Weekly Southern African Report
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 7th November 2010From 1994-Present over 3,000 Farmers have been murdered in S.Africa.
Many thousands of their farm workers have also been murdered too.
Click here for Photos & Updates - WARNING: Very Graphic & Gruesome
S.Africa: IMPORTANT: Radio 702 - Julius Malema's racism - White Genocide - The Jewish Woman who spoke of Whites in a Race War...
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: There are a number of important things I did not mention about the incident recently when the old Jewish woman called in to Radio 702. I am referring to this article I wrote the other day: S.Africa: I (By Jan)...[Map] The real reason why President Obama & the Democrats want Illegal Aliens to flood into the USA
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: The Democrats have a secret agenda - to save themselves, but in the process they might destroy America. One of our AmericanCrisis volunteers, Jennifer, sent me this map and called it "The Great Div (By Jan)...S.Africa: INCREDIBLE: From Radio 702 - Jewish woman warns Blacks: If you attack Whites... We Jews will side with...
Friday 05-Nov-2010: A friend of mine phoned me to tell me an absolutely incredible story. Apparently, this took place on Radio 702 which was once Johannesburg's most popular talk radio show. I don't know where it sta (By Jan)...S.Africa: Super-Corruption: Did the ANC steal R100 billion last year? Will Eskom waste R1 trillion?
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: [A regular reader in the Cape sent me this. I emailed him to ask him for an original URL for this. I want to know if this is completely true. If so... then its absolutely hideous. He claims it is from (By Jan)...My Trip to America - ABOVE TOP SECRET: Electrical Warfare: They said only UFOs can do this... but the USAF can do it...
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: I always used to be fascinated by the paranormal and mysteries and that included aliens and UFOs and Roswell. Among the strange aspects of “UFO” behaviour was that often “UFOs” were associated wit (By Jan)...Nigeria: Security Agencies - A House Divided Against Itself ?
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Christiana EsebonuPeace and security though difficult to achieve, are indispensable. And the survival of any society lies greatly in the level of understanding and cooperation among security agenci (By News Poster)...South Africa: Neo-Liberalism, Then And Now - a Tale of the Chilean Mineworkers, Their President And a South African Mining Company
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Leonard GentleThe successful rescue of the Chilean workers trapped in the San Jose mine was a story of extraordinary courage and self-organisation on the part of the miners, as well as of exception (By News Poster)...From Jan: Survival stuff: Mind-blowing Technology - Back at work in the thick of things... with a new perspective... many things learned
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Just a note. I have been back at work this week. I have been mulling over many aspects of my trip to the USA. It was interesting seeing a lot. I am in the middle of some "flux". It is funny how (By Jan)...My Trip to America: The fake oil & petrol crisis - America & the West will NEVER run out of fuel...
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: Let me tell you, that during my travels, I can't remember where I had this discussion, but I do recall speaking to people about oil and its future availability. The USA has so much oil on its own t (By Jan)...Nigeria: Storm Over Secret Trial of Bomb Suspects
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Austin ObohLagos - The trial of persons so far arrested over the bomb explosions which rocked Abuja on the day Nigeria celebrated its fiftieth Independence Anniversary has gradually been submerged (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Jewish reader: I did not support Apartheid, but I support Orania & Blacks stabbed American Jews in the back
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: I wanted to single out one of our readers' who made a comment. The comment can be found here: S.Africa: INCREDIBLE: From Radio 702 - Jewish woman warns Blacks: If you attack Whites... We Jews will sid (By Jan)...[Pic] [Humor] Marital humour - An Auto Trader Ad
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: [A lady friend of mine sent me this cute one. Jan] Thought you guys will enjoy this one……………. (Photo) (By Jan)...History: Heil Hitler, or heil Caesar? Hitler the salesman copied from the Romans: The American Eagle... is really Roman...
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: I couldn't believe my ears! I rewound my video tape, and I had to listen again to make sure I had heard it right the first time! My goodness! I could not believe what I was hearing. Hitler loved th (By Jan)...Nigeria: Seizure of Arms At Lagos Port - Round-Tripping Goes Awry?
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Godwin Oritse And Jide AjaniThis is an insight into the diabolic movement of arms and ammunition from Asia to Nigeria and for possible onward shipment to a final destination, the attempt by the imp (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Living With Threats of Bomb Blasts
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Austin ObohLagos - Barely three days after the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) threatened to detonate more bombs in Abuja, the militant group on Tuesday issued a third threa (By News Poster)...A Culture of Political Assassination
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Jane DuncanIn an editorial in March this year, the Sunday Times newspaper warned against "a culture of political assassination," becoming entrenched in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa, afte (By News Poster)...S.Africa: 2010: Violent Crime out of control - Blacks attack my Indian boss, beat him, threaten to kill him - steal everything...
Monday 01-Nov-2010: Today was my first day back at work after my trip to the USA. While I was catching up on the news of bank politics and changes, I heard that my Indian boss, who lives in a more upper-class suburb near (By Jan)...Ghana: Armed Robbery - Putting Nation's Democracy at Risk
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Helena SelbyIncidences of armed robbery in the country increase every day, and are mostly perpetrated by the youth, who are the future leaders of the country.It has become almost a weekly ritual fo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN, Banks And ATMs
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Amaka IfeakanduAbuja - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) recently issued a warning that banks will be liable for ATM frauds committed with cards issued without card owners requesting for it. Our co (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Explosion Rocks Govt House, Asaba
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: Lagos - A heavy bomb explosion, yesterday rocked Government House, Asaba, Delta State, capital damaging a section of a guest house belonging to the state government, although no life was lost.Also unk (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Totally Bizarre: A Black pastor says: Jesus was HIV+ - Jesus had AIDS... Our RICH lying Priests...
Friday 05-Nov-2010: [It would be interesting to have more details of what the priest is saying. He is basically saying the Church would not regard AIDS as the result of sin. The bottom line is that there are millions of (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Pro-Govt Groups Pushes for Renewed Diamond Exports
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Alex BellThe Affirmative Action Group (AAG) has this week backed ZANU PF's 'sanctions' argument, as part of efforts to force the international diamond trade monitor to green-light full exports from (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police Raid 'Illegal' Miners
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Bloemfontein - An illegal miner was killed, two injured and some 426 arrested during a police and mine security operation at the St Helena mine near Welkom, police said on Friday.Free State police spo (By News Poster)...History: When White men were supermen - The Incredible Terror Machine called the Roman Army - 1,000 years ahead of its time...
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: When Rome finally collapsed there were technologies in Rome that would not be seen in Europe for over 1,000 years. Rome was the first city in the world to have more than 1 million inhabitants. The Rom (By Jan)...Josef Katofa - a Freedom Fighter (1944 - 2010)
Saturday 06-Nov-2010: Josef Katofa was one of the young people that learnt how to drive heavy vehicles in the 1960s. During the bitter years of the struggle against apartheid of South Africa, Josef Katofa turned his shop a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Currency War Marks Beginning of Shift
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Saliem FakirWe sit amongst the vulnerable beneath the trampling of elephants as they fight it out. South Africa may be a big player in Africa, but is no match for the economic giants in the global (By News Poster)...USA: IMPORTANT: America will inflate the world & it will hit Brazil & South Africa hard...
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: [I made this fascinating discovery in an article written by Jason Kelly. Jason was writing about what America is going to do, and one writer in the Financial Times says that the US will inflate the wo (By Jan)...Guinea: Rights Group Urges Restraint by Security Forces During Polls
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Dakar - The special unit to maintain security during the second round of Guinea's presidential elections, on November 7, 2010, should act with discipline, minimum force, and neutrality, Human Rights W (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Local Farmers to Benefit From New Maize Variety
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Arusha - Tanzania will be among the few African countries in which the newly developed 'water efficient maize' seeds' varieties are soon to be tested.A statement from the African Agricultural Technolo (By News Poster)...USA: Britain urges action over extremist U.S. website - The Brits are right - these are TERRORISTS in America
Friday 05-Nov-2010: [This looks like a TERRORIST Propaganda front in the USA. Americans should sort this type of trash out. Jan] LONDON (Reuters) – "Jihadist content" on a U.S.-based website calling for action against (By Jan)...Whites Accused of Boycotting Fundraiser
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Luqman CloeteThe white business community at Mariental has been accused of "deliberately opting to boycott" a fundraising dinner for the Hardap Regional Development Trust Fund on October 15, despit (By News Poster)...History: The Roman & Greek Armies were run by FARMERS... All Civilisation is based on Farming...
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: In Rhodesia and South Africa, prior to their handover to the blacks, there was a tremendous amount of discussion about the importance of property rights. There was much debate about the importance of (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Deploys Army to Revive Ruling Party for Polls
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaHarare - Serving military officers and other security agents have been deployed to Zanu PF, including at the party's headquarters in Harare, to revive the party's crumbling structure (By News Poster)...S.Africa: USA: The Serbians are still extremely proud of shooting down an American F117 Stealth aircraft....
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: I was chatting to a Serbian woman who works with me and I mentioned to her that the Serbians are the only ones to ever shoot down a Stealth aircraft. She told me that in Serbia this is a tremendous (By Jan)...[Pic] Afrikaner: 4,000 safes for sale - the Police don't want to pay for them...
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: [I received this from a friend. The email basically says that this guy was a subcontractor who won a contract to make 4,000 safes for the Police. The contractor then did not pay this guy for 4 months (By Jan)...USA: Election FRAUD? Did Harry Reid Steal Nevada? - Everyone HATES Harry Reid...
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: [The election in Nevada is most interesting. When I was there I asked Jennifer and her husband, my hosts in Nevada about Harry Reid. They HATE him... and they said everyone in Nevada hates this guy. W (By Jan)...USA: IMPORTANT: The USA is bankrupt - actual U.S. government debt - its not $13 trillion - its really: $200 trillion!!!
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: [Here are some hardcore facts - really scary ones from an economist of note. Jan] OTTAWA— From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff says U.S. government deb (By Jan)...Libya: Bleak Future for Illegal Immigrants
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Eden Yohannes YosephAddis Ababa - "Tomorrow Europe might no longer be European, and even black, as there are millions who want to come in," said Col. Muammar Gaddafi of the Great Socialist People's (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Black Wednesday, Bad Year
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: By Mallam KyariWednesday, 27 October, 2010, was our Black Wednesday. The darkness of that day was not obvious, because we did not connect the dots. But the information was on the net and in the local (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chiadzwa Claims Mischievous
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Tichaona ZindogaHarare - All sorts of excuses and guises have been explored, and probably exhausted, to try and deny Zimbabwe's legitimate sale of its diamonds.However, these have continuously been (By News Poster)...My Trip to America - Comments from a friend who lived in LA (Los Angeles) for 4 years... hated it...
