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A Tale of Two Democracies: New Hampshire to Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe has been in power since 1980. During the same period, Story Country, Iowa, has held nine caucuses and the U.S. has had five presidents.…

13 Jan ’12 / No Comment / Read More

U.S. in Africa: Kony Has 100 Special Forces on His Trail

U.S. President Barack Obama has sent 100 U.S. Army Special Forces to Uganda, ostensibly to hunt down rebel leader Joseph Kony, head of Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army.…

21 Oct ’11 / No Comment / Read More
FEATURED STORIES

Chinese New Year in Pictures – San Francisco

Chinese New Year in Pictures - San Francisco. Photos by Tawanda Kanhema…

24 Jan ’12 / No Comment / Read More

Mujuru Inquest: I heard ‘gunfire’, Guard Tells Court

A security guard at the late Zimbabwean general, Solomon Mujuru’s property, Clement Runhare, said on…

18 Jan ’12 / No Comment / Read More

Flying With Gems: AirZim Receives First Airbus Jet

Air Zimbabwe today received the first of three Airbus jets acquired from the French aircraft…

18 Jan ’12 / No Comment / Read More

A Tale of Two Democracies: New Hampshire to Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe has been in power since 1980. During the same period, Story…

13 Jan ’12 / No Comment / Read More
BUSINESS

Zimbabwe: New Diamond Find Raises Stakes, Prospects

Gillian Sithole, mine manager at Mbada Diamonds, one of the firms mining in the area, said government has discovered a further 53 000 hectares of diamond deposits. …

17 Dec ’11 / No Comment / Read More

For Botswana, Coal is the New Gold: Rising coal prices bring hope to CIC Energy, Aviva

An average 40 percent increase in the price of thermal coal in 2010 and projections for even further growth this year have come as a godsend to the…

10 Nov ’11 / No Comment / Read More

Namibia seal harvesting proceeds against wave of protests

Namibia’s seal harvesting exercise is entering its second week despite widespread protests from animal rights groups that have threatened to boycott the south west African country’s tourism industry…

7 Jul ’11 / No Comment / Read More
BLOGS

Herman Cain Wants to Be Defense Secretary, Hypothetically

Herman Cain, the U.S. presidential candidate who did not know that China had nuclear weapons, has expressed "hypothetical" interest in serving…

15 Dec ’11 / No Comment / Read More

Mujuru Inquest: I heard ‘gunfire’, Guard Tells Court

A security guard at the late Zimbabwean general, Solomon…

Flying With Gems: AirZim Receives First Airbus Jet

Air Zimbabwe today received the first of three Airbus…

A Tale of Two Democracies: New Hampshire to Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe has been in power since…

US$4 Million Getaway for the Obamas

Barack Obama’s annual vacation in Hawaii this year is…

Zimbabwe: New Diamond Find Raises Stakes, Prospects

Gillian Sithole, mine manager at Mbada Diamonds, one of…

Two Men Claim the Presidency as DRC Vote Ends in Chaos

Burnt-out tyres, broken glass and concrete blocks littered the…

As Aliens, Smarties and Life Savers Fly Off the Shelves, Report Faults Nestle for Child Labor in Cocoa Plantations

As Aliens, Smarties and Life Savers Fly Off the Shelves, Report Faults Nestle for Child Labor in Cocoa Plantations

