A Cairo court on Thursday sentenced 14 men to sentences ranging from one to three years in prison on charges of homosexual activities, one of their lawyers said.
As Zimbabwe prepares to celebrate 23 years of independence from Britain on Friday, deepening economic and social crises in the country are certain to cast a shadow over festivities.
Hundreds of Liberian women peace activists have begun a non-violent campaign to persuade the government and rebels to cease the continuing war in their West African country.
Uday, Saddam Hussein’s feared elder son, had several hobbies: women, cars, the Internet, jewelry, weapons, the Shiite branch of Islam, alcohol and especially torture.
The draft mining royalties bill, as proposed by the National Treasury, could cost South Africa jobs, according to the Chamber of Mines.
The Iraq war is essentially over and the regime has been deposed, but a nagging 000 question still casts a shadow over the US military victory: where is Saddam Hussein?
A half-brother of Saddam Hussein, who is believed to have extensive knowledge of the toppled Iraqi regime’s inner workings, was captured today, US military officials said.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) says President Thabo Mbeki has snubbed it by holding special briefings on the Growth and Development Summit for its counterpart, the Federation of Unions of South Africa (Fedusa).
Since she took office in 1999, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has plunged the country into at least 13 crises about HIV/Aids, obscuring the Cabinet’s multibillion-rand efforts to end the damaging era of denial and confrontation.
The failure of Swaziland’s pro-democracy movement to mount a major anti-government protest this week as promised, has political observers wondering whether the domestic opposition has the muscle to effectively promote political reform.