Weekly Southern African Report
From Jan Lamprecht
Southern Africa in Crisis
www.AfricanCrisis.co.za
Sunday, 26th December 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 & GruesomeSouth Africa: Wikileaks - Part 2 of analysis of Jacob Zuma
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: Tuesday, 12 May 2009, 08:51 UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 04 PRETORIA 000954 SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED SIPDIS EO 12958 N/A TAGS KDEM, PGOV, PREL, SF SUBJECT: PART 3 OF 3: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SOU (By Bommer)...Zimbabwe: Important: Robert Mugabe wants to wipe the MDC out in one fell swoop...
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: The other evening a friend and I were chatting about Zimbabwe. He was telling me about an interesting manoevre in Zimbabwe. In 2011, there is supposed to be a Presidential election - due to all the (By Jan)...Liberia: Feared Taylor's Threats
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: The controversial WikiLeaks cables, detailing classified communication between governments, continue to provide more details on international concerns for Liberia's shaky peace, with warnings that eve (By News Poster)...Côte d'Ivoire: Pro-Gbagbo Forces Abducting Opponents
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Dakar - Security forces associated with Laurent Gbagbo are abducting and "disappearing" his rival's supporters, Human Rights Watch said today, citing statements from numerous witnesses.Alassane Ouatta (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Wikileaks - Part 1 of analysis of Jacob Zuma
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: Friday, 08 May 2009, 15:04 UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 PRETORIA 000939 SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED SIPDIS EO 12958 N/A TAGS KDEM, PGOV, PREL, SF SUBJECT: PART 1 OF 3: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SOUT (By Bommer)...Zanu-PF Reportedly Interested in Deal with MDC That Involves Mugabe's Departure (document)
Monday 20-Dec-2010: This cable was created on 27 September 2000, according to WikiLeaks.C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 HARARE 005461SIPDISNSC FOR SENIOR AFRICA DIRECTOR GAYLE SMITHLONDON FOR CHARLES GURNEYPARIS (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Wikileaks - IMPORTANT MDC had Zanu-pf interested in deal in 2000
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 HARARE 005461 SIPDIS NSC FOR SENIOR AFRICA DIRECTOR GAYLE SMITH LONDON FOR CHARLES GURNEY PARIS FOR BISA WILLIAMS PASS USTR FOR ROSA WHITAKER (By Bommer)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe's evil ZANU PF party is collapsing financially.... as the American Ambassador expected... My thoughts
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: Today I was reading a very interesting article about the collapse of ZANU PF's income. The party's biggest costs are its wage bill! Why is that no surprise. The party is not getting much in the for (By Jan)...Central Africa: Urgent Appeal to President Obama On Ending the Menace of the LRA
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: 34 civil society, human rights, and religious groups in northern Congo, Central African Republic, and Southern Sudan write to President Obama, calling for urgent implementation of the new strategy rel (By News Poster)...Uganda: Kanyeihamba's Article On Fake Land Titles in Circulation Had Distortions
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Bruce KyerereIN a November 3 article, titled There are more fake land titles than real ones, Justice George Kanyeihamba highlighted the existence of fake land titles in circulation. While we agree (By News Poster)...Namibia: When We Drop, We Do So With Gusto
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Daniel SteinmannThere is a bush legend of two hunters spending the night in a tree after being chased there by a lion. The next morning the one hunter informs the other they must make a dash for it (By News Poster)...S.Africa: A Stunning letter from Liberal Businessman - Government by Deception is the only explanation for the ANC's actions - COSATU & ANC lost the jobs of millions of Black People....
Monday 20-Dec-2010: I received a lovely letter today from a "Liberal Businessman" in South Africa who had read my book Government by Deception. He wrote a very detailed, very fascinating analysis of the book. He told me (By Jan)...S.Africa: Political Agendas: ANC Youth League corruption - A Conference for Sex & Dinner - wasting R69 million of Tax Payer money...
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: My Liberal friend phoned me one night to tell me about a conference that the worthless ANC Youth League sponsored. The ANCYL, having no real idea what to do constructively for the black youth of S (By Jan)...Science: Climate change; Global Warming & Al Gore & Green nuts - Are you ready for this? Its complete and utter HOGWASH....
Friday 24-Dec-2010: [I got this email from someone in Australia who was sending this around. I have been pointing out for years that a lot of this alarmism is really highly detrimental to the economies of Western cou (By Jan)...South Africa: Cele Could Spend Time Behind Bars over Firearms Licence Delay .
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy Hie hie, will love to see this happening. Cele Could Spend Time Behind Bars over Firearms Licence Delay 12 Dec 2010 National police commissioner Bheki Cele may have to spen (By Grazy)...Africa: Wikileaks - America worried about Nuclear material security in Congo (DRC)
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 KINSHASA 001410 SIPDIS SIPDIS EO 12958 DECL: 09/06/2016 TAGS ENRG, EMIN, ETRD, KGIT, PREL, PGOV, IAEA, CG SUBJECT: SECURITY AT THE DRC’S NUCLEA (By Bommer)...Zimbabwe: Is Mugabe successfully removing Zimbabwe from the World News platform?
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: Last night when I was looking at Zimbabwean websites, and a lot of them have disappeared or died. I think that the quietening down of the Zimbabwe crisis - in the world media - is to blame. This in (By Jan)...Congo-Kinshasa: Nuclear Fuel Rods Easy to Steal in 2006 - WikiLeaks Cable
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: A diplomatic cable dated 2006-09-08, according to WikiLeaks:C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 KINSHASA 001410SIPDISSIPDISEO 12958 DECL: 09/06/2016TAGS ENRG, EMIN, ETRD, KGIT, PREL, PGOV, IAEA, (By News Poster)...PROGRESS ON THE ROBBERY CASE IN JOHANNESBURG SA , THE ROBBER ISSUING THREATS
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Yeoville police are still refusing to take action to arrest the suspect who is still around. since friday the 17th Dec they were refusing to open case of robbery and assualt. l gave the police i (By Collen Makumbirofa)...Nigeria: Big, Strong Headache for Union Bank
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Goddy OfoseLagos - This may not be the best of time for Olufunke Iyabo Osibodu, Chief Executive Officer, Union Bank of Nigeria (UBN) as the troubled 93-year-old financial institution has plunged in (By News Poster)...East Africa: The Ocampo Six are Kenyans, But Rwanda, Uganda Need to Worry
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Nairobi - Last Wednesday, International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo kicked up a political storm in Kenya when he announced his intention to charge six Kenyans with murder, rape, (By News Poster)...Côte d'Ivoire: The UN's Mission Impossible?
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Abidjan - In Côte d'Ivoire's post-election turmoil, with two political camps claiming power and widespread fear of renewed war, the UN's operation in the country has been in the spotlight, and l (By News Poster)...AfricanCrisis experiencing an error due to massive Reader traffic - Thank You all - The bug will be fixed soon
Thursday 23-Dec-2010: It has come to my attention over recent days, especially since I got the missing Farm Murders and Nelson Mandela crime graphs back... that even on a sunday (weekends have lower traffic) and even over (By Jan)...S.Africa: The Struggles of Life - Life begins at 50, or does it begin at 69... The task of Older people is this...
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: I had a really interesting chat with someone recently, a friend who really wanted to say a bunch of really nice, really positive things to me. I was quite astounded really. It is so nice to hear so (By Jan)...Nigeria: 32 Dead, 74 Wounded in Christmas Eve Blast in Jos
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: By Taye Obateru &daniel IdonorTENSION, yesterday, enveloped Jos, Plateau State capital where 32 people have been confirmed dead and 74 others hospitalised following multiple blasts which rocked the me (By News Poster)...Liberia: Who's Who in the Corruption Verdict?
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: The verdict is out, rendered by an internationally acclaimed organization that specializes in documenting corruption around the globe - the German-based Transparency International.Liberia is the most (By News Poster)...Wishing you all a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year from Jan Lamprecht.... Thank you for your support - What I learned...
Friday 24-Dec-2010: Today, the day before Christmas, I was rather lazy. I was lazy at work, chatted too much! I went home early, and I was phoning and sms'ing people and I played some games on my computer. I just fel (By Jan)...Nigeria: Between Campaign And Treasonable Statements
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By George AgbaAbuja - Last week, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, PDP presidential aspirant, stirred the hornet's nest when he threatened that violent change was inevitable in the absence of peac (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Rogue Leaders, Rebels Forcibly Recuit Youth
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Rogue Congolese army officers and armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are forcibly recruiting and training for combat hundreds of young men and boys in new efforts to expand their ran (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: Rogue Leaders, Rebels Forcibly Recruit Youths
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Goma - Rogue Congolese army officers and armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are forcibly recruiting and training for combat hundreds of young men and boys in new efforts to expand th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How Illegal Mining Depletes Our Population
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Lawal Sabo Ibrahim,Chinwe Egesi and Ahmed TukurAbuja and Lafia - Since the pre-colonial, and especially from the colonial to the present eras, one of the activities that continue to deprive Nigeria (By News Poster)...East Africa: Don't Arrest Us, We're the Sex Workers of Africa
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: By Janet OtienoNairobi - Imagine a client walking up to a sex worker in Nairobi or Kampala and asking for their tax records - - in addition to other "work" history - - and when entirely satisfied, pro (By News Poster)...Allegations Of Uranium Trafficking in 2007 (document)
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: A diplomatic cable dated 2007-07-11, according to WikiLeaks:S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 04 KINSHASA 000797SIPDISSIPDISE.O. 12958: DECL: 07/09/2017TAGS: ENRG ETRD KNNP PGOV PINR PINS IAEA EMINSUBJECT: RE (By News Poster)...Somalia: Harakat Al-Shabaab 'Gobbles Up' Hizbul Isam
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Dr. Michael A. WeinsteinOn December20, Hizbul Islam (H.I.) folded its tent and migrated under the encampment of Harakat al-Sbababb Mujahiden (H.S.M.), leaving H.S.M. with a monopoly over armed oppo (By News Poster)...South Africa: Interaction With Media by Home Affairs Minister Regarding Documentation of Zimbabweans
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen of the media. I am here to take your questions.Minister, what will happen on the 1 January 2010 to Zimbabweans who have not applied – will they be deported?A (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Respect is Something Earned Mr Mohadi!
