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/ 29 October 2001
Ten New Songs (Columbia) is Leonard Cohen’s first collection of new material in nine years; the man is not garrulous. And he seems to have slowed down to a crawl — the result of all that Zen meditation? This is one for very late at night, or you may become impatient.
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/ 29 October 2001
Achmat Dangor, whose new novel has just come out, speaks to Shaun de Waal.
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/ 29 October 2001
The food of the Hare Krishna movement is reliably good, always fresh and surprisingly cheap writes Lauren Shantall.
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/ 29 October 2001
SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Monday A STATEMENT issued at the end of a Commonwealth mission to probe what steps have been taken to end violence on Zimbabwe’s farms in exchange for help with land reforms showed there is little hope for an early end to the crisis. Ministers from seven Commonwealth countries who made up […]
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/ 29 October 2001
Washington | Wednesday IN a public relations setback, the Pentagon acknowledged on Tuesday that US warplanes missed their targets in two separate incidents over the weekend, dropping bombs on a residential area of Kabul and near a senior citizens home on the outskirts of Herat. Pentagon representative Victoria Clarke said the Pentagon had no information […]
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/ 29 October 2001
A FIRST contingent of South African soldiers taking part in a multi-national force to protect exiled political leaders returning to Burundi arrived in Bujumbura on Sunday. The soldiers, dressed in full combat gear, arrived in the Burundian capital at 2:00 pm local time after a three-hour flight from the Waterkloof military base near Pretoria. The […]
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/ 29 October 2001
Chief mediator in the Burundi peace process, Nelson Mandela, has called on international donors to double to $880-million the amount of aid they pledged to Burundi.
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/ 29 October 2001
Cape Town | Monday UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy said on Monday that child mortality rates in Afghanistan, where thousands of children die of preventable diseases each year, will worsen as refugees flood from the war-battered country. “The plight of Afghanistan’s children was terrible even before the recent crisis,” she told the American Academy of […]
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/ 29 October 2001
MOZAMBICAN President Joaquim Chissano arrived in Cuba for a week-long official visit on Sunday, in hopes to expand bilateral relations with the communist-ruled island. The Mozambican leader, a frequent guest in Havana since Mozambique gained independence in 1975, was met at the airport by Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque. He is scheduled to meet […]
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/ 29 October 2001
THE Nigerian army is investigating an attack by soldiers on an ex-army chief’s house and the massacre of some 200 civilians in central Nigeria. Government troops last week ran rampant in the towns of Zaki-Biam, Gbeji, Anyii, Iorja, Vaase, Tseadoor and Sankara in Benue State in apparent reprisal for the murder of 19 soldiers kidnapped […]