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)... | 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)... |
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)... | 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: 'Xenophobia Simmering Just Below Boiling Point'
Wednesday 01-Sep-2010: By Kim CloeteCape Town - "Xenophobia is part of life. We do not live easy here. We only survive," says Somali shopkeeper, Abdinasir Shaikh Aden, looking tense.He paces up and down the central Cape Tow (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)... |
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)... | 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)... |
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)... | Rwanda: Kigali City Tops Gender Based Violence Crime List
Wednesday 01-Sep-2010: By Bosco R. AsiimweKigali - Kigali City has topped the Gender Based Violence (GBV) crime list with 510 cases registered in the first six months of the year. The report indicates that 1,572 cases were (By News Poster)... |
Uganda: Ruling Party Suspends Primaries Over Irregularities
Tuesday 31-Aug-2010: By Benon Herbert OlukaKampala - Electoral irregularities and malpractices on an unprecedented scale yesterday forced the National Resistance Movement (NRM) to suspend primary elections for the party's (By News Poster)... | Nigeria: How Realistic is Single Registrar for Banks?
Tuesday 31-Aug-2010: By Kayode EkundayoLagos - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Mallam Sanusi Lamido said recently that the apex bank was working on the new policy initiative in conjunction with the Securities & (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)... | Islam Explained in Layman's Terms by Dr Peter Hammond...
Tuesday 31-Aug-2010: [I know Dr Peter Hammond. He is a tireless fighter for the truth and honesty and Western values. He has exposed Robert Mugabe and other filth over the years. He soldiers on bravely, doing God's work. (By Jan)... |
Nigeria: Unnecessary Ado About Sim Registration
Tuesday 31-Aug-2010: By Calixthus OkoruwaOregun - Two years ago, a massive power upsurge ignited the PHCN cables supplying power to my house. It was a scary development and I helplessly watched the bright electrical flame (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: Half of the Population Wants to Leave the Country
Monday 30-Aug-2010: By Dumisani NdlelaHarare - Ever wondered why Zimbabwe has lost the battle to bring back professionals and skilled personnel in the Diaspora? Or why Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was booed when he s (By News Poster)... |
Nigeria: Gunmen Shoot Yuguda's Orderly, Aide
Monday 30-Aug-2010: By Ahmed MohammedBauchi - Gunmen shot and injured a personal assistant and a police guard attached to Governor Isa Yuguda in Bauchi at the weekend, the latest in a series of attacks on people linked w (By News Poster)... | Sudan: Two Russian Pilots Abducted in Darfur
Monday 30-Aug-2010: Two Russian pilots operating in Sudan's western region of Darfur have been abducted by unknown gunmen, an army spokesman said on Monday.The pair were seized in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state (By News Poster)... |
Zimbabwe: Iran - - a Friend Indeed
Monday 30-Aug-2010: By Tichaona ZindogaIT was quite easy to view the recent meeting between Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and the Iranian ambassador here as one depicting the former as making an ironic "U-turn" four m (By News Poster)... | Africa: Chinese Firms Take to Africa Like Bushfire
Monday 30-Aug-2010: By Justus OndariNairobi - The Chinese influence, in the form of its people, investment and business, is sweeping across the African continent like a wild fire.Be it financing and executing massive inf (By News Poster)... |
Sudan: Bashir and Hague Court in Cat-and-Mouse Game
Saturday 28-Aug-2010: By Thalif DeenUnited Nations - Sudan's elusive President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir and the unrelenting Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo are playing a political (By News Poster)... | Ghana: Thirst for Nation's Oil - Anticipating Another Battlefield?
