THE World Food Programme has approved an emergency operation to provide food worth $40,5-million to people in drought-striken regions of Ethiopia. Nearly 1,2 million people in eight Ethiopian regions are estimated to be affected by the drought situation. WFP said in a statement on Friday that an extended dry spell has hindered crop planting, germination […]
ELEVEN people are feared drowned after an overloaded boat they were sailing in capsized in Lake Victoria early Friday, state-owned Radio Uganda reported on Sunday. The radio said the boat was carrying 16 people and a load of fish heading for Sii landing site in Mukono district, 60km east of the Ugandan capital, but capsized […]
RWANDA has released 143 more prisoners accused of involvement in the 1994 genocide of ethnic Tutsis, because of lack of evidence against them, according to a report from the public prosecutor in Kibungo. The prisoners were all set free on Friday in Kibungo, southwest Rwanda, the report said. More than 1900 prisoners accused of genocide […]
AN arrest warrant has been issued for Mpumalanga’s controversial finance head, Sam Cronje, after he failed to explain why the province has dodged its R65-million income tax bill over the past three-years. Cronje was supposed to appear in the Nelspruit district court last week Thursday to explain why the provincial administration failed to submit its […]
THE need to verify results, when disparities emerge, by contacting district electoral officers has slowed down the rate of voting results. Voting results are submitted by phone, e-mail and fax. But electoral officers are proving hard to get hold of when double-checking is required. At 7pm on Thursday, only a fifth of the announced results […]
FOUR of five Ivorian newspaper journalists who were detained for more than a month for allegedly disrupting public order and offending the head of state were freed from an Abidjan detention centre on Thursday. Le Populaire managing editor Raphael Lakpe was arrested on April 28 after a riot in Abidjan allegedly sparked by a story […]
THE Tanzanian government is refusing a request by Burundi to be allowed to launch a crack-down on rebels who fled to Tanzania. Tanzania says if rebels cross the border into Tanzania, they will be tracked down and housed in refugee camps. Burundi alleges that Tanzania is providing the rebels with military training, but Tanzania refutes […]
DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo rebels wounded a Zambian soldier and three civilians in a raid across the border, state media reported on Friday. Police said 67 rebels looted and torched four shops in the Kaputa district after an exchange of fire with Zambian troops. A Zambian patrol chanced upon the rebel soldiers but they were […]
FIFTY Sudanese troops, including six officers, were killed when a military plane crashed near Khartoum on Thursday evening, the army said Friday. A military transport plane was flying from Kassala in eastern Sudan to Khartoum at 8pm on Thursday when it suffered technical problems, according to the statement from the Sudanese armed forces general command. […]
JUDGES at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on Friday elected South African Navanethem Pilla as their president to replace Laity Kama of Senegal, who stepped down after two two-year terms. Of Indian ancestry, Pillay was born in 1941 and is the mother of two daughters, the Swiss-based Hirondelle news agency reported from the northern […]