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/ 26 October 2004
A marathon public inquiry into Kenya’s biggest financial scandal was suspended on Tuesday amid a legal row over the ejection of two lawyers representing the state. The suspension was announced on the 282nd day of hearings by Peter le Pelley, one of three judges presiding over the Goldenberg inquiry.
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/ 26 October 2004
Two people have died of cholera in the West African nation of Senegal’s capital, while 82 others have contracted the waterborne disease, the health minister said on Tuesday. In comments broadcast on state radio, Issa Mbaye Samb called on Dakar residents to observe basic hygienic practices.
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/ 26 October 2004
Diners in a small town in central Italy went a step beyond the vision of bulls in china shops when they witnessed a furious bull storming into their restaurant. According to media reports on Tuesday, the bull horned open the front door of the La Divina restaurant, in the town of San Vittore del Lazio, and then charged its tables, causing panic.
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/ 26 October 2004
Minister of Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri on Tuesday announced that the third, unnamed bidder for the second national operator (SNO) failed to meet the required deadline and subsequently was disqualified. As a result, the unsuccessful bidder leaves the competition open for Tata Africa Holdings and Old Mutual Asset Managers.
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/ 26 October 2004
Media and entertainment group Johnnic Holdings said on Tuesday that it is still considering certain proposals with regards to eliminating the pyramid structure between it and Johnnic Communications (Johncom) and strengthening its black economic empowerment profile.
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/ 26 October 2004
A second day of peace talks on the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region broke off early on Tuesday, with rebels refusing face-to-face talks with the government until the African Union meets separately with both sides to draft an agenda. Delegates said the AU-brokered talks in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, will resume on Wednesday.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Africa&ao=124429">UN Security Council to meet in Africa</a>
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/ 26 October 2004
The South African Police Service (SAPS) may be disarmed of its service pistols if no police officer is killed over a two-year period, said National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi on Tuesday. Selebi also said he will shortly turn schools into gun-free zones where not even police officers will be allowed to enter with their weapons.
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/ 26 October 2004
Four car bombs exploded in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, without causing any injuries, but two people were wounded by gunfire, the United States army and local medics said. Car bombs are a favourite tool in a bloody insurgency that has ravaged the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein last year.
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/ 26 October 2004
Self-confessed coup plotter Deon Crous testified on Tuesday in the Boeremag treason trial in the Pretoria High Court that he and five of the Boeremag accused had decided to assassinate Mandela with a home-made bomb after reading in a newspaper that he would open a school near Tzaneen in Limpopo.
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/ 26 October 2004
Armed combatants have brutally raped tens of thousands of women, girls and babies in the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and many are dying "needlessly" because the country’s health care system is incapable of dealing with the crisis, rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday.