[All Africa] Zim-bob-we National Army officers across the country are reportedly demanding free services from sex workers as a show of appreciation for the role the military played in Operation Restore Legacy last November, a study has revealed.
The coup saw Emmerson Mnangagwa taking over from his boss Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... .
The National Aids Council (NAC) and Zim-bob-we Republic Police (ZRP) carried out a study last month to assess coppers knowledge, attitudes and practices towards key populations such as sex workers, gays, lesbians and drug users.
During the research, the sex workers complained bitterly that soldiers, some at gunpoint across the country, were demanding free sex from them.
"Soldiers have become the menace in various areas as they demanded free sex especially in the wake of the recent Operation Restore Legacy," the research noted with the incidences reported to be high among soldiers based in Chiredzi.
"They claimed to have brought freedom to the country and as such should be rewarded. They were accused of not paying for the sex while using their guns to intimidate the sex workers. For fear of the guns, the sex workers end up giving in. When they asked the soldiers to pay; some soldiers would retort; 'Wakaihoda kupi'".
Titled "Knowledge, attitudes and practices of coppers towards key populations in Zim-bob-we" the study also noted the negative practices of coppers. It found that instead of eradicating or halting sex work, coppers were actually promoting the trade and the rise in new HIV infections.
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[LESOTHO.GOV.LS] The Lesotho Government has condemned the manner in which head of state His Majesty King Letsie III was treated by South African Immigration officers at the Maseru Border Gate on his way home on February 20 this year.
In his statement at the National Assembly on Wednesday, the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Monyane Moleleki who is also leader of the House said the incident happened to His Majesty and his delegation upon his return home from Bloemfontein.
Mr. Moleleki said His Majesty's delegation and his vehicles were thoroughly searched and waited at the border post for almost an hour, describing the incident as shameful.
"The treatment to His Majesty and his delegation was not normal and not respectful deserving Heads of State and Governments based on international laws and agreements," he highlighted.
He said the treatment therefore humiliated and belittled His Majesty as Head of State in a disappointing manner.
The Deputy Prime Minister said Protocol Officer, Mr. Moeketsi Tsiboho, accordingly informed the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the incident, who in turn alerted South African High Commissioner to Lesotho, Mr. Sello Moloto and requested him to come to his office for an explanation of the incident.
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Check didn't clear? Still, sucks to be a land-locked country inside South Africa.
[AFRICANEWS] A court in Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... sentenced opposition leader Khalifa Sall, a former mayor of the capital Dakar, to five years in prison on Friday for embezzlement and falsifying documents.
Sall was placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! a year ago on suspicion of embezzling 1.8 billion CFA francs ($3.40 million). Prior to his arrest, he had been seen as a potential rival to President Macky Sall in elections set for next year. The two men are not related.
Two of the former mayor’s accomplices also got five years. His supporters say the trial was politically motivated, a charge the ruling party denies.
"I feel shame for my country," deputy Dakar mayor Cheikh Gueye told Rooters. "This decision is meant to prevent Khalifa Sall from putting his name forward as presidential candidate."
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[AFRICANEWS] Armed rebels killed at least one soldier during an attack on a house owned by Congo President Joseph Kabila in the restive east where a number of conflicts have flared in recent months, rebel and Congo military sources said on Thursday.
Kabila was not present when Mai-Mai turbans attacked the house near the town of Beni and clashed with state soldiers, who were able to fend off the attack.
The second assault on a presidential residence in three months points to a deteriorating security situation in Congo stoked in part by Kabila’s refusal to step down in 2016 when his mandate expired.
A home belonging to Kabila was attacked and set on fire in North Kivu province in December. A policeman died in the incident.
The security situation in the east, already a tinderbox of ethnic tensions, has worsened this year as state authority slips, forcing tens of thousands to flee and threatening to destabilise the whole country.
A front man for the Mai-Mai rebel group said it killed three soldiers during the attack. An army front man said one of its soldiers and one assailant were killed.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A Nigerian national accused of defrauding a Bangladeshi university professor of thousands of US dollars to attend a bogus conference in the United States was put on a two-day remand on Friday.
Earlier in the day, police produced him before the court with a seven-day remand prayer.
Donatus Emeka Onyejiuwa had been in Bangladesh for three months when he was detained by Detective Branch (DB) police at a hotel on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway on Thursday.
He was taken to Sylhet for interrogation and produced before the Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
Donatus is allegedly part of an international gang which conned Tk4.76 lakh out of Prof Faruque Miah of the genetic engineering department at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), on the pretext of making arrangements to send the academic to a seminar abroad.
"Prof Faruk Miah received an email invitation in February, to a seminar in the USA," Paritosh Ghosh, additional commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police, told a press briefing on Friday.
