Africa: Fisheries Must Deal With Threats, Opportunities
Friday 03-Sep-2010: By Catherine SasmanWindhoek - The fisheries and aquaculture sectors are central to the survival of millions in Africa, but the resource is under threat, yet the region should exploit market possibilit (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Assore's Earnings Halve as Recession Hits Mineral Prices
Friday 03-Sep-2010: By Alistair AndersonJohannesburg - MINING holding company Assore 's headline earnings for the year to June more than halved to R1,49bn from R3,27bn because of a major decline in earnings from its prin (By News Poster)... |
Liberia: First U.S. Direct Flights in 20 Years Begin
Friday 03-Sep-2010: Notwithstanding the current infrastructurally cramped conditions of Roberts International Airport (RIA), Liberia in the days of old was the epic center of international air traffic in West Africa, wit (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)... |
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)... | "Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (03-09-2010)
Friday 03-Sep-2010: Howzit
Foreign currency mid-rates updated.
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Please be aware that this Sunday there will be no posting as I have our regular local Royal British Legion meeting.
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Zimbabwe: Warriors Ready - Mapeza
Friday 03-Sep-2010: By Petros KausiyoHarare - Warriors caretaker coach Norman Mapeza believes his charges are ready for their opening African Cup of Nations qualifying assignment against Liberia and has expressed satisfa (By News Poster)... | Mozambique: Tensions Soar As Food Riots Move Into Second Day
Friday 03-Sep-2010: By Orfeo LisboaMaputo - Tensions are running high in Mozambique, on the second day of riots caused by soaring food prices.The government has deployed troops to clear barricades in the capital, as angr (By News Poster)... |
Ethiopia: Pastoralism Against the Odds
Friday 03-Sep-2010: Jijiga - Pastoralists' disproportionate contribution to Ethiopia's economy is belied by their marginalized status and by policy assumptions that they would be better off farming. But those who raise l (By News Poster)... | Uganda: Bujagali Power Project On Course
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: By Ismail Musa Ladu and Martin Luther OketchOn August 21, 2007 President Yoweri Museveni and the Aga Khan, Prince Karim al-Hussaini, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims, laid the foundation st (By News Poster)... |
Absa Told to Revise Its Bid
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: By Felix NjiniWindhoek - Namibia's central bank would consider a reconfigured bid by South Africa's Absa Bank to take up rather a minority equity in Namibia's second largest commercial bank, Bank Wind (By News Poster)... | Nigeria: Property Scam - Nationals Lose N150 Billion in Dubai
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: By David AgbaAbuja - Nigerians, especially politicians, may have lost over $1 billion (about N150 billion) in property investment projects initiated by Damac Properties in Dubai, United Arab Emirate ( (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)... | Car Makers Committed to Local Industry
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: By Beth ShirleyJohannesburg - DESPITE the numerous challenges facing major car makers in SA, they remain committed to investing in the motor industry, viewing SA as rich in opportunities and strategic (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)... | 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)... |
Mozambique: Children Among Dead in Protests Over Price Hikes
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: Police opened fire on demonstrators in Maputo marching against rising prices in the capital of Maputo, killing at least six people including two children.On Thursday, police patrolled the streets of M (By News Poster)... | Africa: Funding Begins Flowing for Agriculture
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: By Claire NgozoWindhoek - The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) has received a major boost as several countries have begun drawing on funds from a $22 billion pledge made (By News Poster)... |
Africa: Development of Agricultural Projects Attracting Investors
Thursday 02-Sep-2010: By Edward WestJohannesburg - THERE has been a large positive shift in global investment perceptions towards agriculture in Africa, driven by the global race for resources and food.In addition, many Af (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)... |
Mozambique: Govt Remains Committed to Mitigating Effects of World Economic Crisis
Wednesday 01-Sep-2010: Maputo - The Mozambican government remains committed to finding solutions to offset the effects of the international financial crisis, which oblige countries with fragile economies, such as Mozambique (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)... |
Africa: Former Presidents Sound Warning Over Land Ownership