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: AN interesting reflection of the power matrix in Harare could be found in the report of a meeting in Johannesburg a few weeks ago. Co-ministers of Home Affairs Kembo Mohadi and Theresa Makone were bri (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Aganga, Sanusi And Faulty Budget Financing Process
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Adaighofua OjomaikreThe following article is courtesy of a guest columnist, Mr. Adaighofua Ojomaikre, who is also an advocate of the views consistently paraded in this column with regard to the cor (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Man U, Arsenal Match Tragedy - How Police Killed Auto Electrician in Lagos
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Ifeanyi OkolieAS the rage over the alleged murder of Lagos socialite, Mr. Femi Best by Mr. Muhammed Babamala, a Superintendent of Police, in front of the Onipanu Police Station, on Ikorodu Road, in (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Another Land Invasion Case Referred to an International Court
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Alex BellAn international tribunal has been appointed to consider the case of a German farming family in Zimbabwe, whose three farms were illegally invaded by ZANU PF members in June.The von Pezold (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Dutch Parliament Probes Shell's Activities in Niger Delta
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku And Chinedu EzeDutch Parliament has dispatched its member Sharon Gesthuizen to the Niger Delta to investigate the activities of Shell, an Anglo Dutch company, in a bid to get (By News Poster)...Kenya: Grenade Attack On Bus Kills One, Scores Injured
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Emmanuel OnyangoNairobi - Grenade attacks on a passenger bus killed at least one person and left 26 seriously injured in Nairobi's Central Business District on Monday eveningKenya Police are yet to (By News Poster)...S.Africa: Daily Mail & Guardian: The Super-Spies - How the South African Govt watches and monitors YOU...
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: [Here is a brilliant find by a reader which proves a lot of what I've been saying for years to be true. So thank you very much Old Female - I am deeply appreciative of this. She posted this as a comme (By Jan)...USA: [Pic] Gold ATM: Why settle for cash? Withdraw gold.
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: [Now that's the way to go!!! Gold, gold gold... is the FUTURE! Jan] (By Jan)...Ghana: Oil and The Economy Took Centre Stage
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Ebo QuansahAccra - Someone said the other day that Social Democracy is a political concept that allows discredited communists the opportunity to act as if they have abandoned the principle of commu (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Vice-President Runs Into Trouble
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaHarare - VICE-PRESIDENT Joice Mujuru will have nightmarish holidays after sinking deeper into political trouble this week following a foiled campaign at the recent Zanu PF conference (By News Poster)...Kenya: Security Agencies On High Alert As Terror Threats Get More Real
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: Nairobi - To ordinary Kenyans, perhaps the biggest security fear is the occasional street mugger with a knife, thieves who attack under the cover of the night with guns or crude weapons or the ruthles (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: A Forced Election Will Worsen Zimbabwe Crisis
Monday 20-Dec-2010: The dye is cast; we are heading for harmonised elections next year. The elections, however seem to be desired by only one man.It is common cause that many, if not all, the seating Zanu PF parliamentar (By News Poster)...Africa: U.S. Diplomats Reported on Weak Uranium Security
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: By Julio GodoyParis - Wikileaks cables have revealed a disturbing development in the African uranium mining industry: abysmal safety and security standards in the mines, nuclear research centres, and (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Inflation and Exchange Rate Coming Under Control
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Maputo - Strong intervention by the Bank of Mozambique has helped bring both inflation and the exchange rate under control, claimed the governor of the bank, Ernesto Gove, on Friday.Giving his end of (By News Poster)...Analysts: South Africa shouldn't be part of elite BRIC group - The West's monster called BRIC - The ANC trying to be important
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: [They want to change the term from BRIC to BRICS because of South Africa! I notice below another one of those twisted ANC interpretations. The Foreign Minister says that these members account for 61% (By Jan)...Uganda: AU Didn't Approve Salim Saleh's Militia in Puntland
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Julius BarigabaNairobi - It has now emerged that the activities of Saracen International - - the private security company currently training militia in the semi-autonomous Puntland state of Somalia (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Arms Proliferation and National Security
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Peter Onochie-IgbiduSocietal wrongs are sometimes the resultant effects of administrative tragedy, viz-a-viz porous security, policy lapses and faulty implementation, uncaring attitude towards soci (By News Poster)...Ghana: Food Security in Ghana Still Not Enough
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Helena SelbyThe main purpose for the daily struggle of people in the economy is to get their daily bread.It is obvious that man cannot live without food, as it is great source strength and energy. (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Banks Shift Away From Traditional Banking
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Paul NyakazeyaZIMBABWEAN banks have shifted away from traditional banking in a bid to stay afloat in an economy characterised by low deposits and tight liquidity.With the adoption of multi-currenci (By News Poster)...Côte d'Ivoire: UN Warns Against Attacking Peacekeepers, Concerned Over Abductions
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon emphasized his warning against attacks on the United Nations peacekeeping force in Côte d'Ivoire or attempts to obstruct their work, saying there will consequences (By News Poster)...Attention: AfricanCrisis3 & AmericanCrisis - Your input please... Thanks, finally we are getting there...
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: [This is getting interesting and valuable gems of info are coming out now which I am grateful for. Here are the latest discussions with some of you who kindly gave a lot of input. I thought this n (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Gold Output to Take 1150 Percent Leap
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Shame MakoshoriZIMBABWE's gold output will put up a 1150 percent growth in the next five years if the sector attracts at least US$3,5 billion in fresh capital injections req-uired to finance capita (By News Poster)...Somalia: Refugees Fear Increased Police Harassment
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: Nairobi - Somali nationals living in the Kenyan capital say they fear increased harassment by the police after a deadly grenade explosion at a bus station on 20 December."Whenever incidents occur, suc (By News Poster)...Nigeria: AMCON, DMO Promise Busy January for Bond Market
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Kingsley IghomwenghianThe nation's domestic and indeed the international capital market promises to be very busy in the month of January, as the Federal Government and various government agencies f (By News Poster)...Uganda: Lighting Villages With Wind Power
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Frederick WomakuyuHE may be little known in towns, including Kampala, where he is based.But, Samuel Agwotu is a hero in the rural areas of western Uganda and parts of Kampala, where his wind power (By News Poster)...Kenya: Nation Linked to Illegal Exports of Uranium to Iran
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Peter LeftieNairobi - The United States suspects that Kenya and Tanzania have been used to smuggle uranium for Iran's controversial nuclear project.Leaked embassy cables identify the Democratic Rep (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Nationals in SA Plea for Extension of Documentation Deadline
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Alex BellZimbabweans in South Africa are pleading for the deadline to regularise their stay in the country to be extended, as thousands of people look set to miss the cut off date next week.But the (By News Poster)...Kenya: Former Soldiers Say Ignored Over Failed Coup
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Dave OpiyoNairobi - A group of former Kenya Air Force soldiers have decried the lack of recognition for their efforts to suppress the 1982 coup attempt.Instead, the former airmen said a number of t (By News Poster)...Suid Africa: Drie gevang ná skofbaas-moord (3 caught after murder on shiftboss)
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: 2010-12-21 00:58 " 3 Blacks has been arrested less than a week after the murder of a white shiftboss, Willie Diesel (49), at the Masimong mine in Verginia. They killed him with a knive while he dr (By Grazy)...Uganda: Danger in High Umeme Tariffs
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Dicta AssimweGodfrey Kamya owns several rental homes in several upscale Kampala suburbs. He prefers to rent them out to expatriates who pay him well.Recently, however, an unexpected problem has eme (By News Poster)...South Africa: Dewani Killing - Hiring a Hitman
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Sandiso PhalisoAlthough getting a hitman in Cape Town is easy to organise, it appears to take a little more groundwork than simply speaking to the taxi driver you meet at the airport, as was put fo (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Group Bemoans OPEC's Hunger for Higher Oil Prices
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Adeola Yusuf With Agency ReportsLagos - The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is courting risks for world economic recovery by allegedly not doing enough to maintain a better bal (By News Poster)...Côte d'Ivoire: More than 170 Killed During Political Stalemate, Says UN
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Kyung-wha KangGeneva - United Nations human rights officers have substantiated allegations of 173 killings, 90 instances of torture and ill-treatment, 471 arrests and detentions and 24 cases of e (By News Poster)...Uganda: Museveni Speaks Out On Bomb Attack
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Cyprian MusokePRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has condemned the terror attacks on a Kampala-bound bus that left three people dead and 23 injured in central Nairobi on Monday evening.Addressing a press co (By News Poster)...Kenya: Two Dead, 41 Injured in Nairobi Bus Blast
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Two people were killed and 41 injured in an explosion next to a Kampala-bound bus in downtown Nairobi on Monday night.The blast occurred at 7.40pm as passengers were boarding a Kampala Coach bus in th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Oil Production Drops, as Chevron Shuts Facility
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Lagos - Chevron on Monday shut down its Dibi-Abiteye pipeline after it and two others were bombed by the Niger Delta Liberation Force (NDLF) headed by John Togo, the man who has been causing havoc in (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Rebel Group Wreaks Havoc in Northeast Kenya
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Moyale - The presence of an Ethiopian rebel group in northern Kenya, coupled with operations by security forces from both countries, has caused numerous casualties and displacement among local residen (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Confidence Among Banks Critical
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Kudakwashe TapfumaZIMBABWE'S interbank lending market was made dysfunctional upon the introduction of the multicurrency system on the back of a deterioration in confidence in the banking sector. In (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Bomb Blasts - Court Denies Charles Okah, Three Others Bail
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Ikechukwu NnochiriA Federal High Court in Abuja, Tuesday, refused to release Charles Okah, the younger brother to the embattled ex-leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, ME (By News Poster)...South Africa: Afrikaans_
Friday 24-Dec-2010: A more full description of what happened when the white farmer killed the two workers, unfortunately in Afrikaans. The old grandma are possibly brain dead in hospital. The blacks bludgeoned her to dea (By Grazy)...Sudan: Army Clash With Forces Loyal to General Athor, 12 Killed
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Ngor Arol GarangAbyei - At least 12 people have been confirmed dead in what appears to be a surprised and renewed military confrontation between forces belonging to Sudan People's Liberation Army ( (By News Poster)...S Korea starts live-fire drill
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy This situation can become interesting. 2010-12-20 08:19 Yeonpyeong Island - South Korea launched a live-fire military exercise on a border island on Monday, despite North Kore (By Grazy)...Zimbabwe: Banks Fight for Ecobank Boss' Signature
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Shame MakoshoriMOST chief executive officers (CEOs) in Zimbabwe's ailing banking system burnt midnight candles preparing dossiers to attract Ecobank group CEO, Arnold Ekpe, who has settled for the (By News Poster)...Sudan: Bashir Endorses Lashing of Youtube Woman
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Khartoum - The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir was unapologetic over a YouTube video showing a woman being flogged by police that sparked outrage both domestically and abroad."These days some (By News Poster)...Africa: Ivory Coast - the Crises of the State And the Democracy in Africa
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Charles OnunaijuAbuja - The hope that the long delayed election in cote Ivoire, which was actually due in 2005 when president Laurent Gbagbo's five year tenure expired, has thrown the world number (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: ZANU PF Avoid Succession Issue - Again!
