From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 27th 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 & GruesomeS.Africa: The Secret of telling Good Lies: Whites should spread counter-rumours among Blacks & start counter-terrorism....
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: In a recent article I suggested to whites that we should deal with some of these arrogant blacks who think they can just come and kill us at will that we should start spreading rumours among them. (By Jan)...South Africa: 600,000 whites descending into poverty
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: Submitted by Old Owl: AfriForum Youth Ernst Roots 22 June 2010 Ernst Roots invites Young Communists to visit white squatter camp Young Communists invited to visit white squatter camp Af (By JoAn)...S. Africa: Remembering the Brave Soldiers of 32 Battalion & Support Staff - Andre Theron (Trompie)
Monday 21-Jun-2010: André Theron (Trompie) 15 Januarie 1961 – 10 Junie 2010 Ek wil u terugneem 30 jaar gelede. ’n Berig in ’n koerant “81 Swapo terroriste en vyf lede van die Veiligheidsmagte het in ’n klein veldslag (By JanOlifant)...USA: Super Shocking: Vast number of terrorists in America - the incredible cost of illegal immigration to America - $338 billion annually
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: [This will shock you to the core. This email is doing the rounds among Americans. I received it from a lady in Texas. Please pass this on, and good luck, I hope you vote the bastards out. Jan] From (By Jan)...Lessons from my Work: To put it mildly, he was: BLOWN AWAY... My biggest success yet... Can I ever top this?
Friday 25-Jun-2010: I've had more of my ups and downs in my life. I am trying to conquer some personal fears I have, and that left me feeling rather raw yesterday. I really walked out of that most annoyed with life a (By Jan)...South Africa: Another Side to the World Cup
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Explo Nani-KofiThe World Cup has been touted as one of the greatest achievements in South Africa since the end of apartheid. In reality, it has brought into sharp focus glaring divisions. Let me ma (By News Poster)...S.Africa: I'm sick of Blacks threatening to annihilate all us Whites - let's beat them at the Psychological Warfare game...
Saturday 26-Jun-2010: I am sick to death of Julius Malema and Jacob Zuma and the ANC with their nonsense about killing whites. I'm sick of them singing songs about killing us and inciting race hatred against us and violenc (By Jan)...S.Africa: Blacks have their own people issues... on a HUGE SCALE...
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: I was chatting to a white lady friend of mine some time back. In order to keep her job she was forced to choose between applying for a team leader position or being fired - during one of these "retren (By Jan)...South Africa: Johannesburg Sweeps Away the Homeless
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Malcolm ReesJohannesburg - In the lead up to the World Cup, the city of Johannesburg promised a campaign to deal with homelessness in the inner city.Now that the games have begun the voices of the (By News Poster)...[3 Pics] The impressive pipeline that Orania built for themselves...
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: This feat of engineering really impressed me a lot for such a small town. Orania is next to the Orange river. They built this pipeline by obtaining old pipes from a mine. These pipes are quite thick. (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: More Calls to Ban Blood Diamonds
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Michael DeibertAmid allegations of human rights abuses and government corruption, international calls are growing to ban or restrict the trade in diamonds from politically unstable Zimbabwe.Concern (By News Poster)...Africa: Why Horn of Africa is Starving
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: With the history of food emergencies in Africa, the revelation that 40 per cent of the continent's population are at the risk of starvation, is a cause of concern. 40 per cent of Africans suffer starv (By News Poster)...The World from Berlin: Will Obama Be the 'Jimmy Carter of the 21st Century'?
Monday 21-Jun-2010: Can US President Barack Obama lead America away from fossil fuel dependency? German commentators don't think so. Some say he is in danger of turning into an idealistic, one-term president like Jimmy C (By JanOlifant)...S.Africa: My success is killing me...
Saturday 26-Jun-2010: I reached the end of this week quite exhausted. I wasn't at my computer much. I was trying to attend to a part of my life that I've neglected for far too long, to my own detriment: The social/human as (By Jan)...Biting the Hand That Feeds - Time Government Put Jobs Before Empowerment
Monday 21-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - LAST year, investment by the private sector dropped by just over 3%, from R333bn to R322bn, or about 60% of total investment spending in the economy. Manufacturing investment fell by an (By News Poster)...Nigeria: One Reform, Unending Crises, Casualities And Controversies
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Udo OnyekaLagos - Perhaps, the special interest shown by the Gooluck Jonathan led administration in the ongoing reform of the banking sector may bring about the needed supervision which financial e (By News Poster)...South Africa: Africa is Open for Business
Saturday 26-Jun-2010: By Jacob ZumaAfrica is open for business! It is open for trade and investment!The world is finally beginning to move beyond the myths about Africa. For that reason, it is important for the political a (By News Poster)...BRILLIANT ARTICLE by a Professor: America: Obama - The Stranger in Our Midst
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: [Obama has never struck me as being a product of America in any way. He seems to be the antithesis of what America actually is. Here is an incredible article about him. Jan] Subject: A STRANGER IN (By Jan)...USA: How to ICE a politician - Marc Rudov blasts Obama as left-wing ideologue with no experience... Why didn't anyone notice?
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: [I wrote to Marc and told him I agree with him on this. No question... I had an argument with an ex-CIA officer who had written a book on the subject of Obama. I said to him: "Isn't Obama a communist? (By Jan)...South Africa: Early Detection of TB Among HIV-Infected Could Avert Many Deaths
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Tamar KahnCape Town - Many unnecessary deaths could be averted if patients infected with both HIV and tuberculosis (TB) were diagnosed and treated earlier, a study at Edenvale hospital in KwaZulu-N (By News Poster)...World Cup 'Turning Point' for Country
Monday 21-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - As the 2010 FIFA World Cup unfolds in South Africa, the international community is not only watching the action on the pitch; they are also witnessing a South Africa that is continuing (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Serial Bailouts As Growth Strategy!
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Les LebaNigerians maybe forgiven if they do not know that the cumulative effects of the policies of the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance (MOF) are generally responsible for the level of eco (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Let's All Fight Desertification
Monday 21-Jun-2010: Harare - CLIMATE change is going to see Zimbabwe become warmer and drier, and the danger of the Kalahari Desert spreading east is real and serious.So this week's World Day to Combat Desertification is (By News Poster)...Zambia: Plan International, Media to Fight Child Trafficking
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Christeter MachaWHILE the world's centre of attention and eyes are on the 2010 World Cup going on, on the African soil for the first time, Plan International's heart and eyes are on children.For Pl (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Uduaghan Seeks Criminal Investigation of Oil Spills
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: Asaba - Delta State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, has called on the Federal Government to begin criminal investigation into oil spill in the Niger Delta, caused by oil companies that has virtually d (By News Poster)...Somalia: On the Ground - a Rape in Kenya
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: As told by Meghan Rhoad, women's rights researcher: Nasra, a petite Somali woman wearing a navy blue hijab and long skirt, rocked her sleeping baby in her arms as she told me the story of how, two an (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Rifle Used in Deadly Bank Robbery
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Dayo Johnson, AkurePOLICE in Ondo State are trying to unravel the mystery behind the Thursday bank robbery in which five persons were killed including a nursing mother and the allegation that the r (By News Poster)...Africa: How the South Co-Operates With Africa
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Catherine SasmanWindhoek - A recent publication by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the 'Economic Development in Africa Report 2010' traces Africa's trade relations (By News Poster)...Namibia: Suspect Recalled Tourist Murder in Confession
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Werner MengesA STATEMENT in which murder, armed robbery and kidnapping suspect Paulus Kamati admitted having been involved in the incident in which German tourist Johannes Fellinger was murdered in (By News Poster)...[2 Pics] S.Africa: Buy property in Orania the most crime free area in South Africa...
Sunday 27-Jun-2010: Here are 2 more photos of signs I took in Orania. You can phone these folks if you want to make enquiries about buying property or houses in Orania. Orania is a private company that operates on a "sh (By Jan)...Witness Did Not Hear of Charles Taylor's Involvement in Recruitment (news)
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Alpha SesayA Sierra Leonean woman who helped top Sierra Leonean rebels in recruiting and training fighters in Liberia this week told Special Court for Sierra Leone that as far as she knew, Charles (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: How Finance Minister Escaped Dismissal
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Dumisani Muleya, Faith Zaba and Farai MutsakaHarare - FINANCE minister Tendai Biti survived removal from his post in cabinet in this week's shock reshuffle by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai after (By News Poster)...[7 Pics] S.Africa: Crime Free Orania - some house photos - note... no WALLS, no electric fences, no spikes...
Sunday 27-Jun-2010: Here are more photos we took in Orania recently. Remember we went there in winter so it was dry. But this gives you an idea of just some of the simple houses that also exist in Orania. I'll show some (By Jan)...Nigeria: Bankers Begin Five Day Strike Over Robbery Attacks At Okigwe
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Tony EdikeBANKING services were paralysed at Okigwe, Imo State, yesterday, as workers in the nine banks operating in the town embarked on a five-day warning strike to protest incessant armed robber (By News Poster)...South Africa/Zimbabwe: SA to Bid for Olympic Games
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Robson SharukoJohannesburg - SOUTH AFRICA, basking in the glow of what has been a successful hosting of the 2010 World Cup, has given its strongest hint that it will use the positive spin-offs from (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Doubts Over Diamonds
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Busani Bafana and Pierre KlochendlerThree days of tense deliberations by members of the Kimberley Process have failed to reach consensus on whether diamonds from Zimbabwe's Marange fields should be (By News Poster)...Namibia: War Vets to Get Lump Sums
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Toivo NdjebelaWindhoek - All war veterans, including politicians, senior public servants and those in the private sector, who qualify as "war veterans", are to receive lump sum pay-outs, whose exac (By News Poster)...South Africa: United For Africa - Making it Last
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: Perhaps Africa's World Cup began in earnest on Jun. 16, when a despondent green and gold-clad crowd began leaving the Loftus Versfeld stadium even before the end of South Africa's heavy defeat to Urug (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Kimberley Process Halts Zimbabwe Diamond Trade
Monday 21-Jun-2010: Tel Aviv - The government of Zimbabwe has broken its promises under the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) work plan to improve abusive practices in its diamond fields and should formally b (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Trouble in Paradise - Can Kikwete Light Up Struggling Energy Sector?
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Rachel KeelerNairobi - Canadian energy producer Artumas Group has been trying to turn natural gas into commercial electricity in Tanzania for six years now."We started negotiating with the governme (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (24-06-2010)
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: Howzit It is a little after 5 in the morning as I begin today's posting. The night was hot and very humid, and this played havoc with B's breathing (she is a chronic asthmatic) and so we were awake (By The BeardedMan)...Uganda: Political Violence is a Threat to National Security
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Felix KulayigyeKampala - The Chief of Defence Forces, Gen Aronda Nyakairima, was right to make a statement on national security.Chapter 12 of the Constitution deals with defence and national securi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Big Oil And Disaster Capitalism
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Obi NwaknamaClose to One Trillion Dollars worth of oil profits later, the Niger Delta is in the end an ecological Armageddon. It fits perfectly into what the Canadian journalist and author, Naomi K (By News Poster)...[4 Pics] S.Africa: Some really cool new residential homes in Orania...