Friday 05-Nov-2010: [I am quite surprised at how many South Africans are enjoying my articles about my trip to America. Interestingly, I had previously had a problem "connecting" with Americans on my AmericanCrisis websi (By Jan)...Africa: The US, the AU and the New Scramble for the Continent
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Jason HickelJason Hickel attends a speech delivered by US ambassador to the AU Michael Battle and discovers a disturbing new rhetoric about Africa.The past few years have seen a dramatic up-tick in (By News Poster)...Nigeria: ATM Fraud - CBN's Timely Intervention
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Jerry UwahEssien Samuel Mendie lost her husband, Samuel James Mendie on November11, 2007 to an accident caused by one of the craters on Nigeria's ill- maintained roads.Since that day, the widow of (By News Poster)...Ghana: The Mass Rape And the Topsy-Turvy Investigations
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Akilu SayibuAfter a Tamale-bound passenger vehicle was reported to have been attacked by armed-robbers and the passengers robbed of all their valuables and also subjected to mass rape and defilemen (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jonathan And Bayelsa's Nine Oil Fields Allocation
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Adeola YusufArray of criticisms is still trailing President Goodluck Jonathan's allocation of nine mega offshore oil fields to Bayelsa State against the Supreme Court ruling on On-shore/Off-shore D (By News Poster)...Kenya: South African Firms Invade Internet Market
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Jevans NyabiageNairobi - Will MTN finally set up as a mobile service operator in Kenya after several years of failed attempts?That's the million-dollar question after the data unit of South Africa' (By News Poster)...USA: Too Funny: I Voted for Obama and I am big into UFO's... Obama is from Sirius 9...
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: [I got this note from someone in the USA who is into the paranormal. I chuckled at his take on Obama. Too funny. So there you have it... Obama really is from Outer space!!! Jan] ... I am still into (By Jan)...Southern Africa: The Challenges of Financing Development
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Kizito SikukaSouthern Africa is slowly emerging from the global financial and economic downturn that has affected the world since 2008.However, SADC is faced with a mammoth task to ensure that this (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Losing faith in the MDC - Morgan Tsvangirai saved Robert Mugabe by joining the GNU
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: [Recently someone from Zimbabwe pointed out that I and someone else, who shall remain unnamed for this purpose, have been highly critical of the MDC. They wanted us to discuss this, and I am very keen (By Jan)...The Right Perspective: 2010.11.05 Archive
Saturday 06-Nov-2010: WE TOOK OUR COUNTRY BACK! Frank and John celebrate Tuesday's historic Republican victory in the midterm elections. Frank declares that, like Jimmy Carter before him, Barack Obama is an historic a (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...South Africa: Frank Chikane's Whitewash of Mbeki is an Ahistorical Disgrace
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Kerry CullinanDoctors call them Thabo’s children – the thousands of kids infected with HIV by their mothers at birth who still fill hospital paediatric wards, suffering from a range of (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Wanted Bomber is in South Africa, Says Okah
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Moses JolayemiThe suspected mastermind of the October 1 bombings, Chima Orlu, is currently in South Africa, militant leader Henry Okah said yesterday.Okah, who was arrested in Johannesburg on Octob (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Iran Disowns Intercepted Arms
Monday 01-Nov-2010: The arms intercepted at the Lagos Port steeped further into controversy yesterday as Iran said there was no clear evidence linking it to the shipment.Iran's response contradicted the claim by an inter (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Unbridled Rapists On the Prowl in Gombe
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Vincent EkhoragbonRape, though a serious crime, is on the rise in the different parts of Nigeria, to the extent that even the minors have become vulnerable, a development which both the government (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bank Probe Misguided, Pointless
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Eric BlochAt a recent 2011 budget consultative meeting, Finance minister Tendai Biti voiced the government's concern at the conduct of banks, and intimated government's intent to undertake a compre (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Arms Discovery at Apapa Wharf
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: ANYONE who has an idea of the types of weapons that were imported illegally through Apapa Wharf in Lagos last week, would be alarmed by the quantity as well as the sophistication of the collection. Th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Explosion Rocks Delta Government House
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Harris-Okon Emmanuel, Felix Igbekoyi And Onoja AuduJos/Warri/Asaba - On Wednesday, a bomb scare kept Judges away from the courts in Jos; but things got even worse in Asaba, where an explosion in Go (By News Poster)...Somalia: Pirates Off Somalia Committing More Violence Despite Naval Patrols - Ban
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Somali piracy suspects transported to trial in Nairobi, KenyaNaval patrols off Somalia's coast have increasingly disrupted the activities of pirates, with many sea bandits arrested and prosecuted, but (By News Poster)...Somalia: Al-Shabaab Warn of Fresh Terror Attacks Abroad
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: By Barbara AmongKampala - SOMALI militants Al-Shabaab have issued a fresh warning to attack Kampala and Bujumbura if Uganda and Burundi do not immediately withdraw their troops from the capital Mogadi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fourteen Banks to Enjoy U.S.$7 Billion Reserve
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Les LebaNigerians may rightly feel shortchanged by the shenanigans in the banking subsector in the last two years or so. In the wake of the global meltdown, the eloquent Professor at the helm of ou (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: NGOs Assisting Victims of Political Violence
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Nqobani NdlovuBulawayo - An international relief organisation has started investigations into political violence in Masvingo province with a view of providing shelter to displaced people.The Intern (By News Poster)...Liberia: Charles Taylor's Final Witness Begins Testimony
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Alpha SesayToday, a Liberian member of Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group commenced his testimony as the final defense witness for former Liberian president Charles Taylor. (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'EFCC, Police Can't Go After Bank Debtors'
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Jibrin AbubakarThe Registrar of the Institute of Debt Recovery Practitioners of Nigeria, Mr. Akintunde Opeodu, is the one sponsoring the Private Investigation Bill in the National Assembly. In this (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Skepticism Greets Diamond Arrests
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Alex BellThe arrest this week of top officials from a joint mining venture at the controversial Chiadzwa diamond fields has been described as very convenient for Zimbabwe, as it contests its 'compl (By News Poster)...USA: The Economic Meltdown - The Fed keeps inventing money - Massive backlash from Europe to Asia...
Friday 05-Nov-2010: [In America, the bankers are desperate. I spoke to a guy who is in the mortgage business when I was in Oregon. He told me, this bubble is more enormous than you can believe and it has been building fo (By Jan)...South Africa: Water Quality Crisis Hits Nation
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Glenn AshtonWater management in South Africa is in serious crisis. Consumers were recently told to wash their fruit and vegetables as they could be infected by disease causing E. coli microbes beca (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Seized Arms Cargo in Lagos
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: That Nigeria's political train may be fast approaching grave danger was underscored last week by the security agencies' interception of 13 containers loaded with sophisticated arms and ammunition at t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Illegal Weapons Loaded in Iran -Shipment Examination to End Today
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Yemi Adebowale, Francis Ugwoke And Chinazor Megbolu With Agency ReportThe illegal arms shipment including rockets and grenades discovered at Apapa port in Lagos on Tuesday was loaded in Iran by an (By News Poster)...Africa: How Green is Your Revolution?
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Glenn AshtonConventional wisdom insists that our burgeoning global population requires ever increasing quantities of food to feed its numbers. We need to ask two questions of this received wisdom. (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Repositioning Union Bank for Adequate Returns On Investment
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Rotimi DurojaiyeLagos - There are indications that Intercontinental Bank and Union Bank may finalise discussions with potential bidders this week.While the management of Intercontinental Bank is pr (By News Poster)...Uganda: Nation Hangs On in Somalia
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Angelo IzamaUganda House, the 14-story building that Idi Amin purchased in 1975 right across from the home of the United Nations, stands shoulder to shoulder with the flashy new New York quarters o (By News Poster)...Uganda: HIV's Deadliest Strain
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Haggai MatsikoKampala - Drug interruptions, unprotected sex could lead to HIV resistance against ARVs.Mary Lugembe, an HIV positive mother of two, tries to balance herself on her clutches as her le (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Privatisation Not Solution to Energy Crisis - Ntukube
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Ikechi NzeakoObong Ntukube is the national vice president of the National Union of Electricity Employees. In this interview with Production Editor, Ikechi Nzeako, he says the Federal Government hol (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Party Bosses in Contest to Succeed Mugabe
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Faith ZabaHarare - The complex saga of President Robert Mugabe's succession has taken a new twist with Zanu PF insiders now saying political heavyweight Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa has gained groun (By News Poster)...Gambia: Son Gets Death Sentence for Hacking Mother to Death
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Sidiq AsemotaJustice Lamin A.M.S Jobarteh of the high court in Banjul, yesterday, Wednesday, 3rd of November 2010, convicted and sentenced one Buba Yarboe, a resident of Busumbala Village in the Ko (By News Poster)...Africa: Job Scarcity Causing Gender Disparities in Africa Labour Markets - World Bank Study
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Daniel NonorGender inequalities remain a concern in African labour markets, despite variations from one country to another, a new book published by the World Bank shows. The book - Gender Dispariti (By News Poster)...Kenya: Police Officer Goes On Killing Spree, Leaving Ten Dead
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: Nairobi - A crazed administration police officer killed 10 people in Siakago town on Saturday night in a horrific killing spree.He emptied his G3 on patrons having a drink in various bars in the quiet (By News Poster)...South Africa: Govt Spending Cuts Hit Military
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Anton KrugerOn 27 October 2010 the South African Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan, presented his Medium Term Budget Policy (MTBP) to the South African Parliament. In it the Minister reduced the Sou (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Reserve Bank's Return to Core Function Vital
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: Harare - The Government, through the Finance Ministry, has allocated the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe US$7 million so it can fulfill its prime central bank function as a lender of last resort within the b (By News Poster)...Mugabe's Big Election Gamble
Saturday 06-Nov-2010: By Takura ZhangazhaPresident Robert Mugabe is a man generally not known to go back on a particular statement that he makes in public, no matter how irrational it may seem. In our current national poli (By News Poster)...Kenya: Top Leadership Must Be in the Forefront If the Battle On Corruption is to Be Won
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Koigi Wa WamwereNairobi - Corruption is theft. Plain and simple. Although government audits conceal this in unclear terms like "misappropriation", corruption and graft mean theft, and corrupt peopl (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Rights Groups Renew Calls for 'Blood Diamond' Ban
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Alex BellHuman rights groups are demanding that a ban on Zimbabwe's controversial Chiadzwa diamonds be upheld, as a meeting that will decide the country's trade future got underway on Monday.Member (By News Poster)...Ghana: Yaa Asantewaa, the Asante Warrior Queen
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: There have been great women in history, but Yaaa Asantewaa was one of a kind, Cameron Duodu reminds us of the story of the 'mere woman' who 'fought against the cannon' during the British colonisation (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Militants Threaten to Dump Jonathan Over Okah
Monday 01-Nov-2010: Militants are threatening to withdraw their support for President Goodluck Jonathan unless he directs that the trial of the Abuja blast suspects be made open in line with democratic norms and internat (By News Poster)...Open Letter to U.S. Ambassador on Sanctions
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: Harare - In Africa lies a region called Southern Africa and it is within this region that a small nation by land area lies. Its name is Zimbabwe.Despite its fair share of problems, it is also a countr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Henry Okah Begs South Africa for Asylum
Friday 05-Nov-2010: ALLEGED Nigerian terror bombing conspirator, Henry Okah, has applied for refugee status as he was living illegally in South Africa, the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court heard, yesterday.This came just (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Real Progress Needed in Marange Fields Before Diamond Exports Proceed
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: Jerusalem - The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme should not allow further exports from the Marange diamond fields in Zimbabwe until the government makes clear progress in ending abuses and smugg (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG Ponders National Guard
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Hugo OdiogorNIGERIA may have a national guard under a new security system being considered by the Federal Government to deal with security lapses in the country.The guard is expected to handle inte (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Presidential Aircraft Question Government's Prudence
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Chika OtuchikereThere should be no puzzles over the shock and concern many Nigerians have expressed over the plans by the President Goodluck Jonathan-led government to purchase four new jets for th (By News Poster)...Uganda: Mob Justice - the Lawlessness Could Claim Innocent Lives
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Constantine OdongoKampala - Justus Bataringaya of Nyakatuntu village, Ibaare in Bushenyi district was buried alive by residents, who accused him of highway robbery.According to Bukedde newspaper, h (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC-T Leaving No Stone Unturned to Ensure Election is Violence-Free
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Tichaona SibandaMDC-T President Morgan Tsvangirai has vowed he will leave "no stone unturned" in trying to ensure that next year's elections are violence-free, a top party official said on Friday." (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Seized Arms - Iran Denies Arrest of Citizen
