Yearly Archives: 2001

Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi said Thursday that suspected attacks with the anthrax bacillus in the United States, if proved true, would be “the worst type of terrorism.” In a statement carried by the official news agency Jana, Gadaffi said that “if it turns out that anthrax germs have been deliberately spread in the United States, […]

OLA AWONIYI, Makurdi | Friday RESIDENTS driven by troops into the bush from towns in a central Nigerian state where officials said more than 130 were massacred have narrated their heart-rending experiences. “Since I ran into the bush on Tuesday when soldiers attacked Zaki-Biam, I have not seen my two wives and nine children. I […]

INVESTIGATIONS into thousands of criminal cases at Windhoek’s main police stations have ground to a standstill, while others are moving at snail’s pace, because only three vehicles are operational in an area with more than 200 000 inhabitants. One of the excuses given by the National Police Headquarters for the long-running transport problem is that […]

THE United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, called on Friday for a pause in the US-led air strikes against Afghanistan so vital aid could reach civilians before winter sets in. The former Irish president said a suspension of attacks would allow the world to focus on saving hundreds of thousands of people […]

ALLOWING the killing of farmers to continue unabated would amount to sabotage, Safety and Security Steve Tshwete said on Thursday. ”Farmers are the lifeline of this country,” he told reporters at Midrand after a three-day conference on rural safety. ”Farmers are not just feeding the nation but are also earning us huge forex reserves.” The […]

A SPY satellite was blasted into space late on Wednesday atop an Air Force Atlas II AS rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Floriday, a military representative said on Thursday. The satellite belonged to the National Reconnaissance Office, the intelligence agency responsible for the government’s spy satellites, said Lieutenant Colonel Joe Lamarca, a representative for the […]

Pretoria | Saturday THE New National Party (NNP) announced on Friday night that it is to quit the Democratic Alliance (DA), a move that will leave the Democratic Party isolated in the Western Cape. ”The NNP suspends its participation in the DA with a view to shortly withdraw from the alliance,” NNP leader Marthinus van […]

TWO Johannesburg men were arrested on Wednesday afternoon after they were allegedly found in possession of 50 handgrenades, police said. Superintendent Norman Ponnusamy said the grenades were found in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, during a police undercover operation. He said details about the operation could not be divulged as more arrests were expected. A police […]

THE United Nations, one of the biggest producers of words, celebrated its 56th birthday Wednesday with a ceremony that took place partly in silence: a performance by the French mime Marcel Marceau. Marceau, a goodwill ambassador for the UN Second World Assembly on Aging, to be held next year in Madrid, was to act six […]

SIX men were arrested on Friday night in Upington after a nine-month old baby was raped and indecently assaulted, Northern Cape police said. Captain Cherelle Ehlers said in a statement on Sunday that the baby girl’s 16-year-old mother left the child in another person’s care around 10pm on Saturday night while she went out to […]