A NINE metre male humpback whale — which was stranded in shallow water at Hogan Park in Port Elizabeth for about five-and-a-half hours — was on Sunday afternoon being towed out to sea. National Sea Rescue Institute station commander Ian Gray said a pilot boat was towing the mammal while a Metro Rescue rubber duck […]
Johannesburg | Monday THE Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) this week launches its second stage of regional stayaways aimed at putting pressure on government to drop its privatisation programme. The second set of regional stayaways will be in Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and Free State on Tuesday. The first stayaway was […]
THE Rome municipality symbolically adopted a two-month-old baby girl infected with the virus that causes Aids after her Nigerian-born mother died from a drug overdose, officials said this weekend. The mother, a 28-year-old drug addict who suffered from Aids, died on Friday. Deputy Rome mayor Enrico Gasbarra said after seeing the baby at Rome’s San […]
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A STUDENT from the University of Asmara has died while in desert detention for defying government work orders, student sources claimed on Thursday. Yirga Yosef, a third-year university student, died of heat stroke on Tuesday following three days of detention in the desert, in a place called Wia, some 30 kilometers from the port city […]
A FORMER British aid worker has been arrested in Ethiopia on suspicion of trafficking and sexually abusing orphans, the Foreign Office said on Saturday. David Allen (59) was detained in Addis Ababa after arriving on a flight from Zambia where he was planning to set up a children’s centre. Allen was a former delegate in […]
A MAN went on the rampage and stabbed six people at Ondangwa’s Oluno informal settlement on Wednesday. All the victims – who were knifed in the head, chest, arms or stomach – were hospitalised. Absalom Josef from Onambango village near Ondangwa, who was arrested in connection with the stabbings, is in the Onandjokwe hospital along […]
EMSIE FERREIRA, Cape Town | Saturday THE peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will shift up a gear on Monday when members of government, rebel groups and civil society begin week-long talks on reviving political dialogue. The much-delayed talks are taking place in the Botswanan capital Gaborone under the mediation of that […]
THE UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) sought answers Friday as to why one of its helicopters came under fire in a rebel zone this week despite a ceasefire accord. The UN helicopter was hit by 14 bullets on Thursday during a routine flight between Uvira and Kalemie in eastern DRC, […]
THE trial of an Egyptian businessman accused of having too many wives and of corrupting under-age girls resumed in Cairo on Saturday. The trial was adjourned until August 22 for Sayed Ragab al-Sawarki (51) a self-professed devout Muslim who was arrested in May on his return to Cairo from a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. […]