While African women in Darfur were being raped by the Janjaweed militiamen, Arab women stood nearby and sang for joy, according to an Amnesty International report published on Monday. The songs of the Hakama, or the ”Janjaweed women” as the refugees call them, encouraged the atrocities committed by the militiamen.
Sudan tribunal orders amputation
Rape as a weapon of war
The Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed Qureia, on Monday called on Yasser Arafat to put the people before his own interests amid a growing challenge to the Palestinian leader over corruption and cronyism. The prime minister said that Arafat, who is popularly known as Abu Amr, should recognise that ”Palestinian citizens are in deep need”.
Moment of crisis nears for Arafat
Henry Waxman is an awkward customer. For 30 years, this California congressman has probed, badgered and embarrassed United States administrations of every hue. As the senior Democrat on the House of Representatives’ government reform committee, Congress’s principal standing investigative panel, he is a difficult man to ignore.
Eugene de Kock, the former Vlakplaas commander, testified on Monday that former security policeman Gideon Nieuwoudt showed malicious intent in detonating the Motherwell car bomb himself. De Kock was testifying at the TRC amnesty hearing of Nieuwoudt and two other former security policemen who are seeking amnesty for the Motherwell murders in 1989.
Voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) has been the subject of much discussion in the international press as services are rolled out in the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere. In South Africa, however, the debate has centred not on the numerous benefits that VOIP offers consumers but rather on why VOIP services are still being withheld by the government.
Need a taxi in Togo? Climb aboard a Zemidjan, or "take me quickly", motorbike and get to your destination faster than you would do in a car. These small motorbikes, which take a single passenger on the pillion, are all the rage in this corner of West Africa. They also provide a regular source of income to thousands of people who would otherwise be jobless.
The finale of <i>Friends</i> may have drawn bigger spend than the Superbowl, but sitcoms are in a slump in the United States. Harry Herber returns from an extended trip with stories of the bizarre.
Picture an institution that invests about $55-billion a year in the world’s economy with the mandate of alleviating poverty. This is supposed to be the World Bank, which turns 60 next month. I won’t be sending a birthday card. World Bank money has left a legacy of environmental and social devastation, from cyanide spills in Peru to land expropriation and water pollution at oil pipelines.
The second series in the political soapie that closed with Judge Hefer’s report is currently on air. Professor Tawana Kupe unpacks the media’s role in the intrigue.
A new generation of web ad is fuelling the dot.com recovery, writes Matthew Buckland. The keyword search advertising model, with Google as one of the main players, now accounts for 35% of online spend in the US.