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Tony Ailemen and Jude OparaAbuja - THE Federal Government, yesterday said it had beefed up security at the nation's oil installations and ready to address oil bunkering and insecurity at the ports. (By News Poster)...East Africa: Why the Private Sector Must Join the Fight Against Aids, Malaria And Tuberculosis
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Joint OpinionNairobi - As Africans, we are only too aware of the human toll that HIV/aids, tuberculosis and malaria take on our continent.These preventable diseases take lives and livelihoods, dest (By News Poster)...Africa: First All Africa Energy Week Kicks Off in Maputo
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: Maputo - Two thirds of Africans do not have access to electricity. It is to address this vast challenge to Africa’s development that the African Union (AU), the African Development Bank (ADB) an (By News Poster)...Namibia: Two Angolan Drug Mules Jailed
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Werner MengesTWO Angolan nationals on Friday became the latest cocaine couriers to be sent to prison in Namibia for smuggling swallowed drugs into the country.Following their sentencing, Angolans J (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fresh Concerns Over Illegal Bunkering
Friday 05-Nov-2010: President Goodluck Jonathan has raised concern over illegal oil bunkering in the Niger Delta. Coming from the Commander-in Chief of the country's Armed Forces, the situation can rightly be described a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Lawyers' Draft Constitution Calls for Diminished Presidential Powers
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Tererai KarimakwendaJust days after the constitutional outreach exercise was finally concluded, the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) submitted a draft of their own model constitution to the Constituti (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fresh Concerns Over Illegal Bunkering
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: President Goodluck Jonathan has raised concern over illegal oil bunkering in the Niger Delta. Coming from the Commander-in Chief of the country's Armed Forces, the situation can rightly be described a (By News Poster)...Sudan: Rights Body Criticizes Lack of Action On Justice Proposals by Africa Union
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Washington - The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report last week accusing Sudan of failing to act on the recommendations of the African Union panel on Darfur (AUPD) which was headed (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (02-11-2010)
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: HowzIt Yesterday was a very long day for me and today, although I think I slept quite well, I am still tired. My good lady is due to spend the day at the Derby Railway Station where she will be run (By The BeardedMan)...Swaziland Scrambles to Meet Shortfall in Food Aid
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Mantoe PhakathiNovember will see the World Food Programme launch its Food by Prescription programme in Swaziland, but tens of thousands in urgent need of food aid are set to go without as a donor s (By News Poster)...DA Statement: Zimbabwean Elections: President should push for compliance with pre-election provisions
Friday 05-Nov-2010: I thought you may be interested in this. If DA was ruling South Africa, Mugabe's ZANU PF regime in Zimbabwe would be history now. DA has been doing a lot to stand up for morality, freedom and dem (By Collen Makumbirofa)...The Protesting Voices of Palestine Children
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Stephen ChifunyiseHarare - On October 18, Zambuko/Izibuko Theatre presented, on the Outdoor Stage of the Zimbabwe College of Music, a magnificent and touching theatrical performance dealing with th (By News Poster)...Mental Checkup for Triple Murder Suspect
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Ernestus AibebThe mental state of alleged triple killer Ernestus Aibeb is now set to be examined before he will be tried for the murder of two small children and their babysitter at Outjo in May la (By News Poster)...South Africa: Ruling Party Attacks Labour Allies
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Natasha MarrianJohannesburg - A civil society gathering hosted by Cosatu last week had taken an "oppositionist" stance toward the ANC-led government, party secretary general Gwede Mantashe said o (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Presidential Politics - Back to Reality
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: I was at the Hilton Hotel, Abuja in the late morning of 1st October 2010 when a deafening explosion "pierced" the silence. A second explosion followed about 30 minutes later. Nigeria's 50th anniversar (By News Poster)...[2 Pics] My Trip to America - Indian South African woman's food business in Portland, Oregon
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: When I was in the USA recently, Captain Joseph Smith who was my host in Portland, took me to this interesting lady. It seems an Indian lady from South Africa had also fallen in love with Portland. She (By Jan)...Guinea: Reining in Ethnic Violence
Monday 01-Nov-2010: Dakar - In Guinea, religious and traditional leaders, youth groups and citizens are scrambling to contain ethnic unrest after clashes between the two main groups, Malinké and Peulh - rivals in (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Weapons Came From Iran - Shippers
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Chika Otuchikere With Agency ReportsA cache of weapons containing artillery rockets seized by Nigerian security agents at the nation's busiest port originally came from Iran, an international shipp (By News Poster)...Uganda: Hunger Still Haunts Nation Despite Impressive Growth
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Evelyn LirriUganda's economy is growing at an impressive rate - over 5 per cent of GDP. But this has not translated in reducing the number of people who go to bed hungry every night.In the far-flun (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Abuja Blast Mastermind Lives in South Africa, Says Okah
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Chesa Chesa,Harris-Okon Emmanuel And Felix IgbekoyiAbuja/Warri/Asaba - Henry Okah, arrested on terror charges after bombings in Abuja on October 1, says a man identified as a mastermind of the atta (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Chaos, Violence and Stabbing Mar Conclusion of Constitutional Outreach
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Lance GumaEfforts to conclude constitutional outreach meetings in Harare and Chitungwiza again ended on a chaotic note after MDC supporter Jonsaya Manyere was stabbed in the head by ZANU PF thugs. (By News Poster)...Somalia: Armed Groups Recruit Children for Piracy, Sexual Assault
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: Nairobi - Armed groups in Somalia have continued recruiting children to fight and engage in piracy, and girls have found themselves facing increasing risk of sexual violence, a senior UN official says (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC Official Beaten Up for Refusing to Buy ZANU PF Card
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe MDC information and publicity secretary for Makoni South constituency is lucky to be alive, after she was set upon by ZANU PF thugs for refusing to buy their party card.Enia Chi (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Renamo Denounces Mozal
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: Maputo - Mozambique's largest opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, on Wednesday accused the government of "putting the lives of thousands of people at risk" by authorising the Mozal alu (By News Poster)...IMF Governance Voting Rights to Emerging Economies
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Harare - The G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank Governors held in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea ended with some positive resolutions and lessons that, success speaks louder than words, it (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Three Actual or Potential Conflict Situations Around Africa
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: Three actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and none improved in October 2010, according to the new issue of the International Crisis Group’s monthly bulletin Cri (By News Poster)...Mass Protest Over Toddler's Murder
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Luqman CloetePOLICE at Keetmanshoop on Friday arrested a 19-year-old suspect in connection with the murder of four-year-old Queen Dausab on Wednesday.The naked body of the little girl, who had gone (By News Poster)...South Africa: ANC Revivalism and Non-Racialism
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Tim MurithiSouth Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress, has announced that it wants to attract more white voters. Tim Murithi says this would require the adoption of a more inclusive (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Confusion as Police Invade Palace, Shoot One, Maim Others
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Albert AkporCONFUSION, dejection and perhaps, frustration all best captured the state of mind of an embattled traditional ruler, Oba Gbolahan Akanbi Timson, the Jagunmolu of Shomolu\Bariga communit (By News Poster)...Somalia: 'Foreign Troops Leave Before Parents Cry in Uganda, Burundi' - Shabaab
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: Islamist insurgents in Somalia have vowed to attacks the capital cities of Uganda and Burundi unless those countries withdraw their troops from Mogadishu, Radio Garowe reports.Fuad Shongole, a senior (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Last Monday Wasn't Just Another Monday
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Pan ButamireKigali - I am sure that last Monday (1st November) passed with 90% of Rwandans not giving a thought to it. However, if Rwandans care about 7th April, they should know that the grief of (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Regional Campaign to Highlight Zim Crisis
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Tichaona SibandaZimbabwe's Civil Society organisations (CSO's) will soon embark on a regional advocacy campaign to try to ensure the elections due in the country next year are free and fair.SW Radi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Banking Sector Set for Major Facelift
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Victoria RuzvidzoHarare - The banking sector is set for a major facelift following the restoration of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's lender-of-last resort status, widely expected to induce stabilit (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gunmen Blow Up Oil Pipelines in Bayelsa
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Samuel OyadonghaYenagoa - After a lull in attack on oil facilities in the backwaters of the Niger Delta, unknown armed gunmen Friday blew up two pipelines belonging to the Italian oil giant, Nigeri (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Still On Abuja Bomb Blasts
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Charles Ikedikwa SoezeThe recent Abuja bomb blasts on Friday, October 1, as Nigeria was celebrating her golden jubilee with many world leaders in attendance has left many Nigerians and foreigners i (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamond Saga - a Case of Deceit, Fraud
Saturday 06-Nov-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaDetails of why five senior Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) officials and the local representative of Core Mining and Mineral Resources were arrested this week emerged (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Banks Model in Need of Review - Muradzikwa
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Zimbabwean banks should review their loan priorities if they are to support the revival of the economy, Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) chief economist Sam Muradzikwa says.Speaking at the l (By News Poster)...West Africa: Economic Recovery and Beyond
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Mark PlantMy IMF colleagues and I have spent the past week or so traveling through Africa for the launch of our October 2010 Regional Economic Outlook on sub-Saharan Africa. Both the outlook for Af (By News Poster)...West Africa: Economic Recovery and Beyond
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Mark PlantMy IMF colleagues and I have spent the past week or so traveling through Africa for the launch of our October 2010 Regional Economic Outlook on sub-Saharan Africa. Both the outlook for Af (By News Poster)...Uganda: Opposition Candidate Criticises UPDF Deployment in Somalia
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Isaac KhisaMpigi - Uganda's foreign policy in the Great Lakes Region under the stewardship of President Museveni has been criticised by an opponent in the 2011 campaign race.Peoples Progressive Par (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'Our Regrets in Kidnapping Three-Year Old Twins'
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Femi OgbonnikanLagos - Apparently envying his mates in the village who had taken to kidnapping as a means of survival, Izuchukwu Eze, had attempted importing the crime to Lagos. That however proved (By News Poster)...Somalia: New Prime Minister Sworn in, 21 Killed in Mogadishu Fighting
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: The new Prime Minister of Somalia's UN-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) was sworn-in on Monday, as upwards of 21 people were killed in Mogadishu as allied TFG and African Union forces batt (By News Poster)...Kenya: Immigration Chiefs Purged in Graft War
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Bernard Namunane and Patrick MayoyoNairobi - Eleven senior immigration officers including Immigration minister Otieno Kajwang's personal assistant have been interdicted in the ongoing purge on corr (By News Poster)...Gambia: Plans to Set Up Science & Technology Park in the Offing
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Hatab FaderaThe government of The Gambia, in partnership with the United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organ (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Cross-Examination of Last Defense Witness Continues
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Judith ArmattaDear Readers - Ms. Judith Armatta is a lawyer, journalist, and human rights advocate who has previously monitored the trial of Slobodan Milosevic on behalf of the Coalition for Intern (By News Poster)...Gambia: Two Soldiers Arrested, Dismissed After Being Caught With Bundles of Cannabis
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Amadou JallowTwo soldiers were recently arrested and dismissed from the Gambia Armed Force(GAF) after bundles of cannabis sativa were found in their possession.Pa Yusupha Jatta and Sanna Sanyang, w (By News Poster)...Kenya: Axed Minister Flies to Hague Over Polls Violence Case
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: Nairobi - Former Higher Education minister William Ruto flew to The Hague Wednesday night for a meeting with Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo Thursday morning.Mr Ruto said he had requested the meeting to (By News Poster)...Sudan: Govt Forces Clash With Rebels in South Darfur
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: Khartoum - Sudanese government forces and rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) clashed today in South Darfur state for the first time since several months, the two parties said.The fighting took (By News Poster)...Namibia: Uranium and Diamonds Set to Boost Trade With India
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: Windhoek - Trade between Namibia and India has seen a modest but steady growth although trade volume is still in favour of India with exports to Namibia standing at US$22 million, while imports from N (By News Poster)...Namibia: Rehoboth Resident 'Unlawfully' Jailed
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Catherine SasmanWindhoek - The Workers Advice Centre has threatened to lay a charge of unlawful arrest on behalf of Joseph Pedro against the Ministry of Safety and Security, the Namibian Police For (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Coup Suspect Set Free
Monday 01-Nov-2010: Harare - One of the seven alleged coup plotters, Rangarirai Mazivofa, has been released after the High Court ruled that he had been incarcerated for a lengthy period without trial, it emerged this wee (By News Poster)...Sudan: UN to Beef-Up Troop Presence At "Hotspots" On North-South Borders
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: Washington - The United Nations Missions in Sudan (UNMIS) will move more troops to "hotspots" at the North-South borders within weeks as the country heads towards a crucial vote that could create the (By News Poster)...North Africa: More than 18 Million Jobs Needed!
