Saturday, 11 June 2011

Weekly Southern African Report

From Jan Lamprecht

Southern Africa in Crisis

www.AfricanCrisis.co.za

Sunday, 5th June 2011

From 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

Cote d'Ivoire: Gbagbo Supporters Tortured, Killed in Abidjan

Thursday 02-Jun-2011: Dakar - Armed forces loyal to President Alassane Ouattara have killed at least 149 real or perceived supporters of the former President Laurent Gbagbo since taking control of the commercial capital in (By News Poster)...

Africa: Deauville G8 Declaration

Monday 30-May-2011: G8 SummitDeauville, FranceMay 26-27, 2011DEAUVILLE G8 DECLARATIONRENEWED COMMITMENT FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACYPREAMBLE1. We, the Leaders of the Group of Eight, met in Deauville on 26 and 27 May 2011. I (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: The rise and rise and continued rise of Julius Malema - The Fake struggle for the ANC Youth League - The ANC is 100% behind Racial War...
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: My Liberal friend spotted something important in the news the other day. He was telling me that that eternal fool, Gwede Mantashe, the spokesman of the ANC came to the aid of Julius Malema. It turn (By Jan)...
S.Africa: The Hypocrisy of Julius Malema - About disruptions of the ANC Youth League - Shoot the Boer
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: I had to laugh when I heard that Julius Malema said he would bode no nonsense if anyone tries to cause trouble at the ANC Youth League meetings. He suggested that people would try to cause disrupt (By Jan)...
Africa: Time to Bury the IMF
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: By Horace CampbellThe demise of the IMF's former managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is an opportunity to dismantle the fund and replace the current financial architecture with one that 'invests (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: President Zuma's Nephew and Mandela's Nephew destroy Aurora mine... Will Malema do any better?
Monday 30-May-2011: I was chatting to a friend who was telling me the following. Aurora mine was purchased by Zuma's nephew and Mandela's nephew. While they owned it, during this last year or so, they really maltreated t (By Jan)...
Nigeria: Terrorist Actions Without Clues
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Austin ObohLagos - Some parts of Nigeria appear to have been thrown into an orgy of senseless death as innocent Nigerians became targets of bomb attacks by terrorists who were, perhaps, unable to s (By News Poster)...
USA: South Africa reader warns me: In 2012 President Obama is going to shut Jan Lamprecht down... The Zionists, Free Speech, etc
Sunday 05-Jun-2011: [I got another note yesterday from Snowy Smith whom some of you know is writing a lot of anti-ANC stuff, and doing his thing with real gusto, which I appreciate. He was really angry over the Zionists. (By Jan)...
Libya: Dispatch From Tripoli: Nato's Feast of Blood
Monday 30-May-2011: By Cynthia McKinneyWhile serving on the House International Relations Committee from 1993 to 2003, it became clear to me that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was an anachronism.Founded i (By News Poster)...
The IMF and Trevor Manuel - A Plague on Both Their Houses
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Leonard GentleThe arrest of Dominic Strauss-Kahn (DSK) on allegations of attempted rape certainly has got tongues wagging. In the Guardian newspaper, French journalist Angelique Chrisafis alleged t (By News Poster)...
USA: Why Barack Obama may be heading for electoral disaster in 2012 - America's Conservative Revolution gaining ground? - My Comments
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: [Make no mistake, I'd sure like to see the last of Obama. But, I am skeptical with these Lefties... as to whether he will be gone. You never know what lunacy may occur just prior to the election. I ho (By Jan)...
S.Africa: Do NOT underestimate small nations in history - If an Afrikaner nation were a city state
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: I am still reading slowly through that history book about the Battle of Lepanto, and it is proving to be utterly fascinating. It is a period of history that I know very little about. What has (By Jan)...
S.Africa: TLU SA / TAU SA: MEDIA RELEASE / MEDIAVERKLARING: Consumers need to be protected / Verbruikers moet nou beskerm word
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Verbruikers moet nou beskerm word TLU SA dring daarop aan dat die Direkteur van Openbare Vervolging nou moet aandui of hy van plan is om vervolging in te stel teen drie ministers teen wie TLU SA al...
Egypt: Memories on Liberation
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Helmi SharawyHelmi Sharawy takes Pambazuka News back to 1950s Cairo, remembering the host of African liberation movements that had offices in the Egyptian city. In part one of this two-part article (By News Poster)...
South Africa: How Farmers and Consumers Are Held Hostage By the Market Dominance of a Few
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Saliem FakirAbout 2.5 billion cups of coffee are consumed every day.Culture and coffee are treated as synonymous. Ever since the first coffee shops opened doors in the Middle East, around the 15th (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: The ANC Propaganda machine: The New Age suffers another big loss - Even Blacks are finding it hard to lie for the ANC
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: I pointed out months ago that The New Age newspaper is really just another blatant ANC mouthpiece like The Herald is for Robert Mugabe. It is there attempting to mess with people's heads, pretending t (By Jan)...
S.Africa: Boeremag trial on hold, defence not ready: Boeremag escape attempt foiled
Tuesday 31-May-2011: I intentionaly post two articles here as I believe they have a close connection. Grazy. ...
S.Africa: Farm attacks: Widow, son tortured, robbed on farm
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: Sphumelele Mngoma & Stephanie Saville Pietermaritzburg - An elderly Wartburg farm owner and her son are recovering in hospital after surviving a brutal attack at the hands of six armed men on Tuesd...
Libya: Rights Group Accuses Opposition of Arbitrary Detentions
Sunday 05-Jun-2011: Tunis - Libyan opposition authorities are arbitrarily detaining dozens of civilians suspected of activities in support of Muammar Gaddafi, Human Rights Watch said today.The opposition authorities, whi (By News Poster)...
Gambia: International Seminar on Terrorism Conducted in Banjul
Tuesday 31-May-2011: A three day international Seminar on Terrorism was organized by the Africa Center for Study and Research on Terrorism last week at the Paradise Suites Hotel in Kololi Western Region of the Gambia unde (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: Brand in huis: Sy hart gee in./ A freelance photographer of Warmbaths was fatally burned when a worker on the small holding torched the thatched roof.
Friday 03-Jun-2011: Thanks OF for the translation. Afrikaans below Marietie Louw-Carstens A freelance photographer of Warmbaths was fatally burned when a worker on the small holding torched the thatched roof. Mr...
S.Africa: TAU SA : SOUTH AFRICA BULLETIN: OUT OF AFRICA – SOUTH AFRICA’S FARMERS HEAD NORTH
Friday 03-Jun-2011: US President Barack Obama’s speech to the United Kingdom Parliament last week roundly set out the ties which bind nations and peoples - what he called “values and beliefs”. The fact that there are peo...
S.Africa: ‘Muur gedenk dié wat vandag opoffer’
Monday 30-May-2011: ...
S.Africa: Rower steek boer in long met mes
Monday 30-May-2011: Arisja Jacobs ’n Veeboer van Limpopo is in die waakeenheid van die Zuid-Afrikaanse Hospitaal in Pretoria nadat ’n rower hom met ’n mes in die long gesteek het. Mnr. Jan Louw (49) van die plaas Noo...
S.Africa: Farmer stabbed 151 times - witness
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: I missed the English version of this one, but posted the Afrikaans one some time ago. Grazy Bloemfontein - Murdered Lindley farmer Adriaan Potgieter may have been tortured to death, the Free St...
USA: S.African President Zuma in Libya as NATO eyes endgame amid defections - Will Gadhafi retire in a neighbourhood near where I live?
Monday 30-May-2011: [Make no mistake: President Zuma and President Mugabe are crying crocodile tears over their bum chum, and fellow scumbag, Gadaffi. He helped to train their terrorists (deliberately misnamed as "Freedo (By Jan)...
Rwanda: Mixed Legacy for Community-Based Genocide Courts
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Kigali - Rwanda's community-based gacaca courts have helped communities confront the country's 1994 genocide but have failed to provide credible decisions and justice in a number of cases, Human Right (By News Poster)...
Framing the Hangberg Uprising
Monday 30-May-2011: By Aryan KaganofOn 21 and 22 September 2010 South African police forces in collaboration with the Cape Town Metro Police conducted an operation in Hangberg, Hout Bay that amounted to an occupation by (By News Poster)...
USA: Economic Meltdown: 'Double-Dip' in Housing Prices Even Worse Than Expected
Tuesday 31-May-2011: [Here is another sign that the meltdown is really bad and the "recovery" is something of a joke. The Fed is trying to inflate its way out of this, and this is the only strategy. I do believe the falli (By Jan)...
S.Africa: Driver chooses death over hijacking
Friday 03-Jun-2011: Bongani Hans, The Witness Pietermaritzburg - A generous motorist who had offered lifts to people on the side of the road chose death rather than submitting to being hijacked after two passengers pu...
Nigeria: Blasts in Bauchi, Zaria, Maiduguri
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Abuja, Bauchi, Zaria, Maiduguri - A day after the inauguration of President Goodluck Jonathan and 26 state governors across the country on Sunday, four powerful blasts were recorded in four different (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Johannesburg Residents Protect Somali Shopkeepers
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Jean-Jacques CornishResidents of a South African squatter camp have turned on local businessmen who have been threatening Somali shopkeepers.Their action follows the looting of Somali shops in anot (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Phases of Lagos Army-Police Mayhem
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Andrew UtuluLagos - More facts have emerged on how soldiers slaughtered the Divisional Police Officer, Badagry Police Division, Salihu Samuel, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) and shot severa (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Former Minister Opposes New Secrecy Law
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: The rush to complete the Protection of Information Bill by the parliamentary committee is worrying and will lead to huge problems and unnecessary tensions in the future, former intelligence minister R (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Banks' Mergers, Acquisition Talks - Exercise Without Direction?
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Bonny AmadiThere is no gain saying that the 2009 financial year generated a lot of tension in the system following the result of the stress test conducted on banks in the country by Central Bank of (By News Poster)...
Kenya: CBK in Dilemma to Contain Weakening Shilling, As Inflation Rises
Monday 30-May-2011: By Mwaura KimaniNairobi - The Central Bank of Kenya whose key policy-making organ Monetary Policy Committee meets on Tuesday this week to chart new monetary interventions for the economy is facing a m (By News Poster)...
Mzembi Defends Nation's Diplomatic Position
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Obi EgbunaWashington, DC - On Friday May 20 2011, Zimbabwe's Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Walter Mzembi gave a keynote address at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy's International Symposi (By News Poster)...
Africa: Imperial Neurosis and the Dangers of 'Humanitarian' Interventionism
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: By Yash TandonYash Tandon critiques the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) resolutions within the UN system to show how the forces of Empire have used 'humanitarian intervention' to advance their own int (By News Poster)...
East Africa: How Al Shabaab Recruitment Agents Lure Kenyans to Somalia
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: Nairobi - NTV reporters John-Allan Namu and Harith Salim uncovered evidence of recruitment activities in Kenya by Somalia’s radical al Shabaab group. Undercover video footage taken by the crew (By News Poster)...
