UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to hold a summit as a confidence-building measure toward achieving peace in and between their nations. His call came in a 23 May report on displaced populations in the three countries which, he said, have one million war victims, including refugees and IDPs. […]
FORCES loyal to Libyan-backed President Ange Felix Patasse shelled dissident positions in the Central African Republic capital on Monday, battling to bring the city under control a week after a failed coup. Despite Patasse’s declaration of victory on Sunday and foreign reinforcements to shore him up, dissidents appeared to be still holding out in southwestern […]
TWELVE people were killed and four seriously injured on Monday when a minibus taxi collided head on with a truck on the outskirts of Johannesburg, police said. Two children – a girl and boy – were among those killed in the early morning accident west of the city centre. Eleven people died at the scene […]
A DANISH court fined a neo-Nazi militant 2_000 kronor (268 euros) on Thursday for shouting “nigger” at visiting South African President Thabo Mbeki. Esben Kristensen, a 31-year-old member of the Danish National Socialist Movement, was fined by a court in the northern city of Frederikshavn for verbally accosting Mbeki as he walked along a beach […]
ONE of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s staunchest supporters, war veteran leader Chenjerai Hunzvi is critically ill in hospital in Harare, state news agency ZIANA reported on Saturday. Police were guarding Hunzvi – who has spearheaded the invasions of around 1 700 white-owned farms – in an intensive care unit in the city’s main hospital, ZIANA […]
ZIMBABWE will have zero percent population growth next year, mainly because of the Aids pandemic which is ravaging the country, state television has reported. Health minister Timothy Stamps told state television late on Saturday that last year alone there were 100 000 Aids-related deaths in the southern African country. “It is hitting us where it […]
Cape Town | Monday THE United States has asked South Africa to hand over three large pieces of space debris that crashed to Earth outside Cape Town last year, but local scientists want to keep it. The debris – a pressurisation sphere, a propellant tank and part of the exhaust nozzle of a US Air […]
THREE toddlers were burnt to death when their thatched house caught alight at London farm in the central Zimbabwean city of Gweru on Friday. Police said nine month-old twins Lovemore and Loveness Matemera and their two-year-old brother Melody died when they accidentally set their parents’ hut alight. Police said the children’s mother had gone to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bujumbura | Monday THREE more civilians have been executed in Burundi to the north of the capital, Bujumbura, witnesses said on Sunday. It follows the execution of two civilians by Hutu rebels in the north of the country late on Friday. In the latest incident, one of the civilians killed was a local […]
SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki and veterans from the country’s anti-apartheid movement paid their last respects to June Mlangeni, a key figure in the country’s long fight against racism, on Saturday. Over 2 000 people turned out for the funeral in the Soweto township, to honour Mlangeni, who died on May 24 at the age […]