SOUTH African Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said that the country’s final telecoms policy plan would be released within weeks and would be little changed from a draft plan. “I don’t think we will have a very great, fundamental difference,” Matsepe-Casaburri told reporters. The minister said the government was looking at all public submissions on the […]
NIGERIAS hundreds of traditional rulers, royals and other dignitaries are battling a proposal in parliament to limit the use of traffic sirens. A bill currently working its way through the national assembly seeks to regulate the use of the siren by Nigeria’s rich and powerful to force a way through the country’s chronic traffic jams. […]
POLITICAL stability, macroeconomic fundamentals and growth and a plan to combat Aids are necessary to attract foreign investment to southern Africa, a business leader said on Friday. “Those countries who compete successfully are those that rank high on this list of criteria,” said Niall FitzGerald, co-chairman of the giant consumer goods company Unilever. FitzGerald was […]
MEMBERS of the South African parliament on Thursday angrily debated the conduct of its speaker after months of accusations that she had tried to control an investigation into a $5.5 billion-dollar arms acquisition deal. Opposition parties charged that speaker Frene Ginwala of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) had abused her power to protect fellow […]
A TEAM of British police are due in Zambia on Monday to help in the investigation of Friday’s murder of Paul Tembo, a former close aide of the Zambian president. Tembo was killed Friday by two unidentified gunmen in what is believed to have been a politically motivated murder. Tembo, 41 was killed on the […]
A 20-strong team of Nigerian police officers will soon leave for Kinshasa to train their counterparts in the DRC, a representative said on Monday. A squad to be led by an assistant police commissioner will conduct a training exercise there at the request of the DRC government, said force representative Haz Iwendi. – AFP
BRUSSELS | Friday A COURT in Brussels has found four Rwandans, including two Catholic nuns, guilty of taking part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide after a landmark eight week-long trial. College teacher Vincent Ntezimana, 39, factory owner and former minister Alphonse Higaniro, 51, as well as nuns Consolata Mukangango, 42, and Julienne Mukabutera, 36, alias […]
MORE than 500 prisoners pardoned by Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo are still in jail a year later, the state-owned Sunday Times newspaper reported. Obasanjo last year ordered that prisoners who had served more than 20 years in prison be freed. But the internal affairs ministry has blocked the release of more than 500 men insisting […]
THE chief peace mediator in the conflict in Burundi Nelson Mandela said on Sunday a ”breakthrough” has been made towards peace in the central African country, but declined to give details until after he had met the parties involved in the conflict. ”I cannot tell you before we brief the 19 political parties, the army […]
Kigali, JEAN BAPTISTE KAYIGAMBA | Monday CONGOLESE rebels threatened on Sunday to turn back a United Nations boat that set off last week to open the mighty Congo river, closed to traffic by nearly three years of civil war. Congo’s largest rebel group said they would bar the voyage unless the United Nations Mission in […]