Weekly Southern African Report
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 14th 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[68 Pics] My Trip to America - A CIA airline - The Evergreen museum & Howard Hughes incredible Spruce Goose
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: One of the best kept secrets in Oregon, hidden away in a small town of McMinnville is a really incredible place: The Evergreen museum. My host, Captain Joseph Smith went to great lengths to get me (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (11-11-2010)
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: Howzit Today is Armistice day. And, if history had turned out differently, Rhodesia would have been 45 years of age. But that is now just a memory. On Sunday our local Royal British Legion branc (By The BeardedMan)...Congo-Kinshasa: LRA Victims Appeal to Obama
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: Washington, DC - Victims of atrocities by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have sent emotional personal pleas to US President Barack Obama, calling for urgent action to end attacks by the rebel group, (By News Poster)...What Would Chris Hani Say Today?
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Zwelinzima VaviWithout mass power, we must all forget about liberating ourselves from the shackles of capitalism and apartheid,' writes Zwelinzima Vavi, in a memorial lecture for Chris Hani, the So (By News Poster)...Uganda: Letter to President Obama on the U.S. Comprehensive Strategy on the Lord's Resistance Army
Saturday 13-Nov-2010: Dated July 15, 2010 / Made public November 11, 2010Dear Mr. President,We write to provide input to the comprehensive strategy that the US government is developing following the recent enactment of the (By News Poster)...Stock Markets: Ireland on the brink of collapse - Ireland's Fate Tied to Doomed Banks
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: [Look here at how Ireland has been doing for years now what the USA is doing. And... how is that working out? Actually it is not! Ireland is bailing out and bailing out and the whole thing is becoming (By Jan)...USA: Stock Market - Gold is flying to newer, higher highs... US Stock market still going up? My thoughts on Gold
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: I see that Gold is exploding to new highs, heading for the $1400 region. According to the P&F charts, the next target for Gold is a staggering $1800. Can you believe it? There are people talking o (By Jan)...S.Africa: A Boer War memorial - The Suidlanders destroy Satan's Penis - When Afrikaners become irrational - My Thoughts
Sunday 14-Nov-2010: I could not believe my eyes the other day when the Afrikaans publication SONDAG had a billboard about Satan's Penis. I asked a friend to find out what it was about. He told me that the story is ab (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: IMPORTANT: Mugabe's Army deploys to begin massive pre-election intimidation & murder of Black people...
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: [Rest assured, the beatings and murder will be going into high gear in Zimbabwe. Murder, murder, murder... that's the way Mugabe likes to have "Free and Fair elections" while mouthing off and telling (By Jan)...Gambia: Damaging Evidence Revealed in Ex-IGP Trial
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Sidiq AsemotaThe criminal trial involving the state against the former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ensa Badjie and Ali Ceesay proceeded yesterday, Thursday 11th of November 2010 before the Sp (By News Poster)...Africa: China in Africa - a Mutually Beneficial Partnership?
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Rangarirai MlamboIn the past few decades, Africa has seen aid and foreign direct investment inflows increase dramatically. Among the investor nations, China has stood out not only as one of the lar (By News Poster)...Sudan: Halt Attacks on Darfur Civilians, Says Rights Group
Friday 12-Nov-2010: New York - Sudanese government forces have carried out a series of attacks on civilians since August 2010 in Jebel Marra, the mountainous rebel stronghold in central Darfur, Human Rights Watch said to (By News Poster)...Africa: Patent Grab Threatens Biodiversity and Food Sovereignty
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Hope Shand'Under the guise of developing "climate-ready" crops, the world's largest seed and agrochemical corporations are pressuring governments to allow what could become the broadest and most da (By News Poster)...Uganda: Oil Discovery Sparks Land Grab in Buliisa
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Jocelyn EdwardsKampala - Oil has not even started flowing but, already, it is causing conflict in Bunyoro, western Uganda where land disputes have erupted. The two billion barrels of oil discovered (By News Poster)...Twenty-Year Plan for Electricity Generation And What It Means
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Saliem FakirThe draft twenty-year plan for electricity generation, also called the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) 2010, was released a few weeks ago for public comment. The IRP process is all but a (By News Poster)...West Africa: 70 Percent of Illegal Arms in West Africa are in Country - NATFORCE Boss
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Abdullahi Yahaya BelloThe National Task Force to Combat Illegal Importation of Goods, Small Arms, Ammunition and Light Weapons (NATFORCE), was inaugurated in June, 2009 to combat this menace in Nig (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG Piles Up Evidence Against Henry Okah
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Kingsley Nwezeh And Segun JamesAbuja/Yenagoa - The Federal Government is building a mass of evidence against militant leader, Mr. Henry Okah, following his attempt to extricate himself from the Oct (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Arms Import - Frightening Details Uncovered
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: As the nation awaits the resolution of the riddles surrounding the illegal importation of the large cache of arms and ammunition including rockets through the Apapa Ports in July, more damning and fri (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Must be Allowed to Sell Diamonds
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Innocent Chofamba-SitholeHarare - The opposition to Zimbabwe's right to sell its diamonds is deeply troubling and must be exposed for what it really is without pussyfooting or beating about the bus (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamonds and Human Rights are Forever
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Blessing-Miles TendiLast week's failure of the Kimberley Process (KP) to reach agreement on whether to give the Zimbabwe government the green light to export alluvial diamonds from the Chiadzwa dia (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Super-Corruption: High-ranking ANC official... stole R70 million
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: My Liberal friend was telling me that a high ranking ANC official was arrested recently. He was operating in the North West province. This guy stole something like R70 million!!! Is it really shoc (By Jan)...Sudan: Khartoum's Army Bomb South, Targeting Darfur Rebels
Sunday 14-Nov-2010: Khartoum - At least 8 people have been injured in an aerial bombardment by Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) hunting rebel forces from war torn region of Darfur in Aweil north county, Northern Bahr el Ghazal S (By News Poster)...Kenya: New Wave of South African Investments Hits Nation
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Geoffrey IrunguStrong performance of the Kenyan economy has sparked a new wave of investments from South African companies - marking a comeback after a lull that cut short a surge at the turn of th (By News Poster)...Somalia: Puntland Says 96 Militants Killed, Urges Somaliland to 'Act Against Terror'
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: The president of Somalia's Puntland government has called on the Somaliland separatist administration in northwestern Somalia to 'act against terrorists' who threaten regional stability, Radio Garowe (By News Poster)...Africa: Why Africa is the Next Destination
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Eugene NyambalThis year, McKinsey published a sounding report on « the Lions on the move” asserting that Africa could be part of the emerging world shaping the 21st century. Indeed, Afr (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Senior RUF Officer Cross-Examined for Third Day
Monday 08-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)...Somalia: UN Official Calls for Multi-Pronged War on Piracy
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: The growing problem of piracy off the Somali coast demands more than just military efforts, the United Nations political chief told the Security Council today, calling for simultaneous action on three (By News Poster)...S.Africa: The Big Lie about Cuba's Great Health Care - South African medical dropouts are trained in Cuba...
Sunday 14-Nov-2010: One of the biggest and most pervasive lies doing the rounds, across the world is that a big "success" of Fidel Castro's rule was "healthcare for the masses". This is an enormous LIE. This lie is so pe (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Roadmap First Before Elections - Zuma
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Wongai ZhangazhaSouth African President Jacob Zuma said he would not support an election in Zimbabwe that is marred by violence, intimidation and a suppressed media environment and called on the th (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Death of a Businesswoman Ends Cardosa Case
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Paul FauvetMaputo - Candida Cossa, a businesswoman accused of involvement in the murder, in November 2000, of Mozambique's top investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso, died in Maputo, from an unsp (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamond Firm Charged With Fraud Over Chiadzwa Claim
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Alex BellThe London listed diamond firm in the middle of a legal battle for ownership of the controversial Chiadzwa alluvial diamond site, has been charged with fraud, as the government strengthens (By News Poster)...South Africa: Who Profits from Copper Theft?
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Erin TorkelsonThere is little doubt that copper cable theft is a growing problem in South Africa, particularly for the electricity, telecommunications, and railway parastatals Eskom, Telkom, and Tr (By News Poster)...West Africa: 'Raped in Guinea, Then Raped Again in Senegal'
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Dakar - On 28 September 2009 in a Guinea stadium, Djeneba* was raped by a soldier while another beat her head. Calling her a criminal and a whore, the men then shoved a wooden club into her vagina. "I (By News Poster)...South Africa: Crime Report Fails to Provide Answers
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: Pretoria - A much awaited report that sought to find answers to the question, 'Why is crime in South Africa violent', has failed to adequately do so, the Police Ministry said.The report - a culminatio (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Illegal Arms Shipment - Giving Iran a Bad Name?
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: By Hadi SaulawaLast month's seizure of an illegal shipment of 13 containers loaded with heavy military armament in Lagos by Nigerian security agencies has generated a lot of controversy.Coming a few w (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tussle Over Planned Resumption of Deportations
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Johannesburg - As the deadline to deport undocumented Zimbabwean migrants on or after 1 January 2011 looms, human rights activists warn South Africa could face a potential human rights disaster, thoug (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Strike Imminent as Government, Labour Talks Deadlocked
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Victor Ahiuma-Young And Daniel IdonorAbuja - THE stage is now set for a three day warning strike by Labour over the issue of minimum wage for workers in the public service as organized Labour made (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Arms Seizure - Iran Behind Shipment - Security Agents
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Abuja - THE Nigerian government yesterday fingered its Iranian counterpart as the brains behind last month shipment into Nigeria of 13 containers loaded with weapons such as grenades and rocket which (By News Poster)...12 Blacklisted in Diamond Clean-Up
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: Harare - The Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation has blacklisted at least 12 Core Mining shareholders and its directors amid allegations that some of them were blood diamond dealers who could have (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Soldiers Caused Blackout, Say PHCN Workers - Locals 'Ready to Pay for Improved Power Supply'
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Linda Eroke and Ndubuisi UgahWorkers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) have said the presence of armed military personnel at its installations is responsible for the current power outa (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Election Fell Short of ?International Commitments,? Say European Observers
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: The executive summary of the final report of the European Union’s Election Observation Mission to the 2010 House of People’s Representatives and State Council elections in Ethiopia:Ethiopi (By News Poster)...USA: George Bush gives ABC Interviewer a lesson in the basic economics of job creation....
