At least 35 fighters of the Congolese Rally for Democracy/Liberation Movement (RCD-ML) died on Wednesday in clashes in the eastern DRC town on Bunia
America’s most controversial writer Gore Vidal has launched the most scathing attack to date on George Bush’s Presidency, calling for an investigation into the events of 9/11 to discover whether the Bush administration deliberately chose not to act on warnings of al-Qaida’s plans.
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The Social Movements Indaba was gearing up on Wednesday for a mass rally against the World Summit on Sustainable Development at the Alexandra Stadium.<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?a=11&o=7974">Water and energy on the Summit agenda</a><br>
Malawi’s oldest newspaper house, Blantyre Newspapers Limited, (BNL) has suspended its leading editor apparently for criticising government over-expenditure.
Austria has written off Mozambique’s debt of 19 million euros, Mozambique’s finance ministry announced on Tuesday.
Two young people who tried to hijack an internal Ethiopian Airlines flight were shot dead on Sunday by national security agents on board.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has begun screening Eritreans in Sudan to see if they are eligible for continued refugee status.
Britain has frozen 76 000 pounds in assets belonging to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF Party.
US attorney Ed Fagan said he planned to initiate a class action lawsuit in the US against Switzerland’s two biggest banks and a US bank on behalf of victims of South Africa’s former apartheid regime.
Half the countries facing famine in southern Africa are stalling food aid from the US, fearing that genetically modified maize may cause health problems and harm their exports.