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/ 6 November 2006
On Wednesday, in Jdeida prison on the outskirts of Tripoli, five nurses and a doctor prepared themselves for the worst: word that after seven years in prison, they were to be executed by firing squad. The six, who left their countries to work at the Children’s Hospital in Libya’s second city, Benghazi, were arrested and locked up after being accused of deliberately injecting HIV-tainted blood into more than 400 children.
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/ 6 November 2006
While President Thabo Mbeki will only give up his Union Buildings office in 2009, the next president will effectively be chosen in just over a year’s time at the ANC’s watershed elective conference in Polokwane, Limpopo. How will it happen? And how are the cards stacked? Zukile Majova and Mbuyisi Mgibisa investigated to bring you this exclusive report, taking you into the mechanics of an elective conference.
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/ 6 November 2006
Rwanda and Burundi may be sworn in as new members of the East African Economic Community when the grouping holds its next summit, on November 30, in the Tanzanian financial centre of Dar es Salaam. The regional organisation at present comprises Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and is headquartered in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha.
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/ 6 November 2006
Sudanese telecoms billionaire Mo Ibrahim has launched the Ibrahim Index for African Governance, a new comprehensive ranking of sub-Saharan African nations developed in conjunction with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Rule of law and security will weigh heavily in the index, ahead of human development, economic development, democracy, transparency and empowerment of civil society.
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/ 6 November 2006
The second round of elections took place last week. Results have begun trickling in, but an official announcement is not expected for some time. Stephanie Wolters speaks to party representatives Olivier Kamitatu and Moise Musangana about the way forward.
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/ 6 November 2006
The Chadian Army is stepping up reinforcements in the east of the country as it struggles to deal with rebels intent on overthrowing President Idriss Déby Itno. An upsurge in attacks in the past few weeks has left hundreds of soldiers dead and wounded, and counter-offensives launched by Deby’s men have failed to quell the rebellion.
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/ 6 November 2006
First, let’s lay down the mother of all caveats. The conventional wisdom says Democrats are about to win control of the House of Representatives and could well take the Senate too. But, and here’s the mega-caveat, the conventional wisdom in Washington is often very wrong. Cast your mind back to election night 2004, when the media anointed President John Kerry, writes Jonathan Freedland.
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/ 6 November 2006
Husham is standing on a street corner in his Sunni Baghdad neighbourhood when his cellphone rings. ”Yes brother … Two strangers … Investigate and take measures,” he mumbles. He carries a pistol in his right hand. Around him are a half-dozen fellow vigilantes carrying Kalashnikovs or wearing pistols tucked into their belts.
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/ 6 November 2006
The path to a portly tummy is paved with good intentions: empty promises of pre-work yoga, lunchtime running, evening gym sessions. Our homes are riddled with twice-worn swimming costumes, barely broken-in trainers and sports bras greying glumly at the bottom of the knicker drawer. We are united by its abandoned sportswear, common ambition to make it to the gym, and a collective excuse: “I didn’t have time.”
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/ 5 November 2006
A South African inventor claims to have found a solution to a common romantic mood spoiler — putting on a male condom. A Capetonian is marketing his Pronto condom as an answer to the annoyance of tearing off condom wrappers and figuring out the right way up, saying his patent can be donned in less than three seconds.