From Jan Lamprecht
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 20th 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 & GruesomeMy Mother's strange marriage advice on the best age difference between happy men & women...
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: An American lady was writing to me about my recent article about love and marriage. In my reply to her I told her something that I'd mentioned recently to some of my single men friends - which got one (By Jan)...S.Africa: KILL THE BOER: President Zuma & 12 Top South African leaders charged at ICC in The Hague with genocidal hate speech...
Friday 18-Jun-2010: [I must say, I wish and hope and pray something can be done against these bastards in an international court like this. Honestly... its either COURT... or WAR! If only the international community w (By Jan)...IMPORTANT: S.Africa on the brink: Race War & Genocide? Genocidal attacks planned on White Farmers & Foreign Blacks....
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: [Here is a very interesting report from the ZimbabweMail which warned us before Eugene Terreblanche's murder. I need to check out Adriana's article with the claim of the 12th July attacks that are (By Jan)...S.Africa: BRILLIANT - ALL WHITES should do this: What my incredible lady friend did - Blacks say they will attack us - But WE should kill them first...
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: [I laughed so much yesterday. This lady friend of mine, whom I got to know because we worked for the same company, is so amazing. She is married to an Afrikaner, and what a lot of spirit this small wo (By Jan)...USA: Incredible: Black Harvard Professor expose: Black African leaders were behind the slave trade & other suppressed facts
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: [Joseph Smith, who was a journalist and who also fought in Vietnam and Rhodesia discovered this stunning piece from the New York Times. Joe's commentary and thoughts on this matter are below and a (By Jan)...Rwanda: The Politics of Denialism
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: By Gerald CaplanThis is a review of Edward S. Herman and David Peterson's "The Politics of Genocide', Monthly Review Press, New York, 2010.Edward Herman is a professor emeritus at the University of Pe (By News Poster)...Somalia: Current Conditions and U.S. Policy in the Horn of Africa:
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: Washington, DC - Testimony by Ted Dagne, Congressional Research Service, before the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, House Foreign Affairs CommitteeChairman Payne, Ranking Member Smith, and m (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Whose Diamonds?
Friday 18-Jun-2010: Zimbabwe's diamond wealth, which could potentially provide a decisive boost for economic recovery, is instead still a resource shared by diamond smugglers, army officers and police, and by cliques of (By News Poster)...[21 Pics] Orania: My pics: Orania holiday resort by the Orange river...
Monday 14-Jun-2010: The mass media of course tries to run Orania down at every opportunity. They won't show you stuff like this. Check out the little holiday resort by the river... You didn't expect that did you? C (By Jan)...[Pic] [Humor] S.Africa: Afrikaner conspiracy theory...
Friday 18-Jun-2010: [This is cute. Let me translate the Afrikaans. The Sheep on the left says: "I'm telling you that the f*cken man and dog are working together". The sheep in the middle says: "For f*cksakes Frikkie! (By Jan)...S.Africa: From Adriana: A warning about killing whites on 12th July...
Friday 18-Jun-2010: [Someone sent me this. It was apparently posted by Adriana Stuijt. I reiterate that this "we'll kill ALL THE WHITES" (an assertion which I seriously question) story is getting old. So far I'm no (By Jan)...S.Africa: As we become another Zimbabwe: Future Farm Invasions? Julius Malema orders the Police around on ANC business
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: Here is more proof that Julius Malema is President Jacob Zuma's secret agent. It was recently exposed in newspapers, and apparently even film footage exists of this where Malema ordered the South (By Jan)...Introducing Africa's New Colonial Slave Master: China!
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: [Slavery...Communism...same thing. Africans are going to wish the Whites never left. Janolifant] I think I am probably going to die any minute now. An inflamed, deceived mob of about 50 desperate m (By JanOlifant)...S.Africa: FACEBOOK: About the Genocide of Whites planned by blacks for 2010/07/10 - Blacks discussing killing whites on Facebook
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: I am in a real rush off to work this morning. I worked until 9pm at work last night, just wanting to get something big off my back - just to prove a point. It is a bit of a political move because (By Jan)...African Union, UN Officials Promote Unified Strategy for Peace (document)
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: An integrated approach to stability in Sudan, linking peace in Darfur to preparations for the January referendum on the future of Southern Sudan, was presented to the Security Council by officials of (By News Poster)...55% Of Americans Say Revolution If Obama Somehow Gets New UN Gun Ban Treaty Ratified In the U.S.
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: [This is most important. Jan] The new United Nations Treaty is being designed to disarm all citizens of every nation on Earth. The treaty will give all governments a free hand to do as they please. (By Jan)...[8 Pics] S.Africa: The incredible waste & ungratefulness of Black people at Eskom's Medupi power station....
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: [This is truly disgusting, especially here in Africa, especially at a time of global financial meltdown - at a time when people in South Africa and worldwide are losing their jobs. A friend sent me (By Jan)...South Africa: Low Expectations Have Many Feeling the Pinch
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Artwell DlaminiIt is called ukutsipato - to pinch - and here is how it works. You open an account with Eskom, paying either monthly or as you go. You then get a technician from Eskom to rig the sys (By News Poster)...Africa: Trade Between Continent's Nations 'Abysmal' - Hilary Clinton
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: Remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at a Diplomacy Briefing Series Conference on Sub-Saharan Africa in Washington on June 14: SECRETARY CLINTON: Good afternoon, everyone. Well, (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Some Quick thoughts about possible ANC attacks on White Farmers...
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: One thing you need to understand about the ANC is that its motivation for attacking us might be quite the opposite of what many people think. For example, when the ANC sees whites being successful (By Jan)...Africa: Disarming the Strategy of Conscription - Children of AFRICOM
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Nicholas TuckerIn 2006 at least 15 per cent of America's oil needs were provided by Africa and it has been projected that by 2015 the figure will be 25 per cent. No, wait, let me rephrase that - by (By News Poster)...Bizarre: The Excessive Guilt of White people is based on a well-known Psychological fact...
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: A psychologist one day told me something really quite strange. He told me something which at first glance did not seem to make much sense, but as I pondered it I began to realise the importance of wha (By Jan)...S.Africa: If the ANC launches attacks on Whites & Black Zimbabweans on 12th July.... WHO will the targets be?
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: Just some thoughts on the targets of a possible ANC attack on 12th July or in the months thereafter. The events of 2008 with the xenophobic attacks were really a WAR. In the African context these a (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Time to Ditch the 'Disaster' Scenarios
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Ben CousinsThe dominant view of land reform in Zimbabwe is that farm invasions from 2000 to 2001 were nothing but a corrupt land grab by Zanu PF and its cronies. This is said to have initiated a ca (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World cup - The Undertone of violence & a coming Black on Black Civil war afterwards...
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: [These stories are spreading out everywhere. There is stacks of evidence with regard to this. Special note: It appears as if nobody was prosecuted for xenophobia in 2008. That again tells me the A (By Jan)...S.Africa: Volkstaat!! Afrikaner Unity rears its head again in an important setting... Electing an Afrikaner leader for once & for all...
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: I received a troubling email from overseas from a friend of Afrikaners who is trying to make some important moves to assist us. He was very troubled by the news of dissent between various importan (By Jan)...Nigeria: Renewed War Against Oil Thieves in Delta
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Osa OkhominaYenagoa - The Joint Military Task Force known as Operation Restore Hope, is waging a war against illegal bunkers in the Niger Delta as part of its effort to bring lasting peace to the N (By News Poster)...S.Africa: A Brilliant plan of action for the Whites in preparation for ANC attacks of 12th July.... A MUST READ...
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: I have to tell you something so incredible... I will post it this evening. My lady friend who was robbed the other day, whom the blacks kept threatening to murder her husband, did something so INC (By Jan)...South Africa: Ruling Party Factions Slug it Out Behind Closed Doors
Monday 14-Jun-2010: As South Africa opens the World Cup tournament on 11 June, the most important national event since the 1994 elections, most of the visiting football fans will be blissfully unaware of the growing fact (By News Poster)...South Africa: Lessons from Rooibos Tea
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Glenn AshtonUnder apartheid a Rooibos tea board was created to nurture the market and protect this novel product both nationally and internationally. This created a strong foundation to assist the (By News Poster)...USA: Stock Markets: Gold Going to Parabolic Top of $10,000 by 2012 For Good Reasons - Important: Reserve Banks pushing Gold now...
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: [There are some really fascinating facts coming out about gold lately. The most important was pointed out by Jason Kelly in a recent newsletter, and I highlighted it below. For the last 20+ years R (By Jan)...IMPORTANT: S. Africa: AfriForum Youth Launch International Campaign to Stop FIFA's Endorsement of Mokoba - Guilty of Racial Incitement
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: [This Afrikaans email is doing the rounds. The gist is that the Afriforum Youth organisation last week launched an international campaign about FIFA, Peter Mokaka ("Kill the Boer"), farm murders and A (By JanOlifant)...VERY IMPORTANT: S.Africa: Security friend of mine gets intelligence from Blacks - Is the ANC spreading the word among blacks to attack?
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: [I got some intel from a friend of mine with a lot of security connections. He too is saying that the attacks to be staged in July are on BLACKS ONLY - not whites. But one can ask the question as to w (By Jan)...Rwanda: Exiled Army Chief Shot in South Africa
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - RWANDA's former Ambassador to India, Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa, was yesterday shot and critically wounded in Johannesburg, South Africa.According to media reports, Kayumba was shot at the g (By News Poster)...Sudan: Peacekeeping in Sudan - A Local Woman's Experiences
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Catherine SasmanHazel de Wet is a Namibian woman who is the head of the child protection unit of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS). New Era talks to her about her work.How did you get inv (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World cup - AfricanCrisis brought to you by Generator... thanks to rolling electricity blackouts... A happy day for me...
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: This evening on my way home I was thinking to myself that a lot of the bad things people had predicted for the FIFA world cup weren't exactly panning out. No rolling blackouts since it had started (By Jan)...Sudan: International Criminal Court Explains Darfur Rebel Indictment
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: The International Criminal Court has published the following pamphlet explaining the case against two Darfur rebel leaders.Who is Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain?Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain ("Banda" (By News Poster)...S.Africa: The Zulus are planning to attack foreign blacks in Johannesburg after the 2010 FIFA World cup....
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: I have been doing my own fishing among blacks face to face. Eventually I got some information out. It was confirmed that the townships are full of talk about attacking foreigners after the FIFA Wo (By Jan)...S.Africa: The attacks of 12th July - Why did the ANC make this strange statement about Xenophobic attacks?
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: Yesterday, Fikile Mbalula of the ANC issued a statement that xenophobic attacks would not be tolerated and that the law would take care of the perpetrators. A friend of mine said that the ANC woul (By Jan)...Kenya: Police Abuse Somali Refugees
Friday 18-Jun-2010: Kenyan police at the Somali border and in nearby refugee camps are abusing asylum seekers and refugees fleeing war-torn Somalia, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Kenya should immedi (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World cup - How South Africans just screw up a good opportunity by striking...
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: The ANC Govt always likes to mouth off about how we whites will sabotage the FIFA World cup and deny them their greatness... But the more one looks at it... the more you see the blacks totally stuffin (By Jan)...Nigeria: Uncertainty of HIV/Aids Local Medications
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Ebenezer EdohasimLagos - Since the discovery of the Human Immuno Deficiency Virus (HIV) which causes Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) 27 years ago, the world has been confronted with the (By News Poster)...S.Africa: A message for Government by Deception readers: The ANC's plans for 2010 so far - Attacks still coming?
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: Here is my latest short message to a Government by Deception reader. I sent this to a lady who was so impressed after reading Government by Deception that she bought a second copy: "This year the A (By Jan)...South Africa: World Cup investors lose R100k
Friday 18-Jun-2010: Submitted by Owl: Comment: The beginning of anarchy of - national discontent - is going to explode to proportions the ANC will be unable to curb. The party will be over before the final whistle h (By JoAn)...Kenya: Security Minister on the Spot over Rally Bombing
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: Nairobi - Internal Security minister George Saitoti faced hostile questioning in the House over the grenade attack on a prayer meeting during which six people were killed and 131 injured.Members of Pa (By News Poster)...Ghana: The Military, Police And Civilians
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By I. K. GyasiAccra - "O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant."-Isabella in Shakespeare's play, MEASURE FOR MEASURE.If you are a poor, ordinary civil (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Counting Winners, Losers of Sanusi's Reform
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Kingsley IghomwenghianFor keen observers of the nation's economic behaviour, the past one year has been a very interesting and even dramatic 12 months, especially with several untouchables taken to (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Crime - How my lady friend is doing who experienced an armed robbery... Now the Police do NOTHING
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: [I checked up on my lady friend and her husband how they are doing since their armed robbery. She sent me this note. It seems the "Police dropped the ball" and now stuff all is happening!! Jan] Som (By Jan)...S.Africa: 2010 FIFA World Cup - A Reader comments on the African Invention the Vuvuzela - an interesting fact...
