Libya’s prime minister said his country wants to be rewarded for opening up to nuclear inspections and stressed that the United States must lift sanctions by May 12 or his government won’t have to pay -million to each family of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing victims, according to an interview published on Friday.
White Zimbabwean farmers who sought refuge in Zambia, have helped the country pull out of a crippling food shortage that saw millions of people relying on food aid last season. The landowners were forced off their properties in Zimbabwe during the fast-track land reform programme that began in 2000.
An Egyptian charter plane with 135 passengers and six crew members on board crashed into the Red Sea early on Saturday as it was headed for the coastal resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Cairo airport officials said. Most of the passengers were French tourists.
India were 650 for five at the close of the second day of the third cricket Test against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday. Sachin Tendulkar scored his 32nd Test century and was unbeaten on 220 with Parthiv Patel not out 45.
Jacques Rudolph and Neil McKenzie defied growing speculation that they were incapable of realising their true potential to spur South Africa to a dominant position on the first day of the first cricket Test at Newlands on Friday. At stumps, South Africa had progressed to 308 for six.
Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward following the death of Blue Bulls rugby player Francois Swart in a road accident near Victoria West in the Northern Cape on Friday. Swart, of Pretoria, and two friends were travelling in a car when the driver apparently lost control and the car left the road and overturned.
President Thabo Mbeki’s spokesperson has told the Mail & Guardian Online that media reports saying the president’s motorcade was involved in a shooting incident in the Haitian capital during the country’s independence celebrations on Thursday are ”without foundation”.
Protest, celebration in Haiti
The new year is here, and I for one am very disappointed. Not least because it means that, for the next six months, we’ll be three rather than two years behind America in broadcasts of Days of Our Lives: John Black could remember his priest/mercenary/ art-thief/vole-wrangler past and run away to live in the bayou next week, but I’ll only know for sure in 2007.
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide pledged to help impoverished Haitians as police blocked thousands of anti-government demonstrators during Haiti’s independence celebrations. President Thabo Mbeki said that a ”historic struggle” remains for Africans to overcome poverty and conflict on both sides of the Atlantic.