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/ 25 November 2001
HEALTH experts from seven central African countries held talks on Tuesday in Bangui aimed at relaunching a regional campaign against African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness. At the talks in the Central African capital, the experts condemned the slack efforts to combat the illness, transmitted by the tse-tse fly, in the region over the past ten […]
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/ 25 November 2001
A MALAWIAN minister said on Wednesday the Danish ambassador to Malawi was recalled to his country in October because he was “rude” to President Bakili Muluzi. Finance minister Mathews Chikaonda said that Danish ambassador Orla Bakdal was recalled to Copenhagen for “mannerisms against the head of state.” “It had nothing to do with development aid,” […]
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/ 25 November 2001
South Africa is to ban the use of plastic bags in a bid to rid the country of litter, the country’s government announced on Wednesday. The ban on the flimsy bags, handed out free to shoppers at all major stores, will be phased-in over the coming months after the South African Cabinet agreed in principle […]
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/ 25 November 2001
LIBYAN leader Muammer Gaddafi proposed on Wednesday repatriating the hold-out Arab fighters for the Taliban in the northern Afghanistan city of Kunduz, in order to avert a massacre. If they were sent home, the Arab fighters, mostly Islamic militants, would “be judged and treated like other prisoners of war under UN supervision,” Gaddaffi was quoted […]
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/ 25 November 2001
MODERATE eating may help promote a longer life, according to a study of so-called Methuselah mice, who lived to the equivalent in human age of more than 150 years thanks to a reduced diet. Scientists took a batch of rodents called Ames dwarf mice, a small ”mutant” mouse which enjoys longevity thanks to a well-explored […]
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/ 25 November 2001
A 33-year-old home affairs department official appeared in the Louis Trichardt Magistrate’s Court on Thursday after she allegedly accepted a bribe from an illegal immigrant, Northern Province police reported. Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said Rebecca Monisi was granted R1000 bail and the case was postponed until December 7. Monisi was arrested on Wednesday. ”We set a […]
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/ 25 November 2001
LUKE HARDING, Islamabad | Friday TRIBAL warlords who have spent the past five years in hibernation were swiftly re-emerging on Wednesday to try to get control of large swaths of southern Afghanistan – moves that are plunging the country back into the chaotic and feuding pre-Taliban era of the early 1990s. As Taliban forces retreated, […]
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/ 25 November 2001
KWAZULU-Natal police have found the bodies of two men believed to have been killed five days ago at a shack at the Shaya Moya squatter camp in Ixopo. Outside the shack several 9mm cartridges were found. Captain Vishnu Naidoo on Thursday said Mfaniseni Cele, 41, and Du Dlamini (29) were last seen alive last Saturday, […]
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/ 25 November 2001
THE Amazon, which today represents a quarter of the planet’s forests and is one of its most diverse reserves of plants and animals, could disappear within the next 50 years, environmental pressure group Greenpeace warned on Tuesday. At the current rate of destruction, the Amazon will be reduced in 50 years time to scattered clumps […]
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/ 23 November 2001
<b>Kids’ movie of the week</b>. The film has less of the book’s jolly-hockey-sticks tone, but also fewer laughs. It flows along smoothly, from one episode to the next, without much rhythm, and some of the more hair-raising sequences seem curiously underplayed, writes Shaun de Waal.