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Dumisani MuleyaZANU PF's annual conference, the party's ritual yearly talk-shop, got underway yesterday in Mutare with officials talking 19 to the dozen about all sorts of things under the sun, whi (By News Poster)...Sudan: Iranian Weapons Pass Through Country to Hamas - Leaked Report
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Khartoum - The United States has attempted to stop Sudan being used as a transit for Iranian arms en route to the Islamist Palestinian Hamas movement via Egypt, according to leaked documents from US e (By News Poster)...Uganda: Understanding Terrorism
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Kajabago-Ka-RusokeTERROR is a mutually uncomfortable economic and spiritual state of social being caused by social interest groups which are opposed to one another and have resorted to mutual physi (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Fuel Prices Go Up Eight Percent
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Tendai Mugabe And Tsungirirai DhambuzaFUEL prices are rising in Zimbabwe as world crude oil prices start moving up-wards again after the sudden drop du-ring the late 2008 recession.Diesel and petro (By News Poster)...Attention: AfricanCrisis3 & AmericanCrisis - Your input please... Some of you are very negative needlessly...
Monday 20-Dec-2010: [I put out a recent request for input from Readers. I am getting that input. Some are very negative and come across all angrily at me. But I am asking because I am LISTENING and I am going to mull thi (By Jan)...Kenya: High Noon for Political Elite?
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Paul GoldsmithNairobi - During the 1980s, academics studying African governance analysed the problem in terms of a basic state-society disconnect. They came up with some pretty abstract metaphors t (By News Poster)...Côte d'Ivoire: Human Suffering Escalates
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Alexis AdeleAbidjan - For three days 25-year-old, Ousmane Traoré attended the private clinic in the populous district of Abobo, north of Abidjan. Suffering from gunshot wounds to the head an (By News Poster)...South Africa: Afrikaans with abit of translation: Bloedspoor van dooie lammers ná veediefstal
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: Blood trail of dead lambs after sheep theft. Sheep are called "take aways" by Freestate farmers. They do not easely farm with them anymore, because sheep are so easy to steal. It is normal that tuc (By Grazy)...Nigeria: Arms Shipment - Court Grants Iranian Suspect Bail
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Ikechukwu NnochiriAbuja - An Iranian, Azim Aghajani, who allegedly conspired with three Nigerians, Ali Usman Abbas Jega, Aliyu Oroji Wamako and Muhammad Tukur Umar, to import 13 containers laden wi (By News Poster)...Congo-Kinshasa: When Will the Suffering End?
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Matthew SteinRape. Violence. Displacement. Minerals. Pillaging. These are all words that have become synonymous with the relentless conflict in the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo ( (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Jos - Three Killed in Fresh Attack, 19 Arrested
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Seriki AdinoyiJos - Three persons were again yesterday killed and two others are currently receiving treatments at the Air Force Military Hospital, Jos, as a result injuries sustained in a fresh at (By News Poster)...Mozambique: 'We Refuse to Echo Rumours and Lies' - Ruling Party
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Maputo - The head of the parliamentary group of Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party, Margarida Talapa, on Wednesday night declared that the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic "will not b (By News Poster)...Namibia: Economy Grows, Inflation Slows, Imports Flow
Monday 20-Dec-2010: INFLATION saw a considerable drop during the third quarter of 2010, according to the latest quarterly report of the Bank of Namibia (BoN).And despite continued jitteriness over the state of the global (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: SA Government Fights to Keep Zim Election Report Secret
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Alex BellThe contents of a report on Zimbabwe's 2002 elections, that have been kept hidden by the South African Presidency, will remain a closely guarded secret despite two court orders to make the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Corruption - Judiciary on the Spotlight
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Davidson IriekpenRecently, eminent jurists in the country lamented the rising wave of alleged corrupt practices in the judicial arm of government. Many, including retired Justice of the Supreme Cou (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Insists On Harmonized Elections
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Lance GumaRobert Mugabe has insisted Zimbabwe will hold harmonized presidential and parliamentary elections next year, despite growing calls which say only a presidential poll is required, after th (By News Poster)...Nigeria: FG Warns Oil Majors Against Expatriate Quota Abuse
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Adeola Yusuf and Abel OrukpeLagos - Abuja at the weekend rose against the influx of expatriates in the oil industry, declaring that operators must adhere to the maximum five per cent expatriate quo (By News Poster)...Sudan: New Battle Reported From North Darfur
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Khartoum - Sudanese army and fighters from the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) released conflicting statements about a second battle took place in North Darfur area of Shangili Tobayi today. (By News Poster)...Kenya: Role of Professionals in Implementing Land Reforms
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Mwenda MakathimoNairobi - On Wednesday this week, I participated in a breakfast meeting convened by the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya to discuss the role of professionals in implementation of l (By News Poster)...Nation a Haven for Drug Barons - Wikileaks (news)
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Patrick MayoyoNairobi - Kenya is among African countries which have been turned into playgrounds for international drug traffickers.Cables released by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks show that th (By News Poster)...Côte d'Ivoire: UN in Test of Wills Over Cote d'Ivoire Crisis
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Thalif DeenUnited Nations - The United Nations is taking an unrelenting stand on the spreading constitutional crisis in Cote d'Ivoire, where two contenders - one victorious and the other vanquished (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Bishoftu Farmers Demonstrate for Higher Rent
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Aderajew AsfawClose to 300 farmers in Bishoftu (Debre Zeit) area are in negotiations with flower farms to which they have leased their land for five years after they held a demonstration on Decembe (By News Poster)...Africa: Africa's Three Futures - Which Beckons for the Nation?
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Eloho OtoboSEVERAL recent reports, especially by some prominent foreign consultancy firms, have called attention to the good economic news about Africa. In particular, those reports underline that (By News Poster)...South Africa: Skape moes lepel-lê in dronke se oorvol lykswa :15 stolen sheep in hearse with drunk driver and 5 pasengers
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: 15 stolen sheep in hearse with drunk driver, 32 times over the blood alcohol limmit, and 5 passengers. The sheep had to "lepel-lê" (lie wedged up like newly weds in a cold night) to fit in. 2010-1 (By Grazy)...Zimbabwe: Zanu PF Financial Woes Worsen Ahead of Polls
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Leonard MakombeHarare - ZANU PF is in a financial mess after incurring a US$3,4 million deficit this year, posing a threat to the party's restructuring and elections campaign scheduled for next yea (By News Poster)...[2 Graphs] USA: Stock Markets: 3 Dangerous Investment Traps for 2011 - Is the market really going up?
Thursday 23-Dec-2010: [One thing I am watching with my Technical Indicator is the sluggish movement of Gold currently. Despite the massive gains of gold in recent months, Gold is really performing slowly at the moment and (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Admits Losing Election
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Kelvin JakachiraPRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has for the first time publicly admitted that he lost the disputed March 2008 election.The octogenarian told delegates attending the 11th people's conference (By News Poster)...Sudan: Darfur Rebels Claim 'Major Victory' Against Army
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Khartoum - A newly announced Darfur rebel alliance led by the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) inflicted heavy losses on government troops after fierce fighting in Shangili Tobayi, North Darfur sta (By News Poster)...Uganda: Terrorists Strike Kampala-Bound Bus
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Tabu Butagira and Betty KyakuwaThe terminal of Kampala Coaches in Nairobi was last night a bloodied scene of tears and ambulance sirens after an explosive ripped through passengers, killing one and (By News Poster)...Uganda: Buliisa Eviction - Justice Or Injustice?
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Richard Wanambwa and Francis MugerwaIt's early Sunday morning on December 12 in Buliisa District. A surprise operation by the Police and UPDF dabbed 'Justice', and commanded by the Coordinator of I (By News Poster)...South Africa: Zimbabweans Stampede for Passports
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Jennifer DubeA woman who has been part of the crowd for almost two hours and constantly complaining about hunger suddenly jumps to her feet on hearing her husband's name being called out.With renew (By News Poster)...Kenya: Central Bank Basks in Glow of Upswing in Financial Sector
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Muna WahomeNairobi - Central Bank of Kenya says implementation of a comprehensive financial inclusion plan is key to actualising government development programmes through cranking up the national s (By News Poster)...South Africa : Chapter 56 : The White Man's Burden-
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: Posted by grazy I believe that this link was previously posted, but for our readers from outside SA, I think it is a very interesting article, or in general a very interesting site. (By Grazy)...Namibia: Rare Earths Could Boost Mining Sector
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichTHE global demand for rare mineral elements required for new technologies like hybrid vehicles, wind turbines and electronic devices like Apple's iPhone and flat-screen television (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Banks Never Inflated Balances - - Gono
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Bernard MpofuRESERVE Bank governor Gideon Gono has defended banks after Finance minister Tendai Biti accused the financial institutions of inflating redundant Zimbabwe dollar balances ahead of gove (By News Poster)...Somalia: Somalis Accused of Killing Arrested in South Africa
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Sh. M. NetworkJohannesburg - South African police detained at least 3 Somali refugees after two South African gangs killed in Johannesburg, witnesses said Saturday.Mohammed Nur, Somali refugee in v (By News Poster)...Nigeria: How Well Are Orphans And Vulnerable Children Provided For?
