Nigeria: Tribunal Orders Arrest of Anti-Corruption Leader
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By George AgbaAbuja - The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) yesterday ordered the police to arrest former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, and detain h (By News Poster)... | Rwanda: UN Calls for Action Against Militia
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Edmund KagireKigali - The United Nations has welcomed the recent arrest in Germany of top leaders of the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), and urged other nations t (By News Poster)... |
"Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (20-11-2009)
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: Howzit
On Thursday, I spent some time on an editorial that looked at the inaccuracies of the voters' roll... This was following a shock revelation in parliament by an MDC MP.
"Home Affairs Minis (By The BeardedMan)... | Zimbabwe: Boardroom Wrangle Erupts at Aico
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Shame MakoshoriHarare - HAPPYMORE Mapara, the group chief executive officer (CEO) of AICO Africa Limited was this week sent on suspension pending investigations into the operations of the company a (By News Poster)... |
Zimbabwe: Country's Corruption Wanes
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Paul NyakazeyaZIMBABWE recorded the biggest jump of the 180 countries surveyed by Transparency International (IT) this year being ranked as the 34th most corrupt nation from the number 14 it was po (By News Poster)... | South Africa: David Bullard tells us why toy guitars and footballs should also be banned
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: The anti-gun brigade have been in the news of late because they have managed to persuade Pick ‘n Pay to take toy guns off their shelves ahead of Christmas. The thinking is that if you give a kid a toy (By Gairk)... |
Africa: Britons warn: Somali captors losing patience
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: London - A British couple held hostage by Somali pirates said in a video broadcast Friday their captors were "losing patience" and could kill them within a week if no ransom was paid.The video of Paul (By News Poster)... | The Warrior Kings
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Jerry Kai-LewisTo say that it was destiny that set Botswana apart to be the shining star for Africa on the world's political and economic stages would be a gross understatement.Rather, it was hard (By News Poster)... |
Africa: 'Stop Acquisition of Farmland in Continent' - Gaddafi
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Libyan President Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has called for an end to the buying and selling of African farmland by rich nations during UN hunger summit the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Org (By News Poster)... | Tanzania: Rwandan Priest Cleared of Genocide Charges
Friday 20-Nov-2009: A UN court, the ICTR has acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) ordered th (By News Poster)... |
Renamo Discusses Its Post-Election Future
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Maputo - The Political Commission of Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, began an extraordinary session in the northern city of Nampula on Thursday to define the part (By News Poster)... | South Africa: Country Slips One Place on Corruption Index
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Hopewell RadebeJohannesburg - SA's international standing took a knock after the country slipped a notch down on Transparency International's 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index, released this week.T (By News Poster)... |
World: Russia tops global fraud survey
Friday 20-Nov-2009: PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a survey on Friday that Russia had the world's most fraudulent economy, and attempts to stamp out white-collar crime had done little to stop its spread during the global (By News Poster)... | 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)... |
Africa's Biggest Wind Farm Runs Into Stormy Weather
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Jaindi KiseroNairobi - Long term lenders behind the massive Lake Turkana Wind Power Project - Kenya's largest green-field wind power scheme - are now asking for a government guarantee to cover the (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)... |
Eat Your Capital Or Go Back to Work
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Daniel SteinmannWindhoek - As much as the current debate concerns inflation or deflation, a similar debate is slowly emerging around interest rates.As you know, in the USA interest rates are effect (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)... |
South Africa: 'We were all against apartheid'
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Fiona FordeDaniel Ammann had been knocking on Marc Rich's door for more than seven years, but the notorious billionaire fugitive financier refused to budge. "I used to write. Then send faxes and e (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)... |
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)... | 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)... |
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)... | Africa: Food Security Now at Center of Global Development Agenda
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Charles W. CoreyThe issue of food security can now be found at the center of the global community's development agenda in the wake of recent food and fuel crises caused by spiking prices. According (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)... | 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)... |
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)... | World: Secret torture material to be publicised
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Meera SelvaLondon - More secret information relating to the alleged torture of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee should be disclosed, Britain's High Court ruled on Thursday.Ethiopian-born Binyam Moh (By News Poster)... |
World: Suspect in Naples video killing nabbed
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Naples, Italy - Italian police arrested on Thursday the suspected gunman whose shooting of an alleged mobster in Naples was controversially distributed on video last month, news reports said.The 27 y (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)... |
Honiball Excels in SA Cup
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: NAMIBIA'S top male gymnast Robert Honiball excelled at the SA Cup international gymnastics competition in Centurion, South Africa, by winning five medals and finishing second overall.Honiball was Nami (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)... |
Power Shortages Cripple African Growth
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Jo-Mare DuddyJohannesburg - INADEQUATE access to power is the single largest stumbling block in Africa's economic development, with the cost of blackouts easily rising between one to two per cent o (By News Poster)... | Africa: Climate Change and the Population 'Bomb': A Debate Not to Shy Away From
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Saliem FakirThe United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its "State of the World Population 2009" report on the 18th of November. It chose to take up a politically delicate topic, the relati (By News Poster)... |
Nigeria: Food Security - Collective Race Against Crises
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Abimbola AkosileLagos - The United Nations hosted a World Food Summit between November 16 and 18 in Rome, Italy, with the fact that more than one billion people are hungry echoing in the minds of c (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: No Rest for Fortune
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Wellington Zimbowa and Jonathan MbiriyamvekaHarare - DEAD men tell no tales, but not so for Fortune Muparutsa whose family wants him to "tell" them how he died.Some of the artiste's family members (By News Poster)... |
Congo-Kinshasa: Spain, France Probed on Links to Rwandan Militia
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By James KaruhangaKigali - The UN's Eminent Group of Expert report on rebel militias in the DRC is expected to reveal Spanish and French connections to the FDLR militia, The New Times has been informe (By News Poster)... | S.Africa: Exporting White Farmer – from the Frying pan into the fire
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: The fact that South Africa has farmers to export is somewhat bizarre – the country’s population is 48 million and rising, while a small coterie of 37 000 farmers provides food not only for this number (By JanOlifant)... |
"Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (19-11-2009)
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: Howzit
Among the list of obstacles that face the unity government, there is the appointment of the Attorney-General (who spent most of this week in court prosecuting Roy Bennett - and who was havin (By The BeardedMan)... | Congo-Kinshasa: Calls for LRA to Face Charges
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Melanie Gouby and Gabriel ShabaniHuman rights activists are calling on the International Criminal Court, ICC, to charge the Lord's Resistance Army leaders with a series of brutal crimes they are ac (By News Poster)... |