From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 23rd 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 & Gruesome[6 Pics] S.Africa: AWESOME Young white guy shoots 3 armed Black professional criminals who tried to hijack his parents...
Wednesday 19-May-2010: [Here is a really cool story. This gang of 3 black professional criminals had their reign of terror brought to an end by a young guy who fought back – with only 17 rounds. They say the gang was armed (By Jan)...S.Africa: What a GREAT Interview I had with Channel Islam - I told the Worldwide Muslim audience: Julius Malema must be THROWN OUT
Tuesday 18-May-2010: I will describe to you as accurately as I can what transpired this morning on my interview with Channel Islam - which is a global Islamic news network based in South Africa. My interview was schedu (By Jan)...S.Africa: KILL THE BOER!! Guerilla Journalism: If they try to suppress the AfricanCrisis Farm murders pages... They tried before... Please die quietly...
Tuesday 18-May-2010: I was sitting and thinking about the suppression of the Farm Murders page in the light of ReadyHosting.com suddenly shutting down my old website. Years ago they tried various ruses to kill off the (By Jan)...S.Africa: ex-Air Force friend says: ANC is MURDERING WHITES, pretending its crime - Jan, I'm worried sick about you, the ANC has assassins... THEY CAN COME TO KILL YOU!!! - We should have an Army...
Sunday 23-May-2010: [A good friend of mine, an english-speaking South African, who once was in the airforce and who also is an avid supporter of coloured people and would NEVER regard them in the same light as the blacks (By Jan)...Somalia: Pirates or Protectors?
Friday 21-May-2010: By Andrew MwanguraThe devastating Somali civil war since 1991 forced the Somali marine and fisheries sector to an abrupt collapse and almost all Somali fisheries activities shut down. The vessels of t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Army Not the Solution to Raging Social Decay
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Meshack MabogoaneJohannesburg - THE staggering social problems that have overwhelmed the country in the wake of a licentious "human rights" environment (and its sinister manipulation) are receiving (By News Poster)...Africa: New Colonialism - Pentagon Carves Africa into Military Zones
Friday 21-May-2010: By Rick RozoffLast year the commander of US African Command (AFRICOM), General William Ward, said the Pentagon had military partnerships with 35 of the continent's 53 nations, 'representing US relatio (By News Poster)...Africa: An Unfinished Revolution?
Friday 21-May-2010: By Neville AlexanderThis address was given as the 4th Strini Moodley Annual Memorial Lecture at the University of KwaZulu-Natal on 13 May 2010. Neville Alexander is the director of the Project for t (By News Poster)...Africa: Aids Activists Speak Out
Saturday 22-May-2010: Washington, DC - Editor's Note"In 2001 in Abuja, African heads of state promised us 15% of budget spending on health - where is this money? ... Only two countries in the continent have met the Abuja t (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Kill the Boer, Kill the Boer - Eugene Terreblanche trial... Teaching Julius Malema to be a better thief
Wednesday 19-May-2010: I hear from a friend of mine that at the trial of the murder of Eugene Terreblanche that blacks were outside singing Kill the Boer, Kill the Boer. Interesting. These blacks want this type of racia (By Jan)...Africa: World Backtracks On HIV Treatment
Saturday 22-May-2010: Washington, DC - "Around the world thousands of doctors, nurses, legislators, and activists helped make treatment scale-up possible. Now a few power brokers and politicians who claim AIDS receives too (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: What they DON'T TELL YOU... By the end of the FIFA world cup soccer Johannesburg RESIDENTS WILL HATE FIFA AND THE SOCCER... The first BLACK WORLD CUP...
Tuesday 18-May-2010: A friend of mine sits in on some interesting meetings... "somewhere"... Let me rather not give the details about the meetings. And at these meetings they discuss arrangements for the FIFA world cup so (By Jan)...S.Africa: 2010: CRIME WAR against Whites? Some Violent Crimes are up 100%... but they try to downplay the seriousness of the crimes
Thursday 20-May-2010: I have to be brief as I must rush. When I was at the Police meeting the other night the Policeman there said that some of the crimes in our neighbourhood were up. The Community Police Forum Chairma (By Jan)...S.Africa: Worldwide Islamic Channel Interview with Jan Lamprecht regarding White Genocide fears... Kill the Boer
Monday 17-May-2010: This morning I got a phone call on my cell from someone from a worldwide Islamic TV network. I think it is a TV and radio network. They want me for a quick 10 minute interview to discuss my Open lette (By Jan)...Africa: Traditional Spirituality and the World Cup
Saturday 22-May-2010: By Espera DonouvossiMore than 6.175 grams of gold: that's what it weighs, the prize that the African jujus are aiming to claim this summer in South Africa.Africa has a reputation for being the contine (By News Poster)...S.Africa: A Black Manager... so much power... and yet, so completely stupid - Computers give a false impression of human intelligence
Friday 21-May-2010: I won't reveal all the details surrounding this story... its a bit too sensitive... and too many people read this site. But let me try to describe in a round-about way some things I saw recently. (By Jan)...Zanu PF Fights Over Malema
Friday 21-May-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaPRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's fractured Zanu PF party last week emerged from its politburo meeting deeply divided over the issue of controversial ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema wh (By News Poster)...[3 Graphs] My Technical Indicator - Stock Markets collapsing, waves of panic growing - NOTE: Govt SILENCE - In the midst of a 2,000 point drop?
Wednesday 19-May-2010: Serious things are afoot. I am going to be a bit brief, but I really must attempt by tomorrow to post a more complete analysis showing the technical status of the markets. I just wanted to show yo (By Jan)...New U.S. Bill Extension of Economic Warfare
Tuesday 18-May-2010: Harare - US SENATOR Russ Feingold is displeased.The legislation he helped draft in 2001 to cripple Zimbabwe's economy as punishment for the country's land reform programme, which redistributed the lan (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Tejan-Cole's Resignation And the Complexities of Corruption
Monday 17-May-2010: By Muctaru WurieFreetown - Back in 2002, a summit of the African Union on corruption clearly highlighted just how serious this evil is within African societies. The statistics for the cost of corrupti (By News Poster)...[Pic] S.Africa: Yale discontinues one of its coolest little security gadgets...
Wednesday 19-May-2010: This is a really cool security gadget which at one time I was toying with selling on my website. It is produced by Yale in South Africa, whom I must say produce really quality security products. Th (By Jan)...IMPORTANT: Namibia: An Example of Psychological Warfare and Reverse Psychology by Blacks to Intimidate & Scare Whites...
Friday 21-May-2010: [I want to draw your attention to this news article from Namibia. In Namibia you have a situation much like South Africa where the minority whites also are under pressure - though the German Govt does (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Put All Rape Victims On Medical Regimen
Wednesday 19-May-2010: Harare - THERE have been several cases in Zimbabwe of girls and women being infected with HIV by a rapist even though there are effective ways of minimising this terrible extra burden that a victim of (By News Poster)...Watchdog Urges U.S. to Implement Law on Ugandan Rebels
Friday 21-May-2010: Washington, DC - The Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) slaughtered 96 civilians and abducted dozens more between January and early April 2010 in a brutal killing campaign in northeastern Demo (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Some stories to tell you all... Jan... when is Julius Malema coming to kill you?
Friday 21-May-2010: Just a note. I had a busy day and couldn't even get some time during lunch to write a post I intended. But its been a fascinating week... a fascinating week. And its been really great to see my new sy (By Jan)...[2 Pics] S.Africa: 2010: CRIME IN SOUTH AFRICA POSTER - My Pics: A Great Crime Advert: Wake up before its too late...
Wednesday 19-May-2010: I was driving around Johannesburg last Saturday when I spotted this advert on the side of the road. I thought it was an absolutely brilliant security company advert. It is for a company called SECURIT (By Jan)...The War that bled America: Pentagon rethinking the Counter-insurgency wars... Remember: Islam beat Christianity in the Crusades...
Monday 17-May-2010: [I've been warning since 2003 of the problems of running all these wars and their cost. The other day I saw some film footage of a British TV presenter travelling in central Iraq. I was shocked at the (By Jan)...S.Africa: 2010: Crime - A Perky Young Afrikaans woman tells me of Black criminals who robbed them...
Tuesday 18-May-2010: I was chatting to a lovely young Afrikaans woman at my work today. She's really one of the loveliest, sweet natured young women you'll ever come across. If she had lived in New York or London she woul (By Jan)...Is Govt Tyranny Now Behind Africa?
Saturday 22-May-2010: By Ernest HarschNot long ago, Africa's coup makers and autocrats felt confident they could get a pass from their fellow rulers elsewhere on the continent. In recent months, however, as military office (By News Poster)...The Myth of Judicial Independence
Sunday 23-May-2010: Harare - THIS is the second of a series by DR TAFATAONA MAHOSO in which he looks at the myth of judicial independence under Rhodesian era judges.KENYAN-BORN attorney Charles Ford Kaminwa, like many ot (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Avenging Spirits Torment Zanu PF Terror Militia
Monday 17-May-2010: By Walter Marwizi and Caiphas ChimheteBuhera - Drama is unfolding in Buhera where avenging spirits have left Zanu PF activists who murdered people in acts of political violence quaking in their boots. (By News Poster)...South Africa: Clone Gang Hits ATMs
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Murray WilliamsA sophisticated gang has raided the bank accounts of scores of Cape ATM bankers using hi-tech cloning devices and tiny mounted cameras.According to a police expert, the devices are " (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: A Party of Excellence to Deliver Real Change - Resolutions of the MDC National Council
Monday 17-May-2010: Resolutions of the MDC National Council, adopted at a meeting at Harvest House, Harare, 16 May 2010:On the 16th of May 2010, the National Council of the party met in Harare and held an intense meeting (By News Poster)...An American with real fighting spirit against the Muslim Jihad agrees with my views on fighting back...
Sunday 23-May-2010: [I made contact with an American some time back who is disabled, but still manages to look after his family and runs a website of his own about "Important news". He is one of those fighting against th (By Jan)...Nigeria: Police Kill, Rape, Torture and Extort Says Rights Group
Friday 21-May-2010: Dakar - Nigerian police routinely carry out summary executions of suspected criminals, use torture to extract confessions from detainees, and rape as an interrogation technique, according to a report (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (20-05-2010)
Thursday 20-May-2010: Howzit There will be no posting tomorrow as we are intending to attend the funeral of our next door neighbour. He was a great man and I was very fond of him. I trust that you will understand. (By The BeardedMan)...[Pic] S.Africa: 2010 FIFA World Cup - TOP SECRET: Photo of Bafana Bafana in training for World cup...
Friday 21-May-2010: [I couldn't resist posting this. Its too hillarious. This is doing the rounds among people. This photo and the caption below... I've been saying for years what a bunch of clowns South Africa's comp (By Jan)...Nigeria: Anambra Police And Harvest of Kidnappers
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Okey MaduforoAwka - The diary at the police force Headquarters Abuja has some states as the major flash points of all forms of brigandage. Among these states in question is Anambra, the most populo (By News Poster)...West Africa: Violent Conflicts Challenge Ecowas -Says West African Security Expert
Tuesday 18-May-2010: The greatest challenge facing Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) is how to contain and resolve violent conflicts, and forestall the outbreak of new ones, particularly coup d'etats in t (By News Poster)...Of Phoney Awards, Duplicity and Gangsterism
Monday 17-May-2010: By Prof Jonathan Moyo, MPHarare - SOME things, or rather some people, never cease to amaze.A case in point is the nauseating display of rank-hypocrisy behind an alleged democracy award given to Prime (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Illegally Exporting Diamonds to Dubai
Friday 21-May-2010: By Dumisani Muleya and Chris MuronziGOVERNMENT is illegally exporting diamonds through the back door to Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), in violation of a Supreme Court ruling which ordered an immed (By News Poster)...South Africa: Urban Renewal Reduces Crime in South African Township
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Kristin PalitzaKhayelitsha - Neatly paved walkways, regularly spaced streetlamps, well-designed public squares and multi-functional, modern public buildings: this kind of thoughtful town planning i (By News Poster)...Pan-Africanism - Which Way Africa?
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Paul ShipeleAS we approach May 25, Africa Day, I pay tribute to one of our own Pan-Africanists par excellence Katjikururume Hosea Kutako as well as the founding President and Father of the Namibian (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Mobil's Lease Renewal Revisited
Monday 17-May-2010: By Ijeoma NwogwugwuLagos - Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, the Nigerian subsidiary of ExxonMobil - the world's largest company by market capitalisation, is unhappy with this newspaper. The company (By News Poster)...Africa: Continent's Displaced People - Out of the Shadows
Friday 21-May-2010: By André-Michel EssoungouIt was a departure they never had time to prepare for. Seeking to escape death - sometimes amidst fighting between the Senegalese army and rebels in the southern region of Cas (By News Poster)...[2 Pics] S.Africa: My Pics: The Secret Tunnels under Johannesburg...
