South Africa: Ekurhuleni flood victims get aid packages
A spokesperson for the Ekurhuleni Municipality says more than 50 displaced families received food and other aid from a private-public charity project in the area. Charity organisation 1in1out and the municipality gave the Palm Ridge families perishables, clothing and school stationery, said spokesperson Zweli Dlamini. Local councillor Mbuyiseni ...
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Nigeria: Obasanjo: Jonathan"s Inability to See Yar"Adua Bizarre
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has described the inability of the Acting President Jonathan Goodluck to see President Umaru Yar"Adua since he returned from medical treatment in Saudi Arabia as bizarre.“I think the entire Mr. Yar"Adua saga is strange. I think the entire issue of Yar-Adua"s illness and the way it ...
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Somalia: Security forces kill Somali food protester
Somali security forces on Monday opened fired at crowds protesting rising food prices in Mogadishu, killing one and wounding four others, witnesses said. "A police patrol opened fire on a crowd in K4 area, killing one and wounding another," said Ahmad Ali Bashir, a witness. Three other demonstrators ...
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South Africa: McBride vs Citizen ruling has serious impact on reporting: Sanef
The South African National Editors" Forum (Sanef) says the Supreme Court of Appeal"s (SCA) ruling in Mc Bride vs. the Citizen newspaper case, has the effect of changing fact into fiction. For this reason Sanef has decided to apply to be an "amicus curiae" (friend of the court) in the ...
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South Africa: "Malema attacks opposition to deviate attention"
Political analyst Tinyiko Maluleke says the recent attacks on opposition leaders by ANC Youth League (ANCYL) President Julius Malema is an attempt to deviate attention from the controversy surrounding him. Malema says Democratic Alliance leade, Helen Zille is suffering from satanism. He also attacked Independent Democrats leader Patricia de ...
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South Africa: UN honours staff that perished in Haiti quake
Sherwin Bryce-Pease, New York United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has led tributes at a memorial in New York to honour the 101 staff who perished in the Haiti earthquake in January. Joined by family, friends and colleagues, he paid tribute to those who died in the service of ...
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Sudan: Sudan rebukes peacekeepers after ambush
Sudan summoned the acting head of international peacekeepers in Darfur on Wednesday to express concern over a rebel ambush last week in which vehicles and equipment belonging to his force were seized. Ramping up diplomatic tensions with the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission, the foreign ministry also requested it ...
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Kenya: ODM leaders to welcome Kibaki to Ruto turf
Several Rift Valley ODM MPs including Agriculture Minister William Ruto will host President Kibaki at the Eldoret agricultural show.Kibaki will open the Agricultural Society of Kenya (ASK) show today, and Mr Ruto is expected at the event since it falls under his docket.It is not clear whether Prime Minister Raila ...
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Kenya: Will Sofapaka Cage Leopards
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Tanzania: Pregnant Teens Forced Out of School
ES-SALAAM, Mar 10 (IPS) - Pregnancy is the leading cause of dropouts for school girls in Tanzania. And a national law forbidding young mothers to return to school after giving birth did not make it any easier for them to continue their education. But thanks to pressure from the United ...
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South Africa: Trade conditions improve in February: Sacci
Trade conditions improved strongly in February, according to the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry"s (Sacci) Trade Activity Index which reflects current trade conditions. The index returned to positive territory last month by rising to 54 from 44 in January. The increase was supported by higher sales and ...
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Kenya: Foreign travel ban set to save State Sh200m
The government could save Sh200 million during a 30-day foreign travel ban imposed on Cabinet ministers. Related Stories 13 Kenya ministers hit by trips ban More than 30 ministers were scheduled to travel abroad in March and April before President Kibaki slapped the ban to ensure ...
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Nigeria: Nigeria charges 49 over Jos killings
Nigerian police say 49 people are to be charged with murder after communal violence left scores of villagers dead.Most of those facing charges are Muslims from the Fulani group, police spokesman Mohammed Lerama told the BBC. The number of those arrested since the killings near the city of Jos has ...
