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/ 4 February 2008
Sudan and the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force have agreed the terms under which the 26Â 000-strong force will deploy in western Darfur, removing a major barrier to its operations. Experts estimate about 200Â 000 people have died and 2,5-million been driven from their homes.
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/ 4 February 2008
Chinese regulators have given permission for Industrial and Commercial Bank (ICBC) of China, the nation’s largest lender, to buy a 20% stake in Standard Bank, ICBC said. Shareholders of Standard Bank and South African regulators have already approved the deal.
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/ 4 February 2008
From Monday morning Serbia faces up to a bruising battle over how to react to the looming secession of its southern province of Kosovo, after President Boris Tadic, a pro-Western liberal, won a renewed five-year term in a close election on Sunday night.
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/ 4 February 2008
Crusaders and Wallabies coach Robbie Deans says players from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa should be free to play in any of the three countries’ Super 14 rugby franchises. He is also supporting Australian Rugby Union chief executive John O’Neill’s view that the competition should be increased to two rounds.
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/ 4 February 2008
Three soldiers and eight militants were killed in a gun battle at an oil pipeline hub operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria’s southern state of Bayelsa, the navy said on Sunday. Shell said the Tora manifold, which sends oil to the Bonny export terminal, was not damaged in the attack late on Saturday.
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/ 4 February 2008
Microsoft’s ,6-billion bid for Yahoo! raises ”troubling questions” about the future of the internet, Google has warned. A takeover would also create a business with an ”overwhelming share” of online communications services of web-based email and instant messaging, wrote David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer.
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/ 4 February 2008
Hillary Clinton tried on Sunday to bring Barack Obama’s aspirational candidacy back to earth, repeatedly accusing him of misleading voters in an attempt to halt his poll momentum ahead of the Super Tuesday contest. With opinion polls showing Obama making significant gains, Clinton tried to undermine Obama’s central appeal of being a politician who operated above the fray.
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/ 4 February 2008
Councillor Joseph Chelelgo said no one should call it ethnic cleansing just because his town’s Kikuyu population had been burned out of their homes. For a start, he claimed, houses were razed only after hundreds of Kikuyu left Mogotio, in the heart of Kenya’s strife-torn Rift Valley, for reasons he could not fathom.
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/ 4 February 2008
There are few things more painful than a proud parent talking about an overachieving child. You can’t shut them up. They go on and on about recent adventures in sentence construction and, later, maths Olympiads and, later, university scholarships. I know one such parent in the quaint seaside hamlet they call Durban, writes Lev David.
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/ 4 February 2008
Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool, who campaigned strongly in favour of President Thabo Mbeki in the run up to the Polokwane conference, has been summoned to African National Congress headquarters at Luthuli House in Johannesburg, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Sunday.