Opening statements are likely in the trial of a man charged in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. Khaled al-Fawwaz is being tried alone after one co-defendant pleaded guilty and another died this month. The attacks in Kenya and Tanzania killed 224 people, including a dozen Americans. Al-Fawwaz[…]
President Jacob Zuma will answer questions in the National Assembly in March, Speaker Baleka Mbete said on Wednesday. “The office of the Speaker of the National Assembly has today received from the presidency confirmation of a date for questions to the president as 11 March 2015,” her office said in[…]
Prosecutor-turned Democratic Alliance MP Glynnis Breytenbach on Wednesday said the allegations that led to Hawks boss Anwa Dramat’s suspension were baseless. “It is a nothing, it is just a made-up thing,” she told the Cape Town Press Club on the allegations that Dramat was involved in the illegal rendition of[…]
Two defence force officers cleared of wrongdoing in the Gupta jet landing saga were used to deflect attention from President Jacob Zuma, Corruption Watch said on Wednesday. The withdrawal of the charges “confirms that they were chosen as scapegoats”, executive director David Lewis said in a statement. “The charges were[…]
Shiite rebels in control of Yemen’s capital now hold the country’s president “captive” at his home, his aides said Wednesday, putting in question who actually rules the Arab world’s most-impoverished nation. President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi “cannot leave his house” after Houthi rebels removed his guards and deployed their own fighters[…]
The report of an inquiry into Britain’s role in the Iraq war will be delayed until after a national election in May, its chairman said, provoking dismay from politicians of all parties Wednesday. Sir John Chilcot, a former senior civil servant who is heading an inquiry that began in 2009, wrote[…]
A Syrian government air strike on a sheep market in a northeastern village has killed 43 people, a monitoring group said Wednesday. The death toll from Tuesday’s attack on al-Khansaa, which is controlled by the Islamic State group, was likely to rise, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.[…]
An estimated 100,000 pro- and anti-Pegida protesters will rally in the east German city of Leipzig on Wednesday, in what is expected to be the largest such protest march to date. Authorities expect Pegida, an anti-Islam movement that has gained momentum in Germany since October, to mobilize about 40,000 supporters.[…]
Malawians now face the possibility of food shortages as thousands of hectares of land and crops has been submerged in water, due to torrential rains continually lashing the country and reports of a new cyclone set to make landfall soon. 200 people have died in the floods, with 200 000[…]
As the 2015 school year commenced on Wednesday, many children and parents in Mitchell’s plain are still struggling to get placed in schools, as the number of children starting school and high school increases year on year. The Mitchell’s Plain Education Forum’s (MPEF) chairperson Colleen Horswell said even after pressure[…]
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