ALAN RAYBOULD, Abidjan | Monday SUPPORTERS of Socialist Laurent Gbagbo are increasingly confident that he has won Ivory Coast’s presidential election, seeing off army ruler General Robert Guei to end 10 months of military rule. Gbagbo, of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), and Guei were the only serious runners in a field of five after […]

ERITREAN and Ethiopian foreign ministers are due to meet in Algiers this week for progress talks on the peace pact that ended a two-year border war in June. Eritrean Foreign Minister Ali Said Abdella said representatives of Algeria, the United States, the European Union and some OAU governments were expected to attend. The talks are […]

CAMEROONIAN gendarmes have raided Nigerian villages, killing an unspecified number of people in a border area disputed by the two countries, Nigerian newspapers reported. The alleged invasion took place about a week ago in the Boki area of southeastern Cross River State. Border clashes there have not been as frequent as in the Bakassi Peninsula, […]

FIERCE fighting is raging between the Congolese army, supported by their allies, and Rwandan troops backed by rebel forces in Katanga province in southeastern Congo, military sources in Kigali said at the weekend. Rebel sources said between 6 000 and 8 000 Congolese government troops and their allies were involved in the offensive, backed by […]

SOUTH African retail distribution group Specialty Stores Ltd has won shareholder approval to implement a restructuring programme that will see the unbundling of Specialty shares and the name change to Mr Price. The restructuring would also involve the liquidation of Storeco Ltd, which has a controlling interest in Specialty and the conversion of Specialty ‘N’ […]

Malawi police authorities have charged seven prison officiers with murder in the July death of an inmate. A police probe found the seven officers were liable for the death of businessman Kwacha Ghambi, who was murdered in a notorious prison in Zomba, the former colonial-style capital city. The victim was serving a three-year sentence for […]

SOUTH African police are seeking the masterminds behind a heist of 30 tonnes of unrefined platinum worth millions of rands after nine men were caught packing the granular platinum into maize meal bags on Johannesburg’s East Rand. The truck transporting the metal was hijacked during the week. Police found the truck using a satellite tracking […]

A NIGERIAN couple who smuggled two young Nigerian girls into the United States and held them in involuntary servitude in their home in the Bronx, New York has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison. Prosper Emeka Udogwu and his wife, Ifeoma Ezeonu Udogwu, had been sentenced to 11 years and three months […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Saturday A ZIMBABWEAN game park which is internationally known for its advanced techniques in training and domesticating African elephant has been listed for seizure in the latest round of land grabs by President Robert Mugabe’s government. The Imire game park, in the Wedza area 100km east of Harare, also has a […]