ZAMBIA plans to reform its tax system in a bid to stimulate economic growth and development, the finance ministry announced on Monday. A ministry statement said the tax reforms would be implemented as part of next year’s national budget. “The objective of the tax reform is to build a modern tax system that is conducive […]

A PRIVATE US surveillance airplane has been missing in Angola since 16 July, according to a report by Voice of America (VOA) on Friday. A spokesperson for the Florida-based firm Airscan was quoted by VOA as saying that one of its twin-engine Cessna 337s went missing on a night-time surveillance mission near Soyo, in the […]

MORE than 40 people have died of sunstroke after temperatures soared in Port Sudan on the Red Sea in recent days, a Sudanese press report said Tuesday. The independent Akhbar Al Youm daily said the port city is experiencing its most intense heat wave in 10 years, with temperatures exceeding 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit). […]

Johannesburg | Monday TWO of South Africa’s largest unions on Monday said some 65_000 members are two go on strike Wednesday and Thursday at mining companies and the country’s giant steel manufacturer. National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) spokesman Moferefere Lekorotsoana said the union had issued a 48-hour notice of mass action at the Goldfields, Harmony […]

HUNDREDS of people protested angrily outside a court here Monday after the judge hearing a suit against US drugs company Pfizer failed to turn up and case had to be adjourned. A high court in Kano, northern Nigeria, in March gave leave to three Nigerian families to sue Pfizer in a class action over tests […]

NIGERIA’S President Olusegun Obasanjo has mediated in a spat between the country’s two main bourses over which has the right to call itself the country’s leading exchange. Officials of Nigeria’s first bourse, established in Lagos in 1961, were suspended in May by the regulatory agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), over their refusal to […]

ANOTHER endangered mountain gorilla died in a crossfire in the forested Virunga volcanoes which straddle the borders of Uganda, Rwanda and eastern DRC, a statement from the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) said. AWF quoted the director of the International Gorilla Conservation Program (IGCP), Annette Lanjouw, as saying that Rugendo [the dead gorilla], was shot dead […]

A YOUNG male lion that escaped from the Kruger National Park two weeks ago is still on the prowl in forests surrounding the small holiday town of White River in Mpumalanga. Mpumalanga Parks Board spokesman Gary Sutter said on Monday the renegade lion had dodged baited traps and ranger patrols but was believed to still […]

ALGERIANS who served with the French army during the Algerian civil war are planning to charge France with crimes against humanity for allegedly abandoning them after Algerian independence, their lawyer said on Monday. The ex-soldiers will file a suit before French courts at the end of next month, said Philippe Reulet, representing the National Liaison […]