The shocking extent of unexploded cluster bombs dropped by American and British planes, which litter Iraq eight weeks after the conflict, is revealed in detail for the first time today.
As the popstar and his entourage strode up a dirt track towards yet another Aids clinic, two donkeys bolted into the throng — and the mission to save Ethiopia scattered in alarm.
The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein on Friday dismissed an appeal by a policeman who set his patrol dog on illegal immigrants in a ”training exercise.”
The expenses an American company’s subsidiary incurred in its fight against apartheid in South Africa were tax deductible, the Appeal Court ruled in Bloemfontein on Friday.
Almost 30 years after the leaders of the industrialised west gathered for a quiet ”fireside chat”, tomorrow’s summit in the French spa town of Evian sees relations between the G8 family strained as never before.
French combat troops are expected to fly into Congo’s Ituri province next week with a UN mandate to secure the airport at Bunia and protect civilians from further massacres.
Ethiopia’s latest drought-driven famine seems familiar at first: infants with pot-bellies suckling the emaciated breasts of mothers too tired to wave away flies crawling across their lips.
One word sums up the Mondi Wetlands Project and its national manager, David Lindley – enthusiasm.
Water is often referred to as Africa’s gold, but in many barren rural areas it is hope for the future. The Rainwater Harvesting Project is helping children to harvest that hope.