GENERIC antiretrovirals will from Tuesday be given to 76 Kenyan orphans who have tested HIV-positive, under a ground-breaking programme, said a priest spearheading the project. Father Angelo D’Agostino said the programme, in which drugs donated by a Brazilian company are to be used, would be instituted at Nairobi’s Nyumbani orphanage, which he runs. The medicine, […]

A 10-year-old Egyptian girl emerged unscathed on Sunday despite falling off the roof of a six-storey apartment building while flying a kite, police said. Marwa Tohami surprised neighbours, who expected her to die when she hit the ground, by picking herself up and running back upstairs to the roof of the building in her working […]

A SCHOOL headmaster and his four-year-old son have been killed in Gasenyi, northern Burundi, by rebels from the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD), an official said on Monday. The official, in the neighbouring borough of Rango, said the FDD had killed Macaire Bizimana because he refused to collaborate with them. On June 2 […]

FOUR people died and three were missing after their boat sank off Cabinda in north Angola, Portugal’s Lusa news agency reported Monday. Fourteen people were rescued after the incident on Saturday. The vessel sank in heavy seas after leaving the port of Cabinda for the town of Soyo in the Angolan province of Zaire. – […]

Pretoria | Wednesday A SENIOR arms official on Wednesday ruled out the possibility that bias or manipulation could have influenced the final selection of suppliers in South Africa’s multi-billion dollar arms deal. “There was no possibility of bias,” David Griesel, acquisition head of former state-owned arms manufacturer Armscor, told a public probe into alleged corruption […]

Gail Appleson, New York | Wednesday A SAUDI man will spend the rest of his life in prison for helping carry out the 1998 bombing of the United States embassy in Kenya after jurors disagreed on Tuesday about whether he should be executed, with some saying lethal injection was too humane. The Manhattan federal jury […]

Johannesburg | Wednesday SOUTH Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Tuesday that talks to end a three-week strike at copper producer Palabora Mining Co remained deadlocked. ”It is becoming more and more apparent…that Palabora Mining’s management is not serious in seeing to the resolution of the strike,” the NUM said in a statement. […]

United Nations | Wednesday THE Security Council have begun to study a proposal to send more UN peacekeepers to the Democratic Republic of Congo and prepare them for new tasks such as policing after foreign armies withdraw. The proposal came in a report by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan which said the peacekeeping force, known […]