An Egyptian man charged over the deadly attacks in Sinai last October and suspected of links to last month’s multiple bombings in Sharm el-Sheikh was killed on Monday by security forces, police said. Mohammed Saleh Felifel was killed in the Ataqa Mountains, east of Cairo and across from the Sinai peninsula.
The All Blacks imposed a rigid blackout of their morning training session on the third day of their stay in Durban in preparation for the upcoming Tri-Nations rugby Test against the Springboks in Cape Town on Saturday. At the end of the session, the media were granted interviews with lock James Ryan and fullback Leon McDonald.
The United Association of South Africa (Uasa) has declared a dispute with the Chamber of Mines over wage increases and will know on Thursday whether to strike. A Uasa official said the Chamber of Mines has not revised an offer it made last week of 5% for workers in some categories and 4,5% for other workers.
A faction in the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union tried to discredit Willie Madisha, the union’s president, when it leaked information that he was ordered to repay union money used to settle his tax bill, the Congress of South African Trade Unions said on Monday. In 2002, the faction also sought to discredit Thulas Nxesi, Cosatu said.
Zambia will not meet the World Health Organisation (WHO) target to put 100 000 HIV/Aids-infected people on anti-retroviral therapy by the end of the year, the government announced on Monday. The country does not have the financial or human resource capacity to meet this target, according to the minister of health.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe returned to work on Monday after a visit to China yielded a few agreements but fell way short of an expected rescue package for his country, and remained defiant of Western criticism of his regime. The 81-year-old leader shrugged off global pressure over his government’s urban demolition blitz.
Several people were killed and many others were wounded on Monday in rioting that broke out in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, following the announcement of southern leader John Garang’s death in an air crash, a Khartoum-based diplomat said. Anti-Arab riots also erupted on Monday in Juba, the main city in southern Sudan.
A heatwave in the Balkans has led to at least 43 deaths over the weekend, as authorities across the region advised people to take precautions at home and outside, local reports said on Monday. In Romania, 40 deaths were reportedly linked with the heat.
Officials from six nations held a seventh day of talks on Monday, after China presented a second draft joint statement of principles on ending North Korea’s nuclear-weapons programme. United States negotiators held more bilateral talks with North Korea and plan to continue talks on Tuesday, a US official said.
Women from different Iraqi rights groups met on Monday to issue a list of demands they believe will guarantee women’s rights in the country’s new Constitution. The informal group issued a six-point statement demanding, among others, that Islamic law, or sharia, is not one of the sources of the Constitution.