Friday 18-Jun-2010: [Here is an interesting fact about vuvuzela's I did not know. Apparently it was originally a child's toy, but one black guy claims he made an aluminium vuvuzela in the 1960's. Whatever. As my friend p (By Jan)...South Africa: World Cup Fairytale Implodes
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Mark GleesonPretoria - Six years in the preparing and making and six days in the crumbling. South Africa’s World Cup fairytale imploded in dramatic fashion at the hands, or rather silky feet, (By News Poster)...Africa: Gambia's Drug Trafficking Dilemma
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Ndubuisi Ugah with agencyLagos - Before now, Guinea-Bissau was largely regarded as a nation wrecked by poverty, coups and political unrest. However, latest development reveal that the nation has be (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Who's Who Among Armed Groups in the East
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: Kinshasa - Armed groups have caused severe suffering in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the years. Below are listed some that are active in the Kivu region. This information is gathere (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Government Criticised on Human Trafficking
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican government "does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking", although it is making "significant efforts to do so", according to the U (By News Poster)...Kenya: Military Joins Hunt for Nairobi Rally Bombers
Monday 14-Jun-2010: Nairobi - The Kenyan Government on Monday called in the military to help investigate a grenade attack on a crusade at Uhuru Park on Sunday in which six people were killed and 104 injured.Military pers (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World cup - News Report: Blacks plan White Genocide - due date: 12th July
Monday 14-Jun-2010: [A number of people have been sending me a report which claims that on 12th July 2010 that the blacks will kill all the whites. My first reaction to this is: Take a deep breath and IGNORE IT. (By Jan)...[Cartoon] The Secrets of Nature in Colonial times...
Friday 18-Jun-2010: This is a very quaint cartoon.... about colonial times. I'm sure a lot of both things happened a lot... (otherwise there'd be no coloured people!!!!). Jan. (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Stop the Murder in Diamond Fields
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: By Elly HarrowellThe Kimberley Process rough diamond certification scheme is frequently credited with ending the trade in blood diamonds.However, mass killings in Zimbabwe's diamond fields, and the su (By News Poster)...SA Bought Up Unsold World Cup Tickets
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: The South African government has reportedly spent more than 11 million rand (US$ 1.5 million) to buy up unsold World Cup tickets, and handed them out to those with connections to the governing ANC Par (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...S.Africa: Rolling Electricity blackouts which damage your electrical equipment - Can you SUE ESKOM?
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: You will recall that the other night we had a 4 1/2 hour rolling power blackout in our neighbourhood. I had my generator on and carried on as usual. My neighbour called me the following morning say (By Jan)...South Africa: World Cup Fever Forces Migrants to Flee
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Espera DonouvossiWorld Cup fever has descended on South Africa as the country prepares to host the biggest sporting event in its history. The airports are getting increasingly busy, people everywhe (By News Poster)...Europe: [Map] Shocking: Are White French a minority? First ethnic statistics in France reveal 54% of babies born in Paris are Black
Monday 14-Jun-2010: [Take a look at this incredible story from the European Union Times. If you thought America was being overrun by foreigners with whites becoming a minority there, then check this incredible story out. (By Jan)...USA: Stock Markets - The Incredible BP oil spill - will it bankrupt BP & destroy the world? My thoughts...
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: I've been seeing a lot about the BP oil spill in the Gulf. The oil spill is rather out of hand. I recently received an email stating that this oil spill could carry on for years and it would be almost (By Jan)...Rwanda: Kagame Vs Kayumba
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: Early on the morning of February 28 a bus parked outside the ministry of Foreign Affairs headquarters in Kigali was delaying to depart. Inside it were ambassadors of Rwanda scheduled for a meeting wit (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Govt Should Restructure Economy to Save the Poor, Vulnerable Sectors
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Bonny AmadiLagos - What is the best way you will prescribe for CBN to bail out companies and is the bail out worth the while?I believe that CBN will first of all do an analysis of each of these ind (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Robbers On Rampage in Akure, Kill Five, Raid Banks
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: By Yemi AkintomideAkure - A gang of 15 armed robbers threw the streets of Akure into a theatre of war on Thursday, in a commando style operation: it killed five people, and raided four banks.The opera (By News Poster)...http://www.therightperspective.org/2010/06/18/icc-gets-malema-genocide-complaint/
Friday 18-Jun-2010: The International Criminal Court says it has gotten the genocide complaint against ANCYL leader Julius Malema filed by an anonymous Rustenburg farmer. The farmer's lawyer, Fanie van der Walt says t (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Only "Racists" Ban Vuvuzelas: NYC Democrat
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: New York City Councilman Charles Barron has denounced calls to ban vuvuzelas from the 2010 World Cup Games as something "only racists" would do. The Brooklyn Democrat and former Black Panther was f (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Swaziland: Faceless Bombers Sow Insecurity
Monday 14-Jun-2010: Mbabane - No individual or group in Swaziland has admitted responsibility for a spate of recent bombings against government and opposition party targets, but their actions are creating a sense of inst (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (17-06-2010)
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: Howzit Please be aware that there will be no posting on Monday, 21st June 2010 as I am travelling to Wigan for the funeral of our friend and colleague, Brian Laithwaite, one of the skydivers tragic (By The BeardedMan)...Chief's Lame Attempt to Hoodwink Nation
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: SO the Herald's lies factory (Kunyepa) has stepped up production with the arrival of NewsDay on the market.It is the usual thing: Tell a lie and then invent a quote to support it! We are all too famil (By News Poster)...Ghana: How Oil Boom Becomes Oil Doom - Can Ghana Use Oil As a New Window of Development Opportunity?
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Mohammed Amin AdamThus such analysis on the effect of oil revenues on the economy modelled along the long term development agenda of the country will be more appropriate than mortgage such importan (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Hard Drug Trafficking - Base Venture for the Unconscionable Soul
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Etaghene EdirinLagos - Despite the rate at which offenders are being caught and 'hopefully punished', pushers of hard drugs are not seemingly discouraged. If anything, instead of giving up on the n (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Sugar Cane - Lowveld's Lifeblood
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By George MapongaMasvingo - SWASHBUCKLING expanses of sugar plantations and the untamed fauna and flora headline the rich endowment of the Lowveld area in the southeastern extremity of Zimbabwe.The tw (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Finance Minister Storms Out of Cabinet Meeting
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaIN an unprecedented and dramatic action not seen since Independence in 1980, Finance minister Tendai Biti on Tuesday stormed out of a cabinet meeting during a heated debate among min (By News Poster)...Think Tanks Key in Economic Turnaround
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Fortious NhamburaHarare - Zimbabwe's battle to turnaround its economy would be difficult if Government failed to consider the importance think tanks and their findings play in implementing economic (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Govt Denies Assassination Bid on General
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: By Kezio-Musoke David and agenciesKigali - An exiled Rwandan general was in the intensive care unit of a Johannesburg hospital today after being shot in the stomach.Lieutenant-General Faustin Kayumba (By News Poster)...Africa: AfDB is Striving to Meet the Expectations of African People
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: Kigali - During the meeting of Board of Governors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group last month in Abidjan Dr. Donald Kaberuka was re-elected to serve a second term as President of the insti (By News Poster)...Kenya: Israeli Agents to Help Hunt for Park Attackers
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: By Sunday Nation TeamNairobi - A team of Israeli detectives is in Nairobi to help with investigations into the June 13 grenade attacks on a 'No' rally at Uhuru Park. The Israelis will help Kenyan inve (By News Poster)...[Video] The World Cup Stampede Caught on Film
Friday 18-Jun-2010: [What can I say other than secretly laughing to myself at this typical african behaviour. Fact is that for those tourists from all over the world coming to watch the soccer so naively, those that are (By JanOlifant)...Congo-Kinshasa: Pursuing Rebels at What Price
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Laure PichegruOperation Amani Leo, launched jointly by MONUC (the United Nations Mission in Congo) and FARDC (the Congolese army) in January to regain control of mining territories in the eastern p (By News Poster)...[Afrikaans] KILL THE BOER! Afriforum Youth launch FIFA Genocide website & documentary film - with Steve Hofmeyr
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: [This is Afrikaans email is doing the rounds. I've asked JanOlifant to have it translated into english and posted. In the meantime Afrikaners can read this. The gist is that the Afriforum Youth organi (By Jan)...Rwanda: New Land Policy Adheres to Set Continental Guidelines-Land Centre Chief
Friday 18-Jun-2010: Kigali - The first ever National Land Dialogue kicked off yesterday. The dialogue, that is organised Rwanda Initiative for Sustainable Development (RISD), a local NGO, and the office of the Ombudsman, (By News Poster)...Liberia: Cental Slams Govt War on Corruption - Takes Ellen to Task on Promise
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By D Kaihenneh SengbehThe Center for Transparency and Accountability in Liberia (Cental) has criticized the Liberian Government's professed war on corruption claiming that the menace of "corruption re (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Could Islamic Banks Still Face Same Challenges As Commercial Banks?
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Tonbofa AshimiLagos - What is Islamic Banking? If you are as I was a few weeks ago, then you probably know little about Islamic Banking. But you are curious; since the CBN is introducing this form (By News Poster)...Govt Debates Zimdollar Return
Friday 18-Jun-2010: FOLLOWING the formation of the inclusive government, Zimbabwe fully adopted a multi-currency regime mainly to ease the pressure on payment systems and ensure a smooth flow of transactions in the econo (By News Poster)...Liberia: Dogolea Died Not From Torture
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: The wife of Liberia’s former vice president has maintained her testimony that her husband’s death was from illness, not from torture at the hands of Charles Taylor’s security forces (By News Poster)...Somalia: Questions Abound about EU's "Combating" of Piracy
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Julio GodoyModern German justice had never handled a case of piracy until Jun 11, when 10 Somali seafarers, including children, were presented at a tribunal in the city port of Hamburg, some 300 km (By News Poster)...Uganda: Can Criminalising HIV Spread Reduce the Infection Rate?
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Mercy NalugoAs Parliament prepares to debate the HIV/Aids Bill, Ugandans hold different views about the new piece of legislation. Mercy Nalugo explores what these views are.A man in Mbarara is repo (By News Poster)...Uganda: Only 21% Ugandans Have Bank Accounts - Problem or Opportunity?
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Dicta AsiimweKampala - Uganda is the fifth most banked Sub-Saharan African country behind South Africa, according to a survey by the American organisation, Gallup Poll, which does opinion polls in (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Exiled General Shot in South Africa
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: By Felix Osike and agenciesKampala - EXILED former Rwanda military Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa, was yesterday shot by unknown assailants in South Africa where he had sought asylum.Source (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Artists Refuse Silence on Gov't Atrocities
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By SearchIn a bold attempt to stoke public debate on national healing, an art exhibition is challenging the government to publicly acknowledge one of the most hideous episodes in Zimbabwe's history.In (By News Poster)...Nigeria: President Touts New Power Reform Structure
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Ike Abonyi, Onyebuchi Ezigbo and Ruth ChiekezieAbuja - President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday moved to boost his determination to revamp the power sector with the composition of a new structure for (By News Poster)...[Pic] The Best Obama Beer poster ever....
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: [A friend sent me this. Hillarious. Jan] Subject: Best beer poster (Photo) (By Jan)...S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World cup - Government departments spent R11 million on soccer tickets!!!
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: I was chatting to a black lady today and out of curiosity I asked her if she had attended any soccer matches. She said she had attended one, and would be attending another later in the month. I ask (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Ruling Party, Army Use Diamonds to Undermine Unity Govt, Says NGO
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: Harare - ZANU PF elements and members of the secretive Joint Operations Command (JOC) are using the country's diamond resources to undermine the unity government, a new report on the country's diamond (By News Poster)...South Africa: Migrants Fear New Xenophobic Violence After World Cup
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Andrew KabuuraA hatred of foreigners could overshadow the hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup once the final whistle of the tournament is blown, if reports are anything to go by. For the second time (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Report Says Diamonds Sustain Mugabe Regime
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Violet GondaAn international rights group, Partnership Africa Canada, issued a damning report Monday which exposes some of the players who have been at the forefront of the plunder of diamonds in C (By News Poster)...PAC Condemns Violence In Country's Diamond Fields (press release)
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: PAC calls for the release from detention of human rights activist, Farai Maguwu, and the suspension of Zimbabwe from the Kimberley Process.A new PAC report about Zimbabwe's contested diamond fields is (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Traders Warned Against Buying Mbada Diamonds
Friday 18-Jun-2010: London - LISTED Africa Consolidated Resources (ACR) has warned international diamond traders against buying over 3, 5 million carats it says were recently put on display by Mbada Diamonds, one of the (By News Poster)...USA: Stratfor (the CIA's friends) give their take on: S.Africa: 2010 FIFA World Cup & the Geopolitics of the World Cup
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: [This is actually extremely interesting if you focus on the right places. I got this from a friend in the USA who got it from Stratfor. Stratfor do analysis for the CIA. I highlighted somethin (By Jan)...Kenya: Government Calls for Calm After Blast
Monday 14-Jun-2010: Nairobi - The Kenya government called for calm as it launched investigations into the cause of three successive explosions at a rally called by church leaders to campaign against the draft constitutio (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Finance and Mines Ministers Clash Over Plunder of Chiadzwa Diamonds
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Violet GondaGovernment ministers from the MDC-T and ZANU PF are said to have seriously clashed over activities at the diamond mines in Marange. The Zimbabwe Independent reported on Friday that cabi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Land Administration in Abuja - How Far Can FCT Minister Go?
