ZIMBABWE prostitutes are now demanding that their clients pay in US dollars in preference to the local currency, the state-owned Herald newspaper reported on Tuesday. The paper said prostitutes in the city centre were charging tourists $200 a night, as the country suffers its worst economic crisis since it achieved independence from Britain in 1980. […]
A TEENAGER will appear in court on Monday charged with murder after the death of a Nigerian boy in London, less than a year after the killing of Damilola Taylor. Jude Akapa, 15, is thought to have been attacked as he walked home from his Roman Catholic boy’s school in Blackheath, southeast London, on Wednesday. […]
A PORTION of the Kruger millions may have been found in Ermelo, in the southern part of Mpumalanga, by local farm workers, The Citizen newspaper reported on Friday. The Ermelo Town Council are now discussing security measures to protect the farmer and workers at the centre of the drama, the newspaper said. A Zulu family […]
A SOUTH African bank has seized nearly a million rand (about $122_000) from popular leader Winnie Madikizela-Mandela after she failed to repay a loan, Sunday newspapers reported. Madikizela-Mandela secured a R600_000 loan from First National Bank on the basis of a lucrative “diamond-exporting transaction”, reports by The Sunday Times and City Press said. But the […]
THE Nigerian Red Cross said Monday it is planning to send more aid to tens of thousands of people displaced by unrest in the central and north Nigeria. More than 50_000 people have fled their homes in Nasarawa State, in central Nigeria, since mid-June because of fighting between Tiv and other ethnic groups, according to […]
FARMERS in Nigeria get under half their harvest to market because of poor handling, bad roads, and marketing bottlenecks, the agriculture minister has said. Other problems cited were the scarcity and high cost of transportation in some rural areas and difficulties at the ports for exports. In the 1960s Nigeria was a major agricultural exporter […]
DIVERS have found the remains of ships, pink granite statues and a black granite stela from the pharaonic port of Herakleion, which had been lost to the sea for centuries, French explorer Franck Goddio announced on Thursday. “These new archeological discoveries, particularly the stela, allow us to identify the city as being that of Herakleion,” […]
Freetown | Monday SIERRA Leonean rebels have freed another group of child soldiers and the United Nations said on Sunday the move showed the peace process in the West African country was gaining momentum. The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels are notorious for making children fight in the country’s decade-long civil war and urging them […]
SOUTH African Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said that the country’s final telecoms policy plan would be released within weeks and would be little changed from a draft plan. “I don’t think we will have a very great, fundamental difference,” Matsepe-Casaburri told reporters. The minister said the government was looking at all public submissions on the […]
NIGERIAS hundreds of traditional rulers, royals and other dignitaries are battling a proposal in parliament to limit the use of traffic sirens. A bill currently working its way through the national assembly seeks to regulate the use of the siren by Nigeria’s rich and powerful to force a way through the country’s chronic traffic jams. […]