FIVE British members of parliament were on Sunday on a humanitarian fact-finding mission in the rebel held town of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A delegation spokesman said the team had to explore “the humanitarian situation in DRC,” especially in the east, which is controlled by the Rwandan-backed Congalese Rally for Democracy […]
THE Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions urged thousands of Swazi workers on Sunday to boycott King Mswati III’s consitutional summons. Mswati has called upon the entire Swazi nation to converge on Friday outside the capital Mbabane, where he will present the findings of a Constitutional Review Commission (CRC). Union leaders called on their supporters at […]
DIMENSION Data on Monday announced a new US management and organisational structure, pulling its recent acquisitions there together under one brand. Didata North America Executive Chairman Peter Hird said the new structure would bring all its existing US firms into one organisation to provide integrated services. Raul Fernandez, the former CEO of Proxicom, becomes chief […]
Freetown | Monday MORE than 1_000 combattants fighting in Sierra Leone’s protracted civil war laid down their weapons in the single largest day of disarmament in the key district of Kono, a United Nations official said on Sunday. Patrick Coker, acting spokesman for UNAMSIL, the UN mission in Sierra Leone, said a total of 1_088 […]
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SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Sunday ZIMBABWE’S leading civic groups on Saturday called for an end to political violence, economic decay, land reforms and stressed the need for free and fair presidential polls next year. Some 500 delegates drawn from rights groups and labour unions across the country attended the one-day conference here dubbed “Crisis in […]
Lusaka | Sunday A SPECIAL tribunal in Zambia has found two cabinet ministers guilty on corruption charges involving the diversion of some $750_000 dollars from parliament coffers, a tribunal report said on Saturday. Home Affairs Minister Peter Machungwa and Works and Supply Minister Godden Mandandi were immediately put on leave, on the orders of President […]
THE United States Senate has passed a bill directing President George W Bush’s administration to support the people of Zimbabwe in their struggle to bring about democratic change and restore rule of law in the country. The “Zimbabwe Democracy and Recovery Act” would double funding for democracy programs in the southern African nation and urges […]
THE Metropolitan Museum of New York on Saturday returned a pharonic sculpture to Egypt which was smuggled out of the country 50 years earlier. The sculpture represents King Sethi the first, the son of Ramses, and was brought from the United States by the Egyptian consul in New York, Mahmoud Allam, who showed it to […]
“THE ceasefire and the disengagement agreement between the parties is continuing to hold” in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a press statement issued on 28 July by the United Nations mission to the DRC (MONUC). “Most of the forces have completed their redeployment and, as of 27 July, 86 of the designated 96 […]