Kenya: Africa Delegates Meet in Nairobi Over Food Security
Friday 03-Sep-2010: By Lucas BarasaNairobi - Participants from seven countries meet in Nairobi on Monday and Tuesday to find ways of addressing food security in the region.Other participants will be drawn from the East A (By News Poster)... | Namibia: Import Penalties Irk Firms
Friday 03-Sep-2010: By Brigitte WeidlichImport penalties slapped on Namibian companies for grain, fruit and vegetables from South Africa by a private SA company are being investigated by Government.Agri Inspec, an SA com (By News Poster)... |
East Africa: Board Impounds Counterfeit Drugs
Friday 03-Sep-2010: By Salma SaidZanzibar - The Zanzibar Food, Drugs and Cosmetics Board and the International Police (Interpol) Tanzania branch have jointly impounded counterfeit drugs during a special operation targeti (By News Poster)... | Tanzania: Interpol Warns Buyers On Stolen Cars
Friday 03-Sep-2010: By Frank KimboyCar importers and buyers in the country have been urged to consult the local International Police (Interpol) department about the status of cars that they intend to import.The call was (By News Poster)... |
Liberia: Govt Initiates Peaceful Solution in Gbarpolu, Bomi Land Dispute
Friday 03-Sep-2010: By Buxton a DaviesEfforts by the Liberian Government aimed at finding an amicable solution to the land dispute between Bomi and Gbarpolu Counties has commenced with the launch of an official inquiry o (By News Poster)... | Nigeria: Arms' Trafficking Threatens Our Peace
Friday 03-Sep-2010: The recent arrest in Maiduguri of five men with deadly weapons bound for Plateau and Taraba states has raised fresh security concerns over the proliferation of illicit arms in this country. The State (By News Poster)... |
Nigeria: NDLEA - 81 Drug Traffickers Convicted in FCT
Friday 03-Sep-2010: By Chika OkekeIn a bid to rid the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of crime, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it has convicted 81 persons between January to August 2010 who were caught (By News Poster)... | Price Hikes Trigger Mozambique Protests
Friday 03-Sep-2010: By Nastasya TayMaputo - September in Mozambique's capital has begun with violent protests. Thousands have been striking over an increase in the prices of basic goods, including bread. Police responded (By News Poster)... |
S.Africa: A Black Co-Worker tells me another Black guy hung himself...
Friday 03-Sep-2010: [I mentioned to a black co-worker of mine the black guy I heard who hung himself on wednesday. She then sent me a note containing this... she also knows another black guy who hung himself.
Funny... (By Jan)... | [Pic] Bill and Hillary Clinton in their college days... real hippies...
Friday 03-Sep-2010:  Clearly, Bill and Hillary Clinton were hippies back then... sex, drugs and rock and roll I suppose. She looked pretty geeky... and he looked like the kind of guy a father would not want his daughter t (By Jan)... |
USA: Nearly Half of United States Considering Arizona-Style Immigration Legislation
Friday 03-Sep-2010: CNSNews.com) – Twenty-two states are now in the process of drafting or seeking to pass legislation similar to Arizona’s law against illegal immigration. This is occurring despite the fact that the Oba (By Jan)... | Kenya: Govt Has 24 Hours to Sign International Court Agreement
Friday 03-Sep-2010: By Nzau Musau/Ramadhan RajabNairobi - KENYA will tomorrow sign an agreement allowing the International Criminal Court to set up base here as it pursues the post-election violence suspects.This was rev (By News Poster)... |
Uganda: Bombs - Two More Held
Friday 03-Sep-2010: By Charles Ariko and Andante OkanyaKampala - Two more suspects have been arrested over the July 11 bombings in Kampala, bringing the number to 34. Khalif Abdi Muhammed, 20, a Somali national, was arre (By News Poster)... | Uganda: Terror Suspects Appear in Court Again
Friday 03-Sep-2010: By Ephraim Kasozi & Juliet KigongoA group of 30 people who were arrested in connection with the July twin bombings that killed over 70 people in Kampala has been remanded to Luzira Maximum Prison.The (By News Poster)... |
Madagascar: South Africa Criticizes Ravalomanana Trial
Friday 03-Sep-2010: Pretoria - The sentencing of Madagascar's former President Marc Ravalomanana to hard labour for life may prove to be one more obstacle in the island's attempts to emerge from its current political cri (By News Poster)... | Côte d'Ivoire: No Political Mandate, No Development
Friday 03-Sep-2010: Abidjan - Continued election delays and political turmoil have for years been used as excuses to justify poor governance and the lack of investment in public services, say civil society groups and pub (By News Poster)... |
Mozambique: Frelimo Appeals for Calm
Friday 03-Sep-2010: Maputo - The ruling Frelimo party on Wednesday launched an appeal for people to remain calm, after a serious outbreak of violence left at least three people dead and dozens injured. Rioting broke out (By News Poster)... | Congo-Kinshasa: Clinton on Allegations of Mass Rape in DRC
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: U.S. condemns "epidemic of sexual violence in conflict zones"U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATEOffice of the SpokesmanSTATEMENT BY SECRETARY CLINTONAllegation of Mass Rape in the Democratic Republic of the Cong (By News Poster)... |
Somalia: Journalist is Stabbed to Death in Puntland
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: Reporters Without Borders today voiced its deep distress at the murder yesterday of Abdullahi Omar Gedi, aged 25, a journalist on Radio Daljir in Galkayo, capital of the semi-autonomous Puntland regio (By News Poster)... | Uganda: Oil Operations Attract Sh1 Billion, But Where is it?