Sunday 27-Jun-2010: Check out these cute homes that I photographed while in Orania. Note their solar panels. That house that is being built with an aluminium frame looks a lot like something that I saw in the Eastern (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Pursuing Rebels at What Price
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Laure PichegruJohannesburg - Operation 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 i (By News Poster)...Ending the Dependency Syndrome
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Cleophas MutjavikuaThis is in response to an article by Servaas van den Bosch for the Interpress Service, 15 May, 2010 and which appeared in The Namibian of May 21, 2010.The genuiness of any human (By News Poster)...[Pic] USA: Overnight Mexicans Sprout On Every Portland, Oregon Street Corner
Friday 25-Jun-2010: [Captain Joseph Smith, who fought in Vietnam and in Rhodesia sent me this photo. He is utterly shocked at how Mexicans are now moving into Portland, Oregon in large numbers. These illegals might co (By Jan)...Ghana: Child Labour in Cocoa Growing Communities - the Facts (final Part)
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Samuel Asuming-BrempongA pilot cocoa labour survey was conducted by the Ministry of Manpower, Youth and Employment (MMYE) in 2006 covering twenty-four communities in four cocoa producing regions. T (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Kagame Said He Will Kill Kayumba, Wife Alleges
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Tabu ButagiraKampala - Ms Rosette Kayumba, wife to renegade military general Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, has accused the Rwandan government of trying to assassinate her husband in South Africa, an al (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: President Swears in New Ministers
Friday 25-Jun-2010: Harare - President Mugabe yesterday swore into office two new Cabinet ministers and three deputies at a brief ceremony at State House in Harare.First to take his oath of loyalty, office and membership (By News Poster)...Angola: The Self-Dealings of Sonangol's CEO
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Rafael Marques De MoraisOn 20 May 2002, the chairman of the board and CEO of Sonangol, Manuel Vicente, went into partnership with Grinaker LTA International Holdings, a South African company, the B (By News Poster)...Kenya: Grenades in Rally Explosions Linked to Military
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Kamore MainaNairobi - The grenades that exploded in Uhuru Park during a church rally on June 13 are suspected to have been stolen from the Kenya Army, the Star has established.Kenyan bomb experts h (By News Poster)...South Africa: Back to Basics in Scramble for Unbanked
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - BANKS are scrambling to snatch a slice of the neglected unbanked mass market once dismissed by executives as either too poor or fragmented to be of commercial value.Inst (By News Poster)...[Pic] An attractive view, looking down on Orania from a hill
Friday 25-Jun-2010: While I was walking around and we were driving around, at a point we were on higher ground and I took this unique view of Orania from a hill. There, nestled among the trees on this flat land, in one o (By Jan)...Uganda: Islamic Banking Will Bring Minor Change
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Patrick KagendaKampala - In her Financial Year 2010/11 budget, Finance Minister Syda Bbumba announced that due to demand from the private sector she would introduce new products, including Islamic (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Gen. Kayumba's Response to Kagame Raises Some Legitimate Issues, But...
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Andrew M. MwendaKayumba Nyamwasa's response to President Paul Kagame's interview in Sunday Monitor filled my inbox. Friends and fans wrote asking me to comment. So, let me reluctantly give my $1 wo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Foreigners Threatened With Violence
Sunday 27-Jun-2010: By Neo MaditlaCape Town - There were a spate of xenophobic threats and attempted attacks in Khayelitsha last week following Bafana Bafana's exit from the World Cup, say worried staff of projects opera (By News Poster)...Sim Card Registration Raises Growth Fears
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: Harare - THE directive by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe requiring all mobile phone subscribers to be registered by August 31 may curb telecommunications' spectacul (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Kimberley Process Deadlocked Over Sale of Diamonds
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Farai MutsakaTHE world's diamond regulatory body has failed to reach consensus on whether to re-authorise Zimbabwe to sell Marange diamonds as Kimberley Process (KP)-certified blood-free stones.Thi (By News Poster)...[2 Pics] Radio Orania - their Headquarters & how to contact them...
Friday 25-Jun-2010: Here are some more of the photos we took in Orania. These are of the radio station. This sign gives their telephone number and their email address if you wish to contact them. Its a nice little buildi (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Afriforum to Take Legal Steps Against SA Gov Over Country's Land Attacks
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Alex BellSouth African civil rights initiative, AfriForum, is set to take legal action against that country's government, for refusing to protect the lives and property of South African farmers in (By News Poster)...East Africa: Economic Partnership with Europe at What Cost?
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Dana WagnerThe Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) to open trade between East Africa and Europe is still on the table. At a three-day conference in Dar es Salaam negotiators walked away from the d (By News Poster)...Pensioner Jailed Over Grandchild Murder
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Werner MengesA PENSIONER who was accused of murdering his seven-year-old granddaughter in northern Namibia in early 2007 has been sentenced to 22 years' imprisonment at the end of his trial in the (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (22-06-2010)
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: Howzit Well, we travelled to Wigan yesterday to attend Brian's funeral. The church was packed and people had heeded the call to dress 'happy' and it made a spectacular change to see mourners dresse (By The BeardedMan)...Zimbabwe: Zimbabweans Still Top Global Asylum Seeker List Despite GNU
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Alex BellIn the clearest indication yet that the formation of the unity government has done little to change the situation in Zimbabwe, a new report has shown that Zimbabweans still top the world l (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: RUF Used Diamonds to Purchase Arms And Ammunition From Guinean Soldiers, Witness Says
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Alpha SesayRebel forces fighting to take power in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002 used the country's diamonds to purchase arms and ammunition from military officers in neighboring Guinea, a defense (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Chief Mistaken for Kidnapper Killed by Colleagues in Enugu
Saturday 26-Jun-2010: The officer in charge of Firearms at the State Criminal Investigation Department, CID of Enugu State Police Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, Boniface Ukwa was mistakenly shot dead by (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hidden Toll From TB
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - Shocking results from a study involving post-mortem examinations at a hospital in KwaZulu-Natal Province have revealed the extent to which tuberculosis (TB) is taking a toll on the live (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ondo Bank Robbery - Police Arrest Five Suspects
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Dayo JohnsonAkure - POLICE in Ondo State have arrested at least five armed robbery suspects in connection with last week bank robbery in which five persons were killed in Akure, the Ondo State capi (By News Poster)...Uganda: Speaking of Rights
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Benon Herbert OlukaHuman Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth attended the International Criminal Court Review Conference in Kampala. On the sidelines of the conference, he spoke about Ug (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Terror Suspect Arrested On South African Border
Sunday 27-Jun-2010: By Ryan TruscottOfficials in Zimbabwe have named a Pakistani terror suspect arrested last Sunday trying to enter South Africa through Beitbridge border post.Some reports say that the man is wanted in (By News Poster)...Liberia: President's Son Went Undercover for International Drug Bust
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Christopher M. MatthewsThe son of the president of Liberia worked as an undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration in a massive three-year international cocaine trafficking investig (By News Poster)...Blast From The Past/DR Congo: Neo-Communist Regime In DR Congo Sticks Up For Patrice Lumumba
Monday 21-Jun-2010: [And why are they bringing this up? Wasn't Patrice Lumumba trained by the Soviets? Lone Wolf.] Charges sought in death of Congo leader Lumumba By SLOBODAN LEKIC (AP) BRUSSELS — A group of le (By Lone Wolf)...Nigeria: At Saye, Tuberculosis, HIV Treatment Made Easy
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Godwin HarunaLagos - As he spoke to the guests, you could feel the glint in his eyes. A satisfied Hassan Yunusa, a middle-aged slenderly-built young man, who spoke on behalf of the rest of his coll (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Land - Best Empowerment Tool
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: Harare - JEFRY GUNDANI left Zimbabwe soon after independence to pursue studies in geology at a university in Russia.He had won a scholarship in a programme that allowed him to take his immediate famil (By News Poster)...Gambia: Military Leaders Charged for Treason in Connection With 2006 Coup
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Fabakary B. CeesayLieutenant General Lang Tombong Tamba, the former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of The Gambia Armed Forces (GAF), and Rear Admiral (Commander) Sarjo Fofana, the former Chief of The (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kidnapped Baby Killed,Three Arrested
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Patrick JaramogiKampala - The one-and-half-year-old boy kidnapped from Bugolobi, an upscale Kampala suburb, three weeks ago, was yesterday found killed in a swamp in a Kamwokya slum.Three people ar (By News Poster)...Africa: Bafana Are Still Boys
Saturday 26-Jun-2010: By Robson SharukoHarare - AMID the wreckage of a failed campaign -- which lay in tatters on the beautiful green field of the City of Roses at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein -- the disappointin (By News Poster)...New Retail Trends Worrisome
Friday 25-Jun-2010: Harare - THE Zimbabwean economy had been on a free fall prior to dollarisation with most of the retail operations recording real losses which were aggravated by the price controls that were effected o (By News Poster)...South Africa: Doctor Invents Female Condom with 'Teeth'
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Janet OtienoFew dare confront it, yet the violating act of rape is still very much an aspect of every society. But for one South African doctor, something needed to be done -- and fast -- to stem t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ebonyi Police Recover More Weapons
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Dennis AgboAbakaliki - The Ebonyi state police command has made another breakthrough in its efforts at resolving the protracted Ezza/Ezillo communal war which started in May 2008. The communal stri (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Police Arrest Dozens of Opposition Protesters
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Kezio-Musoke DavidKigali - Rwandan police arrested dozens of opposition protesters on Thursday, as President Paul Kagame presented his papers for re-election to the National Election Commission.Ear (By News Poster)...Africa: Inviting Africans to G8 Meeting 'Is Just Window-Dressing'
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Stephanie NieuwoudtQuestions are being asked about whether the Group of Eight invitation to seven African states to attend its summit in Ontario, Canada, reflects its concern about the litany of un (By News Poster)...Ghana: Kosmos, Forbes Magazine, and the Scramble for Country's Oil
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Nii Moi ThompsonThe recent report by the right-wing US-based Forbes magazine that Ghana was the 9th "worst-managed" economy in the world is yet another reminder of the insidious forces at work agai (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Prime Minsiter Reshuffle Cabinet
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Tichaona SibandaPrime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday dropped four MDC-T Ministers from government, in a reshuffle he described as 'strengthening the performance of his party in the inclusi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Mobil Officials Visit Oil Spill Site in Ibeno
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: Lagos - Officials of Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) at the Qua Iboe Oil Export Terminal in Ibeno, Akwa Ibom, have visited areas affected by Monday's oil spill.Sources in the oil firm's host community t (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Six Arrested Over Kayumba Shooting
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Daniel Kalinaki and Tabu ButagiraJohannesburg / Kampala - The South African police have arrested half a dozen people in connection with the weekend shooting of renegade Rwandan General, Faustin Kay (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Federal Govt, CDC Renew War Against TB, HIV with State-of-the-Art Reference Lab in Zaria
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Sola OgundipeTOWARDS changing the profile of Nigeria as the country with the 4th largest burden of tuberculosis in the world, and at the same time checkmate the national menace of HIV & AIDS epidem (By News Poster)...South Africa: Rwandan 'War Crimes Suspect' Granted Asylum
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Wilson JohwaJohannesburg - THE former Rwandan general and suspected war criminal who survived an apparent assassination attempt in Johannesburg last week is a recognised refugee in SA, a status tha (By News Poster)...Uganda: Seven Arrested Over Kidnap of Baby
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: Kampala - The kidnappers of Khan Kakama, a one-and-a-half-year-old baby, wanted to extort money from the parents, the Police said yesterday.Although the parents paid a sh30m ransom to the kidnappers, (By News Poster)...Uganda: Six Arrested Over Kayumba Shooting
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Steven Candia and AgenciesKampala - SOUTH African police has arrested six people in connection with the weekend shooting of former Rwandan army chief of staff Lt. Gen. Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa.Poli (By News Poster)...Sudan: Three Rwandan Soldiers Killed in Darfur Ambush
