Shafted in Africa

Jesse Walker | September 26, 2006

In South Africa, an eviction gone wrong:

1,800 Johannesburg squatters who had been in their homes for 14 years were illegally evicted yesterday, a local city council member told The Star newspaper. The problem: eviction notices were served on the wrong community.

More here, including the possibility that the homes are being cleared to make way for a golf estate.

Elsewhere on the African Bad News Beat, a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis is now airborne. Ghana seems to have caught a case of Gay Panic comparable to the crackdown in Uganda. And Somalia's Islamists are trying to ban khat during Ramadan.