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Masood AhmedFor the six oil-importing countries in the Middle East and North Africa region-Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, and Tunisia-high unemployment is a chronic problem. Unemployment r (By News Poster)...North Africa: More than 18 Million Jobs Needed!
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Masood AhmedFor the six oil-importing countries in the Middle East and North Africa region-Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, and Tunisia-high unemployment is a chronic problem. Unemployment r (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: U.S. Pledges Us$57 Million for HIV/Aids Fight
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By George MapongaMasvingo - The United States government has pledged US$57 million for various programmes to support the fight against HIV and Aids in Zimbabwe next year.There are reports that at leas (By News Poster)...Nigeria: EFCC - an Advice on Advisory
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Issa AremuWhat manner of "advisory" (note: not prosecutor) list is it (such as EFCC's) that has provoked more advices for the advisor than damnation for the listed? My advise (possibly one too many (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Arms Imports: The Men Who Did It
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: Sheikh Ali Abbas Othman Hassan, better known in Nigerian activist Muslim circles as Sheikh Abbas Jega, was the man who facilitated the importation of the controversial arms consignment into Nigeria, D (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: U.S. Pledges U.S.$57 Million for HIV/Aids Fight
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By George MapongaMasvingo - The United States government has pledged US$57 million for various programmes to support the fight against HIV and Aids in Zimbabwe next year.There are reports that at leas (By News Poster)...Angola: Letter to Interior Minister About Violence Against Journalists
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Reporters Without Borders has written to Angolan interior minister Sebastiao José Antonio Martins voicing concern about the recent wave of threats and violence against journalists. One has been (By News Poster)...Namibia: Zambians Arrested for Theft
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Helvy ShaanikaOshakati - Three Zambian nationals were arrested at Oshikango over the weekend after they were found in possession of cellphones that are suspected to have been stolen from Pep Store (By News Poster)...My Trip to America - Walmart is coming to South Africa - OR will the Trade Unions stop it?
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: When I was in the USA one lady said to me that I would be committing a sin (I would go to SHOPPING HELL she told me), if I left the USA without visiting a Walmart. So JoAn and Shannon and I went t (By Jan)...Kenya: When the Bank Comes for Your Land
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Allen Waiyaki GichuhiNairobi - Most Kenyans view land as a precious and cherished possession, especially when the parcels have sentimental value by reason of family history or circumstances.That sa (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jonathan Oil Bonus - A Cursory Examination
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Adelanwa BamgboyeThe oil bonus granted by President Goodluck Jonathan to Bayelsa State has taken a dramatic turn as other oil producing states have threatened to go to court for what they termed il (By News Poster)...Tanzania: BOT - Poll Funding Not Pushing Inflation
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Abduel ElinazaDar es Salaam - THE Bank of Tanzania (BoT) on Tuesday ruled out any possibility of financial spending in the current campaigns affecting the national economy, saying a large chunk of (By News Poster)...My Trip to America - Unlike America, we are AMAZED when something actually WORKS in S.Africa
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: When I was in the USA I never once doubted that "things work". In fact, it was easily apparent from the outset, and thereafter, that the USA is built around EFFICIENCY. Nowhere was this more appar (By Jan)...Liberia: Spilt Deepens in Weah Party Over Merger
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: One maxim says partners who base their cooperation not on ideas and beliefs but on the obsession to defeat a rival are likely to turn on one another, once that rival is out of the way or out of rea (By News Poster)...Sudan: Banks Unable to Provide Hard Currency for Clients - Report
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: Khartoum - Local and foreign banks in Sudan are facing the daily challenge of providing their clients with hard currency despite a recent move by the central bank to inject forex to halt deterioration (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Banks, Firms Make New Deal to Rescue Farmers
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Harare - BANKS and fertiliser companies have come to the rescue of desperate farmers with a credit facility under which growers get fertiliser and pay back the money after selling their produce.Financ (By News Poster)...South Africa: Police Tackle Firearm Licence Backlog
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Pretoria - Police are to implement a nine-month turnaround strategy to address serious problems identified within the Central Firearms Registry (CFR), which deals with firearm applications and licence (By News Poster)...Africa: Using Trade Laws to Protect African Interests
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Victor MroczkaAs African stakeholders increase trade with their counterparts in other countries, they are falling under foreign trade laws or themselves utilising domestic trade laws in their battl (By News Poster)...Somalia: Latest Clashes, Shelling Kill More Than 10 People in Mogadishu
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Sh. M. NetworkMogadishu - More than 15 people including warriors and civilians have been killed and many others wounded in latest clashes, shelling that continued in Mogadishu overnight until Monda (By News Poster)...Assembly Votes to Debate Mozal
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Paul FauvetMaputo - The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, has decided to debate next Wednesday the question of the rebuilding of the Fume Treatment Centres (FTCs) at the Mozal al (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Court Sentences Police Corporal to Death
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Ikechukwu NnochiriAbuja - It was end of the road for Corporal Gad Barminals yesterday as an Abuja high court sitting in Maitama, sentenced him to death following his involvement in an armed robbery (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Access Bank Awarded Most Socially Responsible African Bank of the Year
Monday 01-Nov-2010: Kigali - Access Bank Plc has emerged the winner of the 'African Banker Magazine Year 2010 Awards,' as the most socially responsible financial institution of the year.The award, which is organized by p (By News Poster)...Africa: Doing Business 2011 Fact Sheet - Summary of Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: A fact sheet from the World Bank on business reforms across Africa: Angola reduced the time for trading across borders by making investments in port infrastructure and administration. Areas of busin (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Anti-Graft Officers Probed for Corruption
Saturday 06-Nov-2010: Police are investigating three officers of the Anti-Corruption Commission for allegedly protecting former ZBC finance director Oniyas Gumbo, who stands accused of fraudulently attempting to wrestle co (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Aussie Firm to Raise Capital for Gold Mine
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Tawanda MusaruwaHarare - Australian Information Technology and exploration firm, Cape Range Limited will raise an initial US$650 000 (A$650 000) for the acquisition of Zimbabwean gold miner Ox Mini (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Quenching Thirst for Fuel
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Adeola YusufThe 32 million litres' demand for fuel in Nigeria has for the umpteenth time led to queues at filling stations across the country. CORRESPONDENT, Adeola Yusuf who periscopes factors tha (By News Poster)...USA: The Financial Meltdown - Dollar at Risk of Crashing, Triggering Inflation: Strategist
Friday 05-Nov-2010: [The word is: TOTAL MELTDOWN. You have no idea how incredibly large this bubble is that they created in the USA. Once it goes DOWN... it will take almost everything else down along with it. The Fed is (By Jan)...Somalia: Verdict Issued for the First EU Navfor Piracy Case
Friday 05-Nov-2010: EU NAVFOR welcomes the first judgment yesterday in a Seychelles prosecution in connection with the interdiction of a pirate group by an EU NAVFOR warship."This first conviction of pirates transferred (By News Poster)...Namibia: Govt Races to Cut Down Maternal Deaths
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithAn estimated half a million women die each year following complications during pregnancy and childbirth, a report launched in September 2010 showed.The report, 'Trends in Maternal Mo (By News Poster)...SA Business Delegation to Visit Govt
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Harare - A South African business delegation is expected in Zimbabwe next week to establish business linkages and seek out investment opportunities in the country.The visit by the South African busine (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Mobil New Gas Discovery to Boost Power Generation
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Clara NwachukwuFederal Government's plan to increase power generation capacity, hovering around 3,000 Mw, got a lift on Monday, as Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, MPN, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobi (By News Poster)...Somalia: Hizbul Islam Rebel Chief Promises More War Against TFG
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: The rebel leader of Somalia's weak insurgent group, Hizbul Islam vowed to continue fighting with what he called 'Somali enemy' as a reference to the TFG and its African Union allies, Radio Garowe repo (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Renamo Renews Threats of Demonstrations
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: Maputo - Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has revived its demand for a "transitional government" and its threat to hold demonstrations across the country, if the g (By News Poster)...Nigeria: I'm Not a Kidnapper, Akpabio Declares
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio has said it was "idiotic" for anyone to link him with kidnapping in the state just to score some cheap political points. He said as the Chi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: U.S. Abusing Its Powers on Diamonds
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Harare - WHAT is happening in Jerusalem, Israel, where the United States and its allies are fighting to stop Zimbabwe from exporting its diamonds is shameful.The US is clearly abusing its superpower s (By News Poster)...Liberia: RUF Member Continues Testimony, Cross-Examination Begins
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Judith ArmattaDear Readers - Ms. Judith Armatta is a lawyer, journalist, and human rights advocate who has previously monitored the trial of Slobodan Milosevic on behalf of the Coalition for Intern (By News Poster)...Uganda: Gap Between Policy And Practice in Women Land Rights
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: A study has established land reform in Uganda that grant women legal rights. Custom and practice are still lagging behind the law, leading to a regular violation of women's land rights.The Centre on H (By News Poster)...Nigeria: A Disturbing Pattern
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: A large cargo of munitions in thirteen containers was imported into Nigeria through the Apapa Wharf in Lagos sometime in July this year. Details of the nature of consignment became public only last we (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Cross-Border Traders Association Launches Debit Card
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Peter MatambanadzoMusina, South Africa - THE Cross-border Traders Association in collaboration with Moonlight Funeral Services and a South African company, Selacor Group of Companies, have launched (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gauteng Steps Up Fight Against Hunger
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Nthambeleni GabaraJohannesburg - The Gauteng government has taken a significant step in fighting hunger, with the unveiling of the Maize Triangle farm project aimed at increasing the production of (By News Poster)...Africa: IGAD Meets This Week on Security, Governance
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Tabu ButagiraRegional leaders are due to hold an emergency summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia this week to thrash out action points to handle the dicey security and governance situation in Somalia.The (By News Poster)...Africa: Helios, Vitol to Buy Shell's Region's Fuel Station
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Cosmus ButunyiNairobi - A consortium led by Vitol and Helios Investment partners is negotiating with Royal Dutch Shell to clinch the largest private equity deal in sub-Saharan Africa.This deal, whi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Group Alleges Plot to Kill Gov Akpabio
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: Lagos - THE campaign organization of Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State yesterday said it had uncovered plans by a group of people to assassinate the governor as well as kidnap members of hi (By News Poster)...Somalia: Tough Job Ahead for New Prime Minister
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Nairobi - Somalia has a new prime minister - the fourth since 2004 - and leaders in Mogadishu hope he will breathe new life into the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), but just what can Mohamed Ab (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Transparency International Corruption Report
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: The global anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International recently released its 2010 report on corruption around the world. There was no much difference; the usual suspects are still on parade. W (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Increase Demand Trigger High Food Prices in Mbeya
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Hawa MathiasMbeya - Food supply situation in Mbeya region has started to deteriorate, leading to an escalation of prices and the overall cost of living.The price of maize and beans in Mbeya markets (By News Poster)...South Africa: Nation Builds Relations with Mozambique
Monday 01-Nov-2010: Pretoria - South Africa and Mozambique have taken their bilateral relations further after holding a successful meeting on Friday, where various issues of cooperation were discussed.President Jacob Zum (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Assembly Ratifies SADC Protocol on Legal Cooperation
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Thursday ratified the protocol of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on mutual aid in matters of criminal law.Introd (By News Poster)...Nigeria: State Police'll End Kidnapping-Akpabio
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Achilleus-Chud UchegbuAbuja - KIDNAPPING and other crimes would be eradicated in the country if governors are allowed to set up state police and take effective charge of security in their respectiv (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Cross-Border Traders Association Launches Debit Card
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Peter MatambanadzoMusina - The Cross-border Traders Association in collaboration with Moonlight Funeral Services and a South African company, Selacor Group of Companies, have launched a new debit t (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Prime Minister Opens Energy Conference
