ETHIOPIAN warplanes on Sunday bombed the airport serving the Eritrean Red Sea port of Assab, Ethiopia’s government spokeswoman said amid conflicting reports of the damage caused. Sources in the Eritrean capital, Asmara, while confirming a raid had taken place, said the 12 bombs dropped by Antonov warplanes fell wide of the airport’s runway. The bombing […]

THE International Monetary Fund has commended Tanzania’s economic transformation programme and promised continued support. Visiting IMF Deputy Managing Director, Shugemitsu Sugisaki, made the promise during official talks at the State House on Sunday. Sugisaki had talks with Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa, the Minister for Finance, Mr Daniel Yona and the Governor of Bank of Tanzania, […]

GREECE does not intend to move three associates of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan out of its embassy in Nairobi, embassy spokesperson Forte Yanopulous said on Monday. Asked if the embassy was making plans to relocate three women who have been holed up in the building since Ocalan’s capture in Nairobi on February 15, Yanopulous […]

TRADE unionists in the Northern Province are set to make history this week when they take a traditional leader before the Commission for Conciliation, Medication and Arbitration for the first time for unfair labour practices. Zebediela tribal Chief Kgoshi Sello Kekane will have to explain on Wednesday why he fired his administrative clerk immediately after […]

THE International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have decided to suspend all disbursements to war-torn Sierra Leone until the situation improves, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah said on Friday. Kabbah, whose government last month survived a rebel invasion of Freetown with the help of Nigerian-led intervention troops, told journalists that the international financial bodies has […]

NAMIBIAN copper mining company Tsumeb Corporation Limited was yanked back from the brink of sale on Thursday when creditors were informed that the sale had to be postponed. Joint provisional liquidator Ian McLaren yesterday directed a letter to all known creditors of TCL to tell them that it had not been possible to proceed with […]

UNITED States First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will conduct a private visit to Morocco next week. Clinton will make stops in Fez and Marrakesh during her holiday. This comes after President Bill Clinton has advised his wife to “take time and rest” before a possible bid for a seat in the US Senate next year.

A FORMER mayor in the Rwandan town of Mabanza, wanted in connection for the 1994 genocide, was reportedly arrested in South Africa on Thursday and handed to the United Nations Court. Radio reports on Saturday said that Ignance Bagilishema was arrested in Pretoria for visa violations. He has been on the run since 1995 after […]

SWAZI nurses called off a crippling two-day nationwide strike late on Friday after the government agreed to recognise the Swaziland Nurses Association. The strike had left thousands of people without health services. SNA president Masitsela Mhlanga said she is relieved the strike, which started Thursday, is over. Government officials said they called in legal experts […]

A LIBERIAN military tribunal has formally charged nine military officers with sedition for their alleged involvement in a plot to overthrow the government last year, a military communique said on Saturday. It accused the soldiers, detained without charge since last September, of fighting on the side of former warlord Roosevelt Johnson during clashes last September […]