Weekly Southern African Report
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 6th June 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[Pics] Important: Blacks call for the Extermination of White South Africans - One Bullet, One Baby - Murder the White Babies!
Monday 31-May-2010: [This is just another instance where blacks are rallying and promoting extermination of South Africa's White minority. The calls by Mr Sodo to kill White babies is one that strikes horror and reflects (By JanOlifant)...Important: S.Africa: 2010 FIFA World cup - Security Brief - How YOU will be affected...
Friday 04-Jun-2010: [I received this from a friend. Jan] Subject: FW: World Cup Security Brief Dear Residents, World Cup Security Brief Yesterday afternoon there was a World Cup security brief held at the Consu (By Jan)...South Africa: More in Sorrow Than Anger, U.S. Author Exposes Israeli Ties With Apartheid
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: Washington, DC - "Polakow-Suransky puts Israel's annual military exports to South Africa between 1974 and 1993 at $600 million, which made South Africa Israel's second or third largest trading partner (By News Poster)...Africa: Land Investments Are Wholesale Sell-Outs for Women Farmers
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Nidhi TandonThe multi-fold hike in food and fuel prices in late 2007 came out of the volatility in the financial markets. In the first six months of 2008, mass riots over food shortages and unaffor (By News Poster)...[Pics] Important: ANC Politician & Cadres Support and Defend Accused Murderers of two Brutally Tortured Boer Women
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: [These two women are victims of GENOCIDE! This is provable by the fact that normally when 'criminals' commit a crime against their victims, they are considered criminals by their act of robbing/steali (By JanOlifant)...S.Africa: 2010 FIFA World Cup - The real reason President Obama isn't coming to the World Cup - its too dangerous - Which Terrorists will attack the soccer stadiums?
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: Recently various Western countries issued warnings that there were Muslim terrorists in South Africa who had penetrated the country and they were planning acts of terror during the FIFA world cup. (By Jan)...South Africa: Listen Closer to Gems of Front Man Malema
Monday 31-May-2010: By Anthony ButlerJohannesburg - THE rise of African National Congress (ANC) Youth League president Julius Malema has been greeted with alarm by some members of the business community. In many respects (By News Poster)...South Africa: A White Policeman Died-What Colour Was the Obstructing Policeman
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Sumitted by Owl: ANONYMOUS - A WHITE POLICEMAN DIED -WHAT COLOOUR WAS THE OBSTRUCTING POLICEMAN - Black as a white policeman will NOT let another COP DIE ! Dear Lord - what has happened to South A (By JoAn)...IMPORTANT: Extremely rare public statement by the Mossad chief regarding America & President Obama...
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: [This is most important. The assessment here by the Mossad chief is that America is in decline. This is a most crucial point to understand. America is now in the same spot as the Eastern and Weste (By Jan)...Jan Lamprecht's leave is approved - My trip to America in October... GO! S.African Car rip-offs... Car parts prices rise 35%
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: I got some good news from my new black boss. He had checked with the Indian guy above him and my leave request for October has been given the thumbs up!! Oh boy!! Now I must find my bloody pas (By Jan)...South Africa: Elders 'Worried' About Renewed Xenophobic Attacks
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Loyiso LangeniJohannesburg - A GROUP of 10 prominent global leaders, known as the Elders, added their voice yesterday to concerns that xenophobic violence would be on the rise again after the Socce (By News Poster)...South Africa: The split in the ANC
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Submitted by a WiseOwl: He says: IGNORE the history lesson - the bottom part is what Gives me new QUESTIONS. I HATE TO SAY IT BUT ----- WAS I RIGHT a few weeks ago ! I would happily ....be reli (By JoAn)...Ethiopia: Land of Warm Milk and No Rain
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: Undajara - The ari is a collapsible egg-shaped hut made of sticks and covered with woven reed mats, animal skins and cloth; one of them will be my home for the night in Undajara village, at the foot o (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Details of the 2008 Violence Emerge From 'Torture' Workshop
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Tichaona SibandaShepherd Jani, the late MDC senatorial candidate for Murehwa, was burnt alive and shot five times by his abductors, believed to be CIO agents, a torture awareness workshop heard rec (By News Poster)...S.Africa: My poor lady friend & her husband whom the blacks threatened to kill yesterday...
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: I tried to phone Paula to speak to her about the blacks who ran into her bedroom yesterday, armed and threatening to shoot her husband. But her phone was off. They had a close call yesterday. Life (By Jan)...Ethiopia's Blueprint for the Economy
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Mikias SebsibeFollowing the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front's (EPRDF's) victory at the polls, the incumbent has a new lease on politics in the nation to continue its economic poli (By News Poster)...Nigeria: One Year of Reforms - Sanusi Gets Stakeholders' Kudos, Knocks - Stock Index Maintains Relative Stability
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Kingsley IghomwenghianIt will be exactly one year tomorrow, since Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, a prince of the Kano emirate, a risk manager and immediate past Managing Director and chief executive officer (By News Poster)...IMPORTANT: Zimbabwe: The Truth comes out Mugabe went to WAR in June 2008 - killed hundreds, tortured thousands, displaced half a million...
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Look at how the truth finally comes out... quietly... Look at how Mugabe went to war and used exceptional violence in June 2008 to try to win the illegal run-off election. This is why Morgan Tsvan (By Jan)...Liberia: Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Unsealing of Charges Arising from Historic Joint Undercover Operation in The Republic of Liberia
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: The following report is on the result of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration's "Operation Relentless," which culminated in arrest of eight defendants for conspiring to use Liberia as sta (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Can it be done? Helen Zille's attempt to break voting patterns from Race to the Brazilian style
Monday 31-May-2010: [Here is an article someone sent me where Helen Zille was talking about trying to get blacks to vote based on principles rather than race. Before we get too excited about Brazil, take note that Bra (By Jan)...South Africa: Return of State Repression?
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: The South African Police Service (SAPS) has issued a directive to a number of municipalities not to allow marches for the duration of the 2010 World Cup. How many have received it is unclear.This ban (By News Poster)...Africa: Africa Condemns Israel's Strike on Gaza-Bound Aid
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Dana WagnerIsrael's raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip has left at least nine dead and several more wounded. On board were activists and aid workers from more than 30 countries, accom (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Confronting Country's Energy Crisis
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Austin NwangwuLagos - OF wars there are only two kinds - the winnable and un-winnable. The variables that determine which way victory goes in any war are so many and, sometimes, interplay to beat a (By News Poster)...'How Zim Won the World Cup'
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By MuckrakerYOU have to admit that was a great heading in the Sunday Mail last weekend . It was of course totally false and misleading but a great heading none-the- less.Zimbabwe is not in the running (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010 - A Quote from President Truman that applies exactly to the ANC Govt...
Monday 31-May-2010: [I spotted this quote from President Truman and I thought how applicable it is to the ANC and the path is has embarked on. The ANC knows full well that its popularity is failing and as a result, i (By Jan)...American journalist and Quaker highlights the violence against the Afrikaners
Friday 04-Jun-2010: [Adriana Stuijt sent me this interesting note. Jan] Subject: US journalist and Quaker highlights the violence against the Afrikaners Dear Jan This report by Carol Forsloff, a respected libera (By Jan)...America's Secret War expands globally as Special Operations forces take larger role
Friday 04-Jun-2010: [I've mentioned this worldwide secret war, led by the CIA before. Look at how the fight continues to grow in intensity. Jan] Beneath its commitment to soft-spoken diplomacy and beyond the combat zo (By Jan)...South Africa: Tale of Nuclear-Weapon Collaboration Rings True
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Allister SparksJohannesburg - AMERICAN author Sasha Polakow-Suransky's disclosure last week that Israel had offered to sell nuclear warheads to SA during apartheid is almost certainly correct - des (By News Poster)...South Africa: Trans Hex Profits From Recovery, Cost Cutting
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Alistair AndersonJohannesburg - DIAMOND producer Trans Hex has turned a profit after a recovery in prices of the mineral, and stringent cost management.Profit for the year to March was R21,6m compa (By News Poster)...South Africa: Local Journalist on Ship Attacked by Israelis
Monday 31-May-2010: By Murray Williams and agenciesCape Town - A Cape Town journalist was on board one of the six aid ships attacked by the Israeli navy off the Gaza coast on Monday morning.Israeli military officials sai (By News Poster)...Nigeria: South-East's Crime Rate
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: Lagos - The editorial opinion of the Punch on Friday May 14, 2010, was largely a frontal attack on the Police leadership. For some veiled reasons, which may not be far from parochial interest and lack (By News Poster)...Egyptian Opposition Protests Renewal of Emergency Law
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-OmraniCairo - The government's decision to renew Egypt's longstanding Emergency Law has drawn furious reactions from opposition figures and rights advocates.While g (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC Names and Shames More Perpetrators of Violence
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe MDC on Tuesday published more names of perpetrators of violence on their 'roll of shame'. The weekly party newsletter, The Changing Times, named Morgan Mzilikazi, a colonel in t (By News Poster)...Let's Honour Our Own Prophets
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Dalla BillHarare - YOU don't know it till its gone . . . you don't know what you have got . . ." or something like that sang one popular Western singer.Many times we just listen to the song and we (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cosatu Under Attack from the Nationalists in the ANC
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Richard PithouseIt’ll be some time before we really know what happened in the National Working Committee (NWC) of the African National Congress (ANC) on Monday. But it seems clear enough that (By News Poster)...Liberia: Prepared Remarks for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Concerning U.S.-Liberia Drug Trafficking Case
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: The following are prepared remarks delivered by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara concerning United States v. Umeh, at al., a new case brought forth from a joint Liberia-U.S. drug trafficking investigation. (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Racism And the Diaspora
Monday 31-May-2010: By Paul ArheweLast Sunday another spate of maltreatment was meted out to some Nigerians living in Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. This latest incident, like some past ones claimed the life of a Ni (By News Poster)...Africa: 'Patronizing' West Risks Losing Trade, Influence to Emerging Powers, Warns Think Tank
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: The executive summary of the report issued by the British think tank, Chatham House, entitled "Our Common Strategic Interests: Africa's Role in the Post-G8 World":African countries are playing a more (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Of Elections and Diapers in Country
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Alemayehu G. MariamSome say, 'You can put lipstick on a pig, but at the end of the day, it is still a pig.' Others say, 'You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper and call it an 'election'. It's (By News Poster)...World Cup 2010 - Fifa's Gordion Knot
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: By Khadija SharifeSouth Africa's 2010 World Cup 'feel good' factor is addictive. At taxi ranks, street bazaars and tea-rooms, South African citizens everywhere are filled with elation - and pride. Jus (By News Poster)...Kenya: What Govt Wants from U.S. Vice-President
Sunday 06-Jun-2010: By Patrick MayoyoNairobi - US Vice-President Joe Biden flies into Nairobi on Monday amid unprecedented security and quiet despair in the corridors of power over what is seen as failure by the Obama ad (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Govt to Borrow Locally After Donors Cut Aid
Monday 31-May-2010: By Abduel ElinazaTanzania's Ministry of Finance is in talks with local commercial banks to borrow up to $250 million to cover a deficit left by a recent withdrawal of support by donors.The Treasury ha (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Exiled Tycoons Face Arrest - AG
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Paul NyakazeyaZIMBABWEAN authorities have threatened to arrest three high-profile exiled business tycoons involved in disputes with government over controversial operations of their companies despi (By News Poster)...Danger of Acquiescing in Zanu PF's Racism
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: By Chris KabwatoDAVID James, Ashley Cole, Tom Huddlestone, Glen Johnson, Ledley King, Rio Ferdinand, Emile Heskey, Aaron Lennon, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Jermaine Defoe, Theo Walcott and Darren Bent. Wh (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Arrested Diamond Researcher 'Set Up' by Monitor
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Violet GondaFarai Maguwu, the director of the Centre for Research and Development (CRD), was arrested on Thursday morning after he handed himself over to the police in Mutare.The Chiadzwa diamonds (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Leaked Document Behind Police Hunt for Diamond Researcher
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Violet GondaA leaked document compiled by the police for the Joint Operations Command (JOC) is said to be behind the crackdown on the most important civil society organisation monitoring the diamon (By News Poster)...Mozambique: NGO Urges Govt to Act on Businessman Drug Charges
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Maputo - A prominent Mozambican anti-corruption NGO, the Centre for Public Integrity (CIP), has urged the government to request from the United States authorities the evidence they have against busine (By News Poster)...South Africa: TB Trial Splits HIV Community
Sunday 06-Jun-2010: By Kerry CullinanOne of South Africa's most eminent HIV scientists has been accused of causing "preventable deaths" during a clinical trial he conducted on people co-infected with HIV and TB.Reaction (By News Poster)...RUF Paid ECOMOG Officer For Supply Of Arms and Ammunition (news)
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Alpha SesaySierra Leone’s rebel leader paid an amount of 30,000 United States Dollars to a West African peacekeeping military officer who was based in Liberia as payment for the supply of arm (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Disquiet in Economy Ahead of 2011 Elections
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: By Kingsley IghomwenghianGoing by one of the permutations ahead of next year's general elections, the various political parties are billed to hold their primaries to pick candidates for the elections (By News Poster)...Africa: Sarkozy Places Business at Forefront of France-Africa Summit
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: Paris - Business will have "pride of place" at this week's France-Africa summit, the first to be open to non-state players, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told Les Afriques, according to a transcrip (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Cracks Down On Diamond Watchdog
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Wongai ZhangazhaGOVERNMENT is cracking down on controversial diamond watchdog Centre for Research and Development (CRD) at a time when Marange diamonds and the role of security agents in illegal mi (By News Poster)...How to find Jan Lamprecht on Facebook... an easy trick I came up with...