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Catherine AgboThe Abuja Geographic Information Systems (AGIS) was established in 2003 by the Mallam Nasir el-Rufai administration to serve as a check to the alarming cases of land racketeering, dou (By News Poster)...Uganda: You Can't Keep the Army Out of Parliament
Friday 18-Jun-2010: Kampala - It is important to understand why an army should be part of the legislative organ of a state. What are the conditions that allow members of an armed force to be either part of a government o (By News Poster)...Kenya: Police Collect Evidence After Blast
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: Nairobi - INVESTIGATIONS yesterday moved into top gear to find out who was behind the three grenades that killed six people and wounded scores at a crusade-cum-No rally at Uhuru Park on Sunday.Police (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Would Sanusi's Funding Schemes Unlock Credit to the Real Sector?
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Babajide KomolafeThe first year of Sanusi as CBN Governor has witnessed a renewed attempt to stimulate real sector financing by banks. Past attempts in this regard by previous CBN Governor produced (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: RBZ - How the Mighty Have Fallen
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Leonard MakombeFOR outsiders the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s 120m high rise structure in central Harare would naturally symbolise the country's financial-sector nerve centre.But this intimidat (By News Poster)...Death Penalty Falls Heavily on Niger Migrants in Libya
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Laure PichegruThe Libyan government handed over 276 prisoners to authorities from neighbouring Niger on Jun. 17. But none of the dozen or more Nigeriens facing the death sentence in Libya were amon (By News Poster)...South Africa/Zimbabwe: World Cup Roars Into Life
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Petros Kausiyo and Sydney KawadJohannesburg - SOUTH Africa's commercial city of Johannesburg turned into a sea of green and yellow and came to a standstill as the first World Cup on African soil ro (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (20-06-2010)
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: Howzit A reminder that there will be no posting tomorrow as I am travelling to Wigan to attend a funeral. And please forgive the lateness of today's posting as I have been having MAJOR grief fro (By The BeardedMan)...Namibia: Human Trafficking a Reality
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithHUMAN TRAFFICKING violations in Namibia are a reality that requires increased attention and efforts by Namibians in order to identify trafficking and punish traffickers.According to (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Big Oil in Trouble
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Bisi OjediranLagos - Certainly one man who will not enjoy the World Cup is Tony Hayward, the embattled Chief Executive Officer of oil giant, BP. The ferocious oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, resul (By News Poster)...Sudan: Europe Calls for Aid Delivery to Darfur Civilians
Friday 18-Jun-2010: Nairobi - The European Union has urged Sudanese authorities to ensure humanitarian workers reach thousands of people affected by ongoing fighting in Darfur and to improve security across the volatile (By News Poster)...[Pic] Incredible - This sign is in a Store in Houston, Texas...
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: [This is completely disgusting. Spread it around. I hope some folks in Texas go and pay a visit to this store. Jan] Subject: FW: Re: Sign in Houston Store Hi Jan Check this one! D Subject: (By Jan)...Kenya: Security Officers on the Spot over Rally Attack
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Njeri Rugene and Alphonce ShiunduNairobi - Security officers were on the spot Wednesday over possible involvement in the Sunday grenade attack at Nairobi's Uhuru Park.MPs demanded in Parliament tha (By News Poster)...Kenya: Police Offer Reward for Information on Rally Bombers
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Dominic Wabala and Fred MukindaNairobi - Police on Tuesday offered half-a-million shillings reward for information leading to the arrest of people behind Sunday's grenade attack at Uhuru Park.Howev (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Party Defends Strong Presidency in New Constitution
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Faith ZabaHarare - AS ZIMBABWE embarks on the constitution-making outreach programme, Zanu PF wants to retain a powerful executive president position as proposed in the Kariba draft constitution, a (By News Poster)...Gambia: Last Accused Person Gives Evidence
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Fabakary B. CeesayBoth the prosecution and defence teams in the ongoing treason trial involving the state and the former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Lieutenant General Lang Tombong Tamba and seven (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Anger Grows over Kimberley Process Failings
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Alex BellThousands of people from across the world have voiced their anger and frustration with the failure of the international diamond trade monitor, the Kimberley Process, to take action to stop (By News Poster)...Zambia: Microbicide Gel - in Search of HIV Prevention
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Margaret ManganiMS IDAH Munzele was elated at pronouncements that scientists were working tirelessly to develop a microbicide gel that would prevent women from contracting HIV/AIDS.She felt that su (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Gov't Mine Prompts 'Blood Diamond' Review
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Hebert ZharareHarare - THE plot to criminalise Zimbabwe's diamond sector thickened this week with a Canadian-based organisation, Partnership Africa Canada, imploring the Kimberley Process Certifica (By News Poster)...Mugabe Elite Grab Diamonds, Says NGO (press release)
Monday 14-Jun-2010: Zimbabwe's Zanu PF political and military elite are seeking to capture the country's diamond wealth through a combination of state-sponsored violence and the legally questionable introduction of opa (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Shipping Lines Press for Armed Guards On Board
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: Lagos - With piracy incidents increasing and spreading across a wider area beyond the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC), shipping lines have intensified pressure on the International (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Central Bank Critical to Recovery - Tsumba
Friday 18-Jun-2010: Harare - FORMER Reserve Bank governor Dr Leonard Tsumba has authored the second edition of his book on the restructuring and reform of the central bank in efforts to highlight the centrality of the RB (By News Poster)...Namibia: Kleine Kuppe Triple Murder Trial Starts
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Werner MengesTWO men and a silver pistol.This is one of the sights that the sole survivor of a triple murder that took place at a house in Windhoek's Kleine Kuppe area in early 2004 could recall wh (By News Poster)...Organisers Battle to Repair Image
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Robson SharukoJohannesburg - THE organisers of the historic 2010 World Cup were plugging the holes yesterday as they battled to repair an image battered by the first serious incident to rock this t (By News Poster)...Kenya: Serial Killer - Police Failed Miserably
Monday 14-Jun-2010: Nairobi - The recent revelations of confessed serial killer Philip Onyancha's gruesome and astonishing crimes stunned the nation. This spree of murders brutally exposed the shortcomings of the police (By News Poster)...West Africa: U.S. Oil Disaster Could Boost Risks to Region
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: By Amanda WheatThe BP oil spill is an environmental catastrophe for the US, but its consequences will move far beyond the Gulf of Mexico and into the heart of West Africa.If the US places stronger reg (By News Poster)...Why Are Islamic Courts an Issue?
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: By Dana WagnerThey've been called illegal, unconstitutional and segregating. But since independence in 1963 Kadhis' courts have been legal, constitutional and an integrative element of Kenya's heritag (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World Cup - Its just: Crime, crime, crime - Stealing from Journalists, from players, etc...
Monday 14-Jun-2010: A friend was telling me that he got an email from his sister in New Zealand on sunday morning saying that New Zealand journalists had been robbed of $100,000 worth of equipment! It seems this stor (By Jan)...South Africa: 2010: FIFA World cup - It's All a World Farce - The Racist ANC - Worthless Brazilian coaches - Zimbabweans think Bafana Bafana are completely PATHETIC...
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: [I laughed at this pretty good article from Mugabe's propaganda mouthpiece. Even they have serious criticisms of South Africa. For years and years, South Africa has paid untold millions annually t (By News Poster)...Liberia: Former Liberian Vice President Enoch Dogolea's Wife Says No One Told Her That Her Husband Was Beaten Before His Death
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Alpha SesayThe widow of Charles Taylor's former Vice President today testified that she was never told that her husband died from torture administered by Liberian security forces on Mr. Taylor's or (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Unpacking the Key Facts Associated With the World Cup
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By James WadiHarare - THE South African economy contracted by 1,8 percent in 2009 and current projections are that it will register a positive growth of 2,6 percent in 2010.Based on Gross Domestic Pro (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: UK MP Exposes Illegal Land Deals
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: Harare - A British parliamentarian has admitted that his countrymen are illegally sub-letting farms from unscrupulous Zimbabweans who were allocated land under the agrarian reforms of the past decade. (By News Poster)...Kenya: Three MPs Charged With Hate Speech
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: Nairobi - Three MPs were charged with hate speech and incitement to violence yesterday morning.In the afternoon, Roads assistant minister Wilfred Machage, Mt Elgon MP, Fred Kapondi, and Cherangany MP (By News Poster)...Kenya: Local Police Abuse Refugees
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Paul JumaNairobi - The Kenya Police has been accused of abusing and extorting money from asylum seekers and refugees at the Somalia border and in nearby refugee camps.A report released by the Human (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Evicted Farmer Plans High Court Intervention
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Alex BellA commercial farmer forcibly evicted from his Chipinge property over the weekend is to seek the intervention of the High Court, to allow him back on his farm.Trevor Gifford, the former pre (By News Poster)...Africa: Why is Feeding the Hungry So Controversial?
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: New York - The US Senate is expected to pass the Global Food Security Act, new legislation that would significantly expand the government's commitment to combating hunger worldwide with a broad range (By News Poster)...S.Africa: On the brink of a new Race War & attacks on Black Zimbabweans? July 12th... - Some Thoughts about the ANC....
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: I see that Adriana has gathered together over 3,000 emails to do with warnings of race war. I just want to finish some other work and then I'll read her analysis and information about July. Wha (By Jan)...Nigeria: Experts Suggest Ways to Boost Insurance Industry
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Kingsley IghomwenghianThe banking sector consolidation in the 18-month between July 2004 and December 31, 2005, undoubtedly changed the face of the industry in Nigeria, with the players sufficientl (By News Poster)...South Africa: Beware ATM Fraud, Banks Warn Clients
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - THE big four banks were on high alert for international ATM fraud syndicates planning to cash in on unsuspecting local customers and visitors during the World Cup.While (By News Poster)...South Africa: Time to Make Tricky Power Decisions
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - The most anticipated outcomes of the government-driven electricity planning process, through the second integrated resource plan, is clarity on who will be responsible (By News Poster)...South Africa: HIV Activists March On U.S.
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Lungi LangaHIV activists have accused the United States and European governments of betraying their commitments to assist poorer nations fund treatment for those needing HIV treatment."2010 is mean (By News Poster)...Tanzania: With a Leaner Budget, Will HIV-Positive Survive?
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Orton KiishwekoIN 2009, the sharp pangs of the global financial crisis led to the cutting of the HIV/AIDS national response budget by 20 percent. A very important donor had walked out.This year, th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bafana's Date With Destiny
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Robson SharukoJohannesburg - BUOYANT Bafana Bafana - with an entire nation on their side on an historic day in this country's fight against the cruelty of apartheid - take on Uruguay at Loftus in P (By News Poster)...Africa: Cash to Fill the Food Gap?
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: Dakar - Logistical and funding constraints could cause shortages in the food aid pipeline from July onward, hampering distributions to some of Niger's 7.8 million food-insecure people, say NGOs and th (By News Poster)...Central Africa: UPDF Still Silent On Dead Soldiers in Central Africa
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Risdel Kasasira and Alex AtuhaireKampala - The army has remained silent, close to a week after reports emerged that fresh attacks from suspected Lord's Resistance Army rebels in the Central African (By News Poster)...Kenya: Wants Amisom Upgraded to UN Mission
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Nick WachiraNairobi - In the past six months, fighters of the Somali terrorist network Harakat Al Shabaab al-Mujahideen, have made six incursions across the Kenyan border into Liboi, a hamlet locat (By News Poster)...South Africa: Land Bank to Redeem Bond, Issue New Note
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Linda EnsorJohannesburg - The financially stronger Land Bank is planning to redeem a R2,2bn bond soon and is also planning to register a new R10bn domestic medium-term note programme - to be raised (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zanu PF Plot to Scrap PM's Post
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: By Sandra MandizvidzaHarare - ZANU PF is coaching its supporters to call for the entrenchment of President Robert Mugabe's executive powers at the same time scrapping the post of Prime Minister in the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: America ratchets up pressure on Robert Mugabe's mob
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: UNITED States secretary of state Hillary Clinton says the Obama administration will maintain pressure on President Robert Mugabe and accused the “ruling clique” within his Zanu PF party of personally (By Jan)...Nigeria: Gunmen Invade Senator Saraki's Abuja Home
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Kunle Akogun, Sufuyan Ojeifo and Yemi AkinsuyiAbuja - But for sheer providence, Nigeria would have been thrown into another bout of mourning yesterday as armed men invaded the Maitama District, Abu (By News Poster)...Namibia: Crime: Widow Relives Murder of German Tourist - woman made to lie on her dead husband
Friday 18-Jun-2010: [What a sickening story. Hang them... hang them. At this time, in some secrecy, there is a big fight going on between the South African and Botswana Govts. Botswana wants to hang a black South Afr (By News Poster)...Intel Turns to Schools to Boost Sciences
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Sue BlaineJohannesburg - THE South African school system is not geared to giving the country the scientists, technologists and engineers it needs to compete in the increasingly knowledge-based glob (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (16-06-2010)
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- When I read this, I was quite shocked at the front that Mugabe's people have. Whenever there is a problem, a reason and a possible cure, th (By The BeardedMan)...China, Robert Mugabe Pledge to Enhance Military Relations
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: China values its traditional friendship with Zimbabwe and hopes to push forward relations between the two countries as well as the two armed forces, said Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie here o (By Jan)...Did you know that S.Africa's crime statistics are officially a STATE SECRET - they're CLASSIFIED - The Crime Stats you never get to see...
