A COTTON producer and five other companies in western Cameroon have been ordered to pay pollution penalties of up to 24-million CFA francs ($31_000) an official source said on Monday. Cameroon Industrial Cotton (CICAM) has until June 30 to pay a five million CFA franc ($6_500) fine for the reckless release into the environment of […]
THE rogue hippopotamus that attacked and killed a security guard at an up-market Mpumalanga resort died of stress during a large-scale capture operation in the Sabie River on Monday afternoon. The adult bull hippo, described as a “trouble-maker” that regularly fought with other hippos, was cornered and darted by Mpumalanga Parks Board (MPB) but died […]
AT least six people were killed in a shooting incident on Tuesday at a Ugandan polling station during legislative elections. The bloodshed began in Bubulo East constituency when the bodyguard of one candidate, Simon Mulongo, shot the brother of a rival, according to police representative Asuman Mugenyi. “Then the mob got the bodyguard and lynched […]
VETERAN journalist and editor of the Malawi News, Horace Somanje, was buried in Blantyre on Monday after he died on Saturday following a short illness. The Journalists Association of Malawi (Jama) said Somanje’s death was a great loss to the nation and the journalism fraternity. He was founding chairman of JAMA and contributed to the […]
THREE African leaders at a security summit on Tuesday in Zambia condemned Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi for abandoning a peace accord signed six years ago and pressing on with a 25-year civil war. Presidents Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola, Sam Nujoma of Namibia and Frederick Chiluba of Zambia held a one-day mini-summit to […]
AN Islamic body in Nigeria criticised the government on Tuesday for what it saw as a bid to stall the implementation of the Sharia, or strict Islamic law, already introduced in some states. The Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria said in a statement that a federal government move to introduce a uniform Islamic legal […]
TWO Democratic Republic of Congo opposition movements have agreed to exchange views about the situation in the country, a representative for the Rwandan-backed rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy said on Wednesday. Thirty representatives of DRC’s unarmed opposition and the RCD will meet on Thursday in Goma, where the rebel movement has its headquarters in eastern […]
PETER CUNLIFFE-JONES, Lagos | Wednesday FORCED to sea by Liberia? Shot at off Ghana? Pushed out by a gunboat off Benin? Henning Kielberg, the Swedish captain of a cargo boat at sea off the west African coast with more than 150 passengers aboard for four weeks, recounted his version of the saga. “This is not […]
THE presidents of Zambia, Angola and Namibia are to hold a one-day mini-summit in Zambia on Tuesday to discuss security along their shared frontiers, said a foreign ministry representative. “The tripartite mechanism for political and security cooperation meeting involving Zambia, Angola and Namibia will today open at Lusaka’s Hotel Intercontinental,” said the representative. The tripartite […]
UP to 27% of the active urban population in Ethiopia is unemployed, most of them aged between 15 and 24, according to an International Labour Organisation (ILO) official. Assefa Bequehe ascribed the unemployment problem partly to “the sluggish performance of the Ethiopian economy over the last 20 or 25 years.” The Horn of Africa country […]