• Rwanda cuts ties with France
  
  
• U.N. Says Mass Graves Found in Congo
• Fighting flares in east DR Congo
• One Woman's Return to Ravaged Congo
  
  
• Lesotho -- A Dutch aid worker with the Clinton Foundation was shot to death
  at the house of Lesotho's trade and industry minister, police said Saturday.
• Rebels, Army Forces Spar in Eastern Chad
• Liberia’s judiciary must be strengthened to stamp out rape and other crimes: UN expert

• Zimbabwe may let whites farm again
  Zimbabwe, facing food shortages blamed partly on its large-scale seizures of white-owned farms, is considering allowing some interested whites to return to farming, a minister said. President Robert Mugabe's government has received more than 200 applications from whites to take up farming again, land minister Flora Buka said on Saturday during an agriculture conference in South Africa. "As regards white commercial farmers, there are some who have indicated that they would want to continue farming," Buka told Reuters. "Their applications are being considered. If they are willing to stay, that is also going to be considered. Also, the amount of land they have is also going to be considered." Asked if the government was still confiscating land from whites to redistribute to blacks, Buka said: "Yes, we are still resettling our people on the land that is state land." Many of Zimbabwe's white farmers have gone overseas or to other African countries after often violent land grabs backed by Mugabe, who initiated the redistribution program six years ago. - (Africa)
  
  
• Captors Free 2 Italians Seized in Niger
• 'Both sides' violate Uganda truce
  
  
• South Africa: Anti-rape condom aims to stop sexual assaults
  A South African inventor unveiled a new anti-rape female condom on Wednesday that hooks onto an attacker’s penis and aims to cut one of the highest rates of sexual assault in the world.

• 'Friendly Fire' , Rape an Epidemic in S. Africa
  According to an annual police report on crime, nearly 50 people killed every day across the country -- a figure that will likely add to South Africa's reputation as a violent society. The government is desperate to counter the country's violent image, especially in the run-up to the soccer World Cup in 2010, and point out that murder is at its lowest level for five years. Yet, the report said the number of murders over the year totaled 18,528, and four of every five victims knew their attackers. Rapes totaled a staggering 54,926. There was little decrease in the number of murder and rapes. Tutu, a leader in the anti-apartheid movement, decried the rape of children, some as young as nine months, and South Africa's staggering murder rate.. - (Africa)

• South Africa - the rape capitol of the world - (Africa)
  
  
• Husband forced to see gang-rape
• 20-year-old gang-raped
• 80yr-old gang-raped, strangled
• Mormon missionaries gang-raped
• Five arrested for gang rape
• Three women gang-raped
• 4 held after gang-rape of girl
• Spate of rapes in E Rand
• Men arrested for gang rape
  

• Darkest Africa: Nigerian murder suspect accused of killing his brother with an axe
  told police investigators he actually attacked a goat, which was only later magically transformed into his sibling's corpse. Murder suspects in Nigeria, where many people believe in black magic, sometimes claim spirits tricked them into killing. In 2001, eight people were burned to death after one person in their group was accused of making a bystander's penis magically disappear.
  

• ANC Using Bird Flu Scare To Seize Farms?

• South African Murders Hit Scary Rate
  Robbers kill their victims, bystanders kill criminals, family members kill each other. Gunbattles erupt on streets and in shopping malls. Passers-by whip out pistols and join in firefights between criminals and police or security guards. A recent flurry in high profile bloodshed even has police suggesting they are losing the fight with violent crime.
  
  
• US journalist on Sudan spy charge

• Link update: The link to South Africa The truth has changed

• Two female Mormon missionaries gang-raped in South Africa
  The LDS Church has confirmed a disturbing report out of South Africa involving two female missionaries. The sister missionaries were raped, robbed, and one was shot in an attack that lasted more than two hours.  The women were attacked and left next to a busy road on the coast of South Africa in Port Shepstone. According to news reports, 22-year old woman from Kenya was shot in the upper abdomen, then her attackers grabbed her bags searching for valuables. Her 21-year old companion from California was also victimized by the group of four men. The news report out of South Africa says the attack lasted more than two hours.  - (Newsroom)
  
  
• Morocco: African migrant death toll rises in migrant clash
  The death toll from the latest mass attempt by African migrants to storm into a Spanish enclave in north Africa has risen to three, a Moroccan official said on Tuesday. The official quoted a hospital report as saying the third person was a 28-year-old Cameroonian who died in a hospital from injuries following the incident, in which up to 70 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa tried to stampede into Spain's African enclave of Melilla. Two other men were killed in Monday's incident, officials have said, when the migrants rushed a 20-foot (6-meter) fence with makeshift ladders. Moroccan guards fired warning shots to keep them from entering, those officials said.

