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/ 10 November 2003
Burma’s pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is refusing to accept freedom from house arrest until other detainees are released, according to Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, a UN human rights envoy.
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/ 10 November 2003
The Iraqi governing council, set up by the US as a step towards self-rule, has proved be so ineffective and shambolic that Washington is beginning to consider alternatives, it was reported yesterday.
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/ 10 November 2003
The rand was still trading below the R7 per dollar level in late afternoon trade on Monday, capitalising on the euro’s recovery against the dollar after a six-week worst level against the United States unit on Friday. The rand frequently takes its cue from the euro, gaining or losing in tandem against the dollar.
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/ 10 November 2003
Conservation bodies have strongly criticised plans to mine heavy metals and build a toll road along part of the Eastern Cape’s Wild Coast, calling for a rethink before government gives the go-ahead. The World Wildlife Fund said projects ”pose an inherent threat to the region’s natural environment and its people”.
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/ 10 November 2003
A trio of top doctors have called on the government to set up an alcohol injury fund, bankrolled by taxes on booze, for victims of alcohol-related injury. They say the fund could also be used for trauma equipment and to finance substance abuse treatment centres.
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/ 10 November 2003
Johannesburg socialite Hazel Crane, a close friend of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and wife of deceased Israeli diamond dealer Shai Avissar, was shot dead on Monday while on her way to give testimony in the Johannesburg High Court, police said.
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/ 10 November 2003
The South African Secret Services, which conducts crime intelligence, underspent by just over R1,1-million during the financial year ending March 31, 2003, according to the report of the Auditor General Shauket Fakie.
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/ 10 November 2003
Rebels in northern Uganda have massacred more than 100 civilians in five consecutive days of raids, the head of the regional government alleged on Monday. The Lord’s Resistance Army has been raiding villages in Lira district daily, and more than 100 bodies have been found between Wednesday and Saturday.
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/ 10 November 2003
An outbreak of the Ebola virus is believed to have claimed the lives of nine people in a remote forest region of Congo, Brazzaville, the medical information service Medinfo reported on Monday.
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/ 10 November 2003
A suspected Togolese political assassin was on Sunday arrested in the Ghanaian capital in a joint Ghanaian-Togolese police operation, the Ghana News Agnecy (GNA) reported.