Zambia’s founding president Kenneth Kaunda hit out on Wednesday at ”globalisation with slave trade”, accusing western financial institutions of exploiting Africa.
A female activist in Indonesia’s Aceh province was on Tuesday sentenced to six months in prison for defaming President Megawati Sukarnoputri at a rally last year.
The government authorities in Ivory Coast have arrested a French journalist working for the Reuters news agency, accusing her of spying for rebels in the west African state, official Ivory Coast radio said on Tuesday.
While the road death toll since December 1 mounted to 1 236 by Monday, the Democratic Alliance demanded the resignation of Transport Minister Dullah Omar, or his removal from office.
I have started smoking about seven times. The best one was the last. It always is. Practice makes perfect, so you have a more textured awareness of what is unfolding. There’s the moment of fatal nostalgia, the decision, the dizzy embrace and, between 10 and 15 minutes later, the desire to repeat.
When the crude, animal-polluted ponds in the central Ethiopian village of Deyata Dodota used to run dry — as they always did for six months of the year — the women would set out at 4am on a long, back-breaking journey. They’d trek 20km to the nearest water source.
British armoured brigades based in northern Germany are beginning to prepare tanks and other vehicles for fighting in the Iraqi desert, defence sources said yesterday.
A group of lions that escaped from a national game park have killed three people in central Malawi, police said on Monday. Police say the lions crawled through a break in the fence at the Kasungu National Park.
After Iraq, wars and territorial disputes in Africa will dominate the work of the UN Security Council this month, council president Jean-Marc de la Sabliere said on Monday.
The editor of a Zimbabwean provincial newspaper in the south of the country was arrested last week under the country’s tough media laws, a regional media watchdog said on Monday.