DENMARK’S Appeals Court has upheld an earlier ruling to extradite a former Rwandan army officer to the UN war crimes tribunal in Tanzania, court officials in the western town of Viborg said. Innocent Sagahatu is wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on charges of participating in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, as […]
ITALY has pledged to cancel up to $116m Uganda owes to creditors in the Paris Club of donor nations, Italian ambassador to Uganda Luigi Napolitano said. The debt represented over 80% of the total Uganda owes to the club. Uganda’s total foreign debt runs at close to $4bn. But Napolitano said that for the country […]
GRACA Machel, former first lady of both Mozambique and South Africa, opens a 400-strong Global Summit of Women in Johannesburg on Thursday which will concentrate on economic issues. The three-day conference, being held in Africa for the first time, will include an economic profile of the African woman, issues surrounding e-commerce and e-business, infrastructure as […]
EMSIE FERREIRA, Cape Town | Thursday THE South African government is “spitting in the face” of people who were oppressed, impoverished and tortured by the apartheid regime by not paying them promised reparations. Speaking at a two-day conference in Cape Town called “The Unfinished Business of the TRC”, Judge Dumisa Ntsebeza, a former Truth and […]
THE Namibian Minerals Corporation (NAMCO) has launched a project to comb the ocean floor for new underwater diamond deposits. NAMCO, Africa’s second largest diamond producer, says the latest survey technology and three-dimensional images of the ocean floor enabled geologists to identify 163 areas with diamond potential, it said. Namibia’s underwater diamonds, which experts say are […]
AN Angolan police officer has shot an 80-year-old fisherman 30 times after the man refused to give the officer some bananas, the state-run Jornal de Angola reported. Joao Lando had just taken a load of bananas out of his canoe on the Angolan side of the Congo River, when Domingos Chiloia stopped him and asked […]
SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki has held talks with his Senegalese counterpart Abdoulaye Wade on peace and stability in west Africa, particularly in Ivory coast. Mbeki and Wade were part of an OAU delegation to go to the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, to attempt to defuse widespread tension in Ivory Coast ahead of general elections due […]
THE World Bank has placed Zimbabwe on non-payment status, noting that the country was behind on the payment of $47m. The bank said the principal amount outstanding on loans to Zimbabwe from the bank’s main lending arm totalled $452m, with overdue payments worth $45m. The bank’s concessional lending unit, the International Development Association, had made […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT and AFP, Port Elizabeth | Thursday THOUGHTLESS government policies are driving South Africa’s farmers to bankruptcy, outgoing Agri SA president Chris du Toit has warned, pleading with government to “just leave us alone.” Opening the annual congress of the farmers’ organisation, Du Toit said agriculture was seen as an endless source of wealth. […]
AN 11-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly raping a two-year-old child at Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg. Police said the boy arrived at the little girl’s house at 6.30pm and found her with a another girl who was looking after her. The boy allegedly tried to rape the older girl, but she ran away, leaving […]