Kenyan journalist Peter Murimi was named winner of the CNN journalist of the year award in Johannesburg on Saturday, the United States broadcaster announced on Sunday. Murimi, who works for the Camerapix agency in Kenya, was chosen from 465 entrants from 30 countries across Africa for his story, ”Walk to Womanhood”.
It is Europe’s longest-running cultural heritage dispute, yet the row over the rightful home of the Elgin Marbles is still so hotly contested it will almost qualify as an Olympic sport in Athens this summer. Undiplomatic comments made by a British archaeologist in a new BBC documentary on the subject will now take the temperature of debate still higher.
”The toll on children is most worrying,” says James Elder, communications officer for the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), about the situation in Darfur, western Sudan. He noted that; ”There are high levels of malnutrition, especially among children. Many of them have died of malnutrition, but it is difficult to get the number of those dead due to the lack of monitoring logistics.”
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A United States F-16 jet fired missiles into a residential area in the flashpoint Sunni city of Fallujah on Saturday, killing at least 22 members of one extended family. A US spokesperson said the aircraft had been targeting a safe house belonging to the terrorist network run by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian directing a suicide bombing campaign against coalition forces in the new Iraqi security organisations.
Scientists have voted to boycott an international journal after its owners blocked publication of a paper claiming large numbers of IBM workers have died prematurely of cancers and other diseases. The development is unprecedented and has triggered a battle between the computer company and researchers.
A clever and daring underground movement has sprung up in Zimbabwe that is stoking public opinion against Robert Mugabe’s government. Zvakwana — which means ‘enough’ in the Shona language — has launched a bold campaign expressed through graffiti, e-mails and condoms to encourage the Zimbabwean people to rise up.
Some held their heads in their hands. Others wept openly. A few stared straight ahead. It was the end of the 11 September commission’s public hearings and those in the cavernous auditorium in Washington knew that they had just heard the final, definitive account of the world-changing events 33 months before.
The beheading of US hostage Paul Johnson highlights once again the tense relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia, and revives a sometimes bitter debate whether the Saudis are doing enough to rein in violent Islamic factions.
Veteran journalist and former Sowetan newspaper editor Aggrey Klaaste died in the Garden City Clinic in Johannesburg on Saturday morning, aged 63. Klaaste was editor of the Sowetan in the stable of New Africa Publications between 1988 and 2002, taking the newspaper into a democratic South Africa in 1994.
Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans who have left their economically-ravaged homeland for neighbouring countries, either legally or illegally, are not seeking refugee status but only a means to earn a livelihood. The migration is voluminous and hard to ascertain, but according to official figures in Harare, more than three-million Zimbabweans live overseas.