Kenya’s opposition parties, for years crippled by self-inflicted divisions, have promised tens of thousands of chanting supporters they will join forces to break the ruling party’s 39-year hold on power.
THE most active wing of Burundian rebel group the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) on Monday rejected the mediation of South African Vice President Jacob Zuma.
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World leaders will continue on Tuesday to spell out their views on how to fight poverty and save the planet as the Johannesburg World Summit enters its final days.
A plane intended to take South African humanitarian aid to Palestinians was still grounded in Johannesburg late on Wednesday, an aid official said, calling Israeli objections political rather than technical.
The Syrian government’s hold on Lebanon was shaken on Monday night when its placeman, the Prime Minister Omar Karami, was forced to resign after a wave of street protests. Both the Syrian regime and its puppet government in Beirut have been under pressure since the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri a fortnight ago.
A ”most despicable” Singapore mother who helped in the regular rape of her nine-year-old daughter has been told she must serve-out a 36-year jail sentence and is lucky not to be jailed for life, a report said on Tuesday.
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While economic growth had been unprecedented since the last World Summit in Rio, economic inequality had deepened and environmental degradation accelerated, said President Thabo Mbeki in Brazil.
The bodies of two young sisters have been recovered from the Crocodile River near Rhodes after their family’s 4×4 vehicle was swept off a bridge on Sunday morning.
A document in which Cape Town mayor Gerald Morkel allegedly asks a Swiss trustee of Jurgen Harksen’s affairs for money emerged at the Desai Commission on Wednesday.
The man behind last week’s car bombing and missile attack near Mombasa was identified as a Kenyan on the FBI’s most wanted list, reports an Israeli daily.