an indefinite period due to viability constraints.The oil plant would be placed under care and maintenance (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Global Fund Injects Billions in TB Fight
Friday 14-May-2010: By Irene V. NambiKigali - The Global Fund has given a grant of Rwf26bn to the government as facilitation in the fight against tuberculosis in the next three years.The grant agreement was signed this w (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Navy Arrest Oil Vessel With Stolen Crude
Friday 14-May-2010: By Emma ArubiWarri - THE Navy authority in Warri, Delta State have arrested a Greece, Athens, owned oil vessel, MT Troaical with International Maritime Organisation, IMO registration no. 7038941 with (By News Poster)...South Africa: Unchanged Rates 'Expected' - Analysts
Thursday 13-May-2010: Johannesburg - There has been a positive reaction by analysts to the decision by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) to keep interest rates at 6,5%, saying the decision was 'expected'.SARB says its (By News Poster)...South Africa: Stories of Resilience in the Face of HIV and AIDS
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Mwanja Ng'anjo and Mary ChivasaThese stories of resilience from four HIV-positive women in Makapanstat, in South Africa's North West province, show how individuals can live positively and "bounce b (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bring Debate Back to the Real World
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Johannesburg - THE economic policy declaration by manufacturers and trade unions is an unusual step, and the signatories include some surprising companies, but it is nonetheless to be welcomed.One rea (By News Poster)...Uganda: Minister's Turnaround on HIV Bill Raises Concern
Tuesday 11-May-2010: Kampala - Ugandan AIDS activists have expressed concern over a decision by the Ministry of Health to back an HIV/AIDS bill that would criminalize the deliberate transmission of HIV.Last week, State Mi (By News Poster)...Namibia: Exclusive - a Look At a Country's Power Milestone
Monday 10-May-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithOne month before the proverbial 'ON' button will power up the Caprivi Link Interconnector, The Namibian gained exclusive access to the Gerus Converter Station, one of two identical s (By News Poster)...South Africa: Land Reform 'Has to Foster Businesses'
Monday 10-May-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - THE government planned to invest aggressively in agricultural infrastructure and support small and medium enterprises, to stem the number of failing beneficiaries of t (By News Poster)...SA Author Bree O'Mara Killed In Libya Crash
Sunday 16-May-2010: Award-winning South African author Bree O'Mara was one of 103 people killed last Wednesday when their plane crashed in Tripoli, Libya. The plane left South Africa's O R Tambo airport and was travel (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Africa: Caine Prize Sways African Writing
Sunday 16-May-2010: By Mwenda MicheniNairobi - Literary awards, well managed, can actually kick off cultural revolutions, and that can be good or bad depending on their agenda.This becomes obvious when one sees what the (By News Poster)...Inclusive Government 'Uneasy Yet Progressive'
Saturday 15-May-2010: By Bernard MpofuPRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has described the inclusive government as uncomfortable, but said the coalition was necessary for Zimbabwe's post-conflict recovery.Accepting a human r (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Food Assessment Remains Bleak as Winter Months Approach
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Alex BellA recent international assessment of Zimbabwe's food security has remained bleak as the winter months approach, with warnings that the country will remain largely dependent on internationa (By News Poster)...Sudan: Fear of More Darfur Clashes Causing Displaced People to Flee, Says UN-AU Mission
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Fears of a possible military battle in North Darfur are causing people already staying in camps for the internally displaced to flee again, the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) (By News Poster)...Angola: Angolan Boy Kidnapped in South Africa Set Free
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Luanda - A five-year old n Angolan boy that was kidnapped Sunday in South Africa by unidentified gunmen, was set free on Tuesday after the family paid a USD 150,000 ransom.The press attaché of (By News Poster)...South Africa: Decent Work Still a Dream for Domestic Workers
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Davison MakangaCape Town - The abuse of domestic workers, the majority of whom are women, is still widespread in South Africa despite calls for the government to intensify the implementation of the (By News Poster)...Sudan: Urgent Cash Needed for Demining
Tuesday 11-May-2010: Nairobi - The removal of landmines and other explosive remnants of war (ERW) in Sudan will grind to a halt next month unless money is found to keep operations going, especially around Malakal in Upper (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Onovo Ordered to Reinstate Ribadu
Monday 10-May-2010: Lagos - Barely 48 hours after the presidency asked the Code of Conduct Tribunal to drop criminal charges against former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Rib (By News Poster)...Gasela Dies in Car Accident
Sunday 16-May-2010: By Chakanetsa ChidyamatiyoHarare - MDC Secretary for Lands and deputy spokesperson Mr Renson Gasela and two other party officials died on Saturday when a Nissan Hardbody they were travelling in rammed (By News Poster)...The Gospel according to Oprah Winfrey doesn't exactly work... Oprah exposed...
