Weekly Southern African Report
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 28th November 2010From 1994-Present over 3,000 Farmers have been murdered in S.Africa.
Many thousands of their farm workers have also been murdered too.
Click here for Photos & Updates - WARNING: Very Graphic & Gruesome[Pic] USA: The News the Mass Media suppresses: The 9/11 rally in New York City... My Trip to America - Americans are nationalists...
Friday 26-Nov-2010: [I received this on 12 September 2010. This will give you an idea of the news from the USA that even the American mass media and the world’s mass media suppress. Check this out. When I was in the (By Jan)...[3 Photos] Humor: Joke: Mugabe told the whites: Zimbabwe is not a British colony...
Friday 26-Nov-2010: [One of my Rhodesian friends sent me these photos with these joke captions. Very cute. I agree with the sentiments in the last one. Jan] 610a.jpg 610b.jpg 610c.jpg (By Jan)...S.Africa: My Psychology course... Day 1... Make no mistake, Jan Lamprecht the fiend from hell is alive and well... Blacks are suffering even more...
Saturday 27-Nov-2010: I have been communicating a lot with the volunteers and people behind the scenes. JoAn, JanOlifant and others were privvy to some private discussions. Then someone whom we expected much more from, (By Jan)...Egypt: Opposition Grows Despite Govt Repression Ahead of Polls
Sunday 28-Nov-2010: There will be little surprise in the results of Egypt's elections today, as the ruling party has taken all the repressive steps necessary to ensure that it will have no problem in winning.But, says Eg (By News Poster)...S.Africa: A Typical South African cockup - Nashua Mobile tell me of the Cell Phone Rica stuffup on our networks
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: A friend, who really should become a Blackberry saleswoman, has been urging me to get a Blackberry for ages, and we tease each other about cell phones all the time. She swears by Nashua Mobile and say (By Jan)...Africa: Currency War - Stakes for Continent
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: With Western countries battling to maintain low currencies and the US accusing China of deliberately undervaluing the renminbi as part of an 'international currency war', Sanou Mbaye asks 'what does t (By News Poster)...S.Africa: ABANDONING ESKOM - When their prices double and treble - The Future is ALTERNATE ENERGY...
Monday 22-Nov-2010: I was chatting this morning to another friend of mine a businessman with an interesting investment in another country where electrical power is a serious problem. We were discussing a new technolo (By Jan)...South Africa: Violent Crime Has Roots in Apartheid, Says Report
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: Pretoria - It may be a policy of the past but the evils of apartheid continue to haunt the country, emerging as one the key contributors to the high level of violent crime in South Africa.The brutalit (By News Poster)...My Trip to America - We can learn so much from Americans - Am I like a Black Zimbabwean - starving in the land of milk and honey?
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: Websites are interesting, and they are much more complex than you can imagine. I was watching how Jeff Rense approaches life and websites. He pioneers, but he thinks like a businessman because he (By Jan)...SA Police Pay For Torturing Boer Farmer
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: The South African high court has ordered the Minister of Police to pay a Boer farmer R5oo,ooo (US$70,269) plus legal costs for his false imprisonment and torture by police in 2002. Boer farmer Will (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...Nigeria: Militants Plant Explosives to Bomb More Pipelines
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Emma AmaizeWarri - LEADERS of some oil communities in Delta State, Monday, exposed the clandestine activities of some armed youths, suspected to be militants, who, in the past three days, were obse (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (25-11-2010)
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: Howzit I write editorials for Instablogs during the week on a daily basis. A couple of days ago I wrote one entitled "2002 Election Report Publication Blocked By 'Secrets'" - so, imagine my surpris (By The BeardedMan)...Nigeria: Militant's Trial Tests South Africa's Terrorism Law
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Martin A. EwiThe highly complex trial of Nigerian terror suspect Henry Okah is testing the efficacy of the South Africa's criminal justice system and its ability to respond appropriately to interna (By News Poster)...Central Africa: Rapid Action Needed to Stop LRA Atrocities, Says Group
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: Washington, DC - President Barack Obama should move swiftly to implement a strategy released on November 24, 2010, to stop atrocities committed by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and help affected co (By News Poster)...Africa: E-Books Poised to Take Off
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Can Africa take the lead in taking advantage of e-books, as it has with the rapid expansion of mobile phones and innovations such as mobile banking applications? It is certainly too early to be sure. (By News Poster)...More posts about my Trip To America later... Also: AfricanCrisis Version 3 - My coming SURVEYS... Reader-Centric websites
Friday 26-Nov-2010: I have been caught up in other things which drew my attention away from postings on my site. I have been quite annoyed by losing a couple of articles I wrote, and I’m just sorting that out. I (By Jan)...Nigeria: Getting Muddled Up in Middle East Politics
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Shuaib ShuaibThe October 26 seizure of an arms shipment at the Apapa Port in Lagos has not only put Iran in the bad light, but also set the country in a seeming diplomatic row with Nigeria reportin (By News Poster)...Kenya: Banking Fraud Soars
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: Banking fraud more than tripled in the third quarter of 2010, to Sh1.7 billion, with Kenya's banking system emerging as a stealing ground for staff who see working at the banks as a licensed opportuni (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Firms Jostle for Diamonds
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaWhile the international human rights lobby, joined by a group of states concerned by alleged human rights violations in Zimbabwe, have rallied against international trade in diamonds (By News Poster)...Somalia: Five Pirates Face Life in Prison in U.S.
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: Norfolk, VA - A federal jury in Norfolk, Va., has convicted five men from Somalia of engaging in piracy and related offenses in their attack on the USS Nicholas, marking what is believed to be the f (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Plot to Push Tsvangirai Out of Unity Govt
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Caiphas ChimheteHardliners in Zanu PF are trying to provoke Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC into quitting the coalition government and precipitate elections under an environment that still f (By News Poster)...South Africa: Daily Tablet Cuts HIV Infections, Study Shows
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Cape Town - In a finding with the potential to fundamentally change strategies to slow the global HIV epidemic, a new study called iPrEx shows that individuals at high risk for HIV infection who took (By News Poster)...Africa: What Banks Can Do to a Nation's Spirit
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Cameron DuoduAfrican countries that walk into the credit vaults of banks must be aware that if the plug can be pulled on Ireland or Greece, it can be pulled on them too. Only, in Africa's case, the (By News Poster)...Burundi: Crackdown on Rights Following Elections
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Burundi is cracking down on civil society, media, and opposition parties in the wake of troubled local and national elections from May through September 2010, Human Rights Watch said in a report relea (By News Poster)...Africa: At Least 56 Countries Have Either Stabilized or Achieved Significant Declines in Rates of New HIV Infections
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: New UNAIDS report shows AIDS epidemic has been halted and world beginning to reverse the spread of HIV. New HIV infections have fallen by nearly 20% in the last 10 years, AIDS-related deaths are down (By News Poster)...Burundi: Nation's Shrinking Political Space
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: Bujumbura - Burundi's government is coming under increasing pressure for its alleged suppression of any opposition and denial of political motives behind rising insecurity.It was hoped that elections (By News Poster)...South Africa: HIV Prevalence Among Farm Workers Hits 40 Percent
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: Johannesburg - The HIV prevalence rate among farm workers in South Africa is about 40 percent, the highest ever recorded in southern Africa, according to a new study.The survey, conducted between Marc (By News Poster)...Workers' Factory Takeover to Defend Jobs Enters Second Month
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Links International Journal of Socialist RenewalA militant factory occupation by South African metalworkers is about to enter its second month.On October 20, 2010, workers at the Mine Line/TAP Engi (By News Poster)...Madagascar: Anarchy After Attempted Coup
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Ndubuisi Ugah with agency reportsA group of about 20 dissident military officers, who made a premature declaration that they had overthrown the government of President Andry Rajoelina, may have set (By News Poster)...Southern Africa: SADC Shows Its Allegiance to Mugabe As Zim Meeting Cancelled
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Alex BellLeaders in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have again shown their allegiance to Robert Mugabe, after a planned security summit to discuss Zimbabwe's worsening political c (By News Poster)...Central African Republic: Lawyers Contest Bemba's Detention at Trial
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Wakabi WairagalaThe Hague - Two and a half years after he was booked into the International Criminal Court’s detention center in The Hague, former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba&r (By News Poster)...'Clergy Can Help Fight US-EU Sanctions'
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Obi EgbunaIN 1989 Archbishop George Augustus Stallings rose to international prominence for challenging the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy around the question of the church's stifling the African (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Financial Experts Weigh New Banking Policy
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Kayode Ekundayo & Chris AgabiLagos - Varied reactions have greeted the newly introduced banking policy which became effective from Monday, November 15, 2010.The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said t (By News Poster)...USA: New York Times Prediction: President Obama could be a 2 Term President.... Obama's 2012 landslide victory
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: [This is an excellent article with some serious facts behind it. These are the predictions of a Yale economist. And this is true. It is statistically proven that there is a strong link between US Pres (By Jan)...East Africa: Plans Launched for Strategic Grain Reserves to Serve Region
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Allan OdhiamboRegional farmers hard hit by low return on investment due to price volatility and inefficient market systems are planning for a common strategic grain reserve (SGR) to help curb the s (By News Poster)...Somalia: Best Management Practices Save 7 Merchant Vessels From Pirating in the Last 5 Days
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Seven vessels transiting in the Somali Basin escaped pirating in the last five days thanks to Best Management Practices (BMP).On the morning of Friday 19 November, the Master of the MV NYK ALTAIR repo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Niger Delta Violence Raises Global Anxiety - FG Blames the West for the Crisis
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Harris-Okon Emmanuel And Adeola YusufLondon/Warri - Total Oil Company has threatened to pull out its $20 billion investment from Nigeria, if insecurity worsens, amid global anxiety at the weekend o (By News Poster)...Uganda: Obama Plans to Disarm Ugandan LRA Rebels
Friday 26-Nov-2010: US President Barack Obama has outlined a plan to disarm one of Africa's most feared rebel militias, the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army.It aims to defuse the spiralling bloodshed in central Africa by r (By News Poster)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (24-11-2010)
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: Howzit Amongst other things yesterday, I had an appointment with the Specialist at the Pulvertaft Hand Unit at the Royal Derby Hospital on the other side of town. The specialist had a look at my ha (By The BeardedMan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (23-11-2010)
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Howzit Well, I do have a number of jobs to do today, including a trip to the hospital on the other side of Derby to see the Specialist as a follow-up to the nerve tests done three weeks ago. I a (By The BeardedMan)...Thank God some friendly American men helped me out....
