NAIROBI | Tuesday CONCERNS over the environmental and social effects of a Japanese-funded hydro-electric power project in Kenya are threatening to stall construction of the dam, a Japanese diplomat said on Tuesday. The first phase of the Sondu-Miriu hydro-electric power project in the west of the country is almost complete at a cost of $55-million. […]
DEFENCE lawyers on Tuesday finished their summing up in the case of two nuns accused by a Belgian court of taking part in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda that claimed up to 800_000 lives. The two lawyers representing one of the nuns, Sister Kizito, rejected the testimony of prosecution witnesses, describing their statements as a […]
HARARE | Wednesday ZIMBABWE war veterans threatened on Tuesday to boycott the funeral of their controversial leader, Chenjerai Hitler Hunzvi, if the government fails to award him national hero status, the state news agency said. Hunzvi, who led a bloody campaign of invasions of white commercial farms which started last year, died here Monday from […]
THE Namibian government has spent about N$300-million in fighting HIV-Aids over the last 10 years, Health Deputy Minister Richard Kamwi told Parliament. Kamwi said more money is needed to make the anti-retroviral drugs available to Namibians. According to Kamwi the use of condoms by sexually active adults has risen from one per cent in 1992 […]
BLACK and white Namibian farmers joined forces on Monday to put pressure on the government to speed up land reform to avoid Zimbabwe-style farm invasions, The Namibian reported on Tuesday. “Although many of our people … need land to improve their living conditions, political anarchy, violence, land-grabbing and farm invasions and mismanagement should be avoided […]
AUTHORITIES in eastern Nigeria have closed down a local government-run orphanage while an investigation is carried out into child trafficking and prostitution charges, an official said on Tuesday. The Umuoji Motherless Babies’ Home is run by officials of the Idemili North local government. Authorities had become suspicious last week and had raided the home and […]
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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 […]