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RWANDA-UGANDA: Cross-continent truckers risk more than HIV

KATUNA Thursday, October 23, 2008 (IRIN) - Edward Oboth Ofumbi is glad his days as a long-distance truck driver are over; glad to have left a life filled with long, solitary journeys on some of Africa's worst roads, carrying valuable cargo on highways with minimal security. "Truckers are a frustrated bunch; the roads are horrible, they are worried about thugs who want their cargo, police who want bribes, and they have deadlines to meet which are threatened by long delays at customs points,"...

How Costly Birds Can Be 

A cancelled cargo flight with about 76 tonnes of flowers for export on board, which was due to fly from Addis Abeba to Brussels, Belgium on October 22, 2008, has caused the owners of the consignment to lose an estimated 291,049 dollars in revenue.

SOUTH AFRICA-ZIMBABWE: Ship of shame adrift in controversy

There were conflicting reports aboutthe whereabouts of a Chinese ship, laden with a cargo of small arms destinedfor Zimbabwe, after it wasturned away from South Africa'sport city of Durban. According to some reports, the 150-metre multipurposecargo vessel, the An Yue Jiang - registered in China and one of 600 vesselsowned by the China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), dubbed by South Africanmedia as the "Ship of Shame" - is now en route to the Angolan capitalof Luanda, while others said it was...

DRC: Likasi residents told to avoid radioactive river

The DRC government has ordered residents of Likasi, a large town in the mineral-rich Katanga province, to stay away from their local river, the Mura, because a large consignment of radioactive material has been illegally dumped in it. The contaminated site lies just a few kilometres from a pumping facility that supplies the town, home to an estimated 300,000 people. “We have broadcast messages on radio telling police and local authorities to prevent people drinking or washing in this river...

Dozens killed in Congo plane crash, transport minister fired

More than fifty people have been killed after a plane crashed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, causing president Joseph Kabila to fire his transport minister. The Russian-built Antonov An-26 twin-turboprop cargo plane went down into a market in the African nation's capital, Kinshasa, killing 51 and injuring at least 25, mostly on the ground. Of the plane's crew, only the Congolese flight engineer survived the accident. The Congolese air safety record is one of the worst in the world,...

13 dead as cargo plane crashes in Congo

An Antonov cargo plane has crashed in Congo, killing thirteen people on board. The plane had just taken off from Kongolo, Katanga with a cargo of tin ore when the aircraft developed engine problems, causing the Russian pilot to attempt to return for an emergency landing. However, the plane instead crashed short of the runway, busting into flames. Although thirteen have been confirmed dead, the bodies two of whom have not been recovered, two people were rescued from the aircraft before it caught...