A GHANAIAN panel probing Africa’s worst sports disaster recommended a number of policemen be prosecuted for their role in the death of 126 soccer fans at Accra’s stadium in May, a panel member said on Saturday. The 70-officer contingent responsible for security during the May 9 match between Hearts of Oak and arch-rivals Asante Kotoko […]

NOBEL peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu was in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday to discuss efforts to end the country’s war. ”We have been praying for this wonderful country to have peace and the people of this beautiful country to live together as people who are reconciled, who are united,” Tutu told state […]

SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday appointed Willie Hofmeyr, the deputy national director of public prosecutions, as the nation’s chief corruption buster, heading the Special Investigating Unit. He takes over from former Judge Willem Heath, who was excluded from a probe into alleged corruption surrounding a $5,5-million arms acquisition deal and who resigned from […]

THE Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said in its latest country outlook for Zimbabwe on Tuesday that it expected state-sponsored violence to continue as President Robert Mugabe gears up for presidential elections, probably in April 2002. In spite of violent intimidation of the opposition, and possible vote rigging by Mugabe and his ruling Zanu-PF, “we believe […]

LUNGA MASUKU, Mbabane | Saturday SWAZILAND parliamentarians are calling for the sacking of Prime Minister Sibusiso Dlamini and Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Chief Maweni Simelane, for plunging the tiny kingdom into a political crisis. They’ve signed a petition, saying they had lost confidence in the two politicians after they approved the controversial Decree […]

A STRIKE by government doctors and nurses crippled state hospital services in the country’s main cities on Wednesday, AP reported. Quoting the Hospital Doctors Association, the agency said about 350 doctors stopped work on Tuesday in the cities of Harare, the capital, and Bulawayo, the second city, demanding better salaries and allowances. Some senior doctors […]

TANGENI AMUPADHI, Windhoek | Saturday AT least two Namibian soldiers have been killed and several more wounded in clashes with Unita in southern Angola over the past eight months but the army has kept the information secret, according to troops stationed in Angola. This information emerged as the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported yesterday that […]

TEN more suspected Angolan government soldiers have been detained in Zambia’s Northwestern province after 12 were detained at the weekend, news reports said on Wednesday. The reports said the soldiers who had crossed from Angola to search for food in Zambian villages had been disarmed and detained. District administrator Chris Kwalombota told the Daily Mail […]

AN Angolan government HIV/Aids awareness campaign in Angola is drawing criticism from women’s rights activists, church leaders and politicians who say its message is too blunt, Channel Africa reported on Tuesday. The campaign includes TV spots featuring sex scenes and interviews of young women who are asked if they have ever used a condom. “This […]

ALISTAIR THOMSON, Abidjan | Saturday IVORY Coast’s civil aviation chief said on Friday that human error caused by a false alarm probably caused a Kenya Airways plane to plunge into the sea moments after takeoff last year, killing 169 people. Ten people on board the Airbus A-310 survived the crash just off the shores of […]