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: [What George Bush says is very true, and this is the basis of Free Market economics. In South Africa, the Govt would never want to pretend that any of this is true of course. Jan] This is an excert (By Jan)...Nigeria: Govt Summons Iranian Envoy Over Seized Weapons Saga -Ajumogobia - Iran Has Agreed to Co-Operate With Investigation
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Paul OhiaThe Federal Government has summoned Iran's ambassador to Nigeria, Hussein Abdullahi, over the arms shipment seized in Lagos last month, Reuters reported last night, quoting a Nigerian offi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Iran Arms-Smuggling Case Roils Nation
Saturday 13-Nov-2010: Nigeria is threatening to report Iran to the UN Security Council if an investigation shows it violated international law and U.N. sanctions in importation of arms to Lagos, Foreign Affairs Minister, M (By News Poster)...Uganda: The Country is At War. Did You Know?
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Matthew SteinKampala - Early last week numerous newsrooms around the country received a conspicuous email from an individual who referred to himself only as "Diablo (devil) Man." The email, which w (By News Poster)...Gambia: Two Soldiers Arrested and Dismissed for Drug Trafficking
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Abubacarr SaidykhanPa Yusupha Jatta a private and Sanna Sanyang also a military personnel stationed at the Yundum Barracks were on the 3rd of November 2010 detained at the headquarters of National (By News Poster)...East Africa: CBK Kills Cabinet Plan to Use Forex Reserves
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Jaindi KiseroNairobi - The Central Bank of Kenya has rejected a decision by the Cabinet to use the country's foreign exchange reserves to fund five large privately owned power projects that were su (By News Poster)...Speaking Notes by President Jacob Zuma at the G20 Business Summit, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Jacob ZumaExcellencies,Captains of Commerce and Industry,Ladies and Gentlemen,The interaction between government and the business sector is an important feature of the G20 forum.I am pleased to joi (By News Poster)...Briefing to Media by Home Affairs Director-General Mkuseli Apleni on the Join Agreement Between the Department and the Financial Intelligence Centre
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Minister of Home Affairs, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, today Thursday 11 November 2010, is happy to announce that refugees and asylum permit holders will from now henceforth be able to open bank account (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Government Destroying Mining Sector
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Eric BlochIt is an incontrovertible fact that Zimbabwe's greatest need is a substantive economic recovery, instead of the minimal upturn achieved since early 2009. Millions of Zimbabweans are strug (By News Poster)...Central African Republic: Food Security Fears Rise as Attacks Increase
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Nairobi - A rise in armed incursions is restricting people's movements, reducing their ability to farm and increasing food security concerns in the Haut-Mbomou and Mbomou regions in the southeast Cent (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NUEE Threatens Another Showdown
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Francis OnoiribholoBenin - Executive committee of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), Edo/Delta zone, has threatened to withdraw its members from the Sapele Power Station in Delta S (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG Repeals Expatriate Quota Approvals for Oil Industry
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Yemie AdeoyeCompanies seeking to get expatriate quota approvals for their operations in the oil and gas industry must first advertise the positions to Nigerians through national and international m (By News Poster)...Ghana: Why the Nation Gave in to the Cocoa Baron
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: Ghana has lifted its ban on a business caught smuggling cocoa out of the country, after lobbying by Britain at the request of the company's owner. As long as African countries are dependent on aid, th (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: IMF Commends Economic Recovery
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Golden SibandaHarare - THE International Monetary Fund has commended the country's steady progress towards economic recovery, noting that efforts to strengthen policies and favourable shocks have b (By News Poster)...Uganda: Guilty! Under Cloud of Suspicion
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Matthew SteinKampala - More than four months after Jean-Leonard Rugambage, the outspoken deputy editor of Umuvugizi newspaper was shot outside his home in Kigali, his killers have been sentenced to (By News Poster)...Inflation Drops to Five-Year Low
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Jo-MarÉ DuddyANNUAL inflation again edged back last month, settling at 3,2 per cent and continuing the downward trend it has maintained for most of the year.So far, the price monster has only manag (By News Poster)...Democracy, Civil Society And the Right to Dissent
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Richard PithouseGwede Mantashe, the Secretary General of the African National Congress and Chairperson of the South African Communist Party, is not a democrat. He's hardly the only influential publ (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Empowering Schools With Solar Alternative
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Generating set as democracy dividend?It was with mixed feelings that stakeholders greeted the news in the first quarter of this year that Anambra State governor, Mr. Peter Obi's administration decided (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bush Memoirs Expose U.S. Abuses
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Takunda MaodzaHarare - Former US president George W. Bush has admitted he sanctioned the gruesome torture of suspects during his tenure, a development political analysts say should prompt the Inter (By News Poster)...South Africa: My Life as a Security Guard
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Faced by high unemployment South Africans are 'queuing up to be exploited', writes Mashumi 'Lindela' Figlan. But there's no reason why 'each and every person cannot have their dignity.'Maybe it is goo (By News Poster)...Sudan: Senior Administration Officials on Developments Ahead of Referenda
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: Washington, DC - A background briefing via teleconference conducted by senior officials of the U.S. State Department, with Philip J. Crowley,Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Public Affairs of the State (By News Poster)...South Africa: No Change in HIV Rate Among Pregnant Women
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Johannesburg - About 29 percent of South African pregnant women were living with HIV in 2009 - a figure that has barely shifted over the past four years, despite increased levels of commitment from th (By News Poster)...Africa: G20 Nations Commit to Growth, Aid for Poor Countries
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Leaders of 20 of the world's developed and developing economies have drawn up what they call a new "development consensus" calling for "inclusive, sustainable and resilient growth" to reduce poverty, (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mpofu Accused of Asking for Bribes in Diamonds Saga
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Mines Minister Obert Mpofu has been dramatically accused in front of President Robert Mugabe of soliciting bribes by Canadile Miners deputy chairman Lovemore Kurotwi who was last week arrested for all (By News Poster)...Somalia: Farole Addresses Puntland Media Conference, Pardons Jailed Journalist
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: The president of Somalia's Puntland government addressed the opening day on Sunday of a three-day conference held in the state capital Garowe, where he defended Puntland's laws and its history of pres (By News Poster)...Africa: G20 Pledge to Avoid Currency War Gets Lukewarm Reception
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Phillip Inman and Patrick WintourSeoul - The G20 summit concluded this morning after failing to tackle growing concerns that currency wars between Washington and Beijing will undermine hard-won sta (By News Poster)...Swaziland: Jobs to be Cut to Secure International Loan
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: By Mantoe PhakathiThousands of public servants in Swaziland are due to lose their jobs in cutbacks as part of a government bid to gain approval from the International Monetary Fund for a loan. But som (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Khama Insists Botswana Policy On Zim Unchanged
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Alex BellBotswana's President Ian Khama has insisted that his country's policies towards Zimbabwe have not changed, despite calling for the lifting of targeted Western sanctions still in place agai (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Lifeline for Microfinance Banks
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Jerry UwahThe microfinance banking system in Nigeria is in distress. The foundation for the distress was inadvertently laid by the founding fathers of the system in 2005 when more than 800 microfin (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Firms Panic As Militants Issue New Threat
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku With Agency ReportIt was a mixture of good and bad news for Nigeria yesterday as oil prices reached a two-year high point before the celebration was tempered by the report of (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Indigenous Company Set to End Illegal Bunkering and Facilities' Vandalisation
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Omoh GabrielFenog Nigeria Limited a Nigerian indigenous company has installed Jackets Barge that has the capacity to monitor crude flow through pipelines.This development brightens the hopes that t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Firms Disrupt Work at Sapele Power Station - Battle Over Use of Facilities
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Sam AkadoroSapele - Operations of the Sapele Power Station was temporary halted Thursday when two companies, Ringardas Nigeria Limited and Lubcon Oil, engaged in supremacy battle over who controls (By News Poster)...Africa: Women Find Freedom Through Land Ownership
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Charissa SparksWomen have less access to food, shelter, education, income, healthcare, and land when compared to men, leading to what some call the "feminization of poverty." Today, women and girls (By News Poster)...Notorious Murderer Dies in Police Cell
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: Maputo - Samuel Januario Nhare (better known as "Samito"), a man accused of the murders of ten people, including four policemen, died in his cell in the Maputo City Police Command on Sunday.Police sou (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamond Arrests Raise More Questions About Government Involvement
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Alex BellQuestions are being raised over the government's true intentions of implicating a diamond mining firm in fraud, after personally giving it the green light to operate at Chiadzwa.Police hav (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Intercept Weapons in Oyo
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Yemi BamideleIbadan - The police in Oyo State have intercepted a large arms and ammunition cache from a suspected bank robbery squad in Ibadan.The Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Baba Adisa Bolanta, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Labour Suspends Strike - Policeman Shoots Union Leader in Benin
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: Labour on Wednesday suspended its nationwide strike originally planned for three days over the government's refusal to provide legal backing for a new minimum wage of N18,000 in both the public and pr (By News Poster)...Western Sahara: Talks Drag on Amid Deadly Clashes
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: By Haider RizviDisappointed with the outcome of the most recent informal talks with Morocco, the pro-independence leaders of Western Sahara are calling for the U.N. to take action against what they de (By News Poster)...Somalia: 'Somaliland Soldiers Fought Alongside Al Shabaab in Galgala' - Puntland
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: A Cabinet minister in Somalia's Puntland government has disclosed information that soldiers working for the separatist government of Somaliland in northwest Somalia fought alongside Al Shabaab insurge (By News Poster)...Two School Boys Arrested for Gang Rape
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: Pretoria - Two school boys, who allegedly drugged and gang raped a school girl inside a Johannesburg high school premises, have been arrested.This follows an incident last Thursday, where three boys a (By News Poster)...East Africa: EU Gives U.S.$0.6 Million for Fight Against Small Arms
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Nairobi - The fight against illicit arms in East and Southern Africa has received a $690,000 boost from the European Union.Through a grant to the Regional Centre on Small Arms (Recsa), the funds will (By News Poster)...South Africa: South Africa Leads Way to Safe Nuclear Medicine
Friday 12-Nov-2010: South Africa is expecting nuclear and medical researchers to beat a path to its door after it transformed nuclear weapons developed during its apartheid era into tools for fighting cancer and heart di (By News Poster)...Kenya: PTA Bank's Eurobond Paves Way for Other Issuers
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Moses MichiraOver-subscription of PTA Bank's international bond is a reflection of foreign investors' improved perception of risks posed by African enterprises and is likely to pave way for other p (By News Poster)...Namibia: No Bail in Okahandja Murder Case From 2002
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Werner MengesMore than eight years after their arrest, the two men accused of robbing and murdering an elderly jeweller at Okahandja in September 2002 heard this week that they will be remaining in (By News Poster)...Kenya: High Global Crude Prices Fuel Rise in Prices of Oil
