From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 25th 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 & GruesomeScience: From the BBC: Scientists and Sex... what Women want.... Turning the tables on women... The Ace Men have...
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: It is interesting when Scientists start digging into PEOPLE, the kinds of things they discover about us. I was watching a BBC documentary about sex some months ago. The host was a Professor. He wo (By Jan)...Sierra Leone: 'HIV Threatens Military Capability' - Defence Minister
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Ibrahim TarawallieFreetown - Minister of defence has said that the rate of HIV infection within the rank and file of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) is seriously threatening the v (By News Poster)...[Pics] Humor: S.Africa: The Power of Make Up
Friday 23-Jul-2010: [A friend sent me this. This has been modified for South Africa... It is doing the rounds among whites. Jan] (Photo) (By Jan)...South Africa: ANC's Arrogance Blinds It to Danger of Pogroms
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Jacob DlaminiJohannesburg - 'The ANC elite refuses to accept that communities might have legitimate grounds for protest against the ANC'NATHI Mthethwa , the police minister, has provided quite a sp (By News Poster)...Joys of Muslim Women...NOT!
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: In the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as young as 1 year old and have sexual intimacy with this child. Consummating the marriage by 9. The dowry is given to the family in exchange for (By JanOlifant)...Rwanda: Kagame's 'Congo Crisis'
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Charles Onyango-ObboNairobi - On June 20 as we drove to President Paul Kagame's country home in Muhazi, we encountered what was once a very common sight around Rwanda.A group of prisoners, in garis (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kampala Bombings Reveal New Front in Somalia War
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: The announcer's voice had hundreds of spectators at Kyadondo Rugby club, a popular bar for local and expats alike, completely rapt--sitting at the edge of their chairs, counting down the last three mi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamonds - Burden or Boon?
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Khadija SharifeThe issue of 'blood diamonds' has once again made the news: Farai Maguwu, director of Zimbabwe's Mutare-based Centre for Research and Development (CRD), languishes under the long arm (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Any Investor Who Buys Into Rescued Banks Does So At His Peril
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: Lagos - Dr. Eze Nwagbaraji is Lawyer, a tested investment banker and fund manager who has spent several years in the United States of America's financial services sector. He has written several articl (By News Poster)...Africa: HIV Funding Cutbacks Will Hamper Treatment Success
Friday 23-Jul-2010: Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has cautioned those attending the International AIDS conference that backtracking on funding for HIV by donors could threaten the treatment success rates. Read his (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe does as he pleases - Shout Down, Knock Down, Hold Down
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: [Sickening. I still think Mugabe should be killed and ZANU(PF) should be fought into the ground. Nothing has changed in 10 years. This is a recent article written by Robb Ellis. Jan] Shout Down, Kn (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe does as he pleases - Shout Down, Knock Down, Hold Down
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: [Sickening. I still think Mugabe should be killed and ZANU(PF) should be fought into the ground. Nothing has changed in 10 years. This is a recent article written by Robb Ellis. Jan] Shout Down, Kn (By Jan)...Ghana: Oil Revenue for Whom?
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Magbegor Ovie and Chris TwumMany Ghanaians are excited about the discovery of crude oil and its expected revenue. The general feeling is that, money is expected to flow to all pockets hence; politi (By News Poster)...Uganda: Terror in Kampala
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Andrew M. MwendaOn June 25, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels attacked a Congolese army unit in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). According to intelligence reports, the Congolese (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Uganda Suicide Bombing - Why FG Should Be Vigilant
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Paul ArheweThe havoc from the Somali al-Qaeda linked group al-Shabaab is not only growing; the invoking fright from the devilish group's expansion outside the Mogadishu borders calls for concern to (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How Police Aid Kidnappers, By Falana
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Olawale OlaleyeLagos - The kidnap of four journalists and their driver in Abia State last week has put the nation's security agencies on the spot as the Senate, Presidency and opinion leaders put p (By News Poster)...A British journalist's (John Carlin) take on the 2010 Soccer World Cup.... Can the ANC turn crime on and off like a tap?
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: [I received this from a regular supporter. Carlin was doing his little Liberal pooh, poohing of the hard facts about SA. But... as our regular points out: If Crime disappeared during the FIFA World (By Jan)...Rwanda: Right Man to End the Genocide, Wrong Man to Build a Democracy
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: By Charles Onyango-ObboRwanda goes to elections on August 9. President Paul Kagame is billed as favourite to win, although sections of the opposition have called for a boycott, saying that it will not (By News Poster)...Africa: Basil Davidson, Africa Thanks You
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Cameron DuoduBasil Davidson has died in England aged 95.Why should that concern me as an African?Well, soon after my country Ghana gained its independence in 1957, thoughts that we had never been e (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (22-07-2010)
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: Howzit Last evening I sat back and listened to the first two programmes of Duane Udd (in America) talking to singer, cricketer and now author, Henry Olonga. Each programme is about 10 minutes long (By The BeardedMan)...[5 Pics] S.Africa: Johannesburg: Be careful where you drive in Edenvale - Road collapse...
Saturday 24-Jul-2010: [A regular reader sent me these photos of the collapse of the road in Edenvale. Jan] (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (By Jan)...Somalia: Conflict Will Spread Unless International Community Acts - U.S. Policymaker
Friday 23-Jul-2010: Somalia, which has not had a functioning central government in more than two decades, is experiencing an upsurge in violence and increased civilian casualties. Clashes have intensified between al-Sha (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Violent Crime in my suburb in Johannesburg skyrockets.... Corruption, lost accounts...
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: I am writing this from a community Police forum meeting for my area. We were told that the number of violent crimes have exploded. In one instance the criminals were even trying to bite people's fi (By Jan)...U.S. Court of Appeals Judges Uphold Charles Taylor Junior's Convictions and 97 Years Jail Sentence (news)
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Alpha SesayJudges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday July 15 2010 issued a decision affirming the conviction of Charles Taylor Jr., aka Chuckie Taylor.Taylor (By News Poster)...South Africa: Five People Hurt in More Xenophobic Violence
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Lance GumaTensions are running high in South Africa after 5 people were injured Monday evening in more xenophobia fuelled violence, in the KyaSands area of north-western Johannesburg. Some of those (By News Poster)...Focus On the Proposed Land Bill
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Irene HoaësWindhoek - Namibia's land reform programme was in the spotlight during the past week.A three-day Land Bill Stakeholders' National Consultative Workshop ends today in the capital.The gath (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Allow Independent Autopsy of Opposition Politician
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: The government of Rwanda should allow independent foreign experts to carry out an autopsy on the body of André Kagwa Rwisereka, vice president of the opposition Democratic Green Party, Human Ri (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (23-07-2010)
Friday 23-Jul-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- There will be no posting tomorrow as we will be attending the July Braai 2010. -o00o- If you ask me, the Zimbabwe police chief has be (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (20-07-2010)
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: Howzit Yesterday, you may recall that I wrote about Mugabe's attitude to the new SADC ruling following his ignoring the initial ruling. This is all about the land grab and the SADC Tribunal had rul (By The BeardedMan)...Zimbabwe: New Report Warns on Elections, Urges Mugabe Prosecution
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Alex BellA leading advocacy group has called for urgent international action to prevent the "looming carnage" in Zimbabwe, warning that the next presidential election will condemn thousands of peop (By News Poster)...Uganda: Museveni Writes on Somalia
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: By Yoweri MuseveniSomalia seems to be suffering on account of a confluence of three factors:A failed government under Siad Barre that could not defeat or keep under check the various rebel groups; inc (By News Poster)...Zanu PF Retraces Steps to Failure
Friday 23-Jul-2010: HAVE you ever seen a party working so hard to lose an election? Zanu PF appears absolutely determined to retrace its footprints of failure.Firstly and perhaps most egregiously we have seen the abuse o (By News Poster)...Uganda: How Al-Shabaab Planned Attacks
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Kampala - The Al-Shabaab spiritual leader has announced that last Sunday attack in Kampala that killed 74 people was carried out by a cell named after an al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab leader killed in Somal (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bullet Proof Vans - CP Akpoyibo Wields the Big Stick
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Ifeanyi OkolieLagos State Police Command seem to be ahead of all commands in the country in implementing, to the letter, all policy directions, criminal strategies and manoeuvrers mapped out by the (By News Poster)...Uganda: Who Are Al-Shabaab?
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Kampala - Al-Shabaab, meaning youth, began as an armed wing of the Union of Islamic Courts which ruled Somalia for six months in 2006.The Islamic Courts had restored a tenuous calm in Mogadishu before (By News Poster)...Africa: Black people have been waiting for a Magic Fairy for 50 years…
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: Black people have been waiting for a magical solution to their problems for decades. They are ping pong balls bouncing between East and West. They hated the one thing which succeeded in their mi (By Jan)...Uganda: Telecom Manager Held Over Bombing
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Edris KiggunduAfter 10 days of investigation, leads are pointing to two Pakistani nationals who include a top manager at a Ugandan telecom company as the main financiers, and a Yemeni national as t (By News Poster)...Africa: Africom, the Kleptocratic State and Under-Class Militancy
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Caroline IfekaWest Africa was of secondary military-economic interest to the US in the mid-1990s, compared to North Africa (Libya) and the Horn of Africa, but continuing difficulties in Middle East (By News Poster)...Uganda: The Suicide Bombers Are Not Ordinary Criminals
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Peter MuliraKampala - THE Mufti of Uganda Sheik Shaban Mubajje was right when he recently told the press in the aftermath of the 7/11 tragedy that the Islamist terrorists who caused untold sufferin (By News Poster)...South Africa: Country Under Pressure to Take Action on Zimbabwe Land Reform
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Alex BellThe South African government is coming under increasing pressure to take action against Robert Mugabe and his land 'reform' programme, after more South African farmers were arrested in Zim (By News Poster)...East Africa: Pirates' Money Threatens Kenya
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Patrick MayoyoNairobi - Piracy and the big money being made out of it is seeping into Kenya's economic fabric, presenting a serious threat to the economy as well as law and order, experts warn.Inve (By News Poster)...Terreblanche Accused Gets Bail
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: One of the accused murderers of AWB leader Eugene Terreblanche, Chris Mahlangu, has been granted a R5,000 (US $665) bail in the Ventersdorp Magistrate's Court Wednesday. State prosecutors opposed t (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...S.Africa: R600 million Shocker: The new SAP accounting system might bankrupt Johannesburg
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: Apparently the Johannesburg Municipality has moved from the VENUS system to the SAP system. (This is not SAP=S.African Police ... SAP is a German accounting package - a very sophisticated and expensiv (By Jan)...Rwanda: Rwanda, German Firms to Boost Savings
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Alex NgarambeKigali - The Association of Microfinance Institutions in Rwanda (AMIR) and the Savings Banks Foundation for International Cooperation of German are partnering to boost savings.The thre (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Govt 'Manipulates' Genocide Memory - Law Professor
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Chi MgbakoThe Rwandan government has made remarkable strides in infrastructure, the economy, healthcare and gender equity in political representation, but their continued attack on independent thou (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Hopes That Farm Looters Will Be Prosecuted Fade
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Faith ZabaHOPES that the arrest of controversial businessman Temba Mliswa will reignite investigations into the alleged looting of commercial farms by Zanu PF bigwigs under the pretext of land refo (By News Poster)...Somalia: Al-Shabab, Extremism and U.S. Allies
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Yohannes WoldemariamThe emergence of Al-Shabab in Somalia is not an accident. It stems from many decades of mismanagement, dictatorship, regional and international abuse. Superficially, one expects (By News Poster)...Ghana: Atta-Mills' 'Genetically-Modified' Inflation Figures
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Justice Abeeku Newton-OffeiI was in Britain when the phenomenon of genetically modified foods started taking the world by storm, in the mid-nineties. This genetic modification is the process where (By News Poster)...East Africa: Lessons for the Region From Kampala Attacks
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Kwendo OpangaNairobi - That al-Shabaab, the Mogadishu-based radical Islamist group, has claimed responsibility for Sunday's bombing in Kampala, must serve as a wake-up call for first, the East Afri (By News Poster)...[Pic] USA: Does the CIA want us to believe in UFOs & Aliens? Testimony from Lockheed Skunkworks....
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: [I found this fascinating story sent out on George Filer's MUFON newsletter. It included a photo of Mr Don Phillips, a design engineer for Lockheed, the CIA and the USAF. What is really interesting if (By Jan)...Nigeria: Reign of Brigands
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Hannatu MusawaIn the 17th and 18th century Europe, citizens lived in fear of their lives due to the menace of highway robbers and kidnappers.Back in those days, the most practical form of travel wa (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Xenophobic Attacks -- Oneness Forgotten Too Soon
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Simbarashe ChirimumbweTO comprehend that a few weeks ago we were like one African family cheering behind the Bafana Bafana in the World Cup but now we are at each other's throats!The South African (By News Poster)...Economic Development, Derivatives Markets
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Wellington BongaThe Zimbabwean economy is now on its way to economic recovery, and therefore it has to welcome and introduce some economic recovery tools which encompass the whole economy and inter (By News Poster)...Africa: China - Outsmarting the West in Africa
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Davison MakangaCape Town - China's interest in Africa is frequently portrayed simply as that of a rising economic power seeking natural resources. Deborah Brautigam argues that this portrayal misse (By News Poster)...South Africa: OECD Warns on Strong Rand Threat to Economy
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - SA's authorities should intervene more actively against strength in the rand, which has hit exports, and provide policy signals on both the exchange rate and the likely dir (By News Poster)...Scientists Hopeful of New HIV Prevention Breakthrough
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: UKZN researchers have achieved an important scientific breakthrough in the fight against HIV and genital herpes with a vaginal gel that significantly reduces a woman's risk of being infected with thes (By News Poster)...What's Wrong with U.S. Policy and How to Fix It (opinion)
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By John PrendergastSix months before the self-determination referenda for South Sudan and Abyei, U.S. policy is not contributing in a meaningful way to peace and justice in Sudan, whether in preventin (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Understanding Diseases Stops Conflict
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Indiana ChiraraHarare - There was chaos in Chemukute Village of Kadoma district in Mashonaland West one morning when the headman, Enoch Marume, just dropped dead on his way from the cattle kraal.He (By News Poster)...Uganda: Why Withdrawal of Troops From Somalia Is Reasonable for Now
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Brian BwesigyeJuly 11, 2010 will go down in the history books as the day Uganda was thrown into a somber mood mixed with shock, bitterness and panic.The twin bomb attacks did not only turn an other (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Kidnap Saga - NUJ Meets in Lagos to Raise Ransom
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Iyobosa Uwugiaren and Lilian AgihAbuja - Seven days after four journalists and their driver were kidnapped by gunmen, it is the same old story by the Nigeria Police Force: "We are doing everything (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Entertainment Practitioners Lose Billions to Piracy Annually - Laolu Akins
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: For those born in the 60's and early 70's, they would be familiar with the musical group "BLOW" which took the nation by storm with their brand of music. The boom in the music industry in the 70's and (By News Poster)...[Pic] Humor: New Obama Christmas tree ornaments...
