Koch's Widow Scores Victory
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Werner MengesWindhoek - A BITTER dispute between the widow and the former lawyer of the late German extradition target Hans Jurgen Koch made a return to the High Court this week, with Koch's widow (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Public hospitals under scrutiny
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Friday that a group of senior government officials would be created to assess the state of South Africa's 354 public hospitals."The team will look at each and (By News Poster)... |
Somalia: Piracy Off Coast Not Only Criminal, But Very Successful, Security Council Hears
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Piracy off the coast of Somalia was not only a criminal activity, but it was, first of all, a very successful business, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Farmers Responsible for Attacks?
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Xolani Mbanjwa And Bronwynne JoosteFarmers in De Doorns have rejected allegations that they are paying Zimbabwean immigrants lower than the minimum wage and are therefore responsible for the xenoph (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Student's rape and murder trial set for May
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Former Stellenbosch student Jacobus Eksteen, accused of raping and killing fellow-student Erin Van Rensburg, is to go on trial in the Cape High Court next year.Eksteen made his final appearance in the (By News Poster)... | Africa: Mercenaries complicate peace bid
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Mark JohnDakar - Sightings of mercenaries at work for Guinea's junta are a potential blow to international efforts to stave off new violence in the West African country and press its military leade (By News Poster)... |
Rwanda: Fate of FDLR Chiefs to Be Known in Three Months
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By James Karuhanga and AgenciesKigali - The case of the two top leaders of FDLR who were arrested in Germany on Tuesday will be re-examined in three months.According to information gathered from the G (By News Poster)... | Uganda: Why Oil Revenues Will Harm Us
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Andrew M. MwendaKampala - On October 16, 2009, Oxford's Prof. Paul Collier gave a talk at Serena Hotel in Kampala on the prospects of an oil windfall in Uganda. Unlike in most of his work, this tim (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: 'He brought her naked to me'
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Jade Witten Court ReporterThe grandfather of two-year-old Randoline Fortune, who was raped and murdered, allegedly by a neighbour, has testified to the bruises on her naked body in the last moments (By News Poster)... | World: Transsexual in political scandal 'murdered'
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Antonella Cinelli Rome - A Brazilian transsexual caught up in a scandal which prompted the resignation of a senior Italian politician - the centre-left governor of Lazio region, which includes Rome (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: 'Considerable blow to drug market'
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Caryn DolleyIn a "considerable blow to the drug market", the Hawks have bust a suspected drug outlet and seized more than R2-million worth of illegal substances.And, in two months, police have retr (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Robbers target Joburg houses
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Robbers targeted two houses in Northcliff, Johannesburg in incidents police suspect are related, a spokesman said on Friday.The two houses were robbed between 6pm and 8pm on Thursday, Superintendent R (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Farmers responsible for attacks?
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Xolani Mbanjwa and Bronwynne JoosteStaff ReportersFarmers in De Doorns have rejected allegations that they are paying Zimbabwean immigrants lower than the minimum wage and are therefore responsible (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Cops probe guesthouse murder
Friday 20-Nov-2009: The case of seven people who allegedly killed two Mpumalanga guesthouse owners in October was postponed in the Sabie Magistrate's Court on Friday, police said.Cindy Sambo, 33, Dorah Sono, 36, Nicolas (By News Poster)... |
Tanzania: Charcoal a Dirty Trade-Off
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Jessie BoylanDar Es Salaam - The sun is setting slowly over Dar es Salaam's Tabata Changombe neighbourhood. Ameenah and Skukulu Juma lean against the corrugated iron walls of their makeshift charco (By News Poster)... | Africa: Crime wave overshadows amnesty deal
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Austin EkeindePort Harcourt, Nigeria - A crime wave in Nigeria's main oil city of Port Harcourt blamed on former militants has shut the university and forced residents to flee, raising questions ab (By News Poster)... |
Nigeria: Corruption - Waziri Canvasses Death Penalty
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Samuel Aruwan and Lilian AgihKaduna/Abuja - Chairperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes commission, Mrs. Farida Waziri, has stated that only the Chinese style of capital punishment for corrupt (By News Poster)... | Uganda: Baha'i Faith is On Trial in Iran
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Devapriyo DasLast October, seven prisoners in Iran escaped a near-certain death sentence.Convicted of a string of offences, including "spreading corruption on earth", "espionage for Israel" and "in (By News Poster)... |
Kenya: Piracy Attacks on Grain Vessels Hit Flour Production
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Githua Kihara and Gitonga MareteA wheat flour shortage looms as Somali pirates hit closer home -- our dinner tables.Fears over shortage of the commodity follows rising attacks by the hijackers who (By News Poster)... | World: Bomber kills dozen in Afghan
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Herat, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck an Afghan town on Friday, killing 12 people in the deadliest attack since President Hamid Karzai got down to the business of a second term. (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Bloody end to trail of terror
