Two-try Van Zyl stars as Cheetahs triumph
A brace of opportunist tries from scrum-half Piet van Zyl set up Central Cheetahs for a brave 27-13 Super 15 win over Queensland Reds Saturday. He struck twice during the first half to leave his team 18-6 ahead at the break and superb defending and some luck kept the rampant Reds at bay during the second more...
Militia chief suspected in I.Coast killings arrested: army
A militia chief in Ivory Coast, suspected of taking part in deadly post-election violence in 2011, was arrested Saturday in his western stronghold, a military source said. Amade Oueremi, the head of an armed group that for years has occupied the Mont Peko forest in western Ivory Coast, "surrendered" to an more...
Private Tanzanian firms accused of selling fake antiretroviral
The Tanzanian Health minister on Friday accused a private Tanzania Pharmaceutical Industries (TPI) Ltd of selling fake anti-retrovirals to national drug-providing company, saying that he cannot ascertain for sure whether the fake product was made in the company's plant or no.The Health ministry has in a more...
Pakistan politician from Khan party gunned down
Gunmen have killed a Pakistani politician from Imran Khan's party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of a partial re-run of May 11 polls that were marked by more than 150 killings. Zohra Hussain, 59, vice president of the women's wing of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the province of Sindh, more...
Ugandan wins international medical award
The government of Japan has awarded the Second Hideyo Noguchi Prize for Africa to Dr. Alex Godwin Coutinho of Uganda for his outstanding contributions in the medical services. Dr. Coutinho, a renowned Ugandan physician won the Prize for Medical Services for his pioneering efforts to expand access to more...