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: This is hillarious and I suppose a bit racist! Too funny. I received this from a friend in the UK. So I went to Wal-Mart and saw that they had Obama Chistmas Tree ornaments.... Now ain't that (By Jan)...Uganda: How Police Focused on the Wrong Targets
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: Nairobi - Uganda police had been anticipating terrorist attacks as early as June but a focus on the wrong targets combined with friction between private security firms allowed the terrorists to find s (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jan 1966 Coup Planned By Revolutionaries, Says Study
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Christopher IsiguzoEnugu - Forty-four years after the January 15, 1966 coup, a team of researchers from the University of Southern Florida, United States, yesterday faulted the widely held belief t (By News Poster)...[Pic] Picture of the Year - President Obama's NEW Bill of Rights...
Friday 23-Jul-2010: [This was sent to my by a friend. Yep, this pretty much describes what is happening in America and what President Obama is up to. This was "the change we can believe in" he was remarking about - basic (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Will the Country Ever Sell Its Diamonds?
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Clemence ManyukweHarare - ACCORDING to the World Diamond Council (WDC), revenues earned from the gemstones enable every child in Botswana to receive free education up to the age of 13. The Batswana (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Kidnapping - a New Face of Militancy
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Etta Michael BisongHistory has proven that effective leadership is the lifeline of any nation that is thinking towards the next generation, and the absence of that effectiveness in Nigeria system i (By News Poster)...Nigeria: South East Kidnapping - Exploiting Communal Spirit
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Tony NezianyaLagos - President Goodluck Jonathan last Sunday took a critical look at the security situation in the South -East and described it as terribly embarassing.He said the situation needed (By News Poster)...East Africa: Renewing the Fight Against al Qaeda in Region
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Russ FeingoldOn July 10th, horrific bombings in the capital of Uganda killed scores of innocent people, including an American, and wounded many others who had peacefully gathered to watch the World (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Decent Work' Not the Answer - OECD
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Simon MundyJohannesburg - THE Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) yesterday delivered a stark indictment of SA's stubbornly high unemployment rate.It urged the government (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Kidnapping, PDP and 2011
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Sam AmadiOn Saturday, July 10, 2010 I moderated a meeting of human rights and pro democracy activists in Igbo land. Almost anyone who matters on human rights and pro democracy in Nigeria was there, (By News Poster)...Sudan: Fear Campaign Reported Ahead of Referendum
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Eli CliftonWith less than six months before the residents of southern Sudan vote on a reform which is expected to result in the cessation of South Sudan from the north, a new report implicates Suda (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: High Interest Rates Blamed On Small Banks
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Harare - PUNITIVE interest rates quoted by banks largely on short-term loans have been blamed on small banks and the concentration of bank deposits in the four leading banks.BancABC group economist Mr (By News Poster)...S.Africa: I'm back... and been working on the websites... My INCREDIBLE learning curve of 2010... The ANC Scum... We're all nerds...
Saturday 24-Jul-2010: Just a note to everyone that after this intense week at work that by friday things had chilled and was under control. I can now start handing over things to people and focus more on my own work and ta (By Jan)...East Africa: Somalia Crisis to Dominate African Union Summit?
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Kampala - The African Union summit opens in Kampala on July 19 amid heightened security following twin bomb attacks a week earlier.The official theme of child and maternal mortality will likely be ove (By News Poster)...Somalia: How Al Shaabab Became Al Qaeda's Incidental Stepchild
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Murithi MutigaNairobi - The difference between Al Qaeda and Al Shabaab, two terror organisations that have dominated the news in the past week, lies in their origins.Al Qaeda was the product of a h (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Gwynne Dyer Got It All Wrong
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Pascal GahamanyiKigali - In his article "Rwanda: Kagame's dilemma" in the "New Vision" of Monday July 19, GWYNNE DYER among many other allegations said that President Kagame's presidential victory (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (19-07-2010)
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- "The SADC Tribunal made another landmark ruling in Windhoek, Namibia, today (July 16) regarding the Zimbabwean government's continued violati (By The BeardedMan)...Southern Africa: Youth Vulnerable to Violence
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: By Zukiswa Zimela and Kelvin KachingweJohannesburg/Lusaka - James Banda, 27, is an unemployed youth although he occasionally is hired to act as a bus conductor at Lusaka's Kulima Tower Bus Station. He (By News Poster)...Uganda: Why America is Helping Region on Bomb Issue
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Russ FeingoldKampala - On July 11, horrific bombings in the capital of Uganda killed scores of innocent people, including an American, and wounded many others who had peacefully gathered to watch t (By News Poster)...Uganda: Beware Suicide Bombers But Don't Give in to Fear
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Daniel KalinakiOn Tuesday evening we went out to a pretty lounge bar in Bugolobi for dinner and to watch Qwela, easily the best new band in town. I had been here once before on a Tuesday and the pl (By News Poster)...Uganda: There is More to Al-Shabaab Militants Than Meets the Eye
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Awel UwihanganyeKampala - Sunday July 11, will be a day we shall remember in Uganda for a long time to come. The terrorists, who traumatised Nairobi, Dar-es-saalam, New York, and many other places (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Snubs Regional Ruling on Land Seizures Again
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Alex BellThe government has once again snubbed a ruling by the human rights court of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), saying the ruling is of "no consequence" to Zimbabwe.The comm (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Vulnerable Egos of Non-White people: A Coloured woman says: Jan... I am going to HELL because of YOU....
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: I had a laugh the other day at my work when a small coloured lady made a remark to me. This woman is actually very good. She has her Bible on her desk all the time. She is deeply religious. Some we (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Tetrad Gold Fund in Fair Market Response
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: Harare - TETRAD Gold fund has attracted a fair market response particularly from small investors who seem to have found it as an alternative to the unattractive Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.Unveiled about (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Corruption And the Media
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Yema SenThe pernicious and pervasive form of corruption in Nigeria today requires proper definition, characterization and examination relative to the role of the mass media in tackling it for a bet (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Biti Says Immunity Offer Will Encourage Mugabe to Step Down
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Lance GumaFinance Minister Tendai Biti has suggested that ZANU PF leader Robert Mugabe and several of his senior army generals are hanging onto power because they fear prosecution for human rights (By News Poster)...East Africa: Halt Forced Returns of Refugees - Uganda Forces More Than 1,700 Back to Rwanda
Monday 19-Jul-2010: New York - Uganda should immediately halt the forced repatriation of Rwandan refugees and asylum seekers from two camps on its southwestern border with Rwanda, Human Rights Watch said today."Mass forc (By News Poster)...Uganda: Ssemujju Nganda - The Other Side of Bomb Attacks
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Ssemujju Ibrahim NgandaBefore bombs went off in Kampala, killing about 80 innocent people on July 11, President Museveni had been beaten in the diplomatic game. Museveni's diplomatic defeat at the (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Step Up and Fight Women Abuse,' Men Urged
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Ayanda YeniAt a week-long international summit in Johannesburg recently, men and women were challenged to step up the fight on gender-based violence.Speaker after speaker urged delegates not to tur (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'Agent Provocateurs' Behind Attacks - Malema
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Esther LewisANC Youth League president Julius Malema says people who chased foreigners out of Mbekweni near Paarl last week should be ashamed of themselves.But neither Malema nor Deputy Police Mini (By News Poster)...Cabindan Separatists in Exile Deny End to Conflict (news)
Friday 23-Jul-2010: Paris - Offers of peace by senior officials of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC), which seemingly ended a long-standing separatist conflict in northern Angola, were made wi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Prices of Basic Commodities Falling - Zim Stats
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Harare - PRICES of basic commodities have continued on a downward trend, shedding 0,1 percentage points in June as month- on-month inflation for the period came off 0,4 percentage points to -0,1 perce (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Protection of Information Bill - the ANC takes a leaf out of the old South Africa-type legislation
Monday 19-Jul-2010: [The ANC has over the years introduced some information which is beneficial for the rights of individuals - eg the Promotion of Access to Information Act and the Consumer Protection Act and the Electr (By A Different Perspective)...South Africa: World Cup - Kickoff to Xenophobia
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Wilson JohwaJohannesburg - THE World Cup hosted in SA has been hailed worldwide as a resounding success, but questions remain as to why a tournament meant to unite Africa was also used as a marker (By News Poster)...Gambia: Is the Crisis At Sareh Demba About to Be Solved?
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Pateh BaldehForoyaa has gathered from reliable sources that the family of Sarra Jallow in Kerr Bachi (Sare Demba) in Nianija in the Central River North have had their land seized and are banned fro (By News Poster)...Uganda: Do You Know These Suicide Bombers?
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Tabu ButagiraEthiopian Intelligence have reportedly alerted Uganda that the mastermind of Kampala's July 11 bomb attacks is still at large within the country as Police yesterday tagged the explosio (By News Poster)...Uganda: Al Shabaab Attack UPDF in Somalia
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Tabu Butagira and AgenciesUgandan peacekeepers in Somalia (Amisom) were yesterday believed to have been engaged in fighting alongside Somalia government troops after being attacked by al Shabaab Is (By News Poster)...Nigeria: JTF Seizes Nine Illegal Bunkering Barges
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Omon-Julius OnabuWarri - Niger Delta Security Joint Task Force has arrested 14 suspected persons for their alleged involvement in illegal bunkering and illegal possession of arms. It said eight of (By News Poster)...Uganda: Govt May Launch Attack on Somali Militia
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Michael Wakabi, Charles Kazooba And Halima AbudallahNairobi - Uganda's East African neighbours have pledged soft support should the country choose to go on the offensive in Somalia as Kampala weigh (By News Poster)...Namibia: Acquittal Asked in Triple Murder Trial
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Werner MengesThe two men being tried over a triple murder and armed robbery committed in Windhoek's Kleine Kuppe area in early 2004 are set to hear on Tuesday next week if the State's case against (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Stakeholders Salute CBN's Reversal of 'Planned' Sale of Rescued Banks
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Kingsley IghomwenghianAt the end of the meeting, which was attended by about 100 people, lasting three and half hours, the CBN Governor seemed to have caved in to pressure to allow the owners of th (By News Poster)...Kenya: The Great Rift
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By John Githongo and David NdiiA most intriguing political development occasioned by the constitutional referendum is how former President Daniel Arap Moi and his onetime political protég&eacut (By News Poster)...Africa: There Are Ways in Which Continent Can Defeat the Murderous Al Shabaab
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Oyamo OsanjoWhen Internal Security minister George Saitoti visited Israel early this year, he expressed concern over increasing threat to Kenya and other African countries from radical Islamists.Hi (By News Poster)...Sudan: Secretary-General Urges More Serious Efforts By Parties to End Conflict in Darfur
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has again urged all parties to the conflict in Darfur to seriously pursue peace, citing ongoing violence, displacement and human rights violations in the region despite s (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Majority Shun Banks
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Harare - AT least 78 percent of potential depositors in urban Zimbabwe are either keeping their cash outside the commercial banking system or have no disposable incomes to keep with the banks, a secon (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Stakeholders Salute CBN's Reversal of 'Planned' Sale of Rescued Banks
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Kingsley IghomwenghianThe setting was in the form of a beauty pageant. The event was planned to be in hush tones, hence the chosen venue was discrete, so as not to draw unwarranted attention. The d (By News Poster)...Africa: Thank You South Africa
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Hamza NkuutuKigali - BEFORE the 2010 world Cup kicked off, hosts South Africa had a big point to prove, after all there had been a sense that the country must prove itself capable of presiding over (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Revolving Door Swings At First Bank
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Festus AkanbiLagos - The exit of three directors of First Bank Nigeria Plc last week has attracted various interpretations from members of the banking community, who predict similar far-reaching de (By News Poster)...South Africa: Small Print is a Big Deal in Banking Charter
Saturday 24-Jul-2010: By Tim CohenJohannesburg - NEGOTIATIONS around the financial sector charter (FSC) have dragged on now for almost three years from the time the charter was first agreed on.But despite press reports sug (By News Poster)...Côte d'Ivoire: Black Pod Hits Cocoa Harvest in Southwest
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: Abidjan - An outbreak of black pod disease in the southwestern cocoa-producing area of Côte d'Ivoire, is slashing harvests for thousands of local farmers.The disease broke out in the coastal tow (By News Poster)...Africa: African Union Lauds Country On Anti- Terrorism Stance
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Henry MukasaKampala - The African Union (AU) delegates meeting at the Speke Resort Munyonyo in Kampala have lauded Uganda for her resolve to fight terrorism on the continent.The AU also sent condol (By News Poster)...Kenya: 'Techpreneurs' Find Niche in Development of Phone Software
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Kui KinyanjuiWith his neat haircut, simple T-shirt and heavy back-pack, Amos Gichamba looks like any other university student.But unlike many of his peers, the 20-something year-old student has bee (By News Poster)...Somalia: 'Puntland Under Attack by Foreign Terrorists' - Farole
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: The president of Somalia's Puntland State government has said that the stable region is "under attack" by international terror groups and is cracking down on anti-peace elements, Radio Garowe reports. (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SADC Tribunal Rules Against Zimbabwe Govt
