Malawi’s electoral commission on Saturday said presidential elections will be held on May 20, two days later than originally scheduled, following opposition complaints over irregularities in the Southern African country’s computerised voters’ roll.
It was meant to give Iceland a global lead in medical research and create a powerful drug companies. But the launch of DeCode Genetics is threatening to become a national embarrassment. DeCode, which was set up to carry out pioneering work into genes and DNA, has been warned its actions may infringe the privacy rights of Icelanders.
Frogmen armed with rifles and grenade launchers are the latest symbol of Athens’s desire to convince the world it can ensure that terrorists do not turn the Olympic Games into another September 11. The divers of the Greek navy are intended to protect VIPs staying on yachts in Piraeus harbour, such as South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki.
Sonia Gandhi was poised on Saturday night to be the fourth member of the dynasty to lead India after the Congress party chose her unanimously as its parliamentary head. Standing under life-sized portraits of former prime ministers, she told party workers: ”Very shortly, a Congress-led coalition will be in place.”
Dozens of videotapes of American guards allegedly engaged in brutal attacks on Guantanamo Bay detainees have been stored and catalogued at the camp, an investigation by a British newspaper has revealed. The disclosures prompted demands on Saturday by senior politicians to make the videos available immediately.
There has been much speculation in the press about the exciting prospect of a new Sunday newspaper, aimed mainly at a South African readership. I have been lucky enough to get my hands on a so-called ”dummy” of the new paper, the brainchild of neighbouring presidents, Robert Mugabe and Sam Nujoma.
Voters in western Zimbabwe began voting on Saturday in a by-election seen as a test of strength between President Robert Mugabe and the opposition ahead of next year’s legislative elections. Residents in the remote district of Lupane are casting their ballots to replace an opposition lawmaker reported to have died from torture wounds.
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Google’s float may be grabbing the headlines but slightly further back from all the media attention are plans by five Chinese Net companies to go public and jointly raise -billion. The world’s most populous country is poised to log on, but can the rest of the online business community handle the competition?
One of the salient points black business pioneer and former chaiperson of New Africa Investments Limited Nthato Motlana made recently was that when he started out on the capitalist path, black economic empowerment was unknown — it was all about "black business" back then. BEE deals have, in effect, put the brakes on the growth and development of black business.
The abuse of Iraqi prisoners is the inevitable consequence of occupation and the ultimate responsibility lies at the top. Coalition soldiers and security men are the subject of random, repeated attacks that have resulted in many deaths. The arbitrary nature of those casualties, and the impossibility of seeing the enemy clearly, encourage armed forces to respond in ways that would be intolerable in conventional warfare.