Activists, fearing the Iraq war will sidetrack the fight against poverty, warned on Friday the world is sliding on its commitments to Africa.
It is probably most accurate to call him Iraq’s president-elect. The moment President Saddam Hussein falls, Jay Garner will take over, with the kind of sweeping power over the whole of Iraq that even Saddam has been unable to exercise for the past few years.
The United States on Monday accused Zimbabwe’s government of unleashing a new wave of violence against the opposition, which it said was incited when President Robert Mugabe compared himself to Adolf Hitler.
A defiant Iraq braced on Wednesday for war within hours after flatly rejecting a US ultimatum for President Saddam Hussein to flee and thousands of US and British troops drew up battle lines in the desert.
World awaits unpredictable Saddam’s next move
President George Bush has fixated on getting rid of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, one way or another, ever since he moved into the White House.
Libya has agreed to take some responsibility for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and pay billions of dollars in compensation to the families of the victims, US officials said on Wednesday.
President George Bush has slapped sanctions on Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and 76 other government officials allegedly tied to efforts at undermining democracy there, the White House said on Friday.
The United States on Tuesday launched a modest program to help bridge the digital divide between developing countries and the developed world.
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/ 26 February 2003
The humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe under President Robert Mugabe is ”almost beyond comprehension,” World Food Programme director James Morris said on Tuesday.
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/ 19 February 2003
One invention helped save millions of lives, the other helped fine tune navigation systems now taken for granted by the military and civilians alike.
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/ 15 February 2003
The United States on Friday demanded an inquiry, an explanation and an apology from Zimbabwe, saying one of its diplomats was questioned in Harare in a ”serious breach” of international law.
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/ 14 February 2003
The space shuttle’s skin almost was certainly pierced, allowing superheated air inside the left wing and possibly the wheel compartment during Columbia’s fiery descent through Earth’s atmosphere, investigators said on Thursday.
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/ 13 February 2003
The United States on Wednesday sneered at foreigners, mainly from western countries, who have volunteered to serve as human shields in the event of war with Iraq, likening them to moths flying mindlessly toward light.
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/ 12 February 2003
Nasa released what it called the most vivid snapshot of the infant universe ever taken, capturing such stunning detail that it may be one of the most significant scientific achievements of recent years.
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/ 1 February 2003
The space shuttle Columbia broke up on return to earth from a 16-day mission with seven crew on Saturday amid fears that all aboard had been killed.
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/ 29 January 2003
US President George Bush has promised fresh proof of Iraq’s ”utter contempt” for peaceful disarmament and vowed to use overwhelming force to triumph in any war against Saddam Hussein.
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/ 28 January 2003
The United States on Monday warned US citizens of the risk of travelling to Zimbabwe amid ongoing political, economic and humanitarian crises and said Americans in the country now should consider leaving.
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/ 17 January 2003
American researchers have discovered how the human embryo attaches itself to the wall of the uterus about a week after fertilisation, in a study that could aid infertility and reduce miscarriages.
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/ 16 January 2003
Thousands more males age 16 and older from Indonesia, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait and Bangladesh will be required to register with US immigration authorities in the latest expansion of a post-September 11 program that has drawn strenuous protest.
US President George Bush on Tuesday ordered the release of up to -million to aid refugees from ongoing conflicts in the Ivory Coast, Liberia and Angola.
The United States is warning Eritrea and Swaziland that they will lose preferential trade and investment privileges unless they improve human rights and other conditions in their countries before the end of the year, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday.
New Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki is ”eager” to assist the United States in its hunt for a Rwandan genocide suspect believed to be hiding in Kenya, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday.
Washington’s battle to win public support in the Arab world has begun in earnest with the first broadcasts of what officials say will become a 24-hour satellite television network aimed at changing minds throughout the region with American-style morning chat-shows, sports, news and children’s programmes.
The United States on Tuesday accused a senior Kenyan official of harbouring a notorious warcrimes suspect wanted in connection with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and demanded action on the matter from the new, day-old government in Nairobi.
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/ 14 December 2002
Washington edged closer to confrontation with all three members of President Bush’s ”axis of evil” yesterday when US officials accused Iran of secretly developing two nuclear plants which could be used to produce weapons.
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/ 13 December 2002
The White House will announce today the start of a programme to vaccinate up to 11 million Americans against smallpox as part of the next stage of the US ”war on terror” and the threat of biological and chemical weapons.
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/ 13 December 2002
The United States says a preliminary evaluation of Iraq’s arms declaration found that the 12 000-page document contains ”big omissions” and mostly recycled information from the last report in 1998.
Washington this week revealed its intention to use United Nations weapons inspections as a possible first step towards a military occupation of Iraq by sending in troops, sealing off ”exclusion zones” and creating secure corridors throughout the country.
Conservative activists are praising President George Bush’s apparent decision to send Secretary of State Colin Powell to the Jo’Burg Summit rather than attending the once-a-decade summit himself.
A US spy satellite has photographed some 60 trucks moving about a known biological weapons facility six miles northwest of Baghdad.
The Bush administration sat on a Clinton-era plan to attack al-Qaida in Afghanistan for eight months because of political hostility to the outgoing president and competing priorities. The plan was drawn up in the last days of Bill Clinton’s administration.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan deepened splits this week over how the international community should respond to an Iraqi invitation for the chief UN weapons inspector to visit Baghdad by saying such a move could be considered under certain conditions.