LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi offered on Wednesday to help end a regional conflict in West Africa which has forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee their homes, Liberian authorities said. Liberia, under United Nations sanctions for fuelling civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone, is fighting an insurgency on its northern border for which it […]
ACTIVISTS from the press watchdog Reporters Without Borders on Thursday occupied the Tunisian national tourist office in Paris to protest the arrest of journalist and rights activist Sihem Bensedrine. Robert Menard, the non-governmental group’s president, said he intended to remain in the office until she was released and promised that he would be joined by […]
It is the season of the crowd-pleasers. That’s because it’s summer in the northern hemisphere, though we’re freezing down here. We’ve had Pearl Harbor, The Mummy Returns and Shrek; still to come are Evolution, Bridget Jones’s Diary and – oh dear – Dr Doolittle II. This week’s blockbuster, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider should do very well indeed.
THE South African cabinet on Wednesday defused a political row over the multi-million dollar salary paid to the former head of South African Airlines (SAA). It admitted that there had been irregularities in negotiating US national Coleman Andrews’ pay package but said both government and the former boss of the airline’s parent company Transnet had […]
AT least 27 people were killed on Monday in a massacre in the central Nigerian state of Nasarawa, State Governor Abdullahi Adamu told reporters on Wednesday. We lost a substantial number of people … There were 27 people confirmed dead and we had yesterday 47 on admission,” in a hospital in the state capital Lafia, […]
THE Department of Public Works has launched a toll free Ethics Hotline, government announced on Thursday, as part of “its national strategy to fight corruption and improve its service delivery.” According to a department press release, the hotline forms part of a strategy that includes education, prevention and prosecution. Information can be submitted to the […]
ACTING Opec president Chakib Khelil of Algeria on Tuesday appeared to rule out an increase in oil production in the near future. “We can see that oil reserves are currently at their highest level, that there is a lot of crude on the market and sufficient petrol despite the halt in Iraq’s exports of crude,” […]
JEAN-MICHEL STOULLIG, Washington | Thursday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki used his visit to the United States to show his commitment to fight the plague of Aids in his country, but was unable to quiet critics of his controversial positions on the disease. The president kept the disease front and centre during his trip, discussing […]
SEVEN foreign firms and a Nigerian company are seeking to invest in the 51% equity put up for sale in Nigeria’s ship-building and repair company, Nigerdock, officials said on Wednesday. Nigeria’s privatisation agency, the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) received the applications before the June 18 close of bidding, BPE representative Joseph Anichebe said. The […]
Mbabane | Thursday THREE youths from southern Swaziland were found guilty by a traditional Swazi court on Wednesday of carrying out a rampage of attacking single women while disguised as primates. The youths, wearing baboon suits, had demanded food and sex from single and widowed women, after invading their homes in the Ezikhotheni area at […]