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Kennedy SenelwaNairobi - Kenyan motorists are feeling the heat of increasing crude prices which are now heading to those last witnessed in 2008.In Nairobi's city centre, the cost of petrol has hit (By News Poster)...Kenya: Politicians Aim to Stop Polls Violence Cases, Group Warns
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Samwel Kumba and Emeka-Mayaka GekaraNairobi - The Kofi Annan team that brokered the peace pact after the 2007 elections is worried that powerful forces are regrouping to frustrate the prosecution o (By News Poster)...South Africa: Preventative TB Therapy Halves Risk of Death Among ARV Patients
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: Johannesburg - Preventative tuberculosis (TB) therapy can reduce death among patients on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment by about half, according to new research from South Africa.Based on an observati (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Arrested Diamond Officials Deny Fraud
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Alex BellThe arrested group of officials from a joint venture that was, until recently, mining at the Chiadzwa diamond fields, has denied their involvement in any fraud.Lawyers representing the six (By News Poster)...East Africa: Why It's So Difficult to Tell Mandela's Story
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Tom OdhiamboNairobi - I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other... The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to som (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Power Cuts And High Costs Causing Major Deforestation
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Tererai KarimakwendaThe failure of the government to develop a stable and reliable electricity infrastructure has continued to wreak havoc on Zimbabwe's landscape, causing massive environmental des (By News Poster)...Africa: Mobile Phones 'Powerful' in Promoting Health, Advocates Say
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Cindy ShinerLeaders in the business, development, health and research communities are gathering this week in Washington, DC, to plan how to more effectively deliver healthcare through mobile techno (By News Poster)...Egypt: Govt Cracks Down Ahead of Election
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By William FisherNew York - In the face of police brutality, crackdowns on political parties and media, and a host of other violations ahead of Egypt's Nov. 28 parliamentary election, human rights adv (By News Poster)...Kenya: Local Banks Eye Record Breaking 2010 Profits As Economy Picks Up
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Jevans NyabiageNairobi - Kenyan banks are expected to report record-breaking 2010 profits in the backdrop of the ongoing economic recovery as businesses and households increase borrowing to finance (By News Poster)...Nigeria's Central Bank Releases New Banking Guidelines
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Omoh GabrielLagos - The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has released the rules and regulation governing the implementation of the modified universal banking model which is billed to take off Monday.I (By News Poster)...Rwanda: President Urges African Business Leaders to Invest in Health
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Berna NamataKigali - President Paul Kagame, on Saturday, urged the private sector both in Rwanda and across the continent to build stronger partnerships and increase their investment in health.Addr (By News Poster)...Somalia: Dutch Navy Chases Pirates
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: On 6 November 2010, the EU NAVFOR Dutch ship HNLMS AMSTERDAM successfully located and disrupted one Pirate Action Group (PAG) comprising of 2 skiffs with 9 suspected pirates onboard.On 5 November, two (By News Poster)...Somalia: Pirates Attack Naval Warship
Monday 08-Nov-2010: During the night of November 6, the EU NAVFOR warship SPS INFANTA CRISTINA was attacked off the East coast of Somalia by a vessel identified as the MV IZUMI, a ship that had itself been pirated on 10 (By News Poster)...Namibia: Financial Inclusion Necessary for Balanced Economic Growth - BoN
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Nayasha Francis NyaungwaWindhoek - The governor of the Bank of Namibia (BoN) has bemoaned the lack of access to financial services by the majority of the economically active population, as financia (By News Poster)...Zapu Rebirth - a Threat to MDC Dominance?
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Brian ChitembaThe revived Zapu party, which announced last week that it will field candidates in all constituencies if elections are held next year, is likely to pose a serious threat to MDC-T's do (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FBI to Quiz Mutallab Over Mail Bomb
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Abiodun OluwarotimiNew York - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will soon commence the interrogation of the Christmas Day airline bomber, Mr. Farouk Abdulmutallab over the recent attempt to (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Consulates in SA Slammed for 'Stealing' From Citizens
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Alex BellRights groups in South Africa have expressed their shock that the Zimbabwean Consulate Offices in the country are 'robbing' many Zimbabweans, desperately trying to get passports to avoid d (By News Poster)...Sudan: Govt Hopes for Investments After Referendum
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Khartoum - The Sudanese parliament today approved the 2011 budget as the country moves towards a likely breakup of Africa's largest country into North and South in the self-determination referendum du (By News Poster)...Sudan: Arab Militiamen Join SLM Rebels in North Darfur
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: Khartoum - Darfur's rebel Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) said today that a group of Arab militia has joined their ranks after denouncing government policy to divide Darfurians.A group of former Arab (By News Poster)...Somalia: UN Envoy Deplores Rising Recruitment of Child Soldiers in Somalia
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: The United Nations envoy for children and armed conflict today deplored the rapid rise in the recruitment of children by armed groups in Somalia, as well as an emerging trend of girls being forced int (By News Poster)...Gambia: Unique Solutions, Other Partners Launch Pilot Mobile Repair Training Programme
Sunday 14-Nov-2010: Unique Solutions Company Limited, one of the leading ICT Companies together with GAMJOBS, MOTIE, UNDP, GCCI, RLG Communications of Ghana and NYC launched a state-of-the-art technology centre housing t (By News Poster)...Uganda: Uganda Slams Western Pirate Strategy in Somalia
Friday 12-Nov-2010: The Western strategy toward piracy in Somalia is wasteful and inefficient, Uganda has said. The international community should spend its money on the African Union instead of funding naval operations (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 'We Can Reclaim Breadbasket Status'
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Harare - The 2010 summer cropping season has started in earnest with Zimbabwe aiming to become self-sufficient in maize production and making manoeuvres to regain its regional breadbasket status. For (By News Poster)...Kenya: Bank Profits Surge on Increased Economic Activities
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Victor JumaThe banking sector is set to record higher profits this year compared to 2009, boosted by increased economic activities, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has said in its third-quarter sec (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Crime - Lagos, Ogun Top in Armed Robbery
Saturday 13-Nov-2010: By Wisdom PatrickLagos - As both the Muslim and Christian faithful look forward to the Eid-el Kabir and Charismas celebrations respectively, criminal activities have also increased in some major state (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 13 Containers of Weapons Billed for Country - State Security Services
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Chizoba OgbecheAbuja - Contrary to reports in a section of the media that the 13 containers of arms intercepted at the Apapa Port allegedly shipped from the Middle East entered Nigeria in error, th (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamond Watchdog Continues Talks on Approving Sales
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Alex BellA four day meeting of the international diamond trade watchdog, the Kimberley Process (KP), ended with no sign of an agreement on Zimbabwe's diamond trade future on Thursday.KP Chairman Bo (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Needs Structural Reforms - IMF
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Chris MuronziZimbabwe's economic outlook is looking up, but the country needs to institute structural reforms around tenure system and address rigidity in the labour market, the International Monet (By News Poster)...South Africa: Kidnapped Yachtsman Back Home
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: Pretoria - The South African yachtsman, who was rescued from a hostage drama involving Somali pirates, is back in the country.International Relations spokesperson Saul Kgomotso Molobi confirmed on Wed (By News Poster)...Mugabe 2011 Poll Call Hits Brick Wall (news)
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaHarare - PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's election call lurched into turmoil as reports indicated that party hardliners were opposed to the plebiscite called for to end an acrimonious unity (By News Poster)...Africa: Europe-India Deal Could Threaten HIV Drug Access
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: Nairobi - As Indian and European officials meet in Brussels to thrash out the details of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), civil society activists are concerned the deal could mean tighter intellectual pr (By News Poster)...Angola: Dos Santos Actively Campaigning for Elections
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: For the first time in his 31 years in power, Angola’s President, José Eduardo dos Santos, gave a State of the Nation address to the National Assembly in Luanda on 15 October. His decision (By News Poster)...Angola: Daylight on Dos Santos
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: For the first time in his 31 years in power, Angola’s President, José Eduardo dos Santos, gave a State of the Nation address to the National Assembly in Luanda on 15 October. His decision (By News Poster)...Somalia: Clashes Claim 11 Lives in Mogadishu
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Fierce clashes between Somali government troops, backed by African Union (AU) forces, and al-Shabab fighters have left at least 11 people dead and 25 others injured in Mogadishu.Seven people - - mostl (By News Poster)...South Africa: Controversy Over Fraud Charges Against Ruling Party Leader
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Andre GroblerKimberley - Efforts to humiliate Northern Cape ANC leader John Block have "turned to dust", his supporters claimed on Wednesday after the local political leader was granted bail by t (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: No Sex for a Month to Prevent HIV
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: Johannesburg - An aggressive national campaign to persuade people to abstain from sex or commit to 100 percent condom use for a month could make a significant contribution to HIV prevention efforts, s (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 'No Vote' Campaign Gathers Momentum
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Harare - A "NO Vote" campaign to reject the proposed new constitution during the referendum set for March next year is gathering momentum. The National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), the civil society (By News Poster)...Uganda: Promise of Presidential Committee On Corruption Kills Good Manifesto
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Bernard TabaireDuring a talk show on KFM on Tuesday evening, a listener sent in a text message commenting on the NRM manifesto, the subject of the discussion. He said the ruling party is better off (By News Poster)...Somalia: Execution of Girls Returns Nation to 'Stone Age' - UN
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Several independent United Nations experts today condemned the recent public execution of two teenage girls in central Somalia, voicing deep concern that groups such as the Islamic militant Al-Shabaab (By News Poster)...Namibia: A Look at the Bad Side of Renewable Energy
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Erastus IthanaWE all have the same viewpoint that renewable resource technology is environmentally friendly.It is said to pose no harm or threat to the natural environment or human health. Accordin (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Abuja Bombing - Car Dealers, Welder Arrested
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: By NanThe State Security Service (SSS) has arrested some car dealers from whom the cars used for the Oct. 1, bombings in Abuja, were purchased.Ms Marilyn Ogar, the Assistant Director, Public Relations (By News Poster)...JSE Giant Revives Bid for Olivine
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Shame MakoshoriHarare - Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)-listed food and detergents manufacturer, Sunoil Refineries, has revived a US$10 million bid for Zimbabwean food producer, Olivine Industrie (By News Poster)...Gambia: African Cashew Alliance Organises Cashew Week Forum
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Sheriff BarryThe African Cashew Alliance recently organized a four-day cashew week at Kairaba Beach Hotel.In his opening remarks, Sheriff Bojang, Deputy Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Agric (By News Poster)...Africa's Mobile Phone Users Exceed 500 Million
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Bethrand NwankwoAbuja - The African mobile market exceeded half a billion subscribers during the third quarter of this year, hitting about 506 million at the end of September, according to a resear (By News Poster)...Africa: Pepfar Showing Greater Effectiveness, Efficiency Against HIV/Aids