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: I normally rave about American service, but I really had some bad service from ReadyHosting.com and even my current website hosting company was not impressing me. My current web hosting company seems (By Jan)...NGO's call on President Obama to Adopt Bold Stance on LRA
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: Washington, DC - President Barack Obama's strategy to address LRA atrocities in central Africa, set to be released on November 24, should prioritize a comprehensive approach to the crisis and include (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Political Violence and Electoral Malpractices - Effects On Voters' Rights
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By David OdamaEven before 1960 when the colonial master (Britain) conducted the first election, the legislative councils elections in Lagos and calabar from 1922 that culminated in the National electi (By News Poster)...USA: What's this? A new crisis for America and the West? Nuke? Communist?
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: [Take a look at this bizarre incident. The North Korean communist trash suddenly fire on a South Korean island. Also... the North Koreans suddenly have a nuclear program... which required foreign aid. (By Jan)...Homegrown Think-Tanks Key for Development
Sunday 28-Nov-2010: By Sindiso NgwenyaIn reviewing the role of think-tanks and other institutions, it is advisable that the issue is examined from two angles - the nation state level and the regional level.Anecdotal comp (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: SADC Says Independent Violence Report Needed
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe regional SADC bloc says an independent investigation in Zimbabwe, to verify reports of violence and intimidation before a general election can be held, is needed.Civic society l (By News Poster)...Dewani Murder Puts Policing Under the Spotlight
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Sandiso PhalisoThe murder of Swedish national Anni Dewani in Gugulethu last week while she was on honeymoon with her British husband Shrein Dewani, has thrown a spotlight on government's approach t (By News Poster)...[Graph] Poverty in America: 1959-2009
Friday 26-Nov-2010: Here is a very interesting chart which is showing the state of America at this time. Jan. (Photo) (By Jan)...[7 Pics] More totally brilliant (and naughty) adverts from America
Friday 26-Nov-2010: I was browsing through some photos of adverts I had. These are too funny. (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (By Jan)...[Pic] This is my choice for the best advert of all time...
Friday 26-Nov-2010: I think this advert is total genius... This is the ultimate MALE ADVERT... (Photo) (By Jan)...[3 Pics] My choice for the best American adverts...
Friday 26-Nov-2010: Here are 3 of my choices for some of the best ads out there. Americans are competitive, and this is what comes out from their business practices. (Photo) (Photo) (Photo) (By Jan)...Africa: Diamonds and Disappearing Tax Revenues
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Khadija SharifePetra Diamonds, the largest diamond-mining group listed on the UK's Alternative Investment Market (AIM), may deal in the glittering rocks that bring lovers together in holy matrimony (By News Poster)...Madagascar: Fighting a Rising Tide of Sex Tourism
Friday 26-Nov-2010: Andoany - Community-based resistance to sex tourism on Nosy Be, an island off the northwest coast of Madagascar and its busiest resort, is holding the line against child sex work, but the country's de (By News Poster)...What's Love Got to Do With It?
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Hannatu MusawaOne thing I've always vowed never to tolerate from my husband is domestic violence. As Nigerian women, we are expected to honour and obey our husbands, but both my parents taught me, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Day Sanusi Tutored U.S. Congress
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Jerry UwahEchoes of the global financial meltdown of 2008 are still reverberating in some developed economies. The United States, the world's largest economy is out of the recession torched off by (By News Poster)...South Africa: Sex or Rape? Something is Terribly Wrong?
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Colleen Lowe MornaJohannesburg - When the story about a Jules High School girl being allegedly raped on the school grounds hit the headlines, I had a flash back to my worst moment as a mother of tw (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zanu PF Beefing Up Terror Gangs Ahead of Elections
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Tichaona SibandaThe former ruling ZANU PF party is recruiting young people from the countryside to train as soldiers in order to beef up its terror gangs, a former Zimbabwe Prison Service (ZPS) off (By News Poster)...[5 Pics] My Trip to America - Fort Stevents - The Japanese attacks on Oregon & Western USA in WWII - The Top Secret War in the Aleutians
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Captain Josephe Smith and I went off to Fort Stevens one day. These photos are from inside the Fort Stevens Museum. I will put up the photos later of the outside of Fort Stevens. Fort Stevens has (By Jan)...[5 Pics] My Trip to America - Fort Stevents - The Japanese attacks on Oregon & Western USA in WWII - The Top Secret War in the Aleutians
Monday 22-Nov-2010: Captain Josephe Smith and I went off to Fort Stevens one day. These photos are from inside the Fort Stevens Museum. I will put up the photos later of the outside of Fort Stevens. Fort Stevens has (By Jan)...Nigeria: Is Food Security a Right?
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Emmanuel OnwubikoHave you heard the news? Sad news indeed! The food and Agricultural organisation (FAO), the apex United Nations agency responsible for formulating international policies and implem (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Price Shocker Ahead of Festive Season
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Nelson ChengaIf indeed history does repeat itself, then Zimbabwean consumers could be heading for a gloomy festive season as the latest round of price hikes is threatening to squeeze their purses d (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Food Security - Agenda to Overhaul Polluted Environment Underway
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Michael SimireFrom contributing an estimated 80 percent to the Nigerian economy in the 1960, agricultural production declined considerably over the decades and now accounts for a tiny fraction of t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 'Military Should Serve the State, Not the Party'
Sunday 28-Nov-2010: By Leonard MakombeCivil military relations are a problem in post-colonial Africa and in Zimbabwe soldiers play a very active role during elections leaving many questioning the implications for the out (By News Poster)...Guinea: Conflict Risk Alert for Nation
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Guinea’s political and military leaders and the international community must take urgent measures to halt widespread attacks against defenceless civilians and to prevent political tensions from (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Finance Minister Budgets for Elections in 2011
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaHarare - Finance minister Tendai Biti yesterday deftly tucked under Treasury a US$50 million unallocated contingency fund - which was not announced to the public during his national (By News Poster)...South Africa: HIV Prevalence Highest Among Farm Workers
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: HIV Prevalence Highest Among Farm Workers, New IOM Report Says an IOM study has found that farm workers in South Africa's Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces have the highest HIV prevalence among any wor (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Witness Recounts Atrocities Committed by Bemba's Soldiers
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Wakabi WairagalaWar crimes accused Jean-Pierre Bemba's troops raped young girls, and threatened, beat and shot people who tried to resist the confiscation of their property, a witness said today.Co (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Africa Plans to Subvert Diamond Ban
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Alex BellKey African countries are allegedly planning to subvert a ban on sales of Zimbabwe's controversial Chiadzwa diamonds, as a decision on the country's trade future remains unclear.South Afri (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 'Journalist's Detention Meant to Intimidate Media'
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Brian ChitembaHarare - THE arrest and continued detention of Standard reporter Nqobani Ndlovu, Zimbabwean journalists believe, is a clear indication of President Robert Mugabe's plan to silence the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Let's Unite to End Domestic Violence
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: As Zimbabwe joins the rest of the world in commemorating the 16-days of activism against gender violence which begin this Thursday, it is critical that this does not just become a one-off event but a (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The Country's Energy Problem and the Iranian 'Solution'
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Oluwakayode KomolafeDuring his recent state visit to Nigeria, President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad of Iran rightly diagnosed our problematic energy sector and offered to help Nigeria with nuclear alternat (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Camp Fumes Over Regional Leaders' Snub
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Kholwani NyathiThe Southern African Development Community (Sadc) mediation in Zimbabwe faltered again on Friday after the bloc's organ on politics, defence and security failed to meet.The highly an (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Biti Expected to Maintain Tight Rein in 2011 Budget
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Victoria Ruzvidzo And Martin KadzereFinance Minister Tendai Biti presents his 2011 National Budget this afternoon amid expectations he will maintain a tight rein on expenditure while seeking to con (By News Poster)...Central Africa: New Arms Deal Elicits Optimism
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Brazzaville - Officials and analysts expressed optimism that a convention signed in Brazzaville, the Congolese capital, on 19 November would succeed in stemming the flow of small arms in central Afric (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Sibanda Threatens Multiple Farm-Owners
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Wongai ZhangazhaA storm is brewing in Zanu PF after war veterans' leader Jabulani Sibanda threatened to forcibly repossess land from multiple farm-owners across the country whom he accused of havin (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Orders Acceleration of Constitution Process
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Faith Zaba and Brian ChitembaHarare - President Robert Mugabe has ordered the Constitution Parliamentary Select Committee (Copac) to accelerate the constitution-making exercise, as seven Zanu PF pr (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: SA, Angola, Namibia Plot Secret Diamond Sales
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Nqaba MatshaziSouth Africa, Angola and Namibia are readying up an elaborate plan that would see them passing off Zimbabwe's diamonds as their own, in an effort to subvert the Kimberly Process (KP) (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Day 2 of my Psychology course... The Damage Apartheid did to the blacks... Strange new directions of Psychology...
