OWN CORRESPONDENT, Abidjan | Monday AN attempted coup d’etat was underway early on Monday in the Ivory Coast, with heavy fighting wracking the countrys economic capital as loyalist forces attempted to overpower mutinous troops who had seized the television station. No toll from the fighting is immediately available and the situation on the ground remains […]
ALAN RAYBOULD, Abidjan | Monday FORCES loyal to the Ivory Coast government have regained control of the state radio headquarters in central Abidjan after dissident soldiers who had seized it overnight in an apparent coup bid left without a fight, local residents said. ”The (paramilitary) gendarmes just went in. There was no fighting,” a man […]
A SEVEN-year-old girl has become the second British tourist to die in South Africa in the past week after being swept over the Lisbon falls in Graskop, Mpumalanga. The girl and her mother, 32, were viewing the falls when the child slipped into the water. The mother tried to hold onto her daughter, but both […]
JAPANESE Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has arrived in Johannesburg for a six-day trip of sub-Saharan Africa, the first by a serving Japanese premier. South African Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma greeted the premier as he stepped off the Japan Airlines plane. Mori will visit South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya during the trip, which will include […]
NIGERIA’S state carrier has resumed direct flights to London after a six-year gap caused by the airlines debts. A Nigeria Airways official said the company would operate twice-weekly flights on the profitable Lagos-London route with a DC-10 aircraft leased from a French company. Nigeria Airways sought the help of British Airways to run the Lagos-London […]
US President Bill Clinton has informed Congress of his decision to extend for a further six months US economic sanctions slapped on Libya some 15 years ago. Clinton stated that despite Libya handing over for trial two suspects in the 1988 bombing of a Pan-Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, US concerns about the Libyan government’s […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday ELEVEN-year-old Aids activist Nkosi Johnson, who gripped the hearts of the world when he addressed last year’s International Aids Conference in Durban, is not expected to survive the weekend. Nkosi, who appealed to the government for access to anti-retroviral drugs and to South African citizens to accept Aids and HIV […]
THE death toll on South Africas roads since the summer holidays began on December 1 has reached 824 – and road safety campaign, Arrive Alive, expects traffic to peak on the country’s roads this weekend as inland holidaymakers return home to start the new working year on Monday. Arrive Alive said speeding, drunk driving, driver […]
THE Johannesburg Regional Court has granted R10_000 bail to a doctor accused of raping his daughter, so he could continue assisting patients on an Aids drug programme. The doctor, who allegedly raped his daughter a month before her 16th birthday, was in custody for two months. Defence attorney Errol Goss alleged the girl had laid […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Paris | Sunday AN international rescue operation is afoot in Cameroon to save fewer than ten black rhinos, the last survivors from herds of thousands wiped out by poachers across West Africa over the past two decades. “It is necessary, in fact, to act immediately, because this rhinoceros could disappear very soon,” said […]