Mozambique: Call for Inquiry into Police Behavior Linked to Riots
Thursday 09-Sep-2010: Maputo - The anti-corruption NGO, the Centre for Public Integrity (CIP), on Wednesday issued a damning report on the behaviour of the Mozambican police force during the riots against price rises that (By News Poster)... | Africa: Africa's Women Turn 50
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Chi MgbakoFive decades ago, 17 African countries threw off the brutal and degrading yoke of colonialism. The 50th anniversary of African national liberation is an opportunity to critically reflect (By News Poster)... |
Out of the West's Frying Pan, Into the Chinese Fire
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Meshack MabogoaneJohannesburg - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma's absence and lack of decisiveness during critical moments are not new. Such things have become conventions in the Presidency since 1999. The ch (By News Poster)... | Congo-Kinshasa: U.N. Weighs Sanctions Against Perpetrators of DRC Mass Rapes
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Aprille MuscaraUnited Nations - The U.N. Security Council is considering leveraging sanctions against the perpetrators of the mass rapes that occurred last month in the eastern Democratic Republic (By News Poster)... |
Critiquing the UN Over Rape Cases (news)
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Sofia TilloWhile recent events in the Democratic Republic of Congo have sparked international debate, at the UN, official declarations have lacked transparency.In a press videoconference, UN Specia (By News Poster)... | Uganda: NRM Vs NRM Election Violence
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: Kampala - Dan Mugarura, the Chairman for Electoral Affairs of the main opposition party, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), is a very worried man."If you can shoot your own child and wife, it mean (By News Poster)... |
Zimbabwe: Critics Blast National Healing Organ a Failure
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Lance GumaThe National Healing and Reconciliation Organ, set up under the coalition government, has been described as a failure by participants who attended a workshop in Bulawayo over the weekend. (By News Poster)... | MDC MP Evades Arrest Over 'Insult' Charges
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Alex BellNyanga North MP Douglas Mwonzora managed to evade arrest on Monday evening, in connection with charges against him of 'insulting' Robert Mugabe.Mutare lawyer Tinoziva Bere intervened when (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Govt Targets Illegally Built Homes
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: Pretoria - The Gauteng Department of Local Government and Housing has threatened to evict people who bought houses built on government and privately owned land in Lenasia.More than sixty land sites be (By News Poster)... | Nigeria: Militants Free Hundreds in Attack on Prison
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: Suspected members of an Islamist sect have raided a prison in northern Nigeria, freeing 732 inmates, including members of the extremist group.The majority of the facility's 762 prisoners escaped, with (By News Poster)... |
Nigeria: Deregulation - Between the Government, Masses And Workers
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Mohammed ShosanyaLagos - With the Nigeria Labour Congress declaration of total war against the planned removal of subsidy on oil by the federal government, there is fear that the development would (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Backers of Media Bill Had 'Hands in the Till'
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Chantelle BenjaminJohannesburg - SOME of the greatest proponents of the controversial Protection of Information Bill had been caught with their "hands in the till", Govin Reddy, a Stellenbosch Univ (By News Poster)... |
Africa: 'Theft of Genetic Resources'
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Hilaire AvrilParis - The United Nations declared 2010 the Year of Biodiversity. But 17 years after the Convention on Biological Diversity was adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the issu (By News Poster)... | Congo-Kinshasa: Peacekeepers Launch New Operation After Mass Rapes
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has taken several measures to improve the protection of civilians in the east of the country following the recent inci (By News Poster)... |
Rwanda: Over 3,500 Tonnes of Marijuana Seized Since Last Year
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Bosco R. AsiimweKigali - Over 3,500 tons of marijuana was impounded and 2,670 people arrested since last year, according to a latest police report on drug trade and consumption.The report released (By News Poster)... | Zambia: Wezi Kaunda's Killer Confesses
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: A LUSAKA man convicted of aggravated robbery and murder yesterday confessed to killing former president Kenneth Kaunda's son, Wezi.Moses Mulenga told the Supreme Court sitting in Ndola that he robbed (By News Poster)... |
Substance Abuse Blamed for Children's Woes
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Ayanda YeniThis week, Health-e News Service visited Middelburg, in the Eastern Cape, and saw how children suffer and are forced to fend for themselves as their parents live under the spell of alcoh (By News Poster)... | Family Murder Trial Postponed
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Luqman CloeteTHE murder trial of a 70-year-old Tses resident accused of murdering his son in a shooting incident in early 2008 has been postponed to the end of November.The trial of Jacobus Quido A (By News Poster)... |
Rwanda: Three Conmen Arrested for Defrauding Hospitals
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Bosco R. AsiimweKigali - POLICE in Muhima are holding three people suspected to have forged the stamp of the Ministry of Health as well as signature of the Minister, Dr. Richard Sezibera, to fleece (By News Poster)... | S.Africa: SEIZE THE MINES!!!! IMPORTANT: Nelson Mandela's REAL LEGACY - Julius Malema is TRUE TO IT!
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: [Here is another news report that points out that Julius Malema is TRUE TO NELSON MANDELA'S LEGACY and that he will fight for the nationalisation of the mines.