Monday 14-Jun-2010: Nobody talks much about this, but you recall in 2000 President Mbeki put a moratorium on the release of all crime statistics. That "moratorium" has NEVER been rescinded. It is quite obvious that t (By Jan)...Kenya: Love Speech Will Wipe Clean Countrya's Dark Slate of Hate
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: By Kwamchetsi MakokhaArrests, trials and maybe convictions for suspected hate-mongers have the capacity to transform Kenya's hate-filled landscape into a haven of love and tolerance.The urgency with w (By News Poster)...Somalia: New Clashes Erupt in Mogadishu
Friday 18-Jun-2010: At least 20 people were killed and dozens others injured in heavy shelling and gunfire exchanged between Somali government forces and insurgents in south and northern Somali capital Mogadishu, witness (By News Poster)...Namibia: Pouring Water On Troubled Oil
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Chris SmithLIFE is always about choices especially when, as a column writer, views are expressed publicly and necessarily fairly briefly.Support for a particular individual, in this case President (By News Poster)...Mozambique: National Investment Bank Created
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican and Portuguese governments formalized in Maputo on Monday the creation of the National Investment Bank (BNI).The bank has share capital of 500 million US dollars and is to focu (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Land Invaders Evict More Farmers
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Lance GumaAfter the recent evictions of 16 white commercial farmers two more, including Trevor Gifford the former Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) Vice President, took place on Sunday evening.The oth (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC Officials Deny 'Joining' Land Grab?
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Jennifer DubeMIDLANDS' governor Jason Machaya says he is scouting for farms to distribute to senior MDC-T officials in the province including Public Service Minister Eliphas Mukonoweshuro in a move (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Ibuka Petitions U.S. Congress
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Frank KanyesigyeKigali - Genocide survivors have petitioned the US Congress to throw out a petition tabled before it calling for the release of Peter Erlinder, an American lawyer detained in Rwanda (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Strong Political Will Fuels Country's Fight Against Trafficking
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Jane MorseNigeria, like many countries in Africa, must cope with issues such as corruption, mismanagement and poverty. Nonetheless, the country has become a success to be emulated with its drive to (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Cotton Price War Rages On
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: Harare - AS the war between cotton farmers and merchants over prices continues, Government may intervene and set minimum prices amid revelations that the matter has been referred to Cabinet.Cotton mer (By News Poster)...Ghana: As Ghanaians Protest High Energy Prices
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Tony OkeraforLagos - Over the better part of the last decade-and-half, experts have adjudged Ghana to be the fastest growing economy in the West African sub region. Apart from Liberia, Ghana ranks (By News Poster)...Africa: Myth of Continent's Economic Miracle
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Kofi AnnanTHIS is an important year for Africa. The World Cup is putting the continent at the centre of global attention. With Africa's strengths and frailties under greater international scrutiny (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (19-06-2010)
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: Howzit There are very few stories on the internet this morning, so I do not envisage this posting being very long. -o00o- If ever there was a table made of the abilities of mediators in the g (By The BeardedMan)...Rwanda: Gov't Bodies Urged to Coordinate Land Issues
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Ivan R MugishaKigali - The Director of Rwanda Initiative for Sustainable Development (RISD), Annie Kairaba, has called upon key government institutions responsible for land programs, to work hand-i (By News Poster)...Sudan: Darfur Rebels Appear in Hague Court Over Attack on Peacekeepers
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: As Darfur rebel commanders surrendered to the Court, and were scheduled to appear on Thursday, ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo issued a statement saying he “welcomes compliance with the Cour (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Insecurity in South-East - Military Might to the Rescue
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: OMUGO is an Igbo word which finds relevance in almost all Nigerian tribes. It is an exercise every Nigerian mother looks forward to with enthusiasm. So, what is Omugo? It is a mother's visit to her da (By News Poster)...Why is Feeding the Hungry So Controversial?
Monday 14-Jun-2010: New York - The US Senate is expected to pass the Global Food Security Act, new legislation that would significantly expand the government's commitment to combating hunger worldwide with a broad range (By News Poster)...Higuain Hammers South Korea
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Robson SharukoJohannesburg - GONZALO HIGUAIN fired the first hat-trick of the 2010 World Cup as a rampant Argentina showed why they have become the hottest team at this tournament with a breathtaki (By News Poster)...Angola: UN Ambassador Announces Seizure of Seventy-Four Thousand Firearms
Friday 18-Jun-2010: New York - The Angolan permanent representative to the United Nations, Ismael Gaspar Martins, Thursday in New York announced that a total of 74,495 firearms were seized in Angola the last two years, a (By News Poster)...South Africa: More Sentenced in World Cup Special Courts
Friday 18-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - Another person has been tried and jailed in a specialised court dedicated to deal with World Cup related crimes.In a statement released by the SAPS under the order of Brigadier Sally De (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chegutu Farmer Ben Freeth Receives Royal Honours
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Alex BellChegutu farmer Ben Freeth, who has been campaigning for the rights and protection of commercial farmers in Zimbabwe, has received a prestigious royal award from the Queen of England, for h (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Push Man to Death From Bridge
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Ovie ChristopherLagos - Pandemonium broke out at Orile yesterday following alleged killing of a man suspected to be a staff of Julius Berger PLC by policeman at check- point in the area . The murde (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Zenith Bank Gingers Stakeholders
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Bonny AmadiLagos - Stakeholders in the Nigerian financial spectrum yesterday in Lagos gave a boost to recovery of the nation's economy from the impact of the global financial crisis, even as they w (By News Poster)...Three Dead in Nairobi Blast (news)
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Lucas Barasa, John Njagi and John NgirachuNairobi - Three people died and more than 70 others were on Sunday hurt after two explosions caused a stampede at a 'No' rally in Nairobi's Uhuru Park.The (By News Poster)...Somalia: At Least 13 Dead in Mogadishu Weekend Violence
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Abdurrahman WarsamehInfighting between Somali government security forces over the weekend left at least 13 people dead and almost 14 others wounded in the Somali capital Mogadishu.Somali government (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Campaigners Demand Release of Jailed Diamond Activist
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: By Alex BellInternational campaigners on Friday demanded the release of jailed Zimbabwean diamond researcher, Farai Maguwu, who is set to spend a third weekend behind bars.Judgement on Maguwu's bail h (By News Poster)...Towards a More Proactive Police Force
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Gwen ListerTHE Minister of Police, Nangolo Mbumba, needs to take a long, hard look at the force, and if possible, make surprise visits to Police stations around the country to assess the situation. (By News Poster)...Central Africa: Army Rejects Killing Sodiers in Central African Republic
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Herbert SsempogoKampala - SUDANESE militia, the Janjaweed, not LRA rebels, probably killed over 10 Ugandan soldiers in the Central African Republic (CAR) recently, the army has said.The militia gro (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamond Saga - Government Role in Chikane Mission Raises Eyebrows
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Vusumuzi SifileFEARS that Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) monitor for Marange, Abbey Chikane could have been influenced to write a report favourable to the government are mounting aft (By News Poster)...Somalia: Gunmen Kill Prosecutor in Puntland After Insurgent Arrests
Monday 14-Jun-2010: Unknown gunmen shot and killed a recently appointed prosecutor in Puntland, a stable region in northern Somalia, Radio Garowe reports.The victim, Ali Jama Kalas, was a former Puntland police investiga (By News Poster)...Africa: World Refugee Day
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: The following address was issued by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.Good morning, and welcome to the Benjamin Franklin Room here on the eighth floor of the State Department. And we’re de (By News Poster)...Africa: U.S. Influence Being Felt at International Criminal Court
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Stephen KaufmanThe 111 countries party to the International Criminal Court (ICC) adopted aggression as a prosecutable crime after a two-week review conference in Uganda, but the leaders of the U.S. (By News Poster)...Game Farms Growing as Pillar of Tourism Economy
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - GAME farming and hunting is becoming an increasingly important pillar in the economic development of the country, with an enormous capacity to improve the social, econ (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Power - FG Spends U.S.$3 Billion On Gas Supply in Three Years
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Obas Esiedesa And Adeola YusufThe Federal Government on Tuesday declared that it had expended three billion dollars ($3 billion) on gas investment and other developmental efforts to boast power gen (By News Poster)...Rights Issue Will Provide KCB With Internal Capital
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Jeff OtienoNairobi - KCB, Kenya's largest bank, will be launching its third Rights Issue this week, targeting to raise Ksh15 billion. The chief executive officer talked to JEFF OTIENO, a day after (By News Poster)...[2 Pics] S.Africa: Soccer 2010 - Black soccer fans breaking down a fence...
Monday 14-Jun-2010: I obtained these photos recently. They were taken at night at a soccer match in South Africa. These photos were taken at a soccer match BEFORE the FIFA World cup. I'm not sure of the exact date. I had (By Jan)...Shaduka Insists Wife Died in Gun Accident
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Werner MengesTHE gunshot death of his wife in their home in Klein Windhoek almost two years ago was nothing but an accident, businessman Lazarus Shaduka continued to insist to the end of his testim (By News Poster)...Nigeria: May Oil Exports Average 2.1 Million Barrels Daily
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Sopuruchi OnwukaLagos - Nigeria's crude oil output to the market dipped in the month of May after two major producers, Shell and ExxonMobil, temporarily differed production and export at some sites (By News Poster)...Liberia: Stakeholders Propose Taskforce On Diamond Smuggling
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Varney M. KamaraA one-day National Dialogue Forum intended to tackle diamond smuggling in Liberia has ended in Monrovia with major stakeholders proposing the establishment of a regional taskforce i (By News Poster)...Namibia: Fuel Price Drops
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Jo-Maré DuddyCONSUMERS start the week with a double dose of good news: Not only will they get their first fuel price breather for the year, but the latest inflation figures also show that the price (By News Poster)...West Africa: Fighting Money Laundering
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Patrick BaidooAbuja - The Director-General of the Inter-Governmental Body against Money Laundering (GIABA) in West Africa, Dr. Abdullahi Shehu, has called for the strengthening of regulatory framew (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Monarch Kidnapped, Two Subjects Killed
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Ahamefula OgbuPort Harcourt - The problem of kidnapping again came to the fore yesterday when a monarch, Ochimba 1 of Umuebulu in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State, Eze Sunday Njoku, was (By News Poster)...Algeria: Anti-Corruption Campaign Puts Beijing in Line of Fire
Friday 18-Jun-2010: Chinese companies are caught in the political crossfire between President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and his opponents in the military and intelligence services led by General Mohammed 'Tewfik' Mediene.The (By News Poster)...South Africa: Strike 'Hurt' Gold One But Was 'Necessary'
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Simon MundyJohannesburg - GOLD One CEO Neal Froneman said yesterday that a four-week strike at the company's flagship Modder East mine had been "necessary" to establish a stable relationship with t (By News Poster)...Namibia: Nuclear Power Still a Long Way Off
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyNamibia still has a long way to go before it will be able to generate nuclear power, NamPower Managing Director Paulinus Shilamba has said."It is a programme, not a project," Shilamba (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Man, 28, to Die for Killing Wife, 14, Over Sex
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Sharafa Dauda And Yahaya IbrahimMaiduguri - A twenty eight year old qur'anic school student resident in Bulabulin Ngarnam Ward, Maiduguri was yesterday sentenced to death by hanging for killing his (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kiboko Squad Exposes Weakness of Our Institutions
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Adam Morris NsambaOn June 9, the Kiboko Squad was once again unleashed upon the leaders of the Inter-Party Cooperation (IPC) in what is slowly becoming a common response to demonstrations in Uganda (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Thuggery, Gangsterism Dominate Discourse in Kano
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Ibrahim ShuaibuLagos - With the 2011 general elections fast approaching, the major fear of residents of Kano is how to tame the growing tide of thuggery among unemployed youths.Ahead of the 2011 ge (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: No Agreement From KP Monitoring Group On Diamonds
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Violet GondaA key meeting on Monday to debate the future certification of Zimbabwean diamonds came to no conclusion. The Kimberley Process Working Group on Monitoring (WGM) held a teleconference me (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: External Debt Soars
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Bright MaderaHarare - ZIMBABWE'S soaring external debt is threatening the country's economic recovery and further suffocating the fiscus as Treasury is forking out more than US$4 million every mont (By News Poster)...Zambia: Arrest Land 'Thieves'
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has directed police to arrest and prosecute people involved in illegal grabbing and allocation of land regardless of their political affiliation.President Banda said the police (By News Poster)...S.Africa: VERY IMPORTANT WARNING: ANC to unleash massive wave of attacks on Black Zimbabweans on 11th July...
