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/ 26 September 2005
The number of cases of typhoid in Delmas has increased to 594, a Mpumalanga government spokesperson said on Monday. The total number of people with diarrhoea has risen to 3 303 since the typhoid outbreak in the town on August 22, said Lebona Mosia.
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/ 26 September 2005
Between 400 and 500 people were killed in violence around elections in Togo in April, a United Nations report said on Monday, placing much of the blame on the West African state’s authorities. A culture of ethnically-tinged repression and military strength built up over four decades of iron-fisted rule by late president Gnassingbe Eyadema lay at the heart of violence, said a UN fact-finding mission.
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/ 26 September 2005
Northern Ireland took a potentially historic step on Monday towards a lasting peace with the formal announcement that the paramilitary Irish Republican Army (IRA) has destroyed all its weapons. While long-awaited, the report marks a potential watershed in Northern Ireland’s long trek towards a lasting peace, which began more than a decade ago with an IRA ceasefire.
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/ 26 September 2005
Nine-year-old Salama died instantly, his head blown off and his body torn to shreds when a massive explosion ripped through a Hamas military parade, killing at least 15 people. The Islamist faction blamed Israel and fired off dozens of rockets, unleashing a catalogue of Israeli air strikes and three sleepless, frightening nights for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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/ 26 September 2005
The Democratic Alliance is to raise questions in the Limpopo legislature asking for a full list of officials who participated in an African National Congress fund-raising dinner that it has dubbed ”Dinnergate”. The ANC reportedly offered business people and potential donors the opportunity to dine with high-profile government department and parastatal heads — at a price.
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/ 26 September 2005
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers on Monday sought more talks with Beijing on political reform in the city after a historic first meeting with a senior Communist Party official ended in acrimony. They said tense opening talks with Zhang Dejiang, party chief of the southern economic powerhouse province of Guangdong, should be just the beginning and they should be allowed to continue pressing their case.
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/ 26 September 2005
The leader of an United States movement challenging conventional science on HIV/Aids is being investigated for child endangerment after her three-year-old daughter died of the disease. Christine Maggiore, the child’s HIV-positive mother, denies HIV leads to Aids and refused to take anti-retroviral drugs during pregnancy.
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/ 26 September 2005
Indian drug firm Kadila Pharmaceutical is building a factory in a suburb of the Ethiopian capital at a cost of 75-million birr (,65-million) that is expected to be operational early next year, its Vice President Ajai Agrawal disclosed on Monday. The factory, under construction at Akaki, 20km south-east of Addis Ababa, is expected to produce drugs mainly for tuberculosis and malaria.
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/ 26 September 2005
Finance ministers from the world’s richest nations expressed their concern over sky-high oil prices during a weekend meeting in Washington, DC, and warned that fuel costs could derail global economic growth. Also, both the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank agreed in principle to wipe out -billion in debt owed by the planet’s poorest countries.
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/ 26 September 2005
Namibia’s land reform programme is flawed because poor and landless people are not being empowered to become successful farmers once they have been resettled, claims a new report. The Legal Assistance Centre, a local NGO, stressed that land reform involved more than just ”buying or expropriating land from one group in order to give more land to another group”.