Treatment Action Campaign founder member Edward Mavundla, who died on Wednesday an hour before Aids activists arrived to visit him, made a deathbed call for world support for the organisation.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) continued to be pummeled by a considerably stronger local currency and global markets, which were down overnight. Gold stocks, by contrast, got off to a good start on the back of a higher bullion price.
When Nigeria, proud holder of the title of the most populous nation in Africa, goes to the polls this weekend it will be watched keenly from across a troubled continent, analysts say.
Winning the peace is never as easy as winning the war, the old cliche goes. Fears rose last night that the fabric of Iraqi society could fall apart in the wake of the fall of Baghdad.
Arab TV channels across the Middle East played down the news of the fall of Baghdad yesterday, focusing on scenes of chaos and looting.
Coalition forces moved to within 16 kilometres of Mosul yesterday amid signs that the Iraqi northern frontlines were starting to crumble and that the US was preparing a ground offensive.
The US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, yesterday accused Syria of helping senior members of Iraq’s Ba’ath regime to escape.
Even by Arab standards, the cult of Saddam Hussein was obsessive. Until yesterday, it was difficult to turn a corner in Baghdad without coming upon a statue or poster of him.
The bodies of 75 Aboriginal men and women were returned to Australia yesterday after spending decades in the collection of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.
Mugabe’s government has committed severe human rights abuses against the opposition party, has repressed the press and the judiciary and is largely responsible for the famine in Zimbabwe, according to a Commonwealth report.