GHANA, while poised to consolidate its democracy with the first transfer of power from one civilian president to another since independence, will remain beset by economic woes for some time to come, analysts say. Ghanaians voted this week to elect a successor to President Jerry Rawlings, who must step down after ruling the country, once […]
TWO Namibian nationals claim that Angolan UNITA rebels abducted and tortured them and seven other villagers, killing three, a human rights organisation said. Daniel Ndeluudila, 54, and Simeon Hamulo, 23, told the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) that they and the other villagers were abducted on December 25 in northeast Namibia and taken across […]
A DEUTSCHE Telekom-led consortium has concluded a $120m deal to buy a 35% stake in Tanzania’s state-owned telephone monopoly and take over management control, a government representative said this week. Detecon, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, along with Dutch group Mobile Systems International Cellular will pay the amount directly to the Tanzania Telecommunication Company in […]
THE death toll on South Africas roads has passed the 700 mark since the start of the holiday season on December 1, says road agency Arrive Alive. Of the 711 people killed, 282 were passengers, 257 were pedestrians and 172 drivers. Eastern Cape has recorded the highest death toll of 125, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with […]
THE African Development Bank will give Mozambique $120m in loans to fight poverty, the Mozambican Planning Ministry has announced. Mozambique, whose devastating, 16-year civil war ended in 1992, had been one of southern Africa’s economic success stories, with an average 10% annual growth. But the floods cut economic growth this year to 3.8%. About $32m […]
THE retail price of petrol will fall by 10 cents per litre on Wednesday, the department of mineral and energy affairs said on Friday. The wholesale price of diesel will fall by 19 cents per litre and that of illuminating paraffin by 22 cents per litre. From that date, 93-octane petrol will cost 362 cents […]
A TEENAGE girl who has just given birth in northern Nigeria now faces 180 lashes on conviction of premarital sex by an Islamic court in Zamfara state. Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, 17, was sentenced to be flogged by a court at Isafe in September, but the punishment was not to be carried out until at least […]
ZIMBABWE security forces have shot and killed a man who tried to force his way into President Robert Mugabe’s residence in the capital on Thursday night. The man who, according to police, appeared drunk or mentally unstable, reportedly demanded access to State House but was denied permission. He then attacked the security officers on duty […]
TWENTY THREE Somalian boat people died from thirst and hunger in a boat stranded off the coast of Yemen where they had sought refuge, a UN refugee official said. The Somalians had spent 12 days at sea when their boat broke down in the Gulf of Aden. The Yemeni coast guard was able to save […]
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/ 31 December 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, San Francisco | Sunday WHEN analysts and other observers of the Internet industry look ahead to 2001, they see nothing but pain. And like a canary in a coal mine, San Francisco, the epicentre of the Internet boom, is starting to show real signs that the dot-com craze is running out of air. […]