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Stephen KaufmanNearly seven years after the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was announced, the program is having an "extraordinary impact" on the prevention and treatment of HIV (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nigeria-China Co-Operation On Fake Drugs
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Given the hydra-headed nature of the problem of adulterated drugs in the country, the envisaged co-operation agreement between China and Nigeria in the bid to fight the menace is quite heart-warming.A (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bulk Meters - Hub of Huge Debts, Dry Taps
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Roselyne Sachiti"How does one go on everyday and decide not to pay water bills? What amazes me is that some water their lush green lawns often; others have lavish parties, drive the latest cars and (By News Poster)...Sudan: Southern Sudanese Army Attacks Moyo, Abduct Fourteen
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: By Barbara AmongKampala - ARMED Southern Sudan Army (SPLA) soldiers yesterday attacked a village in the West Nile district of Moyo and abducted 11 civilians.The raid on Dengolo village in Lefori sub-c (By News Poster)...Somalia: Notice of Meeting of Contact Group On Piracy Off Coast of Somalia
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: The United States will join partners from 60 countries and international organizations at the United Nations in New York November 10 for a plenary meeting of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast (By News Poster)...South Africa: Aids and the Bottom Line
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: Pretoria - Companies need to invest more on their HIV and Aids workplace programmes or continue to face losing million of rands in profit and productivity as a result of the disease.These are some of (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Civil Society Joins Hunt for Rapist
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: Harare - Civil society yesterday pledged to join the police in the hunt for the man who raped a four-year-old girl in a grave at a farm near Norton.Padare/Enkundleni - a men's organisation - has offer (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Militants Attack Oil Facilities, Abduct Workers in Akwa Ibom
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Bernard Tolani Dada UyoTwo workers of an indigenous oil company, Affren Oil Limited, operating off the coast line of Eastern Obolo in Akwa Ibom State were yesterday abducted by gunmen suspected to (By News Poster)...Tanzania: National Fuel Prices Rise At the Pumps
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Francis SemwanzaDar Es Salaam - The Tanzania's Energy and Water Regulatory Authority (Ewura) has announced a 1.60% increase on prices for petroleum products countrywide attributing it to an increas (By News Poster)...Somalia: Yachtsman Safe After Refusing to Cooperate With Pirates
Monday 08-Nov-2010: A South African yachtsman, who escaped capture by pirates when he refused to cooperate with them, was safely taken on board an EU NAVFOR warship yesterday.His yacht had been located by the EU NAVFOR w (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Us$3 Million Raised During Private Sector Summit
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - Combined efforts by the Government of Rwanda and the Private Sector saw a total of US$3m raised towards the Global Fund during the Private Sector Summit on Saturday evening.Th (By News Poster)...Kenya: Geothermal Power Firm Steps Up Drive for Cheaper Energy
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By John GachiriThe Geothermal Development Company (GDC) has called for tenders from investors with the capacity to generate up to 400 megawatts of cheaper geothermal electricity in the next four years (By News Poster)...Namibia: Hobatere's 'Old Boy' Killed
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithTHE death of a second collared lion within the last five months has shocked the Namibian tourism and conservation community. The killing of the black-maned lion, logged as XPL-20, bu (By News Poster)...Nigeria: In Lagos It's Ten Years Imprisonment for People Who Infect Others With HIV
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Onche OdehAny form of prejudice, negative attitudes, abuse and maltreatment directed at people living with HIV and AIDS amounts to stigma. However, not so known to many people is the fact that comm (By News Poster)...Namibia: Abortion Ban Risks Women's Lives
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithWhile Namibia's government is increasingly putting measures in place to curb the high number of pregnancy-related deaths, discussions around an antiquated pre-independence abortion l (By News Poster)...Residents Protest Against Artiste's Murder
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: By Helvy ShaanikaOshakati - Residents of Outapi staged a demonstration on Monday following the death of a young artiste at the town last week. Adolf Ndeutila Aipinge (25), also known as Kizmo, alleged (By News Poster)...Kenya: Internet Hackers Attack Treasury
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Jevans NyabiageNairobi - Kenya's cyber highway is not safe from virtual fraudsters and other malignant cyber crooks. As the country boasts three undersea fibre optic cables, cyber attacks are on th (By News Poster)...Namibia: Shooting Survivor Guilty of Car Theft
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Werner MengesTHE sole survivor of a shooting incident in which two suspected car thieves died in a hail of Police bullets in Windhoek in May 2007 was found guilty of motor vehicle theft on Friday.T (By News Poster)...East Africa: More Troops for Transitional Federal Government Can Tilt the Balance of Power in Somalia
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Patrick GatharaNairobi - Two weeks ago, the African Union's Peace and Security Council recommended that the mandated strength of its peacekeeping mission in Somalia (Amisom) be raised from 8,000 to (By News Poster)...Nigeria: More Police Helicopters, More Wastage
Sunday 14-Nov-2010: By Capt Daniel OmaleWhile launching the arrival of another redundant-to-be Bell 412 helicopter for the Nigeria Police Force, President Goodluck Jonathan unfolded a bogus plan to import more helicopter (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Agriculture, Transport Guzzle 52 Percent of Bank Loans
Sunday 14-Nov-2010: By Shame MakoshoriHarare - The transport and communications sector along with agriculture have been the major destinations of financial sector loans in Zimbabwe, a recent report showed as the Construc (By News Poster)...Kenya: Alarm as Land Militia 'Re-Emerges'
Saturday 13-Nov-2010: By Bernard KwaliaNairobi - Security officers have been sent to Mt Elgon to hunt for more than 50 armed people believed to be members of the outlawed Sabaot Land Defence Force.The armed gang was seen e (By News Poster)...Liberia: Over 30 Mineral Water Companies Cry Wolf
Saturday 13-Nov-2010: By D. K. SengbehAt least 35 'mineral water' companies under the banner the Liberia Water Producer Association (LWPA) have cried foul, accusing the Ghanaian-Indian owned Liberty Investment Inc., produc (By News Poster)...South Africa: HIV Antenatal Figures Stabilises
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Pretoria - The HIV Antenatal Prevalence Survey in South Africa has shown a stabilisation in the HIV prevalence rate since 2006, Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi announced today.The survey showed HI (By News Poster)...Liberia: Last Witness Concludes Testimony
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Alpha SesaySam Flomo Kolleh, a Liberian national and former member of Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group, concluded his evidence today in The Hague as the last live witness (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Nation Seeks Investors to Revive Petroleum Refining Company
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: Recent explorations have indicated that Sierra Leone could become a major exporter of oil and gas in the near future, making the energy sector a key area of growth.Investment opportunitiesRehabilitati (By News Poster)...Six Diamond Bosses Appear in Court (news)
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Tendai RupapaHarare - SIX Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation and Canadile Miners executives, who were arrested last week, yesterday appeared in court on charges of fraudulently acquiring diamo (By News Poster)...Sudan: JEM Rebels Clash With Government Troops in North Darfur
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Khartoum - Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) Friday clashed with the Sudanese army in North Kordofan, two days after similar fighting in South Darfur.JEM military spokesperson said toda (By News Poster)...Kenya: To Win War Against Corruption, MPs Must Be Thorough and Impartial
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Okiya Omttah OkoitiNairobi - A witch execution in any society is like a morality play. The whole community rises up in righteous indignation against a perceived attack on its integrity, and destroy (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Smugglers Kill Another Customs Officer
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Die hard smugglers have again killed a Customs officer while two other officers sustained serious injuries on Thursday at Idiroko border, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported.Ade Olafusi, an (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 24 Hours After Strike - Nation Still in Darkness
Friday 12-Nov-2010: More than 30 hours after the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) called off the warning strike commenced on Wednesday to press for implementation of a new national minimum wag (By News Poster)...Liberia: Thieves Strike Another Bank - UBA
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: By Boimah J. V. BoimahUnidentified armed Men invaded the United Bank for Africa (UBA) branch at Red-light in Paynesville early Sunday Morning destroying equipment and kidnapping a private security sec (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Minimum Wage - NLC, FG Parley Deadlocked
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Golu Timothy, Moses John and Rasheed KomolafeAbuja and Lagos - There are strong indications that the nation's economy and social life may be shut down as from tomorrow following the deadlock in an (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Nation Can Supply Energy for Region
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Maputo - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza declared on Friday that the abundance of energy resources in Mozambique puts the country in a strong position to contribute to the development of the elec (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Political Stability Needed for Economic Growth Undendenment
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Kudzai ChimhangwaZimbabwe needs a stable political environment to ensure economic growth as well as to attract foreign direct investment, a government minister said last week.Economic Planning and (By News Poster)...Somalia: Pirates Claim to Have Collected U.S.$9.5 Million Ransom
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Somali pirates have released a South Korean tanker which was hijacked in the Indian Ocean on April after 9.5 million-dollar ransom paid, Radio Garowe reports."We received $9.5million from a helicopter (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC Better Off Avoiding an Election
Saturday 13-Nov-2010: By Constantine ChimakurePrime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC party should resist holding elections next year for a myriad of reasons. President Robert Mugabe's call for polls is not premised o (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Not Knowing When to Plant
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Harare - When light rain fell for two consecutive days in late October 2010, Gabriel Musonza, a 65-year-old farmer in a village about 70km northwest of Harare thought the main farming season had begun (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Mend Kidnaps Seven Oil Workers
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Emma AmaizeWarri - MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, has kidnapped seven foreign workers of four oil servicing companies in Akwa-Ibom State.Two of the workers, James Robertson (By News Poster)...Man Survives Jumbo Attack
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Chrispin InambaoKatima Mulilo - An elephant gored a man - its tusks missing vital organs by a whisker - the victim suffering horrendous abdominal injuries. The man, Martin Tekulo, has since been ev (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Oromia Bank Welcomes Profit After Big Loss
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Hailu TeklehaimanotOromia International Bank (OIB) has come back from the 13.5 million Br loss it had incurred during the 2008/09 fiscal year by registering a profit of 5.7 million Br in 2009/10, t (By News Poster)...Sudan: Army, JEM Rebels Clash in North Darfur
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Khartoum - Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) clashed Saturday in North Darfur state with the Sudanese army, after fighting in South Darfur and North Kordofan during the last two days.JE (By News Poster)...East Africa: World Market Wakes Up And Smells Region's Exciting New Aroma
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Scola KamauNairobi - The aroma of coffee from East Africa is permeating the world market, an indication of increased revenues, as supply from South and Central America take a nose dive.Coffee is am (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Hague Court Looks at Jos Violence
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Muideen OlaniyiThe Chief Prosecutor of the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno Ocampo has said that the court is analyzing issues concerning the crises that occurred in Jos t (By News Poster)...Sudan: Army Attack Darfur Rebels Near Chad Border
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Khartoum - Government troops defeated rebels from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in north Darfur near the Chadian border, said Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) spokesperson Al-Sawarmi Khaled in press (By News Poster)...Uganda: Is Land Registry a Den of Thieves Or Incompetent Bureaucrats?