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Winifred OgbeboAbuja - In broken English, Madam Victoria Nweke tells her story. "It was when my daughter-in-law died at St Gerards Hospital, Kaduna that we discovered that she had HIV/AIDS. She nev (By News Poster)...Kenya: Poor Locals Bear the Brunt of Laws Regulating Fuel Prices
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Kennedy SenelwaNairobi - Low income earners are bearing the brunt of price regulation in the oil sector. The cost of kerosene and diesel went up but petrol declined, while margins for independent f (By News Poster)...Côte d'Ivoire: Angola Denies Military Backing for Gbagbo; Attacks World Community
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: Luanda - The Angolan Government strongly condemns the defamatory campaign in circulation, according to which purported Angolan mercenaries or soldiers have been spotted in Côte d'Ivoire.The cond (By News Poster)...Uganda: Sitting On Gold With Bare Butt
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Frederick Womakuyu and Moses NampalaTHE World Bank regards this village of Uganda as the biggest gold mine in east and central Africa. But there is nothing to show Tiira parish holds 52 square mile (By News Poster)...Ghana: Chinese Immigrants Arrested, Attempt to Bribe GIS Officials
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Stephen Odoi-LarbiForty expatriates have been arrested by the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) for engaging in illegal mining activities in some communities in the Central Region of the country. How (By News Poster)...Ghana: Mafia Raid On Crude Oil - Eight Suspects in Police Custody
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By David Allan PaintsilEven before Ghana officially commences the production of oil in commercial quantities, the mafia groups in the industry have already sounded the warning bells, when eight person (By News Poster)...South Africa: New ARV Tender Halves Drug Prices
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Johannesburg - South Africa's newly announced tender for antiretrovirals (ARVs) has halved the price the government will pay for the life-saving drugs; however, fixed dose combinations, which would de (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Ghost Police Officers
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: The recent shocking discovery that the Nigeria Police Force currently has, in its payroll, about 107, 000 ghost workers shows the depth of corruption in the force which must be tackled frontally so th (By News Poster)...South Africa: New ARV Tender Halves Drug Prices
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Johannesburg - South Africa's newly announced tender for antiretrovirals (ARVs) has halved the price the government will pay for the life-saving drugs; however, fixed dose combinations, which would de (By News Poster)...China calls for restraint in Koreas
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy Beijing - China on Monday called for "maximum restraint" on the Korean peninsula, saying no one had a right to "preach or promote conflict" after South Korea staged a live-fire dril (By Grazy)...Namibia: Banks Launch Fraud Campaign
Monday 20-Dec-2010: The Bankers Association of Namibia (BAN), Bank of Namibia (BON) and Payment Association of Namibia (PAN), in conjunction with the four commercial banks in the country, recently launched a Bank Card Fr (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Tightening the Noose Against Corruption
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Chuka OdittahTo further strengthen its anti-corruption crusade across the country, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) recently held a one-day workshop fo (By News Poster)...Kenya: Minister Resigns Under Cloud of Drugs Charges
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Bob OdaloNairobi - Trade assistant minister John Harun Mwau, who resigned on Friday from Kenya's coalition government is "deeply affected" by the drug trafficking claims made in Parliament, an aide (By News Poster)...Uganda: Threat of Terrorism is Real, Stay Alert
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: ON Monday evening, a bomb exploded on a Kampala-bound bus in central Nairobi, killing at least one person and injuring scores of others. The attack was carried out at the terminal of Kampala Coach Bus (By News Poster)...Ghana: Oil Flows Today - Atta Mills Inaugurates Black Gold With Kufuor and Rawlings
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Ebo QuansahAfter over a century of frantic search for oil, the flow of the black gold in commercial quantity from the bosom of the earth will begin today, off the shores of Cape Three Points in the (By News Poster)...Nigeria: JTF Impounds 13,800 Litres of Illegally Refined Petroleum Products
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Samuel Oyadongha, YenagoaThe Joint Task Force has recorded a major success in its fight against crude oil theft with the inception of two vessels loaded with 138,800 litres of illegally refined pet (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Abdulmutallab - One Year After a Botched Mission
Monday 20-Dec-2010: A year ago, Nigerians woke up to hear a strange news that a Nigerian citizen had, on Christmas day, attempted to blow up an American airline. At first, the news sounded too strange to be true because (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Plumber Cuts Off Prostitute's Neck After Sex Romp
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: THREE persons who were fingered in the last month killing of a commercial sex worker (names with held)in a hotel room in Ikotun area of Lagos have been arrested by detectives from the Homicide Unit of (By News Poster)...Namibia: Dual Citizenship Case Heads to High Court
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Werner MengesTHE threat of deportation that had been faced by a born Namibian and her two daughters has been lifted after an urgent application to prevent their removal from Namibia was filed with (By News Poster)...Jonathan Moyo Back in Politburo As Mugabe Warns Electorate
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Tererai KarimakwendaIt has taken years, but the politician famous for 'flip flopping' bounced back into ZANU PF's politburo at their national conference in Mutare. Currently the MP for Tsholotsho, (By News Poster)...Liberia Struggles to Cope with Fleeing Ivorians
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Tamasin FordNimba County - Albertine Yahwah sits on a hard wooden bench, cradling her little baby in her arms. The 20 year-old walked from the Ivory Coast with her two children and her husband to r (By News Poster)...Côte d'Ivoire: UN Chief Stresses His Warning Against Attacking Peacekeepers
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has emphasized his warning against attacks on the United Nations peacekeeping force in Côte d'Ivoire or attempts to obstruct their work, saying there will consequen (By News Poster)...Kenya: Policeman Puzzled by the Mysterious Murder of His Son
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Bob OdaloNairobi - Justus Musyoka Muathe, a police officer, has tackled many complex investigations as he climbed through the ranks in the last two decades.But the mysterious murder of his only son (By News Poster)...UN Substantiates Reports of Killings, Torture, Arrests And Disappearances (news)
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Human rights officers in Côte d'Ivoire have substantiated allegations of more than 170 killings, hundreds of arrests and dozens of cases of torture, ill treatment and enforced disappearance of p (By News Poster)...Call to Improve Country Risk Ranking
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Tawanda MusarurwaZIMBABWEAN authorities should consider taking up critical measures to diminish the country risk rating, which has precluded the flow of new capital for investment.The country's lat (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Renamo Once More Raises Wikileaks Cables
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Maputo - For the third time in the space of a week, Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, on Tuesday tried to drag the cables from the US embassy in Maputo, published b (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Rhino Killings Surge
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Zephania UbwaniArusha - Tanzania faces the danger of being engulfed in illegal hunting activities, which currently threaten the survival of rare wildlife species that are the main magnet of its mul (By News Poster)...Burundi: Addendum To Alleged Nuclear Smuggling In Burundi
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: A diplomatic cable dated 2007-07-17, according to WikiLeaks:S E C R E T BUJUMBURA 000515SIPDISSIPDISDEPT FOR: DS/IP/AF, DS/IP/ITAEO 12958 DECL: 07/17/2017TAGS KCRM, KNNP, MNUC, PARM, PREL, PTER, ASEC, (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Gas-Fired Power Station for Ressano Garcia
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Maputo - Mozambican Energy Minister Salvador Namburete on Thursday signed a concession contract with the company Gigawatt-Mozambique, granting it the right to build a gas-fired 100 megawatt power stat (By News Poster)...South Africa: Senior Official Arrested for Passport Scam
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Nthambeleni GabaraPretoria - A senior administration clerk at the Akasia Home Affairs offices was arrested on Thursday after she was allegedly linked to a scam in which foreigners got legal South A (By News Poster)...African Regional Trade Blocks Set on Integration Talks
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Kudzukudzai ChimhangwaTHREE African regional blocks are set to convene in the early weeks of January 2011 to deliberate on trade related issues as well as increased integration and co-operation.Sou (By News Poster)...Ghana: Farmers Awarded for Hard Work in Volta as Celebration is Marked With Rich Cultural Display
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: The Volta Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture has honoured twenty-six farmers for their hard work and dedication to duty, to mark the just-ended National Farmers Day celebrati (By News Poster)...Namibia: Izak Dreyer Murder Suspects Still at Large
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Denver KistingBY yesterday, the suspects sought in connection with the death of an elderly Uhlenhorst farmer, Izak Dreyer (85), were still at large.According to Hardap Police Commissioner Kobus Mey (By News Poster)...South Africa: Robbers killed in Kranskop shootout
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy. 2010-12-22 16:04 Johannesburg - Four robbers were shot dead in a gun battle with the police in Kranskop on Wednesday, KwaZulu-Natal police said. Colonel Jay Naicker said the (By Grazy)...South Africa: Cosatu Vows to Continue Fight Against Labour Brokers
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Pretoria - The fight against labour brokers and the quest for transformation of the economy will continue in 2011, the trade union federation Cosatu said on Tuesday."Cosatu is ready to mobilize all ge (By News Poster)...South Africa: Man up for burning couple to death
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy 2010-12-21 07:54 Johannesburg - A 26-year-old Zimbabwean national appeared before the Thabazimbi Magistrate's Court on Monday for allegedly stabbing and then burning a Cumberland (By Grazy)...Rwanda: French Judges Lift Arrest Warrants Against Rwandan Military Officials
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Shyaka KanumaNairobi - International arrest warrants against nine Rwandan military and government officials that a French judge issued in 2006 have been dropped.This follows revelations by the whis (By News Poster)...Kenya: Six MPs Named in Drug Baron Scandal
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Caroline WafulaNairobi - Six Members of Parliament and a Mombasa tycoon were on Wednesday named in the House in connection with the drugs trade.Internal Security Minister George Saitoti informed th (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Wikileaks, Banks And American Ignorance
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Paul FauvetMaputo - Among the supposed "revelations" in the US diplomatic cables, signed by the former US charge d'affaires in Maputo, Todd Chapman, and publishing by the whistle-blowing site Wikil (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Rivers - Conflict Death Toll Rises to 18
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Dennis NakuPort Harcout - Death toll in the communal crisis between Kegbara-Dere and neighbouring Baranyowa-Dere in Gokana local government area of Rivers State rose from 15 to 18 yesterday, as fig (By News Poster)...South Africa: Nation Invited to Join Major Emerging Economy Group
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Johannesburg - South Africa has received a formal invitation to join the Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) group of large emerging economies, Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said on Fri (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Premonition of Eventual
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Trevor MaisiriAS Africa focuses on Cote d'Ivoire, the permutations are beginning to temper with what would otherwise be the normality.With an election that has produced two presidential candidates (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Renamo Boycotts State of Nation Address
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Maputo - For the third consecutive year, Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, on Monday boycotted the State of the Nation address delivered by President Armando Guebuz (By News Poster)...South Africa: Govt Tackles Land Reform Challenges
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Kemantha GovenderDurban - Government has set out to find new ways to deal with some of the difficulties it faces in its land reform programme. It has taken a grassroots level approach, which it hop (By News Poster)...Guinea: Tyranny to Democracy
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Democracy is sweeping Africa; there is no question about that. Governments instituted by the people for the people are slowly replacing tyranny in the name of independence. The Africa of Idi Amin, Jul (By News Poster)...South Africa: 2 killed after assaulting granny
Thursday 23-Dec-2010: Grazy: I GOT THE ARTICLE THAT I WAS ASKING FOR YESTERDAY THANKS!!!! 2010-12-23 13:00 Johannesburg - Two farm workers were shot dead when their employer found them assaulting his 79-year-old gran (By Grazy)...Africa: West Africa Reiterates Commitment to War Against Cyber Crime
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Adejuwon OsunnuyiLagos - The need to fiercely fight against cyber crime and foster legitimate economic opportunity in West African has been described as a must for the public and private sectors.Sp (By News Poster)...Kenya: Coffee Thefts Leave Farmers High And Dry
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Nairobi - Local farmers lost coffee worth Sh70 million due to thefts as the price of the cash crop continued doing well internationally.Coffee Board of Kenya (CBK) says for the last 15 months growers (By News Poster)...Uganda: Nairobi Bus Bomber Was Tanzanian
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: By Reuben Olita, Steven Candia and Milton OlupotKENYAN Police have confirmed that the man who died in Monday night's grenade attack at a Nairobi bus terminal was a Tanzanian who was headed to Uganda o (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Global Witness - UK Aiding Corruption in Nation
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Paul ObiAbuja - The British authorities are not doing enough to stop the flow of corrupt money into the United Kingdom (UK) from Nigeria, says Global Witness, an anti-corruption non-governmental or (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: SA Visa Requirements Normal
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: The decision by the South Africans to reintroduce visas for Zimbabweans wanting to stay more than 90 days working and studying in that country makes sense.It is apparent from the reasons given by the (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Harare Mulls Power Station Takeover
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Wonai Masvingise And Kudzai BareCOUNCIL is mulling taking over the Harare Thermal Power Station from ZESA Holdings, latest Harare City Council (HCC) minutes indicate. Of late, council has been taki (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: High Bank Charges a Death Knell for Sector
Monday 20-Dec-2010: WHILE innovative moves in business should be commended, the same cannot be said about Zimbabwean banks, particularly their bank charges no matter how plausible their reasons seem to be. Worse still, t (By News Poster)...South Africa: More Funds for Country to Fight Aids
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Pretoria - South Africa has received a major boost from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria.Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi announced on Sunday that the Global Fund to fight Aids, TB and (By News Poster)...South Africa: Press Club calls for probe into journo spying
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy Freedom of speech/press is a dangerous thing in a wannabe communist invironment. 2010-12-20 12:00 Johannesburg - The National Press Club on Monday called for an urgent investi (By Grazy)...Nigeria: Jos - FG Petitioned Over Military Activities
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Seriki AdinoyiJos - Federal Government has been petitioned by the youth and women of Vwang District of Plateau State over the dissatisfactory activities of the Military Special Task Force (STF) kee (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Major Increase in Corruption Cases Brought to Trial
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Maputo - Over the past year, there has been a significant increase in the number of corruption cases brought to trial, according to Mozambique's Attorney-General, Augusto Paulino.Addressing the openin (By News Poster)...South Africa: Is the RSA government spying on media?
