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/ 23 January 2001
THE latest round of military talks on the Ethiopia-Eritrea border dispute has been postponed because of a disagreement on troop redeployment, say pro-Ethiopian sources. No new date has been set for a meeting of the Military Coordination Commission (MCC). – Reuters
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/ 23 January 2001
THE government of Ivory Coast has resigned after a cabinet meeting in a move that will allow those ministers who recently won election to parliament to vote for a president when parliament meets on Monday for the first time since it was dissolved after a coup in December 1999. Prime Minister Affi N’Guessan offered his […]
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/ 23 January 2001
UNITED Nations Security Council members have refused to delay an expert panel’s report on the exploitation of diamonds, gold and other resources in the Congo until June, insisting it be produced in March. Diplomats said Ba-N’Daw, the former Ivory Coast minister and senior World Bank official who chairs the five-member expert panel, was criticised at […]
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/ 22 January 2001
There’s nothing tame about Lars von Trier. Even his car is brazenly penile and his latest movie is a harrowing musical. Danny Leigh meets the madman of European cinema.
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/ 22 January 2001
Still playing in the minor key of last year’s <i>Sweet and Lowdown</i>, Woody Allen has neatly tossed together the good-hearted comedy that is <i>Small Time Crooks</i>. He plays a rather dim-witted criminal whose cunning masterplans are surpassed by his wife’s skill at making cookies – and life takes a whole new turn into nouveaux riches.
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/ 22 January 2001
A MAN accused of driving drunk and crashing into a minibus full of school children was let off the hook in the Nelspruit District Court because the police failed to take statements from the survivors. Carl Furter, 34, was never asked to plead on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol. Police allegedly […]
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/ 22 January 2001
ZIMBABWES main opposition party, which has fiercely opposed President Robert Mugabe’s land reforms, has given cautious support to the government’s new scheme of resettlement based on commercial operation. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has previously criticised the programme promoted by Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), which involves taking away land mainly from […]
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/ 22 January 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENTS, Kinshasa | Monday ANGOLA, Namibia and Zimbabwe have called for new peace efforts to end conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo following the slaying of its president Laurent Kabila in what an advisor says was “a premeditated attack”. Presidents Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola, Sam Nujoma of Namibia and Robert Mugabe […]
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/ 22 January 2001
CLAIRE KEETON and OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki’s bizarre decision to exclude the country’s leading anti-corruption watchdog from a probe into the states shady R43bn arms deal has raised fresh doubts over his commitment to transparency. Mbeki has come under massive fire from opposition parties, religious groups and a groundswell of public […]