The European Union on Tuesday warned Somalia’s bickering leaders to resolve a long-running and deepening dispute over the seat of the lawless nation’s transitional government or lose out on much-needed aid. ”The leaders have some differences that are not fully encouraging aid to Somalia,” British envoy David Bell told a meeting of EU diplomats.
Japanese encephalitis has killed 14 more people in northern India, taking the death toll from the mosquito-borne disease to 267, officials said on Tuesday. The new deaths were reported since Monday in Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state and one of its poorest.
Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s son, Tutu Buthelezi, is to stand against his father’s party in an upcoming municipal by-election in the Inkatha stronghold. Tutu Buthelezi announced this week that he had joined former Inkatha Freedom Party national chairperson Ziba Jiyane in his new National Democratic Convention party.
Tourism is a priority sector for South Africa and is well-placed to contribute to economic growth and job creation, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Tuesday. The deputy president was speaking at the launch of the School of Tourism and Hospitality in Auckland Park, Johannesburg, on Tuesday.
The Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) will spend R5,2-billion in the next four years on improving infrastructure before the Soccer World Cup in 2010. Acsa released its financial results on Tuesday. Its revenue for the year rose by 5,3% to R1,9-billion as passenger numbers rose by 12% to 13,3-million.
The stricken bulk carrier Kiperousa is starting to break up and has moved about 150m closer to shore near East London, the Dispatch Online reported on Tuesday. It said bad weather at the weekend caused some damage to the ship and 25 logs were washed off a barge while being conveyed to East London.
United States Gulf Coast residents staggered on Tuesday from the body-blow inflicted by Hurricane Katrina, with more than a million people without power, lowlands swamped and at least 55 dead — a number likely to increase as rescuers reach the hardest-hit areas.
Two more people have died as a result of an accident at Samancor’s Middelburg Ferrochrome furnace earlier this month, bringing the death toll to six, the company said on Tuesday. Johannes Stephanus Meyer and Johan Pretorius were unable to recover from the injuries sustained when ”hot gases were released” from one of the furnaces on August 17.
Some of the United States’s leading scientists have accused Republican politicians of intimidating climate-change experts by placing them under unprecedented scrutiny. A far-reaching inquiry into the careers of three of the US’s most senior climate specialists has been launched by Joe Barton, the chairperson of the House of Representatives committee on energy and commerce.
They know how United States President George Bush likes his Thanksgiving turkey, how the Queen takes her toast and just how many puddings former US president Bill Clinton can get down. These and other culinary secrets of some of the most powerful, or poshest, people in the world will be adding spice to the dinner table conversation at one of the most select and sybaritic of world summits as it meets this week.