From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 11th July 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: Black Racist Communist Trashbag Julius Malema tries some smart alec moves on Young Afrikaners... F*ck Julius Malema
Friday 09-Jul-2010: Yesterday, the newspapers had stories about Julius Malema singing "De La Rey". De La Rey is that recent song by an Afrikaans pop artist. The song basically is a call for De La Rey to come back and (By Jan)...Rwanda: Genocide Denial and Facilitation [analysis]
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Edward S. Herman and David PetersonIn his June 17 'review' of our book The Politics of Genocide, for Pambazuka News,[i] Gerald Caplan, a Canadian writer who Kigali's New Times described as a 'leadi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: The Trouble With the Inclusive Government [analysis]
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Jonathan Oshupeng MasengThe Inclusive Government of Zimbabwe was formed under the auspices of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) in 2008. The GPA had to deal with key issues in Zimbabwe which inc (By News Poster)...S.Africa: F*CK Julius Malema & Challenging President Zuma to a Race war NOW - how the voting has gone so far - Please spread the word...
Sunday 11-Jul-2010: I see there are still a few more votes coming in on the F*CK Julius Malema post. We have not had as much voting as on the Race War challenge, but then again, I never went to the extent of roping every (By Jan)...Deep Politics: British Liberalism's greatest success story in Africa, Kenya is now a FAILED STATE.... Goals & Methods of Western Liberalism
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: I heard from a friend yesterday that recently the Americans published a list of the failed states in the world. In the top 10 on the list, 7 were from out of Africa! Most shockingly, one of those was (By Jan)...S.Africa: FIFA 2010: GENOCIDE WEEKEND: Thousands of Black Zimbabweans are fleeing the Black on Black genocide before they're killed this weekend...
Friday 09-Jul-2010: I got a call from the Cape. A reader was telling me in his town, the Black Zimbabweans have been on the road all day long. By the evening everyone had climbed on board trucks, etc with ALL THEIR POSSE (By Jan)...S. Africa: WC2010: World Cup Made Successful By....Not the ANC 'Government'
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: WHO ARE THE REAL SOUTH AFRICAN ICONS? At a concert held before the Fifa World Cup, a prominent churchman announced to the audience that another old gentleman – often called an icon –“made all of t (By JanOlifant)...A Quickie - The Response to: F*ck Julius Malema...
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: Just some quick notes before I dash out to the shops on saturday morning. I see that on the whole, I had excellent support for my article wherein I said: F*ck the ANC, F*ck Zuma, F*ck Julius Malema (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Crisis Coalition - Put Your Name, Purpose Into Shona
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Tafataona MahosoHarare - On 15 June 2010 ZTV's Melting Pot programme invited Sydney Chisi of Crisis Coalition Zimbabwe who proceeded to help the Anglo-Saxon axis by supporting its efforts to redefi (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Orania:Orania se kraakvars neuteoes
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: Die blare hang nog vir oulaas geel en herfserig aan die pekanbome in Orania. Dit is egter ‘n gesig wat ‘n mens moet geniet as jy die geleentheid het om dit te sien, want oestyd het reeds in alle erns (By JanOlifant)...Zimbabwe: Zimbabweans Fleeing South Africa Amid Fears of More Xenophobic Violence [analysis]
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Alex BellZimbabweans who originally fled their homes for the relative security of South Africa are now fleeing back into the country, amid rising fears of xenophobic violence.For several weeks ther (By News Poster)...I'm busy again... posting news at strange times... and other topics... White Mass Action works... What the ANC broke...
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Just a note. I've been extremely busy at work. Finally, all things are coming together. My system, after lots of pushing, shoving and fighting and little progress... is now pouring out to department a (By Jan)...Africa: Mbeki Accuses Wealthy Nations of Abandoning Africa
Monday 05-Jul-2010: Toronto - Former South African president Thabo Mbeki has launched a blistering attack on the G8 and G20 summits in Canada, accusing the summit leaders of abandoning Africa and conveying a "message of (By News Poster)...Monday on AfricanCrisis: IMPORTANT: Don't miss it: White Mass Action works - This is how it works & how YOU can play a BIG ROLE in it easily...
Sunday 11-Jul-2010: I've been meaning to discuss the topic of white mass action in depth for quite some time. Whites do NOT like taking to the streets like the blacks and screaming, and toyi-toying and smashing thing (By Jan)...S.Africa: Julius Malema?? Genocide this weekend after the FIFA World Cup? Black Zimbabweans fleeing already...
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: I hear news that black Zimbabweans are already fleeing back to Zimbabwe in large numbers from as far away as the Cape. A Zimbabwean was already killed in Cape Town - thrown in front of a train I belie (By Jan)...Inflation, IMF Gets It Wrong
Friday 09-Jul-2010: NO ONE can be right all the time, but the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has a remarkable record for accurate assessments of economies, their future, and for giving good and sound advice (albeit th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Kidnappers Making Mockery of Jonathan's Orders [analysis]
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Malachy UzenduAbuja - What does the marching order from the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria mean to the nation's security agencies? This is exac (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Tariff Hike for Powerless Power Sector?
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Emeka UmejeiThe controversy generated by the recent statement credited to Minister of State for Power, Nuhu Way, that Nigerians will pay more for power appeared to have upset the apple cart, with N (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: President Mugabe Hails China
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Harare - Zimbabwe and China should establish more areas of co-operation as bilateral relations between Harare and Beijing continue to grow from strength to strength, President Mugabe said yesterday.Th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Lessons to Learn From Selebi Case - Over-Centralised Policing is a Mistake
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Johannesburg - MUCH has been made of the guilty verdict in the Selebi case as a showpiece for SA's judicial system. And it's true that there are not many countries where the former police chief would (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (08-07-2010)
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Howzit When are officials around the world going to learn that inviting Mugabe to events such as these do nothing more than encourage him? He is of the opinion that if he is invited then he must ha (By The BeardedMan)...Kenya: How Country's Wretched of the Earth Are Abused
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Walter MenyaNairobi - She has been in a battle of her life against HIV-related complications, and Nicoletta Kambura is not giving up. Yet far from the robust, fun-loving manager of an orphanage in (By News Poster)...South Africa: Xenophobia Redux [analysis]
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Glenn AshtonRumours are circulating that when the World Cup is over, foreigners will be expelled. But surely it must be clear by now that South Africa has long been a melting pot and that our immig (By News Poster)...Region Should Think Nuclear
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Veikko NekundiA few weeks ago, NamPower announced that it planned to increase the price of electricity by about 35% to which the nation objected, but eventually the ECB approved an 18% increase.Aga (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Senate Panel Seeks Death Penalty for Terrorism
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Kunle Akogun and Davidson IriekpenAbuja, Lagos - Death penalty seems underway for anyone found guilty of engaging in terrorism in the country.The Senate Joint Committee on Terrorism proposed the m (By News Poster)...South Africa: When 'Phansi Fifa, Phansi' is Forbidden Speech [opinion]
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Patrick BondOur police detention while exercising freedom of expression at our favourite Durban venue - the wonderful South Beach FIFA Fan Fest - on the weekend, followed by (taped) discussions wit (By News Poster)...Rwanda: The Problem with Polarising the Debate on Genocide [opinion]
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Oliver KearnsGerald Caplan is right to outline various deficiencies of Edward Herman and David Peterson's chapter on Rwanda in their new book 'The Politics of Genocide'. In important ways, however, (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010 Xenophobia - My Analysis on: Black Genocide, attacks on White Farmers Mugabe style - I ask Black Zim woman - will they kill you?
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: I was at a shop today and I know the black Zimbabwean lady at the shop really well. I asked her where she lived, and she told me. I asked her if she was afraid that next week the black South Africans (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Citizens in SA Appeal for Protection
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: CONCERNED human rights organisations are mounting pressure on the South African government to step up security measures to protect immigrants facing xenophobic threats.Hundreds of foreigners have been (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN Sanction On Banks - One Year After [analysis]
Monday 05-Jul-2010: Lagos - In an unprecedented move, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on August 14, 2009 sacked the chief executive officers and executive directors of five banks, citing gross misconduct and mismanagem (By News Poster)...South Africa/Ghana: Blames Galore for Ghana's Exit From South Africa 2010
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Alhaji Abdul-Rahman Harruna AttahJoburg - Ghana's Black Stars had everything going for them last Friday when they met their Uruguay counterparts in their knockout stage of the FIFA World Cup, an ev (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: War Vets Probed Over Anti-Mugabe Sentiments
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Caiphas ChimheteZANU PF is probing a militant war veterans' splinter group that has launched a media onslaught against President Robert Mugabe accusing his administration of throwing the country in (By News Poster)...South Africa: Fears of New Attacks Send Foreign Migrants Fleeing
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Johannesburg - The rumour mill, a few recent xenophobic attacks and memories of countrywide attacks on foreign nationals two years ago have combined to create an exodus of people from the coastal city (By News Poster)...South Africa: Eskom, Unions in Wage Deal to Keep Power On
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Luphert ChilwaneJohannesburg - ESKOM and three trade unions struck an 11th hour wage deal yesterday, averting a strike at the power utility and preventing possible electricity blackouts in the fina (By News Poster)...USA: With the US trapped in depression, this really is starting to feel like 1932
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: [Apparently the US has lost something like 10 million jobs in recent years. It might even have all been lost on Obama's watch. Jan] The US workforce shrank by 652,000 in June, one of the sharpest c (By Jan)...Russian Spy's Ties To KGB, Zimbabwe
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: The ex-husband of deported Russian spy Anna Chapman says her father was a former KGB member and worked for the Russian government in Zimbabwe. Brit Alex Chapman, the ex-husband of Anna Chapman, nee (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...S.Africa: FIFA World Cup - A Friend comments: The Black so-called Invention called the Vuvuzela....
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: [A friend sent me these comments about Vuvuzelas. Jan] Y'know I'm really puzzled about all this fuss over the so-called "African invention' they call the Vuvuzela. After all's said and done, t (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Behind Bars for Rape
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Goma - In a country known as the most dangerous in the world to be female, the most unusual aspect of the story of convicted rapist Eleka Amungu is that he is behind bars.In 2009 he raped a 15-year-ol (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Locals Take Xenophobic Threats Seriously
Sunday 11-Jul-2010: By Nqaba MatshaziFor Charles Moyo there is a sense for déjà vu in the threats of xenophobic violence in South Africa come the end of the soccer World Cup today.Moyo, who has been residen (By News Poster)...South Africa: SA's Ticking Time Bomb
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Udo W. FroeseJohannesburg - Firstly, two people in one country: black African South Africans, including a diverse people from AmaZulu, to AmaPondo, AmaXhosa, BaPedi, North-Sotho, South-Sotho, BaTsw (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Food Security And Diversification
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Ese AwhotuAbuja - Food has been constantly regarded as a hot and key issue worldwide, due to its essential role in determining the existence of human life. The slogan, 'no life without food' clearl (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Halliburton - Unmasking the Masquerades [analysis]
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Isioma MadikeThe recent exposure of former top state officials in the Halliburton bribery scandal throws to the fore the question of the sincerity of the government in uprooting the menace of corru (By News Poster)...Cameroon: World Cup and Witchcraft?
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Leocadia Jisi BonbengThe phenomenon of witchcraft in football resurfaced as a hot topic of debate in the Cameroonian media after Cameroon were eliminated from the 2010 World Cup. This situation has (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bid to Bloc Mugabe Re-Election
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Clemence ManyukweHarare - ZANU-PF and the larger faction of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have differed sharply on the premiership post as the constitution-making process reaches a defin (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: FIFA World cup... From Quiet Johannesburg - I spot my first foreigner... the roads are utterly quiet - things went so well!
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: The 2010 FIFA World cup has been quite bizarre. They claim that hundreds of thousands of visitors came to SA, and to be frank with you, I have seen no indication of foreigners at all. Ok, I don't (By Jan)...South Africa: Zimbabwean Thrown Off Train in Xenophobic Attack
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Tichaona SibandaA 27 year-old Zimbabwean man, Reason Wandi is 'lucky to be alive' after he was thrown off a train by a group of South Africans on Monday in Cape Town.Wandi was left hospitalised in (By News Poster)...Internet Attacks on AfricanCrisis hit a record high...
Sunday 11-Jul-2010: Just a note, I see in the daily statistics that the spambot attacks on this website are at an all time high. They're really hitting the CONTACT US page super-hard. On closer examination the hits on (By Jan)...Nigeria: Today's Bankers Are More Aggressive - Anyanwu
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Bamidele OgunwusiAno Anyanwu is a 1984 graduate of statistics from University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He joined Ecobank Nigeria in 1989, the year he also qualified as a chartered accountant. After 20 y (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Hub of Human Trafficking
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Jennifer DubeJONATHAN Bugera (13) and members of his family arrived in Zimbabwe a year ago from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).But to date, he does not know which border they used to get in (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Biti - the Cog of a Combative Cabinet
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Trevor MaisiriHarare - When Finance Minister, Tendai Biti, bolted-out of a recent Cabinet meeting, it could have been read as an impromptu reaction driven by the perennial radicalism that he has ex (By News Poster)...S. Africa: Cash-strapped Eskom, SAA splurge on tickets
Monday 05-Jul-2010: Eskom - which is locked in last-minute negotiations to avoid a potentially disastrous strike by staff - is one of several parastatals who collectively spent a staggering R80-million. The embattled pow (By JanOlifant)...Zimbabwe: Reshuffle Double-Edged Sword for MDC-T
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Njabulo NcubeHarare - PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai pulled a shocker last week by axing four top party officials from his allocation of Cabinet ministers and redeployed others in a reshuffle tha (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Its Racist! Its Witchcraft! says ANC about painting of Dead Nelson Mandela...
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: [How's this for a wild story? The surname Damaso certainly is unknown in SA. I wonder if this is some sort of Eastern European or other white immigrant? Anyhow, it gives the ANC the excuse to use thei (By Jan)...Uganda: Mobile Cash Transfers Aid Criminals
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By John SemakulaKampala - After kidnapping Kham Kakama, Godwin Tumusime called the baby's father Sven Karikaho and demanded for a ransom of sh1m through mobile phone money transfer. It turns out that (By News Poster)...USA: Stock Markets: American Optimism now on hold...
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: [Interesting news... just at this time when the markets are rising mysteriously... instead of crashing as they should... maybe all we need are a few more days or weeks? Jan] A month ago, it all see (By Jan)...Namibia: Plans to Convert Bush to Electricity Underway
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Catherine SasmanWindhoek - The Combating Bush Encroachment for Namibia's Development is a concept project intended to install one 0.25 megawatts bush-to-electricity power-generating plant in a dens (By News Poster)...[Pics] French Court Allows Anti-Muslim Realist Poster Campaign
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Good to see the French are finally waking up and standing up for their security and future. If the muslims dont like it...then get out! Viva la France!!! Janolifant] A court in Marseille authorized (By JanOlifant)...Zimbabwe: Siege Mood Grips MDC-T
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaHarare - Senior Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) members were reported to be stampeding into the safety of party leader and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's patronage network (By News Poster)...[Pic] [Humor] FIFA World cup soccer: Who Invented Vuvuzelas? Vuvuzelas - annoying people since 1660...
