”There are six boreholes in this camp between 60 000 people — that’s one for each 10 000. Each family gets only two jerry cans full per day, and sometimes you have to wait 24 hours to get yours.” Many of the children at the Pabbo Internally Displaced Persons camp have never known anything other than life inside the parameters that house 60 000 people.
England’s 36-year wait for a Test-series victory in the Caribbean is near its end. Fast bowler Simon Jones triggered another sensational West Indies batting collapse at Queens Park Oval and, when bad light stopped play 11 overs early on the penultimate day on Monday, England had reached 71 for two — just 28 runs short of victory.
Some of Australia’s leading sports have been hit by a wave of rape allegations.
More than 20 rugby league and Australian rules football players have been accused in connection with at least eight incidents of rape and sexual assault, challenging the status of some of the country’s most admired teams.
Real Madrid go into their Champions League quarterfinal with Monaco on Wednesday on the back of two defeats that have rocked the reigning Spanish champions. However, Zinedine Zidane dismissed suggestions that the team who have won the Champions League twice in the past four years are a diminished force.
The Eastern Cape boys and girls under-19 hockey teams got their SA Games aspirations off to a cracking start when they won their opening matches at Xerox Park that saw four teams penalised for including provincial players, two teams failing to make appearances, and one province claiming they were informed the tournament starts on Tuesday.
Swimming’s governing body, Fina, expressed surprise and disappointment on Monday at the decision to scrap plans to put a roof over the pool for the Athens Olympics. The Games’ organisers decided on Sunday that it would be impossible to finish the construction work in time for the start of the Games on August 13.
Banyana Banyana have pledged to send Nigeria packing during the Athens Olympic Games when the two African women’s football giants meet at the National Stadium in Abuja on Friday night after influential midfielder Mpumi Nyandeni was roped into the squad.
England completed a seven-wicket win over the West Indies in the second Test in Trinidad on Tuesday to go 2-0 up in the four-Test series. The win means that England have avoided a series defeat in the Caribbean for the first time since 1968. They also retained the Wisden Trophy.
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World leaders on Monday condemned as unlawful the killing of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, and warned Israel may have buried the peace process along with any hope of resolving the bloody Arab-Israeli conflict.