Now that Niger’s most vulnerable have been mostly taken in hand, relief agencies are widening their ministrations to children who feel only a gnawing ache in their bellies — those at ”moderate” risk for severe malnutrition. Meanwhile, in neighbouring Burkina Faso, food shortages are affecting about 500 000 people.
Testimonies of pain from the father of Leigh Matthews and the father of the man who confessed to killing her, Donovan Moodley, were heard in the Johannesburg High Court on Thursday. Rob Matthews told the court that Moodley has conducted himself in a way that no longer gives him a right to life.
Kelly Graham (14), the only survivor of a murderous attack on a family of Benoni on Wednesday evening, is still fighting for her life in a Johannesburg hospital. Her mother, Pearl (46); father, James (48); and sister, Nicole (16) died in the attack, a North Rand police spokesperson said on Thursday.
If events during the week’s build-up to the opening Vodacom Tri-Nations clash between South Africa and Australia are a determining factor, then the Springboks are clear favourites to get their campaign off to a winning start. But little can be made of the varying factors in the days preceding a Test match between these two fierce rivals.
South African investment holding firm Hosken Consolidated Investments’ (HCI) shareholders on Thursday approved a mandatory offer by HCI’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Mercanto Investments, to acquire all — or part — of the issued shares in the capital of Johnnic that HCI and its subsidiaries do not already own.
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) on Thursday ordered all its militants to end their armed campaign and adopt exclusively peaceful means to end British rule in Northern Ireland, the paramilitary group said in a historic statement. British Prime Minister Tony Blair welcomed the statement as a "step of unparalleled magnitude".
The South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union has accepted a deadlock-breaking pay offer from South African Airways (SAA), a union spokesperson said on Thursday. The other striking union, the United Association of South Africa, had already said earlier it would sign the agreement.
First there was the ”dodgy dossier” that the British government published as a Word document, complete with the history of who changed what. Now it seems the United States Transportation Security Administration is distributing its infamous No-Fly list to airports as an Excel spreadsheet protected by just a password.
Ugandans trickled into polling stations across the country on Thursday to vote in a landmark referendum on restoring multiparty democracy after nearly 20 years. Amid opposition boycott calls and apparent widespread apathy, observers believe voters will endorse Uganda’s most sweeping political reforms in a generation.
The Rwandan Cabinet has approved the provisional release of 36 000 prisoners, including thousands suspected of taking part in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, as part of efforts to reduce the strain on its prison system, officials said. Rwandan prison authorities will start releasing the prisoners on Friday.