FIFTY-FIVE Guineans who had been abducted by Sierra Leonean rebels have arrived home with accounts of death, rape and forced labour, state television in the West African country said on Sunday. The television showed pictures of the 55 dishevelled civilians, more than a third of them children, who had been released by the Revolutionary United […]
FIRST results from Sunday’s presidential elections on the African islands of Sao Tome and Principe pointed to a likely run-off between the two top candidates, electoral officials said. Businessman Fradique de Menezes, a former foreign minister, appeared to have an edge over Manuel Pinto da Costa, who ruled the former Portuguese colony as a Marxist […]
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THE European Union will provide some $7-million dollars this year to Ghana to fund approximately 700 projects, the UN information agency IRIN said Thursday. Kwaku Osafo, the local director of an EU-funded project, said the projects basically covered the infrastructure sector, education and health. “The local communities tell us the projects they would like to […]
GRIFFIN SHEA, Harare | Sunday ZIMBABWEAN police on Sunday detained for more than two hours the opposition candidate in a fiercely contested by-election, marred by widespread violence during months of campaigning. The vote to replace the late MP and minister Border Gezi, who was a close aide of President Robert Mugabe, is widely considered a […]
THE Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said in its latest country outlook for Zimbabwe on Tuesday that the country’s GDP was estimated to have contracted by 6% in 2000 and was forecast to contract by 5,6% in 2001. Initially the main factor behind the slowdown was the overvalued exchange rate, which caused foreign currency shortages, made […]
THREE women have been raped and hacked to death with an axe in their house in Walmer township near Port Elizabeth in South Africa, reports said on Saturday. Their bodies were found early Saturday after a woman who lives nearby noticed blood on their doorstep and called for help, SABC public television news reported. “I […]
DAVID LE PAGE, Johannesburg | Sunday ACCORDING to the Sunday Times, the Pan Africanist Congress and the police are trying to find out what Daniel Ngwenya did with the R25 a head contributions he took from landless people, precipitating the recent Bredell land invasion. The invasion hammered both the rand and PAC credibility. The Scorpions […]
A NORTHERN Province man dubbed the “lover’s lane” serial killer was handed seven life sentences and an additional 45 years in a packed Thohoyandou High Court on Thursday. David Mmbengwa(37) was jailed for killing seven people – including an agricultural department official and two policemen – between May 1996 and January 1998 in the Thohoyandou […]