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)... | Africa: Land Grabs in Poor Countries Set to Increase
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Hilaire AvrilParis - After weeks of rumours sparked by the leaking of a draft World Bank position paper on so-called land grabs in poor countries, the international financial institution has offici (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)... | Africa: Continent's Uphill Climb to the Millennium Development Goals
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: Africa is facing big challenges in achieving the world's anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The overall statistics may be sobering, but some countries are showing bright spots of progre (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)... | 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)... |
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)... | Namibia: A Chronically Insecure NUNW Must Change its Tone and Body Language
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Alfredo Tjiurimo HengariLIKE many things in our country, the labour movement is chronically insecure. It is insecure because it does not have an independent identity. It is insecure because Union l (By News Poster)... |
Uganda: How Power Play Led Tullow Down Empty Oil Well
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Daniel KalinakiKampala - On Monday August 23, at around 9a.m., a delegation met President Museveni at the State Lodge in Jinja. The delegation included Energy Minister Eng. Hilary Onek, Permanent S (By News Poster)... | Mozambique: Govt to Cut Prices After Mass Arrests of Rioters
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: Mozambique will reverse an increase in the price of bread and other essentials that sparked the violent riots that left 13 dead and more than 400 injured last week. Police have arrested 286 people for (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: 'No Reason' to Subject Banks to Stress Tests
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Sure KamhungaJohannesburg - TWO of SA's top four banks do not believe local lenders should be subjected to stress tests carried out on some international lenders, which have been dismissed in Europ (By News Poster)... | "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)... | 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)... |
Mozambique: Urban Poor Ignored
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: Maputo - Carlos Matos, who has worked as a policeman in the Mozambican capital, Maputo, for the past 12 years, has to borrow a few dollars each month to supplement his US$52 wage.He lives rent free in (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: Finance Ministry in Agriculture Inputs Drive
Wednesday 08-Sep-2010: By Takunda Maodza and Elita ChikwatiHarare - The Ministry of Finance says it is co-ordinating the purchase of farming inputs for the 2010/2011 summer cropping season, with seed and fertiliser supplier (By News Poster)... |
Ghana: GNPC Mafia Exposed In Abortive Kosmos-Exxon Mobil Deal
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: The announcement on 17 August 2010 by ExxonMobil that it was abandoning its interest-purchase of 23.5% stake in the Jubilee field, Africa's biggest offshore oil field, was precipitated by a Ghana Nati (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)... |
S.Africa: Reader: People die because of the horrific state of our roads...
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: [To our reader: Thanks for your comments. I took have seen first-hand how hideous the tar roads have become once you get away from the major cities. A friend and I ducked and dived - for about 2 1/2 h (By Jan)... | Rwanda: Kagame Backs Development Goals
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - President Paul Kagame, yesterday, called on African states to pursue and achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) not because someone wants them to, but for the good of the (By News Poster)... |
Kenya: Bank of India Seeks Go-Ahead to Buy Local Firm
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By Michael OmondiBank of India has made applications to regulators to be allowed to incorporate as an independent Kenyan bank to pave way for a buyout of a local rival as it races to increase its foot (By News Poster)... | Uganda: We Can End the War in Somalia
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By Maj. Ba-Hoku BarigyeKampala - Going through the internet-based media daily, and especially since the 11/7 tragedy in Kampala, one gets a sense of despair on the long Somali conflict. The feelings a (By News Poster)... |
Africa: Signs of Success in Fight Against Poverty
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By André-Michel EssoungouFive years before the deadline set by world leaders in 2000 to achieve 8 major development goals, Africa is making progress. But more efforts are needed to reach the targets. (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: UK Firm Hails Economic Prospects