Friday 14-May-2010: [I remain amazed that some women took Oprah this seriously. Recently YOU/HUISGENOOT magazine - the largest magazine in South Africa (by far) published an expose from a recent book written about Oprah. (By Jan)...Africa: Former CFC Stanbic Boss Picked to Steer Liberty in E. Africa
Thursday 13-May-2010: By James MakauFormer CFC Stanbic managing director Mike du Toit, is set to steer Standard Bank's insurance businesses in the East African region.Sources close to the developments say that Mr du Toit h (By News Poster)...Namibia: More Vultures Needlessly Poisoned
Thursday 13-May-2010: EIGHT lappet-faced vultures, the largest vultures in Africa, have been found dead on a farm close to the southern border of the NamibRand Nature Reserve.Sean Gibson of Drifters Desert Lodge, on the fa (By News Poster)...Uganda: Country Leads in MTN Subscriber Growth
Tuesday 11-May-2010: Kampala - The MTN Group last week said it had recorded a 7% increase in the number of subscribers for the quarter ended March 31. Uganda increased its subscriber base by 8% to 5.615 million despite ag (By News Poster)...Opinion: Nigeria's Political Grand Prix
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Muhammad Al-GhazaliIn an uncanny way, the tragic drama that has become the Nigerian political space in the past several weeks, including of course, the unfortunate demise of the former president Um (By News Poster)...Zambia: Commission Probes Defunct Task Force Officers
Monday 10-May-2010: THE Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is investigating officials at the defunct Task Force on corruption following financial irregularities contained in the Auditor-General's report.ACC corporate affai (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos - Military Arrests Nine Suspects With Explosives
Monday 10-May-2010: By Seriki AdinoyiJos - The military Special Task Force in Jos, Plateau State has arrested nine suspects with explosives believed to be manufactured and preserved by them for another attack on the city (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: UN Security Council must act to stop mineral trade fuelling Congo war
Friday 14-May-2010: Delegates from the UN Security Council visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo today and tomorrow must act decisively to prevent natural resources fuelling conflict, said campaign group Global Witne (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Agribank Set to Cut Branches, Lay-Off Staff
Friday 14-May-2010: By Paul NyakazeyaAGRIBANK will soon cut its branch network by 25% and lay-off staff in a move to lower costs, CEO Sam Malaba has said.He says the move to cut branches and lower the bank's staff comple (By News Poster)...South Africa: Lightning Bolts And Eviction Mysteries
Friday 14-May-2010: By Aubrey MatshiqiJohannesburg - THE editor of this newspaper once warned me against using too many quotations in the same column. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your attitude towards jud (By News Poster)...Angola: At Least 21 Miners Killed in China Colliery Blast
Friday 14-May-2010: China - An explosion at a coal mine in China's south-western Guizhou province has left 21 miners dead, state media reports.A further 10 miners were rescued or managed to escape following the blast at (By News Poster)...Sudan: Govt Rejects Claims of New Darfur Troops Buildup
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Peter MwaiNairobi - Sudan on Thursday dismissed reports by UNAMID peacekeepers that there has been build-up of Sudanese army and rebel troops in the troubled Darfur region.The spokesman for the Sud (By News Poster)...Sudan: Rights Groups Respond to Today?s Testimony by Obama Administration?s Envoy to Country
Wednesday 12-May-2010: In a hearing today before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the U.S. special envoy to Sudan, retired Major General Scott Gration, testified on the Obama administration’s approach to Sudan. (By News Poster)...West Africa: West Africa ICT Experts Gather for Titans of Tech 2010
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Leading information communications technology (ICT) practitioners and professionals in the West African region are set to storm the Titans of Tech 2010 Conference and Exhibition.Titans of Tech is a pl (By News Poster)...Equatorial Guinea: Unesco - End Alliance with Corrupt Dictator
Tuesday 11-May-2010: The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is set to award a life sciences prize named after and funded by the dictator of Equatorial Guinea, despite pleas from hun (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Prime Minister Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe, Choco Women of Colombia Honored at NDI 25th Anniversary Dinner
Tuesday 11-May-2010: The National Democratic Institute (NDI) celebrated its 25th anniversary Monday by honoring two champions of democracy, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe and the Network of Chocó Wome (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ogbulafor Back in Court Today Over Alleged N170 Million Fraud