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Press club calls for probe into spying allegations JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Dec 20 2010 10:53 The National Press Club on Monday called for an urgent investigation into a claim that a Sunday Inde (By Bommer)...Uganda: Where Are Citizens in Lucrative Oil Deals?
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Chris OboreEver since oil deposits were discovered in Uganda a mixed buzz of excitement and anxiety has captivated the country. The expected petrodollars have brought new hope for millions of local (By News Poster)...Uganda: Sebutinde Delaying Taylor Trial, Says U.S. Diplomat
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Tabu ButagiraKampala - A senior Ugandan judge has been accused by an American diplomat of delaying the ongoing trial of former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, in the Netherlands, and questioned (By News Poster)...Namibia: Minibus-Bakkie Clash Burns Seven to Ashes, Driver to be Charged
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Denver KistingAS soon as the bus driver who allegedly crashed into a Nissan bakkie on Sunday, killing seven people, is discharged from hospital, he should be arrested and charged.Furthermore, minib (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Let Our Resources Benefit Us
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Tichaona ZindogaGovernment recently announced it would own 100 percent of all alluvial diamond mining activities in the country under the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act.As required und (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Aids War - How Close to Victory Are We?
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Earlier this month, the people around the globe celebrated the World Aids Day. This year, the event was underlined by the message on universal access to Aids care and treatment as well as human rights (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Annan Offered Mugabe Package to Step Down - WikiLeaks Cable
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Nairobi - Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan offered Mr Robert Mugabe a lucrative retirement package in an overseas haven if he stood down as Zimbabwe's president, leaked diplomatic cables reveal. (By News Poster)...Burundi: Alleged Nuclear Smuggling Incident In Bujumbura, Burundi
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: A diplomatic cable dated 2007-06-27, according to WikiLeaks:S E C R E T BUJUMBURA 000479SIPDISSIPDISDEPT FOR: DS/IP/AF, DS/IP/ITAEO 12958 DECL: 06/27/2017TAGS KCRM, KNNP, MNUC, PARM, PREL, PTER, ASEC, (By News Poster)...Uganda Ready to Send 4,000 More Troops (news)
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Milton OlupotUGANDA is ready to send 4,000 more soldiers to Somalia. This follows a decision by the UN Security Council on Wednesday to increase the number of peacekeepers supporting the transition (By News Poster)...Sudan: Bashir's Position On Islamic State Threats Peace Talks - Darfur Rebels
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: London - Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) slammed statements by Sudanese President over the instauration of an Islamic state in northern Sudan saying it might hinder peaceful settlemen (By News Poster)...Investment - 'The Country's Perception Needs Addressing'
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Paul NyakazeyaON Monday government launched the One-Stop Investment Shop (Osis), housed under the Zimbabwe Investment Authority (Zia), which brings together key regulatory authorities under one roo (By News Poster)...Africa: Rosa Whitaker Selected Among Foreign Policy Magazine's "Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2010"
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: Foreign Policy (FP) Magazine has selected Rosa Whitaker, President and CEO of The Whitaker Group (TWG) (By News Poster)...Gambia: Two Directors Testify Before Lands Commission
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Lamin SanyangThe Director of Lands and Survey Mr. Malamin Jatta and the Acting Director of Physical Planning Mr. Momodou FK Colley all testified before the Lands Commission at the High Court in Ban (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Power Cuts to Continue Through Xmas, New Year
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Samuel KamndayaIt is now official. Tanzanians will celebrate Christmas and New Year in darkness. The country is in yet another scheduled power rationing, denting hopes that the nationwide energy al (By News Poster)...Somalia: UN Calls for 4,000 More African Union Peacekeepers
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: The Security Council today called for a 50 per cent increase to 12,000 troops in the United Nations-backed African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in Somalia, which has been trying to bring stability to (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Tobacco Bills Fail to Excite Market
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaTHE uptake of tobacco bills issued by two major banks at the end of October to raise US$10 million to finance tobacco production has been low, The Financial Gazette can report.Projec (By News Poster)...Kenya: Land Disputes Stand in the Way of Plan to Resettle IDPs Before January
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By George SayagieNairobi - Plans to resettle all post-election violence victims still living in transitional camps by the end of December are now in doubt.According to the director of Physical Plannin (By News Poster)...Gambia: Permanent Secretary Continues Testimony at Lands Commission
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Lamin SanyangOn Wednesday 15th December 2010, Mr. Abdoulie Manneh, the Permanent Secretary responsible for Lands and Survey at the Ministry for Local Government and Lands, continued his testimony b (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Banks Bid to Tap Informal Sector Funds
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Kudzai ChimhangwaA walk around the streets of Harare will reveal a hive of activity as people hurriedly move from one street corner to another oblivious of the unfriendly weather or lurking municip (By News Poster)...Africa: Worry for Aids Patients Ahead of EU-India Deal
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Adam IhuchaArusha - The free trade agreement (FTA) being negotiated between India and European Union threatens the production of generic medicines, a consequences of which would be, among others th (By News Poster)...Schoolgirl Murder Suspect Wants Bail
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Werner MengesTHE only suspect to have been arrested and charged in connection with the murder and alleged rape of schoolgirl Magdalena Stoffels in Windhoek near the end of July will be applying to (By News Poster)...Uganda: Power Supply Improved This Year
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Ibrahim KasitaUGANDA has doubled electricity production in a decade, a situation that has tremendously reduced load-shedding, which slowed social and economic progress.East Africa's third largest e (By News Poster)...Uganda: Mwondha Withdraws From Terror Suspects Trial
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Ruth MubiriJustice Faith Mwondha, has obviated from conducting the trial of 14 suspects accused of the July 11 Kampala twin bomb blasts.Mwondha announced her withdrawal from the case after holding (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Street Vendor Arrested for 'Insulting' Mugabe
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Tererai KarimakwendaA family in Esgodini township outside Bulawayo discovered on Wednesday that their father is at Gwanda police station, after he went missing last week. Our correspondent Lionel S (By News Poster)...Background to Conflict (press release)
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: Nigeria’s far north is not the hot bed of Islamic extremists some in the West fear, but it needs reinforced community-level peacebuilding, a more subtle security response, and improved managemen (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Court Denies Charles Okah, Others Bail
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Tobi SoniyiAbuja - A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday refused to admit to bail Charles Tombra Okah, brother of Henry Okah, and three others suspected of planting the twin bombs that rocked Abu (By News Poster)...Côte d'Ivoire: Nigerian Embassy Attacked
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: Abidjan - THE Nigerian embassy in Cote d'Ivoire was, yesterday, attacked by yet to be identified armed groups in Abidjan.This came after West African leaders led by President Goodluck Jonathan asked e (By News Poster)...Kenya: Bomb Blast at Nairobi Bus Station Kills Three
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: At least three people have been killed and 39 injured by a bomb explosion at a bus station in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, police have said.The blast happened as passengers passed through a security chec (By News Poster)...Namibia: Murdered Farmer Suffocated By Gag
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Luqman CloeteAN autopsy report of Uhlenhorst farmer Isak Dreyer (85), whose body was found tied and gagged in his bedroom at his farm Newlands, has revealed that he had died of suffocation.Newlands (By News Poster)...Kenya: Surge in Cooking Oil Prices Hurts Households
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Mugambi MutegiPrices of cooking oil have shot by up to 12 per cent in the past three months, driven by rising costs of raw materials and shipping charges.The cost of common edible oil brands such a (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Bank Workers' Strike Futile - - Mushayavanhu
Monday 20-Dec-2010: BANKERS Association of Zimbabwe (Baz) president John Mushayavanhu has hit back at the sector's workers' union currently planning to embark on industrial action ahead of the festive season as the rift (By News Poster)...Uganda: Bashir Has Shs20 Trillion in London Banks - Cables
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Tabu ButagiraKampala - Indicted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has taken up to $9 billion (Shs20.7 trillion) oil money out of his country and stashed it in London banks, The Guardian has reporte (By News Poster)...Uganda: 1800 More UPDF Soldiers To Be Sent to Somalia
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Barbara AmongA contingent of 1,800 more Ugandan peacekeepers will be deployed in Somalia to bolster the African Union force in the war-torn country.The group is part of the troops that were passed (By News Poster)...USA: Vice Admiral: Obama was outmaneuvered by Russians on START
Thursday 23-Dec-2010: [Why does this not surprise me? Jan] President Barack Obama was outmaneuvered by the Russians and should have abandoned the New START negotiations instead of seeking a political victory, says forme (By Jan)...South Africa: GP Acts Against School Violence
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: Pretoria - The Gauteng Education Department is taking decisive action to change the landscape of school grounds, which have been marred by alarming reports of incidents of sexual abuse and violence.Be (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Local Banks Look for External Support
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Bosco HitimanaKigali - Mega commercial building projects are forcing commercial banks in Rwanda to opt for external lines of credit to satisfy the high demand for credit as part of implementation o (By News Poster)...Ghana: Questions On Oil
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Arthur Kobina KennedyOn December 15th, Ghana joined the ranks of nations that produce oil in commercial quantities. There has been euphoria- a lot of euphoria.Therefore, even while we thank a kind (By News Poster)...Ghana: Youth Advised to Go Into Cash Crop Farming as Best Farmer Calls for Greater Govt Support for Farmers
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Samuel AgbewodeThe best farmer in mango cultivation in the Ketu-North District, Mr. Prince Ahiadzro, who has cultivated 170 acres of mango, has stressed the need for the youth to change the negativ (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Christmas Eve Bombings Kill Dozens
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: At least 38 people have died across Nigeria after a series of Christmas Eve bomb explosions and attacks on churches.Police are trying to defuse the situation amid reports that youths have set up barri (By News Poster)...Tanzania: Stop Terror Network Before It is Too Late
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Monday night's grenade attack in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, is yet another signal that extremist elements operating in Eastern Africa will not go to rest as they plot more terror strikes to enhance the (By News Poster)...South Africa: Land Tenure Bill Goes Out for Public Comment
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Pretoria - Government is pressing ahead with it plans to pass into law the Land Tenure Security Bill, which aims to secure land rights for farm dwellers.The bill, which was recently approved by Cabine (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Basics of Digital Forensics in Computer Reactive Security (2)
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Evidence anything found on a crime scene that has the potential to give a clue to reconstruction is known as evidence. Also know in some quarters as artifact, trace or trail, evidence is anything that (By News Poster)...Ghana: Farmers Charged to Produce Quality Rice To Meet International Standards
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By William N-lanjerborr JalulahTHE MINISTER of Food and Agriculture, Mr. Kwesi Ahwoi, has tasked Ghanaian farmers, especially, rice farmers in the North, to produce quality rice, not only for local co (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zanu PF Should Not Throw Stones
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Constantine ChiimakureTHE Zanu PF annual talk-show goes up a gear today with President Robert Mugabe expected to open debate on the leaked controversial US State Department cables that have present (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 'We Will Sell Diamonds at Will'
Monday 20-Dec-2010: ZIMBABWE will sell its diamonds at will for the benefit of its people and improvement of the national economy, Zanu-PF's First Secretary, President Mugabe has said.In his introductory remarks in the Z (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Sanusi, Lawmakers Feud - in Whose Interest?
