The first major UN food convoy headed for Baghdad yesterday as aid agencies warned that poor security was now seriously hampering their work.
The ethnic and religious cauldron that is Nigeria goes to the polls today to elect a president, in what is being billed as a crucial test for democracy in Africa.
”Very sour and strained” relations between African National Congress MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and fellow parliamentarians, including those of her own party, meant she would not have received a fair hearing over her non-disclosure to Parliament of regular monthly donations and financial interests.
Back in 1999, 31 mothers in rural Giyani, Limpopo Province, decided one day that they would no longer sit around another day unemployed and impoverished.
Four years later the initiative they devised that day has produced more than 200 self-employed businesswomen.
The Japanese electronics giant Sony has taken an extraordinary step to cash in on the war in Iraq by patenting the term ”Shock and Awe” for a computer game.
Mozambique’s parliament on Friday ratified the International Labour Organisation’s Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention.
Zambia’s ruling party has suspended eight of its senior officials, including party chairman Chitalu Sampa, for alleged indiscipline, a party spokesperson said on Friday.
The United States soldiers swooped at 8am, fanning out along the embankment then storming the luxury riverside estate of their prey — the queen of spades on the US’s list of the 55 most wanted officials of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
The United States forces possess confirmed samples of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s DNA with which they can determine whether he has been killed or is still at large, according to the coalition commander, General Tommy Franks.