A New York Times reporter has fabricated and plagiarised dozens of stories that have appeared in the paper, according to a report published on its own front page yesterday.
One of Africa’s most feared rebel groups, the Lord’s Resistance Army, has abandoned its bases in southern Sudan and crossed into Uganda in an apparent attempt to escape a suspected outbreak of the deadly disease Ebola.
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More than 200 people may have been killed when a door fell off a Russian-built aircraft flying over the Democratic Republic of Congo, a source at Kinshasa airport said on Saturday, as officials remained mute over the freak accident.
Iraqi agriculture is on the brink of collapse, with fears that many of its 24,5-million people will go hungry this summer, according to a confidential report being studied by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation.
She is five foot nothing in her trainers with hair pulled into a ponytail that reaches the small of her back and a multicoloured thread round one slim wrist. She has an AK47 over one shoulder and she is talking about killing men.
Witches haunt Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s violent capital. With pinched faces, bloodshot eyes and swollen bellies, they are horrifying to see; plaguing the city’s streets by day, and retiring when nights falls to stinking graveyards and typhus alleys. And all of them are children.
In this part of the world a gardener is a good substitute for the ubiquitous taxi driver as a foreign correspondents’ source. Taxi drivers in South Africa tend to be refugees from Eastern Europe and as such too busy mulling over past injustices to have much time to gather their thoughts about their adopted homeland and its neighbours.
President Thabo Mbeki is to petition UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urgently to get UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to be more aggressive in defending civilians in the war-torn country, or to make way for African intervention.
Angry African National Congress members in KwaZulu-Natal are threatening to use the party’s majority in the legislature to undermine the Inkatha Freedom Party-led provincial executive if it does not drop a Democratic Alliance cabinet member.