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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
CHRISTO JOHNSON, FREETOWN | Wednesday SIERRA Leone’s rebels and a government militia agreed on Tuesday to stop all hostilities in order to protect a ceasefire and prepare for disarmament to end a brutal decade-long war. Talks between the two sides are the most significant inside Sierra Leone since a 1999 peace deal collapsed a year […]
THE Organisation of African Unity (OAU) announced on Tuesday the suspension of an embargo against the breakaway Comoran island of Anjouan following its leaders’ agreement to return to the negotiating table. A communique issued following a meeting in Pretoria of regional OAU ministers on Friday said they had also mandated South Africa to initiate discussions […]
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Jesse Jackson arrives for screening of video diary and criticises absence of black film-makers.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, LUANDA | Tuesday ANGOLAN rebel leader Jonas Savimbi on Monday welcomed the Catholic Church’s peace initiatives in the southwest African country and said that war was “absurd”. “After the liberation war against the Portuguese I hoped for a quiet life,” Savimbi said in a letter faxed to Reuters. “But unfortunately it didn’t happen.” […]