Odds are that a few weeks ago, most Senegalese would have looked blank if asked to comment on persistent organic pollutants”. Now, they’re only too aware of the dangers posed by these chemicals also known as POPs. This follows the publication of a study which showed that dioxins had been found in eggs laid by free-range chickens in Dakar.
Squatters burned tyres, threw stones and toyi-toyied in Boksburg on Wednesday when security guards, known as the ”Red Ants”, moved in to evict them and demolish their shacks. Incidents of violence were isolated and ”no major resistance” was being shown by the 6Â 000 squatters, said Ekurhuleni metro police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Wilfred Kgasago.
The United Nations Security Council has condemned sex abuse by peacekeepers for the first time, after hearing from the head of an inquiry into abuse that member nations have ignored the problem for years. Jordan’s UN Ambassador Prince Zeid al Hussein said no nation in the history of UN peacekeeping was blameless.
I was with Ali G the other day. I had collected him from the airport as he landed from Kazakhstan, and he was carrying a magazine with its title "i" turned upside down so it looked like an exclamation mark. Nifty. On the cover stood four young, black people in designer suits. The headline read: "The Colour of Money". He informed me that this was "breaking news", in a Kazakh accent — charming.
Not only is Australia ruling Test and one-day cricket but its cricketing culture is spreading throughout the world through its coaches. Greg Chappell and Tom Moody have recently taken to four the number of Australians coaching international teams.
Kevin Pietersen has been given an opportunity to make the most of the absence of his Ashes rivals by starring for England in the triangular one day series with Australia and Bangladesh. Hard-hitting Pietersen came to prominence by scoring three hundreds during England’s 4-1 winter one-day series defeat in South Africa.
Key figures from the Watergate era, closely involved in events that culminated in the 1974 resignation of president Richard Nixon, blasted late on Tuesday a former top FBI official who leaked information about White House wrongdoings and brought the scandal to a head.
The scandal began with a botched burglary that initially attracted little attention but ended two years later with the first and only resignation of a president. To many Americans, Watergate is a dimming memory, if that. A majority of living Americans were not yet born or were children when President Richard Nixon was forced from office in 1974.
One of the greatest political and journalistic mysteries of the past century may have been solved after a former FBI official outed himself as ”Deep Throat”, the source of the Washington Post‘s explosive revelations about president Richard Nixon’s Watergate cover-up.
A new ”scramble for Africa” is taking place among the world’s big powers, who are tapping into the continent for its oil and diamonds. While sub-Saharan Africa is the object of the West’s charitable concern, billions of dollars’ worth of natural resources are being removed from it.