The Iraqi people will be forced to suffer more death, disease and fear if the coalition does not step up security to help humanitarian aid get through, warn relief agencies.
The South African Pharmacy Council warned on Friday of the possible suicidal psychological side-effects of the popular malaria drug Lariam.
The United Nations (UN) in the Central African Republic (CAR) appealed to donors on Wednesday for ,1-million to help two-thirds of the country’s 3,7 million people directly affected by war.
Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano has dismissed recent allegations that he played a role in the death of the country’s first president, killed in a plane crash 17 years ago.
The South African National Treasury on Friday welcomed the decision of international credit ratings agency Fitch to upgrade South Africa, saying it confirmed South Africa’s status as a haven.
An informal group of land experts met in South Africa recently at the invitation of the United Nations (UN) Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to analyse constraints to sustainable land reform in Southern Africa.
The secretary general of the Commonwealth, Don McKinnon, admitted yesterday that the body had failed in its efforts to get Mugabe to reform, but said it would keep trying.
Maxwell Nemadzivhanani, the suspended Limpopo chairman of the Pan Africanist Congress, has been instructed to appear before a national disciplinary committee next week at the PAC headquarters in Johannesburg.
De Wet Kritzinger’s shooting spree on a Pretoria bus in 2000 which left three people dead and four wounded was a racist, unscrupulous and unjustifiable deed, Judge Dion Basson said on Friday.
The long and often bitter campaign to end the US navy’s bombing exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques culminated in victory for the islanders yesterday, who celebrated the military pull-out with fireworks displays and parties.