"Africa's Sequel"

S. Africa's apartheid party takes final bow
The party linked to decades of white racist rule in South Africa formally left the political stage yesterday, with its leader apologizing for "a system grounded in injustice."

The Genocide and the Box Office: Africa's Sequel
WHEN it opened five months ago, "Hotel Rwanda" garnered admiring reviews, especially for the performances of Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo. It went on to receive three Academy Award nominations and a raft of prizes. And it has been credited with increasing awareness of the 1994 genocide that killed some 800,000 Rwandans, most of them Tutsi.

Somalia's secret dumps of toxic waste washed ashore by tsunami
THE huge waves which battered northern Somalia after the tsunami in December are believed to have stirred up tonnes of nuclear and toxic waste illegally dumped in the war-racked country during the early 1990s.

US Forces in Europe Focus on Africa Terror Havens
US forces stationed in Europe will increasingly shift their stance towards Africa and the former communist eastern bloc countries as they move to a more agile force countering post-Cold War threats such as terrorism, Nato’s top European commander says.

S. Africa's Mbeki slams Zimbabwe critics
Mbeki contrasted Zimbabwe's situation with instability killing 1,000 people every day in the Democratic Republic of Congo, mostly from hunger and disease, on top of the 3.8 million people who have died since the war began in 1998. "Why is it so easy to ignore the death of 3 million people and make extraordinary volumes of noise about another country where only a few people have died. There is something not right about it," he said.

US government indicts Pakistani businessman, Israeli
The US government has indicted Islamabad-based Pakistani businessman Humayun A Khan and his Israeli partner Asher Karni for illegally exporting devices from the US that could be employed to test, develop and detonate nuclear weapons.

Darfur rebels destroy village
More than 350 militiamen destroyed a village in Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region in the worst attack since January, the United Nations and the African Union said on Friday.

Gypsy Holocaust survivors in need of aid

Labour tactics stir media unrest

International Campaign to Stop Smallpox Genetic Engineering Announced
An international alliance of non-governmental organizations has launched a campaign to urge the World Health Organization to reject a proposal that would permit the genetic engineering of smallpox and to instead ensure that all remaining stocks of the virus are destroyed within two years. Debate on the proposal will take place at the World Health Assembly (WHA), which meets in Geneva, Switzerland beginning on May 16th.

Who Forged the Niger Documents?
A former counterterrorism chief claims that the now discredited documents that showed Iraq trying to purchase uranium were fabricated right here in the United States.

A Day Of Infamy