EMMANUEL GIROUD and CHRISTIAN CHADEFAUX, Antananarivo | Tuesday MADAGASCAR is a country that has two of everything two heads of state, two capitals and government ministries that double up, not to mention two central banks. All this since presidential elections on December 16, 2001, in which mayor of the capital Antananarivo, Marc Ravalomanana, claimed victory […]

AMINU ABUBAKAR, Kano | Monday A DISABLED Nigerian boy believed to have been adopted and raised by chimpanzees for 18 months is in care in a specialist children’s home in the northern city of Kano. Named Bello by nursing staff at the Tudun Maliki Torrey home in Kano, he was brought to them six years […]

HUNDREDS of smugglers stormed one of Vietnam’s main land border
crossings with Laos, leaving six customs officers wounded as they
rammed through a huge convoy of contraband, checkpoint commanders
said on Thursday.

AN American fighter jet dropped at least one laser-guided bomb on Canadian forces in Afghanistan, by mistake, during a training exercise on Wednesday. Officials said four soldiers were killed and eight were injured.

FOREIGN Affairs officials in Pretoria stepped up pressure
against Israel, calling in Israeli Ambassador Tova Herzl
to protest against the arrest of top Palestinian official Marwan
Bargouthi.

TWELVE pro-Palestinian supporters were
arrested on Wednesday night outside the Pretoria residence of Tova Herzl, Israel’s
Ambassador to South Africa, who was hosting a party to mark her
country’s national day.

PRETORIA High Court Judge President Bernard Ngoepe on Thursday
said he would give five Pietersburg rugby players the benefit of
the doubt on two attempted murder charges.

AIDS will drive down the life expectancy of a South African
woman to 43 in 2005, NMG-Levy’s annual report on labour relations
and employee benefits said on Thursday.

JEANNETTE Harksen, wife of fugitive German businessman Jurgen
Harksen, has been given an ultimatum to appear at an insolvency
inquiry this week.