REBELS in Sierra Leone penetrated deep into UN-held territory late on Saturday to attack the town of Masiaka, 45km east of Freetown, before withdrawing, according to UN sources. The source said Unamsil troops sustained no casualties in the attack. The assault on Masiaka is the closest the rebel Revolutionary United Front has come to the […]
ETHIOPIA’s electoral commission confirmed on Sunday the ruling coalition Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary and Democratic Front’s win in general elections held May 14. Eight Ethiopian opposition parties had branded the country’s May 14 general election a “farce” and demanded it be rerun. The coalition won 472 out of 522 seats in the Chamber of Representatives of […]
THE International Fund for Animal Welfare has expressed deep concern for the recent announcement by the Namibian government that it will expand its seal harvesting industry. The Namibian Cabinet last week approved a recommendation by Fisheries Minister, Dr Abraham Iyambo, to double the number of seal concession holders from two to four. Earlier this year […]
AN international consortium has begun producing aluminium at its new Mozal foundry in Mozambique, six months earlier than scheduled, the British mining group Billiton announced on Monday. Billiton’s partners at Mozal are the Mozambican government, the Industrial Development Cooperation of South Africa and the Japanese group Mitsubishi, the compnay said in a statement. The foundry […]
UK PROPERTY group Liberty International has moved to resist rival British Land’s offer for 29,9% of its shares by launching a counter offer for its own shares, the Business Day reports. The move has been funded with more than 500-million in bank debt. Liberty International MD David Fischel told the paper over the weekend the […]
ONE month after the arrest of Sierra Leonean rebel leader Foday Sankoh, small groups of his forces continue to make probing attacks, British army spokesman Captain Fergus Smith said Saturday. The most significant attack in recent days occurred Thursday morning, when some 150 of Sankoh’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels attacked Nigerian UN troops at […]
USAID and the Southern African Development Community on Tuesday signed a $18,4-million agreement aimed at enhancing regional market integration, agriculture, natural resource management and the promotion of democracy in the region. Speaking at a media briefing after the signing, SADC Executive Secretary Prega Ramsamy and regional official of the United States Agency for International Development, […]
THE number of countries in the world facing food emergencies increased in May with 36 of them currently affected by food shortages, the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation said in its latest ‘Food Outlook’. According to the June report, drought is largely to blame for the food crises, which are all found in developing countries, […]
HUGH NEVILL, Harare | Sunday 6.30pm. MORE than 25000 excited opposition supporters turned out for a rally outside Zimbabwe’s capital on Sunday to hear opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai promise them victory in next weekend’s parliamentary elections. The crowd dwarfed the approximately 4,000 ruling party supporters who turned out to listen to President Robert Mugabe at […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 6.00pm. THE Reserve Bank has reopened investigations into the controversial R1.5-billion ($220-million) lifeline the bank threw the Bankorp banking group during the last years of apartheid. The Reserve Bank has set up a panel, to be headed by Judge Dennis Davis, to probe its own role in the biggest bank […]