GUINEA Bissau troops have killed 30 Senegalese rebels, says President Kumba Yala, adding that he deplored the attack prompted by a false report over state radio. The attack at the border between the two countries followed a false alarm broadcast over state radio that the rebels were planning an offensive against Guinea-Bissau army positions, Yala […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Abidjan | Tuesday A YEAR after a Kenya Airways Airbus plunged into the sea off Abidjan, killing 169 people, investigators are no closer to determining the cause of the accident, blaming the delays on a faulty black box and inaccessible wreckage. The plane crashed into the sea on January 30, 2000, two minutes […]

MATTHEW LEE, Washington | Tuesday THE Democratic Republic of Congos (DRC) undemocratically elected president, the fresh-faced Joseph Kabila (29), is to visit the United States this week for talks here and at the United Nations. Kabila, who succeeded his murdered father as president only last week, is to begin his two-day visit in Washington on […]

JAPANESE Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has told Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos that Japan will continue economic aid, and would extend assistance to build major hospitals, train skilled workers and improve medical facilities in the countryside. Dos Santos requested Japan’s further aid to upgrade infrastructures in his country, including roads, hydro-electric power plants and […]

SCORES of Ethiopian refugees living in Sudan are protesting to the UN High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) over a plan for them to return home or lose their refugee status. The group objects to a decision by the UNHCR to deprive them of their refugee status because the reasons that drove them from Ethiopia vanished […]

AN Ethiopian flag raised on the moon in July 1971 by US astronaut James B. Irwin has been officially returned to President Negasso Gidada. Irwin’s widow Mary handed the green, yellow and red flag over at a ceremony at the national palace at the weekend. The Apollo 15 mission carried the flags of all members […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Gaborone | Tuesday SOUTH African Marietta Bosch, who has been on death row in Gaborone Central Prison for a year, has lost her appeal in the Botswana Appeal Court against her conviction for murder. The sentence was confirmed by the Botswana Appeals Court. Bosch’s last resort before being hanged for murder is to […]

PRESIDENT Sam Nujoma has urged young Namibians to refrain from alcohol abuse to avoid the spread of the deadly HIV/Aids pandemic, the Namibian Press Agency reported. Addressing over 2_000 residents at the Rundu Sports Stadium, Nujoma said children in every house should be informed about the dangers of the HIV/Aids scourge that was “wiping out […]

LAWYERS for the sons of late Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha have asked Luxembourg’s administrative tribunal to lift a freeze on assets which he had on deposit in the grand duchy. If the request is approved, some 670m euros ($616.4m) in Abacha’s name at the Warburg Bank in Luxembourg would go to his two sons. Abacha, […]

THE UN World Food Programme says 100_000 people are suffering from malnutrition in central and northern Burundi, calling the situation there “catastrophic”. The WFP said the northeast Karuzi province was worst hit, with 24% of 360 000 inhabitants malnourished. Fourteen percent of these people were suffering from severe malnutrition. A therapeutic nutrition centre in the […]