Lasagne is as English as roast beef and has been part of the English culinary scene since at least 1390, the British Daily Mirror newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing a cookbook compiled for Richard II.
Senegal has said it will not grant any new permits for quarrying and mining in the country’s 233 forest conservation areas. The government has said it will encourage companies already operating there to move out as part of efforts to reduce deforestation and protect the environment.
Two influential Islamic groups in Nigeria have urged Muslims to resist the government’s immunisation programme aimed at eradicating the polio virus. They allege the immunisation is dangerous.
Some 90% of organisations rate information security as a top priority for achieving their overall business objectives, according to the findings of the 2003 Ernst & Young Global Information Security Survey released on Tuesday.
Sarah Graham, a technical writer in Washington, DC, had just returned from getting a cup of coffee when she saw the first sign of trouble.
Security forces and rebels in northern Uganda have stepped up atrocities such as illegal killings, torture, rape and abduction over the last year, according to a report released on Tuesday.
State rail utility Spoornet receives revenue of R1,8-million a year for leasing 10 passenger coaches to the rail organisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), says Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe.
Many Cubans had forgotten Compay Segundo, who died on Monday, until a US record producer arrived in Havana in 1996 and launched Segundo and his fellow musicians onto the world stage with the release of the Buena Vista Social Club.
Senior British government ministers are resigned to the prospect that the two British prisoners who face US military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba cannot be repatriated to stand trial in UK courts because the legal barriers to such a political compromise are insurmountable.
The number of mine workers who are HIV positive is not known with certainty but rates are estimated at about 30% in the gold mining industry in South Africa, says Minerals Minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.