Saturday 28-Aug-2010: By Stephen YeboahThe excitement experienced in June 2007 when oil was discovered in commercial quantities has exploded into heightened political and economic controversy. There is no doubt that the co (By News Poster)... |
Southern Africa: One Madman is Systematically Destroying Everything We Are Working for
Saturday 28-Aug-2010: By Daniel SteinmannWindhoek - The destruction of the ideal of SADC unity cannot go unchallenged. Ever since the fight against apartheid started in the late sixties by the then front-line states, econo (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: 'Punitive Bank Charges Discourage Savings'
Friday 27-Aug-2010: By Paul NyakazeyaLOCAL banks are milking account holders through high charges to boost their income and support the infrastructure they put in place when the economy was faring better.Individuals and (By News Poster)... |
Zimbabwe: Banks Face Crippling Strike
Friday 27-Aug-2010: By Bernard MpofuHarare - ZIMBABWE'S financial services sector stands to lose at least US$3 million daily in deposits after a union representing bank employees gave two-weeks notice to go on strike ove (By News Poster)... | Rwanda: It Looks and Smells Like Pension for Kayumba in South Africa
Friday 27-Aug-2010: By Joseph BideriKigali - FOR the last few months, the controversy surrounding Rwandan fugitive officers, Kayumba Nyamwasa and Patrick Karegyeya's decision to move to South Africa, and their subsequent (By News Poster)... |
Nigeria: Boko Haram Snipers Kill Three Policemen
Friday 27-Aug-2010: By Hamza Idris and Sharafa DaudaDamaturu and Maiduguri - Members of the outlawed Boko Haram sect appeared to have resorted to guerrilla warfare as they waylaid and shot dead three policemen in Damatur (By News Poster)... | Somalia: French Diplomat Appointed Special Adviser on Piracy
Friday 27-Aug-2010: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed a French public law professor and former diplomat to advise him on legal issues surrounding piracy off the Somali coast, it was announced today.Jack Lang, 7 (By News Poster)... |
East Africa: Tanzania Can Be the Region's Bread Basket, Say Farmers
Thursday 26-Aug-2010: By Samuel KamndayaThe government needs to go an extra mile to help farmers benefit from the East African Common Market (EAC-CM), farmers say.Tanzania is the largest country in East Africa. With the su (By News Poster)... | Nigeria: Cholera Claims 352 Lives
Thursday 26-Aug-2010: By Chioma ObinnaThe cholera epidemic, assuming the status of a devastating hurricane sweeping through the North West, North East and South Eastern parts of the country, has now recorded 6,497 cases wi (By News Poster)... |
Most Companies Fail to Recapitalise Operations
Wednesday 25-Aug-2010: Harare - Rainbow Tourism Group, Afre Corporation and RioZim Limited last week released interims for the period ended June 2010 with the trio posting dull results.This is an indication that companies f (By News Poster)... | Namibia: Nedbank is Indeed Up for Sale
Wednesday 25-Aug-2010: By Desie HeitaWindhoek - Just days after Old Mutual denied that it intends to sell Nedbank, there is now confirmation that the South African insurer is indeed in exclusive discussions with HSBC Holdin (By News Poster)... |
Uganda: AMISOM is Alive and Kicking
Wednesday 25-Aug-2010: By Dr Opiyo OloyaKampala - On February 21, 2007, I wrote: "The African Union (AU) mission to Somalia is likely DOA - Dead on Arrival - for reasons beyond the control of well-meaning African countries (By News Poster)... | Nigeria: Killing And Extorting at Will
Wednesday 25-Aug-2010: By Funke AboyadeLagos - N20.35bn from Police checkpoints in 18 months. That's what the Nigeria Police have allegedly made from their informal toll collections nationwide, according to the Internationa (By News Poster)... |
Kenya: A Bid to Save Macadamia Crops
Wednesday 25-Aug-2010: By Isaiah EsipisuJoseph Ndirangu Muriithi is a worried man. After watching the fall of coffee farming in Kenya a decade ago, he now fears that his other cash crop will also go into decline as a new di (By News Poster)... | Nedbank Analysis - Why the HSBC Deal is Difficult to Judge
Wednesday 25-Aug-2010: By Tim CohenJohannesburg - Apart from the larger slice, how would HSBC's transaction be different from the ICBC and Barclays deals?WHAT South African game enthusiasts know about civets is that they ar (By News Poster)... |
Ghana: 'State-Sponsored' Sakawa in Benin, 419 in Ghana And a Suicide in USA
Tuesday 24-Aug-2010: By Benjamin Tawiah, Ottawa, CanadaIf you have ever regretted doing anything in your life, then you are a perfect specimen for a typical Ponzi fraud or any 419 experiment. And if you would do things di (By News Poster)... | The ANC Has Not and Shall Not Wilt Under Criticism or Close Scrutiny (document)
Tuesday 24-Aug-2010: By Pallo JordanFreedom of expression, of which is Media Freedom an important dimension, is one of the fundamental rights South Africans secured through the democratic political revolution of 1994. Aft (By News Poster)... |
Kenya: Wanted Terror Suspect Arrested in City Swoop
Tuesday 24-Aug-2010: By Fred MukindaNairobi - Police are holding a man suspected to have masterminded the 2002 Kikambala bombing.Detectives are carrying out further tests to establish whether the suspect is Mr Issa Osman (By News Poster)... | Zimbabwe: Questions Over Value of Marange Diamonds
Monday 23-Aug-2010: By Ndamu Sanndu and Kudzai ChimhangwaZimbabwe sold its first batch of diamonds mined from the controversial Marange fields amid fears of widespread leakages caused by lack of appropriate technology to (By News Poster)... |