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Maputo (Canal de Moçambique) ? As autoridades de Migração em coordenação com a Polícia, detiveram nas últimas duas semanas, no aeroporto de Maputo duas moças jovens que transportavam cocaína. Maputo (Canal de Moçambique) – As autoridades de Migração em coordenação com a Polícia, detiveram nas últimas duas semanas, no aeroporto de Maputo duas moças jovens que transportavam cocaína. Uma, de nacionalidade sul-africana, foi detida na posse de 64 ampolas. A outra, moçambicana, foi encontrada na posse de cerca de três quilogramas da mesma droga. Esta informação, foi ontem avançada por Pedro Cossa, porta-voz do comando geral da Polícia da República de Moçambique, no seu "briefing" semanal com a Comunicação Social. As referidas raparigas, descritas por Cossa como "moças jovens", foram detidas em momentos e voos diferentes. Ambas, foram detidas nos serviços de Migração de Maputo. Segundo o porta-voz da PRM, e dada a complexidade do negócio, as "moças jovens", na ó...

The US Supreme Court has rejected a last-ditch request to halt the execution of Troy Davis, the Georgia death row inmate convicted of murdering a police officer. The nation's highest court refused to stay the execution of Davis, who had been scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7pm EDT (11pm GMT) at a prison in Jackson, Georgia. It took the court more than four hours to issue its one-sentence order, an unusually long time in such cases. The delay gave rise to hopes that the judges would agree to a stay. Brian Kammer, a lawyer for Davis, said in seeking a stay from the supreme court that newly available evidence revealed false, misleading and inaccurate information was presented at the trial, "rendering the convictions and death sentence fundamentally unreliable." As the first news of a delay came in at the Jackson prison that houses death row, a huge cheer erupted from a crowd of more than 500 protesters that had amassed on the other side of the road. Davis's ...

Fears outspoken South African youth leader could dent Jacob Zuma's presidential re-election bid after call for Botswana coup. A firebrand youth leader seen as a threat to Jacob Zuma's hopes of re-election as South African president faces possible expulsion from the governing African National Congress (ANC). Julius Malema, arguably the most colourful and divisive figure in South African politics, was charged with bringing the ANC into disrepute after calling for the overthrow of the democratically-elected government of neighbouring Botswana. Analysts believe the public disciplinary measures could reflect a desire by Zuma and other party leaders to crush the youth league president, whose provocative outbursts on topics such as race relations and nationalisation of the mining industry are a thorn in their side. "Comrade Julius Malema has been charged with various violations of the ANC constitution, including bringing the ANC into disrepute through his utterances and statem...