Indian plans to divert vast quantities of water from major rivers, including the Ganges and Brahmaputra, threaten the livelihoods of more than 100-million people downstream in Bangladesh, the Bangladeshi government fears.
Telkom has urged its basic rate Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) customers to check the configuration of their modems, to ensure that these to not automatically dial up to their Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on the second ISDN channel and ring up short duration calls on their phone accounts.
With the backing of New Africa Investments Limited’s (Nail) major institutional shareholders, an empowerment consortium comprising Safika Holdings, Tiso Private Equity Fund, the Mineworkers Investment Company (MIC) and Investec Bank Limited has made a firm offer to acquire 100% of the issued share capital in Nail.
Nothing could have been done to stop the terrorist attacks on September 11 even though an FBI informant had contact with two of the suicide hijackers a year before they were carried out.
Zimbabwe is experiencing a debilitating flight of professional and skilled people escaping the country’s economic crisis, a study funded by the United Nation’s Development Programme has found.
The jagged slopes of Mount Kenya, where 12 members of one American family died in a plane crash this week, have long drawn climbers looking for a challenge and religious believers who say their god dwells there.
I’ll be glad when he goes, not least because I won’t have to write about him any more. But it’s been a fine romance. It all began on my parents’ verandah in Mbarara, western Uganda. The year was 1990.
British aid agencies issued a joint statement late on Wednesday in which they called for the urgent deployment of international peacekeepers to war-torn Liberia.
The government was attacked on all fronts on Wednesday on issues pertaining to traditional leadership, but some government officials tried to downplay the rift between the state and the chiefs.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Thursday stated that it fully supported its affiliates, the National Union of Mineworkers and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, in their wage disputes with employers in the mining, steel and engineering sectors.