ISRAEL is shocked by the “kidnapping” of the UN conference on racism in South Africa by Arab and Muslim countries, a representative for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in Jerusalem on Sunday. “We are shocked by the kidnapping of the Durban conference by the Palestinians, by Arab countries and a certain number of Islamic […]

FARAH KHAN, Durban | Tuesday GENETIC research and experimentation have raised the spectre of new forms of discrimination, the World Conference Against Racism heard this week. The future has caught up with the present and now threatens the “brave new world” envisioned by novelist Aldous Huxley, said participants at a panel organised by the UN […]

FIFTY-one people had been killed and more than 500 wounded by midday on Sunday in Christian-Muslim violence in the Nigerian city of Jos, a senior official said Monday, releasing what he said was a first, partial, official toll. “This is not a final figure. The total I have given you is this, on what we […]

Harare | Monday A FRESH farm invasion took place briefly on Sunday in northern Zimbabwe, as President Robert Mugabe agreed in principle to a Nigerian-brokered deal to end the land dispute. A farming official on the invaded farm in Mashonaland Central province, who asked not to be named, said the invasion by around 200 land […]

THE US walkout from the UN conference on racism in Durban is a victory for all the victims of the United States, an official Iraqi newspaper said on Wednesday. “The withdrawal of the American delegation in Durban is a victory for all the Africans, Asians, Indians, Australians and others whose ancestors suffered from American colonialism […]

Luanda | Monday ANGOLA and Zimbabwe want to create joint companies to manufacture weapons, an Angolan military source said on Monday, after defence ministers from the two countries met at the weekend. The proposal surfaced during the meeting between Angolan Defense Minister Kundi Pahyama and his Zimbabwean counterpart Sydney Sekeramai, the source said, speaking on […]

CHRISPIN INAMBAO, Windhoek | Monday AIR Namibia passengers screamed uncontrollably, some of them vomiting, when an airplane door apparently opened at 9_000 feet last week. The flight was from Ondangwa to Eros Airport on Wednesday night. “They screamed, shouted and did all sorts of things … one of the passengers even tried to close the […]

CHERYL GOODENOUGH, Durban | Tuesday FOR two months Nusreta Sivac, a former Bosnian judge, was detained in a concentration camp in northern Bosnia where she was tortured and raped. Fifteen-year-old South African Lorraine Nesane was painted white after being accused of shoplifting by a white manager. At age 10, Afro-Brazilian Crueza Maria de Oliveria worked […]

Durban | Thursday THE controversial NGO declaration, which has been rejected by 77 NGOs from 37 countries in Europe, North America and south-east Asia as well as by five prominent human rights groups, was handed to the World Conference Against Racism on Wednesday. The NGO Declaration and Plan of Action will be included in the […]

Durban | Thursday DURBAN is set for potentially crippling protests on Thursday, as the bulk of heads of state attending the World Conference Against Racism jet into the city. The leaders including Cuban President Fidel Castro and his Palestinian counterpart Yasser Arafat are among 15 heads of state, mostly African, that will attend the week-long […]