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE regional tribunal of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has ruled that the failure of the Zimbabwe government to register a previous ruling at its high court sho (By News Poster)...Guinea Bissau: Pass Anti-Trafficking Law - Prevent Children From Being Taken Across Borders to Face Abuse, Exploitation
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: Guinea-Bissau's National Assembly should act quickly to pass a law criminalizing human trafficking, Human Rights Watch, SOS Talibé Children, and the Association of the Friends of Children said (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Top Banks Lose Market Share
Friday 23-Jul-2010: Harare - THE share of deposits controlled by the country's top four banks -- CBZ Bank, Stanbic Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and Barclays Bank -- has declined in percentage terms, latest industry stat (By News Poster)...Africa: Antiretroviral Gel Lowers HIV Infection and Offers Hope to Women
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Zahira KharsanyJohannesburg - When women from the predominantly rural Vulindela district in KwaZulu-Natal first began participating in an HIV-prevention trial many were unable to negotiate the use (By News Poster)...South Africa: 'I Just Lay There Quietly, Holding My Breath'
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Lebogang Seale"This is xenophobic water," a woman among a group of residents quipped as Gauteng Community Safety MEC Khabisi Mosunkutu stepped over the murky waters gushing through the narrow alley (By News Poster)...Freed Journalists Arrive Lagos, Recount Experiences (news)
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Olasunkanmi Akoni, Jemi Ekunkunbor & Jimoh BabatundeLAGOS CHAIRMAN of Lagos State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Mr. Wahab Oba, and three other journalists: Mr. Adolphus Okonkwo, (By News Poster)...Sudan: Lack of HIV Prevention Methods a Major Concern - Living With Aids # 440
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Khopotso BodibeThe good news from the International AIDS Conference in Vienna that a microbicide gel tested in South Africa for the prevention of HIV infection is an ironically painful reminder tha (By News Poster)...South Africa: Address by the Deputy President, Kgalema Motlanthe, at the 18th International Aids Conference, Vienna
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: The following is the full text of the address by Kgalema Motlanthe.Programme Director;President of the Federal Republic of Austria, H.E. Heinz Fischer;Conference President, Mr Julio Montaner;Executive (By News Poster)...Africa: Killer Blood Transfusions Targeted in Fight Against HIV
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Charissa SparksThe World Health Organization estimates that 5-10 percent of all HIV infections in Africa occur as a result of unsafe blood transfusions.In order to address this problem, the US Pres (By News Poster)...Biti's Potential Time Bomb
Saturday 24-Jul-2010: By Brett ChuluA TRILOGY of statements made by the Minister of Finance, Tendai Biti, in his presentation of the 2010 Mid-term Fiscal Policy Review (MFPR) touched on critical human capital issues that h (By News Poster)...South Africa: Repo Rate Remains at 6.5 Percent
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: Pretoria - The repo rate is to remain as is at 6.5 percent."The Monetary Policy Committee assesses the risks to the inflation outlook as being evenly balanced and views the current monetary policy sta (By News Poster)...Uganda: July 11 Bombs Sneaked in Last Month
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Steven Candia and Herbert SsempogoKampala - The suicide bombs which rocked Kampala city on July 11, killing 76 people were smuggled into the country in June from a neighbouring country, investigato (By News Poster)...Mugabe Rural Home Hogs Tollgate Funds
Saturday 24-Jul-2010: By Farai MutsakaPRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's rural home district of Zvimba and other Zanu PF strongholds in Mashonaland have controversially grabbed the largest amounts of money from tollgate fees collec (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Corrupt Leaders Deserve Minimum of Life Sentences - Prof Oyebode
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Abdulwahab AbdulahProf. Akin Oyebode of the University of Lagos is a Professor of international relations and jurisprudence. In this interview, he argued that we must get our electoral process righ (By News Poster)...Setback for State in Triple Murder Trial
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Werner MengesTHE prosecution of the two suspects accused of the murder of three people in Windhoek's Kleine Kuppe area in early 2004 suffered what could be a key setback in the High Court in Windho (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Sins of Microfinance Banks
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Jerry UwahThese are not the best of times for the nation's embattled financial system. The capital market is yet to emerge from the abyss that unrestrained insider dealings and calamitous share pri (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Seven Killed in Fresh Jos Attack
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Chika Otuchikere and Gonji PalangJos - Hell was let loose in Jos, the Plateau State capital, yesterday after suspected herdsman allegedly killed about 10 persons and burned down worship places and (By News Poster)...Namibia: Hausiku Calls for Land Reform Patience
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE land reform process in Namibia was not a short-term issue and would take another ten years or more, but the concerns of the landless should be addressed "timeously" so that a s (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Controversial Expelled Politician in New Plot
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Nqaba MatshaziHarare - FIVE years after he was unceremoniously kicked out of Zanu PF for allegedly plotting against President Robert Mugabe, Jonathan Moyo is back at the centre of the party's intri (By News Poster)...Namibia: Economic Growth Seen At 3,5 Percent
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Vuyani NdabaJohannesburg - Strong commodity prices and a recovery in tourism should help Namibia's economic prospects, although lower regional customs revenue could weigh on the budget, a Reuters p (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: U.S. Foreign Policy and Ethiopia
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Alemayehu G. MariamTeddy 'The Rough Rider' Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth president of the US, had many faults, but one of them was not an inability to distinguish between talk and action. The old war (By News Poster)...Uganda: 2 UPDF Soldiers Killed in Somalia
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Swalley KenyiKampala - Two Ugandan soldiers were killed on Wednesday in the fresh fighting in Mogadishu between Somali government forces and al-Shabaab Islamist militants.Army spokesman Felix Kulay (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamond Sale Unlawful - Resources Company
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Farai Mutsaka and Chris MuronziZIMBABWE'S usually divided cabinet on Tuesday unanimously endorsed the export of diamonds mined from the disputed Marange fields, but a London-listed firm at the cent (By News Poster)...Somalia: Deadly Skies Above Mogadishu
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: Mogadishu - As Islamist insurgents battle it out with government troops backed by African Union forces (AMISOM) in Somalia's capital, civilians face continuous danger from above in the form of the mor (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Senior MDC Official Assaulted During Meeting
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Tichaona SibandaA senior MDC official taking part in a constitutional outreach meeting was on Monday severely assaulted in front of the police, who shockingly did nothing to arrest the culprits who (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Is There No Reconciliation in Country?
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Pascal GahamanyiThere is a lot of debate about Rwanda in Uganda, conducted in Ugandan newspapers and radio stations and the participants are Ugandan citizens. Those involved - whether as critics of (By News Poster)...Africa: Civil Society Worries About Chinese Investment
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Miriam MannakCape Town - Chinese investment in African countries comes with few strings attached - which is exactly what concerns civil society organisations.During the Annual Bank Conference on De (By News Poster)...East Africa: IGAD to Send 2,000 Troops to Somalia As Region Talks Tough
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Jeff OtienoNairobi - East Africa is adopting a hardline stance towards the Somalia-based Al Shabaab militia which claimed responsibility for the twin-bomb attacks that killed at least 74 people in (By News Poster)...West Africa: The Sahel's Nutrition Revolution
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: Dakar - Food shortages and high rates of malnutrition have long been a reality in the Sahel, but the understanding of malnutrition has drastically changed since the prolonged drought in the early 1970 (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zimbabwean MPs Issue Protest Warning Over Higher Allowances
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Kitsepile NyathiHarare - Zimbabwe's Members of Parliament have threatened to hold demonstrations after the minister of Finance refused to review their allowances upwards.The MPs claim their allowan (By News Poster)...Somalia: All Amisom's Men And All Obama's Guns Can't Put Somalia Together Again
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Kalundi SerumagaAl Shabaab, the African Union and the United States ironically all seem to share the same thinking on one aspect of the Somalia crisis: That the failed state must be put back togeth (By News Poster)...Uganda: Museveni Meets Spy Chiefs Over Somalia
Saturday 24-Jul-2010: By Chris Obore and Richard WanambwaPresident Museveni on Friday night met intelligence chiefs over the July 11 attacks on civilians and pressed them to individually explain why they had failed to dete (By News Poster)...Uganda: Defence Spending to Grow With Somalia 'War'
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: By Charles Kazooba And Halima AbdallahKampala - A shift in Uganda's foreign policy towards Somalia will most likely increase its defence spending once the country starts a military offensive against t (By News Poster)...Kenya: Ex-Envoy Blames U.S. Spies for Nairobi Bomb Blast
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Kevin J KelleyThe diplomat who headed the US embassy in Nairobi when it was bombed 12 years ago has spoken about her country's intelligence blunders, which made the attacks possible.Ms Prudence Bus (By News Poster)...Africa: UN Meet to Examine Tanzania's HIV Act
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Neville MeenaThe HIV/Aids (Prevention and Control) Act enacted in 2008 is to be scrutinised during the 18th International Aids Conference, which opened here yesterday.The law will be discussed in d (By News Poster)...South Africa: Interest Rates in the Spotlight
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - THE Reserve Bank's decision on interest rates will take centre stage this week, with most analysts predicting no change, although they think it will be a very close call.TH (By News Poster)...World Marks Nelson Mandela's Day
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Luanda - Today, July 18, is celebrated, for the first time, the International Day of Nelson Mandela, established in November 2009 by the UN General Assembly, for the contribution of former South Afric (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Release of Abducted Journalists, Not Yet Uhuru
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Emma NnadozieEarly morning release of four Lagos-based journalists, Sunday inside the hinterlands in far-away Ukpakiri, Ngwa Local Government Area of Abia State, should not just be simply celebr (By News Poster)...East Africa: Kampala Attacks Expose U.S. Uncertainty Over Somalia
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: By Kevin J. KelleyNairobi - The terror attacks in Kampala have highlighted the Obama administration's uncertainty over how to respond to the Al Shabaab insurgency, a leading US Africa policy analyst s (By News Poster)...Food Security a Priority at AU Summit
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Morrison RwakakambaKampala - THE African Union Private Sector Forum will convene an investors meeting on July 22 as a curtain raiser for the African Union (AU) summit. The investors' meeting will p (By News Poster)...South Africa: Govt Takes Centre-Stage With New Aids Policies
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Khopotso BodibeAn upbeat Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, says this year South Africa has something different to show the world regarding its response to AIDS at the 18th International AIDS Co (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'Our Kidnap Was a Set-Up'
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Oliver Ndife, Umuahia, Kenny Odunukan, Taiwo Ogunmola and Ayodele SamuelLagos - Amidst jubilation and celebration, one of the four kidnapped journalists and chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journal (By News Poster)...Nigeria: House Seeks Cooperation on Nuclear Technology
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Onwuka NzeshiAbuja - The House of Representatives, yesterday sued for mutual collaboration and cooperation amongst relevant stakeholders to enable Nigeria realise her dreams of developing nuclear t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Genesis Director Chibaya Quits
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Paul NyakazeyaGENESIS Investment Bank Managing Director Fulton Chibaya has resigned from the bank, businessdigest has established.His resignation comes at a time when the bank was battling to meet (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banks, CBN Plan N1.5 Trillion Fund to Acquire Bad Debts
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By James EmejoAbuja - Banks and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday, in Abuja, unanimously agreed to contribute N1.5 trillion (about $10 billion) over the next 10 years to fund the newly estab (By News Poster)...Ghana: Fund to Invest in Improved Seed Production for Smallholder Farmers
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Daniel NonorThe West Africa Agricultural Investment Fund (WAAIF) and Injaro Investments Limited (Injaro) have announced the First Closing of the first ever West African fund focused on investing in (By News Poster)...South Africa: Black Gun Owners Allege Discrimination
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Ernest MabuzaJohannesburg - THE Black Gun Owners Association of SA said on Friday that it planned to sue the South African Police Service for R3,2bn in compensation for the loss of about 10 000 job (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: New Dawn Shrugs Off Threat Over Acquisition
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Staff ReporterHarare - TORONTO-listed New Dawn Mining Corporation completed its takeover of troubled AIM-listed Central African Gold (CAG) with the appointment of its two directors to the CAG board (By News Poster)...Uganda: Most of the Dead Were in Prime of Their Lives
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Al-Mahdi SsenkabirwaKampala - Majority of the people who died in last Sunday's twin bomb blasts were youth aged between 20 and 35. According to an official list released by police, of the 74 dead, (By News Poster)...Hope Springs From a Microbicide Study Conducted in Aids-Ravished Vulindlela (news)
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Kerry CullinanIn Vulindlela, the winter grass is yellow and an icy wind blows off the white-coated Drakensberg. But in the small collection of park homes that make up the local clinic and research (By News Poster)...Africa: Solid Commitment Against Terrorism
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: The 15th African Union Summit opened yesterday amid heavy security presence and with one item on everyone's lips-regional security. The official theme of the conference is maternal and child health on (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Marketers Kick Over Fuel Import Contracts
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Chika Amanze-NwachukuLagos - Major and independent petroleum marketers have petitioned the Presidency, demanding a review of the third quarter allocation of fuel import contracts which was allegedl (By News Poster)...Uganda: Army Generals Tipped for War Against Terrorists
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Chris OboreThe UPDF High Command is in discussion on who among the senior commanders should be sent to support an onslaught against the Somali militants if the African Union gives them the mandate (By News Poster)...Tanzania: What Happens When the Pastor is Positive?