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By Bright MaderaHarare - London-based Amstel Securities NV says Zimbabwe's economy is "the final frontier market in Africa" and very attractive.Zimbabwe with the potential to grow its GDP to US$12 bil (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Rand May Force Bank's Hand on Rate Cut
Tuesday 07-Sep-2010: By Mariam IsaJohannesburg - THE rand rallied to its strongest level against the dollar in more than two-and-a-half years yesterday, backing arguments in favour of an interest rate cut at the Reserve B (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)... |
Kenya's Phone War Drags In Politics As Well As Prices
Monday 06-Sep-2010: By Jaindi KiseroNairobi - The explosive price wars in Kenya that have seen consumer prices of mobile phone talk-time tumbling by more than 40 per cent are grabbing the headlines. But the real issues c (By News Poster)... | Africa: Biofuels and the Scramble for Farmland
Monday 06-Sep-2010: By Paul RedfernNairobi - The European Union has been urged to drop its pledge to produce 10 per cent of all transport fuels from biofuels by 2020 because of the effect this has had on the purchase of (By News Poster)... |
Ghana: World Food Day Should Locate the Rural Poor Farmer
Monday 06-Sep-2010: By Lawrence QuarteyAsi Nye, an Ada tomato farmer, stands dog-tired in the hot afternoon sun on her farm with her coveted hoe and cutlass. At 16, her educational career came to an end and so she begun (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: Controversy Surrounds Gaddafi's Son's Visit
Monday 06-Sep-2010: By Caiphas ChimheteHarare - Son of long time Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, Al-Saadi, nearly caused diplomatic fallout between Harare and Tripoli recently when he turned up at the airport with a delega (By News Poster)... |
Redemption Mission
Monday 06-Sep-2010: By Petros KausiyoHarare - Zimbabwe's Warriors - eager to re-establish themselves as a force on the continent - begin their long journey for a place at the 2012 African Cup of Nations when they face Li (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: 'We Don't Want Outside Influence'
Monday 06-Sep-2010: Harare - SADC like other African regional economic groupings is building a military brigade to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity. The brigade, also called the Sadc Standby Force, will (By News Poster)... |
Uganda: Was Somalia Worth It?
Monday 06-Sep-2010: By Ba-Hoku BarigyeGoing through the internet-based media daily, and especially since the 7/11 tragedy in Kampala, one gets a sense of despair on the long Somali conflict. The feelings and signs of fru (By News Poster)... | Nigeria: Halliburton-FG to Try More Suspects
Monday 06-Sep-2010: By Tobi SoniyiAbuja - The Federal Government will charge more suspects to court in the Halliburton bribery scandal as soon as it gathers more evidence linking them to the sleaze, a top official of the (By News Poster)... |
Nigeria: Endless Wait for Uninterrupted Power Supply
Monday 06-Sep-2010: By Chika OtuchikereAbuja - If there is one sector of the Nigerian economy which has defied any remedy and has turned the populace into a bunch of pessimists who can not see 'light' at the end of the d (By News Poster)... | Africa: Poverty in Africa - the North is Forever Responsible
Monday 06-Sep-2010: By Emmanuel MurangiraKigali - ONCE, when travelling with a development expert we came across a community to whom the government was asking to contribute either money or labour to build classrooms for (By News Poster)... |
Kenya: Junior Saving Accounts a Big Bet for Banks in Race for Clients
Monday 06-Sep-2010: By Immaculate KarambuWalk into any local banking hall and you are likely to see a common feature in almost all front office desks - a model of a lion or an elephant.These are not just toys as they see (By News Poster)... | South Africa: President's Nephew Sells DR Congo Oil Rights
Monday 06-Sep-2010: By Tim CohenJohannesburg - PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma 's nephew Khulubuse Zuma is reliably understood to have sold on his disputed rights - thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars - to oilfields in (By News Poster)... |
USA: Stock Markets: Dangerous Defeatism is taking hold among America's economic elites
Monday 06-Sep-2010: [This is very interesting. But I must say, I am not sure I believe the "solution" that is being proposed. It might just be another way of bailing out another lot of rich people under the guise of solv (By Jan)... | Africa: Continent Joins Fight Against Internet Crime
Sunday 05-Sep-2010: By Jeff LuleKampala - The African Centre for Cyber Law and Cyber Crime Prevention has been launched in Naguru, a Kampala suburb.The centre, set up by the United Nations African Institute for the Preve (By News Poster)... |