DICKSON JERE, Lusaka | Wednesday THE political rift widened within Zambia’s ruling party on Tuesday after a court stopped President Frederick Chiluba ousting over 200 rivals to his unconstitutional re-election bid. Chiluba’s Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) was to vote on Tuesday on a resolution to kick out more than 200 members who had boycotted […]
PRECARIOUS calm returned to Algeria on Monday after a weekend of further rioting by enraged members of the nation’s Berber ethnic minority that brought the estimated death toll to about 80. Young Berbers went on the rampage in the northeastern Kabylie region after a teenager was shot dead in a police cell on April 18. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Gaborone | Wednesday THE head of Botswana television news and current affairs Chris Bishop has resigned over government attempts to control broadcasts, Bishop told the South African news agency Sapa. “The journalists at BTV and myself have often been harassed by officialdom. It has rendered the running of TV news impractical,” Bishop said, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Abidjan | Wednesday AMNESTY International called on Liberia and the international community on Tuesday to halt what it said were abductions, gang rape, torture and murder of unarmed innocents in the west African state. The human rights group claimed an anti-terrorist unit had raped a pregnant woman and stamped on her stomach, causing […]
SOUTH Africa’s most powerful trade union federation on Tuesday warned that they were planning a nationwide strike against privatisation, to take place in the next four months. Speaking at a May Day rally in Durban, Zwelinzima Vavi, general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), told workers that Cosatu intended to protest […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday MILITANT war veterans threatened on Tuesday to step up their attacks on businesses in Zimbabwe, during their alternative May Day rally held after a main rally organised by labour unions. ”We want everyone to bring their problems to us for settling,” said firebrand war vet leader Chenjerai Hunzvi, in a […]
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TWO South Africans on trial for murder in Botswana were not legally extradited to that country, says a justice ministry spokesman. Paul Setsetse said the two men were arrested by South African and Botswana police in the North West province a few weeks ago. However, it subsequently emerged that they had not been legally extradited […]
THE circumstances of many women who had killed their husbands or partners had not been adequately taken into account by the country’s courts, says the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation?s Lisa Vetten. Vetten, who is calling for a presidential pardon for women in abusive relationships who are convicted of murdering their husbands, […]
AT least seven people died and 51 were injured on Sunday when rival fans invaded the pitch during a football match in Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. An eyewitness said victims were trampled to death and asphyxiated when panic broke out. Police intervened using teargas after rival fans began exchanging insults and hurling […]