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Maputo - Mozambican Prime Minister Aires Ali declared on Monday that, although poverty may be geographically located, its many consequences spill over national borders.He was speaking in Maputo at the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Hospitals Failing to Treat HIV-Positive Infants
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: waZulu-Natal Province remains the epicentre of South Africa's HIV epidemic but new research reveals that nearly a third of hospitals surveyed had not started a single HIV-positive infant on antiretrov (By News Poster)...Uganda: Biodiesel to Offer Best Energy Solution to Economy
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Tom MagumbaA research into biodiesel will offer the best natural solution to current energy and environmental challenges. The study by a master's student Benjamin Mpeirwe may widely answer Uganda's (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: IMPORTANT: Zanu PF Structures Shambolic - But Mugabe is confident he can win the elections in 2011
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: [This news report is interesting. It seems to be a pretty good insight into how things really are. However, don't get too excited about Mugabe's party caving. Mugabe is mobilising and is busy with mas (By News Poster)...Tourists Attacked Near Oshakati
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Oswald ShivuteA couple from New Zealand, Hanso Hasso Weichbrodt (68) and his wife, Borm Jan Gesa Weichbrodt (63), were attacked and robbed at Oshandumbara village southeast of Oshakati early on Wed (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Corruption Impedes Right to an Identity
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: Harare - Getting a passport can be vital for making a living but mounting hidden costs are making it tougher to access one, despite the government recently slashing passport fees.Fees have been reduce (By News Poster)...South Africa: Civil Society Attacks Ruling Party 'Paranoia'
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Johannesburg - The ANC's scathing reaction to last week's civil society conference was "reminiscent of the paranoia of the Mbeki era", the conference co-hosts said on Wednesday."It is a conduct that (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: A2 Farmers Must Shun Handouts
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: Harare - We want to commend the Government for coming up with the US$30 million farming inputs scheme for communal and small-scale farmers.Communal farmers, in particular, have traditionally produced (By News Poster)...Kenya: Saccos Turn Home-Ownership Dream Into Reality
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By David MugweKenyans are turning to Savings and Credit Co-operative Society (Saccos) to fulfil their dream of home-ownership, shunning mortgages which are beyond the reach of many middle and low-inco (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Country to Resume Diamond Exports
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: Harare - ZIMBABWE will soon start exporting rough diamonds from Marange unconditionally because it has met all Kimberley Process Certification Scheme minimum requirements, amid reports that all Southe (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: A2 Farmers Must Shun Handouts
Monday 01-Nov-2010: Harare - We want to commend the Government for coming up with the US$30 million farming inputs scheme for communal and small-scale farmers.Communal farmers, in particular, have traditionally produced (By News Poster)...Namibia: Local Bank Launches Fraud Awareness Campaign
Monday 01-Nov-2010: Windhoek - Standard Bank Namibia (SBN) launched a fraud awareness campaign to educate the public about fraudulent transactions and to ensure that people constantly take the necessary precautions to pr (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: New Cases of Rape On Angola-DRC Border
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: The United Nations Office for the Coordiation of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) in the Democratic Republic of Congo is investigating reports that close to 700 women were raped along the DRC-Angola border (By News Poster)...Kenya: Ruto Meets Ocampo, Denies Role in Chaos
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Nairobi - SUSPENDED Higher Education minister William Ruto last night met International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo in The Hague to deny allegations that he funded the post-election v (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Civil War - 17,000 Unexploded Bombs Recovered in South East
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Kingsley NwezehAbuja - The last may not have been heard of the devastating effect of the Nigerian civil war on the South-East geo-political zone as over 17,000 unexploded bombs had been recovered f (By News Poster)...Nigeria: CBN's Vision, UI's Advantage
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Sunday SaanuAs part of its long- term plan towards making Nigeria's economy , one of the leading economies in the world, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), came up with a vision, sometimes ago, called (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Opposition Challenger Alleges Vote Rigging
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Florence Mugarula, Bernard Lugongo and Alex BitekeyeDar es Salaam - Chadema yesterday asked the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to immediately rescind the presidential election results and cal (By News Poster)...Kenya: New Laws Have Boosted the War on Corruption
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Nairobi - The zeal to fight corruption in the Kibaki government is driven by a passion to ensure his legacy is not tarnished by the vice.It is also given fresh impetus by the need to finance the Budge (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Is PDP Afraid of EFCC?
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Dapo AkinrefonTHE war against corruption is supposed to be top of the ruling PDP's agenda in running Nigeria's affairs. Indeed, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC was established by (By News Poster)...Namibia: Two-Week Break in Farm Massacre Trial
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Werner MengesTHE Kareeboomvloer farm massacre trial is scheduled to continue in the High Court in Windhoek again in two and a half weeks' time.The trial was postponed to the period of November 19 t (By News Poster)...Naval Task Forces Claims Successes against Somali Piracy
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Itika KagubilaDar Es Salaam - The Turkish-led CTF 151 multinational task force docked at Dar es Salaam port yesterday for the naval operations against piracy and armed robbery at the sea.Earlier, t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: IFJ Condemns Arrests And Harassment of Journalists in Zimbabwe
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the arrests and harassment of Nkosana Dlamini and Andreson Manyere, both freelance journalists, who were covering the constitutional o (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Deadly Animal Virus Could Spread to Southern Africa, UN Agency Warns
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: Sheep and goats are critical to herders' livelihoodsA deadly animal virus which broke out earlier this year in Tanzania could spread to Southern Africa, threatening the lives of more than 50 million s (By News Poster)...Uganda: We Are Not Party to Government Cash Bonanza, Says Central Bank
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Chris OboreKampala - Bank of Uganda says it's not to be blamed for increased drawing of cash by government departments in excess of the Shs20million set by the Finance Ministry. "We pay money only (By News Poster)...Govt to Invest in Hydropower Plants to Meet Energy Needs (news)
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Zekarias HaddushHydropower projects like the Tekeze Dam are expected to go a long way in providing in the country's energy needs.One of the criticisms that have been levied against the Growth and T (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Economy - The Country Must Improve Its Anti-Money Laundering Status
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Idris Dan-AzumiAn economist, Dr. 'Buno E. Nduka, has said that Nigeria will lose the much-needed economic rejuvenation from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) unless it improves on its present low com (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mines Minister Insists Full Diamonds Sales Will Resume
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Alex BellMines Minister Obert Mpofu has indicated that the country will resume full diamonds exports immediately, with or without certification from the international trade monitor, the Kimberley P (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lagos Residents Tasked On Law on Domestic Violence -
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Chioma ObinnaFollowing the sharp rise in the incidences of rape and other forms of abuse against women in the society, Lagos residents have been urged to exploit the advantage of the State's law on (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Youths Protest Election Result Delays
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: Chaos reigned in Mwanza City and other lake zone districts yesterday as impatient youths protested the delay in announcing election results by the National Electoral Commission (NEC) officials.Two (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Seized Bombs Meant for Hamas -Israel
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Paul Ogbuokiri, With Agency ReportLagos - INDICATIONS have emerged that the 13 containers of weapons intercepted at Apapa port Lagos on Tuesday were destined to Gaza in Palestine.Agency report yest (By News Poster)...Somalia: Prime Minister Pledges to Work Towards Plan to End Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: Nairobi - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Radhika Coomaraswamy met with the new Prime Minister Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed in Mogadishu on Tuesday. (By News Poster)...Namibia: No Arrests in Khomasdal Armed Robbery
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Denver KistingBy yesterday there were still no arrests following the armed robbery in Khomasdal on Tuesday morning.Three men allegedly ambushed G4S security guards at Beukes Spar where the guards w (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Group Urges KPCS to Allow Full Export of Diamonds
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Tawanda MusarurwaHarare - THE Affirmative Action Group has called on the ongoing Kimberly Process Certification Scheme plenary session in Israel to vote for the unconditional trading of Zimbabwe's (By News Poster)...Nigeria: WWIEF 2010 - Microsoft Bids to Change Classrooms to E-Learning Environments
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Emeka AginamTAKING the educational system of Third World economies to the next technological level may have begun when global software maker, Microsoft gathered about 125 innovative teachers from 7 (By News Poster)...Local Construction Companies Fear Future
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithAfter 30 months of job security, these men's future is no longer secure. Michael Antonius, Andreas Nghilokwa and Saius Ng- hidengwa say they don't know if they will have work next ye (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Siemens Bribery Scam - EFCC to Arraign Suspects Thursday
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Erasmus AlanemeAbuja - Suspects in the ongoing 17.5million Euro Siemens scam yesterday stormed the premises of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja for information on the ch (By News Poster)...Uganda: Making the Most of Our Food
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Michael J. SsaliRakai District marked World Food Day on October 21, a few days after the rest of the world celebrated the event on October 16. The day's activities were held at Kalisizo Rural Sub-c (By News Poster)...Africa: Implemetation of CAADP Key to African Food Basket Initiative
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: Ministers, experts and development partners who have been attending the Conference of African Ministers of Agriculture (CAMA) in Lilongwe, from 26-29 October 2010, have reaffirmed the vital role of th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nobel Prize - Challenges of Intellectual Cold War
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Yemi AdebisiLagos - Before the announcement of this year's winner of Nobel Prize in literature, Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, on Thursday October 7, 2010, several people had predicted the possibilit (By News Poster)...Namibia: ECB Chief Asks for More Investment in the Power Industry
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Clemencia JacobsWindhoek - As many as 75% of Namibians should be connected to the national power grid in accordance with the White Paper on the Energy Policy approved by the Ministry of Mines and E (By News Poster)...Guinea Bissau: Civilian, Military Leaders Must Do More for National Stability - Ban
Saturday 06-Nov-2010: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged both the civilian and military leadership in Guinea-Bissau to show commitment to achieving long-lasting stability in the West African country, and to restore th (By News Poster)...South Africa: Ruling Party Regional Leader Charged With Corruption
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Pretoria - ANC Northern Cape chairman John Block was refused bail on Thursday in the Kimberley Magistrate's Court following his appearance with eight others on charges of fraud, corruption, money laun (By News Poster)...Kenya: There'll Be Other Obamas to Liberate America
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By William Ochieng'Nairobi - For those of us who have lived and worked in the United States of America, the Barack Obama victory as the first black president of that country was a huge and exciting ph (By News Poster)...Rwanda: 'Price of Kigali Land Competitive'
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Kigali - At first, investors used to complain they could not find land in Kigali City to develop. Now there is well serviced land at the Kigali Special Economic Zone costing US$33.3 per square meter. (By News Poster)...Africa: African Youth Should Develop Own Continent
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By John EkongoWindhoek - An African diplomat believes there are plenty of opportunities for African youth on the continent. All that is needed is for the youth to seize the moment and make it happen.A (By News Poster)...Namibia: Robbers Hit Supermarket
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By John EkongoWindhoek - Three robbers yesterday injured a cash protection officer when they staged a dramatic robbery and escaped with N$100000 and a total of 1700 cheques from the Beukes Spar Comple (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Big Banks Get Lifeline
Monday 01-Nov-2010: Harare - All financial institutions will now participate in the US$70 million Zimbabwe Economic and Trade Revival Facility unveiled by the government recently to fund the revival of local industries.P (By News Poster)...Somalia: Puntland Ports Minister Attends Anti-Piracy Meet in Denmark
Friday 05-Nov-2010: A government minister in Somalia's Puntland State has participated at an anti-piracy conference held in Denmark, Radio Garowe reports.Puntland Ports Minister Said Mohamed Rageh was accompanied by the (By News Poster)...Somalia: Govt Says Militia Tried to Kill Journalist
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) has strongly condemned the assassination attempt against Hassan Mohamed Abikar (Hassan Matoore), a Somali freelance journalist in Afgoye district Tuesda (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Science Exhibition - Students Tackle Epileptic Power
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Maureen OnochieSeveral administrations have over the years failed to properly address Nigeria's epileptic power situation and this has necessitated the creation of innovative and alternative energy (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Three in Police Custody for Poll Chaos
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Peti SiyameSumbawanga - POLICE in Mpanda District are holding three members of CHADEMA, including its councillorship candidate for Mbede in Katavi Region, for allegedly setting ablaze official docu (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Relevance of GIS in Land Administration
