A resolution drafted by the United States and Britain to create a United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan’s Darfur region faces a vote on Thursday, but troops will not be deployed without consent from the Khartoum government. So far Sudan has refused to allow the UN to replace or absorb an African Union force in Darfur.
Australia’s Sydney FC said on Thursday that talks are under way with English Championship outfit Sunderland that could see Dwight Yorke reunited with former Manchester United teammate Roy Keane. Yorke (34) is contracted to the A-League champions for another year but the striker has been repeatedly linked to the English club in the lead up to the Australian season.
Juventus, who were relegated to Serie B and given a 17-point penalty for the start of the forthcoming season for match-fixing, are considering cancelling their civil court action if the Italian Football Federation reduces their punishment. The Turin club were ready to take their case outside of the sports authorities.
A homeless man claiming to have witnessed the Brett Kebble murder has been arrested on a warrant for housebreaking and theft, police said on Thursday. The 24-year-old Bloemfontein man has been taken into custody relating to crimes in the Free State.
Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony has accused government troops of violating a truce in his first comments since the start of an agreement seen as a major breakthrough in ending his 20-year insurgency. The military denied it and said it was ”religiously” observing the deal struck on Saturday that gives Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army guerrillas three weeks to assemble at camps in south Sudan.
South Africa’s producer price index (PPI) rose by 8,1% year-on-year (y/y) in July from a 7,5% y/y increase in June, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday. The PPI rose 1,7% on a monthly basis after June’s monthly rise of 3%. PPI was expected to have risen to 7,5% year-on-year in July, unchanged from the surprise 7,5% increase in June.
Zimbabwe is proposing to add another repressive law to its raft of existing media legislation, further narrowing the space for freedom of expression. The proposed legislation appears to be a foregone conclusion, with electronic censorship apparatus already undergoing tests.
Somalia’s weak, United Nations-backed transitional government will meet its Islamic rivals this week in Sudan in an effort to ease tensions after the Islamists took over of much of the country’s south, an Arab League official said. The talks will open with a ceremony on Friday.
When is a fraud not a fraud? When it happens virtually. Or that’s what players of Eve Online, a hugely popular online game, discovered when one of their world’s banks turned out to be a scam. Inside Eve, one player set up what was called the Eve Intergalactic Bank, offering to let players store their virtual cash in the game currency known as the Inter Stellar Kredit, or ISK.
Pitso Mosimane on Wednesday sent midfielder Macbeth Sibaya ”home to Natal” following the death of his father on Monday — and the Bafana Bafana coach may, in the process, have lost his Russian-based midfielder for the African Nations Cup qualifying game against the Congo at FNB Stadium on Saturday.