Twenty-one years after losing their sons to the anti-apartheid struggle, 10 families could finally be able to bury their remains, which are being recovered from unmarked graves north of Pretoria. National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi said the remains will be subjected to DNA and forensic testing.
Thousands of villagers in northern Kenya fled their homes in fear on Thursday as new interclan violence wracked parts of the remote region after a brutal massacre and a reprisal attack killed at least 76 people this week, officials and residents of the area said.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Thursday defended South Africa’s policy of quiet diplomacy on Zimbabwe, saying louder lobbying of President Robert Mugabe has not yielded results. Dlamini-Zuma was speaking following talks in London with Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) nations slammed the door in Africa’s face in Gleneagles last week, just as the continent thought it was on the verge of a breakthrough in new aid and fair trade, ActionAid said on Thursday.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela and United States First Lady Laura Bush campaigned in two South African cities this week against the spread of Aids. Mandela, about to turn 87, urged young people to use condoms and not to have sex prematurely, and recruited four new ambassadors for his 46664 campaign.
Relatives desperately sought news of their loved ones on Thursday as medical workers struggled to identify mangled corpses a day after about 150 people died in Pakistan’s worst train crash in 15 years. Stations across the country have been thronged with people frantically searching victim lists posted by the authorities.
New information and pictures of former president Nelson Mandela, his life and his time in prison will be available to South Africa from November.
Europeans have been invited to throw themselves into the river on Sunday for their first ”Big Jump,” a day called to advocate clean and living waterways through public awareness events across 12 European Union countries.
A new United Nations agreement to track trade in arms is attacked on Thursday as toothless and riddled with loopholes by human rights groups which have seen a copy of the secret deal. The agreement, to be discussed at the UN on Thursday, excludes ammunition, shells and explosives.
Tens of thousands of Filipinos marched through the financial district of Manila on Wednesday demanding that President Gloria Arroyo resign over allegations that she tried to rig last year’s presidential election. One of the protest organisers, Wilson Fortaleza, described the march as ”a preview for a bigger storm”.