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Nigerian blast kills 30: report
A New Year’s Eve explosion in Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja is reported to have killed 30 people. Nigerian state-run television said the blast tore through a market area at an army barracks. The Associated Press reported that the explosion occurred at about 7:30 p.m. local time at a beer garden at the barracks. There [...]
More than 1 in 3 SAfrican men admit to rape: study
JOHANNESBURG : A new survey says more than one in three South African men admit to having committed rape. A 2010 study led by the government-funded Medical Research Foundation says that in Gauteng province, home to South Africa’s most populous city of Johannesburg, more than 37 percent of men said they had raped a woman. [...]
Centr.Africa authorities say key town recaptured from rebels
BANGUI : The Central African Republic government announced Friday its forces had retaken a key town captured by rebels in a deadly assault two days earlier but the rebels said they were still in control. “At the moment, the army controls the town of Birao,” government spokesman Fidele Ngouandjika told AFP. Convention of Patriots for [...]
Pirates attack German owned ship off Horn of Africa
Haren, Germany – Pirates seized a German freighter off the Horn of Africa but apparently left the vessel after the crew took safety in a secure room, the owners said Friday. The 130-metre-long MCL Bremen was seized in the Indian Ocean some 950 nautical miles off the Horn of Africa, the German daily Nordwest Zeitung [...]
Sophos to retain NZ office
Security vendor Sophos will retain a New Zealand office and one staffer here, despite a global round of redundancies that will see 80 jobs go. Sophos Asia-Pacific managing director Rob Forsyth says the company’s Auckland office will be retained, with a staff of one, a channel-focused employee. However, a staffer in a different role resigned [...]
Canada’s foreign aid shift from Africa questioned
OTTAWA : African countries are having a hard time understanding why the Harper government’s foreign policy shifted away from their continent, says one of South Africa’s leading politicians. “I think that on the African continent, people are asking about the Latin American focus versus the African focus,” Trevor Manuel, the minister in charge of South [...]
The key steps England must take to defeat dangerous South Africa
Martin Johnson’s men must tackle the lineout and the opposition fly-half if they are to overcome the world champions tomorrow Martin Johnson would probably deny it, but if you’d offered him three wins from four a month ago he would probably have bitten your hand off. However, here we are going into the final weekend [...]
Burkina Faso president re-elected by landslide
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso : President Blaise Compaore, one of Africa’s last remaining ‘Big Men’ who seized power in a bloody coup 23 years ago, was re-elected by a landslide in a vote rejected by the opposition. The country’s electoral commission said Thursday that Compaore won Sunday’s presidential poll with 80.2 percent of the vote, according [...]
South Africa Tackles Rhino Poaching
South African authorities are pouring more resources into law enforcement in a desperate effort to stop an explosion of rhino poaching. This week, the government launched a special wildlife crime unit to tackle the surge. In September, authorities arrested nine people in a suspected poaching ring. Among them were two veterinarians. But conservationists say government [...]
African partnership has recipe for success
A partnership agreement between leading South African chemicals distributor Protea Chemicals and global water, air and energy solutions firm Nalco Company is set to pave the way for the new entity to become a formidable force on the African continent. The joint venture is known as Nalco Africa and sees Protea providing the distribution expertise [...]
Trafficking conviction to be reviewed
South Africa’s first human trafficking conviction will be reviewed in a higher court, before the Durban Regional Court sentences a local man and his Thai wife. Magistrate Trevor Levitt yesterday postponed the sentencing of Basheer Sayed and Somcharee Chuchumporn to allow them to make an application to the Pietermaritzburg High Court to review the court [...]
Mthethwa wants tough, smart policing
Johannesburg – Police minister Nathi Mthethwa on Wednesday outlined plans for effective policing in South Africa to deal a blow against the crime rate. “…We will fight it toughly, smartly and within the confines of the law…we want to emphasise government’s uncompromisable commitment to fighting crime and all its evils,” he said. “Lazy cops will [...]
UN warns of slum risk amid rapid urbanisation of Africa
THE NUMBER of people living in African cities will triple in the next 40 years, the UN has said, increasing the risk that many will turn into large slums unless governments begin planning now. In a new report, the Nairobi- based agency UN-Habitat says that 60 per cent of people in Africa will live in [...]
South Africa carjack husband rejects accusations of role in wife’s murder
Shrien Deweani is receiving medical assistance to cope with trauma of witnessing the death of his wife, brother reveals The husband whose bride was murdered in a carjacking on their South African honeymoon is receiving medical assistance to help him deal with the trauma, his brother said tonight. Shrien Dewani has told how he was [...]
It’s Tom thump! Croft itching to make first big hit and set the tone in great battle with the Boks
The last time Tom Croft started an international against the Springboks, he wound up feeling as if he had been hit by a train. Leicester’s 25-year-old blindside flanker wore the Lions No 6 shirt in the series-deciding second Test at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria, one of the most brutal matches in living memory. He had [...]
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