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Joseph MtebeHe had it all. A loving family, a job as a chaplain and his community respect. But all that changed when HIV ravaged his family. Today, he has new vigour as he inspires the clergy to ac (By News Poster)...Nigeria: JTF, Ex-Militant Groups in War of Words Over N3 Billion Bribery Scam On Seized Oil Vessels
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Osa OkhominaYenagoa - The authorities of the Military Task Force in the Niger Delta known as the Operation Restore Hope and the ex-militant leaders under the aegis of the Joint Revolutionary Counci (By News Poster)...South Africa: Foreigners Want Army to Protect Them From Xenophobia
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Alex BellA community of foreigners in South Africa have called for the country's army to remain in the informal settlement where they live, until xenophobic tensions rising across the country begin (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Government Intervention Key for Revival of Agriculture Sector
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Obert ChifambaHarare - On the occasion of the official opening of the 3rd Session of the 7th Parliament of Zimbabwe in Harare on July 13, 2010, President Mugabe spelt out Government's intentions an (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Arrest Four Suspects Over Journalists' Kidnap
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: Lagos - Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police, Emmanuel Ojukwu, has said that four persons have been arrested in connection with the abduction of four journalists.The journalists, Wahab Oba, (By News Poster)...Namibia: Gam Farmers Given Deadline
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithA DEADLINE has been set to internally resolve the issues surrounding the illegal settlement of the 300 Gam farmers in the Nyae-Nyae Conservancy.Lesle Jansen, legal consultant at the (By News Poster)...Rwanda: The Politics of Genocide Denial
Saturday 24-Jul-2010: By Carine UmuhumuzaWashington, DC - Rwandan officials have defended the government of President Paul Kagame against recent criticism that it was cracking down on its opponents and the press ahead of u (By News Poster)...South Africa: Call for Special Courts in Xenophobia Cases
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Natasha PrinceCape Town - The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has recommended that the government set up special courts to deal with xenophobia-related cases.The commission made this (By News Poster)...Ghana: Country's Extractive Industry Revenue Distribution - Will Oil Prove Right?
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Stephen YeboahAt present, a lot seems to have been said concerning the actual path of production of Ghana's oil and gas resource. This is well attributable to the growing awareness of the perverse (By News Poster)...Africa: Civil Society to Press AU Over Political Crisis
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Brian ChitembaCIVIL society will challenge the African Union to closely monitor the implementation of the global political agreement and humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe during the AU's 15th ordinar (By News Poster)...Uganda: Bomb Death Toll Grows to 81 - Survey
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: Kampala - The number of those who died in the bomb blasts in Kampala recently has grown to 82, according to a survey done by The New Vision.Much as the Inspector General of Police, Gen. Kale Kayihura, (By News Poster)...Uganda: Why We Must Stay in Somalia
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Karooro OkurutKampala - NOT for the first time, the attention of the world will be on Uganda, for the simple reason that the African Union Summit is taking place in Kampala (July 19-27). The leader (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Child Trafficking Claim Used as Excuse for Looting
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: Maputo - In front of TV cameras, and without the slightest attempt by the police to stop them, an angry mob in the southern Mozambican city of Matola on Monday night trashed the home of a woman accuse (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Looters End Up as Governors, Ministers, Senators - Sanusi
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Emeka MamahThe Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, says that most Nigerians who either loot or steal bank funds end up as governors, ministers or senators.He also said that only the poor p (By News Poster)...Kenya: Militia Kills Officer in Border Attack
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Patrick Mayoyo and Fred MukindaNairobi - A Kenyan officer was killed by militiamen suspected to be members of al Shabaab.Another (General Service Unit) GSU officer was seriously injured during the (By News Poster)...Africa: 18th International Aids Conference Stresses Right to Health
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Cheryl PellerinWith the HIV/AIDS epidemic still raging and the global economic crisis threatening desperately needed funding, an estimated 20,000 participants from 185 countries are assembling in V (By News Poster)...South Africa: Scientists Proclaim Breakthrough in HIV Prevention
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: Cape Town - Scientists have proclaimed a breakthrough in research into the use of an antiretroviral microbicide which they say could prevent more than 500,000 new HIV infections in South Africa alone (By News Poster)...Africa: Zuma in Libya to Discuss Continental Integration
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Loyiso LangeniJohannesburg - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma yesterday paid a one-day visit to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.The visit was an attempt by SA to garner continent-wide support to strengthen multi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ten Killed in Fresh Jos Attacks
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Seriki Adinoyi With Agency ReportsJos - The tentative peace recently achieved in Jos, Plateau State, has again been put asunder by violence that erupted yesterday morning in Mazah village, Jos Nor (By News Poster)...Uganda: Africa Action Addresses Deaths Blast and the Flawed War on Terror and Africa
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Today, President Obama announced that the U.S. will “redouble U.S. support for Africa against terror” after twin bombs exploded in two different areas of Kampala, Uganda on Sunday, killing (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Top Military Establishment Should Be 'Engaged' Over Rights Abuses
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe organ for National Healing and Reconciliation has been tasked to 'engage' the country's top military brass, in order to involve them in efforts to create an environment of toler (By News Poster)...South Africa: Defence Contractors Pay for Access to Military Commanders
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - A major "cash for access" scandal is brewing around a meeting of the South African National Defence Force's (SANDF's) Military Command Council at a luxurious golf estate (By News Poster)...Namibia: SA Worries Over Rise in Rhino Poaching
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Irene HoaësWindhoek - Rhino poaching has increased drastically in South Africa over the past three years.On average, one rhino is poached per week in that country, since the increase of the illegal (By News Poster)...Namibia: Ohorongo Cement Plant On Track for 2011
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichOtavi - CONSTRUCTION of southern Africa's most modern cement plant near Otavi is well on track and the N$2,5 billion project will start preliminary production in December. By Janua (By News Poster)...South Africa: Secrecy Bill Scrutinized
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Paul-Michael KeichelJohannesburg - THERE has been much media hype about the "controversy" surrounding the government's new "secrecy bill".The trend seems to be to treat the proposed law as an uncon (By News Poster)...Somalia: Mogadishu Clashes Claim 15 Lives, Dozens Injured
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: At least 15 people have been killed and 45 others injured in fresh clashes between Somali government forces in Somalia's restive capital, Mogadishu, Radio Garowe reports.The clashes erupted in rebel-h (By News Poster)...Africa: Causes of Simmering Tensions in South Africa
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Givemore NyanhiTHERE are many Zimbabweans living in South Africa. At my flat in central Durban I estimate that more than 80% of the people I stay with are from various parts of Zimbabwe who find th (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zanu PF Intimidates Citizens at Constitutional Outreach Meetings
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Tererai KarimakwendaThe Combined Harare Residents Association reports that ZANU-PF bused in party members to push through its agenda during constitutional outreach meetings held in Bindura's Centra (By News Poster)...Africa: Anti-HIV Gel May Take Years to Hit Market
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: Vienna - The dust has barely settled after the announcement of the first positive results from a microbicide trial, but scientists and policy makers are already asking themselves, 'What's next?'The re (By News Poster)...Kenya: Sugar Millers Seek New Revenue Streams in Power and Ethanol
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Steve MbogoCome January 2012, Kenyan consumers will hold sweet celebrations because they will finally access sugar at a cheaper price.The market will open up to sugar imports from the Common Market (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Niger Delta - Fledgling Investor's Paradise (1)
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Ubong NelsonThe Niger Delta is on the rise. With the end of militancy and President Goodluck Jonathan's revolutionary attempt to aid the region's economic prosperity, the Niger Delta has potentiall (By News Poster)...USA: RACISM: Black Official admits to discriminating against White farmer in trouble...
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: [Nice!! Some justice! Jan] Days after the NAACP clashed with Tea Party members over allegations of racism, a video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official regaling an NAACP audience (By Jan)...Nigeria: Shell And the N15 Billion Oil Spill Judgement Debt
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: Lagos - Given the age-long travails and aspirations of the oil producing communities of the Niger Delta, we see the recent judgment of the Federal High Court, Asaba, on an oil spill dispute, ordering (By News Poster)...Ghana: Ghana's Oil And Gas Agreements, Terrible Sword of Damocles
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Solomon KwawukumeContinued from Thursday, July 15 edition"This, he said, was because the government alone could not control large stakes in the sector as other oil producing countries were doing," (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Kidnapped Journalists Released to Tell of Ordeal
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Godwin Haruna and Gboyega AkinsanmiLagos - The four journalists kidnapped last week in Abia State returned to the warm embrace of their colleagues yesterday at exactly 7.50pm at the Lagos State sec (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Owner of Contentious Chiadzwa Mine Says Diamond Sales Unlawful
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Alex BellThe London based mining firm at the centre of the ongoing Chiadzwa diamond field ownership wrangle, has said this week that the planned sale of the controversial stones from the site is un (By News Poster)...Secrecy Bill Gives State Companies 'Unfair Edge' (news)
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - Provisions in the government's controversial "secrecy bill" will allow state-owned enterprises such as South African Airways (SAA), Telkom and the Coega refinery an unfai (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Russian Spy Network Moved Money to Zimbabwe
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Lance GumaMany Zimbabweans in the United Kingdom will be familiar with a company called Southern Union, which they used to send millions of pounds in cash to their relatives back home. Unknown to t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Local Banks Need N2.6 Trillion to Recapitalise
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Mojeed Jamiu And Golu TimothyLagos/Abuja - The 24 deposit money banks in the country require at least N2.6 trillion to recapitalise and enable them get to ground zero, even as the pressure is more (By News Poster)...South Africa: Economists Predict Unchanged Interest Rate
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: Pretoria - Economic experts are predicting that the Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will likely decide to keep rates unchanged after its two-day meeting in Pretoria.The MPC meeting will (By News Poster)...Africa: Funding Pall Hangs Over Aids 2010 Conference
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Vienna - A chaotic protest against reduced funding for HIV delayed the opening of the International AIDS Conference, where money, or the lack of it, is likely to dominate proceedings. Dozens of activi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Cash Crisis Self-Imposed - Bankers Association
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Harare - THE prevailing liquidity crisis in the Zimbabwean market is essentially self-imposed, the Bankers Association of Zimbabwe has said.Presenting a paper on the country's liquidity crunch at the (By News Poster)...Uganda: How Genuine is Our Peace Mission in Somalia?