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: A friend of mine sent me this. This is hillarious. As another friend pointed out... trumpets were invented 4,000 years ago... but now South Africans claim to have "invented" them... But in fact... th (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Constitutional Outreach Points to Bloody Elections
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: By Levi MukaratiHarare - VIOLENCE, intimidations and coaching are clouding the on-going consultative outreach process with political tensions rising in rural areas. Analysts have described the upsurge (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe's streetchildren challenge the illusion of change
Monday 05-Jul-2010: R otting food scraps picked out of the dirt and the bins of the backstreets of Harare are piled together in a slimy heap on the ground with torn cardboard as a serving plate. Elias, 15, squats and (By JanOlifant)...Unemployment Worries
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: By Nanama KeitaTensions mounting between native job-seekers and immigrants competing for a declining pool of work in South Africa are expected to intensify shortly after the 2010 FIFA World Cup. This, (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010 FIFA World Cup final - Bafana Bafana DID set a WORLD RECORD - They did something nobody else has done!!
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: A friend of mine was telling me that Bafana Bafana did indeed set a world cup record! But whether anyone has noticed it or mentioned it much remains to be seen. Apparently, Bafana Bafana's inabilit (By Jan)...South Africa: Circumcision Clamp Slammed
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Anso ThomHIV doctors and activists have slammed a male circumcision clamp that is being aggressively marketed in South Africa and the rest of the continent with a small study showing that it is muc (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Grave Concern As Disorder Mounts
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: There is growing concern over the increasing state of lawlessness and disregard for authority in the country, with the most shocking example being the recent arson attack on a police station in Kilima (By News Poster)...South Africa: Two Somalis Killed in South Africa
Friday 09-Jul-2010: Cape Town - Armed South African gunmen have shot and killed two young Somali men in Cape Town over night, just as planned demonstration against the intimidations against Somalis supposed to happen in (By News Poster)...South Africa: Govt On the Offensive to Prevent Xenophobic Violence
Friday 09-Jul-2010: Pretoria - While threats of xenophobic violence flaring up after the World Cup remain just "rumours" government has gone on the offensive and developed a plan to prevent and deal with any outbreak of (By News Poster)...Taylor Did Not Facilitated in the 1997 Arms Shipment Into Sierra Leone (news)
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Alpha SesayA former Sierra Leonean rebel leader today again took pains to distance Charles Taylor from a shipment of weapons that prosecutors say was bought with the same batch of diamonds as those (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Are IMF Policy Options to Country Feasible?
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: By Witness ChinyamaOn June 23 2010, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report entitled, Zimbabwe: Challenges and Options after Hyperinflation. The report gives advice to the Government (By News Poster)...South Africa: Robbers Prey on Fleeing Migrants
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Peter LuhangaCape Town - Not content with simply chasing African foreign nationals out of the country with threats, some locals appear to be acting like a pack of hyenas and nipping at the flanks o (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Probe Into Terror Suspects Intensifies
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Harare - A SUSPECTED Pakistani terrorist arrested along with his compatriot at Beitbridge Border Post last week faces a lengthy stay in custody and possible extradition to India as local police and In (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Probe Into Terror Suspects Intensifies
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Harare - A suspected Pakistani terrorist arrested along with his compatriot at Beitbridge Border Post last week faces a lengthy stay in custody and possible extradition to India as local police and In (By News Poster)...Gambia: More Revelations in Ex-IGP Badjie's Robbery Case
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Sidiq AsemotaSoriba Condeh, a convict who is also serving as the first prosecution witness in the ongoing armed robbery trial filed in by the state against the ex-IGP, Ensa Badjie and CPS Ali Ceesa (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (06-07-2010)
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Howzit I received an email yesterday which brought a huge grin to my face. It has nothing to do with politics, nor Zimbabwe - but I will repeat it here, if for nothing less than to offer you a smil (By The BeardedMan)...Uganda: We Should All Fight Drug Abuse to Ensure Safety [opinion]
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Emilian KayimaKampala - Why has Parliament shelved the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Bill 2005? This law is meant to curb the illicit use of drugs.On Friday, July 9, the Police will celebra (By News Poster)...South Africa: Policy Gap That Breeds Xenophobia Must be Filled
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Neva MakgetlaJohannesburg - MEDIA reports of xenophobic threats have become commonplace. After the horrors of the last wave of attacks in 2008 that left more than 60 people dead, one would expect a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Archbishop Warns Against Xenophobia [press release]
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Recently there have been rumours in various sections of our community of the possibility of xenophobic attacks once the World Cup is over. Immediately after such a successful hosting of the World Cup, (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Stupidity reigns SUPREME... and a few cunning Whites exploit it to their own benefit.... OBE was a BIG FAILURE
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: I am busy expanding my horizons at the moment, getting out and about more, meeting people and working on my social skills. Later this year I want to go to work on my public speaking skills. I am d (By Jan)...South Africa: Lessons for Country From World Cup Crime and Fast-Tracked Justice [opinion]
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Peter MwauraHigh police presence and fast-tracked justice has ensured that South Africa, said to have one of the highest crime rates in the world, comes out of the World Cup fever in flying colours (By News Poster)...Charles Taylor Did Not Order Or Plan Attack On Diamond Rich Town (news)
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor was not the man who ordered or planned the attack on a diamond-rich town in Sierra Leone in 1998, a former rebel leader has told the Special Court for Sierra Leone today.O (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Dumping KP Too Costly
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Farai MutsakaZIMBABWE will sell Marange diamonds at far below market prices if it abandons the Kimberley Process (KP), while relations with international partners -- key to economic recovery will b (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Sanusi's Reforms Get Official Endorsement With National Honours
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Kingsley IghomwenghianThe Federal Government, during week released a list of 186 Nigerians, including serving and former public servants, top government functionaries, judges, traditional rulers an (By News Poster)...South Africa: Companies Introduce Technology to Fight Illegal Mining
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Simon MundyJohannesburg - HARMONY Gold's claim last week that booby trap devices, apparently laid by illegal miners, had been found at one of its Free State mines returned the spotlight to a proble (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Retired Supreme Court Justice Slams Corruption Commissions
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Omololu OgunmadeLagos - Retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice George Oguntade, yesterday alleged that the establishment of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Indepe (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zimbabweans Flee in Fear of Xenophobic Attacks
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Luphert ChilwaneJohannesburg - THE South African Human Rights Commission (HRC) is planning a high-level meeting with an interministerial committee on xenophobia as an exodus of Zimbabweans was repo (By News Poster)...Africa: Can The World Cup Combat AIDS in Africa?
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Li Lu SophieJohannesburg - The World Cup has drawn enormous attention to the Rainbow Nation, and it also provided a platform for the global community to help South Africa with its most glaring heal (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Electoral Offences - Any Hope for Deterrence? [column]
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Davidson IriekpenLagos - As Professor Attahiru Jega settles down in his new duty as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Davidson Iriekpen argues that until the prosecu (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zanu PF Intimidation Over New Constitution Continues
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Alex BellZANU PF intimidation is continuing to mar the ongoing process to develop a new constitution, amid warnings that the process is being undermined by violence.SW Radio Africa correspondent Si (By News Poster)...USA: President Obama is losing White support
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Democrats hope Obama 2008 model will help stem midterm losses To become the nation's first black president, Barack Obama not only won heavy percentages of the black and Hispanic vote but also manag (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Govt Requests Debt Relief - IMF
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Leonard MakombeZIMBABWE is working on a hybrid strategy involving a request for debt relief under the highly indebted poor country (HIPC) scheme to honour external debts and an injection of fresh f (By News Poster)...Former Rebel Leader Defends Taylor, Blames UN, Others (news)
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Alpha SesayIn his second day of testimony, a former Sierra Leonean rebel leader continued to distance Charles Taylor from wrongdoing during the country's bloody 11-year conflict, pointing instead t (By News Poster)...Africa: Africa Loses
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Joseph OpioThere was nothing gallant about Ghana's white-flag act in the 2010 World Cup quarterfinals. Inept failures of nerve at the World Cup have become an African trademark since Italia '90.And (By News Poster)...Africa: Regional Integration in Southern Africa - Frozen in Infancy? [opinion]
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Alexactus T KaureThe hype and euphoria that gripped Southern Africa during the World Cup will be over on Sunday. It is now clear that South Africa's neighbours didn't benefit much from this global (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bleak Fortunes for Locals Spell Danger [editorial]
Friday 09-Jul-2010: Johannesburg - A COUPLE of years back the word "xenophobia" would have elicited puzzled looks on the faces of most South Africans if used in casual conversation. Then we were assaulted by those horrif (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Varsity Don Faults Plans to Sell Banks
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Joe NwankwoAbuja - A Professor of Accounting and Financial Management and visiting Professor of Financial Economics and International Investment, National Universities Commission (NUC), Wilson Herb (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Redefining Farming in Country
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Evans ZiningaZIMBABWE is an agro-based economy. In the past it was almost everyone's dream to be associated with farming. Most Zimbabweans, if not all, have a rural background whose nature has pull (By News Poster)...South Africa: State 'Prepared' for Xenophobic Attacks
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Wilson JohwaJohannesburg - THE government announced its readiness to deal with any outbreak of xenophobic violence yesterday, and claimed reports that scores of foreigners were leaving SA in fear f (By News Poster)...South Africa: After World Cup What Will We Celebrate? [analysis]
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Oliver Meth and Dan MoshenbergThe 2010 Fifa World Cup is drawing to an end. On the pitch, it has been filled with thrilling moments and surprising turns. Off the pitch ... not so much.Ever since So (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Drugs - CIP Suggests U.S./Mocambique Task Force
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Maputo - A prominent Mozambican anti-corruption NGO, the Centre for Public Integrity (CIP), has suggested that the Mozambican and United States governments should form a task force to investigate the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Change Sweeps Through MDC-T [editorial]
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Njabulo NcubeHarare - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai reshuffled his ministers in the coalition Cabinet yesterday in what critics see as an attempt to re-assert his authority in the Movement for D (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Alleged World Cup Visa Scam Nets Millions
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Eden SahleClose to 500 people, who claim to have been deceived by Askallucan Trading Plc were seen gathered outside the headquarters of the Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency (ERTA) located at C (By News Poster)...Uganda: Banking Sector Gains Resilience
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Sylvia JuukoKampala - Uganda's financial sector is on a strong footing to withstand any relatively high level of financial shock following stress tests conducted by the Bank of Uganda (BOU), a fina (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: CFX to Lose Bank for Bigger Entity
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaHarare - Finally, after much waiting, the marriage is taking place.The union's rationale is the take over of a 51 percent stake in CFX Financial Services Limited (CFX FS) by Interfin (By News Poster)...DR Congo: Lumumba's Legacy
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: By Mwaura KaaraOn 17 January 1961 Patrice Lumumba, the charismatic first and only elected prime minister of Congo, was brutally murdered. The circumstances of his death remain a mystery, the identity (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Biti, Tsvangirai Public Spate - an Analysis
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Harare - TRADITIONALLY, especially among the revolutionary political parties, secretary-generals have been the combative type, with strong leadership qualities as well as the potential to challenge th (By News Poster)...Gambia: 'Ex-IGP Badjie Was Our Robbery Kingpin'
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Sidiq AsemotaSoriba Condeh, a convict, who serving as the first prosecution witness (PW1) in the ongoing armed robbery charges filed by the state against the ex-IGP, Ensa Badjie and CPS Ali Ceesay, (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: New Dawn Targets Central African Gold's Minorities
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaHarare - TORONTO-listed New Dawn Mining Corp was said to be mulling an offer to buy out AIM-listed Central African Gold (CAG) following its recent surprise takeover of the gold minin (By News Poster)...Somalia: Somaliland Can Save Somalia From Mogadishu's Maniacs, but Will It? [analysis]
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Somaliland can serve as an example to other Somali regions and Hargeisa, Somalia's second capital, can become the seat to a new Federal Somalia.No doubt congratulations are in order for the new Presid (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Beheading of Young Girl Shocks Residents
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Nqaba MatshaziBulawayo - A sombre mood gripped the city last Tuesday as residents of Lobengula and Pelandaba trod to the funeral of an 18-month-old toddler.Normally the funeral of such a young chil (By News Poster)...South Africa: Fragile Institutions Resist Pressure
Monday 05-Jul-2010: Johannesburg - REACTION to the court's guilty verdict on Friday, in the case of former national police commissioner Jackie Selebi on charges of corruption, has been unanimous, a rare and interesting d (By News Poster)...South Africa: Diplomat Secures Release of Farmer in Zimbabwe
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - DIPLOMATIC intervention by SA's ambassador in Zimbabwe, Prof Mlungisi Makalima, has helped secure the release of a South African farmer jailed in Zimbabwe.Mike Odendaa (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: To Hell With Western Aid, Says Mugabe
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Faith ZabaPRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday said Zimbabwe does not need Western funding to resuscitate its comatose economy.Mugabe's pronouncement flew in the face of the country's attempts to lobb (By News Poster)...South Africa: Concern at Bankserv's 'Aggressive Expansion'
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Tim CohenJohannesburg - THE aggressive new expansion strategy of BankservAfrica - the organisation established by SA's big four banks to handle almost all credit card, debit card, ATM and internet (By News Poster)...Rwanda: South Africa Should Come Clean On Kayumba Nyamwasa
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Kigali - Events unfolding in South Africa, in the wake of the shooting of Kayumba Nyamwasa, points to a conspiracy and mystery that only the government of South Africa should help unveil, as it clearl (By News Poster)...Faced With Threats, Foreigners Desperate to Flee SA (news)
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Natasha Prince and Janis KinnearA group of foreigners, mainly Zimbabweans, are camping outside a truck stop with their belongings on the N1 near Paarl in a desperate bid to catch the first ride out (By News Poster)...Eritrea: Italy - Offer to Shelter Eritreans Detained, Abused by Libya
Friday 09-Jul-2010: The Italian government should immediately offer to take into Italy at least 11 Eritreans it had previously forced back to Libya and who are now detained there and threatened with deportation back to E (By News Poster)...South Africa: Standard Bank Rated Africa's Top Bank in Survey
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - STANDARD Bank yesterday responded to its latest ranking as Africa's top bank by an influential global banking publication by declaring that it would "grimly" protect its (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Finance Minister Faces Mammoth Fiscal Policy Task
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Bright Madera and Tawanda MusarurwaHarare - FINANCE Minister Tendai Biti faces a mammoth task when he presents his mid-term fiscal policy review statement next week.He is expected to focus on facil (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Finance Minister Pleads for Diamond Sales
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Harare - THE Kimberley Process Certification Scheme should allow Zimbabwe to immediately start selling diamonds from Chiadzwa as the delay is affecting ordinary Zimbabweans, Finance Minister Tendai Bi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Battle to Release Jailed Diamond Researcher Set for High Court
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Irene MadongoA battle is expected at the Harare High Court on Wednesday when lawyers for jailed human rights activist, Farai Maguwu, fight with the state for him to be granted bail.Maguwu is facing (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Strong Growth of Mozambican Economy Continues
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Maputo - Despite the international financial crisis, the Mozambican economy showed an annual growth rate of 9.5 per cent in the first quarter of this year, compared with 6.1 per cent in the same perio (By News Poster)...Namibia: /Khomanin Yearn for a Place to Call Home
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Irene HoaësWindhoek - Scattered all over the Khomas Region are the people who regard themselves the original inhabitants of the Khomas Region.Some are living in corridors, after being thrown off th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Analysts Warn Sars Not to Erode Taxpayers' Rights
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Sanchia TemkinJohannesburg - THE South African Revenue Service (SARS) must exercise caution and "act reasonably" before taking outstanding tax and penalties out of offending taxpayers' bank account (By News Poster)...Somalia: Maritime Tactics Reduce Pirate Attacks
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: "EU NAVFOR's new tactic has been successful, we are disrupting more suspected pirates near the coast, before they put on the high seas and conduct hijackings.The challenge is that once they get throug (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How Police Smashed £4,000 419 Deal On Zimbabwean Lady - "It is Our Oil Money," Prime Suspect Insists [analysis]
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Femi OgbonnikanLagos - Eze Lucky, Smart Eze and Afolabi Alabi were victims of fraud in a recent past. In apparent attempt to seek revenge and make ends meet, they incidentally resorted to swindling (By News Poster)...Uganda: Sex Workers Demand Rights
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Kampala - When Macklean Kyomya came to the Ugandan capital, Kampala, at 19, she found work as a lap-dancer in a nightclub and was soon accepting money from clients in exchange for sex."I enjoyed the f (By News Poster)...Africa: Communique of the 15th Extraordinary Session of the IGAD Assembly of Heads of State [document]
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: The IGAD Assembly of Heads of State and Government held its 15th Extra- Ordinary Summit Meeting in Addis Ababa, on 5th July 2010, under the Chairmanship of H.E. Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of the Fed (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN - Banks Not Yet in 'Positive Territory'
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Emele Onu And James EmejoLagos - Despite the modest profits recorded by some of the banks in the first quarter, Nigerian banks still have a long way to go in addressing the holes in their balance s (By News Poster)...Former Rebel Leader Testifies for Charles Taylor (news)
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Alpha SesayA former Sierra Leonean rebel leader, released from his jail cell in Rwanda to testify on behalf of Charles Taylor, today rejected claims that the former Liberian president received diam (By News Poster)...South Africa: The Role of Unfettered Power in the Fall From Grace of 'Doobi Gray'
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - HOW does a man go from being a Soweto school teacher, revolutionary, top diplomat, presidential confidant and national police commissioner to a common criminal?In trying (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Money Laundering - Senate to the Rescue
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Andrew OotaAbuja - Money laundering and other related offences are some of the vices presently militating against the development of Nigeria. This may be the reason why the National Assembly partic (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Sanusi Seeks Stronger Financial Scrutiny in D-8
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By David AgbaAbuja - Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Lamido Sanusi, on Tuesday enjoined the Central Bank Governors of the eight developing countries (D-8) to ensure a comprehensive surveillan (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Drug Enforcement Agency Boss Wants Stiffer Penalty for Offenders
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Anthony OmohLagos - Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Ahmadu Giade has called for a critical assessment of the implications of drug trafficking and the monetary value of (By News Poster)...Liberia: Supermodel Naomi Campbell Subpoenaed, Prosecutors to Reopen Case
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Alpha SesayBritish supermodel Naomi Campbell is to be served a subpoena and compelled to testify on July 29 in the trial of Charles Taylor about an alleged diamond gift she received from the former (By News Poster)...Namibia: Diamond Miners Resolve to Strike
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Desie HeitaWindhoek - Namdeb workers have resolved to stage an en-masse industrial strike, as of the early hours of Monday morning [July 12], at all Namdeb diamond mines.They are accusing Namdeb ma (By News Poster)...Lessons from my Work: The Youth didn't want to listen to my bosses nor me... but the mature men are going to win ANYWAY!!!!