Rwanda: Did The Govt Betray Women Raped in 1994 Genocide?
Friday 03-Jun-2011: Kigali - A new report has rekindled debate on whether the Rwandan government "betrayed" women who were raped during the 1994 genocide by letting community-based gacaca courts process their cases.The H (By News Poster)...
Congo-Kinshasa: Warnings And Ructions Over Polls
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: Kinshasa - The second democratic presidential election in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), scheduled for 28 November, runs the risk of further destabilizing the country because of preparation delay (By News Poster)...
"Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (01-06-2011)
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated.. -o00o- Today is my second day in the IT course, I am currently doing an assessment in Office 2007. Seeing that I don't have Office 2007 on my machi (By The BeardedMan)...
Zim: The African Union are helping Robert Mugabe as usual - SADC are also pro-Mugabe crooks who hate Whites
Tuesday 31-May-2011: [I got this from Gerry in Zimbabwe. This is totally ridiculous! The African Union and the SADC are a bunch of pro-Mugabe crooks. The SADC for example, no longer even look at the legal requests by whit (By Jan)...
Congo-Kinshasa: Warnings and Ructions Over Polls
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: Kinshasa - The second democratic presidential election in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), scheduled for 28 November, runs the risk of further destabilizing the country because of preparation delay (By News Poster)...
East Africa: Bashir's Gamble Could Split Nation Into Five
Monday 30-May-2011: By Charles Onyango-ObboNairobi - When North Sudan forces seized and ransacked the disputed border town of Abyei a week ago, it seemed like the country would return to the bloody 25-year war that ended (By News Poster)...
USA: Stock Markets: Is Oil in for a massive, sudden fall? A rare P&F chart warning - My new Stock Market Website
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: Trading is so hectic these days that I don't even put out all the signals on this website any more. I have a new website, www.StockTipster.net - its still empty, but that is the website where I will (By Jan)...
Slain Cop - Suspects Quizzed
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Freeman Razemba and Felex SharePOLICE have declared war on people who attack their members as more suspects were arrested in connection with the murder of an inspector in Glen View on Sunday.Chief (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Bomb Blasts Rock the Nation
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Rotimi Akinwumi, Sola Shittu, Abdulkareem Haruna, Baba Negedu And Patience OgbodoAbuja/Maiduguri/Kaduna/Bauchi - Terror fears materialised on Sunday night in co-ordinated bomb explosions in Abuja a (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Could Regional Summit Be Mugabe's Waterloo?
Sunday 05-Jun-2011: By Kholwani NyathiHarare - PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is hoping to bounce back from his recent setbacks on the diplomatic front when regional leaders meet in South Africa at the weekend to discuss Zimbab (By News Poster)...
Africa: FDI Into Africa On the Up
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: FOREIGN direct investment (FDI) inflows to Africa are expected to rapidly increase as of next year, to peak at US$150 billion by 2015, having increased by 87% over the past 10 years, according to lead (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: We Have Become Hostages to Bomb Blasts
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Denja YaqubAt the commencement of campaigns for various Nigerian political parties' primaries, the spate of violence in Nigeria increased. From political assassinations to violent attacks on campai (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Jobs, Stable Power, Deregulation High on Analysts' Checklist for Jonathan
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Kingsley IghomwenghianFor the President Goodluck Jonathan government inaugurated on Sunday, May 29, 2011, for a four-year term to make any meaningful impact on the socio-political life of the natio (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Who Are Boko Haram - And What Do They Want?
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Mallam AliIn July 2008, residents of the Maiduguri metropolis woke up to witness attacks on police stations, public properties, innocent citizens and members of the Operation Flush security squad f (By News Poster)...
Africa: All Roads Lead Back to China
Monday 30-May-2011: By Khadija SharifeAcross Africa, China has become known as the agent of mass construction, wisely bartering infrastructural development - chiefly mining-specific - for long-term access to strategic re (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: MASSIVE THEFT in a certain high profile Security company...
Tuesday 31-May-2011: I have a friend who has his own security business here in Johannesburg. We were having lunch the other day when he told me about a certain high profile security company, whose name I shall not mention (By Jan)...
Nigeria: Multi- National's Remedy for Darkness
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: Power sector reforms top the agenda for President Goodluck Jonathan's new cabinet. SENIOR CORRESPONDENT, Adeola Yusuf periscopes the roles that multinational companies like Marubeni Engineering West A (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Bank Recapitalization - September Deadline May Trigger Panic Withdrawal- -Nzekwe
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: The September deadline given to the eight rescued banks by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to complete their processes of merger and acquisition may lead to panic withdrawals as many bank customers (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: Men robbed, set alight in Free State
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: Johannesburg - A group of men robbed a tuck shop in Botshabelo, poured paraffin on the two owners and set them alight on Wednesday, Free State police said. Constable Thabo Litabe said the two men,...
S.Africa: Woman's body found under clothes heap
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: Johannesburg - A 53-year-old woman was found dead under a pile of clothes on her bed in Cambridge, East London police said on Wednesday. Captain Stephen Marais said the woman's hands and feet were ...
Nigeria: Bin Laden's Death - Much More to Say (i)
Monday 30-May-2011: By Noam ChomskyOn May 1, 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed in his virtually unprotected compound by a raiding mission of 79 Navy Seals, who entered Pakistan by helicopter. After many lurid stories were (By News Poster)...
East Africa: Tiger And Dragon in Race for African Business
Monday 30-May-2011: By Mwaura KimaniEast African nations have become the latest beneficiaries of the battle heating up between India and China for control of Africa's economic landscape.The region raked in a huge chunk o (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Why the CBN Pushed up MPR
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Jerry UwahThe Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) met on 23rd and 24th May, 2011 to assess current domestic and international economic and financial developments as well as the challenges facing the Ni (By News Poster)...
Joke: I will no longer be forwarding RACIST jokes...
Tuesday 31-May-2011: A lady friend sent me this message which I thought was simply excellent. Here goes:- "I just want everyone to know I will no longer be forwarding or sending racist jokes. Racism is a crime and crim (By Jan)...
Kenya: Explosion Rocks Nairobi
Sunday 05-Jun-2011: By Walter Menya and Benjamin MuindiNairobi - A man died and more than 36 others are fighting for their lives after an explosion near a petrol station in downtown Nairobi on Sunday.The impact blasted t (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Agenda for New Oil Minister
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Politicians and technocrats alike hot up scheming for ministerial seats in the new dispensation. SENIOR CORRESPONDENT, Adeola Yusuf who reviews the oil ministry under Diezani Alison-Madueke in the las (By News Poster)...
A Dawn for Ethiopia's Renaissance
Monday 30-May-2011: By Dr Koang Tutlam DungON MAY 28, 1991 the peoples of Ethiopia led by the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolu-tionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) finally got rid of the military junta that had imposed its reign of (By News Poster)...
USA: CIA Report: Military coup possible in Greece - Greece heading for debt default
Monday 30-May-2011: [This is interesting because quite a long time ago on AfricanCrisis we discussed the way that communists seemed to be behind the violence in Greece. And now Greece is looking like it will default on i (By Jan)...
Nigeria: Petroleum Sector - Diezani's Oily Touch
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Oscarline Onwuemenyi and Tony EdikeThe Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke can beat her chest with pride for some of the radical initiatives that have swept through the ind (By News Poster)...
Dead Policeman Described As Notorious Thug By Vendors
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Lance GumaA policeman killed on Sunday at a night club in Glen View was a notorious thug who robbed vendors of their wares, demanded bribes and was deeply unpopular in the area, listeners interview (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: What Should Farming Contracts Entail?
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Obert ChifambaUSUALLY, pricing and payment arrangements are the most discussed and challenging components of all farming contracts.And, the crop's final destination - whether it is for the local or (By News Poster)...
Cote d'Ivoire: Reports of Abuses Stain New Ivorian President's Record
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Elizabeth WhitmanNew York - Forces loyal to Ivorian President Alessane Ouattara have carried out indiscriminate torture, rape, extrajudicial killings, and other acts of violence and abuse, accordin (By News Poster)...
MDC-T Grandstanding Ahead of Summit - Zanu-Pf
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: THE recent murder of a police inspector in Glen View in Harare this week by suspected MDC-T hooligans is part of the party's gra-nd plans to create scenes of violence ahead of major summits, Zanu-PF h (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Farm Invasions - When Will It End?
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Bornwell Chakaodza"THERE is enough for everybody's need not for everybody's greed," said Mahatma Gandhi. How true indeed.I think it is a tragedy that more than 10 years down the road, there appears (By News Poster)...
Libya: South Africa's Jacob Zuma in Tripoli for Talks
Monday 30-May-2011: South African President Jacob Zuma is expected in Tripoli Monday for talks that officials said will focus on an "exit strategy" for Moamer Kadhafi, as Libyan rebels applauded a G8 call for the strongm (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Country, Mozambique Join Hands to Fight Piracy
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: Pretoria - South Africa and Mozambique have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will see the two countries work together on issues of piracy and trans-border crime.The MoU, signed on Wedne (By News Poster)...
Has Mugabe Ever Wanted to Retire?
Monday 30-May-2011: By Kholwani NYathiWHEN Zanu PF's politburo set up a committee to look into the emotive issue of President Robert Mugabe's successor in 2009, hopes were raised that one of Africa's longest serving rule (By News Poster)...
Humor: A Cool American saying from the past...
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: A friend and I were having dinner in a pub & grill last night that had an American theme. It had Americana from the Civil war and other items up on the walls. But I loved the following saying whic (By Jan)...
Tanzania: '1964 Army Mutineers Were Inspired By the Zanzibar Revolution'
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Bernard MapalalaJAMES BRENNAN of the University of Illinois at Urbana in the United States did his PHD on the history of Dar es Salaam. He was in Tanzania for the first time in 1996 and lived here (By News Poster)...
Ghana: Increase Banks Minimum Capital Requirement to Reduce Interest Rates
Sunday 05-Jun-2011: By George AmexoTo reduce the high cost of borrowing, a proposal has been made to the Bank of Ghana to increase the minimum capital requirement for banking operations in the country.The Managing Direct (By News Poster)...
Africa: Africa Has Duty to Shape Its Destiny
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Lloyd KentAFRICA has the misfortune of being the world's last vestige of vast natural resources, and is at the centre of a storm stirred by America, Britain and their allies to wipe out all leaders (By News Poster)...
Somalia: Speech at the 19th Meeting of the International Contact Group
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: Speech of the President of Puntland State of Somalia H.E. Abdirahman Mohamed Mohamud (Farole)His Excellency Gen. Yoweri Museveni, the President of Uganda;His Excellency Pierre Nkurunziza, the Presiden (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Chiwenga Guns for Presidency
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Faith ZabaIN a new twist to President Robert Mugabe's unpredictable succession battle, a group of generals in the army disgruntled by Zanu PF's failure to resolve the issue are reportedly pushing f (By News Poster)...
