EMSIE FERREIRA, Sun City | Thursday MARATHON peace talks on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) hit trouble again on Thursday, with the facilitator announcing a one-week extension but the Kinshasa government rejecting it. ”We will continue here until April 18,” said the facilitator, Sir Ketumile Masire of Botswana, on the eve of the original […]

Antananarivo | Friday AN elderly Canadian monk and at least five other people were killed on Friday in fighting in the town of Fianarantsoa as unrest flared in Madagascar’s bitter power struggle, the rival sides said. The monk was shot when he leaned out of a window close to the gendarmerie base in the provincial […]

RICHARD MABLY, London | Monday By OIL prices staged a modest recovery on Monday as President Hugo Chavez returned to power, reassuring the market that Venezuela would remain one of Opec’s most disciplined members in abiding by cartel output quotas. Calls again from Iran for an Islamic-wide oil embargo on the West to protest Israeli […]

Ramallah | Sunday US SECRETARY of State Colin Powell insisted on an end to Palestinian suicide bombings in what he called ”useful and constructive” talks with Yasser Arafat in the Palestinian leader’s Israeli-besieged West Bank headquarters on Sunday, a senior US official said. Israeli tanks and troops and Kalashnikov-wielding Palestinians were in evidence as the […]

Khartoum | Thursday THE Sudanese government has denied the existence of slavery in Sudan, but pledged to stop the abduction of women and children in parts of central and southwestern Sudan. The chairman of the state’s Committee for Eradication of Abduction of Women and Children, Dr. Ahmed al-Mufti, told reporters that slavery in Sudan was […]

Caracas | Sunday SPAIN announced on Sunday the arrest of an Algerian suspected of raising funds for the deadly attacks on US embassies in Africa in 1998, blamed on Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network. ”This is a heavy blow to the finance apparatus of this terrorist network,” Interior Minister Mariano Rajoy said of the arrest […]

Kampala | Wednesday FORMER Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim on Tuesday appealed to the world to get ready for a challenging task of demining in Angola after peace is restored, following a ceasefire agreement signed on April 4. Addressing journalists on the sidelines of a four-day symposium in Kampala on […]

Mail & Guardian reporter Business is booming in the informal settlement of Nomzamo in Somerset West, where shops and small businesses are thriving from a rewarding partnership with the city of Cape Town. The community is hard at work on a project to build supermarket premises to complement the 13 shops and six container shops […]