He said that a few days later, professor Faruk expressed his interest in attending the seminar by return email. The "organizers" then asked him to send $500 to book a hotel room for 10 days in the USA.
Prof Faruk suggested he could stay with friends in the USA but when this idea was rejected by the fraudsters, he paid the money through Western Union Money Transfer via a contact in Belgium.
"The gang has a bank account in Dinajpur’s Hili," Gopal Chakraborty, additional deputy commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan police detective branch, said. "They might have more bank accounts. We are tracking down mobile numbers of the gang."
On March 1, Professor Faruk got an email saying the US immigration service had confirmed his visa, which would arrive by March 19-21.
He was then asked to send photocopies of his passport plus $160 in visa fees, $95 for insurance fees and $1,399 as a deposit which, he was told, would be refunded at the airport when he returned home from the seminar.
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In order to intercept a Sarmat, at least 500 American ABM missiles would be needed, according to Viktor Bondarev,...
Heard similar back in the Reagan Years. ABM Treaty and the Soviets actually built theirs, then:
(Soviets): Fear Our ABM's, capitalist swine!
(Reagan): Fine, we'll put MIRVs on every missile and bury you in five times the warheads!
(Russians): .....
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...Interestingly, all my references show the top speed of our fifty-two year old LGM-30 Minuteman III design as approximately 17,500 MPH, or Mach TWENTY-THREE.
So - welcome to 1966, Pooty-poot.
Mike
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Unless we do a lot more do harden our electrical infrastructure against EMPs we are quite vulnerable to even a nearly fully successful nuclear defense (or even natural solar 'attack.')
[KCNAWATCH.CO] The conservatives of south Korea are a group of traitors as they destroyed the favorably developing the north-south relations and increased the danger of war to the extreme by getting hell-bent on the unprecedented confrontation moves, says Rodong Sinmun in an article Friday.
After the publication of the June 15 joint declaration, the north and the south of Korea had proactively realized the dialogue and cooperation in every field, the article notes, and says:
It was attributable to the conservative regimes of Lee Myung Bak and Park Geun Hye, vicious confrontational ones, that dialogue and cooperation, visits and exchanges were totally blocked and there prevailed a touch-and-go situation.
The "Liberal Korea Party" is now showing again its bad habit of confrontation, far from apologizing for having completely destroyed the north-south relations during its seizure of power.
Much upset by the trend of the relations and situation on the Korean peninsula towards the reconciliation and peace provided thanks to the proactive measures of the DPRK, the conservatives of south Korea are making desperate efforts to hold in check the trend of the times.
When the conservatives run amuck, the inter-Korean ties are driven to the lowest ebb, the climate of war prevails and the people are put in dire destitution. This is not an absurd cry but a bitter experience and lesson for the south Korean people.
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there prevailed a touch-and-go situation.
With a nerve agent in a foreign airport?
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[All Africa] South Africa and Australia have officially ended the row between them over Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton's offer to help "persecuted" white South African farmers.
Both sides have confirmed that "the case is now closed".
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop effectively resolved the dispute by implicitly refuting Dutton's offer to help South African farmers on the basis of their skin colour. But they have not directly slapped him down nor has he retracted his remarks.
Dutton had told media he believed white farmers deserved "special attention" because they faced violence and land seizures.
"If you look at the footage and read the stories, you hear the accounts, it's a horrific circumstance they face," the Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying at the time.
"We have the potential to help some of these people that are being persecuted."
Dutton said he had directed his department to explore whether the farmers could be accepted into Australia through refugee, humanitarian or other visas, including the in-country persecution visa category.
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[Daily Caller] A Canadian high school switched to "Africentric Math" to attract black students to go into Science, Technology, Engineering and Math(STEM) fields, according to Canadian Broadcasting’s(CBC) Wednesday report.
Nova Scotia’s Auburn Drive High School math teachers are skipping their previous eurocentric approach to teaching mathematics so black students will gain more interest in the subject, the CBC reported. Teachers are adopting an Afrocentric lens to teach mathematics, based on incorporating African history and culture to make math classes resonate with their students.
Auburn High School is working with the Imphop’s Legacy Academy, a program encouraging black students to get interested in STEM, to craft their new curriculum. One example of the new approach is using Egyptian pyramids to explain trigonometry.
"It’s academic math, but we want to build their self-confidence, their self-awareness so they can feel that they’re capable of doing the math," Auburn Drive High School Principal Karen Hudson said.
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The idea of trying to make mathematics more interesting to students is a reasonable one, and one of potential benefit to all.
The trouble with this approach is it is probably ineffectual and is based on the notion that the kids are hung up on race and interested in African history.
Actually they are much more interested in their own surroundings and, like all children are attracted by enjoyable things, like games and puzzles and magic, and the they can be attracted by first exposures to such things, to get them involved, then dull details. Dull details on African history will do nothing for the target audience or any audience.