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Justice DR G.w. KanyeihambaKampala - It has been said, perhaps without actual statistics but largely true, that between Kampala City and Entebbe Municipality alone, there are more forged land title (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Insure Your Crops, Farmers Urged
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: Harare - Farmers should insure their livestock, crops and infrastructure against natural disasters that come with the rainy season, Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Josep (By News Poster)...Ethanol Project Set to Transform Energy Sector
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Constantine ChimakureA massive US$600 million ethanol project, set to transform the country's energy and agriculture sectors, is taking shape in Chisumbanje in Chipinge, Manicaland, with the first (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Five Arrested Diamond Officials Released
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Alex BellFive officials from a diamond firm that was mining at the controversial Chiadzwa diamond fields have been released, after their arrest on fraud charges.Originally six officials were arrest (By News Poster)...Kenya: Youth Taking Loans Against Their Future
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Winfred KagweNairobi - The shows are always complete with local celebrities, obviously living flamboyantly, as banks launch one striking product after another targeting the youth.These are followed (By News Poster)...Uganda: Anti-Corruption Group Accuses Museveni of Controlling Oil Sector
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Yasiin MugerwaGovernment last night denied reports by a UK-based anti-corruption watchdog accusing President Museveni of "conflict of interest" and "personalisation" of oil exploration activities i (By News Poster)...Malawi: Malawi's Abortion Debate
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Rebecca JacobsonBlantyre, Malawi - The young woman slumps in a white plastic chair. She is still woozy from anaesthesia and her eyelids sag.She has just emerged from the operating theatre, where a (By News Poster)...Namibia: Business Delegation Visits
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Francis XoagubWindhoek - A 10-member delegation from South Africa is in Namibia on a fact-finding mission to assess business opportunities in the country.The visit comes shortly after last week's v (By News Poster)...Nigeria: House Speaker to Lead Ruling Party?
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Tobi Soniyi, Davidson Iriekpen and Jaiyeola AndrewsAbuja/Lagos - Step aside, President Goodluck Jonathan. If the National Assembly successfully introduces its planned clauses into the 2010 Electora (By News Poster)...Politics Could Hurt Tobacco Bills
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaHarare - Two local banks have come to the market with tobacco bills to raise US$10 million to finance tobacco production, but take-up could suffer from uncertainty created by disharm (By News Poster)...Namibia: Civil Service Must Condemn Corruption
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Gwen ListerIT would perhaps be more meaningful if the civil service took a strong stance towards corruption as a whole, rather than confine itself simply to protests over the Government Institution (By News Poster)...Malinga Threatens to Sue Police Over Arrest
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Bulawayo - Zanu PF Politburo member Joshua Malinga has threatened to sue a Bulawayo police officer for causing his arrest on allegations of failing to appear in court.Malinga is currently on trial at (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Religious Leaders Vow to Combat HIV/Aids
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Stevenson MugishaReligious Leaders From Eight Countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa, who are meeting in Kigali, have promised to do their best to combat HIV/AIDS which they said is still a global con (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: MDC-T Legislators Disrupt Senate in Protest at Zanu PF Governors
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Lance GumaFor the second day running senators from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party on Wednesday disrupted a scheduled sitting of the Senate in Parliament.The senators protested the presenc (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Night Robberies Threaten Business n Dar es Salaam-Tunduma Highway
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: By Austin BeyadiDar es Salaam - TRAVELLERS and businesspersons using the Tanzania Zambia highway, which runs from Dar es Salaam to Tunduma, have complained over the continuing threats of car jacking a (By News Poster)...Egypt: Black Cloud Season Sees Rise in Health Problems
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: Cairo - Every year a noxious black smog hangs over Egypt as the seasonal burning of rice straw by farmers begins, and with it comes a surge in allergic reactions and lung infections.The inky haze last (By News Poster)...Gambia: Experts Brainstorm on GNAIP
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Lamin SanyangA two day meeting on the Agricultural Investment Programme (The GNAIP) jointly organized by the Gambia government, NEPAD AUC, ECOWAS, World Bank and Development Partners kicked off at (By News Poster)...East Africa: Kenyan Court Deals Blow to Piracy War
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Eunice MachuhiNairobi - The war against piracy in the Indian Ocean has suffered a setback after the High Court ruled that Kenya has no jurisdiction over offences conducted outside its territorial w (By News Poster)...South Africa: Congolese Man Stabbed in Cape Town Tavern
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: In a xenophobic attack, a Congolese man was repeatedly stabbed in a Du Noon tavern on Sunday because he refused to buy beer for a trio of South Africans. Nyangoma Etasha, 27, was lucky to escape with (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 10 Per Cent Oil Bill Still Valid - Maeba
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Clara NwachukwuLagos - Chairman of the Senate Committee on Upstream Petroleum Resources, Senator Lee Maeba, weekend, clarified that the 10 percent equity for oil granted to oil producing communitie (By News Poster)...Kenya: Need to Reduce HIV Risk Among Health Workers
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Nairobi - The Kenyan government is working to reduce health workers' risk of HIV infection but experts say there is a need for greater focus on providing health workers with proper safety equipment an (By News Poster)...Namibia: Campaign Against Stigma and Discrimination Launched
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Windhoek - Many strides have been made in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the country, however an estimated 174 000 people are living with the disease, with only a fraction able to access essential heal (By News Poster)...Nigeria: One Shot, Property Burnt in Delta Clash
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Emma Amaize,Asaba - FIGHTING broke out, weekend, at Mosogar community in Delta State between two youth factions, resulting in the burning of property and shooting of a carpenter, simply identified (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG Ends Frivolous Expatriate Quota Approvals for Oil Firms
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Adeola YusufLagos - Oil companies seeking expatriate quota approvals for their operations in Nigeria's oil and gas industry must henceforth advertise the positions to Nigerians through national and (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Deputy PM Says Mugabe Can't Call Elections
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Tererai KarimakwendaDeputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara, who has so far made it clear that he is against holding elections next year, on Wednesday said that Robert Mugabe did not have the author (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Villagers Pledge to Sell Chickens to Fund Election Monitors
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Tichaona SibandaVillagers in the politically volatile district of Muzarabani in Mashonaland central province have pledged to sell their chickens and goats, to help finance foreign election observer (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Ziscosteel Sold to Mauritian Firm
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Golden SibandaHarare - Ziscosteel's revival took a giant step forward yesterday with the Government announcing it had agreed to sell part of its shareholding in the State enterprise to Mauritian fi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Nambia Calls for Lift of Sanctions
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: Harare - Namibia has called for the immediate lifting of illegal Western sanctions on Zimbabwe saying the embargo has caused unwarranted suffering of ordinary people.Addressing delegates attending tal (By News Poster)...South Africa: President Zuma to Lead a Delegation to G20 Summit in Seoul, South Korea
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: President Jacob G Zuma will lead a delegation to the fifth G20 Leaders Summit scheduled to take place in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 11 to 12 November 2010. The Seoul Summit will be the second such (By News Poster)...Uganda: Why Land is a Key Issue for President Museveni in Lango
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Yasiin MugerwaKampala - Already confronted by queries on the slow process to rebuild the war-ravaged north, President Museveni was at pains to explain himself in Lango sub-region, where politicians (By News Poster)...Somalia: Government Calls for 20,000 More Troops
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Somali Transitional Federal Government TFG called for the international community to deploy an additional 20,000 troops to help the war-torn country for battling with the insurgent groups.Speaking wit (By News Poster)...Africa: Battling DR-TB in Khayelitsha
Sunday 14-Nov-2010: By Anso ThomBERLIN - It is a myth the drug-resistant TB is concentrated in Eastern Europe, with high levels of the disease reported from Khayelitsha in Cape Town, an epidemiologist told the 41st Union (By News Poster)...Africa: TB Vaccine Critical, But Money Tight
Sunday 14-Nov-2010: By Anso ThomBERLIN - An important tuberculosis vaccine trial among HIV-positive participants in Klerksdorp has been paused this year due to funding constraints as governments and donors pull back in t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Volcanic Eruption - Fear Grips the Hilly Areas of Benue State
Saturday 13-Nov-2010: By Joseph WantuLast week's volcanic eruption in the Mkomoh District of Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State, which claimed one life, has, indeed, sent warning signs to the government and people (By News Poster)...Kenya: Ruto Sued Over Land Tussle
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Jillo KadidaNairobi - A victim of the post election violence has taken Eldoret North MP William Ruto to court for allegedly grabbing his land.Mr Adrian Gilbert Muteshi now wants the court to give o (By News Poster)...South Africa: Funding Problems Challenge African Academies
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Linda Nordling and Munyaradzi MakoniSomerset West - African academies are still battling to obtain funding and recognition from policymakers despite several efforts to strengthen them.This message (By News Poster)...Namibia: Murdered Toddler Buried
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: By Luqman CloeteA huge crowd of Keetmanshoop residents and community leaders on Saturday attended the funeral of Queen Dausab, who was raped and murdered on October 24.Dausab captured the hearts of th (By News Poster)...Africa: Five Ways to Reduce Trauma in HIV Orphans
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: Nairobi - When a child loses a parent to HIV/AIDS, grief counselling helps with the trauma of loss, but when the child is both poor and orphaned, the chances of a fulfilling life are significantly dim (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Margin Loan - CBN, SEC to Issue Fresh Guidelines
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Obinna ChimaThe Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that it was working with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to issue out a fresh guideline to limit all capital market related loans (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Labour Mobilises for 'Total Strike'
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Ahamefula Ogbu And Linda ErokeAbuja/Lagos - The meeting between the Federal Government team and the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) yesterday failed to produce th (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Bank's Shares Worth 60 Percent More Than Initial Offerings
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Eden SahleUnited Bank SC raised over 13.3 million Br from the sale of 133,477 shares, before its public auction closed on Friday, November 5, 2010.The week-long auction was the first time that a pr (By News Poster)...Uganda: Ready to Take Business to Another Height
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Faridah KulabakoMr Charles Ajaegbu was recently appointed the new Managing Director Global Trust Bank. He spoke about his new role and how he plans to take the bank to greater heights.What does you (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Commodity Exchange a Noble Idea
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: Harare - ZIMBABWEAN farmers should start moving forward financially next year when the Government sets up a commodity exchange to deal with farm produce.But this exchange, while a necessary step, will (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt to Go Ahead With Diamond Exports
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Harare - Zimbabwe has declared it is going ahead with the export of its rough diamonds as the Kimberly Process 2010 Plenary meetings ended in Jerusalem, Israel yesterday.After a review mission to Hara (By News Poster)...USA: Stock Markets: Someone suggests adopting the Gold Standard internationally... Bank Troubles at an all time high....
