A FINAL decision on where to construct the Epupa hydropower project is being delayed by the ongoing war in Angola which has prevented officials from Luanda attending a key meeting in Windhoek. Namibia and Angola are already at loggerheads over which site on the Kunene river to choose with the Angolans favouring a smaller dam […]
BRYAN PEARSON, Cape Town | Tuesday 1.00pm. 8.00pm: TALKS to find a peace deal for the 11-month war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) stalled on Wednesday when the DRC government delegation objected to rebels signing a cesefire agreement, a Zambian private radio station said on Wednesday. Radio Phoenix quoted diplomatic sources saying President […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.00am. DELRON Buckley has ended his feud with South African soccer chiefs and made himself available for selection again after saying four months ago he no longer wanted to be considered for the national squad. The 21-year-old left winger had a meeting with the South African Football Association (Safa) at […]
JAPAN will grant 1,5-billion ($124 million) in aid to Zambia, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Tokyo will provide the grant to assist the African nation to import products needed for economic development, the ministry said in a statement. The grant, Japan’s first to Zambia, will also be used to assist the country in improving […]
LITTLE Namibia shocked title holders Nigeria 3-2 here on Sunday in the second leg of an Olympic Games first-round qualifying tie. Nigeria advanced 6-3 on aggregate following a 4-0 first-leg win in Lagos two weeks ago and face Angola, Uganda and Zimbabwe in a mini-league with the winners booking a berth at the 2000 finals […]
LOCK Royce Willis was on Sunday elevated to the All Blacks squad for the Tri-Nations match against South Africa at Carisbrook in Dunedin on July 10, the New Zealand Rugby Union said in a statement. Willis comes in at the expense of veteran Ian Jones who drops down to the New Zealand A team. Squad […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 1.30pm. A 15-year-old gang member, arrested in connection with the murder of 14-year-old Valencia Farmer at the weekend, on Wednesday asked the court to be kept in custody for his own safety. The youth is the third member of the Naughty Boys gang to be arrested for Farmer’s murder. […]
BELGIUM put in place a hastily arranged plan of action on Monday after Algeria’s Armed Islamic Group (GIA) threatened to unleash a “bloodbath” unless the authorities release several of its leaders. The units taking part in the anti-terrorist cell include a top police unit called Interforce, set up after terrorist attacks in the 1980s by […]
THE Central Bank of Nigeria has introduced higher bills of 100, 200 and 500 for the naira as part of measures to restructure the currency, the bank said in a report on Tuesday. The CBN said President Olusegun Obasanjo has approved the new bills, which are expected to be in circulation between now and middle […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 4.155pm. THE South African government on Tuesday joined international calls for the Turkish government to commute Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan’s death sentence. Ocalan, head of the Kurdish Workers’ Party, was sentenced to death by a Turkish court on Tuesday morning for treason. The department of foreign affairs said in […]