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Joe NwankwoAbuja - Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Vincent Ogbulafor, will be arraigned at the Abuja High Court today by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenc (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mines to Benefit From U.S.$1 Billion Fund
Tuesday 11-May-2010: Harare - ZIMBABWE'S mining sector that is suffering from lack of affordable external and domestic long-term capital and in a severe power crisis, stands to benefit from aUS$1 billion African mining fu (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: ZDF Defeats Sanctions - President
Monday 10-May-2010: Harare - President Mugabe has hailed the Zimbabwe Defence Forces for overcoming the challenges the illegal Western economic sanctions pose to their operations.Addressing a passout parade at the Zimbab (By News Poster)...Malaria War in Africa Gets a Boost
Monday 10-May-2010: By Wilfred EdwinThe World Economic Forum in Dar es Salaam struck another blow for the fight against malaria in Africa with the announcement of new funding amounting to $680 million.Rear Admiral Ziemer (By News Poster)...Lessons from my work: What happened to my Muslim boss who kept trying to change me and wanted to get rid of me many times...
Sunday 16-May-2010: You will recall before I moved to the current department I'm in that I had a coloured Muslim boss. This is the same guy who one day admitted, "I don't have all the answers". This guy said in a meeting (By Jan)...South Africa: Study Suggests HIV Prevalence Has Dropped Among Children
Friday 14-May-2010: UNICEF today welcomed the results of a study by the Human Sciences Research Council suggesting that HIV prevalence has dropped by more than half in children ages 2-14. According to the survey, HIV pre (By News Poster)...South Africa: Recession Takes Toll On Start-Up Firms
Friday 14-May-2010: By Linda EnsorJohannesburg - The global economic crisis had dealt a major blow to entrepreneurship in SA, with the number of start-ups declining by 40% last year compared with 2008 and existing entrep (By News Poster)...Rwanda: TR Focuses On Fighting Graft
Friday 14-May-2010: By Frank KanyesigyeKigali - In a bid to develop prevention mechanisms to fight against corruption and related offences, Transparency Rwanda (TR) is set to focus on reducing corruption to zero level.Th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Key Oil Pipeline Suffers Damage
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Alike EjioforLagos - Oil giant ExxonMobil Corporation yesterday confirmed that its Nigerian subsidiary Mobil Producing Nigeria has declared force majeure on its Qua Iboe crude oil export due to dam (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bank Pushes Bill to Control Shareholders
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Linda EnsorJohannesburg - The South African Reserve Bank is in a rush to get amending legislation on to the statute books before its September annual general meeting, when three vacancies for direc (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Police Stop MDC-T MP and Musician Madzore from Performing
Thursday 13-May-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe MDC-T MP for Glen View Paul Madzore, one of the best selling protest musicians in the country, was forced to cancel the Masvingo and Gutu legs of his tour after police blocked h (By News Poster)...Kenya: Banks Turn to Youth in Bid to Grow Revenue
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By George OmondiCommercial banks have turned to the youth segment in the hope of tapping more transaction fees and capturing a sizeable portion of the market before newly-licensed microfinance institu (By News Poster)...Namibia: Romanian Economy May Contract This Year
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Alina Wolfe MurrayBucharest - Romania's economy may contract by as much as 0,5 per cent this year and the government will have to cut spending "drastically" to keep the deficit down, the Internatio (By News Poster)...Leonardo Killing Seen As a Turning Point By Stander
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Denver KistingTHERE is no way that Keith Wright, who recently admitted having shot the collared lion Leonardo, could not have seen the collar around the lion's neck.So says lion researcher Flip Sta (By News Poster)...South Africa: Communists Suspend Youth Leader
Monday 10-May-2010: By Xolani MbanjwaJulius Malema's closest ally, Floyd Shivambu, believes that his suspension by the Young Communist League and Malema's disciplinary hearing tomorrow are meant to deal with them because (By News Poster)...Kenya: Kengen to End Power Supply Deal in August
