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 […]
TWO pitbull terriers killed an unidentified intruder that had apparently jumped over the wall of a house in Benoni in the early hours of Saturday morning, East Rand police said. The house’s owners, a couple in their 70s, found the mutilated body of the man after they noticed blood on their two dogs, local police […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday THREE trade unions are to hand Spoornet notice of their intention to strike in 48 hours unless the rail parastatal moves to end the wage negotiation deadlock, Sake Beeld reports. The three trade unions, Salstaff, the SA Transport & Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) and the United Transport and Allied Trade […]
EGYPTIAN police have detained 55 young Egyptian men for allegedly holding orgies and practicing “deviant rituals” in a boat on the River Nile in Cairo, a source in the prosecutor’s office said Saturday. State security prosecutors were investigating them Saturday for “exploiting religion for their own ends, practicing deviant rituals and holding parties where they […]
ELEVEN people, including seven members of the Algerian security forces, were killed Sunday by Islamic extremists near Batna, some 430km southeast of the capital Algiers, the security services announced. The security personnel were killed in a firefight after going to the scene of a roadside murder of four civilians, witnesses said. The security forces gave […]
THE share price of listed furniture retail group Profurn plummeted 45% late on Thursday after the group issued a warning that its earnings for the six months ending June 2001 would be “significantly lower” than those reported for the year earlier period. Profurn’s share price was last quoted at 60 cents, versus 109 cents late […]