Prime Minister Miguel Abia Biteo Borico and the whole government of the West African state of Equatorial Guinea resigned on Thursday, national television reported. ”As a good militant of the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea, I hand in the resignation of my government,” Abia Biteo said in a speech relayed on television.
Fresh infighting has flared up in Zanu-PF as the party’s rival camps square up over President Robert Mugabe’s hotly contested succession, with dossiers of alleged corruption surfacing as the latest political weapons. Sources said this week the two factions have intensified the power struggle over Mugabe’s job.
The enigma that is South African soccer was again evident on Thursday as the South African Airways Supa8 competition experienced a stuttering take-off on the eve of the weekend’s two opening fixtures. By Thursday, a mere seven tickets had been sold for the match between Mamelodi Sundowns and Santos in Atteridgeville.
Photographer and activist Omar Badsha’s new exhibition features the ordinary people who have changed the course of history over the past 30 years.
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New forthright Orlando Pirates coach Milutin Sredojevic is under no illusions about Saturday night’s CAF Champions League game against Ghana’s Hearts of Oak at Ellis Park. Kick-off is at 6pm. ”It is a battle of the desperate,” says the Buccaneers’ Serbian coach. ”Both teams need a victory badly to stay in contention in the competition.”
The Larsemann Hills are a rare stretch of ice-free rock around the Prydz Bay on the eastern shores of Antarctica. But now plans by India to build a year-round scientific research base in the middle of the coastal oasis have dismayed environmentalists and stalled international talks to turn the area into a conservation zone.
As the first ”legally blind” entrant to complete the gruelling Iditarod dog-sled race through the frozen wilds of Alaska, Rachel Scdoris should have had no problems with a 7,8km jog through an Mpumalanga forest harnessed to a single dog. In truth, the run was a piece of cake for the 21-year-old Oregon native.
British soldiers in Afghanistan are engaged in fighting that is more intense and prolonged than any other conflict during the past 50 years, the British commander of all foreign troops in Afghanistan warned on Thursday. Ten British soldiers have been killed in clashes with Taliban fighters and their supporters over the past two months.
Good nutrition could be the only available life-prolonging alternative to people living with HIV/Aids in rural areas, a senior officer for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Thursday. He said the South African Department of Health can ”do more and do better” when it comes to fighting HIV/Aids.