MANUEL MUANZA, Luanda | Tuesday ANGOLAN rebels, defying government peace overtures, launched a new attack on Monday, two days after an attack near the capital Luanda claimed some 100 lives, the Roman Catholic Ecclesia radio reported. Residents in slums on the outskirts of Uije, capital of the northern province of the same name, fled into […]

SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Tuesday ZIMBABWES opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, facing charges of terrorism and inciting violence, on Monday won a legal bid to have the Supreme Court rule in his case. Tsvangirai and his supporters describe the case against him, which came to trial in a High Court in Harare on Monday, as a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday INDEPENDENT newspapers in Botswana and Swaziland were under threat on Monday as a Unesco-sponsored international conference called on African governments to widen the scope of press freedom. Swaziland ordered The Guardian newspaper and another independent publication, critical of the government and the monarchy, to stop publishing, saying it was operating […]

SPOORNET is facing a strike because of a deadlock in this years wage negotiations, which trade unions say will amount to an actual reduction in wages, Sake Beeld reports. The three trade unions, Utata, Satawu and Salstaff, will hold meetings for their Spoornet members in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban this week. Workers will be […]

DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila on Sunday urged the Tanzanian business community to invest in his country, saying that calm would soon return to the strife-torn country. “We are aware that the war in Congo is scaring off many of you. But, we are optimistic that the situation is going to normalise […]

THE Eastern Cape regional Land Claims Commission (RLCC) has adopted a five-year-plan to speed up land claims in the province, RLCC regional commissioner Tozi Gwanya said over the weekend. Addressing settlement celebrations of the Gwiji family who were dispossessed of their farm Blydefontein in 1953 under the Group Areas Act, Gwanya said the department would […]

DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila said on Monday that his country planned to increase use of Tanzanian ports, particularly for imports to eastern DRC. Speaking during a tour of Dar es Salaam port and Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) facilities on the final day of a three-day state visit, Kabila said the increased […]

A BABY is born every 23.5 seconds in Egypt, and the population has surpassed 66 million inhabitants, up 1.3 million in one year, the national statistics office announced on Monday. The increase was due to improved sanitary conditions an official said. Life expectancy is 69.5 years for women and 66.5 years for men. The Egyptian […]

Former South African president Nelson Mandela is writing a second autobiography as a follow-up to his first book, "Long Walk to Freedom".