Sunday 28-Nov-2010: It is extremely late so I am preparing to hit the sack. But it was interesting being on a course which gave me some interesting tools for analysing my interactions with other people. I listened (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Go for Diamond Empowerment
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Garikai ChenguAs Zimbabwe prepares to be the largest diamond producer in the world, the State must not only play an active role in ensuring that the majority of indigenous Zimbabweans are empowered (By News Poster)...Ghana: What Lack of Transparency Can Do to Oil-Producing States
Friday 26-Nov-2010: “Transparency works both ways and it is for the company as well as the countries - their people need to know and the more they know what is being done for their benefit, the more they will be su (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jubilee Day Bomb Blast at Abuja
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Willy BozimoUn-believable. That a group of mindless butchers peddling dangerous wares such as car bombs found it convenient to display their animalistic and barbaric instincts on the day Nigeria wa (By News Poster)...Uganda: Museveni Gives Away Makerere Prime Land
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Tabu ButagiraPresident Museveni has directed that prime land belonging to Makerere University in Kololo, an upscale city suburb, be given to a Lebanese investor to erect a five-star hotel.The unive (By News Poster)...Africa: U.S. Firms Should Invest in Canary Islands to Reach Africa, President Says
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Washington, DC - In Europe, the Canary Islands may be best known as a nearby vacation spot with idyllic climate. Americans may have heard in history class that the Italian explorer Christopher Columbu (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Obert Mpofu Outshines Mugabe's Praise-Ingers
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Nqaba MatshaziMines Minister, Obert Mpofu provided the climax to the raging diamond saga, with revelations that he described himself as President Robert Mugabe's "ever obedient son".While this coul (By News Poster)...Ghana: The Inadvertent Curse of Abundant Natural Resources (iv)
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Philip Kobina Baidoo JnrWar, without exception, has been a plague of humanity since human beings graduated from the hunter gather era to live in communities and cultivate the land. The history of t (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How Far Can Mallam Sanusi Lamido go With His Banking Reform
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Michael Olu. OpajobiBanks in Nigeria will continue to go through crisis not engineered primarily by global events but as a result of bad governance. This trend will persist for a long time until we (By News Poster)...Nigeria: EFCC Under Fire Over Alleged Illegal Sale of House in Ikoyi
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Emma NnadozieThe desire of a Lagos based businessman, Donatus Dunu, to own a choice property at the highbrow Ikoyi area of Lagos State, has seemingly turned into a nightmare.In fact, Dunu, the Chie (By News Poster)...Come Back Home, President Tells Exiled Doctors
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Takunda Maodza and Paidamoyo ChipunzaPresident Mugabe has urged Zimbabwean doctors in the Diaspora to return home instead of wasting their expertise on menial jobs like taking care of the old in Br (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Four Million Bank Accounts Closed
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Shame MakoshoriFour million accounts, which were active in Zimbabwe's ailing banking system three years ago have been closed or are dormant, Bankers Association of Zimbabwe (BAZ) statistics have in (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diamonds Not Benefiting Citizens - Canning
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Faith ZabaBritish Ambassador Mark Canning this week expressed concern over Zimbabwe's handling of rough diamonds mined at Marange and the timing of elections which President Robert Mugabe wants mid (By News Poster)...Kenya: Nation On the Cusp of a Geothermal Energy Boom
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Jaindi KiseroNairobi - The dominance of Chinese firms in exploration of geothermal energy in Kenya is set to end as East Africa's largest economy rolls out an aggressive programme to acquire its ow (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NDLEA Nabs South African, Nahco Official
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Chinedu EzeNational Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has broken a chain between some airport officials and drug traffickers as it arrested an airline manager and official of a major ground handl (By News Poster)...Uganda: Slippery Politics of Oil
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Angelo IzamaUnsurprisingly, going into the second multiparty election, competing political parties do not represent any core class issues - - be they workers' rights or pay, or even broad coalition (By News Poster)...South Africa: African Human Rights Commission Gives Gay Rights the Cold Shoulder
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Yugendree NaidooIn light of widespread attacks against homosexuals in African states, and the criminalisation of sexual orientation in some countries, gay and lesbian rights activists are outraged (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt Considers Debt Proposals
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaA PLATINUM miner has indicated that government was planning to push through Parliament proposals for its proposed take-over of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) debt to the country' (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How Armed Robbers Operate
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Dada JacksonSunday, November 7, 2010 will forever remain indelible in the memory of this writer. That was the day he tasted the bitter pill of men of the underworld.I woke up around 5 am, observed (By News Poster)...Kenya: Earnings Scorecard - 2010 Turns Into a Boom Year for Local Banks
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Catherine RiunguNairobi - The banking sector in Kenya is enjoying an exceptional year of profitability as results released so far indicate. But the results are not commensurate with economic growth (By News Poster)...East Africa: Region's Waters at Risk of Being Labelled 'Dangerous' Over Increasing Piracy
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Bernard SankiaNairobi - The rising acts of piracy on the East African coast has ignited fears of the United Nations declaring the region's waters a war-risk operation zone or dangerous for vessels (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Arms Importation - Iranian Diplomat, Three Others Docked
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Joe NwankwoAbuja - The state Security Service (SSS) told the Abuja Chief Magistrate's Court on Thursday that the quantity or arms imported into the country by an Iranian diplomat and three business (By News Poster)...[Pic] Africa: Ghana - Witch set on fire... Grandma set ablaze in Alleged Exorcism Attempt
Saturday 27-Nov-2010: [This happened in Ghana in West Africa recently. Blacks are very much into witchcraft. Its a huge thing in Africa... and even very wealthy blacks and top politicians play with this. It is innate to Af (By Jan)...Piracy Threatens to Increase Price of East Africa Imports (news)
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Benard SangaEast Africa's imported goods could cost more if the UN declares the Western India Ocean region a war-risk zone in response to piracy attacks that have affected more than 40 vessels in t (By News Poster)...Somalia: Mogadishu Unrest Claims 13 More Lives
Monday 22-Nov-2010: At least 13 people have been killed and dozens others injured in fresh clashes between Somali government and the insurgent groups, Al-Shabaab that rocked Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, witnesses said.T (By News Poster)...Nigeria: U.S. Lawmakers Recommend Sanusi's Bank Reform to U.S.
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Isaac AimurieAbuja - The banking reforms embarked upon by the Sanusi Lamido Sanusi-led Central Bank of Nigeria and its attendant positive results in the nation's banking sector and the capital mark (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Challenges Mugabe in Court
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Lance GumaPrime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday petitioned the High Court to nullify Robert Mugabe's unilateral appointments of provincial governors, arguing this was done outside the provi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: No Bail Out for Oil Marketers
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Rotimi Durojaiye andChristopher AdedejiAbuja - There will be no bail out for oil marketers, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) declared on Tuesday, despite the lifelines it extended to banks last ye (By News Poster)...Uganda: Why Country Cannot Win U.S. Backing to Try Rusesabagina
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Magnus MazimpakaRwandan prosecution is asking the United States to help investigate Paul Rusesabagina, a man wrongfully portrayed as a hero in the movie, Hotel Rwanda.Based on the facts on the grou (By News Poster)...Sudan: Securing a Peaceful Divorce
Friday 26-Nov-2010: Juba - A January referendum in Southern Sudan is likely to lead to the creation of a new country - the first in Africa since Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993 - but much work needs to (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Petrol Scarcity Looms Over MRS Debt
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Ayodele Aminu And Chika Amanze-Nwachuku With Agency ReportsAnother bout of petrol scarcity looms as the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketing Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) chapter of the Nation (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Renewed Militancy in the Niger Delta
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: The increase in blood-letting in conjunction with the upturn in insurgent activities in the volatile, oil-rich Niger-Delta region, credited in large part to the activities of the Movement for the Eman (By News Poster)...Uganda: Army Harassing Us, Say Opposition
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Tabu ButagiraKampala - As nomination of parliamentary candidates gets underway this week, the military is facing allegations of intimidating and sabotaging opposition candidates, particularly in Ka (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: South Africa's Zuma Tries to End Political Paralysis
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Ryan TruscottSouth African President Jacob Zuma is in Zimbabwe to try to end power-sharing disputes between President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.Mugabe and Tsvangirai agreed (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Govt-Botswana Bippa Talks Stall Again
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Bernard MpofuGovernment plans to reach a Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (Bippa) with Botswana by year-end have reportedly hit a brickwall after sharp differences erupted on (By News Poster)...South Africa: Alleged Killer of Politically-Connected Businessman Acquitted
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Natasha MarrianJohannesburg - The prosecution and investigators in the Glenn Agliotti trial were given a dressing down by Judge Frans Kgomo as he handed down a ruling freeing Brett Kebble murder- (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Inclusive Govt Breaks Down
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Njabulo NcubeSOUTH African President Jacob Zuma this week failed for the umpteenth time to cool political temperatures between President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, leaving (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Attack to Hit Oil Deliveries
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku, and Muhammad Bello in Port Harcourt with agency reportLagos - Crude oil deliveries for Nigeria's benchmark Bonny Light grade will be affected in November through to January, (By News Poster)...Africa: Seizing the Opportunity of Mobile Technology for Health and Medicine
