Former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide charged on Tuesday that the United States and France are orchestrating a ”black holocaust” in Haiti that has killed more than 10Â 000 of his supporters since he was ousted last year. Speaking to reporters in Pretoria, Aristide said he remains the democratically elected president of Haiti.
African leaders meeting in Egypt on Tuesday begged for cash ahead of July’s Group of Eight summit, but poor attendance showed tepid faith in the continent’s ability to achieve the stability and transparency meant to underpin the meeting. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak urged donors to boost their contributions.
Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu may need further cancer treatment, a statement issued on his behalf said on Tuesday. ”I am fit and healthy at present and my doctors will monitor my condition closely. They may need to introduce further treatment in the future,” the cleric said in the statement.
Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz tried to assuage the anger of Gaza Strip settlers on Tuesday, saying he is willing to consider delaying the operation to uproot them from their homes. Mofaz said he is sympathetic to calls for the evacuation to be postponed so it does not clash with a period of Jewish mourning that ends on August 14.
Mining group Kumba Resources has agreed to limit its retrenchments to 100 people from the 400 people that it previously planned to retrench, a Solidarity spokesperson said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Harmony Gold has started retrenching National Union of Mineworkers members at five of its operations in the Free State.
A driver in Britain suffered a broken nose on Monday after a frozen sausage was thrown through an open window of his car, an ambulance official said. The 46-year-old man was driving near his home in south-east England, when the "bizarre incident" occurred, said a spokesperson for the Essex ambulance service.
Argentine rocker Andres Calamaro was charged on Monday for saying he would like to smoke marijuana — more than 10 years ago. "I feel so good that I could smoke a joint," Calamaro told a crowd of 100 000 fans on November 19 1994 in La Plata, 50km south of Buenos Aires.
An Australian shot in the leg by his friend at a drunken party was so intoxicated he went back to sleep after the accident, a court was told on Tuesday. The court in the north-eastern city of Brisbane placed Shannon David Campbell (21) on probation for a year for unlawful wounding.
One-hundred-and-forty reindeer have plunged to their death in Lappland in northern Sweden, possibly having been chased off a cliff by a single lynx, reindeer herders said on Tuesday. "It’s a massacre. I have never seen anything like this," town spokesperson Nils Petter Pavval said.
Clutched in small groups and squatting uneasily outside a clinic in northern Burundi, the growing crowd of Hutus fleeing village genocide courts in Rwanda looked anything but optimistic. For the past two weeks, they have been trooping across the border in increasing numbers, fearing persecution or unfair treatment.