Meet the Central African Republic’s only practising clinical psychologist
Clockwise from top left: Maurice T Nyagumbo, Ruth Nomonde Chinamano, Josiah Tongogara, Jason Ziyaphapha Manyika, Johanna Nkomo and Robson Manyika. The stamps appear in the book as a way of writing Zimbabwe’s lesser known political figures into the canon
Masai Ujiri, a Nigerian sports executive, has put the continent on the basketball map
Mayor Rob Ford says the city’s council had no business stripping him of his powers after he admitted taking drugs and abusing alcohol.
The decision to deliver coal deposits to either the Indian or Atlantic ocean has international implications, writes Roman Grynberg.
Roger Federer celebrated his 29th birthday last week, but the cagey Swiss said he was not too old to learn a few new tricks.
World leaders aimed for a common target on Thursday of securing the economic recovery, but disagreed over how best to reach it.
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/ 4 December 2009
This thuggish petro-state is now to climate what Japan is to whaling.
Sometimes it pays to have your own wheels. Two teenage suspects in a convenience store robbery in Oakville, Ontario, near Toronto, may have made a clean escape had they thought to bring a getaway car along for the heist. Instead, the men fled the store on foot with an undisclosed amount of money, and then called for a taxi — which showed up with two police officers inside.
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/ 14 February 2008
Malaria continues to cut a swathe through Africa, which accounts for most cases of the disease and of malaria-related deaths. A study by Burkina Faso’s Health Sciences Research Institute may point the way to reducing malaria’s toll on children, however.
A new law meant to help crack down on young Canadian street racers in their souped up cars has nabbed an octogenarian in his Oldsmobile. The 85-year-old man is one of 2 300 drivers across Ontario to be charged under new legislation, designed to combat ”street racing, stunts and contests”, since it came into effect three months ago — and he’s the oldest.
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/ 13 October 2007
A Ghanaian conservation research centre will assist a Canadian company in harvesting underwater trees in one of the world’s largest tropical hardwood forests. Ghana’s Volta Lake is a reservoir that was created as part of a hydroelectric project more than 40 years ago.
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/ 12 September 2007
It took gay Indian filmmaker Parvez Sharma six years to make Jihad for Love, a documentary film about gay men and women trying to live Muslim lives in Iraq, Pakistan, Egypt and South Africa. He says his challenge will be to make sure the movie reaches Muslim communities, even in countries where being homosexual remains a crime.
A mummified infant discovered wrapped in a newspaper older than 80 years in the ceiling of a Toronto home was likely stillborn and displayed no obvious signs of foul play, authorities said. The mummified remains were wrapped in a copy of the long defunct Mail and Empire newspaper dated September 15 1925.
People eat more when they are glued to the television, and the more entertaining the programme, the more they eat. It seems that distracted brains do not notice what the mouth is doing, said Dr Alan Hirsch, neurological director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago
Real men don’t pose for the cover of a Harlequin romance. And that’s something the publisher wants to change. Representatives of Harlequin Enterprises, the biggest publisher of romance novels, inspected the assets of about 200 men who lined up at a casting house on Saturday to prove they could flutter readers’ hearts.
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/ 16 January 2007
Cellphones that contain toxic chemicals are still being sold in Latin America and other developing regions. But thanks to strict European regulations, there are progressively fewer phones being made with cadmium, lead and other dangerous materials.
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/ 2 December 2006
Mixing a cocktail is no minor undertaking for a new breed of bartenders — it’s a matter of science. In kitchens and bars across North America, bartenders, or ”molecular mixologists,” are tinkering with liquid nitrogen, syringes and sodium chloride to make drinks while shunning powdered mixes and commercially flavoured alcohol.
A Canadian teacher who lived a frugal life but gave large, anonymous donations to people in need, has left a C,3-million (,8-million) fortune to an environmental charity. Roberta Langtry (89) kept her wealth a secret until her death last year. The Toronto woman had worked as an elementary school teacher and speech therapist for 55 years, quietly amassing millions.
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/ 11 September 2006
The controversial British film Death of a President, a fictional documentary showing the assassination of United States President George Bush, had its first public showing on Sunday, receiving mild applause from an audience that seemed more interested in how it was made than why.
South Africa will ”never achieve redemption” for its HIV/Aids policies, the United Nations special envoy to Africa told the closing session of the International Aids Conference in Toronto on Friday. Stephen Lewis accused the government of expounding HIV/Aids theories ”more worthy of a lunatic fringe”.
With people dying of Aids in far greater numbers than those who have access to treatment and prevention, male circumcision could be a promising tool in the prevention of transmitting HIV, scientists told the International Aids Conference in Toronto, Canada, on Thursday.
Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang should resign over her lack of leadership on HIV/Aids, the Aids Law Project told a conference in Toronto, Canada, on Thursday. ”I believe our minister of health should resign,” head of the project Mark Heywood said to shouts of approval from a packed session room at the International Aids Conference.
South African Aids activists have slammed the International Aids Conference for being a show of celebrities and philanthropists, instead of people living with HIV/Aids who could raise the real issues they face. Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) members protested at the South African stand at the conference.
A shortage of about four million doctors and nurses in 60 poor, primarily African countries has become a major obstacle in fighting HIV/Aids, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. In the announcement made on Tuesday at the International Aids Conference in Toronto, WHO said sub-Saharan Africa has been the worst affected by the shortage.
The safety and security of the country could be at risk if HIV/Aids among police in South Africa is not addressed and large numbers of them start dying, the International Aids Conference heard in Toronto on Tuesday. A preliminary report shows police work in an environment that increases their risk of HIV infection.
Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang on Tuesday night lashed out at the media for ”distortion” in reporting on South Africa’s exhibition of garlic, lemon and beetroot at the International Aids Conference in Toronto. ”We haven’t shocked the world; we have told the truth,” she said.
New technologies for HIV prevention could have a huge impact on the epidemic, possibly averting millions of new infections in the coming years, the International Aids Conference in Toronto heard on Tuesday. Gita Ramjee, of the HIV prevention research unit in South Africa, said there is a range of new and promising prevention technologies in advanced clinical trials.
There are 12-million children in sub-Saharan Africa who have lost one or both parents to Aids, and this number could grow to more than 16-million by 2010, according to a report released in Toronto, Canada, on Monday. An estimated 380 000 children under 15 died of Aids-related causes in 2005.
Studies showing that people in the poorest African villages take their medicines at a ”stunningly” high percentage are evidence that the poor ”will live if you give them the tools to live”, former United States president Bill Clinton said in Toronto on Monday. Clinton and Microsoft head Bill Gates discussed Aids issues at the International Aids Conference.
Gender inequities and labour migration in Southern Africa have been pinpointed as factors contributing to the spread of HIV/Aids in the region by an epidemiologist at the International Aids Conference in Toronto, Canada, on Monday. Chris Beyrer told the opening plenary session that migrant men were 26,3 times more likely to be infected by ”outside concurrent” partners.
World number one Roger Federer captured his seventh title of the season, rallying to beat France’s Richard Gasquet 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Sunday in the final of the ,45-million Toronto Masters. The Swiss superstar was pushed to three sets in his three prior matches but reached his 17th consecutive final, one shy of Ivan Lendl’s ATP record.