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Ibrahim Usman Jibril & Mansir AminuLand is the habitat of man and its wide use is crucial for the economic, social, and environmental advancement of all countries. Although it is part of man's natu (By News Poster)...Kenya: Lack of Govt Backing Putting Off Power Producers
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Cosmus ButunyiNairobi - Kenya's attempts at weaning itself of weather-dependent hydropower are being hampered by the government's inability to provide the guarantees demanded by Independent Power P (By News Poster)...Namibia: Child Killer Suspect in Court
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Luqman CloeteThe alleged rapist and killer of a four-year-old girl yesterday made a brief appearance in a jam-packed Keetmanshoop Magistrate's Court.Easter Michael Rooi, alias Wambo (29) - age inco (By News Poster)...South Africa: Minister Talks Tough On Child Abuse
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: Rustenburg - Government needs to introduce tougher legislation to protect children from all forms of abuse, the minister responsible for children said on Saturday.The Minister for Women, Children and (By News Poster)...Bush of Ghosts - Life and War in Namibia 1986-1990
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Peter MietznerAuthors: John Liebenberg and Patricia HayesTHE name John Liebenberg should, in some quarters of Namibia, be as easy on the lips as the word "kapana".To many the name is synonymous wit (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Soldiers Invade Warri South Community
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Emma ArubiWarri - SOILDIERS from the military Joint Task Force, JTF, yesterday, invaded Ifiekporo community in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, backed by two armoured tanks and ove (By News Poster)...South Africa: Tourism Survey to Assess Transformation
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: Pretoria - A survey to gauge the state of transformation in South Africa's tourism sector will be conducted throughout the November and December holiday period.The National Department of Tourism (NDT) (By News Poster)...'SME Financing Poor'
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Desie HeitaWindhoek - Enough is enough! It is time financial institutions enable small and medium enterprises to access financing, Bank of Namibia Governor, Ipumbu Shiimi, has informed the financia (By News Poster)...Nigeria: JTF Launches Manhunt for Attackers of Agip Oil Facility
Monday 01-Nov-2010: Men of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) have launched a man-hunt for the gunmen who attacked the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) facility in Southern Ijaw Council of Bayelsa.Security sources said (By News Poster)...Angola: Senior UN Official Calls for Probe Into Reported Rape of Expellees
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: A senior United Nations official has urged the national authorities in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to investigate reports that women were raped when large numbers of people w (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Banking System Remains Fragile - IMF
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Bernard MpofuA visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to Zimbabwe has asked government to immediately step up a restructuring exercise of the debt-ridden Reserve Bank after warning that (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Police Seize Boat With 96 Illegal Immigrants
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican police have seized a boat containing 96 illegal immigrants, all of them Somalis, in the district of Palma in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.This boat had come from Tanza (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma Arrives in Namibia
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has arrived in Namibia for a visit at the invitation of his counterpart President Hifikepunye Pohamba.The visit takes place within the context of the Heads of State Eco (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Fawe Headmistress Arrested Over Forged Academic Papers
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Ignatius SsuunaKigali - The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested the headmistress of Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) School, for allegedly using forged academic trans (By News Poster)...Uganda: There Are More Fake Land Titles Than Real Ones
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By George W KanyeihambaKampala - IT has been said, perhaps without actual statistics but largely true, that between Kampala City and Entebbe Municipality, there are more forged land titles circulating (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Food Crisis Looms in Sokoto, Jigawa, Kebbi
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Isaac Aimurie with agency reportAbuja - Severe flooding in July-October could result in food crisis in Sokoto, Jigawa and Kebbi states, says a Famine Early Warning Systems Network report entitled: (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Snubs A2 Farmers
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Levi MukaratiHarare - The government has excluded A2 farmers from the US$30 million agricultural facility for the current summer cropping season, much to the chagrin of mostly ZANU-PF supporters wh (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: EU Accepts Envoy
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Tinashe FarawoHarare - The European Union will not interfere with President Mugabe's redeployment of ambassadors because the matter is internal, the recently appointed EU Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr (By News Poster)...Kenya: Banks Tap Soaring Remittances From Abroad
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By David MugweEquity and Barclays are the most preferred banks by Kenyans sending remittances from abroad, but the Western Union money transfer service handles the bulk of cash sent from diaspora, a W (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Seize More Arms in Ogun, Anambra
Monday 01-Nov-2010: The Ogun state police command says it has recovered a sub-machine gun, one rocket launcher, ten launcher heads, 62 loaded AK 47 magazines, 3 AK 47 riffles, among other.The states Commissioner of Polic (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Apologise to Soludo Over Alleged Illegal Arms Deal
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Okey MaduforoAwka - Anambra State Police Command has apologised to the former Central Bank Governor, Professor Charles Soludo, whose campaign organisation bus was mistakenly linked with a gang of i (By News Poster)...Guinea: Civil Society Groups Urge Restraint
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: Paris - A total of 101 organizations from Guinean, French, regional, and international civil society today condemned the violence and attacks against civilian populations, human rights defenders, and (By News Poster)...South Africa: Minister Dlamini Holds Discussions With Deputy Minister in the Office of the President of Malawi
Saturday 06-Nov-2010: Home Affairs Minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma today Friday 5 November 2010, hosted a Malawian government delegation led by Nicholas Dausi, the Deputy Minister in Malawian President Bingu Mutharika&r (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Political Uncertainty Threatens 2011 Budget
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Bernard MpofuThe World Bank (WB) has warned that political uncertainty surrounding the coalition government could undermine Finance minister Tendai Biti's plans to craft a budget statement highly e (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: Regional Bank Loan 'Proof of Confidence in Eskom'
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Pretoria - The Development Bank of Southern Africa's R15 billion loan towards Eskom's build programme is a vote of confidence by the bank in the power utility, says Eskom Chief Executive Brian Dames." (By News Poster)...African, European Parliamentarians Converge in Windhoek for Dialogue
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Catherine SasmanWindhoek - Members of the conservative European People's Party (EPP) and centrist political parties under the Union of African Parties for Democracy and Development (UAPDD) met in W (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Mobil Hits Large Gas Deposit in Akwa Ibom
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku With Agency ReportNigeria's gas reserves have received a major boost. Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPN), a Joint Venture (JV) partner of the Nigerian National Petroleum (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ogun Police Arrest Two Kidnapers
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Kayode ObisanyaAbeokuta - Police in Ogun State have arrested two suspects, who allegedly kidnapped a Chief Superintendent of Customs attached to Apapa Command, Ekandem Wills John, demanding a N200 (By News Poster)...Africa: Developing World Scores on Health, Wealth and Education
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Thalif DeenWhen the Human Development Report (HDR) was introduced back in 1990, it broke new ground, arguing that national development should be measured not simply by income alone but also by life (By News Poster)...Educational Recommendations to Be Implemented Urgently
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Windhoek - Minister of Education, Dr Abraham Iyambo, recently instructed his senior management to implement all the recommendations made to Cabinet on the improvement of education with a sense of urge (By News Poster)...Mozambique: President Condemns Violence Against Women
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Maputo - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Thursday condemned "abominable" acts of violence against women, and called on all Mozambicans to respect women.Speaking in Maputo at the opening sessio (By News Poster)...Africa: Continent Makes Major Gains in Improving People's Lives, Says UN Report
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Melissa BritzCape Town - Ethiopia has emerged as Africa's top performer in improving its people's lives over the past 40 years, says a major United Nations report published today. But while most Af (By News Poster)...Nigeria: As Governor, My Allowance Was N500
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Funke OloadeWith 32 years in the Nigerian Navy; few of which were spent in strategic positions, one would expect airs around him, but Rear Admiral Sunday Abiodun Olukoya's modesty remains intact. H (By News Poster)...Nigeria: MEND Targets South Africa's Investments in Nigeria
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Emma NnadozieSecurity agencies may have shifted attention to all investments owned by South Africa in Nigeria following intelligence reports that the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, M (By News Poster)...Namibia: BON Wants 'Acceptable Blend' of Bank Owners
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyINCREASED local ownership of commercial banks will be high on the agenda of the Bank of Namibia (BoN) next year as the central bank fights to give more Namibians access to financial se (By News Poster)...Sudan: Blue Helmet Attacked in Darfur
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Unidentified assailants today shot and wounded a soldier serving in the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan's troubled region of Darfur, prompting the peacekeepers to return (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Low Grid May Stall Investment, Says Chief Trader
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Rachel HornerFreetown - Development Officer of the Petty Traders' Association has said that there was no way the private sector could flourish without adequate supply of electricity and related pow (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Weapons - State Security Holds Sheikh Abbas
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Abdullahi M. GullomaSheikh Ali Abbas Othman Hassan, the man who allegedly facilitated the importation of the controversial arms consignment into Nigeria, has been in the custody of the State Securi (By News Poster)...Kenyan Real Estate Boom Draws Global Marketing Firms
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By David MugweThe real estate boom has caught the eye of international marketing firms, which have intensified efforts to link up local developers with opportunity-seeking foreign investors, particula (By News Poster)...Sudan: North, South Armies Trade Accusations Over Fresh Clashes in Border Area
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: Khartoum - Northern and southern Sudan armies are trading accusations over the responsibility for fighting between the two sides occurred last Saturday on the border between Sennar and Upper Nile stat (By News Poster)...Namibia: Nampower-Zesa Power Deal Wins Award
Monday 01-Nov-2010: Windhoek - The US$40 million power deal between Nampower and the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has won the Power Deal of the Year Award at the 2010 Africa investor Infrastructure Invest (By News Poster)...Africa: AfDB Will Implement A Food Security Support ($84.5 million) for two African Countries
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: The Global Agriculture and Food Security Fund (GAFSP) Steering Committee approved on, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 in Washington D.C., a USD 97-million grant allocations to three countries.The selected (By News Poster)...Uganda: Two UPDF Soldiers Held Over Robbery
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Felix Warom and Peter AligoTwo UPDF soldiers have been arrested in connection to robbery in Koboko District. The duo, attached to 301 Brigade in Koboko barracks were arrested at Nyai Trading Centre (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: AAG in Israel for KP Session
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: Harare - The black economic empowerment lobby group, the Affirmative Action Group (AAG), is attending the 2010 Kimberley Process plenary session in Jerusalem, Israel, which begins today.Fireworks are (By News Poster)...Africa: Nation Leads Foreign Investment Attraction on Continent
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Luanda - Angola is among the African countries that, despite the world economic and financial crisis, presents the best results in terms of attracting private investments, that reached over two billio (By News Poster)...Tanzania: State Still Too Close to Party, Say Election Observers
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Rt Hon Paul East QC, Chairperson of the Commonwealth Observer GroupThe Commonwealth was invited by the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to observe the 2010 General Elections. The Secretary-General (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Copac Condemned As Mere Political Ploy
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Irene MadongoDespite large sums of money and resources being poured into the Constitutional Parliamentary Select committee (COPAC) programme, critics still say the process is deeply flawed and will (By News Poster)...Three People Killed in Sporadic Fighting With Heavy Shelling in Mogadishu (news)
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Sh. M. NetworkMogadishu - At least three people have been killed and four others wounded in a sporadic fighting with heavy shelling between the troops of the transitional government of Somalia and (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Copac Meetings End Peacefully
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: Harare - The constitutional outreach meetings for Harare ended on a peaceful note yesterday with no cases of violence reported in all 52 meetings conducted.When The Herald visited some of the outreach (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Guebuza Contacts Mugabe Over Shire-Zambezi Waterway
Monday 01-Nov-2010: Maputo - Acting as a special envoy from President Armando Guebuza, Mozambican Transport Minister Paulo Zucula on Thursday went to Harare to deliver a message to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe conc (By News Poster)...SA Intelligence Chief Recognizes Country's Importance in Fighting Apartheid
