World: Gunman kills four in island rampage
Friday 20-Nov-2009: A gunman went on the rampage on the Pacific resort island of Saipan on Friday, killing at least four people and wounding six, including five Korean tourists.The police said an Asian gunman had killed (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Govt Will Not Tolerate Attacks on Foreign Nationals - Gigaba
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Nthambeleni GabaraPretoria - Home Affairs Deputy Minister, Malusi Gigaba, has reiterated that government will not tolerate any form of violent attack on people from other countries.He said South Af (By News Poster)... |
North Africa: Al-Qaida Group Menaces Maghreb, Sahel, Says U.S.
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Washington, DC - The North Africa-based terrorist group al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) continues to be a menace to parts of the Maghreb and the Sahel, but the Muslim populations there generall (By News Poster)... | Africa: World Cup to Help Create HIV Awareness
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Johannesburg - In less than seven months South Africa will host the world's biggest single sporting event - the FIFA World Cup. The chance to reach millions of local and visiting football fans present (By News Poster)... |
South African "Road Pirates" Terrorize Drivers
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Bands of roving “road pirates” have been stalking drivers along South Africa’s main highway linking OT Airport to Pretoria for the last three months, raising concerns for the safety of tourists (By Peter the News Guy (TRP))... | Botswana Gets P1.2 Billion World Bank Loan
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Wanetsha MosinyiGaborone - The World Bank has loaned Government of Botswana US$186 million (P1.2 billion) for its Integrated Transport Project, which is meant to ease traffic congestion, enhance re (By News Poster)... |
Tanzania: 'From Russia With Love'
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Faraja MgwabatiDar es Salaam - 'FROM Russia with Love' is one of the best films in the James Bond's series based on the 1957 novel by Ian Fleming. In the film, James Bond is sent to assist in the d (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Artillery shells found on beach
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Three ageing artillery shells have been discovered on a beach in Durban during construction work ahead of the 2010 football World Cup, police said on Wednesday."We are still busy investigating their p (By News Poster)... |
Kenya: Balala Joins Ruto in Raila Attack
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Caroline MangoNairobi - Prime Minister Raila Odinga yesterday came under fire from two Pentagon members and MPs from Rift Valley who are unhappy with his handling of the Mau Forest and the ODM part (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Cruise ship bonanza for SA
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Suren NaidooSouth Africa is set for a money-spinning cruise tourism bonanza heading into next year with Durban at the heart of the action. The highly-anticipated MSC Sinfonia - touted to be the lar (By News Poster)... |
'Discipline - And Now Delivery - Will Do the Rest'
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Bame PietPresident Ian Khama is delivering his first State of The Nation Address as the head of a government elected under his leadership this morning, BAME PIET looks at some of the issues Khama i (By News Poster)... | Africa: No Welcome in Italy
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Washington, DC - "We were fortunate to spend two days in a small coastal town of Agrigento where in the central part of the city stands a Catholic church with the figure of a black priest carved in st (By News Poster)... |
Seychelles: We Won't Arm Drones in East African Waters - U.S.
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Kevin KelleyNairobi - The United States has "no plans" to arm the pilotless aircraft that are carrying out reconnaissance missions from a base in the Seychelles, a spokesman of the US Africa Comman (By News Poster)... | Kenya: City Hall Scandals Cripple Fire-Fighting Unit
Monday 16-Nov-2009: Nairobi - Kenya's major towns are sitting on a fire time bomb. Investigations by the Nation reveal that Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret, Nyeri and other towns are ill-prepared to respond to major fi (By News Poster)... |
Zimbabwe: No Nationalisation - President
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Hebert ZharareRome - President Mugabe yesterday said the Government will not nationalise foreign-owned companies, but will insist on the 51 percent local ownership on all companies according to the (By News Poster)... | Uganda: Fuel Price Discrepancies Explained
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Rebecca HarshabrgerKampala - MEMBERS of Parliament, a short while ago, queried the issue of different fuel prices at different pump stations. Sseguya Lubyayi, the vice-chairman of the tourism, trad (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Suspect freed in cop bungle
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Graeme HoskenCrime ReporterShoddy police work has allowed a robber - shot and wounded in a struggle with a Pretoria homeowner - to go free. The suspect, who is believed to have disappeared after ch (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Watch out for fake plastic surgeons
Monday 16-Nov-2009: By Botho MolosankweSouth African women desperate to enhance their looks are paying a hefty price for their makeover, with botched operations by GPs who have done weekend certificate courses.According (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: 'I have ejector seat failure'
Sunday 15-Nov-2009: By Lynnette Johns, Sam Clark, Andrew Ingram and Ian WilliamsAt first no one realised the seriousness of test pilot Dave Stock's predicament.Just before noon yesterday thousands of spectators at the bi (By News Poster)... | Kenya: Poverty Rises As Malindi Salt Mines Expand
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: By Mazera NduryaNairobi - The lords of Malindi salt mines have been riding roughshod over area residents with impunity. Beneath the veneer of the successful mining firms are tales of hopelessness as m (By News Poster)... |
