Staff Reporter

Barely six months after its Registrar and Prosecutor arrived to take up their assignments, the special court for Sierra Leone has moved its registry and administrative branches into its new site in the centre of the capital, Freetown.

The international advocacy group, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has said that a crucial boundary ruling last year rejected many of Ethiopia’s claims to territory after its war with Eritrea.

A very senior Iraqi military man had fallen out of favour, hadn’t been sycophantic enough, far worse, had dared to disagree with Saddam Hussein. He’d been locked up for months. Eventually his wife was able to get close enough to appeal in person to the great liberator of Iraq.

Shares in SABMiller (SAB) — the world’s second largest brewer – were down 60 cents, or almost one percent in early trade on the JSE Securities Exchange. At 0924 local time, the counter was quoted at R60, from R60,60 at Wednesday’s close.

OBITUARY: "JOHNNY" JOHNSON: Johnny Johnson, who has died aged 79, did not have to make <i>The Citizen</i> profitable — it was bankrolled by the then National Party government to carry out its mission to propagate the apartheid policies of the NP.

I met a purple man on the hills above the sea on the Transkei coast over Christmas. Now what does this mean? Well, it was Christmas . Well, it was Christmas . And these were the hills of the Transkei – some of the most beautiful we have.

The controlling shareholder of listed fast food group Nando’s (NDS), Brozent Holdings, has made a formal offer of 70 cents per share to Nando’s minorities, with the aim of de-listing the company, the group announced on Wednesday.

With about 100m to go before the R43 reaches the town of Worcester in the Western Cape, there used to stand on either side of the road, two of those large Arrive Alive signboards. I’m sure you know the kind, mounted alongside roads, exhibiting the number of accidents.

Once again Mugabe was rubbing his hands in glee as his opponents wrung theirs in frustration. The prospect of Mugabe riding off into the sunset and leaving his benighted country in the hands of a government of national unity appeared to have evaporated like the mist .

Disgraced Civil Aviation Authority CEO Trevor Abrahams allegedly threatened to use the "state intelligence mechanism" against a key witness. A report against Abrahams claims that he threatened to unleash state operatives on the CAA general manager for operations.

United Nations officials in Angola on Wednesday said the reintegration of former child soldiers into civil society was underway despite the scale of the problem confronting the humanitarian community.

The food security situation in Zimbabwe has deteriorated in all parts of the country, according to the latest multi-agency vulnerability assessment conducted in December.

Members of Parliament serving on the key national assembly finance portfolio committee, chaired by African National Congress MP Barbara Hogan, will be returning from their annual Christmas and constituency leave to start committee work next week — some three weeks before the formal opening of parliament.

The UN Refugee agency this week in a letter urged the Ivorian government, among other things, to stop recruiting refugees into the ranks of loyalist forces.

A total of 137 policemen were killed in the line of duty in South Africa in 2002, the South African Police Service disclosed on Monday.

At least there is one honest man in government. I couldn’t help noticing that while his colleagues were prancing around on the stage at the ruling party congress Minister Dullah Omar stood next to his chair in dignified silence.

I feel a great opportunity was missed with the announcement and awarding late last year of various state medals and honours. When considered against the formidable array of achievements which has marked nearly nine years of ANC sovereignty, the list of honoured recipients was very limited.

Hundreds of disadvantaged students and local workers could be the ultimate victims of the row over faulty cables supplied for the navy’s first new corvette as a South African company appears set to be made the scapegoat for the problem.

South Africa’s approach to the Zimbabwean crisis is increasingly becoming one of the great mysteries of the modern world. For more than three years now, the government has been reassuring its citizens, the business sector and the international investment community that it is doing all in its power.