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: Luanda - The head of South African Intelligence Services, Lieutenant General Abel Moxolisi Shilubane, who was in Angola for nearly 24 years, said that Angola had played a special role during the strug (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Join Fight Against Poverty, Youths Urged
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Special CorrespondentHarare - The black economic empowerment lobby group, the Affirmative Action Group (AAG), is attending the 2010 Kimberley Process plenary session in Jerusalem, Israel, which beg (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Six Diamond Corporation CEOs Arrested
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Freeman RazembaHarare - SIX top Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation and Canadile Miners officials have been arrested on allegations of fraudulently getting Government permission to mine diamond (By News Poster)...South Africa: Art Patients Defy Risky Sex Expectations, Says Study
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Johannesburg - Fears that antiretroviral therapy might lead healthier-feeling HIV-positive people to have more sex and potentially infect others may be unfounded, according to a new South African stud (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Corruption Impedes Right to an Identity
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Harare - Getting a passport can be vital for making a living but mounting hidden costs are making it tougher to access one, despite the government recently slashing passport fees.Fees have been reduce (By News Poster)...Uganda: Mobile Technology Doubles HIV Treatment Rate in Babies
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Esther NakkaziKampala - HIV-infected babies have had their diagnosis time cut from three months to two weeks thanks to a mobile phone-based technology.Infants with HIV need to begin medication as s (By News Poster)...Namibia: Banned Business Takes on BON
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Desie HeitaWindhoek - One of the companies that the Bank of Namibia barred from operating because its activities resemble those of pyramid schemes has launched a legal attack on the reserve bank.Tr (By News Poster)...South Africa: Absa Capital to Start Nigeria, Kenya's First Gold ETF
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku With Agency ReportAbsa Capital, a unit of South Africa's Absa Group Ltd, is in talks with the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) for the secondary listing of its NewGold Exchange-T (By News Poster)...Africa: Mauritius Still the Easiest Place to Do Business
Friday 05-Nov-2010: For the third year in a row, Mauritius ranks highest in the region on the overall regulatory ease of doing business for local firms, according to the Doing Business report released by the World Bank o (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Copac Meetings End Peacefully
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: Harare - THE constitutional outreach meetings for Harare ended on a peaceful note yesterday with no cases of violence reported in all 52 meetings conducted.When The Herald visited some of the outreach (By News Poster)...Africa: AfDB Will Implement A Food Security Support ($84.5 million) for two African Countries
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: T he Global Agriculture and Food Security Fund (GAFSP) Steering Committee (SC) approved, Wednesday November 3rd 2010 in Washington D.C., an allocation of grants to three countries for a total of $97 (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Mozal Bypass Essential to Avoid Collapse
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Paul FauvetMaputo - Unless the Mozal aluminium smelter, on the outskirts of Maputo is allowed to rebuild its Fume Treatment Centres (FTCs), there is a serious risk that these buildings will collaps (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: 'Enough Fuel in Stock'- Oil Marketers Assure
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Moses A. KargboFreetown - Oil marketing companies in Sierra Leone have allayed the fears of the population as to speculations of an imminent fuel shortage in the country following announcement Frid (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tobacco Farmers Must Insure Crop
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Harare - WE are now in that part of the season when some farmers, especially tobacco growers, risk losing their crops due to hailstorms and other rainfall related disasters.Already, a farmer in Beatri (By News Poster)...Kenya: The Country's Cabinet Ministers Under Investigation Over Corruption
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: Nairobi - Four Cabinet ministers and at least 45 senior heads of parastatals are currently being investigated in connection with corruption and other related economic crimes, Kenya's Anti-Corruption C (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Arms Seizure - No Information On Citizens' Arrest, Says Iran Embassy
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Damilola OyedeleAbuja - The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Abuja has refused to make a categorical statement over allegations that some Iranian businessmen resident in Nigeria who are i (By News Poster)...Namibia: Steps to Heal Nation's 'Pandemic on Wheels'
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Adam HartmanThere have been about 400 road deaths in Namibia so far this year - described as a "pandemic on wheels" by Minister of Works and Transport Erkki Nghimtina at the first Road Safety Indab (By News Poster)...Kenya: Maize Price Controls Rejected
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Kaburu MugambiNairobi - The Ministry of Agriculture has dismissed a proposal by farmers for the government to set maize prices during planting to avoid uncertainties at harvest time. Agriculture Pe (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Mining Companies Should Help to Stabilize Value of the Shilling
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Mark D. BomaniThe last twenty four (24) months have witnessed a wide fluctuation of the value of the Shilling vis-à-vis the US Dollar, from about Sh. 1,100 to the Dollar two years ago to aro (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Nation's Banks May Leave the Gambia
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Emele Onu And Goddy EgeneNigerian banks may be compelled to stop operations in The Gambia as opportunities and revenue thin down, exacerbated by rising competition and negative impact of the global (By News Poster)...South Africa: Limpopo Investigation Reveals Huge Car, Driver's Licence Scam
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: By Ngwako ModjadjiPolokwane - The involvement of examiners in a massive licence scam at privately run vehicle and driver test centres in Limpopo is a disgrace, says Roads and Transport MEC Pinky Kekan (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Slips Down World Bank Business Index
Saturday 06-Nov-2010: By Bernard MpofuThe inclusive government yesterday received a vote of no confidence after the country slipped by one position to 157 in the World Bank Doing Business Report which measures government's (By News Poster)...Madagascar: U.S. Calls for Return to Democratic Rule
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Sethekele NcubeA senior United States diplomat told the Malagasy people this week that the political structures and processes created by their de facto government were “insufficiently democra (By News Poster)...South Africa: The Difference Aids Makes to Vulnerable Children
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Johannesburg - New South African research shows that AIDS-affected children struggle with educational and mental health issues more than their peers, who are vulnerable for other reasons.The research, (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SA, Namibia to Bring SADC Members Closer
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Pretoria - South Africa and Namibia are expected to deepen efforts for the integration of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).President Jacob Zuma, who is in Namibia for a working visit, (By News Poster)...Gambia: Man 20, 'Rapes' 5-Year-Old Girl
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Hatab FaderaResidents of Bakau Janneh Kunda and environs were Saturday morning awakened by the shocking news of the alleged rape of a five-year old girl (name withheld) by one Lamin Darboe, a 20-ye (By News Poster)...Central Africa: Govt Agree on Action Against Rwandan Rebels
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By James KaruhangaKigali - Even though no details were disclosed to the media, top Rwandan and Congolese defence officials meeting in Kigali, announced Tuesday that they had designed and agreed on con (By News Poster)...Namibia: Shoprite Workers Threaten to Strike
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Desie HeitaWindhoek - Workers at all Shoprite/Checkers stores are mounting a national strike over what they term "slavery working conditions and exploitation of workers".Planning the industrial str (By News Poster)...Kenya: Study on ICT Investment Routes Nears Completion
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Steve MbogoA team appointed to find ways on how private equity and venture capital funds can be encouraged to invest in ICT opportunities and helped to exit by the Capital Markets Authority has ent (By News Poster)...Africa: Development Bank to Fund Two Local Projects
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Bright MaderaHarare - THE African Development Bank has approved two local projects that require US$58 million to be funded under the Zimfund next year.AfDB representative Dr Damoni Kitabire told a (By News Poster)...Liberia: Sirleaf Selects Her Running Mate for 2011
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Varney M. KamaraAt the time the call to selfless electoral politics appears to be posing serious impediment to unity within Liberia’s political opposition, the reconfigured UP is pressing ahe (By News Poster)...Africa: Give Women Peacekeepers a Chance
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: New York - The consensus was "could do better" as senior government representatives met in New York to commemorate UN Security Council Resolution 1325, a decade-old commitment to strengthen the role o (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: More Women Die in Childbirth
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Indiana ChiraraTHE number of women who die in childbirth in the country has doubled in the past decade because of the poor state of the health delivery system, a senior government official has said (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Arrest Thugs of Two PDP Candidates
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Uche F. UcheDamaturu - The police in Yobe have arrested political thugs allegedly belonging to the camps of two PDP gubernatorial candidates in the state, along Maiduguri road.The arrested thugs, a (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Intelligence Agency Denies Vote Rigging
Friday 05-Nov-2010: The Tanzania Intelligence and Security Services (TISS) yesterday distanced itself from claims by the Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) presidential candidate, Dr Willibrod Slaa, that the age (By News Poster)...Group Says Bushmen Evicted over Diamonds (news)
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Peter BoazWashington - An international boycott of Botswana diamonds aims to draw greater attention to the government's mistreatment of native Kalahari Bushmen.The rights group Survival Internation (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'Pension Funds, Safest Way of Investment'
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Jibrin AbubakarWith N4.1 billion so far paid to its registered retirees, MD of Pension Alliance Limited, David E. Uduanu, says pension funds are one of the safest ways of investment in the country. (By News Poster)...City Squatters in Legal Fix
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: By Werner MengesA group of Windhoek squatters are finding themselves in a legal tight spot, after a court ruled that while they were occupying municipal land illegally they could not challenge the con (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Jogger Demands U.S.$30,000 for Dog Bite
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: Harare - THE owner of two dogs which attacked a jogging reverend on the street faces a US$30 000 lawsuit.Reverend Justin Matyatya - - who suffered a broken arm and was bitten in the attack - - has fil (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Banks' 59,807 Workers Earn N265 Billion in 2009 -Report
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Jibrin AbubakarNigeria's 14 quoted banks with total staff strength of 59,807 incurred a wage bill of N265 billion in 2009. This is about N4 million per staff. This is based on an analysis of the st (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Asiagate Not Over Yet
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Petros KausiyoHarare - ZIFA have insisted that the door has not yet been closed on more prosecutions in the Asiagate scam with some board members implicated in match-fixing allegations in Asia stil (By News Poster)...Nigeria: PHCN Staff to Own Shares in New Firms -Workers Will Be Re-Engaged, Says Task Force
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Kunle AderinokunAbuja - It has emerged that the Federal Government is working on an arrangement to enable the employees of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to become part-owners of the 1 (By News Poster)...South Africa: New DG for Rural Development
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Nthambeleni GabaraPretoria - Cabinet has approved the appointment of Mdu Shabane as the new Director-General of the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform with effect from Monday, November (By News Poster)...Uganda: Police Fight Tororo NRM Supporters
Sunday 07-Nov-2010: By Moses Nampala And Francis KagoloKampala - GUNSHOTS, teargas and batons were used to disperse crowds that tried to block NRM parliamentary primary polls between Emmanuel Otala and Jacob Oboth-Oboth. (By News Poster)...Nigeria: A Nation Destroyed By Oil Wealth
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By L. DangalibiSince the days of the Alhaji Shehu Shagari presidency, if my recollection serves me well, each time Nigeria is to mark her independence from colonial rule, our leadership always advise (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: More Face Arrest Over Diamond Saga
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Harare - MORE people could soon be arrested in connection with the case in which six top Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation and Canadile Miners officials were apprehended for allegedly using frau (By News Poster)...Nigeria: PHCN Workers, Privatisation
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: THE Federal Government's drive to privatise and commercialise the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, through a massive unbundling into 18 firms has always been greeted with apprehension and threa (By News Poster)...FMMA Spreads Wings
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Leonard MakombeLonZIM's subsidiary, Forget Me Not Africa (FMNA), has signed two agreements with telecommunications companies to offer low cost messaging and chatting services, giving the London Sto (By News Poster)...Kenya: National Bank Shareholders to Earn Dividend After 12-Year Wait
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By John Gachiri And Moses MichiraNairobi - Shareholders at the National Bank of Kenya (NBK) will earn a dividend at the end of this year after a 12-year drought.The bank has accumulated sufficient cas (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Governors in Power Struggle Ahead of Polls
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Lagos - THE nation's 36 governors are gathering in Abuja, today, to battle for the leadership of the Nigerian Governors Forum in a contest that is laced with political intrigues tied to the 2011 presi (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Dar Embassy Bomb Trial Now Up to the Jury - Did the Suspect Know?
