US President George Bush on Wednesday hailed the deaths of Saddam Hussein’s two sons as the clearest sign yet that ”the former regime is gone and will not be coming back”.
The top US ground commander in Iraq, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, said here on Wednesday he had no doubt that US forces had killed Saddam Hussein’s two sons, Uday and Qusay.
The Democratic Alliance continued pushing the Ministry of Safety and Security on Wednesday for the release of crime statistics on a more regular basis than once annually.
Acting on a United Nation’s (UN) request, Switzerland has frozen two million Swiss francs (â,¬1,3 million, ,5-million) in the bank accounts of two associates of Liberian President Charles Taylor, the Swiss justice ministry said on Wednesday.
Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Wednesday the organisation’s ”worst employer” award, to be announced at its congress in September, was hotly contested.
Author and academic Hermann Giliomee says he believes that former South African president FW de Klerk was outfoxed by events leading up to democratic changes in South Africa.
Burundi is very near collapsing, conflict analyst Jan van Eck said on Wednesday, but added: ”There is no doubt the problem can be solved.”
The commander of US ground forces in Iraq said on Wednesday that US troops launched an all-out assault on the hideout of Saddam Hussein’s sons after they spurned an offer to surrender.
The United States and Britain, along with many Iraqis, hailed the deaths of Saddam Hussein’s two sons Uday and Qusay on Wednesday, while officials elsewhere mostly limited themselves to expressing hopes that the event would herald an improvement in the country.
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s national flag — a rich blue banner studded with gold stars — has been raised in the eastern rebel stronghold of Goma, a move a rebel official said on Wednesday was a sign the five-year civil war was ending despite fighting elsewhere and acrimony among officials in the new transitional government.