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/ 10 October 2003
Ethiopia this week handed over to Kenya more than three dozen elephant tusks seized 18 months ago from smugglers in a border town — one of the largest hauls of illegal ivory in recent years, Kenyan wildlife officials said. It is suspected that the 37 tusks were cut from 50 elephants killed in northern Kenya last year.
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/ 10 October 2003
It was, the Israelis insisted to the UN Security Council when not invoking Osama bin Laden, a small thing: a limited strike not aimed at Syria at all. But the international outcry against the deepest Israeli raid into Syria for 30 years, accompanied by warnings of escalation, will not displease Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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/ 10 October 2003
A potential treatment for HIV has been shown to be highly effective in tests, according to Medical Marketing International (MMI), which has been working with scientists at London University.
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/ 10 October 2003
A new militia in eastern Uganda’s Teso region — recently the target of civilian attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) — is having more success fighting the insurgents than the country’s conventional armed forces have had in the past 17 years. The so-called ”Arrow Boys” have apparently restored a semblance of order.
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/ 10 October 2003
The United States Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, revealed the depth of the fissures within the Bush administration this week with a remarkably bad-tempered interview in which he claimed not to have been told about an important overhaul of policymaking on Iraq.
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/ 10 October 2003
Syria’s youthful president sounded resolute and defiant this week in his first public comment on the Israeli air raid that struck deep into his country’s territory. ”We can, with full confidence, say that what happened will only make Syria’s role more effective and influential,”’ Bashar al-Assad told the pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat.
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/ 10 October 2003
The new millennium has not been kind to the Springboks and, let’s be blunt, there is no cause for optimism over the 2003 Rugby World Cup. After the false dawn of 2002 when, under new coach Rudolf Straeuli, the Boks played thrilling rugby (but still lost three out of four games) the 2003 season has been an unmitigated disaster.
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/ 10 October 2003
Remember Cameroon vs Argentina, the first game of the 1990 soccer World Cup in Italy? Or Senegal vs France, the opening clash of the 2002 World Cup? Now let’s look ahead to Argentina vs Australia in Sydney on Friday. Initially I thought a Puma-ling might be on the cards … but now I’m not so sure.
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/ 10 October 2003
Old Trafford is in the business of drama but the quality prized most in the boardroom is control of the script. This week, a terrifying thought will have entered the minds of the directors: could the battle for control of Manchester United be driven, at least in part, by a quarrel over a racehorse?
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/ 10 October 2003
It was only the pre-qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix but the attention centered on the two contenders for the world title — Michael Schumacher and Kimi Raikkonen. Schumacher gained the first advantage for a sixth world driving title by finishing ahead of rival Raikkonen on Friday.