March 3, 2015.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Sane Dhlamini.
Making headlines:

Two people were killed when a bomb exploded near a top court building in central Cairo in Egypt.

Lesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Thabane's All Basotho Convention continues its lead in the country's snap elections.

And, President Jacob Zuma appoints Advocate Wilhelm Visagie as the acting head of the SIU.

 

Lesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Thabane's All Basotho Convention (or ABC) continued its lead in the country's snap elections, according to early results released so far. 

Of 80 constituencies, the ABC won 35, far ahead of all other parties, the Independent Electoral Commission said.

Thabane's political rival, Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing's Lesotho Congress for Democracy has managed to get two constituencies so far.

The major opposition, Democratic Congress, led by former Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili, won 10 constituencies. 

A total of 47 of the 80 constituencies had finished their vote counts by Monday. Final results are expected by Thursday.
Voters in Lesotho went to the polls on Saturday for an early election designed to end a political impasse in the kingdom.

 

 

Two people were killed when a bomb exploded near a top court building in central Cairo, the health ministry said. This was the deadliest attack in three blasts to hit the Egyptian capital on Monday.

The repeated security incidents in Cairo have raised concern over the effectiveness of security forces who have pledged to end Islamist militant violence bedevilling government efforts to revive investment and foreign tourism crucial to the economy and stability of the Arab world's most populous country.

Security sources said the public prosecutor, whose office is in the building, was inside at the time of the blast. They said he had since left to inspect the scene of the attack.

Egypt has been grappling with rising Islamist militancy since then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted freely elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in 2013 after mass protests against his rule.

 

President Jacob Zuma has appointed Advocate Wilhelm Visagie as the acting head of the Special Investigating Unit (or SIU).

Presidential spokesperson Mac Maharaj said Advocate Visagie was the executive manager of Legal Services in the SIU and had been with the institution since 1997, having previously served in the erstwhile Heath Commission.

The appointment of Visagie follows the resignation of Advocate Vas Soni for personal reasons.

 

Also making headlines:

International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane is in Geneva, Switzerland, where she will participate in the high-level segment of the 28th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Motorists should fill up their petrol tanks today if they want to save a bit extra at the pumps before the petrol price increase takes effect at midnight.

Guinea's anti-Ebola coordinator said health officials botched more than 20 Ebola blood tests in January and February which led to the release of at least four positive patients, two of whom later died.

And, almost 30 countries around the world are "highly vulnerable" to an Ebola-style epidemic, with Somalia, Chad, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Haiti most at risk, a major charity said.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.