THREE African leaders at a security summit on Tuesday in Zambia condemned Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi for abandoning a peace accord signed six years ago and pressing on with a 25-year civil war. Presidents Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola, Sam Nujoma of Namibia and Frederick Chiluba of Zambia held a one-day mini-summit to […]
AN Islamic body in Nigeria criticised the government on Tuesday for what it saw as a bid to stall the implementation of the Sharia, or strict Islamic law, already introduced in some states. The Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria said in a statement that a federal government move to introduce a uniform Islamic legal […]
TWO Democratic Republic of Congo opposition movements have agreed to exchange views about the situation in the country, a representative for the Rwandan-backed rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy said on Wednesday. Thirty representatives of DRC’s unarmed opposition and the RCD will meet on Thursday in Goma, where the rebel movement has its headquarters in eastern […]
PETER CUNLIFFE-JONES, Lagos | Wednesday FORCED to sea by Liberia? Shot at off Ghana? Pushed out by a gunboat off Benin? Henning Kielberg, the Swedish captain of a cargo boat at sea off the west African coast with more than 150 passengers aboard for four weeks, recounted his version of the saga. “This is not […]
THE presidents of Zambia, Angola and Namibia are to hold a one-day mini-summit in Zambia on Tuesday to discuss security along their shared frontiers, said a foreign ministry representative. “The tripartite mechanism for political and security cooperation meeting involving Zambia, Angola and Namibia will today open at Lusaka’s Hotel Intercontinental,” said the representative. The tripartite […]
UP to 27% of the active urban population in Ethiopia is unemployed, most of them aged between 15 and 24, according to an International Labour Organisation (ILO) official. Assefa Bequehe ascribed the unemployment problem partly to “the sluggish performance of the Ethiopian economy over the last 20 or 25 years.” The Horn of Africa country […]
SOUTH African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni said on Tuesday that the central bank would sign a syndicated loan of more than $1.0-billion with commercial banks by the end of July. He gave no details on the terms of the loan and declined to comment on whether some of the proceeds would be used to […]
SOUTH African IT group Datatec said on Monday it had appointed David Pfaff as a new executive director on its board, responsible for investor relations and the group’s South African interests. The networking and IT services group has faced criticism over its communications record in the past and the appointment was seen as an attempt […]
Pretoria | Wednesday NARCOTIC drugs worth up to R1,43-billion ($178-million) were seized by South African police last year, the police announced on Tuesday. Their haul included about 500 tonnes of marijuana, 19 million mandrax tablets, nearly 500 kilograms of cocaine, almost 200_000 amphetamines and 11.5 tons of hashish, detective services commissioner Johan de Beer said. […]
FIVE European Union nations said on Tuesday they were reaching out to Aids patients in the developing world by sending doctors and other medical staff to African and Latin American hospitals. Officials from France, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain said their hospitals would team up with hospitals in poor nations to offer them medical expertise, […]