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, is making headlines again. The first time, he was, and still is, at war with some bank chief executives whom he sacked and are now bein (By News Poster)...Somalia: Insurgents Call for 'East Africa Jihad'
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: Somali insurgents have called on Al Qaeda terrorist network to 'come to Somalia' and join what the insurgents called 'East Africa jihad', Radio Garowe reports.Al Shabaab insurgent spokesman, Sheikh Al (By News Poster)...West Africa: Regional Leaders to Meet on Cote d'Ivoire Crisis
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Tokunbo AdedojaNew York - Ahead of today's meeting of leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Abuja over Cote d'Ivoire's political crisis, United States President Barac (By News Poster)...South Africa: Driver 32 Times Over Legal Limit
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Nthambeleni GabaraPretoria - Law enforcement officials nabbed a drunk motorist with blood alcohol content 32 times over the legal limit near Queenstown in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday.When the mot (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 20 Killed in Jos Bomb Blasts
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Gonji Palang And Achor AbimajeJos - Four bombs went off in Kabong area of Gada Biyu, Jos, the Plateau state capital yesterday, killing twenty people and leaving seven injured.Although no arrest had (By News Poster)...Nigeria: 'Two Oil Majors, AES Contribute 31 Percent to the Country's Power Supply'
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Kunle AderinokunAbuja - Federal Government yesterday revealed that out of about 3,300 megawatts (mw) of electricity which the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) currently supplies to Nigerians (By News Poster)...One Dead, Two Injured in Crash
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Luqman CloeteA 24-year-old South African citizen died on Thursday after the vehicle in which he was traveling overturned on the B1 road between Keetmanshoop and Karasburg.Police Commissioner Joseph (By News Poster)...Researchers Say Traditional Vegetables can Improve Food Security (news)
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Miriam GathigahAccording to Vision 2030, which is a government strategic plan on how to boost growth and development in Kenya, there are an estimated 5 million out of an estimated 8 million househo (By News Poster)...Uganda: Police Chief Issues Terror Alert
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Steven CandiaTHE Police chief, Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, has issued a terror alert and announced comprehensive measures to forestall possible attacks during the festive season.The warning comes at a (By News Poster)...Ghana: Collapse ECG and Northern Electricity
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By George AmexoTo increase access and ensure effective distribution of electricity across the country, a call has been made to collapse the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and Northern Electricity (By News Poster)...Flea Markets Flourish At Bus Terminuses
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Problem MasauPILES of second-hand clothes, new clothes dangling from hangers, shoes, cosmetics, towels and umbrellas among many other wares welcome residents at a bus terminus in Glen View.The bus (By News Poster)...South Africa: Liquor Licences 'Too Easy' to Get in Mpumalanga
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Mandla KhozaMbombela - The number of liquor licences awarded in Mpumalanga is raising concern among the police and organisations that work with alcohol addiction.The Department of Economic Developm (By News Poster)...Somalia: MV Orna Pirated in the Indian Ocean
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: At midday on 20 December, the MV ORNA was pirated in the Indian Ocean, approximately 400 nautical miles North East of the Seychelles.The attack was launched from 2 attack skiffs, with pirates firing s (By News Poster)...Africa: AU Panel Urges New Approach to Settle Ethiopia-Eritrea Border Dispute
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: By Tesfa-Alem TekleAddis Ababa - The African Union's Panel of the Wise, at its 9th assembly in Algiers, Algeria, has urged a launch for a new and binding peace process to resolve the long-standing bor (By News Poster)...Nigeria: JTF Destroy Nine Militant Camps in Bayelsa
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Samuel Oyadongha, YenagoaThe Joint Task Force, Wednesday, said it had taken over ten ex militant camps in the creek of Bayelsa State just as the whereabouts of the kidnapped site engineer at Okpoam (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: London-Listed Giant Eyes Nation's Coal
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaLondon-listed Kazakh miner, Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC), is scouring the country for coal assets, The Financial Gazette has been informed.Sources said ENRC, which h (By News Poster)...South Africa: Deadline Looms for Zimbabwean Nationals
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Pretoria - With the deadline for Zimbabwean nationals to regularise their stay in South Africa fast approaching, Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has once again stressed that the 31 Decemb (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Union Bank's Shareholders Support Banking Reforms
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Peter EgwuatuShareholders of Union Bank Nigeria Plc have commended the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the ongoing reforms in the banking sector which has started yielding results in the bank.The (By News Poster)...Angola: Diamonds Prices Stabilise
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Luanda - The main success of the Angolan National Diamonds Company (Endiama) in the year 2010 is having managed to make prices of diamonds reach again the same levels as they were before the world fin (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Mugabe Wants Law to Nail Opponents
Monday 20-Dec-2010: In what appeared to be an admission that calls from his party to charge Tsvangirai were just hot air, Mugabe on Friday urged the Zanu PF Conference to look at crafting a law that would criminalise peo (By News Poster)...Uganda: About the Poverty Puzzle
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Keith MuhakaniziIn the last few weeks, poverty trends in Uganda have attracted significant debate in the media and in the ongoing campaigns. Some newspapers have quoted some "experts" as having dis (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: 44 Cases of Drug Resistant TB Detected
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Gwendoline Mugauri and Walter NyamukondiwaAT least 44 cases of lethal multi-drug resistant tuberculosis have been detected countrywide and Government has moved in to treat 90 people.The treatment p (By News Poster)...Kenya: Ringera Denies Githongo Murder Plot Allegations
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Peter LeftieNairobi - Former anti-corruption watchdog boss Aaron Ringera on Saturday denied allegations that he attended a meeting by top government officials to plot the assassination of former Et (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Failed Roads Threaten Christmas Celebrations
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Charles KumoluIt is three days to Christmas and the yearly exodus has began. In the face of this annual practice, one thing that has remained frightening is the state of Nigerian roads .Whereas man (By News Poster)...Ethiopia: Five-Year Plan to Halve New HIV Infections
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Addis Ababa - Ethiopia's government has come up with an ambitious plan to halve new HIV infections, quadruple its annual condom distribution and put 85 percent of people who need life-prolonging HIV m (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Pipeline Attacks, Power Outages Cripple Refineries
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Chika Amanze-NwachukuNigeria's four refineries with combined capacity to refine 445,000 barrels per day of crude oil have been completely shut.The implication is that Nigeria will now be importing (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Food Price Controls to Remain in Effect
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican government has promised to keep in effect, for at least the first quarter of 2011, most of the measures adopted in September to subsidise prices and rein in public expenditure. (By News Poster)...Ghana: Building Capacity to Manage Nation's Oil - World Bank Assists with U.S.$38 million Government Agencies, Local Authorities, Educational Institutions and Civil Society to Benefit
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: The World Bank Board today approved a credit of US$38 million to the Government of Ghana for implementation of an Oil and Gas Capacity Building Project.The Project, which has become necessary followi (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Mobile Banking - Ecobank Gets CBN Approval
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Amaka IfeakanduLagos - Central Bank of Nigeria has granted Ecobank Nigeria provisional approval to offer Mobile Banking Services.The licence would enable the bank to provide mobile banking, payment (By News Poster)...Ghana: Akufo-Addo Warns Mills - Do Not Sign Oil Collateral Bill
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Bismark BebliNana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the 2012 elections, has descended heavily on the Majority side in Parliament that voted to allo (By News Poster)...Africa: Disability, HIV Find Common Ground
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: New York - People living with disabilities are known to be just as, if not more, at risk of contracting HIV as non-disabled people, but there is little specific data or programming that reflects this (By News Poster)...S.Africa: When I hit a brickwall of crisis... It forced me to have an idea...
