"US Forces Fight Terrorism in East Africa"

Venezuela criticizes Rumsfeld remarks
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan officials criticized remarks by the U.S. defense secretary regarding their efforts to improve the country's defenses, El Nacional reported Thursday. Calling Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld a "lord of war," Vice President Jose Rangel said his remarks were "inspired by his goal of getting involved in the internal politics of other nations and violating our [Venezuela's] sovereignty."

Mugabe 'No 5' in Africa
Harare - Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born in Kutama Mission, 80km northwest of Harare, and was educated in Catholic missionary schools, qualifying as a teacher at the age of 17.

Russia and Venezuela see eye to eye
Russia and Venezuela share close or identical views on key international problems, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The dysfunctional society
US billionaires on the rise - roads, bridges in decay

I'll hold Blair to account
Reg Keys wasn't interested in politics until his son Tom was killed in Iraq in a war he insists was 'illegal and immoral'. Which makes him the ideal candidate to stand against the prime minister in his Sedgefield constituency, he tells Stuart Jeffries

In Mexico, burying soldiers killed in a U.S. war

U.S. and Argentina Fail to Renew Military Exercises

Lebanese students march on U.S. embassy

Cuba Says It Won't Be Condemned for Rights

Political Prisoners in Haiti
Haiti's Washington-installed Prime Minister, Gerard Latortue, has imprisoned hundreds of officials and supporters of Aristide's overthrown government, including former Prime Minister Yvonne Neptune and Interior Minister Jocelerme Privert. Both men, detained since June 27 without charge, have undertaken a hunger strike in protest. Neptune, who was hospitalized on March 10 for treatment of severe dehydration, has vowed to continue his fast until he's released.

Once-Beautiful Baghdad Becomes Eyesore

Battle for gas revenues fueling dangerous Baloch rebellion
Last week, an explosion of violence killed dozens of people, including eight soldiers, risking another security crisis for President General Pervez Musharraf whose armed forces are already deployed in their tens of thousands elsewhere to interdict Al Qaeda and Taliban militants along the border with Afghanistan.

TB cases at alarming levels in Africa
In most areas of the world, the battle against tuberculosis is being successfully fought, but in Africa the disease has reached alarming proportions with a growing number of TB cases and deaths linked to HIV, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new report released today.

Ethiopian troops blamed for deaths, rape and torture
A human rights group today accused Ethiopian troops of widespread killings, rape and torture against the Anuak population in an oil-rich western province.

Ethiopian army stands accused
Nairobi - Ethiopia's army has committed massive human rights abuses that may constitute crimes against humanity against the indigenous Anuak population in the country's southwestern Gambella region, a leading rights watchdog charged on Thursday.

Mbeki, Commonwealth make up over Mugabe
IN A sign of an easing of tensions between President Thabo Mbeki and Commonwealth secretary- general Don McKinnon, the two met for one-and-a-half hours in Pretoria yesterday.

UN Development Agency Addresses Inequities in Africa's Great Lakes Region
More than 70 senior officials from Africa are attending a United Nations regional workshop this week in Rwanda, learning to make poverty reduction programmes work and to create national networks between policy makers and scholars doing applied research.

South Africa offers "revolving door" to desperate Zimbabweans
Fresh off a van carrying some 25 "illegal aliens", the 21-year-old Zimbabwean casts a worried glance as he prepares to be fingerprinted, photographed and eventually put on a train back to Zimbabwe.

US Forces Fight Terrorism in East Africa
The commander of the U.S.-led Combined Joint Task Force in the Horn of Africa says terrorism is alive and well in the region, but his forces are working with local governments to make it harder for the terrorist groups to operate. The general spoke from Qatar via satellite with reporters at the Pentagon.

Ugandan opposition supporters protest in capital

South Africa cracks down on corrupt businesses

Ousted Haiti president wins honorary fellowship
Tuesday March 1, 2005 - The former leader of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, has been made an honorary research fellow at the University of South Africa.