Dangers of Mugabe Succession
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Itai MasukuPRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's simmering succession crisis, which is full of twists and turns, just won't go away. It looks like the burning question will linger on the political landscape fo (By News Poster)...
MDC-T Say Policeman Was Killed By Drinkers
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: By Irene MadongoA police inspector was killed after a fight broke out with drinkers at a shopping centre, the MDC-T claims, after police alleged that MDC supporters were responsible. The MDC-T also sa (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: All Eyes On CBN Over Implementation, Regulation of Mobile Money
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Emma Okonji , HeadIt. Telecom - Nigeria will today take her destiny into her hands as the country comes out bold to embrace a world of cashless economies. The bold step, which begins today, will ei (By News Poster)...
Libya: Govt Forces Committed War Crimes, Says UN Human Rights Panel
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: A United Nations-ordered panel investigating human rights abuses in Libya says that Government forces have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the course of their crackdown on oppo (By News Poster)...
Zambia: Copper - Charity for Multinationals
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: By Khadija SharifeDespite the apparent 'success' of the privatisation of the Zambian copper industry, the true picture is one of systemic multinational exploitation, national assets sold 'for a song' (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Obama Targets Mwau in Drug War
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Patrick MayoyoNairobi - US citizens who do business with Kilome MP John Harun Mwau risk going to jail for 30 years or being fined as much as Sh400 million.US President Barack Obama Thursday listed (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Reserve Bank Under Curatorship
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Victoria Ruzvidzo And Martin KadzereTHE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe yesterday placed Renaissance Merchant Bank under curatorship to investigate fully and institute corrective measures at the technical (By News Poster)...
Africa: Françafrique - We'll Go When We've Finished
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Sokari EkineThe impact of climate change on women in Ethiopia, questionable carbon credit and biofuels schemes, a Liberian activist's work with child soldiers, and France's commercial ties to its f (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe Govt to Head African 'Peace' Efforts
Monday 30-May-2011: By Alex BellThe credibility of the African Union (AU) is being questioned, after news that Zimbabwe will assume the chairmanship of the bloc's Peace and Security Council.The rotational chairmanship pa (By News Poster)...
Hunt for Stoffels Killer Still On
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Jana-Mari SmithAMIDST accusations of a wrongful arrest and detention and a multi-million dollar civil claim in the Magdalena Stoffels murder case, crime experts differ on whether the trail for the (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Army / Police Clash, Which Way Forward?
Friday 03-Jun-2011: THE age long ill feelings, disaffections and rancor between the Army and the Police could be referred to as tussle for supremacy. Although the rift is not officially pronounced within the two sister a (By News Poster)...
Sudan: Govt Deploys Troops to Borders With Libya
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: Khartoum - The Sudanese government sent reinforcements to the borders with Libya amid reports of fighting between Darfur rebels and armed Libyan opposition, an official said today.Hafez Omar Alfa spok (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: One Police, Army Clash Too Many
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Fourteen persons, six of them policemen and eight civilians, were killed last Tuesday week when soldiers attached to 242 Reccee Battalion at Ibereko, a suburb of Badagry in Lagos went on an apparent r (By News Poster)...
Southern Africa: Top Lawyers Say SADC Turning Its Back on Human Rights
Sunday 05-Jun-2011: By Alex BellTop lawyers in the Southern African region have told SW Radio Africa that leaders in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are turning their back on human rights, by dissolving (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Boko Haram Militants Kill Shehu of Borno's Brother
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Adetutu Folasade-Koyi, Austin Oboh And Abdulkareem HarunaMaiduguri/Abuja/Lagos - Boko Haram made real on Monday night its threat to take its offensive beyond state government officials, as gunmen s (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Oil Workers Are Set to Tackle FG Over PIB, Says Ogun
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Sylvester EnoghasePresident of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), Babatunde Ogun has said that the union will embark on strike, if the Petroleum Equalisation (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: SA Group to Start Accepting Chiadzwa Diamonds
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Alex BellA South African diamond group has announced that it is ready to start accepting diamonds from Zimbabwe, despite the ongoing confusion over the country's legal trade status.As quoted in Zim (By News Poster)...
AfDB - Interview With African Legal Support Facility Acting Director, Mr Deme
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: A week to the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group 2011 Annual Meetings to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on 9-10 June 2011, the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) Acting Director, Mamoudou Deme, ha (By News Poster)...
Libya: Zuma Says Gaddafi Ready for Truce
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Doha - Muammar Gaddafi is ready for a truce to stop the fighting in his country, Jacob Zuma, the South African president, has said.Zuma, who met the Libyan leader at an undisclosed location during a v (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Rescue Plan for Ailing Banks in the Offing - - Biti
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Dumisani MuleyaIN a bid to prevent more bank failures after the ReNaissance Merchant Bank was yesterday placed under curatorship for six months, Finance minister Tendai Biti has ordered Reserve Ban (By News Poster)...
Libya: Qatar Forces 'Gang Rape Victim' to Return to Libya
Friday 03-Jun-2011: Tunis - The Qatari government forcibly returned Eman al-'Obeidy, a recognized refugee, to rebel-held Benghazi in eastern Libya on June 2, 2011, Human Rights Watch said today. Al-'Obeidy and the UN Hig (By News Poster)...
Libya: Crisis Dominates Africa-Europe Talks
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Timothy SpenceBrussels - Facing unrest in the north and a struggle against poverty elsewhere, leaders of the African Union and their European counterparts are working as "equal partners" to spread (By News Poster)...
Tanzania: Gold Mine Saga Sign of Things to Come
Friday 03-Jun-2011: Once again, Tanzanians are mourning the deaths of five of their fellow citizens shot dead by police on May 16, at the African Barrick Gold's North Mara gold mine in Tarime District, Mara Region.Accord (By News Poster)...
Police Arrest Churchgoers, Harass Clergy
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Mike BrooksSixteen churchgoers have been arrested and priests have been turned out of their homes in Zimbabwe's Diocese of Harare - where the Anglican Church is facing persecution at the hands of a (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Open New Johannesburg Refugee Center, Rights Group Urges
Friday 03-Jun-2011: Johannesburg - The South African government should quickly open a new refugee reception center in Johannesburg, Human Rights Watch said today. The closing of the existing center on June 1, 2011, will (By News Poster)...
Govt Dreams BRICS
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Munyaradzi MugowoZimbabwe believes its four-year Medium-Term Plan (MTP) approved by Cabinet on Tuesday can be a dream ticket to the BRICS, a club of the world's leading and fastest emerging markets (By News Poster)...
Tanzania: Govt Promises to Tackle Power Woes
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Rosemary MirondoThe ministry of Energy and Minerals has said that it will ensure the power deficit problem is well addressed in fiscal year 2011/12 to end the ongoing power crisis.According to mini (By News Poster)...
How Zanu PF Plans to Steal the Elections
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: By Rw JohnsonDESPITE clear and binding international agreements to the contrary, evidence now available shows that President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF is again planning to steal the next elections with (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Fishing Out Civil War Bombs in South East
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Uche NwosuOwerri - More than 40 years after the dehumanising Nigeria-Biafra civil war, the memories of that hostility still reverberates in eastern Nigeria, particularly in Igbo heartland where the (By News Poster)...
Norway Willing to Help Fight Piracy
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: Maputo - Norway's State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry, Erik Lahnstein, announced on Monday in Maputo the interest of his country in patrolling the coast of Mozambique to help fight piracy.Speaking (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: ACN, Senate Bemoan Spate of Bomb Blasts
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Ike AbonyThe unceasing spate of bomb blasts in the country Tuesday caught the attention of the Senate with the upper legislative chamber calling on the security agencies to rise up to the occasion (By News Poster)...
USA: Economic Meltdown: Home-price index falls to lowest point since 2002
Tuesday 31-May-2011: [The US economy is taking a real beating and I also hear about it from friends there. This is really bad. Jan] WASHINGTON – An index of home prices in big metro areas has reached its lowest level s (By Jan)...
S.Africa: Man shot dead during protest
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Johannesburg - An investigation is under way into the circumstances leading to the death of a 21-year-old man during a protest in Tlokweng, North West police said on Tuesday. "The information we ha...
Zimbabwe: Renaissance Bank Placed Under Curatorship
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Bernard Mpofu And Paul NyakazeyaTHE Reserve Bank has placed financially-beleaguered ReNaissance Merchant Bank (RMB) under curatorship for six months after establishing that there was a systematic a (By News Poster)...
Southern Africa: Blackthorn Enters SADC Region in Partnership with Amlih Namibia
Friday 03-Jun-2011: Amlih Investments (Pty) Ltd (Amlih) and Blackthorn Capital Partners Ltd BVI (Blackthorn) are today, on the occasion of the celebration of Africa Day, signing a transformational memorandum of understan (By News Poster)...
Southern Africa: Michelle Obama to Visit South Africa, Botswana
Sunday 05-Jun-2011: Washington, DC - First Lady Michelle Obama announced that she will travel to Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa and Gaborone, Botswana during an official visit to Africa from June 21 – 26 (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Central Bank Acts to Cut Money Supply As Inflation Nears 13 Percent
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Justus OndariNairobi - Central Bank of Kenya Tuesday moved to reduce amount of money in the economy as inflation nearly hit 13 per cent.By increasing the rate at which commercial banks charge for c (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Polls Spark Intra-Party Violence
Monday 30-May-2011: By Jennifer DubeHarare - ELEVEN Zanu PF activists have been arrested in Maramba-Pfungwe constituency in Mashonaland East for brutally assaulting fellow party members and damaging property as factional (By News Poster)...
Sibanda Divides Zanu-Pf
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: CONTROVERSIAL war veterans' national chairperson, Jabulani Sibanda, who has been campaigning for ZANU-PF across Masv-ingo since last year denies the allegations, saying it was cheap propaganda emanati (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Jonathan's Giant Strides in Petroleum Sector
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Tony EdikeDECADES before the assumption of office of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on May 6, 2010, the count (By News Poster)...
"Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (02-06-2011)
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: Howzit I am still working at the IT course - today being Day 3. I am now waiting for the module 'door' to be opened to allow me to proceed to the next stage. Now they say that the system is down (By The BeardedMan)...
Nigeria: Cash Transfer Policy Will Enhance Mobile Payments - Owolabi
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Emma Okonji , HeadIt. Telecom - Convinced that mobile money transfer will encourage cashless economy as currently being canvassed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Managing Director of Funds an (By News Poster)...
Uganda: African Leaders Back Gaddafi, Ask Nato to End Bombings
Monday 30-May-2011: By Tabu ButagiraAfrican Presidents have asked allied forces to halt intensified bombings in Tripoli, called for an immediate ceasefire between government and rebel forces and decided Col. Muammar Gadd (By News Poster)...
