While the new Budget did not specifically allocate money for a national HIV and Aids treatment plan, there was probably room for such spending, MPs were told on Monday.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was once again under pressure at the start on Tuesday, taking its cue from weak global markets. Gold stocks were particularly hard hit, after their ADRs took a hammering in New York overnight.
Ivory Coast’s army on Monday rejected rebel claims they carried out a massacre of hundreds of people in a lawless region contested by several rebel and pro-government groups.
Agreements that allow the European Union to pay African nations for the right to fish in their waters need to ensure better protection of stocks and more benefits to local communities, the World Wildlife Fund said on Tuesday.
Under the watchful eyes of Kofi Annan and the Queen of the Netherlands, 18 judges are to be sworn in today as the most important human rights institution the world has seen in half a century is formally inaugurated.
Saddam Hussein is preparing for a ”Stalingrad siege” of Baghdad against advancing Allied forces which could be slowed down by the capture of prisoners of war, a displaced population, and the use of chemical weapons against civilians, the commander of UK forces in the Gulf warned yesterday.
Jean-Pierre Bemba, whose Movement for the Liberation of Congo controls much of northern Congo, has been referred to the international criminal court by Congo’s government and the International Federation of Human Rights.
The US-United Kingdom coalition has enough firepower in the Gulf region to begin an invasion of Iraq, but there are serious downsides to beginning the invasion at such a premature point. What are the options, and the pros and cons of each?
Brazzaville does not make the news very often. Its main problems — civil war, crushing poverty, corruption, Aids — are those of its country’s bigger and better-known neighbour, the Democratic Republic of Congo, but sitting on the border between West and Central Africa, Brazzaville enjoys the culture of both
Master batsman Sachin Tendulkar maintained his extraordinary run of form to spur India to a formidable 292 for six in the Super Six Cricket World Cup match at the Wanderers on Friday.