SOMALI Prime Minister Ali Khalif Galaydh has announced the formation of his government, the first in the strife-torn Horn of Africa country for nearly a decade. The cabinet consists of 25 ministers drawn from different clans and sub-clans. Galaydh’s authority has not been recognised by the warlords who have carved up the country, which has […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pietermaritzburg | Sunday A KWAZULU-Natal farmer has been caught breaking a ban on moving milk in a foot-and-mouth disease quarantine zone in Camperdown, where an outbreak of the disease flared last month. The farmer has been charged with endangering the province’s foot-and-mouth disease containment programme and will appear in court next week, the […]

AT least 18 students from the University of Swaziland have been injured in a clash with riot police near the palace of King Mswati III. Security officials said about 1 000 students had clashed with police when they tried to march on the Lozitha Palace to protest the eviction of villagers who had refused to […]

A FRENCH court has ruled that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi can be prosecuted in France for the bombing of a French airliner over Niger in 1989 in which 170 people died, judicial sources said. The decision, taken on an appeal against a previous ruling to prosecute him, rejected the defence argument that Gaddafi enjoyed immunity […]

SWIFT action to fight the Ebola outbreak in Uganda has resulted in a much lower mortality rate than earlier cases of the deadly virus, and raised hopes of a speedy drop-off in infections, health experts said. The hemorrhagic fever caused by the virus usually kills between 50 and 90% of the people it infects, but […]

Local artists are looking to surgery as a means of creation Michelle Matthews It is tempting to use the clich’ “cutting edge”, but surgery as art is at least a decade old. French artist Orlan is its most famous proponent, having undergone 10 cosmetic operations in her expression of carnal art. In her latest she […]

A national sporting body’s reluctance to take action against a child molester has highlighted the vulnerability of disabled children Stefaans Brmmer T wo sports associations for the disabled kept on a senior executive, sentenced to 10 years in jail for sexually assaulting a 16- year-old Down’s Syndrome girl, giving him the opportunity to continue working […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The screaming started at about 10am. “Suddenly it looked as if the whole township was at war. I put my money in my cash bag and stumbled outside; that’s when I realised that something was terribly wrong,” said Daniel Mohale, a hawker who trades in Diepkloof, Soweto. “Hundreds of security guards […]