The information in the article is pretty much just a rehash of what has already been reported, and posted here on Cryptomundo. However there were a small number of additional details.

“The sightings follow a number of reports out of Africa in recent years involving alleged sightings of strange creatures. In 2009, the Namibian newspaper “New Era” reported that a number of villagers had filed complaints with police stating that a mysterious tiger-like creature had been sucking blood of their livestock.”

Police spokeswoman Christina Fonsech told the paper that police tried to track the creature’s footprints, which were doglike, though bigger.

“We followed them but they walked until a spot where they just vanished,”

“It’s difficult to explain what happened to those footprints because they looked as if they climbed onto something but it was in an open space, so we don’t know what happened.”

Huffington Post article

Badgers are aggressive and territorial. They are not intimidated by humans.

Aardvark? Someone can’t tell the difference between an aardvark and a badger? Try picking one up and see what happens!

I’m hard-put to visualize being terrorized by an aardvark, however, unless I’m a termite mound.

The February 10th, 2011 article from Informante can be seen here: Informante’s 2011 Article
and here: Namibian’s 2011 Article

An un-official (just off the Internet, so I can’t verify the validity of it) write-up about the 2009 activity can be seen at 2009 activity mentioned.

This could be a mutt some guy has that’s unusually agressive (Village dogs are pariahs, semi-feral, what the first dogs might have been like: if they bred with a domestic dog, like a Mastiff or Pitbull, the outcome might be what is being encountered. One theory of the Beast of Gevaudan crisis In France was that the beasts then were wolf-mastiff hybrids (Most likely the French Mastiff, or Dogue De Bordeaux, a breed so strong it was pinned against Bull in fights, and has possibly the biggest skull in the canine kingdom. 110 lbs. See Turner and Hooch for an example, and then imagine it crossed with a wolf…).

This also makes me think of the Shunka-Warakin or Ringdocus, the “Carry-off-dog” of Indian legend and sightings, which likewise preyed on dogs (hence the name).

I doubt an Aardvark would be killing dogs, and I have never heard of an albino one. Then again it could be rabid, but rabid animals dont last long (if it is rapid, its probably dead by now), and why would even a rabid Aardvark attack dogs in particular?

Honey Badger fits the aggressiveness, and I think I have heard something about albino ones. But it would be unusual for Honey Badgers to target dogs like the above. However, there are true accounts of wild animals choosing unusual and often risky prey that they had a taste or craving for (Even though Bears are lbs for lbs stronger than any big cat, and Brown bears can grow far larger, one Siberian Tiger actually preyed on them commonly, using sudden ambush strikes that took the bears out before they could respond.)

Very interesting…