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: By Ibrahim KasitaKampala - Uganda earned sh1.08b from its nascent oil and gas industry even before producing a barrel, unlocking the potential of petrodollar inflows.According to the Ministry of Energ (By News Poster)... |
Rwanda: What a Clever Way to Negate the Genocide Against the Tutsi!
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: By Emmanuel MurangiraKigali - I have always been sceptical about a human race known as "experts," I can now confirm that my sceptism. When I was researching on an academic paper "micro level determina (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Punitive Laws Do Little to Stem the HIV Tide
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: By Priti PatelJohannesburg - SEX, drugs, rock 'n' roll with a reality show thrown in: sounds like the perfect cocktail for a media extravaganza. Well it was, just not in the way you may imagine. All o (By News Poster)... |
Uganda: Slain UPDF Peacekeepers Returned
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: By Steven Candia and Justine NakitendeKampala - The bodies of the four Ugandan Soldiers who were slain while serving on a peacekeeping mission in Somalia were flown in yesterday for burial.Receiving t (By News Poster)... | Gambia: Magistrate Abeke Remands Ex-Permanent Secretary, Willy Joof Joof Rejects Criminal Charges Against Him
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: By Mamadou DemThe former Gambian Ambassador to France and a former Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mr. William John Joof on Monday pleaded not guilty to the nine count charges p (By News Poster)... |
South Africa's Poor 'Have No Friends'
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: By Allister SparksFinance Minister Pravin Gordhan's warning last week that we need to achieve a sustained 7% growth rate for the next 20 to 30 years if we are to meet the social and economic needs of (By News Poster)... | Rwanda: More Officials Slam Amnesty International Report
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: By Edmund KagireKigali - Shortly after the Government described the latest report by Amnesty International as "very sensational and dishonest," more officials have come out to denounce the human right (By News Poster)... |
Zimbabwe: Diamond Output to Surge
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: Harare - Zimbabwe's diamond output from Marange fields could reach 40 million carats within the next three years, realising about US$2 billion per year, a Belgian diamond expert has said.Mbada Diamond (By News Poster)... | Namibia: Three Deny Taxi Driver Murder
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: By Werner MengesONE of the three men accused of robbing and murdering a taxi driver at the Hage Geingob Stadium in Windhoek four months ago claimed in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court this week that on (By News Poster)... |
Namibia: State Closes Case in Family Murder Trial
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: By Luqman CloeteTHE prosecution yesterday closed its case in the murder trial of a 70-year-old Tses resident accused of shooting and killing his son.With the start of his trial in the Keetmanshoop Reg (By News Poster)... | "Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (02-09-2010)
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: Howzit
This posting is/was late as I had a doctor's appointment earlier this morning, and then, at about 1030hrs, the internet, cable television and the telephone all died... Then, in ill-timed fit (By The BeardedMan)... |
South Africa: Hospice Conference
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: By Kerry CullinanSevere overcrowding in KwaZulu-Natal's prisons is contributing to the spread of HIV and tuberculosis and driving the high death toll in prisons."Our prisons are 140 percent full. In a (By News Poster)... | Congo-Kinshasa: More Victims Identified in Mass Rapes Case
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: By Aprille MuscaraUnited Nations - The number of women raped by rebel groups during last month's raid of more than a dozen villages centred around Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has (By News Poster)... |
Malawi Food Surplus Creates Political Storm
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: Johannesburg - A surplus production of maize, Malawi's staple food, will not prevent at least one million people from being food insecure, a forecast that has not pleased President Bingu wa Mutharika. (By News Poster)... | Congo-Kinshasa: Displacement, Discrimination - the Lot of the Bambuti Pygmies
Wednesday 01-Sep-2010: Goma - Conditions in Mugunga camp for displaced people on the outskirts of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma are tough, but tougher still are those endured by hundreds of people fr (By News Poster)... |
Kenya: International Court to Issue Sealed Warrants
Wednesday 01-Sep-2010: By Nzau MusauNairobi - THE International Criminal Court is expected to request sealed warrants of arrest for the post-election violence suspects, the Star has established.The decision to ask for seale (By News Poster)... | Mozambique: Frelimo Appeals for Calm
Wednesday 01-Sep-2010: Maputo - The ruling Frelimo party on Wednesday launched an appeal for people to remain calm, after a serious outbreak of violence left at least three people dead and dozens injured. Rioting broke out (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Civil Society Launches 'Right to Know' Campaign
Wednesday 01-Sep-2010: A petition launched by the Right2Know Campaign, a civil society-organized lobby, to defend the free flow of information and a free media:A responsive and accountable democracy that can meet the basic (By News Poster)... | Gambia: DR Ceesay, Police Photographer Testify in Murder Case
Wednesday 01-Sep-2010: By Sanna Jawara and Sidiq AsemotaDr. Abdoulie Alieu Ceesay, a medical doctor attached to the Accident & Emergency Unit (AEU) of the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH) and senior registrar at the (By News Poster)... |
Nigeria: Rabo - Pursuing the Pursuer
Wednesday 01-Sep-2010: By Abdulaziz AbdulazizKano - In this piece, Abdulaziz Abdulaziz writes on the recent case of an alleged illicit sex affair between the director general of Kano State Censorship Board, Malam Abubakar R (By News Poster)... | Africa: Agri-Projects 'Unprecedented'
Wednesday 01-Sep-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - THE number of investment projects in the agricultural sector in sub-Saharan Africa is at "unprecedented" levels, Paul Runge, the MD of Africa Project Access, said at an ag (By News Poster)... |