A stand-off outside the compound of UN peacekeepers in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Bunia ended overnight but sporadic shooting and tension continued on Saturday.
More than 120 people were reported to have been sucked to their deaths in an extraordinary incident when the giant back door of a Russian-built transport aircraft flipped open as it flew 10 000 feet over the Democratic Republic of Congo late on Thursday.
A British government inquiry will reveal on Monday that the brains of thousands of depressed people were illegally removed after their deaths and kept for medical research over a 30-year period, The Times newspaper said.
Black and white business in South Africa united on Friday when the presidents of the country’s four chambers of commerce signed a surprise agreement in Bloemfontein.
One of the world’s largest food firms has bowed to pressure from animal rights activists over the treatment of its animals.
Two Guardian executives, who had flown to Harare to make representations on behalf of the newspaper’s Zimbabwe correspondent, Andrew Meldrum, were yesterday ordered to leave within 24 hours.
America and Britain yesterday laid out their blueprint for postwar Iraq in a draft resolution to the United Nations security council, naming themselves as ”occupying powers” and giving them control of the country’s oil revenues.
South African Minister of Minerals and Energy Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has rejected the use of US courts in settling issues of apartheid reparations and justice.
Cats and dogs are being farmed in Belgium for their fur, which is then used to make blankets, coats and gloves, according to evidence released on Thursday.
Zimbabwe’s socio-economic problems are due to more than its current political instability, and South Africa had no right to dictate how these problems should be resolved, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday.