Nothing could have conjured the images of a riven country more eloquently than the Zimbabwe national day of prayer. An event meant to unite a country was marked by a slanging match that would not have looked out of place before a heavyweight boxing match.
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The Dutch government has decided to resign after losing the support of its junior coalition partner in a row over Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said on Thursday. The prime minister added that he would probably go to meet Queen Beatrix, the Dutch head of state, on Friday.
In just four-and-a-half years, the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has helped 544Â 000 HIV-positive people begin anti-retroviral treatment, distributed 11,3-million insecticide-treated bed nets and treated 1,4-million cases of tuberculosis. This is according to a progress report released by the fund on Thursday.
Andre Agassi and Maria Sharapova showed why they have the right to call themselves Wimbledon champions as they cruised into the last 32 of the men’s and women’s singles on Thursday. Veteran showman Agassi, taking his final bow at the All England Club, looked far less rusty than he had done in a laboured first-round win over Boris Pashanski.
Palestinian militants blew a hole in the Palestinian border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt on Thursday, witnesses said. About 200 Palestinians gathered at the scene of the explosion, where witnesses said militants blew open an 8m wide hole in the wall. No casualties were reported.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Thursday dismissed any notion that his country needed a ”rescue package” from the international community, Zim Online reported. ”We have heard of so many so-called initiatives to rescue Zimbabwe. Rescue this nation from what?” he asked at the burial of late Information Minister Tichaona Jokonya in Harare.
Seven men accused of taking part in the multi-million rand heist at Johannesburg International airport in March this year will continue their bail applications on Monday. They allegedly formed part of a gang that boarded a South African Airways plane and made off with R72-million in foreign currency.
Bush-meat trade is threatening a possible depletion of Africa’s great apes, the world’s leading chimpanzee and gorilla conservationist, Jane Goodall, warned on Thursday. She said corruption and commercial interests involving logging companies are making conservation efforts futile.