Scientists want to spend more than £12-million (R144-million) in a 10-year programme to explore life’s last great mysterious domain — the treetops.
President George Bush conceded yesterday America had ”a security issue in Iraq” as polls revealed public opinion growing increasingly sceptical about the presence and purpose of US troops in the Gulf.
The black economic empowerment (BEE charter) for the country’s financial sector is expected to be finalised before the end of September.
As United States President George W Bush soars away from our country, one has to wonder whether he will really know more about the African continent at the end of his safari than he did at the start.
The enactments of troubling incidents, such as necklace murders, that are beginning to emerge around South Africa are perhaps a cathartic way of putting into action the struggle to find language that expresses the frustrations, helplessness, disempowerment and dire poverty of people whose lives have become meaningless.
President George W Bush’s trip to Africa this week signalled a recent strategic decision to increase the United States’ military presence to bolster what Washington now sees as two important national interests on the continent — the supply of oil and the struggle against terrorism.
Britain’s intelligence community faces an unprecedented crisis of credibility in the wake of the Commons’s foreign affairs committee’s report on the decision to go to war in Iraq.
The widening gulf between the global haves and have-nots was starkly revealed this week when the United Nations announced that while the United States was booming in the 1990s, living standards fell in more than 50 countries.
World Bank projects costing hundreds of millions of dollars and aimed at cutting malnutrition among children in developing countries have completely failed to make a difference, according to a report published last week.
Analysts in Nairobi suspect that United States President George W Bush left Kenya out of his five-day African tour as a way of punishing the East African nation for its failure to support the US-led war against Iraq.