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/ 1 September 2003
In 1982, a group of private investors opened the Palm beach Hotel, a sprawling tourism complex by the Atlantic ocean in Benin, a small country on the coast of West Africa.
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/ 1 September 2003
Daniel arap Moi called her a ‘mad woman’ and a ‘threat to order and security’. MPs threatened to mutilate her genitals. Women in Kenya, particularly young women, see themselves in a different light since the advent of environmentalist Wangari. Caroline Kihato, a young Kenyan, explains why.
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/ 1 September 2003
On paper, the war in Côte d’Ivoire’s war is over. Peace was declared in West Africa’s economic hub nearly two months ago, and rebels and loyalists united in a power-sharing government. But fears of a new conflict are on the rise with rumours of new uprisings and heightened military measures.
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/ 1 September 2003
When Linford Christie, Leroy Burrell or Maurice Greene got their massive frames rolling in the sprinting finals at major championships in the 1990s, the very foundations of the stadiums seemed to quiver and shake. Last week in Paris, Kim Collins changed all that.
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/ 1 September 2003
Geoff Hoon, the British Defence Secretary, last week appeared to undermine Downing Street’s carefully crafted defence for the Hutton inquiry when he insisted that key officials in No 10 were intimately involved in the ”naming strategy” that led to the unmasking of Dr David Kelly.
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/ 1 September 2003
An eleventh-hour deal to provide cut-price drugs for the world’s poorest people was being finalised in Geneva last week in an effort to save next month’s trade summit in Cancun, Mexico, from collapse.
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/ 1 September 2003
Andy Roddick unfurled his body and unleashed an ace that forced a line judge to duck as the ball slammed against the wall with a thud. It was the loudest display the American produced on Sunday in his victory over Flavio Saretta of Brazil in the US Open.
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/ 1 September 2003
A low turnout in Zimbabwe’s municipal elections at the weekend — probably no more than 30% of registered voters — has been blamed on apathy and the country’s long-running economic crisis.
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/ 1 September 2003
One might have thought that retaining her women’s high-jump world title would have made it a good day for South Africa’s Hestrie Cloete at the World Championships in Paris on Sunday, but the opposite was true.
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/ 1 September 2003
After some tenacious play in England, it smells like team spirit. Every time England faltered, South Africa swarmed all over them. That’s the mark, not necessarily of a great team — although great teams always possess this quality — but of a good team that believes in itself.