EDDIE Barlow, serving as Bangladesh’s national cricket coach, has been admitted to a military hospital with a brain hemorrhage but his condition is stable, a hospital doctor said on Sunday. The doctor at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) confirmed that the South African cricketer was undergoing treatment and that he was in a satisfactory condition, […]

RUGBY union’s biggest drawcard, New Zealand winger Jonah Lomu, was suspended on Sunday for two matches after being found guilty of a dangerous tackle which left his opponent dazed and groggy. The giant All Black winger was stood down until May 12 — forcing him out of the final two rounds of the Super 12 […]

LAWRENCE BARTLETT, Harare | Saturday 4.00pm. ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe will use special powers to begin seizing white-owned farms within weeks, the government announced on Saturday, as farmers reported new violence by land invaders. “Within 10 days the legal framework to take land and redistribute it to the people will be in place and we […]

ZAMBIAN police have detained some 50 junior medical doctors for trying to stage an anti-government march. The protestors, among 300 doctors sacked in January for striking over conditions in government hospitals, were arrested when they tried to start a march in defiance of a police order. Jonathan Tembo, leader of the doctors, told journalists by […]

THE presidents of three of the largest unions in South African rugby were brought into the game’s national governing body on Wednesday to help calm growing unrest in the sport. Harold Verster of Free State, Piet Olivier of the Blue Bulls and Mluleki George of Border were co-opted on to the executive of the South […]

FIFTY-FIVE more bodies of murdered men, women and children have been found in a mass grave in the Kampala home of a leader of a cult blamed for the deaths of about 1000 people, police said. Police spokesman Assuman Mugenyi said the bodies were exhumed from a small Kampala house rented by Father Dominic Kataribaabo, […]

SIERRA-LEONE’S president has urged his shattered nation to embrace national reconciliation and appealed to fighters from its civil war to halt atrocities against civilians. “Continued violations and abuses against innocent civilians are inimical to national reconciliation,” President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah told the nation in a broadcast message to mark the 39th anniversary of independence. Kabbah […]

THE detained son of slain Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba has begun a hunger strike to force the authorities to tell him why they arrested him. Francois Lumumba, who was arrested at his home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo capital Kinshasa on Saturday, began his fast on Wednesday. Francois Lumumba has emerged as […]

A TWO-DAY conference of West African foreign and defence ministers and senior military officials has opened in Accra to examine the problems of children affected by war. The conference co-hosted by Ghana and Canada is also being attended by war-affected children from Liberia and Sierra Leone. In an address at the opening ceremony, Ghana’s President […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, New Delhi | Saturday 4.00pm CRICKET chief Ali Bacher has said he never blamed Pakistan for fixing World Cup matches, said a senior Pakistani official. Bacher has clarified to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) he did not mention the name of any country or umpire while telling Australian newspapers on April 19 that […]