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Alison BlochEach year, millions of people die from preventable diseases. At the recent 2010 mHealth Summit in Washington D.C., Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, discussed the opportunity for mobil (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Arrest 13 Suspected Boko Haram Militants
Monday 22-Nov-2010: The Borno State Police Command said yesterday that it has arrested 13 suspects in connection with last week's killings in Maiduguri. Suspected Boko Haram militants had killed at least four individuals (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Industrial Capacity Utilisation Up by 11 Percent
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Golden SibandaIndustrial capacity utilisation rose by 11 percent to an average 43,7 percent in the 12 months to June this year, owing to a stable business environment, the Confederation of Zimbabwe (By News Poster)...Namibia: Officer Nabbed for 'Bomb'
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Tileni MongudhiA POLICE officer was arrested on Friday afternoon in connection with Wednesday's bomb scare at the Hosea Kutako International Airport.The Namibian Chief of Police, Inspector General (By News Poster)...South Africa: Seven Die in LIghtning Strike
Sunday 28-Nov-2010: By Yadhana JadooJohannesburg - Some partygoers, injured when lightning struck a marquee in Pongola, were still stuck to the plastic chairs they sat on when emergency services arrived seven hours lat (By News Poster)...Somalia: Security Council Re-Authorizes Action Against Piracy Off Coast
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: The Security Council today renewed for another 12 months the authorizations granted to States and regional organizations cooperating with Somalia's transitional government to fight piracy off the coun (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: War Crimes Trial of Former Vice-President Begins
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: The International Criminal Court (ICC) today began the trial of former Congolese leader Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, who stands accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes allegedly committed in the (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Bemba Casts Shadow on Upcoming Elections
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: With the war crimes trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba due to start in the Hague next week, it seems unlikely that he will run in the 2011 elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC - but the former (By News Poster)...Kenya: CFC Stanbic Investors See Gains in Demerger Plan
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Washington GikunjuShareholders in listed financial services group CfC Stanbic Holdings will get a unique opportunity to unlock the value of their investment when the on-going split of the company's (By News Poster)...Libya: Zimbabwean Minister Attacks Gaddafi
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Mkhululi SibandaGaborone - SADC countries are concerned with the behaviour of fellow African Union member-states that are undermining the spirit of consensus and have a tendency of unproceduraly re (By News Poster)...South Africa: Govt Aims to Create 5 Million Jobs in 10 Years
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Cape Town - South Africa has set itself an ambitious target of creating five million jobs and reducing unemployment from 25 percent to 15 percent in the next 10 years."The centrepiece of the new growt (By News Poster)...Africa Getting Increased Attention at Stock Exchanges
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Charles W. CoreyNew York - NYSE Euronext Inc. - - the home of the New York Stock Exchange and other exchanges - - has seen a threefold increase in the trading of African stocks on its exchanges ove (By News Poster)...Nigeria: London Court Jails Ibori's Wife For Five Years
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Former first lady of Delta State, Chief (Mrs.) Theresa Nkoyo Ibori has bagged a five-year jail term for money laundering.Reports monitored on www.saharareporters.com yesterday said a London jury in he (By News Poster)...Zanu PF's MPs Boycott Mujuru Over Polls
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Caiphas ChimheteHarare - Some Zanu PF MPs last week boycotted the party's caucus meeting that was designed to force them to endorse President Robert Mugabe's push for early elections.Sources said s (By News Poster)...Drugs Show Great HIV Prevention Promise (news)
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Lungi LangaTaking a single antiretroviral (ARV) drug every day almost halves the chances of HIV infection among men who have sex with men (MSM), a ground-breaking international study which also too (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Fresh Fears Over Iran Relations - As NDLEA Links Tehran With 130kg Heroin Shipment
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Victor EbimomiLagos - Nigeria and Iran relations face serious threat following the discovery of 130kg of heroin on Thursday night at the Apapa Ports in Lagos by operatives of the National Drug Law (By News Poster)...Africa: What the Wal-Mart Fight Really Means
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Terry BellIt has 8,692 retail outlets in 15 countries and an annual turnover that exceeds South Africa's gross domestic product by nearly $110 billion. But unions in South Africa are opposed to Wal (By News Poster)...South Africa: South Africa Upholds Deadline for Migrants
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Nthambeleni GabaraPretoria - The South African government will not move its special dispensation deadline for Zimbabweans to regularise their stay in the country, which is set for 31 December.Short (By News Poster)...Nigeria: PHC Unionists And the Rest of us
Friday 26-Nov-2010: Why should 140 million Nigerians and residents of Nigeria suffer because of a few union leaders who depend on the monthly checkoffs of the 40 000 PHCN workers? Why should we die from generator fumes, (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Agricultural Mechanisation Can Contribute to Growth
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Tawanda MusarurwaAgricultural mechanisation has a key role to play in the enhancement of Zimbabwe's agricultural productivity but this area has received limited attention despite the growing signif (By News Poster)...Africa: The World Now Has Less Aids
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Khopotso BodibeThirty years into the HIV epidemic, women of the world are still at a higher risk of contracting HIV infection than men, although the latest figures by the United Nations show that o (By News Poster)...Somalia: Ethnic and Religious Minorities Forgotten Victims of Civil War ? new MRG report
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: Nairobi - Minorities in Somalia are being subjected to a previously unreported pattern of gross human rights violations including summary executions, reported beheadings and rape, Minority Rights Grou (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Diabetes Mellitus an Ancient Ailment
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Dr Timothy StampsDIABETES Mellitus has been known for a long time. Aretaeus of Cappadocia (1st Century A.D.) called it "a melting down of the flesh and limbs into urine." A periodical called "Physi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Dele Giwa And All That
Friday 26-Nov-2010: The recent call by ex-militants for President Goodluck Jonathan to revisit the assassination of Dele Giwa by parcel bomb is well taken. It must be distressing for his family and friends to still be in (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Carlos Cardoso Remembered, Ten Years On
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: Maputo - Relatives, friends and colleagues of murdered Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso gathered at the site of his assassination on Monday evening, on the tenth anniversary of his death, to remem (By News Poster)...Ghana: Probe Kombian's Bribery Allegation
Friday 26-Nov-2010: Johnson Kombian, the notorious killer and armed robber is an enigma. When he was on the loose, he was a danger to society. While serving sentence he broke jail, killed two police personnel, maimed ma (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Budgetary Capacity Building for Legislators Will Limit Corruption - Survey
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Sylvester EnoghaseBudget experts at the West Africa launch of the Open Budget Index (OBI) 2010 in Abuja last week resolved that only continuous capacity building for legislators that can enhance th (By News Poster)...World Has Turned the Corner on HIV/Aids, Says UN
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Kerry CullinanThe number of new HIV infections is almost one-fifth lower than it was a decade ago, indicating that the world has "turned the corner in the fight against HIV/AIDS", according to the (By News Poster)...West Africa: Iran Loses Face in Region
Sunday 28-Nov-2010: By Chege MbitiruA proud man, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad must be smarting. That's because Iran has been losing face in West Africa. It's a lesson.Two days after Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, a Mr (By News Poster)...Somalia: 16 Suspected Pirates Apprehended as EU Navfor and Seychelles Coast Guard Join Forces
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: The Seychelles Coast Guard apprehended a total of 16 suspected pirates the last five days after being cued each time by two EU NAVFOR aircraft.On 18 November, the Seychelles Coast Guard successfully i (By News Poster)...Uganda: Koriang Murder Story Makes Me Feel Guilty
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Vincent KaruhangaRecently, Ugandan newspapers carried a story about Judith Koriang, 20, who was sentenced to death by the Court Martial in Soroti in connection with the murder of her soldier-husban (By News Poster)...Malawi: Nation Turns to Private Investors to Solve Power Crisis
Sunday 28-Nov-2010: Malawi is seeking investors to inject $2bn in power projects aimed at improving generation and supply. The country aims to increase capacity from the current 282MW to 3 407MW by 2020.Malawi experience (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Crisis Looms Over Diesel Price Hike
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Isaac AimurieAbuja - The National Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) yesterday in Abuja, said it would be compelled to withraw its trucks nationwide from the roads if the recent increase (By News Poster)...Kenya: Six Charged With Stealing Sh220 Million From Nairobi Banks
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Richard MungutiNairobi - A youthful businessman with high political connections was on Wednesday charged in court in a case involving the theft of more than Sh220 million from two Nairobi banks.Mr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: On CBN's Latest Banking Regulation Guidelines
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: The Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) latest banking regulation guideline titled "Regulation on the Scope of Banking Activities and Ancillary Matters, No. 3, 2010", came into effect last week Monday, No (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: State Broadcaster 'Strips' Tsvangirai of PM Title
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has been stripped of his title in news bulletins aired by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), as the broadcaster worsens its attacks on him, an observer has n (By News Poster)...Africa: Health, Nutrition Key to Continent, Says Expert
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Sofia TilloThe old saying that "you are what you eat" is finding new meaning at the United Nations. With food security and access to nutrition in focus for the Millennium Development Goals, all eye (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Botswana Line of Credit - Firms to Access Up to U.S$5 Million
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Golden SibandaLocal firms in critical need of funding will access up to US$5 million each under the US$76 million line of credit expected from Botswana by January next year, Confederation of Zimbab (By News Poster)...U.S., Britain in MDC-T Election Bid
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Hebert Zharare and Tendai MugabeThe American government is reportedly structuring a financial plan to back MDC-T's election campaign next year and party leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai - who is said to (By News Poster)...South Africa: Naspers - Where Art Thou, And Why?