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: What do you do when you feel you've hit a brick wall and you've run out of every possible option? I felt that way in recent weeks. My late mother always stressed the importance of trust in life (By Jan)...Zimbabwe: First Lady Sues Weekly for Quoting Wikileaks Cable
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the libel suit which President Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace Mugabe, has brought against the independent weekly "The Standard" for quoting a US diplomatic cabl (By News Poster)...Sudan: UN-African Mission Voices Concern Over Ongoing Darfur Clashes
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: The United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) voiced grave concern today over the ongoing clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and rebel movements in the strife-torn re (By News Poster)...Sierra Leone: NETHIPS Ends Fourth AGM
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Abraham AbdulaiBo - The Network of HIV Positives in Sierra Leone (NETHIPS-SL) was formed in 2006 as an umbrella organization of all care and support organizations for people living with HIV in the (By News Poster)...South Africa: No Rest for Home Affairs Officials
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: Cape Town - Officials at Home Affairs offices are hard at work, with offices running 16-hour days, in a bid to process hundreds of Zimbabweans queuing for permits to meet the 31 December deadline.Home (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Apprehension as Ojukwu's Health Worsens
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Rafiu Ajakaye,Chukwujekwu Ilozue And Emmanuel NzomiwuEnugu/Lagos/Onitsha - There were reports on Tuesday that the health of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu had deteriorated, two months after his return (By News Poster)...Sudan: Prosecutor General of Drafur Crimes Opens Investigation On Attack By Menawi Movement Against Village in South Darfur
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: Khartoum - The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Justice and Prosecutor General of Crimes in Darfur, Abdul-Dayem Zumrawi, announced that he, as part of his assignment, has opened an investigation in t (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Jabulani Sibanda And Cio Threaten Villagers in Chiredzi
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Tererai KarimakwendaWar vet leader and violent ZANU PF thug, Jabulani Sibanda, who has terrorized innocent people around the country, is reported to have brought his campaign to the Chikombedzi are (By News Poster)...Uganda: Terrorists Attack Bus in Nairobi
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Monitor OnlineAt least one person has died and several others injured after an explosion on a Kampala-bound bus occurred in downtown Nairobi, barely hours after Uganda's Police chief Maj.Gen. Kale (By News Poster)...Mozambique: Food Security Improving, Says Guebuza
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Maputo - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza declared on Monday that, over the past year, food security in Mozambique has notably improved.Giving his annual State of the Nation address to the Mozambi (By News Poster)...South Africa: Gauteng teen raped by 7 men
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy Ivory park is a black township. Please do not generalise here and see this as normal for white South Africans too. 2010-12-20 13:02 Johannesburg - A 16-year-old girl was rape (By Grazy)...SouthAfrica/America: SA man embroiled in bizarre US court case
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: 2010-12-26 17:00 Andrew Trench and Julian Rademeyer Johannesburg - A South African contractor working in Afghanistan has been arrested and spirited away across the world under a controversial Uni (By Grazy)...Côte d'Ivoire: The Real Tragedy is That We've Seen This So Many Times Before
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Jenerali UlimwenguNairobi - The tragedy that has become Cote d'Ivoire is unfortunately one of those déjà vu situations that continue to haunt the African continent.We have been here b (By News Poster)...Uganda: Defilers Infect 55 Girls With HIV
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Moses NampalaFIFTY-five girls below the age of 12 have contracted HIV/AIDS in Tororo district after being defiled this year. A total of 276 girls were defiled in the district between January to Sep (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Delta Militant Gets New Appeal Date
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Moses JolayemiThe suspected mastermind in the October 1 twin bomb blasts in Abuja, Mr. Henry Okah, has finally secured a date for his appeal. Okah who is facing trial in Johannesburg, South Africa (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: US Slaps Sanctions On Tomana for 'Undermining Democratic Process'
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Tichaona SibandaJohannes Tomana, the Attorney-General unilaterally appointed by Robert Mugabe two years ago, has been placed on the U.S sanctions list for 'undermining democratic processes in Zimba (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Food Scarcity, Soaring Transport Fare Dampen Xmas Celebrations
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Charles KumoluThe price of onions has gone beyond what I expected. I can say it is one of the most expensive food items in the market today.Can you believe that this small quantity with me was boug (By News Poster)...Uganda: Strong Turnout As Male Circumcision Kicks Off in the North
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: Gulu - After years of hearing about the protective effects of medical male circumcision against HIV, many men in northern Uganda are taking advantage of a government move to provide the procedure free (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: First Lady Sues Weekly for Quoting Wikileaks Cable
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the libel suit which President Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace Mugabe, has brought against the independent weekly The Standard for quoting a US diplomatic cable le (By News Poster)...Kenya: Wheat Flour Prices Increase Amid Low Supplies
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Rawlings OtiniWheat flour prices have risen by up to a tenth in the past three weeks, in what millers attribute to an increase in international prices owing to shortages caused by export bans by Ru (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Zanu-Pf Bigwigs Sidelined
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaZANU-PF bigwigs have been hurled to the sidelines under a restructuring exercise led by a select team of ex-liberation war fighters to neutralise party factionalism and prepare for P (By News Poster)...Kenya: Diesel Shortage Warning Dismissed
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Joseph BonyoNairobi - The Energy ministry has dismissed a warning by a section of oil marketers that there would be a shortage of diesel in the country next month as "alarmist".Energy permanent sec (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Robbery Threatens Trade Along the Northern Corridor
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Gashegu MuramiraRwandan traders who transport their goods through Eldoret, Kenya are often ambushed by robbers who steal their goods and vehicles, The New Times has established.The route, also know (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Premier's Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gains
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Paul NyakazeyaPREMIER Finance Group (PFG) executive director for investment banking George Manyere says the coming on board of Pan-African bank Ecobank, who acquired a controlling 70% stake in the (By News Poster)...Africa: African Union and U.S. Justice Department Meet to Enhance Collaboration on Criminal Issues
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Within the framework of the existing cooperation between the African Union Commission (AUC) and the United States of America (USA), the first dialogue between the AUC and the U.S. Justice Department w (By News Poster)...South Africa: Baba sterf toe ma haar teen grond gooi. : Baby die when mother throw it on the ground
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy Blacks again. A month old baby, Inam Nguduza, died when his mother throw it to the floor in a fight with her boyfriend. Samuel Motaung (67) died after a younger maqn slamed his (By Grazy)...Rwanda: 600 RDF Special Forces Pass-Out
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - Over 600 Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) Special Forces of the 2nd Battalion in Nasho, yesterday, passed-out after one year of training in counter-terrorism combat.The forces, who (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Wikileaks Could Quicken Demise of Unity Government
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: By Noaba MatshaziTHE recent WikiLeaks cable releases could have afforded President Robert Mugabe ammunition to call for elections next year, with his main argument that his coalition partner, Morgan T (By News Poster)...Liberia: Stolen Xmas Susu Money Leaves Tears
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Peter N. TobyMembers of the Courage Financial Club (Susu) in New Georgia Estate risk celebrating an empty Christmas after thugs, allegedly hired by the club's vice president, Korpo Arku, stole thei (By News Poster)...East Africa: Women Farmers Get U.S.$8 Million Agra Fund
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: By Mark MuhumuzaNairobi, Kenya - Women farmers in Sub-Saharan are set to benefit from an $8m partnership with Sweden's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AG (By News Poster)...Namibia: Bank Ups Security Because of 'Difficult' Customer
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Denver KistingNEDBANK was forced to jack up security at its Rundu branch after a former client allegedly threatened to kill the bank employees, including the manager.As a result, the bank decided t (By News Poster)...North Korea forces on alert - report
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy The other halve of the interesting situation. 2010-12-19 20:30 Seoul - North Korea has boosted the readiness of its military forces on the coast nearest to a planned live-fire (By Grazy)...Côte d'Ivoire: U.S. Discussing Ways to Augment U.N. Force
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Stephen KaufmanThe Obama administration is in discussions with a number of countries in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on how to ensure that U.N. forces "can continue to mai (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Thousands Stuck At Chaotic Beitbridge Border Post
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Tererai KarimakwendaConditions at Beitbridge have been described as 'chaotic' and 'depressing' by Finance Minister Tendai Biti, after he visited the border post on Monday.Accompanied by transport m (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Western Countries Urge Electoral Reforms
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Lance GumaA grouping of western countries called the 'Friends of Zimbabwe' has urged the government to implement major electoral reforms, to ensure free and fair elections. The Fishmongers Group, a (By News Poster)...Somalia: Insurgents Call on Al Qaeda for Aid
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Mogadishu - Somalia's Al Shabaab, which US alleges to be Al Qaeda's proxy in Somalia, on Thursday demanded support and aid from Al Qaeda organization.Speaking at a ceremony marking the unity of Al Sha (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Court Grants Suspected Gun Runners Bail
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Ahuraka Yusuf IsahAbuja - An Abuja High court yesterday granted bail to an Iranian Azim Aghajani, charged for allegedly conspiring to import and importing containers loaded with assorted calibers o (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Power Supply Worsens As Locals Prepare for Christmas
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Rasheed KomolafeLagos - Despite repeated assurances that Power supply would improve, the reality is that Nigerians may be heading for a bleak yuletide as power generation continues to nose dive for (By News Poster)...Nigerian Party Wants Corruption Overhaul
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Hammed ShittuIlorin - Chairman, Board of Trustees of All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) and presidential aspirant of the party in 2011 general elections, Chief Harry Akande, has called for overhauli (By News Poster)...Ghana: Municipal Chief Executive Appeals to Banks to Provide Financial Facilities to Increase Food Production
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the Ga East Municipal Assembly, Mr. John Kwao Sackey, has appealed to banks and other financial institutions to provide Ghanaian farmers with favourable financia (By News Poster)...Nigeria: SEC Boss Blames Nigeria's Economic Woes on Over Dependence on Oil
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Steve OkoUmuahia - Director General of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ms. Arunma Oteh, has blamed Nigeria's economic backwardness on over dependence on the oil sector, she lamented the (By News Poster)...Kenya: Private Sector in Deal to Fight Graft
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Kaburu MugambiNairobi - Even as the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission sends shivers down the spine of the government with its renewed war on under hand deals, the anti-graft watchdog is slowly exten (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Theft of DDC Machines - Culprits Must be Punished
Monday 20-Dec-2010: The national embarrassment caused by the recent theft of 20 out of the 6,000 Direct Data Capturing (DDC) machines at the Murtala Mohammed International airport,Lagos has heightened doubts and fears ov (By News Poster)...Namibia: Give the Public the True Facts
Monday 20-Dec-2010: IT MAY be so that Namibia has not defaulted on any Chinese loan, but Government nevertheless needs to be transparent and open about statistics and details on citizenship and permanent residence and wo (By News Poster)...Zimbabwe: Grace Mugabe Slammed
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: REPORTERS Without Borders, an international press freedom watchdog has condemned First Lady Grace Mugabe's US$15 million lawsuit against The Standard saying it is aimed at undermining the paper.Mugabe (By News Poster)...East Africa: Mv Thor Nexus Pirated in the Indian Ocean
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: In the early hours of 25 December, the MV THOR NEXUS was pirated approximately 450 nautical miles North East of the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean.The 20,377 tonne general cargo ship, which is (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Citizens to Enjoy More Electricity Next Year - FG
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Oscarline OnwuemenyiAbuja - The Federal Government has said it is committed to increasing its investment in the energy sector as well as enhance the conditions for private sector involvement in the (By News Poster)...Provincial Governor Attacks Setsan
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Maputo - The governor of the southern Mozambican province of Inhambane, Agostinho Trinta, has launched an attack on the Food and Nutritional Security Technical Secretariat (SETSAN), which had roused h (By News Poster)...Ministry Welcomes Conviction of Serial Killer
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Pretoria - The ministry responsible for women has welcomed the ruling of the Durban High Court, which found Thozamile Taki guilty of killing 13 women.Taki was convicted on Thursday of 13 counts of mur (By News Poster)...Côte d'Ivoire: U.S. Imposes Sanctions Against Gbagbo Government
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Cindy ShinerThe United States on Tuesday announced a travel ban and other visa restrictions against Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d’Ivoire, members of his government and their immediate family membe (By News Poster)...South Africa: Vrou se lyk met sak oor kop in bad gekry Woman found dead in bath with plasic bag over head.
