Yearly Archives: 2001

AN Ethiopian flag raised on the moon in July 1971 by US astronaut James B. Irwin has been officially returned to President Negasso Gidada. Irwin’s widow Mary handed the green, yellow and red flag over at a ceremony at the national palace at the weekend. The Apollo 15 mission carried the flags of all members […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Gaborone | Tuesday SOUTH African Marietta Bosch, who has been on death row in Gaborone Central Prison for a year, has lost her appeal in the Botswana Appeal Court against her conviction for murder. The sentence was confirmed by the Botswana Appeals Court. Bosch’s last resort before being hanged for murder is to […]

PRESIDENT Sam Nujoma has urged young Namibians to refrain from alcohol abuse to avoid the spread of the deadly HIV/Aids pandemic, the Namibian Press Agency reported. Addressing over 2_000 residents at the Rundu Sports Stadium, Nujoma said children in every house should be informed about the dangers of the HIV/Aids scourge that was “wiping out […]

LAWYERS for the sons of late Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha have asked Luxembourg’s administrative tribunal to lift a freeze on assets which he had on deposit in the grand duchy. If the request is approved, some 670m euros ($616.4m) in Abacha’s name at the Warburg Bank in Luxembourg would go to his two sons. Abacha, […]

THE UN World Food Programme says 100_000 people are suffering from malnutrition in central and northern Burundi, calling the situation there “catastrophic”. The WFP said the northeast Karuzi province was worst hit, with 24% of 360 000 inhabitants malnourished. Fourteen percent of these people were suffering from severe malnutrition. A therapeutic nutrition centre in the […]

THE UN refugee agency has urged the Angolan government to give stronger support to programmes to help 3.8 million people displaced by the civil war which has wracked the country for more than 25 years. UN officials said the government had recently provided $70m for humanitarian aid in 2001, adding that the authorities had given […]

SOUTH Africa’s third largest gold miner, Harmony Gold, has unveiled a 30% jump in its December quarter profit, but its share fell as the market digested two months of steady gains. The company said its cash operating profit jumped to a record R184.8m in the three months to December 31 from R142.6m the previous quarter, […]

EGYPT, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan signed a billion-dollar deal on Sunday for the transport and sale of natural gas between the four countries. The agreement stipulates the creation of two companies. One, which will be called Orient Company, will build gas pipelines across the Mediterranean to transport initially some 12m cubic metres of natural gas […]

THE national death toll from cholera has reached 85 after the epidemic spread beyond KwaZulu-Natal after breaking out in August. In addition to the 78 people who died from the disease in KwaZulu-Natal, six people have died from it in the Northern Province and one in Gauteng. More than 28 000 people have been infected […]