Wednesday 19-May-2010: Take a look at these 2 photos I took one day while going between buildings in the Johannesburg CBD (Inner City). What you are seeing is private and no open to the public because it is owned by a busin (By Jan)...Rwanda: Gov't Slams ICTR Lawyers for Ties to Genocide Fugitives
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Felly KimenyiKigali - The government has condemned some defence lawyers at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the several jurists mainly based in Europe, for their continued (By News Poster)...S.Africa: The 2010 FIFA World cup is a BIG FLOP - Some hotels could lose up to 60% of business...
Wednesday 19-May-2010: [Take a look at this news report. For once it seems Mugabe's mouthpiece is saying something close to the truth. We did post this before, but I'm going to repost it. We knew it would be a flop in t (By Jan)...Lessons of Life: The Intelligent always win: For the Stupid, everything is difficult; for the Intelligent everything is possible - The Stupid will never have enough money & the Intelligent don't need much money...
Monday 17-May-2010: Has it ever occurred to you that what you "see" or perceive in your mind is not the same as what someone else sees? One reads in history of "pioneers" and "visionaries"... They "saw" the future... (By Jan)...East Africa: Region's Looming Famine - Gibe III
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Khadija SharifeEast Africa's looming 'eco-genocide', set to impact one million people, is about to become a reality in Ethiopia and extending to Sudan and Kenya if Gilgel Gibe III mega-dam - the se (By News Poster)...African's Cities Demand Fresh Ideas
Monday 17-May-2010: By Michael SimireAre African cities living up to the current global challenges? In the light of the much-vaunted concept of globalisation, how are they responding to emerging socio-economic and ideolo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Queen of Battle Comes of Age
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Reuben BuhariLagos - The Nigeria Air Force was established in 1964 as a child of necessity. Since then however, it has grown into maturity, breaking new grounds in many areas as a recent Air Expo i (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (18-05-2010)
Tuesday 18-May-2010: Howzit SCREENING TONIGHT ON BRITISH TELEVISION! Showing tonight at 2200hrs on More4 - repeated at 0045hrs Wednesday morning, same channel... (Sky Channel 138, Virgin 137, FeeSat 124, FreeView (By The BeardedMan)...Zimbabwe: Let's Act On Inflation Now
Tuesday 18-May-2010: Harare - ZIMBABWE'S rising inflation, while still very low, is still cause for concern since action taken now will prevent anything more dramatic later.Of particular concern is the fact that over the (By News Poster)...EXCELLENT: More Zimbabwe owned properties seized in South Africa by German Development bank - Seize Mugabe's assets!!
Tuesday 18-May-2010: [It is good to see that Zimbabwean crimes are not being tolerated. I would like to see more properties being seized that belong to Mugabe and to ZANU PF. In fact, wouldn't it be nice if they started s (By News Poster)...Uganda: LRA Rebels Kill Three Sudanese Officials
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Cyprian MusokeKampala - Three Sudanese officials were shot dead on Monday after their car was ambushed by remnants of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Southern Sudan state of Western Equator (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: The Dynamics of the Post-Liberation Period in Namibia, SA and Zimbabwe
Monday 17-May-2010: By Alexactus T KaureWHY Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe now? Well, the three countries share some striking historical similarities. They were settler colonies.The three were fiercely involved in a (By News Poster)...'Times Have Changed for Tory, Zanu PF Relations'
Friday 21-May-2010: By Bernard MpofuZANU PF is harping on about how old allegiances with the British Conservative party could help mend relations with London, but for Zimbabwean migrants the new UK government could mean (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Political Violence - a Death Knell for National Healing
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Wongai ZhangazhaA BID to woo World Cup teams to train in the country and shore up tourism credentials has provided the clearest sign of how Zimbabwe's national healing and reconciliation processes (By News Poster)...South Africa: Fate of Missile Group in Government's Hands
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Julius BaumannJohannesburg - MISSILE group Denel Dynamics' financial future remains in the hands of the departments of defence and public enterprises, pending a decision on whether it may sell an e (By News Poster)...Tanzania: TPDF Man Goes Berserk, Shoots Three, Self Dead
Monday 17-May-2010: By Robert KakwesiTabora - A soldier with the Tanzania People's Defence Forces (TPDF) in Tabora stabbed his wife to death before proceeding to shoot down his niece and a neighbour on Friday night. He t (By News Poster)...Uganda: Regional Banks in Critical Reforms
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Sylvia JuukoKampala - Uganda's banking industry looks set for consolidation following the Central Bank's key regulatory reforms that are contained in revisions to the Financial Institutions Act (FI (By News Poster)...MPs Warn of Land Grab
Friday 21-May-2010: By Tileni MongudhiWHITE farmers again became the centre of discussion in the National Assembly on Tuesday during debate on the Ministry of Lands' budget.At least three MPs cautioned that if nothing wa (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Businesses Groan Under the Impact of Banking Reforms
Monday 17-May-2010: The impact of the ongoing banking reforms is destroying businesses and has created crisis of confidence in the system, economic operators have cried out, saying the reforms were hastily implemented wi (By News Poster)...You Can't Fix a Flat Tyre If You Have Not Fixed the Hole First
Monday 17-May-2010: By Daniel SteinmannWindhoek - In trying to make sense of market performance, one has to clearly distinguish between the various issues at stake. When the financial crisis began late in 2007, it was no (By News Poster)...Kenya: Wagalla Massacre - the Anatomy of Atrocity in North Eastern
Saturday 22-May-2010: By Roy GachuhiNairobi - Compared to many African, Asian and Latin American armies, Kenya's armed forces have won plaudits from critics for generally knowing their place in society since independence.S (By News Poster)...Angola: Goldman Sachs backs Angolan oil deal despite corruption risks
Thursday 20-May-2010: The investment bank Goldman Sachs is backing an oil deal in Angola by U.S. firm Cobalt International Energy, despite a risk that local partners in the deal could expose Cobalt to prosecution for corru (By News Poster)...Africa: Young Africans Put Technology to New Uses
Saturday 22-May-2010: By André-Michel EssoungouAt 11 p.m. on 2 January 2008, back from Nairobi, Kenya, an exhausted Ory Okolloh - a Johannesburg-based Kenyan lawyer in her thirties - posted the following message on her blo (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Marijuna and Our Youth - Smoking the Future Away
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Ahmed Sahid Nasralla (de Monk)Freetown - ABOUT 50 metres from the United Methodist Church at Koroma Street, Old Road, Calaba Town, a group of youth gather in a pote called Main Bowl to smoke the "W (By News Poster)...Tanzania: SA Firm Pitches to Build Dar Nuclear Power Plant
Monday 17-May-2010: By Mike Mande, Wilfred Edwin and Joseph MwamunyangeNairobi - Tanzania will soon have the first nuclear power plant in East Africa following a move by South Areva South Africa, a member of the French m (By News Poster)...[4 Pics] S.Africa: Johannesburg - My Pics - Time Freight - The Black driver who couldn't make a turn...
Wednesday 19-May-2010: I took these 4 photos in Strijdom park in Johannesburg in recent weeks. These photos are in no particular order. This large truck, driven by a black guy, drove half way across this narrow area and the (By Jan)...South Africa: Tough Fight Looms Over Green Power Cake
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - THE pros and cons of various energy technologies will come under the spotlight as the development of the country's long-term energy plan gets under way.The second integ (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Assembly Rejects Resolution on Frelimo Branches
Friday 21-May-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Friday rejected an opposition attempt to set up a commission of inquiry into the existence and activity of branches of the ruling F (By News Poster)...Africa: A 'Crisis in Waiting' for Aids Patients
Friday 21-May-2010: By Michael FleshmanSeven years after an agreement at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to allow developing countries to import inexpensive copies of costly patented medicines, the compromise has fail (By News Poster)...West Africa: Violence Rife in Schools, Says Report
Thursday 20-May-2010: Dakar - Bullying, sexual violence and corporal punishment are still rife in West and Central African schools, according to an 18 May report which calls on governments to harmonize laws on child protec (By News Poster)...Liberia: Land-Rights Tensions Not Abating
Monday 17-May-2010: Monrovia - Since the civil war ended in 2003, the combination of returning refugees, population growth, and ongoing land tenure tensions dating back 25 years has led to at least 250 land dispute death (By News Poster)...Swaziland: Police Stop Activist's Funeral
Monday 17-May-2010: By Mantoe PhakathiNcabaneni - The Swazi government is determined that neither in life nor death will Sipho Jele's political colours be flown publicly.The 34-year-old died in custody sometime after his (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gunmen Shoot Governorship Aspirant, Kidnap Mother
Monday 17-May-2010: By Okon BasseyUyo - A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in the 2011 poll in Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Iniekong Udonwa, narrowly escaped death weekend when unknown gunmen shot him at his (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Falling Levels of Bad Debt Show Stability
Tuesday 18-May-2010: Maputo - Bad debt, as a percentage of the credit portfolio of Mozambican banks, has continued to decline, and at the end of 2009 was just 1.8 per cent, compared with two per cent a year earlier.Announ (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Top Lawyer Flees Arrest
Tuesday 18-May-2010: Harare - Harare lawyer Jonathan Samkange yesterday tried to evade arrest by outsprinting police detectives who wanted to arrest him, for a while, before they caught up with him.The drama at the Harare (By News Poster)...Uganda: Protect, Don't Punish, People with HIV - Remove Discriminatory Measures from New Bill
Wednesday 19-May-2010: Uganda's parliament should amend a proposed law on HIV/AIDS to remove punitive and discriminatory provisions and to ensure that the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS are protected, Human Rights Wa (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Sultan Cautions CBN On Banking Reforms
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Goddy Egene and Kunle AderinokunAbuja - The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammed Sa'ad Abubakar III, yesterday advised the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to tread cautiously with ongoing banking reform (By News Poster)...Swaziland: Border Post Scuffles Highlight a Democratic Shortfall
Monday 17-May-2010: By Moyiga NduruJohannesburg - Activists lobbying for democratic reform in Swaziland have vowed to push ahead with their campaign, even though several of them were temporarily detained this week for bl (By News Poster)...Africa: HIV Testing and Treatment to Prevent TB
Wednesday 19-May-2010: Johannesburg - Diagnosing HIV early and starting antiretroviral (ARV) treatment could be the most important weapons in the battle against HIV-associated tuberculosis, but this would need a huge inject (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma Backs Green Economy
Wednesday 19-May-2010: Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma has thrown his weight behind calls for green technologies and industries that will ensure the country responds to the impact of climate change.Government will also (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Cop Shot As Robbers Besiege Ibadan Banks
Friday 21-May-2010: By Yemi BamideleIbadan - A policeman was shot but did not die as about 25 armed robbers yesterday attacked two banks beside the Ajayi Crowther University (ACU) along Ogbomoso Road in Ibadan, taking aw (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Govt Probing National Petroleum Company's Deals
Friday 21-May-2010: President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered a full probe of the accounts of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Correspondent, Adeola Yusuf reports that the probe, if concluded, may bring (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: CBZ Bank Leads Financial Institutions
Friday 21-May-2010: Harare - CBZ Bank has climbed to the apex of the financial services sector after emerging the star performer during 2009.CBZ topped the list, realising almost half of the industry's total profits of U (By News Poster)...Africa: Can Democracy Survive the 'Oil Curse'?
