Kenya handed over a suspected member of the al-Qaeda terror network to United States officials on Wednesday and identified him as Suleiman Abdalla Salim Hemed.
Nigeria have become a hoodoo team for Banyana Banyana. On Sunday at Orlando stadium the South African women’s national team will try to beat the Super Falcons for the first time in five attempts.
This week the wounded arrived back in Cape Town and Pretoria. The Stormers have a sick list that would have kept Florence Nightingale busy for a month, while the Bulls have lost some key personnel (including their inspirational captain Joost van der Westhuizen), but not all hope.
US focuses on patriotism, Arabs see horrors, British have eyes on west and Iraq favours Saddam.
A further 1000 troops were poured into the oil-rich Niger delta this week to quell two weeks of violence that have shaken Africa’s most populous country.
Targets of opportunity: George Tenet, the director of the CIA, marched into the White House on March 19 with an enticing suggestion for the president. The war against Iraq could be over within hours, he declared, because a ”target of opportunity” had presented itself.
In their quest to improve on last year’s African Cup of Nations (Afcon) quarterfinal exit, Bafana Bafana will use Saturday’s friendly against Madagascar as part of their preparations for a couple of tough qualifiers coming up.
While World Boxing Organisation (WBO) heavyweight champion Corrie Sanders’s management team is still keenly in pursuit of a unification bout against International Boxing Federation (IBF) champ Chris Byrd, the WBO bosses themselves have thrown a spanner in the works.
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Residents in two low income suburbs of the Zimbabwe capital are due to vote in weekend by-elections, amid rising tensions between President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).