"Mbeki and Palestinians"

Iran 'Will Be Dealt With,' Bush Says
President Bush told newspaper editors in Washington yesterday that Iran "will be dealt with, starting through the United Nations" if it does not stop developing nuclear weapons and begin total cooperation with international inspectors.

Israel has Nuclear Weapons

Russia's Putin: Soviet Collapse a Tragedy

Children affected by fighting in Colombia

Venezuela Military Cooperation with U.S. Stopped

UK firms involved in diverting Aids drugs
British companies have been involved in the diversion of cut-price Aids drugs intended for people in poor countries, some of which have been sold at a profit to the NHS, it emerged yesterday.

NHS 'bought Africa's Aids drugs'
The NHS bought Aids drugs which had been illegally diverted from developing countries, the BBC has discovered.

A Subsidy North and South Can Agree On?
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 22 (IPS) - The United Nations, which aggressively campaigns for the elimination of some 300 billion dollars in annual subsidies doled out to Western farmers, claims that unfair agricultural tariffs are killing the livelihoods of farmers in the world's poorer nations.

Asia-Africa 'quantum leap' to be led by SA
Bandung, Indonesia - A small Indonesian town, where apartheid was first condemned, has witnessed the birth of a mighty new political and economic Asian and African bloc, with South Africa at the helm.

Africa Must Unite Against Malaria
THE cardinals who gathered in Rome to elect Pope Benedict no doubt had a great deal on their minds as they weighed up the different candidates. Fortunately, they did not have to worry a great deal about their health. The unfortunate cardinals who gathered in Rome after the death of Pope Gregory XV in 1623 did. In that 19-day conclave, eight cardinals died of malaria. Today, Africa Malaria Day, we should think about how and why Europe rid itself of malaria, while the disease still claims more than a million lives a year in Africa.

Togo: The Coronation of Eyadema's Son?

Ethiopian PM speaks highly of China-Africa Cooperation Forum
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Saturday the third China-Africa Cooperation Forum, scheduled for 2006 in Beijing, will help African countries boost their multi-dimensional cooperation with China.

Mbeki and Palestinians extend courtship
Jakarta, Indonesia - The relationship between South Africa and Palestine is set for a quantum leap forward after a meeting between President Thabo Mbeki and Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Nabeel Sha'aath in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Saturday.

The 'Chinese tsunami' that threatens to swamp Africa

Herbs Helping Fight HIV And Aids
MANY rural communities in most parts of Zimbabwe are realising the importance of using natural remedies such as herbs to treat some HIV-related opportunistic infections because they have been let down by the ailing health system.

Class, Not Race, War Grips Zimbabwe
"Seeing the bad behaviour of black Zimbabweans in power, my conclusion is that the conflict arising is primarily class; race is only secondary,"