Monday 10-May-2010: By Kennedy SenelwaNairobi - Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) has given Aggreko Plc three months notice of its intention to terminate 100 megawatts (MW) of emergency power purchase from Au (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Govt, Farmer in Row Over Gemstone Land
Monday 10-May-2010: By Lucas LigangaA three-square-kilometre area rich in sapphire in Handeni District is at the centre of a dispute pitting the government and a mining firm on one side and a local farmer on the other.Th (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chombo, MDC-T Clash
Monday 10-May-2010: Harare - This sets the stage for a showdown between Minister Chombo and the MDC-T leadership that is insisting that all officials expelled from the party were supposed to be booted out of council.Howe (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Ingabire Risks Losing Bail, Warns Ngoga
Saturday 15-May-2010: By Ignatius SsuunaKigali - Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga, Has Warned Victoire Umuhoza Ingabire of FU-Inkingi party, against giving interviews to newspapers, saying the bail terms bar her from doing (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kayihura Revisits Scene of Murder
Friday 14-May-2010: By Herbert SsempogoKampala - Police chief Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura yesterday visited a private home in a city suburb, where the body of 26-year-old Brenda Karamuzi was recovered in a septic tank in Jan (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Former State Governor to be Extradited
Friday 14-May-2010: By Erasmus Alaneme And Uche MebrimAbuja - Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday confirmed the arrest and detention of former Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori, saying it was (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Woman Vanishes With Lover's U.S.$40,000
Friday 14-May-2010: Harare - A HARARE woman allegedly connived with her mother to steal and flee with her live-in lover's US$40 000 as he took a bath.Mellisa Thintitha is alleged to have fled to Uganda with another boyfr (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: UK Registered Diamond Mine Official Released on Bail
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Violet GondaA Mutare magistrate has granted bail to African Consolidated Resources (ACR) Finance Director Ian Harris, and two civil servants arrested last week on fraud allegations.ACR lawyer Jonat (By News Poster)...Uganda: Three Held Over Murder
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Moses BikalaKampala - THE Police in Bugiri district have arrested three men for allegedly murdering a 32-year-old fisherman. Adu Kugema, Henry Wabagaza and Stephen Oundo, a special Police constable (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Guebuza Hears Corruption Allegations
Tuesday 11-May-2010: Ntamba - A citizen in the Ntamba administrative post, in Nangade district, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, told Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Tuesday that he had been obliged to pa (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Insurance Act - NIA Seeks Lawmakers' Intervention
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Leo AligwoNIGERIAN Insurance Association (NIA) is not happy with the slow growth of the nation's insurance industry.Subsequently, it is anxiously seeking the cooperation of the National Assembly wi (By News Poster)...Namibia: Heading Towards Destruction
Monday 10-May-2010: By Alvine KapitakoLIFE in most parts of Katutura over the weekend is interesting. If you happen to be a movie lover like me, you'd probably agree with me that almost every weekend in Katutura, we get (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Opponent Acquitted of Terrorism Charges
Monday 10-May-2010: By Violet GondaMDC Treasurer General Roy Bennett has been acquitted on charges of plotting to overthrow the former ZANU PF government.High Court Justice Chinembiri Bhunu ruled on Monday that the State (By News Poster)...West Africa: UBA Ranks 3rd in West African Bank Survey
Monday 10-May-2010: Barely two years after it started full banking operations in Cote d' Ivoire , United Bank for Africa (Cote d' Ivoire) Limited has been ranked third among leading banks in the West African country acco (By News Poster)...Uganda: Health Officials Contest HIV Bill
Monday 10-May-2010: By Mary KarugabaKampala - Officials from the health ministry, led by minister Richard Nduhura, stunned MPs on Friday when they contradicted themselves on the criminalisation of intentional transmissio (By News Poster)...Namibia: Defence Should Be More Representative - Kazenambo
Monday 10-May-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE top ranks of the Namibia Defence Force should represent the different demographics of the Namibian population and the same should be done with the intake of recruits, Youth and (By News Poster)...Uganda: Museveni Hits Back At Clinton Over Elections