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Edmund KagireUnidentified gunmen in camouflage Monday morning attacked a group of Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) serving in the African Union-United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) kil (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Witness Encouraged RUF Rebels to Join the AFRC in 1997, She Says
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Alpha SesayA woman who said she helped the Sierra Leonean rebels during the country's 11-year brutal war today said she also persuaded them to come out of the bush and join disgruntled Sierra Leone (By News Poster)...Namibia: Trial Over Teacher's Murder Postponed
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Werner MengesFRESH dates will have to be set for the continuation of the trial of the two men charged with murdering a Karas regional advisory teacher in her home at Keetmanshoop in November 2007.W (By News Poster)...South Africa: On-Target Inflation Spurs Debate on New Rate Cuts
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - NEWS that inflation is now nearly right in the middle of its official target range has added heat to the noisy debate on whether interest rates will fall again this year.Mo (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zimbabwean PM Reshuffles Party's Posts in Cabinet
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has dropped four ministers and redeployed others in response to the declining confidence in the unity government he formed with Pr (By News Poster)...Uganda: Smallholder Women Farmers
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Mubatsi Asinja HabatiKampala - The key to addressing the hunger crisis in Uganda is to boost smallholders farming, especially among women," says a new report by ActionAid, an international anti-pov (By News Poster)...Liberia: Sirleaf Proposes Special Court, Tougher Law Against Corruption
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: No ten Liberians agree exactly on the reason corruption remains impervious to public outcry and the supposed combat efforts of the administration. Depending on who one asks, the reason is invariably e (By News Poster)...USA: Stock Markets: Gold Rises to a Record on Buying From Investors Seeking to Protect Wealth
Monday 21-Jun-2010: [The markets are getting really interesting againt. The DOW is at a very interesting point. The big question is at what point the rally is over and when do we collapse below 10,000 for once and for al (By Jan)...Burundi: UN Human Rights Expert Warns of Violations Ahead of Burundian Polls
Saturday 26-Jun-2010: As the people of the small African nation of Burundi get set to cast their votes in Monday's presidential election, an independent United Nations expert today warned of potential violence and human ri (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: JOC Sends Soldiers to Enforce Zanu PF Views in Outreach Programme
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe Joint Operations Command (JOC), a state security organization only accountable to Robert Mugabe, is spearheading ZANU PF's campaign to foist the Kariba draft on the people of Zi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 'We Too Want to be Wealthy'
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Stanley KwendaSaddled with debts of more than $7 billion, Zimbabwe is anxious to resume diamond exports, suspended in May amidst international condemnation of alleged human rights violations in the (By News Poster)...Angola: End Case Against Cabinda Rights Defenders
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: The Angolan government should drop politically motivated criminal charges against three prominent rights advocates who go on trial on June 23, 2010, in Cabinda, Angola’s oil-rich province, Human (By News Poster)...Burundi: Opposition Extends Boycott to Legislature Poll
Friday 25-Jun-2010: Bujumbura - Having pulled out of presidential elections scheduled for 28 June - leaving President Pierre Nkurunziza as the only candidate - an alliance of opposition parties in Burundi have announced (By News Poster)...Africa: Undercover for Change
Saturday 26-Jun-2010: Washington, DC - Through his undercover investigations, Anas Aremeyaw Anas has exposed human trafficking rings, corruption in Ghana's customs offices and child prostitution. U.S. President Barack Obam (By News Poster)...Liberia: Lofa Explodes
Saturday 26-Jun-2010: By Abass DullehMobs of rival ethnic and religious gangs last week roamed the streets of Voinjama, Lofa County, killing, burning and looting as hundreds fled in scenes reminiscent of the war.The bloodl (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Crisis in Banking, Mfbs, Pmis Will Be Resolved - NDIC
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Bamidele OgunwusiThere is no doubt that banking industry in the country has gone through phases in which operators and supervising agencies encountered challenges. The Acting Managing Director of t (By News Poster)...Burundi: East Africa Threatens Sanctions If Election Turns Violent
Sunday 27-Jun-2010: By Alphonce Shiundu And Emma CheropNairobi - East African leaders have threatened to impose sanctions on Burundi if the country's elections set for Monday occasion violence.Foreign Affairs minister Mo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bank FNB Sees Value of Banking by Cellphone
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - FIRSTRAND expects banking subsidiary FNB to aggressively grow its cellphone banking business in Africa and steal a march on competitors as it develops a cost-effective d (By News Poster)...Sudan: Darfur Peacekeepers Killed in Ambush
Monday 21-Jun-2010: The African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force in Darfur vowed today that it would not be intimidated from carrying out its work after three blue helmets were killed and a fourth was seriously wo (By News Poster)...Africa: President Ranked Worst African Dictator, Survey
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Alex BellThere has been little surprise to Robert Mugabe's emergence at the top of the global list of worst dictators, although concern has been raised about what it means for Zimbabwe's future.Mug (By News Poster)...Nigeria: First Bank Eyes Equity Stake in Chinese Bank
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Ijeoma NwogwugwuFirst Bank of Nigeria Plc will record another milestone today with the opening of its representative office in Beijing, China, making it the first Nigerian bank to establish an offi (By News Poster)...Rwanda: The Credit Reference Bureau Will Boost the Banking Sector-Steve Casey
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Fred Oluoch-OjiwahKigali - Mr Steve Casey, The Managing Director of Fina Bank Rwanda is also the current Chairman of Rwanda Bankers Association(RBA), an umbrella group that brings together banking (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 'Meikles' Problems Not Insurmountable'
Saturday 26-Jun-2010: By Brendan BeaumontMEIKLES Ltd group chief executive Brendan Beaumont believes the problems the company faces are not insurmountable. This week businessdigest's chief reporter Paul Nyakazeya caught up (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Journalists Condemn Killing of Colleague
Saturday 26-Jun-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - The media fraternity yesterday condemned the murder of one of its members, Jean Leonard Rugambage, deputy editor of Umuvugizi Newspaper, who was gunned down Thursday night out (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Loans From Commercial Bank to Private Sector Increase By 14.6 Percent
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Berna NamataKigali - With more money in circulation within the financial institutions, since the second half of 2009, market interest rates have gone down. This is expected to increase the potentia (By News Poster)...Economy to Recover By 2015
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichIT will take another five years for the global economy to recover from the current meltdown which started in 2008, South African economic expert Clem Sunter said yesterday."The pro (By News Poster)...East Africa: Somali Migrant Killed in Gun Battle Between Yemeni Forces and Smugglers - UN
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: The United Nations refugee agency is working with the Yemeni Government to gain access to a group of Africans who were detained following a weekend incident in which one man was killed and two women w (By News Poster)...Lessons from my work: Managers are Politicians: Those who wanted to fire me... fighting back - my allies fire broadsides - ripping carpets from under people...
Monday 21-Jun-2010: Management can panic at times. But the last 7 days have been exceedingly good for me. I got home this evening and for the first time in months did not sit at my computer. I have so much paperwork (By Jan)...Nigeria: Uduaghan Advocates Criminal Probe of Oil Spills in Niger Delta
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Victor Efeizomor And Omon-Julius OnabuAsaba/Warri - Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has canvassed a criminal investigation into the activities of oil majors in the country over damages (By News Poster)...South Africa: Finance Minister Moots 'New Thinking' on Jobs, Growth
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Hilary JoffeJohannesburg - SA WOULD need to make tough choices if it wants to restructure its economy in response to changing patterns of global growth, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said yesterd (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: KP Chair Joins Anti-Zim Lobby
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Zvamaida MurwiraHarare - KIMBERLEY Process Certification Scheme chairman Mr Boaz Hirsch has joined forces determined to discredit Zimbabwe's diamonds and to have them blacklisted, citing more alleg (By News Poster)...Uganda: Two Nyamwasa Shooting Suspects Freed
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Tabu ButagiraTwo of six men South African police arrested and detained in connection with the June 19 shooting of exiled Rwandan military general, Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, have been released.Polic (By News Poster)...Banks Investing Heavily to Keep Information Safe From Frauds
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Sanchia TemkinJohannesburg - SOUTH African financial institutions are spending tens of millions of rands annually to secure information in the wake of a growing number of threats and increased regu (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zimbabwean Diamond Rights Researcher Denied Bail by High Court
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Violet GondaA High Court Judge, Justice Chinembiri Bhunu, threw out the bail application by diamond rights activist Farai Maguwu, who has been in detention since June 4th. Maguwu is currently in ho (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How Exploration in Niger Delta Spikes Diabetes
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Godwin EgbaPort Harcourt - Oil and gas exploration and exploitation across the Niger Delta region of Nigeria is described as the major engine room of the country's economy after agriculture and pro (By News Poster)...South Africa: Minister Must Try to Hold Nuclear Power Skills
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - WITH the majority of its employees likely to leave after the government earlier this year slashed its budget, the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) project is coming to the end of its l (By News Poster)...Sudan: Security Council Deplores Deadly Ambush of UNAMID Peacekeepers
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: The Security Council has joined the chorus of United Nations condemnation of yesterday's ambush by unknown assailants in Darfur in which three soldiers serving with the African Union-United Nations pe (By News Poster)...South Africa: Nedbank Aims for Growth in Southern Africa
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - NEDBANK plans to grow through acquisitions in southern Africa and Nigeria, and from non-interest revenue in SA, as part of a strategy by SA's smallest bank by market cap (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Abdulmutallab - Nation Seeks to Observe Trial
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Tokunbo Adedoja and Paul OhiaNew York/Lagos - The case against Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who attempted to blow up a United States-bound Delta Airliner on Christmas Day last year, will come up in a (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: EU Trade Pact in Place Before Year-End - SADC
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyTHE cluster of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), including Namibia, which is negotiating a drawn-out trade pact with the European Union (EU), has agreed to sign an "in (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Impunity in Rape Cases Thrives
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: Freetown - Police records in Sierra Leone show that after months of court appearances, Janice*, 35, dropped charges against the four men she said gang-raped her and then filled her vagina with sand. T (By News Poster)...Africa: Not Spending Enough On Food
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - "Africa is now facing the same type of long-term food deficit problem that India faced in the early 1960s", says a paper by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a U (By News Poster)...Rift Valley Fever Reveals Challenges to Local Farmers
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: THE outbreak of the epidemic in question has brought to light several realities associated with the farming sector in Namibia, two of which come to mind.One, that the Namibian State through the State (By News Poster)...Nghidinwa Condemns Trafficking and Sex Trade
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: THE issue of the sex trade had dominated the news with the inception of the Fifa Soccer World Cup in South Africa and the recently held Africa Cup of Nations in Luanda, and had become a matter of majo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Crimes Commission Probe Alleged Scam
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Emman Ovuakporie and Henry UmoruAbuja - Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, yesterday, said the agency will set up a panel to look into the alleged N (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: State Accused of Child Labour
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Bernard MpofuTHE United States has accused Zimbabwe's security forces of coercing youths into forced labour at the controversial Marange alluvial diamond fields, a charge Zimbabwe denies.A human tr (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Israel Backs Zim Diamonds
Friday 25-Jun-2010: Harare - ISRAEL has called for everything possible to be done to ensure Zimbabwe remains within the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme saying the country has the potential to supply nearly a quarte (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Salone Boy Brutally Killed in U.S.