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: I have heard information from a normally reliable source that might put a whole new spin on 11th July. A regular reader tells me he knows a Police station commander who told him that ALL ACROSS SOU (By Jan)...Uganda: U.S Refuses to Sign As Delegates Endorse Crime of Aggression
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Solomon Muyita, Ismail Musala Ladu & Angelo IzamaThe use of violence by one state against another is now a crime triable by the International Criminal Court after delegates, following a consensus a (By News Poster)...More Heads Roll As MDC-T Rift Widens
Monday 14-Jun-2010: Harare - Internecine strife in MDC-T continues unabated amid reports that senior officials in at least three provinces have been suspended while mayors and councillors from various party-dominated mun (By News Poster)...Kenya: Violence Victims Must Lead Fight for Justice
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: By Gabriel DolanEncounters with victims of the post-election violence are disheartening and humbling experiences. Thankfully, many have picked up their lives through dogged resilience and human suppor (By News Poster)...Nigeria: We'll Crush Kidnappers - Jonathan
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: By Malachy UzenduAbuja - PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday vowed to address increasing insecurity, especially kidnapping in the South Eastern part of the country, saying "we will spend the last mo (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt to Decide Zisco's Fate
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: By Chris MuronziGOVERNMENT is this week expected to decide whether or not to sell Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco), a source close to the deal says.The source told businessdigest that governmen (By News Poster)...Mauritius: Fuel for thought
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: By Nicholas RainerPort Louis - Statistics are a bit like Marmite. You either swear by them or flee them like the Plague. Yet in a country where both quantitative and qualitative information often come (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: NDH Bank Fails to Raise U.S.$14 Million
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Bernard MpofuNDH Holdings' major shareholders failed to raise US$14 million required to boost minimum capital requirements for beleaguered NDH Merchant bank despite being granted a three-month grac (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bankole Embezzled N11 Billion - Reps
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Adekunle AdesujiAbuja - The group of lawmakers rooting for the removal of Speaker Dimeji Bankole yesterday made good its threat to release documents relating to the Speaker's alleged corrupt practi (By News Poster)...Businessman Testifies On Shooting of Wife
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Werner Menges"I COULD not accept it, my heart could not accept it; I was shocked and I was confused."This was how businessman and murder suspect Lazarus Shaduka (37) yesterday described his emotion (By News Poster)...Africa: U.S. - Step Up Pressure on Allies Using Child Soldiers
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: The United States should put pressure on governments identified by the State Department as using child soldiers to end the practice or lose US military assistance, Human Rights Watch said today.The St (By News Poster)...Burundi: Grenade Attacks Mar Run-Up to Election
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: By Judith Basutama21 persons were injured in a series of grenade blasts on Friday and Saturday in the town of Kayanza in northern Burundi, reports say.Opposition parties have been blamed for the attac (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Ambassador Grilled over Former Intelligence Offficer's Exile, Kagame
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: Following the flight of Rwanda's former chief of intelligence services Lt. Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa to exile in February this year, The Independent sought out Rwanda's High Commissioner to Uganda, Maj. G (By News Poster)...Uganda: Army Confirms 10 Dead in Car Attacks
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Risdel KasasiraKampala - The Chief of Defence Forces, Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, yesterday confirmed the attack on a UPDF squad in Central African Republic and put the number of the dead soldiers to " (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Cracking Down on Corruption
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Ike AbonyiAbuja - President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday identified greed as the major stumbling block to the nation's development, warning that Nigerians engaging in corrupt practices would no long (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gunmen Storm Gbemi Saraki's Home
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Uchenna AwomAbuja - Four armed men suspected to be hired assassins were said to have stormed the residence of Senator Gbemisola Saraki at No. 6 Panama Street, Maitama, Abuja yesterday morning with (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG, U.S. Sign Agreement On Renewable Energy
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Tokunbo AdedojaWashington DC - Nigeria and the United States yesterday signed an agreement on renewable energy as parts of US commitment to assist Nigeria in tackling the problem of power supply.As (By News Poster)...Sudan: Darfur Rebels Surrender to Court
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: As Darfur rebel commanders surrendered to the Court, and were scheduled to appear on Thursday, ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo issued a statement saying he “welcomes compliance with the Cour (By News Poster)...Africa: Obama Administration Committed to AGOA Partnership With Continent
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Charles W. CoreyThe Obama administration is very much committed to a strong partnership with Africa, and the ninth annual U.S.-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum -- better know (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Exceeds Revenue Target
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Bright MaderaHarare - GOVERNMENT has managed to live within its means in the first quarter of the year, collecting US$411,5 million and spending the bulk of the money on recurrent expenditure and o (By News Poster)...Uganda: Why We Should Talk About HIV During the World Cup
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Michel SidibéKampala - AS football fans from around the world arrived in South Africa to cheer their favourite teams at the World Cup, we must not lose sight of one unwelcome guest - HIV. Why shoul (By News Poster)...South Africa: 400 000 Follow World Cup in Fan Parks - Fifa
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Robson SharukoJohannesburg - THE World Cup show might be unfolding here in South Africa's stadiums, but such is the passion of fans around the globe, to watch the matches in a stadium atmosphere th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Independent Power Boost for Eskom
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - IN A breakthrough for private electricity producers, Eskom has agreed to independent power producer Ipsa becoming one of the first to contribute to the national grid, w (By News Poster)...Somalia: Major Pro-Govt Militia Denies Defection to Qaeda-Linked Al-Shabaab
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: The Islamist Leader of Somalia's Hizbul Islam militant Sheikh Dahir Aweys denied that any defection of some his group's officials to the rival al-Shabaab militants.Addressing journalists, Aweys said t (By News Poster)...Sudan: Suspects in Killing of Darfur Peacekeepers to Appear Before ICC on Thursday
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: Two rebel leaders accused in the September 2007 attack that resulted in the death of 12 peacekeepers in Darfur arrived voluntarily at the International Criminal Court (ICC) today and will appear befor (By News Poster)...Rwanda: U.S. Lawyer's Appeal Goes to High Court
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Edwin MusoniKigali - Embattled American defence lawyer, Prof. Peter Erlinder, yesterday appeared before the High Court in Kigali to appeal against the ruling by a lower court to be remanded in cust (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Niger State - a Rural Development Vision
Monday 14-Jun-2010: FROM Beijing in China to Minna in Nigeria's own Niger State is a distance of which myths may be made. From Chairman Mao Tse-tung, founder of modern China to Dr Muazu Babaginda Aliyu, the governor of p (By News Poster)...Police Clampdown On Commuter Buses Condemned
Monday 14-Jun-2010: HARARE residents have condemned police's heavy handed blitz on commuter omnibus operators.Their condemnation comes after reports that police used live bullets to immobilise a motorist who had defied i (By News Poster)...How Mawere Was Despecified
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Chris MuronziA FEW months after Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara was sworn in last year, he called for the return of Zimbabwe's business "superstars".Mutambara, who spoke as acting leader of (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe, Tsvangirai Agree on Need for New Laws
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - Zimbabwe has finally launched the programme to rewrite the country's constitution but financial constraints, political intimidation and violence threaten the 90 day consult (By News Poster)...Namibia: Autogas - a Breath of Fresh Air?
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) has been hailed as a cheaper and more environmentally friendly vehicle fuel than conventional petrol and diesel, but if this is true, why has the concept been slow to take o (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Zuma Team Back in Zimbabwe
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - South African President Jacob Zuma has dispatched his facilitation team back to Zimbabwe to revive the stalled power sharing talks amid evidence of a fierce battle for the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bankole in Torchlight Contract Scam
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Abiodun AdelajaAbuja - A N30 million contract for the procurement of torchlight for members of the House of Representatives is one of the things haunting embattled Speaker, Hon Dimeji Bankole, Satu (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Digital Security is Tops As CTO 2010 Ends
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: By Emeka AginamRunning in its 20th series, the United States of America's Computers, Telecommunications and Office equipment, CTO 2010 ended last week in Lagos, even as it continues to expose Nigerian (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nine U.S. Based Locals Named in Identity Theft Scam
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Tokunbo Adedoja and Paul OhiaNew York/Lagos - Nine US-based Nigerians are among 18 people named in a multi-million dollar identity theft scam affecting 27 banks and 60 individuals, including 20 mem (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Meltdown - Sunmonu Urges Nations to Shun World Bank, IMF Solutions
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Funmi KomolafeGeneva - Governments have been warned to steer clear of recommendations of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF) in their bid to find solutions to the current glob (By News Poster)...Kenya: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee or Bid Country Bye
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Lucy Oriang'The Uhuru Park grenade blasts that left six people dead and 131 injured joins a long list of atrocities committed against Kenyans since the 1960s. At the core of the death and destructi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zimbabwe Wants Births Recorded by Home Affairs
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Wilson JohwaJohannesburg - ZIMBABWE is lobbying SA to issue birth certificates to children born of Zimbabwean parents living in SA, a request that could add to the Department of Home Affairs' workl (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Rep Sues Senator over House Ownership
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Tordue SalemAbuja - The collegial battle between a member of the House of Representatives, Rep. Eseme Sunday Eyiboh and his Senate counterpart, Sen. Muhammed Gusau, over the possession of a five-be (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Traders Accuse Police of Extortion in Computer Village
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Emmanuel ElebekeTRADERS in the popular Computer Village otherwise known as Otigba market, Ikeja last week accused men of the Nigerian police of impersonation and extortion in the market.Although Po (By News Poster)...South Africa: Fraud Claims as Financial Services Company Quits Rwanda
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - STRICKEN Blue Financial Services (BFS) is walking away from its Rwandan venture under a cloud of fraud accusations by the country's central bank, which the micro financi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: European Union Insincere - Govt
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: Harare - THE European Union is not committed to re-engaging Zimbabwe in dialogue to normalise relations and lift the illegal economic sanctions the bloc imposed on the country, Foreign Affairs Ministe (By News Poster)...Kenya: Credit Reports on Bank Customers to Check Unplanned Borrowing
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Jared GetengaIn the last few years, many banks and other lenders have introduced a variety of innovative products that have made access to loans a lot easier.The lending environment, particularly i (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Inflation Rising Again
Monday 14-Jun-2010: Maputo - The Maputo city Consumer Price Index rose by 1.97 percentage points in May, bringing accumulated inflation over the first five months of the year to 8.79 per cent, according to a Monday press (By News Poster)...East Africa: Pregnancy and HIV Vaccine Trials
Monday 14-Jun-2010: Nairobi - Unintended pregnancies during East African clinical trials of an HIV vaccine are proving problematic. "One or two women dropping out of a study of 40 people makes a big difference to the dat (By News Poster)...Namibia: Distance From Walvis Determines Fuel Price
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyPETROL prices will drop by between 26 cents and 29 cents per litre at one minute past midnight tonight, while the diesel price will fall by between 13 cents and 15 cents per litre.Diff (By News Poster)...Liberia: Witness Says, ECOMOG Peacekeepers Were Involved in Business Transactions
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Alpha SesayWest African peacekeepers sold diesel supplies to Sierra Leonean rebel forces as they prepared to launch an attack on their country from Liberia in the early 1990s, a defense witness for (By News Poster)...Namibia: Power Pain Just Being Postponed - Shilamba
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Denver KistingTHE recent public outcry against a proposed 35 per cent power price hike was "mainly based on misinformation" - something the media should be held responsible for, NamPower MD Paulinu (By News Poster)...America: Maryland Endorses Immigration
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By signing HB65 — International Marriage Brokers Regulation (IMBR) — Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, on May 20, 2010, willfully condoned pernicious gender profiling. The framers of this unconstitut (By JanOlifant)...Zimbabwe: IMF Recommends More Reforms
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: Harare - ZIMBABWE needs to improve quality of economic statistics and make further economic reforms to make progress towards approval for loans from the International Monetary Fund, its visiting missi (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Bulcha Demeksa: Eight Decades in a Nutshell
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Eden Sahle A pillar in Ethiopian and African society, Bulcha Demeksa, refraining from competing in the 2010 National Elections and watching the defeat of his party along with all other opposition p (By News Poster)...Africa: The Changing Political Face of the God Squad
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Dale McKinleyBack in the bad old days of apartheid, things seemed to be a lot clearer when it came to God and politics. Leaving aside the confirmed agnostics, atheists and confused fence-sitters, y (By News Poster)...Liberia: New Life for Old Rubber Trees
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: Monrovia - At first glance it looks like a fully grown tropical forest, but among the thick undergrowth, the trees still stand in lines, their trunks deeply scarred. This was once a productive rubber (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Nationals Top World List of Asylum Seekers - 158,200 sought Political asylum in 2009 alone!
