Coal seam fires that can burn underground for centuries pose a major threat to the environment and human health, experts say. Once under way they can be impossible to put out, raging for decades or even centuries.
African National Congress MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela will seek an urgent interdict on Tuesday to stop National Assembly Speaker Dr Frene Ginwala’s public reprimand.
President Olusegun Obasanjo has ordered the immediate arrest of ethnic militants who unleashed two weeks of violence in Nigeria’s volatile Niger Delta that caused scores of deaths and halted oil operations.
Almost all of the miners that embarked on a nine-day work stoppage at world number two platinum miner Impala Platinum have returned to work on the Sunday night shift.
America’s military and civilian war leaders made an aggressive effort to present a united front yesterday, amid claims that US troops are beginning an enforced pause of days or weeks before advancing on Baghdad.
Tony Blair today waded into the battle for hearts and minds in the Arab world by arguing that the United States and Britain were right to go to war in Iraq.
In this highly politicised city where anger over the invasion of Iraq alternates with pride in the resistance, there is one sure way to lighten the mood.
After the bombings, the ambushes and assaults, the newsreaders’ voices lighten as they reach the humanitarian aid slot in the story running order.
A British Royal Marine was killed in action in today when his boat was ambushed in southern Iraq.
Yesterday afternoon a man in glasses and a large helmet stood by a ditch in Iraq, trying to communicate with a group of farmers.