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy Again only in Afrikaans. The blooded body of a 50 year old woman was found in her house in her bath, with a plastic shopping bag over her head. 2010-12-21 12:08 Die bebloede ly (By Grazy)...Africa: Wikipedia - American worries about possible Nuclear Material Sale in DRC
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: C O N F I D E N T I A L KINSHASA 000282 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/08/2017 TAGS: ENRG EMIN ETRD PGOV IAEA CG SUBJECT: DRC'S ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSIONER ARRESTED REF: A. 06 KINSHAS (By Bommer)...Nigeria: 'Why Illegal Arms Shipment to Persists'
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Gboyega AkinsanmiNigerian Merchant Navy at the weekend identified poor maritime culture and over-dependence on the Nigeria Navy as the major reasons for the country's porous territorial waters and (By News Poster)...South Africa: 8 000 baby deaths in SA hospitals
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy. 2010-12-20 10:00 Johannesburg - Some 8 000 babies died in the first five months of this year in South African hospitals, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said. "At least 4 3 (By Grazy)...Africa: France's Changing Policy Towards Continent - Part Three
Monday 20-Dec-2010: This cable was created on 09 September 2008, according to WikiLeaks.C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 09 PARIS 001698SIPDISE.O. 12958: DECL: 09/09/2018TAGS: PREL PINR ECON MARR PHUM XA FRSUBJECT: (By News Poster)...Somalia: 75 Somalis Arrested As Influx of Africans Continues Into Yemen
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: Hadramout - About 75 Somalis including women and children reached Yemen's eastern coast on Sunday, as the influx of African refugees continues into the country almost daily, the Interior Ministry has (By News Poster)...South Africa: E Cape father kills son
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: 2010-12-26 14:45 Port Elizabeth - A three-year-old toddler died after his father allegedly dropped him onto the ground in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape police said on Sunday. Warrant Officer Wena (By Grazy)...Mozambique: AD-Hoc Commission on Constitution Approved
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Wednesday approved a resolution moved by the majority Frelimo Party to set up an Ad-Hoc Commission to draft constitutional amendmen (By News Poster)...Nigeria: DDC Machines Theft - Suspects Arraigned Amidst Confusion
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Akinwale AkintundeThere was palpable tension on Wednesday as the Nigerian Police arraigned four suspects in connection with the alleged stealing of 20 Direct Data Capturing Machines, DDC, before th (By News Poster)...Namibia: Standard Bank Manager Arrested After Months On Run
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: By Denver KistingAFTER months on the run, the former Standard Bank Rundu manager, Henry Kisting, suspected of defrauding this bank of millions of dollars, is behind bars. Kavango Acting Regional Comma (By News Poster)...Angolan Economy Might Record Four Per Cent Growth in 2010
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: Luanda - The Angolan economy might record a four per cent growth in 2010, as various problems that were recorded in the country have had a partial solution, on Tuesday here considered the economist Al (By News Poster)...South Africa : Man kills disabled brother, 60
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy Will someone please help me find an article were a withman kills someone in South Africa to post. I feel like a damn racist. 2010-12-22 22:31 Johannesburg - Two men were killed (By Grazy)...USA: Strange News: Five unusual Census 2010 facts
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: Which state has more people per square mile than India? Which state saw its smallest population growth in at least a century? The data released Tuesday gives Americans a first look at what Census 2010 (By Jan)...Kenya: Explosion Should Be a Wake-Up Call
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: Nairobi - Since it has become clear that East Africa has become the target of all manner of terrorist conspiracies, our security organs have no choice but to take ever more stringent measures to ensur (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Global Concepts, Local Peculiarities
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Nechi EzekoThe term "Corporate Governance" has become highly central and predominant in discourse over the past few years and especially following the corporate failures of such previously acclaime (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Education Scam - Elderly Couple Jailed 18 Years in UK - Lawyer Also Bags Eight Years
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Kemi YesufuAbuja - An elderly Nigerian couple and their Nigerian lawyer have been jailed by the United Kingdom government for 18 years and six months for setting up bogus colleges to help illegal i (By News Poster)...Ghana: District Best Farmer From Baseke
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Alfred AdamsThis year Farmers Day celebration in the Ellembelle District was held at Asasetre. Interestingly, the overall District Best Farmer was selected from Baseke in the Aiyinase North Distric (By News Poster)...Rwanda: Nation Will Not Be Destabilised - Kagame
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: By Edmund KagirePresident Paul Kagame, yesterday, said that Rwanda will not allow anyone, whether inside or outside the country, to interfere with the progress that the Rwandan people have registered. (By News Poster)...Nigeria: Chevron Confirms Breach of Olero Facility
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Muhammad BelloPort Harcourt - Against the backdrop of militants' claim that they attacked three pipelines belonging to two oil companies, AGIP and Chevron, Chevron Nigeria has confirmed that one of (By News Poster)...Rwanda: New Hope for Orphans
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By Sam NkurunzizaAfter the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, Rwanda was known as the country with the highest proportion of orphans in the entire world. Today, while many of these orphans have grown up (By News Poster)...Nigeria: IFC Pledges More Support for Banks
Monday 20-Dec-2010: By David AgbaAbuja - International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has promised to support stronger financial institutions in the country so they can expand credit to Nige (By News Poster)...South Africa: Teen found murdered
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: 2010-12-26 07:35 Johannesburg - A teenage girl was found murdered at an open space next to Nanobolela Secondary School at Thabong, Free State police said on Saturday. Lieutenent Colonel Thandi M (By Grazy)...South Africa: Zuma ratings goes up
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: President Jacob Zuma's approval rating rose in November after a volatile year involving a scandal over his fathering of an illegitimate child, violent service-delivery protests, wage strikes and eupho (By Bommer)...South Africa : Man kap vrou dood: Man hack woman to death with an axe.
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy For sure these are not white people. 2010-12-20 14:00 (( A 6 year old child ran away while the man chopped his wife to death with an axe. The man and his wife started to fight an (By Grazy)...South Africa: Boys, 14, held for setting man alight
Wednesday 22-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy 2010-12-22 16:02 Johannesburg - Two 14-year-old boys were arrested in Vereeniging on Wednesday in connection with a hijacking in which the car owner was tied up and set alight, (By Grazy)...South Africa: Mandela's son-in-law gets R500 000 bail
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy 2010-12-20 22:36 Johannesburg - An Interpol spokesperson said on Monday that bail had been granted for the son-in-law of former South African president Nelson Mandela. Isaac (By Grazy)...Science: The Greatest Carniverous Dinosaur was not T-Rex... Oops... did Walking With Dinosaurs tell a lie?
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: I was telling a friend that on the excellent BBC series, Walking with Dinosaurs I was absolutely stunned by the reference to the greatest carniverous dinosaur that ever lived. This was supposedly not (By Jan)...South Africa: Moord lyk na mislukte kaping : Murder looks like faild hijacking
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy 2010-12-20 15:09 ((Mnr. Nobbies Nobrega (45) recieved 9 stabwounds in his neck chest and body with a screwdriver. Only his cell phone are missing. It looks like they tried to (By Grazy)...South Africa: Renewal of Firearms Licences – Avoid Being Trapped
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy 12 Dec 2010 [In Afrikaans] Renewal of competency and of firearms licences which were issued in terms of Ac 60 of 2000 (the so-called white licences) has been in full swing for (By Grazy)...AfricanCrisis2 & AmericanCrisis - Analysing some statistics for the first time - An evening of statistics
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: I have run some statistics that I have wanted for years but just never got around to. I wanted to see certain ratios to try to make sense of what people do and do not like on my sites. I won't reve (By Jan)...South Africa
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy Ja well, trust the police they say. Just a bit of a problem to know if it is the owner of the uniform that is wearing it. 2010-12-20 13:02 Johannesburg - Six men are on the run (By Grazy)...Nevada: Man-eating giants discovered in Nevada cave
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy Just an interesting article. Some more links to be found in the article if someone is interested. Sunday, December 19, 2010 2:03 A Paiute brave faces the maurading giants T (By Grazy)...[Joke] Humor: A Jewish Christmas joke... Which South African Muslims might also share...
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: A Jewish friend of mine told me this joke about Christmas. He was telling me recently he was doing some work for a Muslim businessman who told him a similar story. In a nutshell it goes something l (By Jan)...South Africa: Anglo plots De Beers takeover - report
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy. Don't know what this is all about, but as far as I know Angloand De Beers are both the Oppenheimer's property in one way or the other. Anglo moved their headquarters out of Africa a (By Grazy)...South Africa: Newborn found in rubbish dump
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy 2010-12-21 14:38 Related Links Newborn baby found in Cape Town Newborn found dead in bucket Newborn baby found in forest George - The body of a newborn baby was found (By Grazy)...In Finland respect Christmas, or else
Monday 20-Dec-2010: Posted by Grazy Just a nice interesting tradition. 2010-12-20 09:59 Helsinki - In Finland, it's just not Christmas until one Turku city bureaucrat says so, promising to punish troublemak (By Grazy)...S.Africa: Christmas Cell phone system overload & collapse?
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: In South Africa there is a huge tradition of sending people sms's (text messages) on cell phones at Christmas time. I don't think people send Christmas cards much. I have virtually stopped that comple (By Jan)...AfricanCrisis & AmericanCrisis - Giving feedback to the contributors
Sunday 26-Dec-2010: My statistics analysis has been really interesting. I have sat here for hours just figuring out what the heck has been going on, on my websites. The results have been most interesting. I am actual (By Jan)...AfricanCrisis & AmericanCrisis - Some ideas? What do you think of this?
Saturday 25-Dec-2010: I want to ask for some more input from you. 1. What do you think about voting and rating reader's comments? Then we can draw more attention to the better written stuff and give it higher priority, (By Jan)...[Cartoon] Merry Christmas to all of you - US Politically Correct style...
Thursday 23-Dec-2010: Here’s wishing you all a Merry Xmas… the way the Americans are doing it…. (Photo) (By Jan)...[Video] British guy: Nigel Farage rips into Belgian EU President saying he is an enemy of Nation States
Tuesday 21-Dec-2010: This is a short but really hard hitting piece. What this British guy is saying is that the EU President is an enemy of Nation States. I am a supporter of and a deep believer in Nation States. All t (By Jan)...
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