Freetown | Tuesday INTERNATIONAL plastic surgeons will from next month start operating on 130 former child combatants who were branded by Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group, an NGO said on Tuesday. Rabih Torbay, director of the US-based International Medical Corps (IMC), said the initiative was aimed at helping the former child fighters […]
Emmanuel Goujon, Bouake | Tuesday A SPECIALLY developed hybrid rice for Africa, the result of 10 years of research and a fusion of a local and an Asian strain, has spawned hopes of improving the continent’s food security. Nerica, an acronym for New Rice for Africa, has been developed by the West Africa Rice Development […]
MALAWI will issue licenses to 20 hunters to kill 200 menacing but endangered Nile crocodiles in the southern African nation’s lakes and rivers, environmental authorities said on Monday. Each license will cost 1.50 US dollars, and will allow an individual hunter to kill 10 of the endangered reptiles in specially selected hunting grounds, said Roy […]
THE editor-in-chief of the pro-government Avenir newspaper in Kinshasa was arrested last week by security services and has been held in a dark cell for five days, the daily said on Monday. The Avenir said Joachim Diana Gikupa has been held by the National Intelligence Agency (ANR) for articles he has written. The newspaper, which […]
Pierre Ausseill, Bangui | Tuesday THE Central African Republic’s former military ruler Andre Kolingba, accused of trying to overthrow the government last month with the help of French mercenaries, is still at large with a price hanging over his head. Kolingba, who ruled from 1981 until 1993 elections won by Ange-Felix Patasse, was said to […]
FORMER SAA chief executive Coleman Andrews has come out swinging, accusing Minister of Public Enterprises Jeff Radebe of inaccuracy in his pronouncements on his salary package and tenure at the airline. “…Reading through the news release of June 13 2001 by the minister of public enterprises on the controversy surrounding SAA, I was struck by […]
WOUTER Basson, dubbed ?Dr Death? was on Monday acquitted on 15 out of 61 charges ranging from murder and fraud to drug trafficking. Basson will still have to answer to 46 other charges ranging from murder and fraud. Basson was acquitted during a brief hearing on Monday in the Pretoria High Court and the judge […]
New York | Tuesday UNITED States prosecutors will ask a Manhattan jury on Tuesday to send a follower of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden to his death for the 1998 bombing of the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Prosecutors are scheduled to begin the penalty phase of the case against Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, […]
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