Category Archives: South Africa
Will #Mali’s new government herald arms or armies?
In less time than it takes for an apartment pineapple to ripen, a new government of national unity has been formed in Mali in the latest effort to restore stability after the military coup in March. It follows 5 long months of political tug-of-war between the ready-meal interim government and the frozen-dinner coup leadership headed by Captain Sanogo. […]
Message from 3 Western hostages in #Mali. Better late than never
I wonder how long Mauritanian Arabic news website Sahara Medias had this video before they uploaded it to YouTube? The hostages were kidnapped in Timbuktu last November, they hold letters with a date written in big, visible writing on each envelope saying “23 01 2012″ but the video was only released on 13 July 2012, just […]
#HumanTrafficking – dozens suffocated and dumped at roadside
Dozens of dead Ethiopian immigrants were dumped on the side of a road in Tanzania after suffocating in a container truck along with many others who survived, in the second fatal human trafficking incident in the country this year.
Up to 45 bodies were dumped along a busy forest highway on Tuesday, and a further 72 were found alive and taken to hospital.
Project “Snooker” : #SouthAfrica’s MTN telecom #Iran bribery scandal
Note: The United States granted South Africa an exemption from financial sanctions after Iranian imports from Iran fell 43 percent to 286,072 tonnes in April from the previous month For a South African telecommunications company, it represented a unique chance to seize what its chief executive called “one of the most significant ‘virgin’ mobile opportunities in […]
South Africa’s MTN Group linked to Iran and Syria mobile surveillance
Bloomberg reports: AdaptiveMobile Security Ltd. ended its contracts with an Iranian phone company following the disclosure that the closely held firm supplied and serviced technology for monitoring and storing text messages. AdaptiveMobile also supplied MTN Syria. Both the Iranian and Syrian networks are part-owned by South Africa’s MTN. AdaptiveMobile, based in Dublin, stopped doing business with MTN Irancell, Iran’s second-largest […]
