A REBEL leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday said more than 100_000 refugees from the neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) were in urgent need of help. “More than 100_000 Central Africans” have crossed the Oubangui river into areas in northeast DRC controlled by the Congolese Liberation Front (FLC), said the rebel […]
Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH African bank Nedcor said on Tuesday it was mulling its options on its 8% stake in Dimension Data Plc, after the IT group’s shares dived on a warning of a squeeze on margins. Shares in Nedcor, one of South Africa’s four biggest banks, slid 6.88% to close at R149 — underperforming […]
TANZANIAN exports to the European Union (EU) increased by 74% to 405 million euros in 2000, compared to the previous year, thanks to the lifting of a ban on EU fish imports from Lake Victoria, the European Commission (EC) delegation here said Monday. “Fish exports now account for 28% of the total value of Tanzania’s […]
SHAREHOLDERS in South African media, entertainment and telecoms group Johnnic Communications (Johncom) on Monday approved the unbundling of Johncom’s stake in mobile phone company M-Cell. Johnnic Senior Corporate Finance Manager Monica Steinlechner said all shareholders present at the meeting voted in favour of the move. Johncom is distributing the bulk – 34,4% of a total […]
EGYPT on Sunday condemned an Israeli air raid which took out a Syrian radar base in Lebanon, branding it an “unjustified provocation” and a badly-timed escalation of the regional situation. “It’s an unjustifiable Israeli escalation that comes at a moment when contacts are underway to calm the situation in the Middle East region” and resume […]
GUERRILLAS in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have freed a Swedish hostage after 45 days of captivity in exchange for a second-hand Volvo truck, the Swedish television news programme Rapport said on Saturday. The evening newspaper Expressen said Bjoern Rugsten, 33, was freed by the Mai Mai group thanks to the […]
London | Tuesday ZIMBABWES main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai urged Britain not to turn its back on its troubled former colony during a meeting with new Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on Monday. Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), met Straw at the Foreign Office for the first time since Straw replaced Robin […]
KENYAS President Daniel arap Moi has called for the death penalty for those who deliberately infected their sexual partners with the HIV virus, which can lead to Aids, and life imprisonment for rapists. “The time has come for those who deliberately infect others to die and those who rape to be jailed for life,” Moi […]
THE Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) on Sunday said it had agreed to extend a R320-million ($40-million) loan to expand the Mozal aluminium smelter in Mozambique. The completion of the second stage of the smelter will double its output to 506_000 tonnes of aluminium per year, and will cost one billion dollars, the bank […]
A REBEL leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday said more than 100,000 refugees from the neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) were in urgent need of help. “More than 100,000 Central Africans” have crossed the Oubangui river into areas in northeast DRC controlled by the Congolese Liberation Front (FLC), said the rebel […]