[Fahamu] In December, Pambazuka News carried an article that critiqued a Human Rights Watch report that had exposed labour abuses in Chinese state-owned copper mines in Zambia. Here, Human Rights Watch responds to that critique. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 8:38 PM

[Financial Gazette] ZIMBABWE'S vocal civil society which shadowed the just-ended African Union Summit held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, returned empty handed from its mission early this week. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 8:28 PM

[Financial Gazette] RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor, Gideon Gono, has warned that the country's economic recovery may slow down on the back of knock-on effects from the Eurozone debt crisis and the continuing economic turmoil in the United States. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 8:26 PM

[Financial Gazette] Harare - PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have stalled the crafting of a referendum law due to haggling on whether or not the diaspora vote should be included in the constitutional plebiscite. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 8:25 PM

[Fahamu] The company contracted to market Angola overseas is owned by the president's children. While two-thirds of the population survives on less than $2 a day, the president and his protégés plunder the country. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 7:37 PM

[UN News] The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun distributing rations in Mozambique, where an estimated 70,000 people are in urgent need of assistance after the country was pounded by two tropical storms. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 7:00 PM

[RNW Africa] Zimbabwe - Since last October, when the disease broke out, some 1,500 people in Zimbabwe's capital Harare have fallen victim to typhoid. The authorities blame restaurants and food vendors; the citizens blame the authorities. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 3:14 PM

[Zimbabwe Independent] THE inquest into former army commander General Solomon Mujuru's death has entered its third week at Harare Magistrates' Court and Zimbabweans are still puzzled as to the cause of the fire which burnt one of the most decorated liberation war heroes to ashes. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:52 PM

[Zimbabwe Independent] PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's frustration over the failure to implement provisions of the GPA is a clear indication that Zanu PF's strategy of wearing down its opponents by stifling reforms may be yielding results. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:52 PM

[Zimbabwe Independent] A SOUTH African police forensic analyst said it could be possible that accelerants or inflammable materials were present at the fire which gutted the late General Solomon Mujuru's farmhouse in Beatrice last year. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:47 PM

[Zimbabwe Independent] RESERVE Bank chief Gideon Gono has dismissed the recent reconstitution of ReNaissance Financial Holdings Ltd's board as null and void. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:47 PM

[Zimbabwe Independent] A PROBE into the accident which claimed the life of former Zanu PF national commissar Elliot Manyika (pictured) in 2008 has concluded that there was no foul play in his death. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:47 PM

[PlusNews] Harare - With global funding for on the decline, Zimbabwe's innovative AIDS levy - a 3 percent tax on income - has become a promising source of funding for the country, with a dramatic increase in revenue collected in the past two years. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 1:34 PM

[SAPA] Johannesburg - Impala Platinum has fired 13,000 miners who went on an illegal strike at its Rustenburg operation, the company said on Thursday. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 12:29 PM

[SAPA] Johannesburg - Television channel e.tv has been fined R35,000 for airing violent footage of the killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 12:29 PM

[SAPA] Johannesburg - An application on whether it was constitutional for the government not to grant a visa to the Dalai Lama last year, was dismissed in the Western Cape High Court on Friday. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 12:29 PM

[SAPA] Cape Town - Human rights activists have welcomed the sentencing of four men who were found guilty of stabbing and stoning a 19-year-old lesbian to death in 2006. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 12:29 PM

[African Arguments] Over the years, the South African government has released a plethora of strategies and initiatives in its post-apartheid policy reforms. Many of these recommendations and programmes have evidenced middling success, and even outright failure. The latest such proposal is the National Development Plan, issued by the National Planning Commission of South Africa, an advisory body in the Office of the Presidency with a 5 year mandate. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 12:20 PM

[State Department] Washington - New land management and marketing techniques taking hold in Namibia with U.S. help mean a stronger economic future for Namibian livestock owners -- and a better life for their families and communities. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 12:11 PM

[New Era] Windhoek - Acting Judge Louis Muller on Wednesday postponed to February 29 the matter in which freelance journalist John Grobler is suing Swapo and the Secretary-General of Swapo Party, Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 11:13 AM

[New Era] Windhoek - The Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) has recovered about N$1.1 billion from its infamous Development Capital Portfolio (DCP) investments but is struggling to recover the remaining N$600 million, reveals a forensic investigation by Auditor-General Junias Kandjeke. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 11:13 AM

[New Era] When I began reading the New Era's January 27 editorial entitled "Hello There in Moscow and Beijing!", I wondered for a split second if someone had slipped me an article from the 1970s .. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 11:13 AM

[New Era] Windhoek - Prime Minister Nahas Angula says the Namibian government will at its own time and pace pronounce itself on the issue of reparations that the affected communities of Namas and Ovaherero, the descendants of the victims of the German war of extermination of 1904-1908, are demanding. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 11:12 AM

[allAfrica.com] Zambia are seeking to banish the ghosts of the last 16 years by reaching the African Nations Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1996. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 11:00 AM

[IPS] Lilongwe - The black market for foreign exchange and fuel is booming in the midst of an acute scarcity in Malawi. The shortage is so severe that even the Consumer Association of Malawi, an influential consumer rights body, has come out in support of the black market. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 9:57 AM

[SA Info] South Africa remains a net a food exporter, selling 30% more agricultural goods abroad than it imported in 2010, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published last month by the SA Institute of Race Relations. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 9:51 AM