Monday 10-May-2010: By Barbara AmongKampala - PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has promised free and fair elections next year and warned the United States and the United Kingdom against lecturing Uganda on democracy.The Preside (By News Poster)...Africa: 'Organic Agriculture Not an Option for Africa At the Moment'
Monday 10-May-2010: By Dinfin MulupiAs much as environmentalists have been promoting organic agriculture, the use of fertilisers is still important for Africa to achieve food sustainability.This according to Andy Watt, m (By News Poster)...Somalia: Militia Chief Willing to Talk to World, Not Interim Govt
Sunday 16-May-2010: Islamist leader of Somalia's Hizbul-Islam rebel group Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys says he is ready to engage the international community in talks, Radio Garowe reports.We are ready to engage the interna (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN, Banks Oppose Bill to Protect Female Marketers
Friday 14-May-2010: By Abiodun Adelaja/Adekunle AdesujiAbuja - Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and other financial institutions yesterday kicked against a bill seeking to prohibit corporate prostitution and exploitation of (By News Poster)...South Africa: Govt to Support Tripoli Plane Crash Families
Thursday 13-May-2010: Pretoria - The Department of International Relations and Cooperation on Thursday said it was going to support the family members and relatives of those who died in a tragic plane crash in Tripoli, Lib (By News Poster)...Sudan: Peacekeepers Vow to Defend Themselves
Thursday 13-May-2010: By James KaruhangaUnited Nations mission in Darfur (UNAMID) peacekeepers have warned that they will react in self-defence if they are attacked in the western Sudanese troubled region of Darfur."We (UN (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Regular Power Supply is FG's Immediate Priority, Minister
Wednesday 12-May-2010: The Federal government has said that making sustainable electricity available to the citizenry is of immediate priority to the present Administration, even as it observed that lack of electricity has (By News Poster)...Dhlakama Disowns Renamo Parliamentary Group
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has broken a long silence to declare that he does not recognise the Renamo parliamentary group.Speaking (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Stop Harassing Opponents of Mugabe, Authorities Told
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Harare - The Zimbabwean coalition government has been called to immediately end all malicious prosecutions of people exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly (By News Poster)...Uganda: More Locals Rush to Buy Guns - Kivejinja
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Barbara AmongKampala - The number of Ugandans applying for guns for personal protection is increasing rapidly, according to internal affairs minister Kirunda Kivejinja.The minister on Monday said b (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai in Talks With Clinton
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Harare - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has missed another chance to fulfil his Global Political Agreement obligation of lobbying for an immediate end to sanctions on Zimbabwe.After a meeting on Mon (By News Poster)...South Africa: Finance Minister Warns of Dangers in High CEO Pay
Wednesday 12-May-2010: By Linda EnsorJohannesburg - Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has castigated the "unacceptable" rate at which CEOs and top executives of large corporations and state-owned enterprises awarded salaries (By News Poster)...Somalia: EU NAVFOR Warship Johan de Witt Disrupts Pirate Action Group
Wednesday 12-May-2010: This morning, 7 of May, the EU NAVFOR Swedish Maritime Patrol Aircraft detected another Pirate Action Group (PAG), in the middle of Somali Basin. EU NAVFOR Netherlands warship Johan de Witt, only 30 N (By News Poster)...Kenya: New Rules to Guide Use of Cash from Natural Gas
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Justus OndariNairobi - Even as Kenyans await the results of tests on the natural gas discovered in Isiolo, the country is drafting laws to regulate the sharing of revenue due to be generated from i (By News Poster)...Uganda: Mao Denies Links With Killer Governments
Monday 10-May-2010: By Michael J. SsaliMasaka - The leader of the Democratic Party, Mr Norbert Mao, has said the National Resistance Movement is wrong to link him to the alleged killings in the Luweero Triangle by depose (By News Poster)...Nigeria: HIV And Aids - CRH, SFH Target Grassroots
Tuesday 11-May-2010: By Chioma ObinnaTo ensure 100 percent awareness on HIV&AIDS in the communities, the Centre For the Right To Health (CRH), in conjunction with the Society for Family Health (SFH) supported by the Unite (By News Poster)...S.Africa: I spy with my little eye... a fascinating Afrikaner discusson about Jan, Adriana & Dan Roodt...
