MOZAMBIQUE’S parliamentarians complained to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday that after 12 years of economic reforms 70% of the population still lives in absolute poverty. At a meeting with visiting IMF deputy managing director Shigemitsu Sugisaki, a group of legislators from both the ruling and opposition parties also urged the IMF to drop […]
LIBYAN leader Moammar Gadaffi is due to arrive in Egypt on Friday for a two-day visit, sources said on Tuesday. This as President Nelson Mandela hit back Tuesday at South African political leaders who criticised his links with Gadaffi, saying these ties had borne fruit in the Lockerbie case. Gaddafi is expected to discuss with […]
SATURDAY’S presidential elections in Nigeria “broadly reflected” the people’s will despite some “irregularities,” the United States’s State Department said on Monday.”Respected American and international observers have stated that the alleged and apparent election irregularities would not have affected the final outcome of the elections,” said department spokesperson James Foley. He praised outgoing Nigerian president General […]
THE African National Congress signed a deal on Monday appointing the University of Connecticut in the United States as the sole North American repository of its liberation struggle archive. As part of the archive deal, the university which already has an extensive oral library of the World War Two Holocaust and the ensuing Nuremberg trials […]
THE top leadership of the Organisation of African Unity has welcomed last Saturday’s acceptance by Eritrea of the continental body’s framework agreement to end the nine-month border dispute with Ethiopia. In a statement issued in Addis Ababa on Sunday, OAU chairman president Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso and Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim urged both […]
LIBYA recently donated arms to militiamen loyal to Somali warlord Hussein Mohamed Aidid, an official of a political faction previously opposed to Aidid said on Monday.”The (arms) shipment that was brought to the coastal town of Merca on 18 February were part of assorted weapons given by the Libyan government and not Eritrea,” said a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 7.20pm. A SWISS economist named three German banks, Deutsche, Dresdner and Commerzbank, and three Swiss banks, Credit Suisse, Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation, on Tuesday as “apartheid’s major creditor banks”. The claims come in a report issued by economist Mascha Madoerin and co-author, Gottfried Wellmer, for […]
DOZENS of South African tourists were stranded in Mozambique’s coastal town of Vilankulo on Monday, waiting for an air lift after floods destroyed roads. Vilankulo district authorities said some tourists had to sell their vehicles or boats to pay for rides on chartered planes out of the town, which is opposite the popular Bazaruto archipelago. […]
SOUTH Africa attracted significantly more foreign investment in 1998 after big multinational companies snapped up stakes in local firms, said a report released on Wednesday. Business Map estimated R17,22-billion was invested in South Africa during 1998, a 9% rise on the R15,82-billion of the previous year. Business Map said the growth had been “surprising” in […]
STEWART BRUCE PRESTON, a plant and transport supervisor accused of defaming Zambian President Frederick Chiluba, has been deported as his case awaits judgment in a Lusaka Magistrate’s Court. Preston’s lawyer Edgar Lungu disclosed that his client was picked up by police last Thursday and detained at Lusaka Central prison pending deportation to Britain. Preston was […]