AN operation to control an infestation of quelea birds in southern Ethiopia has been launched by the Ministry of Agriculture. With a spray aircraft and support team provided by the Desert Locust Control Organisation (DLCO) and pesticide donated by the government of Japan, control operations in Konso and Derashie have so far destroyed 5,1-million birds. […]
AT least 13 people including two children were killed and more than 30 wounded on Monday in heavy fighting in Mogadishu, witnesses said. More than 40 people have been killed since Thursday in almost daily battles between a shifting array of warlords and businessmen backed by heavily armed militiamen. Witnesses said Monday’s conflict, now in […]
South Africans, both black and white, heaped praise on revered African statesman Nelson Mandela on Wednesday.
MAURITANIA’S first president, Moktar Ould Daddah, on Tuesday returned home looking tired and weak after 23 years of exile in France. Daddah, the northwest African country’s first leader after independence from France in 1960, arrived in the capital Nouakchott on an Air France flight from Paris. The 77-year-old, who needed assistance walking from the aircraft, […]
SOUTH Africa plans to license two rivals to state-controlled fixed-line monopoly Telkom from next May, the Business Day reported on Wednesday. The newspaper said the final telecoms policy directives, due out next week, were ”understood to call for both a second and third national operator to enter the market in May”. If approved by Communications […]
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MPUMALANGA Health MEC Sibongile Manana has ordered a full investigation into the province’s second largest hospital following the crippling of at least three children during botched operations. Outraged parents have accused Themba Hospital near White River of attempting to cover-up negligence and malpractice by both doctors and nurses during routine operations in 1996. Manana said […]
Violence flared in a Zambian parliamentary by-election involving the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) and the opposition, police representative Lemmy Kajoba said on Sunday. The clashes began late Friday night and continued Saturday, during campaign meetings for the by-election to be held on Tuesday in a densely populated constituency in the capital Lusaka. “Several […]
THE Rwandan army has captured the commander of the extremist rebel Hutus in northwest Rwanda. “Colonel Bemera surrendered peacefully with five of his men while he was encircled by our forces at Mukingo,” said army representative, Jean-Bosco Kazura. Since May 20, fighters from the Interahamwe, an extremist Hutu militia who carried out the 1994 genocide […]
Harare | Tuesday A WHITE Zimbabwean farmer has been arrested in connection with the death of a black man who received land on the farmer’s property under a controversial government resettlement scheme, police said on Monday. Philip Bezuidenhout allegedly ran over Phibian Mapenzauswa on Saturday and dragged him under his truck for 20 metres at […]