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Learning math is helpful, whatever it takes to get them to learn actual math and not some common-core subspecies of math that will leave them uncompetitive in the real world.
[DAWN] The Supreme Court-appointed judicial commission on water quality and drainage in Sindh on Friday ordered municipal authorities in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... to dismiss all Moslem sanitation workers from service after being informed that the employees refuse to do jobs such as cleaning sewers. They live in a shithole because it's beneath the dignity of Moslems to shovel shit.
Retired Justice Amir Hani Moslem, who heads the one-member commission, observed at the outset of the hearing that the city's central district was littered with garbage. He asked District Municipal Corporation (DMC) Central Chairman Rehan Hashmi how many of the district's 1,200 sweepers were Moslems.
When Hashmi disclosed that nearly 200 of the sanitation workers were Moslems, the judge asked whether those employees also clean gutters.
The DMC chairman replied that they did not, upon which the judge ordered him to dismiss those sanitation workers from service.
Justice Moslem remarked that municipal matters of the city will suffer if appointments are made on a political basis.
Hashmi claimed that his office lacks the resources and machinery to rid the city of garbage completely.
Local Government Secretary Ramzan Awan informed the commission that as many as 50 per cent of DMC employees don't show up to work. "Political appointments are common in Karachi," he said.
Awan also revealed that around 1,380 DMC workers out of a total of 13,000 had turned out to be ghost employees.
Before adjourning the hearing until April 5, the commission ordered the Sindh Solid Waste Management Board and the Cantonment Boards to ensure through their contractors and employees that "all the solid municipal waste is removed from the city starting from today".
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How can someone who doesn't use toilet paper have a problem with touching poo?
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[DAWN] Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... police’s Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC) on Friday announced to have busted a gang of cycle of violence snatchers involving employees of Pakistain Air Force (PAF) and Pakistain Navy.
"The ACLC has busted a gang of criminals involved in cycle of violence snatching and theft cases in various areas of Karachi, especially Defence, Tipu Sultan and Sharea Faisal," said SSP ACLC Syed Asad Raza.
The official said 14 cycle of violences were recovered from the possession of the placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! suspects ‐ identified as Sohail Murtaza and Younas Jones. "Their accomplice Shahjehan, an official of Pakistain Navy, is still on the lam," the SSP said.
"Sohail Murtaza is a civilian employee of PAF while Shahjehan is part of the administrative staff at a Navy complex," added the senior officer in a press statement.
The arrested suspects would evade security checks after committing crimes by showing their service cards to the police, SSP Raza maintained. "They took stolen cycle of violences to chop shops for selling parts in other areas," he added.
ACLC police said that further investigation was underway, while a case has been registered against the suspects.
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[DAWN] Malala Yousafzai ...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again... on Friday said she plans to return to Pakistain permanently once her studies are complete,
She said this during an interview with Geo TV on the second day of her emotional trip back more than five years after being shot by Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... button men.
Security has forced the Nobel prize winner, whose arrival in the country dominated headlines and social media, to keep her itinerary tightly under wraps.
Malala said there was "definitely a difference between the Pakistain of today and in 2012", when she was airlifted to a British hospital after being shot in the head by Taliban button men angered over her stance as an advocate for girls' education.
"Things are becoming better, people are uniting and a campaign for better Pakistain is ongoing, people are active which is very good."
The Oxford student, who has said that she wants to run for prime minister one day, added: "It is my plan to return to Pakistain after completing my education because it is my country and I have equal rights on it like any other Pak."
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Kid has guts. Does she have security? If she's shot again, I wonder what a poll would show....got what she deserved, probably.
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The broadcast termination was due to a dippy regulation never enforced before and likely only done by some bureaucrat jealous about them sending a Tesla to space last month. See explanation:
Scottish-American actor Alan Cumming shared a few choice words during his chat with with Michelangelo Signorile on SiriusXM Progress this week.
Cumming, 53, who stars as a gay ACT UP activist who lost his partner to AIDS in the new film After Louie, spoke candidly about his thoughts on a wide-range of social and political issues that shook the nation in recent months.
The Good Wife actor commended the survivors of the latest mass shooting in Florida as well as Time's Up pioneers - who have both made their voices heard.
Cumming said in the new SiriusXM interview: 'It feels like, hopefully, the last dying gasp of old white guys running everything.'
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The left has been in such a hurry to move past the point when old white men run the west that they've never considered what things might be like afterwards. i think Alan Cumming won't like the results.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Dhaka Tribune] A Nigerian national accused of defrauding a Bangladeshi university professor of thousands of US dollars to attend a bogus conference in the United States was put on a two-day remand on Friday.
[DAWN] The Supreme Court-appointed judicial commission on water quality and drainage in Sindh on Friday ordered municipal authorities in 
...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again...