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Khadija SharifeMedia and entertainment giant Naspers 'has engaged in the kind of "aggressive" tax planning devised to strategically move such assets into low-tax regions', writes Khadija Sharife.Wh (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe Tobacco Farmers Unite Amid Fears of Bans
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Chege MbitiruNairobi - A blacks and whites' love affair is on in Zimbabwe. The catalyst is, of all things, tobacco. With hindsight, the affair tells a tale of "If only..."The affair became evident (By News Poster)...South Africa: TR Section Residents Say Police Shoot at Will After 8pm
Monday 22-Nov-2010: Although police deny it, residents in the embattled Khayelitsha TR Section that has been ablaze with protests for eight weeks, say an 8pm curfew is being enforced, with police firing rubber bullets at (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'I Dey Laugh' Says Obasanjo
Friday 26-Nov-2010: ERSTWHILE President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, mocked the prospect of his former deputy, Atiku Abubakar, becoming the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.Obasanjo's derision cam (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Arms Shipment - FG Arraigns Iranian Diplomat, Three Others
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Tobi SoniyiAbuja - The Federal Government yesterday took a major step in dealing with the illegal arms shipment into the country over which it had reported Iran to the United Nations.An Iranian dip (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Consulate Stops Feeding of Zimbabweans in SA
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Alex BellThere has been a shocked reaction to news that the Zimbabwean Consulate in Johannesburg has stopped Zimbabwean nationals in the city from receiving food, while they camped out on the stree (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Militants Threaten to Down Military, Oil Companies' Aircrafts
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Emma AmaizeWarri - FROM its new base, christened "Israel Barracks", some kilometers away from the Atlantic Ocean in the southern coast of Niger-Delta, the Niger-Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, led by (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Etranzact Partners Banks Over ATM Cardlex cash Solution
Friday 26-Nov-2010: In a bid to provide secured and convenient electronic payment solution to Nigerians, eTranzact International Plc is partnering four banks to deploy ATM Cardlex Cash solution.The banks are First Bank P (By News Poster)...We've Lost Control - CZI
Friday 26-Nov-2010: THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), the country's largest business organisation, this week expressed serious reservations over the current situation where government has effectively surren (By News Poster)...Africa: HIV/Aids - MSM Groups Hail Pill to Prevent HIV
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: Nairobi - Gay rights groups have hailed the results of the first study to show that an antiretroviral (ARV) drug can prevent HIV as an important step in the fight against HIV, but say that in countrie (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Journalist Kept in Prison Despite Judicial Release Order
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: Reporters Without Borders today condemned the continued detention of Nqobani Ndlovu, the Bulawayo correspondent of the independent weekly The Standard, in defiance of a magistrate's order releasing hi (By News Poster)...Kenya: National Oil Fuel Import Set to Cool the Increasing Pump Prices
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Mwaniki WahomeNairobi - National Oil Corporation of Kenya has received the first consignment of imported fuel, which the State-owned company is promising will lead to a significant drop in pump pri (By News Poster)...Africa: Lessons on Transparency in the Extractive Industry Sector
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Uche IgweUche Igwe attends a speech by US Senator Benjamin L. Cardin about new legislation that requires both US and internationally based companies to publish what they pay to governments for the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Reality Belies Perception That Gugs is the Place to Be
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Sandiso PhalisoWith the murder of newlywed Swedish national Anni Dewani following the hijacking of the taxi she and her British husband Shrein were travelling in last weekend, a spotlight has been (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Pope's Stance on Condoms Welcome
Friday 26-Nov-2010: The church's role in the daily living of people cannot be dismissed. The church has been silent or talked in hashed tones when it came to condom use. It was viewed as promoting promiscuity in a sense. (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Prime Minister Tsvangirai Sues Mugabe
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Ryan TruscottZimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has taken the desperate step of suing his main partner in the coalition government - President Robert Mugabe. Tsvangirai filed papers in the (By News Poster)...Africa: Aids Epidemic Changing Course
Friday 26-Nov-2010: Johannesburg - A new UNAIDS report claims the world has finally "turned the corner" on the AIDS epidemic, citing a downward trend in new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths over the past decade and (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Govt Seizes Another Illegal Arms Shipment
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: Nigeria has seized another illegal arms shipment in Lagos, including pistols and military vehicles.It is unclear where the weapons come from but the incident occurs one month after Nigerian security a (By News Poster)...Africa: President Jacob Zuma to Lead the National Delegation to the Third Africa-European Summit in Libya
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: President Jacob G. Zuma will lead the South African delegation to the 3rd African-European Union Summit, scheduled to take place in Tripoli, the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya on 29 t (By News Poster)...Kenya: OLF Operation a Success, Says Ojode
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Alphonce ShiunduNairobi - The government has termed the security operation targeting Ethiopia's Oromo Liberation Front rebels in Kenya's North Eastern region as a success.Speaking in Parliament Wed (By News Poster)...Kenya: Fish Farmers Embrace Technology to Boost Yields
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Bob KoigiNairobi - Behind government funding to dig fish ponds, in an agricultural stimulus modelled on an Indonesian programme, is a Kenyan innovation set to make the scheme more productive than i (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Angola Eclipses the Country in Deepwater Investments, Exploration
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Angola has eclipsed Nigeria in deepwater volume over the last decade, with significantly higher drilling activities and capital invested, findings by Daily Independent revealed.Deepwater project inves (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'Hiv/Aids Management is More Than Just Giving Drugs'
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Sola OgundipeWhen Alice tested positive to HIV August last year, it was like her world had come to an end. "I was stooling and vomiting. I was so weak and could not eat, she told Good Health Weekly (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Energy Supply - Opec Calls for Demand, Investments Security
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, has said only assurances on security of demand and security of investments can guarantee sustainable supply for growing global energy needs (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Tea 'n D Pot: Petroleum Industry Bill
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Uche IgweWith Nigerian National Assembly officials stressing that they will not submit to pressure from oil multinationals, Uche Igwe considers the extent to which the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Drop in Condom Use Following HIV Prevention Trial
Monday 22-Nov-2010: Nairobi - When researchers returned to Zimbabwe several months after the end of a trial involving condom and diaphragm use, they were disappointed to find that condom use - which had risen to 86 perce (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Calls for Diaspora Return Laudable
Friday 26-Nov-2010: During the decade of economic difficulties, between 2000 and 2009, Zimbabwe saw some of its most skilled people leaving in droves in search of better economic conditions.Most of them were to later dis (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: ZNCC Backs Biti Stance on Mines
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Shame MakoshoriThe Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC), the country's second largest business organisation, has piled pressure on government to act on low revenues being realised by the St (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Police Warn Against Abandoned Explosive Devices
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Bosco R. AsiimweFollowing the 1990 - 1994 liberation war and the aftermath insurgents, the national Police has issued a warning, asking the public to be cautious of explosive devises that could hav (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Business Delegation to Visit DRC
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Tawanda MusarurwaThe Ministry of Industry and Commerce in conjunction with the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce, is set to lead a business delegation to the Democratic Republic of Congo betwee (By News Poster)...Africa: Sex Workers Causing Rise in HIV infections
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Raymond Baguma and Chris KiwawuloTEN percent of new HIV infections in Uganda have been linked to sex workers, according to the newly released 2010 UNAIDS report on the global AIDS epidemic.The repo (By News Poster)...Uganda: World Bank Report Raps New Licence Fees
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Haggai MatsikoUganda ranks lower than Rwanda and Kenya in putting in place reforms to facilitate doing business, putting the country at risk of losing investments to its neighbours, which would neg (By News Poster)...Kenya: Effective Policies Help Employers in War Against Aids
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Jacqueline MugoDecember 1 marks the 23rd World Aids Day. The first such event was held in 1988 under the theme, "Join the worldwide effort". That was 22 years ago. It is also 22 years ago that the (By News Poster)...'African Writers Are Terribly Timid'
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By John MwazembaNairobi - African writers are terribly timid when it comes to writing about other people and cultures. Western writers, on the other hand, enjoy writing (sometimes unflatteringly) abou (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Criminals Disguised As Police in Manica
Monday 22-Nov-2010: Maputo - Criminals disguised as policemen have been causing chaos in Chimoio, the capital of the central Mozambican province of Manica, according to a report in the newsheet "CanalMoz".Cars have been (By News Poster)...'Dearth of Economic Statistics Retarding Growth'
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Paul NyakazeyaTHE absence of statistics has resulted in government and companies failing to make long-term plans which could speed economic recovery, says CBZ Bank MD John Mangudya.Speaking at the (By News Poster)...Return to War Could Cost in Excess of U.S.$100 Billion, Warns New Report (press release)
Friday 26-Nov-2010: Nairobi - A return to war in Sudan would entail costs in excess of $100 billion according to a new report published today by a coalition of European and African economic and political think-tanks.Publ (By News Poster)...Kenya: Gold Comfort for Ex-Forest Folk
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Philemon SuterNairobi - Thousands of those flushed out of a section of the Cherangany water catchment have now turned to gold mining to put food on the table.Since the squatters were kicked out of (By News Poster)...South Africa: Defence Report Approved
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: Pretoria - Cabinet has approved the tabling of the report of an Interim National Defence Force Commission set up to investigate among others conditions in the army.At a briefing on Thursday, Defence M (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zuma Due for More Crisis Meetings in Harare Friday
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Tererai KarimakwendaThe regionally appointed mediator on Zimbabwe, President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, is expected to travel to Harare on Friday for meetings with the three principals to the GPA. (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Two Held Over Robbery, Rape of Businesswoman
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Femi OgbonnikanLagos - Ogbonna Nwodu and Sunday Balogun, were two members of a gang which specialised in waylaying traders plying Idiroko, a border town between Nigeria and Republic of Benin. Usual (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bribe Scandal - Siemens Fined N7 Billion
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Tobi SoniyiAbuja - Against the backdrop of insinuations that Nigeria is being short-changed by plea bargaining, which allows bribe givers to pay fines instead of going to jail, the Attorney General (By News Poster)...Namibia: Minister Wants Private Wards in State Hospitals
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Adam HartmanOmaruru - HEALTH Minister Richard Kamwi wants private wards in all of Namibia's State hospitals; and Namibian doctors and nurses managing the hospitals - not expatriates. He said this a (By News Poster)...AU Chairman Addresses Good Governance, at Forum on Regional Economic Integration (press release)
Friday 26-Nov-2010: The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Dr. Jean Ping, has underscored the importance of good governance for development, while addressing delegates at the Forum on Regional Economic Int (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Army - Gunrunning, Kidnapping Threat to National Security
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Misbahu BashirAuthorities of the Nigerian Army yesterday said illegal trafficking of weapons, militancy and kidnappings are threats to national security.Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Onyea (By News Poster)...Central Africa: Witness Tells Court President Patassé Asked Bemba for Troops
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Wakabi WairagalaThe first witness to give evidence in Jean-Pierre Bemba's trial took the witness stand today and recalled how he heard former Central African Republic (CAR) president Ange-Fé (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Pipeline Attack Closes Down Oil Refinery
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Chika Amanze-NwachukuKaduna Refining and Petochemical Company (KRPC) has been shut following a damage to the crude oil pipeline feeding it.This comes as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Nig (By News Poster)...South Africa: Court to Rule on Release of Govt's Zimbabwe Election Report
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Bloemfontein - The Supreme Court of Appeal heard argument on Monday on whether the Presidency should give the Mail and Guardian newspaper a 2002 report by two judges on the Zimbabwean Presidential ele (By News Poster)...Namibia: DTA, Swapo Clash - Three People Arrested in Fracas
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Desie HeitaOpuwo - A fight between DTA and Swapo supporters left two Swapo members with severe injuries. Five other people received minor cuts and bruises.The fracas happened on Saturday afternoon (By News Poster)...Ghana: Ecobank Introduces Mobile Banking With Zap
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Stephen Odoi-LarbiEcobank Ghana, a subsidiary of Ecobank Transnational Incorporation (ETI), on Wednesday, introduced another innovative product dubbed 'Ecobank Mobile Banking' onto the Ghanaian mar (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Panic in Niger Delta Over JTF Invasion
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Osa OkhominaYenagoa - Hundreds of communities in the three states of Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers indentified as hosts to regrouped militants involved in acts of terrorism, kidnapping and illegal oil (By News Poster)...South Africa: Lack of Services Remains the Core of Ongoing Khayelitsha Protests
Monday 22-Nov-2010: Four Golden Arrow buses, a government car carrying matric exam answers, private cars and trucks are among vehicles set ablaze over the last two weeks.Last weekend a bus transporting children to a camp (By News Poster)...Two Suspects Arrested for Murder of Anni Dewani
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Sandiso PhalisoTwo arrests in connection with the murder of newly wed tourist Anni Dewani last weekend were made during the course of police investigations this week. Both suspects are from Khayeli (By News Poster)...Nigeria: NDLEA Arrest Grandfather, Grandmother
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Sunday OkobiThe National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has apprehended a 60-year-old grandfather and a 47 year old grandmother in connection with illicit drug trafficking.In a statement issue (By News Poster)...Nigeria: JEPTFON Seeks FG's Intervention in Mrs, Bank Phb U.S.$50 Million Faceoff
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Adeola YusufLondon - Jetty and Petroleum Tank Farm Owners of Nigeria (JEPTFON) has called on the federal government to set up a high powered committee to look into the case involving one of its mem (By News Poster)...South Africa: GDP Growth Slows
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Pretoria - South Africa's real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) slowed to 2.6 percent quarter-on-quarter in the three months to the end of September 2010, falling below market expectation, said Statistics (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Sterling Bank Partners Clickatell On Fraud Protection
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Amaka IfeakanduLagos - Sterling Bank Plc is collaborating with Clickatell on CardGuard Fraud Protection Service.A statement from the bank explained that the partnership emerged following complaints (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Johannesburg Court Denies Henry Okah Bail
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Andrew Oota with Agency ReportAbuja - A Johannesburg regional court yesterday denied bail to MEND leader Henry Okah, charged with terrorism-related offences in connection with the October 1 bombing (By News Poster)...Citizens Foil South African Scam
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithA SOUTH African company claiming to specialise in skills development workshops had the rug pulled from under their feet when a group of alert Namibians became suspicious and called t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Strange Bedfellows
Friday 26-Nov-2010: A STRANGE marriage is shaping up in the agriculture sector where the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU)-backed Agricultural Labour Bureau (ALB) and a Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions (ZFTU), affiliate, (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Court Orders Police to Stop Removing Anti-Torture Posters
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Alex BellThe police's refusal to allow a human rights group to continue its public campaign against torture in Zimbabwe, has been brought up short, after a Bulawayo court ordered the force to stop (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Renamo Opposed to Vehicle Inspections
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: Maputo - Parliamentary deputies from Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, on Thursday repeatedly demanded that the government scrap the compulsory inspection of vehicl (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: State Ready to Prosecute Fraud-Linked Diamond Bosses
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Alex BellThe State says it is ready to prosecute a group of diamond executives linked to fraud at the controversial Chiadzwa diamond fields, just days after ZANU PF was accused of a smear campaign (By News Poster)...South Africa: Five Million Jobs Will be Hard to Achieve - SACCI
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: Johannesburg - Government's plan to create five million jobs through its new growth path framework for South Africa would be difficult to achieve, the SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) sai (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bank Deposits Up
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Bright MaderaZimbabwe's total bank deposits increased to US$2,3 billion in October from about US$2,1 billion recorded in September.When the economy adopted the multi-currency system in February las (By News Poster)...Central African Republic: Ban Deplores Rebel Attack in North-East
Sunday 28-Nov-2010: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the recent rebel attack on the town of Birao in north-east Central African Republic (CAR), which occurred less than two weeks after the handing over of the (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Diamond Trust Launches Mobile Banking Product
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Austin BeyadiDIAMOND Trust Bank (DTB) is set to launch the most complete mobile banking product in Tanzania early next year and it will include new features which are not currently available in the (By News Poster)...S.Africa: What's happened to Standard Bank? They fired 2,100 people...
