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Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who fled a rebel onslaught on Sunday, is searching for a new home — and it appears that he may take up exile in South Africa. Aristide arrived in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), on Monday along with a small entourage that included his wife.
Analysis of election advertising campaigns often provides an objective litmus test of what political parties actually stand for, as opposed to what they communicate in order to secure your vote. In the build-up to the election it is interesting to look at the metamorphosis and development of how parties advertise themselves.
Acting CEO of Boxing South Africa Krish Naidoo is upset by Mzimase Mnguni’s live outburst on national television after a national championship bout in Cape Town. Mnguni’s charge Neo Seboka suffered a fourth-round stoppage defeat on Friday night against former South African mini-flyweight holder S’Thembele Kibiti.
South Africa emerged as the bad boy of international cricket following figures released by the sport’s world governing body in London on Monday. In the nearly two years since the International Cricket Council introduced a new code of conduct for international players, South African players had six charges laid against them, ending in five guilty verdicts.
Several giant tortoises and 30 scientists have been held hostage in the Galapagos Islands by fishermen who are demanding more rights to fish for sharks. The scientists are being confined in the Charles Darwin research station, on the island of Santa Cruz, by the fishermen who are refusing to allow food or supplies to reach them, threatening the welfare of the scientists and the tortoises.
Thousands of endangered species should be saved from extinction thanks to an ambitious plan to expand the world’s protected areas and improve their management approved last week by more than 120 countries. Twelve days of often fractious negotiations in Kuala Lumpur resulted in a concrete programme to ensure the ”significant reduction of biodiversity loss by 2010”.
World leaders must address the ”ethical vacuum” at the heart of globalisation or face the danger that the widening gap between rich and poor will lead to further conflict, political upheaval and war, says the International Labour Organisation. Its year-long commission on globalisation has concluded that the persistent imbalances in the workings of the global economy are unsustainable.
Britain’s sugar industry is conducting a last-ditch lobbying campaign to prevent Brussels from removing its lucrative virtual monopoly in the high-priced European market in favour of more competitive farmers from the developing world.