East Africa: EAC Ministers Discuss Fuel Crisis

Kigali — Ministers in charge of East African Affairs have discussed the ongoing fuel crisis in the region as a way of finding a solution to the problem that has affected the region despite the general decrease of its price on the global market.Speaking to The New Times, yesterday, the Minister for the East African Community, Monique Mukaruriza, said that she had discussed with her counterparts on how fuel trucks can be facilitated through those countries.

Zimbabwe: Mukoko, Activists’ Applications Tactics to Delay Trial – AG’s Office

Harare — THE Attorney General’s Office yesterday urged the court to dismiss various court applications being made by lawyers representing Zimbabwe Peace Project director Jestina Mukoko and 15 MDC-T activists, saying they were just tactics employed to delay trial proceedings.Director of Public Prosecution (Criminal Division) in the AG’s Office Mrs Florence Ziyambi raised the concern while responding to applications by defence lawyers to stall the proceedings at the Harare Magistrates’ Court pending urgent chamber applications and appeals that had been filed at the High Court.

Guinea: Yar’Adua Moves to Checkmate Gaddafi

Abuja — The coup in Guinea has pitched African leaders against each other as President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is set to mobilise other West African leaders in a move to checkmate his colleagues from Libya and Senegal, Muammar Gaddafi and Abdoulaye Wade, who are believed to be supporting the new military regime.THISDAY gathered that the extra-ordinary meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) scheduled for Friday under the leadership of Yar’Adua is aimed at getting other leaders of the sub-region to oppose the subterranean support being given to the Guinean coup leaders by Gaddafi and Wade.