Friday 26-Nov-2010: Some months ago I mentioned that Standard Bank had adopted a policy of preparing for the new BULL MARKET... the next BOOM! The logic that was going around was: Standard Bank is hiring and finding all (By Jan)...Nigeria: Counseling And Testing - Key to HIV Prevention
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Christy AjibadFollowing the increased rate of HIV scourge in the country, Christy Ajibade writes on the need for all Nigerians to know their HIV status.Recently, the federal government disclosed th (By News Poster)...East Africa: IGAD Says More Troops to Somalia
Friday 26-Nov-2010: East African countries called for the African Union mission in Somalia to deploy additional troops to help the Somalia transitional government battle insurgent groups, Radio Garowe Reports.The Inter-G (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Non-Governmental Strides to Transparent Devt
Friday 26-Nov-2010: As part of the development process in the volatile Niger Delta region, various actors are playing different roles, in a bid to ensure transparency in revenue generation and expenditure, which are key (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Two Arrested Over New Arms Find
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By John IworiBarely one month after the interception of 13 containers loaded with arms and ammunition at Apapa Container Terminal (ACT), Lagos, by operatives of the State Security Services (SSS), men (By News Poster)...Angola: Armed Forces Staff Attend National Defence Course
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: Luanda - At least 40 staff from the three branches of the Angolan Armed Forces (Army, Air Force and Navy), and National Police Tuesday in Luanda started the 7th course of National Defence for Youths.T (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Made Commends Resettled Farmers
Monday 22-Nov-2010: Resettled farmers have been commended for working on their pieces of land with determination to produce food and cash crops for the country under challenging conditions.In an interview during his tour (By News Poster)...South Africa: JMPD Determined to Combat Corruption
Monday 22-Nov-2010: Pretoria - Despite media reports and perceptions to the contrary, the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department is serious about tackling corruption within its ranks and has the figures to prove it. (By News Poster)...Nigeria: State Security Recovers Bomb-Laden Car, 10 Bullet Proof Vests
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Chizoba OgbecheAbuja - The last has not been heard of the October 1, 2010 bombings in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as the State Security Service (SSS) has recovered a bomb-rigged car with a (By News Poster)...[Pic] My Trip to America - Putting Criminals to work - South African jails are places for plotting new crimes....
Monday 22-Nov-2010: I am not sure if I have published this before. Anyhow, it is worth repeating. When Captain Joseph Smith and I were driving out of Portland, Oregon; we happened upon a very nice hardware store. And (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: WB Projects Govt's GDP to Grow by 30 Percent
Friday 26-Nov-2010: The Word Bank has projected that Zimbabwe's Gross Domestic Product will grow by 30 percent to US$8,1 billion in 2011.World Bank country manager, Dr Nginya Mungai said the country would attain this gro (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ex-Militants Condemn Renewed Violent Clashes in Niger Delta
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Bassey InyangCalabar - Members of the ninth batch of former Niger Delta militants numbering 1,200, who recently underwent training in nonviolence in Obubra, Cross River State have distanced themsel (By News Poster)...Countdown to the Southern Referendum (news)
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: Nairobi - The people of Southern Sudan regard January's referendum as their first genuine opportunity to exert their right to self-determination, as enshrined in the 1945 UN Charter and underlined in (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Guinea - Time to Move On
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: The violent clashes that attended the announcement of the provisional presidential election results in Guinea are unfortunate and,indeed, deplorable.Guinea's National Independent Electoral Commission (By News Poster)...Nigeria: N22.5 Billion Debt - Union Bank Asks Court to Stop Banks From Dealing With NICON
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Tunde OpeseitanLagos - Union Bank of Nigeria Plc has asked Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court in Lagos for an order of interlocutory injunction restraining NICON Investment Limited, G (By News Poster)...Nigeria: MEND Claims Attack On Oil Pipeline
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Nigeria's Mend rebels have claimed responsibility for an attack which they say has destroyed an oil pipeline feeding a refinery in the oil-rich Niger Delta region."Fighters of the Movement for the Ema (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 2011 Budget Should Give Priority to Agriculture Sector - Experts
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: The 2011 National Budget should give priority to the agricultural sector to enhance productivity, industry experts have said.Finance Minister, Tendai Biti will present his budget statement on Thursday (By News Poster)...Namibia: Landless Families Become Proud Owners of Land
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Luqman CloeteNeue Haribes - SIX landless families in the Hardap Region on Friday became the proud owners of their own land after being given farming units on the State-owned farm Neue Haribes as pa (By News Poster)...Suspects in Violent Clashes Between DTA Appear in Court
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Desie HeitaOpuwo - Three men who were arrested in connection with the violent clashes between DTA and Swapo supporters appeared in the Opuwo Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, in the presence of (By News Poster)...West Africa: World Bank Expands West Africa Agric Program
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: The World Bank has expanded its West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP-1B) to Nigeria and two other countries.Announcing this in press statement, the Bank said, "The World Bank has launc (By News Poster)...Kenya: Hague Prosecutor Proposes Public Naming of Accused
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Bernard Namunane and Eric ShimoliNairobi - Mr Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the International Criminal Court prosecutor, will ask judges to be allowed to present his case in open court, meaning that chaos su (By News Poster)...Namibia: Cop in Court Over Airport Bomb Scare
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Werner MengesTHE officer in command of the Namibian Police's aviation security unit at Hosea Kutako International Airport appeared in court yesterday as a suspect in connection with the bomb scare (By News Poster)...Nigeria: MEND's Resurgence, Amnesty, Future of Niger Delta
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: A little over one year after the amnesty programme of late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua went into effect, with hundreds of ex-militants of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Okah Denied Bail, Files Appeal
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Moses JolayemiJohannesburg - Henry Emomotimi Okah, the suspected leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta yesterday lost his legal battle for bail as the magistrate court sitt (By News Poster)...Kenya: Flurry of Activity by Post Election Violence Suspects is All Pointless
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Muthoni WanyekiNairobi - The attempts to discredit the investigative process of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court are ploys to divert the public's attention.Unfortuna (By News Poster)...Somalia: Mercenaries to Take On Pirates?
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Paul RedfernNairobi - British mercenaries could be used in the fight against Somali pirates.According to secret documents revealed yesterday, the plan has the approval of the UK government's Foreig (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Programme to Boost Farmer Income Launched
Friday 26-Nov-2010: Maputo - The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has announced a pledge to spend 42 million US dollars to connect small farmers in 13 African countries to local, regional and internationa (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Illegal Arms Shipment - Giving Iran a Bad Name
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Hadi SaulawaLast month's seizure by Nigeria's security agencies, of an illegal shipment of 13 containers loaded with heavy military armament in Lagos, has generated a lot of controversies. Coming a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Petrol Price to Rise
Friday 26-Nov-2010: Pretoria - Motorists will have to dig deeper into their pockets as the petrol price is expected to increase by 13 cents across all grades from next Wednesday.The Department of Energy on Friday release (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: Citizenship - Compare And Contrast
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Sewanu KponouFreetown - Almost two years to the day a man whose father studied in the United States for a few years and left, was voted in as the President. His name, Barack Obama. The fact that he (By News Poster)...New Power Deal for Farmers
Friday 26-Nov-2010: The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company has put in place a mechanism for farmers to access electricity on a sequential basis.This is to ensure that the scarce resource is adequa (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Party Pushes for Early Polls
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Farirai MachivenyikaZimbabwe will hold general elections next year, as pronounced by President Mugabe, with or without a new constitution, Zanu-PF's Politburo has said.The Politburo met at the part (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Abuja Bomb Blast - Council Boss Condoles Families
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: Udenu local government council of Enugu state has paid condolences visit to the bereaved families of the council origin who lost their two sons to the October 1, 2010 bomb blast in Abuja, where no few (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Guebuza Calls for 'Inclusive' Banking System
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: Maputo - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Monday night called for an inclusive banking system, with financial services expanding throughout the countryside.Speaking at a Gala dinner to mark the (By News Poster)...Rwanda/South Africa: South Africa Bag Second Stage Win
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Ostine ArinaitweTHIS year's Tour of Rwanda has been a good vintage for South African riders; two stage wins have made it memorable. After Janse Van Rensburg Reinardt's stage one victory, Bakke Jass (By News Poster)...South Africa: Rights Group Calls for Overhaul of Infomation Bill
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: South Africa should substantially revise the proposed Protection of Information Bill, which is overly broad and vague and would promote secrecy over transparency, Human Rights Watch said in a letter t (By News Poster)...Namibia: Pirates Win Derby as Ramblers Stretch Lead
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Sheefeni NikodemusORLANDO Pirates avenged last season's mauling by bitter rivals Black Africa as they won a feisty Katutura Derby played at the Sam Nujoma Stadium on Saturday.Engelhard Kahua got th (By News Poster)...Uganda: Are Banks Derailing Small Business Development?