Thursday 20-May-2010: Cape Town - Africa's economic boom, driven by oil, has undermined the idea that democracy is a prerequisite for economic development on the continent.This is the opinion of Dr Kathryn Sturman, speakin (By News Poster)...Kenya: Security Firms Rush to Cash in on Agency Banking
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Steve MbogoSecurity companies have added their cash in transit fleet numbers and invested in more security features as they prepare to meet higher demand for money transport services when agency ba (By News Poster)...Uganda: How to Clean Up Oil Mess
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Taimour LayKampala - It is late February 2011. Against all the odds, despite suspected vote-rigging and localised violence, the election numbers are clear and the international community calls for (By News Poster)...Kenya: Nation Can't Get a Nuclear Power Plant Before 2030
Monday 17-May-2010: By Gitahi KariukiNairobi - Recently, there have been calls to add nuclear power to Kenya's energy mix. These calls are justified, taking into consideration that the country is aiming at becoming a new (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gold Price Rallies Amid Jitters Over Euro Bail-Out
Monday 17-May-2010: By Thabiso MochikoJohannesburg - THE uncertainty that swung global equities into the red on Friday and propelled the gold price to a high seems likely to continue this week.Investors continue to fret (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 'Black Gold' Mined for a Song
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Nelson ChengaHarare - SURROUNDED by more than a dozen gigantic skillfully cut cubes of black granite rock, a green monstrous crane majestically towers 25 metres into the sky. The winch's location, (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cop arrested after farm attack
Sunday 23-May-2010: 2010-05-23 14:18 Submitted by K. Nel: Johannesburg - A police constable has been arrested for attempted murder, North West police said on Sunday. Lieutenant-General Lesetja Ephraim Beetha said (By JoAn)...Nigeria: Software Piracy Rate Now at 83 Percent, Says Business Research Group
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Emeka AginamWhile the software giant, Microsoft calls for additional government and industry support to combat software piracy in Nigeria which remains among the highest in the world, the seventh a (By News Poster)...The Impact of the Greece Economic Crisis
Saturday 22-May-2010: Windhoek - The economic crisis in Greece has been dominating international business news, and with the recent financial crisis so fresh in minds, people are rightly questioning how this will impact on (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Inyathi Farmer Arrested as State Intimidation Continues
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Alex Bell and Lionel SaungwemeA farmer from Inyathi was released from police custody on Thursday, after spending two nights behind bars in what is being described as a deliberate drive to force his (By News Poster)...Uganda: Quiet Consensus On Land Issues Beginning to Emerge
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Peter MuliraKampala - As the country awaits the forthcoming national convention on land to take place in Kampala on May 25, a quiet consensus countrywide on land matters is beginning to emerge spea (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 2,000 Carats of Diamonds Smuggled Out of Chiadzwa Per Day
Monday 17-May-2010: By Alex BellAt least 2000 carats of diamonds are being smuggled out of the controversial Chiadzwa diamond claim every day, in direct contravention of international trade standards.This is according to (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Angry Tsvangirai Takes On Mugabe
Sunday 23-May-2010: By Kholwani NyathiHarare - PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has written a strongly worded letter to President Robert Mugabe warning him that he risks plunging the country into a constitutional crisis (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Winter Wheat Season Needs Adequate Preps
Friday 21-May-2010: Harare - IT has become the norm in the past few years that farmers always complain about the shoddy preparations when it comes to planning for any farming season and it seems nothing has changed or ha (By News Poster)...Africa Loses World Bank Influence
Monday 17-May-2010: Paris - The World Bank has described its recent increase of 3.13 percent in the voting power of emerging economies as a reform "to enhance voice and participation of developing and transition countrie (By News Poster)...Kenya: Crisis as Farmers Grapple With Fortune of Huge Harvest
Monday 17-May-2010: By Daniel WesangulaNairobi - A few months after a prolonged drought killed animals and many Kenyans starving, farmers have another problem - surplus food. Small-scale farmers in parts of Eastern and C (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Economic Gains Threatened
Friday 21-May-2010: By Victor NyoniTHE inclusive government should address the country's liquidity crunch to preserve economic gains achieved by the unity govt. The general principle the world over is that treasury leads (By News Poster)...Zambia: Kanganja Launches Public Service HIV/Aids Strategy
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Gillian Mukula MwabaTHE Strategy for the Prevention and Mitigation of HIV/AIDS in the Public Service has finally been launched.This is against a projection made by the International Labour Organisa (By News Poster)...Sudan: Disarmament Doubts in Lakes State
Tuesday 18-May-2010: Juba - Southern Sudanese authorities have stepped up efforts to collect illegal weapons in Lakes State, but critics say the process is prone to abuse and has left some communities unprotected."Disarma (By News Poster)...Burundi: Country Faces Major Test as Poll Season Begins
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Kezio-Musoke DavidBujumbura - Last week a supporter with an opposition political party in Burundi was shot dead, sparking off protests. Thereafter an international human rights organisation said po (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Why Eight Rescued Banks May Not Hold AGMs
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Kingsley IghomwenghianThere were indications at the weekend that the eight banks whose executive managements were sacked by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may not hold any annual general meeting (By News Poster)...Sudan: Disarmament Doubts in Lakes State
Monday 17-May-2010: Juba - Southern Sudanese authorities have stepped up efforts to collect illegal weapons in Lakes State, but critics say the process is prone to abuse and has left some communities unprotected."Disarma (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Unilaterally Appoints Judges
Saturday 22-May-2010: By Lance GumaAny pretence that the coalition is working smoothly was buried this week when Robert Mugabe appointed a new Supreme Court judge and four High Court judges, without the knowledge of his MD (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bennett Speaks Out
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Brian Mangwende and Clemence ManyukweHarare - ROY Bennett's legal and political woes are set to persist following the office of the Attorney-General (AG)'s decision to appeal against the Movement f (By News Poster)...Kenya: Farm Schools Boost Food Security, Prevent GBV
Wednesday 19-May-2010: Burnt Forest - Rural Kenyans affected by the post-election violence in 2008 are among thousands of beneficiaries of a programme that aims to improve food security and incomes and reduce women's vulner (By News Poster)...Liberia: Fight Against Sexual Violence Will Suffer When UN Mission Leaves
Tuesday 18-May-2010: Monrovia - Humanitarian workers in Liberia worry that as the UN and NGOs scale down aid operations, the fight against sexual violence will suffer, given a limited capacity in national institutions to (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Country Loses U.S.$31 Million Crude Revenue in One Day - Oil Trades Below U.S.$70
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Adeola YusufLagos - Nigeria, world's eighth biggest oil exporter, on Thursday recorded a loss of $17 on each of its 1.8 million barrels daily crude export, as the commodity plunged from $87 a barre (By News Poster)...Kenya: Sailors Ask for Armed Escort to Fight Piracy
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Gitonga MareteNairobi - Seamen want merchant ships to be provided with armed escort.Mr Mazurkin Aleksandr, captain of the msc Peggy which survived a pirate attack on May 13, said this would help cu (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Government Must Equip Farmers to Boost Food Production - Mudashiru
Tuesday 18-May-2010: Mrs. Foluke Asani Mudashiru, Managing Director, Adinyan Farms and wife of one-time Military Governor of Lagos State, the late Air Commodore Gbolahan Adio Mudashiru (rtd), says the economic downturn is (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Kidnap Attempt Ends in Death
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Mcedriss Elroy And Mahija MperaPolice said yesterday that they were holding nine suspects in connection with a kidnapping attempt on Sunday that ended with the killing of a mechanic in Dar es Salaa (By News Poster)...Uganda: Disaster Awaits City Fuel Stations
Monday 17-May-2010: Kampala - It is deadly to put fire near oil. That's why a disaster is likely to happen at fuelling stations in Kampala. Titus Kakembo carried out a survey on fuel service stations in the city and its (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Analysis of Trade, Regional Integration
Thursday 20-May-2010: Harare - An analysis of trade and regional integration will reveal that virtually all African countries have embraced regionalism since the independence era.From the beginning of decolonisation proces (By News Poster)...Witness Says, Areas Controlled by Rebels Were the Safest Place For Civilians (NEWS)
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Alpha SesayAreas controlled by Charles Taylor’s rebel forces were the safest zones for civilians during the Liberian conflict, according to a witness testifying in defense of the former Liber (By News Poster)...East Africa: 'Stingy' Bank of Uganda Prevailed On Planners to Reduce Development Plan
Monday 17-May-2010: By David Malingha DoyaNairobi - It has emerged that the original budget of Uganda's new five-year National Development Plan was reduced by 10 per cent because of concerns about macroeconomic stability (By News Poster)...What Can Africa Show the World After 50 Years of Independence?
Friday 21-May-2010: By Alfredo Tjiurimo HengariTHE year 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the first wave of 17 African countries that gained independence from former European colonial powers. For many of these countries (By News Poster)...South Africa: Government Owes R580 Million for Land Reform Deals, Says Minister
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - THE government has bought land to the value of R8bn since 2001 as part of its proactive land acquisition strategy and agricultural development redistribution programme (By News Poster)...Tanzania: CAG - Tanesco in Trouble
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Sadick MtulyaThe Controller and Auditor General (CAG), Mr Ludovic Utouh has warned that Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) faces bleak future.The CAG, Mr Ludovic Utouh, sounded the warning (By News Poster)...South Africa: Wind Industry Wants 25 Percent of Energy to Be Renewable
Monday 17-May-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - THE South African wind industry has called on the government to set an ambitious 25% renewable energy contribution to electricity consumption by 2025.This is part of th (By News Poster)...Liberia: Greaves - "Corruption a Big Problem "
Wednesday 19-May-2010: The dismissed Managing Director of the Liberia Petroleum Refining Corporation (LPRC), Mr. Harry A. Greaves, Jr., has now conceded that "corruption is a big problem" in the government hindering develop (By News Poster)...Kenya: Mystery of Sh164 Billion Smuggled into Country
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Jaindi KiseroNairobi - A massive Sh164 billion in hard currency has found its way into the Kenyan economy -- and the government is unable to explain its source.The $2.1 billion inflow has left gove (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Murdered MDC Activist's Body Spends Year in Mortuary
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Lance GumaThe father of an MDC activist murdered last year by ZANU PF youths has refused to carry out any burial, until the killers have owned up and explained their motives. The body of Moses Chok (By News Poster)...Africa: No Resolution to Nile Controversy
Thursday 20-May-2010: Entebbe - Contrary to the controversy it has engendered, the Nile river agreement should allow for more equitable water use and minimize potential conflicts between the riparian states, says an analys (By News Poster)...South Africa: Looming Energy Strike Raises World Cup Fears
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - STRIKES in SA are spreading, with the National Union of Mineworkers yesterday declaring work stoppages at Eskom from next Wednesday.The industrial action, which the uni (By News Poster)...South Africa Debates 'Green' Jobs
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Jocelyn NewmarchJohannesburg - SA's transition to a low-carbon economy and the potential for job creation will be a key focus of the three-day Green Economy Summit that opens today in Sandton.Presi (By News Poster)...East Africa: How Ahmed, Shabaab Found a Fool in Addis
Monday 17-May-2010: By Charles Onyango-ObboNairobi - A streetwise friend never tires of telling me that to get a good business deal, you need a fool sitting on the other side of the table.For example, right now there is (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Country to Hold New Elections in May 2011?
Friday 21-May-2010: By Levi MukaratiHarare - AFTER finally accepting they will never see eye-to-eye on the so-called outstanding issues, the country's main political parties are now gearing up for another round of electi (By News Poster)...Kenya: Squatters Kill Policeman in Farm Clashes
Friday 21-May-2010: By Daniel Nyassy and Philemon SuterNairobi - A policeman was hacked to death by squatters defying eviction from a farm in Malindi.The squatters fought police officers at Kisiwani Agricultural Developm (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NNPC Management Swaps - Stakeholders Hopeful On Sustainable Fuel Supply
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Sopuruchi OnwukaLagos - New Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, recently reshuffled the key management personnel of agencies under her ministry, especially in the Nigeria (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamond Mine Lawyer Briefly Detained
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Violet GondaJonathan Samkange, the lawyer representing Africa Consolidated Resources CEO Andrew Cranswick, was briefly arrested by police in Harare on Monday, in a move the outspoken lawyer says is (By News Poster)...Namibia: Woman Burnt to Death
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Werner MengesA DECISION to leave the Roman Catholic Church cost Thekla Steenkamp her life.At the age of 61 and after more than 39 years of a marriage from which eight children were born, Steenkamp' (By News Poster)...Growth Sprouts Still Green, Just Not Bright Green
Saturday 22-May-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyFNB Namibia economist Daniel Motinga this week stuck to his conservative guns that the local economic will on average only grow by 3,2 per cent this year and next year, significantly l (By News Poster)...South Africa: Economy 'Unlikely to Suffer From European Debt Crisis'
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it may upgrade SA's economic growth forecast for this year to nearly 3% from its estimate of 2,6% last month, based on the latest (By News Poster)...Madagascar: Hunger is a Hard Sell
Wednesday 19-May-2010: Androka - No mother would ever want to be told her child has "severe acute malnutrition", but in parched southwestern Madagascar, 27-year old Donasine, mother of nine and four months pregnant, welcome (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Power - Locals Enjoy 14 Watts of Electricity Per Person Annually, Owelle
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Ebele OrakpoDr. Patrick Owelle, a solar photovoltaic researcher and chief executive officer of PSC Industries Limited has called on the Federal Government to integrate renewable energy into the nat (By News Poster)...South Africa: Small Farmers Must Get Bigger Slice of Budget
Monday 17-May-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - ALTHOUGH SA is one of only a few African countries spending more than 10% of the national budget on agriculture, few of these resources are used to develop infrastruct (By News Poster)...Somalia: UN Chief Calls for New Approach to Peace
Sunday 23-May-2010: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the world to adopt a new approach to bring peace to Somalia, telling an international conference on the Horn of Africa country that a failure to act now r (By News Poster)...Mali: Muslim Conservatives Blocking New Family Law
Friday 21-May-2010: By Soumaila T. DiarraBamako - A new family law has raised tension in Mali. This controversial law, intended to give greater freedoms and rights to women, has been sent back to the National Assembly fo (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Cotton Prices Spark Violence
Friday 21-May-2010: By Noah Pito and Elita ChikwatiHarare - THE stand-off over cotton prices has turned violent with farmers alleging intimidation and harassment when they try to sell their crop.Farmers willing to sell t (By News Poster)...Sudan: UN Envoy Warns on Instability in Darfur
Thursday 20-May-2010: Despite some progress in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, violent clashes between Government and rebel forces persist, civilians are still dying or being displaced and humanitarian workers are still co (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC-T Expels Five Youths Over Intra-Party Violence
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Lance GumaThe MDC led by founding President Morgan Tsvangirai on Sunday endorsed the expulsion of 5 youths, allegedly behind the assault of a party official at its Harvest House headquarters.A stat (By News Poster)...Uganda: Weak Shilling Pushes Fuel Prices Up
Monday 17-May-2010: By Godfrey KimonoKampala - The weak shilling is to blame for the high fuel pump prices, a top industry player said over the weekend.He explained that the two factors had compelled fuel dealers to incr (By News Poster)...S.Africa: KILL THE BOER!! Guerilla Journalism: If they try to suppress the AfricanCrisis Farm murders pages... Frank of Queens responds...
