SOUTH African police are investigating the disappearance of a Mozambican International Metalworkers’ Federation official who a local union believes has been kidnapped, a spokeswoman said on Monday. Sergeant Amanda Roestoff said detectives were investigating the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Rui Benjamin Cossa. National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa spokesman Dumisa Ntuli said Cossa […]
CHAD’S electoral commission announced on Sunday (27 May) that President Idriss Deby won more than 67% of the vote at presidential polls on 20 May, while his main rival, Ngarledjy Yorongar, scored about 13%. However, all six opposition candidates maintain that the elections were fraudulent and their parties appealed on Friday for the annulment of […]
HARARE | Monday ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe says the International Monetary Fund must be reformed to force it to support developing countries regardless of their political or rights records, the state-owned Herald said on Monday. Mugabe said that unlike the UN, where all members have an equal voice, the IMF is being used by powerful […]
THE Central African Republic ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said on Monday his country has never supported rebels trying to overthrow Kinshasa, despite DRC rebel support to Bangui. State radio reported that the ambassador, Sissa Le Bernard, was called in for a meeting on Monday with DRC Foreign Minister Leonard She Okitundu, […]
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 […]