THE national secretary of Zambia’s Ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), Michael Sata, resigned from the party on Monday, four days after he quit his top ministerial position. “He tendered his resignation from the party this afternoon,” said his representative Eddie Lifwekelo. According to Lifwekelo, Sata resigned from the party in protest against the manner […]

Blantyre | Tuesday THE Malawi government, facing looming food shortages, said on Monday the country and donors will spend $8-million on free agricultural inputs for one million rural households. The inputs include free fertiliser and seed, which will be given to villagers to spur maize production next year and ease food shortages at a time […]

THE permanent secretary for mines and energy, Retired Colonel Christian Katsande, has been banned from attending a summit in the United States – becoming the first victim of travel restrictions being implemented by the United States government against President Robert Mugabe and his officials. The US has also deferred a training programme that had been […]

MUNGO SOGGOT, STEFAANS BRMMER, Johannesburg | Friday THE global recession that is likely to follow last week’s terror attacks on the United States will hit the South African economy in the short term. But economists say changed global conditions could spur the government to find new ways of stimulating domestic growth and could be positive […]

AUTHORITIES of Lome University have hiked entrance fees almost ten-fold for the 2001-2002 academic year, an official in the Togolese capital of Lome said on Monday. He said the annual fees had been raised from 5 270 CFA francs (seven dollars), set in 1970, to 50 000 CFA francs ($69). There was no immediate reaction […]

Johannesburg | Monday DEMOCRATIC Alliance leader Tony Leon said on Monday that he has lodged a formal request with the Medical Research Council to secure its report on Aids-related deaths. “I have also requested the findings of a study on the economic impact of HIV/Aids from the Department of Finance,” Leon said in a prepared […]

SEVEN people, including tourists from the French island of Reunion, were killed on Monday when the light aircraft they were flying in crashed near the airport of Madagascar’s capital, pilots said. The Navajo PA 31 plane was approaching Antananarivo when the pilot reported problems first in one engine, then in the second, and subsequently crashed […]

ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba has divorced from his wife of 33 years, Vera. The couple had been separated for more than a year before Chiluba (58) filed for divorce before a local court in Copperbelt province. Vera Chiluba told a conference of women in politics Monday that the divorce was a very sad development for […]

SOUTH African Airways (SAA) will resume scheduled flights between Johannesburg, Lagos and New York on Wednesday, the airline announced on Tuesday. This is because “the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos now meets (US) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) security requirements,” it said in a statement. The statement said that SAA flights from Johannesburg to Atlanta, Georgia, […]

US President George W Bush on Monday extended for another year sanctions imposed against rebels of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita). The White House said the president had concluded the rebel group continued to threaten the peace process in Angola. The 1993 sanctions banned arms and oil sales to Unita […]