SOUTH African men are “too big” for standard condoms issued by the government, according to a national survey of prostitutes, The Sunday Times reported. “Most (prostitutes) complained that these things break because they come from the Far East and they’re too small for local men,” said researcher Ted Leggett, from the University of Natal. He […]
KENYAN authorities on Monday dropped a treason charge against an opposition member of parliament accused of calling for the killing of President Daniel arap Moi and instead charged him with incitement to violence, Kenyan state-run radio reported. Maina Kamanda, MP for the Starehe constituency in Nairobi and member of the Democratic Party, had 10 days […]
THE trial in Libya of six Bulgarians accused of deliberately infecting 393 Libyan children with the HIV virus was adjourned on Sunday for the twelfth time, Bulgarian state television reported. The court, responding to Deputy Foreign Minister Marin Raikov’s request for a “transparent, objective, depoliticised and fair” trial, decided that witnesses would be called to […]
PROMINENT Tunisian human rights lawyer Nejib Hosni, renowned for defending Muslim fundamentalist activists, was freed under a presidential pardon on Saturday. He was jailed on December 21 to serve a two-week sentence for the unlawful practice of his profession even though he is registered by the Tunisian bar association. As the sentence ran out on […]
A CONTINGENT of 115 Moroccan troops arrived in the eastern city of Goma on Saturday to take part in the UN Observer Mission (MONUC) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The troops joined an initial contingent of just over 100 Moroccans who arrived on Thursday. The arrival of the forces completes the deployment of […]
THE family of an Algerian independence war fighter tortured by French special forces has filed a suit against French General Paul Aussaresses for war crimes and torture, the daily El Watan reported in Algiers on Monday. The state prosecutor in Tebessa, where the suit was lodged in court, said it could lead to the issuing […]
DAVID LE PAGE, Johannesburg | Monday JUDGE Willem Heath, former head of the Special Investigation Unit, has denied a Sunday Times report suggesting that he is out to secure a substantial discharge payment from government. According to Sunday reports, the Judges Remuneration and Conditions of Employment Act entitles him, after being discharged by the president, […]
EIGHT civilians have been killed and two women kidnapped in the north of DRC, authorities have announced in the region controlled by the Rwandan-backed rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD). It said the deaths took place between May 7-11. “One person was killed in an attack on a fishing ground in Zirwa, next to Lake […]
DJIBOUTI’S government signed a peace accord with ethnic Afar rebels on Saturday to formally end a decade-old uprising in the Horn of Africa country. The accord was signed by Interior Minister Abdallah Abdillahi Miguil and Ahmed Dini, head of the radical wing of the rebel Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD), and […]
DAVID LJUNGGREN, Ottawa | Monday CANADA ran out of patience with Zimbabwe on Friday, suspending new development aid and imposing other sanctions to protest against harassment of its citizens in the increasingly lawless southern African country. Foreign Minister John Manley said Canada was particularly unhappy about an incident last week when its top diplomat and […]