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Kevin KellyNairobi - Jakaya Kikwete, then Tanzania's foreign minister, was among the first officials to arrive at the shattered US embassy in Dar es Salaam soon after it was bombed 12 years ago, a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Okogie Condemns Importation of Illegal Fire Arms
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Funmi OgundareArchbishop of the Metropolitan See of Lagos, His Eminence, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, has condemned the recent illegal importation of arms and ammunition into the country sayin (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Europe, NDLEA Partner Against Narcotic Trade
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Davidson Iriekpen And Chinedu EzeWorried over increasing trade in hard drugs in the Gulf of Guinea, a team of experts from the European Commission (EC) last week met with the officials of the Natio (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Dhal Farming Could Replace Cotton in Shinyanga
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Orton KiishwekoDar es Salaam - FARMERS in Shinyanga region want to abandon cotton farming after noticing that a kilo of dhal, (famously known in Kiswahili as 'choroko') has gone up from 900/- per k (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Why Past Governments Failed to Fix Power - Nnaji
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Adeola YusufLagos - Abuja appraised its roadmap for power sector reform at the weekend and pin pointed lack of such a plan for the inability of past governments, including that of former President (By News Poster)...Namibia: Nedbank to Meet Kaaronda for Tea
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Desie HeitaWindhoek - Nedbank Namibia says it looks forward to a fruitful meeting with National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) Secretary-General, Evilastus Kaaronda, in a bid to solve the labour- (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mwana Africa Seeks U.S.$8 Million for Expansion
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Tawanda MusarurwaHarare - Mwana Africa is seeking to raise US$8 million to finance the immediate commencement of the Phase 2 expansion programme at the Freda Rebecca mine.London-listed Mwana Africa (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Millions Vote in Peaceful Elections
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Daily News ReportersDar Es Salaam - MILLIONS of Tanzanians voted smoothly and peacefully in the general elections throughout the country on Sunday.A diversity in weather conditions characterized th (By News Poster)...Residential Property Market Recovery Tapers Off
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Thabang MokopaneleJohannesburg - HOUSE price growth, while positive, remains below the very strong levels recorded earlier in the year as the residential property market recovery continues to taper (By News Poster)...Baby Drowner Smiles After 32-Year Sentence
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Denver KistingEwald Gaweseb, the Henties Bay baby drowner, smiled as he was escorted to the Police holding cells after he was sent to prison for 32 years on Friday.Judge Alfred Siboleka sentenced t (By News Poster)...Namibia: Nangombe Takes On BoN
Friday 05-Nov-2010: By Desie HeitaWindhoek - In an unprecedented move, businessman Magnus Nangombe is taking on the Bank of Namibia regarding the interpretation of the Banking Institutions Act.The cause of disagreement i (By News Poster)...Kenya: Police Hunt for Bank Manager Who Walked Away With Sh23 Million
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Nairobi - Police are on the trail of a bank manager accused of stealing Sh23 million.Detectives from the Banking Fraud Investigation Department have teamed up with Interpol in the search for the Gulf (By News Poster)...S. Africa: eTV - a Black comedian/satirical program - Late Nite News - worth listening to...
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: I am normally not very interested in black comedians because I hate that Lefty type of slant that they bring to their jokes. Once upon a time, out of desperation, I bothered to listen to them, more ou (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Zitac Faces Eviction
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Fidelis MunyoroHarare - BOKA Investments (Private) Limited is seeking to bounce back into tobacco marketing business and is now making efforts to bar Zitac from using its tobacco floors during next (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Bankers Association Issues Manual for Consistent Valuations
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: By Girum GetachewThe Ethiopian Bankers Association (EBA) has prepared and distributed its Real Property Valuation manual, which is meant to provide uniform guidelines for the valuation of properties i (By News Poster)...[Pic] My Trip to America - Why do Americans burn weeds? Is it a Green thing?
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: While Captain Joseph Smith and I were in that "farm store" in Portland, Oregon; I spotted something else that I had not seen before. I don't recall having ever seen anything like this in South Africa. (By Jan)...Son Allegedly Kills Dad
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Harare - A Hurungwe man, who allegedly fatally assaulted his father, has appeared in court facing murder charges.Admire Mpariwa (27) of Mpariwa Village in the Chidzi-mamoto area of Hurungwe allegedly (By News Poster)...Gambia: State House Rice Farm Harvested
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: By Hatab FaderaHundreds of women volunteers from four villages in the Kombo South and North Constituencies of the West Coast Region Saturday turned out in their numbers to harvest a vast Nerica rice f (By News Poster)...South Africa: President Zuma Announces Changes to the National Executive
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: Ladies and gentlemen of the media,Fellow South Africans,Today marks the beginning of the CAF African Women's Championship hosted by our country, featuring eight of the best African women's soccer team (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Delta Partners General Electric On Green Economy Technologies
Monday 01-Nov-2010: By Sunday OkobiDelta State government is to invest on a cheap and environmentally-friendly technology, in order to improve on the power system in the state.The State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan who (By News Poster)...South Africa: Reshuffle Raises Expectations for Zuma Administration
Monday 01-Nov-2010: Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma's Cabinet reshuffle on Sunday will raise expectations for the performance of government business, experts said on Monday.President Zuma announced a Cabinet reshuffle in (By News Poster)...Angola: Namibian Nationalist Wants National Economic Independence
Monday 01-Nov-2010: Windhoek - The Namibian nationalist Herman Andimba Toivo Ya Toivo said that Angolans should work hard now to achieve economic independence, after having already conquered freedom on 11 November 1975 a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Desmond Tutu - an Icon Steps Aside
Friday 05-Nov-2010: The Most Rev. Dr. Mpilo Tutu, widely credited as South Africa's moral conscience, the man who vociferously fought against the injustices of the apartheid system of government, has truly earned his tow (By News Poster)...S.Africa: The Miserable ANC Youth League wants to shut down Twitter...
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: [These Lefties can't handle it when someone else dishes out their own medicine to them. In the 1980s the British had a tremendous amount of satire at the expense of the then President PW Botha of Sout (By Jan)...Science: An AfricanCrisis reader showed me Hydrogen fuel cells... mind blowing...
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Last night I dashed off to see one of our readers who is a pretty technical guy. I have some stuff to experiment with which he did for me. Its to do with security and what I want out of security fo (By Jan)...[3 Pics] S.Africa: Johannesburg: Child Trafficking incident at Zoo Lake
Thursday 04-Nov-2010: [I received this from a regular reader of ours. Jan] I refer you to the article in the Killarney Rosebank Gazette about the Child trafficing attempt at the Zoo Lake. Me and my wife (Gavin Lipsch (By Jan)...[Pic] My Trip to America - Prison Blu - Very cool... American prisoners AT WORK!
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: While Captain Joseph Smith and I were driving around Portland, Oregon we went into a very nice little "farm" hardware store. I browsed around the store and enjoyed it. While I was there, I found it ve (By Jan)...USA: Was there Electoral fraud going on in Nevada? Why did Reid win? A friend in Nevada writes...
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: [A friend and supporter in Nevada sent me these thoughts after the election. Everyone I spoke to said that Harry Reid is hated by almost everybody in Nevada. They regard him as a sell-out and a back-s (By Jan)...[2 Pics] My Trip to America - Portland, Oregon's stunning bridges...
Wednesday 03-Nov-2010: Here are some photos from my recent trip to the USA. I took these at the start of my trip when Captain Joseph Smith took me on a day's drive around Portland and on a very long trip to the surrounding (By Jan)...[7 Pics] [Humor] Office T-Shirts...
Tuesday 02-Nov-2010: [Here’s a bit of a laugh. A friend sent me this. Jan] Description: I don't have enough middle fingers to let you know how I feel T-Shirts Description: 99 perecent of all women are beau (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (05-11-2010)
Friday 05-Nov-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- I can't say I am looking forward to this evening. Being Guy Fawkes' night and even in a country recovering from a recession, it would appea (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (01-11-2010)
Monday 01-Nov-2010: Howzit It is a little before 8 o'clock in the morning and I am about to head to the hospital, but I have just enough time to tell you about yesterday evening. Being Halloween, our street normall (By The BeardedMan)...
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