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: The experiment with Facebook is interesting. I've cross-posted a few news items to see how things go. I'm quite pleased. Facebook is weird... no real "identity number" for a person. There are 19 (By Jan)...Namibia: Caprivi Treason Trial Must Be Brought to a Close Now
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: By Gwen ListerThe Caprivi treason trial has been going on for long enough. It is time to bring this case to a close.When people decide to go against the constitutional order of a democratic state by t (By News Poster)...FLASHBACK: Terrorism “Justified†Against White South Africans: UK Foreign Secretary
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: I found this older article from Oct. 2009 while doing background on a new one about all this racial terror going on in SA... interesting.... UK Foreign Secretary David Milibrand said that terrorism (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Côte d'Ivoire: The Power of Football - How Didier Drogba United a Divided Country
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: By Selay Marius KouassiMany footballers have used their influence to great effect in their home country, whether by sponsoring a charity or by linking their names to a project, but none has ever stopp (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN May Repossess Savannah, Societe Generale Banks
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Stan OkenwaLagos - There are indications that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may repossess Savannah Bank and Société Générale Bank (SGBN) for failing to meet the June (By News Poster)...Cosatu Warning Should Not Be Exaggerated
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - THE threat by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) to break the tripartite alliance if the African National Congress (ANC) proceeded with disciplinary acti (By News Poster)...Uganda: New Oil Bill Promotes Corruption
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Jocelyn EdwardsKampala - Since the discovery of oil in Uganda, pundits have speculated about whether or not the country will manage to free itself from the so-called resource curse. Oxford Universi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Farmers Urge SADC to Intervene on Farm Invasions
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Alex BellCommercial farmers have once again turned to the regional human rights court of Southern Africa to try and urge the intervention of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in ong (By News Poster)...Africa: Africa-France Summit - Remarks by President Jacob Zuma to Session on Strengthening Peace and Security
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: The following is the full text of a speech delivered by South African President Jacob Zuma, who was among the leaders at the Africa-France Summit in Nice, France.Your Excellency, President Sarkozy, Yo (By News Poster)...Mozambique: No Terror Camps in Country
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican police have categorically denied a claim published at the weekend by the South African "Sunday Times" newspaper that terrorist training camps have been established in northern (By News Poster)...Africa: Refining Only Way to Benefit From Oil Bonanza
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Professor KasoziKampala - In a bid to stimulate the debate on Uganda's newly discovered oil and the sharing of the oil wealth, Business Vision runs a series of articles by Professor Kasozi, the dir (By News Poster)...Liberia: How We Are Rebuilding Liberia - Johnson-Sirleaf
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Achilleus-Chud UchegbuLagos - President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was on May 25 guest to the Council for Foreign Relations a USA foreign policy think-tank which recently played host to President Goodlu (By News Poster)...Retail Survey Shows Changing Spread of 'Black Diamonds'
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Chantelle BenjaminJohannesburg - A RETAIL and readership survey looking at towns and cities throughout SA has noted large changes in demographics - particularly in the way so-called "black diamond" (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Erlinder's Lawyer Riles Prosecution
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - Prosecutor General, Martin Ngoga has warned an American lawyer, Kurt Kerns, that he risks landing into trouble for making derogatory remarks about the Rwandan Police.Ngoga mad (By News Poster)...Burundi: Opposition Alleges Election Fraud
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Apollinaire NiyiroraBujumbura - The first in a series of elections has brought simmering discontent with Burundi's electoral commission to the boil.Just over a week after the May 24 communal electi (By News Poster)...Africa: Justice Conference Delegates Warn Dictators
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: Kampala - Delegates reviewing the Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court have warned dictators in Africa to respect human rights or face the wrath of the international communit (By News Poster)...Sudan: Letter to Foreign Ministers to Renew the Independent Expert Mandate in Country
Friday 04-Jun-2010: The following letter was written by Human Rights Watch to foreign ministers concerning the renewal of the mandate for the independent expert in Sudan.Your Excellency,Human Rights Watch is writing to u (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cabinet Takes Steps to Keep Tabs on New 'Threat' of Xenophobia
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Bekezela PhakathiJohannesburg - Following media reports and unconfirmed rumours that xenophobia may erupt after the Soccer World Cup, the Cabinet has re-established an inter ministerial committee t (By News Poster)...Somalia: The Present Strategic Military Balance in Mogadishu [Intelligence Brief]
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Dr. Michael A. WeinsteinA closed source provides intelligence, information, and strategic analysis on the present balance of military forces in Mogadishu. The source concludes that the successful o (By News Poster)...Namibia: Treason Trial Deaths Rise to 18
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Werner MengesANOTHER person facing charges in the marathon Caprivi high treason trial has died in custody.Former teacher Richwell Mukungu Matengu, who was designated as Accused 105 in the trial bef (By News Poster)...South Africa's Divided Opposition
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - AS THE spirit of the Soccer World Cup revitalises SA in the next few weeks, those hoping to infuse opposition politics with a similar kind of energy will have an uphill b (By News Poster)...'More Attacks On Foreigners After World Cup' (news)
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Bronwynne JoosteSouth Africa could see a spike in xenophobic violence after next month's World Cup.That was the warning sounded in Amnesty International's annual report on the state of human rights (By News Poster)...Africa: Taking Stock of the International Criminal Court
Monday 31-May-2010: By Evelyn Matsamura KiapiKampala - The first Review Conference of the International Criminal Court opens Monday in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. The conference is the first opportunity to propose amen (By News Poster)...South Africa: Misses Out on Gold Bonanza Due to Slump in Output
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Simon MundyJohannesburg - SA's gold production suffered a quarterly fall of 15% in the first three months of this year, as the country's ageing gold mines proved unable to capitalise on near-record (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Mulls New Mineral Policy
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Golden SibandaHarare - GOVERNMENT has started work on a new mineral development policy that spells out ways in which locals can leverage on mining titles to raise capital for exploration and new mi (By News Poster)...Kenya: Obama Speaks on Kenya and U.S.-Africa Relations
Friday 04-Jun-2010: The following is an interview with the United States President Barack Obama by Kenya's Daily Nation.It is indeed a pleasure to speak with you, Mr President. Kenyans take exceptional pride in your achi (By News Poster)...Mozambique: American Assets of Businessman Frozen over Drug Involvement
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Maputo - United States President Barack Obama has named Mozambican businessman Mohamed Bachir Suleman as a drug trafficker, and the US Treasury Department has frozen any assets that his companies may (By News Poster)...South Africa: Labour Federation Warns of Alliance Split Over Leader
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) warned yesterday that if the African National Congress (ANC) proceeded with disciplinary action against Cosatu general (By News Poster)...Africa: 'Crime of Aggression' to Top Talks on International Court
Monday 31-May-2010: By Fred OluochNairobi - The world will be keen to see how the superpowers that are not signatory to the Rome Statute will influence the resolutions made at the International Criminal Court conference, (By News Poster)...Parties Seek Mileage From National Healing
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: By Leonard MakombePOLITICAL meddling and manoeuvres to gain political mileage through the national healing process are hindering the progress of Zimbabwe's latest attempt at national healing.Rights gr (By News Poster)...South Africa: Tuberculosis in Children Neglected
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Kristin PalitzaEven though tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause for illness and mortality in children, South Africa lacks the political will to tackle the disease, health experts say.And the country' (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: White Farmers Living in 'Constant Fear'
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Wongai ZhangazhaThe few remaining white commercial farmers say they are living in constant fear after repeated legal and political overtures failed to stop violent evictions, farmer representatives (By News Poster)...Uganda: Do We Need High-Tech Jets?
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Andrew M. MwendaKampala - Recently, the Uganda government decided to spend about US$1 billion shopping high tech jet fighters and the accompanying missiles and armament from Russia. There has been (By News Poster)...South Africa: A White Policeman Died-What Colour Was the Obructing Policeman
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Sumitted by Owl: ANONYMOUS - A WHITE POLICEMAN DIED -WHAT COLOOUR WAS THE OBTRUCTING POLICEMAN - Black as a white policeman will NOT let another COP DIE ! Dear Lord - what has happened to South Af (By JoAn)...Zimbabwe: Kimberley Process - Fussing Over Nothing
Monday 31-May-2010: By Nevanji MadanhireLast week's diplomatic onslaught on Abbey Chikane, the Kimberley Process monitor, made interesting reading.Government spin doctors were a trifle too defensive and desperate in tryi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Technical Preview - Please Sit Tight While Beijing Sneezes
Monday 31-May-2010: By Jean TemkinJohannesburg - IN THE old days we said that when America sneezed we all caught colds, now it's Beijing doing the sneezing. Last week it was questions about China's euro assets that set w (By News Poster)...Africa: Ten Countries Desperately Seeking Doctors
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: Nairobi - Shortages of medical staff have been identified as one of the major impediments to achieving the health-related UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). For example, one of the poorest countr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nigeria Hastens Oil Benchmark Review Plan As Oil Trades Below U.S.$70
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Adeola Yusuf With Agency ReportsLagos - Nigeria, world's eighth biggest oil exporter, at the weekend lost $31 million crude revenue. The county recorded a loss of $17 on each of its 1.8 million bar (By News Poster)...Drop Charges Against Rights Defenders - Stop Attacks, Politically Motivated Prosecutions Against Gays and Lesbians
Monday 31-May-2010: Harare - A police raid and apparently politically motivated arrests at the offices of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ) is an attack on all human rights defenders in Zimbabwe, a group of five inter (By News Poster)...Somalia: Mogadishu Clashes Kill Dozens
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: At least 23 people, mostly civilians have been killed and over 60 others injured in heavy clashes that rocked Somalia's capital Mogadishu in the last two days.Civilians caught in the cross fire starte (By News Poster)...Liberia: Sherman Lets Cats Out of The Bag
Monday 31-May-2010: There seems to be no doubt between the incumbency and the political opposition that the conduct and outcome of the 2011 general and presidential elections hold the answer to the successes of Liberia&r (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Western Nations Call for 'Credible Constitution'
Friday 04-Jun-2010: The following statement was agreed upon by the countries attending a meeting of the Friends of Zimbabwe held in Oslo on June 1, 2010.Participants: U.S., Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Ge (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Prominent Human Rights Defender Killed
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo should urgently open a credible and transparent investigation with United Nations assistance into the death of the prominent human rights defender, F (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe's latest Evil moves - from MDC Today
Friday 04-Jun-2010: [I received this from Zimbabwe. Jan] Subject: News Hi All I thought that you should see this news of Mugabe's evil moves. Regards Gerry Whitehead The MDC Today An interesting an informat (By Jan)...South Africa: Country Recalls Israel Ambassador Amid Attacks
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Pretoria - South Africa on Thursday announced that it was recalling its ambassador to Israel for consultations following the killing of nine activists on a Gaza-bound boat.The attack, which drew world (By News Poster)...Govt Policies Blamed for High Unemployment
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: A LACK of clear policies guiding development across sectors of the Namibian economy is blamed for high unemployment, as well as lack of progress in Government development initiatives.Labour, investmen (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Peter Erlinder's Family and their Legal Team Seek Release of Peter Erlinder
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Peter Erlinder's Family and their legal team calls on the U.S. State Department and the United Nations to prevail upon Rwanda to release Peter Erlinder immediately. They are concerned about his health (By News Poster)...South Africa: Integration of TB and HIV Services 'Not Rocket Science'
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Kerry CullinanDespite government promises, there are no guidelines on how TB and HIV services can be integrated - and this delay is killing patientsActivists have given government three months to d (By News Poster)...Africa: Continent's Future in our Grasp
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Obiageli K. EzekwesiliJohannesburg - Africa, south of the Sahara, today faces its brightest prospects in a generation.Before dismissing this statement as yet another belied optimistic forecast, con (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Key Minerals Defy Odds to Record Rise in Output
Monday 31-May-2010: By Golden SibandaTHE mining industry experienced mixed fortunes last year as key minerals -- gold and platinum -- defied odds to record 39 percent and 25 increases in output while other minerals had a (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Will the Vatican Ever Accept That Genocide is Also a Crime?
