Charles Taylor, the Liberian president, under siege from rebels in the capital Monrovia, yesterday renewed his promise to step aside and seek asylum in Nigeria.
A senior Nigerian government official said President Taylor had accepted an offer of asylum. ”[He] asked to be given 40 days, but Nigeria said it should be some time this month,” said the official.
A legal battle for the right to incorporate the word spam in the trademark of software companies has begun in the US.
If the Anglo-American war against Iraq was not a racial war, then what was it? Check out the way the media (including our own version of that shameful crew) choose to describe it.
We’re unsure where it came from, have no treatment for it and no idea when or where it will spread next. With containment so far the only defence against Sars, the race is on to find out how infectious it is, the incubation period and its transmission route.
Whatever happened to the food crisis in Africa that Western charities, the United Nations and governments warned last year could engulf 25-million people? Did it never happen? Did they get it wrong? Did the rains come and the food suddenly grow? Did the world stump up enough cash and food?
Flyhalf Chris Rossouw will play his first match since recovering from knee surgery when he runs out for Western Province (WP) in their Vodacom Shield semifinal against Griquas at the Absa Stadium in Kimberley on Saturday.
Athletics South Africa (ASA) announced on Wednesday that Boland athlete, Elana Meyer, was found to have exceeded the reportable limit of the banned stimulant Caffeine, in a sample provided at a 10km race in Bali, Malaysia on February 2 2003.
Fiji’s rugby players have been warned that discipline will be crucial in the 2003 Rugby World Cup (RWC), with organisers promising a crack down on illegal play, the Fiji Times reported on Wednesday.
Springbok prop Lawrence Sephaka was involved in a motor accident that left a pedestrian dead in Germiston on Tuesday, Ekurhuleni metro police said on Wednesday.
Western countries should kickstart deadlocked global trade talks to heal the international diplomatic rifts left by the war in Iraq, Supachai Panitchpakdi, the director of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), urged this week.