BRUSSELS | Friday A COURT in Brussels has found four Rwandans, including two Catholic nuns, guilty of taking part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide after a landmark eight week-long trial. College teacher Vincent Ntezimana, 39, factory owner and former minister Alphonse Higaniro, 51, as well as nuns Consolata Mukangango, 42, and Julienne Mukabutera, 36, alias […]
MORE than 500 prisoners pardoned by Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo are still in jail a year later, the state-owned Sunday Times newspaper reported. Obasanjo last year ordered that prisoners who had served more than 20 years in prison be freed. But the internal affairs ministry has blocked the release of more than 500 men insisting […]
THE chief peace mediator in the conflict in Burundi Nelson Mandela said on Sunday a ”breakthrough” has been made towards peace in the central African country, but declined to give details until after he had met the parties involved in the conflict. ”I cannot tell you before we brief the 19 political parties, the army […]
Kigali, JEAN BAPTISTE KAYIGAMBA | Monday CONGOLESE rebels threatened on Sunday to turn back a United Nations boat that set off last week to open the mighty Congo river, closed to traffic by nearly three years of civil war. Congo’s largest rebel group said they would bar the voyage unless the United Nations Mission in […]
SOUTH African Treasury Director-General Maria Ramos said on Friday the government would probably issue a yen-denominated Samurai bond worth about $400-million in the final week of June. She said the amount and maturity of the bond had not yet been finalised, but added: ”We are looking at probably $400 million.” South Africa last tapped the […]
THE Nigerian parliament on Tuesday rejected on a third reading a budget request for a new presidential plane. President Olusegun Obasanjo had requested a $47,2-million budget for a plane which he said would be used by Vice President Atiku Abubakar. The upper house of legislature had earlier approved the bill. – AFP
THOUSANDS of mourners attended the burial on Tuesday of Zambian opposition politician Paul Tembo, who was murdered shortly before he was due to testify against three ministers in a government corruption case. Tembo, who was shot on Friday in front of his wife and family, was buried in his small hometown Kabwe, a mining town […]
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The law has not changed, but the British view of porn has. We are no longer shocked and neither is the censor, so sex shops and filmmakers are preparing for a boom time.
Bertold Bohmer (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is a widowed, sixtysomething German émigré and athletics trainer. He lives like a pig in a cottage on an Afrikaans couple’s farm, has no interest in women – black or otherwise – and never shaves. This is possible, but highly implausible.