DICKSON JERE, Lusaka | Thursday FORMER Zambian labour minister Edith Nawakwi, leading moves to impeach President Frederick Chiluba, says she will consider contesting the country’s presidency if the opportunity arises. But Nawakwi, 41, sacked from Chiluba’s cabinet for thwarting his bid to stand for an unconstitutional third term when elections are held later this year, […]

SWAZILAND | Thursday AN appeals court in Swaziland has ordered a retrial for a 22-year-old South African man sentenced to hang in February last year by the Swaziland High Court for a murder committed in the country. Bongani Mkhwanazi was given the death penalty for killing Daniel Dlamini and attempting to murder Daniel Mabuza in […]

TWENTY people were injured in Malawi on Tuesday when supporters of President Bakili Muluzi’s ruling party clashed with opposition supporters in the capital Lilongwe, witnesses said. The witnesses said the United Democratic Front’s youth wing – the Young Democrats – were targetting supporters of National Democratic Alliance, led by Brown Mpinganjira, a former cabinet minister. […]

TANZANIA?S vice-president Omar Ali Juma died late on Wednesday of a heart attack. , the country’s president announced on national radio. ?He was normal for the whole of yesterday and actively took part in the visit of DRC president Joseph Kabila and Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni,” said president Benjamin Mkapa. Mkapa described Juma, a trained […]

HARARE | Wednesday TELEVISION authorities in Zimbabwe have banned a new live weekly talk show that was highly critical of President Robert Mugabe’s policies and actions, the local media reported on Wednesday. The discussion programme “Talk to the Nation”, sponsored by pro-government civic organisation the National Development Assembly (NDA), flighted just three times before it […]

ZIMBABWE’S Tourism Authority (ZTA) is offering free “educationals” to international tour operators in an attempt to revive the country’s devastated tourism sector. ZTA regional manager Zii Masiye said on Tuesday tour operators, travel agents and travel journalists from United Kingdom, South Africa and France have already been hosted on educational trips to resorts and game […]

THE United Nations said it has slapped travel restrictions on Liberian President Charles Taylor and several of his top advisors and family members. A list of 150 people banned from travelling was published on Tuesday by the Sanctions Committee in accordance with Resolution 1343, which came into effect on May 7 and aims to cut […]

LESOTHO Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili fired three ministers on Thursday ahead of elections due in the first quarter of next year and demoted Deputy Prime Minister Kelebone Maope, moving him from the finance ministry to law, justice and human rights. Out are Law, Justice and Human Rights Minister Shakhane Mokhehle; Health Minister Tefo Mabote and […]

BUSINESSES in Malawi are giving customers sweets instead of small change because they say there is a shortage of coins in the country. But the Reserve Bank of Malawi insists it has adequate stocks of all denominations of the kwacha and tambala currency and that it is unacceptable to use sweets as change. “The public, […]