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/ 25 September 2007
Germany’s politicians are locked in a heated debate after the defence minister signalled his readiness to shoot down hijacked planes at the risk of killing innocent civilians in order to avert a wider disaster. The comments of Josef Jung of the Christian Democrats have unleashed a passionate debate across the parties and led to calls for his resignation this week in an emotional session in the Bundestag, the German Parliament.
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/ 25 September 2007
Every day a bus, usually packed to capacity, leaves Malawi for South Africa. Most of the passengers are traders, off to sell wooden curios in the main South African cities of Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. A few stop in Harare, Zimbabwe, with pieces of cloth and food products such as flour and sugar. From South Africa, the traders bring back items of clothing, shoes, electronics and personal accessories.
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/ 25 September 2007
Willy the florist has had enough of his kingdom. He is an unwilling subject of an unloved country. A middle-class father of 12-year-old twins running a thriving flower business in this small Dutch-speaking town on the eastern fringe of Brussels, Willy is reduced to obscene gesturing by the very mention of his country.
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/ 25 September 2007
Zimbabwean businesses have warned Robert Mugabe’s government that legislation allowing for the seizure of foreign-owned companies will have dire consequences on an economy that already is ravaged by crisis. Anxiety is rising after the government moved closer to passing the law with a second reading of the Bill in Parliament this week.
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/ 24 September 2007
There are deeper issues in the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) than simply the suspension of National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli, the South African Communist Party said on Monday, following an announcement from the Presidency on Monday that President Thabo Mbeki had suspended Pikoli.
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/ 24 September 2007
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s young India team snatched the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship title after defeating arch-rivals Pakistan by five runs in a rousing final on Monday. The Indians, restricted to 157-5, fought back to bowl out valiant Pakistan for 152 before a sell-out crowd of 32Â 000 at the Wanderers in Johannesburg.
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/ 24 September 2007
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) soldiers and troops loyal to a renegade general broke an 18-day truce on Monday in the restive east of the country, officials said. ”We are in a situation of active defence,” Congolese armed forces second-in-command Colonel Delphin Kahimbi said in Nord-Kivu.
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/ 24 September 2007
A -million diesel and petrol pipeline linking the Mozambican capital, Maputo, with neighbouring South Africa will be in operation by the end of 2009, an official with the company overseeing the project said on Monday. ”We will start building it in mid-2008 and it will be ready by 2009,” said an executive with pipeline firm Petroline.
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/ 24 September 2007
Western oil companies reinforced security in Nigeria on Monday after a rebel group threatened to resume attacks on Africa’s largest oil industry, but security sources played down the risk of a major disruption. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta threatened fresh attacks on oil facilities.