JEREMY LOVELL, Johannesburg | Sunday 6.00pm. PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has secured money from Norway and Saudi Arabia to help pay for the redistribution of white-owned land in Zimbabwe to blacks. According to the Sunday Times, the two governments have pledged R100-million ($14.2-million, 15.7-million euros) to enable the Zimbabwean government to buy 118 farms from whites. […]
WAR veterans and their supporters who invaded a national park in the south of Zimbabwe narrowly escaped death when they were attacked by an angry pride of lions. The independent Daily News reports that a group of around 100 war veterans invaded a private game estate within the Gonarezhoue park, the country’s second largest, to […]
WEST African leaders gathered in the Nigerian capital on Sunday to discuss backing for a regional military force to bolster a United Nations mission struggling to enforce a peace accord in war-ravaged Sierra Leone. Earlier, a mini-summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met into the early hours preparing a report on […]
PRATAP CHAKRAVARTY, New Delhi | Sunday 6.00pm. INDIAN police on Sunday said they have identified a string of bookmakers linked to the match-fixing scandal involving disgraced South African skipper Hansie Cronje. The claim came a day after former Indian all-rounder Manoj Prabhakar left the country gasping by displaying at a news conference video clips of […]
CAROL PINEAU, Dekemhare, Eritrea | Sunday 6.00pm. ETHIOPIAN troops pounded positions inside Eritrea and forced thousands of civilians to flee toward safety on Sunday, a day before the Horn of Africa neighbors were due to meet in Algiers for indirect talks. The fresh frontlines were around Senafe, Tsorona and Adi Quala, south of the capital. […]
MATTHEW TOSTEVIN, Freetown | Sunday 9.00pm. THE United Nations said on Sunday that another 30 of its Sierra Leone peacekeepers had been released by their rebel captors and were now in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. UN spokesman David Wimhurst said in Freetown the UN was hopeful that more would be freed soon. According to […]
JULIAN LINDEN, Wellington | Sunday 7.00pm. TRIUMPHANT Super 12 captain Todd Blackadder was named on Sunday as captain of the 26-man All Blacks squad which will cover the side’s entire season. He replaces Otago’s Taine Randell, who led the All Blacks through a series of losses and a particularly poor showing in the World Cup […]
POMMIE Mbangwa finished with match figures of 10-53 to help Zimbabwe to a 32-run victory over Yorkshire on Saturday. Mbangwa and Bryan Strang exploited a helpful Headingley pitch to share eight wickets as Yorkshire were bundled out for 147. Mbangwa, who had career-best figures of six for 12 in the first innings, took four for […]
ELEVEN journalists, all of who were working for the privately owned “Post” newspaper at the time of their arrest, appeared in the Lusaka High Court on May 24 for continued trial for espionage. The case dates back to March 10 last year when police began a general swoop against reporters from the newspaper after it […]
PRESIDENT Charles Taylor of Liberia said on Saturday that the decision of the Sierra Leone government to make rebel leader Foday Sankoh stand trial for atrocities was “foolish”. “It does not make any sense at this time to deal with the question of Foday Sankoh before disarmament and demobilisation and before elections are held,” Taylor […]