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: At my work my Indian boss wanted me to change the entire system there. He thought the output was pathetic. My direct boss at the time was a black guy - the Development Manager. So one day, almost 2 (By Jan)...Liberia: Police Records Show Drop in Crime
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Sallu SwarayStatistics provided by the Liberia National Police have shown that crime, especially armed robbery which soared beyond control sometimes ago, is at a very low scale, meaning that the of (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bail Appeal for Jailed Diamond Researcher Delayed
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Alex BellA second bail application for jailed diamond researcher Farai Maguwu has been delayed, after the Attorney General's office said it wasn't ready for Wednesday's court hearing.Lawyers repres (By News Poster)...South Africa: Blow a Vuvuzela Against Xenophobia
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Bronwynne JoosteSeveral city organisations were set to meet on Monday to discuss a joint campaign aimed at preventing an outbreak of xenophobic violence after the World Cup, following their reports (By News Poster)...Namibia: Bank of Namibia Declines Absa's Bid
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Toivo NdjebelaWindhoek - In its biggest decision yet under new Governor Ipumbu Shiimi, the Bank of Namibia (BoN) declined the acquisition of majority shares in Bank Windhoek's parent company, Capri (By News Poster)...Angola: Govt must free prisoners of conscience facing trial over Togo football team attack
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: Amnesty International today called for the immediate and unconditional release of two human rights defenders facing trial in Angola on charges linked to an attack on the Togolese football team that le (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Steel Steals Offshore Interest
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaHarare - OFFSHORE investors are jostling for stakes in Zimbabwe's steel industry, as they scramble for raw materials in a resurgent international economy.The surge in interest in Zim (By News Poster)...West Africa: Prevent the Sahel's Next Food Crisis
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Dakar - Another food crisis is unfolding in West Africa's arid Sahel region, putting 10 million people at risk of hunger. Preventing such a scenario, or even better, avoiding it altogether, would be a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Taming the Monster of Corruption [opinion]
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Chidi OnwuekweikpeDriving home from work and you decide to tune to the 6pm news, you will more likely that never hear one or more reports having to do with corruption in the society. Unfortunately (By News Poster)...Nigeria: In Abuja to Protest, Militants Get a Hearing
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Paul Ibe, Kingsley Nwezeh and Yemi AkinsuyiAbuja - Former Niger Delta militants storm Abuja yesterday in about 14 buses, demanding to be included in the Federal Government Amnesty Programme.As they (By News Poster)...Africa: South Africa in Bid to Thwart Xenophobia
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Sydney KawadzaHarare - A South African government inter-ministerial committee to counter possible xenophobic attacks on foreigners meets tomorrow to map an integrated approach as the curtain comes (By News Poster)...European Crisis Threatens East African Monetary Union
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Steve MbogoThe financial crisis in Greece that threatened the stability of the Eurozone has caused a rethink on the timeline of establishing an East Africa Monetary Union.David Nalo, the permanent (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gunslinger in Rio's Executive Suite?
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Simon MundyJohannesburg - ONE shouldn't read too much into a person's cellphone ringtone, but Tom Albanese's choice - the theme from Sergio Leone's western For a Few Dollars More - makes the exerci (By News Poster)...Liberia: Supermodel to Testify at Taylor Trial on Blood Diamond Gift
Sunday 11-Jul-2010: British supermodel Naomi Campbell is to be served a subpoena and compelled to testify on July 29 in the trial of Charles Taylor about an alleged diamond gift she received from the former Liberian pres (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Nkomo, Mpofu Battle for Power
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Brian ChitembaFRESH turmoil has hit Zanu PF in Matabeleland where Vice-President John Nkomo and Mines minister Obert Mpofu are involved in a power struggle that has sucked in regional bigwigs Jonat (By News Poster)...State Accused of Bias Towards Nuclear
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - WHEN the stakeholder plenary session on the second integrated resource plan (IRP2) kicks off in Pretoria today, there should be little disagreement on the overarching g (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: IMF Report Says Only Debt Relief Can Save Economy
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Tererai KarimakwendaThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday published a staff paper that held grim news for Zimbabwe's economy. The IMF said that the country's debt is so heavy it cannot (By News Poster)...West Africa: Looming Hunger Threat in West Africa
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Recent reports suggest an imminent threat of hunger in several countries of the West African sub-region. Persistent drought in the region partly accounts for this. Because of the resulting poor harves (By News Poster)...Somalia: Dozens Killed in Mogadishu Clashes
Monday 05-Jul-2010: At least 24 people civilians have been killed and 80 others injured in heavy shelling and gun fire exchanged between Somali government troops and rebel fighters in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, Radio G (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Is Tsvangirai Crushing Dissent in His Party?
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: By Njabulo NcubeKOWTOWING is rearing its ugly head in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) as senior party officials fall over each other to ingratiate with party leader, Prime Minister Morgan T (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Keep Your Aid, Mugabe Now Tells Donors
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has today said that the impoverished country does not need financial support from the West to kick start its comatose economy.Mugabe's rema (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma's Future
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Sofia Diogo MateusJohannesburg - The 2010 World Cup has been good for South Africa in many ways from new infrastructure to a boost in tourism to a new international image. But it's hard to see who (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Drug Enforcement Nabs Three Ex-Convicts, 19 Others
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Joshua UmaAbuja - Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Ahmadu Giade has called for a critical assessment of the implications of drug trafficking and the monetary value of d (By News Poster)...Somalia: IGAD is Misleading the World on Somalia [analysis]
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: President Sharif's speech in Addis Ababa and his begging for more foreign troops is a clear indication that no clan is in control of Mogadishu.The Assembly of Heads of State of the Inter-governmental (By News Poster)...Kenya: Four Killed in Bandit Attacks
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Barnabas Bii and Wycliff KipsangNairobi - Four people, including a police reservist, were killed in separate incidents in the larger Turkana district and hundreds of animals stolen in renewed bandi (By News Poster)...Somalia: 15 Killed, 22 Wounded in Mogadishu Fighting
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: At least 15 people, mostly civilians have been killed and over 22 others injured in heavy shelling and gun fire exchanged between Somali government troops and rebel fighters in Somalia's capital Mogad (By News Poster)...Tanzania: UNFPA Moves to Tame Violence Against Women
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Swaum MustapherDar Es Salaam - WITH a theme of 'Don't kick her, kick the ball', the government and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has launched a campaign against domestic violence done to w (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Igboland - When Did Things Really Begin to Fall Apart? [analysis]
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Jideofor AdibeThat the level of insecurity in Igboland has reached unacceptable level is no longer news. In virtually all parts of South East, daily reports of kidnapping, armed robberies and ritua (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Niger Delta Militants Storm Abuja
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Ruby Leo, Misbahu Bashir, Abubakar Sadiq Isah, and Sunday WilliamsAbuja - Gwagwalada, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory was thrown into panic yesterday when hundreds of militant you (By News Poster)...Namibia: It May Look Like a Woolly Animal but in the South it is Gold [opinion]
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Daniel SteinmannWindhoek - Sheep and goats are not the most lucrative enterprises in agriculture, but it would also be unfair to dismiss them as insignificant. Granted, small stock revenue cannot b (By News Poster)...Uganda: Man's Head Found in Kiggundu's Toilet
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Eddie SsejjobaKampala - A man's head was on Friday found in a pit latrine on Electoral Commission Chairman Eng. Badru Kiggundu's farm in Makindye Sabagabo, Wakiso District.Police spokesperson Judit (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mliswa in Deeper Trouble
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Farai Mutsaka and Faith ZabaBUSINESSMAN Temba Mliswa, arrested three times in just over a week, is in even deeper trouble.The controversial former Zanu PF official faces over 70 charges, mostly rel (By News Poster)...Kenya: Forgive My Bishop for His Ignorance on Land Chapter [opinion]
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Mwenda MakathimoPlease forgive my Bishop and his colleagues for misinterpreting the Land Chapter in the Proposed Constitution. I am pleading on his behalf because he acknowledged that he is not an (By News Poster)...Africa: Straight Talk With Gottfried Hirnschall, WHO's Director of HIV
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Nairobi - The UN World Health Organization (WHO) recently appointed Gottfried Hirnschall the new director of its HIV department. IRIN/PlusNews talked to him about the state of universal access to HIV (By News Poster)...South Africa: Pebble Bed Technology is 'A Costly Source of Energy'
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - THE pebble bed modular reactor (PBMR) technology is unlikely to solve SA's energy shortage in a cost-effective way, according to an Institute of Security Studies paper (By News Poster)...Somalia: Deadly Clashes Rock Mogadishu
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: At least 16 people have been killed in fighting between government forces and Islamist insurgents. On Monday east African heads of state pledged 2,000 troops to protect the Somali President Sharif She (By News Poster)...Africa: World Cup Instilled National Pride- Zuma
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: Pretoria - The hosting of the FIFA World Cup has effectively rebranded South Africa, transforming perceptions of the country's capacity and instilling immense national pride, says President Jacob Zuma (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Customs Partners NPA to Tackle Book Piracy
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Andrew AirahuobhorComptroller general of Customs, Abdullahi Dikko Inde, has assured the Nigerian Publishers Association (NPA), an umbrella body for all book publishers in Nigeria, of Nigeria Custom (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Police Warn Opposition Parties Against Slander
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - Rwanda national police has warned the so-called Permanent Consultative Council of Opposition Parties in Rwanda (PCC) against making false accusations that opposition politicia (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Go Ye and Till Without Pains [analysis]
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Michael OlugbodeLagos - Tilling of the soil is seen as perhaps the most difficult job for man and many people continually run away from it. However, This Day writes that Ali Modu Sheriff administra (By News Poster)...Kenya: Half the Women in City Slums Abused
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Walter MenyaNairobi - For women and girls living in Nairobi slums, violence comes in every form and from every direction. More than half are scarred by physical, sexual or psychological violence, a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Government Intervention in Agric Sector Critical
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Innocent MafumheHarare - The failure to plan for each agricultural season over the past years has cost the country millions of dollars through food imports.Food availability has declined over the l (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Electricity Authority Must Switch to Pre-Paid System [opinion]
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Harare - ZESA Holdings is making progress on bringing its largest power station, Hwange Thermal, back on line.It can now generate almost 60 percent of the peak power demand from its own stations, mean (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Stay Clear of IMF Trickery, ZCTU Warns Government
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Shame MakoshoriHarare - ZIMBABWE'S main labour body, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), has warned government to carefully consider advice from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), str (By News Poster)...South Africa: World Cup Gave 'Priceless' Value, Says Zuma
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - SA had already received a good return on the R33bn spent on World Cup stadiums and transport infrastructure on top of "priceless" social benefits, President Jacob Zuma sa (By News Poster)...Uganda: Oil Companies Punch Hole in Secrecy Over Agreements
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Jocelyn EdwardsKampala - Confronted by MPs at a petroleum governance workshop two weeks ago, Energy Minister Hillary Onek promised to table the Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) with oil compani (By News Poster)...Africa: Kenako......it's Time
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Paul BasseyLagos - Today, the football world will come to a standstill as the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa finally kicks off.Today marks the end of six years of a hectic battle on and off th (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zisco Presents Test for Govt's Handling of Foreign Investors
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Harare - The Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company presents a test case of the sincerity of Government to attract foreign direct investment into the economy which continues to face investor apathy despite t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: U nholy Act - 'Pastors ' Form Fraud Gang
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Lukkey AbawuruLagos - THERE was a mild drama at the Police Command, annex, Oduduwa crescent, Ikeja, as two in laws ,arrested over alleged attempt to defraud a Briton lady, claimed that they went in (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Nation Needs Debt Relief to Recover, Says IMF
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Zimbabwe is in a state of "debt distress" and is preparing a request for debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative established by international financial institutions, sa (By News Poster)...27-Year Jail Terms for City Cop's Murder
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Werner MengesThe two young men convicted of murdering a member of the Windhoek City Police in his home in early 2005 were each sentenced to 27 years' imprisonment yesterday.The only thing that save (By News Poster)...South Africa: Free-Trade Agreement With China Not on Cards
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Loyiso LangeniJohannesburg - SA WILL not pursue a conventional free-trade agreement with China as this is not in the interests of the country, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies says.If it were (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Telkom to Hike Tariffs for Calls
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaHarare - South Africa's Johannesburg Securities Exchange-listed tele-communications group Telkom has targeted a hike in tariffs for calls to Zimbabwe, a move meant to boost internati (By News Poster)...Nigeria: MPC Warns Against Salary Increase - Retains Six Percent Exchange Rate
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Rotimi DurojaiyeLagos - Exchange rate has been retained at six per cent by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), a rate that has stabilised the Naira at about N150 to $1 for more than 12 months.But (By News Poster)...Nigeria: As Jonathan Opens Amnesty Camp On Monday
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Sam AkpeAbuja - On Monday, just two days from now, the Federal Government will make good its commitment on the rehabilitation of the former Niger Delta militants with the formal opening of a traini (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: 'Food and Livelihood Crisis' in the West
Friday 09-Jul-2010: Nairobi - Millions of people in parts of the western Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are facing a "food and livelihood crisis" brought on by structural causes such as the dependence on the mining s (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (09-07-2010)
Friday 09-Jul-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- -o00o- Over the last thirty years Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe with deadly force and a death-like grip. He began well, looking at picking up (By The BeardedMan)...Kenya: Rise in Crime Linked to Lack of Policing Kit
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Fred MukindaNairobi - The police force is weighed down by an acute shortage of equipment and resources. As such, the officers cannot fight crime effectively and gangs relentlessly unleash terror on (By News Poster)...Zambia: Parent's Fears Slowing Uptake of Paediatric AIDS Treatment
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Nerbert MulengaLulsaka - Diana Banda* is quickly running out of excuses to give her six-year-old son about why he has to take a schedule of drugs every day.Her son David* is HIV-positive and has be (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Youths Warned Against Drug Trafficking
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By E-Ember Ungwanen AbohAbuja - The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP) has collaborated with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDL (By News Poster)...South Africa: Chinese Companies Urged to Invest in Mining
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Pretoria - Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies is calling on Chinese companies to invest in South African mining.Davies was speaking at China-South Africa Business Seminar in Shanghai, on Wednesday (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Minister Says Police Using Rhodesian Tactics
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Lance GumaThe personal nature of the feud pitting Presidential Affairs Minister Didymus Mutasa against Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri blew out into the open this week, when Mutasa accused th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Armed Robbers Devise Tactics to Attack Victims
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Hussein Yahaya & Romoke W. AhmadArmed robbers have devised new tactics to attack their victims, mostly females in Abuja.One of their victims who was attacked last Wednesday at Wuse Zone 5 bus stop (By News Poster)...Bank of Namibia Rejects ABSA Merger
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Jo-Maré DuddyForeign shareholders in Namibia's banking sector were given a stern message about Namibianisation on Friday, when the central bank refused to allow Absa to buy at least 70 per cent of (By News Poster)...Uganda: How Bugolobi Boy Was Stolen, Then Murdered
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Shifa MwesigyeThe story of the 18-month-old boy, Kham Kakama, whose body was recovered from a swamp in Kyebando, a city suburb, on Tuesday, is disheartening. This is a story of a boy whose tender l (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Niger Delta Militants Storm Abuja
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Winifred Ogbebo, Christiana Esebonu and Chika OkekeAbuja - It was hell for users of Abuja-Lokoja Road as over 1,500 militants from the Niger Delta, who stormed Abuja in 46 18-seater buses, blocked (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Drip Irrigation - Wise Alternative [opinion]
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Fortious NhamburaHarare - Government recently set up an inter-ministerial committee to lead the rehabilitation of irrigation schemes around the country as moves to increase agricultural production (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Irrigation Key for Agriculture
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Fortious NhamburaHarare - Government recently set up an inter-ministerial committee to lead the rehabilitation of irrigation schemes around the country as moves to increase agricultural production (By News Poster)...South Africa: Man Arrested After Knife Attack
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: An Athlone man was shot by police after he had allegedly stabbed his girlfriend 10 times and then attacked two officers.Police spokesman Warrant Officer Ian Bennett said the two officers responded to (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Dele Alake, Aide Arrested Over Attempted Murder
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Tunde SanniIbadan - Former zonal Inspector General of Police Zone 11, Tunji Alapinni on Wednesday cheated death when his Toyota 4x4 vehicle was riddled by bullet believed to have been volleyed by a (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Suspected Journalist Killers Named
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Edwin MusoniKigali - The Prosecution has revealed the names of two suspects who were arrested recently in connection with the murder of local journalist, Jean Leonard Rugambage.Rugambage was shot d (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Court Orders Truce in Inheritance War
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Harare - Businessman Mr Enock Machivei Chifamba (87), who revealed the contents of his will to his children, has been granted a protection order against his offspring who allegedly threatened to assau (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Is Nation Ready for New Elections?
