Court ponders fate of switched children
A Pretoria court’s ordered an investigation into how two children were mistakenly switched at birth four years ago and how best to solve the imbroglio. South Africa’s Centre for Child Law’s been given 90 days to come up with answers. The two girls were born in Boksburg Hospital east of Johannesburg in 2010. The mistaken […]
SA silence on Nigerian abductions quizzed
Several ambassadors accredited to Pretoria are asking why South Africa has had so little to say about the abduction of nearly 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria. The military and the government in that country are split over how to go about rescuing the teenagers in the hands of terror group Boko Haram. The envoys from Europe, […]
Deadly grenade attack on CAR church
Thirty people have died in a gun and grenade attack on a church in the Central African Republic. It’s the worst incident since Muslim rebels were ousted five months ago and raises the spectre of fresh reprisal raids by Christians. Ends intro Yesterday’s attack in Bangui was launched on a church where both Christians and […]