Harare | Saturday MOST of the 12 countries in the southern Africa region will suffer food shortages this year due to a combination of floods and drought, a regional food security warning unit said on Friday. The Southern African Development Community Regional Early Warning Unit (SADC-REWU) said due to an overall drop in regional crop […]
PROSECUTORS in the case of five men accused of the 1996 murder of Hard Livings Gang boss Rashaad Staggie, received a major blow on Thursday when Cape High Court Judge John Foxcroft ruled that he would not view video footage taken the night that Staggie was killed. The case against senior members of Pagad is […]
“DISCREET” negotiations were under way late on Thursday in the Central African Republic capital Bangui between the government and army mutineers who staged an abortive coup, in a bid to avert a “bloodbath”, a well-placed source said. “They want to see that the problem created by the mutineers does not end in a bloodbath,” said […]
NIGERIAN-born boxer David Izonritei’s career took a giant leap forward on Thursday when it was announced that he will be fighting the new heavyweight champion, Hasim Rahman, in Beijing, China on August 4. Legendary boxing promoter, Don King, announced at a press conference in New York that Izon, as the Nigerian boxer is commonly known, […]
FRENCH Prime Minister Lionel Jospin followed in the footsteps of other foreign leaders on Thursday to make a pilgrimage to the prison on Robben Island where former South African president Nelson Mandela spent most of 27 years as a political prisoner. Jospin spent about 45 minutes of the first day of his two-day official visit […]
FALAFEL, a universal food in most of the Middle East, was reincarnated on Thursday as McFalafel at Cairo branches of McDonald’s. The US fast food chain will serve falafel, a fried dish of chickpeas, in McDonald’s hamburger buns and sell each sandwich for about 40 cents. Falafel is traditionally made with seasoning including fennel, parsley, […]
AFRICAN insurance firms and UNAids are to form special committees to plan country-specific strategies to combat the HIV/Aids pandemic, the African Insurers’ Organisation said on Thursday. Jean Kacou Diagou, the organisation’s vice president, said its just-concluded 28th general meeting had ended with a decision to set up these committees in 41 member countries. Diagou said […]
Luanda | Friday THE Luanda government said this week it regrets a decision by South African diamond giant De Beers to suspend its activities in Angola over a contractual dispute. Reacting for the first time to the decision announced by De Beers a week ago, the statement said negotiations had been continuing in a cordial […]
Johannesburg | Saturday TRIBUTES have poured in for South Africa’s Aids icon Nkosi Johnson, who died in the early hours of the Friday morning, commending the courage of the 12-year-old boy who came to symbolise the fight against HIV/Aids and discrimination. The skeletally-thin Nkosi, South Africa’s longest surviving child Aids sufferer, died peacefully at his […]
TWENTY of every 100 pregnant women who attend ante-natal consultations in Mozambican health units are infected with HIV, the virus that causes the lethal disease Aids, according to Martinho Djedje, representative for the Coordinating Council of the Health Ministry, which has been meeting in Maputo since Monday. Djedje said the situation was made worse because […]