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Gallery: Botched robbery in Pretoria By Graeme HoskenCrime ReporterA six-hour Pretoria robbery rampage in which several homeowners were attacked and two security guards seriously injured was brought (By News Poster)... | Liberia: Press Under Attack
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Monrovia - There was once upon a time in Liberia's dark past when it was fashionable to silence the press by rounding up reporters and editors and incarcerating them for months without charge. There w (By News Poster)... |
Africa: Frelimo implicated in corruption case
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Maputo - Testimony in the highest-level corruption trial in Mozambique's history has implicated ruling party Frelimo as a beneficiary of embezzled funds, independent media reported on Thursday.Former (By News Poster)... | Kenya: Draft Law to Set Pace for Land Reforms
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Lucas BarasaNairobi - The draft constitution and a policy tabled in Parliament this week give a clear path on management of land, property and natural resources.The documents provide for the right (By News Poster)... |
Nigeria: Niger Delta - 'Illegal Oil Bunkering Won't End'
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Victor EfeizomorAsaba - Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ishaya Ibrahim, has warned that the problem of illegal oil bunkering in the country will not end, unless the people and government of the (By News Poster)... | Africa: Botswana is Least Corrupt Country in Africa
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By DR Jeff RamseyGaborone - Transparency International (TI) has just released its annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI) at a ceremony in Berlin. This Office is pleased to announce that, for the 14t (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Teenager jailed for raping siblings
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Tania BroughtonAn Umzinto teenager who raped his brother and two sisters because he was angry that his father had been jailed - also for raping the two girls - has been sent to prison for 10 years. (By News Poster)... | Rwanda: Local NGO Runs Pitiless Scam, Fleecing Orphans of Their Scarce Money
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Steve TerrillKigali - Law enforcement agencies seat idly as CÅ"ur Joyeux steals money from hundreds of helpless orphansHundreds of orphans have been duped out of between 25 and 50 million fra (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Zuma shocked by settlement grime
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: President Jacob Zuma on Thursday described the conditions at the Madelakufa informal settlement in Tembisa as "very bad"."The situation here is very bad. As we've seen, the place is dirty," Zuma said (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Alleged robber killed during shooting
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: A suspected robber was shot dead and another was wounded in a shootout with police in Centurion, Pretoria police said on Thursday.Inspector Aveline Hardaker said police received a complaint of a house (By News Poster)... |
Africa: Winners and Losers In Corruption Stakes
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By John Allen and Adiel IsmailCape Town - Botswana continues to be seen as Africa’s least corrupt, and Somalia as the continent’s – and the world’s – most corrupt country (By News Poster)... | World: Guantanamo prisoner says he was tortured
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Washington - A Saudi prisoner at the US "war on terror" camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said he had confessed under torture, according to a report released on Friday by the defence department.Abdel Rahi (By News Poster)... |
Africa: Consequences of Less Funding for Aids - Living With Aids # 413
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Khopotso BodibeThanks to the international recession, donors are either decreasing or opting not to increase their funding of AIDS treatment. This will have devastating effects on poorer countries (By News Poster)... | One Killed as Chopper Goes Down
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Tileni Mongudhi and Werner MengesA HELICOPTER training flight ended in a deadly crash between Windhoek and Okahandja yesterday afternoon.In the second fatal aircraft accident in the Windhoek area i (By News Poster)... |
Zimbabwe: Weapons Theft Stokes Fears of Instability
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Harare - The recent "suicide" of a senior army officer in the wake of a break-in at a military armoury in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, is sowing fears that the missing guns may be used to fuel instabil (By News Poster)... | Nigeria: Deregulation - Tears For The Country
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Peter EseleLagos - We have proved over and over again that we are a nation that does not plan for tomorrow. Since 1990, the Nigeria economy has expanded and the population has grown, but it is now (By News Poster)... |
Sierra Leone: Song Sparks Governance Debate
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Mohamed FofanahFreetown - Nothing has ever sparked a debate on the state of governance in the country like the song released by one of Sierra Leone's most popular artists, Emerson Bockarie.The song (By News Poster)... | Nigeria: Govt Blames Private Sector for Corruption Rating
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Daniel IdonorAbuja - STILL recovering from the shock of Nigeria's downward spiral in the ranking of Transparency International, TI, the Federal Government yesterday blamed the low rating on the Org (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)... | Angolan Fined for Buying Stolen Computer Screens
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Werner MengesAN Angolan national, who was one of a group of suspects arrested a month ago when the Police swooped on a house in Windhoek North where a hoard of stolen computer equipment was found, (By News Poster)... |