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: Freetown - An 18-year-old Sierra Leone national was on Sunday brutally murdered during a bloody night near a bus stop in Upper Manhattan, New York, police say while hunting for suspects.US media repor (By News Poster)...Kenya: Cash-Flush Firms Turn to Banks for Higher Returns
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Geoffrey IrunguKenyan corporates are struggling to find a home for their excess cash in an economy hit by low interest rates, forcing them to negotiate for higher returns from banks.Cash-flush corp (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Low Research Funding Threatens Food Security'
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - The government's failure to adequately fund agricultural research was "playing" with food security and food safety in SA, organised agriculture and opposition parties sai (By News Poster)...Africa: World Leaders Are Called Upon to Take Action Against Aids Funding Crisis
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: A statement by Stephen Lewis, Co-Director of AIDS-Free World released at a press conference in Toronto, June 22, 2010.At the Gleneagles G8 Summit in 2005, the G8 countries committed themselves to prov (By News Poster)...East Africa: EAC Health Sector Gets U.S.$64 Million Boost from World Bank
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By David MuwangaKampala - The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved $63.66m to create a unique regional network of 25 public health laboratories across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Rw (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Misa Condemns Libel Sentence
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican chapter of the regional press freedom body MISA (Media Institute of Southern Africa) has expressed serious concern at the sentence imposed by the Nampula City Court against a j (By News Poster)...Kenya: Refugees Fear Renewed Violence
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Lucas BarasaNairobi - Kenya internal refugees have expressed fears of renewed chaos in the post-election violence hotspots following inflammatory remarks by politicians in the ongoing referendum ca (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Robberies - Banks On Five Day Strike in Okigwe
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Christopher IsiguzoEnugu - Banking services were paralysed in Okigwe, Imo state yesterday as workers in the nine banks operating in the town embarked on a five-day warning strike to protest what th (By News Poster)...Africa: Straight Talk with MSF Medical Coordinator Dr. Eric Goemaere
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: Dr Eric Goemaere is the medical coordinator of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in South Africa. His career in HIV and AIDS has spanned decades, moving from an era in which antiretroviral (By News Poster)...Uganda: Army Kills Karamoja Warriors
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Stephen AriongMoroto - The UPDF on Sunday opened fire on Karamoja warriors fleeing from military custody in Moroto District, killing at least two. Residents, however, put the death toll of the gunf (By News Poster)...Kenya: High Cost of Food May Be a Boon for Farmers
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Steve MbogoThe cost of food will not fall to the pre-2008 levels despite increased output across the world this year, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said.Sharp food price increase betw (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How Central Banks Can Achieve Financial Stability -- IMF Expert
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Ese AwhotuAbuja - First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF), John Lipsky, has proffered solutions as to how Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) can mitigate systematic risk and saf (By News Poster)...South Africa: Criminal Questions in the Gulf of Mexico
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Mia SwartJohannesburg - BP CHAIRMAN Carl-Henric Svanberg last week apologised for making the "clumsy" remark that those hurt by his company's oil spill were "small people". Svanberg earlier said: " (By News Poster)...Guinea: Guineans to Choose Leader "For the First Time Ever"
Sunday 27-Jun-2010: Dakar - "Democracy has begun in Guinea," said Mamadou Diallo, 47, who is regaining the use of his hand severed in the September 2009 bloody military crackdown many say was the turning point that paved (By News Poster)...Guinea: Election Gives Signs of Hope
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Robert AmsterdamAt a moment when the tide of global democracy is seemingly in reverse, it is heartening to note the enthusiasm with which many voters in Africa are participating in campaigns, build (By News Poster)...Uganda: UPDF Cannot Be Panic Button for Museveni And Besigye
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Karoli SsemogerereNew York - In one of the after pieces of the deadly riots that followed the closing of CBS, this column put the grid coordinates of the Kiboko Squad in Kampala's Central Business (By News Poster)...Somalia: Puntland Security Forces Injured in Grenade Attack
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: Eight security officers were injured on Wednesday in a grenade attack in Puntland 's commercial city of Bossaso, Radio Garowe reports.Unknown assailants hurled a grenade at a security forces' vehicle (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kayumba Leaves South African Hospital
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Daniel K. KalinakiJohannesburg - Exiled Rwandan top military officer, Lt. Gen. Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa was yesterday discharged from hospital in South Africa after the doctors at Morningside Clini (By News Poster)...South Africa: New Bid to Clear Bribe Cloud Over Arms Manufacturer in India
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Loyiso LangeniJohannesburg - SIX years after being blacklisted by the Indian government, loss-making state-owned arms manufacturer Denel is scrambling to clear its name with law enforcement authori (By News Poster)...Namibia: Drastic Measures to Rescue Tourism
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Absalom ShigwedhaIN an attempt to lift the Namibian tourism industry out of the doldrums, the Namibia Tourism Board (NTB) has launched a campaign to attract tourists.The campaign includes a 50 per (By News Poster)...Somalia: Fresh Fighting Kills 8 in Mogadishu
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: Heavy clashes involving pro-government soldiers and Islamist fighters have killed at least 8 people, mainly civilians, Radio Garowe reports.The clashes erupted in northern districts of Hodan and Hawlw (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fighting Crimes With Words
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: NIGERIAN officials entrusted with fighting crimes have shown a preference for executing their briefs with mere words.Even the members of the House of Representatives who claim they are on a mission to (By News Poster)...Angola: Ghana Set Technical Meeting for August
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: Accra - The presidents of Angola and Ghana, José Eduardo dos Santos and John Evans Atta Mils, respectively, agreed to hold in August this year in Luanda, a technical meeting of preparation of t (By News Poster)...South Africa: HIV Infection Rate Slowing - Study
Monday 21-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - South Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic may finally be slowing, according to a new study which found a 35 percent decline in the rate of new HIV infections between 2002 and 2008.Using prevalen (By News Poster)...Bread, Maize May Cost More
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Desie HeitaWindhoek - There is a likelihood of future increases in the prices of bread and maize, even though figures for the current period and 2008 show a downward trend in food price inflation.T (By News Poster)...Nigeria: There Should Be Oil Sovereign Fund, Says Utomi
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: Lagos - Professor Pat Utomi, Chairman of the Social Democratic Mega Party has opined that only $30 of the value of oil sold should go into the Federal Allocation Account, FAAC.The rest of the money sh (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Soldiers Crack Four Man Kidnap Gang
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Tony EdikeEnugu - SOLDIERS attached to the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu, have smashed a four-man kidnap gang believed to be responsible for several cases of ransom kidnapping within Enug (By News Poster)...Court Hears of Night of Murder
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Roland RouthWindhoek - The trial in which two young men are accused of killing three people in Kleine Kuppe and robbing them of their cellphones and a handbag, is in full swing in the Windhoek High (By News Poster)...Kenya: Cassava Turns Into Source of Cash for Small-Scale Farmers
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Steve MbogoNicholas Olum has been running a fabricating business for many years but it is only recently that his patience paid off - he was contracted to fabricate cassava-processing machines by tw (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: TAZ Accuses Buyers of 'Ripping Off' Farmers
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Ndamu SanduTHE Tobacco Association of Zimbabwe (TAZ) has written to the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) complaining about the ripping off of farmers by buyers on the auctions floors.The (By News Poster)...Nigeria: IFC Partners Etranzact On Mobilemoney Project
Monday 21-Jun-2010: Lagos - As part of efforts to bridge the gap between the banked and the unbanked population of Nigeria, eTranzact in conjunction with International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Ban (By News Poster)...Kenya: UN Opens New Courtroom to Try Pirate Suspects in Kenyan Port
Sunday 27-Jun-2010: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Kenya, the country currently holding the highest number of piracy suspects, on Friday opened a new high-security courtroom to try suspects in t (By News Poster)...Kenya: UN Opens New Courtroom to Try Pirate Suspects in Kenyan Port
Friday 25-Jun-2010: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Kenya, the country currently holding the highest number of piracy suspects, today opened a new high-security courtroom to try suspects in the p (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC Activists Abducted in Marondera During Outreach Exercise
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Lance GumaPublic hearings for a new constitution continue to be blighted by the endless persecution of people taking part, or those known to be aligned to the MDC. On Friday there were reports that (By News Poster)...South Africa: Opposition for Global Bank Bail-Out Levy
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Hilary JoffeJohannesburg - SA is working with Canada, Australia and India to try to ensure that global proposals for tighter financial regulation can be tailored to individual countries' circumstan (By News Poster)...Rate Relief - Don't Get Your Hopes Up
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyLOCAL economists are united in their forecast that the Bank of Namibia (BoN) will leave the repo rate unchanged at 7,0 per cent today as Namibians regain their credit appetite slowly b (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: President Off to Mozambique
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Takunda MaodzaHarare - PRESIDENT Mugabe left Harare for Maputo yesterday to join regional leaders in celebrating Mozambique's 35th Independence anniversary.The celebrations are being held under the (By News Poster)...Sudan: Darfur - UN-African Union Mission Urges Calm After Reported Tribal Clashes
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: The joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur said today it has received reports of tribal clashes in the west of the region that led to a number of deaths and injuries, and ca (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Standard Bank Clinches GBC Award for the Global Fund Partnership
Monday 21-Jun-2010: Standard Bank has been rewarded with an Excellence in Business Action award for its role in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and malaria.The award was presented by the Global Business Coalitio (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Delegates Head to Europe to Seek End to Sanctions
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Alex BellA government delegation is set to meet with European Union (EU) officials in Belgium next week, for talks that ZANU PF will likely use to call for the lifting of targeted sanctions against (By News Poster)...South Africa: Who's Tracking the World's Biggest ARV Programme?