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: [Hideous but true. I can't understand why the good must flee and the evil must remain. Why can't the good kick the evil out of Zimbabwe? I can't stand this never-ending injustice. Jan] ZIMBABWEANS (By News Poster)...South Africa: Committee Gets Flak for Stadium Security Walkouts
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Simon MundyJohannesburg - THE controversy over security contracts at several World Cup stadiums rumbled on yesterday, as opposition politicians united with trade unions to condemn a situation that (By News Poster)...Rwanda: ICTR Defence Lawyers Brainwashed - Ngoga
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Our ReporterKigali - The Prosecutor General, Martin Ngoga, has strongly castigated another defence lawyer at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), whom he said, is among the "brain (By News Poster)...Uganda: Army Chief Warns Opposition on Violence
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Steven CandiaKampala - The Chief of Defence Forces, Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, yesterday warned opposition politicians against resorting to violence to settle political differences.Speaking at a funct (By News Poster)...Mozambique: IMF Approves New PSI for Country
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: Maputo - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a new three year Policy Support Instrument (PSI) for Mozambique.According to an IMF press release, the IMF Executive Board took this decisio (By News Poster)...Economic Expansion Sought for Omaheke
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Kae Matundu-TjiparuroWindhoek - A feasibility study should be conducted on the viability of establishing a dairy enterprise in the Omaheke Region. A business and management plan thereof should also (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Lawyers Make Bid to Free Diamond Activist
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Violet GondaLawyers representing Farai Maguwu, the diamond rights researcher who has spent his second weekend in police custody, have managed to file an urgent application in the High Court to appe (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: No Let-Up in Female Genital Mutilation
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Hindowa E. SaiduFreetown - On my way to Freetown in the early hours of 28th of May (around 6:15am), I saw a group of people (about 30) at a stream in a neighborhood called Fulawan in Bo city. When (By News Poster)...Kenya: Man Held with Seven Guns at Roadblock
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: By Fred Mukinda and Bob OdaloNairobi - A man on the police list of gun runners in Kenya has been arrested and is being questioned in connection with Sunday's grenade attacks at Uhuru Park.Undercover o (By News Poster)...Nigeria - Cameroon Highway to Boost Trade
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Chidi UgwuLagos - There is no gain saying that reducing the costs of transport will make West Africa more competitive in world markets.A recent World Bank study found that a 10 percent reduction in (By News Poster)...Africa: World Cup HIV Campaigns
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: Nairobi - The 2010 FIFA World Cup is underway in South Africa and HIV/AIDS campaigners are taking advantage of the international focus on Africa to raise awareness about HIV. IRIN/PlusNews lists some (By News Poster)...Somalia: Oxfam warns that entire generation of Somali children is at risk
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: In observance of the Day of the African Child, Oxfam urges the international community to act now to save the lives of almost a quarter of a million children in Somalia threatened by conflict, malnutr (By News Poster)...Tanzania: BOT Triples Bank Minimum Capital to Sh15 Billion
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Alvar MwakyusaThe Bank of Tanzania (BoT) plans to increase the minimum capital requirement for commercial banks to Sh15 billion from the current Sh5 billion in a bid to strengthen crisis preparedne (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banks Lose 66 Percent of Capital to Financial Crisis - CBN
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Amaka IfeakanduAbuja - The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has said that it was a miracle that the nation's banking system were still standing and lending as it (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Organic Food - 'Nation Should Not Be Left Behind'
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By George OkohLagos - Agriculture is the basis for millions of livelihoods in Nigeria and improvement of the agricultural sector is a prerequisite for development of many states in the country, some e (By News Poster)...Somalia: EU Navfor's Seek, Disrupt and Destroy Policy Continues It's Success
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: Following hot on the heels of EU NAVFOR French ship Tonnerre's success, who earlier today (1st May) tracked down and destroed a mother ship, EU NAVFOR FS La Fayette destroyed another Mother ship and h (By News Poster)...Kenya: Fearing Poison, Farmers to Grow Maize for Energy Only
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: By Jacob Ng'etichNairobi - Farmers in Eastern province and parts of Coast are to be forced to grow maize for energy production only, following a report that aflatoxin contamination is generic in the a (By News Poster)...Embrace Empowerment - President
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: Harare - President Mugabe says youths should take advantage of various economic empowerment initiatives and safeguard Zimbabwe's independence.Speaking at the joint opening of the 18th Session of the C (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Amnesty International Report Criticizes Human Rights Record
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Ray NaluyagaThe government's failure to table before Parliament The Media Services Bill, alleged threats and harassment of journalists reporting negative stories about high senior politicians, have (By News Poster)...Kenya: Minister Defiant on 'Hate' Remarks
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Star TeamNairobi - Higher Education minister William Ruto yesterday said he will not apologise to Muslims as three MPs were summoned to CID headquarters to record statements on hate speech.By last (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chamber of Mines Expresses Commitment to Industry Transparency
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Sifelani TsikoHarare - The Chamber of Mines has endorsed the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative established to encourage and assist countries rich in natural resources to report all paymen (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Shareholders Endorse Wema Bank Growth Strategy
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Bonny AmadiLagos - Shareholders of Wema Bank applauded the new growth initiatives of the board of directors maintaining that the bank has repositioned to consistently create increasing value for al (By News Poster)...Comoros: Men Quizzed over Suspected Terror Links
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Galgalo BochaNairobi - Police in Lamu are questioning two Comoros nationals who were arrested at the weekend over possible links with terrorism activities in Somalia.Lamu police boss Samson ole Kin (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Elections Will Open Old Wounds
Monday 14-Jun-2010: Harare - THE reason the inclusive Government established the Organ on National Healing and Reconciliation was because the hotly contested elections since the year 2000 had left many people wounded, di (By News Poster)...South Africa: Abused Women At a Higher Risk of HIV
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Lungi LangaWomen in abusive relationships have a higher risk of being infected with HIV, a South African Medical Research Council study has found.Researchers said one in seven new HIV infections co (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Food, Commodity Prices Surge in Kigali
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Saul ButeraKigali - Prices of some foodstuff have soared in most markets around Kigali, while prices of others like Matooke is still stable, according to a mini-survey carried out by Business Times (By News Poster)...Uganda: Korea to Start Farming Institute Locally
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: Kampala - The Korean republic is to establish an agricultural training institution in Uganda to equip farmers with better skills, an official has said."The institution will focus on mindset change of (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Democracy has Room for Military Intervention, Says Defence Chief
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Tokunbo Adedoja and Ibrahim ShuaibuNew York/Kano - The country's nascent democracy got a major boost yesterday as Chief of Defence Staff, Air Vice-Marshal Paul Dike, declared that the military is n (By News Poster)...Africa: HIV Generic Drugs War Goes Global
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Gatonye GathuraNairobi - Kenyans fighting for the right to have access to cheaper generic HIV medicines have won global attention, with the government conceding that it made a mistake in passing a (By News Poster)...Somalia: Unpaid Soldiers Barricade Presidential Palace
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: Armed soldiers stormed Somalia's presidential palace in a protest against non-payment, a lawmaker said.Saleban Mohammed, who was among more than 20 other parliamentarians barred from getting out of th (By News Poster)...Press Laws Stifling Africa's Stories?
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Raymond BagumaKampala - Africa's hosting the World Cup this year demonstrates that the continent is emerging as an important player on the world stage. Yet Africa is a continent where optimism and (By News Poster)...South Africa: No Easy Ride for New CEO at Helm of Eskom
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - DURING a seminar to discuss Eskom's application for a 35% tariff hike in December last year, the master of ceremonies introduced Brian Dames as the "acting Eskom CE" an (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Detained U.S. Lawyer's Trial not Related to Work, Says ICTR
Friday 18-Jun-2010: Kigali - American defence lawyer, Peter Erlinder has immunity from prosecution as a defence lawyer at ICTR, but that applies only when he is in Rwanda on work related to the tribunal, the Arusha based (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NDIC to Introduce Islamic Deposit Insurance
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Babajide KomolafeThe Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) is set to introduce Islamic Deposit Insurance (IID)."Some of our staff will soon be going to Malaysia to acquire the necessary expo (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World Cup - South Africa falls to Uruguay 3-0 as fans quiet
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - Uruguay's Diego Forlan scored two goals in a 3-0 victory Wednesday night that pushed host South Africa to the verge of not advancing at the World Cup. While Forlan grea (By Jan)...Nigeria: Lessons of American Oil Spill Disaster
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: The environmental catastrophe of the ongoing oil spillage in the Gulf of Mexico, caused by the blow-up of a British Petroleum, BP-operated deepwater oil rig last month should serve as wakeup call to o (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Country Hits at EU over Sanctions
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - Zimbabwe says the European Union is not committed to resume dialogue to normalise relations as Brussels insists that the Southern African country has not done enough to hav (By News Poster)...Kenya: Research Underway to Get Rid of Poisonous Maize
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Jacob NgetichNairobi - Kenyan maize farmers may soon find their labour more rewarding following reports that experts have found a way of preventing aflatoxin contamination. Scientists in the United (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (15-06-2010)
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: Howzit "South African mediators are due in Harare on Monday to revive Zimbabwe's power-sharing talks which have been stalled for the past two months. President Robert Mugabe said a three-member (By The BeardedMan)...Nigeria: Holding Reserves in Yuan Not Rewarding, Says Rewane
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Eromosele AbiodunLagos - The current plan by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to have the country's reserve being dominated in Yuan (Chinese currency), will further deepen the country's woes econo (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Access Bank CEO Appointed to Global Business Body
Friday 18-Jun-2010: Lagos - The Global Business Coalition (GBC) at its recent 2010 Global Health Action Conference announced the appointment of Access Bank CEO, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede to its Corporate Advisory Board.Acco (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: British Firms Buy Chiadzwa Diamonds
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Takunda MaodzaHarare - British and Belgian companies have been buying diamonds from the Chiadzwa fields while their governments claim the gems are "bloody" and Zimbabwe should not be given Kimberle (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Eighty Cows Die of Poisoning
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Mahmud LaloJos - About 80 cows belonging to Fulani herdsmen at Heipang in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State have died after eating mangoes suspected to be poisoned.Speaking with ou (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Principals in Call for Unity
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Takunda Maodza and Lloyd GumboHarare - THE leadership of the inclusive Government has called for peace, tolerance and unity of purpose during the constitution-making outreach programme that begins (By News Poster)...South Africa: World Cup Stadium Workers' Strike Spreads
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Jean-Jacques CornishThe strike by private security workers has spread to five of the ten stadiums staging the football World Cup.Stewards demanding more money laid siege to their employers' offices (By News Poster)...Kenya: Bank Offers Discount On Rights Issue Price
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Kevin MwanzaKenya Commercial Bank has offered a 21 per cent discount on its rights issue share price as it seeks to raise Sh15 billion to enable it consolidate its regional business.The new share w (By News Poster)...Namibia: Sheep Farmers React to Brukkaros Letter
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: THE Livestock Producers Forum (LPF) has said it noted "with disappointment" a letter sent by the Brukkaros Abattoir at Keetmanshoop recently, requesting Government to permanently close Namibian border (By News Poster)...South Africa: World Cup Generates U.S.$1.8 Billion in Tourism
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Elias MakoriJohannesburg - World Cup tourism will inject 15 billion rand (Sh150 billion) into South Africa's economy this year alone, the country's Finance minister has said.Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Greed, Corruption Our Biggest Problems - Jonathan
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Golu TimothyAbuja - President Goodluck Jonathan has identified the twin evils of greed and corruption as the main factors militating against the development of Nigeria, saying they have affected th (By News Poster)...Kenya: The Folly of Being Too Loyal to One Bank
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Isaiah OpiyoMonth ends and school opening weeks are usually the worst times for banking transactions.Long queues moving at a snail speed are a turn-off.Impatient people trying to jump the queue is, (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mudzuri 'Joke' On Zesa Exposes Failure of Govt Energy Policies
Monday 14-Jun-2010: WHEN Energy and Power Development minister Elias Mudzuri announced that the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) was going to stop load-shedding during the World Cup we knew he was joking.The (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Chinese Banks to Invest U.S.$165 Million
Friday 18-Jun-2010: Maputo - Two Chinese banks announced in Beijing on Thursday that they are willing to finance three mega-projects in Mozambique totalling 165 million U.S. dollars.This was disclosed during a meeting wi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Study Backs Nurse-Monitored HIV Treatment
Friday 18-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - A South African study suggests that nurses are able to manage patients on antiretroviral (ARV) therapy as effectively as doctors, supporting the case for "task-shifting" in HIV treatmen (By News Poster)...S. Africa: Hague Considers Proceeding with Malema Case
Friday 18-Jun-2010: The International Criminal Court has confirmed receipt of a complaint by a Rustenburg farmer against ANC Youth League president Julius Malema over the "shoot the Boer" song. It would now “receive (By JanOlifant)...South Africa: Vuvuzela, Bafana's Secret Weapon
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Gabi KhumaloPretoria - South African soccer fans are planning to use the vuvuzela as their secret weapon to boost Bafana Bafana's morale during their encounter with Uruguay at Loftus Versfeld in Ts (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: African Consolidated Resources Plans to Develop Gold Mine
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: Harare - AIM-listed resource development company African Consolidated Resources plc has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with a group of individuals known as the SSSB Group, for the developm (By News Poster)...Uganda: Electricity Body's Flat Rate Proposal Rejected
