UGANDAN coffee exports have dropped by more than 50% in the first month of the new coffee season, the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) said in its monthly report. The report said Uganda only managed to export 138 760 bags of 60kg each in October, compared to 225 025 bags exported the same month during […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kimberley | Thursday MORE than 400 households forcibly removed from their land in Hartswater in the Northern Cape in the early 1970s will this week receive new land as well as financial compensation in the first urban land claim to be finalised in the Northern Cape. The claim will see about 440 families […]

BRIAN LIGOMEKA, Blantyre | Thursday MALAWI has announced a review of its Refugee Act governing the admission and treatment of foreign asylum seekers following a spate of violent armed robberies involving suspected war refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Malawi deputy commissioner for relief and rehabilitation Willy Gidala said government had been forced to […]

CLAIRE KEETON, Johannesburg | Thursday THE brutality and racism shown by six white policemen in setting attack dogs onto three black men is not an isolated incident, and is a “manifestation of the widespread brutality across the colour bar and ranks,” according to South African police watchdog bodies. “This is the tip of the iceberg, […]

MUSLIM fundamentalists clashed violently with Niger police this week in protest at an upcoming fashion show they dubbed “satanic”. Some 500 demonstrators were objecting to the International Festival of African Fashion (FIMA) on the grounds that it was debauchery and a satanic breach of Islamic principles. Police used teargas to break up the crowd as […]

SUDANESE government troops and opposition forces have fought heavily for control of the capital of eastern Kassala state, along the border with Eritrea, with both sides claiming victory. The Sudanese Armed Forces General Command said in a statement that its troops and pro-government militiamen had driven back rebel forces who had infiltrated the northeastern parts […]

SOUTH African companies, including mining giant Anglo-American Corporation, will place advertisements in local and British newspapers to voice their support for President Thabo Mbeki’s policy on Zimbabwe. Government communications chief Joel Netshitenze said business had volunteered to place the adverts to correct the “massive misperceptions” in the local and British press that Mbeki had backed […]

AFP, OWN CORRESPONDENT, AFRICAN EYE NEWS SERVICE, Johannesburg | Thursday POLICEMEN from the Pietersburg dog unit are being investigated after dogs were let loose on about 15 people who were dropping off garbage or collecting goods for recycling at a municipal dumpsite. The attack last week Thursday is similar to an incident aired on national […]

FOUR people have died in Uganda in the last 24 hours after contracting Ebola fever, bringing the total death toll to 96, the health ministry said. Three of the dead were from the northern Ugandan district of Gulu, which is at the centre of an epidemic of the highly contagious and often fatal Ebola epidemic […]

TWENTY-seven young Sudanese died of thirst while travelling on a desert road from the northern Sudanese town of Dongola to the town of Kufra in Libya. The group lost their way and ran out of water, prompting the driver to set out on foot in search of water, but he was arrested upon entering Libyan […]