A NORTHERN Province hospital patient disappeared from his bed on Saturday only to be found dead behind the hospital four days later. Motshine Pheeha (31) of Inveran village was found dead in a trench near the perimeter fence behind Helena Frans Hospital in Bochum on Wednesday morning. Pheeha had been admitted to the hospital with […]

MOZAMBIQUE plans to build a major dam in the southern Maputo province to control flood waters, the government announced this week. The dam in Moamba district, in Maputo province, 70km west of Maputo, is expected to cost $360-million, the ministry of public works and housing said in a statement. The African Development Bank will fund […]

AN Egyptian man was alleged on Tuesday to have tortured his wife and shaved off her hair, both with a barber’s electric shears, after she asked for more money to spend on the home. The woman, appearing bald at a police station here, filed a police report alleging her 32-year-old husband used the tool to […]

ONE of the main armed Hutu opposition groups in Burundi on Tuesday accused the mainly Tutsi government of using a fishing ban for self-enrichment and to starve those its accuses of helping rebel fighters. On June 25, the government banned fishing on two ports on Lake Tanganyika, Runonge and Nyanza-Lac, citing security reasons and claiming […]

CANADIAN authorities, with the help of US officials, arrested three Toronto residents on Tuesday, in connection with a multi-million-dollar letter scam carried out in Canada and Nigeria. An estimated 300 US, European and Asian residents — but no Canadians — have been bilked out of amounts ranging from $52 000 to five million, Ross said […]

THE media in Angola is operating under increasingly difficult conditions, Open Society representative and freelance journalist Rafael Marques said in a statement on Monday. The statement coincided with a decision by independent Catholic-run Radio Ecclesia to suspend all news reports in favour of religious broadcasts. The station also counseled Angolans to pray. Marques attributed the […]

WEST African finance ministers said on Monday they were concerned about inflationary pressures hanging over the region’s economic activities. The regional Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) said in a statement the economic activity continues to suffer from “unfavourable external and internal conditions”, adding that economic growth in 2001 will be “less important than […]

A FATHER and five children were massacred by an armed group near Tiaret in northwestern Algeria, local residents said on Tuesday. The home of the family of eight in the hamlet of Ziana near the town of Oued Lili, some 340km west of Algiers, was attacked overnight on Monday, the sources said. The assailants shot […]

GERMANY has pledged 87-million dinars ($59-million) in aid to Tunisia to be spent on environmental, industry and water projects, the Tunisian news agency TAP reported Monday. The accord, covering the period 2001-02, was signed at the weekend by Uschi Eid, a senior official of the German economic cooperation ministry, the official news agency said. State […]