• Swedish Cameraman Shot Dead in Somalia
• In Kenya, Stopping Rapes Is a Challenge

• Senegal suspends deal to take back illegal migrants
  DAKAR, Senegal (Reuters) -- Senegal has suspended the repatriation of Senegalese illegal migrants from Spain's Canary Islands because it said they were mistreated and lied to by Spanish authorities, a government official said on Thursday. Repatriation flights were halted a day after the two governments announced the start of an operation to return more than 600 Senegalese migrants from the Canaries, where nearly 9,000 sub-Saharan Africans have come ashore in boats this year. - (EU)
  
  
  
• Sweden OKs Law to Take Liberia's War-Criminal Taylor
  STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Swedish lawmakers have approved a law that makes it possible for the Scandinavian country to imprison former Liberian President Charles Taylor if a U.N.-backed tribunal convicts him of war crimes, government officials said Thursday.
  
  
• Kenyan boy mauled by dogs has operation
• At least four people, including a Kenyan policeman, have died in clashes between police and street hawkers in the capital, Nairobi.
  The trouble started when police tried to arrest illegal street traders. The BBC's Anne Mawathe says when one of the vendors tried to escape the police opened fire, infuriating the traders. They rioted and set fire to power transformers, which the police had to put out with piles of earth. Local television reports that some of demonstrators have serious bullet wounds. Our correspondent says confrontations between hawkers and the police are not unusual in Nairobi as the traders are not allowed to trade in the central business areas of the capital.
  

• After expropriating White farmers Mugabe now takes control of farms owned by blacks
  Zimbabwe -- For years, Zimbabwe's white farmers have felt the wrath of President Robert Mugabe as they have been thrown off their land to make way for soldiers and ruling party cronies.  Now, longstanding black farmers have also become the focus of Mr. Mugabe's unwelcome attentions. The soldiers plowed up the vegetables, which he grew to earn cash to pay school fees for his children, and told him to plant corn.   Neighboring farmers -- some of them women -- who refused to uproot their own vegetables and fruit trees were beaten until they submitted.  Now Mr. Dube, and other farmers like him, have been told that they must sell most of their harvest to Zimbabwe's Grain Marketing Board, for a price yet to be determined, as part of Mr. Mugabe's drive to boost the nation's supply of the basic food. - (Africa)
  
  
• Darkest Africa: Mauritanian Leader Calls for Abolishment of Slavery
  The military ruler of Mauritania called Friday for his countrymen to stamp out slavery — a rare official acknowledgment that the long-outlawed practice continues in the northwest African country. "Yes to the abolition of slavery, of all slaveries," said Col. Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, adding that he will be the first to back anti-slavery groups working in Mauritania. Mauritania outlawed slavery in 1981, and the official government stance has been that the practice no longer exists within its borders. Slavery in the Muslim country has traditionally followed ethnic lines, with lighter-skinned maurs owning darker Africans and ownership passing down through generations. - (Africa) - (Reparations for Slavery)
  
  
• 3 Americans held in Congo released

• 456 African Migrants Intercepted Spanish Islands
  Last year authorities caught 4,751 African migrants trying to reach the Canary Islands, while at least 1,000 more are believed to have died during the crossing.  
• Zuma: The rape case that shook South African politics * Rape trial acquittal clouds future of `rainbow nation'
  
  
• Nigeria: Fake pastors rape bride to coma
  It was also gathered that the robbers disguised as Pastors did not get enough money from this operation and out of fury and rage, took turns to rape the bride until she became unconscious.  

• Nigeria: Man attempts to rape nine-month-old baby
  The police in Warri, Delta State, have arrested a 26-year-old man for allegedly attempting to rape a nine-month-old girl.   Glory Ekebeke was reportedly caught by one Mrs Rhoda Solomon, the victim’s mother, at about 2 p.m., while trying to rape the baby at a place called Ugborikoko.
  
  
• Zimbabwe: Musindo Rape Case: Drama in Court As Victim Weeps
  
  
• S.Africa's Zuma hails supporters after rape acquittal - (reader link)
• Where can East Rand rape victims go for expert help?
  
  
• Sex-for-food by aid workers alleged in Liberia
  Aid workers and U.N. peacekeepers are trading food for sex with young girls in Liberian camps
  housing those left homeless by years of war, an aid group said Monday.
  
  
• Violence Forces U.N. to Evacuate Darfur Camp
• Pirates Off Somali Coast Release Ship

Police search for killer chimps
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Police hunted for chimpanzees that escaped from a Sierra Leone preserve and mauled a group of local and American sightseers -- a rare attack that left one local man dead and at least four other people hospitalized. The U.S. Embassy warned Americans against traveling to the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, from where the chimps escaped before the attack on a taxicab filled with Americans and others. The Sierra Leonean driver died as the chimps ripped his body apart and the three Americans were treated at a local hospital. - (Newsroom) - (Africa)

• France's Ties With African Leaders Fading
  
  
• Robert Mugabe invites whites to lease back farmland
  Zimbabwe's dispossessed white farmers have been invited to lease farms back from the government, a tacit admission of the failure of Robert Mugabe's land seizures. If the applications are granted, it would be a reversal of Mr Mugabe's vows not to return land to white farmers. Didymus Mutasa, the security minister, who also holds the land reform portfolio, said this week that the country's land belonged to black people and "there is definitely no going back on our policy on land". - (Newsroom)  

• Liberia's Charles Taylor denies atrocities before tribunal - Former warlord is first African president to face war crimes charges
  FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor pleaded not guilty Monday before an international war crimes tribunal, denying 11 counts of helping destabilize West Africa through killings, sexual slavery and sending children into combat.  
  