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South Africa: ANC asks Winnie Mandela to clarify criticism of Nelson
South Africa"s ruling ANC is asking Winnie Mandela to clarify comments attributed to her which starkly criticise her ex-husband, Nelson.Mrs Mandela was quoted in UK newspaper the Evening Standard as saying former President Mr Mandela was a "sell-out" who had agreed a "bad deal for blacks". The Mandelas were leaders ...
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South Africa: McBride"s doctor"s case postponed
The Pretoria Magistrate"s Court has once again postponed the trial of Ga-Rankuwa medical doctor Joseph Moratioa. He stands accused of fraudulently issuing a medical certificate stating that former Ekurhuleni Metro Police boss Robert McBride was sober when he crashed his car in December 2006. The trial hearing was deferred to ...
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South Africa: Gauteng premier slams rape of two paramedics
Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane has described as barbaric the rape and sexual assault of two paramedics in Durban Deep on the West Rand. She visited the families of the two female paramedics in Kagiso last night. Three armed men attacked the two women while they were attending to a patient. ...
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Zimbabwe: Prosecutors in Zimbabwe to reply to Bennett"s application
Thulasizwe Simelane, Zimbabwe Zimbabwean prosecutors will this morning respond to Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Treasurer Roy Bennett"s application for a dismissal of the case against him. Bennett"s lawyers lodged the application earlier this week after the prosecution concluded its case. He faces the death penalty if convicted of ...
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South Africa: Bennet"s lawyers in a last minute bid to have him released
Lawyers representing Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Treasurer General Roy Bennett are still facilitating his release from a remand prison in the Eastern Border Town of Mutare in Zimbabwe. This comes after a local magistrate made concessions allowing for Bennett to be freed on a $2 000 bail. Earlier, ...
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Nigeria: Nigerians demand ailing president to make an appearance
Hundreds of Nigerians gathered in the capital Abuja today for a march to the presidency to demand the appearance of ailing leader Umaru Yar"Adua, two weeks after he returned from a Saudi hospital. The 58-year-old leader has not been seen in public since being flown back after three months of ...
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Somalia: Seventeen killed in Mogadishu
Fighting between Somali government forces and al Shabaab rebels in the north of Mogadishu on Wednesday killed 17 people and wounded 65, a Somali human rights group and rescue services said. Residents said al Shabaab also beheaded two employees of a telecommunications company in the capital who had been ...
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Rwanda: Allies key to securing justice, says Rwanda
Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said on Wednesday the thawing of her country"s relations with France may have paved the way for last week"s arrest of a leading Rwandan genocide suspect in Paris. French judges had sped up their investigation into Agathe Habyarimana since the diplomatic rapprochement in November, ...
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South Africa: Lions have bases covered for final
Vilas, an electrifying batsman and good fielder when he isn"t keeping wicket, provides coach Dave Nosworthy with possibly his most teasing selection poser ahead of the final. In response to a question about whether he was likely to play, Nosworthy prodded carefully with a measured forward defensive: "It"s ...
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Nigeria: Nigerians demand an end to "invisible presidency"
Thousands of Nigerians today marched to the gates of the presidential villa to demand an end to the presidency of ailing leader Umaru Yar"Adua so Acting President Goodluck Jonathan can take over as head of state. The 58-year-old leader has not been seen in public since he left for ...
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South Africa: Zuma must declare his interests: DA
President Jacob Zuma should declare his financial interests for the sake of the law and transparency, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said today. "The President is required to declare in an open and transparent manner all of his interests. He is required to do so because, as a public servant, he ...
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South Africa: Kriegler denies involvement in plot to oust Hlophe
Retired Constitutional Court Judge Johann Kriegler, has denied charges that he is in cahoots with Western Cape Premier Helen Zille and the Democratic Alliance (DA) to hound Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe out of office. This is contained in Judge Kriegler"s affidavit handed to the Court today in a ...
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