Kigali | Saturday CLOSE on 730 members of an extremist Hutu militia have been killed since May 1 after infiltrating Rwanda from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an army representative claimed here. Another 250 extremists have been captured, according to representative Colonel Jean-Bosco Kazura. Those captured — members of Rwanda’s disbanded Hutu-dominated army […]
A Ghanaian ship has been prevented from docking in Benin’s main port Cotonou since June 7, stranding 170 passengers on the vessel in Benin’s territorial waters, the harbour master’s office said on Friday. “The ship, called Alnar, is currently in Benin’s territorial waters with 170 passengers on board,” adding that “for the moment, this ship […]
MATTHEW BURBIDGE, Johannesburg | Sunday THE Sunday Times is leading with an analysis on the machinations behind the employment of Coleman Andrews at SAA, that says President Thabo Mbeki backed the huge salary for the former CEO. The paper’s sports section examines how the French rugby team turned the form book upside down and thumped […]
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 […]