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/ 13 January 2006
African leaders have barely disguised their impatience and disappointment at Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s bad faith and intransigence in dealing with the insurrection in his country’s western region of Darfur. Their misgivings led them to put off having their summit meeting in Khartoum last July.
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/ 12 January 2006
With more than 500 people relocated because of rain damage to their shacks, Johannesburg’s emergency services has urged people living near water lines and crossing low-lying bridges to exercise caution. Some residents of Klipspruit, Alexandra, Diepsloot, Ennerdale and Kaya Sands had been moved, Gauteng Provincial Services said on Thursday.
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/ 12 January 2006
An African pastor was arrested in Britain on Thursday about allegations that he identified children as witches and encouraged their parents to beat them. The unnamed churchman was detained at an address in south London on Thursday morning, hours after the allegations were made on BBC radio’s flagship Today programme.
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/ 12 January 2006
Rwandan authorities have demanded the extradition of a Catholic priest exiled in France who is suspected of participating in the country’s 1994 genocide, officials said on Thursday. Kigali has asked Paris to hand over Father Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, the former vicar of the capital’s Holy Family parish, to face trial for his alleged role in the 100-day killing spree between April and June 1994.
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/ 12 January 2006
At least 85 people were killed on Thursday in a stampede at the procession symbolising the stoning of the devil during the annual hajj pilgrimage, medical sources said. ”The number of killed is 85, and the figure is due to rise because most of the victims are in critical condition,” said one medical source.
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/ 12 January 2006
Human rights lawyers in Zimbabwe on Thursday slammed the authorities’ closure of a popular Harare fruit and vegetable market on public health grounds, saying informal vendors were being victimised. Earlier this week, Harare’s state-appointed commission announced the closure of Mbare Musika market amid reports of increasing cases of cholera in Zimbabwe.
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/ 12 January 2006
The Gauteng Department of Education has merged two under-performing schools, Altem Secondary and Orlando Secondary in Orlando, Soweto, it said in a statement on Thursday. The new school will be located at the Orlando Secondary School premises. The step was taken to ”better utilise resources at these schools to ensure quality education”.
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/ 12 January 2006
A five-member delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is to arrive in Zimbabwe later this month as the Southern African country struggles to pay back about $146-million owed to the lending club, the finance minister said on Thursday. The IMF has threatened to expel Zimbabwe from its ranks for failing to pay back loans since 2001 and has given the country until February to settle its accounts.