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Haggae MatsikoKampala - The fight against terrorism should be given all options but most of all those involved should help those nations accused to socially build just countries where every young w (By News Poster)...South Africa: Keaton, Eskom in Coal Supply Deal
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Siseko NjobeniJohannesburg - COAL exploration and development company Keaton Energy will supply 16,5-million tons of steam coal to Eskom power stations as part of an agreement between the two compa (By News Poster)...Kenya: Microfinanciers Tap Technology to Reach Unbanked Millions
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Kevin MwanzaKenyan microfinance institutions have for a long time served the unbanked segments of the population despite several obstacles in their quest to access this niche.It is estimated that m (By News Poster)...Kenya: Pastor Allegedly Attempting to Bomb Rally Faces Jail Time
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Nicholas NgolyoNairobi - A pastor was on Monday warned by a Nairobi magistrate that he could be jailed for between seven and 15 years if found guilty of possessing explosives.The Kibera principal m (By News Poster)...Somalia: Uganda Defends Right to Attack Al Shabaab
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: By Al-Mahdi SsenkabirwaPresident Yoweri Museveni yesterday said Uganda has a right to attack the al Shabaab terrorists in self-defence.The President said by attacking and bombing civilians in Kampala, (By News Poster)...South Africa: Outsiders Can Help Grow the Economy
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Thami MazwaiJohannesburg - CHAMBERS and associations of formal and informal business must look more deeply into the behaviour of desperate individual entrepreneurs who fuel xenophobia in townships. (By News Poster)...Namibia: Limited Sale of Marange Diamonds Agreed to
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Desie HeitaWindhoek - The World Diamond Council has agreed to let Zimbabwe sell a limited number of diamonds from Marange, the much controversial mining area said to be in breach of the Kimberly Pr (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: IMF Paper Warns Against Adopting Zim Dollar
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaHarare - ZIMBABWE has not established a sufficient track record of sound policies to allow for a return of the beleaguered domestic currency, which was abandoned with dollarisation l (By News Poster)...Uganda: Threats of a Different Nature Knocking On Our City's Gates
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Bernard TabaireThey hit us. The bad people who exploded the bombs that killed more than 70 World Cup fans in Kampala on Sunday night did. In so doing, they have concentrated minds in official Kampa (By News Poster)...Uganda: Fallen UPDF Soldier's Family Conducts Funeral Without Body
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Charles Mwanguhya MpagiKampala - At the funeral service a fortnight ago, a section of mourners cast questioning glances while some relatives and family were torn between being angry and sad. Some c (By News Poster)...Nigeria: U.S., Nigeria Focus On Renewable Energy
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Charles W. CoreyAdvancing renewable energy in Nigeria was the focus of the first-ever meeting of the U.S.-Nigeria Binational Commission's Energy and Investment Working Group, held at the State Depa (By News Poster)...South Africa: Petty Crimes to Be Targeted in Crackdown
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Ella SmookCape Town law enforcement authorities will crack down on people committing minor crimes and offences, including being drunk and urinating in public.It was well-documented, the city said, (By News Poster)...AU Military Chiefs Draw Somalia Plan
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: A key Somalia strategy meeting is underway in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, with military chiefs from across Africa expected to hammer out a plan of action to confront the crisis in the war-torn (By News Poster)...South Africa: South Africa Deports 47 Citizens
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Chinedu EzeLagos - The friendship that existed between Nigeria and South Africa seems to have been thawed as the country which has remained a major trading partner and regional ally deported 47 Nig (By News Poster)...Africa: Massive Leap Forward for HIV Prevention
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Kerry CullinanIn one of the biggest advances in HIV prevention in decades, a vaginal gel containing an antiretroviral drug has been proven to protect almost four out of 10 women from HIV.A study of (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: The Changing Face of African Politics - The Ernest Koroma Example
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Madie SheriffAfricans around the world are embracing the dramatic political change the continent is witnessing, as new dynamic leaders surface to inject a new spirit of hope and expectation. All ha (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Country to Import Coins as Cash Crisis Worsens
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Irene MadongoCoins and notes from other countries will have to be brought into Zimbabwe to relieve the serious shortage of cash, Finance Minister Tendai has announced.The plans were unveiled as par (By News Poster)...South Africa: Fire Tragedy Now a Political Battle
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Esther LewisA memorial service meant to honour the memories of nine people who burnt to death in a fire last week turned into a political battlefield.The fire was caused by a candle that fell over (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bakery Attendant Arrested for Stabbing Colleague to Death
Saturday 24-Jul-2010: When 20-year-old Charles Kelly, left his Uyo , Akwa-Ibom home town in search for greener pasture in Lagos, March this year, he did not envisage that his stay in the jungle city was going to be charact (By News Poster)...Somalia: Somali Fighters Attack Kenyan Officer at Border Town
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: A Kenyan security officer has been reportedly killed by Somali fighters who carried out a cross border attack in a remote town near the Kenya-Somalia borderThe attack happened mid Tuesday when a group (By News Poster)...Monetary Policy - Uphill Task for Gono
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Bright MaderaHarare - RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono is not going to find it easy when he presents his monetary policy statement that is expected to usher some balance to the mid- (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Country on High Alert After Kampala Bombs
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Bosco HitimanaKigali - Rwanda is on alert after the July 11 twin bombings in Kampala, Uganda's capital in which 74 people died and many more injured.Somalia's terrorist group Al-Shabaab claimed res (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Struggling Banks Axe More Than 1,000 Workers
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Leonard MakombeMORE than 1 000 workers in the banking sector were retrenched in the past year, a union representing banking employees said.Acting president of the Zimbabwe Banks and Allied Workers (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Microbicides Research Results Out Soon
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Bertha ShokoRESULTS of the first-ever antiretroviral drug (ARV)-based microbicide gel that researchers hope will help prevent HIV infection in women are going to be released on Tuesday.The hugely a (By News Poster)...Uganda: Anglican Urges Citizens to Fight Terrorism, Condemns Blast
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Fredrick NzwiliNairobi - Anglican Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi of Uganda has denounced as a "hideous crime", the bomb attacks in Kampala which occurred during the playing of the 2010 World Cup socc (By News Poster)...South Africa: Controversy Over Circumcision Clamp
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Kerry CullinanKwaZulu-Natal is committed to a massive male circumcision drive using all available medical methods including the controversial Tara Klamp, according to Health MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo. (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ibadan Businessman Raise Alarm Over Threats to His Life
Saturday 24-Jul-2010: It may not sound strange in the present day Nigeria that someone was duped of the sum of N231million but it becomes annoying when the cheated person is now being threatened not to cry out or invite an (By News Poster)...Tsvangirai His Own Man -- Makone
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Brian ChitembaCONTROVERSY appears to be co-Minister of Home Affairs Theresa Makone's middle name.A self-professed beautician, her appointment to a sensitive security ministry, that of Home Affairs, (By News Poster)...Uganda: 20 Bomb Blast Suspects Freed
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Steven CandiaKampala - Twenty suspects arrested in connection with the July 11 bomb attacks in Kampala were yesterday released following clearance by the multi-national team probing the attack.The (By News Poster)...Triple Murder Trial Heads to Key Point
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Werner MengesTHE trial of the two men accused of murdering three people during a robbery in Windhoek's Kleine Kuppe area early in 2004 could reach a pivotal point in the High Court in Windhoek toda (By News Poster)...Africa: HIV/Aids - Promising Breakthrough Announced
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Ernest KissieduThe Centre for AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) has announced new highly encouraging research findings on HIV/AIDS prevention for Africa and across the globe. The (By News Poster)...Namibia: Rift Valley Fever Epidemic Feared
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Denver KistingRIFT Valley fever (RVF) is likely to cause a widespread epidemic in the next rainy season.This was the stern warning of the Directorate of Veterinary Services following a renewed outb (By News Poster)...Uganda: One Day, Al Qaeda, Shabaab Will Surely Rule the World
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Charles Onyango-ObboWe were at a World Cup Final party at a friend's house in Kampala when we got the news of the two bombs that killed at least 80 people in the capital.Shortly afterwards, the Som (By News Poster)...Ghana: Central Bank Cuts Interest Rate
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Daniel NonorMonetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Ghana has once again reduced its policy rate from 15 per cent to 13.5 per cent.The reduction in the rate is the third cut since February and com (By News Poster)...Nigeria: We Want Justice, Says Family of Slain Bus Driver
Saturday 24-Jul-2010: By Evelyn UsmanThis is certainly not the best of times for the Ozomaro family, following the death of their son, Jude Ozomaro last Sunday, by a bullet from a police Corporal at Isashi area of Lagos.30 (By News Poster)...Africa: Agriculture Emerges as Hot Topic For Donors
Friday 23-Jul-2010: London - [This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]Suddenly, after 20 years of relative neglect, African agriculture is a hot topic, with a substantial growth in produc (By News Poster)...Uganda: Al Shabaab Man Arrested on U.S. Plane to Country
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Tabu Butagira & Andrew BagalaA 20-year-old man accused of providing material support to al Shabaab militant group that claimed responsibility for the July 11 bomb attacks here has been arrested in (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jonathan Chairs Presidential Committee On Power Monitoring
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Golu Timothy And Gloria EzeiruAbuja - Eager to redeem his Nigerians on power supply, President Goodluck Jonathan has set up a Presidential Action Committee on Power under his chairmanship to give c (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Beatrice Mtetwa Is Recipient of the 2010 International Human Rights Award
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: Beatrice Mtetwa of Zimbabwe, a human rights lawyer known for her efforts to protect and defend the right to free speech and assembly, is this year’s recipient of the International Human Rights A (By News Poster)...Namibia: Leviev Wants Discounts On Rough Diamonds
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Desie HeitaWindhoek - Lev Leviev Diamonds, a diamond-polishing company, wants the Namibian Government to subsidise rough diamonds supplied to its diamond-cutting factory in Windhoek's northern indu (By News Poster)...South Africa: Finally, Positive Results From a Microbicide Trial
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: Vienna - The HIV prevention world is abuzz with excitement following news of the first clinical evidence that a vaginal gel - known as a microbicide - can help to prevent sexual transmission of HIV in (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Breakthrough for Chiadzwa Diamonds
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Harare - THE World Diamond Council has granted Zimbabwe the right to export its diamonds from Chiadzwa at its seventh annual general meeting that ended in St Petersburg, Russia, yesterday.Kimberley Pr (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kenya Arrests Another Local
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Solomon MuyitaKampala - Another Ugandan-born al Shabaab terrorist suspect has been arrested by the Kenyan Police. The man, who was in transit to Somalia, was arrested in connection to last Sunday's (By News Poster)...Africa: Africa On the Road to Recovery, Says World Bank
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: By Paul RedfernNairobi - Africa is on the road to economic recovery because of a growing and dynamic labour force in the cities, an improving technology base and a diversifying agricultural sector acc (By News Poster)...Africa: Will the Drums of War Help Somalia?
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: Africa's august body, the African Union, has indeed shown its willingness to confront terrorism on the continent. The issue now, as it holds its Summit meeting from July 19-27 at the Commonwealth Reso (By News Poster)...South Africa: Tutu Announces Retirement Plans, Thanks South Africans
Saturday 24-Jul-2010: By Munyaradzi MakoniCape Town - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has announced his intention to wind down his public engagements, when he turns 79 in October."I think I have done as (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Police Arrest Some of Matola Looters
Friday 23-Jul-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican police have arrested some of the people who looted the home in the southern city of Matola of a woman had been accused of trafficking in children.No serious evidence was produc (By News Poster)...Africa: Seven Strategies for Smarter HIV Programmes
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: Vienna - Speaking at the International AIDS Conference earlier this week, former US President Bill Clinton told delegates that the credit crunch meant HIV programmes would need to work "faster, better (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Rhodesian General Peter Walls Dies in Exile in South Africa
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Tererai KarimakwendaThe Associated Press reports that Lt. General Peter Walls, the last white commander of the Rhodesian army that opposed Robert Mugabe's guerrilla forces, has died. General Walls, (By News Poster)...Namibia: Communal Land Project Launched
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Francis XoagubOshakati - People that farm north of the Veterinary Cordon Fence (VCF) do not enjoy the same economic benefits as those south of the fence, most notably access to lucrative foreign ma (By News Poster)...Africa: FNB Singles Out Nigeria as Banking's Prize
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - FNB was pursuing a twin strategy to expand into the mainstream banking sector and into the rest of Africa, where it had identified Angola, Tanzania and Nigeria as target (By News Poster)...Kenya: Need to Re-Think Our Policy Towards Somalia
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Mukhisa KituyiNairobi - In the recent past, two events have occurred in lands far apart which force Kenya to re-think its policy towards Somalia.First, the people of Somaliland, the self-declared a (By News Poster)...International Commercial Arbitration is Good for Business
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: By Franny RabkinJohannesburg - TOP lawyers say SA's "antiquated" arbitration law means we are losing out on a lucrative opportunity, and overburdening a civil justice system already creaking under its (By News Poster)...Somalia: African Ministers Agree to Enforce Peace
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: By Charles KazoobaThe African Union has agreed to change the mandate of its peacekeeping mission, Amisom, in Somalia into a peace enforcement in an effort to engage the Al Shabaab militia.The change i (By News Poster)...Somalia: 3 Die, 7 Injured As Mortars Landed in Parts of Somali Capital
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: Mogadishu - Two mortar shells have landed at separate areas of Hamarweyne district in the Somalia capital Mogadishu, killing three civilians according to locals.Sources confirmed to Shabelle radio tha (By News Poster)...Mauritius: The H1 N1 flu Epidemic - What the Doctors say
Saturday 24-Jul-2010: By Dr Ram SeegobinPort Louis - Three medical practitioners give their opinions on the way the H1 N1 flu epidemic has been handled by the authorities and how a worsening of the situation could be preve (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Lessons from my Work: Jan you're the most popular person in this organisation...
Friday 23-Jul-2010: I have my ups and downs - mostly ups - but sometimes I also have some bad moments. But my bad moments are not work moments - they're just human issues - personal issues. That's about the only thing th (By Jan)...Nigeria: INEC Chief Raises Doubts Over January Election Date
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Kunle Akogun and Chuks OkochaAbuja - Dark cloud now hangs over the January date of the 2011 elections as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is now in a serious dilemma over the da (By News Poster)...Africa: Refused Publication - Letter to London Review of Books
Friday 23-Jul-2010: Following the publication of racist references to migrants in South Africa in a London Review of Books blog by R.W. Johnson, a collection of writers, academics and publishers demands a public apology. (By News Poster)...Africa: Four Nations Plan Somalia Entry
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Mary KarugabaKampala - Four African countries have sent officers to study the situation in Somalia, before deciding on whether to send troops to the peacekeeping mission in the war-ravaged country. (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Country Raises Security Alert
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By James MwakisyalaDar Es Salaam - The Government has raised its international security alert following July 11, 2010 terrorist bombing in Kampala.The Director of Criminal Investigation (DCI), Mr Robe (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Babalola And Nnpc 'Insolvency' Riddle
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Adeola YusufThe Presidency wants Minister of State for Finance, Aderemi Babalola to literally swallow his vomit over comments that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is insolvent. C (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Gives Up on Official Residence
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: By Nqaba MatshaziHarare - PRIME Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai has given up on moving into Zimbabwe House and has accepted a "lesser" house in Highlands, as President Robert Mugabe continues to hold onto (By News Poster)...Africa: Sarkozy Made History With African Parade
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: By Chege MbituruBastille Day celebrations is a spurious favour. A unit of Benin female soldiers led African troops in the Champs Elysées parade.The celebrations mark July 14, 1789. That's when (By News Poster)...Somalia: UN Agency Sounds Alarm on Deteriorating Treatment of Uprooted Somalis
Friday 23-Jul-2010: In the wake of recent terrorist attacks by a Somali rebel group in Uganda, the United Nations refugee agency today expressed its alarm over xenophobic incidents, round-ups and deportations of displace (By News Poster)...Africa: Cash in Hand Keeps HIV at Bay
Friday 23-Jul-2010: Johannesburg - Giving young women small, regular cash payments can reduce their dependence on sexual relationships with older men, which also lowers their HIV risk, according to a new study by the Wor (By News Poster)...South Africa: Foreign Takeovers of Banks Unlikely - S&P
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - RATING agency Standard & Poor's did not believe there were many global banks with enough risk appetite to buy any one of SA's top four listed banks, despite swirling spe (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mandela's Grandchildren Attacked on His Birthday
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: Pretoria - Four grandchildren of former President Nelson Mandela were attacked by armed men outside their home on the day the world was celebrating the 92-year-old's birthday.According to police, the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Farida Waziri's OFR - Well-Deserved Honour
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Ojelimafe F. AnthonyAbuja - "Our men should not be afraid. They should see us as good, if not better, managers, whom they need to work with to realize individual, corporate and national aspiration. (By News Poster)...Uganda: Bomb Probe Focuses On Pakistani Suspect
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Steven Candia, Herbert Ssempogo and Patrick JaramogiKampala - Some of the suspects behind the July 11 suicide bomb blasts, which killed 81 people and left over 50 others wounded may be hiding in ne (By News Poster)...Nigeria: N2.2 Billion Scam - EFCC Alleges Death Threats to Witness
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Bidon MibzarAbuja - A new twist was yesterday added to the ongoing trial of the former Director-General of the National Gallery of Arts, NGA, Joe Musa, when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commis (By News Poster)...South Africa: Soccer Spirit Was at Fever Pitch, So Was HIV
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Michel SibideFootball fans from around the world arrived in South Africa to cheer on their favourite team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, however, so was the unwelcome guest-HIV.Why should we talk abou (By News Poster)...S.Africa: My Trip to America... The Damned Online US Visa application gives me an idea...