Friday 21-May-2010: [Frank of Queens, the radio show host of THE RIGHT PERSPECTIVE, sent this email to me with this comment. They can try to shut us up on the web... but he says... Jan] -----Original Message----- Fro (By Jan)...Africa: Experts to Debate How Govt Can Help Small-Scale Farming
Thursday 20-May-2010: “It is unjust that Africans continue to starve and small-scale farmers to scratch for an existence on a continent with such great potential, and in a global environment of high food prices,&rdqu (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Constitution-Making Merry Fizzles Out
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Levi MukaratiHarare - A CLOUD of excitement engulfed the country as thousands of Zimbabweans from all walks of life jostled to take part at the historic All Stakeholders Constitutional Conference h (By News Poster)...South African Farmer Dragged To Death
Tuesday 18-May-2010: A 40-year-old South African farmer was beaten a dragged to death on his farm near Potchefstrooman in an incident that may have been done to silence him from testifying in a robbery case later this mon (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Zimbabwe: Farmers Consider Suing RBZ Over Stolen Cash
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Alex BellThe Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) is considering taking legal action against the Reserve Bank, over export proceeds stolen under Gideon Gono's reign.The Union said last week in a notice t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Under Pressure to Confront Mugabe
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Lance GumaMDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is under growing pressure from his party members to confront Robert Mugabe and get the ZANU PF leader to honour his obligations under the power sharing deal.T (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gunmen Kill Three, Kidnap Four in Akwa Ibom
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Tony NyongUyo - NO FEWER than seven persons were kidnapped in Akwa Ibom State last week, four of whom were expatriate staff of Stemco Construction Company in Essien Udim Local Government Area of th (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Mozambican Police Support Security for World Cup
Wednesday 19-May-2010: Maputo - Mozambique is to send a number of police officers to join their South African counterparts in actions to guarantee security during the football World Cup that will take place in South Africa (By News Poster)...Kenya: Reprieve for Consumers as Power Cost Drops
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Zeddy SambuElectricity consumers will face lighter power bills in June as they reap from the retirement of part of the expensive emergency power.The government through Kengen has announced plans to (By News Poster)...Kenya: CBK Keeps Interest Rate at 6.75 Percent
Friday 21-May-2010: By Mwaniki WahomeNairobi - The Central Bank of Kenya has maintained its benchmark lending interest rate at 6.75 per cent, applying brakes on a reduction trend that has finally forced commercial banks (By News Poster)...Sudan: JSR Gambari Briefs UN Security Council on the Situation in Darfur
Thursday 20-May-2010: Despite some progress in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, violent clashes between Government and rebel forces persist, civilians are still dying or being displaced and humanitarian workers are still co (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Government Faces Multi Million Dollar Lawsuit over Land 'Reform'
Wednesday 19-May-2010: The government is facing yet another multi-million dollar lawsuit over its illegal land 'reform' programme, in a renewed case in the regional human rights court.The case has been filed in the Southern (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Mogbindi Echo-Nassit Ferry Money Into Deep Hole
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Pel KoromaFreetown - The pace at which the scourge of corruption is gaining approval in the APC era is incredible. It is unfortunate that President Koroma has endorsed the criminal action of the pe (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG's Negotiation With Shell, Chevron Still Fruitless
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Adeola YusufLagos - Negotiations between the Federal Government and two oil giants, Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron Corporation for a 20-year renewal of oil leases in Nigeria are yet to produce resul (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Community Petitions Police IG Over Crisis
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Enyim EnyimThe people of Ogwuikpele Community in Ogbaru, Anambra State have called on the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, to as a matter of urgency, intervene in the protracted comm (By News Poster)...Researchers Hopeful of Aids Vaccine
Monday 17-May-2010: By Alash'le Abimiku And Seth BerkleyNairobi - Africa has long borne the brunt of the Aids pandemic. The disease has spread across sub-Saharan Africa at an alarming rate, leaving in its wake millions o (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Army Behind Political Violence in Manicaland
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Lance GumaThe Member of Parliament for Makoni South, Pishai Muchauraya, has accused members of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) of leading a campaign of violence and intimidation in the Manicaland (By News Poster)...South Africa: Ready to Reopen Markets After Rift Valley Fever Under Control
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - THE government was talking to Namibia and China to plan the reopening of the multibillion-rand meat and wool markets, which were closed because of an outbreak of Rift (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Uniformed Soldiers Terrorise Villagers
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Tichaona SibandaVillagers in Makoni South constituency in Manicaland province are living in fear, after soldiers in uniform roamed the area ordering everyone to attend a ZANU PF meeting at Rukweza (By News Poster)...South Africa: Retailers Wait for Wal-Mart to Come a-Courting
Monday 17-May-2010: By Michael BlebyJohannesburg - THE groom has made his intentions clear. Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, is on the hunt for a bride in virgin territory."We can still acquire our way into geogra (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fresh Wave of Retrenchment Looms in Banking Sector
Monday 17-May-2010: By Victor Ahiuma YoungINDICATIONS have emerged that some banks have been discreetly easing out staff in a fresh wave of retrenchments in the nation's banking sector, even as the dust raised by the rec (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Cops Nab Cable Theft Suspect
Friday 21-May-2010: Harare - POLICE have arrested a 21-year-old suspected copper cables thief, Respect Chauke, who has been on the run since November last year.Respect is the son of Beitbridge businesswoman, Sarah Chauke (By News Poster)...Kenya: Alarm as Arms Cache Fished Out of Sea
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Daniel NyassyNairobi - A Malindi fisherman chanced upon a cache of arms on Wednesday, triggering a major security operation in the coastal town. The fisherman was setting nets to catch octopus in t (By News Poster)...Namibia: Rift Valley Outbreak Confirmed
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Denver KistingLABORATORY results have confirmed that Namibia is indeed fighting an outbreak of Rift Valley fever.So said Dr Alec Bishi, a State veterinarian in the Ministry of Agriculture, Water an (By News Poster)...Coming up: WOW! What an interview I had on Channel Islam about Kill the Boer... and throwing Julius Malema out...
Tuesday 18-May-2010: I have had my first free speech in South Africa on a radio station in 9 years. The last time I was interviewed on a South African radio station of note was on CAPE TALK, where they were sabotaging me, (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe took the Blacks back to Middle-ages Feudalism in the 21st century...
Saturday 22-May-2010: A regular reader and supporter phoned me one day to tell me his theory of what Robert Mugabe has done in Zimbabwe. He said that when he reads history (since he's a history buff), he is struck by t (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: 'We Treasure Our Women', Says Mugabe
Friday 21-May-2010: Harare - Society should appreciate women's contribution to community and national development, President Mugabe has said.In a meeting with a visiting delegation of the All China Women's Federation at (By News Poster)...Kenya: M-Kesho Heralds a New Dawn for E-Commerce
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Victor JumaThe introduction of a seamless mobile bank account product by Equity Bank and Safaricom on Tuesday promises to open up electronic commerce -- and mobile commerce in particular -- to the (By News Poster)...Libya: Libya Cautions OPEC On Quotas, As Oil Price Picks
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Ajibola Abayomi With Agency ReportLagos - Libya has advised the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to watch the market before deciding on any action over the drop in oil prices.Th (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Journalist On Trial Over Marriage Story
Sunday 23-May-2010: Maputo - A journalist appeared before a court in the northern Mozambican city of Nampula on Thursday, accused of libeling parliamentarian Lucia Afate, who is also the Nampula political delegate of the (By News Poster)...Zesa Under Fire for Estimated Bills
Saturday 22-May-2010: By Ndamu SanduIMAGINE you have not had electricity at your house since February last year but every month you receive bills based on estimated meter readings. Some of the bills could be as high as US$ (By News Poster)...East Africa: Global Players Behind Anti-Counterfeit Law Campaign
Friday 21-May-2010: By Wambi MichaelKampala - The international push behind Kenya's controversial Anti-Counterfeit Act of 2008 dates back as far as October 2006 when the World Customs Organisation held its first intellec (By News Poster)...Mauritius: Govt Acts to Stop Indian 'Hot' Money
Friday 21-May-2010: India is changing its tax laws in a bid to introduce greater transparency into its financial transactions with Mauritius.The aim is to stem 'round-tripping' of funds by politicians, businessmen and cr (By News Poster)...Somalia: UN Envoy's Wrong Prescription
Thursday 20-May-2010: This week, Somalia 's embattling government edged to collapse after President Sheikh Sharif unilaterally dissolved government, a day after the parliament ousted its speaker, Sheikh Adan Madoobe. The s (By News Poster)...Rwanda: One Dead, 28 Wounded in Grenade Attacks
Monday 17-May-2010: By Ignatius SsuunaKigali - Police, yesterday, said two hand grenade attacks in Kigali centre and Nyabugogo Taxi Park killed one person and injured 28 others on Saturday night."Between 7:00 pm and 8:00 (By News Poster)...Namibia: The Pain of Cassinga - A War memory... another "massacre" by whites? Or a Battle?
