Britain’s intelligence community faces an unprecedented crisis of credibility in the wake of the Commons’s foreign affairs committee’s report on the decision to go to war in Iraq.
President George W Bush’s trip to Africa this week signalled a recent strategic decision to increase the United States’ military presence to bolster what Washington now sees as two important national interests on the continent — the supply of oil and the struggle against terrorism.
African Union leaders got a wake up call at their summit in Mozambique this week from a cash-strapped member who is muzzled because it is behind on its dues.
Leaders in the volatile Great Lakes region lack the political will to bring peace to the region, a European Union (EU) envoy said on the second day of the African Union heads of state summit in Maputo on Friday.
The process of choosing the AU’s permanent chairperson was reminiscent of the old Africa the union seeks to replace. President Thabo Mbeki was in league with his arch rival Moammar Gadaffi to ensure that Alpha Konare got the job of first permanent chairperson of the African Union Commission.
South Africa captain Graeme Smith admitted that Lord’s, where the Proteas face England in Saturday’s triangular series final, was a ”little bit intimidating”.
Three people suspected of the murder of Conan Thomas, a South African tourist in Bulawayo last month, have been remanded to 15 July in absentia.
Annika Sorenstam withdrew from the Canadian Women’s Open on Thursday due to a lingering illness that hampered her at last week’s US Women’s Open.
Sorenstam played six holes in 1-over par and walked off the Point Grey Golf and Country Club course after hitting her second shot on the par-4 seventh hole into a bunker.
In the spirit of dark clouds and silver linings, South Africa have cause to be reasonably sanguine after this week’s defeat against England at Edgbaston. Past South African teams made a habit of galloping through one-day tournaments only to trip up when it really mattered.
Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak was in an optimistic mood here on Thursday, even though his team’s tour of England ended with a crushing seven-wicket triangular series one-day international defeat by South Africa.