SOUTH Africa’s High Court on Wednesday approved a scheme of arrangement for holders of diamond giant De Beers’ first preference shares, the company said in a statement. The court order followed a vote on May 4 by first preference shareholders who approved an offer from the Anglo American-led consortium bidding for De Beers. The consortium […]
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KENYAN police have arrested more than 1_000 people and shot dead four armed suspects since the weekend in a crackdown on rising crime in Nairobi, a senior police official said on Tuesday. Five guns, 19 rounds of ammunition and stolen items, including three cars, have been recovered from the suspects during the operation, which began […]
NINE armed bandits were killed Monday and one was injured and captured during a camel-back clash with police in West Sudan’s remote Darfur State, a Khartoum newspaper reported on Tuesday. Reporting from Darfur, Al-Rai Al-Aam daily quoted Kabkabiya province commissioner Hassan Kuna Azraq as saying the police force retrieved 25 cattle looted by the gangsters […]
LIBYAN leader Colonel Muammar Gadaffi has told German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s chief foreign policy adviser, Michael Steiner, that Libya was behind the 1986 bombing of a Berlin disco in which three people were killed, the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Tuesday. The newspaper reported that a law practice which represents survivors of the attack […]
A SPAT is brewing between leading dial-up Internet Service Provider M-Web, and Absa Bank, which three months ago introduced its own free ISP service. On Monday, M-Web sent out a press release saying that Absa and its Internet partner Affinity, are misleading the public in suggesting that their free ISP service will survive. M-Web chief […]
AN Egyptian who had too much to drink in a nightclub on the banks of the Nile in Cairo, jumped into the river to dodge paying for his drinks, only to drown there, a police source said on Tuesday. Mohamed Massud, a 27-year-old taxi driver, had invited an electrician friend of the same age to […]
Race argument at genocide tribunal Seven black prosecutors at the UN tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, have raised issues of racism after not being reappointed by chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte. The BBC ‘Extinct’ plants found in N Cape Botanists from the Royal Botanic Gardens’ millennium seed bank have found healthy specimens of two plants […]
THE chief prosecutor of the United Nations tribunal dealing with Rwandan genocide suspects, Carla Del Ponte, on Wednesday rejected charges of racism from several court prosecutors whose contracts were not renewed. “These attacks of racism are absolutely ridiculous,” said Del Ponte’s spokeswoman Florence Hartmann. The only criteria for not renewing the contracts was efficiency, she […]
TUNISIAN soldiers are preparing to join the United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to the Tunisian defence ministry. President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali discussed the deployment, set for Saturday, with Defense Minister Dali Jazi in a meeting Tuesday, officials said. The soldiers, thought to number 200 though the […]