A STUDENT from the University of Asmara has died while in desert detention for defying government work orders, student sources claimed on Thursday. Yirga Yosef, a third-year university student, died of heat stroke on Tuesday following three days of detention in the desert, in a place called Wia, some 30 kilometers from the port city […]
A FORMER British aid worker has been arrested in Ethiopia on suspicion of trafficking and sexually abusing orphans, the Foreign Office said on Saturday. David Allen (59) was detained in Addis Ababa after arriving on a flight from Zambia where he was planning to set up a children’s centre. Allen was a former delegate in […]
A MAN went on the rampage and stabbed six people at Ondangwa’s Oluno informal settlement on Wednesday. All the victims – who were knifed in the head, chest, arms or stomach – were hospitalised. Absalom Josef from Onambango village near Ondangwa, who was arrested in connection with the stabbings, is in the Onandjokwe hospital along […]
EMSIE FERREIRA, Cape Town | Saturday THE peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will shift up a gear on Monday when members of government, rebel groups and civil society begin week-long talks on reviving political dialogue. The much-delayed talks are taking place in the Botswanan capital Gaborone under the mediation of that […]
THE UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) sought answers Friday as to why one of its helicopters came under fire in a rebel zone this week despite a ceasefire accord. The UN helicopter was hit by 14 bullets on Thursday during a routine flight between Uvira and Kalemie in eastern DRC, […]
THE trial of an Egyptian businessman accused of having too many wives and of corrupting under-age girls resumed in Cairo on Saturday. The trial was adjourned until August 22 for Sayed Ragab al-Sawarki (51) a self-professed devout Muslim who was arrested in May on his return to Cairo from a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. […]
Namibia’s Ministry of Health and Social Services received a donation of 100 bicycles and 100_000 condoms from the People’s Republic of China. The donation is to enable the government to educate people in the remote parts of the country about the disease. Health Minister Dr Libertina Amathila said that her ministry had considered providing house-to-house […]
A WORKER from southern Egypt forced his daughter to swallow poison to kill herself, deeming she was dishonoured, the al-Ahram daily reported on Thursday. The woman, Enaan Mohamed (23) had fled to Cairo a year earlier after a failed marriage. She was then taken against her will to the family home in Sohaq in Upper […]
BRITISH officials denied reports on Thursday the former colonial power had plans to evacuate British citizens from strife ridden Zimbabwe. The British Embassy released a statement denying a report in an independent Zimbabwean newspaper that Britain was planning the mass evacuation of some 25 000 white Zimbabweans with British citizenship in the face of the […]
FOUR survivors of a deadly ambush last week by Angola’s Unita rebels of a passenger train east of Luanda have died in hospital of their wounds, a medical doctor said on Thursday. Their deaths bring to 256 the number of people killed in the attack. More than 160 people were wounded. Doctor Waldemiro Diogo said […]