Four days after Angola vanished from the US-led ”coalition of the willing” supporting war against Iraq, the African country has reappeared on the White House list of nations publicly supporting the effort.
After a week of war in Iraq, the tourism industry in Africa, often the continent’s economic mainstay, has been hit by falling reservations and growing concerns about safety.
Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has signed a decree naming the interim defence and interior ministers in a unity government aimed at ending a ruinous rebel war, said official sources on Wednesday.
Shell is planning to shed up to 4 300 global oil-exploration jobs over the next four years in a move to cut costs by up to -million a year and boost profits that slumped 23% last year.
A series of at least 30 explosions have been reported in Baghdad, as at least four waves of air strikes hit the city centre and the outskirts of the capital.
China dramatically raised the death toll from the new Asian virus yesterday, admitting that it had killed 34 people there so far, including three in Beijing.
A significant case for sexual rights went to the US supreme court yesterday, where lawyers for two Texans arrested in their bedroom asked the court to overturn their convictions for sodomy under a state law against homosexuality.
The young man wearing the brown shawl summed it up succinctly: ”We want you to go back home. We do not want your American and British aid,” he said, his eyes flashing with anger.
The dead officer lay face down in a ditch, his hair capped with a shell of pale mud and his fingers stretched out as if the last thing he had done was to stroke the clay.
South Africa is said to be facing one of the worst tuberculosis epidemics in the world, with disease rates up to 60 times higher than those currently experienced in the United States.