Harsh sentences imposed by Islamic courts in northern Nigeria since a dozen states adopted the Shariah legal code have drawn consistently strong criticism from President Olusegun Obasanjo’s federal government.
Hundreds of residents living near an Illinois nuclear power plant took advantage of a weekend giveaway of pills that help block radiation.
The humanitarian group Medecins sans Frontieres
”fully supports” the emergency plan to fight Aids announced this week by Zimbabwe’s government, the group said in a statement.
A sun-dappled morning breaks over Braam Pretorius street, a picture of leafy serenity, and the white-only staff of Radio Pretoria turn on the microphones for another day of vocal resistance to the new South Africa.
BoE bank handed over a donation of R10 000 to the National Sea Rescue Institute on Friday for the repair of the institute’s rescue boat at Knysna.
Swaziland’s King Mswati III will take delivery of a long-range executive jet worth -million before the end of November even though the parliament of the tiny southern African monarchy voted to cancel the deal, officials said on Monday.
Swaziland’s Parliament has been called into special session to review its rejection of plans to buy a -million private jet for the impoverished country’s king.
European Union delegates here to assess Myanmar’s political reform process were due to meet on Tuesday with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and a top junta member, officials said.
Some 35 000 overseas British citizen of Asian origin living in east Africa are to be granted the right to settle in Britain, Home Secretary David Blunkett told Wednesday’s Guardian newspaper.
An Australian man has admitted to raping an eight-month-old baby girl and causing her serious injuries in a case the judge described as one of the most shocking of his career.