POLICE held a four-year-old boy in a Lagos police cell for three days after he allegedly threw stones at a neighbour’s car, the state attorney-general said on Friday. Lagos state Attorney-General Fola Arthur-Worrey said that the boy, Sunday Konchi, was arrested last Saturday and held until Monday when the Lagos State Justice Ministry ordered his […]

SOUTH Africa’s white Afrikaner- supported Freedom Front party appealed to the United Nations on Thursday to help tackle what it said was an increasing number of racially motivated attacks on their community. The party which advocates Afrikaner self-determination and the right to a separate homeland presented the UN’s International Human Rights Commission with a paper […]

Jerusalem | Sunday THE Israeli army said on Saturday it had opened bureaus in nine major cities throughout the world in case it needed to call up Israelis travelling or living abroad for military service. An army representative said offices in Johannesburg, Frankfurt, Bombay, Bangkok, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Los Angeles and New York had been […]

THE arid west African state of Burkina Faso announced on Thursday that it had obtained almost 47 000 tonnes of cereal from the international community to help it cope with famine. In February Burkina Faso made an urgent appeal for 65 300 tonnes of provisions to make up a shortfall. “From June 30, 2001, the […]

IRAN Zambia have decided to resume diplomatic ties, broken off in 1993, at ambassador level. “The Islamic republic of Iran, in line with its policies to promote ties with world countries, especially the third world and African nations, is intending to resume ties with Zambia,” the foreign ministry said. Zambia severed ties with Iran and […]

AN apparent assassination attempt involving a 10-minute frenzy of grenades, rockets and gunfire against Itihi Ossetoumba Lekoundzo, defence minister of the Republic of Congo (ROC) was reported to have taken place on Wednesday in Brazzaville. Lekoundzo escaped harm, and there was no word of any injuries or deaths. Military officials linked the attack to disgruntled […]

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, the Namibian reported on Wednesday. Foreign affairs permanent secretary, Mocks Shivute said in a statement that Nujoma granted the Special Assignment team an interview after […]

opera Barbara Ludman Andrew Botha’s take on Rigoletto is so lavish one could almost believe one was back in the bad old days. In the early 1980s Pact staged operas regularly at the Civic Theatre with glorious sets, fabulous costumes and unimpressive voices, except for foreign singers brought in to sing the leads. There are, […]

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Fiona Macleod Conservation officials have opened an inquiry into the sale of a tame silver-screen star called Dandylion to a “canned” hunting operation in the Free State. The lion was sold by wildlife dealer John Brooker, who came into the spotlight in early June when the Mail & Guardian exposed plans to hunt Baixinha, a […]