Sunday 23-May-2010: [It sounds more like a battle where we socked it to them. SWAPO were the communist Terrorist "liberators" of Namibia. It can't be a "massacre" if it was SWAPO since SWAPO was a violent terrorist organ (By Jan)...South Africa: Public Sector Threatens World Cup Strike Action
Friday 21-May-2010: By Alistair AndersonJohannesburg - South Africa's public employees may strike in the middle of the 2010 World Cup if their wage dispute with the government is not solved within a month (PICTURE: FINAN (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Leaders Stall Mediation Process
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Njabulo NcubeHarare - SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma's mediation in the Zimbabwe crisis has been stalled by the unavailability of the three principals to the Global Political Agreement (GPA) wh (By News Poster)...Somalia: Govt Infighting Benefits Insurgents
Monday 17-May-2010: Nairobi - The widening rift between Somalia's leaders could weaken the transitional government and its ability to deal with problems facing the country, ranging from insurgency to humanitarian crises, (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Zenawi Sure of Win As Nation Votes in Test of Democracy
Sunday 23-May-2010: By Argaw Ashine and agenciesAddis Ababa - Ethiopians voted on Sunday in national elections that are expected to return long-serving Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to power in the first ballot since a dis (By News Poster)...Govt, SA Still Deadlocked Over TTDs
Sunday 23-May-2010: Harare - Zimbabwean and South African officials have failed to agree on the recently introduced Temporary Travel Document and the matter could now have to be handled by the two countries' Home Affairs (By News Poster)...Namibia: One Country Moves to Protect Its Capital Market, And the Walls Cave in
Friday 21-May-2010: By Daniel SteinmannWindhoek - It is perhaps premature to say the current correction in the markets is a sign of more downward movement, but it is not overdue. As is usually the case, when the markets (By News Poster)...Uganda: HIV-Positive Mum, Nine Children Hang Onto Life By a Thread
Friday 21-May-2010: By Nigel NassarKampala - Nakitende and some of her children outside the shack which could collapse any timeAgnes Nakitende is HIV-positive. Six of her nine children also have the virus. At just 33, sh (By News Poster)...Uganda: Five Lions Poisoned in Queen Elizabeth Park
Friday 21-May-2010: By Michael KarugabaKampala - Five lions and 16 vultures in the Queen Elizabeth National Park in western Uganda have died of suspected poisoning, acting warden Nelson Guma said.The carcasses of three l (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Death Threats Against Prominent Journalist
Thursday 20-May-2010: Maputo - Mozambican journalist Salomao Moyana, director of the weekly paper "Magazine Independente", has called in the police to investigate anonymous death threats that he has received in the form of (By News Poster)...Uganda: Cassava Disease Threatens Food Supplies
Thursday 20-May-2010: Kampala - Agriculture officials and researchers in Uganda have warned of a serious threat posed by a new strain of Cassava Mosaic Disease, saying it could wipe out the entire crop.Farmers in the centr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jonathan Govt Will Fix Electric Power - Minister
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Fidelis Mac-LevaArchitect Nuhu Somo Wya last week resumed as the minister of state in the Power Ministry which is now under the direct supervision of the acting President. Shortly after addressing (By News Poster)...Sudan: Ban Stresses Need for All Sides to Adhere to Ceasefire in Darfur
Wednesday 19-May-2010: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed concern over continued recent reports of a military build-up and violence between armed groups and Government forces in the war-wracked Sudanese region of (By News Poster)...Africa: New UN Report Calls for 'Green Revolution' by Continent's Small Farmers
Wednesday 19-May-2010: A "green revolution" led by Africa's small farmers, and harnessing the latest technologies and innovations, is vital if the continent is to reduce extreme poverty and hunger by 2015, just two of the e (By News Poster)...Uganda: HIV Vaccine Research Will Benefit Communities
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Richard HasuniraKampala - Each year on May 18, people around the world commemorate HIV Vaccine Awareness Day. This is done to recognise and thank the thousands of volunteers, community members, hea (By News Poster)...Namibia: Rift Valley Fever Breaks Out
Monday 17-May-2010: By Denver KistingNAMIBIAN meat farmers face huge losses as a result of a ban on all exports following an outbreak of Rift Valley fever in the Hardap and Karas regions.Key role players in the industry (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: No SADC Summit over Impasse
Friday 21-May-2010: By Njabulo NcubeHarare - THE three principals to the rickety Global Political Agreement (GPA) have failed to meet for the umpteenth time to resolve contentious issues hobbling the inclusive government (By News Poster)...Namibia: Trucker Dies in Inferno
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Luqman CloeteA TRUCK driver from Upington in South Africa burned to death when the truck he was driving smashed into a rock and caught fire.The crash happened on Sunday morning on the B1 road betwe (By News Poster)...South Africa: Clean Energy in the Spotlight
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Nthambeleni GabaraPretoria - Clean energy will be in the spotlight when a two-day meeting of global electricity regulators kicks-off in Cape Town on Thursday.Electricity regulators, stakeholders, a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Country Now 70 in World Cybercrime
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Prince OsuagwuIts no cheery news anyway, that Nigeria now ranks 70 in the world on malicious attacks and cybercrime.This was the result of Symantec latest internet security threat report, volume XV (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe, Tsvangirai Taken to Court
Friday 21-May-2010: By Clemence ManyukweHarare - PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai are being dragged before the courts for the alleged flouting of a section of the Global Political Agreement (G (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chizim, Drdgold Seal Mining Joint Venture Deal
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Shame MakoshoriHarare - GOLD mining firm, Chizim Investments, is expected to ride on DRDGOLD's access to capital and experience to develop its resource in Zimbabwe.Chizim sealed a joint venture dea (By News Poster)...Nigeria: One Killed, 10 Injured in Land Dispute
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Ayegba Israel EbijeMinna - One person,Yakubu Tswagba, has been killed in Kpatsuwa village in Mokwa area of Niger State in a land dispute between the community and its neighbouring village, Ndafu. A (By News Poster)...Somalia: Somalia's Divided Islamists
Tuesday 18-May-2010: Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) must engage dissidents among the country’s insurgent groups in order to strengthen its authority and combat al-Qaeda inspired extremists.Som (By News Poster)...Somalia: Pirates Arrested in Puntland
Tuesday 18-May-2010: Security forces in Puntland's administrative capital of Garowe on Tuesday nabbed a group of suspected pirates led by famous Somali pirate called Abdirizaq Abdullahi "Boyah".The forces also seized some (By News Poster)...Kenya: Banks Seek Safe Havens Away From Consumer Lending
Monday 17-May-2010: By Moses MichiraCommercial banks have increased participation in government securities following lack of quality lending opportunities last year when the economy went through a rough patch amid increa (By News Poster)...Uganda: 100 Families Displaced Over Land Row
Monday 17-May-2010: By Dradenya AmaziaKampala - Five people have been injured and over 120 families have fled their homes following two days of tribal clashes over land near the Arua-Nebbi district border.The police have (By News Poster)...Somalia: Fresh Shelling Kills Dozens in Mogadishu
Monday 17-May-2010: At least 25 people killed and 50 others wounded in heavy shelling that rocked in Somali capital Mogdishu on Sunday, Radio Garowe reports.The shelling erupted after insurgents attacked with mortars a p (By News Poster)...Eskom Willing to 'Buy SA' But Warns On Higher Costs, Tariffs
Saturday 22-May-2010: By Linda EnsorJohannesburg - Eskom acting CEO Mpho Makwana says the establishing of new industries will entail additional cost in investment and skills.Eskom supported the use of its huge procurement (By News Poster)...Ghana: AGRA and IFDC Launch Programme in the North to Improve Market Access for Farmers
Friday 21-May-2010: Farmers in Northern Ghana are to benefit from a new program aimed at increasing their earning potential.The program, launched by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the Internatio (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Ministry, Chamber of Mines Agree On Indigenisation Issues
Friday 21-May-2010: Harare - THE Chamber of Mines and the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development have agreed on most issues regarding indigenisation and empowerment, but the position would have to get approval from oth (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mining Output to Rise - Gapare
Friday 21-May-2010: Harare - GROWTH in the mining sector this year is inevitable as production of the country's two key minerals, namely gold and platinum, has remained steady despite numerous constraints facing the sect (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'We Are Serious About Rooting Out Corruption'
Monday 17-May-2010: By Warda MeyerThe Hawks have swooped on five former Cape municipal officials - including an ex-mayor and an ex-deputy mayor - on charges of fraud relating to municipal tender processes.Detectives atta (By News Poster)...Controversy As Mugabe Swears-in Judges
Friday 21-May-2010: By Wongai ZhangazhaCONTROVERSY surrounds yesterday's swearing-in of new judges to the Supreme Court and High Court, in a development likely to further strain the coalition government.Justice George Ch (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma Defends Controversial Prosecutions Chief
Friday 21-May-2010: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - President Jacob Zuma, in defending his appointment of Menzi Simelane as national director of public prosecutions, has rejected the findings of the Ginwala inquiry, while (By News Poster)...Kenya: Analysts Question Relevance of Central Bank Rate
Friday 21-May-2010: By Geoffrey IrunguAs the Monetary Policy Committee met on Thursday and maintained the policy benchmark rate at 6.75 per cent, analysts were questioning the relevance of the rate, saying it had failed (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe/Seychelles: Warriors Arrive in Seychelles
Friday 21-May-2010: By Petros KausiyoZIMBABWE'S Warriors, upbeat about their African Championship of Nations qualification chances, arrived on this Indian Ocean island yesterday afternoon to begin the final round of thei (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Minister Misihairabwi 'Forced' to Give Up Late Husband's Estate
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Violet GondaPriscilla Misihairambwi-Mushonga, the Minister of Regional Integration and International Co-operation, has said she has been forced to abandon her late husband's estate, including their (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Unions Form Trust to Boost Farming
Tuesday 18-May-2010: Harare - ZIMBABWE'S Union Projects Trust, a joint technical body consisting of the country three main farming organisations has embarked on a charm offensive, to raise funding for the unions to boost (By News Poster)...South Africa: African Visionary Trains His Eye on Public Health
Monday 17-May-2010: By Katy ChanceJohannesburg - KOVIN Naidoo is a busy man. He has just got back from the World Economic Forum on Africa held in Tanzania, where he has helped establish eight eye clinics to date, and whe (By News Poster)...Uganda: Draru Continued Hitting Kazini After He Died - State
Friday 21-May-2010: By Charles Ariko And Andante OkanyaKampala - Lydia Draru, the woman accused of killing Maj. Gen. James Kazini, continued hitting him, even after he had died, according to the summary of evidence submi (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Food Security Ambassador Hails President Koroma
Friday 21-May-2010: By Patrick JackemaFreetown - The Food Security Ambassador who doubles as chief executive officer of One Blood International has told journalists in Bo that food self-sufficiency could only be sustaine (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Renamo Waves a T-Shirt
Thursday 20-May-2010: Maputo - Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, on Thursday finally presented its "proof" that the ruling Frelimo Party has "politicised" the public administration - con (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jonathan And Public Power Supply
Thursday 20-May-2010: Lagos - In the course of President Goodluck Jonathan's recent state visit to Rivers State, he reportedly said that from 2011, the Federal Government would hands off the issue of generation of electric (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Currency Trafficking - American Woman Jailed 26 Years
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Patience AkpuruLagos - Twenty-seven year old American, Ms Sharon Denise Thorpe, was yesterday sentenced to 26 years imprisonment with hard labour for forging 200 foreign bank cheques and attempting (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 700,000 forcibly evicted still ignored five years on
Wednesday 19-May-2010: The government of Zimbabwe must take action to protect hundreds of thousands of people left to survive in substandard settlements five years after a program of mass forced evictions, Amnesty Internati (By News Poster)...Africa: UN Predicts Economic Turnaround in Continent
Tuesday 18-May-2010: Johannesburg - The UN Economic Commission for Africa reports that growth on the continent could top 4.8 per cent in 2010 after dipping by over 2 per cent in 2009.UNECA and the African Union Commission (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Renamo Spokesman in Damage Limitation Exercise
Monday 17-May-2010: Maputo - Arnaldo Chalaua, the spokesperson of the parliamentary group of Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has tried to paper over the divide between the parliament (By News Poster)...President Arrives in Iran
Monday 17-May-2010: By Farai DzirutwePresident Mugabe arrived here early yesterday to attend the 14th G15 summit that starts today, with Zimbabwe reaffirming its support for Iran's nuclear energy programme.The Head of St (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Businesses Groan Under the Impact of Banking Reforms
Monday 17-May-2010: By Babajide Komolafe, Yinka Kolawole, Godwin Oritse, Franklin Alli, Amaka Agwuegbo and Naomi UzorLagos - THE business community, weekend, protested the negative effect the ongoing reform of the Centra (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Over 50 Militants Go On Shooting Spree
Monday 17-May-2010: By Akpokona OmafuaireWarri - OVER fifty suspected armed militants in three speed boats stormed Oyangbene community of Burutu Local Government in Delta State in the early hours of yesterday, 14 May sho (By News Poster)...Namibia: Inflation Still Losing Its Grip
Monday 17-May-2010: ANNUAL inflation dropped for the third month in a row, coming in at 5,0 per cent in April, down from 5,6 per cent in March.The price monster has been on a downward trajectory since the beginning of th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Crisis Reveals Truth About Economics
Friday 21-May-2010: Johannesburg - THE euro-zone crisis is unfolding in a way that demonstrates the core truth about economics: economics appears to us in the guise of statistics and theoretical advocacy, but at root it (By News Poster)...Prosecutors Seek Supermodel Naomi Campbell Subpoena (NEWS)
Friday 21-May-2010: By Alpha SesayProsecutors in the trial of Charles Taylor have today filed a motion to call three additional witnesses before Special Court for Sierra Leone Trial Chamber judges as evidence in rebuttal (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mutsekwa Denies Banning Demonstrations During World Cup
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Violet GondaHome Affairs co-Minister Giles Mutsekwa has denied reports saying demonstrations in Zimbabwe had been banned until after the FIFA soccer World Cup, which is going to be staged in South (By News Poster)...South Africa: Trade in Namibian Meat Restricted Over Rift Valley Fever
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - THE government yesterday placed trade restrictions on all meat from Namibia after an outbreak of Rift Valley fever.Rift Valley fever is a viral disease of animals that (By News Poster)...Uganda: Is There Hope for an Aids Vaccine in Our Lifetime?
