Prosecution documents repeat claim that the deputy president was a conscious party to corruption.
An ”all-time war” due to begin on Friday between Nigerian rebels and government troops has been averted by 11th-hour peace talks. Rebel leader Alhaji Dokubo Asari met President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday after Asari threatened to attack foreign oil installations. The threat of violence contributed to last week’s record oil prices when barrels of Bonny light crude traded for more than .
The insurgency in Iraq appears to be more widespread and deadly than Iraqi leaders are prepared to admit, according to military figures and a report by a private security firm. There have been 2 300 attacks in the past month, Iraq insurgency is outpacing coalition attempts to restore peace.
Water used to flow through the taps in Tabata, a sprawling suburb of whitewashed bungalows in Tanzania’s biggest city, Dar es Salaam. These days, the faucets and steel water pipes stand empty in backyards while families send their children to fetch water from a well. Girls heave buckets on to their heads while boys as young as nine wrestle jerrycans on to barrows and trundle them down the streets.
This warning may come a tad late for paddlers taking part in the two-day Fish River Canoe Marathon, which kicks off at the Grassridge dam on Friday, but elephants have been spotted in the Fish river. Well, that’s according to sheep farmer Tiaan Naude, who took a preparatory paddle down the river this week.
Enough funds to pay for the entire primary health and education needs of the world’s developing countries are being siphoned off through offshore companies and tax havens, according to a body formed to expose the offenders. A new group aims to expose how money that could finance global development is being hidden offshore.
Red tape, corruption and a lack of public support for government policies are hampering investment in the poorest countries, a report from the World Bank revealed on Tuesday. The bank also called on the international community to remove trade restrictions and subsidies. The benefits to developing countries would be four or five times the value of aid they receive, it says.
It took nearly a year, but Brian van Rooyen has finally delivered on his promise to shake South African rugby to its foundations. This week he buried both the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) and SA Rugby (Pty) Ltd and replaced them with one structure, to be known simply as SA Rugby.
So splendid was the agenda, and so eloquently was it read, and so warm were the sunbeams streaming down through the stained-glass representation of the ascension of Idi Amin, that the delegates at the first sitting of the Pan African Parliament decided to adjourn for half an hour to indulge their democratic ecstasies.
Arsene Wenger has told Wayne Rooney wil have to live ”like a monk” if he is to make the most of his phenomenal talent. The 18-year-old’s stunning debut for Manchester United in midweek came as no surprise to the Arsenal manager, who has previously described Rooney as the most exciting young English player he had seen.