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Rudo Lavender ChaparadzaAs Zimbabwe approaches the two-year anniversary of the signing of the Global Political Agreement (GPA), the document which underpins its three-party unity government, a numb (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Outreach - Chiefs Up in Arms Over Status [opinion]
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Joram NyathiHarare - Zimbabwe is still sorely divided. The divisions go beyond political parties and elections. They go beyond the spat between politicians and some NGOs.A meeting of the Council of (By News Poster)...South Africa: Army Deployed to Protect Migrants Against Attack
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Johannesburg - A series of meetings to educate residents about xenophobia in the informal settlement of Du Noon, Cape Town, will begin on 7 July and run until the final game of the FIFA World Cup on 1 (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ekweremadu Denies Intervening for Interdicted Cop
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Joe NwankwoAbuja - Deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, has refuted insinuations in the media that he intervened on behalf of a Deputy Superintendent Police (DSP) Sam Chukwu who allegedly aids (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ofada Boils, Youths Protest Thugs' Invasion
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Segun AdeleyeAbeokuta - Scores of Ofada Youths on Tuesday protested the sacking of their town, complaining about the orgy of violence unleashed on the otherwise sleepy town in Obafemi/Owode Local G (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Do the British try to warn us of xenophobia & racial genocide from time to time?
Monday 05-Jul-2010: [A friend of mine sent this note to his partner and copied me in on it. I asked him for more on what caused him to say this. I am not aware of the British actually warning us much - unless he saw some (By Jan)...S.Africa: Orania: Orania en die Burgervergadering
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: Die Burgervergadering is ‘n belangrike afspraak wat die Orania Beweging een maal per jaar nakom om aan Orania Beweging-lede, uitwoners en belangstellendes terugvoer te gee oor die werksaamhede van die (By JanOlifant)...Nigeria: International Bandits Arrested
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Lukkey AbawuruLagos - DETECTIVES from Special Anti Robbery Squad ,SARS, Lagos, have nabbed two international robbery suspects, Segun Shola and Ganiyu Ahmed who allegedly specialised in cross border (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Visa Ban - U.S. Compiles List of Corrupt Citizens
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Chinedu OfforWashington D.c - Dozens of senior Nigerian officials, former and current, are on the verge of losing their travel privileges to the United States, as Washington begins to withdraw thei (By News Poster)...Namibia: Banking Fees, Charges Go Up
Friday 09-Jul-2010: Windhoek - It is that time of the year when commercial banks revise banking fees and bank charges upward.Since the first day of this month, people banking with Bank Windhoek have been paying 6,5 perce (By News Poster)...South Africa: Spreading the Word That Violence Against Foreigners is 'Not Ayoba'
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Wilson JohwaJohannesburg - EVERYONE US journalist Gretchen Wilson spoke to had heard about imminent xenophobic attacks in SA, and at a roundtable yesterday people attributed the problem to the situ (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: New Group to Seek Justice for Victims of Political Violence
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Tererai KarimakwendaVictims of political violence in Bulawayo announced on Wednesday that they have formed a new organisation, whose aim is to seek justice. Themba Nyathi, secretary of the recently (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: On, Off Outreach Programme, Off Again
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Levi MukaratiHarare - WILL the confusion surrounding the constitution-making process ever come to an end? False starts now seem to be the distinguishing feature of the controversial process to draf (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: CZI Engages Biti On Mid-Term Fiscal Review
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Harare - REPRESENTATIVES of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) last week met with officials from the Ministry of Finance to give their views on issues they want to be included in the mid-t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamond fields activist must be released [press release]
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Amnesty International today called on the Zimbabwean government to release an activist who is being detained after he exposed human rights violations in the country’s Marange diamond fields.Fara (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Undercover Police Arrest Suspected Film Thieves
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Mikias SebsibePolice detained two suspects for allegedly stealing and asking for ransom from the producer of the Amharic film "Yetekatelu Getsoch," on July 1, 2010.The film, which has been showing (By News Poster)...South Africa: Fifa Reprieve for Cheat Suarez
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Petros KausiyoJohannesburg - FIFA have ruled that Luis Suarez will only serve a one-match ban for his infamous handball in Uruguay's quarter-final clash against Ghana and will be eligible for the W (By News Poster)...Somalia: Peaceful Poll in Somaliland Points a Way Out of Conflict
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Kevin KelleyNairobi - The recent elections in the breakaway region of Somaliland hold out the hope of progress toward resolving the nearly 20-year-long conflict in Somalia, some US analysts say.Str (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Poverty, Frustrations Forced us to Traffick Drugs -- Suspects
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Lukkey AbawuruLagos - A 57 year- old grand mother, Adaba Olajomoke Adunni, and eight others arrested over drug trafficking have blamed frustration and poverty for their woes. While the grand mother (By News Poster)...Mozambique: HIV Prevalence Now 11.5 Percent
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Maputo - The prevalence in Mozambique of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is now 11.5 per cent among people aged between 15 and 49, according to the results of a national survey released by the Minist (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Obert Mpofu Accused of Lying
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Clemence ManyukweHarare - Diamonds from Chiadzwa fields remain banned as it emerged that Mines and Mining Development Minister, Obert Mpofu, misrepresented facts when he told the nation last week t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: We Don't Need Expatriates to Resolve Niger Delta Crisis - CLO Director
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Emma MaduabuchiIbuchukwu Ezike, acting executive director of Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), in this interview with Senior Correspondent, EMMA MADUABUCHI, says the Federal Government got it wro (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Electricity Woes to Hamper Growth Targets - CZI
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Tawanda MusarurwaHarare - Deficient electricity supplies will negatively impact on recovery and growth targets for the economy, especially as industry in general has only been receiving 22 percent (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Rivers - Police Arrest 41 Kidnap Suspects, Recover N4 Million
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Emmanuel ItodoPh - The police in Rivers have arrested 41 kidnap suspects and recovered N4 million ransom money in the first half of this year.The Commissioner of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba, told news (By News Poster)...Uganda: Man Beheaded at Electoral Commission Boss' Farm
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Tabu ButagiraWakiso - Detectives had by last night taken into custody two men suspected of beheading a colleague worker at a farm in Wakiso District that authorities said belongs to Electoral Commi (By News Poster)...Angola: U.S. and Angola Sign Strategic Partnership Dialogue Agreement
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Stephen KaufmanThe United States and Angola have signed the U.S.-Angola Strategic Partnership Dialogue, which formalizes increased bilateral partnerships in energy, security, trade and democracy pr (By News Poster)...Namibia: Police Nab Suspected Child Rapist
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Helvy TueumunaOshakati - Police in the Ohangwena Region arrested a man four days after he allegedly raped a child, stole a firearm and destroyed a container of tombo at a local cucashop before flee (By News Poster)...Uganda: Thugs Raid Electoral Commission Offices in Kasese, Flee With Gun
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Tabu ButagiraKampala - Suspected thugs on Thursday night attacked the Electoral Commission office in Kasese District and fled with a sub-machine gun they grabbed from one of the police guards.Mr Wi (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Country at Extreme Risk of Natural Disasters
Friday 09-Jul-2010: The British-based global risks intelligence company Maplecroft has produced a Natural Disasters Economic Loss Index, which places Mozambique as the world's second most likely country to suffer economi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Biti Appeals for Lifting of Diamond Ban
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Alex BellFinance Minister Tendai Biti has appealed for the global diamond watchdog, the Kimberley Process, to allow Zimbabwe to sell its controversial diamonds, despite widespread calls for the cou (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Communal Clash Claims 19 in Adamawa
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Njoku PaschalYola - No fewer than 19 persons have been allegedly killed with several others sustaining serious wounds in a clash between inhabitants of Shobo village in Lamurde council ofAdamawa St (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Deputy Senate President Seeks Media Assistance in Tackling Security Crisis
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Kunle AkogunAbuja - Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has called on the Nigerian media to partner with security agencies in its effort to solve the lingering crisis of insecur (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Killer Rapist Faces Hangman's Noose
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Daniel NemukuyuHarare - A Nyanzura man, who raped and strangled a nine-year-old girl before dumping the corpse in a well, has been sentenced to death by the High Court.Fanuel Tengende, however, has (By News Poster)...South Africa: Curtain Comes Down On World Cup
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: By Robson SharukoJohannesburg - SOUTH AFRICA will wave goodbye to a global football family, which it has hosted for the past month, as the curtain comes down on the World Cup tomorrow and Africa basks (By News Poster)...Namibia: Ex-Soldier Escapes Into the Mountains
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Helvy TueumunaOshakati - A former soldier, who is accused of killing his girlfriend at Etunda village in the Ruacana Constituency in April, continues to play hide and seek with the police.The suspe (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Cabinet Reshuffle - Spare a Thought for Tsvangirai [opinion]
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Harare - IT could be that in reshuffling ministers from his MDC-T political party last week, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai perhaps meant well, but given the dominance of Zanu-PF party in the so-cal (By News Poster)...South Africa: World Cup Has Lifted Country to the Fore - Zuma
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Cape Town - The World Cup has helped to market the country as a key world player, President Jacob Zuma told about 80 portfolio fund managers from across the world on Tuesday."They have seen the warm f (By News Poster)...Dilemma of Wage Hikes and Unemployment
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Luphert ChilwaneJohannesburg - THE irony of workers demanding high wage increases in the labour market could result in more people being unemployed and the country not being able to cope internatio (By News Poster)...Nigeria: We Need Low Carbon Energy Infrastructure (1) [opinion]
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Stanley IjeomaAt various points in the last 150 years, the global community had flirted with ideas and opportunities that could have led to the attainment of a low carbon global economy. For instan (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Benue Indigenes Urge Jonathan to Arrest Arms Circulation
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Joseph WantuFollowing the recent alarm raised by Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State over the police discovery of a well patronized arms market at Abinsi town located at the outskirts of Makurdi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Inside MDC-T Reshuffle [analysis]
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Tichaona ZindogaHarare - Whether it is leadership carte blanche or dictatorship or even evidence of a house on shaky ground, recent developments in MDC-T leave a confounding sense of intrigue.Three (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Cop Pumps Nine Bullets Into Spouse
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Daniel NemukuyuHarare - A Zimbabwe Republic Police inspector on Saturday allegedly shot his wife - who holds a similar rank in the force - nine times with his service weapon at the height of a dome (By News Poster)...Namibia: Financial Regulators Ineffective [opinion]
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Eben De KlerkWindhoek - Namibians rely on effective regulators in every commercial transaction they enter into. Regulators exist in every free country in the world for mainly two reasons; most cons (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Before They Wreck This Ship (ii) [column]
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Dele momoduLagos - As I was saying last week, Nigeria is at the precipice again and our reckless leaders have started to beat their war drums anew. Yet, according to the wisdom of the ancients, the (By News Poster)...Somalia: Five Die, More Others Wounded in a Heavy Shelling, Fighting Continues in Capital
Monday 05-Jul-2010: Mogadishu - At least 5 people were killed and more others were wounded after heavy shelling with bitter fighting restarted in parts of north Mogadishu for the 7th day of consecutive war between the tr (By News Poster)...MDC Mounts Rescue Mission to Free Abducted Activist
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe MDC-T on Thursday launched an audacious rescue mission to free an activist who was abducted by ZANU PF elements in Concession, Mashonaland Central province.16 year-old Makombore (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Orania: Orania en die FIFA Sokker Wêreldbekertoernooi
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: Die een ding wat Orania met dié groot sportgebeurtenis in Suid-Afrika gemeen het, is die onophoudelike stroom joernaliste wat tans besoek aflê. Dr John Strydom, skakelpersoon vir Orania, moet bon (By JanOlifant)...Tanzania: Battered Women Find Safety in House of Peace
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Ichikaeli MaroDar Es Salaam - ASHURA Iddi (25) is a mother of one and pregnant for her second child. Her colleague Alice Mlatu is a mother to two boys, 11 and four years, respectively. Both are sur (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Politburo Dispels Violence Claims
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Harare - Zimbabweans should disregard malicious and false allegations of violence being made against Zanu-PF by foreign-funded bodies and take part in the constitution-making process.In a statement ye (By News Poster)...South Africa: Slow Global Recovery 'Will Set Back Africa'
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Loyiso LangeniJohannesburg - A FALL in commodity prices and a weaker global recovery than expected due to the sluggish European Union (EU) economy would affect growth prospects in sub-Saharan Afric (By News Poster)...Nigeria: AU Asks Govt to Stop Execution of 870 Convicts
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Adam AdedimejiLagos - African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) - an organ of the African Union (AU) - headquartered in Banjul, The Gambia, has urged Abuja to stay the execution of mo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Operators Revive U. S. $20 Billion Liquefaction Projects
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Sopuruchi OnwukaLagos - Following government's overturn of investments freeze in export gas projects, operators in the Nigerian petroleum industry are putting pens to cheques for over $20 billion t (By News Poster)...South Africa: ANC Protects Its Own at All Costs [editorial]
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Johannesburg - AS ENCOURAGING as the conviction of former police chief Jackie Selebi may be from the perspective of SA's commitment to the rule of law, the real test lies in how the government respond (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 200 Armed Bandits Attack Jos
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Gonji PalangJos - Three persons were feared killed whenabout 200 bandits armed with automatic weapons, machetes, spears, bows and arrows attacked Ganawuri community, near Jos in Riyom Local Governm (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Politicians Act Against NGO Monitors of Constitution Debate
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Irene MadongoMore independent monitors of the controversial constitutional outreach programme now face official arrest, after being threatened to keep away from the process by the heads of the prog (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Food Shortages to Worsen in Drought-Prone Areas
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Nqaba MtshaziBulawayo - The southern parts of the country are expected to suffer acute grain shortages, with more people expected to rely on food aid.The United States-funded Famine Early Warning S (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Uganda Arrests, Hands Over Genocide Suspect to ICTR
