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Zimbabwe freezes price hikes after launching currency reforms
HARARE, Aug 6, 2006 (AFP) – Zimbabwe has ordered a new freeze on prices of goods following a spate of increases on the heels of last week’s currency reforms to combat the effects of the country’s nearly 1,200 percent inflation, a state-run paper said Sunday.The country’s isolation from its traditional trading partners in Europe following […]
”’ cash reforms rapped
HARARE, Aug 6, 2006 (AFP) – Zimbabweans last week flooded banks to hand in old notes after the central bank slashed three zeroes from the local currency, but analysts said the new money would not provide relief from record inflation. Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank slashed three zeroes from its currency last Monday to help consumers battling […]
Bodies of 15 aid workers found in Sri Lanka
Aug 7, 2006 (AFP) – Fifteen local employees of a French aid agency have been found dead in a town in northeastern Sri Lanka at the centre of heavy fighting betweeen Tamil rebels and government forces, an aid group said Sunday. Tamil Tiger rebels on Saturday accused government forces of killing the 15 people.The bodies […]
Sri Lanka rejects Norway deal with Tigers, battle for water resumes
TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka, Aug 6, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lanka Sunday rejected peace broker Norway’s deal with Tamil Tiger rebels to lift a water blockade at the root of the latest bloodshed that has claimed at least 425 lives by official count. Troops began shelling suspected Tiger positions around Maavilaru in this north-eastern port district […]
Desperation greets refugees in Sri Lanka camps
KANTALAI, Sri Lanka, Aug 6, 2006 (AFP) – B.M. Aliar stared helplessly at a mob of hungry refugees jostling for handouts as the first supplies trickled into a relief shelter on the edge of Sri Lanka’s strife-torn northeast. Aliar, a 50-year-old labourer, is among an estimated 20,000 Muslims who fled the town of Muttur near […]
Sri Lanka bloodbath over water ends as Norway clinches peace deal
Aug 6, 2006 (AFP) – Sri Lanka Sunday rejected peace broker Norway’s deal with Tamil Tiger rebels to lift a water blockade at the root of the latest bloodshed that has claimed over 425 lives by official count.Troops began shelling suspected Tiger positions around Maavilaru in the northeastern district of Trincomalee where the guerrillas blocked […]
Sri Lanka rebels say deal reached on water
Aug 6, 2006 (AFP) – Tamil Tiger rebels said Sunday they had agreed to lift a water blockade behind weeks of fighting that has killed hundreds, but warned new strikes by the Sri Lankan military would lead to full-scale war. A Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) spokesman said the group had told peace-broker Norway […]
Sri Lanka rebels warn full-scale war if strikes resume
Aug 6, 2006 (AFP) – Tamil Tiger rebels who agreed to end a bitter water dispute Sunday warned peace broker Norway that they would resort to full-scale war if Sri Lanka resumes air strikes, a spokesman told AFP.The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) told Oslo’s top envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer that they were lifting a […]
Sri Lanka says Tigers killed 100 civilians as fighting subsides
Aug 5, 2006 (AFP) – Tiger rebels massacred at least 100 refugees in Sri Lanka, raising to 426 the number of people killed in 11 days of violence, the defence ministry said Saturday, amid fresh moves to end the bloodshed.The ministry said rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) blocked civilians, mainly Muslims, fleeing the […]
700 Filipinos and Sri Lankans evacuated from Lebanon
DAMASCUS, Aug 5, 2006 (AFP) – More than 700 Filipinos and Sri Lankans were evacuated from Lebanon Saturday after being trapped when Israeli air raids destroyed the road they were hoping to take into Syria, officials said.“We have evacuated 761 people from Sri Lanka and the Philippines aboard 22 buses, which made it to (the […]