Rescue teams searched on Monday for 13 people missing after weekend landslides buried a village in western Kenya but a humanitarian worker said it was unlikely they would be found alive. ”We don’t hold out any hope of finding survivors,” said Tony Mwangi, a spokesperson for the Kenya Red Cross.
The 24-hour power failure at Johannesburg’s Coronation Hospital on the weekend should serve as a wake-up call on maintenance work, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Monday. Jack Bloom, Gauteng health spokesperson for the party, warned that hospitals in the province were at dire risk because maintenance contracts had been cancelled.
It was like Through the Keyhole meets America’s Most Wanted. But in this peculiar episode of celebrity justice, the accused star, arm-in-arm with his glamorous young wife, greeted the snoopers at the door to his palatial home. Once again, Phil Spector was where he likes to be, at the centre of attention.
The Department of Minerals and Energy said on Monday that it wants to create a new industry around nuclear energy. Speaking at the release of the draft Nuclear Energy Policy and Strategy for public comment, the department’s director general, Sandile Noxina, said such a new industry would lead to the creation of jobs.
Villagers returned home to ruins as flood waters continued to recede on Monday but the toll from the annual monsoon flooding across South Asia rose to 2Â 300, officials said. Tens of thousands are still housed in shelters while millions more are dependent on food and medical aid.
Central banks in Europe and Japan pumped out tens of billions more dollars on Monday to help commercial banks hit by the United States home-loan sector crisis, as shares bounced back from a turbulent week. The European Central Bank injected another €47,66-billion after putting a record €155,85-billion into the market last Thursday and Friday.
As an Anglican row over gay clergy deepens, growing numbers of conservative American priests are abandoning the liberal United States church and pledging allegiance to traditionalist African bishops instead. Africans, who take a tough line on homosexuality, are keen to recruit the dissident priests as bishops under their own authority.
Nigerian striker Obafemi Martins scored a vital brace, including a spectacular overhead kick, as Newcastle United opened their English Premier League campaign with a 3-1 win at Bolton Wanderers. Martins’s athletic strike was the eye-catching highlight of a busy and successful weekend for African players as the leading European soccer leagues began their seasons.
The JSE was holding on to gains of over 1% at midday on Monday as world markets tread in positive territory after last week’s global credit concerns started to fade. The FTSE was up 1,69%, the Hang Seng added 0,45% and the Nikkei gained 0,21%. At midday, the JSE all-share index climbed 1,10%.
Nasa engineers on Monday pored over new imagery of the space shuttle Endeavour‘s underbelly to decide if its damaged heat shield needed repair, as astronauts prepared for the mission’s second spacewalk. The three-dimensional images of a gouge in the shield were taken on Sunday by a camera, and measured by a laser.