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Gashegu MuramiraUgandan Authorities Yesterday Handed Over Genocide Suspect, Pastor JeanBosco Uwinkindi, to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), which has indicted him for Genocide (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lagos Records Drop in Violent Crime --Survey
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Lukkey AbawuruLagos - A survey conducted by a Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, CLEEN foundation has adjudged Lagos State as one of the safest cities in the country following what it described as (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamonds, Preemptive [opinion]
Friday 09-Jul-2010: THE last two weeks in Zimbabwe have witnessed three political events that one may be forgiven for underestimating their importance.The first was the arrest of human rights activist Farai Maguwu over t (By News Poster)...Somalia: Looters Steal False Somali Currency From Puntland Airport
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Unidentified looters stole some 17.5 billion Somali Shillings (approx. $531,000 USD) that was recently nabbed by Puntland security officers at Galkayo Airport, in central Mudug region, Radio Garowe re (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Parade Two Trans-Border Robbery Suspects in Lagos
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: The police in Lagos on Monday announced the arrest of two members of a four-man trans-boundary robbery gang after a robbery operation in Ogun State.Lagos police spokesman, Mr Frank Mba, who paraded th (By News Poster)...Uganda: Somalia Set to Get More Peacekeepers
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Tabu ButagiraKampala - The Inter-governmental Authority on Development member countries yesterday agreed to immediately deploy 2,000 troops to restore sanity in Mogadishu under siege by Al Shabab m (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ex-Cemetery Guard Nabbed With Human Skull, Limbs
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Femi OgbonnikanLagos - For allegedly being in possession of a human skull and intestines, Femi Ade, 36, an indigene of Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, is currently in trouble. He is being interrogated by cr (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Maths Favours the Germans [analysis]
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Robson SharukoJohannesburg - The efficient Germany machine, which has destroyed England and obliterated Argentina, has already been touted as the favourite to win the 2010 World Cup.Joachim Loew an (By News Poster)...South Africa: Development Bank Reaches Out to Disadvantaged
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - THE Development Bank of Southern Africa planned to participate in projects worth up to R140bn in the next five years as part of a "major step change" to focus on project (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Car-Smasher Has a History of Violence, Says Police
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Harare - The Harare man who on Saturday ran amok and destroyed property worth thousands of dollars - including a Mercedes-Benz belonging to The Sunday Mail editor Brezhnev Malaba - has a "violent repu (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Getting the Banks to Start Lending Again [column]
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Sanusi AbubakarFrom all indications, bank lending to the real sector, insufficient as it was, became even more difficult following the CBN intervened last year to prevent a systemic collapse. After (By News Poster)...Namibia: World Cup 2010 - What Lesson for Local Politicians?
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Alexactus T KaureTHE World Cup is no longer about the beautiful game of football. It has outgrown itself into something much bigger and in the process has captured the imagination of so many people (By News Poster)...Kenya: Millers Battle Wheat Farmers Over Daily Bread
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Kaburu MugambiNairobi - As wheat farmers demand the immediate retraction of the Finance minister's decision to reduce the duty on wheat, millers and a farmers' lobby have taken sharply antagonistic (By News Poster)...South Africa: Who Lifts 2010 World Cup Today?
Sunday 11-Jul-2010: By Tunde Sulaiman and Demola Ojo in LagosJohannesburg - The month-long football World Cup tournament which began on June 11 comes to an end this evening at the Soccer City stadium, Johannesburg, South (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Illegal Immigrants Arrested in Nampula
Friday 09-Jul-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican police have announced the arrests of 74 illegal immigrants in the northern province of Nampula, reports Friday's issue of the Maputo daily 'Noticias.'The migrants, 38 from Soma (By News Poster)...Africa: Black Stars Cash in
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Robson SharukoJohannesburg - The Black Stars of Ghana will be smiling all the way to the bank after they received US$20 000 each from the Ghanaian Government following their impressive show at the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Robber Sentenced to 20 Years
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Jade WittenA Gugulethu man has started serving an effective 20 years in prison for robbing a man of R24 000 and hijacking another's vehicle while fleeing the police.On Monday, Wynberg Regional Cour (By News Poster)...Kenya: Doubts Greet Cabinet Approval of Bill to Change Tea Laws
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Zeddy SambuA farmer earns Sh11 for every kilogramme of tea delivered to any of the 60 factories affiliated to the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA).To produce this quantity, he spends Sh5 for plu (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Reserve Bank Settles Part of Seed Producer's Debt
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Staff ReporterHarare - THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), which until last week faced the threat of more attachments of its properties by companies it owed money, has settled part of the US$3,5 mi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Jailed Diamond Researcher Remains Behind Bars
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: By Alex BellJailed human rights activist and diamonds researcher Farai Maguwu will remain behind bars this weekend, after a ruling on his bail appeal was postponed until next Monday.Maguwu, who has be (By News Poster)...South Africa: Puzzle of Locked Doors in Fire That Killed Nine
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Fouzia Van Der FortPolice investigating the deaths of nine people when their Khayelitsha home was razed say it was unusual that the doors were locked with a crowbar and chain.The four-roomed Khayel (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Outreach Program Spreads Far and Wide but Intimidation Continues [column]
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Tichaona SibandaConstitutional outreach teams have now been deployed to every corner of the country, three weeks after the program was launched in Harare.SW Radio Africa is reliably informed that t (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'I Am Just an Ordinary Woman'
Friday 09-Jul-2010: Josephine stepped up to the podium, looked out at the 100 women and a few men, and began her introduction with these words:"I am just an ordinary woman. And I survived cancer."The audience clapped and (By News Poster)...Sudan: Clashes and Demos in Abyei
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Juba - Tension over the future of Abyei, a flashpoint region roughly the size Lebanon on Sudan's north-south border, erupted into armed violence and street demonstrations this week.On 5 July, gunmen m (By News Poster)...Nigeria Halts Executions of 870
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Lagos - Federal Government must have heeded to the order by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR), an agency of the African Union (AU) to stay action on the impending execution o (By News Poster)...Somalia: Al-Shabab, Hizbul Islam Exchange Gunfire, Kill Eight Including Officers in Mogadishu
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Mogadishu - At least 8 of Hizbul Islam and Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen fighters including officers have been killed after both sides exchanged gunfire around Laba-dhagah neighborhood in Hamar-jidid d (By News Poster)...USA: Black Racist Farrakhan says: Jews are blacks worst enemy - What is Farrakhan's REAL GAME? I know...
Monday 05-Jul-2010: [A, that dear black racist Farrakhan is at it again. But it should be clear what his real game is. Farrakhan first launches into a whole guilt complex claiming that Jews damaged blacks. Then he talks (By Jan)...South Africa: Brazil to Learn Valuable Lessons From State
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Pretoria - Brazilian President Lula da Silva and his delegation that will arrive in South Africa for a four-day visit must establish tighter ties- so that they can learn all the requirements for stagi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Amendments Fail to Placate Critics
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Clemence ManyukweHarare - Faced with a barrage of criticism and complaints, government last week announced four amendments to the country's indigenisation regulations, but analysts this week said t (By News Poster)...Namibia: Space Science And Technology Station Opened
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Albertina NakaleSwakopmund - Prime Minister Nahas Angula inaugurated a new Chinese-funded space science and technology station at Swakopmund last Friday.As per the main agreement between Namibia an (By News Poster)...Tanzania: War On Counterfeit Drugs Still On
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Gasirigwa SengiyumvaDar Es Salaam - THE issue of substandard and counterfeit medicines remain a huge problem, not only to sub- Saharan Africa as a whole but also to this country in particular. This (By News Poster)...South Africa: Communications Regulator in Bid to Balance Fair Prices and Profit
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Thabiso MochikoJohannesburg - THE telecommunications industry is anxiously waiting for the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to announce its final decision on the interconnection r (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gunmen Kidnap 12 Foreign Sailors in Bonny
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Rafiu Ajakaye With Agency ReportsLagos - Gunmen have kidnapped 12 foreign sailors after attacking a cargo ship in the waters off the coast of Niger Delta , a Nigerian navy officer said on Saturday (By News Poster)...Tanzania: War On Counterfeit Drugs Still On
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Gasirigwa SengiyumvaDar Es Salaam - THE issue of substandard and counterfeit medicines remain a huge problem, not only to sub- Saharan Africa as a whole but also to this country in particular. This (By News Poster)...Africa: Access to Life" exhibition shows life-changing effect of free treatment available to Aids patients in the developing world
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: At a time when the economic crisis poses a huge challenge to the funding of global health needs, a groundbreaking exhibition opening on Thursday evening (July 8, 2010) in Berlin shows the revolutionar (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bank Sticks to Policy Not to Rake in Forex
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Alistair AndersonJohannesburg - SA's gold and foreign exchange reserves rose last month, boosted by valuation adjustments from higher gold prices and a weaker dollar, and the repayment of foreign l (By News Poster)...South Africa: Small Banks 'Have Edge Over Larger Rivals'
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Sure KamhungaSA's smaller banks will give their bigger rivals which are battling to clean up bad loan books - a run for their money in the race to expand balance sheets weakened by the effects of t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Eskom Threatens Free State Power Cuts
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - ESKOM is getting tough with municipalities that owe it money. It has warned 11 Free State municipalities, including Mangaung (Bloemfontein) and Matjhabeng (Welkom), tha (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Country Reaps Benefits of Cheap, Smoke Free Energy
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Gasirigwa SengiyumvaHarare - As the world struggles to cope with the effects of global warming as a result of widespread emission of harmful gases, the use of environmentally friendly energy as a s (By News Poster)...Nigeria: We Need Low Carbon Energy Infrastructure (2) [analysis]
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Stanley IjeomaThe good news is that while the Chinese are leaders in the green tech race, the bad news is that they occupy the unenviable leadership position on the hydrocarbon emissions ladder. Th (By News Poster)...Kenya: Health Personnel Lined Up for Blood Collection Training [interview]
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Immaculate KarambuA $2 million initiative seeking to improve laboratory services in Sub-Saharan Africa has been launched.Becton and Dickinson (BD), a USA based biomedical technology company and PEP (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Central Banks From Eight Developing Countries to Collaborate
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Emele OnuLagos - Central Bank authorities from eight developing countries (D-8) including Nigeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey yesterday agreed to foster colla (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: African Sun Misses Opportunity
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Property ReporterHarare - Negotiations that should have culminated in the purchase of the 14-roomed Royal Chundu Zambezi River Lodge in Livingstone, Zambia by African Sun Limited (ASL) have collaps (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe/South Africa: Mzansi Visitors Hit Million Mark
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Robson SharukoJohannesburg - Zimbabweans have played their part, in the success story that is unfolding at Africa's first World Cup show, with revelations that visitors from the country have played (By News Poster)...South Africa: Money No Protection From HIV
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Johannesburg - A new study has challenged widely held assumptions about income level in relation to HIV, finding that neither wealth nor poverty are reliable predictors of HIV infection in Africa.Prev (By News Poster)...South Africa: Family Awaits Tests On Body Found in River
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Lavern De VriesA Goodwood family is on tenterhooks while they wait for DNA results that may determine whether a body recovered from a river is that of their daughter who went missing a year ago.Roc (By News Poster)...Uganda: Two More Soldiers Killed in Somalia
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Mary Karugaba and agenciesKampala - Two Ugandan soldiers working with the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia were killed and three others injured during recent clashes with Islamist insu (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Rwandan editor arrested after criticizing Kagame government
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: Police in Rwanda arrested the editor of a private newspaper on Thursday in connection with a series of articles critical of the government, according to local journalists.Agnès Uwimana was take (By News Poster)...South Africa: Health and Wage Laws 'Breached by Farmers'
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Luphert ChilwaneJohannesburg - MANY Western Cape farms do not comply with the minimum standards set by occupational health and safety laws in particular, a Department of Labour survey has revealed. (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Germany, Spain Clash
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Robson SharukoJohannesburg - Germany's resurgent troops, bubbling with confidence after crushing their major rivals in their last two matches, plunge into a heavyweight all-European World Cup semi- (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Copac Bosses Face Axe Over Chaos
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Levi Mukarati and Kudzai BareHarare - HEADS are set to roll at the Constitution Select Committee (COPAC) as it emerged this week that the Management Committee of the constitution-making process is (By News Poster)...Namibia: Prices of Namibia Dairies Products Go Up
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Windhoek - Namibia Dairies has announced a 5.3% price increase applicable to a wide range of its dairy and beverage products.The new price regime was effected on 1 July.Announcing the price increase, (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Makone Faces MDC-T Backlash
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Lloyd GumboHarare - MDC-T national executive members want new co-Home Affairs Minister Theresa Makone investigated for allegedly seeking the release of the son of Presidential Affairs Minister Didy (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Last Flight [book review]
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Chief Anayo Goddy Uwa- zurikeThe book, The Last Flight, has more than 100 photographs. The foreword is written by the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Paul Dike CFR . The Head of State and Comma (By News Poster)...Namibia: Rio Tinto Hails Uranium's Future
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Catherine SasmanWindhoek - Rio Tinto CEO Tom Albanese, who is currently visiting Namibia, has expressed optimism about the uranium-mining sector after 2020, due to renewed interest in nuclear energ (By News Poster)...South Africa: Koman Africa's Bad Apple
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Brian NkiwaneKOMAN Coulibaly is World Cup's bad apple but is one of the most decorated referees by the Confederation of African Football.The Mali referee is one of the four referees that have been (By News Poster)...South Africa: Bankers 'Fearful When Others Are Greedy'
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Sure SamhungaJohannesburg - SOUTH African bankers say they have become wiser and more adept at pricing for risk and avoiding reckless behaviour as a result of the global financial crisis.In intervi (By News Poster)...Cameroon: Impasse in Democratic Politics Threatens Nation's Future
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Richard MoncrieffWhile the prospect of Guinea’s return to constitutional rule after its recent election is cause for hope, the recent resurgence of military takeovers in Africa may not yet ha (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Why Alter Rules On Country's Gems?
