Sana'a, Yemen - Yemeni tribesmen seeking the release of a jailed fellow clansman kidnapped a South African tourist and her two sons in the southern province of Abyan, police officials said Saturday.

The woman, the boys aged 10 and 13, as well as a Yemeni driver were kidnapped late Friday as they drove on a highway from the south-eastern province of Hadhramout to the port city of Aden, the officials said.

Armed tribesmen from the al-Maraqisha tribe stopped the South African family's vehicle near the al-Khubar town, 170 kilometres east of Aden.

They forced the driver to switch to an unpaved road leading to a mountainous area, around 30 kilometres from the highway, one police official told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Vienna - Only Japan and South Africa have submitted candidates for succeeding Mohamed ElBaradei at the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Vienna-based organisation confirmed Friday in a statement.

As ElBaradei's third and last term ends at the end of November 2009, Yukiya Amano of Japan and Abdul Samad Minty of South Africa, who represent their countries at the IAEA Board of Governors, are now vying for the prestigious post of director general.

The deadline for IAEA member states to name candidates ended on December 31, 2008.

Johannesburg - Helen Suzman, the South African anti- apartheid campaigner who died on Thursday at the age of 91, will be buried on Sunday, her daughter Frances Jowell said, according to the South African Press Agency SAPA.

Jowell said that Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein would lead the funeral service at the West Park cemetery in Johannesburg.

"A public memorial will be held in a few weeks' time," Jowell said.

According to Jowell, Suzman had died peacefully in her Johannesburg home.

Johannesburg - Helen Suzman, who spent more than a decade as a lonely parliamentary voice against the racial policies of the former white minority South African regime, died Thursday at age 91, reported the SAPA news agency.

Suzman's daughter, Frances Jowell, told the news agency that Suzman died peacefully in her home in Johannesburg.

Suzman joined parliament as a member of the opposition United Party in 1953. After an internal party divide, she joined the newly created Progressive Party and proceeded to be that party's only member of parliament from 1961 to 1974, when seven other party members joined the legislature.

Johannesburg/Harare - The International Federation of the Red Cross announced Wednesday that it has deployed seven so-called emergency response units
(ERUs) in the past week throughout Zimbabwe in response to the ongoing cholera crisis there.

The seven units include three basic health care units, two mass sanitation units, and two water supply units from Red Cross societies around the world.

New Delhi, Dec 26  The Union Cabinet today approved the proposal submitted by the Ministry of Civil Aviation for superseding the existing Air Services Agreement (ASA) signed on December 5, 1998 between India and South Africa by a revised ASA.

This ASA is based on the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) template.

The revised ASA signifies an important landmark in civil aviation relations between India and South Africa. It has the potential to spur greater trade, investment, tourism and cultural exchange between the two countries.