Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has appointed a commission to draft a new democratic constitution for the country within a year, a government gazette said on Saturday.
A top official in Malawi President Bakili Muluzi’s ruling party has resigned in protest over what he described as Muluzi’s imposition of a hand-picked successor, he said on Saturday.
An international team of zoologists and veterinarians led by Lawrence Anthony of the Royal Zulu National Park arrived in Kuwait on Friday but were prevented from entering Iraq.
North Korea stepped into the nuclear danger zone yesterday by declaring it had begun reprocessing 8 000 spent fuel rods from the reactor at the heart of its confrontation with the United States.
The pot-bellied, olive-uniformed image of Saddam Hussein popped up on Middle Eastern television sets yesterday, along with a slurred, rambling call to arms, confounding US hopes that the Iraqi dictator is dead and fuelling fears he may have gone underground in the hope of fighting back another day.
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.