Friday 25-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - The world's largest antiretroviral (ARV) programme may be operating in the dark most of the time, according to a long-awaited review of the HIV/AIDS national strategic plan (NSP) releas (By News Poster)...Africa: Continent 'Still Failing to Promote Itself'
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Sarah HudlestonJohannesburg - ALTHOUGH Africa was the third most favoured continent for tourism investment after Southeast Asia and India, the continent still failed to communicate these opportunit (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Ban Stays on Export of Controversial Diamonds
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Violent GondaMember states and partners of the Kimberley Process, an organization set up eight years ago to eradicate the trade in blood diamonds, failed to reach agreement on whether to allow Zimb (By News Poster)...Liberia: NGO Suffers 'Heavy Blow'
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Joe K. RobertsWith a $1 million alleged fraud case in Liberia still reverberating, World Vision has become the latest aid agency to be embroiled in a corruption scandal.The Christian organisation h (By News Poster)...Cameroon/South Africa: Cry My Wounded Lions
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Robson SharukoJohannesburg - THE spectacular fall from grace of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon - Africa's most successful team in the World Cup - was confirmed here on Saturday night when they b (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Oil Industry Endorses Fuel Price Increase
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Moses A. KargboFreetown - Oil marketing companies in the country have announced another increase in the pump prices of all petroleum products as government withholds all subsidies on the products w (By News Poster)...South Africa: Study Points Way Towards Workable Land Reform
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - A RANGE of agricultural business models can bring benefits to small-scale farmers and protect their land rights, while ensuring returns to companies, says a new study. (By News Poster)...Uganda: Gen. Kayumba Leaves Hospital
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Daniel K. KalinakiJohannesburg - Exiled Rwandan general, Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa has been discharged from hospital in South Africa after the doctor's at Morningside Clinic in Johannesburg gave him (By News Poster)...Kenya: A Sordid Tale of Terror and Graft
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Gerry SimpsonShot at and raped. Arrested and beaten. Detained and deported. Extorted and robbed. Threatened and insulted. Ignored and shunned. The treatment of hardened criminals in some far-flung (By News Poster)...Namibia: Namibia in on Fighting Deserts
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: Omatjete - Last Thursday Namibia joined the world in commemorating World Day to Combat Desertification. The day was observed at Omatjete village in the Erongo Region, under the theme, 'Improving soils (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Vision 20 - 2020 - Presidency Strategises for Implementation
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Tony AilemenAbuja - President Goodluck Jonathan's dream of making Nigeria one of the 20 most developed economies by the year 2020 received a boost recently with the presidential retreat on "Public (By News Poster)...South Africa: Eskom Finally Lets Independent Producer Flick the Switch
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - ON January 24 2008, the share price of independent power producer Ipsa jumped a massive 33%.This was the day that the South African government declared a national emerg (By News Poster)...Kenya: Land Commission Will Have Power to Manage Public Land
Monday 21-Jun-2010: Nairobi - What are the powers of the National Land Commission under the proposed Constitution?Current constitutionThe National Land Commission does not exist under the current Constitution. However, t (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Turning Point in the Struggle Against Poverty
Friday 25-Jun-2010: Maputo - Mozambique has reached the turning point in attitudes towards the struggle against poverty, President Armando Guebuza declared on Friday, addressing commemorations of the 35th anniversary of (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Ban on Diamond Exports Stays
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: The lack of consensus among Kimberley Process (KP) certification scheme members over whether Zimbabwe can resume diamond exports from the troubled Marange area was welcomed by the KP civil society coa (By News Poster)...Namibia: La Rochelle Battle Rages On
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithTHE WIDOW of the late Hans Jürgen Koch has filed an urgent application in the High Court to ask that all belongings that were stripped from Koch's farm, La Rochelle, last week s (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Petroleum Industry Bill - Shell Withholds $40 Billion Investment
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: Lagos - Nigeria's biggest petroleum industry player, Shell, is still playing it hard on the country following the dispute over propositions in the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) the passage of which is (By News Poster)...Witness Never Saw Or Heard of Taylor's Support to the RUF (news)
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Alpha SesayA witness for Charles Taylor said today that she neither saw nor heard any evidence that the former Liberian president provided support to Sierra Leonean rebels during the country's 11-y (By News Poster)...Congo-Brazzaville: Deforestation Threatens South With Famine
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: The trees are falling in Pool, and there are plenty of people to hear the sound. In a painful irony, the end of armed conflict in 2003, has signaled the wholesale devastation of forests in this southe (By News Poster)...World Bank Lauds Africa's Progress
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Johnstone Ole TuranaAfrica stands to gain from a new decision-making approach by the World Bank regarding investment priorities.The lender is ditching its Washington-based decision making and is op (By News Poster)...Kenya: Fish Project Seeks to Create Wealth, Jobs and Food Security
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Moses MichiraThe government expects to create thousands of new jobs and generate income for small scale entrepreneurs through fish farming.In this year's budget allocation, Finance minister Uhuru K (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kabaka Wants Makerere Land Returned to Him
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Charles Mwanguhya MpagiBuganda King, Kabaka Ronald Mutebi has written to government asking it to return to him 92.72 acres of land that currently houses Makerere University main campus.The king, ac (By News Poster)...Uganda: Oil Extraction Hits Snag Over Tax Wrangles
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Ibrahim KasiitaKampala - A plan to start extracting and refining Uganda's oil has hit a snag due to tax disagreements between an exploration company and the Government.Heritage Oil and Gas Company (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mudzuri Challenges Sacking From Govt
Saturday 26-Jun-2010: FORMER Energy minister Elias Mudzuri yesterday challenged his dismissal from government by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, insisting that he had achieved a lot with minimum resources in a short spac (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Plaudits and Criticism for Tsvangirai's Cabinet Reshuffle
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Violet GondaThere have been mixed reactions to the cabinet reshuffle announced by MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday, which saw four ministers from the party dropped from the government. (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Govt Wanted Me to Disappear, Says Freed Lawyer
Friday 25-Jun-2010: US law professor Peter Erlinder, who spent three weeks in a Rwandan prison accused of denying the 1994 genocide, has told RFI that authorities there tried to make him "disappear". He returned to the U (By News Poster)...South Africa: Energy Regulator Sets Out Energy Savings Measures in Paper
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - THE National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) has published a consultation paper with measures to encourage rapid and large-scale implementation of energy savings, in lin (By News Poster)...Namibia: BoN Tightens Screws On Banks
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyBANK of Namibia (BoN) Governor Ipumbu Shiimi yesterday afternoon met with the managing directors of the four commercial banks to ensure that they remain on track to drop interest rates (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Maize Producer Price Up
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Elita ChikwatiHarare - Government has increased the maize producer price by US$10 to US$275 per tonne with effect from April 1, 2010.This is the minimum price that the Grain Marketing Board will bu (By News Poster)...Somalia: 10 Killed As Militants Fight in Mogadishu
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: At least 10 combatants have been killed and 20 others injured in heavy fighting that pitted militant group Al-Shabaab against rival Hizbul Islam in the restive capital Mogadishu, Radio Garowe reports. (By News Poster)...Kenya: Company Bets Big on Promising Wind Power Sector
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Cosmas ButunyiNairobi - Kenya could soon tap more into its huge wind energy potential if ongoing feasibility studies turn out successful.All then seems set fair for a multimillion dollar infrastruc (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: New Dawn Mining Buys Controlling Stake in CAG
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Bright MaderaHarare - ZIMBABWE focused gold mining company and Toronto Stock Exchange listed, New Dawn Mining has acquired a controlling 89 percent stake in AIM-listed, Central African Gold from it (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jonathan - Military Men for Civil Duties Soon
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Omon-Julius OnabuWarri - The Federal Government has expressed intention to adopt new measures in its determination to effectively tackle security concerns in the country, including engaging militar (By News Poster)...Ghana: 61,000 African Women Die of Cervical Cancer Annually
Sunday 27-Jun-2010: By Roberta Dzifa KodzitseSadly, somewhere in the world a woman dies of cervical cancer in every in two minutes. It is estimated that every year 274,000 women die from cervical cancer. Similarly, about (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nwachukwu Arraigned Over House Fracas
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Tony Ailemen and Jude OparaAbuja - Barely 24 hours after the show of shame in the House of Representatives, the Police yesterday arraigned Hon. Austin Nwachukwu before a Chief Magistrate Court, Abu (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Prime Minster Recalls Two Ministers
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Tendai MugabeHarare - MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday recalled two of his Cabinet ministers - Engineer Elias Mudzuri (Energy and Power Development) and Fidelis Mhashu (Housing and Socia (By News Poster)...Yellow Card for World Cup Refs
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Robson SharukoBloemfontein - JUST about every World Cup has its fair share of refereeing howlers from that controversial decision to allow Geoff Hurst's goal, which gave England a 3-2 lead in the f (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Trust Bank to Repossess Assets Held By RBZ
Friday 25-Jun-2010: Trust Banking Corporation will soon repossess its assets from Zimbabwe Allied Banking Group (ZABG), the Zimbabwe Independent has established.A market source says former Trust Holdings Ltd CEO William (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Outrage Trails House of Representatives Fracas
Friday 25-Jun-2010: Lagos NMA urges Bankole to resignThe Lagos State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has called on the embattled Speaker of the House of Assembly, Dimeji Bankole to restore honour to the (By News Poster)...Liberia: Ghanaian As Garbage Collectors and All - the Absence of Economic Nationalism
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Tom KamaraReports that Ghanaian a company, for US18.4m, has been hired as garbage collectors here seem to cause a stir in some circles when they should not. The government's policy has been tied to (By News Poster)...Rwanda: South Africa Probes Shooting of Ex-Army Chief
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: South Africa is to investigate whether the shooting in Johannesburg last week of Rwanda's former army chief was an assassination attempt.Ayanda Ntsaluba, director general of the Department of Foreign (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Power - Nation Targets 35,000mw by 2020
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Kunle AderinokunAbuja - The Federal Government said Nigeria will require an electricity power generation of 35,000 megawatt (MW) by 2020 (which is less than 10 years away), to be able to realise Vi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Major Boost for Economy During World Cup
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Nthambeleni GabaraPretoria - The South African economy is receiving a massive boost from international tourists who are in the country for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.This is according to the latest ne (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Legislators in Scuffle
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Tordue SalemThe House of Representatives yesterday literally became a house of commotion when age-long acrimony between a group of 11 lawmakers known as "Progressive-Minded Legislators" and those l (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Impact of Acid Rain On Crops, Food Availability
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Tina A. HassanAs the call to battle hunger in the world continues to grow, another dimension to the battle against climatic forces has emerged in Nigeria in the form of acid rain threat.Acid rain p (By News Poster)...West Africa: Ten million in region face severe hunger as harvests fail and drought deepens, warns Oxfam
Monday 21-Jun-2010: More than ten million people across West Africa are facing severe hunger and malnutrition because of drought, poor harvests and rising food prices, warns the international aid agency, Oxfam, which tod (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Tricky Road to Better Life for the People
