AN Egyptian labourer had a heart attack and died Saturday from the excitement of laying his hands on a windfall of money he had been awaiting for around a decade, police in southern Egypt said. Ramadan Abu Seif, 45, had just picked up a cheque for 9_000 Egyptian pounds (around $2_400 dollars) in compensation from […]

NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo has ordered the removal of judges indicted by a investigation panel as a part of measures to clean up the country’s judiciary. The panel was set up by late dictator General Sani Abacha in 1993 to probe the judiciary and submitted its report a year later, recommending that some judges be […]

NIGERIA’S President Olusegun Obasanjo should press visiting Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to write off Nigeria’s debts and urge investment, a leading newspaper said. “Rather than the fragmented grants given to Nigeria from time to time, Nigeria’s debts should be written off in order to give Nigeria an economic breathing space,” the newspaper This Day […]

SOUTH Africa’s high-tech mobile health train, the Transnet-Phelophepa Health Care Train, begins its annual 36-week delivery of health services to remote rural areas across the country next week. The train provides services in basic health care, health education, dental and eye care as well as psychological counselling. Spectacles and sophisticated eye tests cost only R30 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | A SOUTH African actor on Saturday brought a controversial consignment of generic HIV and Aids drugs into the country, which will be used by the Cape-based Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). Morne Visser, was met by a an emotional group of activists at the Cape Town International Airport as he brought […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday THE man in charge of flight safety in South Africa has been found guilty of breaking the very laws he was hired to enforce, the Sunday Times reports. Two independent investigations have found that the head of the Civil Aviation Authority, Trevor Abrahams, flew an aircraft without the proper qualifications, […]

BENIN’S governmental communications authority has warned journalists about a host of things they will not be allowed to publish during campaigning for a March presidential poll in the west African country. “The role of a journalist at such sensitive times is not to be a harbinger of bad tidings and even less to play the […]

A SPECTACULAR fire has engulfed the Algerian embassy to the United States, but caused no injuries, witnesses and officials said. The inferno blazed through the four-story building and part of a neighbouring hotel in the tony Kalorama section of Washington, forcing the evacuation of the embassy, but was contained by firefighters about an hour after […]

ARMED robbers have swooped on a South African gold mine near Carletonville, west of Johannesburg, and made off with gold concentrate, cash and guns. Police said the six-hour long raid on the mine, owned by world number one producer AngloGold, saw 15 robbers armed with assault rifles and pistols rush into the mine’s security control […]

MALAWI’s largest passenger association has rejected a government probe into the country’s deadliest bus accident yet, and demanded an independent commission of inquiry.Twelve commuters were killed and scores more injured when an overloaded Shire Bus Line double-decker exploded 40km from the capital Lilongwe on December 12. The bus was reportedly carrying 200 passengers at the […]