Wednesday 01-Sep-2010: By Samuel KamndayaAfrican governments need to reform ownership of land in the countries without looking for foreign assistance, former presidents urged yesterday.They should do so in a way that suppor (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)... |
Uganda: The Security Aftermath of 7/11
Wednesday 01-Sep-2010: By Isaac MufumbaKampala - The Igbo, a tribe in Nigeria, say that: "Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life."What would you think if you saw three (By News Poster)... | Nigeria: Fiscal Responsibility is Only a Part of the Problem
Wednesday 01-Sep-2010: By Sanusi AbubakarWhen the Fiscal Responsibility Act was enacted in 2007, the noise and hype was all about prudent management of public expenditure and resources. Now we have a law that would mitigate (By News Poster)... |
East Africa: Broaden COMESA Free Trade Area - President
Wednesday 01-Sep-2010: By Tumeliso MakhuraneHarare - PRESIDENT Mugabe has urged the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa to broaden its Free Trade Area to take on board other regional blocs and move away from expor (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: Mwanjali Gets Armband
Wednesday 01-Sep-2010: By Petros KausiyoHarare - THREE months after leading the home-based Warriors to the African Championships of Nations finals, Method Mwanjali is bracing for his first major battle as the senior team ca (By News Poster)... |
Liberia: Oil Maneuvers - Hopes, Woes, Worries in Wait
Wednesday 01-Sep-2010: Liberia via the seat of Government, for the first time in its 163 years of existence as an independent nation and even including the colonial days, announced an agreement with a transnational company (By News Poster)... | Mozambique: At Least Three Die in Protests
Wednesday 01-Sep-2010: At least three people have died in protests over rising prices in Mozambique's capital Maputo.Thousands of residents from poor neighbourhoods took to the streets on Wednesday to protest the rising pri (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Pan African to Decide on Gold Project
Wednesday 01-Sep-2010: By Allan SeccombeJohannesburg - Pan African increased gold production by 3% to 97483oz at its Barberton mines in the year to June. It posted a 26% increase in headline earnings per share of 1,07p.GOLD (By News Poster)... | USA: Stock Markets: Gold Rallying to $1,500 as Soros's Bubble Inflates.. Gold's longest rally in 90 years...
Tuesday 31-Aug-2010: [Gold is rocking again... getting ready to break new records. I think Gold is going to climb and climb for years... to unbelievable levels. I will revisit my Technical Indicators and how they performe (By Jan)... |
Rhodesia: Something I told Black people once about Colonialism, which really made them think...
Tuesday 31-Aug-2010: I once had the opportunity to discuss colonialism with two black Zimbabweans, and I made a point which really hit home to them.
I pointed out to them (and this is true for Apartheid South Africa t (By Jan)... | The Shocking things a Black man said about Whites ... and Zimbabwean democracy is based on one big false assumption....
Tuesday 31-Aug-2010: I was chatting one day to a black Zimbabwean man who had done his own analysis of what was going on. He told me he has a little son and how he has realised that his baby boy has NO FUTURE if he does n (By Jan)... |
Nigeria: 2011 - EFCC Will Stop Corrupt Politicians, Waziri Insists
Tuesday 31-Aug-2010: By Peter OnocheAbuja - Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Farida Waziri, has insisted that nothing will stop the anti-graft agency working with other sister organisations (By News Poster)... | Sierra Leone: Fighting for Citizenship Right - Ayoub Threatens Hungry Strike
Tuesday 31-Aug-2010: By Moses A. KargboFreetown - Just few days after calling on the Sierra Leonean authorities to shrug-off what he referred to as nationality prejudice and grant full citizenship right to all individuals (By News Poster)... |
Namibia: A Hero Looks Back
Tuesday 31-Aug-2010: By Jana-Mari SmithChief of the City Police, Abraham Kanime, decided to celebrate Hero's day by visiting the sandy forest where the armed liberation struggle was kick-started on 26 August 1966.Yesterda (By News Poster)... | Africa: Activist Wants Looted Money Returned
Tuesday 31-Aug-2010: By Ibrahim ChonokoLondon - A London-based Nigerian human rights activist, Ms Alice Ukoko, has challenged western countries to return looted funds stashed in their banks to victims of money laundering (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Top Local Producer Pursues 'Fake' Wines Scam
Tuesday 31-Aug-2010: By Michael BlebyJohannesburg - ONE of SA's biggest wine companies is suing its former export director for R12m and has laid criminal charges against him over an alleged eight-year fraud that saw him s (By News Poster)... | Somalia: Mogadishu Shelling Kills Four Peacekeepers
Tuesday 31-Aug-2010: Four Ugandan African Union peace workers in Somalia were killed Monday when insurgents fired a mortar shell at one of their bases, the forces' spokesman said.AU troops in the region are propping up So (By News Poster)... |