PRESIDENT Sam Nujoma has picked the coastal town of Henties Bay as the place to retire to, and is building a luxury house on the sea front. The President’s love of fishing appears to be the main motivating factor behind his decision. Nujoma apparently plans to spend summer at the beach-front house and the six […]

MORE than 100 people died in weekend riots in the northern Nigerian city of Kano sparked by a Muslim rally against US-led reprisal attacks on Afghanistan, the Nigerian Red Cross said on Tuesday. “The number of dead people cannot be ascertained by the Red Cross but it is safe and reliable to quote a figure […]

A SENIOR Western Cape government official has been suspended after a forensic audit found sacked Cape metro mayor Peter Marais’s son is unlawfully occupying a low-cost government house in Cape Town. Grant Marais is one of 135 tenants unlawfully living in housing built for poor whites in Parow Park, northern Cape Town, in the mid-1970s. […]

INVESTIGATIONS into thousands of criminal cases at Windhoek’s main police stations have ground to a standstill, while others are moving at snail’s pace, because only three vehicles are operational in an area with more than 200 000 inhabitants. One of the excuses given by the National Police Headquarters for the long-running transport problem is that […]

AT least 15 people have contracted anthrax in central Zimbabwe, the state-run Herald reported, apparently after butchering infected cows. The disease which has spread fear through the United States because of its use as a biological weapon periodically breaks out in Zimbabwe, where it can naturally spread from cattle to people. The former white-minority government […]

MORE than 5 000 Egyptians gathered after prayers at the al-Azhar mosque, Egypt’s largest, to vent their anger Friday against the United States and Britain. “Down with the United States, down with Britain. Long live the Muslims,” chanted the demonstrators, who included representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood and of the Nasserite movement who had arrived […]

Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi said Thursday that suspected attacks with the anthrax bacillus in the United States, if proved true, would be “the worst type of terrorism.” In a statement carried by the official news agency Jana, Gadaffi said that “if it turns out that anthrax germs have been deliberately spread in the United States, […]

OLA AWONIYI, Makurdi | Friday RESIDENTS driven by troops into the bush from towns in a central Nigerian state where officials said more than 130 were massacred have narrated their heart-rending experiences. “Since I ran into the bush on Tuesday when soldiers attacked Zaki-Biam, I have not seen my two wives and nine children. I […]

MOST retail shop shelves that are normally stocked with washing soap and cooking oil are empty, heralding what looks set to become a serious shortage of basic commodities in Harare. The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries warned early this month that there would be food shortages in Zimbabwe following the gazetting of price control regulations on […]

SUSPECTED war veterans and the police are impounding maize from travelers from rural areas, and ordering them to sell it to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB). Passengers and bus conductors yesterday complained of police harassment, saying the maize they carried was in small quantities and had been given to them by their relatives in the […]