MEMBERS of Cte d’Ivoire’s football team are being held in the capital Yamoussoukro on Tuesday, following their elimination from the African Nations Cup. The players have been taken to a “military camp” and have had their passports and portable phones seized, said Catherine Loiseau, a sports management consultant who spoke with the wife of Modibo […]

THE Egyptian Olympic Committee on Tuesday said that the country has expressed interest in hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics in Cairo. An official letter declaring Cairo’s candidacy was sent to the International Olympic Committee, a day before the Tuesday midnight deadline for cities to make their bids, said Committee spokesman Hasan el-Husseini. El-Husseini said the […]

A RWANDAN human rights official on Tuesday accused Belgian army officers of having protected an exiled former mayor wanted by a UN tribunal to answer charges of genocide. The Belgian justice minister said on Tuesday that former mayor and top paramilitary Augustin Ndindiliyimana was arrested on Friday at his home in Belgium at the request […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Uitenhage | Tuesday 3.00pm. VOLKSWAGEN South Africa has given its striking workers at its Uitenhage plant two days to return to work or face dismissal. This comes after more than a third of the plant’s workforce did not heed calls to return to work on Tuesday — dragging on a week-long illegal strike. […]

TOGOLESE coach Gottlieb Goller said on Monday his team’s 1-0 defeat of the more experienced Cameroon in their last Group A encounter shows that no team should be underrated. The ‘Hawks’, as the Togolese are called, collected the three points at stake to finish on four points along with Ghana, Cameroon and Cte d’Ivoire in […]

FOURTEEN people died at the weekend after armed robbers spread oil over a major expressway out of Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos causing three vehicles to slide and crash, police said on Tuesday. The accident took place on Friday evening when a gang of robbers hidden by the side of the road hurled rocks at a […]

DUDU Nkosi, the lover of alleged cash-heist kingpin, Collin Chauke, has decided to defend herself when her trial begins in the Nelspruit Regional Court on Wednesday. Nkosi, 31, has been in jail for over 10 months since she was first remanded in custody on March 29 last year on charges of harbouring a wanted criminal […]

HOME Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi launched a new R800-million national identification system on Tuesday night. Buthelezi said the multi-purpose “smart cards” will replace the bar-coded identity documents and regulate welfare grants and other State payouts. The new system, expected to come into effect in September next year, will help combat the illegal use of identity […]

KEY defender Furo Iyenemi will be available for Nigeria’s next African Nations’ Cup match against Morocco, the Confederation of African Fotball said on Tuesday. Iyenemi was understood to have collected two yellow cards in Nigeria’s previous two matches, meaning automatic suspension from the next game. “The Nigerians came to check our technical report and we […]

ALAN RAYBOULD, Abidjan | Tuesday 8.45am. AIRLINE industry officials are gathering in Abidjan on Tuesday to begin an inquiry into the crash of a Kenya Airways plane off Ivory Coast that killed 169 passengers and crew. Ten people are known to have survived Sunday’s crash, but rescuers late on Monday gave up hope of finding […]