Chief mediator in the Burundi peace process, Nelson Mandela, has called on international donors to double to $880-million the amount of aid they pledged to Burundi.

ZIMBABWEAN health staff have begun a mass anthrax campaign after at least 15 people contracted the disease in central Zimbabwe, apparently after butchering infected cows. Local media said the latest outbreak was first noticed in cattle in early October, with the first human case reported on October 20. The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation said a “massive […]

A FIRST contingent of South African soldiers taking part in a multi-national force to protect exiled political leaders returning to Burundi arrived in Bujumbura on Sunday. The soldiers, dressed in full combat gear, arrived in the Burundian capital at 2:00 pm local time after a three-hour flight from the Waterkloof military base near Pretoria. The […]

Washington | Wednesday IN a public relations setback, the Pentagon acknowledged on Tuesday that US warplanes missed their targets in two separate incidents over the weekend, dropping bombs on a residential area of Kabul and near a senior citizens home on the outskirts of Herat. Pentagon representative Victoria Clarke said the Pentagon had no information […]

THE Nigerian army is investigating an attack by soldiers on an ex-army chief’s house and the massacre of some 200 civilians in central Nigeria. Government troops last week ran rampant in the towns of Zaki-Biam, Gbeji, Anyii, Iorja, Vaase, Tseadoor and Sankara in Benue State in apparent reprisal for the murder of 19 soldiers kidnapped […]

GERARD VANDENBERGHE, Nairobi | Monday AFRICA’S airwaves are shortly to become a new battleground in the war against Aids, with Kenyan television stars and a supporting cast of numerous UN agencies and other international backers joining forces in a new soap opera for the continent. “Heart and Soul” will begin radio and television broadcasts as […]

SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Monday A STATEMENT issued at the end of a Commonwealth mission to probe what steps have been taken to end violence on Zimbabwe’s farms in exchange for help with land reforms showed there is little hope for an early end to the crisis. Ministers from seven Commonwealth countries who made up […]

THE international terminal of Johannesburg Airport was evacuated for around an hour late on Saturday after a hoax bomb alert near the El Al counter, police said, with one source describing the device as a “dummy bomb” designed to cause panic. Several hundred people were asked to leave the building while bomb disposal experts using […]