Smarties, Aliens, Life Savers, Kit Kat and Wonka are…

South Africa: Four Children Die in Desperate Search for Food

Ntando Makhubu - Four South African children starved…

Uganda: Corruption Worsens, With Little Action from Government

Kale Kayihura, the Inspector General of Police, the head…

Ugandan Journalist Assassinated in Rwanda: Probe Deepens

The Rwandan State House’s Counter Intelligence has picked up…

Budding democrat or dictator? – The case of President Khama

When he entered politics, more than a decade ago,…

Two Men Claim the Presidency as DRC Vote Ends in Chaos

Burnt-out tyres, broken glass and concrete blocks littered the…

Uganda: Corruption Worsens, With Little Action from Government

Kale Kayihura, the Inspector General of Police, the head…

Ugandan Journalist Assassinated in Rwanda: Probe Deepens

The Rwandan State House’s Counter Intelligence has picked up…

Budding democrat or dictator? – The case of President Khama

When he entered politics, more than a decade ago,…

Zimbabwe: Standard Editor and Journalist arrested

The Standard Editor Nevanji Madanhire and journalist Nqaba Matshazi…

Canada to help track child mortality in Africa

KRISTY KIRKUP - OTTAWA - The government announced Monday…

As Aliens, Smarties and Life Savers Fly Off the Shelves, Report Faults Nestle for Child Labor in Cocoa Plantations

As Aliens, Smarties and Life Savers Fly Off the Shelves, Report Faults Nestle for Child Labor in Cocoa Plantations

Smarties, Aliens, Life Savers, Kit Kat and Wonka are…

UN Reports Marked Increase in Access to Antiretroviral Therapy Despite Financial Crisis

Tawanda Kanhema - Despite the crippling financial crisis affecting…

South Africa: Four Children Die in Desperate Search for Food

Ntando Makhubu - Four South African children starved…

ARMS & DRUGS

Thailand: South African Woman Found With Coccaine in Her Dreadlocks

Nolubabalo Nobanda did not fit the police’s profile of a drug mule. She matriculated from one of South Africa’s top girl’s schools before heading to Wits University.…

31 Dec ’11 / No Comment

Police Bust Four in Aussie Coccaine Ring

About 660 pounds (300 kilograms) of the illegal drug were seized from a yacht on Friday at the northeastern coastal town of Bundaberg, Australian Federal Police said…

15 Nov ’11 / No Comment

U.S. in Africa: Kony Has 100 Special Forces on His Trail

U.S. President Barack Obama has sent 100 U.S. Army Special Forces to Uganda, ostensibly to hunt down rebel leader Joseph Kony, head of Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance…

21 Oct ’11 / No Comment
BANKING SCAMS

Six suspects on the run after US $62,000 heist in Lesotho

MASERU- Six gunmen waylaid a G4 Security van in Teba last Saturday morning, shooting dead one of the guards, before getting away with M496 000 belonging to…

11 Oct ’11 / No Comment

Occupy Wall Street vs. Kingian Methods

The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations now spreading across the country are encouraging to be sure. It is stated that the Tahrir Square and other demonstrations in the…

5 Oct ’11 / No Comment

The great billion dollar drug scam

Alongside pneumococcal diseases such as meningitis and pneumonia, rotavirus-related diarrhoea is a primary childhood killer in developing countries, thought to snuff out the lives of 500,000 children…

15 Jul ’11 / No Comment
HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Uganda a human trafficking harbor

IT is now four months since two men, Dalvin Mwesigye and Frank Kato alias Ashraf Kisseka, were arrested for duping young Ugandan girls into sex trade in…

1 Jun ’11 / No Comment

Indian police unearth Gujerat-Africa human trafficking ring

SURAT: Police have stumbled upon a major human trafficking racket run by Bilal Saleh, an African national, while investigating the hawala racket. So far, around 300 people…

29 Mar ’11 / No Comment

Namibia Moves To Tackle Human Trafficking

WINDHOEK: Namibia sits in the buffer zone between crisis prone central Africa and South Africa, a major destination for trafficked persons, thus serving as a source, transit…

28 Mar ’10 / 17 Comments
ENERGY

Energy Giants Tullow Oil, Eni S.p.A Accused of Trying to Bribe Ugandan Ministers in Oil Deal

Hussein Bogere & Moses Talemwa - The Ugandan parliament’s ad hoc committee yesterday heard that Eni and Tullow Oil tried to influence the process of acquiring oil…

24 Nov ’11 / No Comment

For Botswana, Coal is the New Gold: Rising coal prices bring hope to CIC Energy, Aviva

An average 40 percent increase in the price of thermal coal in 2010 and projections for even further growth this year have come as a godsend to…

