adminThe wait is over: Brazil, Croatia kick-start soccer fiesta
Yoliswa Dube Features Reporter BRAZIL and Croatia will at 10PM (local time) kick-start the Fifa World Cup with the opening match of the world’s biggest football extravaganza.
‘Let Zuma have his day in court’
Pretoria — Corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma should still be tested in court, former defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota told the Seriti Commission of Inquiry yesterday.
S Sudan leaders agree to form new government
South Sudan’s president and rebel chief have met in Addis Ababa in a bid to end six months of civil war, agreeing to forge a transitional government within a 60-day…
Several dead in Somali heavy fighting
Mogadishu — At least 12 people died in heavy fighting between rival militia in central Somalia, elders said yesterday, the latest surge of violence amid warnings of a worsening humanitarian…
Rape victims narrate chilling accounts
Cape Town — Democratic Republic of Congo women have told chilling accounts of how they were raped and abused by soldiers during the 2012 war in Minova.
Over 500,000 flee unrest in Iraq’s Mosul
An estimated half a million people are said to be fleeing Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, after fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an al-Qaeda…
Syrian Islamic factions in new push against rivals
Beirut — A rebel coalition in Syria dominated by Islamic factions announced a new push to dislodge fighters from a rival, al-Qaeda-inspired group from the northern province of Aleppo, activists…
War zone rape summit begins in London
A four-day international summit on ending sexual violence in war zones and conflict areas has been launched in London. The summit, to be attended by more than 100 countries, aims…
Woman jailed for poisoning daughter with cancer drugs
Sydney — An Australian woman, who deliberately poisoned her four-year-old daughter with cancer drugs then detailed the girl’s “fight for life” on Facebook to garner attention for herself, was yesterday…
GM crops: continuing controversy
Ian Scoones IN 2002, the international press was full of headlines such as “Starving Zimbabwe Shuns GM Maize”. This was repeated again in 2010. The context was the refusal to…