Jerusalem | Sunday ISRAEL was deciding on Sunday whether to accept a UN fact-finding mission into the carnage at the Jenin refugee camp but signalled it was not ready to give the team carte blanche to interview whomever it wants. The issue was at the top of the agenda of the weekly cabinet meeting with […]
Hebron | Monday THE Israeli army early on Monday seized the city of Hebron, killing eight Palestinians as it pressed a West Bank sweep for militants hours after a dramatic deal to free Yasser Arafat from a month-long siege. Twenty Palestinians were wounded as Israeli troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships rolled into the […]
Harare | Saturday ZIMBABWE’S 79-year-old vice-president Simon Muzenda has become the latest beneficiary of the redistribution of white-owned land and equipment, according to farm union officials. The Commercial Farmers’ Union claimed in its latest bulletin issued on Friday that Muzenda had led a delegation of officials to Chris Nel’s Chindito farm in the Gutu district […]
Lusaka | Sunday ZAMBIAN sex workers, who recently staged a protest against police harassment, now want a law that prohibits prostitution to be abolished. ”In most countries prostitution is allowed because it is also a way of earning an income,” said a prostitute who asked not to be identified. She was among a group of […]
Achkhabad | Sunday US DEFENCE Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Sunday described his brief tour of Afghanistan and meeting with its interim leader Hamid Karzai as ”very useful”. Rumsfeld, who conducted a one-day whistle-stop tour of the country on Saturday, discussed security issues with Karzai and met other leaders of ethnic factions who had been involved […]
Harare | Tuesday A UN Security Council team kicked off an eight-nation peace-boosting tour of Africa on Monday, and said early meetings with South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki and Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe had been useful. One envoy said South African President Thabo Mbeki had given the team ”an extremely useful” read-out on eight week-long […]
London | Monday SOUTH Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu accused the Israelis of treating Palestinians in the same way the apartheid South African government treated blacks. In a commentary published on Monday by The Guardian, Tutu said: ”I’ve been deeply distressed in my visit to the Holy Land; it reminded me so much of what happened […]
Johannesburg | Monday DECEASED Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete will be buried at his hometown Peelton in the Eastern Cape on Saturday, the African National Congress said on Sunday. He would be laid to rest next to the graves of his parents, ANC Secretary General Kgalema Motlanthe told reporters in Pretoria. Tshwete would be […]
Antananarivo | Sunday AN Egyptian, whom police linked to the lieutenant of alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, was sentenced on Sunday to 10 years in jail with hard labor for membership in an anti-government group, court sources said. The High State Security Court here handed down the sentence to Mohamed al-Sayyed Soleiman Hassan Yussef […]
Dar es Salaam | Tuesday TANZANIA’S President Benjamin Mkapa has assured his country’s benefactors that no donor funds will be used to pay for an expensive air traffic control system Dar es Salaam is importing from London. ”We are going to use our own resources to buy the facility, not aid or any part of […]