ANGOLA’S rebel Unita movement claims to have killed 148 government and six Namibian soldiers in operations in nine of Angola’s 18 provinces, the Lusa news agency said in Lisbon. The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) said it had attacked a “coalition of Angolan-Namibian troops” on August 19 in southern Kuando Kubango […]

TANZANIAN police have arrested three local journalists in an apparent attempt to prevent media coverage of ethnic clashes that have left over 40 people dead. The journalists were reportedly arrested in the isolated northern region of Mara on August 22 while investigating claims that victims of tribal clashes were being buried in mass graves. Mwanza […]

ILDA JACOBS, Washington | Tuesday SOUTH African aupair Nambuso Ntuli has finally been granted bail and released from an American jail where she was being held on child abuse charges. The 23-year-old from KwaMashu near Durban was arrested by police in the US capital Washington DC three weeks ago after allegedly locking two young boys […]

THOUSANDS of bare-breasted Swazi maidens have begun congregating at the Ludzidzini Royal Palace for the Swaziland’s most sacred kingship rite, the weeklong Umhlanga Reed Dance. Swaziland’s absolute monarchs traditionally take a new wife at the annual ceremony. Unmarried maidens, most of whom are still school pupils, will trek more than 40km on foot to cut […]

POPE John Paul II has urged African leaders to give their policies “a human face”, in a message sent to a conference of West African bishops, Radio Nigeria said Monday. In the message to the week-long conference in the southeast Nigerian city of Enugu, the pontiff said African leaders should restore human dignity and bring […]