Southern Africa: SADC Needs More Investment
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Kemantha GovenderDurban - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is an important investment destination not only for multi-national companies but for companies within the region.Therefor (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Fashola Seeks Improved Welfare for Armed Forces - Revisits Call for Police Decentralisation
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Ekene OkoroLagos - Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday called on the Federal Government to take more than a passing interest in the welfare and affairs of officers of the Nigerian (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Central Bank's Move on Cash to Raise Interest Rates
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Geoffrey IrunguThe withdrawal of Sh3.2 billion from circulation in the financial system following Central Bank's policy action on Tuesday is likely to pile pressure on banks to increase lending rat (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Country, Mozambique Combine to Fight Somali Pirates
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Jean-Jacques CornishMozambique and South Africa have agreed to cooperate in fighting piracy, which is spreading south from Somalia. The two countries will operate joint patrols in the Indian Ocean (By News Poster)...
Southern Africa: Policy Reforms Needed to Boost Regional Trade and Investment
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: Pretoria - New World Bank research shows that a combination of policy barriers are hampering regional trade in both goods and services among Southern African countries, and calls for a new generation (By News Poster)...
Africa: Scientists Aim to Predict Cholera
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: Johannesburg - A new study into the linkages between rain, temperature and cholera shows scientists may be able to predict epidemics in time to save people from the life-threatening disease.After anal (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: SA Opens Market for Diamonds
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Dumisani NdlelaSOUTH Africa has taken an unprecedented decision to support Zimbabwe's export of rough diamonds, despite international pressure to proscribe the gemstones from the Marange claims fro (By News Poster)...
Zanu PF Turn Mbare Into a War Zone
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Lance GumaDozens of rampaging ZANU PF youth militia invaded the Harare suburb of Mbare over the weekend, beating up and displacing suspected MDC-T supporters from their homes.The youths are reporte (By News Poster)...
Sierra Leone: South Africa-Nation - 50 Years Forward Or Backward?
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By John MomohFreetown - Sometimes when people read in the foreign press, listen to radio reports or watch television analysis about events in Britain, USA, France etc concerning corruption, abject pov (By News Poster)...
Sierra Leone: Special Court for Sierra Leone to Hold Contempt Proceedings
Monday 30-May-2011: By Alpha SesaySpecial Court for Sierra Leone judges have issued orders for two seperate contempt proceedings to be held in respect of allegations that several individuals have attempted to contact pro (By News Poster)...
The Art of Farming - Bumper Harvest - Mark of Focused Govt
Monday 30-May-2011: By Gideon TholeZAMBIA yet again is celebrating the success story in the agricultural sector that of a maize bumper harvest for the second time ,which is a clear indication that the country is heading (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Untold Story of Pipeline Fire Explosion That Killed Over 22 Persons
Monday 30-May-2011: By Emma ArubiTuesday May 24, 2011 would forever remain indelible in the memory of the people of Oko Ovwore-Amukpe Okpe community in Delta State following an early morning NNPC pipeline fire explosion (By News Poster)...
Mystery Of Ugandan Colonel's Murder
Monday 30-May-2011: By Richard WanambwaKampala - The death of Col. Edison Muzoora and how unidentified men in a vehicle dropped his body at his home remains a mystery. The body, which was dressed in a UPDF uniform, wrapp (By News Poster)...
Liberators Platform Launches Scathing Attack On Brigadier
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Tichaona SibandaThe board of trustees of the Zimbabwe Liberators Platform (ZLP) on Wednesday lobbed a vitriolic verbal grenade at Brigadier-General Douglas Nyikayaramba, for suggesting Robert Mugab (By News Poster)...
Libya: Nato Extends Air War in Libya
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: Hilversum - NATO agreed Wednesday to extend its Libyan air war by three months and dismissed charges by Moamer Kadhafi's regime that the bombing campaign has already killed 718 civilians.Hours after N (By News Poster)...
Tanzania: Beyond the Economics of Uranium Mining in Nation
Monday 30-May-2011: By Honest NgowiUranium is among the newest entrant in the long litany of mineral resources to be mined in Tanzania. This venture follows the current discovery of this hard metal in a number of places (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Are Bombs Here to Stay?
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: IS it possible government has decided to allow Nigerians to live with the bombs that have been flying in different parts of the country since last year? There are reasons to be worried about the attit (By News Poster)...
Bid to Derail Defence Project Flops
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Zvamaida Murwira and Lloyd GumboAttempts by MDC-T Members of Parliament to derail the ratification of a 20-year US$98 million loan agreement between Zimbabwe and China to construct a defence colleg (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Mangoma Denies Herald Report On Security Reforms
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Tererai KarimakwendaThe state run Herald newspaper reported on Monday that South Africa's facilitation team "has no intention" of meeting with Zimbabwe's security chiefs to discuss key sector refor (By News Poster)...
Sudan: Food And Water Most Urgent Needs for Civilians Displaced By Abyei Clashes - UN
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: Heavy rains are making it difficult to ascertain the exact number and location of the thousands of civilians forced to flee their homes due to the recent violence in the Sudanese town of Abyei, but th (By News Poster)...
West Africa: West African Cocaine 'Trade' Doubles in Five Years- -UN
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: The amount of cocaine trafficked through West Africa to Europe may have doubled since 2006 and drug cartels are cooperating with al-Qaeda in the region, an official with the United Nations Office on D (By News Poster)...
Zanu PF Torture Agent Not Immune From Prosecution in the UK
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Alex BellA self confessed ZANU PF henchman, who has controversially received asylum in the UK, will not be immune from prosecution abroad for the crimes he allegedly committed.The case of former CI (By News Poster)...
Tanzania: Zanzibar Tackles Malaria with Mobile Phones
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Anthony TambweAfew years ago,Othman Mrushid would show up each morning at his clinic in a tiny rugged Matemwe village,Unguja,Zanzibar, to find a group of shivering villagers waiting for his service (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Give us Electricity, Captains of Industry Charge Jonathan
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Adeola YusufLagos - Managing Director of Shell in Nigeria, Mutiu Sunmonu, his counterpart at First Bank of Nigeria Plc, Bisi Onasanya, have singled out epileptic power supply as number one problem (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Michelle Obama to Spotlight Youth, Education Health in Visit
Sunday 05-Jun-2011: Pretoria - Youth leadership, education, health and wellness will be under the spotlight when United States First Lady Michelle Obama visits South Africa and Botswana later this month.Spokesperson for (By News Poster)...
Rethink Used Car Import Ban
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Peter ChikonamombeTHE proposed ban of left-hand drive cars leaves me wondering if the Ministry of Transport is really in touch with what is on the ground.Let's start with the basics.Zimbabwe has be (By News Poster)...
USA: The Economic Meltdown - Horror for US Economy as Data Falls off Cliff - Its all bad news...
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: [As I have remarked, the so-called economic recovery is not exactly what you think it is. It is a whole different concept to do with pumping money in and crashing the dollar in a long term, round-abou (By Jan)...
Southern Africa: 'Paper Rights' But No 'Substantive Rights' for SADC Women
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Catherine SasmanSENIOR government officials and delegates from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) agencies responsible for gender and women's affairs are meeting in Windhoek to consi (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Food Crisis Lands Government in the Dock
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Nairobi - Just as it declares a national disaster over drought, the Kenyan government is being sued over its alleged failure to respect a new constitutional right to food.High prices and poor rains ha (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Democracy Day - Progressing Energy Sector Beyond Projections
Monday 30-May-2011: By Clara NwachukwuFor 12 years now, Nigeria has been able to hold its forth in the democratic arena, a development that has earned it tremendous respect and support from the comity of nations.At the i (By News Poster)...
South Africa: MSM, Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Khopotso BodibeAt a recent conference in Cape Town, it emerged that HIV infection is more likely to cause mental health and substance abuse problems among young men who have sex with men than in he (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Govt to Descend on Profiteering Banks
Monday 30-May-2011: By Kudzai ChimhangwaTHE Ministry of Economic Planning and Investment Promotion will soon force banks to reduce interest rates in pursuit of macro-economic stability under the aegis of the medium term (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Zanu Pf Invaders Infiltrate Matabeleland
Monday 30-May-2011: By Nqobani NdlovuZanu PF is allegedly resettling its supporters from other provinces in Matabeleland so that they can register as voters ahead of fresh elections.The two Movement for Democratic Change (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: War Vets Urged to Take Part in Empowerment Programmes
Monday 30-May-2011: WAR veterans should actively participate in the Government's indigenisation and economic empowerment programme, Zanu-PF secretary for indigenisation Cde Saviour Kasukuwere has said.Addressing a war ve (By News Poster)...
Tele-Density Rate Takes Dip
Sunday 05-Jun-2011: By Tawanda MusarurwaZIMBABWE'S tele-density rate took a dip after the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe recently cut off unregistered lines.Statistics from Potraz show the (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Inauguration - Blood Flows the Day After
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Amby Uneze, John Shiklam And Sunday AghaezeOwerri/Kaduna/Abuja - A day after the inauguration of President Goodluck Jonathan and 26 state governors, blood flowed in Zaria, Kaduna State, Zuba in the (By News Poster)...
More Empty Wallets As Food Prices Continue to Soar
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Martin Luther OketchKampala - Persistent increase in food prices coupled with imported inflation have continued to make it difficult for government to bring down the country's fast-rising inflation (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Activists Protest at UK Home of CIO Who Was Granted Asylum
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Lance GumaOver the weekend dozens of MDC-T activists demonstrated at the Bristol home of Phillip Machemedze, a former CIO agent controversially granted asylum in the United Kingdom. Despite confess (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: Monkey 'burnt to death' by community
Monday 30-May-2011: Johannesburg - A vervet monkey was burnt to death in Kagiso informal settlement, west of Johannesburg, after residents believed it was linked to witchcraft, The Star newspaper reported on Monday. "...
Nigeria: I'll Not Let You Down, Says Jonathan
Monday 30-May-2011: By Daniel IdonorAbuja - WITH more than 40 world leaders and five former Nigerian presidents and heads of state to witness his inauguration for a four year term as Nigerian president, Dr Goodluck Ebele (By News Poster)...
Africa: Exploring Mobile Communications for Healthcare
Sunday 05-Jun-2011: By Julie FrederikseDurban, South Africa - An inaugural summit on the use of mobile communications to support healthcare opens in Cape Town on Monday.This emerging field is often called "mHealth" and t (By News Poster)...
Zambia: Tackling Food Security Through Preservation of Vegetables
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: By Jessie Ngoma-SimengwaZAMBIA is this year yet again celebrating the maize bumper harvest through efforts yielded through the hard work of small-scale farmers who have been helped by government's goo (By News Poster)...
Africa: Agoa Key to U.S. Support for Economic Growth
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Stephen KaufmanWashington - Economic growth in Africa will help stabilize the continent and reduce conflict, as well as improve the well-being of its people, and the Obama administration is looking (By News Poster)...
