Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan had given his backing to a program by President Robert Mugabe’s government to seize thousands of white-owned farms.
MINISTERS and officials of the World Health Organisation began a week-long meeting in Geneva on Monday, set to include talks on bioterrorism and access to drugs for poor countries.
A South African labour union said on Wednesday workers should not be blamed if the central bank missed its inflation targets because of their demands for higher wages.
THE Baghdad zoo has fallen on hard times, and its six lions are now reduced to eating donkey meat because beef is expensive.
The powerful stench of death hung over the Ivory Coast village of Monoko-Zohi on Saturday where a mass grave was discovered with the bodies of 200 more victims of the country’s 11-week conflict.
South African-born Sydney Brenner, John Sulston of Britain and American Robert Horvitz have won this year’s Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning how genes regulate organ development and a process of cell suicide.
Iraq’s people and its military will quickly desert President Saddam Hussein in the event of a US blitzkrieg against his regime, a key exiled opposition leader claimed on Thursday, ahead of talks with senior US officials.
A concerned mother took southern Africa’s last absolute monarch, King Mswati III of Swaziland, to court this week, challenging the selection of her daughter as his bride.
South Africa was experiencing an economic miracle without being aware of it, the Swiss-South African Chamber of Commerce heard this week.
Detectives sifted through dirt and leaves as they looked for blood, fibres, hair or any other evidence to assist their investigation into the death of Chandra Levy.