Along with fuel shortages, bread shortages, shortages of milk and other basic commodities, residents of the Zimbabwe capital Harare now have water shortages to contend with.
The former chief executive of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, Masupha Sole, was on Tuesday sentenced to 18 years in prison for taking bribes.
John Walker Lindh, interrupting nearly every sentence with a sob, expressed hope that Americans would someday forgive him while he serves a 20-year sentence for joining the Taliban army.
The Irish go back to the polls Saturday to vote a second time on the Nice treaty on EU enlargement, in a crucial referendum that could make or break the European Union’s bold plans to expand into the once-communist east.
UN agencies have of a ”humanitarian catastrophe” for thousands of people displaced by fighting and beyond the reach of aid workers in the Congo’s Pool region.
A knife-wielding man went on a rampage and slashed 10 children on Wednesday in a day care centre operated by a Christian church in the South Korean capital, witnesses and police said.
The Health Department on Wednesday said it had reached agreement on protocols for the provision of antiretroviral drugs to rape survivors.
The labour department will take the strongest possible action against employers who tested domestic workers for HIV/Aids and drove them away if they tested positive, Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana said.
Nelson Mandela on Thursday said doctors have given him a clean bill of health after his bout with prostate cancer.
Kenyan police has termed as ”unfair” accusations by the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) that the country’s security forces are ”using” the recent attack on an Israeli tourist hotel to justify a crackdown on refugees living in the capital Nairobi.