South Africa: A Mother of Nation's Struggle for Freedom Dies
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: Johannesburg - Albertina Sisulu, who died in Johannesburg on Thursday at the age of 92, had little interest in politics when she met Walter Sisulu, future general secretary of the ANC. But she plung (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Caledonia Ramps Up Gold Output
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: Toronto-listed Caledonia Mining Corporation, which owns a gold mining asset in Zimbabwe, Blanket Mine, had reported a gold production increase of 17 percent to 7,322 ounces during the first quarter of (By News Poster)...
Govt to Study Walmart-Massmart Decision
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: Pretoria - Government has noted and will study the Competition Tribunal's decision allowing US retail giant Walmart to merge with Massmart."Government has taken careful note of the decision of the Com (By News Poster)...
Liberia: Mittal's Workers Bleed Under Subcontractors With Killer Salaries
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Boimah J. V. BoimahArcelor Mittal's over billion-dollar venture meant to rejuvenate the economy promised better jobs and salaries for many unemployed Liberians. But the multi-national company has a (By News Poster)...
Tunisia: Ten Refugees Killed in Clashes With Police
Monday 30-May-2011: Khartoum - Ten African nationals, including two Sudanese citizens from the country's western region of Darfur, were killed in clashes this week between Tunisian police and locals with the residents of (By News Poster)...
Slumming it in Joburg, South Africa
Friday 03-Jun-2011: Johannesburg - Johannesburg's abandoned and neglected inner-city buildings have become slum dwellings for thousands of people, many of them jobless migrants, who endure over-crowding, poor or non-exis (By News Poster)...
Sudan: North and South Agree to Form Joint Committee On Abyei
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: Khartoum - The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) agreed on Monday to establish a joint committee that will look into ways to defuse the crisis that e (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: CBN Grants Banks New Licences
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Omoh GabrielLagos - Central Bank of Nigeria, yesterday, released three categories of banking licences to banks operating in the country in line with the modified universal banking scheme.In the new (By News Poster)...
Sudan: SPLA Denies Having Troops in Blue Nile and S. Kordofan
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By John ActuallyBor - South Sudan's army (SPLA) has denied the presence of its forces in South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions - which lie north of the 1956 colonial border - following an ultimatum by (By News Poster)...
Tanzania: Barrick to Probe Abuse Allegations
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Dar Es Salaam - As Africa Barrick Gold struggles with the negative implications of the recent killing of five people in its North Mara Gold Mine, fresh reports indicate that the company would also inv (By News Poster)...
Rice is King, But At a Price
Friday 03-Jun-2011: London - Most of us, when we worry about food prices, think short term - the price today compared with yesterday; the chance that the price will have gone up again tomorrow. But Oxfam this week risked (By News Poster)...
Africa: 'Energy Partnerships Can Ensure Development'
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Pretoria - The collaboration of African states on energy generation will ensure development of the continent, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said on Monday.Peters said that due to a lack of access to el (By News Poster)...
Africa: Universities in Africa Need to Be Revitalised
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: By Nabeta SangiliUniversity Education in Africa is in a state of crisis owing to moral, political, social, cultural, academic and economic difficulties. Indeed, Africa is considered to have the weakes (By News Poster)...
RBZ Should Keep Eye on the Ball
Friday 03-Jun-2011: THE surfacing of corporate governance problems at ReNaissance Financial Holdings Ltd (RFHL) raises the urgent need to look deeper into our banking regulations. The regulatory authorities have a vital (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Timba Ran Bank Like a Tuckshop, Biti Tells Parly
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Zvamaida Murwira And Farirai MachivenyikaFINANCE Minister Tendai Biti says shareholders and management at Renaissance Merchant Bank were running it like a "tuckshop."Minister Biti said this on Tues (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Displaced People Become Political Pawns
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Nairobi/Nakuru - Belonging to the "wrong" ethnic group in Kenya's Rift Valley Province cost Milka Wanjiru her home, her farm and her shop. After elections in 1992, the mother of 11 lost it all to loot (By News Poster)...
Libya: Water Emerges as a Hidden Weapon
Monday 30-May-2011: By Simba RusseauCairo - Libya's enormous aquatic reserves could potentially become a new weapon of choice if government forces opt to starve coastal cities that heavily rely on free flowing freshwater (By News Poster)...
Rwanda: African Central Bankers Seeking for New Mechanisms to Finance Development
Monday 30-May-2011: By William KateteThe National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) will, from May 30 to June 1, 2011, host more than 100 delegates from central banks in Africa and other development partners.The conference will take (By News Poster)...
South Africa: 30 Years of Aids
Sunday 05-Jun-2011: By Kerry CullinanHIV/AIDS remains by far the biggest killer of South Africans, but there seems to be an assumption in many sectors - the media included - that President Zuma's government has it under (By News Poster)...
Airzim Debt Escalates
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: By Dumisani NdlelaAIR Zimbabwe's debt has ballooned to over US$100 million as the airline continues to default on debt payments and picks up new bills from service providers, The Financial Gazette can (By News Poster)...
What Ails Kenya's Young Marriages?
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Muchiri Karanja and Millicent MwololoNairobi - Nothing seemed wrong with the marriage between Paul Mungai, 32, and Serah Wambui, 28.They had three children - sons, 10, two, and one. Wambui was expe (By News Poster)...
Kenyan Wall A World Heritage Site?
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Nairobi - East Africa could soon get another World Heritage Site, if Kenya's application to Unesco to have Thimlich Ohinga Cultural Landscape included in the prestigious World Heritage List is approve (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Why the Country Remains Un-Banked
Monday 30-May-2011: In spite of the posturing of Nigeria's banks and in particular the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), it is self evident that presently more than 65% of the country's population still do not patronize the (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Energy Costs Hit Investors
Monday 30-May-2011: By Kevin MwanzaSome Kenyan manufacturers may relocate to other countries because of strains from high energy costs, rising inflation, a weak shilling and political uncertainty, the head of an industry (By News Poster)...
Tanzania: Heed Bunge Call to Set Up Gold Reserve
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: One of the many controversial decisions taken by the government in liberalising the economy was getting rid of its gold reserves in the early 1990s. Bank of Tanzania (BoT) Governor Benno Ndulu says th (By News Poster)...
Sudan: Satellite Sentinel Project Releases New Visual Evidence of Government of War Crimes in Abyei
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) has released new visual evidence that the Government of Sudan has committed grave violations of the Geneva Conventions and other war crimes, some of which may also (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Rescued Banks Seek London Listing Before Deadline
Friday 03-Jun-2011: Lagos - Indications emerged, yesterday, that banks rescued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 2009, may seek to list on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to raise funds before the deadline set for (By News Poster)...
Rwanda: Civil Society Urged to Be Active in Fight Against TB, HIV/Aids
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Edmund KagireCivil Society Organisations in Rwanda have been called on to play an active role in raising awareness among the population as well as identifying cases of tuberculosis and encouraging (By News Poster)...
Zambia: NGOs Boost Rural HIV Awareness
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Sam PhiriAbout 15 kilometres from Chisamba in the rural area, almost 90 kilometres from Lusaka, is a heart-rending tale of the trials and tribulations of children trying to achieve a semblance of a (By News Poster)...
Rwanda: African Central Banks Discuss Financing Growth
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Gertrude MajyambereCentral banks in Africa can play a bigger role in financing development by allowing investments and increasing savings in their respective countries, a top monetary official said (By News Poster)...
Gadaffi Pledges to Help Authorities Find Journalist's Body
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Cape Town - Muammar Gadaffi has pledged to co-operate with South African authorities in finding photo journalist Anton Hammerl's body, the Minister of International Relations and Co-operation Maite Nk (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: President Hails China's Military
Tuesday 31-May-2011: PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday met the visiting Chinese member of the Senior Military Commission Chief Air Marshal Xu Qiliang at State House in Harare.Cde Mugabe - who is the Head of State and Government (By News Poster)...
Tanzania: Banks Rake in Sh3.5 Billion Every Day
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Costantine SebastianBanks generated Sh3,560 million (about $2.4 million) a day in the last quarter of last year, which is a colossal sum of money for a poor country such as Tanzania.At that rate, t (By News Poster)...
Sudan: NCP Says No Recognition of South State Without Border Demarcation
Monday 30-May-2011: Khartoum - The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in North Sudan added a new layer of tension on Thursday by declaring that they will not recognize the independence of the South next July unless bor (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Rescued Banks Seek Bailout From London Stock Exchange
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Obinna ChimaApparently disturbed by the September 30 recapitalisation deadline given by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), some of the rescued banks who are yet to attract investors have approached (By News Poster)...
Liberia: Prince Johnson Wants War Crimes Trial
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: Former warlord, now senator and presidential candidate, Prince Johnson, has endorsed the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) listing him as a notorious perpetrator and one (By News Poster)...
Tanzania: Opposition - We Can Cut Fuel Prices By 40 Percent
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Frank KimboyThe opposition camp in Parliament has proposed a 40 per cent reduction in taxes for petroleum products to cushion Tanzanians against the rising cost of living.The deputy shadow minister (By News Poster)...
Stop Intimidating Witnesses - Lawyer
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: The lawyer representing businessman Temba Mliswa, who is facing extortion charges, yesterday accused police officers of intimidating people to testify against his client on dropped charges and say thi (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: CBN Gives Troubled Banks September Deadline to Recapitalize
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Idris AhmedThe eight troubled banks bailed out by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) with N620 billion in 2009 may be liquidated by September if they fail to reach agreement on Merger and Acquisitio (By News Poster)...
Africa: Aid Policy - New Mechanism to Boost Food Security
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Since April the humanitarian community has been gearing up to deploy a new mechanism aimed at combining expertise on food aid and agricultural assistance to boost food security and make food insecure (By News Poster)...
South Africa: DoH Recognises MSMs
Monday 30-May-2011: By Khopotso BodibeThe Health Department has appealed to men who have sex with men and organisations working with this sector to make their voices heard so that their needs are included and addressed i (By News Poster)...
Sudan: Battling to Bring Aid to Thousands of Abyei Displaced
Friday 03-Jun-2011: Turalei And Agok - Warrap State in Southern Sudan is becoming the focal point for efforts to assist thousands of people fleeing the disputed central-southern region of Abyei after it was attacked on 2 (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Ihejirika - Barracks' Bombers Are Cowards
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Susan EdehBauchi - The Chief of Army Staff, Lt-General Azubike Ihejirika, has described the perpetrators of last Sunday's bomb attacks in some Army barracks in the North as cowards, pledging that t (By News Poster)...
Bombers 'Want to Incite Soldiers'
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Abdul-Rahman AbubakarThe increasing incidents of bombings especially in military barracks are aimed at inciting soldiers into rampage, Senate President David Mark said yesterday.Speaking when Senat (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Breaking Borders - Extraordinary Stories of Migrants
Monday 30-May-2011: By Deborah WalterLaunched on Africa Day (25 May), a new five-part series of radio documentaries chronicling the lives, challenges, dreams, and positive contributions of migrants living in South Africa (By News Poster)...