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: I was so annoyed yesterday. I spent an hour filling in one of the application forms online for my visitor's visa to the USA. When I got to the end of it, after thoroughly checking it, and signing it, (By Jan)...South Africa: Envoy in Harare Opposes Farm Arrests
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Sarah HudlestonJohannesburg - Home Affairs Co-minister Theresa Makoni in protest at the arrest of two farmers on charges of "illegally occupying land".The arrest of the two South African nationals (By News Poster)...Kenya: Motorcycle Taxi Operator Shot by Police
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Benson Nyagesiba and Henry NyaroraNairobi - A 25-year-old man is fighting for his life at the Kisii Level-5 hospital after he was allegedly shot by police in Borabu district on Sunday.Mr Eric Nyabu (By News Poster)...Homesick Expatriates Keen to Return
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Sue BlaineJohannesburg - THE tide may be turning on the exodus of skilled South Africans, with the successful hosting of the World Cup the clincher for many who had already decided to return, recru (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Michael Olugbode
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Lagos - The present plan to seek alternatives to petroleum as energy source by developed countries has spurred the people of tiny Yobe State to come to terms with the fact that over-dependence on oil (By News Poster)...South Africa: Drastic New Steps to Halt Copper Theft
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: By Bekezela PhakathiJohannesburg - PUBLIC Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan says copper may be designated a precious metal to make it more difficult for thieves to trade in the frequently stolen comm (By News Poster)...Uganda: Witchdoctors Held Over Kidnap
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Pascal KwesigaKampala - The police in Masindi district are holding seven witchdoctors accused of kidnapping and chopping off the private parts of a seven-year-old boy.The district head of criminal (By News Poster)...Africa: Bursting My Aids 2010 Bubble
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: Vienna - This is my second International AIDS Conference and now I know for sure, Mexico wasn't a fluke - I really do love these gatherings. I love the passion of the speakers, the excitement the boff (By News Poster)...Africa: Mozambique, Brazil and EU Cooperate on Biofuels
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: Maputo - The European Commission and the Mozambican and Brazilian governments have announced, according to a statement issued by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, "their commitment to work together with (By News Poster)...Sudan: Unicef Signs Child Protection Pact With Darfur Rebels
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today signed a child protection agreement, which includes ending the recruitment of child soldiers, with a major rebel group in the war-torn Sudanese region (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC Activist Stabbed by Zanu PF Youths
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Alex BellAn MDC activist in Gokwe is fighting for his life in hospital this week after he was attacked by two ZANU PF youths and stabbed.The attack against MDC activist Tongai Ground happened on Mo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Federal Govt to Create Employment, as Unemployment Hits 19.47 Percent
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Peter EgwuatuThe Federal Government, weekend, raised alarm over the increasing rate of unemployment in the country which hits a high of about 19.47 per cent.To this extent, the Government said it w (By News Poster)...Somalia: President Criticizes International Community
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: Somalia 's interim president has criticized the international community for "doing too little" to help stabilize the war-torn country, as at least 10 people were killed in continued Mogadishu violence (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Govt Defies Regional Tribunal Ruling
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Harare - Government is not bound by last week's Sadc Tribunal judgement allowing two white former farmers to go back to the farms they held and resume operations, arguing any determination by the body (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Opposition Parties Call for Security Summit
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Chuks OkochaAbuja - As the abduction and release of four journalists and their driver continues to generate controversy, opposition political parties under the aegis of the Conference of Nigerian P (By News Poster)...Uganda: July 11 Kampala Bombings - Why Did It Happen?
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Kampala - Following last Sunday terror attacks at Kabalagala and Kyadondo Rugby Club both in Kampala in which 74 people died there is understandably widespread public anguish, disappointments, and bla (By News Poster)...Africa: Feed the Future - a U.S. Commitment Against Poverty and Hunger
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Phillip KurataThe U.S. government, backed by U.S. scientists and corporations, is investing money and energy into reducing global hunger and poverty on a huge scale by 2015.A State Department offic (By News Poster)...Somalia: African Union Head Blasts Lack of Somalia Response
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Billie O'kadameriAfrican Union head Jean Ping has blasted the international community for neglecting the crisis in Somalia and only seeking to intervene when their interest is threatened by piracy (By News Poster)...South Africa: Insurers Step Up Vigilance Against Fake Claims
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - LIFE insurance companies last year foiled fraudulent claims for more than R740m, which an industry official said showed the extent to which the recession had turned hone (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Lawyer Uses Award to Highlight Human Rights Abuse
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: Fearless lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has used the announcement that she has won yet another award to highlight the issue of continued human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.The American Bar Association (ABA) has (By News Poster)...South Africa: New Gel Halves HIV Risk in Women
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Tamar KahnJohannesburg - A vaginal gel containing Gilead Science's AIDS drug tenofovir almost halves the risk of women getting HIV from their male partners, according to a South African study prese (By News Poster)...Africa: Faith Leaders Warned On Statements About HIV And Aids
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Stephen BrownVienna - Faith leaders can play a key role in the fight against the HIV pandemic if their public statements help combat stigma and discrimination, a meeting of faith groups in Vienna i (By News Poster)...Uganda: Drug Abuse Hikes HIV Among Adolescents
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Patrick JaramogiKampala - DRUG abuse among school going children is leading to the increased spread of HIV among adolescents, a new survey has revealed.The survey carried out by Prevention of Alcoh (By News Poster)...U.S. 'Smart' Bombs for Gripen Aircraft
Saturday 24-Jul-2010: By Julius BaumannJohannesburg - THE Department of Defence has awarded US aerospace group Raytheon a contract to supply Paveway 2 laser-guided air-to-ground bombs for the South African Air Force's (SAA (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Equities Unmoved By Budget, Diamonds Decision
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Ranga MakwataIN NORMAL economies, when an important announcement is made, the stock market responds according to the perceived impact. The market cheers up on supposedly good statements while a neg (By News Poster)...Smelly But Profitable Business
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Desie HeitaHenties Bay - It is no exaggeration of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) when they say observing seal culling is an awful business. It is as ghastly as when tak (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Painting Niger Delta Region in Picture
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Ovwe MedemeLagos - Since the discovery of oil in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, the area has always been in a state of unrest. The discovery, which many thought would be a blessing to the regio (By News Poster)...Nigeria: EFCC Widens Corruption Probe in Ogun State
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Olawale OlaleyeLagos - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has widened its on-going probe of corruption in Ogun State as it is presently looking into over 40 different cases of frau (By News Poster)...Somalia: Clashes Re-Erupt in Mogadishu
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: Mogadishu - Heavy fighting between the transitional government of Somalia and the Islamist fighters broke out in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing 10, injuring many others, witnesses said on Monda (By News Poster)...Kenya: HIV Strain Among Gays Same as Strain in Heterosexuals
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Isaiah EsipisuBecause of societal pressure and the criminality associated with men who have sex with men (MSM) in Kenya, Omondi Maina* married a woman. This is despite being involved in a homosexua (By News Poster)...Uganda: African Union Must Stop the Double Standards
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: Double standards within the African Union largely contributed to the 7/11 attacks in Kampala. The continental body was formed to address critical needs, conflicts being on the top agenda. Leaders have (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Second Governance and Corruption Survey Launched
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican government's Public Sector Reform Technical Unit (UTRESP) on Tuesday announced the launch of the second National Survey on Governance and Corruption.This is six years after the (By News Poster)...Sudan: Post-Referendum Fears for South
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: Juba - The January 2011 referendum in Southern Sudan will mark a turning point for the region and could see the formation of Africa's newest state, but how will the south fare after the vote?A report (By News Poster)...Nigeria: New Oil Finds Getting More Challenging, Says Exxonmobil Boss
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Clara NwachukwuEquating supply to meet rising energy demand particularly in the industrialised nations and Asia is becoming increasingly challenging, Rex Tillerson, the Chairman and Chief Executive (By News Poster)...South Africa: Talks Bid as 'Steel Wars' Threaten Industry
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Allan Seccombe and Beth ShirleyJohannesburg - THE two parties to the steel price war, ArcelorMittal SA and Kumba, have agreed to a mediation session that could, if successful, save a potential 4000 (By News Poster)...South Africa: Talks Bid as 'Steel Wars' Threaten Industry
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Johannesburg - THE two parties to the steel price war, ArcelorMittal SA and Kumba , have agreed to a mediation session that could, if successful, save a potential 4000 jobs and billions of rand in ste (By News Poster)...Nigeria/South Africa: Tourism in South Africa to Rake in N534 Billion From World Cup
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Victor NzeLagos - Tourism from the 2010 World Cup is expected to rake in an estimated R27 billion (N534 billion), according to a report from SA Tourism."We believe that we couldn't do better," said (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Minister Visits Iran to Explore Tourism Markets
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Harare - On Sunday, a high-powered delegation led by Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Walter Mzembi leaves for Teheran, Iran, for tourism development, promotion and marketing exchanges.This c (By News Poster)...Uganda: Tourism Sector Vibrant Despite Bomb Blasts
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Mike SsegawaKampala - "My readers have expressed interest in birding and gorilla safaris since I posted my Uganda articles. I like to update them on the current situation." This message from a repo (By News Poster)...Cameroon: Fake Veterinary Doctor Burnt
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Martin Nkematabong"Dr" Dieudonné exterminated 10 adult pigs with unidentified poisonous substances.A 32-year-old folk, who passes for a veterinary officer, was last Sunday burnt from toe to (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Five Years On, Murambatsvina Victims Struggle
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Simeon MawanzaFOR some of the poorest people in Zimbabwe important dates often pass unnoticed. July 22 is a critical date for a fifth of Zimbabwe's population who were affected by Operation Muramba (By News Poster)...Liberia: Russian Pilot 'Kidnapped' in Country
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: Reports gathered by this paper from international wires speak of tension being brewing between the United States of America and Russia over the alleged kidnapping in Liberia of a Russian Pilot.The Rus (By News Poster)...Guinea Bissau: Security Council Calls on Country to Tackle Security and Rule of Law Challenges
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: The Security Council today voiced concern at the current security situation and threats to constitutional order in Guinea-Bissau, and stressed the need for the Government and people of the West Africa (By News Poster)...Sudan: Carson Says U.S. is Boosting Efforts to Back Peace
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: Washington - Conflict in Sudan has been a thorny issue for President Barack Obama and his administration since he took office. This week, a leading voice for a more vigorous American approach declared (By News Poster)...Kenya: Equity Posts 46 Percent Rise in Net Profits
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Moses Michira And Franklin SundayIncreased lending to homes and firms helped Equity Bank to post a 46 per cent rise in half-year profits, its managing director said on Tuesday.The bank said its hal (By News Poster)...Uganda: 'Deported Citizens Were Security Threat'
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Darious MagaraKampala - The 1,800 Rwandans recently deported were a security threat and were ineligible for asylum, the relief and disaster preparedness minister said yesterday.Addressing the press (By News Poster)...South Africa: Tough Half-Year Will Be Seen in Bank Results
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - THE top four banking groups open the reporting season early next month, with interim results keenly awaited to gauge the extent to which one of the largest sectors has p (By News Poster)...Kenya: Fistula Plagues Thousands
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: It is both preventable and treatable, but obstetric fistula plagues the lives of thousands of women in Kenya every year, leaving them incontinent and ostracized. Here are some reasons why:Information (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Shoots Down Tsvangirai's Proposed Bills
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Clemence ManyukweHarare - PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has dropped a number of Bills proposed by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai for tabling during the third session of the current Parliament in a move (By News Poster)...Uganda: Al Shabaab Will Regret - Museveni
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: Kampala - BY attacking Uganda, Somali reactionary groups have made their own situation worse and Uganda will pursue them, President Yoweri Museveni has said.Suspected suicide bombers struck on July 11 (By News Poster)...Africa: Mobile Phones Promise More Growth
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: By Cosmas ButunyiNairobi - As the world celebrates this month's signing up of the five-billionth mobile phone subscriber, Africa is stepping forward to claim credit as one of the regions that have dri (By News Poster)...South Africa: Simmers Gets Mining Rights for Tau Lekoa
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Allan SeccombeJohannesburg - JUNIOR gold producer Simmer & Jack received mining rights for the Tau Lekoa mine it is buying from AngloGold Ashanti in a R600m deal that promises to transform the smal (By News Poster)...East Africa: Kampala Bombings Exacerbate Rwandatel Internet Connection
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Bosco HitimanaKigali - Bomb blasts that rocked Uganda's capital Kampala on July 11 killing more than 70 people damaged an Internet cable causing an internet outage in Rwanda.Rwanda's leading Intern (By News Poster)...South Africa: Reserve Bank Keeps Repo Rate at 6.5 Percent
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Nickolaus BauerJohannesburg - The South African Reserve Bank has decided to keep interest rates unchanged at 6,5% following its three-day monetary policy committee meetingThe South African Reserve (By News Poster)...Maternal Health Beyond AU Agenda
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Daniel TumwineKampala - John Donne, my favourite poet and I share a few similarities. We were both born at home under a cacophony of church bells and sirens respectively. Unlike the Rev John Donne, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bad Roads - Fuel Shortage Looms in Abuja
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Rasheed KomolafeLagos - As NUPENG's 21-day ultimatum expires August 1 || Wants PPPRA top officials sacked ||| The dilapidated state of federal roads across the country has compelled oil workers und (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Unknown Gunmen Kill NURTW Official
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Gbenga AkinwunmiResidents of Ijeja, Abeokuta South Local Government were thrown into mourning Wednesday following the killing of the organising secretary, National Union of Road Transport Workers, (By News Poster)...Ghana: Abrogate Stability Clauses in Mining Codes - AIMES
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Ama A.amankwah BaafiAccra - The African Initiative on Mining, Environment and Society (AIMES) has called for the abrogation of stability clauses in the mining codes in use on the continent.The grou (By News Poster)...South Africa: Steel Giant's Brinkmanship Could Backfire
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Tim CohenJohannesburg - TRADE and Industry Minister Rob Davies meets the bosses of Kumba Iron Ore and ArcelorMittal SA today in an effort to resolve the company's pricing dispute - something he cle (By News Poster)...Rwanda: BNR Maintains Key Repo Rate at 7 Percent
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Alex NgarambeKigali - The National Bank of Rwanda's (BNR) monetary policy committee has decided to maintain its policy interest rate for the third quarter of the year at 7 percent due to a current (By News Poster)...South Africa: Soweto Remembered as Mandela Marks 92nd Birthday
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Muhidin Issa MichuziSoweto - AS the world celebrated the 92nd birthday of Former South African President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, yesterday, thousands of people from all over the world flocked to (By News Poster)...Ghana: Oil Revenue for Whom?
