USA: Victim of a "Nigerian 419" scam
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: [An elderly USA victim of a "Nigerian 419" scam sent us this heart-rending account of how she was defrauded]
My story, I would like you to read and please print. It is much needed and I would appre (By Gairk)... | "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)... |
South Africa: Taking the gap in the Cape Flats
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Fran BlandyThe laughing young man has a perfect set of teeth, his golden incisors glinting in the sunlight. Suddenly he pops out a pair of dentures, revealing a gap-toothed smile, the four upper fr (By News Poster)... | 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)... |
World: 31 dead, 82 trapped after China mine blast
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: Beijing - An explosion at a coal mine in northeast China early Saturday killed 31 workers and left 82 trapped, state-run China Central Television (CCTV) said, the latest deadly incident to hit the ind (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)... |
Liberia: Rebel, President, CIA Spy
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: Following his claims that the US plotted against him for regime change, Mr. Charles Taylor Monday admitted that he maintained links with the US Central Intelligence Agency that he established during t (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)... |
Kenya: Youth Warned Against Joining Somalia War
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Nairobi - In response to reports that Kenya is recruiting youth to go and fight Somalia war, a Muslim clergy has cautioned Muslim youth not to allow themselves to be drawn by financial incentives and (By News Poster)... | Kenya: Weapons Seized From Pirates Displayed in Court
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Philip MuyangaNairobi - Weapons handed over to Kenyan authorities when 17 suspected Somali pirates were brought into the country were identified in court on Tuesday.A US special agent with naval cr (By News Poster)... |
No Better Time To Be A Commie In The USA?
Friday 20-Nov-2009: [It certainly sounds like Barack Obama's first year in office has certainly embolden members of the Communist Party USA to step up its actions. Here they are openly displaying how well connected that (By Lone Wolf)... | Budget Support From World Bank
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Maputo - The World Bank has provided a 110 million US dollar credit to Mozambique as direct budget support, under an agreement signed in Maputo on Friday by Planning and Cooperation Minister Aiuba Cue (By News Poster)... |
Biofuels Targeted by Oil Companies
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Maputo - The claim that biofuels are a threat to food security comes from multinational oil companies, who fear that biofuels are a threat to their business, alleged Jose Bellini, coordinator for agro (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)... |
Liberia: Taylor Denies Supporting Plans to Attack Sierra Leone
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor did not support plans to attack Sierra Leone while he was in Libya, the accused former Liberian president told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today while being cros (By News Poster)... | Liberia: Prosecution Says Taylor Was 'Not Honest' With UN Panel
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Alpha SesayCharles Taylor was "not honest" with the United Nations Panel of Experts set up to investigate his alleged dealings with Sierra Leonean rebels, prosecutors told the Special Court for Sie (By News Poster)... |
Africa: Opacity Blamed for Bad Oil Deals in Africa
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Steve ManteawMontreal - Campaigners from fifty countries from around the world meeting in Montreal, Canada to strategise on pushing further the frontiers of transparency in oil, gas, and mining ind (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)... | 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)... | 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)... | 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)... |
Proud to be white by Michael Richards...a.k.a. "Kramer"
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Admittedly, this may be considered to be a bit "crude" to some, but it also makes a very good point.
(I did not write this, in case anybody was wondering...Kramer did!)
I have been wondering abo (By Gairk)... | "Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (20-11-2009)
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Howzit
Foreign currency mid-rates updated...
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PACHEDU (Roy Bennett)
Racist taunts from Chinamasa
Made Roy Bennett cross the line
Minor scuffle led to trauma
Jail was worse than (By The BeardedMan)... |
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)... |
Africa: Zim farmers a boost for Nigeria
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Hannington OsodoShonga, Nigeria - When white Zimbabwean farmer Irvin Reid arrived in Nigeria almost five years ago, he was given a set of grid references in the remote bush and told to find water a (By News Poster)... | World: Problems await on Obama's return
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Washington- After an Asia tour lacking the fanfare of past trips, US President Barack Obama returned home to a gloomy set of problems that refuse to go away: Afghanistan, soaring unemployment, trundli (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)... | Uganda: Historic LRA/Uganda Legislation Takes Crucial Step Forward in U.S. Senate
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted unanimously to approve the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009, bringing the legislation a step closer to reaching President Ob (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: Coup soldiers could face death penalty
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Barry MaloneAddis Ababa - An Ethiopian court convicted 27 serving and former soldiers on Thursday of planning a coup and found them guilty on other charges which also carry the death penalty."The m (By News Poster)... |
Senator Lugar Hails New Chapter in U.S.-Angolan Relations
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Charles W. CoreySenator Richard G. Lugar, the ranking Republican on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, expressed his strong support for a "robust relationship" between the United States a (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)... | 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)... | 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)... |