TWO children, one a toddler, were raped in the north of Namibia at the weekend. Sergeant James Matengu said that a three-year-old girl had apparently been raped by a 24-year-old man at Omundaungilo village in the Ohangwena Region on Friday night. “The poor child was left home with other children. The suspect apparently called her […]

CANADA will provide 1,3 million-dollars (US$819 000) to a nongovernmental women and children’s organization in Mozambique led by Graca Machel, the wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, the International Development Agency said. The Canadian contribution to Mozambique’s Community Development Foundation was announced on Sunday, during a three-day visit to Canada by Machel and […]

Pretoria | Tuesday SOUTH African Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota suspended his acquisitions chief, Chippy Shaik, on Monday following allegations that he had disclosed classified information. Lekota told reporters however that the allegations did not relate to a probe into alleged corruption in a 5,5-billion-dollar arms acquisition deal, or to Shaik’s brother Schabir Shaik, who has […]

Bujumbura | Tuesday More than 2 000 people fleeing attacks in northeast Burundi by Hutu rebels of the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) have sought refuge in Muyinga province, a local official said on Monday. “The rebels attacked the camp for displaced people at Nganji, six kilometres from Muyinga, and then torched the […]

Quetta | Thursday A SHEPHERD stumbled across some 50 unexploded US cluster bombs in a mountainous region of Pakistan, local police officials said. The bombs were found in a remote area 70 kilometres east of Kharan, in Pakistan’s southern province of Baluchistan. The site is 100 kilometres south of the Afghan border and is in […]

TWO men arrested for trafficking of body parts are expected to appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Monday. The suspects, a morgue worker and another man, were arrested at the Gale Street mortuary in Durban on Friday by the anti-corruption unit and the elite crime fighting unit, the Scorpions during an undercover operation. The […]

Eighteen people were hurt, three seriously, when a bomb exploded early Tuesday at a bus station in the Algerian capital, an official said. The bomb was placed in a briefcase in the middle of the crowded bus station, the official said. An AFP journalist and witnesses at the scene said at least three people had […]

London | Thursday SPECIAL agents in the United States probing relatives of Saudi-born terror suspect Osama bin Laden before September 11 were told to back off soon after George W. Bush became president, the BBC reported on Tuesday. The BBC’s Newsnight current affairs programme said that Bush at one point had a number of connections […]

ISRAELI peace activists and Palestinian officials will meet in South Africa next week to discuss ideas for an Israeli-Palestinian settlement at a conference to be chaired by President Thabo Mbeki. ”Mbeki will chair the meeting as part of the president and South Africa’s role in continuing the search for peace in the Middle East,” presidential […]

SASOLBURG businessman Piet Odendaal is expected to appeal against his seven-year jail sentence in the Appeal Court in Bloemfontein on Monday. Odendaal was last week convicted of culpable homicide and sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for the death of employee Mosoko Rampuru. Rampuru’s body was dragged behind his bakkie through the streets of Sasolburg for […]