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Nathan WereIn the early 1990s, Uganda had only nine commercial banks. At the time, the financial services market was mainly characterised by strong regulatory controls over institutional structures (By News Poster)...Angola: Full Version of Govt/China Joint Declaration
Monday 22-Nov-2010: Luanda - At the invitation of His Excellency, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, vice president of the Republic of Angola, His Excellency, Xi Jinping, vice-president of the People's Republic of Chin (By News Poster)...Kenya: Bank Plans Sh100 Million IT System Upgrade
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Paul WafulaCredit Bank plans to spend Sh100 million to upgrade its IT system, in anticipation of growing business after it opened its doors to the mass market.The 24-year-old mid-sized lender, that (By News Poster)...Ghana: Securing the Nation From Criminals
Friday 26-Nov-2010: The state of insecurity currently enveloping the conduct of national affairs is not the very best means of nurturing a prosperous nation. For time immemorial, Ghanaians have prided ourselves as livin (By News Poster)...South Africa: MSM Left Out of Media, Prevention Programmes
Friday 26-Nov-2010: Johannesburg - Men who have sex with men (MSM) do not make headlines in South African media and HIV experts have warned that a lack of accurate coverage prevents targeted HIV prevention and care for t (By News Poster)...Africa: UN Survey Shows Declining Water Availability, Highlights Solutions
Friday 26-Nov-2010: The amount of water available per person in Africa is declining and only 26 of the continent's 53 countries are currently on track to reduce by half the number of people without sustainable access to (By News Poster)...Nigeria: The North, Jonathan And 2011
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Doyin OkupeThe intensity of the struggle and agitation to secure power by the North in 2011, clearly confirms that Nigeria as a political entity is still very far from the inter-ethnic unity, the s (By News Poster)...Kenya: Country Urged to Consider Zambia Example
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Lucas BarasaNairobi - Zambia's anti-corruption chief has revealed how the agency prosecuted a former president amid calls to intensify the fight in East Africa.Apart from former President Fredrick (By News Poster)...USA: Stock markets: My Technical Indicator - The latest on Gold and Wall St... a quick analysis...
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: Here are some quick thoughts for you. I see the DOW is moving a bit up and down, but it remains above the 11,000 support level. Interestingly, the P&F charts are still indicating a fall down to 10 (By Jan)...Kenya: Ministry Moves to Rein in Runaway Fuel Cost
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Nairobi - A government plan to rein in the spiralling petroleum prices was met by wide approval on Tuesday.The Ministry of Energy said it had drafted a legal notice that would control retail fuel pric (By News Poster)...Nigeria: JEPTON Seeks U.S.$900 Billion Bailout for Oil Sector
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Rasheed KomolafeLagos - The Jetty and Tank Farm Owners Association of Nigeria [JEPTON],a branch of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) have warned that unless the federal gover (By News Poster)...Karamoja - Uganda's Hidden Treasure
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Joseph MitiTo many Ugandans, Karamoja is synonymous with cattle rustling and poverty. At one time it was rumoured that when seeds were given to Karimojong to engage in agriculture, they instead fir (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Greens Might Not Be That Healthy That After All
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Sharifa KalokolaMost of the city's green vegetables are grown from polluted water posing a major health risks.It is a quarter past eight in the morning and birds chirping sounds fill the air.This i (By News Poster)...Africa: Ambassador On Scarcity of Resources at African Union
Monday 22-Nov-2010: Luanda - The African Union (AU) is experiencing a situation of lack of human and financial resources and notes some deficit in terms of organisation and political stability.The words were uttered by t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Farmers Sing the Blues
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Obert ChifambaThe messenger of court quickly hurled the only plough, yokes and scotchcart that farmer Byron Kachowa of Mhondoro had into the waiting truck.Despite Kachowa's repeated pleas for a gra (By News Poster)...Tourism Expected to Earn U.S.$800 Million
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Bright MaderaZimbabwe's tourism sector is estimated to generate US$770 million in revenues and surpass the target of three million visitors by year-end, Tourism and Hospitality Minister Walter Mzem (By News Poster)...South Africa: Multicultural Celebration to Mark Arrival of Indians
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: By Kemantha GovenderDurban - A national celebration of unity will take place at the Moses Mabhida Stadium's People's Park to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Indian people to South (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zuma to Attend Africa-EU Summit
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma is to attend the 3rd African-European Union Summit next week in Tripoli, Libya.The two-day summit follows the first summit in Egypt in 2001 and the second in 2007 in Li (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Two Arrested Over Rape
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Bosco R. AsiimwePolice has arrested two men for allegedly defiling two young girls in separate incidents. Melchior Niyotubikesha, 30, was arrested in Kicukiro for raping a five-year old while Desir (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Biti's Budget Nightmare
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: Finance Minister Tendai Biti is unlikely to offer much to bolster industrial capacity when he presents the 2011 National Budget tomorrow as liquidity constraints continue.While access to capital is cr (By News Poster)...Africa: Women Still Marginalized
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Pretoria - Despite the political will shown by leaders on the African continent, women in Africa faced serious challenges with regards to empowerment and parity.This is according to Home Affairs Minis (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Witness Concedes Government Troops Also Committed Atrocities
Sunday 28-Nov-2010: By Wakabi WairagalaJean-Pierre Bemba's defense today attempted to punch holes in the testimony of the first prosecution witness, by questioning him how he could be sure that it was troops belonging to (By News Poster)...Nigeria: UN Reports Reduction in HIV/Aids Infections
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Abiodun OluwarotimiNew York - The outbreak of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria and some West African countries has reduced, according to a report on the Global AIDS Epidemic 2010 produced by the Joint UN Progra (By News Poster)...World Cup - Mixed Feelings About Commercial Impact on Media
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Issa Sikiti Da SilvaWhile the 2010 FIFA World Cup left a bad taste in the mouths of print media owners, broadcasting and outdoor media were smiling, although the latter's pockets were not as full a (By News Poster)...South Africa: Cabinet Takes Tough Stand On HIV, Aids
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: Pretoria - Cabinet is encouraging social dialogue on HIV and Aids this coming World Aids Day to dispel the myths around the condition which touches millions of South African's lives.Instead of the usu (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Taking the Disaster Out of Drought
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: Addis Ababa - New automated weather stations could boost Ethiopia's fledgling agricultural insurance schemes, expanding the use of payouts triggered by abnormally low rainfall and reducing costly visu (By News Poster)...Gambia: Minister Sillah Calls for More Investment in Sustainable Land Management
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Alieu CeesayThe minister of Forestry and the Environment has called on development partners to invest more in sustainable land management in order to compliment government's efforts to realise the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Police Nab Fake Army Officer in Bauchi
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Patience OgbodoBauchi - Bauchi State Police Command has arrested one Abraham Sunday who hails from Anambra State for impersonating an Army officer.Parading the suspect before newsmen at the Bauchi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil - Citizens in UK, Others Await PIB Passage, Says High Commissioner
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Adeola YusufLondon - The debate on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) at the weekend crept into the United Kingdom (UK) with the Nigeria's acting High Commissioner to the kingdom, Dozie Nwanna, sayi (By News Poster)...USA: Poll: GOOD NEWS - The Tea Party support grows; USA divided - Obama's 2nd term?
