Yearly Archives: 2003

The Liberian faction sympathetic to exiled former president Charles Taylor has named five ministers in the West African country’s post-war power-sharing government, officials said on Thursday.

About 100 private companies, mainly from Britain and the United States, gathered in London this week to discuss investment opportunities in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. The companies, mainly oil and banking, are being invited by the US and British governments to move in as soon as security is restored.

Premier Soccer League champions Orlando Pirates must be wondering what they must do to get beyond the first round of cup competitions. This season Buccaneers failed to advance in the Super Eight, when they were ousted by Jomo Cosmos, and on Sunday they take on Manning Rangers at Chatsworth in the Coca-Cola Cup.

Mils Muliaina scored his first four tries in All Blacks colours as the New Zealanders romped to a 68-6 victory over Canada at the World Cup on Friday after failing to score for the first 18 minutes.

The omens were there after the first day: a flat pitch, an attack for which the word modest would be hyperbole, and the undisputed batsman of the decade in his pomp and already closing in on a double century. Now Matthew Hayden stands at the top of the mountain, having eclipsed Brian Lara as Test cricket’s highest individual scorer.

Cameroon retained their All-Africa Games title with a 2-0 defeat of Nigeria on Thursday courtesy of prolific Canon Yaounde striker Marcus Mokake Mwambo. He opened the scoring after 42 minutes when he pushed a rebound from Nigeria goalkeeper Rotimi Sunday into the net.

Nigeria had to wait until four minutes from the end to grab the winner and beat South Africa in the final of the women’s football tournament at the eighth All-Africa Games on Thursday. Midfielder Blessing Igbojionu’s scrambled effort on 86 minutes earned the hosts a deserved victory as well as the gold medal.

South Africa scored 320 in its first innings of the first cricket test against Pakistan on Friday. While batsman Gary Kirsten got a nasty blow off a Shoaib Akhtar bouncer, Mark Boucher hit 72. Pakistan will begin its first innings on Saturday half an hour early after bad light stopped play five overs before the scheduled close.