10 Nov ’11 / No Comment

Brazil Delays Uranium Enrichment Project to 2018

Brazil has the sixth largest known uranium reserves: more than 300,000 tons, enough to keep 20 atomic power plants of electricity working for 60 years. …

7 Oct ’11 / No Comment
HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Uganda a human trafficking harbor

IT is now four months since two men, Dalvin Mwesigye and Frank Kato alias Ashraf Kisseka, were arrested for duping young Ugandan girls into sex trade in…

1 Jun ’11 / No Comment

Indian police unearth Gujerat-Africa human trafficking ring

SURAT: Police have stumbled upon a major human trafficking racket run by Bilal Saleh, an African national, while investigating the hawala racket. So far, around 300 people…

29 Mar ’11 / No Comment

Namibia Moves To Tackle Human Trafficking

WINDHOEK: Namibia sits in the buffer zone between crisis prone central Africa and South Africa, a major destination for trafficked persons, thus serving as a source, transit…

28 Mar ’10 / 17 Comments
MONEY LAUNDERING

To Libya, Missouri Sends B2 Bombers… and Lawyers

As the Gaddafi regime teetered on the brink of collapse, against an uprising that saw bands of rebels backed by "Spirit of Pennsylvania" B2 Bomber air…

20 Nov ’11 / No Comment

Six suspects on the run after US $62,000 heist in Lesotho

MASERU- Six gunmen waylaid a G4 Security van in Teba last Saturday morning, shooting dead one of the guards, before getting away with M496 000 belonging to…

11 Oct ’11 / No Comment

Guide to U.S. Campaign Finance: ProPublica

Super-PACs and Dark Money: ProPublica’s Guide to the New World of Campaign Finance by Kim Barker and Marian Wang ProPublica, July 11, 2011, 1:38 p.m. The nation…

10 Oct ’11 / No Comment
PROJECTS

Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street: A Good Year for Teargas Manufacturers

Manufacturers of crowd control agents are going through one of their best years in recent times with the surge in demand for tear gas, tear gas grenades…

26 Oct ’11 / 1 Comment

Riot Control Agents: Law Enforcement & Human Rights

Investigative Africa conducted research on the manufacturing, retail and use of Riot Control Agents for a leading international human rights watchdog. Our reporters were able to obtain…

26 Mar ’11 / No Comment

Libya War: Will Battle Success Equal Mission Success? How Contradicting Mission Goals May Prolong Conflict

Military strategists and analysts like to be able predict the duration of a war as soon as the first shot is fired. The Libyan conflict has been…

23 Mar ’11 / No Comment
BLOGS

Herman Cain Wants to Be Defense Secretary, Hypothetically

Herman Cain, the U.S. presidential candidate who did not know that China had nuclear weapons, has expressed "hypothetical" interest in serving as the country's Secretary for Defense.…

15 Dec ’11 / No Comment

U.S. in Africa: Kony Has 100 Special Forces on His Trail

U.S. President Barack Obama has sent 100 U.S. Army Special Forces to Uganda, ostensibly to hunt down rebel leader Joseph Kony, head of Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance…

21 Oct ’11 / No Comment

Putin Promises “Evolutionary” Political Reforms: Can The Kremlin Weather a “Russian Spring”?

This picture of mass movements of energetic and frustrated young people staging protests for several weeks and crippling economies in countries that have some of the…

6 Oct ’11 / No Comment

RSS WORLD NEWS

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    JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney took the fight to chief rival Newt Gingrich on Thursday in his most aggressive debate performance yet, five days ahead of Florida's primary vote. […]
  • Japan prices fall, mild deflation to persist
    TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's core consumer prices fell for the third consecutive month in the year to December, and mild deflation is expected to persist this year as energy prices stabilize and worries about Europe's debt crisis suppress wage growth and economic activity. […]
  • BP fails to shift $15 billion oil spill costs onto Transocean
    LONDON (Reuters) - Oil giant BP has lost its attempt to shift over $15 billion of costs related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill onto contractor Transocean, increasing the possibility BP may have to foot the entire $42 billion clean up bill. […]
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