A civil society meeting on Zimbabwe in Gaborone on Thursday condemned human rights violations in Zimbabwe and called for intervention there by other African governments and institutions.
Algeria on Wednesday announced the formation of a committee to link the government and thousands of families who say their loved ones disappeared at the hands of state security forces during the 1990s.
The head of companies that allegedly smuggled Chilean sea bass and rock lobsters from South Africa to the United States for at least 15 years pleaded innocent on Wednesday to smuggling charges.
The United States has developed an experimental vaccine believed to be capable of protecting primates from the Ebola virus in what is seen as a major breakthrough in fighting one of the deadliest diseases known to man.
US government scientists and Pentagon officials will gather today behind tight security at a Nebraska air force base to discuss the development of a modernised arsenal of small, specialised nuclear weapons which critics believe could mark the dawn of a new era in proliferation.
British-led plans to destroy Afghan opium poppy farming, responsible for 90% of the UK’s heroin supply, have made little progress so far, UN figures will show next month.
Latest predictions show that climate change is going to be far worse than earlier forecasts and that Labour’s drastic aim of a 60% cut in carbon dioxide emissions for the UK may not be enough, says the Institute of Public Policy Research.
Helicopters dropped the first US troops into Liberia yesterday, but President George Bush warned that a larger force would not follow the seven marines until the Liberian president, Charles Taylor, had left the country.
Playing for time
More than 300 Palestinian men walked free from Israeli military prisons yesterday to be snubbed by their own leaders but hailed by Ariel Sharon as evidence of Israel’s commitment to peace.
Zimbabwe, Liberia, stuttering privatisation and dependency, and the ravages of HIV/Aids and malaria are blamed for the continent’s decline in growth.