A bomb exploded on a packed minibus heading into Ethiopia’s capital on Monday, killing at least one person and wounding several others, police and witnesses said. the vehicle, which was carrying about 10 people into downtown Addis Ababa, was ripped apart in the blast, witnesses said. Ethiopia’s top police official, Demsash Hailu, confirmed the explosion was caused by a bomb.
About 1 700 workers at tyre firm Goodyear in Port Elizabeth were expected to embark on an indefinite strike this week after management had reportedly refused to permanently employ 300 temporary workers for the past five years, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said in a statement on Monday.
Weeks after police in Zimbabwe announced they had discovered an arms cache in eastern Zimbabwe, the authorities in Harare say they are introducing new laws to combat terrorism. Under the proposed new laws, the Zimbabwe government will be able to designate any organisation it believes is a ”foreign or international terrorist organisation” and declare it unlawful.
A newspaper publisher in Cameroon has been sentenced to two prison terms of six months each for publishing a list of alleged homosexuals, judicial sources said on Monday. Nouvelle Afrique publisher Biloa Ayissi was convicted for defaming doctor Jean-Pierre Mayo and government Minister Gregoire Owona who were included in the list published earlier this year.
Tick, 000, tock, another 000. So rapid is the rise of the US national debt, that the last four digits of a giant digital signboard counting the moving total near New York’s Times Square move in seemingly random increments as they struggle to keep pace.
Officials of the Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) were mum on Monday morning on security steps to be taken after this weekend’s heist at Johannesburg International Airport. ”We are still reviewing the incident,” said spokesperson Solomon Makgale. ”If we have any new information to share with the media, we will do so.”
The African National Congress is facing an unprecedented revolt over some of its mayoral choices, with councillors opting to vote for their preferred candidates and overlooking provincial nominees. In the Eastern Cape alone, councillors have voted for seven "self-chosen" mayors and speakers.
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Three non-governmental organisations have applied to give expert evidence in the Jacob Zuma rape trial in the Johannesburg High Court. This would include the reasons, known by people working with rape survivors, why they often did not take the first opportunity to make known the assault and to seek help, Peter Hodes SC told the court on Monday.
Stuart Parnaby’s goal in second-half injury time lifted Middlesbrough to a 4-3 victory on Sunday over Bolton, a victory that almost guarantees they will avoid relegation from the Premier League. Parnaby’s winner from a close-range shot came after Bolton had levelled the score after being two goals behind, the goals coming from Radhi Jaidi and Jay Jay Okocha.
Trade unions in a wage dispute with Telkom on Monday accused it of making a revised offer in bad faith, after it emerged that the company had decided to renege on its revised offer due to the one-day strike. Telkom said it had made a revised offer to its employees "on condition that employees do not engage in industrial action".