Beira, Mozambique | Monday ZIMBABWE’s President Robert Mugabe on Sunday denounced the expelled head of the European Union’s observer mission for Zimbabwe’s presidential elections as ”dishonest and crookish”. Mugabe told a news conference in Beira that Pierre Schori, Sweden’s ambassador to the United Nations, displayed ”cheek” when he said he would stay in the country […]

London | Wednesday AMNESTY International has warned multinational companies that they faced major damage to their finances and reputation by becoming entangled in human rights violations abroad. The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum, a non-profit organisation, joined forces with the human rights watchdog to produce seven mini-reports outlining geographical areas and financial sectors […]

FIVE men allegedly sodomised a 13-year-old boy for four days in a caravan at Zamdela township’s Chris Hani Section near Sasolburg, northern Free State police said on Sunday. Inspector Stephen Thakeng said the boy, who was unconscious, was admitted to the Sasolburg Hospital in a serious condition on Saturday. The boy was allegedly held in […]

A 35-YEAR-old Nigerian citizen was arrested on Sunday morning and several false passports, computers and police radios were recovered, police said. Senior Superintendent Chris Wilken said the man was arrested before he boarded a plane to Lagos at the Johannesburg International Airport. Police found 134 empty passports hidden in soap powder boxes. Eleven of the […]

WESTERN Cape traffic director was arrested in Beaufort West on Friday night for speeding, SABC radio news reported on Saturday. Greg Duncan, a director of traffic in the Western Cape, was caught on the N1 between Beaufort West and Leeu Gamka, driving his vehicle at 205 kilometres an hour. It said Duncan had already appeared […]

UGANDA has deployed troops in the northeastern DRC, where some 200 people are feared dead in ethnic clashes sparked by a land dispute. Major Shaban Bantariza said that the Ugandan battalion stationed in Bunia town were deployed to quell the unrest. ”If the commander in Bunia feels that the capacity he has is not enough […]

SOUTH Africa will host an annual benefit concert at which renowned African musicians will help raise funds for the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The all-night TeleFood 2002 concert at a Johannesburg soccer stadium on March 2, to be broadcast worldwide, will kick off an eight-month food and poverty awareness campaign, organisers said in a […]

FRANCE has struck a deal with Nigeria to borrow for 25 years three works of art which were put on display in a Paris museum after being illegally exported, Culture Minister Catherine Tasca said Wednesday. The three statues from the Nok and Sokoto traditions were found by mining prospectors in the early 1990s, exported without […]

ONE hundred of the world’s top photographers will descend upon Africa on February 28 to take photographs of the vast continent to be published in a book entitled “A Day in the Life of Africa,” organisers said on Thursday. From the Congo river to Morocco and Rwanda, the photographers will attempt to capture a day […]