Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is finally cracking under relentless pressure by African leaders to meet opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and solve the economic and political crisis in the Southern African country, say experts.
The tie-in between the globetrotting Pope and the global leader in burgers, fries and gherkins comes as the Spanish church seeks a way to fund yet another official visit from John Paul – his fifth so far.
Unexploded ordnance and landmines littering northern Iraq have killed or maimed more people – many of them children – since the end of the war than during the fighting, a Guardian investigation has revealed.
Beijing yesterday imposed sweeping measures to close down theatres, discos, internet bars and other places of entertainment as the city’s total of Sars cases climbed higher.
The government will continue carrying out its programmes to fight HIV/Aids, President Thabo Mbeki told a Freedom Day rally in Orkney in North West province.
The 19-year-old Pretoria student who was suspected of having Severe Acute Respiratorary Syndrome (Sars) was in a stable condition in the Pretoria Academic Hospital.
South Africans celebrated Freedom Day on Sunday with President Thabo Mbeki saying the government would continue carrying out its programmes to fight HIV/Aids.
Nigeria’s recent landmark polls were ”far better” than the elections that brought US President George Bush to power, the country’s former attorney general said on Sunday.
Troops forming the first ever African Union (AU) peacekeeping force began arriving in the Burundian capital charged with strengthening a fragile ceasefire in the war-ravaged country.
Children are the main target of the 17-year Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency which is terrorising civilians in northern Uganda and seeks to topple President Yoweri Museveni.