A 40-vehicle convoy carrying a dismantled 60-ton oil drilling platform set out from Tunisia on Tuesday on a 400km desert trail to southern Algeria where it will be assembled and put into operation. The caravan was carrying seven main elements of the $55-million platform which will measure nine metres high and eight metres horizontally when […]
SECURITY agents in Nigeria have destroyed more than 2_400 light arms recovered from armed robbers and smugglers, state-run NTA television reported on Thursday. The weapons were destroyed on Tuesday at the premises of the Defence Industry Corporation of Nigeria, based in the northern city of Kaduna, NTA said. -AFP
MALAWIS top prosecutor said on Thursday he has filed charges of treason against three people in connection with an alleged coup attempt in March. “The treason trial against the three should start in the High Court soon,” said Fahad Assani, director of public prosecutions. The accused are 33-year-old Sudi Sulaimana, and two unnamed, low-ranking soldiers. […]
THE Lesotho Queen Karabo Mohato Bereng Seeiso, the wife of the head of state King Letsie III, is expecting her first baby in October, said the Queen Mother, Her Majesty Queen Mamohato Bereng Seeiso. Queen Karabo was married to King Letsie in February last year after which she discontinued her Bachelor of Science studies at […]
FORMER Ivory Coast foreign minister Amara Essy, who was elected the new secretary-general of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), was on Thursday accorded a hero’s welcome upon his return from Lusaka. Thousands of excited crowds ringed the road from Abidjan airport to the administrative quarter of Plateau, where the president’s office is located. They […]
BRITISH Airways (BA) has announced the start of commercial flights between London and Addis Ababa on October 5, Ethiopian private economic weekly Capital reported on Monday. Two flights a week each way will be operated by BA’s independent franchise partner, British Mediterranean Airways. “All flights will operate through Alexandria, Egypt,” the airline said. Planes will […]
Algiers | Monday Some 500 knife-wielding religious extremists carried out a “punitive expedition” against suspected prostitutes in central Algeria, slashing about 20 women, while elsewhere in the violence-wracked country a massacre of 11 people was reported on Sunday. The attack on women living alone in poor districts of Hassi Messaoud, a major oil centre some […]
AN Egyptian teenager jumped into the Nile and drowned because his sweetheart turned down his requests for a kiss, police in the conservative Delta town of Banha said on Thursday. High school student Saber Darwish, 17, climbed onto the riverside wall Wednesday night after the second time his young companion Hanaa refused to seal their […]
THE Ethiopian High Court has acquitted 10 men accused of genocide and crimes against humanity under the regime of ousted dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, the news agency ENA reported on Thursday. The men were accused of “torture and extra-judicial killings” while they were serving Mengistu’s Marxist regime. The court also handed out 22 guilty verdicts […]
LIBYAN leader Moammar Gaddafi says land in Zimbabwe must be taken from white landowners without compensation, state radio reported on Friday. Whites should instead pay blacks for the land they seized during the colonial era, Gaddafi reportedly told a dinner party hosted in his honour by President Robert Mugabe on Thursday night. Kadhafi arrived in […]