A MEETING of African experts on firearms trafficking in Africa ended in Kampala, Uganda on Wednesday with a resolution to set up firearms control centre in the region. The proposed centre will also promote co-ordination of international efforts at regional level to combat the illicit manufacturing and trafficking in firearms. The experts’ group meeting, which […]

CELLULAR network provider Vodacom on Tuesday it will inject about R540-million into its newly established subsidiary Vodacom Tanzania, creating 200 direct jobs. This follows the Tanzania Communications Commission’s decision to issue a licence to operate a GSM cellular network, in December last year. Tanzanian shareholders own 49% of the new cellular network, while Vodacom has […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Tripoli | Thursday 3.15pm. THE Libyan Olympic Committee said Thursday it has taken all necessary steps to ensure the safety of participants in the Paris-Dakar rally after the Niger leg was cancelled due to terrorist threats. The statement was issued through Libya’s official JANA news agency after organisers of the rally began a […]

MORE than 7500 people have fled fighting in Angola and crossed the border into Zambia since January 1, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. The refugees who arrived in Sijembela, just across the border from Angola, had come from the areas of Luiana and Jamba, UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski said, adding that they […]

THE opposition Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) party led by Laurent Gbagbo has finally agreed to join the transition government of General Robert Guei. Four ministers from the party took part in the council of ministers meeting held in Abidjan, the country’s commercial city on Wednesday. “We are now in the government,” said Leon Emmanuel Monet, […]

THE Paris to Dakar rally, suspended on Tuesday after terrorist threats, will restart on Monday, January 17. Wednesday’s seventh stage start from the Niger capital of Niamey was cancelled following a warning to race organisers from the French foreign ministry. Rally organisers the Thierry Sabine Organisation (TSO) were informed of the possibility of a security […]

“Something happened” in the tail of the EgyptAir Boeing 767 which crashed into the sea on October 31 shortly after take off from New York, killing all 217 people aboard, the chairman of EgyptAir announced on Monday. “The plane plummeted because of something that happened in its tail,” Mohammed Fahim Rayyan told journalists, but did […]

THE National Taxi Drivers Organisation (Natdo) said on Tuesday that government’s plans to replace minibuses with larger vehicles will cost 41000 taxi drivers their jobs. Natdo president Themba Mgabhi swarned of a go-slow tactic, whereby drivers will not exceed 60km/h on the freeway. His organisation suspended a similar tactic last December when government announced a […]

THE death toll on South African roads since the beginnign of the holiday season has reached 914. Of the 643 crashes which occured, 411 passengers, 260 pedestrians and 335 drivers were killed. KwaZulu-Natal recorded 142 deaths, followed by the Eastern Cape with 126 and the Free State, 125. The toll for other provinces are: Gauteng […]

MARK GLEESON, Johannesburg | Thursday 6.00pm. STRIKER Benedict McCarthy has agreed to come out of international retirement and play for South Africa in the African Nations Cup finals. But his surprise announcement has left South African officials with a bureaucratic headache as they seek to find a place for him in the 22-man squad. McCarthy’s […]