THE United States has ruled out the lifting of UN sanctions against Libya, which were suspended in April, because Tripoli has “failed to fully cooperate with Lockerbie trial proceedings,” US ambassador Peter Burleigh said in Washington on Thursday. Burleigh said “there are outstanding requests from the Scottish prosecutors which are very specific requests for Libyan […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lusaka | Sunday 8.00pm. DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo (DRC) peace negotiations are being hampered by disagreements over the wording of a ceasefire document in various languages, sources close to the meeting said on Sunday. Disputes over translations of the document from English into French and Portuguese are delaying the finalization and signing of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Asmara | Sunday 6.00pm. THE Eritrea bubble burst when they lost 1-0 against Zimbabwe in Asmara on Sunday in the first of six mini-league matches to decide the final qualifier for the 2000 African Nations Cup. Veteran Swiss-based striker Adam Ndlovu scored the winner after 25 minutes before a capacity 10000 crowd crammed […]
Meaning remains just beyond reach in the works of visiting artist Jenö Gindl, writes Lauren Shantall.
David Sharrock in Jerusalem Nine hundred years after the first crusaders reached Jerusalem on a mission to free the Holy City from Islamic control, massacring thousands of Jews and Muslims, a second wave of Western Christians arrived this week with a very different purpose – to apologise for the actions of their bloodthirsty forebears. The […]
Gavin Evans looks at the boxing future of Cornelius Sanders Cornelius Johannes Sanders, heavyweight king of South Africa and the parochial little universe of the World Boxing Union (WBU), is about to become a British product. As he explained it to me: “I’ve fought in the United Kingdom six times and I’ve had a great […]
William Fotheringham Cycling When it starts on Saturday in the Vende, this will be the Tour de France of crossed fingers, murmured prayers and nervous glances over Lycra-clad shoulders. For there was no precedent for last year’s disastrous, scandal-stricken Tour. This year’s race has been billed as “the Tour of reconstruction”, but events took on […]
Matthew Krouse The opening item on the programme of the National Arts Festival didn’t happen. The print of Athol Fugard’s 1991 celluloid version of Road to Mecca was damaged and replaced by his earlier Boesman and Lena. This gave patrons a chance to prepare a comparison of the version currently in production, with Angela Basset […]
Iden Wetherell Zimbabweans are at each others’ throats over the ground rules for a poll next year that could decide the future of President Robert Mugabe’s 19-year grip on power. At the centre of the controversy is a constitutional review process launched by the government in May in response to growing demands for reform to […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube Wet and worldly in the dreariest season. That’s the promise of M-Net’s winter line- up. There’s nothing local or of over- arching relevance on the pay channel in July – not that it’s criminal to propose ideology-free programming. On the contrary. When one watches television a lot, one eventually tires […]