THREE passengers were killed and about 50 injured when a train derailed on Cameroon’s main north-south line between the capital Yaounde and the northwestern town of Ngaoundere, CAMRAIL announced on Monday. An official in the national railway company said that the train had been carrying more than a thousand passengers when it derailed on Sunday, […]
AN Egyptian factory manager and 13 of his colleagues died when a weekend fire swept through their tile factory south of Cairo following a gas leak, police said on Monday. Rescue workers on Sunday recovered 12 charred bodies, including that of manager Adel Abdelatif, upon entering the gutted Pharaohs Factory in Ushim, 100km south of […]
LISA RICHWINE, United Nations | Tuesday WINNING the battle against Aids requires helping young African women and girls achieve sexual and economic equality to protect themselves from the deadly disease, government officials said on Monday. Aids infection rates are rising rapidly among young women and girls in many African countries. In Mozambique, HIV rates for […]
SUE PLEMING and OWN CORRESPONDENT, Washington | Tuesday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki touched down at the Andrews Air Force base outside Washington last night, and is scheduled to meet US President George Bush in the Oval office on Tuesday to discuss his Millennium Africa Recovery Plan (MAP). MAP is aimed at fostering stability and […]
THE Sunday Times reports today that South African National Defence Force chief has admitted that he received a R500_000 Mercedes Benz at a massive discount from the same company that allegedly supplied a similar vehicle to ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni, while negotiations over the country’s R43-billion arms deal were underway. General Siphiwe Nyanda received […]
A SWEDISH -registered ship in difficulty off the west African coast with 186 Liberian passengers aboard is trying to make it to Ghana with little fuel remaining, according to the Swedish captain’s wife. “We have no idea where the ship is,” said Eva Furberg, wife of the ship’s 52-year-old Swedish captain, Henning Kielberg, by phone […]
UGANDAN troops have overrun a camp of northern Ugandan rebels inside Sudan, killing 22 rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army, Ugandan military commander Brigadier Henry Tumukunde said on Sunday . Tumukunde said Ugandan troops crossed some 20 kilometres into Sudan on Wednesday and attacked a small LRA camp at the village of Lumarati. A cache […]
A WOMAN was killed and her six-year-old son was injured on Sunday after they stepped on an anti-personnel landmine near Burundi’s capital Bujumbura, witnesses said. “We heard a landmine explosion and then a little girl covered in blood arrived saying her mother and brother were lying on the floor and could not move,” said a […]
LEGISLATORS in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous Zanzibar and Pemba said on Thursday they want the twin Indian Ocean islands to be allowed to join the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), despite longstanding opposition from Tanzania’s federal government. Several members of Zanzibar House of Representatives (parliament) have expressed concern over federal opposition to the move, despite numerous […]
THE speaker of the state assembly in Kano, northern Nigeria, ousted by lawmakers this week because he lightens his skin, insisted on Saturday on his “right to bleach”. Ibrahim Abdullahi Gwarmani told a daily newspaper: “I know the Koran very well and my bleaching should be viewed as my personal liberty. It does not violate […]