Sunday 14-Nov-2010: [Take a look at Jason Kelly's comments below. Very interesting. Jan] In the wake of the previous week's QE2 announcement and instant dollar weakness, last week began with the president of the World (By Jan)...Tanzania: Farmers Urged to Sell Cashew Nuts
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Abdallah BakariMtwara - The Tandahimba and Newala Cooperative Union (TANECU) have made a call to cashew farmers in the area to sell their crops during this time, as many are said to store waiting f (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Soldiers Demonstrate in Support of Mugabe in Masvingo
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Lance GumaZANU PF's desperate election strategy once again came to the fore when between 300 to 500 soldiers marched in support of Robert Mugabe in the Mucheke suburb of Masvingo on Sunday. With th (By News Poster)...Gambia: Jawara's Return to Dakar Coincides With Military Desertions, What Do Those Desertions Mean?
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Suwaibou TourayWe have been focusing on politics in this column with the objective to document the contemporary history of the Gambia and to help our readers appraise themselves with the happenings (By News Poster)...Kenya: Comrade Mugabe, If You Think You Are Aggrieved, Follow the Route of Justice
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Cabral PintoNairobi - Grace Mugabe may be in hiding in either Singapore or China, but allegations of her infidelity will not dissolve into thin air.It is likely that the life of her alleged lover, (By News Poster)...Liberia: Defense Lawyers Formally Close Their Case in the Charles Taylor Trial
Saturday 13-Nov-2010: By Alpha SesayDefense lawyers for Charles Taylor today formally closed their case after calling 21 witnesses to testify on behalf of the former Liberian president in response to an 11 count indictment (By News Poster)...South Africa: HIV Rate Stabilizes in Pregnant Women
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Kerry CullinanAlthough the HIV prevalence rate for pregnant women has been virtually the same over the past four years at 29.2%, this was still a "high and unacceptable" level.This is according to (By News Poster)...Namibia: Unemployment Woes Worry Tsumeb Youth
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: By Conrad AngulaTsumeb is reported to be rising from the recent economic slump which affected the town badly after the closure of the Ongopolo and then Weatherly mine.The town was slowly turning into (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Robbers Storm Lottery Office, Kill One
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: By Isa GusauPort Harcourt - A four-member armed robbery gang yesterday attacked a lottery office at Nsukka Street around Mile 1, Port Harcourt, killing a young man and shooting two others.Police Publi (By News Poster)...Ghana: Tower Sharing Can Save Mobile Operators "North of 20 Percent" in Costs, Says Eaton Towers CEO
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Russell SouthwoodLondon - Tower sharing is beginning to take off on the continent with 3-4 companies now offering the service to operators. Operators with larger market share remain sceptical but t (By News Poster)...Sudan: U.S. Offers to Remove Govt from 'Terrorism Sponsor' List
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Washington - Sudan can find itself off the list of states that sponsor terrorism as early as July 2011 should it facilitate the self-determination votes in Abyei and South Sudan and recognize their ou (By News Poster)...Somalia: Pirates Release Oil Tanker
Monday 08-Nov-2010: On 6 November 2010, the Marshall Islands-flagged MV SAMHO DREAM was released from under pirate control.The MV SAMHO DREAM, a Marshall Islands-owned crude oil tanker, deadweight 319,360 tonnes, was pir (By News Poster)...East Africa: Bio Terror Threat From Kenyan Germ Labs Worries U.S.
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Kevin J KelleyNairobi - Concerned about the threat of biological terrorism, a powerful US senator will lead a team of high-level Pentagon officials on an inspection tour of Kenyan germ laboratories (By News Poster)...Oil Wealth 'Destroys' Nigeria
Friday 12-Nov-2010: "Success does not come to those who wait... and it does not wait for any to come to it"- -Author unknownDaily Trust of Friday, November, 5, 2010 page 29 carried the above topic, written by one of its (By News Poster)...South Africa: Counting the Need - Living With Aids
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: By Khopotso BodibeTshwane is home to over 80 000 AIDS orphans, while 30 000 residents need antiretroviral therapy.This is according to a comprehensive survey conducted in the municipality. The report (By News Poster)...South Africa: Illegally Imported Cars Nabbed in North West
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: Pretoria - Through Operation Enough is Enough the North West Public Safety Traffic authorities have impounded 28 vehicles found to have been illegally imported into South Africa from neighbouring coun (By News Poster)...USA: U.S. Commander: U.S. Will Be Fighting in Afghanistan in 2014
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: [As always, America tries to hand over the fighting to local Third Parties it believes it can rely on. That did not work out in Vietnam. So we will have to see how this goes in the Middle East. Jan] (By Jan)...Police in Shebeen-raid Campaign
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Catherine SasmanKeetmanshoop - Police at Keetmanshoop have embarked on a campaign to stamp out child labour at shebeens.The campaign started on Monday and is a joint action by the Namibian Police a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nupeng Threatens to Stop Fuel Supply Over Killing of Member
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Linda ErokePetroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has threatened to stop the supply of petroleum products to the Federal Capital T (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Plants to Add 11,000 Megawatts to National Grid, Underway - Akano
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Rasheed KomolafeLagos - A new solution that may take electricity supply in Nigeria to the next level has been uncovered by the Green Word Water Africa.The process, which involves Desalination plant (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: U.S.$10 Million Boost to Fight HIV
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Harare - Government's efforts to improve healthcare and expand availability of products and services to mitigate the impact of HIV and Aids in Zimbabwe have received a US$10 million boost.Population S (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Africa Re Opens Ethiopia Office
Friday 12-Nov-2010: African Reinsurance Corporation (Africa Re), one of the top 50 largest reinsurers in the world, has signed an agreement with the Government of Ethiopia to open a local reinsurance underwriting office (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Pirates Kill Naval Rating in Rivers
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Anayo OnukwughaPort Harcourt - Suspected sea pirates on Wednesday attacked a naval patrol boat at a creek near Okirika jetty in Rivers State, killing one rating, while two others sustained injuries (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Era Remembers Saro Wiwa, Others, I5 Years After
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Chiemelie EzeobiFifteen years after the murder of Ogoni Activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 other people, the Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), yesterday had a roundtab (By News Poster)...Uganda: National in U.S. Pleads Guilty in Terror Case
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: Kampala - THE Ugandan wife of an American-born man who pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists has entered her own guilty plea.Proscovia Kampire Nzabanita, dressed head-to-toe in co (By News Poster)...Nigeria: MEND to Launch Fresh Attacks On Oil Rigs
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Isa Umar GusauPort Harcourt - The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has threatened to launch fresh attacks on oil installations across the Niger Delta soon, an online medium, (By News Poster)...Namibia: Crocodile Kills Two-Year-Old Child
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Chrispin InambaoKongola - A crocodile killed two-year-old Mashozi Dishala while her grandmother was bathing her on the banks of the Kwando River mid last week.The afternoon attack also resulted in (By News Poster)...Somalia: Two South Africans Captured By Pirates
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: Pretoria - The two people who were abducted by suspected Somali pirates from a yacht in the Indian Ocean have been confirmed as South Africans by International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite (By News Poster)...Gambia: Man Arrested for 'Spraying Teargas' On Security Personnel
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Omar WallyOne Alhagie Ngum, a resident of Pipeline is currently in custody at the Brusubi Police Station for allegedly spraying teargas on three Tourist Security Unit (TSU) officers.Private S.O Cam (By News Poster)...Sudan: Food the Key to Resettlement in South
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Aweil - The influence of Northern Sudan on Aweil in Bahr el-Gazal state of Southern Sudan is everywhere - from food deliveries to the truck-loads of returnees."You see the lorries - full of people, re (By News Poster)...Enemies Fighting President On Oil (news)
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Yasiin MugerwaPeople trying to link the First Family to management and ownership of the oil and gas resources are enemies of the state and are working to frame the President, State House has said.S (By News Poster)...South Africa: Refugees Can Now Own Bank Accounts
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Pretoria - Refugees and asylum permit holders in South Africa will from now on be able apply for bank accounts in the country, the Home Affairs Department announced on Thursday.Until now, refugees cou (By News Poster)...Uganda: Islamic Development Bank's Panel Meeting in Kampala
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Hajiya BilkisuMni - It was raining and the weather was cool and pleasant in Entebbe, the airport that serves Kampala, the Ugandan Capital. As the plane taxied to a stop I watched the very green sce (By News Poster)...Sudan: Food the Key to Resettlement in South
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: Aweil - The influence of Northern Sudan on Aweil in Bahr el-Gazal state of Southern Sudan is everywhere - from food deliveries to the truck-loads of returnees."You see the lorries - full of people, re (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Police Seek to Arrest Prominent Editor
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: The police have reportedly issued a warrant of arrest against Wilf Mbanga, the London-based editor of "The Zimbabwean" newspaper, following the publication of a story linked to the death of a senior o (By News Poster)...East Africa: Region Armies Meeting in Kigali to Plan New Joint Exercise
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By James KaruhangaKigali - Defence liaison officers from the East African Community (EAC) and their USAFRICOM partners, Monday begun a five-day Initial Planning Conference (IPC), in Kigali, to prepare (By News Poster)...Somalia: Fight Over Water, Pasture Sends Hundreds Fleeing
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: Nairobi - Fighting between two sub-clans over grazing pasture and water has left 20 dead and thousands of families displaced from several villages in central Somalia, say locals."In my own town of Gal (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'No Illegal Arms Suspect in Iranian Embassy'
