It was once a street so rich and central to black America that Atlanta’s Auburn Avenue was known simply as ”Sweet Auburn”. It was the site of America’s first black-owned daily paper and first black radio station. It was here Martin Luther King was born. It was here King preached freedom from the pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Sunni leaders on Saturday failed to agree on a boycott of this week’s referendum on a new Constitution, a move that would have exacerbated Iraq’s political and security crisis. However, they said they hoped that those voters who do participate will vote no.
Caked in thick grey dust and using only candlelight and the cries of the injured as their guide, tens of thousands of rescuers continued a desperate effort on Saturday night to save thousands of people buried in rubble after a huge earthquake flattened towns and villages across Pakistan and northern India.
Thousands of people were killed on Saturday when a massive earthquake measuring 7,6 on the Richter scale shook parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, flattening houses and sweeping whole villages away. The confirmed tally of deaths has been pushed above 3 000.
The Democratic Alliance is setting up an internal commission to deliberate on the diversity of its public representatives — an issue highlighted when four of its senior black MPs defected to the African National Congress and another left to start his own party. The DA lost its court challenge against the five floor-crossers.
Sibusiso Zuma laid the ghost of an eerie international goal drought to rest by scoring the goals that gave Bafana Bafana a 2-2 draw against the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at Durban’s Absa Stadium on Saturday and a nervy, at times uneasy place in next year’s 16-team African Nations Cup finals in Egypt.
Mudslides and floods sparked by Tropical Storm Stan have killed 508 people in Guatemala alone, a Guatemalan official said on Saturday, bringing to 610 the number killed when the storm lashed Central America and Mexico with heavy, unrelenting rains.
An earthquake measuring at least 7,6 on the Richter scale caused massive devastation on Saturday across a swathe of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, leaving more than 1Â 800 dead with fears for many more. The quake triggered deadly landslides that wiped out entire villages.
An earthquake measuring 5,4 on the Richter scale jolted southern and central Bangladesh on Saturday, whipping up high waves in the Bay of Bengal, officials said. The quake came the same day that a major earthquake struck northern Pakistan, about 2 000km north-west of Bangladesh, early on Saturday.
European countries responded swiftly to Saturday’s massive earthquake that hit Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, offering aid and funds as well as condolences. The European Union’s executive arm, said up to â,¬3-million could be approved within a day if requested by agencies working on the ground.