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/ 10 December 2007
Up to 6 000 British, American and Afghan forces fighting Taliban militants holding the strategically important Afghan town of Musa Qala were on Sunday preparing for a final assault in the days to come. ”The operation goes on,” said Lieutenant Colonel Tim Eaton, speaking from Lashkar Gah.
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/ 10 December 2007
South Africa’s Department of Minerals and Energy has converted Harmony Gold Mining’s old-order mining rights into new-order mining rights, Harmony said on Monday. Harmony has been granted 13 new-order mining rights covering all its South African gold-mining operations including its Evander, Doornkop and Randfontein operations.
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/ 10 December 2007
It was, if you stopped to think about it, a rather incredible event. A woman born in Mississippi to a poor, unmarried mother who rose to huge fame and fortune, standing on stage beside a fellow African-American who was largely unknown a year ago but is now vying to become the 44th president of the United States.
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/ 10 December 2007
Kosovo is again the front line in a showdown between Serbs and ethnic Albanians and in a wider dispute between Russia and the West. Mediators are to tell Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary General, on Monday that they have failed to forge a deal between Serbian leaders and Kosovan Albanians over the fate of the province.
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/ 10 December 2007
Startling revelations of allegations forming the basis of the Scorpions’ case against, among other people, police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi have come to light in a lengthy document acquired by Beeld newspaper. The 141-page document was compiled from sworn statements handed to the Scorpions.
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/ 10 December 2007
Magazine publishing giant Media24 has shut down two of its magazines that, three months ago, were caught up in a massive sales-figures scam, media reports said on Monday. It has closed down InStyle SA and the Wisden Cricketer because ”the magazines were no longer considered to be commercially viable”.
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/ 10 December 2007
Libya on Sunday awarded four gas-exploration contracts to fuel giants Shell, Gazprom, Sonatrach and Polski — the first ever given to foreign firms as relations warm between Tripoli and the West. Russia’s Gazprom was given three blocs with a total area of 3 936 square kilometres.
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/ 10 December 2007
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Sunday appealed for calm as pre-election mayhem that has killed dozens gripped the country ahead of elections later this month. At least 16 people were killed, dozens of huts razed and 16 000 people displaced in the Molo district, about 170km north-west of Nairobi, police said.
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/ 10 December 2007
Back-to-back bloody clan battles in Somalia — now spanning 16 years and worsened by nearly a year of insurgency — have wiped out basic services in Mogadishu, where the latest clashes on Sunday claimed the life of a civilian and wounded three others.
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/ 10 December 2007
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African National Congress presidential hopeful Jacob Zuma has assured South Africa he would not be a sore loser if he were not elected leader of the ruling party, a newspaper reported on Monday. The result ”could be anything and I am ready to accept any outcome”, he told Business Day.