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Lawi JoelDar Es Salaam - AMIDST global and local austere economic adversities the government has managed fairly well to provide for the people in line with its theme of 'a better life for all.'Agri (By News Poster)...Swaziland: Focus on Infants in HIV Prevention
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Mantoe PhakathiManzini - A proud mother, Nonhlanhla Mabuza cuddles her one-day-old baby boy, at the circumcision clinic of Raleigh Fitkin Memorial (RFM) Hospital. A day after delivering her second (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Opposition Leader Held, Journalist Shot
Friday 25-Jun-2010: Rwanda authorities took in a presidential contender on Thursday on suspicion of attempted murder, a police spokesperson said. Security forces also detained dozens of opposition protesters when Preside (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Trade Deal Comes Under Fire At SADC Conference
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Loyiso LangeniJohannesburg - SOUTHERN African Development Community (Sadc) executive secretary Tomáz Salomão yesterday criticised the European Union (EU) for trying to "impose" a pre (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Transaction Under Investigation
Friday 25-Jun-2010: Harare - Government is investigating the circumstances surrounding New Dawn Mining's reported acquisition of a controlling 89 percent stake in Central African Gold, a Cabinet Minister has said.In a st (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World cup - Would more White players have helped Bafana to do better? - The world cup & racism against white people
Friday 25-Jun-2010: [That lady friend of mine who had her car window smashed by a black some months ago, and who was robbed by blacks who kept threatening to shoot her husand sent me this note. I know this woman very (By Jan)...Uganda: Oil Policy Slow But On Right Track
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Ibrahim Kasita and Gerald TenywaKampala - While Uganda is taking the right track regarding the formulation of a legal and policy framework to manage oil production, the pace of creating the laws, p (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Conrad in PGA Rally
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Collin MatizaHarare - FORMER African Rally Champion Conrad Rautenbach is expected to make a welcome return to the local motor rallying scene at this Saturday's Pioneer Panel Beaters and Guard Alert (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Netherlands Arrests Genocide Suspect
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Edmund KagireNetherlands - Authorities in the Netherlands yesterday arrested a woman in a village south of the country on suspicion of involvement in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.Yvonne Ntac (By News Poster)...Kenya: Ministry Links Power Crisis to Delayed Projects
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Zeddy SambuThe Energy ministry is accusing the Treasury of delaying to approve incentives meant to attract funding in the pursuit of reliable and affordable power supply.Permanent secretary Patrick (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Outreach Program Begins as Soldiers Set Up Bases in Rural Areas
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe Constitutional Parliamentary Committee (COPAC) was on Monday overseeing the deployment of seventy outreach teams of 10 members each to the country's 10 provinces.COPAC, which sp (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Nyamwasa Shooting Investigation Underway
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: Pretoria - The South African government is still investigating the motive behind the shooting of former Rwandan army chief, Kayumba Nyamwasa.Nyamwasa was shot in his Melrose Arch home last week.Nyamwa (By News Poster)...Africa's Disaster Not a Mystery
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Charles MutebiKampala - The year is 2014. The FIFA World Cup is on in Brazil. In fact, it has reached the semi-finals stage. Tension is high in the continents of South America and Europe. Each has (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NDLEA Impounds 6,021 Drug Peddlers' International Passports
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Kenneth EhigiatorThe National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has impounded no fewer than 6,021 international passports belonging to drug offenders in the past four years, just as it secured sa (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Court Dismisses Diamond Researcher's Bail Application
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: Harare - THE High Court yesterday dismissed an appeal for bail by Centre for Research and Development Trust director Farai Maguwu, who is charged with communicating falsehoods on the human rights situ (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mobile Phone Operators Race Against Time
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: Harare - Mobile phone companies are racing against time to beat the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe's deadline for registration of all activated prepaid and post-paid si (By News Poster)...USA: Stock Markets: Another 'Flash Crash' Coming? Some Market Pros Think So
Monday 21-Jun-2010: [The crash of 6 May was not caused by "finger trouble". That is an Obama lie. Jan] The May 6 "flash crash" may be history, but its after-effects—and threat to the stock market—continue to loom larg (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Kenyan Arrested Over Human Trafficking
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Kitsepile NyathiNairobi - Zimbabwe has arrested a Kenyan believed to be a ring leader of a human trafficking syndicate who tried to smuggle 12 Somalis to neighbouring South Africa.A senior immigrat (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oniwon And Stability in NNPC
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Obas EsiedesaAbuja - The appointment of Austin Oniwon as the new Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on May 17 makes him the 14th person to head the (By News Poster)...Namibia: There Must Be Aliens Although I Have Never Seen One
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Daniel SteinmannWindhoek - In the wake of the soccer World Cup hype came a phenomenon alien to Namibians - so-called human trafficking! For the past two months, we have been inundated with all sort (By News Poster)...South Africa: Charter Holds Back Transformation in Mining, Says Report
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Simon MundyJohannesburg - MINING has shown "a disturbingly low level of workforce transformation", according to a new report that criticises a legislative framework that in effect exempts mining co (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: U.S.$90 Million Bid for Hwange
Friday 25-Jun-2010: Harare - THE Gateway Overseas consortium, one of the bidders to acquire the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company, has dangled a US$90 million offer to buy out Government's 43 percent stake in Hwange Collie (By News Poster)...Chad: Factors Behind the Food Crisis
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: N'djamena - The recently finalized multi-agency and governmental vulnerability assessment map (VAM) of Chad, covering more than 4,000 households in 212 villages from April to June 2009, analyzed facto (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gautrain Costs, Slower Order Book Weigh on Construction Giant
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Thabang MokopaneleJohannesburg - CONSTRUCTION and engineering group Murray & Roberts is finding it hard to pull out of the economic slump, warning yesterday that it expected diluted earnings per sh (By News Poster)...Kenya: Entrepreneurs Loose Out to Banks on M-Pesa
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Victor JumaEntrepreneurs are losing opportunity to act as M-Pesa agents, as Safaricom channels more of its agency business to banks.Diamond Trust Bank, on Wednesday joined the agency business, addi (By News Poster)...Africa: World Cup Spotlight Highlights Continent's Strategic Importance
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Thomas CargillWorld Cup fever has put a serious dent into any substantial media coverage of the G8 and G20 summits which take place in Canada.The G8 summit in the holiday district of Muskoka will b (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: War Vets Clear Air On Harare Polls
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: Harare - A faction of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association has dismissed reports that the organisation's Harare provincial executive has elected new leadership.In a statement yes (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lawyer Condemns Violence in House of Representatives
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Davidson IriekpenLagos - Lagos lawyer Femi Falana also condemned yesterday's violence in the House of Representatives and dismissed the suspension of some members as "illegal".He faulted the sancti (By News Poster)...Barth Nnaji Now Special Adviser On Power (news)
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Kunle Aderinokun and Sufuyan OjeifoAbuja - In line with his promise to strengthen the administrative structure to drive reform in the power sector, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday named a for (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Former Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Jailed
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Innocent AnabaLagos - FORMER Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Alhaji Bello Lafiaji, and his Personal Assistant, Usman Amali, were sentenced to a total of 16 years impris (By News Poster)...Ghana: Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Morally Wrong -Ocansey
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Anthonia Soyingbe'Princess' entered the State, Banquet Hall in Accra Ghana where she was expected to deliver a lecture on HIV/AIDS and Womanhood unannounced, but her arrival was greeted by the spee (By News Poster)...Further Mental Checks for Murder Suspect
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Werner MengesMURDER suspect Natangwe Ipinge Ngatjizeko, who is charged with killing his mother in a bloody knife attack in her home near the end of 2006, is set to undergo a second period of psychi (By News Poster)...Witness Says She Was Not Loyal to Taylor (news)
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor's defense witness today said her efforts to help Sierra Leonean rebel fighters during the country's 11-year war were motivated purely by loyalty to one man: rebel leader F (By News Poster)...Shock Fall in Exports Puts Deficit Under Pressure
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - SA's deficit on the current account, its broadest measure of trade in goods and services, widened more than expected in the first quarter of this year, putting pressure on (By News Poster)...Uganda: MPs Raise Alarm Over Land Grabbing
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Yasiin MugerwaParliament yesterday demanded an explanation from the government on the fraudulent acquisition of land in the oil-rich Albertine region even after President Museveni stopped issuance (By News Poster)...West Africa: Call for More Aid As 10 Million Face Hunger
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: Dakar - Several UN agencies and NGOs are calling for a greater mobilization of aid workers and funding in the West African Sahel to meet the needs of a population facing one of the worst nutrition cri (By News Poster)...Tanzania/South Africa: No Electricity to Supply SA, Says Tanesco
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Ibrahim BakariTanzania will not provide electricity to South Africa to boost its power supply during the forthcoming World Cup finals next month as agreed by the regional body.In making sure there (By News Poster)...Namibia: Uutoni Warns Police Against Bribery
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Toivo NdjebelaWindhoek - Deputy Minister of Safety and Security, Erastus Uutoni, has warned members of the national police force against accepting bribes while executing their statutory obligations (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: State Threatens to Pull Out of Kimberley Process
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Violet GondaZimbabwe has threatened to walk away from the Kimberley Process (KP), if it does not get approval from the international diamonds trade watchdog to export rough diamonds from Chiadzwa i (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fight Breaks Out in House of Reps
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: The crisis rocking the House of Representatives recorded a parliamentary disaster yesterday as it resorted to use of brutal force in dragging some of its members out of chamber for allegedly violating (By News Poster)...South Africa: Controversial Plastic Clamp Used to Circumcise Men
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Kerry CullinanKwaZulu-Natal's health department is using a plastic device in its mass male circumcision drive that speeds up the procedure but has significant side-effects in adult men.Doctors who (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Fresh Controversy Hits Telecel
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: Harare - EMPOWERMENT Corporation, a significant shareholder in Telecel Zimbabwe, has distanced itself from claims by Telecel International that it has agreed to a proposal on how the company intends t (By News Poster)...USA: Gold rises, settles short of record high
Saturday 26-Jun-2010: SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures on Friday ended tantalizingly close to a fresh record, as the precious metal continued to benefit from strong investor demand and jitters ahead of a gatheri (By Jan)...Kenya: Biden Says Kenyan Reforms Will Attract American Investment
Saturday 26-Jun-2010: By Stephen KaufmanWashington -- Through a new constitution and strengthened democratic institutions, Kenya will attract greater American investment, which in turn will generate additional investment f (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamond Whistleblower Remanded in Custody, Again
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Violet GondaFarai Maguwu, the Chiadzwa diamonds whistleblower who was arrested earlier this month on charges of 'communicating falsehoods', was remanded in custody again on Wednesday. The State cla (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Spring Bank Posts N636 Million Q1 Profits
