SIERRA Leone’s rebel movement will deliver its peace proposals to the chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Tuesday, a rebel spokesman in Lome said. “We will be delivering our document to Togo’s President Gnassingbe Eyadema tomorrow, who will then likely hand it over to the Sierra Leone government,” said Omrie […]
EGYPT announced on Thursday it is to impose a 30% duty on sugar imports to protect the local industry against dumping and declining world prices. Public Enterprise Minister Atef Ebeid said the price of one ton of imported sugar plunged from $434 in 1997 to $160. Importers took advantage of the low prices to hoard […]
A CALLER who made a telephonic bomb threat to the Graceland Casino in Secunda, Mpumalanga, on Friday claimed he represents People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) Global Resorts MD Ernie Joubert confirmed on Saturday. The casino received four telephonic bomb threats on Friday. The threats were allegedly made by four different people and one of […]
FIGHTING between Rwandan and Ugandan soldiers over gold in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has claimed 213 lives, the Congolese Press Agency said on Thursday. Quoting army headquarters, the official news agency said 200 Rwandan soldiers and 13 Ugandans were killed “recently” in Orientale and Maniema provinces, areas under the control of the rebels […]
SIX people, including an elderly blind man, were shot dead in Tugela Ferry in volatile KwaZulu-Natal province on Thursday, police said on Friday morning. The murders seemed to be the work of gunmen going from hut to hut in the village, firing into the victims’ homes early Thursday, police spokesman Captain Vishnu Naidoo said. Police […]
ANGLOGOLD, the world’s largest gold producer, said on Friday that it was unperturbed by the proposed sale of more than half of the British Treasury’s gold reserves. AngloGold marketing director Kelvin Williams said that the quantities of its gold reserves Britain is planning to sell would not impact severely on the market. The British Treasury […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bissau | Monday 6.00pm. GUINEA-Bissau’s small port capital calmed down on Sunday after post-coup clashes between military junta forces and backers of the toppled head of state killed at least six people. Troops patrolled the city where the main Bandim market and stores were open, while the radio of victorious forces headed by […]
A DELEGATION representing families of victims who died in the 1989 bombing of a French airliner asked the United Nations Friday to block the lifting of sanctions against Libya. Francoise Rudetzki, the head of the French association SOS Attentats (SOS attacks), which represents the families, met at the United Nations on Friday with chief UN […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela is to honour his director-general Jakes Gerwel and Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Washington, Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, for their efforts in mediating an end to the Lockerbie dispute, his office said on Saturday. The two men will receive special awards at a lunch hosted by Mandela in Cape Town on Tuesday, an […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Monday 6.00pm. MOST indices on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange drifted without direction on Monday, while gold lost over 5%. The rand stayed in a range around R6,15, while bonds slipped. Dealers lamented the lack of direction in the equities market, as a firm opening on the JSE gave way to moderate […]