IN an effort to bring the Namibian Parliament closer to the countrys citizens, the legislature announced it would be launching its own website on Thursday. Officials gave the address. – Pana

NAMIBIANS are to run a 5km race in a special event organised to raise public awareness on the dangers of, and havoc wreaked by landmines. Runners would register at a fee, and proceeds from the race are to be donated to the local anti-landmine camp. The organisers say they expect at least 300 runners to […]

CARTOONISTS from Gabon, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and host country Cameroon are to meet for their second convention in Yaounde on 4-8 June. Sources close to the organisers of the meeting, the “Coup d’crayon” (pencil line) Association said the convention’s programme would include a internet seminar with a view to acquainting cartoonists with the globalisation […]

THE South African government has reiterated it would act against anyone invading state or private land after renewed threats of Zimbabwe-style land seizures in the Mpumalanga province, said Land Affairs director general Gilingwe Mayende. Mayende was responding threats by the Mpumalanga Labour Tenants Committee to occupy three state-owned and private farms within the next week […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH Africa’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the government acted unconstitutionally by handing over a Tanzanian bombing suspect to the United States where he faces the death penalty. An international legal expert, however, said he doubted whether the court’s ruling would have an influence on the outcome of the trial. Khalfan Khamis […]

ZAMBIA?S Catholic bishops have condemned former Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo’s decision to marry a South Korean woman in New York under the Moon sect. A press statement released on Tuesday in Lusaka by the bishops said the former archbishop, by marrying, he had betrayed his vows of celibacy as required by his calling. “For a long […]

MOZAMBICAN police in the northern port city of Nacala have arrested a group of five men accused of killing children to extract and sell body parts. The Maputo daily, Noticias, cited a police source as saying the killers cut out some of the victims’ organs to sell to the crew of foreign ships at Nacala […]

MOZAMBIQUE and the US oil and gas company Enron corporation have signed a $1,5-billion agreement for the Maputo Iron and Steel Project (MISP), news reports said on Tuesday. The deal involved the construction of a process plant in Maputo and support infrastructure to produce steel slabs from iron ore, and the construction of a 610km […]

THE Kruger National Park will auction off 20 white rhino next month in an attempt to raise funds for the South African National Parks (SANP) Park Development Fund. SANP’s director of parks, Johan van der Merwe, said on Wednesday that the auction is expected to raise at least R4,5-million for development projects in smaller game […]

SOME 53 Casamance refugees deported from Guinea-Bissau have arrived in Ziguinchor, southern Senegal, from Sao Dominga where they had been since last week. They were met at the border by local administrative authorities and NGOs represented in Ziguinchor, which took them to Ziguinchor’s children’s centre for further assistance. The returnees – 33 children, 13 women […]