Nigeria: Deregulation As a National Albatross
Saturday 21-Nov-2009: By Joseph OmowaIju - From what we presently have on ground, it is evident that this nation's problems do not come in trickles but in torrents; and the Federal Government, under the leadership of Presi (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)... |
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)... | 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)... |
Africa: Leaders Tackle Plight of Their Victims
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Agnes AsiimweKampala - Five heads of state, ministers and delegates from across the African continent met in Kampala last week for a special summit to deal with forced displacement in Africa.The me (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)... |
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)... | Nigeria: Petroleum Bill Critical to Banking Reform - Sanusi
Friday 20-Nov-2009: By Ese AwhotuAbuja - Central Bank Governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has urged the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to continue with the reforms in the petroleum sector irrespective of the p (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)... | Africa: Egyptians clash with police
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Cairo - Protesters hurled stones and firebombs at police near the Algerian embassy in Cairo on Friday, wounding 11 officers as anger mounted over attacks on Egyptians after the countries' World Cup qu (By News Poster)... |
South Africa: Baghdad Four - wives attack SSS
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Emotions ran high as the wives of the four South African men known as the Baghdad Four blasted their husbands' former employers and accused them of lying and abandoning them and their partners.The sca (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)... | 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)... | Africa: Eleven killed in Darfur
Friday 20-Nov-2009: Khartoum, Sudan - The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur says 11 people died following an attack by unidentified gunmen on two villages in the southern part of the western Sudanese region.U (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: 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)... |
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)... | South Africa: Wives of Baghdad four appeal to JZ
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: The wives of four South African men abducted on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, nearly three years ago have made an emotional plea for help to President Jacob Zuma.Speaking to the media in Pretoria on (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)... | 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)... |
Air Zimbabwe flight crashes into bush pig
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: A statement from the Transport Ministry said last week that one of Air Zimbabwe's Chinese-made MA60 60-seaters had sustained damage to its nose, wingtip and propeller after hitting the animal.
Howe (By JanOlifant)... | World: Queen sheds light on new agenda
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Jill LawlessLondon - Royal pageantry met hard-nosed electioneering on Wednesday, as Queen Elizabeth II donned the diamond-encrusted Imperial State Crown to announce the government's plans for the n (By News Poster)... |
Kenya: Food Subsidy Scheme for Poor Homes a Blessing for Small-Scale Farmers
Thursday 19-Nov-2009: By Steve MbogoThe food subsidy scheme announced on Tuesday could help create demand for farm produce and offer a lifeline to smallholder farmers who form a large pool of food suppliers to the poor.The (By News Poster)... | World: Israel slammed over building plans
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Jeffrey HellerJerusalem - United States President Barack Obama warned Israel on Wednesday its approval of new construction in a Jewish settlement could prove "very dangerous" by fuelling Palestinia (By News Poster)... |
World: Headscarf attack: Muslim student beaten up
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Goettingen, Germany - A Muslim medical student wearing a headscarf has been beaten up in what appeared to be a racist attack, the police chief of the German university town of Goettingen said Wednesda (By News Poster)... | Somalia: Fighting in Mogadishu Kills 4, Injures 5
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: At least 4 people are reportedly killed and 5 others including a journalist are injured in heavy clashes between insurgents and Somali government forces backed by African Union troops in the Somali ca (By News Poster)... |
TAU International Bulletin: S A Exporting Farmers- From The Frying Pan Into the Fire
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Submitted by Kobie Nel:
November 18, 2009
TAU SA is the oldest agricultural union in South Africa and has been in existence since 1897. The mission of the union is to ensure a productive and safe (By JoAn)... | Nigeria: Opec Comfortable With Country Industry Reforms - El-Badri
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Sopuruchi OnwukaOrganization of Petrroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has endorsed the controversial Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) currently undergoing review in the National Assembly, saying the p (By News Poster)... |
Uganda: Terrorism Suspects Go Through Uganda,Arrested in Rwanda
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Risdel KasasiraKampala - Rwanda is investigating whether four Somalis arrested last week trying to illegally cross into the country from Uganda have suspected links with Somali insurgents, Al Shaba (By News Poster)... | East Africa: Rwanda Least Corrupt in the Region - Report
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Edmund KagireKigali - Rwanda emerged the least corrupt nation in East Africa and the Great Lakes Region according to a Corruption Perception Index 2009 released by Transparency International (TI).T (By News Poster)... |
"Zimbabwe Today" by Robb WJ Ellis (18-11-2009)
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Howzit
Foreign currency mid-rates updated...
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It isn't very often that household names stand up and are counted - especially when the person that they are standing up against is Rober (By The BeardedMan)... | Zimbabwe: President Blasts West's Subsidies
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Hebert ZharareRome - RICH countries' agricultural subsidies and denial of market access to produce from developing countries were partly to blame for low crop production in developing nations, Pres (By News Poster)... |
Africa: SAPS officer 'training Guinea mercenaries'
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: By Peter Fabricius Foreign EditorSeveral South Africans, led by a former SA Police Service officer, are working for a Dubai-based security company in Guinea, providing protection and training to the m (By News Poster)... | Rwanda: Tribunal Clears Two of Genocide, War Crimes
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: The United Nations-backed tribunal tasked with trying atrocities committed during the 1994 Rwandan massacre of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus today acquitted a priest who had been charged with genoc (By News Poster)... |
Africa: Genocide tribunal orders release of cleric
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: Dar es Salaam - A priest accused of genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1994 Rwandan genocide has been acquitted, the second release in as many days, the International Criminal Tribunal fo (By News Poster)... | Sudan: Save Darfur Coalition, Members of Congress and Activists Urge President Obama to Make Sudan a Priority During China Visit
Wednesday 18-Nov-2009: The Save Darfur Coalition, 44 Members of Congress, and 40,401 U.S. activists urge President Obama to make Sudan a priority and work to build a multilateral coalition when he meets with President Hu Ji (By News Poster)... |
Kenya: Dozens Homeless in Slum Dispute
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: By John NgirachuNairobi - A fight over a stolen television set in a Nairobi slum escalated into a full-scale confrontation on Monday night, which left about 50 families homeless after their houses wer (By News Poster)... | Ghana: Is the Country a Lawless State?
Tuesday 17-Nov-2009: Yesterday's shooting incident at Avenor, near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra, leading to the death of one person perceived to be a landguard, has raised the debate as to whether Ghana is gradually (By News Poster)... |