Kano | Thursday ANGRY Muslims beat to death a Christian truck driver who accidentally reversed his lorry over a copy of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, witnesses said on Wednesday. The 42-year-old ethnic Igbo driver, locally known by the nickname of Saint Moritz, was reversing in a well-known fruit market in the northern city […]

Johannesburg | Thursday SOUTH Africa’s labour legislation, coupled with the lack of skills among the majority of prospective employees, were responsible for the rising tide of unemployment, according to the SA Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR). In its 55th annual South Africa survey released in Johannesburg on Wednesday, SAIRR said the current 26 percent unemployment […]

Gerhusirnay, Ethiopia | Thursday A YEAR after Ethiopia and Eritrea ended a bloody border war, people displaced by the conflict still cannot work their fields because of landmines, humanitarian officials say. “A lot of people have returned to their homes but have no access to their farmland because of landmine issues, and that is true […]

Bonn | Wednesday RIVAL Afghan groups meeting in Germany struck a historic UN-sponsored power-sharing accord Wednesday, agreeing on who will serve in an interim government, the United Nations announced. UN representative Ahmad Fawzi said the 29-member executive cabinet, which will rule Afghanistan for the next six months, is to be headed by the royalist ethnic […]

Stockholm | Thursday Africa is more in need of development aid than ever following the worldwide economic slowdown and the aftermath of the September 11th attacks on the United States, the head of the African Development Bank, Omar Kabbaj, said in Stockholm on Thursday. Kabbaj said that while there was ”an expression of strong support” […]

Johannesburg | Thursday THREE of the four men convicted for the 1999 murder of two black men in Parys in the Free State, were sentenced on Thursday to 20-years in prison in the town’s circuit court. The fourth man, a former policeman, received a 17-year sentence. On Wednesday the three young men, Johannes Mattheys Smith […]

Islamabad | Thursday CRACKS began appearing on Thursday in the landmark power-sharing accord signed in Bonn as leading Pashtun royalist Pir Sayed Ahmed Gailani complained that the agreement was not balanced. The royalist Afghan spiritual leader, who heads the so-called Peshawar Group which participated in the Bonn conference, said the new interim administration lacked balance. […]

Cape Town | Thursday TWO Slovakian wildlife smugglers, found guilty in the Atlantis Regional Court last week of illegally collecting suitcases full of tortoises on the Cape’s West Coast, on Wednesday received fines totalling R168 000 each. The two men, Martin Kyskyn and Martin Juricek, both 27, were found guilty on Wednesday last week on […]