Botswana: The Land Stampede
Police had to be called in to control a crowd of plot-seekers massed outside Tlokweng Land Board offices on Wednesday night.
Zimbabwe: Special Interest Groups Demand Say in New Constitution
Special interest groups in Zimbabwe are launching a concerted push to ensure their rights are enshrined in the new constitution.
Kadhafi blasts Israel over Africa’s woes at AU summit (AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi blasted Israel at a special African Union summit on Monday on the eve of celebrations to mark his 40-year rule, accusing the Jewish state of causing all the woes facing Africa.
Zimbabwe: A Strategy to Scuttle Progress
THE new strategy by elements hostile to the inclusive government is to resort to making outrageous demands.
Botswana: MELS Leader Eyes the Presidency
MELS leader Themba Joina has high hopes that if the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) does its job properly this year, he will be in the running for the presidency after a false start in 2004. He said that since 2004 the party’s support in the country has risen by 50 percent.
Zambia: Rights Expert Urges Govt to Fight Poverty
An independent United Nations human rights expert has called on the Zambian Government to make good on its promises to reduce the deep poverty in the Southern African nation.
Botswana: All is Not Well in Journalism With ICTs
The noble profession of journalism has received Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) with mixed feelings, on one hand as an enabling tool yet on the other as an impediment to the operations of a journalist, JERRY BUNGU looks at the profession and its operations in the ICT era
South Africa: Address By President Jacob Zuma At the South African Jewish Board of Deputies National Conference … (AllAfrica.com)
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UNICEF: Global recession will kill African kids (AP via Yahoo! News)
The global recession will increase infant and child deaths and cause more students to drop out of school in Africa, the U.N. children’s agency predicted Monday, as the financial crisis delivers a delayed blow to the continent and is expected to linger longer.
