Year-on-year producer price inflation for all commodities sank to 5,1% in March from 14,1% in the same period last year, Statistics SA reported on Wednesday.
Nigerians waited nervously on Sunday for the results of landmark presidential and state governorship elections which observers said were marred by violence and ballot rigging.
A month into one of France’s biggest ever corruption trials, an avid public has gorged on a rich diet of African bribes, political skullduggery and sensational divorce — all paid for from the illicit millions of the formerly state-owned oil company Elf.
The deadly Sars virus claimed 12 more lives yesterday as fears over the menace posed by the outbreak rose with reports of fresh cases in countries around the world.
The United Nations is to be cut out of any involvement in the hunt for weapons of mass destruction ”for the foreseeable future”, after Washington made it clear it sees no role for Hans Blix or the Unmovic inspections team.
Iraq’s national museum was identified as a ”prime target for looters” and should be the second top priority for securing by coalition troops. But the US army still failed to post soldiers outside the museum, and it was ransacked, with more than 270 000 artefacts taken.
Cuba turned a defiant face to America and the United Nations yesterday as both prepared to take action against Fidel Castro for his most forceful and unrelenting crackdown on dissidents in years.
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has appointed a commission to draft a new democratic constitution for the country within a year, a government gazette said on Saturday.
A top official in Malawi President Bakili Muluzi’s ruling party has resigned in protest over what he described as Muluzi’s imposition of a hand-picked successor, he said on Saturday.
An international team of zoologists and veterinarians led by Lawrence Anthony of the Royal Zulu National Park arrived in Kuwait on Friday but were prevented from entering Iraq.