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/ 4 September 2007
Tens of thousands of people hunkered in storm shelters on Tuesday as Hurricane Felix roared toward Central America, but transport shortages left many facing the storm’s whipping winds and rain in their homes. The category-four hurricane, due to make landfall around mid-morning, charged toward Honduras and Nicaragua with top sustained winds of 215km/h.
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/ 4 September 2007
The opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) appeared to win power in a cliffhanger election on Monday but the ruling party, facing the end of an 18-year reign, served notice it would likely challenge the result. Election officials said the JLP won 31 of the 60 seats in Parliament in a preliminary vote count.
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/ 4 September 2007
Peace talks between the Sudanese government and Darfur’s rebel groups could begin next month, according to senior United Nations officials. The UN Security Council agreed in July almost to triple the number of foreign troops and police in Darfur with the aim of protecting the millions of displaced people.
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/ 4 September 2007
Through his intellectual leadership in both the government and the ruling African National Congress, President Thabo Mbeki has defined and made central the commitment to women’s empowerment, writes Mbuyiselo Botha, general secretary of the South African Men’s Forum.
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/ 4 September 2007
"When you’re trying to get into the US or travelling about the country by air, one of the battery of security measures in force is called ‘secondary security screening selection’ or SSSS. This is usually a random selection, we are told," writes Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein.
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/ 4 September 2007
The affluent waterside enclave of Greenwich is 48km east of New York and has been the United States’s hedge-fund capital since the September 11 attacks made Manhattan less appealing. Nicknamed "Wall-Street-on-Sea" or "Upper Hedgistan", the town is home to more than 380 firms managing $100-billion.
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/ 4 September 2007
Business in Nigeria is booming — and South African companies are determined to be a part of an economy they say has sky-high potential, despite the challenges posed by unpredictable regulations, unreliable power and a lack of infrastructure. Of these companies, MTN has enjoyed the most obvious success, but other players are upbeat.
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/ 4 September 2007
Raúl Castro has started to make cautious changes in Cuba, which could signal plans for political and economic reform. Since he took over from his brother Fidel, dozens of dissidents have been released, an olive branch has been extended to Washington and there is talk of easing communist controls on property and agricultural production.
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/ 4 September 2007
Sol Plaatje 2007: Relocated Mandelaville residents still live in shacks clinging to a hillside facing the Durban Roodepoort Deep mine dump — an aged, yellowing scar on the landscape. There is no electricity here, no direct access to clean water and no municipal services such as rubbish collection. But the view from Sol Plaatje is finally looking up.
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/ 4 September 2007
I’m Not There, a biopic of folk icon Bob Dylan in which he is conspicuously absent but omnipresent, should ”wash over you like a dream”, the film’s director, Todd Haynes, said on Tuesday. Viewers should not ”get too bogged down in the literal connections to Dylan and let it take you somewhere”, Haynes told reporters.