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/ 4 November 2005
A political editor and his wife were shot and killed overnight on Thursday in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in what appeared to be a political assassination amid a wave of intimidation of journalists. The couple were shot down at point-blank range by armed masked men in their home in Limete district.
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/ 4 November 2005
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was expected in Côte d’Ivoire on Friday on a mission to help resolve this war-divided West African nation’s latest crisis. On Monday, Côte d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo began a United Nations-backed extended year in office that has been opposed by opposition leaders and rebels.
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/ 4 November 2005
Residents of Addis Ababa largely stayed home on Friday in a fifth day of renewed protest over the results of May elections the opposition calls fraudulent. There were reports of more scattered gunfire and rioting in parts of the capital. Diplomats said they had reports of police continuing to round up suspected opposition leaders overnight.
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/ 4 November 2005
A new city is being forged in Johannesburg. Regeneration projects such as the Nelson Mandela Bridge and the Newtown Precinct have made an impact on the landscape of the inner city. John Hogg takes a look at two new books depicting life beyond the facades of inner Jo’burg.
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/ 4 November 2005
The trend of artists donating their time and their art to raise funds for various worthy causes is an indication of things to come: that various sectors of our public life will now look to artists to help them raise funds, writes Mike van Graan.
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/ 4 November 2005
One of the world’s most famous landmarks, the 82-year-old Hollywood sign perched high above Los Angeles, is to follow Tinseltown tradition and get a facelift, officials said on Thursday. The giant letters spelling out the word that is synonymous with movie production will undergo a little restoration and some cleaning.
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/ 4 November 2005
A robot designed to disarm bombs was sent on Friday to rescue a pet bird from a Sydney apartment building crumbling because of a tunnel collapse. The cockatiel, Tweety, was stranded in an apartment directly above a section of the building that partially collapsed when a giant hole opened up near the site of a new tunnel earlier this week.
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/ 4 November 2005
Further serious rioting broke out on the outskirts of Paris early on Friday as gangs of youths challenged authorities’ vow to crack down on urban violence that has plagued the French capital for more than a week. Police said about 400 cars were torched, mostly in the Paris region, while 27 buses went up in flames at a depot.
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/ 4 November 2005
Claims that South Africa’s economy could be creating 1 000 jobs a day should be met with scepticism, Congress of South African Trade Unions economist Neva Makgetla said on Thursday. Makgetla was reacting to findings by independent economist Mike Schussler in the second South African Employment Report, commissioned by the Union Association of South Africa.
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/ 4 November 2005
Like two small girls in a playground suffering from prepubescent bitchiness, they trade verbal blows day after day. In the red Alice band, Arsene Wenger; in the blue ribbons, Jose Mourinho. And the battle of the handbags remains in the balance. This week, Mourinho kicked off by accusing Wenger of voyeurism.