Zambia: Lake Tanganyika Preservation Vital
Monday 30-May-2011: By Ruth Mwale And Barbara ChandaLake Tanganyika is a natural phenomenon, and if not properly maintained will lose its beauty, especially that the lake sustains life and livelihoods for millions of peo (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Most Wanted Nakuru Thug Surrenders Gun
Monday 30-May-2011: By Rita DamaryA most wanted criminal has surrendered a Mac Four and AK-47 riffles he had used to commit crime. The 27-year-old Paul Emuria confessed he was a robber in Nakuru, Naivasha and its environ (By News Poster)...
Farmer's Offer Letter Nullified
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Daniel NemukuyuA WHITE farmer will remain on his 10-hectare plot at Good Hope Farm in Harare after the Supreme Court nullified the acquisition of the piece of land on the basis that it was urban la (By News Poster)...
USA: Economic Meltdown: 150 Economists Back US Republicans in Debt Fight
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: [This is sanity talking, but perhaps it is too late. The Fed's only way out for America is to keep on crashing the dollar. This shows how bad things are, but remember, other countries are even worse o (By Jan)...
Zimbabwe: Rbz Sells Non-Core Assets
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Bright MaderaTHE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has started to dispose of its shares in seven companies as it streamlines its operations to its core functions.The sale of the shares is expected to financ (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: SA, Chinese police hold talks
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Mhondoro's Not-So-Platinum Side
Monday 30-May-2011: By Tichaona ZindogaCHIEF Machaka Ngezi's Mhondoro area in Mashonaland West generally assumes a quiet dignity that can easily be mistaken for sleepiness.The relatively small human population here, a co (By News Poster)...
The Land Question
Monday 30-May-2011: By KW ShimwafeniI REFER to the article 'Intersection of land question and the housing problem' (The Namibian, May 20) by Alexactus Kaure. As usual, Kaure raises an important issue that faces us as a n (By News Poster)...
Uganda: If Former Rebels Fear Revolt, Then It's Not Fashionable
Monday 30-May-2011: By Moses OdokonyeroIn Africa, no one has a resume as glittering as that of former Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings when it comes to orchestrating successful coups. JJ, as he's called, has two tacked (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Soaring Euro Debt Behind Central Bank's Forex Purchases
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: By Rawlings OtiniKenya's euro-denominated debt jumped 21 per cent to Sh222.6 billion between June and December, forcing the Central Bank of Kenya to aggressively buy the currency in a move that has we (By News Poster)...
Sudan: Military Forces Must Withdraw From Abyei, Security Council Says
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: The Security Council today demanded that the Government of Sudan withdraw immediately from Abyei, the disputed area which is contested by both north and south Sudan.In a presidential statement issued (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Rescued Banks Eye Fresh Capital, London Exchange Listing
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Kingsley Ighomwenghian With Agency ReportWith threat of liquidation hanging over their heads following the September 30, 2011 deadline given on Monday by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), indicati (By News Poster)...
Wheat Production Drastically Declines
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Tabitha MutengaZimbabwe's tale of winter wheat production has been told over and over again to the extent of getting monotonous.Having declined over the past decade to 12 000 tonnes or less than th (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Bank Liquidation is Last Option, Says Sanusi
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Malachy AgboGovernor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Wednesday clarified his pronouncement that some of the rescued banks will be liquidated if they fail to recap (By News Poster)...
Cell Phones Big Business in Limpopo
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: Pretoria - The Limpopo province has the highest amount of households with access to cell phones, said Statistics South Africa (Stats SA)."Limpopo had the highest use of cell phones in households at 85 (By News Poster)...
Uganda: Police Officer Jailed for Daring to Use Mugabe's Loo
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Kitsepile NyathiA Zimbabwean police officer accused of using a toilet reserved for President Robert Mugabe has been jailed for 10 years. The policeman identified as Sergeant Alois Mabhunu by a loca (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Bomb Explosion Rocks Zaria
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Isaiah BenjaminKaduna - Barely 24 hours after Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa and the Deputy Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Mukhtar Ramalam Yero, took the oath of office, two set of bombs explode (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: 38 Countries Attend Jonathan's Inauguration
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By By Ike Abonyi, Chuks Okocha, Ahamefula Ogbu and Paul ObiThirty-eight Heads of Government from African countries, the Caribbean and Asian countries attended the inauguration of President Goodluck Eb (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: China Pledges to Rally Behind Nation's Diamonds
Monday 30-May-2011: By Cletus MushanawaniChiadzwa - CHINA has promised to support Zimbabwe to ensure that the country's diamonds are sold without any conditions attached to them.Speaking at Anjin Investments Private Limi (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Zesa in Power Purchase Agreement
Friday 03-Jun-2011: ETHANOL fuel company, Green Fuel, is on the verge of concluding a power purchase agreement with Zesa which will see 18,5 megawatts of electricity, enough to power the entire Manicaland province, being (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Don't Undermine Reforms in Financial Sector -Sanusi
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Lamido Sanusi, has warned that the ongoing reforms by financial market regulators in Nigeria should not be undermined.The warning came on the heels of pe (By News Poster)...
Acquittal After Spending 11 Years in Prison
Monday 30-May-2011: By Werner MengesA WINDHOEK resident who has spent the past eleven years in jail over an armed robbery at a school in the city heard on Friday that he has succeeded with an appeal against his convictio (By News Poster)...
West Africa: Terrorist Threat Hampers Research in the Sahel
Monday 30-May-2011: By Yojana SharmaResearch projects vital for the Sahel region are in jeopardy across Western Africa, particularly Mali, Mauritania and Niger, as fears about terrorist attacks increase and scientists ab (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Trader Arrested Over Airport Drug Haul
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: By Angira ZadockNairobi - A businessman was arrested on Wednesday in connection with drugs seized at the airport.Mr Rajindra Raju Patel, the proprietor of Solid Vegetables Ltd, was arrested by the Ant (By News Poster)...
Africa: World is Entering Permanent Food Crisis
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Crusoe OsagieThe United Nation Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) yesterday declared that the world is entering an era of permanent food crisis.The UNIDO Representative and Director, Regio (By News Poster)...
Responding to 'Auditing the Auditor'
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: Editor's note: On 24 May 2011, in GFO 147, we ran a Commentary entitled "Auditing the Auditor" which focused primarily on the work of the Global Fund's Office of the Inspector General (OIG). We invite (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe/Mali: Can Duduza Explode?
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Petros KausiyoTHREE years after he held the nation spellbound with a breathtaking show that helped Dynamos reach the Champions League semi-finals, Zimbabwe international Edward Sadomba returns to R (By News Poster)...
Hospitals Oxygen Full of Hot Air
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Jana-Mari SmithLITTLE action seems to have been taken more than six months after a damning World Health Organisation (WHO) investigation into allegations of substandard oxygen at State hospitals es (By News Poster)...
Sudan: Congressmen Payne and Capuano Deplore Recent Violence in Abyei
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: House Sudan Caucus Co-Chairs Call for Renewed North-South Talks and US, International AttentionThe recent violence in the Sudanese region of Abyei threatens the fragile peace between the North and the (By News Poster)...
Summit Calls for 'Inclusive' Roadmap for Madagascar
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Catherine SasmanTHE SADC Extraordinary Summit said a meeting with all Malagasy stakeholders must be held at the SADC Headquarters in Gabarone, Botswana, "as soon as possible" to ensure an all-inclu (By News Poster)...
Somalia: Hundreds of Children Injured in Mogadishu Fighting
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Nairobi - Hundreds of children younger than five have been wounded in the latest round of fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, accounting for almost half of all trauma cases in May, according to (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Two Arrested After Michuki's Murang'a Petrol Station Raid
Monday 30-May-2011: By Jesse MwangiTwo suspects have been arrested on suspicion they raided a Murang'a petrol station owned by Cabinet minister John Michuki and stole cash and phones.They were nabbed after the Kangema pe (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Banks Shut Down Due to Robbery Scare in Ekiti
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Doyin AdebusuyiAdo-Ekiti - Banks in Ekiti had to shut down earlier than usual yesterday due to rumour that robbers were attacking banks in parts of Ado-Ekiti.Armed robbers on Tuesday attacked a ban (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Banks Hit Back
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Tatenda MachekaTN Financial Holdings CEO Tawanda Nyambirai has slated Finance Minister Tendai Biti for alleging that banks steal depositors' money and fail to supervise themselves.Speaking to busin (By News Poster)...
Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa Suffers $4 Billion Grain Losses
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Abimbola AkosileA new FAO/World Bank report has disclosed that investing in post-harvest technologies to reduce food losses could significantly increase the food supply in sub-Saharan Africa, as te (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Challenges of Adapting to Renewable Energy Sources
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Emeka UmejeiLagos - That conventional source of energy has become a burden to Nigeria is to state the most obvious. In recent times, there has been agitation for diversification of energy supply so (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Inflation Hits 12.95 Percent As Food And Transport Costs Remain High
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Winfred KagweInflation has risen for the seventh consecutive month to stand at 12.95 per cent in May. The rise from 12.05 per cent recorded last month has been driven by continued increase in food (By News Poster)...
Opportunity for Inland Aquaculture
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Hiskia AsinoNamibia, compared to other countries, is among the driest countries in the world, but yet holds massive potential for the development of aquaculture.The Government of Namibia, under the (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Power Utility Secures Billions for Coal-Fired Power Station
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Pretoria - Eskom has secured a R5.7 billion loan with the Export Import Bank of the United States to go towards the Kusile power station, it said on Monday."We are pleased with the decision by the Ex- (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Police Probes Bomb Blasts
Monday 30-May-2011: Police in Nigeria are investigating a series of bomb attacks across the country. Three explosions ripped through a crowded beer garden at a military barracks in the northern city of Bauchi on Sunday n (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Ocampo Accuses Nation of Sabotage in Chaos Probe
Monday 30-May-2011: By Patrick Mayoyo and agenciesNairobi - International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Sunday accused the government of pursuing "campaigns" aimed at stopping investigations into (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Legislation Failing to Curb FGM/C
Friday 03-Jun-2011: Nyamataro - At her grandmother's home in the western Kenyan village of Nyamataro, 14-year-old Ruth* lies on a mat surrounded by visitors, all congratulating her on becoming a woman; the previous week, (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: 'Clients Slowly Responding to Call to Insure Assets'
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Paul NyakazeyaINSURERS are there to make money, they do not work for charity but they must however charge the right rates and be effective and aggressive in marketing their products, dealing with c (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Mines Chamber Urges Listings
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Munyaradzi MugowoTHE Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe says it wishes to see more miners based in the country going public to comply with the country's indigenisation legislation and raise funding for r (By News Poster)...
Uganda: Bodies of UPDF Soldiers Flown Home
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Risdel Kasasira and John NjorogeThe bodies of two UPDF peacekeepers killed in Mogadishu by Somali insurgents on Monday were brought home on Tuesday. The army Spokesperson, Lt. Col. Felix Kulayigye, (By News Poster)...
