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/ 28 October 2003
At least 27 people have been and 45 others wounded after fighting erupted between the militia of two clans in central Somalia. The fighting, which broke out on Monday, pitted members of the Marehan clan against their Dir rivals in Herale village of Abudwaaq district.
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/ 28 October 2003
A British man who was sentenced by a Nigerian court to be hanged for the murder of his Australian lover has appealed his conviction, his defence team said on Tuesday. Ian Millar, a 54-year-old long-term resident of Nigeria, was convicted last Thursday of the murder of his 43-year-old partner Anne Marie Gale.
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/ 28 October 2003
At least six people, including schoolchildren, were killed on Tuesday when a car bomb exploded near a police station in this flashpoint town west of Baghdad. The blast, which also wounded several people, came one day after five suicide car bombings in Baghdad killed 43 and wounded more than 200.
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/ 28 October 2003
Workers at airports run by the Airports Company of South Africa on Tuesday asked their aviation industry colleagues to join them in an attempt to get Acsa to agree to a higher pay rise. The union has asked colleagues from South African Airways and three other firms to support them.
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/ 28 October 2003
South Africa’s conventional arms exports nearly doubled between 2000 and 2002, according to a government paper referred to the parliamentary defence portfolio committee and joint standing committee on defence. A notable change in the listing is that South Africa sold no arms to Zimbabwe in the past two years.
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/ 28 October 2003
Scientists from 16 countries will gather in Cape Town on Wednesday to discuss progress on the powerful Southern African Large Telescope (Salt), which is being built outside Sutherland in the Northern Cape.
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/ 28 October 2003
The publisher and three directors of The Daily News in Zimbabwe were to appear in court on Tuesday after being arrested for publishing without a licence, but the hearing was delayed for no stated reason. Company lawyer Gugulethu Moyo speculated police were merely seeking to punish the owners of the newspaper.
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/ 28 October 2003
South Africa’s official opposition Democratic Alliance says it has taken a lot of time and effort for the CPIX to reach a figure of 5,4% notched up for September. A DA spokesperson said "it is the first time that the CPIX falls within the Reserve Bank’s inflation target band [of between 3% and 6%]".
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/ 28 October 2003
Government was spending billions on acquiring armaments for the defence force, but doing little to support and protect members of the South African Police Service, the United Democratic Movement said on Tuesday.
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/ 28 October 2003
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is set to be grilled by police on Wednesday over a simmering corruption scandal involving two of his sons that he has so far fought to brush under the carpet. He will be asked about allegations involving the use of a ,5-million loan from a South African businessman, Cyril Kern.