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/ 22 February 2001
VICTIMS of repression under Chad’s former president Hissene Habre have applauded legal attempts in Senegal to reinstate torture and murder charges against the ex-dictator, who is now in exile in Senegal. An appeals court in Dakar said it would rule on March 6 on whether Habre, who ruled the north-central African nation from 1982 to […]
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/ 22 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday SOUTH African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has given billions of rand to the poor and to middle income earners in tax reforms in a bittersweet budget designed to kickstart the rural economy and create much-needed jobs. Manuel said an ambitious privatisation plan would go ahead, and announced targetted tax […]
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/ 22 February 2001
ANNIE THOMAS, Bamako | Wednesday THE heads of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), flanked by 10 African leaders, have emerged from two days of talks claiming to have forged a radical new approach to the continent’s chronic poverty. The talks, held in the impoverished west African state of Mali, led to […]
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/ 22 February 2001
KENYAN charities have accused international drug companies of denying Africa’s AIDS patients access to adequate care and for much cheaper generic drugs to be imported from India and Brazil. The Kenya Coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) said ongoing negotiations over proposed reductions in the price of antiretroviral drugs were moving too slowly, and that they […]
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/ 22 February 2001
A YEAR after floods that wreaked havoc in one of the world’s poorest countries, Mozambique has appealed for aid to fight a new disaster that has killed at least 41 people and displaced tens of thousands. Foreign Minister Leonardo Simao said most of the deaths occurred in the coastal province of Zambezia. Over 77 000 […]
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/ 22 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Windhoek | Thursday FOLLOWING a year of denials, Namibia’s mines minister Jesaya Nyamu has admitted that the country does indeed have commercial interests in a diamond mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Afrikaans daily Republikein 2000 reported on Thursday. ”The minister of mines and energy, Jesaya Nyamu, admitted that the […]
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/ 22 February 2001
ANGOLAN Unita rebels have claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 18 diamond miners. The Portuguese news agency Lusa quoted a Unita statement saying the miners, some of whom were not Angolan, were attacked while travelling near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Diamonds have been a key source of finance for Unita […]
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/ 21 February 2001
EGYPT is in the midst of a drive costing $2bn to revamp its old airports and build new ones as it anticipates millions more tourists in the next few years. When the current program is completed in about four years, Egypt will have a network of 26 modern airports, including seven new ones, with capacity […]