The former president of the Central African Republic, Andre Kolingba, is ready to go home from exile in Uganda, an official of his political party said on Monday.
A Nigerian Islamic court postponed the start of mother-of-three Amina Lawal’s appeal against being stoned to death at a brief hearing here on Tuesday.
The National Assembly will be abuzz Tuesday afternoon as old faces are seen in new political parties which means that positions on the brown benches are expected to be swopped about — the result of nearly four days of defections during the first official defection period for Members of Parliament.
The rand has remained near the R8 per dollar level despite the start of the American invasion of Iraq on March 20 and a change in South African Reserve Bank (SARB) exchange rate policy announced on the same day.
The official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has called for the axing of African National Congress Women’s League president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela as a Member of the South African Parliament — if she does not report to it by Wednesday.
Fifteen years after kicking a two-packets-a-day habit to improve his presidential hopes, Jacques Chirac yesterday launched a ”war on tobacco”.
Home affairs minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Tuesday for the first time lifted the lid on allegations of irregular expenditure, totalling millions of rands, in a written reply to the portfolio committee on home affairs.
The New York stock exchange has banned al-Jazeera from its trading floor, prompting accusations that it was retaliating against the Arabic-language TV network’s stance on the war in Iraq.
A Serbian ultra-nationalist and former ally of Slobodan Milosevic today pleaded not guilty to ethnic cleansing during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s.
US-led ground forces were today continuing their advance on Baghdad, as US television networks reported that Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guards are preparing to unleash chemical weapons on US and British troops entering the city.