Monday 17-May-2010: By Hilary BainemigishaKampala - Today, 7,500 people will get infected by HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS, which has no cure. Over 300 of these will be Ugandans. That is, on average, around 13 people (By News Poster)...Kenya: New Land Policy Made Public, Finally
Monday 17-May-2010: By Murithi MutigaNairobi - The National Land Policy is finally out. Distributed with your copy of the Sunday Nation, the paper includes key highlights of proposals designed to rationalise land adminis (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Q1 - Sterling Bank Records N1.27 Billion After-Tax Profit
Monday 17-May-2010: By Michael EbohSterling Bank has recorded profit after tax of N1.27 billion in the first quarter ended, March 31, 2010 even as it announced plans to shore up its capital base through a fund raising ex (By News Poster)...South Africa: Controversial Youth Leader Fails to Have Sentence Overturned
Monday 17-May-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - AFRICAN National Congress (ANC) Youth League leader Julius Malema's desperate attempt to get the party's national executive committee to overturn the suspended sentence i (By News Poster)...South Africa: Reactor a Major Step for Algae-to-Oil Project
Friday 21-May-2010: By Nicky WillemseJohannesburg - NELSON Mandela Metropolitan University's innovative algae-to-energy project has taken a major step forward with the arrival of a custom- made algae biomass liquefaction (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Makoni, Zimuto Bounce Back At NMB
Friday 21-May-2010: By Paul NyakazeyaFORMER NMB Bank directors Julius Makoni and Francis Zimuto have bounced back at the bank after the executives unceremoniously left the country in the wake of externalisation charges s (By News Poster)...Rwanda: When the 'Learned Fraternity' Become Criminals' Godfathers
Thursday 20-May-2010: Kigali - Activities by a group of defence lawyers working with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), who have taken it upon themselves to advocate, outside the court rooms, for fugiti (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Prime Minister Denies Harassment of Opposition
Wednesday 19-May-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican government is committed to ensuring "the free and inalienable exercise of the rights of citizens, regardless of their political affiliation, religious beliefs or ethnic origin" (By News Poster)...South Africa: Archbishop Condemns Human Trafficking
Tuesday 18-May-2010: Pretoria - The Catholic Archbishop of Johannesburg has said trafficking is a "degrading form of modern slavery" which Christians should oppose.Archbishop Buti Tlhagale, called on the South African gov (By News Poster)...Namibia: Definition of Nationhood and Dealing With Past Not Yet Easy
Monday 17-May-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichTWENTY years after Independence the definition of Namibia being one nation and the question of nationhood are still difficult to answer, while the unfinished business of dealing wi (By News Poster)...Uganda: U.S Congress Wants Law On LRA Rebels
Monday 17-May-2010: By Milton OlupotKampala - US legislators behind the bill for a strategy to confront the Lord's Resistance Army rebels are calling on President Barack Obama to quickly sign it into law.They also want t (By News Poster)...Kenya: Danger Lurks in That Energy-Saving Bulb
Saturday 22-May-2010: By Muchiri KaranjaNairobi - With the cost of electricity spiralling out of control for most Kenyan households, the arrival of energy-saving bulbs in the market was greeted with some relief.At last, he (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Witnesses Identify 3 Religious Sect Members in Jos Violence
Friday 21-May-2010: Maiduguri - Three policemen yesterday at a Maiduguri High Court identified three suspects as members of the Boko Haram sect.The three police men, who were testifying at the court presided over by Just (By News Poster)...Nigeria: IPP - Bauchi's Effort to Shore Up Power Supply
Friday 21-May-2010: By Patience OgbodoBauchi - The problem of epileptic power supply will soon be a thing of the past in Bauchi State following the multibillion naira Independent Power Plant (IPP) embarked upon by Govern (By News Poster)...Uganda: Two Killed in City Land Row
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Herbert SsempogoKampala - Two men were lynched yesterday at Mutungo, a Kampala suburb, during an eviction that turned violent.Residents narrated that at about 2:00am, over 40 men destroyed 10 house (By News Poster)...South Africa: Rail Strike Nears End as New Offer Pleases Union
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Alistair AndersonJohannesburg - THE nationwide passenger rail strike was nearing its end yesterday as members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) considered their respo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Let Rural Ruling Be the Start of New Tradition
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Sindiso MnisiJohannesburg - LAST week's Constitutional Court decision in the challenge by four rural communities against the Communal Land Rights Act of 2004 joins the ranks of four welcome judgmen (By News Poster)...South Africa: Ruling Party Misses 'Deadline' to Sell Stake in Firm
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - THE African National Congress (ANC) has missed a self-imposed deadline to divest from its stake in Hitachi Power Africa through its front company, the controversial Cha (By News Poster)...Drug Rehab Needs Funds to Stay Open
Wednesday 19-May-2010: In the heart of Observatory, cheek by jowl with narcotics dealers, is a drug rehabilitation centre that has been helping addicts kick their habits for 10 years.But a lack of funding could mean that Be (By News Poster)...Unions to Broaden Strike (NEWS)
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Julius BaumannJohannesburg - UNIONS representing striking Transnet workers threatened yesterday to broaden their action and lobbied other unions to join them in sympathy strikes after talks with th (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe to Give N. Korea Wild Animals
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - Zimbabwe has sold wild animals to a North Korean zoo, angering environmentalists who say some of the endangered species have no chance of reaching Pyongyang alive.The count (By News Poster)...What We Can Learn From UK Election
Monday 17-May-2010: By Fred OluochNairobi - While most African countries were gloating over the fact that there were problems with the British electoral system, those who observed the just concluded elections say they we (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Rescued Banks - SEC Investigates Ex-MDs, Directors, Stockbrokers
Monday 17-May-2010: By Ayodele AminuLagos - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in conjunction with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) have floated a taskforce to reinvestigate allegations of infractions in banks (By News Poster)...East Africa: Rwanda, Uganda Police Chiefs Discuss Security
Saturday 22-May-2010: By Eric KabeeraKampala - Top police officials from Rwanda and Uganda yesterday met in Kampala to discuss safety and security challenges likely to arise during the implementation of common market proto (By News Poster)...Nigeria: I'm Not Governor for Christians Only - Yakowa
Saturday 22-May-2010: By Samuel AruwanKaduna - Kaduna town stood still yesterday following the swearing-in of the former deputy governor of the state, Mr. Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, as the new executive governor to fill the v (By News Poster)...Mali: The Key to Gold Fields Target
Friday 21-May-2010: By Bheki MpofuJohannesburg - Gold Fields, the world's fourth-largest gold mining company, plans to open a new mine in Mali in the next three years that will boost its production from its west African (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cabinet Calls for Settling of Transport Strike
Thursday 20-May-2010: Pretoria - Cabinet has appealed to all parties involved in wage negotiations to conclude agreements speedily to avoid costs to the economy.These as massive strikes at transport parastatal Transnet and (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banking Reform Has Strengthened Economy - Sanusi
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Golu TimothyAbuja - The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Malam Lamido Sanusi, appeared before the Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday to give account of the current state of the natio (By News Poster)...Renaissance, Equity Partners Fund Set Up U.S.$1,5 Billion Capital Investment Portfolio
Thursday 20-May-2010: Harare - RENAISSANCE Financial Holdings Limited has teamed up with Equity Partners Fund SPC to manage the firm's US$1,5 billion investment portfolio (RFHL Africa) designed to provide capital to listed (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN Okays Zenith, UBA And Skye Banks MD Designates As Substantive MDs
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Omoh GabrielTHE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Monday, confirmed as substantive managing directors the managing director-designates of three banks.They are Mr. Godwin I. Emefiele, for Zenith Bank PL (By News Poster)...South Africa: General Electric Commits to Localisation after Winning Power Contract
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - GENERAL Electric SA (GE SA) had landed a R500m contract for the engineering, design, manufacture and installation of low-voltage switchgear for Eskom's Medupi coal-fire (By News Poster)...Namibia: Maize Meal Up 13 Percent
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Denver KistingELECTRICITY, fuel and now maize meal - announcements of price hikes for these commodities are what the Namibian consumer has had to stomach the last week.From the end of May, Namib Mi (By News Poster)...Uganda: East African Dev Bank Posts Shs3.7 Billion Profit After Years of Losing Money
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Walter WafulaKampala - The East African Development Bank has reported a net profit of Shs3.7 billion from its business in 2009, after posting losses for two consecutive years.In 2008, the bank post (By News Poster)...Malawi: Gay Couple Jailed for 'Unnatural Acts'
Tuesday 18-May-2010: Cape Town - On May 18, Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, the two men arrested in December after their traditional engagement party, were convicted of "unnatural acts" and "gross indecency" under (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Drug Trafficking - NDLEA Arrests Edo Politician
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Davidson Iriekpen and Chinedu EzeLagos - An Edo State House of Assembly 2011 aspirant, has been arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed Int (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Summons Mine Workers, Employers
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By John ManzongoHarare - THE Ministry of Labour and Social Services yesterday served the Mine Workers' Union and Zimbabwe Chamber of Mines with a show cause order to appear before it to explain the cu (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Rhetoric Will Not Fool Investors
Monday 17-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)...Nigeria: CBN Laments Low Contribution of Oil Sector
Saturday 22-May-2010: By Kunle AderinokunAbuja - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday lamented that in spite of oil exports representing over 80 percent of the nation's income, it is contributing only less than 40 p (By News Poster)...South Africa: Where the generals carry insignia equivalent to British Field Marshals/US Generals of the Army
Saturday 22-May-2010: Military ranks and insignia in South Africa have traditionally followed the British system. A British brigadier is not a general, whereas his US counterpart is (a one-star brigadier-general). A (By A Different Perspective)...Zimbabwe: Government Bows to ILO Demands
Friday 21-May-2010: By Shame Makoshori and Kudzai BareHarare - THE government, which is under international pressure to end torture and harassment of trade unionists, says it will implement far reaching policies to promo (By News Poster)...Kenya: Kenyan Hate Cleric Linked to New York Bomb Attempt
Friday 21-May-2010: By Kevin J KelleyNew York - The hate cleric deported from Kenya in January helped inspire the man accused of an attempted car bombing in New York's Times Square earlier this month, a US radio network (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Victims of Operation Murambatsvina Still in Limbo
Friday 21-May-2010: VICTIMS of the government-sponsored Operation Murambatsvina are still stranded in filthy shacks five years after the government brutally razed their homes under the pretext of eliminating illegal sett (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN Approves New MDs for Zenith, Skye, UBA
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Kingsley IghomwenghianLagos - New Managing Directors (MDs) have been approved for Zenith Bank, Skye Bank, and United Bank for Africa (UBA), as named a few weeks ago by their boards.The Central Bank (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuzimpilo Opens Shop for Circumcision
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Khopotso BodibeZuzimpilo, the low-cost HIV and AIDS treatment clinic in the heart of Johannesburg, has now added medical male circumcision to its services. This follows the Health Department's appr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 2011 - Edo Politician Arrested for Drug Trafficking
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Ime AkpanLagos - A politician, Eme Zuru Ayortor, who is vying for a seat in the Edo State House of Assembly in 2011, has been arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLE (By News Poster)...South Africa: New Wage Hike Offer Could End Damaging Rail Strike
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Alistair Anderson and Julius BaumannJohannesburg - A NEW wage offer of 10% from the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) could bring an end to this week's devastating rail strike if Prasa and employ (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Party Calls for Fresh Election Plans
Monday 17-May-2010: Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party has called for an urgent summit of Southern African leaders to help enforce the agreement setting up Zimbabwe's unity government.The summit should also "discus (By News Poster)...Kenya: Govt, BAT in Tussle Over 'Illegal' Insurance for Tobacco Farmers
Monday 17-May-2010: By Catherine RiunguNairobi - A tobacco war is looming in Kenya. The government and cigarette maker, British American Tobacco are embroiled in a tussle over an insurance policy for farmers which the lo (By News Poster)...Uganda: I Took Part in the HIV Vaccine Trial
Monday 17-May-2010: By Ben OkirorKampala - Paul Wetaka volunteered in Uganda's first HIV vaccine trials by Joint Clinical Research Centre between 1995 and 2000.Have you felt any discomfort as a result?Not at all: I have (By News Poster)...Equatorial Guinea: Rights Group Urges Govt to Retry Convicted Nigerians
Saturday 22-May-2010: By Yemi Adebowale with agency reportLagos - Amnesty International yesterday called for the fair retrial of seven Nigerians convicted by a court in Equatorial Guinea for their alleged involvement in an (By News Poster)...Kenya: No Need for Force in Railways Evictions
Friday 21-May-2010: By Gabriel DolanOn March 21, Kenya Railways placed announcements in the national press warning residents living within 100 feet of the railway line, as well as those occupying railway land and propert (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Stop These Junkets - Analysts
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Clemence ManyukweHarare - ZIMBABWE's three political principals should set a good example for their followers by cutting on unnecessary globetrotting which is proving to be a drain on the country's (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Over 100 Million Dollars a Year Invested in Electricity
Wednesday 19-May-2010: Maputo - Investment in Mozambique's national electricity grid is currently running at more than 3.5 billion meticais (over 100 million US dollars) a year, Energy Minister Salvador Namburete told the M (By News Poster)...Rwanda: 23 Died From Gender Based Violence in Rusizi Last Month
