Russia Subway Bombing Strips Terrorism of Gender Stereotypes
BLOG: The subway bombing that killed at least 39 people in Moscow on Monday morning will transform the way states and state security agencies currently view the fight against terrorism.
T’was a Famous Victory
Having made his name and won his votes by pledging to rise above faction and draw the American people together, Obama extended the hand of bipartisanship to the Republicans and spent the following months seemingly fuddled as the Republicans chewed off his arm, inch by inch.
Entebbe Crash Report Faults Russian Crew, Forged Licenses
KAMPALA: AN investigation into last year’s plane crash into Lake Victoria has found that the navigator used a forged license and that the aircraft and engines were beyond their service life. Steven Candia, The New Vision
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 point and destination for refugees and persons trafficked from various parts of the region. Most victims of trafficking end up in forced labour, or are exploited for commercial sex.
White Farmers Seek To Grab Mugabe Land in SA
Peta Thornycroft: White Zimbabwean farmers dispossessed by President Robert Mugabe’s government will take another big step this week towards seizing Zimbabwean government-owned properties in Cape Town.
S. African Unit Of German Firm Said To Equip Mugabe-held Zimbabwe Dairy Plant
Washington – News reports and sources in Zimbabwe’s dairy industry said Thursday that Guth South Africa, a subsidiary of Germany’s Guth Ventiltechnik, may be in violation of the sanctions imposed by the European Union on President Robert Mugabe and his family by supplying equipment to Gushungo Holdings for a dairy plant in the Zvimba communal lands, Mashonaland West.
Prominent Somali Journalist Arrested In Moderate Islamist Town
Mogadishu: A prominent Somali radio reporter, Abdul Kamirm Ahmed Bulhan was arrested on Wednesday night by a non-militant Islamist group, Ahlu Sunna Wal Jamaa in the city of Abud Waq near the border with Ethiopia, colleagues and relatives confirmed Thursday.
Intruder Alert: Google Protects Gmail Users
By Tony Bradley
Intruder alert. Intruder alert. The new Gmail feature launched by Google won’t have any cool audio alert blaring out “intruder alert”, but it will alert users when suspicious activity indicates a potential compromise of the e-mail account.
CRACKDOWN: Zim Police Stop Photo Exhibition
Harare – Zimbabwe police on Tuesday seized all the photographs from an exhibition depicting repression under President Robert Mugabe, and arrested the chief of the human rights body that organised the show, officials confirmed.
Zimbabwean Student Sets Out From Morocco to South Africa In Search Of ‘Authentic African Voice’
Krakow, Poland- On 29 March 2010 at exactly 10am GMT, Errol Tapiwa Muzawazi, a 26-year old Zimbabwean national will lead a group of 8 students and doctors on an extensive 7-month academic expedition across 21 African countries. The road trip by a 1991 Nissan Patrol will cover over 20 000km and will reach to African cities, towns and villages where the traveling researchers aim to make interviews and run questionnaires on Africa and its image at home and abroad.
Air pollution
Exhaust fumes from planes are illuminated by the sun in Kirksville, MO… just five out of thousands of flights that take off and land daily.
LOOT: Diamond Companies Make A Killing Out Of Zimbabwe’s Disputed Gems
Companies involved in shady mining deals at Chiadzwa in Marange, Manicaland province, are making a fortune on a staggering scale from the hotly contested diamond fields. Dumisani Muleya, Zimbabwe Independent.