World: Fire at indoor shooting range kills ten
Saturday 14-Nov-2009: Seoul, South Korea - A fire tore though an indoor shooting range in southern South Korea on Saturday, killing 10 people, including at least two Japanese tourists, and injuring six, police said.Some pe (By News Poster)... | Africa: Kibaki tells ministers to use one voice
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Ministers in Kenya's fractious coalition should stop squabbling in public because they risk doing further damage to the reputation of east Africa's biggest economy, the president said in Mombasa on Fr (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Police push quieter Joburg CBD
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Central Johannesburg is notorious for robberies, pickpockets and violent crime, and on Friday the police added another to their list of headaches - noise."It's too loud," yells Superintendent Cedric O (By News Poster)... | Safari Lodges Use Local Women As Sex Slaves - Report
Friday 13-Nov-2009: By Isaiah MorewagaeA report by international trade unions has revealed that some Batswana women are forced to provide sexual services to tourists at some safari lodges.The International Trade Union Co (By News Poster)... |
Africa: The Financial Crisis, an Opportunity to Accelerate Investment
Friday 13-Nov-2009: Introduced by a presentation by Oxford University Professor, Paul Collier, the session underscored the need to strengthen public finance management, resource mobilization through private investments, (By News Poster)... | [video]Geert Wilders: Warning to America
Thursday 12-Nov-2009: What a brave man! The Dutch have long been a very liberal people, and if even they are starting to wake up to the menace, its then that one knows things are really going bad. The last leader to be so (By JanOlifant)... |
South Africa: 2010 may be bad news for B&Bs
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Lebogang SealeIt has been almost a year since Neo Mamashela applied for her bed and breakfast to be accredited for the 2010 Fifa World Cup. If endorsed, Mamashela's B&B rooms will be among the offi (By News Poster)... | Africa: African Economic Conference - Knowledge-Sharing Exercise
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: A joint AfDB-UNECA press conference took place on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as part of activities of the African economic conference that is being held on the theme: "Fos (By News Poster)... |
Namugongo Tells Court He 'Rebuffed' Bribe Bid
Wednesday 11-Nov-2009: By Werner MengesA PAYMENT of N$10 000 that a State witness in his corruption trial deposited in his bank account in mid-2006 was part of a failed attempt to bribe him, former Ministry of Environment a (By News Poster)... | Equatorial Guinea: After his Release, Simon Mann Seeks Revenge and a Book Deal
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: An expensive round of score-settling and legal cases among the purported financiers and conspirators behind the 2004 coup plot in Equatorial Guinea is likely to be the immediate outcome of the release (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Range of 'disasters' put to test for 2010
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Clayton Barnes2010 WriterFrom plane crashes to bombings and excessive flooding, the province's risk management authorities are readying themselves for any possible disaster during next year's World (By News Poster)... | Africa: 'Meltdown Takes Toll On Tourism Industry'
Tuesday 10-Nov-2009: By Charles AjunwaLondon - The 2009 World Travel Market (WTM) and Euromonitor InternationalGlobal Trends Report, released yesterday said the global economic meltdown is taking a heavy toll on the trave (By News Poster)... |
Uganda: Sudan Soldiers Strike Moyo
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Martin Okudi and Warom Felix OkelloThe Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) have renewed their offensive against residents in Moyo District.This time, the attack by seven SPLA fighters occurred (By News Poster)... | Africa: China is Not Trying to Colonise Africa-Envoy
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Brian BenzaThe 4th Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) will be convened next week in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, some African heads (By News Poster)... |
Party Manifestos - Crime and Safety
Monday 09-Nov-2009: By Christof MaletskyTHE silly season, or politics of promises, as others know it, has seen different political parties making a myriad of promises to Namibian voters over the past couple of months.Wit (By News Poster)... | Gambia: Country's Economy Performs Better in 2009 - IMF Mission Head
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Amadou JallowAn International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by David Dunn is currently in The Gambia on a working visit to assess the economic performance as at end-September the sixth and final (By News Poster)... |
Africa: China Offers Billions in Loans to Africa
Sunday 08-Nov-2009: By Josephine Maseruka And AgenciesKampala - President Yoweri Museveni, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the China-Africa summit in EgyptChinese premier Wen Jiabao has (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Super-Communism: Govt to Grab 51% of Foreign Firms in 60 days
Friday 06-Nov-2009: [Here's Mugabe, back on the roll, with his communist agenda. How on earth can Prime Minister Tsvangirai stand by and watch this? Pray tell me, in what way, has the Govt of National Unity, in any way s (By News Poster)... |
Counterterrorism's Blindness - Mali and the U.S.
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Vijay PrashadTucked away in the corners of the news media sits a report that the US government will provide US$5 million in trucks and military equipment to Mali. The aim of this donation is to hel (By News Poster)... | Nigeria: Deregulation - Court Hears Case Nov 26
Thursday 05-Nov-2009: By Davidson IriekpenLagos - Justice M. A. Bello of a Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed November 26, 2009 to hear the suit instituted by a human rights lawyer, Mr. Bamidele Autru, challenging the d (By News Poster)... |