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Ibrahim Kasita and Francis KagoloKampala - Consumers have rejected electricity company Umeme's proposal to charge domestic users a flat fee.The power distributor wants a standard sh12,000 fee for c (By News Poster)...Kenya: On ARVs? Then Quit Drinking
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Alex NdiranguNairobi - When John Adiwa lost his job because of excessive and irresponsible drinking, he, ironically sought solace in alcohol and suffered frequent illnesses.His doctor advised him t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Alison-Madueke And Her Quest for an Improved Energy Sector
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Yemie AdeoyeON April 6, 2010, Dr.Goodluck Jonathan, then Acting President of Nigeria, swore in 38 Ministers after being cleared by the National Assembly. Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke then became th (By News Poster)...Madagascar: Impasse in Negotiations
Monday 14-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - There is still no advance towards any solution to the crisis in Madagascar, despite all the mediation attempts undertaken by the Southern African Development Community (SADC).On Saturda (By News Poster)...Angola: Woman Stands for President
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Julianna RicardoLuanda - She may have been little-known in political circles until now, but by putting herself forward as the first female independent presidential candidate, Luisete Macedo Ara&uac (By News Poster)...Nigeria: It's War on South Korea - Yobo
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Francis AjuonumaLagos - SUPER Eagles vice-captain, Joseph Yobo, has declared that they must beat South Korea convincingly when both teams clash in Durban on Tuesday if they are to stand any chance (By News Poster)...East Africa: EAC Condemns Uhuru Park Grenade Attack
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Zephania UbwaniArusha - The East African Community has called for a thorough investigation into Sunday's grenade attack at a rally in Nairobi which killed six people.In a message to President Kibak (By News Poster)...Africa: 2010 World Food Prize honors grassroots leaders
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: David Beckmann and Jo Luck were named co-winners of the 2010 World Food Prize at a June 16 ceremony at the U.S. State Department that featured Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of A (By News Poster)...Ghana: Guns in the Hands of Students
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: Accra - On Sunday May 30, students from Ghana Senior High School in Tamale, who were protesting against a ban imposed on the use of mobile phone on campus, went berserk and destroyed school property, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN Reviews Deadline for Efass Returns
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Babajide KomolafeThe Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reviewed the deadline for banks to submit monthly returns through the Electronic Financial Analysis and Surveillance System (eFASS).Meanwhile, (By News Poster)...Kenya: Victim of Attack Called His Mother Before He Died
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By John Njagi and James NgunjiriNairobi - A victim of the bombing at Uhuru Park called his mother, who lives in Kirinyaga West, on Sunday informing her that he would visit her later that evening.But a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Union Bank Votes N10 Billion for Farmers, Posts Sharp Q1 Fall in Profit
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Kayode EkundayoLagos - Even as most farmers are unable to access the N200bn Central Bank loan, Union Bank of Nigeria Plc has extended a N10 billion credit facility to farmers this year, Group Manag (By News Poster)...Namibia: Former Prisoners Treated Unfairly - MP
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Werner MengesAN attempt by the Prosecutor General to widen an appeal against a ruling given in the main Caprivi high treason trial at the start of March ended in failure in the Supreme Court yester (By News Poster)...Somalia: Give General Mugisha the Tools to Finish the Job Quickly
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Hassan BariseAs part of its mandate to support the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, African Union peacekeepers are helping train troops for the TFG. HASSAN BARISE accompanied AMISOM Forc (By News Poster)...Africa: Switzerland Acts on Africa's Stolen Assets
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Ese AwhotuAbuja - Perturbed by the high spate of corruption involving looting of public funds from African countries, including Nigeria, the Switzerland government has perfected plans to expose all (By News Poster)...Econet Threatened With Closure
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Leonard MakombeECONET Wireless, the country's largest mobile phone operator, faces a closure threat for allegedly allowing the Movement for Democratic Change to campaign on its network through a to (By News Poster)...Sudan: Rebel Leaders Surrender to War Crimes Court
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: Two Sudan rebel leaders have surrendered to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. They are likely to be charged today with war crimes in connection with the killing of 12 African Union peacek (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: South Africa Government to Appeal Court Order to Release Election Report
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Alex BellThe South African government is to appeal a court order to release a hidden report on the 2002 election in Zimbabwe, further raising suspicions of the report's contents.The government was (By News Poster)...Namibia: Hishongwa Refutes NSHR's Claims
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Toivo NdjebelaWindhoek - Namibia's High Commissioner to Botswana, Hadino Hishongwa, has branded as "fabrication" allegations by the National Society of Human Rights (NSHR) that plans are on the car (By News Poster)...Nigeria: I'm Innocent of Corruption Charges, Says House Speaker
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Onwuka NzeshiAbuja - House of Representatives Speaker Dimeji Bankole yesterday broke his silence over the allegations of corruption levelled against him by a group of House members, saying he is in (By News Poster)...Nigeria: El-Rufai - Govt Entrenches Corruption - TSAV
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Joseph WantuAlhaji Abubakar Tsav, a retired commissioner of police, is well known due to his stance on corruption and other evils. In this interview with JOSEPH WANTU in Makurdi, he spoke on the Ju (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai, Lover Appear in Public
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Caiphas ChimhetePRIME MINISTER Morgan Tsvangirai has appeared in public for the first time with his new lover Locadia Karimatsenga Tembo.Over a week ago, the Prime Minister, his adviser Ian Makone, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Electricity - Nigeria Considers Solar Energy
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Fidelis Mac-LevaOver the centuries, village life has changed only a little in Nigeria's rural communities. From the Sahelian grasslands of Northern Nigeria to the riverine communities of the Niger (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World Cup: FIFA probes 8,000 no-shows at SKorea-Greece game - 2nd time a stand is 1/3rd empty...
Monday 14-Jun-2010: JOHANNESBURG — FIFA is investigating whether transportation and ticket distribution systems failed after at least 8,000 seat-holders didn't get to the World Cup match between South Korea and Greece in (By Jan)...South Africa: Electricity Strike to Threaten World Cup?
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Jean-Jacques CornishA strike by electricity workers at South Africa's power utility has been put off until Monday. The action by the trade union Solidarity will disrupt the football World Cup curre (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Frelimo Rejects Criticism - Jorge Rebelo
Friday 18-Jun-2010: Maputo - Jorge Rebelo, former Mozambique's Information Minister, said in Maputo on Wednesday that there is a strong opposition to criticism within the ruling party Frelimo.Rebelo, who is one of the mo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Plateau Calm After Protest Over Okada Ban
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Raymond GukasJos - The atmosphere in Jos and environs, Plateau state is now calm after several riots, last week as a result of the enforcement on the ban on commercial motorcycle operations which w (By News Poster)...Liberia: Witness Says She Did Not Hear of Assistance From Charles Taylor
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Alpha SesayA woman who helped top Sierra Leonean rebels recruit and train fighters in Liberia in the early 1990s today said that Charles Taylor was not involved in that effort as far as she knew. H (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NDIC Vows Sanitisation of Banks, to Engage Debt Recovery Agents
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Bamidele OgunwusiLagos - In its bid to ensure that sanity returns to the nation's banking industry, the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has promised that it would continue to assist i (By News Poster)...Angola: Country Making Steady Progress Towards Meeting Development Goals - Unicef
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: Angola has made considerable strides in achieving more than half of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including those on malnutrition and child health, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICE (By News Poster)...South Africa: Suspended CEO Digs in as Minister Prepares to Wield Axe
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Linda EnsorCape Town - Suspended Transnet Freight Rail CEO Siyabonga Gama yesterday raised the stakes in his dispute with the parastatal, saying he would challenge the disciplinary hearing that fou (By News Poster)...Africa: World Bank Projects U.S.$ 210 Billions Finance Gap
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Ese AwhotuAbuja - The World Bank has projected the overall financing gap of developing countries to be $210 billion in 2010, declining to $180 billion in 2011, down from an estimated $352 billion i (By News Poster)...Kenya: MPs United Against Attack
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Caroline Wafula and Njeri RugeneNairobi - Leaders were on Monday united in condemning the Sunday attack on a 'No' rally and called for sobriety to avoid raising tensions.At Parliament Buildings on (By News Poster)...Kenya: MP Accuses Draft Supporters of Violence
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Jacob Ng'etichNairobi - The 'No' team has accused those supporting the draft constitution of resorting to violence after they sensed defeat in the coming referendum.On Monday, members termed the Su (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Police Stop ZCTU's Hwange Commemorations
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Jennifer DubePOLICE yesterday blocked the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) from commemorating the 1972 Hwange Colliery mine disaster on the pretext that they will be busy with the Fifa socc (By News Poster)...South Africa: Banks Extend Hours During World Cup
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Gabi KhumaloPretoria - In an effort to provide a more effective service to foreign visitors, South African banks have extended their operating hours for the duration of the World Cup.Since the Worl (By News Poster)...Namibia: Survivors Slam Company
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Albertina NakaleWalvis Bay - Fourteen Namibian crew members who survived the cold Benguela currents in Angolan waters after their ship, the May Canido MFV, capsized, have strongly criticised Sylvie (By News Poster)...Political Perspective
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Gwen ListerWHEN addressing Permanent Secretaries recently, President Hifikepunye Pohamba, emphasised that they "should ensure that you have the right people with right skills, capacities and techni (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Mueda Massacre Encouraged Unity to Fight for Independence
Friday 18-Jun-2010: Maputo - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza said on Wednesday that the massacre of Mueda, in the northern Cabo Delgado province, on 16 June 1960, enlivened the spirit of unity and patriotism of Moza (By News Poster)...Namibia: Sheep Farmers Want Better Local Prices
Friday 18-Jun-2010: SHEEP farmers have decided not to sell their animals to local abattoirs that offer low prices.This action will start on July 1. The Livestock Producers Forum (LPF) chaired by Pintile Davids agreed on (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Spill - Firms Disagree Over Remediation
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Onyebuchi EzigboAbuja - The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), and Exxon Mobil Tuesday traded words over the poor response to oil imparted sites, in Akwa Ibom State.NOSDRA a (By News Poster)...Rwanda: U.S. Lawyer Granted Bail
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - The High Court yesterday granted bail on medical grounds to embattled American defence lawyer, Prof. Peter Erlinder.Pronouncing the bail ruling yesterday, High Court president (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma Remembers Soweto on Youth Day
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Jean-Jacques CornishSouth Africa President Jacob Zuma says the football World Cup is the embodiment of the opportunities and possibilities brought about by the Soweto uprising, 34 years ago Wednesd (By News Poster)...Cameroon: 20,000 Hectares of Farmland Devastated in Bui
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Peter Adi FonteThey have attacked mostly food and cash crops including kolanut trees, corn and beans.An outbreak of leaf eating caterpillars has taken place in four of the six existing sub division (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fuel Subsidy - Rhetoric And Reality (i)
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Sanusi AbubakarNot one to shy away from stating unpleasant truths, CBN Governor Lamido Sanusi is in the deep end of the seemingly endless "fuel subsidy removal" controversy. Speaking during a stake (By News Poster)...Kenya: Pharmaceutical Companies Pushed Anti-Counterfeit Law
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Suleiman MbatiahNairobi - Much of the initiative behind the adoption of Kenya's controversial anti-counterfeit law came from multinational pharmaceutical companies using their membership of a local (By News Poster)...Kenya: RVR Control Battle Shows Vulture Trait of Private Equity Firms
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Johnstone Ole TuranaThe vicious rivalry between TransCentrury of Kenya and Citadel Capital of Egypt over the control of Rift Valley Railways (RVR) invokes memories of the titanic battle for RJR Nab (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Union Bank Expects Profit After Bailout
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Yemi AdebowaleLagos - Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, one of the banks bailed out by the Central Bank of Nigeria last year says it expects to return to profit after receiving a N120 billion CBN loan and (By News Poster)...Kenya: Focus On Food Security in Budget Will Boost Incomes
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Winfred Kagwe and Aby WasongaNairobi - The focus on food security in this year's budget, supported by favourable weather conditions, will enhance the disposable income of consumers and increase the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Wife Battering - Woman Threatens Legal Action Against Husband
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Amina Alhassan AhmanAbuja - Gloria Uju Maduakor is a victim of domestic abuse and torture. Since 1991 till date, Samuel Maduakor, a drug store owner, has been using her as a punching bag, always be (By News Poster)...Rwanda: UN Calls on Kenya to Help Find Genocide Suspect
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: By Kevin J KelleyNew York - The United States, United Kingdom and France backed a demand on Friday in the United Nations Security Council for Kenya to cooperate in the hunt for a Rwanda genocide fugit (By News Poster)...Uganda: Drug Authority Raids Eight Clinics in City
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Conan BusingeKampala - A team from the National Drug Authority (NDA) yesterday raided eight clinics in the city's suburbs and seized drugs that were allegedly being sold illegally.The owners of the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Sterling Bank Set to Raise N 100 Billion Fresh Capital, Gets Shareholders' Nod
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Gabriel OmohSterling Bank PLC has put measures in place to shore up its capital base in order to play in the big league of banks at national and international arena.As a result, the bank is set to (By News Poster)...Asylum Seekers Prefer South Africa
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Tokunbo AdedojaNew York - With more than 222,000 new claims in 2009, South Africa has emerged as the single largest asylum destination in the world, the United Nations Humanitarian Commission for R (By News Poster)...Namibia: Petroleum Company to Sue Firms
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyNAMCOR intends slapping the five private oil companies with a shipping bill of close to N$2,9 million because they've been refusing an Afroneft fuel consignment since the end of May, c (By News Poster)...From Jan: The up's and down's of corporate politics... The odd Coup D'etat now and then..