  
  
  
• South Africa: Zuma takes stand in rape trial
  South Africa (AP) -- The man once groomed to be South Africa's next president defended himself Monday against charges that he raped an HIV-positive family friend.   Jacob Zuma, who was sacked as deputy president under a cloud of corruption last June, told a packed courtroom that he had caressed, kissed, massaged and then had sex with the woman, who at no stage tried to resist him.
  

• Migrants from elsewhere in Africa are overwhelming Mauritania
  The prime minister said Thursday in asking the West for help in sealing his borders. More than 1,000 Africans have died in the past four months while trying to sail in small wooden boats from Mauritania to Spain's faraway Canary Islands. - (EU)  
• Kenya's Anglican Church has issued a public apology for previously shunning those with HIV/Aids.

• South Africa's child rape shame
  More children are being murdered and raped in South Africa than in previous years, according to police statistics, which reveal that more than three children are killed every day. Equally shocking is that statistics released by the Safety and Security Ministry also show that more than 60 children are raped daily.  

• Uganda opposition leader cleared of rape
  
  
• Mandela's heir accused of rape
  He was Mandela's heir. Now he's accused of raping woman who called him Uncle
  HE ASPIRED to be South Africa’s next leader and considered himself the rightful heir to Nelson Mandela’s legacy, a black man ready to lead his people to peace and prosperity. But yesterday Jacob Zuma stood in the dock in a Johannesburg courtroom accused of rape, his quest for the presidency apparently in ruins. As political demises go, it could hardly have been more dramatic. A hushed courtroom listened as an HIV-positive Aids activist recounted in graphic detail on the first day of his trial how she had been raped by the trusted friend of her family.
  
  

• Zimbabwe: Bodies of fetuses, newborns clog Harare's sewers   - (Newsroom)
• A Nigerian militant commander has told the BBC his group is declaring "total war" on all foreign oil interests.
• Six Congo Soldiers Die of Hunger

• United Nations Needs Food for 10 Million in Southern Africa After Drought
• Starving Kenyans back dog food plan
  KENYANS reacting to an offer from New Zealand of dog food to save hungry children have said that they would rather eat dog food than starve to death.
• Plans to feed starving Kenyans on dog food denounced
  A LEADING Kenyan pet food manufacturer has denounced plans by a New Zealand philanthropist to feed starving Kenyans on dog food. He said the food not only dehumanises but degrades the intended beneficiaries of the said consignment. It makes no allowance for human dignity which revolves around the idea of eating food created and intended for animals. - (Newsroom)  

• South Africa: Dad killed at Xmas tree
  A man has been shot dead at the family's Christmas tree while his wife and two young sons were tied up and helpless in another room. Phillip Nash, 47, and his wife, Lynette, and their two sons were overpowered about 23:00 on Tuesday by three armed men.
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• Blacks in Africa have sex with goats because goats don't have AIDS! - (Mighty_Whitey) 

• Reports: Algeria rounds up 600 illegal African migrants
  Algerian authorities rounded up about 600 illegal African migrants living near the Moroccan border and sent them to southern Algeria
• Darkest Africa: Satanism claims lead to riot
  Lusaka - Fourteen Zambians were arrested after riots and vandalism in the capital Lusaka following allegations that a Pentecostal church was practising Satanism and human sacrifice, police said on Sunday. - (José María) 
• When crops fail or children die of mysterious illnesses, the villagers of northern Ghana usually suspect that a witch is to blame

• Links to other African news sites
• Southern Cross Africa News - Alternative News for and from Southern Africa
• Crisis In southern Africa - "Africa's Premier Hard News Website"
• South Africa - The Truth - "The outside world needs to know the truth!"
• Stop Boer Genocide! - site dedicated to the Boers of Southern Africa and their heritage
• "I have given my life to alleviate the sufferings of Africa" - Dr. Albert Schweitzer 
• A Warning for Americans: A Message from a South African By Robbie Noel
• Murder rate in South Africa  0.51 per 1000 people 
  
  
• Check the NNN Reporters Newsroom for breaking news links not yet posted here...

• Violent Attacks Against Whites In South Africa - Guest column by Wilhelm van Tonder
• Ethnic cleansing of white South Africa farmers intensifies
• Southern Cross Africa website
• The New South Africa: Whites Viciously Massacred - by Adriana Stuijt
• South African Exiles
  
  
• Why I'm fleeing South Africa by Anne Paton (widow of Alan Paton)
• Tales from the Rainbow Nation
• South Africa's Coming Race Wars  - From Jan Lamprecht 
• The Great Boer Trek - by Stephen Crane
• Die, the Beloved Country (South Africa) by Jim Peron
• Out of Africa - The proof that multi-racial societies do not work

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