LEON ENGELBRECHT, Pretoria | Wednesday THE SA National Defence Force on Wednesday said its pilot training standards were as tough as ever. The statement follows concerns expressed in media reports that on one hand training standards were being dropped in order to qualify more pilots from previously disadvantaged groups, and on the other hand that […]
The US army is building a depot in Gabon for humanitarian aid destined for Central African countries, US diplomatic sources said Tuesday. Around 40 troops began work in December on the 40 000-square-metre depot. It is being built out of light materials close to the country’s main international airport at Libreville on a Gabonese army […]
Harare, London | Wednesday THE Zimbabwe government has lashed out at whites and its main political opposition, accusing them of being behind a suspected anthrax attack at the Harare post office. Health ministry officials said on Tuesday that two envelopes had been discovered to contain a suspicious powder in the post office’s sorting department after […]
Pretoria | Wednesday THE University of South Africa (Unisa), Technikon SA and the distance education centre of Vista University are to become a single institution, the Open Learning University of South Africa, from February 1. In a notice in the Government Gazette, Education Minister Kader Asmal also announced that former Mpumalanga premier Mathews Phosa, who […]
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SEVEN people were killed and 80 others wounded on Monday in a gun battle and fighting between prisoners and guards putting down a riot at a prison in Khartoum, the interior ministry said. The ministry said that five prisoners and two guards were killed in the clashes that raged during the afternoon, while another 23 […]
Kabul | Monday AFGHAN officials were confident on Sunday of capturing the elusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, as US bombers pounded hills near the eastern city of Jalalabad in a bid to wipe out al-Qaeda stragglers. US forces questioned Abdul Salam Zaeef, the toppled Taliban regime’s former ambassador to Pakistan, for information on Taliban […]
THE United States has deployed a special air force plane to deliver mail to its embassies in Africa following a threat from mail containing anthrax, aviation sources said in Kampala on Sunday. Sources at Uganda’s Entebbe Airport said that a C-141 transport plane has been flying into the airport to deliver and pick-up diplomatic bags […]
THIRTY truck loads of food, medicines and blankets donated by Libya left Quetta in Pakistan after dark on Saturday for the devastated Taliban stronghold of Kandahar” This is for the refugees not the Taliban,” said Mohamad Ismail, a director of the Tripoli-based Gaddafi International Foundation for Charity Association, run by the Libyan leader’s son, Saif […]
MARK RICE-OXLEY, London | Monday MOST Britons are resigned to joining the single European currency even though they oppose euro membership, according to surveys published on Sunday gauging reaction to last week’s launch of euro notes and coins. The polls gave an impression of a still-eurosceptic public that now fears the increasingly europhile government will […]