Monday 05-Jul-2010: Harare - Zimbabwe has done everything possible to sell its diamonds with the full co-operation of the international community as represented by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme. But goal pos (By News Poster)...Uganda: Banks Plan to Double Agric Lending to Sh60 Billion
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Paul Busharizi and Ibrahim KasitaKampala - Standard Chartered Bank managing director Lamin Manjang is also the chairman of the Uganda Bankers Association. He spoke about the bank, the banking indus (By News Poster)...Angola: Armed Forces At Methodological Meeting On Chemical Weapons, Defence
Monday 05-Jul-2010: Kuito - Thirty members of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA), including high ranking, captains and lower ranks officers from the central military region, are participating since Saturday at a Methodologic (By News Poster)...Namibia: Union Slams International Labour Confederation
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Toivo NdjebelaWindhoek - Nine months after joining the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) has identified disaffiliation as one of the acti (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Industry Laments Increase in Retrenchments, Firm Closures
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Harare - The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries president Mr Joseph Kanyekanye has lamented the deepening crisis in industry, which is being typified by increased retrenchment drives and company clo (By News Poster)...Africa: Is It Time to Support Liberal Autocracies? [analysis]
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Yusuf SerunkumaWhat many advocates of democracy forget is that democracy is one of the many forms of leadership. All leaderships or governments aim at serving the good of the people. Democracy woul (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Dilemma Over WHO Tobacco Regulation
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By New ZianaHarare - The World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control presents Zimbabwe with a dilemma of choosing between protecting the health of the people and the economic ben (By News Poster)...Gambia: Newspaper Lists Missing and Detained
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Fabakary B. CeesayThe year 2010 has now gone half way, yet some Gambian families continue to live in distress due to the long detention and disappearance of their loved ones and family heads. Most (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gun Running - Soldiers Apprehend Dealers With 1,283 Firearms
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Samuel AruwanKaduna - The men of the 82nd Division of Nigerian Army in Enugu has arrested illegal arms dealers and found in their possession 1,283 firearms along ammunitions in large quantity in Ab (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 14 Kidnapped Sailors Freed
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Ahamefula OgbuPort Harcourt - Barely 48 hours after sea pirates struck in the Bonny water ways, killed one and took away 14 others, the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta yesterday said they have (By News Poster)...South Africa: Load Shedding Curbs BHP Aluminium Smelters
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - BHP Billiton's aluminium smelters in Richards Bay are still feeling the effect of 2008's national energy crisis and experience regular load shedding.The group is one of th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Survey Slams Police, Judiciary Over Corruption
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Christiana EsebonuAbuja - The Nigerian Police, the judiciary as well as men and officers of the Nigerian Customs have been accused of not playing their roles in the fight against corruption.The fir (By News Poster)...Zimbabweans in Country Urged to Be Vigilant (news)
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: By Tichaona SibandaZimbabweans living in South Africa have been advised not to expose themselves unnecessarily, in the face of renewed threats of violence against foreigners.Scores of foreigners, amon (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Collapse of the Rule of Law (4) [analysis]
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Soyombo OpeyemiContinued from last FridayEFCC and the Halliburton ScamDaily Independent, from Monday, April 19 to Wednesday, April 21, 2010 ran an expose on the Halliburton Scandal as front-page he (By News Poster)...[2 Graphs] Stock Markets: My Technical Indicator - Must we dump Gold for this correction?? Why aren't markets crashing?
Friday 09-Jul-2010: The markets have been a bit weird over the past few days. Perhaps the statement on CNBC that the markets are tracing out a massive head-and-shoulders like the Great Depression are freaking out the (By Jan)...Rwandan General Wanted in Three Countries (news)
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Loyiso LangeniJohannesburg - FRANCE, Rwanda and Spain had lodged extradition applications with SA for Rwandan Lt-Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa, justice and constitutional development spokesman Tlali Tlali y (By News Poster)...Somalia: Explosions Kill One, Injuries Two Occur in Elasha Biyaha Village
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Sh. M. NetworkMogadishu - Two explosions targeted to the police station of Hizbul Islam organization and other places in Eleash Biyaha have occurred at Elasha Biyaha village in out of Mogadishu cau (By News Poster)...Angola: National Police Present BPC Suspect Robbers
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Luanda - The Provincial Command of the National Police in Luanda Wednesday here presented three guards of a private security company believed to be involved in the theft of Akz 14.8 million from the S (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Central Bank, Iran, Pakistan Adopt Common Banking Rules
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Idris AhmedThe eight-member developing economies are adopting a common regulatory framework for their banking sectors, it emerged yesterday at the D8 meeting of central bank governors in Abuja.Memb (By News Poster)...East Africa: Hold Your Horses, Analysts Tell Banks on EAC Expansion
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Victor JumaBanks with a regional presence are seeing the deepening of integration in the East African Community (EAC) as presenting good business prospects though analysts warn rapid branch expansi (By News Poster)...Kenya: Currency Dealers Claim Witch-Hunt in CBK Inspection
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Geoffrey IrunguThe Central Bank and the Kenya Revenue Authority have touched a raw nerve as they move to inspect foreign exchange bureaus in assessing whether the currency dealers are being used to (By News Poster)...Uganda: City Planning Depends on Control of Land
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Rukiya MakumaKampala - Beware of falling debris" is a common warning on many streets in Kampala. It's to caution people to keep a safe distance away from the construction site. Buildings are being (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gun Runner Suspect is on His Own - Orji
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Ben DuruUmuahia - Abia State government has denied a statement by a suspected gun runner apprehended by soldiers from the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu, that he was contracted to supply a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: National Drowns in SA
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Harare - A 27-year-old Zimbabwean man drowned while fishing in South Africa's Nandoni Dam near Thohoyandou in Limpopo Province.Anderson Muvuru from Masvingo is reported to have drowned while checking (By News Poster)...Africa: New Cocoa Agreement Is a Sweet One, Producers Say
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Isolda AgazziGeneva - The new international cocoa agreement will provide a positive shake-up in the cocoa market and ensure better prices for stakeholders, including small farmers.It also strengthe (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 'Mafia' Shamed in SA Bus Campaign
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Tichaona SibandaA cheeky campaign putting the country's elite military junta under the spotlight in neighbouring South Africa has prompted both giggles and gasps in and around Johannesburg.The unus (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jonathan Challenges Military On Proliferation of Economic Saboteurs
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Innocent OdohAbuja - President Goodluck Jonathan has charged the military establishment to check "proliferation of economic saboteurs and their internal collaborators" to safe guard the nation's he (By News Poster)...Namibia: Bank Loses Case On 'Pyramid Scheme'
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Werner MengesA Tsumeb resident accused of running a multimillion-dollar pyramid investment scheme has won a case in which the Bank of Namibia tried to have him provisionally declared bankrupt.If in (By News Poster)...Uganda: Six Traffic Police Arrested Over Bribery
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Eddie SsejjobaKampala - The Police's Professional Standards Unit has arrested six traffic officers for allegedly extorting money from motorists at night on the Kampala-Gulu highway.The unit command (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Orania: Afrikanerjeug neem self verantwoordelikheid
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: Die gesegde Elke geslag neem verantwoordelikheid vir sy eie tyd het ook by die Afrikanerjeug inslag gevind. Hulle wil inspraak hê in en medeverantwoordelik wees vir hulle toekoms. Daar is reeds (By JanOlifant)...South Africa: Civil Society Works to Combat Xenophobia
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: Johannesburg - From soccer matches to marches; hotlines to prayers; civil society groups in South Africa are doing all in their power to prevent an outbreak of xenophobic attacks.Civil society groups (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Nothing New' in Nedbank Takeover Talk
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - JUST when Nedbank thought it had heard the last of unwanted suitors keen to prise it away from majority shareholder Old Mutual, it was forced yesterday to respond to rep (By News Poster)...Uganda: Nation Needs an Exit Strategy Out of Somalia
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By The ObserverJust last week, two Ugandan soldiers were killed and three others injured in Somalia, adding to the growing list of our casualties in the lawless Horn of Africa country. Another Ugandan (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mliswa's Woes Mount
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Harare - Temba Mliswa appeared in court yesterday on two new charges of allegedly swindling white former commercial farmers of cattle and equipment worth over US$24 million.The new charges arose as po (By News Poster)...Uganda: Demand And Supply Dictate Sugar Prices
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Ibrahim KasitaKampala - A drastic rise in world sugar prices and an acute shortage to meet the ever growing demand is threatening turbulence in the domestic market, a move that sees consumers pay m (By News Poster)...Gambia: As 2010 Farming Season Begins Thousands of Volunteers Work On President Jammeh's Farms
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Hatab FaderaThousands of volunteers from within and outside the country over the weekend converged on farms belonging to the president of the Republic, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yah (By News Poster)...South Africa: State Lacks R3,4 Billion to Help New Farmers
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Bekezela PhakathiJohannesburg - The government owes land claim beneficiaries R3,4bn in outstanding payments for post-settlement grants, says Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwint (By News Poster)...South Africa: Unions Call Off Power Strike
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: South African labour unions called off a strike at Eskom, the state-owned electricity firm, on Sunday, after their employer offered a nine percent wage increase.The move averted a potential nationwide (By News Poster)...Cameroon: The Dangers of a Fracturing Regime
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Cameroon, until now a point of stability in the region, faces potential instability in the run-up to the presidential elections scheduled for late 2011.Cameroon: The Dangers of a Fracturing Regime,* t (By News Poster)...S. Africa: Selebi Guilty: Zille notes verdict
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: DA Leader, Helen Zille welcomed the verdict handed down in the trial of former National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi, stating that the law had now taken its course and commended the way the justi (By JanOlifant)...Pressure Mounts for Diamond Researcher's Release From Jail (news)
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: By Alex BellPressure is continuing to mount for the immediate release of diamond researcher Farai Maguwu, who remains in custody in Harare more than a month since his arrest.Maguwu is being held in ho (By News Poster)...Angola: Memorandum of Understanding Signing Ceremony Establishing the U.S.-Angola Strategic Partnership Dialogue [document]
Friday 09-Jul-2010: The following remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Angolan Minister of External Relations Asuncao Afonso dos Anjos were issued at the signing of a memorandum of understanding (By News Poster)...Kenya: Neighboring States Aid in War on Illegal Firearms
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By John Njagi and VPPSNairobi - Kenya is working with neighbouring states in the ongoing programme to reduce the flow of illegal firearms across borders.Eastern provincial police boss Marcus Ocholla s (By News Poster)...South Africa: Engen Picks Galana as Madagascar Agent
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - PETROLEUM products company Engen had appointed independent oil operator Galana as its lubricants distributor in Madagascar, the company said yesterday.The move extends (By News Poster)...South Africa: Eskom Wants to Avoid New Funding Crisis
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - FUTURE capacity expansion projects beyond the Kusile coal-fired power station would have to be prefunded at inception "to avoid a repeat of Eskom's current financial po (By News Poster)...Uganda: Nigerian Movies Are Fuelling Crime Rates [opinion]
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Nathan WereKampala - It has been reported that the rate of child crimes have increased over the years, although the Police has put up a spirited fight to prevent such crimes. According to statistic (By News Poster)...East Africa: Community HIV Drug Distribution Improves Adherence
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Nairobi - Local East African programmes are discovering the benefits of bringing HIV services closer to rural communities, with mobile drug distribution improving HIV-positive patients' adherence to a (By News Poster)...Namibia: Uutoni Warns Police Against Alcohol Abuse
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Helvy TueumunaOshakati - Deputy Minister of Safety and Security, Erastus Uutoni, has warned police officers in the Ohangwena Region to maintain discipline and refrain from alcohol abuse.While visit (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Expropriation Threats' Head to Constitutional Court
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Ernest MabuzaJohannesburg - THE Constitutional Court is to hear a case by a landowner who believes his right to use and exploit his property is being violated by the Coega Development Corporation ( (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Competition Drives Down Prices
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Harare - Fierce competition among local retailers has seen prices of goods declining slightly, which has resulted in a slight decline in the cost of living.According to the consumer basket for June is (By News Poster)...West Africa: Jonathan Okays Special Fund for Ecowas Bank
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Rom Sufuyan Ojiefo And Segun AwofadejiAbuja/Bauchi - President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday in Sal, Cape Verde, welcomed efforts to strengthen South-South cooperation through platforms such as the E (By News Poster)...Kenya: Three to Hang for Violent Robbery
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Wainaina Wa Ndung'uNairobi - Two men and a woman are to hang for robbing a driver and his loader of their lorry and assaulting them using rungus and pangas in broad daylight.Nanyuki driver Samuel K (By News Poster)...Namibia: Property Market Continues to Struggle
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By David AdetonaWindhoek - The impact of the global financial crisis on property market transformation is leading to significant economic, financial and operational implications for many property inve (By News Poster)...Africa: MPLA SG Suggests Elevation of Region to African Elite of Economic Development
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Gambos - The secretary general of the ruling party MPLA, Julião Mateus Paulo "Dino Matrosse", considered on Sunday in Gambos District, Huíla Province, as relevant giving Angola a key pla (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Senate Uncovers N80 Billion Scam
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Cosmas EkpunobiAbuja - N1bn housing fund missing Senate panel investigating the sale of government houses has indicted the Presidential Implementation Committee (PIC), which handled the sales, of c (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Shareholders Fault CBN's Move to Sell Troubled Banks
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Grace Azubuike With Agency ReportFour shareholder groups in the country differed on the new plans by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to sell five of the troubled banks. While two shareholder grou (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Pastor Sent for Genocide Trial
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Steven Candia and Annet NantongoKampala - Arrangements have been finalised between security and the foreign affairs ministry to have genocide suspect, Jean-Bosco Nshuti Uwinkindi extradited to Arus (By News Poster)...Somalia: Pirates Hijack New Tanker in Red Sea
Monday 05-Jul-2010: In the early hours of 4 July, the MT Motivator reported it was under small arms fire from a pirate attack in the northern Bab Al Mandeb area in the southern Red Sea.After notification of this attack, (By News Poster)...[3 Graphs] Stock Markets: My Technical Indicator - a Special Analysis about averting False alarms for Buy & Sell signals...
