A second arms cache has been found in the KwaZulu-Natal legislature building at Ulundi, the province’s safety and liaison minister Bheki Cele said on Wednesday. An intensive search was under way at the legislature buildings on Wednesday morning, after police found a second arms cache there on Tuesday.
Kigali on Wednesday welcomed this week’s arrest in South Africa of a suspect in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide who now faces trial at a United Nations-mandated court. ”That’s great news. This is what we have been asking all countries around the world to do,” Attorney General Jean de Dieu Mucyo told the Hirondelle news agency.
The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday it has received less than half the money required to feed 27 000 refugees from the Central African Republic in Chad and warned it will stop assisting them at the end of July unless it receives fresh funds urgently.
Britain on Tuesday night joined with all 25 nations of the European Union in calling on Israel to dismantle its barrier dividing the country from the occupied West Bank. One hundred and fifty nations voted at the United Nations in favour of dismantling the wall, 10 abstained, and six — Israel, the United States, Australia, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau — rejected the motion.
Alarm at US drift over Middle East
Icann, the United States body managing global website allocation, on Wednesday announced a powerful new technology that makes it possible for every human being to have an internet address. ”This next-generation version of the internet protocol, IPv6, provides trillions more addresses than the IPv4 system that is in use by most networks today,” said Icann.
The trial of 70 men accused in Zimbabwe of plotting to topple the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea was postponed on Wednesday until the following day, the defence lawyer said. "It’s just a postponement until tomorrow. We are going through the charges," lawyer Jonathan Samkange said.
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Elder statesman Nelson Mandela is to meet with the leaders of Burundi on Wednesday who are struggling to agree on a power-sharing agreement to pave the way for elections, a South African official said. Mandela is to go to the Pretoria home of Deputy President Jacob Zuma where Burundi’s President Domitien Ndayizeye and three other political party leaders were to hold a final round of talks.
The conclusion of a protracted legal dispute between South African defence industry firms and the United States will improve defence trade between the two countries, US ambassador Cameron Hume said on Wednesday. ”South African companies now have an open field in the American defence industry,” he told reporters in Pretoria.
The Chinese military surgeon who exposed the government’s cover-up of the Sars crisis was released on Tuesday after seven weeks of ”political re-education”, his family said. Jiang Yanyong (72) a semi-retired general in the People’s Liberation Army, had been detained at a secret location where he was forced to undergo daily study sessions aimed to make him renounce a critical letter he had written about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
A passenger died on a London-bound South African Airways (SAA) flight on Tuesday night, forcing the aircraft to return to Johannesburg, the company said on Wednesday. SAA said flight SA238 left Johannesburg International airport at 8.30pm on Tuesday but returned two hours later due to the woman’s death.