Monday 10-May-2010: Sometimes my web activities lead me to interesting things. I'm not going to tell you how I find some things some days... But I sometimes get lucky... I just stumbled on an utterly fascinating discu (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (14-05-2010)
Friday 14-May-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- Mugabe does not like Roy Bennett, and he is joined by probably all of his ZANU PF loyalists, so even though the Attorney General - after a (By The BeardedMan)...Roy Bennett Cleared Of All Charges
Monday 10-May-2010: A Zimbabwe court has acquitted controversial politician Roy Bennett, an outspoken critic of the Marxist regime of Robert Mugabe and opposition party member, of all charges Monday. Bennett faced cha (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...South Africa: 'Spy tapes' probe nearly done, says inspector
Sunday 16-May-2010: By Political BureauAn investigation into the legality of the secretly recorded tapes that led to the dropping of corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma is nearing completion.The "spy tapes" i (By Jan)...More thoughts and news from Jan... later today... I opened the minds of my Black Co-Workers & they're loving it... The White man Mugabe fears the most...
Wednesday 12-May-2010: I'm just busy at work with a bunch of things, but I have a bunch of thoughts and comments about all sorts of things to discuss - including Military history, my black team members at work... exploding (By Jan)...Attention: The Old AfricanCrisis website has been suspended for spamvertising of Farm Murders?
Sunday 16-May-2010: I got a note from ReadyHosting.com saying that the other AfricanCrisis website - my original www.AfricanCrisis.org was suspended because of SPAMVERTISING. I have never engaged in spam and it appear (By Jan)...Mozambique: Two South African Sailors Arrested
Wednesday 12-May-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican government on Wednesday confirmed the arrest of two South African citizens who had boarded a floating dock apparently abandoned off the coast of the southern province of Inhamb (By News Poster)...SA Farmers Must Give Up 40%: Agri Minister
Tuesday 11-May-2010: South Africa Agriculture Minister Tina Joemat-Petterson has told Die Burger that commercial farmers would have to give up 40% of the value of their farms to Black shareholders under a proposed plan (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...I told someone: War drives politics - War is of greater importance than politics...
Saturday 15-May-2010: I was chatting to someone one day about war and politics. In my discussion I made the point that politics is not the real driving force in a country. WAR is... or rather the outcome of war determines (By Jan)...[Cartoon] Yep... The Economic Crisis has hit everyone
Tuesday 11-May-2010: [I received this from a family member. Hillarious. Jan] (Photo) (By Jan)...From Jan: A very busy week... winding things up... new web strategies...
Friday 14-May-2010: Hi All, Just a note, this was a busy week for me. I never intended it to be, but I was trying to wind up certain things at work and get them off my back for once and for all so I can return to the we (By Jan)...[Pic] Russian winter...
Tuesday 11-May-2010: Russian winters aren't always as bad as they make them out to be... (Photo) (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (10-05-2010)
Monday 10-May-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- Regular readers of this page will have read of the problems that I am having with Blogger. Basically, they want me to upgrade my template - (By The BeardedMan)...USA: Wall Street - The Stock Markets are collapsing again after recovering for a week...
Friday 14-May-2010: For a week it seemed as if they'd been propping up the stock markets and keeping them all very flat and uninteresting. I had a quick look at trading on Wall st at 5:30pm South African time and I see t (By Jan)...[Graph] Stock Markets: My Technical Indicator issues ALL SELL signal for the DOW Jones Index....
Monday 10-May-2010: My Technical Indicator for the DOW Jones Index (which basically drives all other stock market indexes - in a manner of speaking - they all move in sync) - has given its first firm SELL signal. You (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (15-05-2010)
Saturday 15-May-2010: Howzit Here's a question for you to consider... How do you reshuffle a stacked deck? "A cabinet reshuffle in the unstable inclusive government is now odds-on as the political principals prepare (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (11-05-2010)
Tuesday 11-May-2010: Howzit As one might expect, in light of the acquittal of Roy Bennett yesterday on serious criminal charges, the internet is awash with the story - and the question whether Mugabe will go ahead with (By The BeardedMan)...[Pic][Humor] S.Africa: Now this is a serious Rugby (Blue Bulls) supporter...
Wednesday 12-May-2010: [Amazing. This seems to be true. Its hillarious. In South Africa some people, especially Afrikaners take their rugby very seriously. This is too funny. Jan] (Photo) (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (16-05-2010)
Sunday 16-May-2010: Howzit In case you missed the update yesterday, the documentary film "Mugabe and The White African" which was up to win an Oscar will be screened in the UK on Tuesday evening at 2200hrs on More4. T (By The BeardedMan)...
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