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.
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 […]
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TWO tourists died while scaling Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania as part of the new millennium celebrations, Tanzania’s tourism minister, Zakia Meghji, said. The minister identified the two as Werner Hein, 55, a German who died on Friday of heart failure, and US national Jennifer Steven, 54, who died on Sunday after collapsing on Sunday. on […]
A NEW Year’s party at Nongoma in northern KwaZulu-Natal turned into tragedy when a lone gunmen killed four partygoers and wounded two more. The six victims were celebrating at Zungu’s Tuck Shop in the Osutho area of Nongoma when a man arrived at five minutes past midnight and opened fire on them with an AK47 […]
FIVE people died and five suffered injuries on Sunday in clashes with guns and knives between members of rival tribes near Umtata, police said on Monday. Police arrested 170 people and seized rifles, handguns, home-made revolvers and knives after fighting between the feuding families, the Amevelas of Bizana and the Amadelas of Flagstaff.
A FIRE that razed a warehouse in Durban on Saturday shortly after midnight caused damage estimated at R30-million. According to a statement, police suspect a misdirected flare landed on the building, causing the fire to break out at five minutes past midnight. The fire department responded promptly and the flames were doused. However, the paper […]
SIX African stowaways were found dead in the hold of a Liberian cargo ship that docked at the northern Brazil port of Ilheus on Friday. A seventh stowaway was found alive. The vessel had sailed from the Cote d’Ivoire capital Abidjan ten days ago with a cargo of cocoa. Police says the unidentifed men probably […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lome | Monday 12.25pm DEPOSED Cte d’Ivoire president Henri Konan Bedie left early on Monday for Paris from the Togo capital Lome, where he fled into exile last week, on board Togo’s presidential plane, witnesses said. Bedie, who was ousted in a coup on December 24, was accompanied by members of his family […]
AN engineer employed in Somalia by the aid agency CARE International was shot dead in an ambush on Sunday night while driving north of Mogadishu to check on rehabilitation projects. Shueb Mohamed Hussein was ambushed by members of the Abgal clan, who later returned his vehicle, marked with CARE International stickers. Abgal leader Imam Mohamud […]