Monday 31-May-2010: By Tom NdahiroKigali - On March 1, 1998, Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews issued a statement "We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah". The commission headed by Cardinal Edwar (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Must Cooperate With KPCS
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaTHE Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) monitor for Zimbabwe Abbey Chikane was in Harare last week to further assess if the country was making progress to comply with the m (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Unity Govt Trio Sill Fail to Meet
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Alex BellDiscussions about a critical report aimed at moving the country out of the current political deadlock, have again been put on the backburner, until Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara r (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: New Spate of Arrests Rocks Farming Community
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Alex BellA new spate of arrests in the name of Robert Mugabe's land 'reform' programme has rocked the country's remaining commercial farming community, with at least four arrests since last Tuesday (By News Poster)...Africa: Annan, Tutu, Machel Group Expresses Anxiety Over Sudan, Zimbabwe, Middle East
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: The Elders have condemned the reported killing by Israeli forces of more than a dozen people who were attempting to deliver relief supplies to the Gaza strip by sea.Meeting in Johannesburg, the indepe (By News Poster)...Africa: Building Efficient Road Network on Continent
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Chidi UgwuLagos - Africa has a relatively poor history of international cooperation in road-building. Colonial powers and later, competing superpowers and regional powers, generally did not encoura (By News Poster)...South Africa: A Ray of Hope for Zimbabwe - Maintaining Forward Momentum Will Be Tricky
Monday 31-May-2010: Johannesburg - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma is invariably upbeat when commenting on Zimbabwe's prospects, as is to be expected from the lead mediator to the Global Political Agreement that set up that country (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Human Rights Activist's Death Arouses Suspicion
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Emmanuel ChacoKinshasa - Floribert Chebeya, executive secretary of human rights group Voice of the Voiceless, was discovered dead in his car early in the morning of Jun. 2.Numerous journalists and (By News Poster)...South Africa: World Cup HIV Prevention Plans Fall Short
Friday 04-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - The excitement over the FIFA World Cup is not just about football, it's also about the party. Large quantities of alcohol are sure to be consumed as foreign football fans rub shoulders (By News Poster)...Namibia: Mobilise People Against Violence
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithHUNDREDS of workshops aimed at empowering men and women to stand up against violence will take place in all regions of Namibia this month.Khomas Community Voice, established in 2008 (By News Poster)...Uganda: Talk of Terrorists And Freedom Fighters As ICC Meets
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Solomon Muyita Ismail M. Ladu & Alfred N. WanderaKampala - As world leaders reviewing the Rome Statute in Kampala condemned acts of impunity across the globe, President Museveni challenged the meet (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Oil in the Gulf, Then And Now
Monday 31-May-2010: By Arne JernelövVienna - On April 20, an Explosion On Deepwater Horizon, a British Petroleum (bp) operated oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, led to the most publicized oil spill in decades.Another blowou (By News Poster)...East Africa: New Arsenal Against Armyworms
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Isaiah EsipisuFarmers across Eastern and Southern Africa will soon have a new organic insecticide effective enough to kill one of their most deadly foes - the armyworm.Armyworms or Spodoptera frugi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Activists Call for Integrated HIV/TB Services
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Durban - A consortium of AIDS organizations has given the South African government three months to deliver on promises to integrate TB and HIV services.A local AIDS lobby group, the Treatment Action C (By News Poster)...Govt, China Sign Bilateral Pacts
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Harare - Zimbabwe and China yesterday signed three bilateral agreements to strengthen economic ties.The agreements were signed at State House by Cabinet ministers and officials from the Communist Part (By News Poster)...Somalia: Torture Survivors Get Green Light to Sue in U.S.
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By William FisherNew York - The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday with a group of 19 torture survivors, joined by religious, human rights and support groups, that a former Somali prime minister is not prot (By News Poster)...Somalia: We Cannot Turn Our Backs on Nine Million People
Monday 31-May-2010: By Boubacar Gaoussou DiarraNairobi - Reading the daily news coming out of Somalia, one may be tempted to join those calling for disengagement from what many see as the "failed state" of Somalia.After (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Oil Spill - BP Hikes Prices
Monday 31-May-2010: By Tawanda MusarurwaHarare - ONE of Zimbabwe's largest petroleum companies British Petroleum-Shell Zimbabwe has been severely affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that is dogging its mother organi (By News Poster)...Africa: Less Funds Will Cause Unnecessary AIDS Deaths
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: By Nastasya TayJohannesburg - Backtracking by international donors in funding the fight against HIV/AIDS risks widening the treatment gap in Africa, undermining years of positive achievements in the f (By News Poster)...South Africa: Community Mobilisation Key to Fight TB
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Kristin PalitzaDurban - African medical experts have realised they need to make a much bigger effort to educate rural communities if they want to effectively contain the continent's tuberculosis (T (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: No Hope Yet for the Homeless
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Harare - In Hopley Farm, a resettlement camp about 10km south of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, Simon Dhewa's chicken coup has been converted into a bedroom for his three daughters, the eldest of which a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Country's Gold Production Plunges 15 Percent in First Quarter
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: This raises concern that although gold has surged to more than 1000/oz in recent months, SA's mining companies appear likely to continue to miss out on the rally due to a decline in production and a s (By News Poster)...Mthethwa Talks Tough After 2600 Police Firearms Lost Last Year
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa yesterday said that more than 2600 firearms were either lost by police or stolen from them last year - leading to charges that ill-discipli (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Sanusi Charges Banks On Joint IPP, Services
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Sola OgundipeLagos - Nigerian banks have been urged to set up joint independent power partnerships, IPP, as part of strategies to rise up to the challenges of the current power crisis in the nation (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: End Persecution of Activist Group
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Civil Society organizations, including Global Witness, Human Rights Watch, and Partnership Africa Canada, today condemned the state-sponsored harassment and intimidation of a Zimbabwean nongovernmenta (By News Poster)...South Africa: State Eyes Stronger Ties With India
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Bathandwa MbolaPretoria - A South African delegation, led by President Jacob Zuma, on a state visit to India this week must look into the "vast untapped" potential for trade between the two countri (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC Youth Chair Appears in Court for 'Insulting' Mugabe
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Tichaona SibandaMDC provincial youth chairman for Mashonaland Central, Tonderai Samhu, appeared in court on Tuesday facing allegations of insulting Robert Mugabe.The youth appeared before a Bindura (By News Poster)...Somalia: 11 Killed as Battle Rages in Mogadishu
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Abdulkadir KhalifMogadishu - Fighting in the north of Somalia's capital Mogadishu killed at least 11 people today as government troops and Islamist fighters battled for control of the area, an ambu (By News Poster)...South Africa: Fight Against Drug Abuse Intensifies
Monday 31-May-2010: Pretoria - Drug abuse among South African youth has reached unacceptable levels, says Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa.Speaking to more than 7 000 youth at the seventh Youth Entrepreneurship, Moral Rege (By News Poster)...Namibia: Two Deny Keetmans Rape and Murder
Monday 31-May-2010: By Werner MengesTHE two men accused of raping and murdering a Karas Region education official in her home at Keetmanshoop near the end of 2007 denied guilt on all charges at the start of their trial i (By News Poster)...Africa: Think Tank Attacks West as 'Out of Touch' on Africa
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: An influential British think tank has warned the West that it will lose out to emerging nations unless it replaces its "humanitarian" approach to Africa with a more strategic focus on diplomatic and t (By News Poster)...S.Africa: CRIME: A Gang of armed Blacks rob Afrikaans friends of mine & threaten to shoot the husband...
