Sudan has dropped charges against two European medical aid workers accused of spreading false information in a report alleging widespread rape in the troubled province of Darfur, the organisation which issued the report said on Monday.
After a long-delayed weekend return from exile to his native country, Somalia’s prime minister on Monday began talks with warlords and other power-brokers on finding a home for his transitional government in the lawless war-shattered nation. A debate is currently raging over where the administration should set up shop.
The director general in the presidency, Frank Chikane, has been asked by an opposition MP to investigate whether the Minister of Social Development, Zola Skweyiya, may have contravened the Executive Members’ Ethics Act. The question has been raised of whether a payment to Skweyiya constitutes an attempt to buy influence.
The African Union (AU) was on Monday pushing for progress to be made in ongoing talks to bring peace to western Sudan’s Darfur region as tension eased over Chad’s co-mediation role, an AU spokesperson said. The civil war in Darfur has drawn global attention to what has become one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
England captain Michael Vaughan was full of admiration for Kevin Pietersen after the Hampshire batsman added to his growing list of breathtaking one-day innings with a commanding 91 not out in Sunday’s triangular series victory against world champions Australia. England was faltering in their pursuit of 253 but Pietersen saw them home at the County Ground.
Condoleezza Rice, the United States secretary of state, announced on Sunday that Israel and the Palestinian Authority have agreed that the homes of 8 000 settlers in the Gaza Strip will be destroyed when they have been evacuated later this year.
The Rain Queen, Makobo Modjadji the Sixth, was buried at the royal cemetery at Ga-Modjadji in Limpopo on Monday, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported. Only family members attended the funeral and thousands of mourners waited outside the cemetery.
They were hopelessly outnumbered, but even then the Greeks knew it would be the battle that could change history. The Asian invaders had entered the Aegean. The ”comeliest of boys” had been castrated; the throats of the ”goodliest” soldiers ripped out.
Dozens of scholars, citizens and journalists will gather in a grand marble hall on Monday to watch a frail 80-year-old man for any sign of capitulation to age or ill health — aware that the looming battle to succeed him is likely to split the country in two.
Iran’s presidential election was thrown into uncharted territory on Tuesday after a hardline candidate who unexpectedly won his way into a run-off vote was accused of ballot-rigging.