Monday 05-Jul-2010: A few months ago I started an experiment and I'm very pleased with the results. I want to show you something really interesting. NOBODY out there really knows what the markets will do. Nobody out (By Jan)...Sudan: Darfur Conflict Killed More Than 200 in June
Sunday 11-Jul-2010: The joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur today reported that 221 people lost their lives in the war-torn Sudanese region due to armed conflict and criminality in June, the (By News Poster)...Somalia: Official Assassinated in Central Town
Sunday 11-Jul-2010: Unknown gunmen, covering their faces with masks, have shot dead a Somali official in the central Somali town of Beledweyne, the administrative capital of Hiran region, Radio Garowe reports.The officia (By News Poster)...Gambia: Prosecution Witnesses Testify in Ensa Badjie and Co. Robbery
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Mamadou DemThe robbery case involving the former Inspector General of Police Ensa Badjie (alias Jesus) on Thursday 8th July proceeded before Justice Joseph Ikpala of the Banjul High Court.Borry Tou (By News Poster)...Nigeria: MAN Raises Alarm Over Kidnapping in South- East, South- South
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Valentine AmanzeNational Council of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has raised alarm over the rising cases of kidnapping in the South East and the South South.It has therefore appealed t (By News Poster)...Namibia: Power Station Tender Up for Grabs
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Albertina NakaleWalvis Bay - Namibian and Angolan contractors are being urged to participate in the future construction of the Baynes Hydro-Power Station.Participation by the two countries' contrac (By News Poster)...Namibia: Police Arrest Stock Thieves
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithThe Otjiwarongo Police have uncovered a mini stock-theft syndicate after they arrested a woman at Otjiwarongo for possession of illegal beef.The woman, Johanna Mengela (26), led the (By News Poster)...Somalia: Industry Best Management Practices Version Three, a Real Step Forward in Self-Protection for Merchant Ships [press release]
Friday 09-Jul-2010: Best Management Practices 3 (BMP3) is now available for the public in booklets and on www.mschoa.org. It represents a real step change; the booklet will significantly encourage wider adoption of self (By News Poster)...South Africa: Rising Water Threatens New Joburg Gold Venture
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Allan SeccombeJohannesburg - CENTRAL Rand Gold (CRG) has raised R270m towards building a gold mine immediately south of downtown Johannesburg, but it is dealing with the critically important issue (By News Poster)...Uganda: Why Plastic Money Should Be Popularised
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Kampala - Last week Commonwealth Financial Solutions (U) Ltd unveiled its Zipp card, a plastic debit card that will allow users to hold, transfer cash and transact at designated places.For only sh350 (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Money Laundering - Senators Scared of EFCC, CBN's Powers on Telephone Surveillance
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Uchenna AwomAbuja - The Senate yesterday continued the consideration of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Bill, with most senators expressing fears that the rights of Nigerians to privacy may be g (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Trying Times for Torres
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Robson SharukoJohannesburg - Two years ago, Fernando Torres was on top of the world -- having struck the priceless goal that helped end Spain's lengthy 44-year wait for a major football title -- on (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chinese Delegation Jets in
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Harare - The eighth session of the Zimbabwe-China Joint Commission begins in Harare today.Chinese Industry and Commerce Vice Minister Mr Jiang Zengwei is leading the Beijing delegation, which arrived (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Firms Scramble for Lucrative Oil Blocks
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Adeola Yusuf With Agency ReportsLagos - LOCAL and foreign oil firms are gearing up for lucrative oil blocks, as news broke on Tuesday that President Goodluck Jonathan has approved August for the 20 (By News Poster)...Parreira Leads Foreign Coach Exodus
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Petros KausiyoJohannesburg - CARLOS Alberto Parreira will lead the cast of foreign coaches who will dump African teams and return to their roots as the continent's representatives begin to count th (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Bank's Record Profits to Profit Customers
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Hailu TeklehaimanotZemen Bank has become the first commercial bank to offer depositors 0.5 percentage points more on savings than the four percent imposed by the central bank, which other banks con (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chanakira Outflanks Meikles
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaHarare - Meikles Limited reeled into a potentially costly stand-off with subsidiary, Kingdom Financial Holdings Limited (KFHL), after the financial services group demanded consummati (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kayihura Warns Opposition Youth On Forming Militia
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Eddie Ssejjoba and James KabengwaKampala - THE Inspector General of Police (IGP), Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, has warned the Democratic Party (DP) youth against forming a militia group to allegedly co (By News Poster)...Nigeria: TSAV Flays Akume Over Attack on Suswam
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Joseph WantuMakurdi - The cold war between governors and their predecessors across the nation is rearing its head in Benue State as the past governor Senator George Akume is seen at every forum try (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Tensions Rise in City Over Outlawed Sect
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Abdulkareem HarunaMaiduguri - Maiduguri is awash with flags of the outlawed Boko Haram Islamic sect, just a week after the city was thrown into confusion following the spread of a video clip purpor (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Citizens Not Naturally Disposed to Committing Crime - Adeyanju [interview]
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Yaqoub PopoolaCharles Adeyanju is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. The native of Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, obtained his fir (By News Poster)...Malawi: There is Food But No Money to Take It to the People
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: Johannesburg - Another year with a surplus harvest of maize, the staple food, is good news for Malawi, but dry spells in the south have left around 700,000 people in need of food assistance.The govern (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NUPENG Threatens to Stop Fuel Supply to Abuja to Protest State of Roads
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Lagos - The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) rose from its National Administrative Council meeting in Ibadan on Monday evening threatening to stop supply of petroleum produ (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diplomat Recalled Over Alleged Iran Sex scandal
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - Zimbabwe was forced to re-call a senior diplomat based in Tehran after he was drugged by two Iranian women he picked up from the streets.But Mr Brighton Mugarisanwa, a coun (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diplomat Recalled Over Alleged Iran Sex Scandal
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - Zimbabwe was forced to re-call a senior diplomat based in Tehran after he was drugged by two Iranian women he picked up from the streets.But Mr Brighton Mugarisanwa, a coun (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Vigilante Groups Commend Suleja Emirate for Support
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Catherine AgboVigilante groups operating in Suleja, one of the satellite towns in the suburbs of the Federal Capital Territory have commended the Emir of Suleja, His Royal Highness (HRH) Mallam Moh (By News Poster)...Uganda: Karuma Power Station Works to Start
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By David SsempijjaKampala - The Government will construct two more hydro-electric power dams next year to increase generation and distribution capacity to meet the growing power demand.The dams under (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Influential Chief Accused of Destabilising Outreach Program
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe MDC-T party on Tuesday strongly accused the influential President of the Chiefs Council, Chief Fortune Charumbira of abusing his position to undermine the outreach program.Senat (By News Poster)...Namibia: Credit Appetite Slowly Picking Up
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Staff ReporterThe latest figures on credit extended to the private sector show that consumers don't yet share the business sector's confidence in economic recovery.Analysing the May statistics rele (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Paper Industry in Doldrums
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaHarare - Zimbabwe didn't need to be importing paper. It has its own industry giants. Like the rest of the country's manufacturing sector, it was thought of as a resilient and stubbor (By News Poster)...South Africa: Listed Property Benefits From Defensive Stance
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Thabang MokopaneleJohannesburg - SOUTH African listed property has been the best-performing asset class so far this year, returning 10,57%, ahead of equities with 4,06%, cash 3,55% and bonds 5,61%. (By News Poster)...USA: From Jason Kelly - What will you do differently in the next financial crisis?
Monday 05-Jul-2010: There’s not much new to write about finance. As a financial writer, I can assure you that the basics haven’t changed in your lifetime. Even the advent of new financial products has just changed the wa (By JanOlifant)...Struggle Shifts From Soccer Pitch to Politics
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Karima BrownJohannesburg - AS THE curtain drops on the World Cup, the temperature looks set to rise on the political front this week.The ruling African National Congress (ANC) will today have to tu (By News Poster)...South Africa: Eskom Extends Power Purchase Contract With IPSA
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - ESKOM has extended Independent Power SA's (Ipsa's) short-term contract as the parties await the approval of their power purchase agreement, the public electricity utili (By News Poster)...South Africa: Petrol Price to Drop By 15 to 18 Cents
Friday 09-Jul-2010: Pretoria - South African motorists will be able to breathe a sigh of relief next week - as all grades of petrol will drop by between 15 to 18 cents a litre.According to the Department of Energy, the c (By News Poster)...Angola: Nine Out of Ten Without Access to Bank Services
Friday 09-Jul-2010: Luanda - Nine out of every ten Angolans have no access to bank services and products, Angop learned Thursday in Luanda.This was said by the governor of the Angola Reserve Bank (BNA), Abraão Gou (By News Poster)...Namibia: Meat Branded in International Campaign
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichMeat from free-ranging cattle in Namibia will receive international attention during a new branding campaign by retail giant Woolworths South Africa as the company increases its fo (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Seed Co Bullish As Region Braces for Polls
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Shame MakoshoriHarare - ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange-listed Seed Co believes elections slated for the next 24 months in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) could turn out to be watershed e (By News Poster)...Angola: Ational Police Arrest 27 Citizens Allegedly Involved in Crimes
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Luanda - The National Police arrested during the last weekend 27 citizens allegedly involved in the same number of crimes in several districts of Luanda, ANGOP has learnt from a local source.According (By News Poster)...West Africa: UN-Supported Renewable Energy Centre Opens in Cape Verde
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: A new regional centre to help develop the renewable energy potential for West Africa opened today in Cape Verde, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), which is supporting the (By News Poster)...Namibia: Bank Windhoek Drops Prime Rate
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyBANK Windhoek yesterday said it would drop its prime lending rate by 50 basis points to 10,75 per cent, becoming the first commercial bank to meet the Bank of Namibia's (BoN) demand fo (By News Poster)...Namibia: Agricultural Union Riled By New Levy
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Windhoek - The Namibia Agricultural Union (NAU) has expressed "great disappointment" at Cabinet's notice on the introduction of a flexible ad volorem levy of between 15 to 30 percent on live sheep, as (By News Poster)...Africa: Sables Reach Africa Cup Semis
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Paul MunyukiBulawayo - Zimbabwe's Sables became the second team to make it into the Africa Cup semi-finals after they won Pool C of the Confederation of African Rugby tournament here at the weekend (By News Poster)...Initiative Seeks to Reduce Maternal Death Statistics
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Bertha ShokoChivi - A drama script depicting a typical rural woman who collapses in the middle of routine work in the fields because of the effects of a pregnancy that never got the attention it de (By News Poster)...Namibia: Should Govt's Foreign Policy Look to the East Or the West?
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Alfredo HengariHOW do we define our foreign policy values and norms? Where should we look for inspiration in order to better our domestic order? After 20 years of independence, such questions are b (By News Poster)...Farmers Cry Foul Over Sheep Export Levy
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichCABINET has turned against a joint proposal of the meat industry made in February 2009 to slap a levy of N$40 on every live sheep exported to replace the controversial Government r (By News Poster)...Somalia: Clash Continues in North Mogadishu, Casualties Rise
Monday 05-Jul-2010: Mogadishu - Bitter clash between the transitional government of Somalia and Harakat Al-shabab forces is currently continuing in the north of Somali capital Mogadishu for the firth day, killing more, i (By News Poster)...South Africa: Spain, Netherlands Prepare to Grab World Cup Glory
Sunday 11-Jul-2010: By Kemantha GovenderDurban - The Spaniards do not boast a celebrated past at the World Cup. In the 19 years of World Cup history, they have only managed to reach the final for the first time in 2010.P (By News Poster)...Is Privatization Right for Zambia?
