Scientists believe an effective Aids vaccine may be a step closer after studying an unexpected reponse to the HIV virus in individuals in Uganda who appear immune to infection.
Washington is coming under mounting pressure from big business to use the transatlantic trade spat over GM crops as a test case for an all-out assault on EU health and safety rules, environmental campaigners warn.
The shareholders of a large west African natural gas pipeline project signed a -million deal on Monday that should see it operational by 2005, the firm’s chairman said.
Nigeria’s police said on Monday they had uncovered a plot by unidentified elements to use explosives to disrupt President Olusegun Obasanjo’s May 29 swearing-in for a second term.
Dimension Data, the information technology high-flyer that moved offshore at the height of the tech bubble in the late 1990s, continues to struggle against what executive Jeremy Ord describes as "very tough market conditions".
A Goldman Sachs employment scenario plan released last week indicates that while the rationale for a Growth and Development Summit is still contested, the summit is forcing joblessness to the top of the economic agenda.
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It appears that President Thabo Mbeki’s recent letter on Zimbabwe is designed to achieve two major objectives. Firstly to stay close to Mugabe as the negotiations on a way out of the Zimbabwe crisis proceed; and secondly to use the politics of Zimbabwe to attack his opponents on both the left and the right in South Africa.
An international truth and reconciliation commission (TRC) on violence against women in armed conflict ”as a step towards ending impunity” is one of the key recommendations in a United Nations (UN) report launched recently in Parliament.
Leading Chechen rebel commander Shamil Basayev said on Monday that separatist guerrillas under his command carried out the two suicide attacks that killed 78 people in the breakaway Russian republic last week.