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Bonny AmadiLagos - Spring Bank Nigeria Plc, one of the eight banks rescued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reported a pre tax profit of N636 million in its first quarter 2010 business oper (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Alleged Corruption At the NNPC
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: Lagos - The Federal Government, through the Minister of State for Finance, Remi Babalola, last week raised the alarm that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) cannot pay back the N450 bi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jonathan, Oghara Elders in Secret Talks About Ibori Case
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Kola Niyi-Eke and Abiodun OluwarotimiElders of Oghara, the home town of embattled former governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefi Ibori, have resumed talks with President Goodluck Jonathan, wit (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Scam - U.S. Indicts Eight
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Abiodun OluwarotimiNew York - The United States Judiciary and the New York Police Department have indicted eight Nigerians and 12 others, in the multi-million dollar scam which allegedly involved 2 (By News Poster)...Namibia: Habitual Thief Gets Five Years
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Denver KistingA VETERAN thief with 11 previous convictions, Alfeus Nafuka, was slapped with two five-year jail terms in the Swakopmund Magistrate's Court on Friday.The 33-year-old man's previous co (By News Poster)...Zambia: Piracy in the Pharmaceutical Sector
Monday 21-Jun-2010: FOR most people, talk of piracy is associated with music or movies and yet it happens in many more industries including the pharmaceutical sector.Many Zambians have unknowingly been victims of piracy (By News Poster)...South Africa's Zuma May Face Charges
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Jocelyn NewmarchJohannesburg - ENVIRONMENT and Water Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica and President Jacob Zuma may face the threat of criminal charges for allegedly failing to curb water pollution, (By News Poster)...Not Enough Done to Protect Pangolins
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Liz KomenTHE pangolin (Manis temminckii) is a protected species in Namibia and is increasingly vulnerable to threats posed by traditional and modern life.A recent report published in two of the dai (By News Poster)...Angola: Security Guards Rob 14 Million Kwanzas From BPC at Samba
Friday 25-Jun-2010: Luanda - About 14 million Kwanzas were on Wednesday stolen from the safe of the mobile branch of Credit and Saving Bank (BPC) in the commune of Benfica, municipality of Samba in Luanda.According to th (By News Poster)...Namibia: Price Tag for New Luxury Lodge at Etosha a Secret
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE heavily indebted Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) tourism enterprise owned by Government wants to build another multimillion-dollar luxury lodge mainly targeted at overseas touri (By News Poster)...Somalia: Major Militia Group Al-Shabaab Deem Elections 'Dangerous'
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Abdulkadir KhalifMogadishu - Sheikh Mukhtar Abdurahman Abu Zubayr, the Ameer (Supreme leader) of Al-Shabaab, the strongest radical Islamist group opposing the Transitional Federal Government in Som (By News Poster)...Uganda: Bravo Police, But More Needed
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By The ObserverWith the arrest of suspects in the kidnap of a young boy, Khan Kakama Karekaho, from Bugolobi flats, and the ultimate discovery of his decomposing body, the Uganda Police Force has reas (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Inmate Dupes Banker N12 Million From Kirikiri Prison
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Bidon MibzarAbuja - A prisoner, who was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in 2008 over advance fee fraud-related offences has (By News Poster)...South Africa: Calling for Better Utilization of Work-Place Peer Educators
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Khopotso BodibeWork-place peer educators are a unique invaluable resource that the country has in its response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic, but their role is not sufficiently exploited. This is ac (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Opposition Leader Should Not Rush Trial, Says Prosecutor
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Edmund KagireThe trial for Victoire Umuhoza Ingabire, the leader of the yet-to-be registered political party, FDU-Inkingi, will largely depend on cooperation from countries where Ingabire and the t (By News Poster)...Arrests Due in Probe of Fly-By-Night Colleges
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Sue BlaineJohannesburg - We cannot taint all private colleges as some are abiding by the law and offering good-quality courses. However, these colleges are being discredited by the fly-by- night in (By News Poster)...South Africa: Outside Stadiums, Formal and Informal Economies Square Off
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - Off the pitch, the FIFA World Cup has seen a tense standoff between South Africa's formal and informal economies as they compete for their share of the spinoffs, but declaring a winner (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos - Another Face of the STF
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Mahmud LaloJos - The Special Task Force (STF) set up to check the incessant civil disturbances in Plateau state is quietly doing a lot of beneficial work among the communities recently shaken by th (By News Poster)...Namibia: Clara Baitsewe - Angel of Broken Children
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Catherine SasmanGroot Aub - What started out as a concession to one child, ballooned into an avalanche of children in desperate need of help.Lunchtime at the Baitsewe household means plating up for (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Abcon President Decries Activities of Black Market Operators
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Babajide KomolafeABCON President, Dr. Emmanuel Balogun has expressed concern over the activities of illegal foreign currency traders, saying they not only undermine and bring the business of Bureau (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Swindlers Stalk Orile-Iganmu
Saturday 26-Jun-2010: PERHAPS, going by its location in Lagos metropolis and, of course, the composition of its population, news that local tricksters popularly called 419ers have stealthily invaded Orile-Iganmu and its en (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Consortium Seeks 51 Percent Stake in Hwange
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Chris MuronziA CONSORTIUM bidding to takeover Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco) will also seek to take a controlling shareholding in Hwange Colliery Ltd, businessdigest has established.Gatewa (By News Poster)...Uganda: Private Sector Credit Up Eighteen Percent
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Sylvia JuukoKampala - Commercial bank credit to the private sector expanded by 18.5% in the year to February 2010, suggesting that banks advanced more loans to customers despite the challenging glo (By News Poster)...Uganda: Rebel Group Continues to Wage War Whilst World Turns a Blind Eye
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: An international advocacy group says that Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army rebels have continued to wage a two-year ruthless campaign of terror against civilians in the Central African Republ (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Time for Bolder Action on HIV/Aids Pandemic
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Richard JosephAmong the long list of Nigeria's woes, AIDS is seldom mentioned. Yet, Nigeria has the second largest number of HIV-infected persons in the world, now estimated at 3 million. If South (By News Poster)...Namibia: Land Dispute At Oshivelo
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Oswald Shivute and Absalom ShigwedhaA LAND dispute that erupted last year over the ownership of the King Kauluma Settlement - about 7 km north of Oshivelo in Oshikoto Region - between the residents (By News Poster)...Hunters' Body Probes Lion Killing
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Denver KistingIN addition to the criminal charges that professional hunter Keith Wright faces after the recent killing of a protected lion, the Namibia Professional Hunters' Association (NAPHA) has (By News Poster)...Burundi: Grenade Blasts Claim Two Lives
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Josh KronBujumbura - Two grenades exploded today in Burundi's capital, worsening a string violence leading up to presidential elections next week.The hand grenades, which were thrown into a popular (By News Poster)...Anti-Apartheid Cleric Nico Smith Dead At 81
Monday 21-Jun-2010: The Rev. Nico Smith, a White pastor who challenged South Africa's apartheid system by moving with his wife into a Black township in the 1980s, died of a heart attack over the weekend. He was 81. S (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Zimbabwe: Man Guns Down Nephew
Monday 21-Jun-2010: Harare - A prominent Mashonaland West Province businessman Rashid Phiri shot and killed his sister's 13-year-old son early Saturday morning at his farm in Banket after mistaking him for a burglar.The (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Chinese Companies to Help Develop Mozambican Coal
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: Maputo - The Australian mining company Riversdale is bringing in Chinese partners to help develop its "Zambeze" coal project in the western Mozambican province of Tete.A Riversdale press release of Th (By News Poster)...Uganda: Where Next for Bulucheke IDPs?
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Frederick WomakuyuKampala - Surrounded by her seven children, Sambura Namataka sits in a tiny tent to shelter from the midday sun.Namataka, 30, is a broken woman. She is fatigued and restless due t (By News Poster)...Country's Economy On Your Fingertips
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: THE 2010 edition of the popular 'Guide to the Namibian Economy' is now available.The book, written by economist Robin Sherbourne and published by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), has b (By News Poster)...South Africa: The Off-Pitch World Cup Competition
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: Johannesburg - Off the pitch, the FIFA World Cup has seen a tense standoff between South Africa's formal and informal economies as they compete for their share of the spinoffs, but declaring a winner (By News Poster)...Nigeria/South Africa: O Day... Deadly Day
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Paul BasseyNever knew this day will come, so soon as it were. Rather I knew it will come but now that it has come, I do not know what to make of it. Today, The Super Eagles of Nigeria will go for a (By News Poster)...Mozambique: British Prince Visits Demining Operations
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: Maputo - Prince Henry of Wales (usually referred to as Prince Harry), the third in line to the British throne, on Sunday visited operations of the British mine clearance charity, the Halo Trust, in th (By News Poster)...Bavaria Knew It Was Breaking Law, Says Fifa
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Chantelle BenjaminJohannesburg - DUTCH brewery Bavaria knew what the legal implications of its actions were when it flew out two women to run its marketing campaign during a World Cup game last Mon (By News Poster)...Liberia: Progress but Unacceptable Levels of Insecurity
Saturday 26-Jun-2010: By Tom KamaraAt the emerging and modern University of Liberia Fendell campus, Chinese workers and contractors have reportedly thrown their hands in despair. The level of theft of materials is just too (By News Poster)...Uganda: Army Kills Karimojong Warrior Leaders
Saturday 26-Jun-2010: By Olandason WanyamaKampala - The UPDF on Sunday shot dead three self-styled Karimojong warrior commanders and injured two others after they tried to escape from lawful custody in Moroto barracks.The (By News Poster)...South Africa: Illegal 'Home Affairs' Operations Shut Down
Saturday 26-Jun-2010: Pretoria - Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has welcomed the arrest of six Pakistani nationals for issuing fraudulent Home Affairs documents to illegal immigrants.During the raid, police f (By News Poster)...Burkina Faso: Food Agency Gives Farmers Better Seeds
Friday 25-Jun-2010: The United Nations has begun providing quality seeds to 100,000 vulnerable farmers in Burkina Faso, one of several nations in the Sahel region suffering from a growing food crisis that is putting mill (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Governor Seeks International Regulation for Oil Spills
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Innocent AnabaGovernor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday decried the failure of oil multinationals operating in developing countries to effectively address issues of environmental degrada (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG, CBN to Lose N878 Billion in Purchased Banks' Assets
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Kunle Akogun and Emele OnuAbuja/Lagos - The Federal Government and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) are to lose an estimated N878 billion of the N1.35 trillion they plan to inject into the purchas (By News Poster)...South Africa: KZN Inmates, Prison Staff to Undergo HIV Testing
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: Pretoria - More than 20 000 inmates in prisons across KwaZulu-Natal will receive HIV counselling and testing.A joint initiative between the Departments of Health and Correctional Services in the provi (By News Poster)...Angola: Strategy and Competitiveness Forum Starts Thursday
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: Luanda - The second edition of the Strategy and Competitiveness Forum will start Thursday in Luanda, with the participation of 2008 Noble Prize in Economics, Paul Krugman, Angop learned.The informatio (By News Poster)...South Africa: First Uranium 'Came Close to Bankruptcy'
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Simon MundyJohannesburg - THE unexpected withdrawal of an environmental licence by the Department of Mineral Resources brought miner First Uranium close to bankruptcy earlier this year, executive v (By News Poster)...Africa's Brazilian Nightmare
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Goodwill ZunidzaJohannesburg - IT'S now cast in stone. No African team can beat Brazil! Star-studded Cote d'Ivoire became the latest African side to fall at the hands of the mighty Selecao when the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Increased Oil Production Boosts Economy