For the record: Malema talks out his (By Jan)... |
"Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (08-09-2010)
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: Howzit
Foreign currency mid-rates updated.
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The decorators are due back today and hopefully they will finish the bedroom today.
Right now our little bungalow looks like a tip as we h (By The BeardedMan)... | Nigeria: Charles Taylor - a Man Betrayed
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Chief Fani-KayodeLagos - FEMI FANI-KAYODE argues that it's all well and good to try Charles Taylor for war crime atrocities, but that Tony Blair and George W. Bush should get the same treatment"AU (By News Poster)... |
Kenya: Nomadic Communities Struggle to Access PMTCT
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: Samburu - Nomadic Kenyan women who test positive for HIV but live in remote areas far from the nearest health facility are missing out on the opportunity to prevent their children from becoming infect (By News Poster)... | Oil and Politics in Ghana
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: The announcement on 17 August by ExxonMobil that it is abandoning its campaign to buy a 23.5% stake in the Jubilee field, Africa’s biggest offshore oil field, is likely to precipitat (By News Poster)... |
Nigeria: FG Asked to Recognize Merchant Navy Formation
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Yemie AdeoyeAS the nation prepares for the 2011 general elections and fear of political motivated violence, the Federal Government has been urged to ensure the proper formation and recognition of a (By News Poster)... | Learning From South Africa's Strike
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Leonard GentleThe public sector strike has been suspended. But whether the unions accept the state's latest offer or not, this strike may well be (and these things we are almost always fated to s (By News Poster)... |
Zambia: Police Brutality, Torture Rife
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: The Zambian police routinely engage in cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, including torture, to extract confessions, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should investigate, discipline (By News Poster)... | Somalia: Kenyan Court Jails Seven for Piracy
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: EU NAVFOR welcomes the first judgement yesterday in a Kenyan prosecution in connection with the interdiction of a pirate group by an EU NAVFOR warship.The conviction involved seven Somali men accused (By News Poster)... |
Africa: Freaky Black Logic: Blacks tell me why they vote for failed One Party States...
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: I had 2 conversations with 2 different black people that showed me more black logic in action.
On the face of it, Blacks will ALWAYS claim that blacks and whites are EQUAL. Blacks will never deviat (By Jan)... | S.Africa: A Reader's note: Cassandre Van Rooyen Murder
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: [A Reader sent us this. I am not sure what case it refers to. Jan]
The killers of Cassandra was found guilty on the following charges; Accused #1 KEN MAREE - Accessory after the fact; Accused #2 (1 (By Jan)... |
Nigeria: EFCC Swoops On Jigawa, Kwara
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By Yusha'u A. Ibrahim, Mustafa Abubakar And Fidelis Mac-LevaDutse/Ilorin/Abuja - Operatives of the EFCC yesterday arrested five top officials in Jigawa and two local government area chairmen in Kwara (By News Poster)... | Rwanda: Kagame Hits Back at Critics
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By Kezio-Musoke DavidKigali - Rwanda's President Paul Kagame hit back on Monday at his international critics, using his inauguration for a second term to insist that Africa needed no lessons from the (By News Poster)... |
Chinese National Fined Over Forex
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By Werner MengesAN ATTEMPT to take a hoard of undeclared foreign currency out of Namibia - and then to bribe his way out of the fix he was in, when he was facing arrest - cost a Chinese businessman co (By News Poster)... | Namibia: Agriculture a Portfolio Investment
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By Martin MwingaIn our previous article, a case was made for agricultural investment to be considered as an alternative asset class in the investment portfolios of Namibians.We argued that the world p (By News Poster)... |
Kenya: Kibaki, Odinga Dragged Into Bank Saga
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By John Ngirachu and Njeri RugeneNairobi - The long-running saga over the fate of the closed Charterhouse Bank has sucked in President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga.Ongoing hearings of the Pa (By News Poster)... | Nigeria: Suspected Car Thief Nabbed at Wuse Plaza
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By Hussein Yahaya And Ibraheem A. FataiA man was last Thursday arrested by policemen as he allegedly tried to steal a jeep parked in front of Wuse Zone 5 Shopping Plaza, Abuja.Narrating how the suspec (By News Poster)... |
East Africa: Meeting to Address Fake Goods
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: Arusha - Arusha-based, East African Business Council is bringing together Business leaders and government officials for a two-day conference to confront the growing threat of illicit trade in the East (By News Poster)... | Mozambique: Police Arrest Opposition Members Over Protests
Monday 06-Sep-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican police have arrested six people in the northern city of Nampula, accusing them of mobilizing people for demonstrations against food price rises - but the detainees say they wer (By News Poster)... |
Why Kenya Chose to Sup With The 'Devil'
Monday 06-Sep-2010: By Samantha Spooner and Charles Onyango-ObboNairobi - When Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir showed up in Nairobi on August 27 for the launch ceremony of Kenya's new constitution, he became the (By News Poster)... | Nigeria: Rivers Government and EFCC Distraction
Monday 06-Sep-2010: Wednesday, September 1, 2010, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) came into Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital and arrested Chairmen of three local government counci (By News Poster)... |