CARS, furniture and garden equipment from the Swiss villa of the late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire were auctioned off in Savigny for 58,700 euros, the ATS news agency reported on Wednesday. The item considered the auction’s main prize was Mobutu’s bed, which went for 5,160 euros ($4,460). A small garden tractor went for […]
UNITED Nations troops and military observers will help vaccinate some 12 million children against polio in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at the beginning of July, the DRC government and the UN announced Wednesday. “Certain children have found themselves in troubled areas,” mostly in the eastern half of the former Zaire which is under […]
POLICE clashed violently with protesters during a massive ethnic Berber-led march in Algiers on Thursday which left two journalists dead and 168 people injured and fuelled anger against the government of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Hundreds of thousands of people joined the protest, which some observers said was the biggest in recent history. Some put the […]
SOUTH Africa will ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global climate change, a government representative said on Wednesday. The government will also ratify the amendments to the Montreal Protocol on ozone depletion, Joel Netshitenze said after a cabinet meeting. Last month, the SA government called President George W. […]
SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki said on the last full day of his official visit to Britain on Thursday that “a lot of things have gone wrong” in Zimbabwe. He made the comments after meeting British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Downing Street where the two men issued a joint statement saying they wanted to […]
STEFAANS BRUMMER, Cape Town | Friday THE Nelson Mandela Childrens Fund has found itself in bed with a business linked to Mafia don Vito Palazzolo – but the fund protests that it is an unwilling partner and says it has asked for an audit of moneys collected in its name. Sicilian-born Palazzolo was arrested in […]
LESOTHO and South Africa created a joint 8_000-square-kilometre conservation area on Monday over mountains straddling the border. The Maluti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation Area will incorporate Lesotho’s Sehlaba-Thebe (Plateau of the Shield) national park in the southeast of the small kingdom and several South African reserves in KwaZulu-Natal province. The area created will stretch from the Golden […]
Bangui | Saturday SUMMARY executions are being carried out daily in the Central African Republic following a failed coup bid, sowing terror among members of the Yakoma ethnic group who are being targeted, witnesses claimed. The authorities condemn the killings and claim not to have a hand in them. They blame renegade security force members […]
BARRY STREEK, GLENDA DANIELS and DAVID MACFARLANE, Johannesburg | Friday COLEMAN Andrews offered to resign eight months ago as CEO of South African Airways (SAA), because he was frustrated with government and Transnet interference in the running of the airline – but he was persuaded to stay on for longer by former Transnet managing director […]
THIRTEEN members of the rebel Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) were killed after infiltrating Burundi from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an army source said on Friday. The Hutu rebels had crossed the border and were on the outskirts of the town of Kabezi, just south of the capital Bujumbura, when they […]