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: By Ruth LangaLusaka - Zambia has sold more than 262 state-owned enterprises in the past 18 years, with the latest being the beleaguered telecommunications company Zamtel. As the debate continues about (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Five Independent Outreach Monitors Arrested
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: By Lance GumaThe Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) report that 5 independent monitors of the constitutional outreach programme were arrested Thursday evening in Chirumanzi and detained at Chara (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Lubanga Chronicle #92 Judges Suspend Proceedings as Prosecutor Breaches Chamber´s Orders [press release]
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Sheila VelezThe Hague - Judges announce they won´t hear further evidence in the case The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, asserting that the fair trial of the accused is no longer possible (By News Poster)...Phones to Assist with World Cup Emergencies
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Gabi KhumaloPretoria - Eighty thousand mobile phones have been handed over to the Health and Police Ministries to enable the departments to deal effectively with emergencies during the FIFA World C (By News Poster)...Somalia: Al-Shabaab Urges Attacks on Diplomats
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Abdulkadir KhalifMogadishu - Al-Shabaab, the strongest radical Islamist group opposing the Transitional Federal Government in Somalia has invited Islamists everywhere to act against the diplomatic (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Doctors Say DRC Activist Chebeya Died of Heart Attack
Friday 09-Jul-2010: Human rights activist Floribert Chebeya, found dead in the Democratic Republic of Congo with his hands tied, likely died of a cardiac arrest, a post-mortem report is suggesting.The autopsy did not pro (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Foreign Reserves to Be Negative Until 2015 - IMF
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Shame MakoshoriHarare - ZIMBABWE'S gross official reserves, a measurement of how many months' import cover the country's foreign reserves are worth, will remain in negative territory until 2015, a (By News Poster)...Namibia: More Rift Valley Fever Cases Detected
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Windhoek - New Rift Valley Fever (RVF) cases have been diagnosed at six farms, including one in the Erongo Region, in addition to farms in the Hardap and Karas regions.The Directorate of Veterinary Se (By News Poster)...Nigeria: UN Health Agency Helps Contain Child Lead Poisoning Outbreak
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is working with the Nigerian Government to contain an unprecedented outbreak of lead poisoning in the country's north, a result of the processing of (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Taking the HIV Risk Out of Road Crews
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Tanga - fAn initiative by the Tanzanian government hopes to reduce HIV transmission along the country's expanding road network by targeting construction crews and the communities that surround them."T (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Germany Set World Cup Record
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Petros KausiyoJohannesburg - The World Cup's in-form team Germany will set a new record for the highest number of appearances at the global football showcase when they play their 98th game in the s (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gearing Up to Fight Food Shortages
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Gombe - State authorities and aid agencies in northern Nigeria are scaling up their food security and nutrition responses in the light of coming food shortages.Seven Nigerian states along the edge of (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Electricity Tariffs Up 30 Percent
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Fidelis Mac-LevaElectricity tariff in the country has shot up by about 30 percent from what was previously obtainable, and there are indications that it might go even higher by next year, Daily Tru (By News Poster)...Kenya: Graft Behind Tussle Over Land, House Team Told
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Alphonce ShiunduNairobi - Corrupt officials in the Lands Ministry are behind a 17-year tussle over a piece of land in Kirinyaga, a Parliamentary Committee has heard.Gichugu MP Martha Karua told the (By News Poster)...Somalia: 'Mogadishu Faces a Catastrophe'
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Nairobi - Heavy fighting in the northern areas of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has trapped many residents in their homes, with some unable to bury their dead, civil society sources said on 6 July.Th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Alleged N30 Billion Fraud - EFCC Quizzes Ogun Speaker Today
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Paul IbeAbuja - The dragnet of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) into the alleged N30bn fraud in Ogun State involving land receipts and council funds is spreading by the day.Today (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chitungwiza Technology Centre - a White Elephant
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Harare - The multi-million dollar state-of-the-art technology centre in Chitungwiza whose equipment the government of India donated to enhance production capacity of small and medium entrepreneurs has (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Experience Benefits of Cheap, Smoke Free Energy
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Gasirigwa SengiyumvaDar Es Salaam - AS the world struggles to cope with the effects of global warming as a result of widespread emission of harmful gases, the use of environmentally friendly energy (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Experience Benefits of Cheap, Smoke Free Energy
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Gasirigwa SengiyumvaDar Es Salaam - AS the world struggles to cope with the effects of global warming as a result of widespread emission of harmful gases, the use of environmentally friendly energy (By News Poster)...Zambia: RB Calls for Stronger Govt-Bostwana Economic Ties
Monday 05-Jul-2010: PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has called for stronger economic ties between Zambia and Botswana.President Banda said at a State banquet hosted in honour of President Seretse Khama Ian Khama at the Savoy Hote (By News Poster)...S. Africa: More ANC Corruption: Rasool needs to put SA first, and withdraw
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: Allegations that former Western Cape Premier and current ambassador-designate to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, paid members of the press corps to further his political interests whilst Premier, t (By JanOlifant)...Nigeria: Kidnapping - Enugu to Demolish Suspected Hideouts
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Tony Ita EtimEnugu - HOUSES used to harbour kidnapped persons or found to be hideouts for suspected kidnappers in rural communities of Enugu State are to be demolished by the government.Similarly, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Generator Fumes Kill Mum, Daughter in Ibadan
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Dele OgunyemiIbadan - A 47-year-old woman, her 12-year-old daughter and her unnamed cousin were found dead in their one room apartment at Itamaya area of Ibadan early Tuesday morning as they report (By News Poster)...South Africa: Nurses Can Also Do Art - Living With Aids # 438
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Khopotso BodibeSouth African nurses are just as competent as doctors in monitoring patients on antiretroviral therapy. This is according to results of a four-year long study published recently in t (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Mambu Slams Arrest Jibes
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Victoria SaffaFreetown - Chairman of health for all coalition has denied being arrested by police officers at Mosensie checkpoint in the Bonthe district with a truck load of 284 cartons of assorted (By News Poster)...East Africa: Energy Gets U.S.$2.5 Million Boost
Friday 09-Jul-2010: East African countries are set to benefit from a $2.5 million (Shs5.6 billion) power capacity building and technical assistance from the United States Aid for International Development. The two-year i (By News Poster)...South Africa: Country Turn Heat Up on Rwanda Over Shooting of Exiled Army Chief
Friday 09-Jul-2010: The Rwandan government is saying that it is concerned about remarks by a senior South African diplomat insinuating that Kigali agents are behind last month's shooting in Johannesburg of former army ch (By News Poster)...Liberia: Help Police, Other Security Agencies' Fight Against Criminals
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: The National Chairman of Community Policing Forum (CPF) of Liberia, Mr. I. Nyenati Kaffey, has admonished citizens to formulate strategies that will buttress the work of the Liberia National Police (L (By News Poster)...South Africa: Fiery Prison Claims Nine Family Members
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Fouzia Van Der Fort and Natasha PrinceFive young children - one of them a six-month-old baby - and four adults have died after their home caught alight in the early hours of Wednesday morning.Two s (By News Poster)...Kenya: Rape Menace for Slum Women
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Benjamin MuindiNairobi - Women and girls in Nairobi's slums live under constant threat of sexual violence, a new report says.Because of this, they are too scared to leave their houses to use commun (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Indian Investment Might Reach a Billion Dollars
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Maputo - Indian investment in Mozambique, particularly in mineral resources, energy and processing of agricultural products, might reach a billion US dollars in 2010-2011, according to the optimistic (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 12 Engineers Off to Iran
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Harare - Twelvew engineers from the Zimbabwe-Iran tractor manufacturing plant, Motira, in Harare left for Iran on Saturday to acquire more training on tractor assembling.The engineers will be in Iran (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Spills - Group Calls for Independent Compensation Body
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Sam NzehLagos - A coalition of leading Nigerian and international human, children and environmental rights groups has called on the federal government to establish an independent compensation body (By News Poster)...Model Clinches Diesel Deal
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Jonathan MbiriyamvekaHarare - Zimbabwean top model Lynn Williams has clinched a lucrative modelling contract with one of Italy's leading fashion houses Diesel.The 24-year-old stunner left Harare a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Regulations Must Be Relevant - Nedbank
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - NEDBANK has warned against a knee-jerk response in SA to calls to introduce tougher laws to curb reckless behaviour by global banks, saying there was a danger of adoptin (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police Gripes Dominate Sex Work Hotline
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Lavern De VriesPolice harassment is the most common complaint that has been reported to a hotline launched recently by the Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (Sweat).Other calls were from (By News Poster)...Somalia: Government Vows to Continue Fighting, Al-Shabab Calls to Jihad
Monday 05-Jul-2010: Mogadishu - The transitional government of Somalia has Monday vowed to continue the fighting against the Islamist fighters in Somali capital Mogadishu, just as Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen called for (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Rivers - 12 Foreign Hostages Released
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Dennis NakuPort Harcourt - Twelve crew members of a foreign vessel abducted by armed gangs on the high seas, off the Atlantic coast of Bonny, Rivers State last Friday have regained their freedom.Ho (By News Poster)...Kenya: Thank God for Njoya and His Fellow Courageous Pro-Reform Religious Leaders
Sunday 11-Jul-2010: By Cabral PintoBorn on April 7, 1941, the Rev Dr Timothy (Fear of God) Murere (Well Brought Up) Njoya (Lifted Up) claims he will live to be 139. For over four decades, Njoya has symbolised the explosi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Government's House Sales Scam
Friday 09-Jul-2010: Lagos - THE report of the Senate panel on the sale of Federal Government houses, which indicted members of the Presidential Implementation Committee (PIC) that handled the sales, alleging a whopping N (By News Poster)...Ghana: 'Hand of the Devil' Shamed as Uruguay Crashes Out of World Cup
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Robson SharukoJohannesburg - Africa waved farewell to the cursed Hand of the Devil on Tuesday night after Uruguay, who broke millions of hearts across the continent just five days ago with a surviv (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NAFDAC Tackles Fake Drugs With Novel Technology
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Florence UdohLagos - Drug counterfeiting has remained a menace to successful healthcare delivery in Nigeria for decades but if renewed efforts by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administratio (By News Poster)...Namibia: TESEF is Unconstitutional - Pretorius
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Denver KistingThe Transformation of Economic and Social Empowerment Framework (TESEF), intended to give black economic empowerment (BEE) a boost, is "wrong".This is because "it is based mainly on p (By News Poster)...Uganda: Security Services Coordinator Warns On Land Issues
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Martin KaahwaKampala - The national coordinator of security services, Gen. David Tinyefuza, has warned that land may cause a civil war in Uganda if tribes do not change their cultural thinking."As (By News Poster)...South Africa: Brazilian President to Discuss Investment, Trade During Visit
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Loyiso LangeniJohannesburg - BRAZILIAN President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrived in SA yesterday for a state visit.On Sunday, SA will officially hand over the keys to Brazil as the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Ithala Irregularities Scuttle School Building
Friday 09-Jul-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - IMPROVEMENTS at 48 schools and the construction of five new schools in KwaZulu- Natal have been delayed by two years because of corporate governance failures at the Ithala (By News Poster)...Namibia: Govt Lifts HIV/Aids Travel Ban
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today welcomed Namibia's decision to remove travel restrictions for people living with the virus, a move that aligns the country's laws with int (By News Poster)...South Africa: Aquarius Stock Plunges After Mine Deaths
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Allan SeccombeJohannesburg - AQUARIUS Platinum shares fell to an eight-month low yesterday on news that a shaft at its Marikana mine was temporarily shut after the death of five workers in a fall-o (By News Poster)...Kenya: Scanning Device to Ease Cheque Payment Process
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Johnstone Ole TuranaThe days of long cheque settlement processes are numbered as commercial banks eye a new technology system that aims at improving efficiency in the banking system.Banks will now (By News Poster)...South Africa: Peruvian Nationals Arrested for Theft
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: Pretoria - Swift action by police has seen the arrest of two Peruvian nationals, believed to be part of an international syndicate robbing tourists at malls, ATMs and restaurants during the World Cup. (By News Poster)...South Africa: Finance Minister Tackles Splurge on World Cup Tickets
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Chantelle BenjaminJohannesburg - FINANCE Minister Pravin Gordhan said yesterday he would meet the auditor-general and the chairman of Parliament's standing committee on public accounts to discuss m (By News Poster)...Liberia: U.S. Agency Commits U.S.$15 Million for Land Rights, Girls' Education and Trade Policy Reform
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Boakai FofanaMonrovia - The Liberian government signed a grant agreement Tuesday with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), awarding U.S.$15 million to the country for what is called a thresh (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diplomat in Drugs, Sex Scandal
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Tinashe FarawoHarare - A Zimbabwean diplomat stationed in Teheran, who was recalled after being drugged by two Iranian women at his apartment in January, has won reinstatement after challenging the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: ZTA to Establish Digital Advertising Division
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Harare - THE Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) is expected to establish a digital advertising division under a new plan mooted by Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister, Walter Mzembi, whereby the a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Martin Mutasa, Temba Mliswa Out on Bail
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Harare - Martin Mutasa (47), the son of Presidential Affairs Minister Didymus Mutasa, businessman Temba Mliswa (38) and George Marere (36) - who were last week arrested for allegedly seizing shares wo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sasol Puts Another Sticky Experience to Rest
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Siesko NjobeniJohannesburg - IN THE past two years, few companies have seen the inside of the Competition Commission's offices as often as petrochemicals group Sasol.Competition commissioner Shan R (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Man Forces Four Boys to Sodomise Friend
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: Harare - Police here have arrested a 21-year-old man from Mushandike resettlement area after he allegedly forced four boys to sodomise their 10-year-old friend while he watched.John Hofisi is also acc (By News Poster)...South Africa: Merafe Benefits From Ferrochrome's Resilience
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: By Allan SeccombeJohannesburg - MERAFE Resources shares traded higher on Friday after an expected slight decrease in the third-quarter ferrochrome price.The price decrease was because of measures take (By News Poster)...Africa: Africa Union Summit Looks Like CHOGM in New Attire [opinion]
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Emmanuel GyezahoThere has not been a major international meeting hosted in Uganda of the magnitude of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting of November 2007. I know whenever the word Chogm i (By News Poster)...South Africa: Minister Defends Eskom on Loss Control
Monday 05-Jul-2010: By Wyndham HartleyJohannesburg - Energy Minister Dipuo Peters has scotched the popular belief that SA's electricity shortage is partly the result of electricity theft in informal settlements, pointing (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Continent's Tears From the Hand of the Devil
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: By Robson SharukoJohannesburg - Africa will once again feel the excruciating pain, inflicted by the Hand of the Devil on a heartbreaking night for the continent last Friday, when old wounds are reopen (By News Poster)...USA: DEEP POLITICS: Even as the Left & Liberals hug each other... they KNIFE each other in the back...
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: A recent article of mine on Deep Politics was popular and people really liked it. But then some readers challenged me a bit. I thought I would just add my 2c worth into this, because the game is serio (By Jan)...S. Africa: Wasteful Spending - World Cup ticket splurge brings total to R 1,18 billion
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: Lindiwe Mazibuko MP, DA National Spokesperson raised serious concerns over the R 110 million of public funds recently spent on World Cup tickets by government departments and state entities for Minist (By JanOlifant)...A Lot of Famous 'Black Americans' are actually mixed-race - coloureds and NOT pure Black at all...
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: I spotted this interesting web page. It turns out that a lot of famous "AfricanAmericans" are actually of mixed race. They are not BLACK - as in Black from Africa. They are interbred with all manner o (By Jan)...S.Africa: Wow! Does Julius Malema actually have his own blog? References to AfricanCrisis...
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: I was checking out hits on AfricanCrisis and tracking them back to their sources when I was stunned to discover a blog calling itself: (By Jan)...http://www.therightperspective.org/2010/07/11/south-africans-arrested-selling-dirty-nuke/
Sunday 11-Jul-2010: Police in South Africa have arrested four men who attempted to sell an undercover cop a so-called "dirty nuke" bomb. The bust went down in an undisclosed Pretoria gas station in a joint operation b (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...[Pics] Hey you White Racists! They're NOT Illegal Immigrants... they're....
Monday 05-Jul-2010: This image is doing the rounds among Americans. This is pretty much what the Democrats are doing. They don't seem to care what happens to America is millions of illegals pour into the country. They do (By Jan)...South Africa: I'll Be Back, Says Zim Man Flung Off Train
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: By Jade WittenA Zimbabwean man who says that he was thrown from a train by a group of South Africans, will be back on a train tomorrow when he is discharged from hospital.Reason Wandi, 27, says he has (By News Poster)...A Quickie: Stock Markets: Gold is borderline - Did My Technical Indicator give a sell signal?
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: Just a quick note about the very sharp falls in Gold. I am watching gold to see whether I need to bail out of it short term while it finds its feet with all these Central Banks dumping gold en masse. (By Jan)...USA: The Big 2012 - End of the World scam... My buddy wants to cash in on the spiritual garbage...
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: You will recall a short while ago a friend of mine decided that he wants to bluff his way around using "tree-hugging hippie cr*p". We were joking about it but he claims he wants to write a book so he (By Jan)...[Humor] Don Rickles on change... he gave them hell... Don Rickles ROASTS the Democrats
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: [This is another email that is doing the rounds among Americans. I can't vouch for it. This is one of those that is a fascinating read but I'd like to know if he really said this. Jan] Don Rickles (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (10-07-2010)
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: Howzit As you read this article, remember that to all intents and purposes, these are political parties - not vigilantes or militia. For me personally, I believe that there should be some legislati (By The BeardedMan)...Some Americans are upset... they say President Obama is leading them to hell...
Thursday 08-Jul-2010: I was chatting to a lady in the USA who is one of the volunteers on my AmericanCrisis site. Here is an interesting excerpt from a note from her:- People are truly angry, talking openly in the gr (By Jan)...TRP Archive: 2010.07.09
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: Frank and John go after Obama's new directive to NASA to make Muslims "feel good".... who really came up with all these so-called "Muslim" inventions?.... Eric Holder is a quiet black racist.... S (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...S.Africa: Orania: Orania së Nuwe Tuisleerdiens
Saturday 10-Jul-2010: [Dis wonderlik om te sien dat Orania die idee van onafhanklikheid in onderwys invoer. Die staat skole en kurrikulum het in die laaste paar jaar baie agter uit gegaan met standaarde wat verlaag is. As (By JanOlifant)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (07-07-2010)
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- As I begin today's posting, we have two council workers in our garden cutting down a tree which has died and in danger of falling. (And the (By The BeardedMan)...A Tribute to a friend of mine's Mother who recently passed away...
Monday 05-Jul-2010: A friend of mine overseas has done a really amazing job of looking after both his parents. I doubt you'll find a more committed son in the world. His father is almost a 100 years old and his mother, i (By Jan)...USA: Did Billy Graham really say these awesome things? My late sister met Billy Graham...
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: [I receive a lot of emails that do the rounds among people. Unfortunately, sometimes people claim that someone said something that they didn't or it is not quite accurate. I am posting this, but it wo (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (05-07-2010)
Monday 05-Jul-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- My apologies for not being able to post yesterday, but as it proved, the chairman didn't pitch up and as vice-chairman I was obliged to take (By The BeardedMan)...[Cartoon] President Obama and Jimmy Carter...
Wednesday 07-Jul-2010: I received this cartoon from Jennifer. (Photo) (By Jan)...USA: Dow Repeats Great Depression Pattern - Another Analyst - a BIG FALL coming...
Tuesday 06-Jul-2010: [Here is an analyst who was quoted on cnbc saying exactly what Jason Kelly and I have been telling you recently - that a huge fall is coming and he gives the same starting point as I gave, 9800. Jan] (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (11-07-2010)
Sunday 11-Jul-2010: Howzit Yesterday, amongst other things, I was communicating with a fellow Zimbabwean writer, who, by fluke, was at school at Plumtree High School when I was stationed there in the Zimbabwe Republic (By The BeardedMan)...
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