MALARIA kills almost three million people each year because western pharmaceutical companies have refused to develop anti-malarial drugs for impoverished Third World countries. This week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) unveiled a groundbreaking new programme that will develop new anti-malarial drugs every five years for poorer countries. Dr Steven Toovey, producer of the email-based Medinfo, […]

AUSTRALIAN coach Rod Macqueen has named an unchanged side to face France on Saturday in the World Cup final at the Millennium Stadium. The same starting XV who beat defending champions South Africa 27-21 after extra-time in the semi-finals will face the French. The only change in the 22-man squad is prop Dan Crowley’s return […]

FRENCH forward Franck Tournaire has been cleared of an allegation of biting during his team’s World Cup semi-final victory over New Zealand, team media officer Lionel Rossigneux said Wednesday. Tournaire, who was cited 24 hours earlier, will be free to play for France in Saturday’s final against Australia at the Millennium Stadium, Rossigneux said. Tournaire […]

LIBERIA is set to hold its first major post-war conference aimed at reviving a devastated economy, with financial experts and business leaders expected to attend. The three-day conference starting in Monrovia on Thursday is being organised by the Carter Centre, the US government agency USAID, and the Centre for Democratic Empowerment, an organisation headed by […]

NEW Zealand’s team doctor has sparked a furore by alleging France used illegal tactics during the World Cup semi-final win over the All Blacks on Sunday. John Mayhew confirmed complaints thad were made to him about French players eye-gouging, head-butting and attacking testicles during France’s 43-31 win at Twickenham. “I believed after talking to the […]

STANDAND Bank was on Wedneday awarded the tender to provide its banking services to the Gauteng provicial government. Finance and economic affairs MEC Jabu Moleketi annouced that the contract has been awarded for a period of five years and runs until March 2005. He said that there was very little to choose between the three […]

DEPARTMENT of education spokesman Bheki Khumalo on Thursday called on all teacher who claim they had their salaries deducted to write a formal letter of complaint. This follows claims by the South African Teachers Union (Satu) that 12000 of its members had a days salary deducted even though they did not participate in the public […]

AT LEAST 93 people have been killed and an unknown number injured in two separate bus accidents in Nigeria, officials said on Wednesday. Both accidents occurred on Tuesday but details were not released until Wednesday. At least 80 people died when two buses collided in the northern Nigerian state of Kogi. In the other accident, […]

A FURTHER seven people, including two policemen, have been killed in fresh clashes between members of the OPC, a militant Yoruba nationalist group, and Ijaw youths in Lagos, reports said on Thursday. Weekend communal clashes between Ijaws and members of the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) claimed at least 12 lives, the local Guardian newspaper reported. […]

COTE Ivoire President Henri Konan Bedie made an impassioned plea on Wednesday for the elimination of poor countries’ foreign debt, calling indebtedness the primary obstacle to development. Speaking in Paris at an international conference on globalization sponsored by the French Insititute of International Relations, Bedie also lamented the lack of investment in developing countries. Citing […]