SUDANESE Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail on Monday voiced his country’s opposition to any US strike on Iraq as part of Washington’s “war on terror.” “We refuse any strike on Iraq. If Iraq is hit today, Sudan will be tomorrow and other Arab countries the day after tomorrow,” Ismail told reporters on arrival in the […]

STUDENTS in the northern Nigerian city of Kano went on the rampage on Monday when striking teachers tried to stop them from taking their semester examinations. Students at Bayero University chased security guards and damaged cars of faculty members, who began a one-week strike on Monday over reports that the government planned to cut their […]

THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is to increase the number of its aid workers in Liberia, following a recent upsurge in clashes between government troops and rebels. However, the ICRC could not say how many additional staff would be sent to Liberia before the situation in the country had become clear, said […]

Rome | Wednesday The UN food agency has warned that more than four million people in southern Africa faced severe food shortages because of bad weather and a reduction in the areas planted with crops. The aggregate output of southern Africa’s main staple, maize, is a quarter lower than 2000 levels at 13,4-million tons and […]

ABOUT 160 MPs and other politicians have begun meeting on Monday to pave the way for a national dialogue to end years of instability in the Central African Republic (CAR), the UN mission in Bangui said. The head of the conflict resolution body of the Organisation of African Union is attending the two days of […]

THE Katorus Child Protection Unit has arrested a 14-year-old boy in Vosloorus for rape and indecent assault. The boy was arrested after it was alleged that on Thursday he raped a two year old girl and sodomised her five year old brother in the house where he lives, Superintendent Andy Pieke said. The two children […]

SEIF al-Islam, son of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, is to visit Paris next week on a cultural mission to coincide with the return of regular Paris to Tripoli flights, Libya’s ambassador to Unesco said on Monday. The 30-year-old, who is head of the Gaddafi’s Foundation and has said he wants to be seen as a […]

JIM MCKENNA, Washington | Thursday US FEDERAL investigators have concluded the 1999 crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 off the US Atlantic coast happened as a result of intentional human action, said sources close to the probe. A report compiled by the investigators states the Boeing 767 crashed 100 kilometres south of Nantucket Island “as a […]

THE principal of an Egyptian school was sentenced to 12 years in jail with hard labour for seeking “sexual favours” from the mothers of pupils and from the wife of a job seeker, court sources said on Monday. A court sentenced the private school administrator, Samir Wahdan, to five years of forced labour for asking […]

Cape Town | Thursday THE South African government on Wednesday presented a R287,9 billion budget which lowers taxes and raises welfare grants and spending on Aids but failed to satisfy calls for poverty relief. Finance Minister Trevor Manuel forecast economic growth of 2,1% in 2002 and vowed to increase spending by four percent in the […]