Friday 18-Jun-2010: I've had some ups and downs over the last 10 days. Some days I've been so furious I could just tear my hair out and I have the utmost urge to walk out the door. I always find though, without fail, (By Jan)...Kenya: Minister Suspended over Hate Speech
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Anthony KariukiNairobi - A Kenyan minister has been suspended from government, a day after he was charged with incitement to violence.Dr Wilfred Machage, the assistant minister for Roads, was suspe (By News Poster)...Let's Boost Ties, President Tells Koreans
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Sydney KawadzaHarare - GOVERNMENT will continue to seek investment partners for Zimbabwe's development, President Mugabe has said.Speaking in a meeting with a visiting business delegation from the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Kenyan Held in Country over Trafficking
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - A Kenyan has been arrested in Zimbabwe on suspicion of being the mastermind of a human trafficking syndicate in southern Africa.The man was seized in Harare last Thursday w (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Delta, Obasanjo Farms Sign Pact On Commercial Poultry Production
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: Lagos - Delta state Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) of N3billion with Obasanjo Farms to establish a commercial poultry production and processing venture known as "OFN-Delta F (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cosatu to Protest At Mexico Matches
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Alistair AndersonJohannesburg - THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) will protest today against what it calls Mexico's "fascist treatment" of labour unions.Yesterday, Cosatu said the (By News Poster)...Kenya: National Security Can't Justify Crime
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: It might seem like a distant and irrelevant matter that the British Government has apologised for the 1972 'Blood Sunday' killings in Northern Ireland.Prime Minister David Cameron called the killings (By News Poster)...Egypt: Govt Orders New Probe After Activist's Death
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Issandr El AmraniAfter days of protests and international condemnation, Egypt has ordered a new autopsy in the case of activist Khaled Mohammed Said, who was allegedly beaten to death by police on (By News Poster)...Namibia: Five More Years of Steep Power Hikes
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichELECTRICITY tariffs for bulk consumers are expected to rise by 20 per cent a year over the next three to five years, the economic regulation manager of the Electricity Control Boar (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: SA Gold Mining Company Pulls Out of Joint Venture
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: Harare - JOHANNESBURG Stock Exchange-listed investment firm, TWP Investments has pulled out of a joint venture to build a gold processing plant with African Consolidated Resources in Zimbabwe.The Zimb (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Alleged N70 Million Fraud - Bank Files Defence
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Ola AjayiDiamond Bank Plc has filed its statement of defence as ordered by an Oyo State High Court in a suit instituted against it by its former employees who felt cheated by the way they were dism (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Standard Chartered Transforms Retail Banking Segment
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Michael EbohStandard Chartered Bank Plc has undertaken a transformation of its retail banking services to deliver high quality and specialised services tailored to the specific needs of its custome (By News Poster)...South Africa: Union Denies It Signed Agreement Not to Strike
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Alistair AndersonJohannesburg - A PUBLIC sector strike may still happen during the World Cup.While major public sector unions have signed an agreement to postpone the strike for 30 days, the 210000 (By News Poster)...Africa: Swiss Plan to Gag Refugees
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: Bern - Only two years after its last revision, the Swiss Asylum Act is about to be 'reformed' again. The changes include a gag order on political activism for asylum-seekers and a modification of the (By News Poster)...Chad: The Problems of Demining
Friday 18-Jun-2010: N'djamena - Almost US$27 million - half from donor funds and the rest from the government - was invested in demining activities in Chad from 2000 to 2008, but the country still cannot identify the num (By News Poster)...South Africa: Livestock Farmers Need to Raise Output
Friday 18-Jun-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - WORLD demand for meat is climbing faster than for other farm commodities as increasing wealth in some sections of the population in emerging economies alters dietary h (By News Poster)...Three Minors Raped in Omusati
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: By Helvy TueumunaOshakati - Three young girls in the Omusati Region have become the latest victims of rape.In the one case involving two girls, the suspect has been identified as an 18-year-old Angola (By News Poster)...Time for Country's to See the Tourism Value of Seals
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: THE annual culling of thousands of Cape fur seal pups will start next month and animal rights groups are calling on Namibia to stop the killings and rather make money from the animals' tourism potenti (By News Poster)...Activists Demand End to Funding Cuts in South Africa
Thursday 17-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - AIDS activists are to march on the US Consulate in Johannesburg on 17 June to protest against the deaths they say will result from President Barack Obama's "anti-treatment policies".The (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Future Dreams Lost, Hopes Faulted
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Orton KiishwekoDar Es Salaam - EVERY Tuesday, Sam Loneli knows too well what it means serving clients he hardly ever meets. He only gets to have a weekly acquaintance with 'two in one' clients, man (By News Poster)...Kenya: Country Urges Somalia to Check Infighting
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: By Lucas BarasaNairobi - Kenya has urged the leadership of the Somalia Transitional Federal Government to stop infighting if it is to succeed in the war against insurgents.Foreign Affairs minister Mos (By News Poster)...Kenya: Prayers for Blast Victims on Thursday
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By John NgirachuNairobi - Church leaders declared on Tuesday that they had no faith in the government's investigations into Sunday's grenade attack at their Uhuru Park rally.They said their campaigns (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NDLEA Nabs Native Doctor At Mma for Attempting to Smuggle Cocaine
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Kenneth EhigiatorA native doctor who fortified himself with charms to beat security screening at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, is now in the net of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (By News Poster)...Liberia: World Bank Director Assesses Agric Sector for Possible Assistance
Monday 14-Jun-2010: The World Bank Country Director for Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso and Guinea, Mr. Ishac Diwan on Wednesday paid a courtesy call on Vice President Joseph N. Boakai at his Capitol Building (By News Poster)...Gambia: Drug Suspect Dies After Taking Plea in Court
Monday 14-Jun-2010: By Alhagie JobeDrama unfolded yesterday morning at the Banjul Magistrates Court, when a man, aged 58, collapsed inside the courtroom after taking his plea in a cannabis case against him. He was later (By News Poster)...US Tourists Robbed, Threatened At World Cup
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: A group of American tourists visiting the 2010 World Cup Games in South Africa were treated to some of the local flavor when a robber threatened to kill them with a knife last week. News24 reports Am (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...South Africa: Hundreds of baby penguins die because of the cold weather
Friday 18-Jun-2010: Submitted by Owl: Extreme cold, wind and heavy rain has killed 600 African penguin chicks on Bird island, a reserve located in Algoa Bay near Port Elizabeth. The 19-hectare island is administere (By JoAn)...S.Africa: BAD NEWS: Like Zimbabwe - We are turning to Communist China...
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: A friend of mine discovered this small but extremely important note in a South African newspaper. Baleka Mbete of the ANC will lead a group of 23 NEC (National Executive Committee members) to Commu (By Jan)...Mugabe’s "Ark" To N. Korea Shelved
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: Plans by Robert Mugabe to send fellow Communist dictator Kim Jong Il a "Noah's Ark" gift basket of Zimbabwe wildlife have been shelved after environmentalists and conservationists called it an abuse o (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Men talking to men - Our worst enemy: our minds - About women and love and finding that special person... What women really are...
Friday 18-Jun-2010: One of our old regulars on AfricanCrisis is a super-bright fellow. He is now in England. We were discussing women and how he was finding things in Britain. We've been engaging in some serious and i (By Jan)...S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World Cup - Probe: FIFA looks at opening match empty seats
Monday 14-Jun-2010: JOHANNESBURG – FIFA is investigating why a section of seats at Soccer City was unoccupied during the World Cup opening match between South Africa and Mexico. The upper tier section of around 200 se (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (14-06-2010)
Monday 14-Jun-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- As I expected, the amount of news coming out of Zimbabwe has dwindled to a mere drip as the world focuses on the FIFA World Cup. So posting (By The BeardedMan)...S.Africa: The Super-Corruption of President Jacob Zuma and Nelson Mandela - the Hartebeespoort dam scam....
Monday 14-Jun-2010: I heard something interesting. Apparently, the Daily Mail & Guardian is busy investigating this story. The grapevine says... Jacob Zuma and Nelson Mandela are involved in an interesting bit of cor (By Jan)...AfricanCrisis - Interrupted by another bloody Eskom power outage... SUE ESKOM the bastards...
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: I was busy writing some posts for the site when suddenly my UPS indicated the power had gone out. I couldn't believe it at 2pm on a sunday. I shut down my machine and was sending text messages to my f (By Jan)...S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World Cup - Vuvuzelas make more noise than chainsaws (really!!) - Shops run out of EAR PLUGS!!! - Germans ban vuvuzelas
Monday 14-Jun-2010: [Yep... that damned irritating vuvuzela... one note... one damned irritating note over and over again. Jan] The vuvuzela trumpet might be synonymous with South African fans, but not everyone can st (By Jan)...S.Africa: President Jacob Zuma and the Afrikaner leaders? Why is everyone so quiet?
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: I have been making some enquiries for weeks now with some Afrikaner leaders I know as to what is happening with them and President Zuma... and I am receiving no reply at all. It is probable that:- (By Jan)...South Africa: Wine Industry Warned of Risk of Adopting Cluster Strategy
Tuesday 15-Jun-2010: By Loyiso LangeniJohannesburg - PRODUCTIVITY SA, a public sector entity created to enhance SA's competitiveness in the global market, has singled out the wine industry as a sector that could be assist (By News Poster)...[Afrikaans] S.Africa: Afrikaner people's party...
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: Here is an interesting Afrikaans website: Afrikaner VolksParty. They have some interesting articles - but its all in Afrikaans. (By Jan)...S. Africa: WC2010: Ronaldo Joins the anti-vuvuzela league
Monday 14-Jun-2010: [I find myself chuckling again, its so comedic. But on a more serious note, the likes of Ronaldo better be very careful about speaking against the vuvuzela, lest he and others be called 'racists'. The (By JanOlifant)...S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World Cup: Explosion Near Soccer City Explained
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: A massive explosion near the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa has been explained as a controlled demolition by a mining company. The “explosion was heard at the Main Press Centre (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Blast from the past: From January 2009: Zulu shaman: Credo Mutwa’s predictions of Obama
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: [Here's a quaint blast from the past worth revisiting. Jan] Credo Mutwa is a Zulu with an international reputation. See what he said about Obama in 2009:- Zulu shaman: Credo Mutwa’s predictions (By Jan)...Iceland To Exhume Bobby Fischer
Friday 18-Jun-2010: The Icelandic Supreme Court has ruled that chess master Bobby Fischer will be exhumed to settle an ongoing paternity suit. The Wednesday ruling overturns a previous decision made by the District Co (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (18-06-2010)
Friday 18-Jun-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- The land grab in Zimbabwe has not only reduced the people to beggars, relying on food aid to be able to live another day, but those that no (By The BeardedMan)...The Orania Newsletter - In Afrikaans - Welkom by ons nuusbrief
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: [The folks in Orania subscribed me to their newsletter and I thought I'd reiterate the act of kindness by publishing it. If you want info about Orania then write to: Info@Orania.co.za Jan] ----- (By Jan)...S.Africa: [4 Pics] Winter hits with a vengeance - snow in Ceres
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: [I got these photos yesterday. Winter hit with a vengeance. Ceres is in the Cape and is well known for its fruit. Jan] (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (By Jan)...Coming on AfricanCrisis this weekend...
Saturday 19-Jun-2010: Just some notes on things I must post this weekend. I still have a lot of photos from Orania I must post. I need to discuss the rally in the markets and the situation that now prevails which is (By Jan)...USA: The CIA's analysis often sucks...
Friday 18-Jun-2010: [I recently posted a Stratfor analysis of the geopolitics of the FIFA World cup soccer. I have mentioned that the CIA can stuff up in its analysis. A friend who was in the Rhodesian Police Special (By Jan)...[2 Pics] S.Africa: Winter hits with a vengeance - snow in stellenbosch
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: [A friend sent me this. This is from the Cape. Jan] Subject: FW: snow in stellenbosch winter in the mountains Despite freezing ( it has been 6 deg C all day today), Here to share the first (By Jan)...Ancient Egypt: Cleopatra really was white - she was Greek...
Monday 14-Jun-2010: A friend of mine with a good knowledge of history confirmed that Cleopatra was actually white. He said that there were a number of people of Greek origin in ancient Egypt and that Cleopatra came from (By Jan)...Woman Ruptures Throat Blowing Vuvuzela
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: A South African woman has ruptured her throat by repeatedly blowing the vuvuzela in a contest. Cape Town resident Yvonne Mayer first thought the burning sensation in her throat was the sign of an o (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...[Pic] [Humor] Obama poster: Welcome back... CARTER...
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: I spotted this one on a website. Yeah... its true... (Photo) (By Jan)...S.Africa: Meals-on-Wheels desperately needs donations to help feed Pensioners
Wednesday 16-Jun-2010: I got a call from Meals-on-Wheels today. They desperately need donations to help feed pensioners at R15 per day. They only feed pensioners in the cities. If you wish to help them, their number is: (By Jan)...The Right Perspective - Frank says my Lord of the Rings Quote comes from WWI
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: [I received this fascinating comment from Frank of Queens from The Right Perspective. He says that my quote from Lord of the Rings, from the Dwarf, which is on the bottom of all my posts is actually f (By Jan)...From Jan... Am busy typing away and preparing a bunch of articles now...
Sunday 20-Jun-2010: I was too tired yesterday. A friend of mine can get away with 2 hours sleep a night. He is an extremely active person who gets bored in a short space of time and he suffers terribly from insomnia. (By Jan)...[Pic][Humor] How to tell if you're Mom's favorite...
Friday 18-Jun-2010: Thanks for this Jen... Cute.... (Photo) (By Jan)...
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