WINNIE MADIKIZELA-MANDELA, the ex-wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, was discharged from a Johannesburg hospital Monday, her doctor said. Madikizela-Mandela (64) was admitted to hospital on Friday for high blood pressure after paying her respects to the family of deceased Aids icon Nkosi Johnson. “I think it was the stress that made her […]
UGANDAN police have arrested three people in connection with three bomb blasts in Kampala on Monday that injured 17 people, police representative Assuman Mugenyi said on Tuesday. The three explosions, described by police as home made pipe bombs, detonated between 8:20 and 8:40 p.m. (1720-1740 GMT) on Monday. Two of the bombs had been placed […]
THE rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLA) said Monday it was in firm control of the strategic town of Raga in the southwestern province of Bahr el-Ghazal, which it seized from the government at the weekend. Raga, which fell to the SPLA on Saturday, had been defended by 800 government troops, most of whom were […]
THE Revolutionary United Front (RUF) this week returned weapons, vehicles and military equipment seized last year from UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) peacekeepers. The handover took place on Wednesday in Makeni, 138km northeast of Freetown. On Tuesday, a Sierra Leonean army battalion crossed the Mange Bridge into Kambia, 80km northeast of Freetown, to reassert […]
THE department of land affairs in Northern Province is inviting willing farmers to sell their land to the government for a national project aimed at transferring 30% of arable land to black farmers within 15 years. Provincial land affairs spokesman Phumudzo Makharemedza said on Monday that there is presently insufficient land available in the region […]
BORNO became on Friday the latest northern Nigerian state to adopt Islamic law, media reported. Eight other states have already adopted Sharia while three have announced plans to do so over the past year and a half. There are 36 Nigerian states in total.
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, […]