THREE former Rwandan officials were arrested in Europe on Thursday on suspicion of crimes committed during the 1994 genocide, said the chief prosecutor of the UN tribunal for Rwanda Carla del Ponte. Emmanuel Rukundo, a former chaplain in the Rwandan army, was arrested in Geneva, while Emmanuel Ndindabahizi, a former finance minister, was arrested in […]

A TOP US aid official will launch a seven-day mission in Sudan on Sunday to assess efforts to battle famine in parts of the country ravaged by drought and devastated by civil war. Andrew Natsios will travel in northern and southern Sudan and meet government officials and aid workers, the US Agency for International Development […]

Johannesburg | Monday THE chief whip of South Africa’s ruling party on Sunday denied any wrongdoing in a controversial $5,5-billion arms deal, saying he was the victim of an unsubstantiated witchhunt. In a full-page advertisement published in the Sunday Independent, Tony Yengeni said a claim that he received a luxury 4X4 Mercedes Benz in return […]

THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), protesting over the government’s economic policies, said on Tuesday that the federation was seeking solidarity action from workers’ organisations in neighbouring countries, particularly from South Africa’s powerful trade unions. “We want Cosatu (the South African union federation) to blockade our common borders next time we take industrial action,” […]

Harare | Monday A WHITE Zimbabwean farmer ran over and killed a would-be settler and dragged the body for several meters under his van before dumping it at the roadside in the east of the country, police said on Monday. Febian Mapenzauswa, 31, had just arrived at Tara Farm in Odzi near the town of […]

A 40-vehicle convoy carrying a dismantled 60-ton oil drilling platform set out from Tunisia on Tuesday on a 400km desert trail to southern Algeria where it will be assembled and put into operation. The caravan was carrying seven main elements of the $55-million platform which will measure nine metres high and eight metres horizontally when […]

SECURITY agents in Nigeria have destroyed more than 2_400 light arms recovered from armed robbers and smugglers, state-run NTA television reported on Thursday. The weapons were destroyed on Tuesday at the premises of the Defence Industry Corporation of Nigeria, based in the northern city of Kaduna, NTA said. -AFP

MALAWIS top prosecutor said on Thursday he has filed charges of treason against three people in connection with an alleged coup attempt in March. “The treason trial against the three should start in the High Court soon,” said Fahad Assani, director of public prosecutions. The accused are 33-year-old Sudi Sulaimana, and two unnamed, low-ranking soldiers. […]

THE Lesotho Queen Karabo Mohato Bereng Seeiso, the wife of the head of state King Letsie III, is expecting her first baby in October, said the Queen Mother, Her Majesty Queen Mamohato Bereng Seeiso. Queen Karabo was married to King Letsie in February last year after which she discontinued her Bachelor of Science studies at […]

FORMER Ivory Coast foreign minister Amara Essy, who was elected the new secretary-general of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), was on Thursday accorded a hero’s welcome upon his return from Lusaka. Thousands of excited crowds ringed the road from Abidjan airport to the administrative quarter of Plateau, where the president’s office is located. They […]