Tanzania: Curbing Road Accidents Must Be Permanent
It is a paradox that, whereas the festive season that covers Christmas and the onset of a new year should be joyous, it often generates anxiety and grief, due to an increase in road accidents.
View ArticleAfrica: Why Continent Must Remain United in Durban
African leaders have urged the international community to move the United Nations climate change negotiations, which started in Durban, South Africa on Monday, to a different level, and to prioritise...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 800 WOZA Members Launch 'Gender Violence' Campaign
Hundreds of members of pressure group Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) took to the streets on Monday for a peaceful protest to Parliament, as part of a global campaign against gender violence.
View ArticleSouth Sudan: Sweden Runs Into Nation's Oilgate
Civil society leaders in South Sudan are closely watching a legal battle unfolding in Sweden, as prosecutors investigate an oil company accused of involvement in massive human rights abuses here.
View ArticleTanzania: End Gender-Based Violence
Tanzania joined other countries around the world to launch the annual campaign to highlight issues around violence against women last Friday.
View ArticleSouth Africa: 'Nationalisation of Mines Report Sent Back' - Mantashe
A report on the nationalisation of mines was presented at the ANC's national executive committee (NEC) meeting at the weekend, but was sent back to be redrafted, secretary general Gwede Mantashe said...
View ArticleAfrica: Climate Change Now Seen As a Question of Global Security
Once viewed as an issue of interest only to greens or academics, the threat posed by climate change to security is now eyed with deepening concern by politicians and defence chiefs.
View ArticleNigeria: Tenure of Five Governors - Suprem Court Decides Suit Today
The controversy trailing two court judgements that barred the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from including five states of Bayelsa, Sokoto, Cross River, Adamawa and Kogi in the...
View ArticleNigeria: Lamorde Talks Tough, Takes Over From Waziri
Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde yesterday warned the staff of the commission over what he called non commitment to duty, saying his...
View ArticleRwanda: 1000 Fake Laptops Sold to Minaloc
The laptops were destined for local leaders at the cell level, who needed to improve service delivery with the help of latest technologies.
View ArticleNigeria: Man Who Indicted Ndume Not Boko Haram Member, by CRC
President of Civil Rights Congress, CRC, Comrade Shehu Sani, has said the arrest of Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume by the State Security Service, SSS, was a diversionary tactics aimed at justifying...
View ArticleZambia: Gender Violence MPs Challenged
SPEAKER of the National Assembly, Patrick Matibini, has called on Members of Parliament (MPs) to help combat gender-based violence in Zambia.
View ArticleZimbabwe: Female Rapists Back in Court, Request Trial Date
THE three women, who are facing charges of sexually attacking male hitchhikers in search of semen, were yesterday back in court on routine remand.
View ArticleNamibia: Return of More Skulls Negotiated
FOURTEEN skulls identified as Namibian human remains dating back to the 1904 to 1908 German-Namibian war are to be returned to Namibia early next year.
View ArticleNigeria: Lawyers Drag Farida Waziri, CCB Before Federal High Court
Two Abuja-based lawyers have dragged former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission boss, Mrs Farida Waziri and the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, before a Federal High Court in Abuja.
View ArticleAfrica: Climate Change - the North Must Pay for Mitigation Strategies
As Durban welcomes the world for the COP 17 meeting, the air is filled with some of the excitement that we all felt during the World Cup last year.
View ArticleNigeria: Cultists on the Prowl as Panic Grips Yenagoa Residents
Bayelsa State which prided itself as the 'oasis of peace' in the once turbulent Niger Delta is gradually losing its tranquility due to the unnecessary shedding of innocent blood by rampaging cultists.
View ArticleSouth Africa: Is That Pie in the Sky or Heavy Smog - No, It's Cop17
In case you hadn't heard, an important two-week international meeting on climate change begins in Durban today. Few view the 17th Conference of the Parties, or COP17, with much optimism - after all...
View ArticleKenya: Millers Should Take Responsibility for Bad Food, Says Red Cross
The Kenya Red Cross Society has said the two millers who supplied contaminated Unimix should take responsibility for endangering the lives of Kenyans.
View ArticleKenya: Man Slashes Cows in Kanumbi Family Land Feud Flare-Up
Residents of Kanumbi village in Embu North district were on Saturday treated to a bizarre incident after a 30-year-old man slashed all the cows and chickens in his family's homestead with machete...
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