[Times of Zambia] THE final report on findings of the Mongu killings in January 2011 over the Barotseland Agreement (BA) of 1964 in Western province has been concluded and is now ready for presentation to President Michael Sata, Commission of Inquiry chairperson Rodger Chongwe has said. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 9:39 AM

[Times of Zambia] Bata - GOVERNMENT has said it will not tolerate any more indiscipline in the Zambian delegation at the on-going 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals here. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 9:39 AM

[Times of Zambia] THE Emirates Airline, one of the world's fastest growing airlines, has launched a new linked service to Lusaka and Harare that will help sustain Zambia's economic growth by bridging the country with markets throughout the world. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 9:39 AM

[Times of Zambia] THE on-going 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) soccer finals in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea has surely catapulted Zambia forward Emmanuel Mayuka of Swiss side Young Boys to big boy status. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 9:39 AM

[Namibian] THE Minister of Youth and Sport, Kazenambo Kazenambo, has called fellow ministers "stupid Owambos", and said that Owambo people "are just like the Boers, worse because you are hungry and stupid". allafrica.com | 2/3/12 9:35 AM

[Sokwanele] As the country stepped into the New Year, Zimbabweans look with frustration at the unchanging media landscape in the country. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 9:22 AM

[iMaverick] It sometimes feels as if the debate around mine nationalisation has always been with us. In a way it has - the Nats had it in their manifesto in 1948, Nelson Mandela included it in his first speech out of Pollsmoor in 1990, and Julius Malema seemed to take it over. The two phrases 'Julius Malema' and 'nationalisation' have become intertwined in our political lexicon. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 7:40 AM

[RNW Africa] Despite being illegal, abortions are still available in Zambia's capital at very low fees through private medical practitioners - in particular, by Chinese doctors who remain poorly-regulated in the country. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 7:18 AM

[The Herald] EMIRATES Airlines, which started flying into Harare on Wednesday, could increase its flights into Harare from five to six days a week if the current load factor is maintained. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 6:39 AM

[The Herald] PRESIDENT Mugabe is the only person with the mandate to appoint or reappoint the Commissioner-General of Police and other constitutional bodies without consulting anyone except the Public Service Commission, Attorney-General Mr Johannes Tomana, has said. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 6:39 AM

[The Herald] THE Zimbabwe Media Commission wants The Sunday Times of South Africa and other foreign based publications barred from being sold in Zimbabwe until they comply with the law. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 6:39 AM

When a financial crisis threatened the existence of Africa's oldest community station, Bush Radio, an outpouring of sympathy and appeals went viral on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. In the end, it was this outspoken support that showed financial backers that the station was worth saving. ipsnews.net | 2/3/12 6:37 AM

[The Herald] FORMER Zifa chief executive Henrietta Rushwaya was yesterday arrested by the Anti-Corruption Commission on allegations of bribery and match-fixing linked to the Asiagate scandal. She was picked up in Harare at around 5pm and detained overnight at Avondale Police Station. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 6:34 AM

[The Herald] MALAWIAN President Bingu wa Mutharika yesterday jetted into Zimbabwe for private talks with President Mugabe. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 6:33 AM

[The Herald] COUNCIL has failed to address the social determinants leading to diarrheal diseases, typhoid included, and is appealing for Government's intervention to holistically arrest the crisis, a senior official admitted yesterday. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 6:33 AM

[The Herald] A SOUTH AFRICAN Police Services forensic expert yesterday said the packaging used to keep debris collected from the scene of fire in which General Solomon Mujuru died by local policemen could have affected forensic results. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 6:33 AM

[The Herald] The 2012 tobacco selling season starts on February 15 with indications that a bigger crop volume will be auctioned at the sales floors this season. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 6:15 AM

[Monitor] Hararw - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party has attributed the typhoid outbreak that has affected 1,500 people in the capital Harare to biological warfare and Western sanctions. allafrica.com | 2/3/12 5:25 AM

The black market for foreign exchange and fuel is booming in the midst of an acute scarcity in Malawi. The shortage is so severe that even the Consumer Association of Malawi, an influential consumer rights body, has come out in support of the black market. ipsnews.net | 2/3/12 12:36 AM

[RFI] After nearly two weeks of skirmishes, we're down to the final eight. allafrica.com | 2/2/12 8:14 PM

SANF (Harare)-Southern Africa has strengthened security in its coastal areas as the tide of maritime piracy treks south and threatens trade along the Mozambique Channel. allafrica.com | 1/24/12 10:27 AM

The Angolan ambassador to Ethiopia and African Union , Arcanjo Maria do Nascimento, said Sunday in Addis Ababa, that the Angolan State has never given up its will to join the free trade zone in due time, both at the level of the Southern Africa Development Community and the continent at large.

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ANGOP (Luanda)-Angola will participate on 19-21 January in Sandtan, South Africa, in the Extraordinary Meeting of the Inter-State Committee of Defence and Security of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC). allafrica.com | 1/20/12 4:39 PM

JOHANNESBURG/LUSAKA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Zambia has robust maize stocks and sees little risk in using them to partly fill a regional gap as a supply crunch looms in southern Africa, pushing up ... story.zimbabwestar.com | 1/19/12 4:20 PM