MOZAMBIQUE President Joaquim Chissano said on Tuesday that the current war on terrorism, declared in the wake of terror strikes last month against the United States, should be extended to become a war on poverty. Chissano, who is on an official visit to Cuba, called poverty a “pressing need of humanity,” but underlined that current […]

AFTER several incidents this week when police were called out on false anthrax scares, two hoaxsters in Cape Town have been charged with intimidation and another two intimidation dockets are under investigation in Johannesburg. This follows this week’s warning from the national commissioner of police, Jackie Selebi, that hoaxsters would be fined. He also drew […]

EMMANUEL GIROUD, ESDRAS NDIKUMANA, Bujumbura | Wednesday AS more South African protection troops poured into Burundi on Tuesday, politicians from the government and the opposition engaged in last minute horse-trading for jobs in a transitional regime. The Hutu-Tutsi power sharing arrangements are due to come into effect on Thursday and constitute a cornerstone of efforts […]

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF), often critical of Malawi’s poor fiscal management, has told the impoverished southern African nation to shut down loss-making parastatals, saying they were a drain on government resources. ”Trimming the public sector and reducing dependence on the budget would check problems of fiscal indiscipline which have affected expenditure control and fuelled […]

A nine-month-old baby that was raped and indecently assaulted, allegedly by six men at the weekend, was in a stable condition in hospital on Tuesday, Northern Cape police said. Six Upington men, aged between 24 and 66, appeared in the Kimberley Magistrate’s Court on Monday on charges of raping and indecently assaulting the baby in […]

Islamabad | Tuesday RELIEF groups have delivered only eight percent of food aid urgently needed to sustain half a million starving Afghans through the looming winter, according to the World Food Program. They are the most desperate of more than six million Afghans dependent on international aid but even the luckier ones – about two […]

Bisho | Wednesday MORE than R1,6-million of the R2,136-million budgeted for crime prevention in the Eastern Cape has not been used, the Auditor General’s report on the safety and liaison department finances for 2000/2001 revealed on Monday. The report tabled at a standing committee for safety and liaison meeting said the unused money had been […]

Pretoria | Wednesday ONE of the three Mozambican immigrants who had dogs set on them by East Rand police last year filed an assault and abduction complaint after an incident on Monday night, SABC radio news reported on Wednesday. Sylvester Khosa said he was kidnapped and assaulted by four white men who identified themselves as […]

COLOMBIA is taking additional security measures to ensure it will not become a transit point for heroin from Afghanistan destined for users in the United States, a police official said on Monday. ”It is possible that narcotraffickers could use existing smuggling routes to try to bring heroin from Afghanistan to Mexico and the United States. […]

Washington | Monday US Muslim leaders have called on the administration of President George W. Bush to halt its bombing campaign against Afghanistan, in a marked departure from their earlier stance. A broad coalition of Muslim groups on the weekend urged the White House to ”urgently reassess its action in Afghanistan, and to cease the […]