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Lillian NakayimaRusizi - At least 23 people died last month due to Gender Based Violence (GBV) in Rusizi district, according to a Police report.The report released on Tuesday during the launch of t (By News Poster)...Hello, Africa! Guest Fabio Polenghi Killed In Thailand Riots
Wednesday 19-May-2010: Freelance Italian photographer, Fabio Polenghi, who was a guest on The Right Perspective's Hello, Africa! show, was shot and killed Wednesday in anti-government clashes engulfing Bangkok, Thailand. Ne (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Kenya: Squatters Evicted from ADC Farm
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Daniel NyassyNairobi - About 40 houses were burnt down and acres of maize belonging to squatters on a government farm destroyed during an eviction.Employees of Agricultural Development Corporation (By News Poster)...Kenya: Three On Gun-Smuggling Mission Seized in the City
Monday 17-May-2010: Nairobi - Three people were arrested on Sunday after they were found smuggling two guns and ammunition into the city.Detectives from the Special Crime Prevention Unit led by Mr Richard Katola intercep (By News Poster)...On the Fat Cats' Culture of Entitlement
Monday 17-May-2010: By Christof MaletskyTHE greatest danger our country faces is the prevailing class divisions. A worrying and deeply authoritarian belief is taking root among some senior Swapo officials as well as thei (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Girl (12) Contracts HIV After Forced Marriage
Monday 17-May-2010: By Walter NyamukondiwaA man has been dragged to court on allegations of forcing his 12-year-old daughter into a polygamous marriage, reportedly resulting in her contracting HIV.The man and the girl's (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hawks to Take Over Arms Deal Files
Monday 17-May-2010: Parliament is set to take one more stab at the ongoing allegations of corruption in the government's multibillion-rand arms deal by bringing in the police's new priority crime unit, the Hawks.Nearly 1 (By News Poster)...Somalia: Somalia Insurgents Reject Government's New Currency
Friday 21-May-2010: Somalia's Islamist insurgent groups, Hizbul Islam and Al-Shabaab have warned Mogadishu residents over usage of newly printed Somali currency that government wants to populate in the near future.Ma'ali (By News Poster)...Uganda: Central Africans Kill LRA Rebels
Friday 21-May-2010: Kampala - Villagers at Guerekindo in eastern Central African Republic killed two Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in self-defence, the Red Cross in the nearby M'boki town reported on Monday."The re (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Cost Containment Crucial
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaHarare - THE corporate executives in Zimbabwe's listed companies have one real battle in the face of limited revenue inflows in an economy characterised by a liquidity crunch: cost c (By News Poster)...Somali President Reinstates Prime Minister, Cabinet (NEWS)
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Abdulkadir KhalifMogadishu - Somalia's president reinstated Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke and his cabinet on Thursday after days of uncertainty following a parliamentary vote of no confi (By News Poster)...Uganda: 1,200 Relocated As Residents Flee Landslides-Prone Mt. Elgon
Thursday 20-May-2010: By David Mafabi, Mercy Nalugo And Benon OlukaSironko/Kampala - At least 1,200 people were yesterday moved to Bugitimwa Primary School in Sironko District as authorities made the first steps to relocat (By News Poster)...Uganda: 12 Charged With Taxi Robberies
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Juliet KigongoKampala - Twelve people suspected of being part of a racket that has been robbing passengers in taxis across Kampala were on Monday charged before two different magistrates with robbe (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Rights Groups Demand Justice for Victims of Operation Murambatsvina
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Alex BellAn international human rights organisation is leading demands for justice for the victims of Operation Murambatsvina, five years after the mass evictions took place.Amnesty International a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Deadline for Proposals on Indigenization Law Extended
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Lance GumaA deadline by which all businesses operating in Zimbabwe have to submit proposals on how they will increase black ownership in their companies, has been extended by a month. Youth and Emp (By News Poster)...Namibia: Pearls, Swine and Windmills
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Chris SmithSO the price of electricity is going to increase enough to cover the cost of hiked South African power, but not enough to finance or attract new investment.I am sad as indecision and lac (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Sultan Cautions Sanusi Over Bank Reform
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Ese AwhotuAbuja - The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Saad Abubakar III, yesterday cautioned the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, to stop exposing Nigeri (By News Poster)...South Africa: Vuvuzela's Critics Secretly Love This Plastic Trumpet
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Mninawa NtlokoJohannesburg - OH, YOU have got to love the vuvuzela. Never has a piece of plastic managed to excite and annoy so many people as effortlessly as this beloved instrument has done in th (By News Poster)...Kenya: Equity Promises Easy Loans
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Justus OndariNairobi - Equity Bank is promising small and medium businesses cheap loans after partnering with the China Development Bank, in a move that is set to trigger a new wave of price wars i (By News Poster)...Uganda: No Room for Smuggled Stones Here
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Sam WakhakhaNairobi - Uganda will not polish smuggled stones from the Democratic Republic Congo even though it now has a gold refinery outfit in Kampala.Minister of State for Mineral Development in (By News Poster)...Somali President to Appoint New PM as Speaker Also Quits (NEWS)
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Abdulkadir KhalifMogadishu - Somalia's parliament Speaker quit today and the president said he would appoint a new prime minister in what analysts saw as a deal to clear the way for a more stable g (By News Poster)...Kenya: Buckling under the Financial Strain of Living with HIV
Monday 17-May-2010: Bondo - Maria Obonyo walked 70km from her home to the nearest hospital in western Kenya's Bondo District to seek treatment for an uncomfortable rash but could not afford the US$2 for the ointment the (By News Poster)...Immunisation Demands Pragmatism
Sunday 23-May-2010: Harare - Immunisation is saving the lives of millions of children around the world each year, as killer disease after killer disease falls with advances in medical science.Already one virus smallpox h (By News Poster)...Mali: Radicals Block New Family Law
Saturday 22-May-2010: Bamako - A new family law has raised tension in Mali. This controversial law, intended to give greater freedoms and rights to women, has been sent back to the National Assembly for a second reading af (By News Poster)...Egypt/South Africa: Failed Attempt to Host the 2010 World Cup
Saturday 22-May-2010: By Hossam AlaidyWith a tinge of sadness, Egyptians are waiting for the World Cup kick offs in South Africa in 2010, many wondering bitterly why Egypt's bid to host was unsuccessful. Not even Egypt's s (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Trinidad and Tobago - the Oil Earnings, Social Benefits for the People
Friday 21-May-2010: Trinidad and Tobago, the most industrialized English speaking Caribbean nation, like Venezuela is an oil producing state. With an economy which has transitioned from oil to a natural gas based economy (By News Poster)...Tanzania: 'Banks Behaviour Distorts Money Markets'
Friday 21-May-2010: Speculation has been cited as a key factor in the depreciation of the shilling with the government blaming banks for their bullish behaviour that distorts money markets.Various experts have warned tha (By News Poster)...Africa: How Relevant are Traditional Rulers?
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Anthonia SoyingbeHow relevant are traditional rulers? Should their roles be enshrined in the constitution? What should be their roles in democracy? Should they meddle in partisan politics? These we (By News Poster)...Sudan: Bol Manyiel, 'I Can Still Buy More Guns with My Remaining Cattle'
Wednesday 19-May-2010: Juba - After raiders struck Tonj area of Southern Sudan's Warrap state, stealing four of Bol Meen Manyiel's 18 cattle, he and a relative pursued the raiders to neighbouring Cueibet county in Lakes Sta (By News Poster)...Nigeria: President Jonathan's Dilemma
Wednesday 19-May-2010: The question on the lips of many Nigerians today is whether President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will run for the presidency in 2011 by taking advantage of his control of the apparatchik of power or whet (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oyo Set to Tackle Food Scarcity
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Oladele OgunsolaIbadan - To tackle the problem of food scarcity in Oyo State, the government has distributed about N20 million seedlings of high-yielding varieties of pepper, vegetables and onions (By News Poster)...Namibia: SPYL Condemns Power Hike
Wednesday 19-May-2010: THE Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) has condemned the Electricity Control Board's approval of an 18 per cent increase in NamPower's bulk power price and called for the decision to be reversed.The SPYL (By News Poster)...South Africa: Transnet Strike Negotiations Continue Tomorrow
Wednesday 19-May-2010: Pretoria - Transnet and labour are to meet again at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) in efforts to end a 10 day strike at its operations.Transnet spokesperson John Dlu (By News Poster)...South Africa: Visas, Border Security Ready for World Cup
Wednesday 19-May-2010: Cape Town - With 22 days till the kick off of the FIFA World Cup, South Africa was on track to issue free visas to soccer fans and process the thousands of visitors expected in the country next month. (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Benefits of Working Together on Water
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Terna GyuseGaborone - The river basin organisation people are gathered in Botswana again: the theme this year is "benefit-sharing", an approach to allocating water that, it is promised, will accomp (By News Poster)...South Africa: Trade Restrictions Placed On Namibian Commodities
Tuesday 18-May-2010: Pretoria - The veterinary import permits for venison, beef, mutton and goat meat not slaughtered at South African approved abattoirs have been cancelled following the outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RV (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: APC - the Inconsistency in Fighting Corruption
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Alusine SesayFreetown - Corruption is a social enemy that is responsible for the backwardness of Sierra Leone. Each and every Sierra Leonean has suffered one way or the other from the ills corrupti (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Mozambicans Will Defeat Poverty - Guebuza
Monday 17-May-2010: Larde - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza declared in Moma district, in the northern province of Nampula on Sunday, his conviction that Mozambicans will defeat poverty, just as they had defeated Po (By News Poster)...South Africa: Health-E Journalists Receive Esteemed Accolades
Monday 17-May-2010: Health-e print journalist and editor, Anso Thom and former television editor Anna-Maria Lombard have recently been awarded for their excellence in journalism.Thom's submission "Treating Drug-Resistant (By News Poster)...East Africa: VP Bukenya Denies Govt Fraud Allegations in Chogm Report
Monday 17-May-2010: By David Malingha DoyaNairobi - Ugandan leaders are on the spot for robbing their economy in the wake of shocking news that Vice President Prof Gilbert Bukenya could have presided over the mismanageme (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Excess Crude Account - Depleted to U.S. $ 4.393 Billion
Monday 17-May-2010: By Omoh GabrielThe Nation Excess crude account has been depleted from about $20 billion in 2007 to only $4.393 billion as at the end of April, 2010. This was disclosed at the week end by the Minister (By News Poster)...South Africa: Economic Growth Failed to Lift Poverty Levels - UN Body
Monday 17-May-2010: By Loyiso LangeniJohannesburg - HELEN Clark, the chairwoman of the United Nations Development Group - a body responsible for all UN development agencies - said on Friday that fast economic growth in S (By News Poster)...Somalia: Do Not Force Refugees Back to Strife-Torn Country, UN Urges Governments
Friday 21-May-2010: The United Nations today again appealed to governments worldwide not to forcibly return refugees to Somalia, where tens of thousands of people have been killed and some 2 million displaced by years of (By News Poster)...Nigeria: N2.3 Billion Scam - EFCC Summons Bankole, Others
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Erasmus AlanemeAbuja - Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has summoned the leadership of the House of Representatives, over the controversial N2.3billion car purchase scam rocking the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Company to Resolve Food Crisis
Thursday 20-May-2010: By Oladele OgunsolaIbadan - Odu'a Investment Company Limited has expressed its readiness to address food scarcity in the country and other related agricultural problems.The conglomerate's Group Managi (By News Poster)...Tongai Moyo's Wife Kills Self
Monday 17-May-2010: Harare - SUNGURA artiste Tongai Moyo's wife Barbara Muchengeti died at Kwekwe General Hospital last night where she had been admitted after taking poison following a domestic dispute.The Utakataka Exp (By News Poster)...Uganda: Studies On the HIV Vaccine
Monday 17-May-2010: Kampala - May 18, is World Vaccine Awareness Day. Uganda was home to the first-ever HIV vaccine trial in Africa in 1995, which was conducted at the Joint Clinical Research Centre.Since that time, Ugan (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Former Governer Meets Crime Commission for Extradition
Monday 17-May-2010: By Yemi AkinsuyiAbuja - Following last Wednesday's arrest and granting of bail to the former Delta State Governor James Ibori in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), security operatives from Nigeria, UA (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (23-05-2010)
Sunday 23-May-2010: Howzit It is another very hot day here in the UK. Having lived in places like Plumtree and Chiredzi, I find that I don't mind the heat, but B does feel the very high humidity, but she has been happ (By The BeardedMan)...South Africa: World Cup Fever Hits Soweto
Saturday 22-May-2010: By Nthambeleni GabaraJohannesburg - As the 2010 FIFA World Cup draws nearer, South Africans young and old say they are ready to host a spectacular and memorable extravaganza.Soweto's most famous stree (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Namibia Arrests 23 Locals
Friday 21-May-2010: Harare - POLICE in Namibia have arrested 23 Zimbabweans for breaking immigration laws and theft.Police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Oliver Mandipaka confirmed the arrests urging the suspects' rel (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lassa Fever Claims 17 Lives in Kebbi State
Friday 21-May-2010: Kano - Health authorities are on alert as Lassa fever has now claimed 17 lives and infected dozens of people in northwestern Nigeria's Kebbi State, according to state health officials.The last outbrea (By News Poster)...Kenya: New Mobile Banking Product Launched
Wednesday 19-May-2010: By Dinfin MulupiA new mobile banking product, targeting rural areas, has been launched in Kenya.Kenya's largest mobile operator, Safaricom, and fastest growing bank, Equity Bank, have unveiled M-Kesho (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Police Must Consolidate Achievements - Guebuza
Tuesday 18-May-2010: Nampula - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza said on Monday in the northern city of Nampula that the current challenge to the police is to consolidate and expand the achievements gained during the 3 (By News Poster)...Namibia: Will Farm Project Mean the River Runs Dry?
