THE Organisation of African Unity (OAU) announced on Tuesday the suspension of an embargo against the breakaway Comoran island of Anjouan following its leaders’ agreement to return to the negotiating table. A communique issued following a meeting in Pretoria of regional OAU ministers on Friday said they had also mandated South Africa to initiate discussions […]
CHRISTO JOHNSON, FREETOWN | Wednesday SIERRA Leone’s rebels and a government militia agreed on Tuesday to stop all hostilities in order to protect a ceasefire and prepare for disarmament to end a brutal decade-long war. Talks between the two sides are the most significant inside Sierra Leone since a 1999 peace deal collapsed a year […]
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Jesse Jackson arrives for screening of video diary and criticises absence of black film-makers.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, LUANDA | Tuesday ANGOLAN rebel leader Jonas Savimbi on Monday welcomed the Catholic Church’s peace initiatives in the southwest African country and said that war was “absurd”. “After the liberation war against the Portuguese I hoped for a quiet life,” Savimbi said in a letter faxed to Reuters. “But unfortunately it didn’t happen.” […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Monday MORE than 12 million children in sub-Saharan Africa — equivalent to every child in Britain under the age of 15 – have been orphaned by Aids, according to a report Monday by the British charity Christian Aid. By 2010, that figure will have risen to 43 million children, by which […]
NORTHERN Province Premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi is taking legal action against Democratic Alliance (DA) co-leader, Michael Holford, who accused him of not declaring his assets. Ramatlhodi said at a press conference on Monday that Holford did not attempt to verify facts before accusing him of corruption and misconduct. Holford accused Ramatlhodi in the weekend press of […]
MINING firm Billiton said on Sunday its investors had thrown their weight behind its proposed US$28bn merger with Australia’s BHP. Billiton said votes representing more than half of its share capital had already been received and nearly all were in favour of the merger proposal that will be put to a shareholders’ meeting on Tuesday. […]
A DIVING team located a school of coelacanths – an elusive prehistoric fish known as a “living fossil” – in Indian Ocean waters off eastern South Africa on Monday and is filming them, SABC radio reported. Coelacanths, a 400 million year-old species, were thought to have become extinct 70 or 80-million years ago until one […]
IN an official visit to Colombia, South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Monday signed an agreement with his South American counterpart Gustavo Bell to cooperate in the fight against drug trafficking. The document shows both countries’ intent to establish a bilateral committee of top-level officials enjoined to find solutions to the drug problem and […]