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: [I got this note at 5pm from a friend of mine who lives in Fairlands in Johannesburg. They live in a lovely house. Their security wall must be almost 20 ft high - I kid you not - it is enormous. I'm s (By Jan)...Southern Africa: Role of Wind Power Neglible
Monday 31-May-2010: Wind power generation currently plays a negligible role in the energy mix of the 12 countries making up the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) but the situation is expected to improve slightly over th (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Talks Delay for Unity Govt Leaders
Monday 31-May-2010: By Kholwani NyathiHarare - THE three principals in the unity government will finally meet tomorrow exactly two months after they were asked to consider a report submitted by negotiators from their res (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Alleged Drug Baron Denies Everything
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Maputo - Mozambican businessman Mohamed Bachir Suleman on Wednesday night angrily denied accusations by the United States government that he is a key figure in southern African drug trafficking and mo (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Renamo Leaps to Dhlakama's Defence
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, on Wednesday demanded evidence for claims that its leader, Afonso Dhlakama, was involved in the recent death threats against promi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Treasury, Banks Agree to Steps to Lower Costs
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - THE Treasury yesterday unveiled steps to encourage the country's top banks to boost competition and improve transparency, in a bid to lower costs for consumers.After years (By News Poster)...Africa: Success Stories Show Need to Think From the Ground Up
Monday 31-May-2010: By Dianna GamesJohannesburg - IN 1993, Equity Building Society in Kenya was declared technically insolvent; in 2010 it is a fully fledged bank, listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and claims more tha (By News Poster)...South Africa: Stricter UK Bribery Laws May Land Firms in Trouble
Monday 31-May-2010: By Franny RabkinJohannesburg - SOUTH African companies that have offices in the UK may have to reassess their fraud and corruption policies to avoid liability under a far-reaching new UK bribery law.T (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Benue Declares War on Crime, Criminality
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: It is not in doubt that security of lives and property remains a panacea for sustainable growth and development of any given society. And it is for this reason that successive governments in Nigeria h (By News Poster)...Liberia: U.S. Airline to Begin Flights to Monrovia
Friday 04-Jun-2010: The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Board of Directors, chaired by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, yesterday, approved an approximately $15 million grant for Liberia to support (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banks Shut Down in Aba over Robbery Attacks
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Eric UgborAbia - THERE are palpable fears that commercial activities in Aba, Abia State, are gradually being crippled as commercial banks in the city remained closed, yesterday, after last Wednesda (By News Poster)...Kenya: Gulf African Bank Joins Profit-Makers' Curve
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Moses MichiraGulf African Bank has posted a profit for the first time since it opened its doors to business in 2008 in its three months to March 2010, raising hopes for its investors to earn their (By News Poster)...Somalia: Insurgents Deny Govt Troops Seize Strategic Central Town
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: Somalia's militant group, Hizbul Islam has been forced to vacate the strategic central town of Beledweyne, the administrative capital of Hirran region, approximately 335km north of the capital Mogadis (By News Poster)...Nigeria: World Bank to Provide U.S.$200 Million for Renewable Energy Project
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Oscarline OnwuemenyiThe World Bank has said it is committing over $200 million towards the implementation of renewable energy projects in Nigeria towards enhancing access and rural electrification (By News Poster)...Africa: Guebuza to Focus On Poverty in France/Africa Summit
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: Maputo - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza, who arrived on Sunday in the southern French city of Nice, to take part in the France-Africa summit, has said that this is an opportunity for Mozambique (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: We Can Do Without KPCS
Monday 31-May-2010: Harare - THE Kimberley Process Certification Scheme monitor, Mr Abbey Chikane, is fast running out of excuses for not giving Zimbabwe the nod to start selling its diamonds from the Chiadzwa diamond fi (By News Poster)...Namibia: Seventeenth Treason Death
Monday 31-May-2010: By Werner MengesTHE death toll in the ranks of the people facing charges in the main Caprivi high treason trial has risen to 17.The latest person to have died while still facing charges in the maratho (By News Poster)...Witness Says, Taylor Didnt Sent NPFL Fighters in Sierra Leone (news)
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Alpha SesayLiberian members of Charles Taylor's rebel group who assisted Sierra Leonean rebels during the West African country's civil conflict were not sent by the former Liberian president, but d (By News Poster)...South Africa: Power Utility Back on Track, Reports Profit
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - ESKOM reported a R3,6bn profit yesterday, marking a turnaround from last year's unprecedented R9,7bn loss.The profit sets Eskom on a sound financial footing as it searc (By News Poster)...Madagascar: A Financial Crisis on the Hoof
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: Ambohitsahataza - Far from the world's financial centres, isolated from sub-prime mortgages, collateralized debt obligations and collapsing investment banks, Madagascar is going through a financial cr (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Inyathi Farmer Forced to Auction Off His Cattle
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Alex BellA farmer from the Inyathi district of Matabeleland North has this week been forced to auction off his livestock, in what is believed to be the latest attempt to force him off his farm.Goff (By News Poster)...Kenya: Mobile Banking Faces Security Risks
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Joseph BonyoNairobi - Growth of mobile banking in Kenya calls for increased security to curb potential threats of fraud.Currently, several banks have signed up with mobile money transfer service pr (By News Poster)...Begging Worries at World Cup
Monday 31-May-2010: By Alistair AndesonJohannesburg - WARNINGS about human trafficking during the Soccer World Cup may have been exaggerated, but begging remains a problem , experts say.Despite media reports that the eve (By News Poster)...Kenya: World Bank Lends Nation Sh26 Billion for Power Projects
Monday 31-May-2010: By Jevans NyabiageNairobi - Kenya has received a Sh26 billion ($330 million) loan from the World Bank to expand electricity access and deepen investment in green energy.The Kenya Electricity Expansion (By News Poster)...Namibia: Shaduka Denies Murder Charge
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Werner Menges"I PLEAD not guilty," was the response of businessman Lazarus Shaduka in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday when he was asked to plead to a charge in which he is accused of murdering (By News Poster)...South Africa: Open Your Eyes When Crossing the Border
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - Mozambique has launched a campaign called "Open Your Eyes" to combat child trafficking and unsafe child migration into neighbouring South Africa as footballers and fans start arriving t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt, Chamber of Mines Find Common Ground On Indigenisation
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Harare - GOVERNMENT and the Chamber of Mines have made considerable progress -- through dialogue -- towards finding common ground on the contentious issue of indigenisation and economic empowerment.Ch (By News Poster)...Africa: Continent's Untapped Animal Potential Can Help Reduce Poverty
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Rhoda Peace TumusiimeHarare - ECONOMIC growth and poverty reduction in Africa are long-term development objectives.The increasing population pressure, urbanisation and rising incomes necessitate in (By News Poster)...Remarks by Amb. Nathaniel Barnes on Liberia-U.S. Cooperation on Drug Trafficking (press release)
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: The following remarks were made by Liberia's Ambassador to the United States M. Nathaniel Barnes at a press conference marking Liberian/American cooperation on global drug trafficking.Good afternoon, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nationalism lives forever - Ian Smith's Rhodesia supported Biafra - The Biafran Tragedy - Biafra's Declaration - 43 Years After - Afrikaner Independence
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: [Biafra is a topic of interest to me, and should be of interest to those of us who have discussed secession. The Biafrans were a tribe of Blacks who were better educated and better achievers than (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gas Price Shoots Up By 400 Percent
Monday 31-May-2010: By Hamisu MuhammadPower generating companies and other users of industrial gas would later in the year begin to pay more for the commodity after the Federal Government approved a 400 percent increase (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Ethiopia, After National Elections
Monday 31-May-2010: By Tony OkeraforLagos - One of the big African stories of the last eight days or so has been the holding of key parliamentary elections in one of the continent's most populous countries. Ethiopia has (By News Poster)...South Africa: Lekota, Shilowa Each Claims to Lead Divided Cope
Monday 31-May-2010: By Sibongakonke ShobaJohannesburg - THERE was confusion yesterday as to who the president of the Congress of the People (COPE) was as both Mbhazima Shilowa and Mosiuoa Lekota insisted at the end of th (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Farmers Want Zim Suspended From SADC
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichLAWYERS representing Zimbabwean farmers have requested the SADC Tribunal to recommend that SADC either terminate or suspend Zimbabwe's membership for ignoring an earlier Tribunal o (By News Poster)...South Africa: Partnerships Essential to Fight TB, HIV
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Gabi KhumaloDurban - Partnerships are seen as the way forward in eliminating TB and HIV in the country.Speaking to BuaNews during the 2nd TB Conference held at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Convention Cent (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: State is 'Rape Capital of the World,' Says UN Official
Sunday 06-Jun-2010: Kivu - The Democratic Republic of Congo is "the rape capital of the world," a senior UN official has said.Margot Wallstrom, the UN's special representative on sexual violence in conflict, urged the Se (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How Good is Lagerback's List?
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By George AkpayenWhen our correspondent engaged respected CAF Technical Committee member, Adegboye Onigbinde, on deciphering the 23 players selected by Super Eagles Head Coach, Lars Lagerback, he ende (By News Poster)...Namibia: Who-Done-It Murder Case
Friday 04-Jun-2010: Windhoek - The audience at a performance at the Franco Namibian Cultural Centre (FNCC) were startled on Thursday evening when the lights suddenly went out.In the darkness a gunshot shattered the ensui (By News Poster)...Central Africa: Rebel Raids Aggravate Displacement Crisis for Central Africans - UN
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: Numerous attacks by the insurgents of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in south-eastern Central African Republic (CAR) have displaced an estimated 20,000 people who remain in dire need of humanitarian (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Robbers Bolt to Freedom
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: Harare - Two suspected robbers last week took advantage of the absence of prison officers at the Rotten Row Magistrates' Courts and escaped from lawful custody.On Thursday, Emmanuel Masarapadi (29) an (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Army Probes Source of Weapons in Anambra
Monday 31-May-2010: By Larry OnwutaAwka - The Nigerian Army has constituted a team to investigate the source of the heavy weapons recovered from two suspected robbers on Tuesday in Anambra.The robbers were members of a s (By News Poster)...South Africa: If Only President Would Just Lead
Friday 04-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - THE nationalist "tenderpreneurs" within the African National Congress (ANC) leadership are no doubt impressed by their own tactical brilliance in turning the tables on Congress of South (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Samba Boys Sink Warriors
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Petros KausiyoHarare - Giants Brazil turned on the Samba magic to deflate battling Zimbabwe and power their way to victory in an international friendly encounter that lived up to its billing at the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: House Probes Construction of Fuel Depots
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Ejiofor AlikeLagos - Worried by the construction of fuel depots near residential areas, military and police installations, as well as other sensitive areas, the House of Representatives Committee o (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamond Rights Campaigners Remain in Hiding
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Alex BellCampaigners from a rights group that has exposed the abuses taking place at the Chiadzwa diamond fields have remained in hiding since last week, with the police still set on tracking them (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Threatens to Pull Out of Kimberley Process
Monday 31-May-2010: By Kudzai KuwazaPresident Robert Mugabe said on Friday Zimbabwe had voluntarily agreed to comply with the requirements of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme but can break ranks with the body i (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Local Content - How Oil Industry Abandoned IT
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: The on going reforms in the oil and gas industry - with particular reference to the Local Content Bill will become strategically ineffective unless the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Looming Food Crisis
Monday 31-May-2010: By Jibrin AbubakarNigeria is in the middle of an emergency. It is being threatened by man's oldest problem-food. The Director General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Air-Vice Marshall M (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Rot in Customs
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: "From the investigations of the committee it has become abundantly clear that the service has departed from its core functions namely, revenue collection, trade facilitation and suppression of smuggli (By News Poster)...South Africa: Revised Bill Keeps Harsh Penalties for Information Peddling
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - The controversial Protection of Information Bill has returned to Parliament with much of its draconian provisions intact and with clauses that will criminalise "informati (By News Poster)...East Africa: Bodies of Migrants from Boat Accident Found at Sea
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Anthony KitimoNairobi - The death toll from a boat accident in the Indian Ocean near the Kenyan border has risen to 20.Eight more bodies have been recovered from Tanzanian waters after the vessel c (By News Poster)...Uganda: Museveni Wants to Pay Kony Victims
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Milton Olupot And Cyprian MusokeKampala - President Yoweri Museveni has said the Lord's Resistance Army victims in northern Uganda should be compensated without waiting for the trial of the perpetr (By News Poster)...Kenya: HIV Carries Moral Stigma - Report
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: Nairobi - Many Kenyans see HIV as a punishment for immoral behaviour, which tends to perpetuate stigma against people infected with the virus, according to a report by ActionAid International, an anti (By News Poster)...Uganda: Energy Budget to Be Cut By Sh216 Billion
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Ibrahim KasitaKampala - The government plans to cut energy spending by a third in the next financial year.According to the national budget framework paper for 2010 to 2015, the energy sector has be (By News Poster)...South Africa: Opposition Party Infighting Heads for Courts
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Sibongakonke ShobaJohannesburg - MOSIUOA Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa are heading to the courts in the fight for control of the Congress of the People (COPE), of which they both claim to be legitima (By News Poster)...South Africa: No Marijuana for World Cup
Monday 31-May-2010: By Natasha PrinceCape Town - Provincial traffic authorities and police are homing in on drug smugglers transporting dagga between the Eastern Cape and the Western Cape ahead of the World Cup.This mont (By News Poster)...Industrial Index Loses Ground
Monday 31-May-2010: Harare - EQUITES on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange last week registered a year's low of 129.08 points after the key industrial index declined 5,8 percent or 7.89 points compared to week ending 21 May 201 (By News Poster)...Uganda: Man Shot Dead At Home of Mbabazi's Daughter
Monday 31-May-2010: By Zurah NakabugoA suspected thug was shot dead and another seriously injured after they reportedly broke into the house of a daughter to Security Minister Amama Mbabazi in Buziga, Kampala.Police iden (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lead Poisoning Kills 163 in North
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: By Andrew Oota with agency reportAbuja - Lead poisoning caused by illegal gold mining has killed 163 Nigerians, including 111 children, since March in several remote villages in northern Nigeria, a se (By News Poster)...President Jacob Zuma Challenges South African and Indian Businesses to Aim for U.S.$10 Billion by 2012
Friday 04-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma is visiting India for the relaunch of the India-South Africa CEO Business Forum, to broaden, deepen and strengthen the nations' bilateral relations.In his address, (By News Poster)...Kenya: Somalis Flee Homes as Militias Ready for War
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Nairobi - Scores of residents of a Somali town near the Kenyan border are fleeing their homes due to fears of a clash between fighters loyal to two militia groups.Bulahawo Town, just two kilometres fr (By News Poster)...Lenience for Robber Who Left ID At Scene
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Werner MengesA HAPLESS robber who left a damning calling card his own identity document at the scene of his crime about four years ago was shown mercy and lenience in the Windhoek Magistrate's Cour (By News Poster)...Madagascar: Country's Government Targets the Church
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Pastor Ranaivo Rivo Arson of the Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar (FJKM) was shot and fatally wounded by Malagasy soldiers on Thursday, 20 May, when pastors were trying to hold a worship service t (By News Poster)...RDP Slams 35 Percent Power Hike
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Tileni MongudhiTHE Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) yesterday joined the public outcry against NamPower's planned 35 per cent increase in the electricity price.RDP information secretary Jerem (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (01-06-2010)
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: Howzit "But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!" Matthew 6:23 -o00o- Just over thirty years ago, (By The BeardedMan)...Kenya: Lags Behind in Meeting Development Targets
Monday 31-May-2010: By Jeff Otieno and Dave OpiyoNairobi - The Kenya Government has been unable to meet most of the targets it had set out to achieve in the first phase of Vision 2030, which aims to transform the country (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Arrest Army General's Son for Impersonating, Extortion
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: By Evelyn UsmanLike the proverbial dog that will always return to its vomit, Alexandra Pedro, who is currently in police custody, has proved those who vouched for his turning a new leaf after being gr (By News Poster)...Kenya: Obama Backs Law Review
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Walter MenyaNairobi - US President Barack Obama has sent the strongest indication yet that he wants to see Kenya's constitutional review process successfully concluded.However, the US leader in an (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (02-06-2010)
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- The human capacity for learning knows no bounds. Last evening I was watching the drama "Ashes to Ashes" and one of the policeman reported a d (By The BeardedMan)...Tanzania: The Impact of Biofuels On Food Security
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Austin BeyadiDar Es Salaam - RECENT high oil prices as well as an intensified debate about climate change, have led many countries to suggest that modern bio-energy development could mitigate the n (By News Poster)...Tanzania: The Impact of Biofuels On Food Security
Monday 31-May-2010: By Austin BeyadiDar Es Salaam - RECENT high oil prices as well as an intensified debate about climate change, have led many countries to suggest that modern bio-energy development could mitigate the n (By News Poster)...Uganda: 'Cut in Aids Funding Will Lead to Deaths'
Monday 31-May-2010: By Evelyn LirriKampala - An international health charity, Médecins Sans Frontierès (MSF), has warned that the global cut in Aids funding risks undermining years of progress and will caus (By News Poster)...South Africa: Nation Ready to Host World Cup, Says Zuma
Sunday 06-Jun-2010: Pretoria - With four days to go before the kick-off of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa is more than ready to host the spectacle, says President Jacob Zuma."South Africa is more than ready. For us (By News Poster)...Kenya: Obama Speaks on Hopes for Country
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Walter MenyaNairobi - US President Barack Obama spoke strongly of his wish to see a more prosperous Kenya in his first full interview dedicated to the country of his father's birth.During the White (By News Poster)...Namibia: Robbery Suspects On the Run
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Helvy TueumunaOshakati - Four suspects are on the run, while four others were arrested following two theft and robbery incidents that took place in the Oshana and Ohangwena regions early this week. (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sends Demarche to Israel Over Ship Raid as Journalist is Released
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Loyiso LangeniJohannesburg - THE government yesterday confirmed it had issued a demarche to Israel, the strongest possible diplomatic action short of expulsion of envoys.Israeli ambassador Dov Sege (By News Poster)...Libya: Government Executes Ten Nigerians, Eight Others
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Lagos - Ten Nigerians including eight others from Chad and Egypt were reportedly executed by firing-squad by the Libyan government last Sunday. Already, Amnesty International (AI) has condemned the re (By News Poster)...South Africa: Union Leader Asks ANC to Clarify Alliance Stance
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - CONGRESS of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi yesterday wrote to his counterpart in the African National Congress (ANC), Gwede Mantash (By News Poster)...Côte d'Ivoire: UN Boss Warns of Renewed Violence in Country
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Tamba Jean-MatthewUN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed scepticism over the holding of Ivorian elections and warned of imminent violence."It is clear that the country remains a tinderbox t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: London Court Convicts Ibori's Sister - Ibori
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Leke Adeseri and Emma UjahLagos - THE 12-member jury deliberating on the money laundering trial of associates of the former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, yesterday, found his sister, (By News Poster)...South Africa: Central Govt to Bail Out Health Agencies?