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Adeola YusufLagos - The increase in oil production in Nigeria has catapulted the economy of Nigeria by 7. 23 per cent in the first quarter of 2010.The increase in crude production was occasioned by (By News Poster)...Angola: Man Shoots Four, Self in Calif. Fast Food Restaurant
Monday 21-Jun-2010: Los Angeles - A man opened fire on his stepdaughter's family inside a California restaurant Saturday, killing her husband and 6-year-old son, critically wounding her and another child, and then fatall (By News Poster)...Niger: UN Supports Farming Projects to Alleviate Grave Food Crisis
Monday 21-Jun-2010: The United Nations agriculture agency is implementing nine projects worth nearly $18 million in Niger in support of farmers and pastoralists who are facing an alarming food crisis as a result of the p (By News Poster)...Unresolved Armed Conflicts, Severe Drought and Food Insecurity to Blame
Monday 21-Jun-2010: Nairobi - Tanzania was the largest refugee-hosting country in Africa between 1997 and 2007. However, the refugee population dropped by 63 per cent due to the naturalisation of 155,000 Burundian refuge (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jonathan Refuses to Commit on 2011 Election
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Sufuyan OjeifoAbuja - It promises to be a waiting game for those who want to draw out President Goodluck Jonathan over the 2011 presidential election. The President said last night that he would de (By News Poster)...Namibia: 'Struggle Kids' Have Crossed the Red Line
Friday 25-Jun-2010: When the So-called 'Children of the Liberation Struggle' display character that does not conform to the ideals and great sacrifices of the struggle for liberation, then they do not deserve to go by th (By News Poster)...Somalia: Al-Shabaab Leader Calls on Muslims to Fight Democracy
Friday 25-Jun-2010: The radical leader of Somalia's Islamist insurgent Al-Shabab group, Ahmed Abdi Godane aka Shaykh Mukhtar Abu Zubeyr, has warned Muslims against supporting or implementing a democratic system of govern (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Selling Scrap Metal to Scrape By
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Ignatius BandaGugulethu Mkhwananzi is another one of the many unemployed women who have become features of everyday life in Bulawayo's poor working class suburbs as she moves from house to house, l (By News Poster)...Africa: Seven Nations Named in Top Ten 'Failed States'
Friday 25-Jun-2010: Seven of the world's top 10 "failed states" are in Africa, according to a study published in the United States.The world's "most vulnerable" nation, according to the annual Failed States Index, is Som (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Arrest Officer for Torturing Female Student
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Gbenga AriyibiAuthorities of Ekiti State police command has arrested a police officer who tortured a female student of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, Miss Abigial Ige on MondayIge, an HND 11 s (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Farm Trade Safeguard Would Have Limited Impact - Study
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: A controversial plan to allow developing countries to raise tariffs temporarily to cope with a destabilising flood of food imports or drop in food prices would actually have little impact on trade flo (By News Poster)...Uganda: Time to Clearly Define More HIV Prevention Strategies
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Rogers AyikoResults from the 2004/5 Ugandan Behavioural Sero Survey, the latest and most robust country-wide population level HIV prevalence study indicated an adult prevalence of 6.4 per cent, a f (By News Poster)...Namibia: Community Group Helps Cops Fight Crime
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By John EkongoWindhoek - Tired of seeing criminals roaming freely in their constituency on a daily basis, two residents of the Katutura East Constituency have resolved to establish a community safety (By News Poster)...Kenya: European Bank to Put Sh24 Billion Into Infrastructure Projects
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Geoffrey IrunguEuropean Investment Bank (EIB) will provide nearly Sh24 billion for upgrading of infrastructure projects in Kenya, entrenching its role as one of the country's leading financiers.The (By News Poster)...South Africa: New Twist in 'Snatched' Sishen Mine Rights Saga
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Tim CohenJohannesburg - EVIDENCE has emerged that suggests the application by Imperial Crown Trading 289 for a prospecting right over Kumba Iron Ore's Sishen mine, potentially worth billions of ran (By News Poster)...Uganda: Only Seven Percent of Women Own Land - Study
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Madinah TebajjukiraKampala - Women in Uganda lack access to productive land, even though 80% of them are engaged in agriculture, a study by Actionaid, an international anti-poverty agency has revea (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC Leader Faces University Cheat Probe
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: By Zvamaida MurwiraHarare - MDC-99 leader and former St Mary's legislator Mr Job Sikhala has been accused of "academic fraud" after he allegedly asked two fellow University of Zimbabwe law students to (By News Poster)...Namibia: Namfisa 'Conceals' Probe
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Tileni MongudhiTHE board of the Namibia Financial Institutions Supervisory Authority (Namfisa) has been accused of concealing the outcome of a conflict of interest investigation.The board had contr (By News Poster)...Interest Rates Decrease Slightly - BIC Bank
Monday 21-Jun-2010: Luanda - The interest rates of Angolan commercial banks have been decreasing slightly throughout the year, the CEO of the BIC bank, Fernandes Teles, told ANGOP.The interests recorded a sharp rise in 2 (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma Shelves Cabinet Review of State Entities
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Luphert ChilwaneJohannesburg - THE Presidency has halted a review of state-owned enterprises by Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan and Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, which was supposed to (By News Poster)...Ghana: New Breadbasket Strategy to Transform Northern Region
Friday 25-Jun-2010: A strategy developed with support from the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) to increase the cultivated area in the Northern Region and roughly double average yields on existing land ha (By News Poster)...Namibia: Banks Not Serving the Masses - Calle
Friday 25-Jun-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyDESPITE being healthy and earning returns which could be compared to some of the most profitable financial entities in the world, financial institutions in Namibia still do not serve, (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (25-06-2010)
Friday 25-Jun-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- During the week, we read how Mugabe had questioned why Mutambara had not been consulted with the changes Tsvangirai was tabling. I found th (By The BeardedMan)...Angola: Government Wants to End Dependence On Oil
Friday 25-Jun-2010: Luanda - The minister of State for Economic Coordination, Manuel Nunes Junior, Thursday in Luanda, stressed the diversification of the Angolan economy as the major challange to face in the years to co (By News Poster)...Kenya: Rules to Speed Up Graft Probe in Civil Service
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Samuel SiringiNairobi - Corrupt civil servants and staff of parastatals are the target of new rules meant to speed up investigation into their crimes. The rules stipulate that investigations into c (By News Poster)...South Africa: Miner Obtains U.S.$65 Million New Debt Facility
Thursday 24-Jun-2010: By Simon MundyJohannesburg - GOLD One had agreed on a $65m debt facility with Absa Capital and BNP Paribas, providing "independent third party validation" of the company's technical fundamentals, CEO (By News Poster)...Kenya: High Prices, Low Stocks Pull Fish Off the Menu
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Abiud Ochieng'Nairobi - Fish has long been a delicacy for many Kenyans. And Lake Victoria was the never-depleted granary where fishermen would cast their nets and land a bumper catch.Not any more. (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bilateral Trade Between Country and China, Increased by 76.3 Percent
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Naomi UzorThe Consul General of the people's Republic of China in Lagos, Mr Guo Kun said that the volume of bilateral trade between Nigeria and China in 2009 grew steadily to $6.373 billion.In a pa (By News Poster)...Heartbreak Nation
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Robson SharukoBloemfontein - BAFANA BAFANA made their country proud, with their best performance of this World Cup against a pathetic France yesterday, but their hearty show was not enough, in the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gen. Agwai awarded international peace and security award
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: Nigeria’s former Chief of Army Staff, General Martin Luther Agwai, was today awarded the “Visionary Award” by the US-based Africa Center for Strategic Studies at a ceremony in Lisbon (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Uduaghan Wants Oil Spills in Northern Delta Probed
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Ufomba UzuegbuLagos - Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has called for criminal investigation into the oil spill in the Niger Delta caused by oil companies which has virtually destroyed t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Diamond Bank Boosts Msmes With Another N5 Billion
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: Buoyed by the impact of its past funding support to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMES) in the country, Diamond Bank has set aside another N5 billion for lending to the sub sector before the e (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Discover Illegal Arms Market in Benue
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: By Joseph WantuMakurdi - The fight against crime in Benue State has yielded more positive result with the state police command's discovery of an illegal arms market and seizure of 16 AK 47 rifles.The (By News Poster)...Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: [Here is a fascinating analysis of a new book. Jan] The Secret World of Corporate Espionage by Eamon Javers • Wherever billions in revenue are at stake, corporate spies are sure to follow. • (By Jan)...My Trip to the USA: My Lost Passport... finally found... and other excuses... I pee off a former CIA officer
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: Sorry I did not post anything in the last day. I'm just trying to find my feet a bit. At home I had piles of paper and files all over the show, and as I "reconstruct" my house - packing, repacking and (By Jan)...Uganda: Circumcision Should Complement ABC Strategy
Monday 21-Jun-2010: By Irene MirembeThe government is set to launch the national policy on safe male circumcision to encourage men and boys to seek circumcision from health facilities.Reports show that the policy emphasi (By News Poster)...[Pics] Introducing Russia's T-50 - Better than the F-22?
Monday 21-Jun-2010: [If one looks at these two aircraft, the T-50 does seem to have many characteristics of the F-22 Raptor, which makes one wonder if they looked at the F-22 and went 'oh...I see what they did there', an (By JanOlifant)...[Pic] S.Africa: Orania - apartments for sale?
Sunday 27-Jun-2010: I thought I would also put up some adverts from Orania so that if folks want to phone them then you can. For those who want to phone from outside South Africa, the country code is: +27. This advert (By Jan)...[Pic] How utterly gullible can people be? This is the ultimate proof - FW: Two suns - 21 June 2010
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: [Take a look at this complete nonsense I received. It is incredible that people can forward such complete rubbish and yet they do. Everything that is mentioned below is complete junk and yet people fo (By Jan)...USA: Stock Markets... My Technical Indicator: the bear market rally running out of steam?
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: I have been meaning for the last few days to discuss the stock market rally at this time. I was getting a bit concerned because the rally is reaching a point where my Technical Indicator would issue a (By Jan)...Lessons from my work: Even my users refer to me as a magician...
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: I had a nice boost to my ego today. I was called down to help a coloured man with a problem. After some time I sorted it out. I had a good chuckle when an Indian lady sitting next to him referred (By Jan)...My Mother's strange marriage advice - In America - Older women steal younger men - Young women can't find husbands...
Tuesday 22-Jun-2010: [With regard to my recent very popular article about my Mother's marriage advice - See: (By Jan)...I'm just a bit tired and under the weather... but will post later...
Sunday 27-Jun-2010: I am just feeling a bit worn out over the last 2 days. I think the ups and downs of my life get to me at times, the stresses get a bit to me. I think as a result I've caught a mild infection. So I'll (By Jan)...Is something sneaky and big brewing in the Middle East?
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: I have some personal contacts with some people... elsewhere. And various things recently are making me wonder if something is up in the Middle East. I have this uncomfortable feeling about "someth (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (23-06-2010)
Wednesday 23-Jun-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... Of course, the exchange rate for the Zimbabwean dollar is very much a misnomer since the local currency was replaced by the pound, the rand and the p (By The BeardedMan)...[Pic][Humor] Barney Frank introduces the new don't ask... uniform...
Monday 21-Jun-2010: [Thanks for this Jen. Jan] Representative Barney Frank introduces the new "don't ask, don't tell" uniform. [] (Photo) (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (27-06-2010)
Sunday 27-Jun-2010: Howzit Once again, news coming out of Zimbabwe is a little thin on the ground. I think that a lot of it is to do with the World Cup as the last sixteen teams are set to begin the knock-out stage in (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (26-06-2010)
Saturday 26-Jun-2010: Howzit News on the ground in and about Zimbabwe this morning is very sparse. Perhaps the political wheels in Zimbabwe are taking a short break to recharge their batteries, or perhaps the people of (By The BeardedMan)...
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