THE government of Kano State has become the second in northern Nigeria to introduce women-only buses in line with strict Islamic law, officials said on Wednesday. Kano State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso, who signed the Islamic code known as the Sharia into law last month, on Tuesday received 10 buses which will be for use of […]

SOUTH Africa has donated more than four million rand as well as goods like clothes and food to Angola’s war victims, the social development minister said on Wednesday. At a ceremony to hand over the donation to United Nations agencies, Minister Zola Skweyiya thanked Angolans for their support during South Africa’s struggle against apartheid and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Friday ZIMBABWE’S Supreme Court this week again tried to end a violent squatter campaign on white-owned farms, and gave President Robert Mugabe’s government six months to craft an acceptable land reform program. The nation’s highest court told police for the third time in two months that they had to evict squatters […]

THE corpse of man was left lying in Kampala’s main taxi park for two days because of fears that he had died of the highly contagious Ebola fever. The old man had been bleeding through the nose, eyes and mouth shortly before he collapsed and died on Sunday morning, according to media reports. A lorry […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, United Nations | Friday CANADA has proposed that the UN Security Council create a team of experts to permanently monitor the sanctions regime applied against diamond and weapons smuggling that funds armed conflicts. The best way to ensure a follow-up of UN sanctions is “establishing a permanent office … to monitor the sanctions,” […]

SOME 28 million people are going hungry in sub-Saharan Africa because of drought and civil war, the UN food agency said in a report this week. The Food and Agriculture Organisation said in Eritrea, some 1.5 million people have been displaced by a two-year border war – now officially over – with Ethiopia, and they, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday APPROXIMATELY a fifth, or 16%, of South African graduates want to leave the country either permanently or only for a few years, a recently published Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) study has found, Die Burger newspaper reports. Only one third of the people, who are planning to go overseas, […]

Neal Collins soccer So here it is, this is Christmas; everybody’s grabbing points. The festive season is when the overpaid, overpampered (and in David Ginola’s case, not-quite-overweight) English Premiership footballers finally get to earn their living the hard way. Though currently the bookmakers are making odds for the warmest Christmas on record rather than the […]

His achievements were modest, but voters would have given Clinton a third term if the law had allowed it Martin Kettle As the British and the Irish were able to see for themselves during his recent lap of honour visit to Northern Ireland, Bill Clinton has always been acutely aware of himself as a figure […]

The purpose of this text is to fuel the debate between right-wing and left-wing intellectuals. It does not attempt to explain the relation of either to governments or changes in society Subcommandante Marcos I. Pay-per-view global domination We learned at school that the world is not square; but at the start of the third millennium […]