The country’s biggest banking group, Nedcor (NED), had no official comment Monday morning on reports that it had suggested to analysts that they lower their earnings forecasts for the group for the current year.
Helicopters swept over Congo’s vast jungles on Sunday in an increasingly vain search for scores of people presumed dead after falling from an airplane whose door burst open mid-flight, officials said.
Amrozi, who on Monday became the first suspect to face trial over the Bali blasts, is a village mechanic who has been dubbed the ”laughing bomber” for his apparent indifference to the slaughter.
The trial of Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was set to resume in Harare Monday against a background of widening political and economic tensions in the southern African country.
At the Protestant church in Ntoroko, in Uganda’s western Bundibugyo district, Hallelulia, resplendent in his Sunday best, strikes up his bass guitar.
Several 160-year-old pornographic photographs are among 300 daguerrotypes going on show at Paris’s Orsay museum, in an exhibition which may rekindle interest in a neglected ancestor of modern photography.
A New York Times reporter has fabricated and plagiarised dozens of stories that have appeared in the paper, according to a report published on its own front page yesterday.
One of Africa’s most feared rebel groups, the Lord’s Resistance Army, has abandoned its bases in southern Sudan and crossed into Uganda in an apparent attempt to escape a suspected outbreak of the deadly disease Ebola.
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More than 200 people may have been killed when a door fell off a Russian-built aircraft flying over the Democratic Republic of Congo, a source at Kinshasa airport said on Saturday, as officials remained mute over the freak accident.