Saturday 24-Jul-2010: By Magbegor Ovie and Chris TwumThis is the concluding part of a two-part story.Focus should be taken to the middle east or Gulf states such as United Arab Emirates and Qatar perhaps Saudi Arabia. A no (By News Poster)...South Africa: World Cup's Boost for GDP Higher Than Expected
Friday 23-Jul-2010: Pretoria - Government estimates that the 2010 FIFA World Cup added a percentage more to the country's growth, when spending on stadiums and infrastructure was taken into account.Initially Government e (By News Poster)...DA Takes Three More Cape Wards - One From ANC
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Bekezela PhakathiCape Town - The Democratic Alliance (DA) continued to dominate Western Cape politics on Wednesday, winning three wards, including the key Mitchells Plain-Khayelitsha ward previousl (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oceanic Bank Seek Shareholders? Support on Recapitalisation Plans
Friday 23-Jul-2010: The Board and Management of Oceanic Bank International Plc have solicited the support of its shareholders in its plans to boost its capital base.Speaking at a forum with shareholders of the banks, Apo (By News Poster)...Aids Funds Fall Flat (news)
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: Global funding for AIDS efforts fell flat during last year's economic meltdown, ending a six-year streak of annual donation increases, according to new analysis released this week.Overall, financial s (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Female Banker Kidnapped in Enugu As Transfer Fever Grips Imo Police Command
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Uche Nwosu in owerri And Emmanuel NzomiwuEnugu - Fear has gripped officers and men of the Imo state police command following the massive transfer of their counterparts in Abia and Anambra states by (By News Poster)...Africa: Six Challenges to Delivering HIV Treatment as Prevention
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: Vienna - Using HIV treatment to drastically reduce transmission of the virus is the big issue at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna; scientists and health workers are optimistic but recognize (By News Poster)...Africa: Why Somalia Matters to the Whole World
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: Nairobi - With the carnage in Kampala, the Somali radical group, Al Shabaab, has announced its arrival as a fully fledged international terrorist organisation.The atrocities in Uganda were the first t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Why Delta Power Project is Delayed, Says Commissioner
Saturday 24-Jul-2010: By Emma AmaizeTHE rumour mill in Delta State is abuzz with speculation, fuelled by the opposition group, that Gov Emmanuel Uduaghan awarded, June, last year, a phoney contract for an Independent Power (By News Poster)...South Africa: Mittal and Kumba in 'Steel Wars' Talks Truce
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Allan SeccombeJohannesburg - STATE intervention in the dispute between ArcelorMittal SA and Kumba Iron Ore over an interim pricing agreement had brought a speedy resolution to talks that had deadlo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Spreading a Message of Respect and Goodwill
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Penny HawJohannesburg - ZIMBABWEAN school teacher Godfrey Madanhire headed for SA in 2000 for the same reasons cited by thousands of other Africans who bid their families and homelands farewell to (By News Poster)...Uganda: Increase Health Budget Urgently
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Paul BushariziThis week started off on a sombre note. The bomb attacks on World Cup fans in Kabalagala and at Kyadondo Rugby Grounds have had us holding our breaths throughout the week as the exten (By News Poster)...S.Africa: My Trip to America - The Questions they ask you for a Visa....
Monday 19-Jul-2010: [I was busy filling in my online application for a visitor's VISA to the USA. The questions they ask are interesting. Perhaps it is to prompt people into feeling uncomfortable. It is interesting the w (By Jan)...Uganda: Somalis Condemn Attacks
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Andrew BagalaKampala - Somalis living in Uganda have condemned the triple terror attacks in which 74 people died and described them as cowardly and ungodly acts. Dr Abdullahi Shire, the chairman of (By News Poster)...Kenya: Commission Warns of Tensions Over Constitution Referendum
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: By Andrew Doughman and Alphonce ShiunduNairobi - The National Cohesion and Integration Commission has sounded alarm over nationwide tension and potential violence surrounding the August 4 vote.Speakin (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zanu Pf Ministers Named in Company Seizure
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Brian ChitembaTHREE Zanu PF cabinet ministers have been named as trustees of an organisation that reportedly forced a Rusape farmer to cede a 50% shareholding in his business under the guise of the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: No Cheers for BNC
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaIT'S beginning to look like executives at Mwana Africa Plc are lost over their real intention for the resumption of operations at Bindura Nickel Corporation Ltd (BNC), which is liste (By News Poster)...Africa: Anti-HIV Gel a 'Step Forward' for HIV Research
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Carol CampbellOudtshoorn - The first vaginal microbicide gel that significantly reduces a woman's risk of HIV infection has provided renewed hope for the HIV/AIDS community following the disappoint (By News Poster)...Africa: MTV Drama Brings Cool to HIV Prevention
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: Vienna - It's a story of sexy young guys and girls having a good time in the big city, of friendships pushed to the edge, and families struggling to survive, but underneath all the drama, MTV's "Shuga (By News Poster)...Liberia: Government Will Not Condone Lawlessness - VP
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: The flogging of Police Officer Lexington Beh four days ago by men believed to be loyalists of Deputy House Speaker of the House of Representatives Tokpa Mulbah allegedly on his orders continue to rece (By News Poster)...Uganda: 20 Somalis Held Over Bomb Blasts
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Patrick JaramogiKampala - AT LEAST 20 Somalis have been arrested in connection with the twin bombings in Kampala that left 76 dead and over 50 injured. Security sources yesterday said the Somalis w (By News Poster)...South Africa: Rumours Rife as State Sits on Land Report
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - POTENTIALLY controversial land reform changes, due to be made public yesterday, were delayed when, for the second time this year, the Department of Rural Development a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hague Court Does Not Target Africa, Says Chief Justice
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Franny RabkinJohannesburg - CLAIMS that the International Criminal Court was primarily and selectively targeting Africa were "troubling" but "did not bear scrutiny", Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo sa (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: High HIV Prevalence in the Army
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Ibrahim TarawallieFreetown - Current HIV/AIDS indicators have shown that the prevalence rate of the disease has passed the 3.5% threshold within the military and its dependant population, revealed (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zimra to Probe Missing Diamonds Revenue
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Ndamu SanduGOVERNMENT has instructed the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to trace the US$30 million realised from diamonds sold this year outside international processes, Finance minister Tendai (By News Poster)...Namibia: Leftover Apartheid Laws Under Scrutiny
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Catherine SasmanWindhoek - A newly-launched study examines main pieces of Namibian legislation that identify apartheid components that are still enforceable.Namibia promulgated the Racial Discrimin (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Analysts Hail Council's Decision to Allow Diamond Sales
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Harare - ANALYSTS have welcomed the World Diamond Council's decision to grant Zimbabwe the greenlight to sell its gems on the international market.The analysts said the move dealt a blow to efforts by (By News Poster)...Africa: U.S. Attorney General on Visit to Underscore Anti-Terror Cooperation
Friday 23-Jul-2010: Washington, DC - Attorney General Eric Holder will travel to Kampala to address African heads-of-state during the opening day of the Africa Union summit on Sunday.Holder’s trip, which includes t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Health Practitioners Flay Rise of HIV Among Gays
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Abiodun OluwarotimiAustria - Leading figures in the global AIDS response attending the on-going 2010 international AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria are focusing on rapidly increasing rates of HIV (By News Poster)...Namibia: Young Man Murdered At Rehoboth
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Denver KistingRESIDENTS in Rehoboth's Block E area made a shocking find when they woke up yesterday morning - the body of a murdered young man in their backyard.It is believed that Dirk van Wyk die (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Communities Fault Mobil's Statement On Oil Spill
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Bernard Tolani DadaUyo - Stakeholders in oil industries from Akwa Ibom have expressed disgust and indignation over last week's statement made by Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) dissociating itself fr (By News Poster)...East Africa: Fish Farmers Brace for EAC Market
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Titus KakemboKampala - FISH FARMERS are bracing themselves to serve a bigger East African Community (EAC) market which comes with a unified area of 1.8 million square kilometres, with agricultural (By News Poster)...Kenya: EU Funds Diverted, Piracy Trial Told
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Philip MuyangaNairobi - Funds for the legal representation of suspected Somali pirates have been diverted to other uses, a court was told on Wednesday.Lawyer Francis Kadima, representing seven susp (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Unity Bank Recovers N53 Billion Debt
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Nkiruka AneneLagos - Unity Bank Plc said yesterday it made a total debt recovery of N53 billion. The Managing Director of the bank, Malam Falalu Bello, who gave the hint during the bank's facts-beh (By News Poster)...Uganda: A Walk in the Night After the Al Shabaab Bombs
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Nicholas SengobaIt was obviously going to be a different ball game after the deadly bombs that exploded in Kampala and killed over 70 people who were enjoying a rather dull World Cup final.As expec (By News Poster)...EU Shifts Goalposts On Nation Dialogue (news)
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Itai MusengeyiHarare - The European Union will not remove the illegal sanctions it imposed on Zimbabwe despite the progress the inclusive Government has made because it has its own agenda.According (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Cement Firm Warns Public Against Being Ripped Off
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaHarare - A CEMENT manufacturer has urged customers to resist high prices triggered by a shortage of cement on the market, saying it expected a glut of the product soon once its Bulaw (By News Poster)...Africa: A Raw Deal for Africa at Vienna AIDS Conference
Friday 23-Jul-2010: Kampala - Thousands of individuals have gathered in Vienna, Austria to attend the XVIII International AIDS Conference.At the end of conference, there will be a signed declaration, calling for a "for d (By News Poster)...Namibia: 'The Rock' Aims for Gem Status
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Sheefeni NikodemusTHE prospect of being the number one contender and a crack at the world title is motivation enough for Namibia's WBO African bantamweight champion Paulus 'The Rock' Ambunda when h (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Popular Comedian 'Lord Bongo', Wife Found Death in U.S.
