TANZANIA has deported an Egyptian arrested on suspicion of involvement in bombing the US embassy here in 1998, after the state dropped charges against him. Tanzania’s director of criminal investigations Adadi Rajabu said Mustafa Mohamed Said Ahmed, 44, left the country on Sunday. Ahmed and a Tanzanian, Rashid Saleh Hemed, were jointly charged with the […]
ANNA BORZELLO, Kampala | Monday 1.00pm. UGANDAN officials said on Monday up to 500 Doomsday cult members died in a fire set deliberately inside their church and police found even more bodies inside the cult’s pit latrine and vegetable garden. Reacting to the “horrific, senseless and tragic act” Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said his government […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Phokeng | Saturday 10.00pm. Kaizer Chiefs 5 Mbabane Highlanders 2 THE Amakhosi looked devastating in attack and vulnerable in defence as they returned to Africa with a comfortable victory over the leading Swazi club in a CAF Cup first-round tie at a half-full Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace. Several Chiefs goals came from the […]
VODAFONE Kenya, a mobile phone provider firm jointly owned by Telkom Kenya, and Vodafone Air Touch of the UK has agreed to pay a license fee of $55-million to the Communication Commission of Kenya to operate a GSM mobile phone service in Kenya. The commission’s director general, Samuel Chepkonga, said in a statement that the […]
NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo sacked, with immediate effect, the entire board of directors of the country’s electricity power supply authority, NEPA. He said a nine-member technical board to be under his office will be named shortly to assume the authority’s services. NEPA, one of the graft-ridden state-run parastatals earmarked for privatisation, has been on the […]
NAMIBIAN President Sam Nujoma on Sunday announced his new cabinet, little changed from the team which helped him to his third five-year term with a sizeable majority in December’s elections. Nujoma and the new cabinet — trimmed down to 22 from 25 posts — will be sworn in on Tuesday during Namibia’s tenth independence anniversary […]
ARGENTINA’S field hockey coach hit out at South Africa’s decision to withdraw from the Olympic Games even though his team will benefit the most from their absence. “Politics should not mix with sport,” Alejandro Verga said after Argentina defeated Japan 1-0 to take the seventh place in the Olympic qualifying tournament in Osaka. “We have […]
BIG-name outfits achieved satisfactory away results in the Cup Winners Cup with Canon Yaounde of Cameroon and Al-Merreikh of Sudan winning and Zamalek of Egypt and Royal Armed Forces of Morocco drawing. Canon triumphed 1-0 over Coast Stars in Kenya through a late first-half goal from Robert Jamamba and Abbas Zaki and Said Al-Zanzon had […]
ETHIOPIAN Kutre Dulecha snatched victory on the line in the world cross country women’s short course race on Sunday after a finish in which the three medallists shared the same time. Dulecha, the world 1500m bronze medallist, made the early pace in the 4.18km race on the second and final day of the championships in […]
THE Democratic Republic of the Congo has dissolved the joint venture between state-owned cobalt producer Gecamines and Billy Rautenbach’s Ridgepointe Overseas Developments known as Central Mining Group, according to a March 14 decree from the ministry of mines. Concessions held by the joint venture — which include roughly half Gecamines’ annual output of 4000 tons […]