Tony Blair and the US president, George Bush, have once more failed to clarify the UN’s role in a post-Saddam Iraq, in their third meeting in less than three weeks.
US forces are continuing to target government buildings in Baghdad, including the planning and information ministries, in a series of sustained attacks.
A white lawmaker is trying to reconcile whites and blacks in Namibia by asking whites to apologise for their part in decades of racist colonial rule.
The tobacco industry would like ”constructive and sensible” talks with the government over proposed changes to the smoking laws, industry representative Francois van der Merwe said on Monday.
US troops holding positions in the western half of Baghdad today began an assault on Iraqi units guarding a crossing to the east.
Africa, particularly the Sub-Saharan region, would experience brighter economic conditions in 2003, provided the war in Iraq ended quickly, the World Bank’s Global Development Finance report shows.
Five southern African airlines have expressed interest in taking part in the privatisation of Air Botswana, a government official said on Monday.
African Game Services owner Riccardo Ghiazza and a student animal handler were found guilty in the Pretoria Regional Court on Monday of ill-treating a group of 30 elephants brought to a farm near Brits from Tuli in Botswana in 1998.
US troops holding positions in the western half of Baghdad today began an assault on Iraqi units guarding a crossing to the east, and in the process fired a tank shell at a hotel housing the foreign media.
About 40 million Africans face possible starvation this year unless the international community comes up with one billion dollars’ worth of aid, says the World Food Programme (WFP).