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: Freetown - One of the doyens of Sierra Leonean comedy in the 80s and early 90s, Godfrey Manley-Spaine - popularly known in comedy circles as 'Lord Bongo Johnson' - and his wife, Irene Haggerty were Mo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Community Shuns Anti-Xenophobia Drive
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Hillel AronAn anti-xenophobia initiative got off to a rocky start when residents in Dunoon, where the programme was launched, refused to sign a pledge condemning attacks on foreigners.Unite As One, (By News Poster)...Uganda: Over 1700 Rwandan Refugees Forced to Return Home
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Rosebell KagumireKampala - Human Rigths Watch has put the figure of Rwandans who were forced to return to Rwanda from camps in Uganda this week to 1,700. The rights body said those returned include (By News Poster)...South Africa: Secrecy Bill 'Will Hamper MPs'
Saturday 24-Jul-2010: By Wyndham HartleyCape Town - Parliament was warned yesterday that the government's secrecy bill would not only offend press freedom but would also make it almost impossible for MPs to perform oversig (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Pregnant Teens Shun HIV Treatment for Fear of Stigmatisation
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Ignatius BandaBulawayo - At a local maternity clinic in one of Bulawayo's high density suburbs, midwives are at pains to explain to a pregnant 15-year-old girl why she must be tested for HIV before (By News Poster)...Interfin Targets 'Pulsating Brand Presence'
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Bernard MpofuINTERFIN Banking Corporation Ltd listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) last week on Monday. Our senior business reporter spoke to the financial services company managing director (By News Poster)...Uganda: Tourists Continue to Flock Country Despite Blasts
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Gerald BareebeKampala - Most tourists planning to visit Uganda have not cancelled their bookings despite the bomb blasts in Kampala, the Tourism Minister has said.While addressing journalists in Ka (By News Poster)...South Africa: Government Lends a Neighbourly Hand to Rural Communities
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - THE government is speeding up rural development programmes to stop villages and other settlements from turning into ghost towns.Rural Development and Land Reform Deput (By News Poster)...Kenya: Winafrique Thrives on Innovative Ways of Saving Energy
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Wanjiru WaithakaWinafrique Tech, which was started in 2001 by Anthony Ng'eno and Michael Chavanga with the purpose of selling renewable energy solutions to parastatals and hotels, among others, is (By News Poster)...Mugabe Snubs Tsvangirai Wedding
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Caiphas ChimhetePRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF officials yesterday snubbed Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's daughter's wedding held at the Wild Geese Lodge in Harare.Mugabe had been official (By News Poster)...Africa: Africa Needs Agricultural Innovations to Boost Food Production
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By David AgbaAbuja - Agricultural innovations are still relevant in transforming livelihoods in Africa, a stakeholder lecture on "Food and Culture", was told.Using a case study of the cassava revoluti (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Revolution Looms At State Entities - Moyo
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Levi MukaratiHarare - STATE companies have over the past decade been haunted by a myriad of problems ranging from gross mismanagement and corruption to under-capitalisation. This week, The Financia (By News Poster)...South Africa: Buthelezi's Party a 'Sinking Ship' - Analyst
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: By Agiza HlongwaneDwindling support, leadership squabbles and perpetual disorganisation have thrown a shadow over the long-term sustainability of the IFP.This is the assessment of Zakhele Ndlovu, a po (By News Poster)...Africa: Hunting for a 'Cure' for HIV
Friday 23-Jul-2010: Vienna - A successful microbicide trial and the promise of HIV treatment as prevention have dominated the scientific breakthroughs making headlines at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, but (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CANMPEL Seeks Link Between Manpower Production, Labour Market
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Victor Ahiuma-YoungTHERE is no doubt that many Nigerians and organisations are concerned over the alarming rate of unemployment especially among army of able-bodied college graduates in the country (By News Poster)...Ghana: GODAC Equips Human Resource for Oil Industry
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Daniel NonorGovernment needs to put in place clearly defined legislation to guide the operations of the oil companies and also strategise on how local people would be fully integrated into the oil (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG Hopeful as PetroChina Plans U.S.$60 Billion Overseas Investments
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: Lagos - PetroChina, China's largest listed oil firm by capacity, plans to invest $60 billion to boost its overseas oil and gas output to 200 million metric tons annually, equivalent to around 4.0 mill (By News Poster)...Kenya: More Food to Lower Poverty
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Ken OpalaNairobi - The agricultural sector seeks to halve the number of Kenyans living in absolute poverty in the next five years.To achieve this target, players in the sector have prepared an ambi (By News Poster)...Uganda/Somalia: Opposition Should Be Sensitive in Times of Terror
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Peter OkwalingaKampala - On Sunday July 11, tragedy struck Uganda, killing at least 74 people watching World Cup finals.This is a trying time for Ugandans, especially the parents and relatives of t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Governor's Forum - Seeking Partnership Abroad
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: By Tokunbo AdedojaLagos - Recently, six Nigerian governors were in Boston, United States to attend the annual meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA), an umbrella body for US governors, wh (By News Poster)...Somalia: Somaliland Clashes Displace Thousands
Friday 23-Jul-2010: Widhwidh - Several thousand people in northern Somalia have been displaced in recent weeks by clashes between Somaliland troops and a new rebel group, according to local and UN sources.The armed group (By News Poster)...S.Africa: ARM AND CONVENTION 2010 - 30 Degrees South
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: ARMS FAIR AND CONVENTION 2010 Founded in 1994 to serve and represent the interests of Collectors in South Africa with a special interest in arms, ammunition, militia and other collectables, SAACA ( (By Jan)...Ghana: Banks Likely to Reduce Base Rate to 17 Percent
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Masahudu Ankiilu KunatehWith the reduction of the policy rate to 13.5% from 17% by the Bank of Ghana (BoG), all the commercial banks in the country are expected to cut their base rates. But, the pe (By News Poster)...Swaziland: HIV - Long Distances Place Expectant Mothers at Risk
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Mantoe PhakathiAffectionately known as Gogo Zondo by the community of Ndvwabangeni in northern Swaziland, Margaret Zondo is a traditional health practitioner who helps treat the sick and delivers b (By News Poster)...Uganda: Bombs Perpetrators Will Pay - Katumba
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Barbara AmongKampala - The Army has vowed to track down and fight perpetrators of the July 11 twin bombings that ripped through the city, killing about 75 World Cup fans.Speaking at the ceremony wh (By News Poster)...Namibia: Quality is the Missing Link in Education
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Gwen ListerTHERE'S one word that is always missing when we talk about our education system in all its ramifications, and whether it is at pre-school, intermediate or tertiary levels, and that is qu (By News Poster)...South Africa: Motlanthe to Address Internatiional Aids Conference
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe is expected to officially open the South African Exhibition that will include the celebration of the Nelson Mandela Day during the International AIDS Conference held (By News Poster)...Uganda: Be Vigilant, Fight Terrorism
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Kampala - Following the July 11 twin bomb attack in Kampala, security is on the alert. Body and car checks have been instituted in several places, including offices, banks, hotels and shopping malls.T (By News Poster)...Kenya: Helicopter Stoned at Constitution Rally
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: By Erick Ngobilo Engobilo and Bernard Kwalia BkwaliaNairobi - Villagers on Sunday pelted a campaign helicopter with stones to block the pilot from landing, risking the lives of passengers, among them (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Civil Society Activists to Lobby AU Over Elections
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Lance GumaSeveral key Zimbabwean activists took part in a roundtable discussion in the Ugandan capital Kampala Friday, where they intend to lobby the African Union to take a prominent role in ensur (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: U.S. Bid to Impede Diamonds Sale Flops
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Martin KadzereTHE United States, Canada and Australia tried to block Zimbabwe from selling Marange diamonds during the KP mini summit held in Russia recently after the three proposed that a review (By News Poster)...Africa: 'Robin Hood' Tax to Crack Aids Funding Crisis
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: Activists at the world AIDS forum in Vienna Wednesday lobbied for a 'Robin Hood' tax on financial transactions to defeat the funding crisis gripping the war on AIDS.It is believed that a 'Robin Hood' (By News Poster)...Somalia: Heavy Fighting Close to Somali President's Palace
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Abdulkadir KhalifMogadishu - Although this morning started with relative serenity, residents in Mogadishu's eastern districts witnessed some of the most intensive confrontations in the past months. (By News Poster)...Africa: Countries Lacks Resources for Somali Mission
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Anne Mugisa, Henry Mukasa and Milton OlupotKampala - AFRICAN countries have failed to join Uganda and Burundi forces in the peacekeeping mission in Somalia due to inadequate resources, the African (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Supplementary - Consultation On New International Standard On HIV/Aids and World of Work Ends
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: Freetown - TUESDAY JULY 13, 2010 - The National HIV/AIDS Secretariat, in collaboration with ILO/AIDS, the Ministry of Employment, Social Security and Industrial Relations, the Sierra Leone Employers F (By News Poster)...Ghana: Petroleum Revenue Bill OK But...
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Frederick AsiamahThe Ghana Petroleum Revenue Management Proposal put together by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MOFEP) is satisfactory except that provisions on transparency and acc (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Break in Fibre-Optic Cable Damages Economy
Friday 23-Jul-2010: Maputo - The normal functioning of the economy throughout central Mozambique has been compromised by a break in the underwater fibre-optic cable operated by the publicly owned telecommunications compa (By News Poster)...Liberia: Supt. Bailey Responds to AG Morlu et Al
Friday 23-Jul-2010: Grand Gedeh County Superintendent Chris Bailey has described a newspaper article linking him to operating a secret account at a local bank as blatant "spread of falsehood and mere breach of profession (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Senate Wades Into NNPC Insolvency Imbroglio
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: By Emma Ujah, Simon Egbebulem and Inalegwu ShaibuAbuja - THE claims and counter claims over alleged insolvency of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, came to a head at a hearing of the (By News Poster)...Sudan: Mediator Reports Progress in Darfur Peace Talks
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: The negotiations taking place in Doha aimed at bringing an end to the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan are making good progress, according to the joint United Nations-African Union mediator.Djib (By News Poster)...Cabinet Hails Study On HIV Gel (news)
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: Pretoria - Cabinet has welcomed the study on a vaginal gel which has been found to reduce the risk of HIV infections in women, calling it "groundbreaking news".Government spokesman Themba Maseko said (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Largest Mine's Gold Output Tumbles
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: Harare - ZIMBABWE'S largest gold mine, Metallon says output for June fell significantly due to power cuts during World Cup soccer matches.Metallon chairman and group chief executive Mr Collen Gura sai (By News Poster)...Africa: Somalia Tops the Agenda at AU Meeting
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: By Argaw AshineAddis Ababa - The African Union summit in Kampala, initially set to discuss ways to improve maternal and infant health in Africa, has been overridden by the issue of Somalia.Somalia onc (By News Poster)...East Africa: EAC Members Need to Plant Their Best Crop
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: Most East African Community countries, with the exception of Burundi, announced good food harvests due mainly to the recent adequate rains.Much of the harvests are staple foods cultivated by the poor (By News Poster)...South Africa: Steel Industry Concerned Over Kumba, Mittal Row
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Beth ShirleyJohannesburg - STEEL industry players said yesterday that the fragile industry would not cope with the effects of a long-drawn-out dispute between corporate giants Kumba Iron Ore and Ar (By News Poster)...Namibia: Traditional Authorities to Help With Death Records
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Helvy TueumunaOshakati - The Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration recently held a two-day consultative workshop with representatives of local authorities from the four northern regions.The work (By News Poster)...Namibia: Ancestral Land Issue Revisited
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Irene !hoaësWindhoek - It seems as if previous considerations of the ancestral land rights issue are not a closed chapter after the 1991 Land Conference consensus.The issue resurfaced at the recent (By News Poster)...Kenya: 'No-Sex-Month' to Slow Down Spread of Aids
Monday 19-Jul-2010: By Gatonye GathuraNairobi - Kenyans may consider holding a national "no-sex" month to slow down the spread of HIV and maintain the current momentum which has seen a drop in new infections.This is one (By News Poster)...Niger: French-Backed Troops Fail to Free Hostage From Al-Qaeda-Linked Group
Friday 23-Jul-2010: A French-backed operation by Mauritanian soldiers failed on Thursday to free an elderly French aid worker from the desert base of his kidnappers, members of the Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb (Aqim). (By News Poster)...Kenya: Rift Valley Tense With Poll Date Days Away
Friday 23-Jul-2010: By Muchemi Wachira, Eddy Ngeta and George SayagieNairobi - Ann Wambui and her two children are on the road back to a camp for Rift Valley's internally displaced.She returned last year to her family's (By News Poster)...Africa: FDC Wants AU to Discuss Somalia
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Moses MulondoKampala - The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has asked African governments to put the Somalia crisis on the agenda for the African Union (AU) summit in Kampala."Somalia has become a (By News Poster)...Namibia: Fuel Price Sop for Motorists
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: Windhoek - Motorists can breathe a sigh of relief for now, as fuel prices for July will remain unchanged.In June 2010, the average Namibian dollar to the US dollar exchange rate weakened slightly, but (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sasol to Investigate Mining Gas in the Karoo
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: By Des LathamJohannesburg - SASOL subsidiary Sasol Petroleum International says its to study the potential for Shale Gas in the Karoo Basin.But it's not the only company vying to start mining in the K (By News Poster)...USA: Stock Markets: My Technical Indicator - Sell Gold... NOW.... Even though Gold's target is $1600
Monday 19-Jul-2010: Just a note. I meant to get back to all of you about the business of Gold and whether one should hold it or sell. Its been a borderline matter now for some days, coming close to My Technical Indicator (By Jan)...USA: Stock Markets: Friday's scary close is bad news... The Double Dip Recession again...
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: [Now some people are rethinking the bunk theory that the "recession is over". Again we hear talk of the double-dip recession. Jan] A previous version of this column mistakenly referred to the 500-d (By Jan)...USA: Stock Markets: Is Gold about to turn a bit bearish?
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: I sold my gold holdings the other day as per My Technical Indicator. Interestingly, on the Point-and-Figure charts, Gold is on the edge. If it goes about $10 or so lower... the P&F charts might switch (By Jan)...USA: Stockmarkets on the brink of weird moves??? Gold and the Stock markets...
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: Just a quite note for you all. I dumped my gold the other day based on MY TECHNICAL INDICATOR. Since then Gold is very much borderline... Interestingly, according to the Point-and-Figure charts Gol (By Jan)...S.Africa: Collapsing Infrastructure - Half of Kroonstad has no electricity....
Monday 19-Jul-2010: [My niece lives in Kroonstad. Here in mid-winter they've been without electricity and it will only be fixed by tomorrow. Jan] She sent me this from the useless municipality:- Media Statement (By Jan)...Science & History: Ancient Egypt: King Tut's DNA is Western European
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: [The Right Perspective mentioned this quite some time back. But this is important and worth looking at. Apparently, Cleopatra was GREEK and had red hair. I heard this from a friend who is well acqua (By Jan)...S.Africa: Lessons from my Work... My boss says... You're starting to scare me...
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: I had an interesting incident this morning at my work. After our weekend roll-out to the biggest client yet inside the organisation, my Indian boss walked up to my desk and thanked me for all my work (By Jan)...[Cartoon] ZAPIRO - Post FIFA World Cup uses of the vuvuzela...
Friday 23-Jul-2010: [Some fun from Zapiro. Jan] (Photo) (By Jan)...S.Africa: Johannesburg: The Accounting stuff up on your Water & Lights bill...
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: [I mentioned last night that the meeting at the CPF (Community Police Forum) mentioned that they municipality had upgraded to Venus from SAP. I am quite sure that is what they mentioned. See the com (By Jan)...Science: 100 million Earths exist in our Galaxy alone... NASA discovers 700 earthlike planets in 6 weeks...
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: [Exoplanets are incredibly fascinating. The discoveries now being made in months are just staggering beyond belief. Telescope technology has become absolutely stunning. I had previously thought it wou (By Jan)...[Cartoon] Really cool Obama Cartoon: Cap him quick...
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: [This is a play on the BP oil spill... sent to me by Jennifer. Jan] (Photo) (By Jan)...[Pic] USA: Newt Gingrich - The Quote of the Year....
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: [Jennifer sent me this. Very cool. Jan] Hi Jan, Right now, Newt Gingrich is high in the polls for next president. Maybe you could post this one with the photo? Good quote. S Subject: Fwd (By Jan)...S.Africa: Lessons from my work - Other Software vendors try to upstage me...
Tuesday 20-Jul-2010: I had to rush into work this morning because very senior management were saying that software vendors were approaching the company in quite large numbers wanting to sell their products which could do (By Jan)...[Pic] Humour: S.Africa: 2010 Soccer world cup - The Swiss Vuvuzelas...
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: [A friend sent me this bit of humour from the recent FIFA Soccer World cup. Jan] Let’s hope Switzerland never hosts the FIFA World Cup - have you seen THEIR Vuvuzelas?! The Swiss Alphorn Scho (By Jan)...[Cartoons] Humor: Bob Hope in Heaven
Thursday 22-Jul-2010: [These are excellent. Jan] For those of you too young to remember Bob Hope, ask your Grandparents . And thanks for the memories. WHAT A WONDERFUL E-MAIL! graphic HOPE THIS WILL PUT A (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (21-07-2010)
Wednesday 21-Jul-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- The Boeing 787 Dreamliner flew over Derby early yesterday evening. It is a truly beautiful aircraft - but my photographic skills are decide (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (25-07-2010)
Sunday 25-Jul-2010: Howzit Yesterday was a long and exhausting day. It was great to see friends for Zimbabwe and even better to fall over friends that I hadn't seen for many years. The stall wasn't perhaps as succe (By The BeardedMan)...
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