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/ 29 November 2004
Tens of thousands of Indian people still suffer appalling effects from the Bhopal gas leak 20 years ago and over 20 000 have died from the disaster, Amnesty International said on Monday, labelling the victims’ long wait for justice a major breach of human rights.
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/ 29 November 2004
Colombian rebels plotted to assassinate George Bush during his brief stopover in the port of Cartagena last week, according to the country’s defence minister. Jorge Alberto Uribe told reporters: ”We knew that various members of Farc [the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia] had been instructed to attack the US president.”
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/ 29 November 2004
A bus driver is facing charges of culpable homicide after nine passengers on a bus died when the vehicle smashed into a bridge near Mqutu, near Dundee in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday. Seven people were critically injured — of whom two have died — and 18 were seriously injured — including the driver.
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/ 29 November 2004
European commissioner Peter Mandelson on Sunday denied being involved in discussions over the alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea as the Conservatives began to put pressure on the British government over what it knew and when. ”I have never undertaken to deal with it in relation to the British government in any way, shape or form,” Mandelson said in a statement on Sunday.
How UK was told of coup plan
Memo deepens Thatcher link to coup
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/ 29 November 2004
The British government on Sunday night entered the debate over England’s controversial cricket tour to Zimbabwe with Peter Hain, the leader of the Commons, calling it a ”propaganda victory” for President Robert Mugabe. As the first of four one-day internationals ended with an England win in Harare on Sunday, Hain said the sport’s governing body should have complied with the players’ wishes.
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/ 29 November 2004
Ukraine’s electoral crisis threatened to split the country in two on Sunday night when leaders in the east voted to hold a referendum on regional autonomy, as the government ruled out the use of force to solve the week-long standoff. The Donetsk regional council voted 164-1 to hold the referendum this coming Sunday on giving the region the status of a republic within Ukraine.
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/ 29 November 2004
This was a victorious year for women environmentalists in Africa. The highlight was the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai in October, while on the same day, two of <i>Earthyear</i>’s journalists were fêted at the annual SAB Environmental Journalists of the Year Awards.
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/ 29 November 2004
As the pressures of urban living increase, more city people are looking for places where they can find peace, solitude and a release from stress. New developments aimed at meeting their needs are taking place around the country, but often they cause environmental and social degradation. Eco-trails and farming are a good match, but you have to get the mix right.
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/ 29 November 2004
This is a country of mood swings, anxiety attacks and febrile excitement, and we ride the big, crude indicators — sports scores, the rand, emigration statistics — like kids at a funfair, alternately terrified, exhilarated and petulant. Has a long year of rate cuts, all of them shrugged off by the tumescent rand, really brought the cost of money down to a level that will pacify Mboweni’s critics in business, labour and NGOs? Don’t bet on it.
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/ 29 November 2004
"We need Renamo to see what they will bring," says Asahel Bin Dando Ossene who, along with most other people on Mozambique Island, survives by fishing. "For 20 years we had Frelimo and they brought us nothing." Mozambique Island is closer to Zanzibar than to Maputo and its dhows and mosques emphasise the point. As Mozambique goes to the polls, a remote area in the "forgotten" north of the country raises its voice.