AN Egyptian teenager jumped into the Nile and drowned because his sweetheart turned down his requests for a kiss, police in the conservative Delta town of Banha said on Thursday. High school student Saber Darwish, 17, climbed onto the riverside wall Wednesday night after the second time his young companion Hanaa refused to seal their […]

THE Ethiopian High Court has acquitted 10 men accused of genocide and crimes against humanity under the regime of ousted dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, the news agency ENA reported on Thursday. The men were accused of “torture and extra-judicial killings” while they were serving Mengistu’s Marxist regime. The court also handed out 22 guilty verdicts […]

LIBYAN leader Moammar Gaddafi says land in Zimbabwe must be taken from white landowners without compensation, state radio reported on Friday. Whites should instead pay blacks for the land they seized during the colonial era, Gaddafi reportedly told a dinner party hosted in his honour by President Robert Mugabe on Thursday night. Kadhafi arrived in […]

SOUTH Africa’s first e-commerce site in Zulu, the country’s most widely spoken language, was launched on Monday, the company behind the launch said on Sunday. ”Most commentators question the viability of the Internet in Africa,” said John Kuhn of gAL.co.za, which is a student Web site and online academic bookstore. ”But maybe if it were […]

Johannesburg | Friday THREE people have been arrested in Hillbrow, central Johannesburg, over the kidnapping of a British man who was lured to South Africa by promise of a commission in exchange for use of his bank account, police said Saturday. Joseph Raca, 68, arrived in South Africa last Sunday to sort out a ”deal” […]

Johannesburg | Thursday SOUTH Africa’s rand and bonds extended their recovery on Thursday, as the dust settled following a global emerging market battering triggered mainly by Argentina’s debt problems. Traders said that domestic markets were likely to continue to correct from losses seen as overdone, although further bad news from overseas coupled with the outcome […]

NAMIBIA will withdraw all its troops from the DRC by the end of August, South African Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota said on Thursday. Lekota, speaking to SABC radio from Windhoek, said Namibian Defence Minister Errki Nghimtina had told him his country’s troops “will be totally out of the DRC by the end of next month”. […]

UGANDAN troops have been deployed in parts of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to end a witchhunt which has seen an estimated 800 people hacked to death, an army representative said on Thursday. Lieutenant-Colonel Phinehas Katirima said Ugandan army units in DRC had arrested over 70 people accused of involvement in the witch-hunt. They […]

MPUMALANGA Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu on Wednesday condemned the ongoing farm attacks in the province. This follows four attacks that were reported in a single day on Monday. One farmer was shot in the stomach, a couple was beaten and a pensioner tied up. The incidents brought to 24 the number of farm attacks reported to […]