Angola: Oil Industry Exposed to Human, Material Damage - Consultant
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: Luanda - The world oil industry, including Angola's, is exposed to damages like leaks, fires, deaths, material losses and pollution.This was said Wednesday in Luanda by the Brazilian oil company (Petr (By News Poster)...
Sudan: Nation Agrees to Appoint a Vice-President From Darfur - Top Negotiator
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Doha - All Darfur Stakeholders Conference agreed that a draft peace agreement crafted by the mediation should constitute a ground for peace in Darfur while the government announced in Doha it concedes (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: First Bank Declares N26.9 Billion Profit, Offers Shareholders 60k Dividend
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Clement NwojiAbuja - First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) Plc yesterday announced a Profit after tax of N26. 936 Billion just as the bank declared dividend of 60 kobo per 50 kobo ordinary share held for the (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Again, Bombs Rock Maiduguri
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Dauda MbayaMaiduguri - Two bombs exploded at the main store of the Disease Control Unit (epidemiological) of the Borno State Ministry of Health on Wednesday. Drugs, vaccines and other property wort (By News Poster)...
Attention: ZANU PF tactics of the struggle in Zimbabwe.
Friday 03-Jun-2011: Zimbabwean Intelligence has a habit of turning things up down. Their agents have inflitrated many organisations in South Africa. They conduct character assassinations, spread disinformation and twis (By Collen Makumbirofa)...
Rwanda: Opposition Leader's Trial Questioned
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Ruben KoopsWill the Netherlands assist Rwanda in its case against jailed opposition leader Victoire Ingabire? That is the question after a Dutch court ruled today that three documents belonging to (By News Poster)...
Rwanda: Bank Reports 125.5 Percent Profit Increase in First Quarter
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Saul ButeraBank of Kigali (BK) posted strong earnings in the first three months of 2011.According to the bank's financial report, its net profit increased from Rwf849.9m in the first quarter of 201 (By News Poster)...
South Africa: The State of the Country's Children
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Kerry CullinanDespite government efforts to improve the living conditions of children, particularly through social grants, almost two-thirds of all South African children live in poverty.This is ac (By News Poster)...
Tanzania: Organic Farming Ensures Crop Quality, Safe Environment
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Gasirigwa SengiyumvaIf someone makes five dishes of food but they all taste like grass, whereas another makes one dish that tastes better than anything you've had before, which one will you go for? (By News Poster)...
Sudan: North Sudan Army Kills 100 Civilians
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Rnw Africa DeskNearly 100 civilians have been killed in Sudan's disputed Abyei region since the northern military seized it on May 21, an Abyei official said on Thursday, citing a preliminary count (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: The Interest Rate Hike
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: It is important to appreciate the consequences of the recent hike in interest rates. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) have, as everyone now knows, raised the b (By News Poster)...
African Development Bank Extends U.S.$ 500 Million to Tunisia
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Budget support loan to help post revolution transitionThe African Development Bank (AfDB) Board of Executive Directors today approved a U.S.$ 500 million loan to support the Tunisian government in its (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: 'Bauchi, Abuja Bombings, Plot to Derail Jonathan's Inauguration'
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Kingsley OmonobiAbuja - Military authorities disclosed to Vanguard in Abuja, Monday, that the explosion that occurred at about 8. 30pm at the Zuba International Electronics Market on Sunday, on the (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Uncertainty Over Leader of the Country's Delegation to OPEC's Meeting
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Adeola Yusuf Agency ReportLagosWith - Public Relations Manager, Dufil Prima Foods, Mr. Tope Ashiwaju ; Managing Director of the company, Mr. Deepak Singhal, and Director General, Standards Organisa (By News Poster)...
AfDB - Relevant Investment Laws And Well-Designed Social Security Are Key to Inclusive Growth
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: The majority of Africa's poor have not been positively impacted by the over flogged economic growth on the continent. Have they benefited from improvement of the so-called "Inclusive growth" in Africa (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Food Security Crisis Deepens as Maize Stocks Run Low
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Zeddy SambuKenya's food security crisis is deepening following the depletion of maize and fewer options in the import market as players in the cereals sector exchange accusations of hoarding and un (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Interpol Impounds Ruto Car
Friday 03-Jun-2011: INTERPOL has impounded a car registered in the name of a company associated with Eldoret North MP William Ruto in Eldoret. The Range Rover House is among several vehicles netted by the International P (By News Poster)...
Interview With AfDB's Lead Counsel And Adviser to the General Counsel, Godfred
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: For many experts, "Inclusive growth" in the 2011 Annual Meetings is seen as a development strategic issue worth discussing. As part of the growing interest in the meeting's agenda, experts at the Afri (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: MPs to Amplify Voice of HIV, Aids Patients
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: Members of Parliament from across the political divide have reaffirmed their position to amplify the voice of people living with HIV and Aids.The legislators representing more than 45 constituencies, (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: EFCC Intervention Saves Foreign Investors U.S.$12 Billion - Waziri
Monday 30-May-2011: By Alexandra Mede Senior CorrespondentAbuja - Three million advisory mail sent to potential foreign investors by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have saved them from losing over $1 (By News Poster)...
Kenya: CEO With Turban Fights Poverty While Conserving Nature
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: By Ng'ang'a MbuguaMembers of the African Holy Ghost Christian Church - popularly known as the Akorino - are better known as prophets whose priests dress in overflowing robes with screaming colours. Th (By News Poster)...
USA: Economic Meltdown: The Great Depression - Wall Street Baffled by Slowing Economy, Low Yields: Trader
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: [This is because the recovery is fake. Jan] Wall Street is having a hard time figuring out what to do now that the U.S. economy appears to be sputtering and yields are so low, Peter Yastrow, market (By Jan)...
Economic Indicators Reflect Recovery - NCCI
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Nico SmitNamibia's GDP is forecasted to grow by 4,6 per cent in 2011 and to accelerate in 2012 to 5,1 per cent.Speaking at the annual general meeting of the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (By News Poster)...
Hausiku Warns About Growing Enviro Crimes
Monday 30-May-2011: By Irene !hoaësWindhoek - Deputy Prime Minister, Marco Hausiku, has expressed concern about an upsurge in cross-border environmental crimes in southern Africa.Hausiku, who opened the meeting for SADC (By News Poster)...
Somalia: Under-Fives Make Up Almost Half of Mogadishu Casualties
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: Nairobi - Hundreds of children younger than five have been wounded in the latest round of fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, accounting for almost half of all trauma cases in May, according to (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: 'Govt, Industry Dialogue Key to Mining Sector Growth'
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Paul NyakazeyaDESPITE being endowed with a fair share of the world's mineral resources, Zimbabwe has not always been top of the list as an investment destination for mining companies. This is owing (By News Poster)...
New Legislation to Bolster Police Watchdog
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: Pretoria - New legislation that will have a bearing on the mandate of the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) will give the body the "necessary teeth" it needs.This is according to ICD executive (By News Poster)...
Africa: Europe in Search for a Reset in Africa
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Tijn SadéeAfrica mustn't let itself be blinded by Chinese capital, Members of the European Parliament warn. 'Africa gives too much away to the Chinese for too little money.'But what is the way to g (By News Poster)...
Competition Tribunal Explains Reasons for Wal-Mart Decision
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: The Competition Tribunal has today approved the merger between Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of the United States (“Walmart”) and South African retailer Massmart Holdings Limited (“Massmart&r (By News Poster)...
Beware! Alcohol is Damaging!
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Sade AlcockWindhoek - For most teenagers, drinking is a social activity done to 'fit in'. Once you get to high school and are allowed more freedom by your parents and family to make choices on wher (By News Poster)...
Namibia/Burkina Faso: Warriors Ready for Burkina Faso
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Otniel HembapuWindhoek - Namibia's Brave Warriors coach Brian Isaacs called up a 29-man squad to represent Namibia to face Burkina Faso on June 4, at the Independence Stadium in the capital.Wilko R (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Jonathan Vows to Transform the Country
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Abuja - President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday took oath of office with a vow to transform Nigeria. He promised not to let the people down.The President while speaking after he was sworn in by the Chie (By News Poster)...
Govt Stalls Beitbridge-Harare Road Project
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: By Dumisani NdlelaZIMBABWE'S Ministry of Transport, Communication and Infrastructure Development (MTCID) has stalled the dualisation and tolling of the Harare-Beitbridge road, the country's highway to (By News Poster)...
New Deadline for Compulsory Inspection of Vehicles
Friday 03-Jun-2011: Maputo - Finally, after a delay of almost a year, it will become compulsory, as from 1 July, for all vehicles on Mozambique's roads to carry the certificate proving that they have been tested for road (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Land Grab Threatens Sh2.6 Billion Kari Project
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Wanjiru MachariaA Sh2.6 billion grant for research at Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (Kari) Naivasha is at stake over a land ownership dispute, Parliamentary Select Committee on Public Inves (By News Poster)...
Sudan: Obama Dispatches Adviser for Talks On Abyei
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: Washington - The United States appeared to step up its effort to contain the crisis in Sudan in the wake of the military escalation in the country which led to the takeover of a contested area by the (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: No Going Back on Compulsory Insurance - -Daniel
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: Compulsory InsuranceWe are not looking at Lagos or Ibadan; we are looking at the rural areas also where you have the local government. We are looking at greater awareness that even the man in the vill (By News Poster)...
AfDB Approves a Financial Package for the Nigerian Export-Import Bank
Tuesday 31-May-2011: On May 26th, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group approved a sovereign guaranteed Program, in the amount of U.S.$ 200 million, to the Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Man Born With HIV Wants Law Revised
Monday 30-May-2011: By Patience NyangoveThere is need to revisit the law that stipulates that children under 16 cannot get tested for HIV without the consent of either their parents or guardians, a local HIV and Aids act (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai 'Laughs Off' Remarks That Military Will Not Salute Him
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: By Tichaona SibandaPrime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has laughed off suggestions that members of the military junta in Zimbabwe are still not prepared to salute him.On Friday Tsvangirai met the securoc (By News Poster)...
Uganda: Museveni Says UPDF Could Leave Somalia
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Risdel KasasiraPresident Museveni yesterday warned that Uganda would withdraw its troops from Mogadishu if UN-pushed presidential and parliamentary elections in Somalia spark renewed assault by al- (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Bank Customers Stranded Over Network Problem
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Abubakar YakubuCustomers, who besieged Unity Bank, Berger junction and Bank PHB, Utako yesterday afternoon to withdraw money after Monday's public holiday, were stunned when the bank cashiers infor (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: 10 Teachers Die of Food Poisoning, Others Hospitalised in Katsina
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: Katsina - Ten secondary school teachers are reported to have died of food poisoning, and several others hospitalised in Katsina.Investigations showed that the incident occurred at the weekend at a wor (By News Poster)...
South Africa: Over 11 Million People Tested for HIV
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: Pretoria - Since the launch of government's HIV, Council and Testing (HCT) campaign last year, 11.9 million South Africans have tested, with the figure growing every month, Health Minister Dr Aaron Mo (By News Poster)...