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Tamar KahnJohannesburg - The Treasury and the Department of Health are discussing a possible bail-out for SA's cash-strapped provincial health departments.They had collectively run up a deficit of (By News Poster)...Kenya: Nation's Fortunes as a Banker to the Poor Rises
Monday 31-May-2010: By Emmanuel WereNairobi - Kenya has started reaping the benefits of financial innovation as it continues to entrench itself as a global hub of innovation in promoting products that expand access to fi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Furore in Senate Over Graft Allegations
Monday 31-May-2010: By Cosmas EkpunobiLagos - Special Adviser to the president on National Assembly matters Sen. Mohammed Abba-Aji, and some presiding officers of the nation's apex lawmaking body were on Tuesday quizzed (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: PM Tsvangirai Finds New Love
Monday 31-May-2010: By Caiphas Chimhete and Sandra MandizvidzaHarare - PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has found new love, The Standard can exclusively reveal.Close relatives and friends said the Movement for Democratic (By News Poster)...Where is the Promised Windfall?
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - For Zimbabwe, Christmas came too early. The World Cup was well underway here a full week ahead of the world as the national team played Brazil in a friendly in Harare on Ju (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Let's Look East in Earnest
Friday 04-Jun-2010: Harare - THE recent visit by a 25-member delegation from the Communist Party of China could not have come at any better time for Zimbabwe in light of the move by liberation parties in the region to cl (By News Poster)...Angola: New Reserve Bank Law Maintains Institution's Powers
Friday 04-Jun-2010: Luanda - The director of the Office of Development and Organisation of the Angola Reserve Bank (BNA), Leão Peres, said Thursday in Luanda, the new law on the institution maintains its powers un (By News Poster)...South Africa: Rally Goes the Extra Mile to Promote Literacy
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Katy ChanceJohannesburg - MABATE Primary School, address, frankly, unknown, gives new meaning to the middle of nowhere. We're in the Free State, about an hour outside Clarens, but the bleached land (By News Poster)...South Africa: The Search for an ARV Microbicide
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Lungi Langa"Antiretroviral microbicides for prevention - such promise needs urgent research. How can I stand idly by and not take up this challenge?" asks Professor Salim "Slim" Abdool Karim, Head (By News Poster)...West Africa: Oxfam Welcomes European Aid for West African Food Crisis but Warns More is Urgently Needed
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: International aid agency Oxfam welcomes the European Commission's new aid package of 24 million euros (USD$30 million) for Niger and other countries in the Sahel region of West Africa, which was annou (By News Poster)...Botswana: Brewers Give Farmers Smiles
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Alma BalopiGaborone - Two of Botswana's biggest breweries are putting smiles on the faces of farmers.No, they are not giving beer away: the breweries are planning to buy sorghum from small-scale fa (By News Poster)...South Africa: Opposition Leader's Exit Could Trigger New Race for Power
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Sibongakonke ShobaJohannesburg - THE imminent departure of Congress of the People (COPE) parliamentary leader Rev Mvume Dandala could trigger more havoc within the party as warring factions clash o (By News Poster)...No Magic Wand to Remedy Eskom's Funding Blues
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - MARCH 31 marked the end of another financial year for Eskom and it remains to be seen if the utility has achieved its self-imposed target to break even in the 2009- 10 (By News Poster)...Tanzania: World Bank Faults Govt's Borrowing Plan
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Lucas Liganga and Beatus KagasheThe World Bank said yesterday the government's plan to borrow $1.5 billion (about Sh2.1trillion) from local financial sources to boost the 2010/11 Budget could have (By News Poster)...South Africa: Swift Justice for World Cup Crime
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Irene NaidooPretoria - Less than a week after courts dedicated to hearing World Cup related offences opened, they have already had to deal with four cases.Speaking at the announcement of the dedica (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Aspirant Caught With Cocaine
Friday 04-Jun-2010: Lagos - For a nation that is apparently obsessed with its own unedifying history, it is very tempting to assume that the future of Nigeria will re-play its past if no serious effort is made to arrest (By News Poster)...Uganda: ICC Working On Kony Arrest - Ocampo
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Cyprian Musoke And Milton OlupotKampala - The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, has said he is working out a comprehensive operation to arrest indicted Sudanese pre (By News Poster)...Uganda: Central Bank Must Justify Its Constitutional Independence
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Jackson ByaruhangaUganda is a small donor dependent agricultural open economy. It has a weak administrative, institutional and regulatory framework, poor contract enforcement against an over burden (By News Poster)...Uganda: Ray of Hope for Illegal Immigrants in U.S.A
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Vivian. E. AsedriKampala - If U.S. President Barack Obama gets his way to convince Republicans and conservative Democrats to support his comprehensive immigration reform, thousands of Ugandans livi (By News Poster)...Ghana: Government Should Make Hard Choices Ahead of Oil Flow - CEPA
Monday 31-May-2010: Dr Joseph Abbey, Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Analysis (CEPA), on Friday said government should make hard choices ahead of commercial oil production later this year to make it beneficia (By News Poster)...Uganda: Time to Retrace Traditional Paths
Monday 31-May-2010: By Frederick WomakuyuKampala - In an exclusive interview with The New Vision, Musa Bungudu, the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Uganda country co-ordinator, talks to Frederick Womakuyu o (By News Poster)...East Africa: Future of Mountain Gorilla Trips in Danger
Monday 31-May-2010: By Paul RedfernNairobi - A stark choice faces Uganda and Rwanda over the future of ecotourist trips to visit the rare mountain gorillas, following a new report which warns that close encounters with h (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: South Africans Access Controversial Diamond Mines
Sunday 06-Jun-2010: FRESH evidence has emerged on how South African companies use their connections in government to get concessions to mine diamonds in the controversial Chiadzwa area of Marange.The revelations came ami (By News Poster)...South Africa: Unions Look to Labour Negotiator to Prevent Strike
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: By Alistair AndersonJohannesburg - The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is hoping to meet with Eskom under the auspices of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) tomorrow (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bomb Explosion - Bayelsa Govt Accuses Opposition of Inciting Emergency Rule
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Osa OkhominaYenagoa - The Bayelsa State Government and the authorities of the State Police Command yesterday accused some politicians in the state of a plot to provoke a declaration of a state of e (By News Poster)...West Africa: Ecowas Suspension of Guinea, Niger
Friday 04-Jun-2010: THE Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Monday, May 31st 2010, finally announced the suspension of the Republics of Guinea and Niger from the West African regional body. The reason f (By News Poster)...Africa: African Refugees in Indonesia - An Uncertain Future
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Savitri Taylor and Brynna Rafferty-BrownThe United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Indonesia is working alongside its partner organisations to ensure the wellbeing of African refugees and asylum see (By News Poster)...Eagles Should Learn Mourinho's Secret
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Soyombo OpeyemiWith great éclat, pomp and pageantry, the UEFA Champions League (UCL) for the 2009/ 2010 season came to a splendid end at the Madrid Stadium on Saturday, May 22, 2010 with Int (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Sable Mining Secures 80 Percent Stake in Monaf Investments
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Harare - AIM-listed resources investment company, Sable Mining has secured an 80 percent interest in Monaf Investments (Private) Ltd which holds the Lubu Coal concession in the Hwange mining district (By News Poster)...Human Traffickers Prey On Young Girls
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Irene !hoaësWindhoek - Young girls from Namibia are allegedly being lured to South Africa to become sex workers during the 2010 World Cup, under the pretext of job offers in that country.The Women' (By News Poster)...Kenya: Hague Date Stands for Violence Plotters
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Nairobi - The International Criminal Court has allayed fears that a reprieve was being sought for the masterminds of Kenya's post-election violence.Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo affirmed that charges (By News Poster)...Africa: Nigeria, France Back Pemanent Security Council Seat
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Daniel IdonorNice - AHEAD of a new phase of negotiation at the United Nations General Assembly, this month, aimed at producing a synthesis of the proposal for a permanent seat for Africa in the (By News Poster)...MWEB Namibia Changes to AfricaOnline
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Desie HeitaWindhoek - MWEB Namibia has changed its name to AfricaOnline following the buyout of its majority shareholding by South Africa's fixed line operator, Telkom South Africa.General Manager (By News Poster)...Namibia: Livestock Ban Lifted
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Windhoek - The export of live animals from Namibia to South Africa has resumed.Following discussions with South African veterinary authorities, the Directorate of Veterinary Services in the Ministry o (By News Poster)...Africa: Africa Squares Up Over Acacia
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Absalom ShigwedhaIT would be impossible for many people to describe an African landscape without mentioning the millions of acacia thorn trees dotting the continent's plains and savannahs.It might (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Tanesco Set to Computerise Billing System
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Lucas LigangaState-owned Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) is introducing computerised state-of-the-art power billing systems aimed at solving the problem of accumulation of bills by its c (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Develop New HIV Strategies - Madzorera
Monday 31-May-2010: By Perpetua ChikololereA cabinet minister has urged the National Aids Council (NAC) to develop adequate strategies for a well coordinated research effort on the pandemic that continues to kill thousan (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nnewi Boils Over Kidnapping - Lawyers, Doctors, Traders May Ground City
Monday 31-May-2010: By Chukwujekwu IlozueOnitsha - Tempers have reached boiling point in Nnewi, Anambra's industrial hub, following a spate of kidnappings that hit the city in the last one month.Residents alleged that ov (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Electricity - Citizens Should Pay More, Says Wya
Monday 31-May-2010: By Oscarline OnwuemenyiThe Minister of State for Power, Mr. Nuhu Somo Wya, has endorsed the recent Multi-Year Tariff Order released by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, insisting th (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: National Kimberly Process Dialogue Ends
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Theophilus S. GbendaFreetown - A one-day national dialogue on smuggling and enforcement of the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme (KPSC), ended yesterday Wednesday 2nd June 2010, at the Hill Val (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Media, Post-Amnesty and the 1999 Constitution (2)
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Akpo Mudiaga OdjeAfter amnesty comes employment, rehabilitation and redress. We challenge government to declare its proposals for employment, feeding, welfare, housing and education of the people g (By News Poster)...Somalia: Armed Pirates Hijack Cargo Ship
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: In the early hours of 2 June it was reported by the owner of the MV QSM Dubai that a group of armed pirates had boarded the ship and taken control. USS COLE from CTF 508 (NATO) first reported that the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Workers Flay Plan to Increase Petrol Price to N100
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Rasheed KomolafeLagos - Oil workers, under the aegis of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, have warned that any increase in the price of petrol under any disg (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Explosion Destroys Shop in Beira
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: Maputo - A strong explosion, followed by a major fire, occurred in the early hours of Monday morning in a shop run by a Pakistani national in the central Mozambican city of Beira.According to a report (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Why Banks Are Still Not Lending---- CBN
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Stan OkenwaLagos - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says financing conditions, especially for the real sector and other heavy businesses, are likely to remain as they are in the near future as fin (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Unity Govt Leaders Meet