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Obiora IfohAbuja - Embassy of Iran in Nigeria has refuted media reports that a suspect in illegal arms importation into Nigeria is hiding in its embassy in AbujaThe reports last week had generated (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NERC Nominees Versus Profession Supremacists
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Okezie OnyenweMy experience in the hand of a profession supremacist a few years ago informed the writing of this piece. A federal government agency advertised vacancies in respect of some administr (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Let's Close Ranks on Sanctions
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Harare - We condemn, in the strongest terms possible, the behaviour of MDC legislators who disrupted a pre-budget consultative meeting in Victoria Falls simply because the Confederation of Zimbabwe In (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Farmers Trained in Land Use
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Stephen RwembehoKayonze - Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) Association, over the weekend, ended a two-day workshop for farmers in Kayonza District.PELUM is an association that s (By News Poster)...Rwanda: RDF Dismisses Reports of Deployment in DRC
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By By James KaruhangaKigali - Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF), yesterday refuted as "totally false" press reports that Rwandan troops recently crossed back into eastern DRC and that two battalions were de (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Nab OPC Members Over Illegal Arms
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Kayode EkundayoLagos - Seven members of the outlawed socio-cultural group, the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) are presently being interrogated by military personnel attached to the Lagos State anti-cr (By News Poster)...Zambia: Debate Over Windfall Tax
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Kelvin KachingweLusaka - The Zambian government has been accused of embracing poverty as the debate over a windfall tax on the mining industry heats up.In February 2008, at the height of a worldwid (By News Poster)...Angola: Namibian Recognises Govt's Contribution to Regional Development
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Windhoek - The Namibian president, Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba, recently in Windhoek recognised the contribution of Angola to the development of southern Africa at various levels, at a time the country (By News Poster)...Africa: Warning on Tuberculosis
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Anso ThomBerlin - Unless the money needed for tuberculosis is invested now the world will face a drug-resistant epidemic that will affect everyone in the world, warned Dr Nils Billo, Executive Dire (By News Poster)...Namibia: Ahrens Wins Gold at African Champs
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: Namibia's top female shottist Gaby Ahrens added an African States Championships gold medal to her Commonwealth Games bronze over the weekend.Ahrens, who was recently crowned as Namibia's Sportswoman o (By News Poster)...Minister Dlamini Zuma Meets Delegation From Malawi
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: Home Affairs Minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma today , hosted a Malawian government delegation led by Nicholas Dausi, the Deputy Minister in Malawian President Bingu Mutharika's office, at the Sher (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Exim Bank Offers Challenge to Local Firms
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Sebastian MrindokoDar es Salaam - ECONOMISTS have said that the move by Exim Bank to operate in Comoro was a challenge to other local companies to look for new opportunities abroad and explore them (By News Poster)...Rwanda: HIV Prevalence to Drop by Half by 2012
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Frank KanyesigyeKigali - The Government of Rwanda, through the National AIDS Control Commission, developed its second HIV Strategic plan in 2009 with ambitious impact objectives to be achieved by t (By News Poster)...South Africa: Finance Minister Warns on Capital Flows Ahead of G20
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: Pretoria - The world needed to deal with the rapid movement of capital flows, which was impacting the competitiveness of many countries, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Tuesday ."We need to (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Rig Attack - Two Hostages Believed to Be French
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: Two of the hostages seized on Monday from an oil rig off Akwa Ibom state are believed to be French, a spokesman for France's foreign ministry said."We have indications concerning the abduction and the (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Guebuza Launches Campaign Against Violence
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Maputo - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza Thursday launched a national campaign against violence against women and girls.His signature in a book of pledges to reject violence is intended to demons (By News Poster)...South Africa: German National to Be Deported
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Pretoria - Final preparations are being made for the deportation of a German national, Ingo Ecks, who has been living and doing business illegally in South Africa for over five years.Responding to a w (By News Poster)...Kenya: Africa Should Stop Being a Cry Baby And Tackle Biopiracy Wave Head-On
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Joseph OthienoNairobi - If Vasco da Gama were to conduct his iconic explorations, in which he carried home thousands of plant and animal species from Africa, in the present age, they would not serv (By News Poster)...Angolan Admits Private Parts Cocaine Stash
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Werner MengesAN Angolan national who was caught at a Police roadblock near Windhoek with cocaine hidden in his underpants admitted guilt to a drug-dealing charge in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court (By News Poster)...Sudan: SPLA Frees Three Ugandan Captives
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Barbara Among and Amacha GoliELEVEN Ugandans abducted by the Southern Sudan security remain in captivity as Uganda yesterday announced plans to secure their release.The Sudan Peoples Liberation Arm (By News Poster)...Nigerian Unions Suspend Strike After Govt 'Undertaking'
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Mohamed S. Shehu & Francis OkekeAbuja - The three day warning strike started by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) was suspended yesterday after the unions secured (By News Poster)...Africa: Massive TB Breakthrough Unaffordable
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Anso ThomAIDS activists are calling for the price of a machine which drastically cuts the diagnosis of drug-resistant tuberculosis to be reduced making it affordable to the regions where the epidem (By News Poster)...Namibia: WAD Launches Men's Programme
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: Windhoek - Women's Action for Development (WAD) recently launched a new programme 'Men's Action Against Violence (MAAV)', a country-wide programme aimed at curbing violence against women and children. (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma Attends G20 Summit
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma and a South African delegation have arrived in South Korea ahead of the fifth G20 Leaders Summit in Seoul.The two-day summit is expected to get underway on Thursday and (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Local Victims File Class Action Against Canadian Mining Company
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: An association representing Congolese citizens filed a class action today in a Montreal court against Canadian company Anvil Mining Limited. It is alleged that the company, by providing logistical ass (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Five Foreigners Kidnapped in Attack on Nigeria Oil Rig
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By MngoddyGunmen attacked an oil rig off Nigeria's coast on Monday, taking two Americans, two French and one Canadian hostage while wounding two other people, company and security sources said. The pr (By News Poster)...Mozambique: UN Gets the Figures Wrong, Yet Again
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Paul FauvetMaputo - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched its flagship publication, the annual Human Development Report, last week - and although Mozambique's score had improved (By News Poster)...Three New Diamond Miners Licensed (news)
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Martin KadzereHarare - GOVERNMENT has licensed three more diamond investors to extract the gems in Chiadzwa, a senior official has said.Economic Planning and Investment Promotion Minister Tapiwa Ma (By News Poster)...Uganda: Stay Alert Over Terror, Police Tell City Residents
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By John NjorogeKampala - Police have noted with concern that security measures in most public places countrywide have deteriorated just four months after the twin bomb attacks on Kampala. It is now as (By News Poster)...Western Sahara: Protestors Clash With Moroccan Security Forces
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: The parties to the dispute over Western Sahara met today in New York for the start of the third round of United Nations-backed informal talks, while clashes on the ground between Moroccan security for (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Four Teachers Severely Beaten by Zanu PF Youths in Masvingo
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Lance GumaAs the country once again plunges into election mode ZANU PF youths in Bikita severely assaulted four teachers who had dared to suggest during a discussion that the country was not ready (By News Poster)...Kenya: Co-Operative Bank and DTB Report Big Pre-Tax Profits
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Moses MichiraIncreased lending has put two of Kenya's top 10 banks on a strong growth path conforming to a trend where banks have made huge leaps in net earnings this year.Diamond Trust Bank more t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Representatives, Minister, Bank Chiefs Parley Over N35 Billion Defence Fund Scam
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Sola ShittuAbuja - Minister of Defence, Adetokunbo Ademola, and Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Defence, Wole Oke, on Thursday held a secret meeting to unravel the mystery beh (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Govt Ridicules Ogaden Rebels' Claims
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Tesfa-Alem TekleAddis Ababa - A claim by an Ethiopian rebel group that they have killed 267 government soldiers since the beginning of October has been dismissed by Ethiopia as "an internet gimmick (By News Poster)...Africa: Major Summit Promotes Mobile Technologies for Better Health
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: More than 2,500 participants from around the world in the fields of technology and public health have wrapped up a summit in Washington, DC, on how to more effectively deliver healthcare through mobil (By News Poster)...Kenya: Slum Dwellers Turn to Solar Energy in New Strategy to Treat Drinking Water
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Cosmas ButunyiNairobi - Clear water bottles line the rusty iron sheet roofs of several houses in the sprawling Kibera slums in Nairobi.A cursory glance may not reveal much, but this is a simple wat (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Micro-Finance Banks And Unethical Practices
