Afghanistan | Sunday FOREIGN journalists invited to view the devastation wrought by the US bombing of Afghanistan arrived in Jalalabad on Sunday to find Taliban fighters dancing to the sound of incoming missiles. A heavily guarded convoy, bringing the first journalists allowed into Taliban-controlled territory since US-led forces began their military campaign in Afghanistan a […]

BRITAIN has no news of the British journalist Yvonne Ridley, who was held by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Monday after a night of air strikes against the regime. ”I feel terribly for the family. They’ve been on a kind of roller-coaster of hope and emotion,” he said, shortly before leaving […]

Zeeshan Haider, Khorum | Monday AN old man deferentially removed his turban as he spoke. ”We are poor people, don’t hit us,” he said. ”We have nothing to do with Osama bin Laden. We are innocent people.” ”I lost my four daughters, my son and my wife in this attack,” said Toray, a distraught farmer, […]

Dubai | Sunday THE heavy US aerial bombardment of Afghanistan has signally failed to silence Osama bin Laden who taunted the world superpower again on Sunday via a simple video message aired by an Arab television station. The representative for his Al-Qaeda group warned of more hijacked jetliner attacks to come against the United States […]

A RECENT study by the Organisation for Social Science and Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) has determined that, in comparison to social indicators of other sub-Saharan nations, Rwanda has the highest level of poverty. The report noted that 62% of Rwandans lived below the poverty line. – Irin 16

USaid is granting Angola an estimated $1,5-million next year for the resettlement of the demobilised Unita rebel soldiers, news reports said. The national news agency (ANGOP), said on Sunday that the programme would benefit some 300 families of soldiers demobilised under the Bicesse and Lusaka peace accords, who are based in the Huila, Huambo, Benguela […]