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Tichaona SibandaRobert Mugabe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his deputy Arthur Mutambara eventually met in Harare on Monday to discuss the final report on the Global Political Agreement.The (By News Poster)...Central Africa: ECCAS Secretary General Calls Troops for Obedience
Monday 31-May-2010: Cabo Ledo - The secretary general of the Economic Community of Central African State (ECCAS), Luís Silva Nguema, Saturday in Cabo Ledo, Angola's northern Bengo province, appealed to the staff o (By News Poster)...Sudan: Kenya Grows Ties With South
Sunday 06-Jun-2010: By Murithi MutigaNairobi - Kenya is accustomed to being a recipient of aid. But in its relationship with Southern Sudan, it is playing a new and unfamiliar role: That of donor country.The government i (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Elections Not Fair, Will Take Action: Beyene Petros
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: After the opposition parties' loss of all but a couple seats in Parliament, ADERAJEW ASFAW spoke with Beyene Petros one of the leaders of the Forum for Justice and Democratic Dialogue (FJDD), a.k.a. M (By News Poster)...Rumours of Post-World Cup Xenophobic Pogroms
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: By Jacob DlaminiJohannesburg - A BANGLADESHI trader who runs a spaza shop on our street was recently visited by a young man. The man told the trader that, come July 12, he and other foreign traders in (By News Poster)...Rwanda: U.S. Calls for Release of Opposition Leader's Lawyer
Friday 04-Jun-2010: The United States has called for the release of a American defense lawyer detained by police in Rwanda.Professor Peter Erlinder of the William Mitchell College of Law in Minnesota was arrested last we (By News Poster)...Kenya: U.S. Investors to Fund Marsabit Wind Power Project
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Steve MbogoKenya's second wind power generator Gitson Energy has secured financing commitments from Exim Bank and Overseas Private Investment Corporation, easing its plans to switch on its wind tur (By News Poster)...Uganda: Trading Fishing for Oil Palm Farming
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By David SsempijjaKampala - On the day Samuel Kiggundu donated his fishing nets to his best friend, Ronald Kawooya four years ago, several people thought something had gone mad.Yet Kiggundu had launch (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Drugs - NDLELA Arrests Nine Suspects
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Kenneth EhigiatorA young secondary school leaver, who was identified as Solomon Ehigie, is among nine other drug trafficking suspects arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, (By News Poster)...Tunisia: Central Bank Reports Spilling Effects of Debt Crisis in Euro Zone Countries
Monday 31-May-2010: By ImenTunis - The state of the national and international economic and financial affairs, was the focal point of the meeting of the Executive Board of Tunisia's Central Bank (BCT), on Thursday, in Tu (By News Poster)...Somalia: Pirate Action Group Disrupted Due to Excellent Cooperation Between EU Navfor and the Seychelles Coast Guard
Monday 31-May-2010: On Saturday evening, 29 of May, the Seychelles Coast Guard disrupted a Pirate Action Group, including a mother ship with 9 suspected pirates on board and two fast attack skiffs, after being led to the (By News Poster)...Liberia: We Are Disappointed, Though Hopeful
Friday 04-Jun-2010: PRESIDENT ELLEN JOHNSON-Sirleaf visited the United States and conferred with President Barack Obama on the future of Liberia. We have no details of the talks. However, our observation is that the dipl (By News Poster)...Namibia: Freedom Struggle Lawyer Soggot Dies
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Werner MengesA HUMAN rights advocate who appeared in several high-profile political cases in Namibia's courts before Independence, David Soggot, died in Johannesburg at the age of 79 on Monday last (By News Poster)...Namibia: NGOs Oppose Namibia's Forced HIV Move
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: SOME Zambian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have petitioned the Namibian High Commission to Zambia against the forced sterilisation of HIV-positive women in that country.The four NGOs are the Z (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Police Foil Erlinder Suicide Attempt
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - Embattled American lawyer, Peter Erlinder, tried to commit suicide in his cell by dissolving over 50 tablets in water and drinking the concoction, but was lucky that police in (By News Poster)...South Africa: Save Energy, Zuma Urges
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has called on South Africans to save energy in an effort to avoid the load-shedding that plunged the country into darkness in 2007 and 2008.In its efforts to save the l (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Two Indians Arrested over Beira Explosion
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican police arrested two men of Indian nationality on Tuesday afternoon in the central city of Beira, in connection with an explosion that completely destroyed one shop and damaged (By News Poster)...Somalia: Crew Retakes Hijacked Ship From Pirates
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Today at 1010 local time, the hijacked Libyan owned merchant vessel RIM reported that the crew had successfully retaken control of the ship.One of the crew members was seriously injured during the inc (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Erlinder Fakes Illness
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - The embattled American Lawyer, Peter Erlinder, was rushed to hospital Tuesday claiming to be suffering from a heart ailment but doctors discovered it to be a hoax.According to (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Bogus Sergeant' Highlights Security Focus
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Wilson JohwaJohannesburg - POLICE are holding a man accused of posing as a member of the South African Air Force, and entering its operational area in Pretoria over six months.The man, whose name i (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Peter Ash - a Beacon for Local Albinos
Monday 31-May-2010: By Zaynab TurukuIf it were a movie or play, he would have been the typical empathetic hero, who traversed deserts to come to the rescue of his friends under siege. But Peter Ash is not a movie star, a (By News Poster)...Uganda: UPDF is in Karamoja to Protect Civilians
Monday 31-May-2010: By Lt. Col. Felix KulayigyeKampala - Recently, a member of parliament accused the army of having killed 40 civilians in Kotido. This is false because only 10 people were killed in the said incident. T (By News Poster)...Africa: Investor Reluctance Delays Green Revolution
Monday 31-May-2010: By Julius BosireNairobi - Africa's goal of achieving a Green Revolution remains a mirage due to a reluctance by countries to invest in the agricultural sector, among other challenges.Economic experts (By News Poster)...Uganda: If Acholi Religious Leaders Can Achieve Obama's Goal, So Be It
Monday 31-May-2010: By Moses ByaruhangaSaturday Vision of May 29 led with a story about religious leaders in Acholi warning President Obama on LRA. This is in response to the American president signing into law the LRA D (By News Poster)...Namibia: When Did HRT Oil and Gas Crawl Out of the Oilfield?
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Daniel SteinmannAbout two weeks ago, a new Brazilian company, HRT Oil & Gas, attracted enough attention in the American crude oil markets to merit a short article in the August Wall Street Journal. (By News Poster)...Mozambique: EDM Can Supply Surplus Power for World Cup
Friday 04-Jun-2010: Maputo - Mozambique's publicly owned electricity company, EDM, says it has sufficient surplus power to export electricity to South Africa, if its South African counterpart, Eskom, requires additional (By News Poster)...South Africa: Agribusiness 'Slow to Transform'
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - LACK of transformation in agribusiness has led to the industry's black economic empowerment programmes scoring low for management control and employment equity, an ind (By News Poster)...South Africa: Miners Stand to Gain From Australian Tax
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Simon MundyJohannesburg - SA COULD benefit from Australia's proposed 40% tax on mining profits, as major mining houses look to divert investment to other resource-rich countries in response to the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bank Warned Against Shareholder Change
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Linda EnsorCape Town - It is not only disgruntled private shareholders of the Reserve Bank who are opposing proposed legislative amendments to the way the institution is governed.An independent thi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Governor's Sister Convicted of Money Laundering
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Isaac Aimurie Abuja And Abiodun OluwarotimiNew York - After months of legal battle, a 12-member jury deliberating on the money laundering trial of associates of the former Delta State governor, Mr. (By News Poster)...Kenya: Kenolkobil Court Battle With KPRL Erodes Share Price
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By John GachiriA court battle between KenolKobil and Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited (KPRL) is eroding the listed oil marketer's share price.KenolKobil's share price fell by 7.01 per cent to settle (By News Poster)...Angola: ECCAS Army and Police Forces With New Commanders
Monday 31-May-2010: Cabo Ledo - The transfer of the command of the military and police components of the stand-by brigade from the Economic Community of Central Africa State (ECCAS) participating in the "Kwanza2010" exer (By News Poster)...Alleged Robber Caught After Crashing Car
Monday 31-May-2010: By Adam HartmanANDRE Diergaardt (25) was to appear in the Walvis Bay Magistrate's Court on Monday for allegedly robbing a petrol station in the harbour town on Sunday morning.According to the Erongo P (By News Poster)...Rwanda: American Attorney Appears in Court
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - Embattled American lawyer Peter Erlinder, yesterday appeared in court for the preliminary hearing and pleaded not guilty to all charges levelled against him. They included den (By News Poster)...South Africa: Reserve Bank Bill Process Challenged
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Linda EnsorCape Town - The Reserve Bank was pushing through amendments to its founding act with "unseemly haste", Charl Kocks, head of African governance ratings agency Afrika Ratings, told MPs yes (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Again, Ibori's Mistress Udoamaka Convicted
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Leke Adeseri and Emma OvuakporieLondon - A LONDON jury has found Ms. Udoamaka Onuigbo, the mistress of former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, guilty on a three-count charge of money lau (By News Poster)...Angola: Trafigura Accused Over Ivory Coast Toxic Waste
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Ivory Coast - It is the first time that Trafigura has gone on trial over the incident Dutch prosecutors have accused multi-national oil trading firm Trafigura of illegally exporting hazardous waste to (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NNPC Undermined - Five GMDs in Three Years
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has witnessed the appointment and replacement of 5 Group Managing Directors (GMDs) to superintend its affairs in less than 3 years, undermining the c (By News Poster)...South Africa: Clothing Industry Seeks Level Field With China
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Bekezela PhakathiJohannesburg - The government should enact trade and industrial policies that create a level playing field between South African clothing manufacturers and their rivals in mainland (By News Poster)...Africa: U.S.$100 Billion Capital Base Will Help Africa Tackle Power Shortage - AFDB
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Ese Awhotu With Agency ReportsAbuja - The African Development Bank says tripling its capital base to US$100 billion will enable it to tackle Africa's dire power shortages and infrastructure which m (By News Poster)...Uganda: The Future of Money is Here
Monday 31-May-2010: By Paul BushariziKampala - Last week, Kenya telecoms company, Safaricom and Equity Bank launched a service, M-Kesho. The service will make it possible for Safaricom's mobile money clients to directly (By News Poster)...Somalia: Ongoing Violence in Somali Capital Alarms UN Aid Agencies
Friday 04-Jun-2010: Fighting continues to wrack the Somali capital with another 17,000 residents displaced in just the past two months, United Nations humanitarian agencies reported today, voicing concern that children a (By News Poster)...Namibia: Corruption in Mining Sector Alleged - Report
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichSOME mining companies have not shied away from using political connections to obtain prospecting or mining licences, or would turn directly to a Cabinet minister because they were (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Top UN Officials Urge Inquiry Into Killing of Congolese Human Rights Activist
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Senior United Nations officials called today for a prompt and rigorous investigation into the killing of a renowned Congolese human rights defender whose body has been found on the outskirts of the ca (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Pengassan Rejects Proposed Fuel Price Hike
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Sylvester EnoghasePETROLEUM and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has faulted the proposal by the National Economic Management Team (NEMT) that the price of Premium Motor (By News Poster)...Uganda: Opposition Blasts Museveni Over Polls
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Joyce Namutebi And Mary KarugabaKampala - Opposition leaders have criticised the President's views on the coming elections and his attack on donors. They also complained that he was not emphatic on (By News Poster)...Uganda Tells Donors to Back Off 2011 Polls
