A TEENAGED boy who checked into a Kenyan hospital with stomach pains last week collapsed when doctors told him he was actually a woman and was suffering from menstrual cramps. The 18-year-old boy has a vagina, but never knew because there was a membrane covering it, said district medical officer Dr John Ogange of the […]

PALESTINIAN leader Yasser Arafat made an impassioned plea to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to agree to peace in the Middle East Thursday in a speech to a Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) conference in Pretoria. “I … would like to say to Mr Sharon: My commitment is for peace and stability for your children and my […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday ZIMBABWE’S main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai appeared in a Harare High Court Monday to answer charges of terrorism and inciting violence, and asked for the case to be referred to the Supreme Court. The charges against Tsvangirai, President Robert Mugabe’s only real contender in presidential elections due next year, arise […]

ZIMBABWES Minister of Industry and International Trade, who has publicly opposed raids by militant war veterans on businesses, has resigned. Nkosana Moyo handed in his resignation in a letter to President Robert Mugabe on Friday and then left for South Africa, press reports said. Moyo refused to comment on the reasons for his resignation, but […]

MILITANT war veterans have threatened Zimbabwe’s top private hospital for the second time in two weeks, forcing its managing director into hiding, hospital officials said Friday. The threats on managing director Malcolm Boyland came after the hospital last week made a Z$115 000-dollar settlement with the war veterans over a six-year-old labor dispute involving 30 […]

AN attack by UNITA rebels in Caxito, north of the Angolan capital, at the weekend left 100 people dead and 100 others missing, state television reported on Monday. The Angolan army said two soldiers and five police officers were wounded during the attack on Saturday by the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola […]

ADDITIONAL UN sanctions designed to force Liberia to break its ties with rebels in Sierra Leone will come into effect on Monday for 12 months, the president of the Security Council, James Cunningham, said Friday. The sanctions include a ban on imports of all Liberian rough diamonds and restrictions on air travel by senior officials. […]

ZAMBIAN parliamentarians have filed a motion to impeach President Frederick Chiluba in the wake of his unconstitutional bid to run for a third term, a parliamentary statement said on Friday. The impeachment notice was filed by former local government minister Ackson Sejani, who was recently sacked from Chiluba’s cabinet for opposing the president’s bid. So […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday SOUTH Africa’s technology sector leapt more than three percent at the start of trade on Monday as the market played catch up with a positive Friday Wall Street, traders said. Didata, the networking and IT company which has a 78% weighting in the IT sector, moved up 2.96% to R38.20. […]