The first presidential ”primary” ever held on the internet resulted in a victory yesterday for the liberal Vermont governor, Howard Dean.
Heavy artillery and small-arms fire pounded Monrovia yesterday as a four-day battle for the city degenerated into scenes of random violence and widespread looting by the army of Liberia’s besieged president and indicted war criminal, Charles Taylor.
United States President George Bush is expected to receive a hostile reception from thousands of protesters when he arrives in South Africa next month on a week-long trip to Africa.
The US Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a claim by the footwear maker Nike that a publicity campaign to counter allegations that it uses sweatshops to make its products was protected by the right to free speech.
Zimbabwe police on Friday attempted to search the offices of the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party for ”subversive materials”, an MDC official said.
The governance standards of at least two or three African countries are likely to come under scrutiny in the next few months, a senior official said on Friday.
Earthlife Africa said on Friday it was shocked and outraged that the environmental impact assessment of a planned nuclear reactor at Koeberg, near Cape Town, had been approved by the Environmental Affairs Department.
Israel hoped to improve its relations with South Africa, which to date ”left something to be desired”, Israeli Foreign Affairs Director General Yoav Biran said on Friday.
White police officers should also be deployed in predominantly black areas like Lusikisiki, east of Umtata in the Eastern Cape, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Willie Madisha said on Friday.
Former president Nelson Mandela once again condemned the United States for the war on Iraq saying ”anybody, especially a leader of a super state country to work outside the United Nations, must be condemned”.