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/ 6 December 2007
Robert Mugabe, a largely unwelcome guest of the European Union at a summit this weekend, is a hero in the eyes of many Africans for daring to stand up to the West and seize land from white farmers. Many in Europe have been left scratching their heads over how Zimbabwe’s president since independence still commands respect.
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/ 6 December 2007
Climate scientists from around the world urged delegates at United Nations-led talks in Bali on Thursday to make deeper and swifter cuts to greenhouse emissions to prevent dangerous global warming. In a declaration, more than 200 scientists said governments had a window of only 10 to 15 years for global emissions to peak and decline.
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/ 6 December 2007
On radio this week President Thabo Mbeki described the ANC leadership race as "a model of democracy in motion". As with many of his lofty pronouncements, no one in South Africa believes him. All the signs are that the ANC is in the grip of a kind of collective madness, in which almost any campaign tactic is seen as justified.
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/ 6 December 2007
With renewed fighting that has killed hundreds of soldiers and rebels in eastern Chad, and signs of more hostilities to come, aid workers are adjusting how they assist the hundreds of thousands of civilians who depend on aid for their survival. Heavy fighting broke out on December 3 between rebels and government forces in a mountainous area called Aram Kole, a regional capital in the east.
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/ 6 December 2007
It was approaching midnight and something was wrong at Miraflores Palace. Thousands of people in red T-shirts were gathered outside the balcony waiting for Hugo Chávez, waiting for another victory, but the hours dragged by and he did not appear. This had been the scene of his every triumph since 1998. The president would appear on the balcony, salute the country and proclaim another leap forward in the revolution.
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/ 6 December 2007
They sang “I agenda ya makapital asiyifune and Sodibana eLimpopo [We don’t want the capitalist agenda and we’ll meet in Limpopo]” outside Rabasotho Hall in Tembisa. About 50 ANC members had gathered after hearing senior ANC leaders, Defence Minister Mosioua Lekota and Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, were to address “delegates to Polokwane”.
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/ 6 December 2007
America’s highest court on Wednesday held what is expected to be the pivotal case on the future of the United States prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where more than 300 foreigners accused of being terrorists are detained. The Supreme Court judges listened to arguments from the Bush administration and lawyers representing the detainees.
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/ 5 December 2007
…Two areas of new interest are in the fields of business magazines and technology. Business Today, Business World, the Economic Times, and Technocrat, launched fairly recently, are doing well … Bhutan, with less than 1 million population, can now boast of publishing its own national newspaper.
Authors: Anju Chaudhary and Anne Chen, in the book Global Journalism.
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/ 5 December 2007
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The outcome of the African National Congress’s (ANC) leadership contest is up to its membership and the contest should not be seen in a negative light, President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday. The people nominated were ”not nominated because they are enemies”, and should not treat one another as such.
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/ 5 December 2007
A reported spat between Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya and Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota was an indication of how the divisions within the African National Congress (ANC) were running through the Cabinet, a political analyst said on Wednesday.