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Emmanuel GyezahoPresident Museveni told Parliament yesterday that as surely as night follows day, the 2011 general elections will take place as scheduled, and asked Uganda's development partners to (By News Poster)...Mozambique: U.S. Embassy Bans Dealings with Alleged Drug Baron
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Maputo - The United States embassy in Maputo has warned all its employees not to have any dealings with one of Mozambique's richest men, Mohamed Bachir Suleman, who has been named as a drug baron by U (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Electricity Tariff Controversy
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Lagos - We believe nearly everyone residing in the country knows someone who has in the last few months received a bill reflecting an astronomical rise in electricity tariffs. The new bills sent out b (By News Poster)...Uganda: Charles Dickens' Advice to Uganda As It Waits for Oil
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Charles Onyango-ObboUganda will swim in oil money. Question is, when? A report in The East African weekly has experts suggesting that it could be anywhere between late 2014 and early 2015.That is m (By News Poster)...Prosecutors Tell Judges Not to Reopen Case Against Taylor (news)
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Alpha SesayProsecutors should not be allowed to reopen their case against Charles Taylor and the court should not issue a subpoena order for supermodel Naomi Campbell, defense lawyers for the forme (By News Poster)...South Africa: MPs Urge Speed on Protectionism
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Linda EnsorCape Town - MPs want the International Trade Administration Commission (Itac) to work faster to implement protectionist tariffs to help vulnerable industries fend off decimation.They bel (By News Poster)...West Africa: Why Food, Energy, Financial Crises Persist in West Africa -Minister
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: Abuja - The Federal Government on Monday linked the unabated food, energy and financial crises in the ECOWAS sub-region to half-hazard implementation of agreements reached by member states.Dr Aliyu Id (By News Poster)...Estate Agents Council Vows to Bring Sanity to Property Sector
Monday 31-May-2010: Harare - THE Estate Agents Council has vowed to forge ahead with the onslaught on errant estate agencies to bring sanity in the property sector amid revelations that the council has so far closed down (By News Poster)...How to Invest in Property Sector
Monday 31-May-2010: Angola's property sector has seen significant growth over the past years.How we made it in Africa spoke to Francisco da Cruz, executive director of the U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce in Angola, about (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Cleric Urges FG to Overhaul Security Agencies
Monday 31-May-2010: By Sylva Emeka-OkerekeLagos - Irked by the incessant killings of journalists in the country, the Director of Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), Dr. Is-haq Akintola has urged the Federal Government to over (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Spied On Diamond Monitor
Monday 31-May-2010: By Vusumuzi SifileHarare - THE Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) monitor, Abbey Chikane last week made sensational revelations about how state security agents managed to open his bag witho (By News Poster)...South Africa: Credit Data to Show Caution Holds Sway
Monday 31-May-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - FIGURES due today are set to show that borrowing by households and companies contracted for the seventh month in a row, reflecting heavily indebted households and lack of c (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Govt 'Won't Free U.S. Lawyer'
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: By Kezio-Musoke DavidRwanda will not bow to pressure by the United States government to free an American lawyer arrested in Kigali on genocide denial charges.Washington has been pushing for the releas (By News Poster)...Namibia: Offbeat
Friday 04-Jun-2010: No one from a previous generation wants to shatter their carefully developed veneer of respectability, be it from rehab or cold turkey. And nobody wants to think about what to do about the local econo (By News Poster)...Namibia: This Week in the Khuta - Government Should Focus on Research Institutes
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By David AdetonaThe neglect of research institutes when building schools, colleges, polytechnics or universities in Africa underscores the need for urgent and undivided attention.Sadly, in Africa, the (By News Poster)...Kenya: MP Mbugua Denies SMS Threat to Judge
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Carol MainaNairobi - KAMUKUNJI MP Simon Mbugua has denied sending threatening messages to High Court judge Kalpana Rawal who was hearing an election petition against him.Mbugua told the Star yester (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Government is Only Interested in Privatising Power
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By .In this interview, the Deputy General Secretary of Nigeria Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) Comrade Ibrahim Aliyu says government is only concerned with selling PHCN and not with power genera (By News Poster)...Niger: Fallout from Niger Food Crisis
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Kano - Stocks of millet and sorghum in northern Nigeria's markets are dwindling as traders buy them up to export across the border to Niger, where some 10 million people face food insecurity.Grain mer (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SA Bans SADC Travel Certificate
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By John EkongoWindhoek - The South African government has announced that it will no longer accept emergency travel certificates (ETCs) from the region as an entry document within its borders - arguing (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Environmentalists Blasts Mobil Over Use of Chemicals
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Lagos - Environmentalists have described the reported use of dispersants near the coast by Mobil Producing Nigeria to contain the May 1 oil spill as a violation of environmental standards in the oil i (By News Poster)...Kenya: Tea Farmers Harvest Benefits of Electronic Trading
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Johnstone Ole TuranaTea farmers can now track their sales at the trading auction and determine their earnings at the touch of a button -- thanks to a new electronic system at the public sales.The b (By News Poster)...Africa: World Bank Urges Continent to Lift Trade
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Loyiso LangeniJohannesburg - AFRICAN states were not doing enough to address the infrastructure backlogs hampering trade and regional economic integration, World Bank chief economist for Africa Sha (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Spokesman Denies PM in a Relationship
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Lance GumaA spokesman for Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has denied a report in the weekly Zimbabwe Standard newspaper suggesting the MDC leader was now dating a wealthy Harare businesswoman, fol (By News Poster)...Uganda: We Must Hunt Down Kony - Ocampo
Monday 31-May-2010: By Milton OlupotKampala - The International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, has said the Lord's Resistance Army rebel leader, Joseph Kony, will never make peace whatever opportuni (By News Poster)...East Africa: Comesa-EU Sign 20 Million Euro Facility for Communal Farmers
Monday 31-May-2010: Harare - THE Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa and the European Union have signed a 20 million euro agricultural input facility to support communal farmers.The programme is expected to imp (By News Poster)...Breakthrough on Ebola Virus?
Sunday 06-Jun-2010: By Christina ReedAn experimental treatment for Ebola that could potentially save human lives has been shown to be completely effective in monkeys.If approved for human use it would be the first treatm (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Murowa Engages Govt On Diamond Ban
Friday 04-Jun-2010: MUROWA Diamonds has engaged government to urgently reverse an umbrella ban on diamond exports but will still embark on a US$300 million expansion programme, Managing Director Niels Kristensen says.Min (By News Poster)...Uganda: Respect Our Gates of Life
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Hilary BainemigishaKampala - I am back from a trip I am finding difficult to narrate to my children. The conference in Pittsburgh, USA, was about microbicides, a gel that is being tested in humans (By News Poster)...Equatorial Guinea: Marine Security - Country Awards U.S.$250 Million Contract to U.S. Firm
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Godwin OritseAS Nigeria is busy tinkering on the creation of a distinct Maritime Security Agency to provide the much needed security for its maritime, oil and gas installation and businesses, neigh (By News Poster)...Madagascar: Church radio journalists charged
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Concern is mounting for eight radio journalists and technicians detained in Madagascar last week. The eight work for Radio Fahazavana, a church-supported station in the nation's capital, Antananarivo. (By News Poster)...Africa: Leaders Go Public with the Test
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: South African President Jacob Zuma recently launched one of the most ambitious voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) campaigns in history by disclosing his HIV-negative status.Ministers and provinci (By News Poster)...South Africa: In Time, Customers Will Be Better Off
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - FINANCE Minister Pravin Gordhan spent three hours this week (plus another hour or two over dinner) talking to the chiefs of SA's big banks.It was the first such meeting and, surprisingl (By News Poster)...Uganda: Mukwano Fights Herdsmen for Land
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Pascal KwesigaKampala - A land dispute has erupted between Mukwano Enterprises and herdsmen in Masindi district following attempts by the company to evict them from the former Kiryana ranch land.Mu (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Guebuza Dismisses Alleged Al-Qaeda Threat
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: Maputo - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza does not believe that there are any members of the terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda on Mozambican soil.He was reacting to a story published by the South Af (By News Poster)...Kenya: High Staff Costs Reduce Barclays' First Quarter Profit
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Kevin MwanzaBarclays Bank of Kenya has become the first major bank to report a profit decline for the first three months of the year due to reduced lending and high staff costs.The bank posted an 8 (By News Poster)...Uganda: Mum Kills Her Twins, Blames Poverty
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Herbert SsempogoKampala - The police in Kampala are holding an 18-year-old woman over dumping her twins in a pit-latrine.According to the Kampala Metropolitan Police spokeperson, Henry Kalulu, Anne (By News Poster)...Tunisia: Zitouna Bank Begins Operations
Monday 31-May-2010: By ImenTunis - Created with a capital of 35 million dinars and a Board of Directors panel composed of the seven largest private Tunisian companies and banks, the Zitouna Bank, Tunisia's first Islamic (By News Poster)...Namibia: Hamba Kahle, Jackson Kaujeua
Monday 31-May-2010: By John EkongoWindhoek - After battling a kidney ailment since last November with hospitalisations in between, Namibia's father of modern music Jackson Kaujeua finally breathed his last on Thursday af (By News Poster)...Nigeria: N500 Billion - CBN Bails Out Airlines
Monday 31-May-2010: Domestic Airline Operators in the country can now heave a sigh of relief as the Central Bank of Nigeria has announced the extension of N500billion economic intervention fund to the aviation industry. (By News Poster)...South Africa: ID Files Charges Against DA Councillor
Monday 31-May-2010: The ID has laid criminal charges against DA city councillor Charlotte Tabisher, after the city council this week recommended that she be dismissed on charges of fraud.Tabisher, who will remain the cou (By News Poster)...Africa: Drug Resistance, Alcohol And Money
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: Durban - A complex mix of issues drives drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) patients to default on medication, not least of which are alcohol and money, according to new research presented by Medicines S (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Poor Application of Laws on Biodiversity
Friday 04-Jun-2010: Maputo - Mozambique has been applying less than half of the existing laws on protection of biodiversity in the country, a source in the Environment Ministry told reporters in Maputo on Wednesday.Addre (By News Poster)...MWEB Merges With Africaonline
Friday 04-Jun-2010: MWEB Namibia has announced that it is changing its name to Africa Online.This follows the acquisition of MWeb's African companies and the AfricaOnline group by Telkom SA, and subsequent the integratio (By News Poster)...Tanzania: RPC, Cleric Among Power Cut 'Victims'
Friday 04-Jun-2010: A special operation to collect billions of shillings in unpaid bills by the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) entered its third day yesterday, where a regional police commander and a reverend (By News Poster)...South Africa: Investing in Cleaner Fuel 'Difficult'
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - THE South African petroleum industry has said it is not in a position to make the investments required for SA to move to cleaner fuels.The industry's inability to make (By News Poster)...South Africa: UNPO Condems farm murders
Friday 04-Jun-2010: Submitted by Owl: Pieter Mulder 03 June 2010 FF+ leader says motion accepted at Rome General Conference A motion in which farm murders in South Africa are condemned as a serious human rights (By JoAn)...Nigeria: NNPC Gas Contracts - is It True?
