Kenny Kwaramba sells mobile phone accessories at a flea market in Zimbabwe, but Iraq — and the ouster of its dictator Saddam Hussein — is on his mind. Kwaramba says the images of jubilation among Iraqis at the fall ofHussein’s regime have not been lost on his impoverished, hungry and demoralised friends and neighbours.
Zambian villagers living along the Angolan border have been bartering goats and chickens in exchange for AK-47 rifles from their hungry Angolan neighbours, police reported on Tuesday.
Piles of ash and plastic bags containing ash and bone fragments that could be the remains of between 700 and 800 people were discovered on a beach in East London over the weekend, Eastern Cape police said on Tuesday.
Fertile soil, lush green hills and rivers running with gold make Ituri province one of the potentially richest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Dolly Mokgatle, Managing Director (Eskom Transmission) has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of South Africa rail parastatal Spoornet.
The average annual inflation rate in Zimbabwe continued its dizzying upward trend, hitting 228% in March, the government’s statistics office said on Tuesday.
Two of the biggest names in corporate America, Microsoft and General Motors, yesterday quashed hopes that an early conclusion to the war in Iraq might be a catalyst for a return to profit growth.
The US and British governments yesterday formally began the tortuous process of steering Iraq towards a democratic future, but the first day of talks was undermined by technical delays, schisms and fierce political and religious unrest sweeping across the country.
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The leader of the Palestinian Liberation Front who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro has been arrested in Baghdad, according to US intelligence sources.
Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder last night staked out a role for themselves as mediators between the US and France in the postwar world.