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Nwaogazi AnichebeI do not envy the positions of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and most especially, that of the Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation in relation to the unethical practices of o (By News Poster)...Botswana: Khama Urges Lifting of Zimbabwe Sanctions
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Wene OwinoGaborone - President Ian Khama of Botswana said yesterday that he wants sanctions against Zimbabwe to be lifted to deny ZANU-PF the "lame excuse" it uses to undermine the unity government (By News Poster)...Kenya: MPs Warn Odinga on Corrupt Ministers
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Geoffrey MosokuNairobi - THE Orange Democratic Movement has warned Prime Minister Raila Odinga at its retreat to stop defending ministers accused of corruption.The party's National Executive Commit (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Mobil Nets 76.05 Percent Third Quarter Profit
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: By Bamidele Ogunwusi And Lucy EazeeMobil Oil and Gas, one of the leading oil marketers in the country, has recorded an improvement in its unaudited third quarter result ended September 30.2010 when it (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Hostages Seized From Oil Rig
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Five people were taken hostage on Monday from an oil rig off the coast of Nigeria.Two of them are believed to be French, according to a French Foreign Ministry spokesperson. The rig in the Delta regio (By News Poster)...Rwanda: South Sudanese MPs Commend Police for Good GBV Policies
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Bosco R. AsiimweKigali - A team of 26 Members of Parliament from South Sudan on Tuesday visited the national police headquarters in Kacyiru to borrow ideas on how the police have managed to deal wi (By News Poster)...We are Committed to Zisco Revival - Essar
Sunday 14-Nov-2010: By Chris MuronziEssar Group is optimistic it will get Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco) back on stream and enhance its operations in the next 24 months.The group won the bid to buy a 63% stake i (By News Poster)...Africa: Texting Saves Lives of HIV Patients, Study Confirms
Saturday 13-Nov-2010: By T. V. PadmaNew Delhi - Long awaited proof that mobile phone technology can be used by healthcare workers to save lives in Africa has finally been published.Findings from the first scientific trial (By News Poster)...Rwanda: HIV Mother-to-Child Transmission Declines
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Bosco R. AsiimweKigali - The mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS in the country reduced by 8.3 percent from 11 percent in 2004 to 2.7 percent by the end of last year.Dr. Placidie Mugwaneza, th (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Cholera - Eight Arrested Over Wave of Disinformation
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican police have detained eight people in the district of Mossuril, in the northern province of Nampula, accused of involvement in a wave of malicious disinformation about the origi (By News Poster)...Africa: When Pandora's Box is Opened
Friday 12-Nov-2010: By Fr. Dominic Vincent NkoyoyoWhen the lid on Pandora's Box is lifted, will the Catholic Church in Africa stand? In recent years, the entire Body of Christ, the Church has been severely wounded and (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SADC Tribunal in Limbo on Zimbabwe
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichSADC heads of state have been accused of acting unconstitutionally by effectively suspending the work of the SADC Tribunal.The Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) in Johannes (By News Poster)...South Africa: Three in Ten Pregnant Women HIV Positive, Says Minister
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: By Genevieve QuintalJohannesburg - HIV prevalence countrywide among pregnant women in 2009 was estimated at 29.4 percent, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Thursday.This needed to brought down (By News Poster)...Kenya: Ruto Criticised Over Chaos Witnesses Claims
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: By Peter Leftie and John NgirachuNairobi - Suspended Higher Education minister William Ruto has come under criticism over claims that witnesses were manipulated to implicate him in the post election v (By News Poster)...Uganda: Citizens in U.S. Pleads to False Statements in Terror Case
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: Kampala - The Ugandan wife of an American-born man who pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists entered her own guilty plea on Monday.Proscovia Kampire Nzabanita, dressed head-to-toe (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Third Mobile Phone Licence Awarded
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: Maputo - Mozambique's telecommunications regulatory body, the INCM (National Communications Institute of Mozambique), has awarded the country's third mobile phone licence to Movitel, a consortium betw (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Militants Say Hostages Are in Their Custody
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: Seven foreign crew kidnapped in an attack on an oil rig off the coast of Nigeria are being held by the country's main militant group. The hostages include two Frenchmen, two Indonesians, two Americans (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Big India Companies to Invest in Nation
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: Kigali - Indian firms have shown interest in investing in Rwanda promising to start big projects worth millions of dollars.They are interested in information technology, mining, agro-processing, educa (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gunmen Shoot Policeman in Bauchi
Monday 08-Nov-2010: By Ahmed MohammedBauchi - Unknown gunmen on Friday shot a mobile policeman along Gwabba Street in Bauchi State.A neighbour of the policeman told newsmen yesterday that he was shot around 7:30 pm on Fr (By News Poster)...USA: California - Bye Bye Whites... Latino kids now majority in state's public schools
Sunday 14-Nov-2010: [America is being transformed into a non-white country little by little. Look at this. In 50 years from now, whites will be a minority in the USA. Then they will be no different to us whites in Rhodes (By Jan)...My Trip to America - The Clones in Politics - About Human: Ambition, Cowards & Clones and their agendas....
Thursday 11-Nov-2010: It is funny how long it took me to get back into the swing of things once I returned from my holiday. Re-adjusting to people back in South Africa actually took me a little while. I was a bit disap (By Jan)...Lessons from my work: Back to Egoli - The Soap Opera - The wild political battles just rage back and forth...
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Now I'm back at work and getting back into the old rut, I really am not too interested in the politics and issues surrounding my system. I think myself and my coloured partner in crime were sick to de (By Jan)...[Pic] Rhodesia - Petrol rationing fuel coupon under Ian Smith's rule...
Sunday 14-Nov-2010: I am still trying to clean out my house and to set things into much better order than before. While clearing out some of my late Mom's things, I came across a petrol rationing coupon that my Mom ha (By Jan)...My Trip to America - Buying huge packs of Duracell batteries... The South African battery rip-off
Sunday 14-Nov-2010: At the moment I am wondering what to do with batteries. There are so many things that require batteries, especially for me, AA batteries. I get so annoyed when I go into shops and you buy 2 or 4 A (By Jan)...USA: Stock Markets - Is Wall St on the edge of another fall? - High Pole Warning
Saturday 13-Nov-2010: The markets have been flying upwards madly for quite a while now, and I have been rather skeptical, taking the wait-and-see approach. According to the P&F Charts the next target was around 12,500. (By Jan)...Coming later... the first of many photos of my trip to America... Evergreen, one of the CIA's Secret Airlines...
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: I have been editing a lot of photos from the USA. I have stacks to edit and to put up. The first lot are from the Evergreen museum in Oregon. Evergreen is one of those hush hush CIA projects... It is (By Jan)...S.Africa: There was an earthquake of 4.8 last night? Did anyone feel it?
Saturday 13-Nov-2010: [Jennifer in the USA sent me this email. Apparently there was a magnitude 4.8 quake 70 Km West-South-West of Johannesburg. As best I can understand it, it seems as if the time was after midnight our t (By Jan)...S.Africa: Lessons from my work - Are some people starting to fight on my behalf?
Saturday 13-Nov-2010: I must say, I was really annoyed with some things at my work - not as regards my colleagues but with respect to certain people higher up who really gave me short shrift on some things. I noticed s (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (10-11-2010)
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- Mugabe's succession is a serious matter in Zimbabwe. No one really knows who is his preferred candidate and we probably will not find out u (By The BeardedMan)...My Trip to America - What my Black boss thought of San Francisco & Los Angeles after his trip there...
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: I was chatting to my black boss today and he told me that last year he went to San Francisco for a conference. Then he and his wife ended up staying for a month in San Francisco and a month in LA. (By Jan)...USA: Stock Markets - Gold hit $1,400 today....
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: A quick note. I saw on the stock markets today, that Gold hit $1,400 per oz and then fell back. That is another record high for Gold. It probably also shows how weak the US Dollar is. But... keep (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (08-11-2010)
Monday 08-Nov-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- This is sad - to have escaped Mugabe's destructive rule, only to die on the streets of Melbourne... "Police have identified a young man fa (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (09-11-2010)
Tuesday 09-Nov-2010: Howzit I first read this story yesterday afternoon and I was quite annoyed that Chinotimba attempts to pass himself off as a war veteran, when, in reality, during the 1970s bush war he was a munici (By The BeardedMan)...S.Africa: Collapsing Infrastructure: Will somebody WAKE UP? Accidents waiting to happen in Randburg...
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: I get so annoyed driving through Randburg to work. I have noticed for days now that on the corner of Hill St and Kent Ave - which is a T junction, that one of the 3 sides of lights is out. So when you (By Jan)...Science: Human Mutants: A Strange human defect that afflicts only 1,000 Muslim Capetonians
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: I was watching a science documentary series called: Human Mutants. And to be honest with you, it gives me the creeps. I have never watched such a creepy TV series in my life. I think it has to do (By Jan)...[2 Pics] My Trip to America - Mary Starret for Governor - She interviewed me once...
Wednesday 10-Nov-2010: While I was driving with Captain Joseph Smith through Oregon, I spotted these signs and took a quick (blurry) photo of them. Mary Starrett is running for Governor of Oregon, and I certainly hope t (By Jan)...My Trip to America - Coming this week... just tons and tons of photos...
Sunday 14-Nov-2010: Just a note to everyone. I am trying to discipline myself to really focus and GET THINGS DONE. I have been in something of a flat spin since I arrived. Just a zillion things to do and no idea where to (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (12-11-2010)
Friday 12-Nov-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- "Almost two years since Zimbabwe's Global Political Agreement was signed, Senator Roy Bennett is once again being targeted by Robert Mugabe a (By The BeardedMan)...
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