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: [Interesting. I also see there is growing support for an Obama 2nd term!!! I know many people who said he would not make a second term. I am skeptical. You never know... all they have to do is con eno (By Jan)...Liberia: "Armed Robber" Goes Home Free
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Marcus S. ZolehThe Government of Liberia, through its prosecuting arm, has set free a man accused of armed robbery.The accused, Eddie Kelvin Smith, had been detained at the Monrovia Central Prison (By News Poster)...Nigeria: We Won't Surrender- Ex-Militants
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Emma AmaizeAggrieved ex-militants under the aegis of the Niger-Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, led by "General" John Togo in Delta State remained recalcitrant,Sunday, even in the face of the superio (By News Poster)...East Africa: Regional Leaders Meet On Food Security
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By David MuwangaArusha - Five Heads of State from the East African Community (EAC) member states are expected to hold a retreat on the challenges of food security and climate change in the region in t (By News Poster)...The Chairperson of the AU Commission underscores the importance of Good Governance (sponsor wire)
Friday 26-Nov-2010: The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Dr. Jean Ping, has underscored the importance of good governance for development, while addressing delegates at the Forum on Regional Economic I (By News Poster)...Ghana: MPs Propose to Scrap Oil Watchdog Committee
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Daniel NonorAccra - The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament and Member of Parliament (MP) for Dome-Kwabenya, Professor Mike Oquaye, is agitated by attempts by members of the Majority side of the Ho (By News Poster)...Nigeria: '20,000MW of Electricity Underway in 2020'
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Christopher IsiguzoEnugu - Federal Government has said it is currently planning an energy revolution that could increase power generation from the current 4,000 to 20,000 megawatts of electricity i (By News Poster)...Britain Admits Backing Tsvangirai
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Hebert ZharareBritain's Ambassador to Zimbabwe yesterday said MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai approached the UK government to send someone from there to give him "technical support".The Herald on (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Interior Minister Defends Contract With Semlex
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: Maputo - Mozambican Interior Minister Alberto Mondlane on Wednesday defended the hiring of the Belgian company Semlex to produce biometric identity documents, on the grounds that this would halt the f (By News Poster)...East Africa: Upbeat Gulf African Bank Eyes EAC Market
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Victor JumaGulf African Bank has announced plans to expand into the East Africa region as its Kenyan operation is poised to record a full-year profit for the first time since its launch in 2008."We (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Union Bank Owes Global Fleet N63.2 Billion, Says Jimoh Ibrahim
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Emele OnuGroup Managing Director, Global Fleet, Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim, said yesterday that Union Bank of Nigeria Plc is indebted to Global Fleet Group to the tune of N63.2 billion, in deposits.Ib (By News Poster)...Meet Harare's Ultra-Modern N'anga
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Isdore GuvamombeEACH time a traditional healer is mentioned, what comes to mind is some elderly, ancient-looking occult authority operating from a hovel and using unorthodox means of treatment.In H (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Development Bank to Start Business in Dar Next Week
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Samuel KamndayaThe Tanzania Investment Bank (TIB) has disbursed Sh11 billion loans to farmers through its agriculture window financing, the bank's managing director Mr Peter Noni said in the weeken (By News Poster)...East Africa: EADB to Invest U.S.$250 Million in Five Years
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Bosco HitimanaKigali - The East African Development Bank (EADB) plans to invest about US$250 million in the region in the next five years (2011-2015), the bank's head said recently.Ms. Vivienne Yed (By News Poster)...East Africa Commits to Battle Corruption
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Gashegu MuramiraThe Deputy Secretary General of the East African Community (EAC), Beatrice Kiraso, has reaffirmed the bloc's commitment to fighting corruption, saying the vice is negatively affecti (By News Poster)...Africa: Miners Slam Zimbabwean Diamond Ban
Monday 22-Nov-2010: By Tileni MongudhiTHE African Diamond Producers Association (ADPA) has come out in defence of Zimbabwe after the Kimberley Process chairperson, Boaz Hirsch, declared that no trading would be allowed w (By News Poster)...Nigeria: There Are Over 400 Nigerian Prisoners in Turkey - Envoy
Sunday 28-Nov-2010: By Ibrahim Sheme and Ahmed ShekarauRelations between Nigeria and Turkey are in an upward swing. The fillip was made possible with the restoration of relations between the two countries and the appoint (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Another Deadly Cargo From USA
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Godwin Oritse and Harriet EramreraiLagos - THE Tin-Can Island Customs Command of the Nigeria Customs Command, NCS, yesterday intercepted another set of arms and ammunition concealed in four vehicle (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 'Diamond Joint Venture Dead'
Friday 26-Nov-2010: The joint venture agreement between Marange Resources and Core Mining and Minerals Resources was fraudulently signed and is no longer binding, Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation chairman Mr Godwi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Nupeng Stops Petroleum Supply to Akwa Ibom
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Linda ErokeNational Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has placed embargo on fuel supply to Akwa Ibom State over alleged killing of its member by hoodlums employed by the managemen (By News Poster)...Namibia: Work Permits Enjoy Priority - Nghidinwa
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Denver KistingIF the Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration does not speed up the processing of work permits for expatriates, Namibia's 'dire' skills shortage will become even worse.The country h (By News Poster)...South Africa: Dialogues On Reducing New HIV Infections
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: Pretoria - In the buildup towards World Aids Day, the North West Health and Social Development Department has lined up a number of community dialogues on how to reduce new HIV infections.The provincia (By News Poster)...Africa: ICT Has Potential to Liberate Continent
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By James ShikwatiInformation and Communication Technology (ICT) has no doubt positively transformed lifestyles in Africa; but long term focus calls for a more cautious approach towards its utilization (By News Poster)...Liberia: I Killed Him in Self Defence
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Peter N. TobyA resident of Gbee Town near Brewerville, Momo Musa (40) has been charged with murder and detained at the Monrovia Central Prison pending court trial , police sources confirmed here.Th (By News Poster)...Govt Boycotts KPSC
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Zimbabwe boycotted a Kimberley Process Certification Scheme meeting in Belgium yesterday as the African Diamond Producers Association has advised Harare to sue the KPSC secretariat for denying the cou (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Financing - Standard Chartered, UBA Launch U.S. 1.1 Billion Loan
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: A $1.1bn programme debt financing for Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and Exxon Mobil Natural Gas Liquids, NGL2 liquids producing asset has been launched to the bank market by Standard C (By News Poster)...Côte d'Ivoire: Ivoirians Seek End to Turbulent Times
Sunday 28-Nov-2010: Abidjan - Ivoirians are set to vote in a presidential run-off election on 28 November, hoping for a peaceful outcome to an often violent contest and an end to a decade of instability.In the country's (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Customs Agent Arrested Over the Importation of Arm At Kano Airport
Sunday 28-Nov-2010: By Stella ChristianThe Nigeria Customs Service, Kano/Jigawa Command, have arrested a middle-aged clearing agent, Alhaji Aminu Kusa following the discovery of a concealed air pistol in the luggage he w (By News Poster)...Africa: Sustainability and Extension of Social Security Critical Challenges for Global Forum
Friday 26-Nov-2010: The largest global gathering of social security policy-makers and administrators will consider the critical challenges facing social security systems worldwide when it commences work in Cape Town, Sou (By News Poster)...Brother Confesses to Sister's Murder
Friday 26-Nov-2010: By Luqman CloeteLÜderitz - THE brother and a close relative of Thobeka Loretta Somi (35), accused of raping and murdering Somi in her home in Rosh Pinah last Tuesday, made their first appearance in th (By News Poster)...Angola: Reserve Bank Governor Wants Expansion of Banking Activity
Thursday 25-Nov-2010: Luanda - The National Reserve Bank (BNA) governor, José da Lima Massano, assured on Wednesday here that banking initiatives will be extended to all municipalities until 2012, ANGOP has learnt.S (By News Poster)...Planning Minister Defends Mega-Projects
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: Maputo - There is no contradiction between mega-projects and small and medium companies (SMEs), argued Mozambique's Minister of Planning and Development, Aiuba Cuereneia, on Wednesday.Responding in th (By News Poster)...Kenya: House Team Summons Uhuru Over Fuel Prices
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Alphonce ShiunduNairobi - Parliament's Energy Committee has summoned Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta and the National Economic and Social Council over the rising fuel prices.Speaking at a news conf (By News Poster)...Backlash Over Govt Ban on Second-Hand Car Imports (news)
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: By Nqaba MatshaziThe government's controversial decision to ban importation of cars older than five years has hit a raw nerve, with most people opposed to the new regulations, claiming the authorities (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: The Fullah-Mandingo Spar in Kenema, Police Grab 35
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Mohamed MassaquoiFreetown - At least 35 troublemakers have been arrested by the police following clashes between members of the Fullah and Mandingo ethnic groups in the eastern district headquarter (By News Poster)...Two Die After Eating Dead Donkey Liver
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Oswald ShivuteTWO people are reported to have died last Thursday after they ate donkey meat at Okalumbu village in Oshikoto Region.More than 15 other villagers who consumed the same meat from the d (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Gunmen Attack Soldiers in Borno
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: By Yahaya IbrahimMaiduguri - Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members Sunday night opened fired on some soldiers deployed to maintain peace in the Jajeri area of Maiduguri, wounding one.Our correspon (By News Poster)...Guinea: News Media Prevented From Working By Post-Election Violence
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Reporters Without Borders appeals for calm and respect for the media after a week in which most journalists in the capital, Conakry, have been staying indoors for fear of being targeted by activists o (By News Poster)...South Africa: Govt to participate in the 16th Extra Ordinary Summit of the IGAD
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Deputy Minister Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim will depart today, to represent the South African government at the 16th Extra-Ordinary Summit of the Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD). The Ex (By News Poster)...USA: Stock Markets - We are on the brink of massive, worldwide inflation deluge...
Monday 22-Nov-2010: [I have been looking at some fascinating charts and analyses... not by some lunatics, but by rather dour, sober organisations in the USA. The figures are incredible. I have some charts I must repro (By Jan)...Terre'Blanche Trial Postponed
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: The Ventersdorp Magistrate's Court announced the trial of two Black farmworkers accused of murdering AWB leader Eugene Terre'Blanche will be postponed to give defense lawyers more time to prepare. (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))...[6 Pics] If Obama's picture were put on US Currency
Friday 26-Nov-2010: [JoAn sent me this one to post. Jan] Jan, Friend Shannon sent this. Subject: FW: Where to put Obama's picture George Washington, our nation's first president and leader of the American Revoluti (By Jan)...From Jan - A silly damned problem... Busy on the websites.... My Blackberry...
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: Just a quick note. I seem to have a silly bug in a program I use to prepare articles with for my sites. I discovered that I have been losing some of My Trip to America articles after writing them, bef (By Jan)...[3 Pics] My Trip to America - Photos of Mt St Helens - Are there more photos of the collapse of Mt St Helens in the 1980s?
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: I took these photos one day when Captain Joseph Smith and I went out driving towards Fort Stevens and the mouth of the Columbia River. We were at a vantage point when these photos were taken. In t (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (22-11-2010)
Monday 22-Nov-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- Wouldn't it be nice if they had a war - and nobody came? This weekend, there was supposed to be a SADC conference in Botswana to discuss t (By The BeardedMan)...This Weekend: Jan off on a psychology course for 2 days... In a foul mood...
Tuesday 23-Nov-2010: This year has been interesting and most annoying too. I have been working on my people skills. They aren't good. But even so, I think I have been improving. I think I have learned some type of diploma (By Jan)..."Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (26-11-2010)
Friday 26-Nov-2010: Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated... -o00o- The weather here in Derby is not good. Last evening, when B and I caught a taxi to come home after our committee meeting, the temperature w (By The BeardedMan)...S.Africa & Zimbabwe - Where has the politics gone? A Coverup of everything important...
Wednesday 24-Nov-2010: A friend of mine is an avid reader of newspapers. It is from his Military Intelligence days. He probably spends almost as much money on newspapers as he does on food. And his car is always filled with (By Jan)...
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