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Anthony OyewoleIf ongoing reports in the Nigerian media about how officials of the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) have been in cahoots with an obs (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Row Over Anti-Graft Commission
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Farirai MachivenyikaHarare - Parliamentary and Constitutional Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga has come under fire for advising Speaker of the House of Assembly Mr Lovemore Moyo to disregard certain (By News Poster)...Rwanda: BNR Implements Key Reforms to Ease Access to Credit
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Berna NamataKigali - The National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) has succeeded in implementing key credit information reforms and systems that will ease access to credit and boost the country's ranking in th (By News Poster)...Residency Requirement Ruled Unconstitutional
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Mozambique's Constitutional Council, the highest body in matters of constitutional law, has struck down as unconstitutional a requirement in the electoral law that candidates for the presidency must h (By News Poster)...Africa: Kwanza Exercises2010 Based On Africa Conflict Scenario
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Cabo Ledo - The concept of "Kwanza Exercise2010" is based on a scenario involving the main problems recurrently encountered in conflicts experienced in Central Africa.This information is contained in (By News Poster)...South Africa: Lovers, Fathers and Brothers
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: The days of South African men waiting at the kerbside while girlfriends and wives queue at the clinic for antenatal visits are gone; a new programme aims to create a new idea of what makes a man, and (By News Poster)...South Africa: Passenger Trains Back in Business After Deal with Striking Workers
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Alistair AndersonJohannesburg - A THREE-week passenger train strike ended yesterday after workers accepted a new wage deal.Most of the services run by Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) will be av (By News Poster)...Uganda: Soldier's Gun Did Not Kill Police Officer = Analyst
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Joseph WanzusiKampala - Testifying before the Court Martial sitting at Mbale municipal chambers recently, a government analyst, Robinah Kirinya, said the test-fired ammunition in the laboratory did (By News Poster)...Uganda: Army Kills Five Lord's Resistance Rebels
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Joyce NamutebiKampala - Five Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have been killed by the UPDF during a hunt for those indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), army spokesperson Lt. Con. (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Kidnap - Orji Vows to Deal With Sponsors
Monday 31-May-2010: By Anayo OkoliUmuahia - Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has vowed to deal with prominent politicians from the state alleged to be sponsoring kidnappers to terrorise citizens and visitors to the s (By News Poster)...South Africa: Opposition Leader at Work Despite No Confidence Vote
Monday 31-May-2010: By Sibusiso Ngalwa And Xolani MbanjwaiThere was heavy, tight security at COPE offices this morning after Mosiuoa Lekota - who was axed as party president - has dared to show despite a section of his o (By News Poster)...Kenya: Raila Ruto Set for Mombasa Showdown
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: By Star TeamNairobi - THERE will be a showdown at the Coast this weekend as Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his rival Higher Education Minister William Ruto lead parallel rallies for the Yes and No ca (By News Poster)...South Africa: President Zuma in India
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: South African President Jacob Zuma, on his first state visit to Asia, said it was time to take trade ties with India to a higher level after talks Friday with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Zuma and S (By News Poster)...Uganda: Lawyers Oppose Army Court Trying Corrupt Officials
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Barbara AmongKampala - Lawyers have rejected the proposal by President Yoweri Museveni to have corruption cases involving civilians tried by the military Court Martial.They said the proposal is an (By News Poster)...Namibia: Church Fleeced of Half a Million
Friday 04-Jun-2010: By Tileni MongudhiANOTHER twist has been added to recent media reports about a church pastor who was conned out of N$500 000 of church money in a Nigerian scam.Pastor Japhet Sem of the Evangelical Lut (By News Poster)...South Africa: April Electricity Consumption Up 6.6 Percent
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - The volume of electricity consumed in April 2010 increased by 6,6% (1 183 Gigawatt-hours) compared with April 2009, according to Statistics South Africa (StatsSA).Electricity consumptio (By News Poster)...Angola: 24 Alleged Criminals Detained in Luanda
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Luanda - At least 24 people were arrested over the last three days in Luanda by the National Police, allegedly for involvement of 35 crimes, including two murders.The information was provided by the p (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Stocks Continue to Fall Due to Illiquidity
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Bright MaderaHarare - THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange turned over a paltry US$30 867 375,68 in May after 1 221 946 342 shares traded on the market with foreign trading contributing more than 20 percent (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mamvura Offloads Stake
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Harare - EX-PREMIER Banking Limited boss Mr Douglas Mamvura has sold his stake in the financial group to his former consortium partners, Mr George Manyere and Mr Walter KambwanjiMr Mamvura, who left t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: B-Ball Team Falls to Mozambique
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: By Ellina MhlangaHarare - HOSTS Zimbabwe found the going tough against Mozambique again when they lost 58-62 to their rivals in a tightly contested FIBA African Zone Six Boys' Under-18 basketball cham (By News Poster)...South Africa: Big Banks Stress Conformity With Treasury's Transparency Request
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: By Simon MundyJohannesburg - THE four major banks were broadly supportive of the Treasury's proposals to increase transparency in retail banking following Monday's meeting with Finance Minister Pravin (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Stabilize Power Supply Before Tariff Increase
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: Abuja - he Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has reportedly constituted two review panels to work out modalities on the annual electricity consumption Multi Year Tariff Order (MYTO) in (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Spill - Nosdra Chides Mobil for Using Toxic Chemical Dispersant
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: By Bernard Tolani DadaUyo - The National Oil Spills Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) has decried the use of dispersant by Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) near coastal settlements of Akwa Ibom, in (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Rid New Scheme of Chancers
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: Harare - WE welcome the announcement by Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Joseph Made last week that the Government has embarked on a newlook multi-million-dollar farm mec (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Storm Kidnappers' Ikot Abasi Den, Rescue One
Monday 31-May-2010: By Aniefiok MacauleyUyo - Akwa Ibom State Police Commissioner, Walter Rugbere, said his command rescued seven-year-old Esther Odusola Stephenson from her abductors, Samuel Williams Frank, Ben Akpan Um (By News Poster)...South Africa: Eskom Signs Power Supply Agreement
Monday 31-May-2010: Pretoria - Eskom and BHP Billiton have signed an amended power supply agreement for a smelter in Mozambique.The Mozal aluminium smelter in Mozambique agreement which was effective as of 31 March was s (By News Poster)...Nigeria: EFCC May Reopen Probe of Societe Generale Bank
Monday 31-May-2010: By Achilleus-Chud UchegbuLagos - In line with President Goodluck Jonathan's vow to pursue the corruption war with renewed vigour, the Federal Government may reopen probe into the activities of Dr. Olu (By News Poster)...[Pic] Communists Sue Democratic Party For Stealing Platform
Monday 31-May-2010: [Here is some humour for you... but it cuts really close to the bone. Jan] Communists Sue Democratic Party For Stealing Platform Red Square 4/12/2010, 5:27 pm (By Jan)...NYTimes: Rugby Fans Go Offside in South Africa
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: There's also video at the link - NG SOWETO, South Africa — The wildly zealous fans of rugby’s Blue Bulls are a decidedly white lot but for the blue paint they smear on their faces and the blue (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...South Africa: Folly of Israel's Leadership
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - ISRAEL's use of excessive force to block the attempt by a coalition of pro-Palestinian activists and humanitarian organisations to break the embargo imposed on Gaza is shaping up to be (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: Super Corruption: What is the difference between a Nigerian 419 scam and a "stagnated" traffic fine?
Friday 04-Jun-2010: [Take a look at this note I received from the Justice project. Jan] What is the difference between a Nigerian 419 scam and a "stagnated" traffic fine? Well, when VVM collections gets their hand (By Jan)...[Pic] Rhodesia: From Ian Smith's time - Cranborne Boys Lost on Active Service
Monday 31-May-2010: [Cranborne was a well known highschool in Salisbury. Jan] Subject: Cranborne Boys Lost on Active Service Hi Guys Been going thru a pile of magazines that were scanned and mailed to me and I c (By Jan)...Comedian Set To Become Reykjavik Mayor
Monday 31-May-2010: REYKJAVIK—Voters here blew a loud raspberry at Iceland's political establishment Saturday, handing victory in the capital's municipal elections to an upstart political party that ran a blatantly sat (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World Cup - Sep Blatter stays in a hotel suite costing R40,000 ($5,300) per night...
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: I hear that when Sep Blatter comes to South Africa for the FIFA world cup that it is controlled from Cape Town from a convention centre there. The head of FIFA, Sep Blatter stays in a hotel suite (By Jan)...S.Africa: Jan's bout of food poisoning...
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: Sorry I've been a bit out of action this last day. I had a bout of food poisoning. On monday I had to go to another building to help some developers who were struggling to get my system going. I h (By Jan)...S.Africa: Lessons from my work: Rules are made to be... changed...
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: I had a good day at work. I was late for a presentation to do with my system - but others were marketing it to management. I arrived late, but with enough time to answer the technical questions. D (By Jan)...One Of Zuma's Wives Accused Of Affair
Sunday 06-Jun-2010: One of Jacob Zuma's three wives, Nompumelelo Ntuli Zuma, has been accused of marital infidelity in an anonymous letter believed to been written by the children of the South African president. The l (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (05-06-10)
Saturday 05-Jun-2010: Howzit Once again this house is recoiling in shock as one of our friends has been killed in a tragic accident yesterday evening. No names, no pack drill - but we are numb with shock and sadness. (By The BeardedMan)...Important: Spread this: Facebook petition: Remove Julius Malema at the ANC Youth League President...
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: While searching Facebook for my name I spotted a "Janet Lamprecht" who had this petition which I thought was worth spreading around: (By Jan)...[Graphs] USA: The Looming Financial Holocaust - Is Closer Than We Thought ...
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: [Take a look at this article. Some scary stuff in here, but it tallies with what I've been seeing on the charts. Its going to be wild, wild... The article has lots of charts to look at so I'm only (By Jan)...America: My Technical Indicator: Wall St is rallying as I warned it would... the rise before the fall?
Tuesday 01-Jun-2010: There was no trading in the USA yesterday. I assume they had memorial day in rememberance of their fallen troops. But I see Wall St opened with a very quick rise above the 10,000 level. Stick aroun (By Jan)...A Brilliant Quote from Clarence Darrow applicable to Zimbabwe & other heinous countries...
Monday 31-May-2010: [Here is a quote I spotted from the famous American lawyer Clarence Darrow about evil. This is so true. What he doesn't say, though it should be said is this: Sometimes war is the only way to prevent (By Jan)...[Pic][Humor][Joke] A place in Africa... where Whites still RULE...
Monday 31-May-2010: [Here's an oldie and still a goodie... Jan] A Place in Africa where Whites still Rule!!! (By Jan)...E-TV Cleared In AWB Rage Case
Wednesday 02-Jun-2010: The Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) has cleared television network e-TV of any wrongdoing in a live news discussion that ended with AWB Secretary General Andre Visage abrupt (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Peace with Rhodesia - a banquet in America...
Friday 04-Jun-2010: Hi Dave, I've listened to most of it and will put it on my website. What an amazing event. I never even knew this event took place. I will finish listening to it and will post it on my site. What an (By Jan)...Jan will be back shortly... My Trip to the USA...
Sunday 06-Jun-2010: Hi All, I've been running around like mad, not reading my emails for the last 2 days. I'm about to dash off to visit some old friends for part of the day. My first outing in quite a while. Yesterd (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (03-06-2010)
Thursday 03-Jun-2010: Howzit "Zimbabwe's civil servants were due to get half a day off to attend a football friendly set for later Wednesday against Brazil, the Public Service Commissions announced. The commission sa (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (04-06-2010)
Friday 04-Jun-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- There are a number of stories on the internet today which say that Mugabe did good in arranging for the Brazilian football team to play a f (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (31-05-2010)
Monday 31-May-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- A new book, "Blood Lily" by Mason Cranswick... "Scott is facing bankruptcy amid the turmoil that grips the financial markets of 2008. He (By The BeardedMan)...
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