Africa
- Ancient royal burial ground found in Egypt: report
(AFP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:20:42
AFP - Archaeologists have uncovered ancient wooden coffins in what appears to be a royal burial ground near the necropolis of Abydos in southern Egypt, the state-run MENA news agency reported on Saturday.
- Nigeria’s first oil well is still source of woe
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:18:59
AP - Three decades after pumping its last drop, the first oil well in Nigeria is marked by a decrepit signboard bearing what would seem an uncontroversial statement:
- Film seen to show Zimbabwe vote rigged
(Reuters)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:06:40
Reuters - A film secretly taken by a Zimbabwe
prison guard and smuggled out of the country shows the extent
of the rigging that took place for the June 27 presidential
run-off vote, the Guardian said on Saturday.
- Mbeki meets Mugabe and in Zimbabwe
(AFP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:05:02
AFP - South African President Thabo Mbeki, chief regional negotiator on the Zimbabwe crisis, met here Saturday with President Robert Mugabe and leaders of a breakaway faction of the main opposition party.
- Film shows unfairness in Zimbabwe vote
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:02:25
AP - A Zimbabwe prison officer has used a hidden camera given to him by a British newspaper to film how he and his colleagues were forced to vote for Robert Mugabe in last month’s widely criticized presidential runoff. - Nigeria road crash kills 12 school children
(Reuters)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:56:39
Reuters - At least 18 people, 12 of them school children, were killed when the bus they were traveling in crashed on a busy highway in the southern Nigerian state of Delta, media reports said on Saturday. - All Blacks shatter Springboks’ invincible air
(AFP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:54:36
AFP - The All Blacks reclaimed rugby supremacy Saturday when they overpowered world champions South Africa 19-8 in an immensely physical opening Tri-Nations Test here.
- Mbeki meets Mugabe in Zimbabwe
(AFP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:42:53
AFP - South African President Thabo Mbeki, chief regional negotiator on the Zimbabwe crisis, met here Saturday with President Robert Mugabe and leaders of a breakaway faction of the main opposition party.
- Nigeria to immunise 4.6 million children against polio
(AFP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:36:32
AFP - Nigerian health workers Saturday began house-to-house immunization of 4.6 million children under the age of five in the northern state of Kano in a new drive to eradicate the disease.
- Two million Nigerians at risk from radioactive waste
(AFP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:22:19
AFP - Radioactive materials in abandoned mining fields in central Nigeria’s Plateau state pose a serious health hazard to two million people, officials said Saturday.
- Hidden camera footage exposes Mugabe ‘vote-rigging’
(AFP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:05:38
AFP - Secret footage filmed by a Zimbabwean prison guard shows how a supporter of President Robert Mugabe rigged votes in his favour, British newspaper The Guardian said.
- Nigerian peacekeepers on rampage over pay: report
(AFP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:39:55
AFP - Hundreds of Nigerian soldiers who served as UN peacekeepers in Liberia went on the rampage in protest against the military authorities’ refusal to pay their allowance, a local report said Saturday.
- Smith will come good says Prince
(AFP)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:07:31
AFP - Ashwell Prince told South Africa cricket fans not to worry about the form of Graeme Smith after the Proteas captain’s first, and possibly only, innings before next week’s first Test against England saw him make just 35 against Middlesex here Friday.
- Recognise me as Zimbabwe president or no talks: Mugabe
(AFP)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:39:37
AFP - A defiant Robert Mugabe ruled out the prospect of talks with his opponents on ending Zimbabwe’s political crisis Friday unless they acknowledged his victory in a one-man presidential election.
- Zambia asks Mbeki to explain comment on Mwanawasa
(Reuters)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:28:31
Reuters - Zambia has demanded that South Africa
explain why President Thabo Mbeki announced publicly that
Zambian leader Levy Mwanawasa had died, state television
reported on Friday.
- West condemns Mugabe, ignores other Africa despots
(AP)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:56:26
AP - Nigeria. Rwanda. Uganda. Ethiopia. Gabon. Robert Mugabe’s regime in Zimbabwe has plenty of competitors for the title of “least democratic in Africa.”
- Mugabe says opposition must drop claim to power
(Reuters)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:41:47
Reuters - Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe,
defiant despite growing African condemnation of his
re-election, said on Friday the opposition must drop its claim
to power and accept that he was the rightful head of state.
- Former Congolese warlord Bemba appears in court
(AP)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:20:38
AP - Former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba appeared Friday for the first time at the International Criminal Court, where he faces rape and torture charges linked to a brutal conflict in Central African Republic.
- Zimbabwe opposition rejects Mugabe’s precondition for talks
(AFP)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:04:18
AFP - Zimbabwe’s opposition on Friday dismissed Robert Mugabe’s insistence that he be accepted as president ahead of any talks on the country’s political crisis, calling it an “unrealistic precondition.”
- Former DR Congo rebel appears before warcrimes court
(AFP)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:02:28
AFP - Former Congolese rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba made his first appearance Friday before the International Criminal Court where he stands accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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