A SPAT is brewing between leading dial-up Internet Service Provider M-Web, and Absa Bank, which three months ago introduced its own free ISP service. On Monday, M-Web sent out a press release saying that Absa and its Internet partner Affinity, are misleading the public in suggesting that their free ISP service will survive. M-Web chief […]
AN Egyptian who had too much to drink in a nightclub on the banks of the Nile in Cairo, jumped into the river to dodge paying for his drinks, only to drown there, a police source said on Tuesday. Mohamed Massud, a 27-year-old taxi driver, had invited an electrician friend of the same age to […]
Race argument at genocide tribunal Seven black prosecutors at the UN tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, have raised issues of racism after not being reappointed by chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte. The BBC ‘Extinct’ plants found in N Cape Botanists from the Royal Botanic Gardens’ millennium seed bank have found healthy specimens of two plants […]
THE chief prosecutor of the United Nations tribunal dealing with Rwandan genocide suspects, Carla Del Ponte, on Wednesday rejected charges of racism from several court prosecutors whose contracts were not renewed. “These attacks of racism are absolutely ridiculous,” said Del Ponte’s spokeswoman Florence Hartmann. The only criteria for not renewing the contracts was efficiency, she […]
TUNISIAN soldiers are preparing to join the United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to the Tunisian defence ministry. President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali discussed the deployment, set for Saturday, with Defense Minister Dali Jazi in a meeting Tuesday, officials said. The soldiers, thought to number 200 though the […]
THE Organisation of African Unity (OAU) announced on Tuesday the suspension of an embargo against the breakaway Comoran island of Anjouan following its leaders’ agreement to return to the negotiating table. A communique issued following a meeting in Pretoria of regional OAU ministers on Friday said they had also mandated South Africa to initiate discussions […]
CHRISTO JOHNSON, FREETOWN | Wednesday SIERRA Leone’s rebels and a government militia agreed on Tuesday to stop all hostilities in order to protect a ceasefire and prepare for disarmament to end a brutal decade-long war. Talks between the two sides are the most significant inside Sierra Leone since a 1999 peace deal collapsed a year […]
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Jesse Jackson arrives for screening of video diary and criticises absence of black film-makers.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, LUANDA | Tuesday ANGOLAN rebel leader Jonas Savimbi on Monday welcomed the Catholic Church’s peace initiatives in the southwest African country and said that war was “absurd”. “After the liberation war against the Portuguese I hoped for a quiet life,” Savimbi said in a letter faxed to Reuters. “But unfortunately it didn’t happen.” […]