Idi Amin called himself ”a pure son of Africa,” but his bizarre and murderous eight years as president of Uganda typified the worst of the continent’s military dictatorships.
The US and Canada blamed each other yesterday for the worst power cut in North American history, as 50-million people plunged into darkness across the affected area struggled to recover from the multi-billion-dollar impact of the blackout.
When captains Gudmundur Haraldsson, Gunnar Johansson and Konrad Eggertsson slipped their three boats quietly out of port yesterday morning to hunt minke whales for the first time in 14 years, the forecast was for calm seas and clear skies.
This week’s death of Smiso Nkwanyana, the South African Communist Party’s KwaZulu-Natal secretary, could not have come at a worse time for a party out to assert its independence.
The Orlando Pirates star showered immediately after the match, as he usually did. He jumped into his car and off he went. It was the last time that his fans, friends and teammates would see him alive.
Royalty from Africa and Europe will join government ministers ambassadors and business executives in Phokeng this weekend for the enthronement of Bafokeng King Leruo Tshekedi Molotlegi. He will be the 36th king of the Bafokeng tribe.
The Zimbabwean opposition said Friday it would not join a government of national unity with President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party, widening the rift on possible negotiations between the parties to end the country’s political and economic chaos.
Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Raman Shalgham accused France on Friday of blackmail after Paris threatened to block an agreement on lifting United Nations sanctions unless more money was paid to the families of victims of the bombing of a French airliner in 1989.
Rebels have ambushed trucks belonging to the United Nations’s World Food Programme, which were delivering food to hungry people in the remote Karamoja region of north eastern Uganda. Six WFP employees, three drivers and their helpers are still unaccounted for.