President Thabo Mbeki chided sections of the African media on Saturday for suggesting Africans could not be trusted to promote democracy without Western guardianship.
The leader of Burundi’s main Hutu political party went on air on Saturday to dispel panic-triggering rumours that he had been assassinated. ”I am alive. Nothing has happened. This story of an assassination is a rumour put about by troublemakers,” said Jean Minani, president of the Democratic Front (Frodebu).
Light drizzle covered Duiwelskloof in the Limpopo province for much of Friday morning as Makobi Modjadji was inaugurated as the new Rain Queen of the Balobedu people.
Voting had not begun in several southeastern Nigerian cities by 2:00 pm (1300 GMT) on Saturday, just one hour before the planned close of polling in historic legislative elections.
Science is now failing where the caveman’s instinct triumphed. After surviving undisturbed for 20 000 years, the prehistoric wall paintings at Lascaux in central France are threatened with irreparable damage by modern man’s attempts to save them.
They come in single file, a line of ragged gunmen, slapping 30 pairs of black gumboots down the orange forest-track. Without pausing, the lead man unshoulders his rifle and swings left. The next turns right.
A commercial and creative meeting of the popular culture of the East and the West is destined to make Bond 21 the most lucrative James Bond adventure of all time.
Kurdish peshmerga guerrillas were advancing on Tikrit, the powerbase of Saddam Hussein’s regime, last night as reports from the city suggested resistance had collapsed except for skirmishing.
The United States has pledged to tackle the Syrian-backed Hizbollah group in the next phase of its ‘war on terror’ in a move which could threaten military action against President Bashar Assad’s regime in Damascus.
Saddam Hussein’s senior weapons adviser has surrendered to US military authorities, insisting that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and that the US-led invasion was unjustified.