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Servaas van den BoschWindhoek - A proposed irrigation scheme promises greater food security for Namibia, but should the 10,000 hectare Katondo Farm Project be completed, it could threaten the healt (By News Poster)...South Africa: ICT Firm Threatens to Pull Out of DR Congo
Tuesday 18-May-2010: By Thabiso MochikoJohannesburg - VODACOM plans to dispose of stakes in two subsidiaries that have been shrouded in controversy over the past year.It said yesterday it would sell its 24,9% stake in int (By News Poster)...Zambia: Increase in Fuel Price Justified-Fundanga
Monday 17-May-2010: BANK of Zambia (BOZ) Governor Caleb Fundanga has said the recent increase in fuel prices is justified because of the rise in the price of crude on the international market.Dr Fundanga has also said th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hint of Recovery Unlikely to Lure Investors Into Volatile Diamond Stock
Monday 17-May-2010: By Tim CohenJohannesburg - IN 1938, Ernest Oppenheimer wrote an introduction to a book on the history of diamond company De Beers in which he made this comment: "The Diamond Trading Company, therefore (By News Poster)...Kenya: Seven More Swept to Death
Monday 17-May-2010: By Dominic WabalaNairobi - Seven people, among them a Kenya Wildlife Service warder, were swept away by floods in different parts of the country on Friday night.Two men, three women and a five year-ol (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: White Farm Owner and Wife Attacked in Centenary
Sunday 23-May-2010: A farmer and his wife in Centenary were badly beaten at the weekend.There have been few details but a Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) statement said James and Wendy de la Fargue were attacked while the (By Jan)...America: SUDDENLY Everyone is not just a BEAR... they are predicting MASSIVE Stock Market crashes....
Wednesday 19-May-2010: [This article was posted by one of our volunteers on AmericanCrisis and I thought it is worth revisiting. I'm watching the markets imploding with great interest. I think some people are over-doing the (By Jan)...The Email from ReadyHosting.com shutting down the Farm Murders page - where you can complain...
Monday 17-May-2010: [Below is a copy of the email I received the other day shutting down the Farm Murders page on the old AfricanCrisis. I still kept the old AfricanCrisis functioning because I want to use that name agai (By Jan)...South African President Zuma: "We Are Even Worse Than Animals"
Friday 21-May-2010: South African president Jacob Zuma shocked his nation Friday in a speech where he condemned its societal culture, saying it is "even worse than animals." "The culture of society has [declined]. Som (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Namibia: State Remains Uranium Giant
Sunday 23-May-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyNAMIBIA has retained its spot as the fourth biggest uranium producer in the world for the second year running, contributing to nine per cent of global output last year, figures release (By Jan)...South Africa: MInister Suggests Allowances for Jobless Youth
Friday 21-May-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - THE government was exploring a range of options to tackle the "stubborn" problem of youth unemployment, including a voluntary scheme where young people would get an allow (By News Poster)...S.Africa: My message to Channel Islam about President Zuma taking action regarding Julius Malema - My Radio Interview
Thursday 20-May-2010: I am in a tremendous rush to get to work but I need to post this. The guys from Channel Islam sent me the MP3's of my radio interview that I did the other day regarding my open letter to President (By Jan)...South Africa: Wal-Mart Could be on its Way - Is Wal-Mart coming to SA?
Sunday 23-May-2010: [This news item is from a couple of weeks ago. It would be nice if Wal-Mart came here, but I do think they would find the local competition stiff. When MacDonalds came to SA they thought they'd sweep (By Jan)...[3 Graphs] My Technical Indicator - Stock Markets collapsing, waves of panic growing - NOTE: Govt SILENCE - In the midst of a 2,000 point drop?
Friday 21-May-2010: Serious things are afoot. I am going to be a bit brief, but I really must attempt by tomorrow to post a more complete analysis showing the technical status of the markets. I just wanted to show yo (By Jan)...Nigeria: Terrorism - U.S. Detains Nigerian On 'No-Fly List' - Suspect Boarded Delta Airlines Jet in Abuja
Sunday 23-May-2010: By Chinedu Offor And Adeola Yusuf And Abel Orukpe With Agency ReportWashington DC/Lagos - Delta Airline flight 215 from Nigeria was prevented from entering the United States on Wednesday by Homeland S (By Jan)...South Africa: Mittal Not Fazed by Zimbabwe Rejection
Sunday 23-May-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - ARCELORMITTAL yesterday shrugged off a decision by Zimbabwe's government to reject its bid to acquire a majority stake in steel company Zisco, saying it would continue t (By Jan)...South Africa: Pamphlets Cause Concern as Mokonyane Goes Head-to-Head Against Mashatile
Sunday 23-May-2010: By Sibongakonke Shoba and Karima BrownJohannesburg - AS delegates gather to cast their votes for that would control South Africa's richest province in the African National Congress, unidentified pamph (By Jan)...South Africa: Advertisers Urge Sabc to Fix Problems
Sunday 23-May-2010: By Chantelle BenjaminJohannesburg - ADVERTISERS and media planners, who spent nearly R21bn on television advertising last year, have appealed to SABC group CEO Solly Mokoetle for monthly meetings to a (By Jan)...Uganda: U.S. Congress Passes Anti-LRA Bill
Sunday 23-May-2010: The U.S. Congress has passed a bill calling upon the administration of President Barack Obama to lead international efforts to end the threat to civilians posed by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Th (By Jan)...South Africa: Absa Offers Western Union Money Transfers
Sunday 23-May-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - ABSA has become the first bank in the world to offer Western Union cross-border money transfers on three distribution channels - through its branches, cellphones and the i (By Jan)...Rwanda: Hundreds of Flood Victims Need Emergency Aid
Sunday 23-May-2010: By Robert MugabeKigali - Hundreds of displaced victims of the weekend floods in Rubavu District are still waiting for basic emergency aid like tents and food, The New Times reports.About eleven people (By Jan)...Tanzania: Investment for Energy Sector Needs Billions
Sunday 23-May-2010: Dar Es Salaam - NATIONAL Power System Master Plan requires an amount of USD 12bn for investments in the energy sector for the next 23 years (2010 -2033) at current price levels.The investment is for p (By Jan)...Uganda: Punitive Laws Will Hinder Fight Against HIV/Aids - Activists
Sunday 23-May-2010: By Evelyn LirriKampala - Aids activists have warned that having punitive laws against HIV/Aids will not necessarily prevent its spread.Instead, they said it will keep people away from getting tested a (By Jan)...Nigeria: FG Seeks International Assistance Against Fake Drugs
Sunday 23-May-2010: By Chinedu OfforWashington D.c - Nigeria has asked international health agencies to assist the country prevent the flow of fake or adulterated drugs into the country.The call was made by Minister of H (By Jan)...Nigeria: Jonathan Blames Financial Crisis On Corruption
Sunday 23-May-2010: By Erasmus AlanemeAbuja - President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said corruption, non-accountability and lack of transparency as well as bad governance were responsible for the global financial crisis (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: WOZA Arrested for 'Yellow-Carding' Zesa
Sunday 23-May-2010: FOUR members of the militant Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) arrested on Thursday for demonstrating against high Zesa bills were expected to spend the long weekend in police custody, their lawyer said (By Jan)...South Africa: Babies 'Dying Because of Poor Care'
Sunday 23-May-2010: By Tamar KahnJohannesburg - Mothers and children have frequent access to healthcare facilities, but the poor quality of care they receive is leading to unnecessary deaths, a new report from the Human (By Jan)...USA: STOCK MARKETS: My Technical Indicator - YOU can make money out of FEAR - here's how...
Saturday 22-May-2010: [I was busy browsing a news article about the market carnage of the other day when it mentioned that you can trade an ETF which is based on the fear index, VIX. And yes, there it is. The code is: VXX. (By Jan)...S.Africa: Johannesburg: From Jan: Crime increases shockingly in my suburb.... Stock markets seem endlessly... DOWN...
Tuesday 18-May-2010: Two quick notes. I attended a Police meeting this evening for our suburb. While murders were down other crimes rose SHOCKINGLY. Will report more on it tomorrow. Yesterday the markets managed t (By Jan)...Blast from the past: Nuclear Earthmoving: Building and Engineering with Atom Bombs
Monday 17-May-2010: [I see this old post is drawing a lot of interest on the web. I thought I'd bring it to the attention of other readers. It is from 2007. Jan] Nuclear Earthmoving: Building and Engineering with Atom (By Jan)...History: Napoleon & the French revolution are to blame for the Liberal Jews in America - Jews are reviving Conservative Judaism
Monday 17-May-2010: [I was having a most interesting discussion with a Jewish friend in Israel about War Versus Peace. My friend, who is a linguist and archaeologist by education was telling me what went wrong with the J (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (17-05-2010)
Monday 17-May-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- Yesterday, I featured a story in which Jonathan Moyo asserted that God "may be ZANU PF". This has actually wound me up no end. Not long ago, (By The BeardedMan)...USA: Another rotten day on Wall St... Obama can lie as much as he wants...
Monday 17-May-2010: I checked the markets now and half way through the day and the DOW is down 129 points. It is looking like another rotten day. I will put up the latest P&F and other charts indicating the new predic (By Jan)...USA: Another day of hell on the Stock markets... collapse...
Thursday 20-May-2010: I had a quick look at the opening stock prices on Wall St. The DOW already dropped a staggering 261 points and its not even half way through the trading day. Fear and panic is no doubt coming home (By Jan)...Lessons of Life: Spiritual Socialism - Will God always bail us out of our self-made messes?
Monday 17-May-2010: I was chatting to some friends about religious matters - of war and peace. I made the remark that I find it hard to believe in "Spiritual Socialism" - that God will miraculously always come and sa (By Jan)...Some posts from Jan later on friday... The markets are wild, and more fun than sex...
Friday 21-May-2010: Hi Everyone, I took a bit of a break from life last night. Just chilled a bit and did nothing at all on anything. Just chilling and letting my mind go free for one night. Time to dive back in. I g (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (19-05-2010)
Wednesday 19-May-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- I am not really looking forward to today as I have a very late appointment at City Hospital on the other side of town this afternoon to che (By The BeardedMan)...[2 Pics] S.Africa: My Pics: Gorgeous large model sailing ship...
Wednesday 19-May-2010: Don't be fooled by these photos. This model ship is large - it is several feet long and about 3 feet high. It fills a table. I spotted it at an auction room I was walking around. It turns out its not (By Jan)...Ron Reid-Daly
Friday 21-May-2010: Ron Reid Daly "formed the Selous Scouts, an elite special forces unit to combat the growing threat posed by nationalist guerrillas. Drawing on his Malayan experiences, Lieutenant Colonel Reid-Daly bui (By The BeardedMan)...From Jan: Some interesting pics I took....
Tuesday 18-May-2010: I have some photos I took recently here in Johannesburg which I will post tomorrow. (By Jan)...S.Africa: The Status of Jan Lamprecht's trip to America in October?
Saturday 22-May-2010: I thought I'd update you on this. My plan is to go on a trip to America in October 2010. I have already taken my annual leave at my work (in April), and I am sure my bosses won't be keen to let me hav (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (22-05-2010)
Saturday 22-May-2010: Howzit The funeral yesterday was a very sad affair, although I was glad I attended and was there to support the family. I have spent the last 90 minutes reading through the news in Zimbabwe and (By The BeardedMan)...
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