NIGERIA’s government has set up a panel to probe the foreign exchange dealings of the four military regimes in power from 1983 until May last year. Hundreds of millions of dollars are alleged to have been illegally transferred out of Nigeria under the regimes.

A 52-year-old single woman who is raising her 18 children was named as Cameroon’s mother of the year for 2000 in a contest organised by Cameroon’s social affairs ministry. Anne Oyoa, who also raises her own crops at Akono 70 kilometers south of the capital Yaounde, was chosen from more than 200 candidates who each […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 6.30pm M-WEB, South Africa’s largest Internet Service Provider in the dial-up market, will take over the dial-up subcriber base of NetActive, which will now concentrate on e-commerce. This is M-Web’s third such deal in a month — the company obtained the subscriber bases of Club Internet and Cyberhost in December. […]

POLICE have arrested 170 members of two feuding Transkei clans after armed clashes on Sunday resulted in five deaths and five serious injuries. The feuding families, the Amevelas of Bizana and the Amadelas of Flagstaff, fought with rifles, handguns, home-made revolvers and knives in a dispute over the authority of the chief in Flagstaff, whom […]

MOZAMBIQUE’S Supreme Court has concluded investigations into allegations of electoral fraud filed last month by the country’s main opposition Renamo party, state radio reported on Monday. “The court has concluded its investigations and the final verdict will be announced Tuesday morning,” said Radio Mozambique. Renamo denounced last month’s presidential and parliamentary elections as fraudulent and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 8.45am PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki accused the West on Monday of failing to do enough to tackle Africa’s economic and political problems. “Not enough is being done about that. There needs to be taken a decision really without equivocation,” Mbeki told CNN in his first television interview of the year, and […]

THREE French tourists, including two children, were murdered by gunmen dressed in uniforms on Monday on the road between Andara and Bagani about 40 kilometres west of Rundu in Namibia. SABC radio news said on Tuesday that the gunmen opened fire on a minibus on the same road shortly before the attack on the tourists. […]

AN envoy for the president of the Organisation of African Unity on Tuesday held what he called ”extremely positive” talks with Cte d’Ivoire junta chief General Robert Guei, who took power last month. The OAU has condemned the coup that brought the former chief of general staff to power on December 24, when mutinous troops […]

TWO more of the eight prisoners who escaped from an East London prison last week have been captured, leaving four still at large. The two captured on Monday were a man facing rape charges and a teenager facing house breaking charges. The men will appear in court tomorrow.