EVARISTO CUMBANE, Maputo | Wednesday SENA Sugar Estates — abandoned by its owners, bombed by rebels, and threatened by raging floodwaters — is about to complete its transformation from ruin to a potent symbol of Mozambique’s post-war recovery. The sugar mill in the central town of Marromeu, flanked by the mighty Zambezi River and surrounded […]
THE Nigerian navy has rescued a ship stranded at sea with around 200 passengers aboard which was running out of food and water. The Nigerian-owned MV Mulolinja was rescued on Saturday in difficulties off the coast of Brass, a town in southern Bayelsa State, the newspaper The Punch reported. The ship has been re-supplied with […]
NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday set a target date of 2005 for four US oil companies to start operation of a second liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Abuja. The four companies, ExxonMobil, Texaco Overseas Petroleum Company Unlimited, Chevron and Conoco Energy, undertook a feasibility study for the project earlier this year. In a […]
THERE were toothy grins all round on Tuesday when Northern Province health MEC Sello Moloto handed over 12 mobile dental clinics worth R10-million as part of national oral health month. Two clinics will be stationed in each health district in the province as of the end of August to take basic dental care to thousands […]
THE highest authority in Islam, the Cairo-based Al-Azhar, gave the final go-ahead on Tuesday to an unprecedented film on the life of the Islamic prophet Mohammad. The film, “Mohammad, the Last Prophet,” by former Disney director Richard Rich, was approved in principle on May 16 by Al-Azhar’s Center for Islamic Research provided that an image […]
HOTEL owners and bar owners in the northern Nigerian city of Kano have threatened to take ‘self-defence’ measures against Islamic militants who have destroyed hundreds of gallons of alcohol in recent days. Members of the Hisbah, a state-backed Islamic vigilante group that enforces implementation of the strict Islamic code, the Sharia, in northern Nigeria, at […]
A TEAM of nine basketball players from the Central African Republic, their trainer, his assistant and an official all went missing during a stopover in Paris on their way home last week. The group stopped over in Paris on August 13 after playing an African Cup of Nations match in Rabat, Morocco, and has not […]
MEDIA conglomerate AOL Time Warner is cutting 1 200 workers from its America Online division, the company announced on Tuesday. The company also said it was merging its various online entities into one giant, unified Internet company.The restructuring eliminates the postions, the company said. In addition, AOL said it was sacking another 500 from its […]
Johannesburg | Wednesday THE National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) will on Wednesday announce whether it is ending its strike in the automobile manufacturing industry. Numsa representative Dumisa Ntuli said the union had spent Tuesday consulting its members. It is expected to announce its decision at a press briefing at 2pm. This follows a […]
Kampala | Wednesday AN official of Royal Dutch/Shell said on Tuesday the company was studying the possibility of making a smokeless energy brick for cooking in African villages to reduce firewood consumption. ”Conceptually we have a solution. The question is to make it affordable,” said Jan Verloop, an executive in the Technology and Innovation Strategy […]