World

9 years ago | March 8, 2015

AU endorses plan for anti-Boko Haram force

Addis Ababa – The African Union has endorsed the creation of a regional force of up to 10 000 men to join the ...

Egypt executes first Mursi supporter

Egypt executed an Islamist yesterday for a murder committed during riots in mid-2013, the first death sentence carried ...

Tanzania arrests 32 witchdoctors over albino murders

Dar es Salaam — Police in Tanzania said on Friday they had arrested 32 witchdoctors this week as part of a campaign ...

New plan needed for missing Airlines Flight 370

Kuala Lumpur — If the massive undersea search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 turns up nothing by the end of May, the ...

Well-wishes for Zuma’s children after crash

Three of President Jacob Zuma’s children and a cousin are in hospital following an accident in Pietermaritzburg, the ...

9 years ago | March 1, 2015

Lesotho hope for stability

Maseru — The people of Lesotho voted on Saturday in a tense election they hope will restore stability six months after ...

Graft lands ex-mines minister in jail

Lusaka — Zambia’s former mines minister Maxwell Mwale last Friday was jailed for a year on graft charges linked to the ...

Putin condemns Nemtsov murder

The Russian president has vowed to bring to justice those behind the murder of opposition figure Boris ...

Brotherhood members get death sentences

An Egyptian court has handed down death sentence to four members of the Muslim Brotherhood movement while condemning 14 ...

Mexico captures drug lord

Mexico City — Mexican police nabbed most-wanted drug lord Servando Gomez last Friday, a former schoolteacher whose ...

9 years ago | February 22, 2015

Yemeni president flees house arrest

Sana’a — Yemeni President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi has fled house arrests in Sana’a and is now in the southern province of ...

Zuma promises end to parly jamming

Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma assured editors on Friday that the jamming of cellphone networks in Parliament ...

Spotlight on Ukraine as Kerry arrives in London

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in London yesterday for meetings with his British counterpart, and a senior ...

Somali hotel attack toll hits 25

Mogadishu – The death toll in Friday’s bombing of a hotel in the Somali capital has risen to 25, including two ...