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/ 14 February 2005
Aid for Africa’s starving plummeted in the wake of the Asian tsunami which attracted hundreds of millions of dollars in relief, the World Food Programme said on Monday. ”Donations to WFP’s operations in Africa dropped by 21% in January 2005 to -million, compared to -million in the first month of 2004,” the United Nations agency said.
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/ 14 February 2005
Businesses could be denied government contracts if they are known to donate money to opposition parties, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday. This was one of several objections the DA made on Monday in response to a Cape High Court application seeking to compel four political parties, including the DA, to disclose the identities of private donors.
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/ 14 February 2005
Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafiq Hariri was killed in a huge explosion in central Beirut on Monday. The massive bomb targeted Hariri’s motorcade along this city’s famed seafront boulevard, also killing at least nine other people and injuring at least 100. The explosion set ablaze cars and devastated buildings.
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/ 14 February 2005
African Union officials will fly into Somalia on Monday to assess security ahead of the deployment of African troops to help restore an administration after 14 years of chaos. The trip had been scheduled to leave on Friday, but was delayed amid security fears after the slaying of a BBC journalist in Mogadishu last Wednesday.
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/ 14 February 2005
Sakhikamva Investments, a broad- based black empowerment (BEE) investment company with shareholders including The Big Issue and the Black Sash Trust, has declared its third dividend of R200 per share to its shareholders. Sakhikamva was established in 2001 to facilitate broad-based, grassroots participation in the empowerment process.
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/ 14 February 2005
Every year, thousands of Africans fleeing war and economic hardship journey towards the tip of the continent — their sights set on a better life in South Africa. Along with hope for the future, many also bring with them the Aids virus, and South Africa is already grappling with the challenge of providing anti-retroviral drugs to its own citizens.
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/ 14 February 2005
A senior South African military law officer is to help the United Nations investigate allegations of sexual abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Allegations of sexual exploitation of girls as young as 13 by peacekeepers in the DRC started emerging around the eastern town of Bunia in early 2004.
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/ 14 February 2005
Almaz Tela wants to return to her old ways, farming millet, sorghum, corn and tending to cows, goats, sheep and chickens. The only problem is her farmland is in a buffer zone that separates Eritrea and Ethiopia, and she has to live in a refugee camp.
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/ 14 February 2005
Investors reacted positively on Monday to the news that General Motors will pay Fiat â,¬1,55-billion (-billion) to divorce its loss-making Italian partner. Shares in Fiat were up more than 4% during morning trading in Milan on the back of what was being described as a victorious outcome for the Italian carmaker.
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/ 14 February 2005
The inspector general of Gambia’s police force was on Sunday in jail along with the West African state’s former top immigration official, police sources said. Police chief Landing Badjie and Tamsir Jasseh were arrested on Saturday by National Intelligence Agency officers and taken to the capital’s central prison.