Land Dispute - Community Locks Horns At Farm
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Magreth NunuheWindhoek - Families who have been living for decades at Satansloch Farm, near Daan Viljoen Game Park, fear for their livelihood after the Windhoek Municipality reportedly approved a p (By News Poster)...
Renamo Deputy Dies in Traffic Accident
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Maputo - Aida Matsangaisse, a deputy in the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, for the main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, died in a traffic accident on Saturday (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Location Vital to Bar Owners
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Alcohol dealers - who have been living under the fear of closure for breach of the law on proximity of bars to learning institutions - got a big measure of relief last week after the liquor market reg (By News Poster)...
Libya: Gaddafi Ready For a Truce, Says Zuma
Tuesday 31-May-2011: International news agencies have reported that President Jacob Zuma's meeting with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was productive, with the South African leader saying Gaddafi was ready for a truce.It w (By News Poster)...
Libya: Zuma Says Gaddafi Ready for Truce
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma is on his way back home after holding what he described as a "detailed and long" talk with embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.Zuma says Gaddafi is ready to carry o (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe/Mali: 'Mali Are Not Barca'
Sunday 05-Jun-2011: By Petros KausiyoFORMER Zimbabwe coach Marc Duvillard has challenged the Warriors to believe in themselves and insisted that the Eagles of Mali can beaten in Sunday's African Cup of Nations qualifier (By News Poster)...
Uganda: Opposition Losing Momentum
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: By Ruben KoopsDespite strikes, demonstrations and marches, Ugandan president Museveni is stronger than ever.The opposition is trying to regain momentum by creating the Free Uganda Now movement, unitin (By News Poster)...
Africa: South Africa Win Athletic Youth Champs
Friday 03-Jun-2011: SOUTH Africa won the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) Southern Region Youth Championship over the weekend at the Independence Stadium in Windhoek.South Africa finished with a total of 23 gold (By News Poster)...
East Africa: East Africa Faces Bleak Food Prospects - Oxfam
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By John MuchangiEast Africa will not produce enough food for its rapidly growing populations in the next 20 years, a new study reveals. The numbers will rise by 50 per cent in 2031, but maize producti (By News Poster)...
MDC-T in New Political Terrain
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Trevor MaisiriTHE post-2011 congress period is indicatively pointing towards being one of the most grueling and challenging phases to the survival of the MDC-T.This is against a background of the p (By News Poster)...
Gobabis Rape Retrial Starts
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Werner MengesA young man accused of raping a woman in a near-fatal attack at Gobabis in October 2006 went on trial in the High Court in Windhoek for a second time this week.The trial of Conradt Kha (By News Poster)...
Libya: South Africa Calls for Ceasefire Amid More Nato Airstrikes
Tuesday 31-May-2011: South Africa's Foreign Minister has called for an immediate ceasefire in Libya one day after talks between President Jacob Zuma and Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi in Tripoli. Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said (By News Poster)...
AfDB Hosts Upcoming Events to Promote Climate-Smart Development in Africa
Monday 30-May-2011: During the month of June, the African Development Bank (AfDB) will host two major development forums with an eye to expanding support for green growth in Africa.First, the 2011 AfDB Annual Meetings fr (By News Poster)...
Tributes Pour in for Masisulu
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: Pretoria - Tributes are pouring in for one of the leading icons of the anti-apartheid movement, Albertina Sisulu, who passed away last night.The ANC stalwart and widow of Walter Sisulu, a friend and m (By News Poster)...
Policeman Detained for Torture And Extortion
Friday 03-Jun-2011: Maputo - A policeman named Artur Jose, in the northern Mozambican city of Nampula, has been detained on charges of torturing and extorting money from a defenceless citizen, reports Wednesday's issue o (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Ethiopia Asked to Pull Out Militia
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Argaw AshineAddis Ababa - Ethiopia was Thursday asked to pull out 2,500 militias who invaded Kenyan territory last month.At a ministerial meeting in Addis Ababa Thursday, a high-powered Kenyan dele (By News Poster)...
Kenya: Safety Procedures When Using Portable Electricity Generators
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Kenneth OigoNairobi - As a result of Kenya's frequent power outages, most residential houses on sale today feature stand-by generators for power back-up.Homeowners have also jumped on the bandwagon (By News Poster)...
Gambia: Nerica Farmers Association Launched in Kerewan
Monday 30-May-2011: By Alhagie Babou JallowNbr - The Nerica Farmers Association in Kerewan was last Wednesday officially launched by the governor of the North Bank Region, Alhaji Eduwarr Seckan, at a ceremony held in Ker (By News Poster)...
Rwanda: Remittances to Hit U.S.$103.1 Million, Central Bank Says
Monday 30-May-2011: By Saul ButeraRwandans working and living abroad are expected to send more money home as the central bank projects projects remittances to increase by 4.9 percent from US$98.2m (Rwf58.1b) to US$103.1m (By News Poster)...
Libya: Zuma in Country As Pressure Mounts of Gaddafi
Monday 30-May-2011: South African President Jacob Zuma was heading for Tripoli on Monday for talks to end the Libyan crisis, as international pressure mounts for Moamer Kadhafi to step down.The main objectives of his vis (By News Poster)...
Gambia: Who is Behind the Bombing in Nigeria?
Friday 03-Jun-2011: President Goodluck Jonathan has been sworn in as President. His Vice President Namadi Sambo has also been sworn in as Vice President. It is reported that more than 20 heads of state attended his inaug (By News Poster)...
Katiti Says He Feels 'Like an Outcast'
Friday 03-Jun-2011: By Werner MengesFORMER Walvis Bay Municipality Chief Executive Officer Augustinus Katiti related in the High Court in Windhoek on Wednesday that newspaper articles about him which were published near (By News Poster)...
China Bails Out Harare City Council
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: By Karren ShavaTHE Harare City Council has signed a US$144 million deal with a Chinese financial institution for use in water and sewage reticulation, waste management and upgrading of the city's info (By News Poster)...
Tanzania: Banks Want Speedy Issuance of National IDs
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Finnigan Wa SimbeyeCOMMERCIAL banks operating in the country have asked the government to speed up the issuance of national identity cards to enable lenders know their clients and avoid giving loan (By News Poster)...
Sudan: SLM Leaders Appeal to International Community and Darfur Mediation to Support Rebels' Reunification
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: Doha - Leaders of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) which is not part of the Doha peace process urged the international community and the mediation to support their efforts to complete the reunifica (By News Poster)...
East Africa: EAC is No-Go Area for Illegal Arms - Kiraso
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: By Gashegu MuramiraMoroto - The East African Community (EAC) Deputy Secretary General (Political Federation), Beatrice Kiraso, has reiterated the regional bloc's strong commitment to the fight against (By News Poster)...
Zimbabwe/Mali: Esrom Out of Mali Tie
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Petros KausiyoESROM NYANDORO and defender Noel Kaseke will once again miss Warriors' duty, but coach Norman Mapeza is upbeat that the setting of the 2012 Nations Cup qualifier against Mali at Rufar (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Bomb Scare in Maiduguri, Security on Red Alert
Tuesday 31-May-2011: By Dauda MbayaMaiduguri - The Borno State police command said that it has uncovered plans by the Yusufiya sect popularly known as Boko Haram to launch an attack in Maiduguri, the state capital.A state (By News Poster)...
East Africa: Dowans Taken Back to Court Over Energy Plant
Monday 30-May-2011: By Joseph MwamunyangNairobi - The Dowans saga returned to haunt President Kikwete's administration last week, after a journalist moved to court to block the proposed sale of contested energy plant on (By News Poster)...
The AUC Chairperson Meets with a Delegation of Libyan Tribal Leaders
Monday 30-May-2011: The African Union Commission Chairperson, Dr. Jean PING, met with a delegation of Libyan tribal leaders, today, 26 May 2011, at the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa. The delegation h (By News Poster)...
Nigeria: Badagry Killings - IGP Meets Chief of Army Staff
Monday 30-May-2011: By Kingsley OmonobiAbuja - Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Onyeabor Azubuike Ihejirika yesterday visited force headquarters, Abuja where he and the Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Ringim.In what a (By News Poster)...
Sudan: Rains Aggravate Plight of Displaced
Monday 30-May-2011: Nairobi - Seasonal rains are among several factors to have exacerbated the crisis sparked by the sudden flight of tens of thousands of civilians from the disputed Sudanese region of Abyei, say aid wor (By News Poster)...
Southern Africa: SADC Ministers Defend Increase in Production of Electrical Energy
Monday 30-May-2011: Luanda - The Energy ministers of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries Thursday in Botswana called for the need to increase the production of electrical energy due to the low inv (By News Poster)...
S.Africa: De Klerk slams Zuma, Malema
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: SHAME, do this arshole miss the limelight?????? : Grazy Johannesburg - Former president FW de Klerk believes it is unacceptable to sing "shoot the boer", according to a report published in Beeld ne...
USA: Economic Meltdown: Prepare for Round 3 - Prepare for More Money Printing: Analyst - My Comments
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: [I have mentioned that this is coming, however, the Fed's plan is to keep on doing this INDEFINITELY. Remember that if they allow a real crash to take place, then the entire global financial system wi (By Jan)...
USA: Wall St: The Stock Market falls 2.23% in one day... Gold is strong...
Wednesday 01-Jun-2011: The DOW has been struggling in the 12,000 range where I have been skeptical as to whether it can crack the 13,000 level. Today the DOW Jones index fell almost 270 points of 2.23% and Gold strengthe (By Jan)...
USA: Stock Markets: Yep, its time to go BEAR on Wall St... Silver heading for new lows... About Gold...
Saturday 04-Jun-2011: This is a quick update on the markets. Yesterday Wall St took another beating. It has dropped from 12,600 to below 12,200. The P&F target for this move was 12,050 - so it is close to the end of its dr (By Jan)...
"Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (31-05-2011)
Tuesday 31-May-2011: Howzit The winner of last night's live Britain's Got Talent semi final - Ronan Parke... -o00o- Today, I began the studying, heading towards exams in three months. I managed to get almost 5 ho (By The BeardedMan)...
S.Africa: The Other AfricanCrisis website is hacked ....
Sunday 05-Jun-2011: I was notified by my hosting company that the other mirror site of AfricanCrisis - which is www.AfricanCrisis.org - was hacked today by the Turkish hackers. I also got that Spamcop problem too. Ba (By Jan)...
USA: Am I going to be falsely harrassed again by a Hosting Company?
Sunday 05-Jun-2011: [I could not believe this note I got from my Hosting Company IX Webhosting. It seems suspiciously a lot like the problems I had with ReadyHosting. Again, I get this vague type of complaint, with no sp (By Jan)...
My New Health Website - its early days but its up...
Thursday 02-Jun-2011: Just a note for those of you interested in health issues and natural health issues, our new website is: www.healthydecisions.biz It is up. We haven't done much, but if you are interested in those t (By Jan)...