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/ 31 January 2008
South African police have raided a church that was a sanctuary for Zimbabwean refugees, arresting scores of suspected illegal immigrants, the South African Broadcasting Corporation said on Thursday. The raid occurred at about midnight on Wednesday at the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg, which has become a virtual refugee camp for those fleeing Zimbabwe.
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/ 31 January 2008
Zimbabwe’s High Court ruled on Wednesday that a former British special forces officer could be extradited to Equatorial Guinea to face coup-plot charges, rejecting arguments that he might be tortured. Simon Mann was jailed in 2004 and was briefly released after serving his sentence in May last year.
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/ 31 January 2008
DVD OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal looks at the humour of <i>Another Gay Movie</i>.
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/ 31 January 2008
China has turned its battle against brutal winter weather into a propaganda push to try to comfort millions of cold, stranded and dismayed citizens, even as storms threaten to continue lashing many areas. Snow, sleet and ice blanketing much of central, eastern and southern China have killed dozens.
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/ 31 January 2008
Republican Rudy Giuliani and Democrat John Edwards abandoned their failing United States presidential bids on Wednesday, narrowing the race to two main candidates on each side before next week’s nomination voting in more than 20 states.
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/ 31 January 2008
When Kabelo Thibedi finally reached breaking point and pulled a gun on a civil servant at South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs, his act of desperation achieved instant results. ”If I had not done so … I would not have gotten my ID book. It was delivered to me that same day with the age error in it corrected,” recalls the 23-year-old.
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/ 31 January 2008
France’s Areva has submitted a multibillion-dollar offer to develop and build nuclear power plants in South Africa after Eskom invited international companies to submit bids. Areva said it would head a consortium that includes French power group EDF, French construction company Bouygues and SA construction firm Aveng.
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/ 31 January 2008
African Union heads of state were set on Thursday to begin a three-day summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, focused on the deadly crisis in Kenya and the challenges facing the body’s peacekeeping missions. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was expected to address the organisation and call for a peaceful resolution of the post-poll dispute in Kenya.
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/ 31 January 2008
At least 19 people were killed and 69 were injured on Thursday when an explosion ripped through an Istanbul building that housed workshops including an illegal fireworks factory. Television footage showed debris from the building strewn through the streets of the industrial district of Davutpasa.
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/ 31 January 2008
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African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma cancelled his controversial speaking engagement at a Mike Tyson charity banquet outside Johannesburg on Wednesday. About an hour-and-a-half before the event, the hosts said Zuma had to attend to urgent ANC business.