18 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Cathy Buckle's Letter from Zimbabwe ! BRICKS AND HUNEY! Dear Family and Friends, On the side of the main highway near Harare there's a hand painted sign on a piece of battered tin. 'Bricks 4 Sale,' it says, the message wedged into a forked stick. Standing in a forlorn heap alongside are the very bricks. Its a sad little assortment ...

18 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Cathy Buckle's Letter from Zimbabwe ! BRICKS AND HUNEY ! Dear Family and Friends, On the side of the main highway near Harare there's a hand painted sign on a piece of battered tin. 'Bricks 4 Sale,' it says, the message wedged into a forked stick. Standing in a forlorn heap alongside are the very bricks. Its a sad little ...

18 weeks 4 days 9 min ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Darfur rebels free Sudan troops ! By James Copnall BBC News, Khartoum ...

18 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

German freighter freed for ransom ! Pirate attacks have resumed after a brief lull caused by bad weather Somali pirates have released a German-owned cargo ship held for nearly three months and ...

18 weeks 4 days 18 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Ghana secures $600m loan from IMF ! Oil could offer Ghana a bright future Ghana is to get a $600m three-year loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), amid concerns about the impact of the ...

18 weeks 6 days 13 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

UN 'open to Uganda rebel talks' ! Mr Kony is said to have little interest in the peace process The UN has insisted it is committed to talks with Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and his rebel group, ...

19 weeks 15 hours 21 min ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Nigeria authorities welcome truce ! Mend has attacked pipelines and buildings in the Delta Nigeria's government has welcomed a 60-day ceasefire declared by the main militant group in the ...

19 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Nairobi water 'stolen for farms' ! Water-sellers have been making a profit because of the shortages Authorities in Kenya's capital say they have unearthed a syndicate stealing the ...

19 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

SA miners hold bosses underground! Hostage talks are under way to free five supervisors being held captive at a South African platinum mine. About 500 miners took a total of eight supervisors hostage on Thursday morning ...

19 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Nigeria rebel 'accepts amnesty' ! The militants say Henry Okah's health has been failing Nigerian militant leader Henry Okah has accepted a government amnesty offer, his lawyer says - possibly a ...

19 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Egypt arrests 25 in 'Suez plot'! The Suez Canal is a vital maritime transport link Egyptian officials say 25 militants suspected of having al-Qaeda links have been arrested for plotting attacks ...

19 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Nigeria welcomes UK prisoner plan! Nigeria's prisons are not considered good enough for UK prisoners Nigeria's government says it is happy with a UK plan to help refurbish their prisons to allow ...

19 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

UN plans to tackle W Africa crime! Local officers will have training from overseas experts Peacekeepers, Interpol and various United Nations agencies have promised to work together to tackle the ...

20 weeks 23 hours 42 min ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Crime lords 'ruining West Africa'! International efforts have helped reduce cocaine trafficking The United Nations says organised crime is "plundering" West Africa, as illicit goods ...

20 weeks 2 days 17 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

US warns Ethiopia on Somali role! Ethiopian troops invaded in 2006, pulling out earlier this year The US has urged Ethiopia not to send its troops back into Somalia. The senior US official for ...

20 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Nigeria militants seize ship crew! Attacks by Mend and other groups have severely cut Nigeria's oil output Militants in Nigeria are holding six members of the crew of an oil tanker, including its ...

20 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Charity plea over kidnapped pair! Hundreds of thousands of people need aid in Darfur The head of an Irish charity whose aid workers were kidnapped in Darfur has appealed for their safe ...

20 weeks 3 days 14 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Zimbabwe army 'to go from mines'! Until the military moved in illegal diggers were seeking their fortune Zimbabwe's government has agreed to withdraw soldiers from diamond mining fields amid ...

20 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Cathy Buckle's Weekly Letter from Zimbabwe ! PATRIOTISM IS PUNISHED ! Dear Family and Friends, After weeks of peculiarly warm weather which wasn't winter but wasn't summer, people had begun commenting that even the trees were confused! A large, old Msasa tree standing alone on an urban street corner suddenly dropped all its leaves and ...

20 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Kenya sets new tribunal deadline! Rioting started after claims of fraud in the December 2007 election Kenya and the International Criminal Court have agreed on a new deadline to set up a special ...