They come in single file, a line of ragged gunmen, slapping 30 pairs of black gumboots down the orange forest-track. Without pausing, the lead man unshoulders his rifle and swings left. The next turns right.
A Zimbabwean soldier in the British army, who died this week serving in Iraq, has been condemned as a ”mercenary” and a ”sell-out” by President Robert Mugabe’s state media.
Ethnic militants vowed to prevent voting Saturday in a broad swathe of Nigeria’s oil delta during legislative elections that pose a test for civilian rule in Africa’s most populous nation.
I’m at the annual conference on world affairs in Boulder, Colorado, which sounds very grand but is basically a piss-up with speeches.
Free State health MEC Auma Tsopo on Friday announced that nevirapine for pregnant women and rapid test kits were now available at all hospitals and health complexes in the province.
Activists, fearing the Iraq war will sidetrack the fight against poverty, warned on Friday the world is sliding on its commitments to Africa.
Britain and the United States have bypassed the United Nations to establish a secret team of inspectors to resume the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
A meeting of Iraqis to discuss the formation of an interim government will take place in the southern city of Nassiriya on Tuesday, the US announced yesterday, as lawlessness and celebrations spread throughout northern Iraq.
By the time Asif Mohammed turned up for work yesterday morning, the ancient contents of Mosul’s museum had vanished. The looters knew what they were looking for, and in less than 10 minutes had walked off with several million dollars worth of Parthian sculpture.
The emerging US administration in Baghdad intends to use screened members of Saddam Hussein’s municipal police force to keep order in the capital, in a move reminiscent of the allies’ use of Japanese troops to maintain peace after Tokyo’s surrender at the end of the second world war.