• Mugabe to Ask Investors to Dig For Gold, Platinum, Forget Farms Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe will this week ask investors to plow their money into platinum, chrome and gold projects to help the country recover from a decade-long recession....
• South Africa discontent spreads: Lack of basic services Violence in South Africa's townships has spread as residents protest about what they say is a lack of basic services, such as water and housing. Police have fired rubber bullets at demonstrators in...
• India joins 'neocolonial' rush for Africa's land and labour Related: Rothschild and Freshfields founders linked to slaveryIndia, once the colonial jewel of Britain's empire, has been accused of 'neo-colonialism' in Africa where its business people have joined...
• Africa: Global Crisis Set to Drive Millions Into Poverty, Predicts Report The global financial crisis is set to drive millions more people into poverty, to slash radically capital flows to Africa and to deprive sub-Saharan Africa of at least U.S. $50 billion in income by...
• Africa almost giving land away, says UN It is the first major study of the so-called “farmland grab” trend, in which rich countries such as Saudi Arabia or South Korea invest in overseas land to boost their food security. The...
• SOUTH AFRICA: The richest party wins a wealth of votes (IRIN) - South Africa's fourth democratic election is expected to witness a record voter turnout and the return of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party to power. Opposition parties...
• GHANA: Plummeting profits drive tomato farmers to suicide Related: 1500 farmers commit mass suicide in India(IRIN) -- With cross-border price-undercutting, mounting debt and a lack of buyers, many tomato farmers in Ghana's Upper East Region are turning to...
• Zimbabwe Suspends Use of Own Currency Comment: The shape of things to come.(VOA) -- Zimbabwe is suspending the use of its own currency, as the government tries to rebuild the country's shattered economy. State media Sunday quoted...
• Egypt pressured to end underground organ trade The poverty of Cairo's slums forced a young couple to sell nearly everything they had. When that wasn't enough, each of them sold a kidney. The clandestine pre-dawn operation in a small private...
• Murdered GBissau general found 200 kilos of cocaine: officer Guinea-Bissau's army chief discovered a 200-kilogramme cocaine stash a week before his assassination, which preceded the murder of the country's president, an army officer said Thursday. Following...
• Two US missile strikes in Pakistan in three days kill more than 60 (WSWS) -- The United States on Monday carried out its second missile strike in three days inside Pakistan. More than 30 people were reported killed after four CIA Predator drone aircraft launched at...
• WEST AFRICA: When there is no village doctor Excerpt: Werner said more doctors do not guarantee improved community health. “Doctors are specialists in the narrow area of health care called medicine. More trained community health workers...
• Rationing of electricity to the South African mining industry is to remain in force Rationing of electricity to the South African mining industry is to remain in force, Minerals and Energy Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said on Friday. "It [rationing] was an instrument used to...
• US Army War College issues report on martial law (WW4 Report) -- A new report by the US Army War College's Strategic Institute warns of massive domestic unrest in the wake of converging crises that it terms a "strategic shock," and discusses the...
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