UGANDA is threatening to withdraw from a regional airline co-owned with South Africa and Tanzania unless routes for state-owned Uganda Airlines Corporation are guaranteed. If no guarantees are reached Finance Minister Gerald Sendaula will issue a notice of Uganda’s intention to pull out of Alliance Air because the regional airline has made UAC unattractive to […]
FORMER Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar has been offered the job of coaching South African premier league club Seven Stars, club officials said on Tuesday. The deal is likely to be finalised in Cape Town on Wednesday. Grobbelaar, born in South Africa, played several games in 1994 for Seven Stars’ city rivals Cape Town Spurs and […]
SOME 2000 Namibian refugees who fled the Caprivi Strip during a recent crackdown on secessionists will know “within days” if they are to be granted political in Botswana. According to a spokesperson of the Botswana government, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees is expected to finish interviewing the asylum seekers within the next few […]
BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair landed in South Africa on Wednesday at the start of a visit aimed at putting the seal on defence contracts and cementing relations with Deputy President Thabo Mbeki. Blair was met at Waterkloof Air Force base outside Pretoria by South Africa’s Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad. The British leader is […]
THE Tanzania Netball Association faces expulsion from the world netball governing body if it fails to remit some 300 in affiliation fees before the end of January. The association has been unable to raise the amount and is currently looking for well-wishers to bail it out.
CONGO (Brazzaville) government forces killed dozens of militia foes in fighting near the capital and prepared for a new offensive after losing at least four men and two armoured vehicles, army sources said on Wednesday. Forces backing President Denis Sassou Nguesso killed several dozen of the so-called Ninja militiamen in operations on Tuesday to flush […]
ZAMBIA’S National Roads Board has released 25-billion kwacha for road upgrading projects in Kitwe and Ndola regions. The project marks the beginning of phase one of the World Bank-sponsored road rehabilitation project. NRB chairman Raymond Jhala said on Tuesday that successful bidders will start construction in March this year. 05
THE Kenyan government has instructed the state-owned National Cereals and Produce Board to immediately set up 26 new depots in the country to store maize, the state-owned KBC radio reported on Wednesday. The radio, quoting Agriculture minister Musalia Mudavadi, said famine is threatening some regions of Kenya because of drought, and that the government will […]
SURVIVORS of the 1986 air crash which killed Mozambican president, Samora Machel, met with government representatives in Maputo on Wednesday to finalise preparations for the inauguration of a monument at the crash site in South Africa. Machel’s widow, Graa, and her husband, President Nelson Mandela, will inaugurate the monument at Mbuzini in Mpumalanga on January […]
A NUMBER of large airlines thought to be interested in buying the Cote d’Ivoire’s national airline, Air Ivoire, have snubbed the deal and are refusing to commit to any proposals. Aviation source said on Tuesday that 19 major airlines which initially showed interest in buying the 51% shares at stake in Air Ivoire have not […]