Leading French politicians, apparently seeking to rebuild bridges with Washington, warned yesterday against mounting anti-Americanism in France and stressed that the US remained one of the country’s most valued allies.
Karamojong warriors believe it is their religious duty to ‘recover’ cattle from their neighbouring tribes. Heavy fighting has broken out at the Uganda-Kenya border between the Ugandan army and cattle-rustling Karamojong warriors.
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The international watchdog Human Rights Watch has just released a report documenting the trafficking of children in Togo, in particular girls used as domestics and market vendors and boys made to work as labourers on farms.
US aircraft hit a Red Crescent maternity hospital in Baghdad, the city’s trade fair, and other civilian buildings today, killing several people and wounding at least 25, hospital sources and a Reuters witness said.
The voracious appetite of Africans for news of the Iraq war has sent sales of satellite dishes and transistor radios soaring, even in the remotest corners of the world’s largest continent.
Government on Wednesday officially launched its Country Corruption Assessment Report (CCAR) on South Africa, but warned the document has ”serious shortcomings” and is based on inadequate data.
Malawi President Bakili Muluzi on Wednesday dissolved his entire 39-member cabinet but gave no reasons for the surprise move, a statement from his office said.
Former Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) MP and current KwaZulu-Natal MPL Jan Slabbert on Wednesday announced he is leaving the IFP to form a new party — the Peace and Development Party (PDP).
The current turmoil in Swaziland is a result of blurred lines between the powers of the executive, the judiciary and legislature, making it unclear who exactly was making the decisions.