NIGERIA?S bicycling transport minister, Ojo Madueke, was run off the road on Wednesday by a speeding bus that crashed into an oncoming car. Madueke, who started last week cycling to weekly cabinet ministers, told reporters at the presidency he had set out for the meeting early Wednesday when the near tragedy occurred. “There was a […]

THE Sudanese government army said on Wednesday it destroyed a Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) camp in southern Sudan’s North Bahr el-Ghazal State, the Suna news agency reported. The army troops “have completely destroyed a camp of the outlaws in north Bahr el-Ghazal and inflicted heavy losses in lives and equipment on them,” Suna quoted […]

NAMIBIA’S Ministry of Foreign Affairs has lodged a complaint with the South African Broadcasting Monitoring and Complaints Unit after a television crew allegedly “tricked” President Sam Nujoma into an interview. Foreign affairs permanent secretary, Mocks Shivute said that Nujoma granted the Special Assignment team an interview after they said they wanted to tell his story […]

RAFAEL BIE, Maputo | Thursday MOZAMBICAN newsrooms are still haunted by fear and self-censorship eight months after the assassination of investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported on Thursday. Speaking after a four-day fact finding tour of Mozambique, CPJ deputy director Joel Simon said he was deeply disappointed at […]

US computer giant Microsoft on Wednesday donated $50-million and 80 computers to Algeria aimed at boosting professional training and computer literacy in the north African country, officials said. Some 200 teachers will be trained under the program, and multimedia centers will be set up. – AFP –>

A PROPOSED new land policy in Malawi stipulates that foreigners who own freehold land in the country have seven years to either become citizens, or forfeit their land to locals. Land minister Thengo Maloya explained that the proposed policy aimed to prevent land wars and instill investor confidence. “Malawians are no longer sleeping. They suffered […]

ZENZELE KUHLASE, White River | Thursday NURSES protesting against the shortage of medicine and equipment at Themba Hospital in Mpumalanga, are contravening regulations, warned health department spokesman Dumisani Mlangeni on Thursday. The nurses have refused to wear uniforms since Tuesday and Mlangeni said that this contravened regulations that do not allow nurses out of uniform […]

THIRTY people were crushed to death in a road accident in central Zambia, press reports said on Thursday. The crash took place on Wednesday at Kapiri Mposhi, a rural town about 75km north of the capital, when a bus with 74 passengers collided with a van and plunged into a river. “Twenty-seven people died on […]

THE minister of forestry economy of the Republic of Congo (ROC) Henri Djombo has announced the protection of what scientists are calling “the most pristine rain forest left in Africa,” according to a statement from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Congolaise Industrielle des Bois, a private timber company, announced that it would forfeit its harvesting […]