THE media in Angola is operating under increasingly difficult conditions, Open Society representative and freelance journalist Rafael Marques said in a statement on Monday. The statement coincided with a decision by independent Catholic-run Radio Ecclesia to suspend all news reports in favour of religious broadcasts. The station also counseled Angolans to pray. Marques attributed the […]
CANADIAN authorities, with the help of US officials, arrested three Toronto residents on Tuesday, in connection with a multi-million-dollar letter scam carried out in Canada and Nigeria. An estimated 300 US, European and Asian residents — but no Canadians — have been bilked out of amounts ranging from $52 000 to five million, Ross said […]
ONE of the main armed Hutu opposition groups in Burundi on Tuesday accused the mainly Tutsi government of using a fishing ban for self-enrichment and to starve those its accuses of helping rebel fighters. On June 25, the government banned fishing on two ports on Lake Tanganyika, Runonge and Nyanza-Lac, citing security reasons and claiming […]
AN Egyptian man was alleged on Tuesday to have tortured his wife and shaved off her hair, both with a barber’s electric shears, after she asked for more money to spend on the home. The woman, appearing bald at a police station here, filed a police report alleging her 32-year-old husband used the tool to […]
STUDENTS at Zimbabwe’s government universities and technical colleges face skyrocketing school fees, which are to be multiplied by as much as 40 times, the state-owned Herald newspaper reported on Thursday. The increases, which will go into effect next month, follow two months of rumbling protests by students against the government over inadequate allowances. University students […]
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William Steig’s ‘foul and fearless’ Shrek has reached the big screen, but does the movie stay true to the spirit of the original story, asks Julia Eccleshare.
THE former campaign manager of Zambian President Frederick Chiluba, who switched to the opposition in a bid to unseat his old boss, was murdered at his home on Friday in a crime the opposition blames on the state. Paul Tembo (41) was murdered execution-style in front of his horrified wife, his lawyers said. The killers […]
SOUTH African president Thabo Mbeki and Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade met on Saturday to finalise plans for the presentation of a combined African development plan, an Mbeki spokesman said. The “African Initiative”, as it is known, is a merger of the Millennium African Recovery Programme (MAP) led by Mbeki and the Omega Plan spearheaded Wade, […]
A MAN in the northern Nigerian state of Sokoto has had his hand amputed after being convicted of stealing a goat, court officials said on Saturday. The amputation of 30-year-old Umaru Aliyu’s right hand was carried out at Sokoto specialist hospital on Friday, following the approval of the sentence on Wednesday by the state government, […]